Board 8 > Your First Thought 131: "Something that only scared you as a kid."

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105) Smash character that shouldn't be in Smash: Cloud (Corrin, Piranha Plant, Byleth, Joker, Bayonetta, Dark Pit)
106) Playstation Mascot: Crash Bandicoot (Sackboy, Kratos, Nathan Drake, Toro/Doro/Taro/Todo/The fucking cat, what is his name?)
107) JRPG: Final Fantasy (A variety of specific Final Fantasies [usually VII or X], Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, a Persona, a Trails, a Tales)
108) bad game: Big Rigs/Sonic 06 (Superman 64, ET, a variety of Final Fantasies [XII, XIII, XV, even VII!], Kingdom Hearts??)
109) Best place to buy video games: GameStop (people wanted to point out GameStop is NOT the best place to buy video games, Best Buy, Amazon, "The Internet"/Online, EB Games)
110) Nintendo's greatest rival: SEGA (like everyone said SEGA, more people said "Sonic" than "Sony.")
111) A game that would make a great musical: Kingdom Hearts (Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, Undertale, Celeste, Metal Gear Solid, Mega Man, Chrono Trigger, Devil May Cry, Mass Effect, Ace Attorney, God of War, Mario RPG, FFVIII, Trails, lots of good answers and I want them all to be musicals)
112) Game that made you say 'what the fuck:' Killer7/Drakengard (MGS/2, various Danganronpas, Celeste, Doki Doki Literature Club!, Undertale, BioShock/Infinite, Katamari Damacy, INSIDE, Spec Ops: The Line)
113) Coolest video game subtitle: Sons of Liberty (Revengeance, Up Your Arsenal, Snake Eater, Trigger Happy Havoc, Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, Sanity's Requiem, all those german Xenosaga ones)
114) Coolest looking console: GameCube (PS5, Xbox, Wii, PS4, Genesis, PS2, N64, SNES)
115) Most photorealistic game of all time: Last of Us/II (Crysis, various Uncharteds, various games about photography, Myst, MGSV, that one Unreal Engine tech demo)
116) Worst mainline Mario game: Sunshine (NSMB/2, 3D Land, Lost Levels, Mario Bros.)
117) Worst JRPG protagonist: Vaan (Tidus, Marche, Emil, Cloud, Edge Maverick, Lloyd Irving, Squall, Crono)
118) Blue hair: Sonic (Anime Strong Bad/Stinkoman/"You gotta have blue hair!", Steiner, Bulma, Ramona Flowers, KOS-MOS, Chloe Price, Marth or another Fire Emblem)
119) VG character you would not take home to mom: Bayonetta (Tifa, Morrigan, Dante)
120) Character being revealed for Smash tomorrow: Dante (Impa, Crash, Travis Touchdown, Tracer, Cinderace, Geno, Captain Toad, Mike Jones, Waluigi, Master Chief, Ryu Hayabusa, various characters already in Smash Bros., NOT A SINGLE MINECRAFT STEVE)
121) Minecraft Steve in Smash Bros. Ultimate: General indifference (general anger, happiness, confusion)
122) Fodder you don't mind seeing in contests: Vyse/Guybrush/CATS (Laharl, Gordon Freeman, Edgeworth)
123) Waifu: Everyone has their own Waifu (except the people that answered that anime sux, it's actually Tifa, then Zelda, Rin, Makoto, Rikku, anime)
124) Best Pokemon Gym Leader: Brock (Sabrina, Misty, Lt. Surge, Giovanni, Blue, Erika)
125) Light gun game: Duck Hunt (Time Crisis, House of the Dead, one of those Resident Evils, Virtua Cop, Yoshi's Safari)
126) Toxic fanbase: Smash (League of Legends, Sonic, Rick & Morty, Pokemon, Trump/MAGA. It was really only the first three, everything after Sonic only got a few.)
127) Best required reading in High School: To Kill a Mockingbird (Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, The Odyssey, 1984, The Giver)
128) Best online multiplayer ever: One of the Halos (Team Fortress 2, League of Legends, Overwatch, one of the CoDs, Mass Effect 3, Fall Guys, Among Us, an Uncharted, a Smash)
129) A legitimately scary horror movie: Hereditary (The Exorcist, The Ring, Babadook, Scream, Alien, The Shining, Nightmare on Elm Street, It Follows, Pontypool, 1408, Get Out, The Grudge, Haunting of Hill House, REC)
130) Horror gaming icon: Pyramid Head (Leon Kennedy, Jill Valentine, Nemesis, Jason Voorhees, Snake5555555

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The music video for Black Hole Sun.

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Dying

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The colonel's face on the codec at the end of MGS2

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Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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Dolls (horror movie)

for me it's those wolves in OoT and the lost woods in general, idk why they scared me so much

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Pennywise the Clown

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Mimics

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Horror movies

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fp9bo9J734
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That part in Starship Troopers that the Brain Bug uses his tentacle to pierce the brain of some marine

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The House of Skulltula in OoT

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TheArkOfTurus posted...

The music video for Black Hole Sun.

First thought was ghosts, but really, this should have been the real answer...

Come to think of it the best answer for me would have been The Mummy (1999).

Ihmotep absorbing everyone's skin scared the shit out of me.

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those bad monsters in Number Munchers

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ReDeads

Namely because of that ear-piercing screech they do when they freeze you.

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The eel from Super Mario 64

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Grim reaper from Kid Icarus

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Shadow Man

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Courage the Cowardly Dog

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Clowns

But I was never afraid of clowns so \_()_/

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Are You Afraid Of The Dark?

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Being stuck in a lift

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (specifically the scene where she gets lost in the woods)

quicksand

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First legitimate (true) thought - the Cave of Wonders from Aladdin.

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TV static

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This creepy music played during the trivia game at the end of my Jetsons VHS tapes.
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"Monster" under the bed

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My first thought was of this picture of a skeleton that was on every page of a kid's book of facts in the chapter on the human body. For some reason, it really bothered me.

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Pennywise

He stills scares me!

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Thunder and Lightning

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The dark
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The nightmare sequence in "The Brave Little Toaster"
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pennywise

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Silence of the Lambs
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Scarecrows

That's not true though

The dark

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The password theme from Simon's Quest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y099WfogvU

Seriously had to mute my TV every time I started that game

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It was this pillow my grandmother owned that was in the likeness of a stereotypical vampire face.

The Shining, which wouldn't be my actual answer.

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Storms

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The Wizard of Oz

the wicked witch was v scary okay
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The Energizer Bunny
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C7mz0UA6n0#t=54s

this fucking thing gave me nightmares for a straight year and now it looks so goofy

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https://youtu.be/aIhnqkXWSR8

I screamed when I saw this in theaters but watching it now it makes me laugh

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Lightning Strikes posted...

Courage the Cowardly Dog

Still love it though

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Wallmasters

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