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

StoryLevelMotivation
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.