User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-6904925-20160606155809/@comment-7418318-20160607093148

Some FT members did lose fights, or only won fights due to others joining them, so I don't think being afraid is really a fitting term.

But this is shounen. In that genre it is traditionally rare that the protagonists lose and beyond rare that they'd lose to the same opponent multiple times.