Who instilled the greatest fear?

In the spirit of Halloween, I'm wondering, out of all comic book, video game, movie, and novel characters, what characters instill the greatest fear? I'm not asking for just one, just for some brainstorming, some ideas. I'm sure you can think of more than one fear-in stilling character, and you get a pretty broad spectrum of characters I choose from. So who are some of the most fear-in stilling characters?

Sorry about title, autocorrect thinks instills should be instilled. Damn this phone.

Greatest fear in the audience/readers? Or greatest fear in the characters they interact with?

@mikex20: characters. I mean, like, who scares their enemies sh*tless.

Punisher

Batman.

Punisher

Batman

Darkseid

Thanos

Joker

Scarecrow

Jason Voorhees

Freddy Kreuger

Michael Myers

The Crow

Godzilla

Dr. Doom

Galactus

Darth Vader

Spawn

Violator

Leatherface

Casper the Friendly Ghost

Batman scares Scarecrow who Black Lanterns couldn't scare, and who could instill enough fear to become a Sinestro Corps member.

Punisher

If we're talking about Halloween then these three comic book characters first come to my mind -

• Batman
• Joker
• Scarecrow

Galactus

Just about to post something like that.

Though, I'll add Sinestro to the list.

The Spectre

@mikex20: good. This is the kind of list I'm lookin for.

Galactus definetely

Also, Galactus terrifies entire planets at a time.

You just cant beat Galactus and fear based Characters.

AmazonieSPL

@ultrastarkiller: I say crane and him are tied as crane can scare and even nearly beat him

@redleader1: Nearly beat but not scare.

Jonathan Crane is the Master of Fear.

@ultrastarkiller: I say that gas counts and his trick with Jason yet not his idea did torture Bruce he knows we're to hit him and facing him does scare him a bit

What? No love..

Scarecrow and Freddy Krueger.

Ghost Rider? That penance stare seems to do quite the number on people... Although maybe there's no fear involved in that.... Hmmmmm....

Bump?

Scarecrow.

Spawn

What's this? A thread without someone mentioning Dr.Bees? This bottle filled with bees oughta put a stop to that!

Mister Fear. Moon Knight (with TM at least), Scarecrow, and Joker freaks the heck out of me sometimes with his ways. Also BM is pretty scary at least if you were a comic book character cause you would hear about his torturing and be afraid of him.

Scares New Gods shitless.

Parallax

I guess Scarecrow. Some other characters might inspire fear in more powerful people but Scarecrow is built around inspiring fear, so he causes more fear, more frequently.

When villains want to scare each other they tale stories about the Joker.