Slender

A tall, slim and pale creature who exists from the purest of fears, inspiring them much the same. No eyes, and always watching those who he chooses for whatever purpose he may have. A mystery beyond all else in existence that has started hundreds to search him out, and thousands to run in terror.

With such power to ruin records of himself, take lives at a whim, be everywhere, control people to reach his victims and put his victims through agonising mental torture, I must be in possession of the most deranged mind to think that he would be a brilliant starting point for comedy.

You're probably agreeing with the deranged mind thing right now, but hear me out.

Slender is scary. Pure fear. And that is wonderful. It's so rare we get something as simple and terrifying as him to haunt out nightmares and create video games and I genuinely want him to be around for a great deal longer.

But as much as I admire him, I don't like to be scared as much as others do, so I can't exactly read or watch his mythos. And with there being so much of the mythos, there's obviously going to be errors and clichés that folks can have a laugh at. There's even a bingo for blogs where if they have the camera man's feet in shot, have codespeak, have coughing, Slenderman is just chilling in the back or they're just plain and simply trying to be Everyman HYBRID. Surely you must agree there's a good source of parody in there!

I don't want to make Slender any less scary, and, with the right writing, he won't be. If you just make fun of people's various adaptations and the various methods of survival, along with the comedic main character, you can keep the Slender Man himself scary as ever. At most, there's a light hope spot for the people Slender isn't after.

It's not something many people would think to do, because you like the fear too much and don't think you could pull it off. But if it's well known that Slender's favourite song is "Gimme 20 Dollars" and he still scares the bajingo out of me, I think this could be alright.