The Dreaded - TV Tropes. These are people who make you quail not because of anything they are doing at that moment, but simply because you know who they are and what they're capable of.. Maybe this character has a reputation as a Hero Killer; a person who kills the other side's strongest and noblest supporters. Maybe they use fear as a magical effect which triggers panic in others.

A vault is a type of subterranean installation initially designed by the Vault-Tec Corporation. The New Mutants are a group of teenaged mutant superheroes-in-training appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They have been the main. A villain or Anti-Hero whose primary characteristic is the fear the other side has of them. To be the Dreaded, a character has to be far and away the most. Deadpool displaying medium awareness, again. Deadpool was tracked down by Sabretooth and invited to join a new Weapon X Program. Impressed by Weapon X’s upgrade to.

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Maybe they've done so many horrible things that nobody ever wants to speak of them again. Maybe they are simply so mind- breakingly horrible even the strongest of hearts falter. But the defining trait of the Dreaded is that they are feared.

Probably has a scary name, unless they use a really scary alias instead. If their ability in combat lives up to their reputation, then the only choice one has when facing them may be to Run or Die. When/if the Dreaded character dies, his/her/its death will almost certainly be followed by much rejoicing.. Vlad the Impaler under the Real Life section). In general, characters—villains, in particular—who conform to this trope will not be seen directly the first few times they are mentioned.

The show will tend to work on building up their perceived threat in the minds of the audience: a dark, shadowy something that's out there somewhere, but you don't know where, who or what they are, or even whether or not they can be killed, at least at first. As such, it usually involves acceptable forms of Character Shilling. It is possible for them to remain this trope after they come out of the shadows, but if they do not then beware Villain Decay. They tend to be anti- heroes of some kind though (ranging from grades 2- 4), due to audiences seldom associating dread as an emotion a pure hero inspires. Some criminals also tend to go for this in order to prevent anyone from informing on them. Other characters think this person is pure Nightmare Fuel, whether they deserve this reputation or not.

Not to be confused with characters who are merely dreaded, although both tropes may apply to the same character. Compare/contrast Respected by the Respected, where a character is defined by the respect other respected characters have for them. See Supernatural Fear Inducer for when a character can literally induce dread.

Even Death herself is frightened when she's suddenly humming his song, without any idea where it came from. The Dalek Time Controller is treated like this by the 8th Doctor, who considers them the most dangerous Dalek of all. They are so dangerous 8 is willing to work with the Dalek Time Controller against them, despite the Time Lords trying to use them against the Daleks. Whenever it is spoken of or remembered it is with horror and terror. Her mere presence strikes fear in the hearts of everyone present, the queen fears her enough to call her .

But when Maleficent shows up the response from everyone is almost universally pure terror. For example, in Fantasmic!, Maleficent's presence inspires more fear in Mickey than that of the Evil Queen, Genie! Jafar or Chernabog (who is pretty much Satan!). Even the Big Bad's minions are deadly afraid when told to contact him. Nearly everyone is scared of him, and the rest are Too Dumb to Live.

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He's stripped of this status in the sequel, what with his humiliation at the hands of Mowgli, and goes full- blown Knight of Cerebus trying to get it back. When he escapes from said prison, everyone in the Valley is afraid of him, including his former master and The Chosen One.

The very word frightens any other dinosaur who hears it. Some vikings do not believe they exist, but those that do dread the idea of encountering one. They outrank nearly every other dragon in speed, strength, intelligence, etc. No one has ever encountered one and lived to tell the tale. Even the dragon manual says that should one ever encounter a Night Fury, they should . It is one of the rare works that portray Orcas as extremely dangerous predators, and they have some very effective buildup. Prior to their appearance, we see Drake, the monsterous Leopard Seal, and even the narrator mentioning that humans are worse than leopard seals.

And Rocko, being the tough penguin that he is, isn't too afraid of them either, teaching Hubie how to fight them back. Until he brings up the killer whales, who mentions that they are much worse than the seal, being twice as big, twice as mean, and they always hunt in groups. He goes into despair the moment the Orcas show up, and they very quickly prove to be the most terrifying and dangerous presence in the entire movie, almost comparable to Sharptooth. Hubie even abandons the titular pebble that he risked his life to protect just to survive against the killer whales. He is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a gigantic barn owl made even bigger by being introduced relative the the protagonist, a small field mouse. Death here isn't sugar- coated either, for the King sought to create an army of the dead with the remains of fallen knights. Ultimately the Horned King failed, abusing the titular cauldron, and given perhaps Disney's most gruesome of deaths.

When he first showed up to fight Zeus, all of the other Olympians except Athena and Enyo immediately fled in terror. Typhon is so bad that he was not only scarier than Hades, he frightened him. Zombies are always depicted as this. A walking, living, brain- eating corpse—any normal/sane person would definitely fear these creatures. And to make things worse, think of how many people have died, historically, and lie as waiting corpses beneath the ground.. Of the three, one is a serpent that wraps entirely around the earth and will kill Thor, one is a wolf whose jaws open wider than the sky and will kill Odin, and one is the personification of ignominious, dishonorable death. The chief danger in Odin is that his plans and interests revolved solely around himself and disregarded the cost to anyone else; being a champion of a god of death might sound great until you realize most of his champions met horrible ends and gained nothing, not even Odin's favor in the afterlife.

Even the Einherjar (the chosen warriors who live in Valhalla) were not chosen for reward so much as recruited into Odin's personal (doomed, see above) army. He was usually friendly to mankind, though. If there is one Norse being you would rather never meet, it's N. He was so terrifying, the Egyptians built temples to prevent him from coming to them. Although mostly a story, one cannot help but think if there really is a creature of pure evil in this world. If so, then God help us all. Every child that has heard of him fears him, he can appear as the thing you fear most, and if you've been naughty, God have mercy on your soul.

