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* In the finale of "Treasure of the Temple", the greedy treasure hunters Perkins and Montoya end up being knocked into an underground lake... full of hungry crocodiles, who swarm onto the now-vulnerable treasure hunters. The screen mercifully cuts away as the two men scream, which is drowned out by the hungry growl of the beasts before it cuts out. Dr. Quest makes it as obvious as 60s cartoon can that the two men were EatenAlive, warning Jonny and Hadji not to look back before mournfully declaring there's nothing they can do for them.
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* Even before it becomes clear that Baron von Fleulich [[spoiler: plans to murder Race in a one-sided dogfight to up his kill count from the war]] in “Shadow of the Condor”, his entire demeanor oozes sinister intent.
* Both Turu and the wheelchair-bound Deen in "Turu the Terrible", [[spoiler:sinking in the tar-pit]].

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* Even before it becomes clear that Baron von Fleulich [[spoiler: plans to murder Race in a one-sided dogfight to up his kill count from the war]] war in “Shadow of the Condor”, his entire demeanor oozes sinister intent.
* Both Turu and the wheelchair-bound Deen in "Turu the Terrible", [[spoiler:sinking sinking in the tar-pit]].tar-pit.
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* Von Dueffel in "The Devil's Tower", laughing as he throws grenades at the Quest team, then screaming, "[[BigNo Nooooooo]]!" when [[spoiler:one gets caught in the wing of his plane]]. His willingness to undermine his own objective to flee with his loot just to murder random strangers is deeply disturbing.

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* Von Dueffel in "The Devil's Tower", laughing as he throws grenades at the Quest team, then screaming, "[[BigNo Nooooooo]]!" when [[spoiler:one one gets caught in the wing of his plane]].plane. His willingness to undermine his own objective to flee with his loot just to murder random strangers is deeply disturbing.



* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler:Both the terrorists dressed up as them and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane off-camera.]]

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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler:Both Both the terrorists dressed up as them and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane off-camera.]]
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* Dr. Ashida is all-but visually shown being EatenAlive by the very giant lizards he bred into existence. Sure, he deserved it by that point, but if the way Komodo dragons kill their prey is any indication, his demise was neither quick nor pleasant.
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* General Fong’s face as he furiously demands the mines be used to stop the heroes from escaping at the end of “The Quetong Missile Mystery” goes nightmarishly off-model.

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* The way the Lizard Men sneak aboard and assassinate the boat crew in the beginning of the pilot comes across like something out of a horror movie.



** The vast majority of the villains have zero problem with killing Jonny or Hadji if they get in the way. Montoya in “Treasure of the Temple” even burns their tent while they sleep with Bandit warning Jonny being the only reason they don’t burn to death.



* Even before it becomes clear that Baron von Fleulich [[spoiler: plans to murder Race in a one-sided dogfight to up his kill count from the war]] in “Shadow of the Condor”, his entire demeanor oozes sinister intent.



* Von Dueffel in "The Devil's Tower", laughing as he throws grenades at the Quest team, then screaming, "[[BigNo Nooooooo]]!" when [[spoiler:one gets caught in the wing of his plane]].

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** Turu itself is terrifying, large enough to kidnap grown men into the air and durable enough where the worst Race can do to it is fire a bazooka dead on at its head and, even then, it’s more disorienting for it than directly injurious.
* Von Dueffel in "The Devil's Tower", laughing as he throws grenades at the Quest team, then screaming, "[[BigNo Nooooooo]]!" when [[spoiler:one gets caught in the wing of his plane]]. His willingness to undermine his own objective to flee with his loot just to murder random strangers is deeply disturbing.
** Benton notes he recognizes him as an escaped Nazi commandant guilty of war crimes.
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* The Robot Spy from the episode of the same name: a round, black spider-like thing with one big, creepy red eye and a decidedly unnerving set of spindly legs. It also happened to be practically invincible, relentlessly plowing through everything the military threw at it in the episode's climax. That thing had to give a few kids nightmares... and inspired at least one [[http://kishikat.com/zone/lanceint.html writer]] for the 1990s remake as a result.

