human phobia theme
A character displays a persistent and excessive fear to a specific object or situation.
Examples
"arachnophobia", the fear of spiders, and "fear of doctors" are both "human phobia" themes that may be used when a character portrays an excessive and persistent fear of the subject in question.
7 total · 2 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh3x03 | major | Helen and Rusty discussed their latent musophobia from time to time and, indeed, ended up at the mercy of a throng of flesh gnawing rats. |
| gdtcoc2022e02 | major | Masson clearly suffered from musophobia. He even had a nightmare about the ceiling above his bed caving in and himself being covered by rats falling from above it. |
| ahh1x22 | minor | A little girl was exceedingly fearful of being jabbed (trypanophobia) with an anti-rabies shot every day for 30 days. [fear of needles] |
| as1985e1x13 | minor | Lance and Dennis attempted to scare the Jamaican babysitter with tiny reptiles of some sort, but she turned the table on them by wielding two enormous geckos. [herpetophobia] |
| movie: As Time Goes By (1988) | minor | A store clerk had a pathological preoccupation with keeping his shop clean of dust. |
| movie: Gemini Man (2019) | minor | Henry had a pathological fear of water, drowning in it in particular. |
| rd1988e3x03 | minor | Lister confessed that snakes were his all time second greatest fear. |