History NightmareFuel / BatmanReturns

* Selina's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A08XpT2q4Xc mental breakdown]] when she returns home after getting pushed out a window by Max Shreck. Her sanity hanging on by a thread, she staggers home and starts going through the motions. She has a ritual of calling out "Honey, I'm home! Oh, wait. I'm not married." She has a vacant, zombie-ish look... Then the Shrek advert plays on her answering machine, and she breaks down completely, sobbing, screaming and even laughing as she smashes up her apartment. It's the sheer emotion of the scene that gets you both terrified and crying.

* Whereas Alicia's suicide leap in the previous movie takes place off-screen, the Ice Princess's Penguin-engineered plunge from a rooftop happens right before our eyes. And it's not enough for her to fall out of camera range. Noooo, we go with her as she screams all the way down ''and'' as she lands. And this is a PG-13 film. There are '''R-rated''' movies [[Film/DieHard that don't]] [[Film/{{Cliffhanger}} go that far]]!

* The VillainOpeningScene, from Baby!Penguin's treatment at the hands of his AbusiveParents (no matter what he looks like) to the fact that you never actually see his appearance ([[NothingIsScarier leaving you to wonder just what it is about him that warrants such horror and disgust]]), and the cat-killing and the attempted drowning are just the icing on the cake. [[SarcasmMode Merry Christmas!]]

* Selina's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A08XpT2q4Xc mental breakdown]] when she returns home after getting pushed out a window by Max Shreck. Her sanity hanging on by a thread, she staggers home and starts going through the motions. Then the Shrek advert plays on her answering machine, and she breaks down completely, sobbing, screaming and even laughing as she smashes up her apartment. It's the sheer emotion of the scene that gets you both terrified and crying.

* [[spoiler: Max Shreck's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath]]: Catwoman shoves her stun gun into his mouth and [[KissOfDeath kisses him]], frying him alive. The sight of his [[http://imgur.com/mzG7PmD charred remains]] is also pretty horrifying.
** An interesting mention goes to a CallBack to the first [[Film/{{Batman}} Batman]] film with Joker's Joy Buzzer scene. Anyone remembering that will get a real [[SarcasmMode pleasant]] memory of that scene when watching Max Schreck's demise.

* Selina's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A08XpT2q4Xc mental breakdown]] when she returns home after getting pushed out a window by Max Shreck.

** Selina's resurrection. A hoard of stray cats appear from every direction to surround her lifeless body, licking at her wounds and crawling all over her. Several of them appear to breathe into her mouth, and one of them is even ''gnawing on her fingers hard enough to draw blood''. Then her eyes roll back in her head and flutter open....

** An interesting mention goes to a CallBack to the first [[Batman1989/Film Batman]] film with Joker's Joy Buzzer scene. Anyone remembering that will get a real [[SarcasmMode pleasant]] memory of that scene when watching Max Schreck's demise.

* An ad with horrid face of The Penguin staring back at you. He's supposed to look like UnclePennybags! [[{{Taxi}} Danny DeVito]] in a tux should look like a plump, cuddly penguin, not that monstrosity!

*** The build-up to her death is disturbing, not just Schreck threatening Selina but the casual, almost ''conversational'' tone with which he does it. It doesn't help that Schreck is played by Creator/ChristopherWalken, NightmareFuelStationAttendant extraordinaire.

--->'''The Penguin''': ([[https://youtu.be/wNWy3YmM3Kw chomps down on the man's nose]], causing blood to spray)

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* The VillainOpeningScene. From Baby!Penguin's treatment at the hands of his AbusiveParents (no matter what he looks like), to the fact that you never actually see his appearance ([[NothingIsScarier leaving you to wonder just what it is about him that warrants such horror and disgust]]). And the cat-killing and the attempted drowning are just the icing on the cake. [[SarcasmMode Merry Christmas!]]
* An ad with horrid face of The Penguin staring back at you. He's supposed to look like UnclePennybags! [[{{Taxi}} Danny DeVito]] in a tux should look like a plump, cuddly penguin. Not that monstrosity!
* The [[NauseaFuel surprisingly gross]], animalistic behavior The Penguin displays throughout the movie, from eating raw fish to viciously biting a man's nose. (His slovenly, [[TheGrotesque grotesque appearance]] -- obese body, deformed hands, beak-like nose, stringy hair, [[LooksLikeCesare chalk-white skin and black-ringed eyes]] -- certainly doesn't help matters.)
** The scene where The Penguin bites the nose of a campaign worker who insults his looks is horrific, even in a movie full of disturbing images. How it made it into a PG-13 film, even in the early 1990s, is anyone's guess.