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* The Robot Spy from the episode of the same name: a round, black spider-like thing with one big, creepy red eye and a decidedly unnerving set of spindly legs. It also happened to be practically invincible, relentlessly plowing through everything the military threw at it in the episode's climax. That thing had to give a few kids nightmares... and inspired at least one [[http://kishikat.com/zone/lanceint.html writer]] for the 1990s remake SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' as a result.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Dr. Quest must have some nerves of steel, the only fatallity is that he'll have to buy a new shirt. Thank god he dodged that spear, but imagine if he didn't. Did we mention the spear is poisoned?]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: Dr. Quest must have some nerves of steel, the only fatallity is that NervesOfSteel, although he'll have to buy a new shirt. Thank god he dodged that spear, but imagine if he didn't. Did we mention the spear is poisoned?]]poisoned?]]



** To those who are sensitive to animals getting hurt, a dog was scared upon seeing (or sensing) the Invisible Monster and whimpered in fear. As the next scene after that was shown, the dog could either have run away, or- worst case scenario- be killed by the monster offscreen.

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** To those who are sensitive to animals getting hurt, a dog was scared upon seeing (or sensing) the Invisible Monster and whimpered in fear. As the next scene after that was shown, the dog could either have run away, or- or -- worst case scenario- be scenario -- been killed by the monster offscreen.
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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler:Both the terrorists dressed up as them and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane.]]

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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler:Both the terrorists dressed up as them [[KilledOffscreen and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane.]]

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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler: Both the terrorists dressed up as them[[KilledOffscreen and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane.]]

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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler: Both [[spoiler:Both the terrorists dressed up as them[[KilledOffscreen them [[KilledOffscreen and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane.]]
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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler: KilledOffscreen Both the terrorists dressed up as them and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane.]]

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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler: KilledOffscreen Both the terrorists dressed up as them them[[KilledOffscreen and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane.]]
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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler: Both the terrorists dressed up as them and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane.]]

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* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". [[spoiler: KilledOffscreen Both the terrorists dressed up as them and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane.]]
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* The villains throughout the show come across as unsettling, since they don't make their evilness subtle.
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** The music on the scene after Ahmed Kareem's men saw the Mummy can make one feel nervous, even if one doesn't know Egyptian language.
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** To those who are sensitive to animals getting hurt, a dog was scared upon seeing (or sensing) the Invisible Monster and whimpered in fear. As the next scene after that was shown, the dog could either have run away, or- worst case scenario- be killed by the monster offscreen.

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* The DiabolusExNihilo status of many of monsters. While some are shown to be the result of science gone wrong, many just show up out of nowhere. One never knows where or when they might appear.



* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery".

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* In TheMovie ''Jonny Quest Vs. The Cyber Insects''. The bugs are kinda creepy, but not really on the level of nightmare fuel; but then Dr. Zin [[BadBoss kills all of his human assistants]]! Thankfully, two of them are off-screen -then the last one is turned into a HumanPopsicle and crashes to the floor into several pieces.
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* Nobody mentions "The Sea Haunt"? The titular creature may or may not match, with its blank, staring, impossibly large eyes and gangly, near-human body, but the setup and pace of the early episode is straight out of a horror movie -- and then there's the showdown with the NighInvulnerable abomination itself...

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* Nobody mentions "The Sea Haunt"? Haunt". The titular creature may or may not match, with its blank, staring, impossibly large eyes and gangly, near-human body, but the setup and pace of the early episode is straight out of a horror movie -- and then there's the showdown with the NighInvulnerable abomination itself...
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* Nobody mentions "The Sea Haunt"? The titular creature may or may not match, with its blank, staring, impossibly large eyes and gangly, near-human body, but the setup and pace of the early episode is straight out of a horror movie -- and then there's the showdown with the NighInvulnerable abomination itself...
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* One where the mystery of the episode revolved around a story in which a man who accidentally killed his wife while they were fighting by pushing her down some stairs, which broke her neck. He then buried her dead body in the wall, to hide his crime. They showed her corpse in the end when it was found. There was also the bit at the end, when the man is shoved into the wall by the ghost and boarded up inside for some time. They get him out alive, but he's completely insane by then.
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* One where the mystery of the episode revolved around a story in which a man who accidentally killed his wife while they were fighting by pushing her down some stairs, which broke her neck. He then buried her dead body in the wall, to hide his crime. They showed her corpse in the end when it was found. There was also the bit at the end, when the man is shoved into the wall by the ghost and boarded up inside for some time. They get him out alive, but he's completely insane by then.

