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** Also parodied in at least one ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' comic. "I met this man once who would have been a good archaeologist, but he just couldn't get over his fear of snakes..."
** Launchpad also parodies it in the [[Five Episode Pilot]] of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'': "Yah, a snake! I hate snakes! No... that's somebody else. I sorta like snakes." Then one nearly ''eats'' him: "'''Now''' I hate snakes."
** Indy must face his fear one last time in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny]]'' where finding a tablet with the location of Archimedes' tomb lies in a shipwreck infested with eels. Granted, eels are not snakes or even reptiles, but they look enough like snakes to unnerve the hero, especially when uncovering the tablet causes a whole school of them to swarm out at him.
* Pee Wee Herman (snakes), at least in ''[[Pee-wee's Big Adventure]]'', when he rescues them last from a burning pet shop.
* The FBI agent who's '''not''' [[Samuel L. Jackson]] from ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'' has ophidiphobia.
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* [[Hank the Cowdog]] from the series of the same name can face bobcats, coyotes, mad bulls, and wild horses (although he'd much rather not). Snakes are the only thing he's specifically named as terrifying him.
* Silk, from the [[Belgariad]] is a victim of this. He also has a fear of caves.
* From ''[[Harry Potter and
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* Wayne of ''Swamp Loggers'' expresses great unease about snakes. One could wonder about his choice of job.
* An early episode of ''Adam-12'' saw Malloy and Reed approach every white 1958 Ford convertible with trepidation ... since a stolen boa constrictor might be hidden in the trunk of one of them.
* There was one episode of ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' where Rudy saw a snake in the house, and was terrified; being a child, she had an excuse, but when she told Claire, ''she'' was even ''more'' terrified. When they finally caught the - harmless - snake, they actually found it kind of cute.
=== Music ===
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=== Newspaper Comics ===
* Linus van Pelt of ''[[Peanuts]]'' is afraid of snakes. Or, more particularly, of ''queen'' snakes and night snakes. His teacher Ms. Othmar has this phobia too; in one strip, she ''faints'' when Linus gives a report on queen snakes.
* [[Gossipy Hens|Susanita]] from ''[[Mafalda]]'' is terrified of turtles. Unfortunately, her best friend [[Little Miss Snarker|Mafalda]] is unaware of her phobia and invites Susanita to her house just to show her the family's new pet turtle, [[Meaningful Name|Burocracia]]. Cue Susanita cowering in a corner.
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=== Literature ===
* All children of Athena in the ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians]]'' books are arachnophobic, due to enmity between Athena and Arachne (the first spider).
* Ron Weasley of the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series is deathly afraid of spiders, due to his brothers transmogrifying his teddy bear into a massive spider for a joke when he was much younger. During ''[[
** In a fortuitous bit of casting, [[Rupert Grint]], who plays Ron in the movies, is ''also'' deathly afraid of spiders. All of "Ron"'s expressions of fear in the movies are [[Enforced Method Acting|actually those of Rupert]], since, according to the DVD special features, Aragog was animatronic. (Aragog's children, however, were CGI.)
* "Ayatollah", the crime boss in Boris Strugatsky's ''[[The Powerless of This World]]'', fears nothing except members of the class Arachnida. Unfortunately for him, one of the friends of his victim is commonly known as "Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies" for his amazing ability to control insects and spiders...
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** The annotated edition of ''[[The Hobbit (novel)|The Hobbit]]'' has a quote from Tolkien, in which he claims that he put the spiders in because he knew his son was terrified of them.
** [[Peter Jackson]] also shared this fear, which he used during the film version of ''The Return of the King'' to make the scenes with Shelob as nightmarish as possible. He told the people in charge of CGI for the scene to keep enhancing things "until [he] couldn't stand it."
* [[Mother Goose|Little Miss Muffet]] was frightened away when a spider sat down beside her..
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* [[Robot Girl|Nano]] in ''[[Nichijou]]'' is scared to death of cockroaches. In one sketch she has one trapped under a bowl and would rather tape the bowl to the table and throw the table itself out than risk it getting free. She also faints at the sight of a mosquito (which she herself killed).
* Yomi of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' cannot stand cicadas. Naturally, [[Jerkass|Tomo]] takes an opportunity to [https://web.archive.org/web/20110314070036/http://manga.animea.net/azumanga-daioh-hoshuu-hen-chapter-3-page-4.html plant one on the back of her shirt.]
* ''[[One Piece]]'':
** Perona
** Both Nami and Sanji are afraid of bugs; Nami had it bad during the Whole Cake Island Arc where the Sanji Retrieval Team was attacked by giant ants. All Nami could do was flee in terror.
