History NightmareFuel / TomAndJerry

* And then there's "Blue Cat Blues", which has a DownerEnding of a depressed Tom and Jerry [[DrivenToSuicide sitting on the train tracks]] with the train just about to come. No wonder it's not shown much in syndication (TNT and a lot of independent local stations in the 1980s and 1990s showed this, but [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes good luck finding it on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and on officially released DVDs]]).

** The Gene Deitch cartoon "Switchin Kitten", in which a MadScientist switches the brain of a dog with that of a cat. Tom tries hard to convince the orange cat that he is one, but never succeeds. At the end of the episode, he tries to escape the castle and encounters other experiments, including an elephant that chirps like a bird, a chicken that bleats like a lamb, the dog whose brain was switched with the cat and a cuckoo bird that moos like a cow. The final nail of the coffin for him is when Tom sees Jerry, whom he begs to squeak, but instead roars like a [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer certain lion]], which causes Tom to have a nervous breakdown.

* "Southbound Duckling" ends with Jerry and Quacker in a beach thinking they've defeated Tom. End of episode, right? Not so fast; Tom is ''right behind them'' and traps them under a bucket. Then he pulls down an umbrella to hide both him and the bucket, laughing evilly. Common enough sight in the ''middle'' of these cartoons, but in ''this'' case, that's where the episode ''ends''... Good luck imagining what Tom is going to do to them...

* Many Gene Deitch-directed ''Tom and Jerry'' shorts due to the deranged, limited animation and odd sound effects.

** Heck, any time this man (Tom's owner in the Gene Deitch era) gets angry is '''PURE''' NightmareFuel. Sometimes bordering in AxCrazy

** Tom taking a massive dose of the potion at the end as well, snatching the saucer right out of Jerry's hands as he desperatly tries to hulk back up, traps him, and forces him to watch as Tom begins to grow, actually ''getting even bigger and scarier than Jerry was'', with his claws growing out of his paws... thankfully, it then backfires on him, as it turns out drinking TOO MUCH of the potion makes you shrink instead.

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The Tom and Jerry shorts (both past and present) are filled with rib-tickling comedic violence, but it is definitely a product of its time -- not just with the racial tropes or how female characters are treated, but with how the violence and its implications are represented, which, these days, can be considered disturbing for modern viewers.

[[caption-width-right:350:WhatDoYouMeanItsforKids How did they get away with this?]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:"[[AlasPoorVillain Pauvre, pauvre pussycat...]]"]]

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png)

* Could be NauseaFuel: The 2005 "The Karate Guard" has a disturbing moment — Tom is facing us when the samurai dog's blade comes down, cutting him in half (his back half presumably coming off). We [[BloodlessCarnage don't see anything]] but we hear a very ''wet'' sound before Tom passes out out of frame, and Jerry stares at the camera in shock!

** "The Fastest Trap In the West" is fine for the most part, but there's a rather unsettling scene shortly before the climax where Jerry shoots Tom in the face with his own shotgun after falling down some basement stairs, and the following chase scene with Tom's face covered in soot. It doesn't sound scary, but somehow, actually watching it, alongside the very omnious music makes it scary.

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* Muscles Mouse from ''WesternAnimation/JerrysCousin''. Much like the hulked out Jerry from the Dr. Jekyll cartoon above, he is a super strong mouse that can easily beat up any cat and shrug off any attack thrown at him. Tom [[OutsideContextProblem clearly has no idea what to do]] and surrenders at the end. It's one thing for Tom to encounter a bigger, strong opponent like Spike but to face a mouse with super strength is another.

* In the cartoon "The Flying Sorceress" the witch points out to Tom a cemetery with her previous cats with tomb stones included, which is a bit unsettling.
** When the witch tells Tom to "sleep over there". "Over there" is a scary looking cat sized coffin, that has its appearance backed by eerie music.
** There is also the tone of the witch's voice when showing the graveyard. She sounds extremely excited, making it seem like she intentionally is trying to kill the cats. Making it worse, she has an eighth grave already dug with a tombstone present, supporting the idea even further.

** There is also the tone of the witch's voice when showing the graveyard. She sounds extremely excited, making it seem like she intentionally is trying to kill the cats. Making it worse, she already has a grave with Tom's name engraved on it, supporting the idea even further.

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png).

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png)

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. [https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png]

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png)

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. ([https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png])

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png)

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png )

* In the cartoon "Love Me, Love My Mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png)

* The Old West cartoon specifically the scene where Jerry fires a shotgun in Tom's face, and, in typical cartoon logic, gets chased by an ash-faced but otherwise unharmed Tom. This scene, along with the unsettlingly omnious music.

* In the cartoon "Love me, love my mouse" was a bit disturbing, the fact Tom brought Jerry to his girlfriend for her to eat, Jerry gets revenge on Tom but in the end, Toots has a very scary and psychotic look on her face wanting to eat Jerry, really unsettling. (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/96/4d/20964d5686a508caa4a8e9bf39b711e6.png)

* The infamous [[VoiceOfTheLegion "Don't you believe it!"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9U_C_q6WcU line]] from the shorts "Mouse Trouble" and "The Missing Mouse".

* "Pecos Pest" features Jerry's Uncle Pecos chasing Tom [[AxCrazy with an ax]], because he needs [[MemeticMutation "Yer wisker for mah' git-ar string!"]]. It sounds funny until you see that Pecos is TheDeterminator when it comes to getting that string, and consider the consequences had he wanted anything else. It ends with Pecos pulling Tom's whisker from the television, which, combined with ''Film/TheRing'' is both [[HilariousInHindsight hilarious]] and horrifying in hindsight.

* The Old West cartoon specifically the scene where Jerry fires a shotgun in Tom's face, and, in typical cartoon logic, gets chased by an ash-faced but otherwise unharmed Tom. This scene, along with the unsettlingly omnious music.

* In the cartoon "Kitty foiled" the canary was about to shoot Tom with a gun and played a trick on Tom to make him think the gun shot him, and the canary and Jerry Mouse were dancing like they were happy that Tom was dead, he wasn't dead, but the idea of someone dancing and being happy that someone is killed is disturbing and morbid.
** Also in the end of "Kitty foiled" Tom riding on the toy train fell in the floor and a loud crash is heard, assuming Tom was dead, and Jerry and the canary are in the cage whistling happily.