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* The primary subject in ''VideoGame/DiscoverMyBody''. He's consistently very upbeat about the deformations his body has accumulated, perfectly happy to detail every bit of the experience from his end—as much as he can manage, anyway.

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' featured Marta, a cheerful old lady whose job it is to remove the teeth and organs of corpses. Your character, an {{immortal|ity}} with a powerful HealingFactor, can have her remove your internal organs and crack open your skull in search for items hidden by yourself before you were struck with amnesia. Oh, and hey - there's no anaesthesia.

** Even better (or worse), the original appearance of Alice in ''Shin Megami Tensei 1'' is that of [[spoiler:the ghost of]] a little girl raised by those demons, whose only friends are the ghosts of everyone in Roppongi in Tokyo, killed by the demons to force them to stay there as her friends forever. Her SignatureMove shouldn't even be rendered as a command, but instead a question - she desperately wants you to stay and asks, "Would you die for me please?" out of loneliness, not anger or spite.

** [[PhysicalGod Princess]] [[TheSacredDarkness Luna]] from has rather scary tastes. Example? On the pony equivalent of Halloween, she travels to Ponyville in a demonic chariot pulled by menacing, bat-winged pegasi, donned in a hooded cloak ''made of bats'' and accompanied by DramaticThunder and the sky spontaneously darkening. [[NoSocialSkills She seems to think this is a perfectly normal way]] [[FishOutOfTemporalWater for one to arrive to address her subjects]], and that turning fake spiders into real (harmless, granted, but still terrifying) ones is a fun thing to do. Her dark gothic figure and [[NoIndoorVoice echoing bellow of a voice]] don't help whatsoever. This comes in handy when she realizes that sometimes her subjects ''like'' being frightened, which lets her win them over with some lighthearted scares.

* [[CreepyChild Little Kikuri]] from ''Anime/HellGirl'' likes to draw mutilated stick-figure bodies. Granted, she is an attendant of hell...Her drawings are just about the least disturbing thing about her - how about the time when she threw flowers over a teenager dying from a traffic accident, after telling him that Hell is real, and then running away giggling.

* In the Skypiea arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'', Nico Robin assures Nami and Chopper that Zoro is alright after saving Chopper from sky sharks, because "the clouds haven't turned red yet." Other examples include Robin telling Nami that she's 50 meters up and she'll die if she falls, suggesting that their new boat should be named "Being of Darkness", and finding a Cerberus cute while it was attacking her. And this is her when she's joking; considering her powers, if you make her mad, you'll never stop having nightmares...that is, if you survive[[DramaticEllipsis ...]]

* Kaoru Yamazaki of ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK''. As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a {{Moe}} character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]] - indeed, he thinks the character would be an appropriate, attractive heroine for an HGame. The most disturbing this is that he is the most well-balanced character in the series and apparently gets happily married at the end. And indeed, while his issues may be disturbing, he doesn't let them become an obstacle to his life, unlike every other character.

* In ''Manga/YuruYuri'', [[CovertPervert Chinatsu]] is this. While she appears to be an extremely innocent {{moe}}-machine at first glance, her aggressive approach to winning Yui-senpai's heart occasionally traumatizes Akari and her drawings ... [[http://randomc.net/image/Yuruyuri/Yuruyuri%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2011.jpg oh God her drawings!]] The other girls are [[BlueWithShock horrified]] by them.

** Freaky Fred. He's not really nightmarish, he's just ... ''naughty''.

* Occasionally, on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Stu Pickles' toy inventions have a tendency to unintentionally creep out the kids of the show. The best example is "Mr. Friend", a [[MonsterClown creepy-looking robotic clown toy]] whose flawed design (complete with stuttering, twitching, and occasional sparking) made him seem dangerously out of control. The scene where Tommy and friends decide to fight back against an accidentally activated army of them is perhaps the greatest moment of the show.
** Similarly, an old Reptar toy (a green dinosaur) was forgotten about in ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' It freaked the tweens out a lot, considering that it was implied the Reptar was coming back from the dead to torture them for forgetting about it. Uh... they were toddlers? Jeez!
** The two episodes called "Interview with a Campfire" have strong ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' themes (taking place in the woods, near a lake, people going missing, etc.) and most of it is shot using a camera, like ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''.

* The members of Dethklok from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', given their morbid lyrics and subject matter and the fact that every single one of their concerts results in a bloodbath.

* A variant of this trope occurs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when Fry first tries to play the holophoner without the assistance of his internal parasites; while he earnestly tries to portray his feelings, the result is a hellish, poorly-played song about a Frankenstein-esque monster. His rationale for this performance was that he "got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts".
** This happens to Fry quite a lot. At a holophoner recital, Fry tries to play a tune called "The Grumpy Snail". Things go alright for a while... until the snail spouts fangs and starts foaming at the mouth.
--->''"It's TOO grumpy!"''