** Bonney too, having once fainted at the sight of a large swarm of insects during the Egghead Arc. Villains be warned, however, Bonney has a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] and is willing to ''murder'' anyone who tries to exploit this fear against her.
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'': Adorea is scared to hell of cockroaches, and had quite the reaction when she and Okita happened to walk into a room that was full of them. From the same chapter, a young woman who is [[Neat Freak|obsessed with cleanliness]] freaks out when a cockroach falls into her tea.
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=== Comic Books ===
* In the ''[[Batman]]'' comics, the Scarecrow has developed chiroptophobia following years of defeats at the the hands of Batman.
** In the [[Batman: The Animated Series|animated adaptation]] he may have had it even before he became a villain, as being exposed to his own fear gas caused him to have hallucinations of giant demonic bats.
=== Films -- Live Action ===
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=== Western Animation ===
* Hank Hill from ''[[King of the Hill]]'' is deathly afraid of bats in one episode, going as far as locking Bobby in the garage with a bat!
* Panthro from ''[[
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Pinkie Pie]] might qualify; no less than one episode after singing a whole song about how she laughs at her fears, she freaks out when she mistakes a pair of tickets that landed on her nose for bats, somehow.
* In the 2012 version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', April has good reason to be terrified of bats, her father was mutated into a man-bat creature and she could only watch helplessly as it happened. One [[I Know What You Fear]] episode showed she has nightmares of her father trying to eat her.
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* Rei Tachibana/Dyna Pink from ''[[Kagaku Sentai Dynaman]]''. The mere sight of cat just freaks her out and she's rendered mostly incapable of fighting a cat monster, and it gets worse when said cat monster just transform the [[Mook]]s into cat statues. Ironically, she wants to develop a tool to communicate with animals... but can't even touch a cat without freaking out.
* Ed in ''[[Flashpoint (TV series)|Flashpoint]]'', at least according to Greg. Ed claims it was just once with a "scary cat," a point which Spike (hilariously) backs up.
=== Newspaper Comics ===
* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Linus is afraid of gully cats. He claims tennis rackets are made of gully cat gut, and gully cats like to bite humans on the arm so they can't play tennis anymore.
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** One character's fear of a giant bird is revealed later in the book to originate from being attacked by a normal-sized bird when an infant. The other does not fear birds per se, but the impossible dimensions of this one in particular, [[Alien Geometries|a species that does not and cannot exist in the real world]].
* Also shows up in the [[Neil Gaiman]] novel ''[[Anansi Boys]],'' although is it an irrational fear when the birds really ''are'' out to get you?
* A minor character from ''
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** Ironically, Thalia is deathly afraid of heights, despite being the daughter of Zeus.
** [[Word of God]] also says that children of Hephaestus are afraid of heights and falling, because when he was born, their father was chucked off Olympus by Hera.
* In ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, Rincewind was always afraid of heights, so, of course, during his adventures he often ends up hanging or falling from high places. In ''[[
{{quote|'''Twoflover:''' Hey, do you remember the time when we went over the edge of the world?
'''Rincewind:''' Often. Usually around 3 AM
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** Rincewind is [[Not the Fall That Kills You|afraid of grounds.]]
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* BA Baracus in ''[[The A-Team]]''. He typically has to be rendered unconscious before flying him anywhere.
* In the "Hammer Drop" episode of ''[[MythBusters]]'', we find out that Jamie Hyneman apparently has a mild case of acrophobia.
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** In the 2nd movie, Brain Gremlin dies in the same way as the Wicked Witch of the West does. He must be afraid of water, too.
* Susie, the little daughter of the hero in the original version of ''[[Piranha]]''. With very good reason, in this case. {{spoiler|Although when the piranha attack the camp she's attending she swallows her fear to try and save two of the camp counselors - she manages to rescue one of them...}}
* Hoops, the protagonist ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'' is terrified of water and of traveling by boat; seeing as the movie takes place in Nantucket (a city that is on an island) and culminates in a boat race, this is a fear he has to overcome.
=== Literature ===
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
* David Eddings features one particular character in the ''[[Belgariad]]/[[Malloreon]]'' series: Queen Layla of Sendaria. She has not so much ''aquaphobia'' but a specific form of ''megalophobia'' (fear of large objects): she is terrified of ''ships'' (more specifically, ships ''sinking''), to the point that she can actually faint if a ship moves the wrong way.
* Tobias from ''[[Animorphs]]''. He says it's a bird thing.
