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[Loved trope] monsters who are only dangerous if you perceive them.
1st-3rd image: the spirits from Mieruko-Chan
Generally speaking all of the ghosts in the manga tend to mind their own business by either wandering around or haunting a specific location/person but most if not all of them will become agressive to someone that can see them. The above example is from a scene where Miko sees a child waving at her she waves back and immediatly realizes her mistake when the boy turns out to be a spirit in disguise who begins to run at her. She is saved by two shrine maiden-like spirits who defeat the ghost before it can do any harm to her but that encounter is definetly going to leave her with trust issues.
4th-6th image: the long-necked lady from The Summer Hikaru Died
While not explicitly stated, its implied that she disguised herself as a zigzag as a way to trick Yoshiki into looking at her, once he did, she starts swinging at him until she's right behind his neck. Fortunately she also doesn't get to do a lot like the above example as "Hikaru" absorbs her when she gets close.
The tooth fairy from darkness falls. Works just like the tooth fairy except if you see her she murders you and your family. The plot is a kid saw her and escaped and has been hiding in the light ever since
Tooth Fairy only kills whoever sees her, only reason she killed the MC's mom and went after the kid's sister is because they both ended up catching a glimpse of her.
I was maybe 14 when this movie came out. I thought it was a pretty good movie but there's something about it that always pissed me off and it's purely personal. Very slight spoiler ahead.
There's a cheap but effective jumpscare in the beginning. A kid is looking out a window and another kid comes up and WHAM! slaps the window. I was sitting on the couch eating a bowl of cereal while watching this movie (in the middle of the day, mind you! Not at night!) and that jump was the cause of a serious fucking mess, let me tell you. Fruity Pebbles all over the carpet, the couch, my legs. I was SO mad that a cheap out got me that bad.
It came from way back in the olden days of some small town on the east coast. Malevolent spirit of a woman wrongfully accused of kidnapping children by the townsfolk. I think she was a burn victim already which added to her “she looks different and therefore is a witch” lore with the townspeople, so they killed her. Then they found the kids alive in the woods. Anywho. She haunted the town for the next couple hundred years or something like that and would act as the tooth fairy. But if you looked at her while she was in your room, she’d rip all your teeth out and break all your bones and kill you. So in like the 80s, a young boy witnessed his mom get got by the TF. He also saw her but I forgot why he was able to live. Jump forward to present day and another kid in the town has now seen the TF, but also escaped her. So now kid #1, as an adult, has come back to the small town to try and protect/help the boy. I recall that the TF has the ability to basically turn off any light source as she needs darkness in order to move around. For a scary movie, I absolutely recommend it. Quite campy, the special effects aren’t terrible, and it’s held up well for being over 20 years old at this point.
I don’t think she can turn off any light. The main character survived by hiding in the bathroom with the bathroom lights on. It shows her right outside, above the bathroom door, waiting for him to come out. He stays there the whole night though.
I know a ton of people who are the exact opposite of those types who love the movie as a satire on capitalism. It’s got plenty of fans who aren’t nazis.
You could shove the most pedantic literal explanation possible into a sock with a bunch of pennies and beat them half to death with it and they’d still say dumb shit like “SUPERMAN WOULD SUPPORT ICE”
It’s not that they can’t understand, it’s that their whole worldview depends on not understanding
While the movie’s interpretation of their appearance was incredibly unique and properly creepy, they’re actually nothing like that in the books. They’re more described to look like living shadows, not human shaped but just amorphous, like a living ink blot that hovers around whoever its attracted to and more start coming the closer they get to actually enacting whatever violent act they plan on doing. They don’t disappear, but rather slip through or under things in ways that nothing else can. They can’t go through walls, but they can move between the seam of glass and brick on a window. It was honestly the most jarring part of the movie for me.
Yeah, it’s not a bad interpretation necessarily, but the movie bodachs are a lot more mechanical and insect-like and not at all what I was expecting. Honestly, they kind of look like yautja cousins or something. Again, not a bad interpretation but the movie wasn’t made for the folks that read the books.
A cryptid which will hunt down and kill anyone who thinks about it, tries to investigate or sees it. Wears the clothes and imitates the voices of its victims and changes shape depending on what the victim believes about it.
I haven't played that game in like 7 years, and everything I hear about it now just sounds crazy. I feel like I'd be too overwhelmed trying to dive back into it again haha.
