What scared you as a kid?

[Shark_Blade]

Marilyn Manson.

[Turo602]

I used to be scared of this porcelain clown doll that til this day is still sitting in our cabinet. I was also really scared of our basement and first floor apartment at night. I always imagined hands grabbing my legs from the stairs and other creepy sh*t down there. Though I don't think anything TMNT related has ever scared me.

[Papenbrook]

The close-up of Spongebob's visage in the episode " Whobob Whatpants". It's still chilling...

[Mew]

Originally Posted by snake

Yeah I know exactly what you're talking about. I had a hand puppet of him as well.

That was the reason I was scared of turned off TV's, VHS/DVD players and, I kid you not, my cousin's god damn Wii!

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Why is this in the TMNT section?

Read the first post. It was about TMNT 3, which scared me. It is also my first TMNT memory. I was going to make a thread about that, but there was already an earliest memory thread, I believe.

I was also scared of that face from Nick Jr. that would pop up in between shows.

[Etsyturtle2]

I'm scared of that new shredder costume.

[2K3]

PERFECT CHAOS from Sonic Adventure; that "Station Square Flood" cut-scene freaked me out as a kid.

TMNT-wise: The closest I've come to being scared in TMNT was the "Exodus" storyline in 2K3; Utrom Shredder just tears Splinter and the Turtles apart!

[DarkLightDragon]

-Used to be scared of spiders. Let's just say I had a quite unpleasant time finding one in my panties while going to the bathroom in pre-school. Nowadays they don't bother me at all.

-Was occasionally scared of the dark. Still sort of am actually.

Going by Disney films I watched:
-The one scene from Sleeping Beauty when Maleficent appears and lured Aurora to fulfill her curse always got me too. The fairies leave her alone. She continues to sob. When the camera starts panning to the fireplace and you start hearing that eerie music. A puff of green fire and smoke appear. And then you see her likeness amongst the darkness. That was a good way to clear me outta the room I tell ya.

-And I always thought the crocodile from Peter Pan weirdly creepy too. It might've been his crooked smile or the music that plays in his scenes, but I always felt uncomfortable seeing him and not just straight-up afraid like Captain Hook. This is kinda the only childhood fear I'm rather ashamed of admitting since there really is nothing that should be scary about him now and never should have found.

-Oh, and Judge Doom's reveal from WFRR? is a definite and relate able childhood scare. "REMEMBER ME EDDIE?!?! WHEN I KILLED YOUR BROTHER, I TALKED JUUUST LIIIIIKE THHHHHHISSSS!!!!" 0_0

But for whatever reason, I could never be close to being scared of the pink elephants from Dumbo or the Hellfire sequence from Hunchback like most probably were. I'm just kinda weird like that, I guess.

And in case anyone asks why Fantasia for the Night on Bald Mountain segment isn't on here since I was such a Disney fanatic as a kid, well, that's because I avoided watching it because of knowing that was a thing. Didn't know it'd be the last segment of the film, but still.

[Jephael]

The puppet show scene in The Sound of Music freaked me out so bad when I was little.

[ZariusTwo]

The opening titles of Knight Rider. I swear I thought KITT was going to come right out of the tv and run me over.

Every time He-Man yelled "I HAVE THE POWER"

[ProactiveMan]

This...

Spoiler:

[lonewarrior20]

d'compose from inhumanoids
his touch does this to you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt0KUz4Yg-Y

[ssjup81]

People....but specifically those who were bad. You know, like murderers and such, but I was deathly afraid of racists and KKK folks. Learning about those things back in like 1st grade scared me because of how recent it was in our history. My parents' time. I also went to a predominantly white elementary school from K-2, so I was also scared that my friends' parents would hate me because of my race. I used to always think, "What if white people start to hate black people again and I can't be friends with <insert name> anymore?"

So yeah, stuff like that scared me a lot as a kid.

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

This...

Spoiler:

http://i.imgur.com/2KbN24s.gif

RIGHT?!?!
And Large Marge.

[ProactiveMan]

Or Geena Davis pulling her face off in Beetlejuice.

I think my earliest memory of being scared by a movie would be the sphinx from NeverEnding Story.

[Utrommaniac]

Originally Posted by ssjup81

People....but specifically those who were bad. You know, like murderers and such, but I was deathly afraid of racists and KKK folks. Learning about those things back in like 1st grade scared me because of how recent it was in our history. My parents' time. I also went to a predominantly white elementary school from K-2, so I was also scared that my friends' parents would hate me because of my race. I used to always think, "What if white people start to hate black people again and I can't be friends with <insert name> anymore?"

So yeah, stuff like that scared me a lot as a kid.

I think your child self was right to, because it looks like that's going to rear its hideous head in good time.

[ObiWanFan4life]

Ever since I saw Jaws and Finding Nemo, I was terrified of sharks. To the point where I was afraid of swimming in the deep end of my pool, because I thought I would get eaten.

[DarkFell]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

Or Geena Davis pulling her face off in Beetlejuice.

I think my earliest memory of being scared by a movie would be the sphinx from NeverEnding Story.

It was that part where the kid saw all of the bones and the dead knight on the ground that sorta unnerved me as a kid. I always liked The Southern Oracle (the blue Sphinxes) because of their color, and because they actually didn't kill people.

I ought to watch Beetlejuice again sometime because I don't remember the Geena Davis scene or much of the movie itself.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by ssjup81

People....but specifically those who were bad. You know, like murderers and such, but I was deathly afraid of racists and KKK folks. Learning about those things back in like 1st grade scared me because of how recent it was in our history. My parents' time. I also went to a predominantly white elementary school from K-2, so I was also scared that my friends' parents would hate me because of my race. I used to always think, "What if white people start to hate black people again and I can't be friends with <insert name> anymore?"

So yeah, stuff like that scared me a lot as a kid.

I was afraid of criminals, too. Junkies and alcoholics creeped me out in particular.

[thundermaster612]

Originally Posted by Spike Spiegel

Thomas the Tank Engine creeped me out, especially with the weird faces they used to make.

As it relates to TMNT, probably Shredder's voice in those early 2k3 episodes. Before the Ch'rell stuff was revealed, I saw him as an incredibly fearsome villain.

Don't tell me that this scared you:
http://imgur.com/acpWnJH

[inaheap]

Thunder Storms and High places.
Things That still scare me.
High Places. I guess at least I eliminated one.

Actually kinda of funny how I go over T Storms. Finally had one while I was at school. Like kindergarden. Around the same time I got into TMNT. I looked around. I realized nobody else was scared. I decided if no one else seemed scared I wouldn't be either. What I like to call the Steward affect today. That moment where you look around a plane; see the stewards are all calm and decide its not time to panic yet.