* Dr. Barber from ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''.
** What about Candy Wife?
* Somewhat subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', where Plucky spends the night over at Buster's house, spending the whole time watching gory horror movies on videotape (one of them a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'') and laughing like he was watching comedies. He then has nightmares when Buster convinces him to go to sleep. However, this is ''double-subverted'' at the end when he wakes up and wants to watch the movies again (at which point Buster finally kicks him out).
* [[PhysicalGod Princess]] [[TheSacredDarkness Luna]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has rather scary tastes. Example? On the pony equivalent of Halloween, she travels to Ponyville in a demonic chariot pulled by menacing, bat-winged pegasi, donned in a hooded cloak ''made of bats'' and accompanied by DramaticThunder and the sky spontaneously darkening. [[NoSocialSkills She seems to think this is a perfectly normal way]] [[FishOutOfTemporalWater for one to arrive to address her subjects]], and that turning fake spiders into real (harmless, granted, but still terrifying) ones is a fun thing to do. Her dark gothic figure and [[NoIndoorVoice echoing bellow of a voice]] don't help whatsoever. This comes in handy when she realizes that sometimes her subjects ''like'' being frightened, which lets her win them over with some lighthearted scares.
** [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie]], a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} if there ever was one[[note]][[DependingOnTheWriter Except when]] she's a total idiot[[/note]], sets a precedent of being too mentally unstable to even feel fear no later than the show's second episode. One of the most obvious instances of this was the Season 2 premiere, where she's so enamored by [[GodOfEvil Discord]]'s [[ActuallyPrettyFunny twisted sense of humor]] and ability to make the clouds rain chocolate milk that she initially makes the argument that said AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[OrderVersusChaos chaos]] should be allowed to unleash [[RealityIsOutToLunch his demented]] [[WorldGoneMad reign of terror]] [[SugarApocalypse on Equestria]]. She does occasionally demonstrate fear responses, but "Luna Eclipsed" implies that even these are all put-ons meant for her own entertainment (which explains why they're just as often about completely irrational things - like mistaking Twilight's gala tickets for "bats on [her] face" or believing Spike to be a ghost - as rational ones).
* Nug of ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' is an in-universe supplier of FridgeHorror, often inadvertantly terrifying Frizz with his unnerving assumptions of the outcomes of some of their schemes.
-->'''Frizz:''' I'm gonna fall!!!
-->'''Nug:''' If you did, you'd probably break every bone in your body...probably.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' gives us [[AlmightyJanitor Peppermint Butler]] who innocently declares that, in exchange for a favor he did for Finn and Jake, he will take their flesh as payment. The heroes giggle a bit at what they think is a joke before he says he'll take it from them in their sleep. His eyes [[BlackEyesOfEvil glow black]] when he does, and Finn and Jake are more than a little unnerved. There have since been more than a few hints that Pepperment Butler is secretly evil. In the above mentioned episode, he was revealed to be personal friends with Death. In "Return to the Nightosphere" there's a photograph in the background showing him caddying a game of golf for Marceline's Dad (aka the demonic Lord of All Evil and basically Adventure Time's version of Satan). In "Too Young" he got nervous when Finn asked to see his aura with a machine Princess Bubblegum invented. The hints seem to have been confirmed in "The Suitor", in which he is caught several times [[SummoningRitual summoning a demon,]] making it possess [[Cloudcuckoolander/WesternAnimation Cinnamon Bun's]] body and trying to interrogate him for the location of some equally evil object. The bubblegum guardians keep pulling him away from this to make him do one of his royal duties and [[TheMatchmaker try and find Princess Bubblegum a suitor.]] Eventually resulting on the best suitor making a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the demon.]]
** [[AxCrazy Lemongrab]] in general, especially in his most disturbing episodes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' Bushroot being the sympathetic but kind of unstable scientist that he is, often causes much unintended horror with his experiments like trying to marry a giant mutated vampire-potato and never realising the whole monster thing, creating again and again quite a few monsters in his effort to make friends and leaving creepy husks of his body behind. And all this, while being whiny, affable and wimpy.
* Stumpy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', who has no sense of reality due to always reading comics, playing violent video games and watching horror movies. His art is (in-universe) regarded as absolutely terrifying, and in one episode he finds chalk drawings inside a cave depicting a group of friends partying on a cruise ship and changes the picture so a giant meteorite falls on them.
* On ''WesternAnimation/SuperMansion'' Jewbot falls into this in episode 12, where he horrifies American Ranger when he makes a suit designed to emulate the appearance of human skin in an attempt to make Ranger feel more comfortable.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' features [[PsychoElectro the Dominator]] from "XCVI", the ruthless man who kidnapped the children. The fact that he's a mere human with a intense air of cruelty and malice willing to commit atrocities for pure enjoyment makes him pretty scary and chilling. That, and his creepy fixation in Ashi's beauty.
* Finding any ''single'' character in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' to represent this trope is a hard task, as that show basically ''ran'' on this trope. That said, if one had to choose, it would definitely be [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Barber]], the resident 19th century doctor and barber of [[NotSoSafeHarbor Stormalong Harbor]]. Expect plenty of BlackHumor revolving around the surprisingly graphic descriptions of his offscreen [[MeatgrinderSurgery Meatgrinder Surgeries]] and grotesque patients whenever he's around.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', Little Larimar is a sweet, soft-spoken [[spoiler:un-corrupted]] gem... [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming whose favorite sound is human screaming]]. Granted, it's specifically screams of ''excitement'' (she panics at screams of ''fear'', and later comes to find that laughter is an acceptable substitute), but it does make her a lot creepier than her kindly attitude suggests.
-->'''Larimar:''' Human screams are my favorite of the Earth's delights! I want to hear the human screams ''forever''.\\
'''Steven:''' [[LampshadeHanging Okay, that's kinda troubling]], but your heart's in the right place!\\
'''Larimar:''' One day, ''I'll make you scream, Steven''.

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'': The [[NightmareFuelColoringBook crayon drawings]] seen in Part 1's Prologue, [[spoiler:which depict part of the first game's story (Max's wife and baby are killed)]], are definitely the work of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, even if we don't know how anyone else reacts to them.
%%* Trevor Philips from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', full stop.

* Fado from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. (Uh, [[http://zeldawiki.org/images/8/8f/Fadooot.png this kid]]. Her name's AllThereInTheManual. Apparently, no connection to the [[NamesTheSame two later Fados]].) When you meet her in the Lost Woods after the TimeSkip, she's taken a turn for the creepy. "That guy isn't here anymore. Anybody who comes into the forest will be lost. Everybody will become a Stalfos. Everybody, Stalfos. So, he's not here anymore. Only his saw is left. Hee hee." ... "Heh heh heh. Are you going to be...too? Heh heh!"
* Agitha from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' loves bugs. She just LOVES THEM SO MUCH.
* 343 Guilty Spark from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' is ''far'' too chipper about the Flood and how the only way to combat them is by killing everything.
* The nurse in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' is constantly telling you that she hopes you come back with terrible, life-threatening injuries so she'll have something to do.
* Bebedora in ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad: Twilight of the Spirits''. She's a horribly creepy demonic young girl marionette who apparently has no eyes, can 'see' emotions as color and casually talks about Ending The World. Oh, and she can possess people and make them do whatever she feels like doing, whether they want to or not. [[http://www.flyingomelette.com/arc4/arc4bebedora.html This page]] should give you a vague idea of what kind of, uh, person-doll-demon-thing she is.

* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' featured Marta, a cheerful old lady whose job it is to remove the teeth and organs of corpses. Your character, an {{immortal|ity}} with a powerful HealingFactor, can have her remove your internal organs and crack open your skull in search for items hidden by yourself before you were struck with amnesia. Oh, and hey - there's no anaesthesia.
* The Little Sisters in the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' games exhibit traits of the NFSA, referring to the dead bodies they harvest ADAM from as "angels". In the second game, if you have a Little Sister with you when you use an electricity plasmid on a Splicer, she might cry, "Look, Mr. B! She's ''dancing''!" She will also exclaim in glee about marshmallows when you set them on fire. All Little Sisters have been tampered with in the perception department, to the point that all of decaying Rapture looks like wonderful, golden, shiny places, and for all we know, that's what they actually LOOK like to them: Electrified people burst into merry dance, flaming people are holding marshmallows...
* ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam And Max Save The World/Season One]]'' demonstrates this in Hugh Bliss. Max is enough of an example himself, but if anything, Hugh Bliss is just as bad with his constant cheeriness, his unnatural powers, [[spoiler:the fact that he's a colony of germs]], and when you use the bug on him in ''Abe Lincoln Must Die!'', guess what? ''He knew you were listening''. People say that [[spoiler:him being the villain]] was unexpected? His cameo in season two [[spoiler:in hell, complete with ''Film/TheExorcist''-style head turn,]] certainly doesn't help things.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' gives us quite a few examples, considering it's entire tone is of a subvertion of Lovecraftian horror, but the stand-out character is easily a central villain in the first game, Albert Simon. Simon is an AffablyEvil [[EvilSorcerer Sorcerer]] set on kick-starting Judgment Day. Because he sees his end goal as basicly being able to undo all the damage he does along the way and then some, he remains polite, friendly and jovial the whole time. He steps over bodies, donates tomes-of-eldrich lore to mad-men, and practices necromantic rites with a pleasant pasted on smile and kind tone as is usually reserved for the average tea-party.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has [[spoiler:Izanami, who gives the Protagonist his powers and is a literal Station Attendant. She could technically be considered one by trope definition as well, because she thought that she was merely giving the humans what they wanted.]]
** In the anime especially, Shadow Naoto. Said Shadow is seemingly quite playful, and breaks down into tears at rejection, and is generally quite lovable with its oversized lab coat. Until Naoto pushes too many buttons, at which point the Shadow stops being so cute and childish and proceeds to ''psychologically tear Naoto apart''.
* Speaking of ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', there's the recurring demon Alice. She's an adorable little blonde girl... who was raised by two powerful demons, granted massive magical powers, was driven insane by them, and wants you to [[FateWorseThanDeath be her friend]]. Her [[TokenMiniMoe cuteness]] and [[CreepyChild childlike attitude]] just make the sadism (torturing the Hare of Inaba in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', for example) that much creepier. Plus her SignatureMove "Die For Me!" is the most powerful dark-elemental instant death spell in ''any'' game she appears in and involves summoning an army of undead.
** Even better (or worse), the original appearance of Alice in ''Shin Megami Tensei 1'' is that of [[spoiler:the ghost of]] a little girl raised by those demons, whose only friends are the ghosts of everyone in Roppongi in Tokyo, killed by the demons to force them to stay there as her friends forever. Her SignatureMove shouldn't even be rendered as a command, but instead a question - she desperately wants you to stay and asks, "Would you die for me please?" out of loneliness, not anger or spite.
* The Medic from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', as the MadScientist and DeadlyDoctor, is perhaps '''the''' most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc&t=1m03s terrifying]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ju-mqUvE60&t=2m07s motherfucker]] on the entire team, [[ProfessionalKiller and that's]] [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores saying]] [[SociopathicHero a LOT]]. Even the Heavy, the [[BoisterousBruiser towering Soviet brawler]] who smashes his way through the enemy ranks with a roaring laugh, is commonly put off by the Medic's sinister tendencies. The Medic's take on all this? As far as he's concerned, he's just practicing medicine.
** Also, his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ju-mqUvE60&t=3m03s screams]] are definitely the most horrifying in the entire game.
** And then [[spoiler: [[BewareTheSillyOnes Meet the Pyro]]]] came along. Are you afraid of the Medic? [[spoiler: Well, the Medic is afraid of him. Hell, ''everyone'' is. Even the Heavy admits, "That ''thing''...it scares me."]]
---> ''[[SoundtrackDissonance Do you believe in ma~gic... In a young girl's he~art...]]''
%%* And let's not forget [[spoiler:[[VillainProtagonist Revya]]]] from ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''.

%%* Why ''hello'' there, [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Subject 16]]! Why don't you regale us with some more of your %%insane ramblings, pieced together from the broken psyche that used to be your mind? Oh, and you've embedded coded %%chunks of your [[BrainUploading uploaded mind]] all through a system that is ''already'' independently capable of %%destroying a person's sanity? Thanks. The Animus wasn't scary enough on its own.
%%-->'''Subject 16:''' ''She sees me raise the knife...''
%%* Emily's drawings in ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', if the player causes a lot of chaos (by killing indiscriminately).
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' has Emma and her disturbing drawings (''They Mostly Come At Night''), the "day care center" in the Amity House (''Virgula Divina''), and probably a few more that I'm forgetting.
* Madotsuki from ''VideoGame/YumeNikki''; almost all of her time is spent sleeping and concocting [[NightmareSequence nightmares]] [[EldritchAbomination that wouldn't be]] [[EldritchLocation out of place]] in a CosmicHorrorStory.
%%* VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice and [[VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns sequel]]: Alice Liddell, Full Stop. Her mind is a very scary place.
* Say howdy to [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100404211011/s__/sengokubasara/images/4/4b/Oichi-SB2.png Oichi]] from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. Basically designed to give you the creeps. If the demonic shadow hands she fights with aren't bad enough, her dissonant voice and creepy lullaby singing when she's smashing your face in might just give you a good scare.
* ''VideoGame/LayersOfFear'' has the artist and protagonist. Not only does he take his house crumbling into Wonderland-esce madness quite well, he also saw nothing wrong with submitting a ''very'', '''very''' violent and gory version of Little Red Riding Hood as illustrations for a childrens book. In general does his art get really disturbing over time, but he sees nothing wrong with that, to the shock and horror of those that initially loved his work.
* The TitleCharacter and protagonist of ''VideoGame/FranBow''. To be expected, since this is a video game both about and told from the perspective of a CreepyChild. Her response to the game's less dangerous horrors is predominantly curiosity and childlike wonder. This can be jarring, when she responds this way to carrion worms, headless anthropomorphic deer, and dead babies in a well (one of whom, she remarks, was very smart to bring its placenta; the placenta is a jetpack of blood and nutrients).

