History NightmareFuel / TheLittleMermaid

* Ursula's voice during her [[OneWingedAngel Kaiju phase]] at the climax has always terrified [[Troper/DinoMarioZilla this troper]].I mean,''she sounds like friggin' Cthulhu itself!!!''

* Ursula's voice during her [[OneWingedAngelForm Kaiju phase]] at the climax has always terrified [[Troper/DinoMarioZilla this troper]].I mean,''she sounds like friggin' Cthulhu itself!!!''
-->'''Triton:''' So help me Ariel, I ''will'' get through to you. And if this is the only way, ''so be it''.

* The part where they've crashed the wedding and everything looks ok, then the sun sets and Vanessa BURSTS OUT OF HER SKIN AS URSULA and CRAWLS ALONG THE FLOOR to grab at Ariel.

* This is parodied in ''TheProudFamily'', where Oscar had to watch the movie "through his fingers" or something.

* Several things about Ursula. She's a fairly grotesque octopus woman with pasty grayish skin. She eats live (and, as it turns out, sentient) shrimp as snacks. The entrance tunnel to her lair is carpeted with the shrunken heads of her transformed former clients who "couldn't pay the price." She conjures a pair of wraithlike disembodied hands to forcibly thrust down Ariel's throat and extract her voice. And at the climax of the film, she [[OneWingedAngel transforms into a giant, saw-toothed version of herself with a Stygian voice]], uses the power of Triton's stolen trident to create maelstroms and raise up the rotting hulks of sunken ships, and finally is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard impaled on a spar of one of said ships]] and sinks, clutching the hull of the vessel with her tentacles in her death throes. The directors' commentary on the Special Edition [=DVD=] noted that they probably wouldn't get away with Chef Louis (or Ursula) in a modern film. [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Also, she has a great singing voice]].

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** It happens to Ariel too, and in a more horrific way: in order to scare and threaten Triton, Ursula begins to tranform Ariel then freezes the transformation, leaving Ariel as a mermaid-worm hybrid.

* How did we get this far without Triton destroying the grotto and taking all of Ariel's treasures and trinkets with it? It's probably the scariest scene from ''any'' Disney film bar none.

--->'''Triton:''' So help me Ariel, I ''will'' get through to you. And if this is the only way, ''so be it''.

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-->'''Triton:''' So help me Ariel, I ''will'' get through to you. And if this is the only way, ''so be it''.

* In the sequel, Morgana trying to ''feed baby!Melody to her huge shark minion''.
* Also from the sequel, Morgana's ultimate fate of being completely imobilized in a chunk of ice may have some people thinking she got off way easier than her big sister. Until you look more closely at her face as shes sinking, [[FateWorseThanDeath her eyes were still moving!]]

** The preceding argument is also pretty cringe-worthy. Hell, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3fYUMwVOFs the score alone]] is enough to give you heart palpitations.

* How did we get this far without Triton destroying the grotto and taking all of Ariel's treasures and trinkets with it? It's probably the scariest scene from ''any'' Disney film bar none.

* How did we get this far without Triton destroying the grotto and taking all of Ariel's treasures and trinkets with it?

* How did we get this far without Triton destroying the grotto?

* The scene where Ursula steals Ariel's voice with the demonic glowing hand.

* The ending of "Poor Unfortunate Souls" where Ursula begins the spell to transform Ariel into a human at the cost of her voice. Her shell creates this smoke-like hand that literally reaches through Ariel's throat and grabs it. And all the while Ursula has a gigantic SlasherSmile on her face.

* Also from the sequal, Morgana's ultimate fate of being completely imobilized in a chunk of ice may have some people thinking she got off way easier than her big sister. Until you look more closely at her face as shes sinking, [[FateWorseThanDeath her eyes were still moving!]]

* The aftermath of Flotsam and Jetsam's destruction, as well as Ursula's. If you look ''real'' close, first when Ursula says, "Babies! My poor little poopsies!", you can see an ''eye'' and remnants of the eels, and after Ursula's been destroyed and the trident's sinking, the remnants of her are sinking to the bottom, even as the merpeople she's tricked into making a DealWithTheDevil change back, and ''[[FridgeHorror quite possibly showering them in it]].''

* Also from the sequal, Morgana's ultimate fate of being completely imobilized in a chunk of ice may have some people thinking she got off way easier than her big sister. Until you look more closely at her face as shes sinking, [[FateWOrseThanDeath her eyes were still moving!]]

** It happens to Ariel too, and in a more horrific way: in order to scare and threat Triton, Ursula begins to tranform Ariel then freezes the transformation, leaving Ariel as a mermaid-worm hybrid.

* It happens to Ariel too, and in a more horrific way: in order to scare and threat Triton, Ursula begins to tranform Ariel then freezes the transformation, leaving Ariel as a mermaid-worm hybrid.

* The aftermath of Flotsam and Jetsam's destruction, as well as Ursula's? If you look ''real'' close, first when Ursula says, "Babies! My poor little poopsies!", you can see an ''eye'' and remnants of the eels, and after Ursula's been destroyed and the trident's sinking, the remnants of her are sinking to the bottom, even as the merpeople she's tricked into making a DealWithTheDevil change back and ''[[FridgeHorror quite possibly showering them in it]].''

* Ursula's line to Ariel and the accompanying visuals: "If he (Eric) does kiss you (Ariel) before the sun sets on the third day you'll remain human permanently! But...if he doesn't you turn back into a mermaid and...[[PunctuatedForEmphasis you belong...]]'''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis to me!!!]]'''''

* Several things about Ursula qualify. Let's start with the fact that she's a fairly grotesque octopus woman with pasty grayish skin. She eats live (and, as it turns out, sentient) shrimp as snacks. The entrance tunnel to her lair is carpeted with the shrunken heads of her transformed former clients who "couldn't pay the price." She conjures a pair of wraithlike disembodied hands to forcibly thrust down Ariel's throat and extract her voice [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEVKd8bLXhE (a scene which at least one grown man refuses to watch)]]. And at the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7D9YeR2F0 climax of the film]], she [[OneWingedAngel transforms into a giant, saw-toothed version of herself with a Stygian voice]], uses the power of Triton's stolen trident to create maelstroms and raise up the rotting hulks of sunken ships, and finally is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard impaled on a spar of one of said ships]] and sinks, clutching the hull of the vessel with her tentacles in her death throes. The directors' commentary on the Special Edition [=DVD=] noted that they probably wouldn't get away with Chef Louis (or Ursula) in a modern film. [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Also, she has a great singing voice]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi4o2cG_SsI Really]].

* Not only that but the skeleton of a deceased sea-monster that serves as Ursula's home was a corpse when she found it. Want to know where all that rotting flesh went? Well, there's a reason why she's so fat.

* Not to mention the part where they've crashed the wedding and everything looks ok, then the sun sets and Vanessa [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlt3x03Ba-E&feature=related BURSTS OUT OF HER SKIN AS URSULA and CRAWLS ALONG THE FLOOR to grab at Ariel.]].

* The fact that Ursula's final scene is, of all the things in the world, stolen from HP Lovecraft's ''The Call of Cthulhu'' doesn't help matters at all.

* When Ursula is looking in the mirror, she essentially squishes a clam's insides up and uses it for her lipstick, meaning she was literally using clam guts/clam blood for lipgloss.

* Ursula, while not a good character, was sane and composed during most of the film. However, when she transforms into Vanessa, its implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming a borderline AxCrazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly kill a person had that been a human being, not to mention her cackling.