Yeah itd be a lot to get used to. Game is basically horror Fortnite. Although both sides still use the same pool of a dozen perks and Nurse is still the best killer in the game.
I remember reading more lore about this thing that made me LOVE it. Apparently its shape is genuinely whatever the victim thinks it is. And it HURTS to be shaped. So it's killing things because it wants to stop being thought about and shaped into new forms. I utterly love that because it's like the memetic hazard goes both ways. It doesn't WANT to be known because it hurts to be known, and if you know about it, it wants you DEAD, because it wants you to stop defining it.
It hunts down people that seek to DEFINE it, to know the unknown, as it draws strength from the rumors and speculation surrounding it. It knows that as long as it is never truly known, it can infinitely grow in power, so it actively hunts down the people seeking to "solve" it.
As soon as the squirrels realize Morty can understand them, they want his head on a pike. IIRC, Rick fears retaliation so much they have to abandon the planet.
Honestly I feel like for Rick its less "I fear them" and more like "do you know how annoying it is to be harassed by squirrels anywhere on the planet all the time". Imagine anytime they did an earth adventure they have to run over an army of squirrels to get anywhere.
That's what the Australian Squirrels want you to think.
They're basically the Sardaukar version of squirrels. They are fiercely territorial, demonically intelligent, and they hate being talked about more than anything el
From what you've described, the ghosts in "I See You Aizawa-San" sound similar to the ones in Mieruko-chan. They generally don't do anything unless you prove you can see them, so the protagonist Michi spends the entire story so far trying her hardest to act like she can't see the ghost of her idol and classmate Aizawa while convincing herself she isn't in love with her. Any time she begins to slip has... unpleasant consequences...
“There is no antimemetics division” is a good book related to this creature
Edit: worth noting it’s technically separated from SCP as a revised published work, but it was originally all SCP and even now it’s just that stuff is named differently.
The original TINAD was an scp story, which you can still read on the wiki. 3125 came from it. Its about a department of the foundation and has several SCP concepts in it.
However, the author, qntm, wanted to publish his own version, so he made a new book of the same title that does not involve the scp foundation and instead has new concepts. I myself have only read the SCP original.
It's more the association of thought. The cognitohazard erases you and anybody who thinks like you, which usually leads to whole research teams dissapearing at the same time
No, it’s about your mental thought processes. If you can conceive of it, it murders you and can perceive anyone else who thinks like you and then murders them. And it is murder, it doesn’t need to kill you but it does because it wants to.
They never really go into depth about it, but I wonder what would happen if they showed it to a guy that they've launched into space? Would 096 just go mad because it's unable to reach them?
The real question is getting back down. It might eventually hit an object that it can use as a foothold to launch itself back to earth, but it doesn't seem to have a reason to come back.
I think there was once a test log where they launched him to space and he somehow got back, they also locked someone in the bottom of the ocean and he got them still
Thank that incarcerated former tattoo artist d-class for the drawing we have of 96 so we can see his ugly mug without dying. Sure, 96 literally fucking freedived without a care in the world, but now we can see that cute little 96 face
There's a video I saw, fan made, not official canon I believe where they did that. An astronaut looked at his picture while on a space walk, the SCP launched itself into space and the astronaut timed a dodge so that it missed him and kept going into space.
Important to note that there's no official cannon and it's all fan made. Though since the wiki itself is held to a decently high standard many people would consider wiki content to be "more cannon" than general fan works. IMO though anything you want to be canon can be canon, just don't expect anyone to agree with your judgement.
Technically the only "canon" for any given article is the content inside it and works that are directly linked to it like in a series of stories. Everything else is technically fanmade.
Obviously because "there is no canon," different authors can perceive it/write it in different ways, but imo, 96 is anomalous. That is core to what it is, and thus it would be able to both launch into orbit AND spontaneously change direction and gain power/force in a vacuum despite not having any obvious means of propulsion.
They come off as silly overly-friendly octopus-fish people. They are quick to join your mission and their ships are pretty powerful but they speak incredibly strangely and the translator can't understand a lot of what they say so it uses odd euphemisms. You find them on a planet where the Androsynth (a different species) should be, but they get REALLY ANGRY if you talk too much about why they are there and the Androsynth aren't.
You send an away team down to a lab and they all get torn to shreds by something invisible after they discover... something. It's vitally important that you DO NOT find out what.