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' has an almost literal instance of this trope in the Daycare Attendant. A note found in the [[NightmarishNursery Superstar Daycare]] has a parent complain that her child, who had no previous sleep issues, had begun refusing to sleep with the lights off and wetting the bed after being left in its care. It's not hard to see why: said animatronic is a lean [[MonsterClown clown-like]] robot with a permanently affixed SlasherSmile and overly fluid motion, who also switches between a 'Sun' and 'Moon' variant depending on whether the lights are on. The Sun sees no issue with [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace dragging Gregory around]] while shouting in his face about all the activities it has planned. The Moon is ''worse'', as upon its NighttimeTransformation it decides to 'punish' Gregory for being up past his bedtime while muttering in a [[EvilSoundsRaspy raspy voice]] about 'naughty children.' Needless to say, this thing is HatedByAll, precisely because it's [[UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot too terrifying]] for a bot intended to look after toddler-age children.

* A Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' features a level-headed and soft-spoken onion-spider-creature named "Willie Nelson" who lives in the attic. When the main characters try to make Willie Nelson scary, they fail miserably. It's not until the last part of the episode where you find out that [[spoiler:Willie Nelson has been keeping hundreds of dead and mangled bodies in the attic on meat hooks to feed on]]. Needless to say, all the characters are horrified, but Willie Nelson doesn't understand why they're so freaked out. It's just "juice" for him.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'':
** Freaky Fred. He's not really nightmarish, he's just ... ''naughty''.
** Katz. A [[AxCrazy psychopathic]] [[CatsAreMean cat]] with a creepy fixation with killing his victims in rather gruesome ways.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Princess Azula trying to act like a normal teenager.
-->'''Azula:''' ''[after winning a volleyball game]'' [[SeriousBusiness Yes! We've defeated you for all time! You will NEVER rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation!]]...[[MoodWhiplash Well, that was fun.]]\\\
'''Azula:''' That's a sharp outfit, Chan. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} Careful, you could puncture the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battleship, leaving thousands to drown at sea.]] ''[[[{{Beat}} awkward silence]]]'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Because it's so sharp.]]\\
'''Chan:''' Umm, thanks...\\\
'''Azula:''' [[UnholyMatrimony Together, you and I will be the strongest couple in the entire world. We will dominate the Earth!]] ''[[[PlayingWithFire columns of blue fire burst from her hands]]]''\\
'''Chan:''' Uh... [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon I gotta go]].

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' has two, the first is [[EvilCounterpart Goku]] [[AxCrazy Black]], one of the EvilDuo of the Future Trunks arc and the other is [[AdorableAbomination Zen'O]], the TopGod of the {{Multiverse}}, who has AmbiguousInnocence and several sociopathic tendencies.
%%* Johan Liebert of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' is one of the most ''terrifying'' examples imaginable.
* [[ImplacableMan Kiriyama]] of ''Manga/BattleRoyale'' may not be a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} but, since he [[spoiler: lost all his emotions]], he sees nothing wrong with killing his classmates. The way he manages [[LackOfEmpathy to be merciless]] is constantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by a good deal of his classmates.
%%* Kaede [[spoiler: (the anime edition)]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' is a non-{{Cloudcuckoolander}} example.
* Kafuka Fuura from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. Much of her work comes across this way, but in particular, when she gives a scratchy recording of the Traumerei lyrics about "soup made by a lady in a catskin", "a neighbourhood where all the old ladies have disappeared" and "a hole as deep as a young man's height", inadvertently producing a song that can drive any who listen to it paranoid, depressed and insane, yet dancing to it as though it were an upbeat piece of pop music. On one occasion, Kafuka was assigned by Itoshiki-sensei to brainstorm ways that aliens could make contact with Earth. Kafuka immediately proceeds to describe a method that the aliens could use to take over the world ''[[ParanoiaFuel without anyone noticing]]'', before concluding that humanity will likely remain completely unaware, even as it is converted into a livestock race. At no point does it dawn on her that this might be in any way disturbing. A common fan theory, well supported in the anime, is that she is in fact a (literal) demon and doing it deliberately.
%%** [[FunnyForeigner Matarou]] also falls into this trope occasionally.
%%** What about Chiri Kitsu? "Meat doll", indeed.
* Kaoru Yamazaki of ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK''. As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a {{Moe}} character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]] - indeed, he thinks the character would be an appropriate, attractive heroine for an HGame. The most disturbing this is that he is the most well-balanced character in the series and apparently gets happily married at the end. And indeed, while his issues may be disturbing, he doesn't let them become an obstacle to his life, unlike every other character.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** When told to draw her fantasy future, Orihime draws [[http://es.bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Archivo:Orihime24.jpg a chaotic and bizarre picture featuring herself as a deadly robot on a rampage through a destroyed city]] (with missiles [[ChestBlaster exactly where you'd expect]]), confusing and disturbing the other students greatly (comically, though).
** Nemu is also an example; in one of the manga omake, she drew a cell phone that was so disturbing and perverted that it physically repulsed the other Shinigami Women's Association members (and had to be censored, leaving it to the readers' imagination just ''how'' perverted and disturbing it is).
* Parodied in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' with Dokuro's casual drawing of a beautiful and calm lake, which in her view is filled with dead bodies and blood, greatly disturbing her drawing mate Sakura.