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=== Live Action TV ===
* When ''[[MythBusters]]'' looked at ways flu/cold virii could be spread, Kari Byron confessed to being something of a germophobe. She was the only one not to get "tagged" with Adam's fluorescent fake snot thanks to her previously developed skills at staying away from the ickies.
* Simon Tam of ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' is a cosmophobe (afraid of space), as first shown in the episode "Bushwacked."
* A.J. from ''[[The River]]'' has speluncaphobia, the fear of caves, thanks to having been in a mining accident.
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* Bobby Pendragon in ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]''.
* Nita from ''[[Young Wizards]]''. Naturally, this comes up shortly before she has to dive into the mind of someone who represents himself using a clown.
* Nobody likes clowns. According to the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[
* The titular monster from ''[[IT]]'' by [[Stephen King]] takes on the appearance of whatever its victims fear. One of IT's most well-known forms is that of a [[Monster Clown]], though this image is not always immediately recognized as evil, and has been used to lure in young children. The clown in question is said to smell of boiled peanuts, cotton candy, animal dung, and rotting dead things.
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* ''[[Modern Family]]'' : kind of a subversion. Phil thinks his fear of clowns is irrational by nature and has nothing to do with that time he found a dead clown in a field when he was a kid.
* Alan Shore in ''[[Boston Legal]]''. Naturally, he's forced to defend a professional clown who shows up to court in full costume. Alan avoids looking directly at his client for fear of [[Bring My Brown Pants|publicly wetting himself.]]
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* Ben in ''[[Ben 10]]''. {{spoiler|He faced his fear eventually.}}
* Wakko Warner in ''[[Animaniacs]]''. Of course, in Wakko's case, the ''clowns'' are the ones who will get the worst out of it. Oddly, he's not afraid of [[Monster Clown|Nicklewise]] (a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[IT|Pennywise]]) because, well, he and his siblings [[Cloudcuckoolander|are like that.]] (This is addressed in the recap.)
** Mr. Plotz has this phobia too, needing therapy because of it.
* On a similar note, Billy of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'' thinks clowns are plotting to [[Overly Long Gag|"DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL!"]]
** Likewise, in ''Big Boogey Adventure, Billy's given a [[Biological Mashup|spider clown mailman]] as a hybridization of all his fears courtesy of Horror's Hand. Since Billy must battle his own demons before touching the Hand, Mandy's laser rifle has no effect on said aberration.
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=== Live Action TV ===
* Although he's certainly not ''afraid'' of women, Jayne from ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' purportedly "never kisses 'em on the mouth'', for fear they'll knock him out with drugged lipstick. [[It Makes Sense in Context|This is a valid concern.]]
** No, the reason he never kisses women on the mouth is because he only ever sleeps with prostitutes.
* Raj from ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', while not afraid of women per se, has a comedic inability to speak to women while sober.
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* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Austria totally ''loathes'' any sea creatures.
** Also, Seychelles ''hates'' the cold to the point of collapsing in Cuba's arms after walking in the snow for a while, despite wearing a huge coat. [[Justified Trope]] due to the very warm Seychellois climate.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Luffy is known to be a [[Fearless Fool]] at times, though there are a few individuals he has shown to be noticably afraid of, such as his grandfather (justified, as Garp put him through [[Training from Hell]] to ''teach'' him courage), Kizaru (of course, the obvious reply to anyone who claims to be afraid of Kizaru would be, "who isn't?"), and maybe Nami (''maybe''; she is the only one he cowers before, but that may be more out of respect than fear). He is ''definitely'' afraid of [[MacGuffin| One Piece itself]] and what it may be capable of. If anything, he is one of the few pirates who is certain it is more than just a mountain of gold, even though the fate of the world may rest on him finding it.
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* In [[Geoff Johns]]' ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' run, Superboy and Beast Boy have a phobia of doctors, due to both of them being experimented on as kids. Beast Boy in particular has a special hatred for needles.
* In a ''Batman/[[Judge Dredd (comics)|Judge Dredd]]'' crossover graphic novel, Judge Death was subjected to Scarecrow's fear-inducing gas, and hallucinated being mobbed by (shudder) ''[[Tastes Like Diabetes|cuddly stuffed animals and cartoon ponies]]''.
* Lucy from ''[[Peanuts]]'', in her role as a nickel psychiatrist, once diagnosed Charlie Brown as having pantophobia, "the fear of everything". He fervently agreed. This gag was repeated in ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]''.▼
* ''[[Zatanna]]'' has a phobia regarding puppets, and it turns out there is a very good reason for this phobia.