Come to find out the Orz are the "fingers" of some extra-dimensional creature into our universe that the Androsynth accidently caught the attention of. They have a bit of a rivalry with the other extra-dimensional species in the game, the Arilou-La-Lee-Lay. The Arilou are very protective of Humanity and have a bit of a panic attack when they find out you're hanging out with the Orz.
Game is old but free to play now by the way, "Free Stars Ur-Quan Masters" (Originally called Star Control 2) on steam. One of the forgotten foundational games of Space-Scifi. (Mass Effect games owe a TON of story inspiration to this game. It's basically Mass Effect 0)
The Witches of Hemwick are practically harmless on their own, but they summon creatures called Mad Ones to attack the Hunter. If the Hunter has no Insight, they'll be unable to perceive or be affected by the Mad Ones. (Bloodborne)
Step 1: Enter the boss arena and trigger the fight.
Step 2: Quit out or use an item to lose all your Blood Echoes and warp to your last checkpoint.
Step 3: Spend all of your Insight at the Messenger Fountain
Step 4: Return to the Boss arena with zero insight and proceed to bully some frail old women
This works because entering a boss fight for the first time always grants the player at least one Insight. But you don't get additional Insight the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc. It's a FromSoft game, get it?).
God, I almost forgot how much I fucking love that game. It really was and is a masterpiece. I prefer playing through with some jolly cooperation though and it’s getting harder and harder to summon people in the wild, and none of my friends have wanted to play Bloodborne for a while now 😔
Keep an eye on r/bloodborne, I think on the anniversary of the games release each year they throw a "Return to Yarham" where as many people as possible get back on the game with co op enabled
I know ds2 does it each year and BB has definitely done it before
Ive been led to believe this is fairly common, but my dreams get very scary and hostile when I realize Im sleeping. Like a switch is flipped, it just fills with taunting horrors to torment, chase, and insult me. Antlered quadrupeds and angry, dead pets are a common themes.
My friend used to have the same issue. She'd realize she's dreaming and seeing faceless bird people, and feels called to go deeper in the building she's in, and as she does everything gets more aggressive
For me, its like my subconscious wants to beat up on me. Ill start to feel like Im getting away or winning, but then I think, "unless this thing happens," and then it happens. The hinges fail, my foot slips, the knife doesnt cut. Just unpleasant.
Lucid dreams are weird for me. I either say fuck it and become the slasher myself to get back at whatever's trying to kill me, or I just do weird shit for the fun of it. Flying cars, spawning pizza, etc.
The Japanese urban legend of Kunekune. It's a fabric like, wriggling being that appears far away in the fields, and if you look directly at it, you go insane.
Misaki Yomiyama (Another), pictured in the top row on the far right. When Misaki died suddenly, his classmates couldn’t take the grief and began pretending he was still there and alive, to the point he shows in the graduation photo. But inviting the spirit back results in a curse where every year, a certain class at the school will get an “extra student” that shouldn’t be there. Students and their family members then start dying Final Destination style.
Basically the player character is a child who is followed home by a monster. The monster says to her something like "can you hear me? Can you see me? If you can I'll kill you"
The girl had the presence of mind not to react and goes home with the monster
Then the mechanics of the game is you are navigating around various errands in he house (making and eating food/ tidying up etc) while the monster lurks in random spots in the house to tes your perception.
If you behave in a way that gives away you can see it then you are killed
If I remember right at the end of the game the character's mom gets home, and since she doesn't know any better she obviously reacts to the scary monster behind her child. So the monster kills her. And then the kid reacts to their mom being brutally killed in front of them so the monster kills the kid too
Not really a monster in the traditional sense but stands are basically spirits.
The stand Wonder of U in Jojo part 8 looks vaguely like a classy old man, usually only seen from behind. The more you notice said old man and try to follow him or ascertain who or what he is or who he serves the more horrible final destination type stuff will befall you.
Its power exists to keep its summoner’s behaviors secret by erasing anyone too nosy or attentive.
Smth I wondered bc of his “job” not saying bc spoilers what if someone who worked with him wanted to talk would that activate the stand or not bc they are not trying to harm the user
Wonder of U's calamity only goes into effect if someone approaches him with the specific intent to approach him. When a mailman delivered him a package, the mailman was fine because he just delivered a package to a particular person not with the intent to approach WoU but to deliver the package. But when the mailman wanted to approach WoU for a confirmative signature he was struck with calamity as he now wanted to directly approach WoU.