* [[CreepyChild Little Kikuri]] from ''Anime/HellGirl'' likes to draw mutilated stick-figure bodies. Granted, she is an attendant of hell...Her drawings are just about the least disturbing thing about her - how about the time when she threw flowers over a teenager dying from a traffic accident, after telling him that Hell is real, and then running away giggling.

* Mytho from ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' becomes one of these in the second season when his [[spoiler:heart is tainted with Raven's blood]]. He performs a ballet dance to "Night On Bald Mountain" (which those who have seen Fantasia will remember as the sequence with Chernabog summoning demons) with gestures that make his hands seem clawed and an intense, angered and almost pained look on his face. It sends a group of female dance students screaming when they watch it. He also later tells a character that he wants them to take out his heart, then "kiss it and dye your lips crimson with my blood." It's hard to tell if he's trying to scare her or if he actually thinks it's ''romantic''.
%%* Ritsuko Akagi fills this position several times in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

* Mutsumi from ''Manga/LoveHina'' ends up one of these whenever she recounts an episode of [[ShowWithinAShow her favorite TV show from when she was a kid,]] ''Liddo-kun's Big Adventure'', similar to a scenario she and her friends are facing... except she always recalls her example from ''Liddo-kun'' [[AnalogyBackfire ending in some horrific disaster,]] leaving Naru and Keitaro (who also used to watch ''Liddo-kun'') skeptical that it actually happened that way.
* Sakura, an extremely IllGirl from ''Anime/{{Betterman}}'' who has very sensitive extrasensory perception and precognition. A tragic figure overall, having ultimately low prospects for survival, the fact that her whispery voice narrates every OnTheNext preview, in which she always foretells a grisly future (like how worms will eat your flesh. ''While you're still alive''), takes her into this territory.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** StepfordSmiler Russia thinks nothing of his heart dropping onto the table in the middle of an Allied Powers meeting. According to him, it just "falls out occasionally". The others are grossed out and tell him "put it back on! eeeew!"
** ''Finland'', of all people, might be an example of this trope, considering some of the things he does.
--->'''Finland:''' ''[on the name of his new dog]'' I like ''Bloody Flower Egg''!\\
'''Sweden (his partner [[HoYay and self-declared husband]]):''' ... Le's think 'bout tha'...lat'r...
** Hungary is also shown and revealed to be this, whether it's her penchant for scary things (in her Chapter 5 profile), Krampus escapades or managing to freak out Prussia like a deranged stalker.
* Seiichirou Kitano, the protagonist of ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'', is a nice take on this trope: to the readers he's [[HilarityEnsues funny]], but to the other characters in the manga, he's a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant just by ''being around''. (Yes, he's [[FaceOfAThug that scary]])

%%* The eponymous Fran Madaraki from ''Manga/FrankenFran'' is ''the'' definition of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant. She manages to terrify ''everyone''. Customers, clients, bystanders, collegues, even her own twisted creations; there is not a single individual who will not be retching or screaming around her at some point. And she's ''still'' [[CuteMonsterGirl endlessly adorable]].
* The title character of ''Mato-chan'' is fascinated by bugs and frequently voices conclusions about her grade-school life that are informed by the anatomy and life cycles of insects (such as the tendency of female Praying Mantises to eat their mates).
%%* Yuno from ''Manga/FutureDiary'' is an [[{{Yandere}} extreme]] version of this and the readers/viewers love her for it.
* Sawako (albeit unintentionally) from ''Manga/KimiNiTodoke''. In-universe, with those [[TheUnsmile forced]] [[SlasherSmile smiles]].

* In ''Manga/YuGiOhR'', pretty much ''all'' the Card Professors are eccentric, but Tilla Mook seems to fit this Trope; she not only uses monsters based on vampires, she seems to believe she ''is'' one, hanging out in a room resembling a cemetery and referring to her ace card, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire%27s_Curse Vampire's Curse]], as her "master". This is further emphasized by the way the Solid Vision Hologram system of the Duel Disks interpret Vampire Curse's effect; when summoned from the Graveyard this way, Tilla offers it her neck and it drinks her blood, at which points her Life Points decrease by 1,000 (the cost for using the effect), and the monster gains 500 Attack Points via the card effect.
* Maple in ''LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'' has an increasingly [[LovecraftianSuperpower Lovecraftian-themed spell list]] as she gains experience in the game. Naturally, she's oblivious to the fact that the creative ways she uses them to combat enemies [[TheDreaded that she can't kill outright]] are terrifying to others.
* Pluto in ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'' has very different ideas of what counts as "cute" from her coworkers. This naturally leads to her designing most of the "creepy" animals. [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyN0IPwX0AAcrcu.jpg This design]][[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyN0MoeX0AEBet0?format=jpg&name=large turns out]][[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyN0RSoXcAA8tc0?format=jpg&name=large to be]][[spoiler:[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyN1DLCWkAA3Ozy?format=jpg&name=large a koala]]]].
* ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'': [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead Reading Yor's mind often scares the life out of Anya]], as her thoughts frequently default to dead bodies and harming and killing people, which she takes entirely for granted, only clamping down on it when she drifts into MurderIsTheBestSolution. Her NightmareFace also terrifies Anya no end.
* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Shadow Mei ''is'' an outright villain, but can be disturbing even when she's [[VillainsOutShopping trying to relax]]. For karaoke, she picks the [[IronicNurseryTune famously creepy]] children's song "Kagome, Kagome" and fills the room full of gloom.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} with Maika Sakuranomiya from ''Manga/BlendS''. Her favorite thing to do is to smile, but it unfortunately gives Maika a [[FaceOfAThug sadistic facial expression]] as a result. Dino sees this, and decides to capitalize on it by having Maika take on the role as the {{sadist}}ic waitress of Cafe Stile despite being a [[MeanCharacterNiceActor very nice girl]] otherwise.

