The Dreaded/Fan Works

Examples of this trope in Fanworks

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• Princess Jody from Super Milestone Wars has become this throughout The Multiverse ever since she became a Multiversal Conqueror
• In Tiberium Wars, the Black Hand inspire nearly reflexive terror in GDI troops, thanks to a combination of their fanaticism, combat skill, enormous black Powered Armor that resists anything short of anti-tank weapons, and flamethrowers.
• The Rosario + Vampire fic He Who Fights Monsters has Tsukune of all people becoming one of these after singlehandely killing, in self defense of course, five students, including Inner Moka herself!!.
• In Nobody Dies, Zeruel is this to the other Angels, the people of NERV that know of him, and the readers on the forum. So much so that when he showed up in chapter 65 and finally started trashing Tokyo-3 at the end of chapter 68, the Rebuild track for him was cited.
• Much like the Joker from DC Comics, the hideous monstrosity called Psyko terrifies even the other hardened psychopaths of Earth-2706. Psyko can emit deadly, murderous insanity, which causes the inanimate objects it affects to take on a twisted, perverted life of their own under his control, not unlike what Sleepwalker does with his own warp vision abilities. It's even worse when he affects other living creatures with them, as his victims suffer a brutal Mind Rape that forces them to continually experience their worst nightmares over and over again while he controls their bodies. His first attack on New York caused him to spread mass insanity and death across the city, and Sleepwalker only managed to subdue him after a bloodbath of a fight from which the alien hero emerged more dead than alive. For the second go-around, he mentally enslaved a horde of his fellow supervillains and turned them loose on New York City, even as he spread even more madness and suffering than he did the first time.
• The Touhou fanfiction Imperfect Metamorphosis has both Yuuka Kazami and the Shadow Youkai. The former is an impossibly ancient and powerful force of nature that even the local Reality Warper has trouble dealing with, with numerous characters voiding themselves at the very mention of her name, a reputation that she very much earns. And while the latter is known only by a few, having a habit of leaving no survivors of its rampages, as basically the Anthropomorphic Personification of death and destruction those that do know of it have no desire to face it again.
• Drake from The Legend Of Spyro: A New Dawn is this to the Gargoyles and Naga, who are both rather frightened at the prospect of fighting him. Turns out that despite they've got every reason to be afraid of the guy, he's actually a very nice guy. Still counts, however, in that the Gargoyles still have every right to be terrified of him.
• The Dalek Inquisitor General from A Hero is this, for other Daleks. To the point that Dalek Sec, survivor of the Time War, is careful not to think too hard of him, lest he suddenly be there.
• Several examples in the Ocarina of Time fanfic The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13.
  • The war god Link Sr (father of the Link we know) is feared by most of the other gods for being a murderous, disrespectful bastard who doesn't hesitate to kill someone if they offend or annoy him.
  • The rare physical appearance of Fate and Destiny tends to get lesser gods on edge.
  • The most well-known (in-universe) example would be the Originals, a two hundred thousand strong unit of mindless, violent gods - so powerful even Fate and Destiny, the two supreme beings of creation, had to settle for locking them away in an old ruined dimension.
  • Link himself is a literal embodiment of this trope after awakening as the God of Fear. Not only does his new status envoke fear on its own, but his first act after ascending to it? Annihilating the aforementioned Originals, and then Fate, without breaking a sweat. And then, when a several thousand strong army of lesser gods attempt to stand against him, he paralyzes them all by blasting them with fear.
• Mr.Evil's Original Character Fredi Heat. His own teammates are terrified of him and would consider drinking battery acid than go against him (this due to the higher chance of survival).
  • Not that they are wrong.
• In the Team Fortress 2 fanfiction The Lessons, Frank the Pyro is feared by everyone in the story to the extent that the narrator at first doubts his existence.
• Harry Potter, the Black Wizard, a.k.a. The Moristar, the Darkness Slayer. Since he's vaporised people who pushed one or other of his Berserk Button and actively hunts the Nazgul, this is hardly surprising. The Dunlending's use him as a sort of Bogeyman for the children, sort of like a Batman who's willing to kill. This makes it a bit of a shock when one Dunlending actually meets him.
• Josh from Blood in The Water, specifically. In Dance of Destiny and Let The Flames Begin, he was a Terror Hero, scaring the pants off any Plasma or Galactic Grunts he ran into. After he finally achieved Fallen Hero status, he began a reign of terror that was centered on Konar, but the aftereffects of his deeds reached the other regions and continued to inspire fear in people all across the world. He was so feared that the Konar Champion, Naomi, who was essentially the Big Good of the story, freaked out when the protagonists told her they wanted to take him on. Giovanni had a massive Oh Crap reaction when Josh appeared in his window. Even after his death, people were still terrified if they saw a Rayquaza flying around, any more than a few believed he wasn't actually dead.
  • Word of God also says that if Josh hadn't been killed in that final battle, he would have grown up to enslave the rest of the world with his power.
• In the Ranma ½ fic The Bet: Study in Scarlet by Gregg "Metroanime" Sharp, Akane Tendo is thrown into the far distant future after an ill-worded wish. The story is about what happens when she finally finds a way back — but in the several centuries she spent finding a way to do so she became known as "Scarlet", a legendary and universally-feared villain in that era, whose very name struck terror into the hearts of even other villains.
• As a Mega Crossover, There Was Once An Avenger From Krypton features a few but the two most noteworthy, at least in the Milky Way, seem to be Thanos and Vilgax. Kraab tells Ben that when the Black Order marks a planet for culling, it's dead with Kevin later telling Ben that Vilgax is so dangerous that even the Kree refuse to go to war with him, and they proudly fight a losing war against the Diamonds, with Stuart saying that Vilgax is the only being in the galaxy to have fought Thanos and lived.
• Horde Prime in the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power/Voltron: Legendary Defender crossover, In His Green Light, despite being a Posthumous Character. It's stated that when Prime decided to wage war on the Galra Empire, what followed was a series of Curb Stomp Battles in Prime's favour with the Galra eventually retreating whenever they detected one of his ships. Even after the Galra and the Horde Empires have both fallen, Keith is more terrified about what the remnants of Horde Prime's cult might one day do to the universe than he is of the militarily active remnants of the Galra Empire.
• In the webcomic Kill la Kill AU, we have Honnouji Academy and it's this along with being Boarding School of Horrors or so it is rumored to be. According to Nui, it's like a prison and those that go in are never allowed out and the only way out is in a body bag. When she finds out Ryuko was to be sent there so she could still go to the same school with her and Satsuki, she was furious.

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