We're Not Celebrating Anything, So We Must Be An Angry Mob.

[rionaleonhart]

Yesterday, an envelope came through my letterbox. On the front, it said that it was from the Stig.

Inside was a blank piece of paper.

I laughed so hard.


Now it is time to establish the answer to a question that has been troubling me for, er, about ten minutes, actually. I honestly have no idea which character frightens me more. (If you don't know any of them but want to make some other suggestions, just skip the first question.)


[Poll #1232099]

(A reminder: I've only seen up to the fifth episode of the second season of Prison Break, so please try not to spoil me in the comments. Thank you!)

Comments

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm not a poll option! I'm disappointed now!

Note to self: Must be more terrifying. In entirely legal and ethical ways, trickily enough.

[rionaleonhart]

I can't believe I forgot about the Test Card Girl! And the Ashes to Ashes equivalent! They don't frighten me quite as much as those three do, though.

[misskass.livejournal.com]

Test Card Girl! For a second I couldn't think of any character who actually scared me any more, but she definitely does. She sends shivers down my spine every time I see her.

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Since I have yet to watch No Country For Old Men, and I have no desire to watch Silent Hill, I must say T-Bag freaked me out the most!

And I also added The Joker! Have you watched The Dark Knight? Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker is quite terrifying.

[rionaleonhart]

That is the problem; it's difficult to get a clear answer to the 'who is more frightening?' question, as I imagine very few people are going to know all three of them. Alas.

I haven't watched The Dark Knight, no, but from what I've heard it sounds as if the Joker has the potential to alarm me quite a lot.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

You have to go watch it! The Joker sent you a letter!

[nano_moose]

I second the Joker nomination; he has this sort of hideously disturbing reverse-charisma that makes it impossible to stop watching him as much as you might want to.

The other characters I mention are a wacko priest with a speech impediment and a disturbing fondness for robots and a cannibalistic, skin stealing, invincible women-thing, respectively! ...They are very scary in context!

[rionaleonhart]

I'm probably going to see The Dark Night (EDIT: Knight! Knight! Oh, dear, I'm a bit embarrassed now) tomorrow, and the Joker is probably going to traumatise me for ever. AS IF I NEED ANOTHER CHARACTER TO HAUNT MY NIGHTMARES.

a wacko priest with a speech impediment and a disturbing fondness for robots

I'd giggle, but I'm sure some people unaware of the horror laugh when they hear about Pyramid Head's character design.

[xavantina.livejournal.com]

Awww, poor ol' Teddy ain't scary. He's cuddly!

Since I don't really find Pyramid Head terrifying (don't know why not, better not ask in case I suddenly start to), I'm gonna go with option D, and then as I said, the little kid from The Shining. No, not the little girls (okay, so they're terrifying too), the main character. And Jack, sure, but mostly the kid.

[rionaleonhart]

There is something weirdly cuddly about T-Bag at certain points, and I have no idea why. I find him terribly fascinating. But he also frightens me out of my wits.

WHO DOESN'T FIND PYRAMID HEAD TERRIFYING? YOU ARE A FREAK.

[xavantina.livejournal.com]

It's because you know that he's really just a big softie inside. Deep, deep, deep inside. You'll see... Once he stops looking like he's about to die any minute, which I imagine he does at the point you've reached so far in the season?

No really, he is extremely fascinating and I may just have woken up from a very graphic dream about him. Talk about timing there.

Your icon is scary, but for whole different reasons. I think it's a defense mechanism I used when I started playing Silent Hill II, to be absolutely not afraid of Pyramid Head, because otherwise he'd scare me to death. So I convinced myself he was hilarious. I'm just repressing my fear very intensely and turning it into humour.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

I don't get really scared by characters as such? Just sitations. Probably because I secretly quite like psycho characters.

[http://users.livejournal.com/tick_/]

I don't know who two of those are, and Pyramid Head doesn't scare me! ...I quite happily ship him with James.

The Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is about the only fictional character that genuinely terrifies me.

[reipan.livejournal.com]

Not Test Card Girl. Just her clown. Does nobody else find that clown scary?

Anyone who's seen Saw...I can't remember what the villain in that was called, but he creeped me out. It was the mask. Also! The Gentlemen in the Buffy episode "Hush". And that guy...

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

A Song of Ice and Fire is FILLED with crazy psychopaths and they're all creepy, but Cersei is deadcreepy because she's Queen and has people who can torture people and she's all ruthless and mad and scary.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I would like to add Long Feng (http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Long_Feng) from Avatar, because he has a SECRET POLICE and SECRET FILES on everyone in the entire city and controls the king and has a secret underlake lair where he brainwashes people into behaving orderly.

Also, Azula is pretty damn creepy too.

[nomelon.livejournal.com]

I could never be terrified of T-Bag, for I have seen his inner cuddly bits, and he is AWESOME. Also, the Joker was creepy, but too glorious a creation to scare me like he should have. And I still don't know what he does on his days off.

I am obviously not scared by people or most monsters, but give me a FAST ANGRY ZOMBIE, a small enclosed space -- potholing with cave ins and monsters chasing you OMG -- or AUGH STATUES THAT ONLY MOVE WHEN YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT THEM AUGH, and I'm reduced to hiding behind a cushion.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

I am far, far more easily frozen in terror by fictional video game characters, because I actually have to confront them. Some things from movies or shows make me jump, but it's not a lasting scare.

There are a couple other characters I probably could have included that are exceptions to the video games thing, but most of them I've ... I dunno, become used to or something (like Rampage from Beast Wars, who isn't really that scary until you sit and think about it. Or maybe I just say that because I've had years to get used to him). Plus I ran out of room.

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD BEAST WARS

i loved that show.

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

JADIS OF CHARN.

BUT ONLY IN THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW. SHE WAS MUCH LESS CREEPY IN THE REST OF THE BOOKS.

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

ALSO THE BLUE SUN GUYS FROM SERENITY. THEY ARE VERY VERY CREEPY.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I recognize the subject line for this post as a quote from some cartoon or other, but I can't for the life of me figure out which one. Help? Please? It is going to drive me bonkers until I figure it out.

[rionaleonhart]

Hee! It is from the rather brilliant SpongeBob SquarePants. I'm glad I'm apparently not the only grown woman to be familiar with it.

EDIT: ...actually, I'm wrong! It's from the Fairly Odd Parents. AND NOW I HAVE ACCIDENTALLY CONFESSED TO WATCHING TWO DAFT CARTOONS WHEN I NEEDED TO CONFESS TO ONLY ONE.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

You aren't. But I was thinking it was from Fairly Oddparents. There are several angry mob scenes in that as well.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Please see other comment.

And do not be ashamed, FO is one of the best nicktoons ever. Even adding the kid didn't ruin it that much.