'''Cheryl:''' No, nononono. Like, a big sweaty fireman carries you out of a burning building, lays you on the sidewalk and you think "OK, he's gonna give me mouth to mouth", but instead, he just starts choking the shit out of you, and the last sensation you feel before you die is that he's squeezing your throat so hard that a big glob of drool slips right off his teeth and -* blurp* - lands right on your popped out eyeball.\\
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--->'''Homer:''' (not paying attention) Oh, it's beautiful! Oh, oh, let's put Bart's beautiful drawing up on the fridge!\\

'''Homer:''' Oh, all right. What...(looks at drawing)...AAAH!! Burn it! Send it to Hell!

--->'''Marge:''' There's just something about a boy flying a kite at night that's so... unwholesome! ''*Bart looks over his shoulder at his parent's window*''\\

* On a ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode in which Raven travels with very young kids -- an awkward prospect for all of them, as she's potential Nightmare Fuel herself -- the oldest of the kids has the power to bring her imaginary friend to life. Invisible at first, "Bobby" is finally revealed to be a giant teddy bear... which sprouts six-inch claws and jagged-line fangs when its maker sics it on the bad guys.

** This happens to Fry quite a lot. At a holophoner recital, Fry tries to play a tune called "The Grumpy Snail". Things go alright for a while...until the snail spouts fangs and starts foaming at the mouth.
-->"It's TOO grumpy!"
* A Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' features a level-headed and soft-spoken onion-spider-creature named "Willie Nelson" who lives in the attic. When the main characters try to make Willie Nelson scary, they fail miserably. It's not until the last part of the episode where you find out that [[spoiler:Willie Nelson has been keeping hundreds of dead and mangled bodies in the attic on meat hooks to feed on]]. Needless to say, all the characters are horrified, but Willie Nelson doesn't understand why they're so freaked out.
** It's just "juice" for him.

-->'''Azula:''' ''[after winning a volleyball game]'' [[SeriousBusiness Yes! We've defeated you for all time! You will NEVER rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation!]]...[[MoodWhiplash Well, that was fun.]]

-->'''Azula:''' That's a sharp outfit, Chan. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} Careful, you could puncture the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battleship, leaving thousands to drown at sea.]] ''[[[{{Beat}} awkward silence]]]'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Because it's so sharp.]]
-->'''Chan:''' Umm, thanks...

-->'''Azula:''' [[UnholyMatrimony Together, you and I will be the strongest couple in the entire world. We will dominate the Earth!]] ''[[[PlayingWithFire columns of blue fire burst from her hands]]]''
-->'''Chan:''' Uh... [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon I gotta go]].

-->'''Larimar''': Human screams are my favorite of the Earth's delights! I want to hear the human screams ''forever''.\\
'''Steven''': [[LampshadeHanging Okay, that's kinda troubling]], but your heart's in the right place!\\
'''Larimar''': One day, ''I'll make you scream, Steven''.

--> ''[[SoundtrackDissonance Do you believe in ma~gic... In a young girl's he~art...]]''

--> '''Henry:''' ''Hello, Robin. I sure do love lunchtime [[HeroicComedicSociopath and ripping thumbs off!]]''

* Johan Liebert of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' is one of the most ''terrifying'' examples imaginable.

* Kaede [[spoiler: (the anime edition)]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' is a non-{{Cloudcuckoolander}} example.
* Kafuka Fuura from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. Much of her work comes across this way, but in particular, when she gives a scratchy recording of the Traumerei lyrics about "soup made by a lady in a catskin", "a neighbourhood where all the old ladies have disappeared" and "a hole as deep as a young man's height", inadvertently producing a song that can drive any who listen to it paranoid, depressed and insane, yet dancing to it as though it were an upbeat piece of pop music.
** On one occasion, Kafuka was assigned by Itoshiki-sensei to brainstorm ways that aliens could make contact with Earth. Kafuka immediately proceeds to describe a method that the aliens could use to take over the world ''[[ParanoiaFuel without anyone noticing]]'', before concluding that humanity will likely remain completely unaware, even as it is converted into a livestock race. At no point does it dawn on her that this might be in any way disturbing.
** A common fan theory, well supported in the anime, is that she is in fact a (literal) demon and doing it deliberately.

* Kaoru Yamazaki of ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK''. As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a {{Moe}} character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]] - indeed, he thinks the character would be an appropriate, attractive heroine for an HGame.
** The most disturbing this is, however, that he is the most well-balanced character in the series and apparently gets happily married at the end. And indeed, while his issues may be disturbing, he doesn't let them become an obstacle to his life, unlike every other character.

* In the Skypiea arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'', Nico Robin assures Nami and Chopper that Zoro is alright after saving Chopper from sky sharks, because "the clouds haven't turned red yet."
** Robin is actually quite good at this. Other examples include telling Nami that she's 50 meters up and she'll die if she falls, suggesting that their new boat should be named "Being of Darkness", and finding a Cerberus cute while it was attacking her. And this is her when she's joking; considering her powers, if you make her mad, you'll never stop having nightmares...that is, if you survive[[DramaticEllipsis ...]]

* The eponymous Fran Madaraki from ''Manga/FrankenFran'' is ''the'' definition of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant.
** What's especially notable is how she manages to terrify ''everyone''. Customers, clients, bystanders, collegues, even her own twisted creations; there is not a single individual who will not be retching or screaming around her at some point. And she's ''still'' [[CuteMonsterGirl endlessly adorable]].

* Yuno from ''Manga/FutureDiary'' is an [[{{Yandere}} extreme]] version of this and the readers/viewers love her for it.

* Faust VIII of Manga/ShamanKing.

* ComicStrip/{{Lio}}, the main character from the comic strip of the same name, is the newspaper comic strip flag carrier for this trope.

* While [[Anime/OnePiece Robin]] is this in canon and [[Anime/{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] doesn't shy away from it, they talk about various nightmarish scenarios in ''Fanfic/FlyFree''. This is followed by similar conversations between Robin and Gaara.
** Then come the chunin exams, along with an OriginalCharacter, Ketsueki Daiya, who is apparently an insane, AxCrazy nine-year-old that will ''[[GigglingVillain giggle]]'' about [[AndShowItToYou ripping out other genin's hearts]].
* [[EldritchAbomination Discord]] plays this role in ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum''. [[spoiler: [[EvenEvilHasStandards Though not for the reason you expect.]]]]

