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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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=== 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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* Farkas, an otherwise fearless warrior in [[Skyrim|The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]], at one point refuses to go any further in a dungeon after encountering giant spiders there.
* Tali of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' is apparently afraid of spiders, judging by her reaction to the Gestation Pods hatching if you should take her along on Grunt's mission.
* In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', the Punies are terrified of Piders, [[Giant Spider]] mobs that inhabit the Great Tree. Given her Tattle, Goombella is creeped out by them too.
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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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=== 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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=== Real Life ===
* This is a fairly common phobia in India, Nigeria, and most countries where fewer people keep dogs as pets.
* [[Genghis Khan]] was known to have this fear; hard to blame him, as many breeds of dog native to Mongolia are pretty mean.
== Rabbits (leporiphobia) ==
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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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** 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.
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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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* 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.
=== Comic Books ===
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* 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]].
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=== [[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.
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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.]]
* In ''[[Disenchantment]]'', the Devil [[The Devil Is a Loser| (who is a loser)]] is “creeped out” by severed heads, a problem he has had since humans invented the guillotine. Lucci is able to use this to his advantage when he is trying to find Bad-Bean's severed head, [[Blatant Lies| telling him it's in the ossuary with the other severed heads]] that the executioner "collects" - and he falls for it.
=== Real Life ===
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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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