--->'''Campaign worker''': (stops laughing) Nose could be... What do yo-

* Whereas Alicia's suicide leap in the previous movie takes place offscreen, the Ice Princess's Penguin-engineered plunge from a rooftop happens right before our eyes. And it's not enough for her to fall out of camera range, noooo; we go with her as she screams all the way down ''and'' as she lands. And this is a PG-13 film -- there are '''R-rated''' movies [[Film/DieHard that don't]] [[Film/{{Cliffhanger}} go that far]]!

*** The build-up to her death is disturbing; not just Schreck threatening Selina, but the casual, almost ''conversational'' tone with which he does it. It doesn't help that Schreck is played by Creator/ChristopherWalken, NightmareFuelStationAttendant extraordinaire.
** Selina's resurrection. A hoard of stray cats appear from every direction to surround her lifeless body, licking at her wounds and crawling all over her. Several of them appear to breathe into her mouth. And then her eyes roll back in her head and flutter open....

** Her [[https://youtu.be/UqStvc107-M death scene]] is nothing to sneeze at, either. As with Alicia's death, we get to follow her all the way down, smashing through several awnings before she lands in the alleyway.

With surprisingly gross behavior from the Penguin (i.e. biting a man's nose and his death scene where carcinogens pour from his mouth). There's also Selina's breakdown and Max Shreck's demise:

* Whereas Alicia's suicide leap in the previous movie takes place offscreen, the Ice Princess's Penguin-engineered plunge from a rooftop happens right before our eyes. And it's not enough for her to fall out of camera range, noooo; we go with her as she screams all the way down ''and'' as she lands. And this is a PG-13 - there are '''R-rated''' movies [[Film/DieHard that don't]] [[Film/{{Cliffhanger}} go that far]]!
* Selina's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A08XpT2q4Xc mental breakdown]] when she returns home after getting pushed down a building by Max Shreck.
* [[spoiler: Max Shreck's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath]] when Catwomen kisses him with a shock ray, frying him alive. The sight of his [[http://imgur.com/mzG7PmD charred remains]] is also pretty horrifying

* [[spoiler: Max Shreck's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath]] when Catwomen kisses him with a shock ray right, frying him alive. The sight of his [[http://imgur.com/mzG7PmD charred remains]] is also pretty horrifying

* [[spoiler: Max Shreck's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath]] when catwomen kisses him with a shock ray right, frying him alive. The sight of his [[http://imgur.com/mzG7PmD charred remains]] is also pretty horrifying

* The intro. From Baby!Penguin's treatment at the hands of his AbusiveParents (no matter what he looks like) to the fact you never actually see his appearance ([[NothingIsScarier leaving you to wonder just what it is about him that warrants such horror and disgust]]). And the cat-killing and the attempted drowning are just the icing on the cake. And all at Christmas time, too!

* In the beginning of the film, the parents give birth to the penguin and they are very horrified of their newborn son when he drags in a cat and murders it in cold blood. They eventually decide to abandon the child by dropping him in a river.
* The Ice princess's death in which she falls down screaming all the way until she hits a control panel lighting up a christmas tree.

* [[spoiler: Max Shreck's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath]] when catwomen kisses him with a shock ray right, frying him alive.

* [[Spoiler: Max Shreck's FamilyUnfriendlyDeath]] when catwomen kisses him with a shock ray right, frying him alive.

* Selina's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A08XpT2q4Xc mental breakdown]] when she returns home after getting pushed down a building by Max Shreck.

* The Ice princess's death in which she falls down screaming all the way until she hits a control panel lighting up a christmas tree.

* In the beginning of the film, the parents give birth to the penguin and they are very horrified of their newborn son when he drags in a cat and murders it in cold blood. They eventually decide to abandon the child by dropping him in a river.