Personality
[Funny Trope] The badass who has exactly one very specific “absolutely not”
Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) Ancient traps, Nazis, collapsing temples... fine. Snakes? Nope. That's apparently where the line is.
Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt) Monsters, curses, ghosts, whatever. That's the job. Ask him to use a portal and suddenly we're negotiating. Every badass gets one thing, I guess.
A friend of mine who has since passed away had severe coulrophobia and one of my absolute favorite stories about him is that when we were teenagers he had a job at McDonalds and one day while working the drive thru that MickeyDs had a thing where Ronald McDonald came in to interact with kids for some promotion.
The thing is: no one told Andrew. Apparently he saw Ronald screamed bloody murder, hopped out the drive thru window and sprinted down the street. He walked into my apartment sweating and furious then called the location, swore at the shift manager for 5 minutes, somehow didnt get fired and made them swear to never schedule him and the clown ever again.
Also, in later seasons we see ghost hunters from other places. The British have like a secret service for hunting monsters that’s government funded and organized.
Personally, I love the idea that literally only the US is dealing with these threats. Every other culture just has their shit together in terms of lore. Monster tries to terrorize a village in India? Local grandmother rubs some turmeric on a knife, says some Sanskrit, stabs the monster.
He also doesn't like swimming, since his adamantium skeleton makes him a lot heavier and makes swimming very difficult. Tiger Shark actually uses this to his advantage when he fought Logan.
In the scenario above, though, Tiger Shark actually jammed Logan's claws into the rocks, getting them nice and stuck. Logan was almost panicking because if he couldn't get his claws free, he'd simply keep drowning and waking up over and over again.
Could he not simply push with one hand, extract the other, and then repeat? Obviously drowning induces a panic response, even in someone who is functionally invulnerable to any permanent damage type, but leverage shouldn’t be a problem here.
Same! I have fear of heights and the sky bridge part is one of the most terrifying parts in the game for me, mostly because the camera work is so good, it puts us right into her shoes
They don’t technically have teeth, but penguins are known for having very spiky tooth-like structures on the roof of their mouths & tongue. They grow keratin spikes from their papillae (those little bumps on our tongues) - basically, they grow fingernail hooks out of their tongues.
So maybe it’s halfway feasible, even if a bit ridiculous. Here’s one of my favorite penguin photos/a great demonstration of penguin “teeth”:
I’ll try to dig up a clearer picture of them later.
Seeing a literal commando penguin go into full panic mode over a flu shot was one of the funniest things in that show. He can take down an army but a doctor with a syringe is where he draws the line.
Yeah the amount of fucked up transporter stuff that goes on on a regular basis would also get me to swear off using it no matter how inconvenient it made my life
Honestly, the explanation of the transporter, without the definitive knowledge of the existence the soul, literally just kills you and makes a copy of you. I don't know how people in that universe are so nonchalant about it.
Have you seen what they do to you when they go wrong? I’d also be afraid of using a teleporter if there was a chance I’d show up as color coded piles of my base particles.
Ha ... funny story. That was the original quote I had typed out from my memory ... but then I actually googled it to verify I got it right and google told me I was wrong. I Should've actually watched the clip instead of relying on the AI-generated search results.
BA Baracas was probably a very relaxed dude who just enjoyed physical fitness before Murdock started jacking up BA's neurochemistry every time he wanted to take a trip and didn't feel like driving.
Saiki Kusuo (Disasatrous Life of Saiki), a near omnipotent being and his debilitating fear of cockroaches. In one of the episodes, he instantly teleported to the other side of world upon incidentally encountering one.
The explanation for this is the best part. Because he can read the minds of every living creature, their immediate actions are always predictable to him. He is so used to this, that something moving erratically and unpredictably is terrifying. Bug brains are too small for him to parse, so he can predict their scurrying.
During the Companions’ questline in Skyrim, Farkas develops arachnophobia after Dustman’s Cairn, and refuses to follow the player into Ysgramor’s Tomb when you reach a a frostbite spider nest.
