Which fictional characters scared you as a kid?(or still scare you?)

[KoreanTacos]

mother fucker never let me pass!

[fleohr]

Definitely Slappy. When I was a kid, I had to sleep with the lights on, otherwise I'd think he was there in the dark waiting for me

[David_tigereye]

When I was a kid, I used to think Venom from Spiderman was hiding in my closet every night, and it terrified me to have my door open at all. But now as an adult, I love Venom, though he still scares me a bit.

Chucky from Child’s Play on the other hand....
Hell. No.

[375]

Excuse you, the moon from Courage was one of the many horrors of that show including this one glorious hell of a man;

and for some reason Jeepers Creepers himself

[hevahart]

Freddy Krueger and Chucky.

[HoodQuest]

That ghost lady from The Grudge was the bane of my existence as a child.

[Shanny8]

The tall man from Phantasm...

and The Thing...

Not so scary anymore- I have the first 2 Phantasm movies & The Thing on DVD and watch them almost every year.

[BobbyjoeX]

I still wanna know who's idea it was to create this fucking thing

[DiegoPalacios]

I can`t believe i forgot King Raaaaaamseeeeeeees

[Wumbl]

Jeepers Creepers spooked me to death when I was like 9 years old... I don't even remember why.

[dawgofdawgness]

MAY GOD HELP US ALL

[J.Lovelace]

A lot of kids I knew were terrified of The Groke

[mong2]

Ronald McDonald (clowns in general are creepy)
This weird animated short about a circus and bald vampires, can't remember the name though

[TheFalseVyper]

I was spending the nights at a friend's house, and some how we ended up watching 13 Ghosts.

Guys, I'm not joking. This movie has messed me up for LIFE. I still have a hard time watching ghost movies because of it.

This is the Jackal. The number one reason I had to sleep with the lights on for months as a kid.

And this is Princess. Also from the same movie.

You know you've been scarred for life when you still remember their names. I'm 23 years old and I'm still not sure I can watch this move now lol

[craicin]

any fear of fictional characters always seemed dumb to me as a child, until

[silverraven0]

If I said that I don't have any that make me sacred (or I think I don't have one), will that make me a bad *s?

[silverraven0]

On second thought, I'm basically living under the rock, so it's invalid, I think?

But I remember watching some horror movie like a meat eating ants (forgot the title, but maybe its called marabunta) and a cannibal-bloody-woman-got-chomped-on-a-stick movie on my childhood and thought nothing about it.

...

I think I have problem.

[AllynCrowe]

There was this one guy in a Dutch children's series that made me scream when I was 5 or 6.

[Kann]

I only remember being scared because of Alf, when I was like, four or five. I saw crudely animated Alf playing drums or something on Atari computer my parents used to own and it scared me so much that for some time I was afraid of Alf in general.

@J.Lovelace I wasn't afraid of The Groke as a kid, but now when I watch those scenes they seem kind of creepy. o.o

[FedoraSpooky]

Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure was the first thing to pop into mind, because jumpscares always got me the most. x_x

Also I remember being spooked a ton every time I saw Kenny from South Park's dead body. My brother had a shirt of him lying in a puddle of his blood with "Oh my god, they killed Kenny" written on it and I would legit hide from him until he wore something else. Some particularly anxious nights were spent with my blankets pulled over my head with my imagination running wild and conjuring a seemingly-real thought (to my tired child brain) of his corpse standing upright right next to my bed, emitting the faintest, most unintelligible whispers.

Most of the stuff that scared me though weren't characters so much as... audio. The THX sound (Deep Note) made me run out of a theater once, and since everything was on VHS when I was really little, I recall running from the room every time a tape ended with my hands over my ears to get my parents to rewind it because I knew the horrifying loud hissing of static would come on after the credits were done.