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7->''"Well, thank you so much for turning my vague, formless paranoia into a concrete and palpable psychosis!"''
8-->-- '''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'''
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10A character, often a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, whose innocent attempt to make something (typically a drawing) comes across as NightmareFuel to the other characters. Unlike with normal Nightmare Fuel, other characters in the show will notice how horrifying the drawing/poem/song/story is, but the innocent NFSA sees nothing wrong with their tale of baby-eating zombies or the drawing of a "miniature poodle" that looks more like the ungodly offspring of a {{hellhound}} and a Film/{{CHUD}}
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12More generally, this kind of character will be simply a casual observer to some frightening or grotesque phenomenon who either doesn't bat an eye or responds with some kind of snarky comment (and no, they're never meant to be a StepfordSnarker). It will often be a child or a [[TheDitz "simple" person]] who doesn't comprehend the danger, or else a {{Jerkass}} or MisanthropeSupreme who genuinely doesn't give a damn ''what'' happens. Either way, you can expect that saner characters will be almost as creeped out by this character's reaction as by the actual threat.
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14'''Frequent features of the works of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant are:'''
15* [[InnocentInaccurate A childish outlook on mature issues]], such as a stick figure drawing of a bloody massacre.
16* Disturbing and mundane elements mixed, often in the BreadEggsMilkSquick or ArsonMurderAndJaywalking forms.
17* Lack of knowledge of proportion, perspective, shading, etc. produces monstrous looking drawings of real objects, or images which just look ''wrong''.
18* FridgeHorror, especially when a sentence is a DoubleEntendre or could be looked at in different ways. For example, while being alone in a dark abandoned school is scary, ''[[PaedoHunt not]]'' [[PaedoHunt being alone is possibly even scarier]].
19* NothingIsScarier in general.
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21Frequently combined with RoomFullOfCrazy, CreepyChild, or DissonantSerenity tropes when the writers need to give their characters that extra little bit of creepy. Sometimes, this trope is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], turning this trope into NightmareRetardant Station Attendant.
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23Compare NightmareFetishist, NightmareFuelColoringBook. The very existence of the UnintentionalUncannyValley proves this trope is TruthInTelevision. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith CreepyGasStationAttendant (not that those can't be this).
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29[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30* Seiichirou Kitano, the protagonist of ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'', is a nice take on this trope: to the readers he's [[HilarityEnsues funny]], but to the other characters in the manga, he's a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant just by ''being around''. (Yes, he's [[FaceOfAThug that scary]].)
31* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Shadow Mei ''is'' an outright villain, but can be disturbing even when she's [[VillainsOutShopping trying to relax]]. For karaoke, she picks the [[IronicNurseryTune famously creepy]] children's song "Kagome, Kagome" and fills the room full of gloom.
32* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'':
33** Osaka demonstrates unsettling creepiness numerous times:
34*** The second year school festival garnered a rather disturbing suggestion from Osaka regarding how to combine a haunted house, a café, and a stuffed animal display.
35---->'''Osaka:''' It's a café filled with adorable animals... and they're all dead.
36*** Once, Osaka attempted to draw a panda which ended up looking more like a man-eating monster.
37*** Also, at the Iriomote cat display at a museum, talking about Mayaa the cat:
38---->'''Osaka:''' ''[points to stuffed cat]'' That's what he'll look like when he grows up.\
39''Sakaki and Chiyo are impressed.''\
40'''Osaka:''' ''[points to skeleton]'' And then he'll look like that...nice and bony.
41*** The current page image is her idea for waking Yukari up: banging a wooden spoon against a frying pan. Except she grabs a knife instead, giving Yukari the delightful image of a bleary-eyed, knife-wielding Osaka looming over, who then expresses disappointment that she's already awake. When she leaves the room, Chiyo-chan understandably screams out what in the world she was doing with a knife. Osaka swore she had a frying pan just a minute ago... and proceeds to rummage around for the frying pan ''with the knife still in her hand'', swinging it around and accidentally throwing it, presumably at Chiyo! And in WebVideo/AMVHell 3, they managed to make it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cm3ox27AuQ even creepier.]]