They are based upon the fears of rape, sexual assault and cannibalism, which are all real terrors. To add more danger to the name, such beings possess powers of great intimidation from turning into wolves, to raising the dead. The definitive examples in the WWE would be The Big Show and Mark Henry. It wasn't just his colossal size and strength, or his barely being able to speak; opponents also had to fear his Psychopathic Manchild tendencies, which could easily be exploited by his handlers. Khali could be told to do anything terrible - and by God, he would do it. Knocking down Undertaker with a single blow also helped his rep a great deal. As CM Punk put it, for all his physical gifts, Lesnar's greatest weapon was the sheer fear all of his opponents had for him, whether they showed it or not.

Punk himself was not intimidated, because he wasn't after Lesnar — to him, Lesnar was just another obstacle in the way of his real goal, Paul Heyman. The fact that he Hates Everyone Equally means he's a danger to everybody, not just whoever has directly earned his ire at the time. He'll often RKO someone for no other reason than because they were hanging around the ring too long, or because the RKO has been banned at the next pay- per- view and he needs to get them .

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At io. 9, I published a short series of semi- exhaustive posts on the following topics: Radium Age Supermen . At the time, I took notes for subsequent posts on, e. Air Battles, Antigravity, Interplanetary Voyages, Lost Worlds, Mad Scientists, Time Travel, and Utopias.

I collected a roomful of books by Olaf Stapledon, William Hope Hodgson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sax Rohmer, Karel . Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, David Lindsay, John Taine, Jack Williamson, S.

Fowler Wright, Gustave Le Rouge, A. Merritt, Murray Leinster, Jean de La Hire, Maurice Renard, Philip Wylie, Aldous Huxley, and many less well- known science fiction authors from the time. However, since then I’ve moved onto other projects. Throughout 2. 01. I did exactly that. Scroll down, to see the full list.

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Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1. Joseph Shield Nicholson’s Thoth (1. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1.

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Chesterton’s The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1. In an alternative- history version of England (it’s set in 1. When Auberon Quin, a man who aspires to live life like a medieval adventure, becomes king, he mandates that each of London’s neighborhoods become an independent state, complete with unique local costumes.

Everyone goes along with the conceit until young Adam Wayne, a born military tactician, takes the game too seriously. War rages throughout the city — fought with sword and halberd. Fun fact: Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins is known to have admired The Napoleon of Notting Hill. H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (1. Does The Food of the Gods belong on a list of the 1.

Best Radium Age Science Fiction novels? I originally determined that the genre’s pioneering Scientific Romance era ended in 1. H. G. Wells lost his touch. The First Men in the Moon (1. Wells’s last terrific sf novel; The Food of the Gods is his first un- terrific one. Un- terrific Wells is still pretty damn good. A chemical intended to make chickens grow larger accidentally causes plants, wasps, earwigs, and rats to grow as well.

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Robur the Conqueror, FBI(- ish) Chief Inspector Strock arrives in North Carolina to investigate what appears to be an imminent volcanic eruption. Meanwhile, a supercar is spotting traveling at 1. New England. The brilliant inventor Robur is back, and this time he has invented a ten- meter long multi- purpose vehicle, The Terror. Determined to have it for military purposes, the feds first attempt to buy the machine, then attack Robur.

With a captive Strock aboard, Robur escapes in The Terror over Niagara Falls, then challenges God by heading into a Caribbean thunderstorm. Fun fact: Is this one of Verne’s best novels? I include it here to demonstrate the context from which Radium Age science fiction emerged. Here we see one of the genre’s pioneers, at the end of his career (and life), questioning man’s ability to use science and technology to benefit humankind. Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain’s Sultana’s Dream (1.

Originally published in English in The Indian Ladies Magazine of Madras, Hussain’s story depicts a peaceful, crime- free utopia in which women run everything and men are secluded — i. What’s more, the women use advanced technology that makes possible laborless farming and flying cars; they have solved the problem of solar energy, and control the weather. Most impressively, perhaps: The workday is two hours long, since men used to waste six hours of each day in smoking! Fun fact: One of the first examples of feminist science fiction. The author was a Muslim feminist, writer, and social reformer who lived in British India. Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail (1.

Kipling’s novella follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling the perfect storm. Between London and Quebec we learn that a planet- wide Aerial Board of Control (A. B. C.) now enforces a technocratic system of command and control not only in the skies but in world affairs.

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Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1. In this satirical, nightmarish, episodic update of Gulliver’s Travels, Lieut. Gullivar Jones, an arrogant US Naval officer, travels to Mars (a jungle planet, not the desert planet of other Mars sci- fi) via magic carpet. There, he gains super strength and telepathic powers, and proceeds to stumble into and out of trouble. There is a war brewing between the beautiful, innocent, sophisticated Hither Folk and the barbaric, industrious Thither Folk; Gullivar fails to prevent the war, and flees back to Earth.

He also attempts to claim a vast tract of Mars for himself, travels down a river of death, fails to outwit or defeat his enemies, and doesn’t win the hand of beautiful Princess Heru. Fun fact: Arnold was best known in his own time for the 1. The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician. Note that Edgar Rice Burroughs’s first John Carter novel was likely inspired by Lieut. Gullivar Jones; and the flying cities of Flash Gordon and other, later sci- fi, find their precusor here, in the city of Laputa. Reissued by Bison Frontiers of Imagination.

Gregory Casparian’s An Anglo- American Alliance (1. In 1. 96. 0, Aurora Cunningham, daughter of Great Britain’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and Margaret Mac.