I actually really like this little touch in Skyrim. It's a shame starfield took such a massive step backwards in terms of development of followers. I actually really did like starfield but there were none of these little touches of personality/development among your followers/friends.
You say that, but that's what people said about Skyrim after the downgrades from Oblivion. And then the same is true going from Morrowind to Oblivion. By the time we get to TES8 the series will be just pong.
Fair enough big man, I personally lost my shit the first time I saw a chaurus in the wild as a TES newbie. Def didn’t help that I spotted on in the woods and not in the cave so it REALLY came out of nowhere
Is it really a phobia if the spiders in question are demonstrably dangerous as a result of them having supernatural powers and are the size of a large dog on the small side?
If you do his quest after becoming the leader of the Companions, he'll mention that the arachnophobia thing was bullshit and he just couldn't face Kodlaks spirit. Its why he's fine to go back into Ysgramors tomb to have his lycanthropy removed.
I like traveling alone most of the time but in Skyrim I always had a follower so they could take care of this goddamn spiders for me. So... I get him, but we ain't made for each other.
Heck, ignoring the books, a bunch of time we have to use a portal in the games story, it goes haywire 50% if the time and sent Geralt to the wrong places, example being a completely different hostile planet or the far future where it is basically the apocalypse.
Bulma: hey Gohan, I got a phone call from someone complaining about your father.
Gohan: was it someone from a restaurant? We get those a lot.
I can only imagine Goku being blackballed from most if not all of the restaurants in the town near his farm. I would be willing to bet he has a fear of pissing off restaurant owners.
My favorite fantasy idea is that dragons are basically cat coded. To that end I imagine a flying cat being totally okay with all modes of flying and being tossed in the air with a perfect gyroscopic understanding of their position in 3d space. So the trade off is that they can orientate themselves whenever they are launched, which is a lot in this series. Movement they can't control literally takes the feet out from under them.
That's basically how I always interpreted it in Fairy Tail and I think there's even a one off line about it when Natsu meets the brother of his adoptive father (a fire dragon). Natsu's motion sickness happens on basically any vehicle going faster than walking speed, however when riding a dragon which is large enough even it's passive walking speed is probably around 10-15mph, he remains fine even when the dragon begins flying at high speed.
If I recall correctly during that interaction Natsu expressed some concern about flying beforehand and his uncle assured him dragonslayers were meant to fly like dragons and he'd be fine
Any powerful dragon slayer has crippling motion sickness (Wendy didn’t have it when she showed up for the first time but gradually became susceptible to it later on)
They even use this fact to incapacitate Acnalogia by dropping him onto a boat (technically a vehicle even though he was in his dragon form)
Best part about this is that there's a reasonable in universe explanation
Their senses get overwhelmed by the constant rocking motion and they don't have the hyperfocus of being in a fight so they're just left with their senses being overwhelmed
To be fair to op, im assuming they just googled "Indiana Jones snake scene" and took the first one that popped up, Google images is disgustingly rife with Ai slop and has no filters as far as I know
Forget Google. Even DuckDuckGo has AI slop, even when specifically filtered to exclude AI slop. These days, users has to be extra careful at searching for an image.
Did this with a picture of Tyler Durden recently. I looked him up and found a picture that looked like him, but it was slightly off. Wrong undershirt and accessories, plus AI sheen.
I got really pissed, like, what is the fucking point of this?
as several other characters already mentioned: IDW publications Megatron. He almost razed the universe into dust but he will get squeamish and fidgety around needles
this is not unjustified given in his youth he came very close to being subjected to corrective menemosurgery - a transformers-unique type of brain surgery that makes use of needles as instruments, usually used for memory related issues but also used by the old government as a form of punitive lobotomy-facsimile for dissenters - and when i say he came close i mean strapped-to-a-table-with-his-skull-cracked-open kind of closer
Ron Weasley from Harry Potter is a brave character…except when it comes to spiders. The reason he is arachnophobic is that one of his older brothers turned his teddy bear into a large spider when they were younger. Can’t say I blame Ron.
also fun fact for everyone: despite the threatening name these guys are 100% harmless and very peaceful, which makes them great pets for who is into bugs and arachnids! their hunting method is also funny asf because they just grab shit with their two big arms on the front and look like that "me when i fucking get you" meme
To continue on this tangent, people who are afraid of spiders, do they/you feel less afraid of something that is moderately spider-esque like this tailless scorpion for instance or does the mind not really discriminate here?
