Characters that inspire absolute terror from a francise?

[Jabberwock xeno]

The mask salesman and Majora.

Or, shit, the whole game.

Spoiler: Warning: huge image

 

[Kintobor92]

A good percentage of everything that moves in the Metroid Prime games. Those games are so good.
The ReDead in Ocarina of Time freaked me out as a kid.

 

[distortedreality]

Poison headcrabs.

I ran away faster than King Arthur ran away from the rabbit.

 

[Sandjube]

This bastard right here

After my first encounter with these things I sat in the corner for 5 minutes with a shotgun. Ugh, nasty little creatures, they are...

Alright, you got me, I jumped. Probably because of how damn loud it was...

OT: Anything from Amnesia/Stalkers x-16/x-18 labs.

 

[Richardplex]

Ilya, from the Fate/Stay Night visual novel. I did the first bad end and never got over it.

she's to cute to be scary <3 Ilya (and yea lol ive gotten that bad end)

Slaughter fish yeah the cliff racers bothered me, but one good fireball and 4 of em dropped, magic doesnt work well underwater though.... i still have trouble entering water in any video game becuase of slaughter fish

It took me the third route to get over my terror of her, then I loved her. <3 Ilya too.

 

[distortedreality]

Cazadors.

The first time I saw a Cazador, was just after leaving the starting town in NV, saw a fly in the distance, merrily ran towards it intent in wielding instant death with my manly machete or something, then got fucked by like 4 of the little bastards. Those fuckers are nigh-on impossible to kill at low levels.

I'm pretty sure I just ran the opposite way each time I saw one for another 10-15 levels or so before I got the guts to face them again.

 

[TallestGargoyle]

You can't beat it. You can't outrun it. You can only dodge it and run like shit.

Fuck this guy.

Koopa shells are your best friend.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Amnesia the Dark Descent: The Water Monster

You can't see it, but can certainly see you. No matter what you put in it's way, be it door or boxs, it will get to you. Three hits and your dead. Dead, and having the game over screen tell you to stay out of the water. That thing was simply freaky.

My god, this so much... I literally pee'd my pants, but ALL IT DID WAS BLEND INTO THE WATER.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Probably Redeads from Legend of Zelda. You can't really kill them permanently, only stun them with sunlight or knock them down with your sword, and if you take too long trying to attack them, they paralyze and rape your ass.

It's the ones from Wind Waker that get me in particular, I imagine the scream sound would have been enhanced, and the redesign makes them a little reminiscent of Easter Island heads, their occurrence in a misty, grey dungeon enhances the creepy somewhat.

 

[MammothBlade]

Deathclaws have always freaked me out. Groups of them pop up out of literally nowhere. You only get one or two shots through VATS, and then they'll rip your face off and tear through armour like it was paper. The sloan quarry in fallout new vegas scared me above all. I had to go back and massacre every single one of them just so I could sleep safely in the Lucky 38 at night. Even the younglings.

 

[ZedLeg]

This one is pretty recent ... but the Deathclaws from Fallout New Vegas.
I'm a low-level stealther. I'm walking normally, I see something in the distance I think is another damn rock. Then it moves.
I hit that L3 button and sit there frozen. Slowly, I identify the legs and tail and realize what it is. I know I'm too weak to kill it, but I can't help thinking Maybe if I can just sneak up on it with my machete ... I spend the next ten minutes inching toward it as slowly as I can, carefully flanking it, knowing that it could turn around suddenly and eat my face.
Suddenly the word on the top of the screen starts flashing DANGER. I'm too confused to react - the thing's not even looking at me! It hasn't even moved in fifteen minut-
A couple of other Deathclaws have snuck up behind me and killed me instantly, presumably with a bite to the neck. As a final insult, with the camera slowly panning away from my dead body, the Deathclaw I was stalking hasn't even turned around.
Oh, and the Cazadors. And the Radscorpions. And the Centaurs. And - fuck it, every single thing in the Mojave is trying to kill me!

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/222/508/1295287513-clever-girl.jpg

It's probably Nemesis for me as well. That bit in the Police Station man.

 

[The_Lost_King]

Banshees in mass effect 3s multiplayer are Downright frightening, especially since they can chomp your face off

When I was in the Ardat Yatshe monastary those screams kinda freaked me out. After that though, They were just annoying seeing as I was a Vanguard.

 

[lacktheknack]

Saavedro from Myst III.

