History ParanoiaFuel / WesternAnimation

* In the recent ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humancentipad#w=05.27.2011 "Human CENTiPAD"]] Kyle winds up getting more than he bargained for when he [[spoiler: accepts the terms and conditions for an iTunes app without reading them.]] You have to wonder [[FridgeHorror just how easy it would be]] for something like that (probably with money stealing instead of submission to human experimentation) to happen in real life.

* In the first season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Slade laser-injects nanobots into the Titans. Think about it. Thousands of nigh invisible robots floating around in your body, possibly for decades. And what Slade wanted to use them for is a whole other can of NightmareFuel.

** Alternatively, you're driving home on the Highway after an awful day at work, and someone cuts you off. This being the final straw after such a bad day, you drive up next to him, roll down the window, and start into a fit of road rage. Halfway through your tirade, you discover that this man isn't just any random person - he's your city's most wanted psychopath who [[ForTheEvulz kills people for the fun of it]], [[OhCrap and you've just pissed him off]]. So you try to drive away as fast as you can, and he ''keeps following you'', cutting you off and driving you off the main road. Finally, just when you think you're about to get away, your car runs out of gas and you have no choice but to continue on foot, and so you run into a thicket of trees... only to run right into the psychopath. [[PleaseIWillDoAnything You plead for your life, saying that you will do anything if he lets you live]]. He decides he will ask you a favor at some point in the future, takes your Driver's liscence and the information it contains, and lets you go. Terrified he'll find you again and really not wanting to know what he'll do when he finds you, you and your entire family move to another state, change your names, and stay in hiding. 2 years later, despite all of these precautions, you get a phone call, [[NightmareFuel and it's from the same psychopath]]. How did he find you? Oh, he ''never lost'' you. And he wants his favor.

* In the SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Amon and his Equalists launch an actual '''terrorist attack''' on a sports arena, already NightmareFuel given the family-friendly nature of the show. Right before the attack begins, the noise level goes down and you see all the members of his group, just random people in the arena crowd, slowly start putting on masks and reaching into popcorn bags to pull out weapons and bombs they snuck in, and then proceed to incapacitate every cop in the arena before they even know what's happening.

** ''Revenge of the Fallen'' ups the ante with [[spoiler:Alice the '''human''' Decepticon]]. And on the same level as Frenzy is RC-truck-bot Wheelie, but he's a ComicRelief character. There's also Reedman, a razor-thin 'Con who killed a man by jumping through his torso. Given the right lighting conditions and viewing angle, he's invisible. And Soundwave is up there, listening. Always. In fact, he's probably reading every word you type here.

-->'''Soundwave''': Nothing moves on the orb below without '''my''' being aware of it. I see and hear everything, be it out in the open or behind closed doors. My reach is invisible, intangible. My grip...cast-iron.

** Alternatively, you're driving home on the Highway after an awful day at work, and someone cuts you off. This being the final straw after such a bad day, you drive up next to him, roll down the window, and start into a fit of road rage. Halfway through your tirade, you discover that this man isn't just any random person - [[CompleteMonster he's your city's most wanted psychopath who]] [[ForTheEvulz kills people for the fun of it]], [[OhCrap and you've just pissed him off]]. So you try to drive away as fast as you can, and he ''keeps following you'', cutting you off and driving you off the main road. Finally, just when you think you're about to get away, your car runs out of gas and you have no choice but to continue on foot, and so you run into a thicket of trees... only to run right into the psychopath. [[PleaseIWillDoAnything You plead for your life, saying that you will do anything if he lets you live]]. He decides he will ask you a favor at some point in the future, takes your Driver's liscence and the information it contains, and lets you go. Terrified he'll find you again and really not wanting to know what he'll do when he finds you, you and your entire family move to another state, change your names, and stay in hiding. 2 years later, despite all of these precautions, you get a phone call, [[NightmareFuel and it's from the same psychopath]]. How did he find you? Oh, he ''never lost'' you. And he wants his favor.

** One is a Mountain Dew machine. His name is Dispensor. That sound is fear shamefacedly leaving your body.

* In the recent ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humancentipad#w=05.27.2011 "Human CENTiPAD"]] Kyle winds up getting more than he bargained for when he [[spoiler: accepts the terms and conditions for an iTunes app without reading them.]] You have to wonder [[{{FridgeHorror}} just how easy it would be]] for something like that (probably with money stealing instead of submission to human experimentation) to happen in real life.

-->'''Soundwave''': Nothing moves on the orb below without '''my''' being aware of it. I see and hear everything, be it out in the open or behind closed doors. My reach is invisible, intangible. My grip...cast-iron.

** You're sitting there in your office, and a [[TheJoker pale but happy fellow]] strolls in to ask if he can copyright fish. You tell him no, you know, ''just doing your job'', and for this, you're turned into a smiling, drooling vegetable.