* Nina, from ''Film/BlackSwan'', most certainly counts. In particular, her dancing as the Black Swan, rather than being sensual, is [[UncannyValley instead]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning terrifying]].
* Kruger from ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. You know it's time to run whenever you see him or his squadmates enter the picture.

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': President Snow and the Gamemakers.

!!!'''By Creator:'''
* [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira]] often did this intentionally in her routines. (Which was the whole point, and played for laughs.)

* The title character of ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''. He's a big, purple, disturbingly cheerful Tyrannosaurus [[FridgeHorror whose cast of kids changes every year.]]

* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Giles had a talent for drawing gruesome stick figures to illustrate his points.
** Don't forget that Buffy gets a drawing as a gift from a kid that she saved. Even her mother liked it, despite the fact it was a gruesome and bloody display of her killing the MonsterOfTheWeek.

** The Doctor's later regenerations particularly love this trope, when they're not being the source of the NightmareFuel themselves.

* Similarly, in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe gives Monica "Gladys" - a hideously drawn, semi-3D portrait of a lady who looks like a witch, scary enough to stop even Joey from sleeping.
** Not to mention her psychic reading of the pencil. "I don't know who this is, but it's not Debbie." Cue everyone looking freaked. And there's the ''children's song'': "Oh, Grandma is a person that everyone likes, / She bought you a toy train and a bright shiny bike, / But lately she hasn't been coming to dinner, / The last time you saw her she looked a lot thinner. Now your parents told you she moved to Peru, / but the truth is she died and someday you will too." Poor, poor little children.
*** She is asked to tone down her children's songs and maybe write about farm animals and things like that. She comes out with, "Oh, the cow in the meadow goes, 'Moo'/Oh, the cow in the meadow goes, 'Moo'/Then the farmer hits him on the head and grinds them up/And that's how we get hamburgers/Now chicken!" PlayedWith in that the kids eventually love her for telling the truth.

** And then there's The Nightman Cometh...
* ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'': [[ObliviouslyEvil Alain]] had a pleasant, nostalgic conversation with [[TheIngenue Kanon]] while keeping her brother as a toy after enslaving his soul because that's his idea of friendship. He actually had that conversation with her ''because'' she was worried about her brother's sudden disappearance and didn't tell her it's his fault because that might worry her more when there wasn't even anything wrong going on.
** He genuinely thinks that Ganma are justified in their invasion on Earth, because it is for the sake of spreading their perfect, conflictless society where no one suffers. It completely escapes him that the utopia is a thin veneer painted on a [[EldritchLocation poisonous, decaying world]] where no one can even ''exist'' as anything else than a HumanPopsicle remotely controlling artificial body.

* The Swedish Chef of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has a really jolly, somewhat ManChild personality which he maintains especially when trying to kill animals in horrible ways.
** Notably trying to cut off [[{{Keet}} Robin's]] legs before Kermit and Scooter realize what's going on (granted the Chef was forced on stage earlier then he was supposed to). DisproportionateRetribution much?
*** Retribution nothing. Frog legs were the meal of the day. Some idiot just pointed him at the wrong frog is all.
** It doesn't help that the Swedish Chef is the only Muppet with actual human hands. (He even seems to have what looks like a wedding ring in one recent appearance, but Lord only knows who his wife is.)

* A few of the songs by Music/TomLehrer, such as "Who's Next" and "We Will All Go Together When We Go" could make [[Music/TomLehrer the man]] come across as a NFSA. He also wrote a lovely lullaby that would fit the trope.
** On a lighter note (although that's not exactly difficult with two songs about nuclear annihilation), he has a cheerful ditty about the delightful spring pastime of "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"

* ''VideoGame/FableII'' has the ever pleasant and friendly Chesty, a living treasure chest who just wants to be your very best friend and play games with you. After [[spoiler:pulling you into a nightmare and transforming you back into a kid]]... well... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71QQRDxEUi0&fmt=18.html ''Yeah...'']] Even better is when you can get back into the dream afterwards and open the door that was locked before. There you find [[spoiler:what happens to those who stayed his Very Best Friends...]]. Of course it is still not as pleasant as when you get the invitation to his party. You end up a little late to the party, and [[spoiler:VERY glad for it.]]
** There are also the banshees who say such wonderful things as 'how do you know if they're really even your family?' if [[spoiler:you decided to revive your murdered family at the end of the game.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam And Max Save The World/Season One]]'' demonstrates this in Hugh Bliss. Max is enough of an example himself, but if anything, Hugh Bliss is just as bad with his constant cheeriness, his unnatural powers, [[spoiler:the fact that he's a colony of germs]], and when you use the bug on him in ''Abe Lincoln Must Die!'', guess what? ''He knew you were listening''. People say that [[spoiler:him being the villain]] was unexpected?
** His cameo in season two [[spoiler:in hell, complete with ''Film/TheExorcist''-style head turn,]] certainly doesn't help things.

* Emily's drawings in ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', if the player causes a lot of chaos (by killing indiscriminately).

* VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice and [[VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns sequel]]: Alice Liddell, Full Stop. Her mind is a very scary place.

** Of course, Aku himself manages to bring us a fair share of NightmareFuel in "The Premiere Movie". His hissy CreepyMonotone, his lack of humor and absolute sadism and cruelty...

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
** The Demonic Spirit from "Jack and the Haunted House" is perhaps the most unsettling creature who ever appeared in the series. [[NonStandardCharacterDesign As if its unnerving design wasn't enough]], this creature is a sadistic demon who trapped the souls of a Japanese family in a haunted house. After devouring the souls of her family, the demon lets Kuni live solely to use her as bait to lure in more victims. Perhaps the scariest thing about this thing is is how little we know about it, making it even more frightening. What is it? Where did it come from? Why did it target that family? What did it want with Jack? And is it even sentient?
** The High Priestess. [[DissonantSerenity She keeps her emotionless demeanor when her daughters are subjected to cruel trainings or rituals]], her occasional anger is incredibly spontaneous, and every scene she is in is filled with the utmost tension. [[spoiler:Heck, '''Aku himself''' was surprised when this woman drank his essence.]]
** The Dominator from "XCVI". The fact that he's a mere human with a intense air of cruelty and malice willing to commit atrocities for pure enjoyment makes him pretty scary and chilling. That, and his creepy fixation in Ashi's beauty.

* WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'s [[ForgetfulJones Nanashi Mumei]] of Hololive EN Generation 2 is this by accident. She could draw several cute pictures before going into a picture that other audience members describe as "a sleep paralysis demon come to life." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdi3mURJjkU Her first and most iconic "cursed" picture]] (that has since become one of her membership emotes) started out as a portrait of [[MemeticPsychopath Suisei Hoshimachi]] before turning into a [[NightmareFace nightmarish creature]] with [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily rows of fangs]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]].

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead Reading Yor's mind often scares the life out of Anya]], as her thoughts frequently default to dead bodies and harming and killing people, which she takes entirely for granted, only clamping down on it when she drifts into MurderIsTheBestSolution. Her NightmareFace also terrifies Anya no end.

* Maybe more so in the movie than the TV show episode, the kid in the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' story ''It's A Good Life'' creates a no-way-out nightmare world for the others, but considers it all just good fun himself.

* ''Series/{{Inazuman}}'''s second BigBad, [[TheGeneralissimo F&umml;hrer Geisel]] is exceptionally terrifying even for a 70s {{Toku}} villain. He looks like a cross between an [[PuttingOnTheReich SS commandant]] and {{Dracula}}, is cold and [[NoNonsenseNemesis no-nonsense]] in contrast to the usual hamminess Toku villains have, regularly has his forces massacre people, and makes his introduction after pulling a merciless EvilerThanThou on the previous BigBad (who was already pretty bad by himself). In fact, he's pretty much singlehandedly responsible for making ''Flash'' a DarkerAndEdgier show to the original ''Inazuman'' series.

* WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'s [[ForgetfulJones Nanashi Mumei]] of Hololive EN Generation 2 is this by accident. She could draw several cute pictures before going into a picture that other audience members describe as "a sleep paralysis demon come to life." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdi3mURJjkU Her first and most iconic picture]] (so much so that it became one of her membership emotes) started out as a portrait of [[MemeticPsychopath Suisei Hoshimachi]].

* WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'s [[ForgetfulJones Nanashi Mumei]] of Hololive EN Generation 2 is this by accident. She could draw several cute pictures before going into a picture that other audience members describe as "a sleep paralysis demon come to life." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdi3mURJjkU And it was supposed to be a portrait of]] [[MemeticPsychopath Suisei Hoshimachi]].

* The films of Creator/AlfredHitchcock, Creator/JohnCarpenter, Creator/DavidLynch, Creator/StevenSpielberg make all these directors good candidates for this trope too, as do most horror film directors.

* In the same vein, Creator/WaltDisney became synonomous with "syrupy-sweet family fare," {{Bowdleri|se}}zed {{Fairy Tale}}s, and {{Disneyfication}} as an insult towards treating serious subject matter in a lighthearted, overly-simplistic way, but Disney Canon has a NightmareFuel [[NightmareFuel/{{Disney}} section as long as a football field]].

Tropes invoking a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant:

[[index]]
* AxCrazy
* AmbiguousInnocence
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
* CombatSadomasochist
* CompleteMonster
* CrazyIsCool
* CreepyAwesome
* CreepyChild
* CreepyGood
* DarkIsEvil
* DarkIsNotEvil
* EldritchAbomination
** AnimalisticAbomination
** BotanicalAbomination
** DigitalAbomination
** DraconicAbomination
** GeneticAbomination
** HumanoidAbomination
** MechanicalAbomination
** UndeadAbomination
* HumansAreCthulhu
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold
* NightmareFetishist
* NightmareFuelColoringBook
* NothingIsScarier
* ObliviouslyEvil
* PsychopathicManchild
* PsychoticSmirk
* {{Sadist}}
* SlasherSmile
* TheSociopath
* StalkerWithACrush
* UncannyValley
* UncannyValleyGirl
* Many cases of {{Yandere}}
[[/index]]

'''Setsuna:''' And I will protect [[JapaneseHonorifics Ojou-sama]] even at the cost of my own life.\\

** StepfordSmiler Russia from thinks nothing of his heart dropping onto the table in the middle of an Allied Powers meeting. According to him, it just "falls out occasionally". The others are grossed out and tell him "put it back on! eeeew!"

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' has an almost literal instance of this trope in the Daycare Attendant. A note found in the [[NightmarishNursery Superstar Daycare]] has a parent complain that her child, who had no previous sleep issues, had begun refusing to sleep with the lights off and wetting the bed after being left in its care. It's not hard to see why: said animatronic is a lean [[MonsterClown clown-like]] robot with a permanently fixated SlasherSmile and overly fluid motion, who also switches between a 'Sun' and 'Moon' variant depending on whether the lights are on. The Sun sees no issue with [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace dragging Gregory around]] while shouting in his face about all the activities it has planned. The Moon is ''worse'', as upon its NighttimeTransformation it decides to 'punish' Gregory for being up past his bedtime while muttering in a [[EvilSoundsRaspy raspy voice]] about 'naughty children.' Needless to say, this thing is HatedByAll, precisely because it's [[UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot too terrifying]] for a bot intended to look after toddler-age children.

* In ''Manga/YuruYuri'', [[CovertPervert Chinatsu]] is this. While she appears to be an extremely innocent {{moe}}-machine at first glance, her aggressive approach to [[SchoolgirlLesbian winning Yui-senpai's heart]] occasionally traumatizes Akari and her drawings ... [[http://randomc.net/image/Yuruyuri/Yuruyuri%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2011.jpg oh God her drawings!]] The other girls are [[BlueWithShock horrified]] by them.

'''Setsuna:''' And I will protect [[{{Honorifics}} Ojou-sama]] even at the cost of my own life.\\