What scares you? Like, really scares you? That's the question on our minds as we enter the trick-or-treating season. What keeps you awake at night? Who would you never want to encounter at the end of a dark, dead-end alley? Here are six TV characters—of both human and monster varieties—who give us the willies. Name the ones who scare you most in the comments!
ICKY INDIVIDUALS
American Horror Story's Constance
Beware neighbors bearing baskets of ipecac-laced muffins. (I mean, that's just a given.) In just three episodes, we've seen the batty lady who lives next door to the Harmons shoot her maid in the eye, dispose of some inconvenient home-invader corpses, and, creepiest of all, satisfy her womanly needs with the help of a male prostitute. Eeek.
The Office's Robert California
The creepiest character to ever walk through the doors of Dunder-Mifflin (and that includes Creed Bratton, just to give you some indication of what we're dealing with here), California's mind-control powers have rocketed him to the top of the corporate ladder in no time. But how far does his influence reach, and when will he be satisfied? Will The Office conclude with the staff joining the Robert California People's Temple, downing cups of poisoned Kool-Aid as their spiritual leader addresses them through a bullhorn on the importance of "achieving one's paper-selling destiny?"
Breaking Bad's Walter "Heisenberg" White
Though we spent most of Season 4 terrified of one Gustavo Fring, we now know the lengths to which Walter White will go in order to, uh, "win"—potentially getting his old-lady neighbor shot by the assassins sent to kill him was child's play compared to the rest of his kid-poisoning and drug-kingpin-exploding antics. We do NOT want to end up on Walt's bad side.
SCARY SUPERNATURAL SPECIES
Fringe's Shapeshifters
Using nothing more than a device fashioned out of a Waterpik and travel power adapter, shapeshifters are agents from Fringe's parallel universe who can assume the form of any dead human, plus they have see-through skin and a 1-Terabyte hard drive embedded in their tailbones. We don't know much about them, but you know how the Olsen twins are creepy because they look like witches and you can't tell them apart? This is like that, times a million.
The Walking Dead's Zombies
Imagine a creature that doesn't need to sleep, breathe, or eat, whose only natural enemy is its own decaying flesh. And just because they don't need to eat doesn't mean they don't get hankerings. But forget what you've heard about brains—they'll munch on just about anything, including feet, rats, horses, what have you. They're also smarter than your average zombie, with the problem-solving ability of your average orangutan and a highly effective pack mentality. Plus, killing them is a bitch: Even decapitation won't do it.
Game of Thrones's Wights (and the White Walkers who "Create" Them)
We meet the terrifying creatures known as wights in the first scenes of Game of Thrones: They are undead beings killed by the mythical creatures from the far side of the Wall, known as the White Walkers. Their skin is freezing cold and their eyes glow a chilling shade of blue. And you know that expression, "Kill it with fire!" Yeah, that's pretty much what you need to do if you hope to get away from them alive.
Now it's your turn: Who do you think are the scariest characters (human, monster, or some combination of the two) on TV?
Rachel Ray is the scariest, with Guy Fieri a close second...most of all of the Food Network is scary if you think about it!!! Scariest network on TV! Glenn Beck, definitely scary! The Kardashians scariest TV family! Michael Moore, yep, definitely scary every time he gets on TV, hide your food, quick, I'm always afraid he'll reach out and eat it!!!! The loudmouths on The View, very very scary!
Klaus :)
Constance is awesome and i am glad the picked Robert California to be on the show. his scene from last season had me rolling and hoping he would be who they hired
Steve Harvey on the Family Fued! (...Scary)
The scariest for me is the unfunny, unwatched, pathetic liz lemon. OOOOH that horrible scar on her face is scary!
Moron much?
Those Kardashians are pretty creepy. PS. Not to get all nerdy, but the decapitation will kill a Walking Dead zombie.
To stop a zombie completely, you need to destroy the brain. Decapitating it will only prevent it from moving, but it will be able to bite still, seeing as the brain would be in OK condition. (This is assuming that a zombie only needs brain signals to survive. In other words, the scariest type of zombie, haha.)
i forgot Darken Rahl
and ofc "the Mord'Siths" in a hot kind of way :P
The Silence from Doctor Who.
Um, hello, what about the Leviathans on Supernatural?! Those things are super scary!
Yup your very right about that,scary but not so gory
The Silence from Doctor Who. The second you take your eyes off of them you completely forget you ever saw them. Knowing something is there but never being able to remember what it was...terrifying. Second choice would be Glenn Beck.
Bob / Leland Palmer and Miss Tremond fand her grand child in Twin Peaks
Very good ! Dont forget Mike/shoe vendor ....
The menacing, fanged children in the episode "The Playground" on The Ray Bradbury Theatre.
To me, the scariest creature of all times will always be the Black Smoke Monster (Smokey) from Lost.
Oh, and the Evil Queen from Once Upon A Time. What's scarier than having your happy ending taken away?
A non-existent Peter Bishop. That scared me for a while :P
I hate to tell you this, but he still doesn't exist.
maybe not, but at least we got to see Joshua Jackson in the flesh :)
Good list but missing some great characters from True Blood, Supernatural, and more. How about the Predators from Primeval?
Weeping Angels from Doc Who, Lilleth from Supernatural and HETTY!! (ncis:la)
What the heck, no Supernatural mentions? There's plenty of creepy characters in that show! What about the Leviathan that takes over Castiel and massacres everything in sight?
look below I gave supernatural a mention
The Norwegian troll from Community.
Red john, whoever he is...
Rosie O'Donnell: on "The Rosie Show"....scares the crap out of me!
Leviathan's on supernatural, Claus on TVD,
game of thrones!
The scariest moment I've seen on TV in a while was the head in the hair dryer in last week's Supernatural. Not that I'd ever be in danger personally, but I think having your head trapped is pretty scary. Does that make Charisma Carpenter one of the scariest characters?
What about the nailgun murder? That had me cringing...
I'd definitely say Maggie Stark (Charisma's character) was a very scary character.
I say yes to the last two, although we haven't seen MUCH of the White Walkers yet. The zombies definitely take the cake.
we actually haven't seen the White Walkers at all at this point in the story
yeah you do in the very first episode....for lik 10 seconds:))
David Spade. As any character he's ever played.
Shapeshifters aren't all bad. Sometimes they can end up being your best friend :)
I was half expecting someone from Dexter to show up. Probably Dexter himself! Maybe even Russel Edgington from True Blood
Any of the McPoyles from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are pretty creepy...
You left out a whole array of characters from Supernatural, although it seems the first season had a lot scarier creatures than now.
I for one cannot wait to see the divine / creepy Jessica Lange break into the Murder Tour House once a week. More please!
Well, based on the episodes this season, many of the walking dead are also the running dead. Fast zombies scare me.
The silence from Doctor Who creeps me out... creatures that you forget about as soon as you stop looking at them!? Who knows how many there are, how many you have killed or how often you have even seen them so far?
nothing that is currently on TV that I am aware of scares me in a holy sh*t kind of way. But there are some people/things that are creepy in a "wierd-guy-who-lives-down-the-hall-and-only-wears-orange-clothing" kind of way. I think James Spader (I mean Robert California) is creepy in that way.
The scariest character on TV is definitely Jess (Zooey Deschanel) from 'New Girl'.
You look pretty scary yourself, in a sexy sort of way.