** Alternatively, you're driving home on the Highway after an awful day at work, and someone cuts you off. This being the final straw after such a bad day, you drive up next to him, roll down the window, and start into a fit of road rage. Halfway through your tirade, you discover that this man isn't just any random person - [[CompleteMonster he's your city's most wanted psychopath who]] [[ForTheEvulz kills people for the fun of it]], [[OhCrap and you've just pissed him off]]. So you try to drive away as fast as you can, and he ''keeps following you'', cutting you off and driving you off the main road. Finally, just when you think you're about to get away, your car runs out of gas and you have no choice but to continue on foot, and so you run into a thicket of trees... only to run right into the psychopath. [[PleaseIWillDoAnything You plead for your life, saying that you will do anything if he lets you live]]. He decides he will ask you a favor at some point in the future, takes your Driver's liscence and the information it contains, and lets you go. Terrified he'll find you again and really not wanting to know what he'll do when he finds you, you and your entire family move to another state, change your names, and stay in hiding. 2 years later, despite all of these precautions, you get a phone call, [[NightmareFuel and it's from the same psychopath]]. And he wants his favor.

* In the recent ''WesternAnimation/South Park'' episode [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humancentipad#w=05.27.2011 "Human CENTiPAD"]] Kyle winds up getting more than he bargained for when he [[spoiler: accepts the terms and conditions for an iTunes app without reading them.]] You have to wonder [[{{FridgeHorror}} just how easy it would be]] for something like that (probably with money stealing instead of submission to human experimentation) to happen in real life.

* In the recent [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SouthPark South Park]] episode [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humancentipad#w=05.27.2011 "Human CENTiPAD"]] Kyle winds up getting more than he bargained for when he [[spoiler: accepts the terms and conditions for an iTunes app without reading them.]] You have to wonder [[{{FridgeHorror}} just how easy it would be]] for something like that (probably with money stealing instead of submission to human experimentation) to happen in real life.

* In the first season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Slade lazer-injects nanobots into the Titans. Think about it. Thousands of nigh invisible robots floating around in your body, possibly for decades. And what Slade wanted to use them for is a whole other can of NightmareFuel.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Pinkie Pie knows where every pony is. [[SanitySlippage And she could snap at any time.]]

* ''{{Transformers}}'', of course, has any number of Decepticons who disguise themselves as seemingly-innocent objects, from cars to cameras. Only the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism keeps this from being truly chilling, giving us an equally anonymous and omnipresent group of protectors and reassuring us that we can trust them. Rest easy, children. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8wwIUKXQ28 Autobots are watching over you.]] [[TransformersFilmSeries 2007's]] LiveActionAdaptation plays it to the hilt with both radio-bot Frenzy and the feral robots brought to life by the All Spark from random machines Sam passed in the street while fleeing the Decepticons... these are better left undescribed. Barricade and Bumblebee probably deserve special mention here, too; the former is a Decepticon who chose a police car to transform into, and the latter is an Autobot who chose an apparently beaten-up ride for ObfuscatingStupidity.

** ''Revenge of the Fallen'' ups the ante with [[spoiler:Alice the '''human''' Decepticon]]. And on the same level as Frenzy is RC-truck-bot Wheelie, but he's a ComicRelief character. There's also Reedman, a razor-thin 'Con who killed a man by jumping through his torso. Given the right lighting conditions and viewing angle, he's basically invisible. And Soundwave is up there, listening. Always. In fact, he's probably reading every word you type here.
*** Just to make it worse, Reedman was formed from [[spoiler:a whole bunch of tiny little pachinko-ball-things that Ravage literally ''threw up'']]. This means it can get into anything that has [[spoiler:even a pea-sized hole in it somewhere]]. And you thought ''regular'' cat barf was bad news.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' has Ragdoll, a creepy contortionist that can stretch and bend in ways that aren't even imaginable. He once hid in Penguin's ''hat'' without being noticed, which indicates he could be hiding in literally ''any'' nook and cranny ''anywhere''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': You're sitting there in your office, and a [[TheJoker pale but happy fellow]] strolls in to ask if he can copyright fish. You tell him no, you know, ''just doing your job'', and for this, you're turned into a smiling, drooling vegetable.
** Alternatively, you're driving home on the Highway after an awful day at work, and someone cuts you off. This being the final straw after such a bad day, you drive up next to him, roll down the window, and start into a fit of road rage. Halfway through your tirade, you discover that this man isn't just any random person - [[CompleteMonster he's your city's most wanted psychopath who]] [[ForTheEvulz kills people for the fun of it]], [[OhCrap and you've just pissed him off]]. So you try to drive away as fast as you can, and he ''keeps following you'', cutting you off and driving you off the main road. Finally, just when you think you're about to get away, your car runs out of gas and you have no choice but to continue on foot, and so you run into a thicket of trees... only to run right into the psychopath. [[PleaseIWillDoAnything You plead for your life, saying that you will do anything if he lets you live]]. He decides he will ask you a favor at some point in the future, takes your Driver's liscence and the information it contains, and lets you go. Terrified he'll find you again and really not wanting to know what he'll do when he finds you, you and your entire family move to another state, change your names, and stay in hiding. And then, two years later, despite all of these precautions, you get a phone call, [[NightmareFuel and it's from the same psychopath]]. And he wants his favor.
* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''. In this world, [[{{Nanomachines}} nanites]] have invaded ''every living thing''. It just so happens that when a particular thing gets [[PhlebotinumOverload overloaded with nanites]], [[BodyHorror it causes the body to mutate]] in very squicky ways, eventually causing it to grow into a giant monster thriving to destroy anything in its' way. Which pretty much means that a) for example, your cat, the grass in your backyard or one of your symbiotic bacteria could turn into a rampant beast at any moment and kill you, b) ''your'' body could start mutating any second, undoubtedly causing much pain if the agony-filled screams of things that got overloaded with nanites are anything to go by.

