History NightmareFuel / SHREK

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[ThisIsThePartWhere This is the part where you run away.]]"'']]

This page is for NightmareFuel examples from the first film only, as well as any tie-in specials without their own page. Please put examples for specific films on their designated pages.
* NightmareFuel/ShrekForeverAfter
* NightmareFuel/ScaredShrekless
* NightmareFuel/PussInBootsTheLastWish
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* Shrek's roar (pictured right). Especially when taken in context. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S01rd0G9peM Video here.]]
* The Gingerbread Man's torture (being dunked in a glass of milk) is played for laughs...but the implication there is that Lord Farquaad was going to ''[[EatenAlive eat him alive]]'', piece by piece, until he talked. Hell, even the fact that he broke Gingy's legs off while Gingy was still alive and conscious is horrific. Imagine this happening to one of the more humanoid characters like Shrek--it'd be torture horror on the level of ''Franchise/{{Saw}}.''[[note]]Doubles as HilariousInHindsight when you consider that the first ''[[Film/SawI Saw]]'' came out in 2004, the ''same year'' as ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''.[[/note]]
** Farquaad clearly has no compunctions about executing fairy tale creatures; after capturing [[{{Literature/Goldilocks}} The Three Bears]] he killed Mama Bear and turned her into a ''rug,'' deporting the other two to Shrek's swamp to mourn in misery.
** His EvilLaugh emphasizes his cruelty to the extreme.
* Dragon's first appearance can be rather frightening, with her sheer ferociousness doubled with all the skeletal corpses scattered around her castle.
** Dragon herself is quite terrifying, ''especially'' when she has Donkey cornered after separating him from Shrek. The ominous red lighting seen as Dragon spreads her wings outward and reveals herself to be capable of standing in a bipedal position (while towering over an understandably fearful Donkey) helps to make it look like Donkey is at the mercy of one of the Devil's beasts...
* The scene of Fiona's curse being revealed; it plays out as a parody of AloneWithThePsycho. Donkey goes into the mill where she's spending the night and notices it's all dark inside. He calls out for Fiona, only to see a large green figure stumbling. Donkey understandably starts screaming when he realizes he's trapped in a shadowy building with a monster...until Fiona reveals that ''she'' is the monster.
** On Fiona's side, she's getting ready for bed. Then one of her friends is calling out for her, in danger of seeing her true form. Fiona tries to hide, only to trip and fall. She sees Donkey looking at her in utter terror and trying to call Shrek. You can hear the fear in her voice as she gets him to calm down.
* Lord Farquaad's planned punishment for Shrek and Fiona was this, with Farquaad intending for Shrek to be tortured, namely drawn and quartered, and that he'd beg for death to save him, while Fiona would be given [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere the same fate she had already endured at the beginning of the film.]]
* Farquaad's demise. Sure, he was a ruthless dictator, an egotistical maniac and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking colossal dick]], but being SwallowedWhole certainly isn't the best way to go, ''especially'' when it is [[FridgeHorror heavily implied that he was digested to death]]. JustDesserts, sure, just don't think too much about what happened to him ''inside'' Dragon's belly...
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJjbq-KJOXw music]] when we first meet Farquaad sounds like a very eerie jingle played by a pipe organ. The choir heard vocalizing along with the music adds into the creepiness.

* Farquaad's demise. Sure, he was a ruthless dictator, an egotistic maniac and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking colossal dick]], but being SwallowedWhole certainly isn't the best way to go, ''especially'' when it is [[FridgeHorror heavily implied that he was digested to death]]. JustDesserts, sure, just don't think too much about what happened to him ''inside'' Dragon's belly...

!!Meta
* Some of the film's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSdf3U0xZM4 technical goofs]], which include things like Fiona ''without a face''. Just a pair of floating eyeballs and a mouth. These were considered so terrifying that it was supposedly the reason why they were left off of the film's UsefulNotes/BluRay release.
** Sadly, this means children aren't getting to see Extremely Fluffy Donkey goofs (every bit of his fuzz sticks straight out from his body to a length of about four feet). Talk about NightmareRetardant!
** By far, the creepiest technical goof from a Shrek movie comes from Shrek 2. Many children were terrified by the UnintentionalUncannyValley of the [[https://youtu.be/UNngNiYXuVE?t=2m11s hair test]].

** By far, the creepiest technical goof from a Shrek movie comes from Shrek 2. Many children were terrified by the UncannyValley of the [[https://youtu.be/UNngNiYXuVE?t=2m11s hair test]].

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJjbq-KJOXw music]] when we first meet Farquaad sounds like a very eerie jingle played by a pipe organ. The choir heard vocalizing along with the music.

* Shrek's roar (pictured above). Especially when taken in context. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S01rd0G9peM Video here.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:This is the part where you run away.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:This is the part where you run away..]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Oh, what large teeth you have.]]

* Shrek's roar. Especially when taken in context. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S01rd0G9peM Video here.]]

** Dragon herself is quite terrifying, ''especially'' when she has Donkey cornered after separating him from Shrek. The ominous red lighting seen as Dragon reveals herself to be capable of standing in a bipedal position (while towering over an understandably fearful Donkey) helps to make it look like Donkey is at the mercy of one of the Devil's beasts...

** Dragon herself is quite terrifying before she turns out to be a nice dragon.

* Dragon's first impression can be rather frightening, with her sheer ferociousness doubled with all the skeletal corpses scattered around her castle.