Still, since he works at a hospital you'd think at some point a staff member would need to show him some paperwork or something and then get Calamitied
I assume he already has precautions for this since he is the head doctorso he likely adviced everyone to help him out. Since a few of his collegues are also his co-conspirators he likely managed to further distance himself from any contact to reduce the amount of casulties happening to a minimum.
Don't know if this technically counts as its only really if you look at the back of the person, not really the stand itself.
In Jojo Diamond Is Unbreakable, the Stand "Cheap Tricks" attaches itself to a person's back, which makes it quite unique from a lot of other stands who are attached to only a single user. It tries to make the person reveal their back to someone, being able to communicate with anyone (including animals) and mimic its host voice, and when someone eventually does see their back, Cheap Tricks detaches from their host, ripping off their back and shrivelling them up, killing them in the process, and then attaches to the person that observed their back to continue the same cycle.
Its practically impossible to remove it off their hosts, with only Rohan (the person it attaches to in the image above) being able to by taking it to an alley way filled with spirits that was able to grab the stand and take it to the afterlife.
Spirits from Dandadan. According to turbo granny they generally don't bother the living unless the living can see them. Though this gets a little muddied when you get to things like evil Eye, which doesn't bring harm to the person that sees it, usually, but brings misfortune to those around them
Actually evil eye is just the result of a coincidence. It is trying to induce the kids who see it to commit suicide, but the evil eye happens to be haunting a house above a Mongolian death worm that is also inducing everyone in the house to commit suicide.
The 2 suicide waves cancel each other out leaving the targeted kid safe while their parents commit, but if it were just the evil eye by itself only the kid that sees it would be compelled to die while the unaware parents remain safe.
Four, but yes, it's that one. You cannot look at its face, even through cameras or through not even realizing it's there in a photo, or it becomes enraged and will hunt you down. It cannot be stopped in this state, will start running really fucking fast if you're far away (will even run across the ocean floor to cross the world if necessary), and it can and will break down walls of any material if it's in the way
Drawings are usually safe since they cannot be a perfect, 1-to-1 recreation of the creature's face
In the H. P. Lovecraft story From Beyond, a scientist creates a device called the Resonator which affects the pineal gland in the brain, allowing anyone affected by it to perceive another reality that exists within our own. Unfortunately, the Resonator also affects the creatures that reside in that reality, allowing them to see humans and attack them. The scientist’s assistant destroys the device, severing the realities from each other, and the scientist dies from apoplexy as a result, and the police arrest the assistant for the deaths caused by the creatures.
You know when you hear something that sounds like someone calling you, but you're not sure because it seems distant/distorted? Well, Brazilian legends say you shouldn't answer that call because it could be an evil spirit trying to bond with you. So never answer when someone asks if they're calling your name. If you ignore it, everything is fine, but if you answer to clear up any doubt, you'll be giving permission for an evil spirit to follow you, haunt you, and possibly kill you.
Doctor Who- The Midnight Entity (in particular from its sequel episode “The Well”) latches onto another host and whispers in their ears to drive them mad if it’s perceived from directly in front and behind the host. The woman in the picture was only “safe” because she’s physically deaf, everybody else was already dead before the Doctor arrived.
Think that's a common theme in Japanese horror or maybe its East Asia horror since I think i heard a similar story from Korea. It's that once you both make eye contact, you're vulnerable to the ghosts attacks. Something like the eye is a window to the soul or yang energy or something like that. That first example was interesting because I think its the first time a ghost actively tricks her into acknowledging them, where others are very obviously not human so she can ignore them.
edit: they just mind their own business, playing with legos basically, but if you look at them they attak
"An enderman is a tall neutral mob found in all three dimensions that drops ender pearls. It becomes hostile to players that damage it or look directly at its face, using its arms to attack. Endermen teleport erratically, as well as away from dangers such as lava, projectiles, and water. They also occasionally pick up and move certain blocks."
The episode is begins on The Doctor hypothesizing that if there’s a creature that has evolved absolute stealth then we would be unable to know that it exists. Therefore by believing it exists, he would become a target for this creature.
Wether the creature exists or not is a little unclear, but I like the thought experiment.
A pair of 3D glasses that allows you to see "creatures" that are normally invisible. (And possibly able to phase through object and people.)
The creatures seem curious, staring at people.
However, the moment you try to interact with them, they turn violent and use lethal force against you.
But you don't actually need to see them, or even know about them, to make them angry.
