Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia was the fear of spiders.

S everal incarnations of The Doctor displayed this fear. When faced with  The Great One The  Third Doctor was noted to have been afraid of her ( TV :  Planet Of The Spiders ). The Eighth Doctor had to partially overcome this fear to befriend a giant Hysperon spider. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress). The  Tenth Doctor later also showed an aversion to them, as he edged away from larger spider webs on the planet Hurala ( PROSE :  Prisoner of the Daleks ). The  Eleventh Doctor also exhibited signs of arachnophobia, such as when  Amy compared Cybermats to being worse than spiders, he asked her to "change the subject" ( GAME :  Blood of the Cybermen ), and on the planet  Veestrax when faced with mechanical spiders made from Time War wreckage The Eleventh Doctor mentioned how a combination of the two were a "psychiatrist's couch" moment for him ( COMIC :  Outrun ). However by the time of reaching their fifteenth incarnation The Doctor seemed to have overcome their fear as The  Thirteenth Doctor dealt with  giant spiders invading  Sheffield in late  2018. ( TV :  Arachnids in the UK )

Constantine Oliver suffered from arachnophobia. (PROSE: The Stone House)

Bernice Summerfield made mention that at certain points of her telling of the story of an encounter with arachnoids, arachnophobes in the audience would begin twitching and flicking at imaginary things on their shoulders. She invited these arachnophobes to sue her for not informing them beforehand, but warned them she had little money. (PROSE: Steal from the World)

Lola Montez's Spider Dance was called "an event of essential arachnophobia". (PROSE: Whiskey and Water)

Both Ryan Sinclair and Jack Robertson had a fear of spiders. (TV: Arachnids in the UK)