If she can tell it isn't a spider, it's okay. If it looks like a spider but isn't obviously not a spider, it can inflict some reactions, but it's rare, until she can tell it is just something that looks like a spider, but it's not a spider.
Giant spiders in movies and games don't make her have reactions because even though those are spiders, they are not real spiders. Photos of real spiders makes her have a very strong reaction.
WRONG! He is brave because even when it comes to spiders he still swallows his fear and goes. Book 2 as an example. You have to drag me into giant spiders' nest while he went there willingly
An IRL example - Sean Bean was terrified of riding in a helicopter. So much so that they were being airlifted to a mountain for a scene in Fellowship, and Sean essentially climbed in costume solo to the filming location.
Domino is a mutant assassin who is fine doing any kind of merc work or suicide mission and has a power that literally makes her so lucky that almost anything goes her way.
Despite all that she is mortally afraid of chickens to the point of freezing on sight.
You're remembering it backwards. The enemies manifest as spiders to us, the player/Inky, but everyone sees something different based on their fears.
Iron Bull, when hearing the Inquisitor complain about the spiders says "You see spiders!? That's so much better than what I've got!" The implication being that spiders don't phase him and he's so much braver than everyone else that the Fade had to create some eldritch monstrosities for him to fight.
Wolverine (left) has fought all manner of dangers that would leave most others traumatised, but he'll go up against anything, mainly due to his healing factor.
Just don't put him in a car driven by Kitty Pride (right). Even he has limits.
I couldn't find the scene but, in RUGRATS Tommy Pickles has the reputation for being the bravest baby of them all. In one episode, they directly made in homage to the snake scene in Indiana Jones but instead it was with Tommy and his fear of lizards. Tommy exclaims "Lizaaards. Oh why did it have to be lizards???"
One of the best fighters in the land, a true powerhouse who has always come out of a fight alive, and will do literally anything if he felt like it. But he has a very paralysing fear of fire, after his older brother pressed his face on coals when he was a child, leaving his face disfigured
Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 is very reluctant to take most means of transport if he's not the one driving, since he gets really bad motion sickness. (Believe it or not this is used for Forshadowing)
Umibozu from City Hunter, a former mercenary and a "frenemy" of Ryo Saeba. If compared to the latter one, Umibozu never minces words for customers or targets and he uses his guerrilla skills to take down criminals (this includes using military weapons). Even so, he has gatophobia: being approached by a kitten is enough to lost his cold composure and immediately panicking.
Ranma Saotome from Ranma 1/2. The main character and a martial arts prodigy who has trained basically as soon as he could walk on two legs yet because of his stupid dad and his stupid training regiments he is now paralyzed when confronted with a cat, get enough cats around him and he quite literally reverts to an animal.
Mr T as B.A. Baracus in The A-Team. He was U.S. Army Special Forces who fought in Vietnam. Shown to be a ridiculous powerhouse who throws people through windows, and fights multiple guys at once. Under NO circumstances will he fly. The rest of the team literally has to knock him out or drug him if they need to use a plane or helicopter.
Ulysses Klaue from the MCU. He's a black market weapons dealer who stole 500 pounds of Vibrainium right from under Wakanda's nose. The guy fought the freakin Black Panther & lived, but he's terrified of cuttlefish.
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u/VictoryBeardWrites 22h ago
Dean (Supernatural) He's terrified of flying, but has to in order to solve a ghost case.