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* The eponymous ''[[Eek! The Cat]]'' is really afraid of bugs.
* Rod and Todd Flanders of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' are afraid of moths and ladybugs.
* Billy from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' is terrified of bugs of all kinds especially spiders. Things only get worse for him when he hatches an egg that contains a giant spider who thinks he's his dad.
* In the 2012 version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', Raphael is afraid of cockroaches, and he's ''really'' afraid of man-sized mutant cockroaches!
 
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=== Western Animation ===
* Phil Ken Sebben from ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' also has this fear, and is even voiced by [[Stephen Colbert]]. This isn't as much [[Actor Allusion]] as the actual Stephen Colbert really being afraid of bears.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'': Irwin has a fear of bears... the telling of jokes to such an audience, as revealed in ''Big Boogey Adventure''. Cue Horror's Hand conjuring it up for him.
 
=== Tropes ===
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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.)
* On a similar note, Billy of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& 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.
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Bart Simpson]] suffered a temporary case of this when he was younger, no thanks to the badly-crafted clown bed that Homer made for him. Origin of the phrase, ''"[[Madness Mantra|Can't sleep, clown will eat me.]]"''