I mean, come on. He was played by freaking Brad Dourif at his angriest! ;_;

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v295/ryanonism/EXILE/bad_saavedro2.jpg

AAAAAHHHHHHH

 

[sheah1]

Dark Souls of course has the most terrifying enemy in gaming. Those. Fucking. Frogs.
Five minutes ago, while trying to reach Ash Lake, I saw a.... Victim. Just.... Just frozen there in agony. My reaction was something along the lines of "Oh please god, no not again, just leave me alone please".
To non DS players:
Dark Souls has these weird bug eyed giant frog things. They can take about two hits of an alright weapon before dying, they hugely telegraph their attacks, and they can almost always easily be lured out of groups one by one.
But their attack consists of breathing a foul mist on you that immediately kills you. Even worse, you're left cursed; half of your HP is gone until you can find an awfully rare cure. It stacks.
Worst of all though, because Dark Souls is permanently online, when another player in a different world gets cursed, a grotesque statue of their death throes is left in your world.
So a frogs warning sign is the dead body of a comrade in awful pain.
.....
I just remembered that the only way back up..... Is through those frogs.
I'm so scared.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Dark Souls of course has the most terrifying enemy in gaming. Those. Fucking. Frogs.
Five minutes ago, while trying to reach Ash Lake, I saw a.... Victim. Just.... Just frozen there in agony. My reaction was something along the lines of "Oh please god, no not again, just leave me alone please".
To non DS players:
Dark Souls has these weird bug eyed giant frog things. They can take about two hits of an alright weapon before dying, they hugely telegraph their attacks, and they can almost always easily be lured out of groups one by one.
But their attack consists of breathing a foul mist on you that immediately kills you. Even worse, you're left cursed; half of your HP is gone until you can find an awfully rare cure. It stacks.
Worst of all though, because Dark Souls is permanently online, when another player in a different world gets cursed, a grotesque statue of their death throes is left in your world.
So a frogs warning sign is the dead body of a comrade in awful pain.
.....
I just remembered that the only way back up..... Is through those frogs.
I'm so scared.

...

I've never actually been cursed in Dark Souls. The mist isn't instakill, it builds a meter, and like you said, they telegraph their attacks about 10 minutes in advance, so how people get caught in the mist long enough to die is beyond me.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

You know dragons? Those things that came close to destroying the whole of Tamriel?

Meet the guys who put them on the endangered list the first time.

Yeah... I avoided them like the plague/blight.

HOW? Those things would quite literally pop up out of nowhere.

 

[sheah1]

Dark Souls of course has the most terrifying enemy in gaming. Those. Fucking. Frogs.
Five minutes ago, while trying to reach Ash Lake, I saw a.... Victim. Just.... Just frozen there in agony. My reaction was something along the lines of "Oh please god, no not again, just leave me alone please".
To non DS players:
Dark Souls has these weird bug eyed giant frog things. They can take about two hits of an alright weapon before dying, they hugely telegraph their attacks, and they can almost always easily be lured out of groups one by one.
But their attack consists of breathing a foul mist on you that immediately kills you. Even worse, you're left cursed; half of your HP is gone until you can find an awfully rare cure. It stacks.
Worst of all though, because Dark Souls is permanently online, when another player in a different world gets cursed, a grotesque statue of their death throes is left in your world.
So a frogs warning sign is the dead body of a comrade in awful pain.
.....
I just remembered that the only way back up..... Is through those frogs.
I'm so scared.

...

I've never actually been cursed in Dark Souls. The mist isn't instakill, it builds a meter, and like you said, they telegraph their attacks about 10 minutes in advance, so how people get caught in the mist long enough to die is beyond me.

The meter is super small so it takes about a second to fill. And I've only been cursed once, but that experience, and the huge difficulty of finding a cure (I tried to get past the ghosts, dumb move considering the cure was on sale just 'round the corner) has instilled a huge fear of the frogs in me.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Dark Souls of course has the most terrifying enemy in gaming. Those. Fucking. Frogs.
Five minutes ago, while trying to reach Ash Lake, I saw a.... Victim. Just.... Just frozen there in agony. My reaction was something along the lines of "Oh please god, no not again, just leave me alone please".
To non DS players:
Dark Souls has these weird bug eyed giant frog things. They can take about two hits of an alright weapon before dying, they hugely telegraph their attacks, and they can almost always easily be lured out of groups one by one.
But their attack consists of breathing a foul mist on you that immediately kills you. Even worse, you're left cursed; half of your HP is gone until you can find an awfully rare cure. It stacks.
Worst of all though, because Dark Souls is permanently online, when another player in a different world gets cursed, a grotesque statue of their death throes is left in your world.
So a frogs warning sign is the dead body of a comrade in awful pain.
.....
I just remembered that the only way back up..... Is through those frogs.
I'm so scared.

...

I've never actually been cursed in Dark Souls. The mist isn't instakill, it builds a meter, and like you said, they telegraph their attacks about 10 minutes in advance, so how people get caught in the mist long enough to die is beyond me.

The meter is super small so it takes about a second to fill. And I've only been cursed once, but that experience, and the huge difficulty of finding a cure (I tried to get past the ghosts, dumb move considering the cure was on sale just 'round the corner) has instilled a huge fear of the frogs in me.

It would probably be a bigger deal if it wasn't so easy to kill them, but then again, I have a faith build, so I just Wrath of God the living shit out of everything