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* One where the mystery of the episode revolved around a story in which a man who accidentally killed his wife while they were fighting by pushing her down some stairs, which broke her neck. He then buried her dead body in the wall, to hide his crime. They showed her corpse in the end when it was found. There was also the bit at the end, when the man is shoved into the wall by the ghost and boarded up inside for some time. They get him out alive, but he's completely insane by then.then.
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* In TheMovie ''Jonny Quest Vs. The Cyber Insects''. The bugs are kinda creepy, but not really on the level of nightmare fuel; but then Dr. Zin [[BadBoss kills all of his human assistants]]! Thankfully, two of them are off-screen -then the last one is turned into a human popsicle and crashes to the floor into several pieces.

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* In TheMovie ''Jonny Quest Vs. The Cyber Insects''. The bugs are kinda creepy, but not really on the level of nightmare fuel; but then Dr. Zin [[BadBoss kills all of his human assistants]]! Thankfully, two of them are off-screen -then the last one is turned into a human popsicle HumanPopsicle and crashes to the floor into several pieces.

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* One where the mystery of the episode revolved around a story in which a man who accidentally killed his wife while they were fighting by pushing her down some stairs, which broke her neck. He then buried her dead body in the wall, to hide his crime. They showed her corpse in the end when it was found.
There was also the bit at the end, when the man is shoved into the wall by the ghost and boarded up inside for some time. They get him out alive, but he's completely insane by then.

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* One where the mystery of the episode revolved around a story in which a man who accidentally killed his wife while they were fighting by pushing her down some stairs, which broke her neck. He then buried her dead body in the wall, to hide his crime. They showed her corpse in the end when it was found.
found. There was also the bit at the end, when the man is shoved into the wall by the ghost and boarded up inside for some time. They get him out alive, but he's completely insane by then.
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* The Invisible Monster. Created from a lab accident, you can only see it by the footprints it leaves. Everything it touches either dies or violently explodes. On top of that, it makes a creepy high-pitched wailing sound. Combine that with ominous music every time it's around, and you have the scariest episode in the series.
* In TheMovie ''Jonny Quest Vs. The Cyber Insects''. The bugs are kinda creepy, but not really on the level of nightmare fuel; but then Dr. Zin [[BadBoss kills all of his human assistants]]! Thankfully, two of them are off-screen -then the last one is turned into a human popsicle and crashes to the floor into several pieces.
* The Robot Spy from the episode of the same name: a round, black spider-like thing with one big, creepy red eye and a decidedly unnerving set of spindly legs. It also happened to be practically invincible, relentlessly plowing through everything the military threw at it in the episode's climax. That thing had to give a few kids nightmares... and inspired at least one [[http://kishikat.com/zone/lanceint.html writer]] for the 1990s remake as a result.
* The Mummy in "The Curse of Anubis", especially the horrible shot where the Thing is looking in the window and one can see the rotting corpse under the slipping bandages.
* The Gargoyle in "The House of Seven Gargoyles".
* Both Turu and the wheelchair-bound Deen in "Turu the Terrible", [[spoiler:sinking in the tar-pit]].
* Von Dueffel in "The Devil's Tower", laughing as he throws grenades at the Quest team, then screaming, "[[BigNo Nooooooo]]!" when [[spoiler:one gets caught in the wing of his plane]].
* The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery".
* One where the mystery of the episode revolved around a story in which a man who accidentally killed his wife while they were fighting by pushing her down some stairs, which broke her neck. He then buried her dead body in the wall, to hide his crime. They showed her corpse in the end when it was found.
There was also the bit at the end, when the man is shoved into the wall by the ghost and boarded up inside for some time. They get him out alive, but he's completely insane by then.

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