History NightmareFuel / TheLittleMermaid

* While not especially ''horrifying'', the fact that Ariel is only 16 throughout the movie is pretty weird.

* 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 shriveled bodies 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 spear 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]].

* The whole concept of Ursula disguising herself as a shapely young woman is pretty unsettling.

** Let's be honest here, just Triton being angry is terrifying by itself.
* Sebastian seeing the cooked seafood, ending with a dramatic sting on the stuffed crab.
* The first time Ariel meets Flotsam and Jetsam with their creepy, echoing voices.

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

* 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 shriveled bodies 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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* Triton destroying the grotto and taking all of Ariel's treasures and trinkets with it. The whole scene resembles something from the bowels of Hell!
** The preceding argument is also pretty cringe-worthy. Hell, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3fYUMwVOFs the music alone]] is enough to give you heart palpitations.
-->'''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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* 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!!!]]'''''"

* 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, and her cackling.

* 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.

* The first time Ariel meets Flotsam and Jetsam with their creepy, echoing voices.

!![[Anime/TheLittleMermaid The Anime]]
* While more of a neutral party than Ursula, the Sea Witch and her garden of polyps are frightening. The Witch herself is a devil ray, and the polyps capture and strangle Marina.
* Jenny the cat wants Marina dead for no real reason. She succeeds.

!! [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid The Disney film]]
* While not especially ''horrifying'', the fact that Ariel is only 16 throughout the movie is pretty weird
* When Ursula shows what happens to her clients who break their contracts -- they get turned into these immobile, screaming, limbless worms stuck by the hundreds to the floor of her cave ''and then it happens to King Triton''.

* 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 shriveled bodies 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]].

** Let's be honest here, just Triton being angry is terrifying just by itself.

* 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.

*** Listen to the scene without watching it, and it's even scarier. It sounds like a child begging her father [[PhysicalAbuse not to beat her]].

* 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''

* 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.

* Ursula's voice during her [[OneWingedAngel Kaiju phase]] at the climax has always terrified [[Tropers/DinoMarioZilla this troper]]. I mean,''she sounds like friggin' Cthulhu itself!!!''
** [[NightmareRetardant Wait]] - she sounds like [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic Nightmare Moon]].

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