* [[Superman|Superboy-Prime]], despite being an over-the-top [[Villain Sue]], is deathly afraid of [[The Flash|Bart Allen]] ever since the latter trapped him in the Speed Force during ''[[Infinite Crisis]]''.
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=== Literature ===
* Fear itself (phobiaphobia) – [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] seems to have it... well, sort of. To be specific, boggarts appear as Dementors to him, and Dementors are living embodiments of Fear.
** [[Theodore Roosevelt]] could probably help with that—by [[Memetic Badass|grabbing fear by the neck and beating the living shit out of it, as he did with Death]].
** Going by the shape boggarts take, Hermione is afraid of flunking her classes (or maybe failure in general). She was so terrified of this, she wasn't able to use the Riddikulus spell to fight it.
** Another example, Professor Lupin is afraid of the full moon. Justified because {{spoiler| he's a werewolf.}}
** And of course Nelvile sees boggarts as Professor Snape, though [[Stern Teacher|it's hard to blame him for that.]]
* The protagonist of [[Iain Banks]]' ''[[The Culture/Use of Weapons|Use of Weapons]]'' has an odd phobia of chairs. It makes a lot of sense when you learn what the original chair was made of.
* Throughout the ''[[Discworld]]'' series, Rincewind has developed a violent fear of many things, some justified (the Things of the Dungeon Dimensions), some not (having good things happen to him, because it usually means something worse is coming along later), but the thing he seems to dread the most is plots, because if a plot starts happening anywhere near him, [[Theory of Narrative Causality|eventually he will get sucked into it]].
** Hey, he managed to get through ''[[
*** [[The Cameo|He was only in it for three paragraphs.]] Likewise with ''[[
**** Rincewind was afraid of playing football in ''Unseen Academicals'', but then so was every other wizard except Ridcully.
** Meanwhile, [[
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "The Tower of the Elephant", [[Conan the Barbarian]] is paralzyed with horror at the sight of the [[Eldritch Abomination]]. (He's young in this story.)
* [[Ciaphas Cain]] ('''[[Running Gag|HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]''') is scared of a lot of things-[[Everything Trying to Kill You|with good reason]]-but the very mention of Necrons sends him into pants-wetting panic. They are the one enemy he will not face in direct combat. Given that Necrons are [[Omnicidal Maniac|all-hating]] [[Robotic Psychopath|mechanical]], and [[Determinator|relentless]] [[Abusive Precursors]], this fear seems less like a phobia and more of a symptom of possessing common sense.
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{{quote|'''Ben''': I'm not afraid of cops. I have no reason to be, I never break any laws ever... because I'm ''deathly afraid of cops''.}}
* Brick in ''[[The Middle]]'' is afraid of bridges.
* In season 5 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Harmony seems to have a very unique fear - of Buffy. Of course, a ''vampire'' does have a legitimate reason to fear the Vampire ''Slayer'', but most are willing to take a chance to gain the fame and prestige that is given to those who manage to kill a Slayer. Harmony's first failed attempt to do so made her a [[Dirty Coward]] who was constantly paranoid that Buffy was continually hunting for her. At the time, Buffy likely would have staked her had they crossed paths, but otherwise, she felt Harmony was beneath contempt.
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'' was Churchy having ''triskadecaphobia'' that was so bad, he thought ''any'' day of the week the 13th of the month fell on was cursed. Of course, he was most terrified when it fell on Friday.
▲* Lucy from ''[[Peanuts]]'', in her role as a nickel psychiatrist, once diagnosed
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** Karen (aka, bumblebee) speaking in public. In a variation of the [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]], she has a nightmare where she has to speak publicly while wearing [[Homemade Sweater From Hell| the bunny pajamas]] her aunt gave her.
** Zee, her own powers. Or rather, what might happen [[Power Incontinence| should she fail to control them.]]
* From the ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'' episode "Caves"; Mariner is usually a [[Fearless Fool]] who is [[Not Afraid to Die]], but she ''dreads'' having to be in an away team mission that involves entering a cave - mostly because she is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] enough to know that ''all'' caves are lethal places are full of [[Red Shirt]]-eating monsters where both the comlinks and transporters ''always'' malfuction. The whole episode, in fact, seems to have been written with [[Self-Deprecation|the purpose of lampooning this trend in the franchise.]]
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{{quote|'''Q''': What is the phobia of [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaws]] called?
'''A''': Common sense. }}
* In addition to being [[Terrified of Germs]], inventor and electrical pioneer [[Nikola Tesla]] had a dislike of ''hair'' that verged on a phobia.
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