Were there any fictional characters you were scared of as a kid?

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When I was a kid, I was fucking TERRIFIED of the Bananas in Pyjamas.

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Seriously, I had nightmares about them chasing me and trying to brutally murder me.

Were there any creepy “child-friendly” characters who terrified you as a child?
 
Guy Smiley from Sesame Street.

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Between the ages of 4-6, I had recurring night terrors that always started with me dreaming about this cunt. In the dreams, I would be doing something innocuous in my house, playing with toys etc; I would hear this weird chant that sounded like “Od, Od, Od” in the distance which would get louder and louder; until, out of nowhere, this fucker would hit into me like a plane and carry me in the sky really fast. The dreams were so vivid and realistic, I would feel like I couldn’t breathe due to the rush of air when it was happening.

After a short while of being whizzed across the skies, I’d be violently slammed into a cot or a bed in some strange dimly lit bedroom, with voices talking nearby that I didn’t recognise. After a short while the chants started again, the cunt hits me and carries me back hyper fast to my real bed, literally slams me into it and I would lie there frozen (night terror) for what felt like hours, seeing weird patterns appear in the dark, slowly zooming towards me and disappearing. Eventually, I would feel brave enough to put myself under the covers and hide until I presumably went back to sleep (or stopped lucid dreaming, whatever the fuck was happening).

I know this sounds like a zany concoction, but it got so bad at one point, I had to be taken to a doctor about this as I was so terrified to go to sleep - I’ve been averse to going to sleep my whole adult life and I wonder if this was at the root. Even as a child I always had hyper-real and vivid dreams and some nights I could not tell what was real or a dream. It seemed to happen every night at its worst. Because of the chants, I thought this cunt’s name was ‘Od’ long before I was old enough to understand, and whenever he appeared on the TV, I literally screamed and ran behind the sofa/table absolutely fucking paralysed with fear.
 
There was an episode of that early 90s cartoon The Pirates of Dark Water where an old alchemist woman makes a potion with dark water as an ingredient to make her young again. It temporarily works but the dark water eventually starts eating her from the inside before she dissolves into a puddle of the stuff. Pretty gnarly stuff.
 

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I was barely scared of anything as a kid, but I will never forget my first experience with Ghostface:

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I haven't watched a Scream movie at any point in my life (I was really young when it happened too), and I can consider myself a tough kid who barely got scared of anything, but in one of my first ever carnival parties, I was sitting with my parents at a table when I saw someone dressed as Ghostface from afar, and started crying and begging for us to leave. My request was granted upon pointing at the culprit, who probably didn't have the slightest idea that he just made a little kid leave a party because of how scary his costume looked to a 3-year-old. I wonder what he's doing right now, 20 years later...
 
it was probably just the emphasis and the deep voice that my mom used when she read this part of the book to me, but "the vug under the rug" from there's a wocket in my pocket by dr. seuss terrified me as a toddler.

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Im pretty sure those canadian "don't put it in your mouth" psa things would have scared me a bit.
At least I think that was canadian.
 
As a very young child I was petrified of this witch character from an episode of a Hello Kitty show called Hello Kitty's Paradise.
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Apparently I had really bad nightmares when I was really little from the ghost of captain hook or something like that from an episode of the old Peter pan and the pirates TV show. I couldn't find a picture of it though.
 
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Courage the Cowardly Dog has scared me too many times but I still loved the show, one particular character, The Spirit of the Harvest Moon, creeped me out and I had a hard time sleeping when I first saw him.
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