Nightmare fuel in cartoons

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What are some creepy moments that you've seen on cartoons?

I saw something creepy in the second segment of this episode:

RUGRATS S01E03 - At the Movies/Slumber Party - Watch Movies Online For Free on TubePlus

It's a very old Rugrats episode - from 1991, probably before many of us were even born. It's the episode where Angelica is at Tommy's house and opens his bedroom window during naptime, which results in Tommy getting a bit sick. Note that when Angelica opens the window, the wind makes a heavy, almost unnerving sound. And that's nothing compared to the fever dream sequence later in the episode, where Tommy imagines his crib growing gigantic and starts to see rather disturbing hallucinations. Until I was about 15, the dream sequence really scared me. When I was about 10 I had a nightmare similar to Tommy's dream, only it was a good deal scarier. (The fact that the animation is dated makes the dream sequence creepier.)

What cartoon moments were scary for you? (Try to stick to western animation for this - maybe someone else can make one for anime.)
 
There was an episode of The Powerpuff Girls called "Knock it Off", which was easily the darkest episode of the series. Going by TV Tropes, Professor Utonium is asked by his college roomate, Professor Dick Hardly, about how the Powerpuff Girls were made, and then starts mass producing very deformed bootleg clones of the girls, all with a creepy monotone, and all far down in the Uncanny Valley, one of the Blossom clones had red eyes and monstrous teeth, and some of the clones had one HUGE EYE for a head, those designs were very, very unsettling. And that's not the only thing creepy about the episode, the main villian of the episode, Professor Dick Hardly, was a flat out monster, and the monster part becomes literal at the climax of the episode, where Dick swallows the Chemical X in an attempt to hide any evidence against him, resulting in him turning into a really creepy, and really powerful monster complete with a fake out and a horrible transformation sequence, then he beats up Prof. Utonium to near death, with Utonium saying to the girls that he loves them, and then all the clones turn to Professor Dick and say in their creepy monotone that he never said that he loved them. Afterwards, Utonium and the Powerpuff Girls escape as the clones attack Professor Dick and burn down his evil hideout with all of them still inside. the very last line of the episode, before the narrator's ending catch phrase, is Hardly's anguish screaming as he slowly burns to death.

Dick Hardly was probably the evilest villian in the series (even more evil than HIM was, and that's saying something, considering that Him is considered to be the devil), his treatment of the clones he made is downright despicable (murdering a perfect Buttercup clone for more Chemical X), he treated Professor Utonium badly in college and took advantage of him, and he tried to absorb the power of the real Powerpuff Girls right in front of the Professor who watched them suffer. He's entirely selfish, greedy and only thinks of himself, doing whatever it takes, be it lying to the girls, or seeing the clones as simple tools to make more money, for personal gain. Everything he did was solely for himself and for money, he had no redeeming qualities, and he was the only villian in the series to get killed off.

When this episode premiered, I was so disturbed by it, that I stopped watching The Powerpuff Girls for about TWO MONTHS!!!
 
^Wow. I'm almost glad I either didn't see or don't remember that. ._.
...Almost. Now I'm curious. D:<



That said, bloodbending from the Avatar series. Levitating people by their body fluids, twisting them in ways they shouldn't be twisted, turning them into puppets, that weird "twisting rubber" sound....
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Courage the Cowardly Dog also had creepy moments, especially as a child, but this one sticks with me. I thinks the rendering and the voice that still makes this quite creepy.
 
Courage the Cowardly Dog genre is "Surreal Horror." There is plenty of nightmare fuel in it.
 
FABuLUSH! said:
It is pretty nightmare fuel the show. Man, i need to watch it gain, I haven't seen it in so long.
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Not every episode is scary. Some episodes are actually pretty depressing, cheerful, or a strange mixture of both.

Pretty much every scene in The Brave Little Toaster is nightmare fuel (Which is why it's my favorite movie). Especially the song "Worthless".
 
FABuLUSH! said:
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Courage the Cowardly Dog also had creepy moments, especially as a child, but this one sticks with me. I thinks the rendering and the voice that still makes this quite creepy.
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Seriously? I loved this episode! lol Yeah, King Ramses is creepy, but I think the most creepy episode in the show is the one about freaky Fred the barber. Now THAT guy creeped the hell out of me.
 
Kelleo said:
Seriously? I loved this episode! lol Yeah, King Ramses is creepy, but I think the most creepy episode in the show is the one about freaky Fred the barber. Now THAT guy creeped the hell out of me.
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That's a good one, i like how the barbers theme music slowly turns into children singing it. That's pretty eerie.
 
