Fear Warping

Fear Warping
When Fright Knight (Danny Phantom) use his Soul Shredder to cut through someone via slicing and dicing them, they glow green and then are teleported to a Realm Dimension where they live out all of their worst fear, and they come to life. The only way to stop the effects of this power and return the victims to reality is to sheathe the Soul Shredder in a pumpkin.
Power/Ability to:	Warp reality via fears.

The power to warp reality through fears. Variation of Reality Warping and Pathifery.

Also Called

• Fright/Horror/Panic/Phobia/Phobic/Terror Reality Manipulation/Warping
• Timoro-Essokinesis
• Fear/Fear-Based Reality Alternation/Bending/Control/Distortion/Manipulation/Twisting/Warping
• Fearpotence
• Phobifery
• Nightmare Fuel Warping/Distortion/Inducement

Capability

The user can manipulate reality based on fears, either the user’s own or others or ambient emotional terror. It treats fear not as a weakness, but as a raw, and volatile energy source capable of bending the laws of existence. Fear comes from not wanting something to happen which means that things are more likely to go to your favor, if you fear death, you won’t die and if you fear for someone’s life they’ll be protected.

Applications

• Death Inducement: By causing enough fear to raise blood pressure, causing a heart attack.
• Fear Augmentation
• Fear Constructs
• Fear Empowerment
• Fear Manifestation
  • Phobia-Initiated Ability Manifestation
    • Subconscious Manifestation: To spill the user's own fears into reality.
      • Imagination Manifestation
• Improbability Manipulation
  • Improbability Inducement
• Insanity Projection
• Oneiric Reality Manipulation: Nightmares are all about fears and they can bring their nightmares to life.
• Paranoia Manifestation
• Life Creation via fears
• Logic Infringement/Defense Ignoring: Can bypass logic and defenses by targeting emotion
• Space-Time Slicing/Fictional Summoning: Deep and primal terror can tear holes in space-time or summon impossible entities.

Associations

• Emotional Manifestation
• Fear Manipulation
• Nigh-Omnipotence: if someone has omnipotentophobia.
• Pathifery
  • Reality Warping

Limitations

• May be unstable or uncontrollable if the user is overwhelmed.
• Requires fear to be present calm minds resist it.
• Can backfire if the user’s own fears are triggered.

Known Users

See also: Reality Warping isnt a Toy.

• Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) via Oneiric Reality Manipulation
• Malekith, The Prince of Crows (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• Irnakk (Bionicle)
• Garchnar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Barbas (Charmed)
• Barney.EXE (Creepypasta/Cartoon Fight Club) via Imaginative Warping
• Fright Knight (Danny Phantom) via Soul Shredder
• Ancient Atlanteans (DC Comics)
• Parallax (DC Comics)
• Bane Elemental (Dota 2)
• The Travelers (Dreamland)
• Scarecrow (Injustice 2): Limited
• Mirror Spirits (Jackie Chan Adventures)
• Danielle “Dani” Moonstar/Mirage (Marvel Comics)
• Terrance Ward/Trauma (Marvel Comics)
• Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet-Witch/Lore (Marvel Comics)
• Night of Wallachia (Melty Blood)
• Sandboy (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
• Saint Rimoshifu Killingham (One Piece) via Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Kirin It
• SCP-8066 - Phobophobia: The Only Thing to Fear (SCP Foundation)
• Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Stephen King’s It)
• Howard (Supernatural)
• Immortal Enemy (Valiant Entertainment Comics)
• Obscura (Winx Club)

Known Objects

• Soul Shredder (Danny Phantom)
• Worst Fear-Inator (Phineas and Ferb)
• The Sphere (Sphere) via Imagination Manifestation

Known Locations

• Tunnel of Fear (Breadwinners) via Fear Manifestation
• Realm Dimension (Danny Phantom)

Gallery

Irnakk (BIONICLE) is an ancient bogeyman brought to life in the Zone of Nightmares. Irnakk hurls Zamor Spheres that crystallize a target’s deepest nightmares, transforming their surroundings and even the victims themselves into nightmarish reflections of their own terror.

As the Demon of Fear, Barbas (Charmed) can psychically identify a person’s greatest dread and physically materialize it, often killing or incapacitating victims simply by unleashing their phobias against them.

Mirror Spirits (Jackie Chan Adventures) are imprisoned within a magical mirror, these spirits possess hosts and manifest victims’ self-hatreds and insecurities into tangible, often grotesque, physical forms that terrorize and trap the afflicted in endless horror loops.

Danielle “Dani” Moonstar/Mirage (Marvel Comics) is a mutant with the psi-link to others’ fears. Moonstar’s telepathic power crafts three-dimensional illusions drawn directly from opponents’ subconscious scares, making phobias and even false worst-case scenarios seem utterly real.

Terrance Ward/Trauma (Marvel Comics) is a shape-shifting empath who physically transforms into the living embodiment of his or others fears. His form and powers shift unpredictably with the strongest dread in his vicinity, creating phantasmagoric horror beasts at will.

Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet-Witch/Lore (Marvel Comics) harnesses Chaos Magic to warp reality into horrifying vistas tuned to her foes’ fears. As Lore, she can weave nightmares into the fabric of existence, conjuring specters and scenarios so convincing they can break the mind itself.

Sandboy (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is a child akumatized into a nightmare puppet, he summons multicolored sand that materializes victims’ dreams and fears, spawns their worst panics as living sand-constructs, and unleashes relentless horror storms across Paris.

Saint Rimoshifu Killingham (One Piece) is the wielder of the Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Kirin it, he can plunge targets into magical slumber and then crystallize their dreams or nightmares into reality—summoning dragons, phantoms, or reincarnating lost loved ones as instruments of terror.

Immortal Enemy (Valiant Entertainment) is a timeless force of entropy whose form adapts to your deepest dread. By reading your mind, it conjures phobia-born avatars (grinning fiends, shadow beasts) and traps victims in nightmarish realms where fear itself slays the helpless.

Obscura (Winx Club) is a nemesis fashioned from pure darkness who imprisons victims in shifting voids and conjures psychodramatic illusions of past humiliations or sleepless terrors. Her power grows with each scream, each tear feeding the black vortex until it consumes all hope.

Ancient Atlanteans (DC Comics) developed a form of magic that manifested their thoughts into reality, but it grew out of their control when it began manifesting their fears as well, such as the collective fear that Atlantis will sink.

Parallax (DC Comics) is the embodiment of Fear, is capable of generating, and manipulating vast amounts of energy. He can also manipulate reality in a variety of ways, such as creating and destroying entire new planets, and even the universe.

Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise) can affect reality through dreams as nightmares. Those who die at his hands in the dream world with their fears die for real.

Scarecrow (Injustice 2) uses his sickle to rip open a hole in reality, as crows come out to signal the coming of an even bigger chain coming from inside the rip. The opponent is then pulled into a graveyard, where a gigantic version of Scarecrow drags the opponent with the chain, smashing and pounding them into the ground twice. The move eventually ends with Scarecrow smashing the opponent downwards into a grave with their name engraved on the headstone.

Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Stephen King’s It) is an ancient cosmic entity feeding on fear. Pennywise shapeshifts into personal nightmares (dead siblings, lepers, spiders), materializes phobic visions (balloons, black goo, children’s laughter), and uses the Deadlights pure fear light to warp perception and break wills.

Video

Scariest Moments from It (2017) - Warner Bros. UK-2

This is God! - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Warner Bros. UK-2