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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.

{{quote|'''Twoflover:''' Hey, do you remember the time when we went over the edge of the world?

'''Rincewind:''' Often. Usually around 3 AM

** Rincewind is [[Not the Fall That Kills You|afraid of grounds.]]

 

* 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.

 

=== Literature ===

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

 

* ''[[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.]]

* 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]].

**** Rincewind was afraid of playing football in ''Unseen Academicals'', but then so was every other wizard except Ridcully.

* 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.

'''A''': Common sense. }}

 

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