* The scene of Fiona's reveal; it plays out as a parody of AloneWithThePsycho. Donkey goes into the mill where she's spending the night and notices it's all dark inside. He calls out for Fiona, only to see a large green figure stumbling. Donkey understandably starts screaming when he realizes he's trapped in a shadowy building with a monster...until Fiona reveals that ''she'' is the monster.
* On Fiona's side, she's getting ready for bed. Then one of her friends is calling out for her, in danger of seeing her true form. Fiona tries to hide, only to trip and fall. She sees Donkey looking at her in utter terror and trying to call Shrek. You can hear the fear in her voice as she gets him to calm down.
* The Gingerbread Man's torture (being dunked in a glass of milk) is played for laughs...but the implication there is that Farquaad was going to ''[[EatenAlive eat him alive]]'', piece by piece, until he talked. Hell, even the fact that he broke Gingie's legs off while Gingie was still alive and conscious is horrific. Imagine this happening to one of the more humanoid characters like Shrek--it'd be torture horror on the level of ''Franchise/{{Saw}}.''[[note]]Doubles as HilariousInHindsight when you consider that the first ''[[Film/SawI Saw]]'' came out in 2004, the ''same year'' as ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''.[[/note]]
** Farquaad clearly has no compunctions about executing fairy tale creatures; after capturing [[{{Literature/Goldilocks}} The Three Bears]] he killed Mama Bear and turned her into a ''rug,'' deporting the other two to Shrek's swamp to mourn in misery.
** His EvilLaugh emphasizes his cruelty to the extreme.

* Lord Farquaad's demise. Sure, he was a ruthless dictator, an egotistic maniac and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking colossal dick]], but being SwallowedWhole certainly isn't the best way to go, ''especially'' when it is [[FridgeHorror heavily implied that he was digested to death]]. JustDesserts, sure, just don't think too much about what happened to him ''inside'' Dragon's belly...

** His EvilLaugh emphasises his cruelty to the extreme.

* Lord Farquaad's planned punishment for Shrek and Fiona was this, he said that he would be tortured, namely drawn and quartered and that he'll beg for death to save him, while she would be given [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere the same fate she had already endured at the beginning of the film.]]

* The Gingerbread Man's torture (being dunked in a glass of milk) is played for laughs...but the implication there is that Farquaad was going to ''[[EatenAlive eat him alive]]'', piece by piece, until he talked. Hell, even the fact that he broke Gingie's legs off while Gingie was still alive and conscious is horrific. Imagine this happening to one of the more humanoid characters like Shrek--it'd be torture horror on the level of ''Franchise/{{Saw}}.''

* Lord Farquaad's demise. Sure, he was a ruthless dictator, an egotistic maniac and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking colossal dick]], but being SwallowedWhole certainly isn't the best way to go, ''especially'' when it is heavily implied that he was digested to death. JustDesserts, sure, just don't think too much about what happened to him ''inside'' Dragon's belly.

* Lord Farquaad's demise. Sure, he was a ruthless dictator, an egotistic maniac and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking colossal dick]], but being SwallowedWhole certainly isn't the best way to go, ''especially'' when it is heavily implied that he was digested to death. Sure, it's ExitPursuedByABear, just don't think too much about what happened to him ''inside'' Dragon's belly.

* The Gingerbread Man's torture (being dunked in a glass of milk) is played for laughs...but the implication there is that Farquaad was going to ''eat him alive'', piece by piece, until he talked. Hell, even the fact that he broke Gingie's legs off while Gingie was still alive and conscious is horrific. Imagine this happening to one of the more humanoid characters like Shrek--it'd be torture horror on the level of ''Franchise/{{Saw}}.''

* Lord Farquaad's demise. Sure, he was a ruthless dictator, an egotistic maniac and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking colossal dick]], but being EatenAlive certainly isn't the best way to go, ''especially'' when it is heavily implied that he was digested to death. DisneyVillainDeath, sure, just don't think too much about what happened to him ''inside'' Dragon's belly.

* In the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'' Jack and Jill's pigs, which have [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]]. They're significantly terrifying ([[AdorableAbomination except for the baby ones, which were cute]]).

** Sadly, this means children aren't getting to see Extremely Fluffy Donkey goofs (every bit of his fuzz sticks straight out from his body to a length of about four feet...) talk about Nightmare Fuel Retardant!

* Some of the film's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSdf3U0xZM4 technical goofs]], which include things like Fiona ''without a face''. Just a pair of floating eyeballs and a mouth. These were considered so terrifying that it was supposedly the reason why they were left off of the film's UsefulNotes/BluRay release.
** Sadly, this means children aren't getting to see Extremely Fluffy Donkey goofs (every bit of his fuzz sticks straight out from his body to a length of about four feet...) talk about Nightmare Fuel Retardant!
** By far, the creepiest technical goof from a Shrek movie comes from Shrek 2. Many children were terrified by the UncannyValley of the [[https://youtu.be/UNngNiYXuVE?t=2m11s hair test]].
* Lord Farquaad's planned punishment for Shrek and Fiona was this, he said that he would be tortured, namely drawn and quartered and that he'll beg for death to save him, while she would be given [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere the same fate she had already endured at the beginning of the film.]]
* Lord Farquaad's demise. Sure, he was a ruthless dictator, an egotistic maniac and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking colossal dick]], but being EatenAlive certainly isn't the best way to go, ''especially'' when it is heavily implied that he was digested to death. DisneyVillainDeath, sure, just don't think too much about what happened to him ''inside'' Dragon's belly.

* Farquaad's EvilLaugh.