History NightmareFuel / ThomasAndFriends

* Duck and Thomas' [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/1/15/ACloseShave43.png/revision/latest close-up]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/9/9c/ThomasComestoBreakfast34.png/revision/latest faces]] from ''A Close Shave'' and ''Thomas Comes to Breakfast'' are just... '''''WRONG'''''. the unnaturally wide mouths, the eyes bulging out of their sockets, the off-kilter eyebrows, everything about them falls into the absolute rock bottom of the UncannyValley.

* Duck and Thomas' [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/1/15/ACloseShave43.png/revision/latest close-up]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/9/9c/ThomasComestoBreakfast34.png/revision/latest faces]] from "A Close Shave" and "Thomas Comes to Breakfast" are just... '''''WRONG'''''. the unnaturally wide mouths, the eyes bulging out of their sockets, the off-kilter eyebrows, everything about them falls into the absolute rock bottom of the UncannyValley.

** Edward's [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/4/40/Bertie%27sChase2.png/revision/latest?cb=20210625180632&format=original cross face]] can be nearly as scary as James', if not more so, because of the wrinkles on his face. Thankfully, unlike [[HairTriggerTemper James]], Edward hardly ever gets cross.

** James easily has the nastiest [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/3/38/JamesandtheCoaches31.png/revision/latest?cb=20230718041919]] out of the main engines, simply because of how pissed off he appears. He looks like he's literally fighting the urge to go on a murderous rampage.

** James easily has the nastiest [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/3/38/JamesandtheCoaches31.png/revision/latest?cb=20180916190239 angry face]] out of the main engines, simply because of how pissed off he appears. He looks like he's literally fighting the urge to go on a murderous rampage.

** The rather primitive special effects used to illustrate the scene arguably worsen the fear factor, namely the unusual looking bee and how the red light depicts the impact of the sting.

** The build-up when the beehive breaks is also worth mentioning. The sharp rising musical notes, the MassOhCrap reactions and the shot of the evacuating passengers and station staff really sells the sense that something bad is about to happen. And then James pisses off the bee...

** Sir Topham Hatt and two of his colleagues were aboard Gordon during the incident. They are later shown wearing casts and using crutches due to injuries they sustained from the crash. This is quite jarring as we seldom ever see people actually get hurt on this show!

** It's made even worse when the cars come off the rails. You can hear the Troublesome Trucks ''SCREAMING, COMPLETELY TERRIFIED''. They're the ones that caused it in the first place, but ''still!''

* James getting spun on a windy turntable in the penultimate scene of ''Tenders & Turntables''. The music takes on and off-putting twist, getting faster and high-pitched before [[LettingTheAIrOutOfTheBand slowing down to a stop]] along with the turntable. James' frowning face and spinning eyes are unsettling, but the worst part as when he backs into the shed, dizzy, completely humiliated and without uttering a word-- we cut to ''[[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3sJ4Pt-1rDw/maxresdefault.jpg a gloomy-looking and partially green-faced James staring right into the camera]]'', accompanied by chilling music. Sweet dreams.

* James getting spun on a windy turntable in the penultimate scene of ''Tenders & Turntables''. The music takes on an off-putting twist, getting faster and high-pitched before [[LettingTheAIrOutOfTheBand slowing down to a stop]] along with the turntable. James' frowning face and spinning eyes are unsettling, but the worst part as when he backs into the shed, dizzy, completely humiliated and without uttering a word-- we cut to ''[[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3sJ4Pt-1rDw/maxresdefault.jpg a gloomy-looking and partially green-faced James staring right into the camera]]'', accompanied by chilling music. Sweet dreams.

* Rusty's ghost story in ''Duncan Gets Spooked''. And unlike in ''Ghost Train'', we actually see the little engine derail on the old bridge and fall to its death on-screen.

* Percy when icicles form all over him in ''Jack Frost''.

* In ''Percy and the Haunted Mine'', there is an unsettling scene where Percy collects garden gnomes. We get to see a shot of the warehouse sinking into the ground. He bumps into some trucks and gnomes fall out when the side door opened. Percy was convinced that the gnomes were naughty gnomes, which steal wheels and filch funnels. The poor green engine is horrified, and the dark lighting doesn't help. However, the fat controller explains that the gnomes were only garden gnomes and that the buildings were just sinking into old mine shafts.

For examples related to ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'', go [[NightmareFuel/TheRailwaySeries here]]. For examples related to ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'', go [[NightmareFuel/ThomasAndTheMagicRailraod here]].

For examples related to ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'', go [[NightmareFuel/TheRailwaySeries here]].

