History NightmareFuel / SpyroTheDragon

* Dark Passage, the place where nightmares are literally made, as it's the scariest world in the Dream Weavers' set, and it is called "Nightmare Road" in the Japanese version of the game. It is populated by critters that, though tiny, adorable, and mostly harmless in the light, transform into hideous beasts in the dark. The armored turtles become invincible and get some fangs, and the puppies transform into giant red {{hellhound}}s with evil red eyes and gigantic mouths lined with razor sharp teeth. If Spyro walks near one of the devil dogs in the dark, he better be ready to breathe some fire, because if he doesn't the demon will pounce on him with incredible speed (making the player jump), devour him, chew him up, and spit him back out. As for the turtles, their heads grow as they spit fireballs. Not as bad as the dogs, thankfully.

* Misty Bog in [[{{VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998}} the first game]] is populated by the above-pictured killer plants that sit idly by in groups before Spyro approaches them. Should he come within several feet of them, their already visible eyes fixate on Spyro and their leaves rustle. When Spyro edges any closer, the plants charge at him with gaping maws and yellow fangs.

* The full-bodied sheep {{muppet}} with burns all over his body as well as a sinister looking scowl can give people, especially little children, nightmares, even though he was intended to be funny. The three commercials he appeared in: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VluZBRx5LFo the first,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xJ_ud8bsEU the second]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4seCDdQdEcM and the third,]] all of which described in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSNl537ChG8 this documentary.]]

* This Troper was walking down a cave in ''Spyro: A Hero's Tail'''s Crocovile Swamp and then a spider jumped out through a seemingly solid wall.

* The Tower of terror in ''Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly'' is pretty scary not just because of its faces that spit rocks and darts but also because of the large orange realistic looking spiders crawling on it.

[[caption-width-right:350: "Hm, so reptiles ''are'' tasty. [[MetalGearSolid3 That guy]] was right after all..."]]

* Dark Passage, the place where nightmares are literally made, as it's the scariest world in the Dream Weavers' set, and it is called "Nightmare Road" in the Japanese version of the game. It is populated by critters that, though tiny, adorable, and mostly harmless in the light, transform into hideous beasts in the dark. The armored turtles become invincible and get some fangs, and the puppies transform into giant red {{hellhound}}s with evil red eyes and gigantic mouths lined with razor sharp teeth. If Spyro walks near one of the devil dogs in the dark, he better be ready to breathe some fire, because if he doesn't the demon will pounce on him with incredible speed, devour him, chew him up, and spit him back out. As for the turtles, their heads grow as they spit fireballs. Not as bad as the dogs, thankfully.

* The plants from Misty Bog in the first game get their {{expy}} in the ravenous bushes in Fracture Hills, in ''[[{{VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage}} Spyro 2]]''. They act mostly the same, but without the fangs. On the other hand, they look just like all the other bushes, which aren't alive, [[ParanoiaFuel until Spyro approaches them]]. This way, their attacks are more startling, but not quite as scary.

* The Dino Mines level in ''Year of the Dragon'' is teeming with gunslinging, dynamite-flinging dinosaurs with loud roars and attacks that are quite difficult to avoid. Even at a distance, the blue ones roar at you with dynamite in their mouths, prepared to spit it out.

* Lost Fleet: a world full of broken, abandoned ships. Its inhabitants are rhynocs wearing ghost sheets and huge crabs, and it's surrounded by pools of acid... what the fuck happened to the crews?

* Heck the Rhynocs in general. It is creepy how the rhynocs simply just wait in the worlds Spyro travels while adapting to the environment and trying to kill spyro.

* Any enemy could just about give you a heart attack if you managed to get close to them without having them come into the frame - enemies only attacked if they were seen by the camera, so if you landed right in front of them and waited for the camera to catch up, you'd end up being ambushed seemingly out of nowhere. There's one spot in Misty Bog where this is ''very'' easy to do with the above-mentioned killer trees. Jump down a log facing a certain direction, and [[HellIsThatNoise their leaves will rustle in anticipation]] until the view swings around...

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* Any enemy could just about give you a heart attack if you managed to get close to them without having them come into the frame - enemies only attacked if they were seen by the camera. There's one spot in Misty Bog where this is ''very'' easy to do with the above-mentioned killer trees. Jump down a log facing a certain direction, and [[HellIsThatNoise their leaves will rustle in anticipation]] until the camera swings around...

* Just about any enemy could just about give you a heart attack if you managed to get close to them without having them come into the frame - enemies only attacked if they were seen by the camera. There's one spot in Misty Bog where this is ''very'' easy to do with the above-mentioned killer trees. Jump down a log facing a certain direction, and [[HellIsThatNoise their leaves will rustle in anticipation]] until the camera swings around...

** The Tower of terror in ''Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly'' is pretty scary not just because of its faces that spit rocks and darts but also because of the large orange realistic looking spiders crawling on it.

* ''Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly'' has a rather spooky glitch in which everyone goes all slow motion-like.

In true [[TheNineties nineties’]] fashion, ''SpyroTheDragon'' proves to have most of the MascotWithAttitude traits; among them, there’s the obligatory amount of [[NightmareFuel spooky stuff]] thrown in for good measure.

* Misty Bog in [[{{VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon}} the first game]] is populated by the above-pictured killer plants that sit idly by in groups before Spyro approaches them. Should he come within several feet of them, their already visible eyes fixate on Spyro and their leaves rustle. When Spyro edges any closer, the plants charge at him with gaping maws and yellow fangs.

* Misty Bog in [[{{VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon}} the first game]] is populated by killer plants that sit idly by in groups before Spyro approaches them. Should he come within several feet of them, their already visible eyes fixate on Spyro and their leaves rustle. When Spyro edges any closer, the plants charge at him with gaping maws and yellow fangs.

* The full-bodied sheep {{muppet}} with burns all over his body as well as a sinister looking scowl can give people, especially little children, nightmares, even though he was intended to be funny. The three commercials he appeared in: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VluZBRx5LFo]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xJ_ud8bsEU]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4seCDdQdEcM]]. As well as the documentary concerning his creation: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSNl537ChG8]]
* "Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly" has a rather spooky glitch in which everyone goes all slow motion-like.
* In ''Spyro: Year of the Dragon'', the Evening Lake world Frozen Altars has a lot of giant snowmen that Spyro must defeat with lasers- get too close to one and they grab Spyro, shake him and throw him away. That's not scary. What ''is'' scary? Their goddamn freaking smiles.
* In Misty Bog, there are these enemies called [[http://spyro.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_Frogs Attack Frogs]]. To put it more clearly, they're light blue frogs that will lash at you with their extremely long tongues if you get within ten stinkin' feet of 'em! They hop around carefree, but there is always malice in their eyes.
* Whenever you can hear something, but can't see it. It's more unsettling than one would think. Prominent examples include when chuckling thieves are hidden out of view and the trembling of the petrified dragon on a floor above in Haunted Towers, the dragon that is [[ThatOneSidequest really tough to find]].
* The Sorceress turns minions into bosses to fight Spyro. At least one was forced into it, despite struggling and pleading for mercy. Brrrr....
* In ''Year of the Dragon'', how the Sorceress [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath meets her end]] in a [[AcidPool pool of acid]].
* The Dino Mines level in ''Year of the Dragon'' is teeming with gunslinging, dynamite-flinging dinosaurs with loud roars and attacks that are quite difficult to avoid. Even at a distance, the blue ones roar at you with dynamite in their mouths, prepared to spit it out…

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