History NightmareFuel / Anastasia

* Anastasia ''purposely killing Rasputin'' by destroying his SoulJar under her foot. It's probably one of the few example where a main character in a children's film murders someone deliberately, even if it is in self-defense. It's also a little unsettling how ''casually'' she stops it with her shoe, and then ''slowly applies pressure to it'', basically telling Rasputin: "I know this is going to kill you, and I don't care". BewareTheNiceOnes indeed.

** Rasputin then reveals that he remembers Marie left him to drown in the ice. He decides to return the favor, destroying the part of the bridge where Anya's standing, so she'll fall into the freezing water below. Anya is normally tough, but the force causes her to slip and she's screaming at the top of her lungs. If Dimitri hadn't shown up and helped her climb up, she would have fallen and died.

* Rasputin's EstablishingCharacterMoment is where returns to the palace to place his deadly curse on Nicholas II and his family. Dowager Empress Marie, while narrating the prologue, even describes him as someone they "thought was a [[SinisterMinister holy man]], but was a fraud. Power mad and dangerous".

** The tail-end where the dream turns into a nightmare was so scary it was actually edited out of some releases of the film. Anya hears Dmitri yelling for her to stop, and she hesitates, frowning because some part of her knew this wasn't right. Nicholas then turns into a demon and says in Rasputin's voice, "Yes, JUMP! Fulfill the Romanov curse!" He then tries to physically pull her over, while she's standing among demons on a tower of skulls. Anya screams, understandably, and grapples with him. If Dmitri hadn't woken her up, the demons would have killed her one way or the other.

** Rasputin then reveals that he remembers Marie left him to drown in the ice. He decides to return the favor, destroying the part of the bridge where Anya's standing, so she'll fall into the freezing water below. Anya is normally tough, but the force causes her to slip and she's screaming at the top of her lungs. If Dmitri hadn't shown up and helped her climb up, she would have fallen and died.

* The stone Pegasus statue Rasputin animates to kill Dimitri. Dmriti fights back, but eventually, the horse knocks him out with a stray rock.

* The scene depicting the real-life revolution in the beginning of the film (even more so if you're aware of the actual history and [[KillEmAll know exactly what happened to the Romanovs that night]]...)

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* Rasputin (pictured to the right) is a living, ''rotting'' corpse. A [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] essentially. He frequently [[BodyHorror breaks apart and has to have his pieces put back in place]]. Although it ''does'' explain ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy why he was so difficult to kill in real life]]''.

* The scene where Rasputin as he watches sleeping Anya through his floating crystal ball. Right before he sends the floating green demons floating demonically into the room and literally into Anya's head. Creator/ChristopherLloyd's delivery in that scene is probably the most chilling at any point in the movie.

* Rasputin is a living, ''rotting'' corpse. A [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] essentially. He frequently [[BodyHorror breaks apart and has to have his pieces put back in place]]. Although it ''does'' explain ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy why he was so difficult to kill in real life]]''.

* Rasputin making his DealWithTheDevil in the opening sequence, involving him ''having his skin torn off'' so that he briefly became a skeleton! He was stripped all the way to the bone; that means his ''skin, muscles, and organs'' were ripped from his skeletal frame. Maybe the Dark Forces were kind enough to make it painless, otherwise...

* When Rasputin corners the empress and Anastasia on the frozen Neva River--first he simply tries to kill a terrified little girl, while her grandmother can only struggle with him in horror; then, when the ice breaks beneath them, he tries to pull Anastasia in with him until eventually they break free, allowing him to drown (but not die)...

''(Anastasia and Marie gasp in horror)''\\

'''Rasputin:''' Mark my words: you and your family will ''die'' within the fortnight! I WILL NOT REST UNTIL I SEE THE ''END'' OF THE ROMANOV LINE '''''FOREVER!!'''''\\