* In the truly awful ''TomAndJerry: TheMovie'', practically ''every single adult'' the characters meet turns out to be an evil, sadistic monster who cruelly betrays them. (And breaks out into a VillainSong at least once). Great way to turn kids into paranoid freaks, guys.

** The [=PSAs=] for the 1985 ''GIJoe'' series can be Paranoia Fuel when you think about it. There are AWOL soldiers (and military personnel) who randomly appear out of nowhere to give advice to stupid kids. Then there is one where two boys are swimming and a lightning storm is about to come their way. One of the boys stays behind, but is forced out by Deep Six (an underwater operative in a bathyoscopic suit) who, apparently, has been underwater this whole time for no reason other than to spy on little boys in their swimming trunks.
* The final episode of the second season of WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic introduced the Changelings: insectoid shapeshifting monsters that feed on love, meaning they would most likely try to insinuate themselves into relationships and then leech on their "loved ones".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Gone With The Windstorm", Bobby is constantly being tormented by a bully who pops out of weird places (like Bobby's locker and the lunchroom conveyor belt). When Hank decides to deal with the bully's father, he discovers ''[[EnfantTerrible he's one of his victims!]]''.

* The final episode of the second season of MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic introduced the Changelings: insectoid shapeshifting monsters that feed on love, meaning they would most likely try to insinuate themselves into relationships and then leech on their "loved ones".

** The [=PSAs=] for the 1985 ''GIJoe'' series can be Paranoia Fuel when you think about it. There are AWOL soldiers (and military personnel) who randomly appear out of nowhere to give advice to stupid kids. Then there is one where two boys are swimming and a lightning storm is about to come their way. One of the boys stays behind, but is forced out by Deep Six (an underwater operative in a bathyoscopic suit) who, apparently, has been underwater this whole time for no reason other than to spy on little boys in their swimming trunks.

** Changelings. [[spoiler:They masquerade as a loved one and feed off your love, slowly draining you and making you weaker and weaker.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "There is no war in Ba Sing Se."

* ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'': in one episode the villain caused interdimensional portals to appear under kids' beds and his minions dragged them through to perform slave-labour for him -- complete with terrified parents trying to keep their kid from disappearing through the rift.

** Some of the "Real Gear Robots" in the toyline invoke serious paranoia. Your MP3 player may have been subtly altering sounds so you've misintepreted everything your friends have said, and your handphone may have been running your phone bill up ''by itself''.

* The [=PSAs=] for the 1985 ''GIJoe'' series can be Paranoia Fuel when you think about it. There are AWOL soldiers (and military personnel) who randomly appear out of nowhere to give advice to stupid kids. Then there is one where two boys are swimming and a lightning storm is about to come their way. One of the boys stays behind, but is forced out by Deep Six (an underwater operative in a bathyoscopic suit) who, apparently, has been underwater this whole time for no reason other than to spy on little boys in their swimming trunks.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Gone With The Windstorm", Bobby is constantly being tormented by a bully who pops out of weird places (like Bobby's locker and the lunchroom convayer belt). When Hank decides to deal with the bully's father, he discovers ''[[EnfantTerrible he's one of his victims!]]''.

* The Gamesmaster from the ''GIJoe'' episode of the same name. A ten-foot tall PsychopathicManChild who effortlessly kidnaps Flint, Lady Jaye, Baroness, and Cobra Commander to use as playthings for his amusement. It's insane that such a creepy guy has so many ''resources''. The Joes and Cobra already have SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands, but he takes it to the next level as he spies inside Cobra's base, ''Lady Jaye changing her clothes in a mall's fitting room'', and ''Baroness taking a bath''.

-->'''Father:''' Watch out when you pass the mailbox. That kid can wedge himself into anything!