What openings/defenses etc. strike fear into you?

It just had to be a giants fan. You should be happy that your team won rather than go on a cockamamie rampage here. And your little "f3" variation doesn't avoid anything. Black can just play g6 and enter a Dragon set up. And yes, my point was that I feel comfortable playing Black, and defending and waiting for a counter attack. As White you have to be ready for anything. You play 1.e4, and you have to be prepared for anything. From a Sicilian to a French, Caro Kann, Scandinavian, or a Kings Pawn game. As Black not so much. Yes, White can deviate from your repertoire, but any decent player knows how to handle deviations.

If you play the Caro Kann you need to be ready for:

King's Indian Attack

2 Knights system

3.Nc3 

The Panov

The weird Panno without d4 but instead c4 first

Exchange Caro Kann

Fantasy Variation

And most importantly, THE HILLBILITY ATTACK.

Any decent player knows his White repertoire too.

 Oh, and I forgot the Advance variation, so there are a damn lot of variations you have to learn.

I hate ThrillerClown but I have to defend it. YOU MY COMPADRE, ARE WRONG.

f3 does avoid the typical Dragon, White will play c4 and it will be a typical Maroczy Bind, not a Dragon (unless you consider that a dragon, but thats another story). 

Glad you liked it. It is hard to troll out there.

Yes, but as White you would have to know one of those lines at least. And one line for the French, and one for the Sicilian, and Scandinavian, and Kings Pawn. As Black using the Caro Kann as an example, all you need to learn is that opening, and once you do, it doesnt matter what variation White chooses, you're prepared, or at the very least you know how the reasoning behind that opening, and that is usually good enough, (Unless you're >IM)

If theory is the problem for you and the reason why you are choosing colors then you are doing things wrong. You can play the Grand Prix or the Closed Sicilian as White and cut the theory down a lot.

Against the French you just have to know one line, and the King's Pawn games are easy, just one line too. Same for the Scandinavian, and for the Caro Kann too.

The only opening where theory kills you is the Sicilian and you can avoid all the theory and possible variations as I already mentioned.

Maybe you like Black because you have studied that side much more???

Actually no. You have to know at least 2 lines for the French. Say you want to play the Tarrasch (3.Nd2) You have to expect Black to play 3...c5 or 3...Nf6, which are both very common replies to it. Kings Pawn games are actually the most complex with the Ruy Lopez alone taking more theory than any other opening, (of course counting each variation of the Sicilian as a different opening.) And theory isn't the problem for me, as I said before I feel more comfortable defending with Black, that's just it. With White you have to know a little bit of everything, while with Black you can learn one or 2 openings extensively which will get you better positions than knowing a little bit of a lot of openings as White.

I play chess for fun and I never really cared what opening/defense they use. So, I fear nothing. Win or lose, I just go back and review what went right or wrong. Most of you folks are dead serious on chess and nothing wrong with that...just lighten up a bit.

I often do an early screw up in blitz when facing the kings gambit...

Who even considers the Tarrasch as an answer to the French, man up and play Nc3. Where you only have to learn the Winawer, Rubinstein and Steinitz/Classical.

I PREFFER TO MATE THAN TO BE MATED BUDDY.