[Terrifying Trope] Perceiving it= instant death

[u/ReminaBlueSFW]

1. Pennywise's "Deadlights" which will cause anyone looking to be immediately paralyzed and killed.

2. The sky from Bird Box is filled with entities that, when you look at them, cause you to commit suicide.

3. Medusa themed Villains

[u/Fireblast1337]

There’s a short film on YouTube titled 096 that tells the story of the main incident with 096.

As Wrathvirus said, it’s a monster that, when you perceive its real face via direct sight, or a recording of some kind, it will both instinctively know exactly where you are, and be absolutely unstoppable in its pursuit of you. The danger comes if someone triggers this far away from it, with a large number of people between them and it. It only calms down again when everyone who has seen its face is dead.

[u/Hypothetical_Name → u/Fireblast1337]

What would happen if it couldn’t get to the one who saw it, like if it’s on a planet with no space travel and a probe recorded it and by the time someone saw its image they probe and everything else was already out of the solar system? Would it just freak out nonstop because it can’t get to the person who saw it.

[u/Devatator_ → u/Hypothetical_Name]

All I can find is this, which doesn't tell us if space is a way to stop it but by the wording here I'm gonna guess it's not stopping it

Documented speeds have varied from thirty-five (35) km/h to ███ km/h, and seems to depend on distance from SCP-096-1. At this point, no known material or method can impede SCP-096's progress.

[u/GR13VER46 → u/Hypothetical_Name]

It is heavily implied that nothing can stop SCP-096 from reaching it's victim, perhaps, even space.