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[Poltergust]

Basically, enemies you have fought that originally looked like pushovers, but after fighting them once you want to avoid encountering them at all costs.

To start off:

Me: Aw, it's a cute little lizard thing. This should be easy. Why is it by itself though?
*does multiple attacks*
Me: Huh? It's not dead yet?
*Tonberry's turn to attack*
Me: What's it doing?
*Tonberry slowly shuffles to one of my characters... DOINK*
*character suffers an enormous amount of damage and dies*
Me: W-WHAT IS THIS!?
*Tonberry proceeds to slowly but effectively kill off the rest of my party while I futilely attack it... DOINK*
Me: WHY WON'T IT DIE!?
*DOINK*
GAME OVER

I panic whenever I have to fight these guys now. They are like the scariest enemy I've ever come across lol.

 

[feel]

Big walking mushroom in Dark Souls

 

[Thoraxes]

 

[Erekiddo]

Stab? It's doink.

 

[Soulflarz]

Big walking mushroom in Dark Souls

Everything and Anything with demonic colored eyes in demon souls near the start

and those bosses

 

[UnluckyKate]

Iron Maiden Regeneradores

" yeah, I know this guy, I just have to do like this... oh wait, why this one have spikes ? What does it do ? OH SH "

 

[almostheathen]

The Treasure Chests in Dark Souls

 

[Poltergust]

Stab? It's doink.

Ah, right. Will edit now.

 

[EvilKatarn]

 

[Mass Effect]

I don't know, that doesn't look harmless to me. In fact, it looks pretty creepy looking. And they certainly weren't fun to fight.

 

[jimi_dini]

 

[Exentryk]

Damn it OP! Came to post Tonberry. :|

 

[Erekiddo]

Ah, right. Will edit now.

No worries, doink has just become so iconic for me. I agree with your post 100%.

 

[tiggerkiddo]

Scarfy from Kirby games. He looks harmless but GOOD GRIEF does he look evil when he attacks...=(

 

[baekshi]

 

[Arjen]

Cazadors in New Vegas

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Iron Maiden Regeneradores



" yeah, I know this guy, I just have to do like this... oh wait, why this one have spikes ? What does it do ? OH SH "

How does that in any sense look harmless lol

 

[Mass Effect]

Scarfy from Kirby games. He looks harmless but GOOD GRIEF does he look evil when he attacks...=(

Yeah, this is what I came in here to post. Fuck those things.

Cazadors in New Vegas

HOW DOES THAT LOOK HARMLESS?!

 

[thetrin]

To this day, I have no idea what's so terrifying about them. I found them to be totally inconsequential enemies.

 

[abstract alien]

Big walking mushroom in Dark Souls

I tried to talk to it :-(

 

[Silent_Ocarina]

Fake Treasure Chests in Tales of Symphonia and Kid Icarus Uprising.

 

[Dusk Golem]

Lurkers from Resident Evil Zero. They just look like giant frogs, but they have the uncanny ability to jump from the most random pools of water at the slightest movement and gobble you whole with one quick swoosh of their tongue. Rather startling and stressful.

I had seen these in Silent Hill 4 promotion stuff and didn't think much of them, but goddamn do they terrify me in the actual game.

 

[Seth Balmore]

Demons/Dark Souls, the thread. Sure, they don't look completely harmless but most enemies end up being much more dangerous than they initially seem. Red-eyed knights looked cheesy to me the first time I saw one, Mindflayers look like abominations but not fast, agile and strong ones, then there's Mushroom men, giant cats and giant rats that gang up and poison the fuck out of you, parrying and backstabbing thieves, Mimics... almost anything that isn't a regular dregling basically.

 

[Arjen]

Yeah, this is what I came in here to post. Fuck those things.



HOW DOES THAT LOOK HARMLESS?!

They're pretty small in the game dude, they looke like they can be taken care off easy with a few shots.

 

[UnluckyKate]

How does that in any sense look harmless lol

in the sens you already fought and you already know this enemy at this point. Until you see it's a special one with spikes and then you start to shit bricks

 

[Tizoc]

What game is it from? FF11/12?

 

[Ken]

What game is it from? FF11/12?

Dark Souls.

 

[IceBreak]

 

[Leezard]

What game is it from? FF11/12?

Dark Souls.

 

[Booshka]

I tried to talk to it :-(

Well! What is it!

 

[ripastraea]

The Great Hollow was a terrifying place my first playthrough

 

[Slayer-33]

Lol at some of the shit being posted as looking harmless in here. Some creep as fuck creatures

 

[Callo Merlose]

Dark Souls.

That fucking haymaker.

My contribution? The flea men from any Castlevania. Fuck their jumps.

 

[danmaku]

The little white worms in The Binding of Isaac. They look so happy, but as soon as you get near them...

 

[yencid]

 

[NaughtyCalibur]

90% of the things you run into in Etrian Odyssey games don't look harmful at all. But once you get your entire party decimates by a pack of butterflies you're pretty much on constant red alert.

 

[nailbombxx]

.

 

[ckohler]

 

[Kangi]

Scarfy from Kirby games. He looks harmless but GOOD GRIEF does he look evil when he attacks...=(

Even worse in Return to Dream Land where they outright swarm you if you're carrying a key.

 

[EvilKatarn]

To this day, I have no idea what's so terrifying about them. I found them to be totally inconsequential enemies.

It depends on how you first encounter them. Fall down a hole in the depths, be surrounded by some cute frogs who suddenly fart curse on you which halves your HP and you're scarred for life.

 

[Poltergust]

Lol at some of the shit being posted as looking harmless in here. Some creep as fuck creatures

Yeah, I'm talking about things that you'd normally find "cute" or "normal" and such. That mushroom thing and Scarfy are great examples lol. The Iron Maiden or black headcrab, on the other hand, are rather grotesque and already look dangerous upon first encountering them.

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

Came to post this fucking thing.

 

[Byronic Hero]

I made that mistake only twice. Once because I didn't know it was going to happen and again because I wanted to see it in the 3DS version.

 

[Cramoss]

Yep, my encounter with that thing ended badly.

 

[Vermillion]

Even worse in Return to Dream Land where they outright swarm you if you're carrying a key.

Seriously. One moment they're chill, but you pick up a key and they turn into fucking Gollum.

 

[Teknoman]

Dont Mimic chests breathe? I remember the first time I ran into one...during a late night Dark Souls session, saw a chest and figured i'd open it before saving and quitting for the night. Purest definition of the "nope" meme.

The only other thing thats ever legitimately surprised me in a game recently was Oven man.

 

[matrix-cat]

Banshees in ME3. For context, I was playing as a Vanguard, and my strategy for every fight in the game was Charge, Melee, Shotgun, repeat. I was basically invincible until the first time they showed up. I gleefully Charge in, only to get a full on Resident-Evil-style instant death animation where this thing picks Shepard up and STICKS ITS HAND THROUGH HER STOMACH. I was terrified of those things for the rest of the game.

 

[strobogo]

Those fucking Joker Androids in DCU Online. Especially after first encountering them on my second day of playing the game. I don't even think I was at level 10 year. Those fucking things. So tiny and small and then they kill me instantly.

 

[Router]

There was a guy next to me on the bus the other morning and he had the head crab sound as his txt sound.

I has flashbacks when his phone went off.

 

[daniels]

I get angry just thinking about them! A group of them is harder than the super boss of the game