[[folder:Thomas and the Magic Railroad]]
* Diesel 10's original voice was apparently far too sinister for a children's film, so all the lines had to be redone without his Australian or Russian accent. Despite this, his face and giant claw are still terrifying.
* Diesel 10 sneaking up on Mr. Conductor and the engines, and attacking the sheds.
* The original cut featured P.T. Boomer, who was supposed to have been the show's first true human villain until he was been scrapped from the test screening thinking him was [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids too scary for children]]. Whilst his motives were supposed to have extremely petty and the way that he ultimately went around accomplishing them could've been done more effectively, he was still supposed to have been shown in a very threatening light. A good portion of the film's original conflict focused on how his presence in Shining Time was completely out of place, with scenes like him deliberately crossing the railroad tracks ''seconds'' before the train went through, how he planned on blowing up Muffle Mountain and how Stacy feared what he could do to Mr. Conductor had he known of him. And this was to have been done with human characters, not the models, giving his scenes far greater gravity. And think about it, almost all of the humans in the series have been portrayed as kind authoritative figures, but here, we get a human character whose only motives are pure undiluted destruction for the most petty of reasons.
** The workprint finally shows Boomer off...and indeed, there are a few scenes with him that probably set off alarm bells for people:
*** His EstablishingCharacterMoment, first by grabbing a box of explosives while [[DeathGlare glaring]] at Mutt, is rather intense, and then by rushing in front of the ''Rainbow Sun'' just before it goes through, ''continuing'' to glare at the train in the process. It helps establish that he's a very ominous and potentially violent character.
*** The scene where he creeps up behind Patch and offers to bribe him. While it might seem small potatoes compared to how willing Sailor John was to cause physical harm...it ''can'' set off [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything stranger danger]] signs.
* While played for laughs, one scene that can be scary is an early one: when Mr. Conductor is alone in Sir Topham Hatt's office, there is an UncleSamWantsYou-style poster of Sir Hatt pointing and smiling. Mr. Conductor playfully tries on the top hat on the hat rack and goofs around in a deep voice... and then turns around only to see that [[CreepyChangingPainting Sir Hatt in the poster is now glaring.]] It changes from that to a different frown, and finally a small smile as Mr. Conductor puts the hat back. It was meant to be funny, but still...
* The scenes with the high-pitched, almost shriek-like sound of Lady's whistle around Muffle Mountain at night. Once you learn more about Lady, it becomes more of a TearJerker than NF, but when your first hear it, it can be downright ''chilling''.
* The train faces could be mildly creepy for some before, as explained in the Other folder below. But when the humans and the trains are in the same scenes together, the Uncanny Valley-ness of the trains can increase tenfold just because of the juxtaposition.
* The scene where Diesel 10 has James and Junior cornered in the smelter's is TERRIFYING. If Junior hadn't managed to teleport both himself and James out of there, Diesel 10 would have probably KILLED them!
* After Diesel 10's assault on the Engine's Shed where Mr. Conductor is also staying, they all fall asleep eventually, but Mr. Conductor soon after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5EJmttbPG4 begins to have a particularly haunting]] NightmareSequence in which he envisions a BadFuture where poor Stacy is wandering about a terribly wrecked, vandalized and utterly ''abandoned'' Shining Time Station that's blanketed in an ominous fog. In the nightmare, Stacy is shown calling out to Mr. Conductor and asking where he is and why he never returned to Shining Time or to The Isle of Sodor anymore to help, and she then despairs over how the magic is now all gone. The music that plays during this moment certainly doesn't help either, serving as a haunting DarkReprise of Shining Time's {{Leitmotif}} from the beginning.
--> '''Nightmare Stacy''': (''Distraught'') Mr. C? Mr. C? Why aren't you here? Why couldn't you travel anymore to The Isle of Sodor, or back home here to us in Shining Time? The magic is all gone...(''cries'').
--> '''Mr. Conductor''': (''Awakens suddenly with a gasp'') Ah!
** It also doesn't help that, very faintly, the sound of what could easily be taken as the ominous sounds of a storm, or perhaps even ghostly moans, can be heard echoing throughout the apocalyptic Shining Time Station, perhaps symbolizing the poor lost souls who suffered because of the potential destruction Diesel 10 will cause and even representing Mr. Conductor's fears of not being able to stop the destruction of Sodor in time.
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* Sir Topham Hatt's [[https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Diesel_Does_it_Again/Gallery?file=DieselDoesItAgain61.png face]] when he scolds Diesel at the end of "Diesel Does it Again".

* Diesel's growling in ''Pop Goes the Diesel''. And then in ''Dirty Work'', he managed to turn everyone (except the [[BigGood Fat Controller]]) against Duck with a few simple lies. Even now, in the new series, he still turns up despite other characters falling by the wayside. He's just [[MagnificentBastard that good]].