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=== Literature ===
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* Fear itself (phobiaphobia) – [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] seems to have it... well, sort of.
* 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]].
** [[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.
* 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]].
* 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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