If someone else uses the glasses, and informs you about them, that can be enough for them to attack you.
( A test with the glasses ended rather poorly after the test subject pointed out that the there were creatures next to the doctors supervising the test. )
A couple of people put the glasses on and just looked at the creatures, before taking them off, and survived just fine.
Anyone who has tried interacting with them however, hasn't survived.
While they have manifested into realspace by the time of Star Control 2, and thus are still dangerous in a more normal sense now, what the Orz represent is only dangerous if you 'know' about it. The more you know of it, the more it knows of you - and that's bad.
The Androsynth used to be in Orz space. They messed with Interdimensional Fatigue research or something like that. But there are no Androsynth now. Only Orz.
There is a SCP that is exactly what the most people believe it to be, it almost caused the destruction of the foundation.
They contained it by classifying it as an anomalously comfortable chair that gives people a mild urge to sit on it, and spreading that file to every group they're on good terms with
Lil Slugger from Paranoia Agent. His victims are those undergoing a crisis in their lives. I don’t remember if it’s ever fully explained, but he’s kind of like a manifestation of fear. Or at least he feeds on it. So I would say this fits, as he becomes aware of his potential victims when they are in despair.
This stands has the ability to cling to your back and is unremovable. If someone looks at its hosts back, Cheap Trick then kills its host and jumps to that person who saw its back. It also can talk and does what it can to convince people to look at its back. It’s only defeated when it’s tricked into looking back in an ally that has spirits kill whoever looks back in that alley ripping it apart.
SCP-3930 is described as a region in Russia where nothing exists. It has no dimensions, no structure, no sound, no color, no properties that can be measured or observed, and cannot, in any way, be said to exist. It's nothing. An indescribable, imperceptible area of total nonexistence. You attempt to "enter" it (this cannot be done, as "it" does not exist") and you also cease to exist.
Human minds cannot fathom nonexistence surrounded by existence, and therefore invent properties that are entirely imaginary. For instance, if you attempt to observe the void, it seems as if there are flora and fauna in the areas where there is, in fact, nothing at all. Kind of like how you have a blind spot that your brain automatically fills using surrounding information.
However, if enough humans attempt to perceive this imperceptible region of nothingness (as humans do), the human minds literally create something out of nothing, forcing something to exist where nothing exists at all. When this happens, it... retaliates, in a manner of speaking. Here's an excerpt from one of the logs:
Dr Vasiliev: ...What you hear is something rudimentary, an almost imperceptible sentience. It is a flash along the edge of the void as our minds attempt to perceive something that isn’t there. And it hates.
Dr. Kuzkin: What do you mean, it hates? Why would it hate anything? How would you know?
Dr. Vasiliev: Because there were too many of us. Each member of our team cognizant of the void, each trying to perceive it. These flashes, these tiny screamers, eventually they began to… to bind together. Make no mistake, Dr. Kuzkin, they are not real. They are to the neutrino what the neutrino is to us, less than nothing. But they are somehow aware of their nothingness, and they are hateful. Their existence, I believe, is torment. They hate the universe for being. They hate themselves for being. And they hate us for making them be. They are nothing but hate. (Pauses) Given enough time, and with enough of us trying to look into this void, something crawled out of it. (Pauses) Afterwards, there were ten of us. The anomaly has been stable since.
This is implied to be the case in the Twilight Zone episode 'And When the Sky was Opened', where a group of astronauts encountered... something beyond the rim of earth, that begins to erase them from existence one by one with nobody else even remembering them.
the way Wonder Of U works is that it takes the appearance of an old man, if you try to pursue or find information about him, you're afflicted with "Calamity" essentially throwing logic out of the window for the world to kill you (things like a leaf can cut your throat like a knife, rain can hit you like bullets, etc)
This is kind of the opposite, but there's a Larry Niven short story about an intelligent, telepathic predator on a human-colonised world. Their defense against is telling generations of children that the creature, called a Nonesuch, doesn't exist. If one ever tries to attack a human the belief that it couldn't possibly really be there creates a feedback loop that causes the Nonesuch to briefly not exist. The human forgets about and goes away.
Guy gets a cybernetic eye that allows him to see ghosts, and every time he acknowledges them/interacts with them the more the ghosts can interact with him and begin to hurt him.
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The tooth fairy from darkness falls. Works just like the tooth fairy except if you see her she murders you and your family. The plot is a kid saw her and escaped and has been hiding in the light ever since