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[[caption-width-right:350:Disgusting.]]

* Captain [=DuBois=] is a surprisingly intimidating antagonist; for starters, she takes the ScarilyCompetentTracker aspect to ridiculous and very creepy levels: Just from [[{{Squick}} smelling and tasting tracks left behind]] she can not only identify all sorts of impossible things about her quarry (height, weight, what they last ate), but she actually ''sees'' [[FluorescentFootprints ghostly after-images of them]] showing their last actions. pulling out ''a saw'' to behead Alex with.

* Captain [=DuBois=] pulling out ''a saw'' to behead Alex with.
** Not only that, but [=DuBois=] also takes the ScarilyCompetentTracker aspect to ridiculous and very creepy levels: Just from [[{{Squick}} smelling and tasting tracks left behind]] she can not only identify all sorts of impossible things about her quarry (height, weight, what they last ate), but she actually ''sees'' [[FluorescentFootprints ghostly after-images of them]] showing their last actions.

* [=DuBois=] attempting to shoot Alex with a poison dart, ''right in front of the crowd!'' Gia manages to save him ''at the last instant''.
-->'''[=DuBois=]:''' ''([[PsychoticSmirk smiling evilly]])'' It was '''''never''''' about the money. It was about... ''(pulls out an Alex foam finger, under which she's hiding a '''poison dart gun''')'' '''the lion.'''

* Alex's nightmare in the third movie where he and his friends grow old and still in Africa. Of course, they are exaggerated and Alex's "I aged well" line is pretty funny, but [[FridgeHorror the implications...]]
** It's quite a shock to see the Penguins zooming off into the distance...and then the camera zooms out to show the surrounding savannah being gray and lifeless...

* [=DuBouis=] attempting to shoot Alex with a poison dart, ''right in front of the crowd!'' Gia manages to save him ''at the last instant''.

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* Alex's nightmare in the third movie where he and his friends grow old and still in Africa. Of course, they are exaggerated and Alex's "I aged well" line is pretty funny, but the implications...

** Pictured above, she sports a SlasherSmile as she has Alex by the neck.
* Vitaly's dark and troubled backstory of screwing the ring jump by lighting the hoop on fire and coating himself with olive oil. The result is ''still'' ''extremely'' disturbing despite the GoryDiscretionShot.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"You will turn the lion over to me so that l may put him where he belongs. ''On my wall.''"]]

-->'''[=DuBois=]:''' ''(smiling evilly)'' It was '''''never''''' about the money. It was about... ''(pulls out an Alex foam finger, under which she's hiding a '''poison dart gun''')'' '''the lion.'''

-->'''[=DuBois=]:''' ''(smiling evilly)'' It was '''''never''''' about the money. It was about... ''(pulls out an Alex foam finger, under which she's hiding a '''poison dart gun''')'' '''the lion.'''

-->'''[=DuBois=]:''' ''(smiling evilly)'' It was '''''never''''' about the money.

* Captain [=DuBois=] pulling out ''a saw'' to behead Alex with, then later attempting to shoot him with a poison dart, ''right in front of the crowd!''
-->'''[=DuBois=]:''' ''(smiling evilly)'' It was '''''never''''' about the money.

* Alex's return to the zoo on his podium is this, especially since it's a DarkReprise of the first film, complete with subdued colours, the group's frightened expressions and [=DuBois=]' aura of evil.

** Not only that, but Dubois also takes the ScarilyCompetentTracker aspect to ridiculous and very creepy levels: Just from [[{{Squick}} smelling and tasting tracks left behind]] she can not only identify all sorts of impossible things about her quarry (height, weight, what they last ate), but she actually ''sees'' [[FluorescentFootprints ghostly after-images of them]] showing their last actions.