FABuLUSH! said:
That's a good one, i like how the barbers theme music slowly turns into children singing it. That's pretty eerie.
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Yeah, that and the guy's big creepy smile and his creepy obsession with cutting hair... Yeesh.
 
On the subject of Courage the Cowardly Dog, there was this, remember this guy:

[video=youtube;OS1Jg3RTgGM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1Jg3RTgGM&feature=colike[/video]
 
Courage the Cowardly Dog has a lot of Nightmare Fuel in it. Not just the pictorial/visual ones, like King Ramses and the dude from Perfect, but also the themes used like the Apocalypse, curses, zombies, cannibalism and other stuff. Well, its genre is "Comedy horror", so it's expected.

Of course, being the sick, twisted little child I was, I loved Courage the Cowardly Dog.
 
Hey, I loved Courage the Cowardly Dog too, but I'm not sick or twisted. I just loved the comedy and the characters. Eustace is win for how hilarious he is, for example. :p
 
pretty much all your suggestions I remember, especially courage. that show was like an animated version of That's So Weird (the weird stuff at least). Anyway, for rugrats, I remember the episode when angelica heard that her parents wanted another baby, and she got all anxious and worried over what the baby will be like. basically her vision of her new brother was very scary, not only in its voice (which sounded like an adult), but in the way it acted. it was a jerk and iirc tried to lock up angelica indefinitely in a closet. and it also ate her. there's some more unsettling stuff about that baby brother but i can't remember. tough it looked like a baby, it certainly wasn't.

another rugrats moment was at the end of an episode where chaz, i think, came down to Stu's kitchen to see what he was doing, then Stu had this high clown voice and he turned around to reveal a clownish face (w/o makeup of course) and the episode ended with Chaz screaming, I think the episode was about chucky overcoming his fear of clowns.

The Elephant Parade from Dumbo was another one, though my brother was the one who was afraid of it many years ago.

another nightmarish thing was not from a cartoon, but i think is worth mentioning. It was the short purple monster in Ghostwriter. I'm too afraid to even look for a picture of it online to post so my words will have to do. In fact, I'm so terrified of it I probably won't read what anyone else has to say because they might post a picture of it. There'll probably be people who think it looks funny, rather than scary, but at the time i first saw and heard this monster i was around 6-8 years old, it's been well over a decade since i've seen it and the image is still haunting. from what i can remember, this thing was basically slimy, melting, dripping. It wore a black jacket with pants and shoes. It was perhaps 2 feet tall and had a hideous grin and i think crooked eyes.I believe it was a doll similar to Chucky, but how it came to life (if it wasn't alive already) i don't know. (Or even if it was a doll at all) I can't remember if the monster wanted to kill the main characters, but i wouldn't be surprised if it did. I don't know what it was trying to accomplish in the first place. Nevertheless, it is a creepy, evil thing.
 
Personally, I found the Stu clown to be funny.

I found the Powerpuff Girls episode "Speed Demon" to be pretty scary. The worst was the giant, more powerful HIM.
 
Who can forget about those urban legends from Hey Arnold!? :)

While I wasn't really scared by any of them (Haunted Train is one of my favorite episodes of the series despite the fact that it was extremely rushed and had crappy background music), but were you guys?
 
Robo-Floatzel said:
On the subject of Courage the Cowardly Dog, there was this, remember this guy:

[video=youtube;OS1Jg3RTgGM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1Jg3RTgGM&feature=colike[/video]
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Oh god damn it, I thought I had pushed that far into the depths of my mind...
 
@Robo-Floatzel; I'm glad I didn't see that episode, because I really loved The Powerpuff Girls but was a very sensitive kid.

In particular, the Him episodes always really freaked me out. The writers had a way of giving the Him the sort of plotlines that would target a kid's most sensitive fears, like the people/things you love turning against you (as in "Tough Love" or "Octy-Evil").

Another thing that creeped me out as a kid was in Hercules (which I assume counts here since it was a cartoon film), where Hercules dove into the river Styx to save Meg while sacrificing himself. The way he rapidly aged until he was basically a skeleton really creeped me out then. I rewatched it recently and I was like, "Really? It was that?" Especially with the ridiculous plothole in terms of how he dove into it. (Right before he goes in, he's close enough to touch the river, but then they show him jumping in from like an Olympic-diving height. Really, Disney? You didn't think anyone would notice that?)
 
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