This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Some Sort Of Troper: Clean up of Nightmare Fuel, currently ongoing. The page says and has always said it has to be unintentional and to be targetted to kids. The use of the trope namer was to emphasise that point.
This trope is named after the phrase "Good Old-Fashioned Nightmare Fuel", used by Mike and the 'bots at least three times in Mystery Science Theater 3000 to describe trauma-inducing sights and objects in films that appeared by design to be originally intended for children. Three criteria:
- For kids
- unintentional
- gives nightmares
That's not a lot of criteria for a trope, they're simple and if people want their "crowning moment of scary"-ish page that's what the High Octane Nightmare Fuel was made for.