42*** In the first "summer break" episode, where Osaka randomly imagined [[TenLittleMurderVictims everyone getting killed off, like in a murder mystery]]. "And then it turns out... ''I'm'' the killer!" The message is delivered ''after that''. When Osaka says she's the killer, no one takes her seriously, then she ''slowly'' turns her head towards the camera and gives a PsychoticSmirk.
43*** Osaka also worries about Chiyo-chan getting kidnapped when she goes to America. But she'll be safe because she has her BigFriendlyDog Mr. Tadakichi there to protect her, right? Nope. Osaka points an imaginary gun at him and says "Bang!". Mr. Tadakichi is dead. Sakaki reassures Chiyo that her father will come to her rescue. Nope. Osaka: "Bang!". Chiyo's reaction is priceless. Subverted when we see Sakaki's imagination: [[ImmuneToBullets the bullets bounce off Chiyo-Dad]]. Osaka is left off-footed when Sakaki describes this.
44** Kagura is a minor form of this on occasion. She tends to not notice how her boredom-induced doodles of animals shot by arrows and with scars and eye patches act as Nightmare Fuel to Sakaki.
45** Sakaki loves all cute and cuddly animals, including bears. So Yomi brings her canned soup with bear meat in it as a souvenir from her vacation.
46%%*** Osaka's entire dream in Episode 8 surely counts as this... Quite possibly Sakaki's as well.
47%%** Osaka takes the cake for ''Azumanga Daioh'', but Chiyo-chan can accidentally fall under this. Examples include that nervous BSOD in episode 5 of the anime and that cat suit in episode 8.
48* [[ImplacableMan Kiriyama]] of ''Manga/BattleRoyale'' may not be a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but, since he [[spoiler:lost all his emotions]], he sees nothing wrong with killing his classmates. The way he manages [[LackOfEmpathy to be merciless]] is constantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by a good deal of his classmates.
49* Sakura, an extremely ill girl from ''Anime/{{Betterman}}'' who has very sensitive extrasensory perception and precognition. A tragic figure overall, having ultimately low prospects for survival, the fact that her whispery voice narrates every OnTheNext preview, in which she always foretells a grisly future (like how worms will eat your flesh. ''While you're still alive''), takes her into this territory.
50* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
51** When told to draw her fantasy future, Orihime draws [[http://es.bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Archivo:Orihime24.jpg a chaotic and bizarre picture featuring herself as a deadly robot on a rampage through a destroyed city]] (with missiles [[ChestBlaster exactly where you'd expect]]), confusing and disturbing the other students greatly (comically, though).
52** Nemu is also an example; in one of the manga omake, she drew a cell phone that was so disturbing and perverted that it physically repulsed the other Shinigami Women's Association members (and had to be censored, leaving it to the readers' imagination just ''how'' perverted and disturbing it is).
53* {{Invoked|Trope}} with Maika Sakuranomiya from ''Manga/BlendS''. Her favorite thing to do is to smile, but it unfortunately gives Maika a [[FaceOfAThug sadistic facial expression]] as a result. Dino sees this, and decides to capitalize on it by having Maika take on the role as the {{sadist}}ic waitress of Cafe Stile despite being a [[MeanCharacterNiceActor very nice girl]] otherwise.
54* Parodied in ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' with Dokuro's casual drawing of a beautiful and calm lake, which in her view is filled with dead bodies and blood, greatly disturbing her drawing mate Sakura.
55* Maple in ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'' has an increasingly [[LovecraftianSuperpower Lovecraftian-themed spell list]] as she gains experience in the game. Naturally, she's oblivious to the fact that the creative ways she uses them to combat enemies [[TheDreaded that she can't kill outright]] are terrifying to others.
56* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': [[AdorableAbomination Zen'O]], the TopGod of the {{Multiverse}}, who has AmbiguousInnocence and several sociopathic tendencies.
57%%* The eponymous Fran Madaraki from ''Manga/FrankenFran'' is ''the'' definition of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant. She manages to terrify ''everyone''. Customers, clients, bystanders, colleagues, even her own twisted creations; there is not a single individual who will not be retching or screaming around her at some point. And she's ''still'' [[CuteMonsterGirl endlessly adorable]].
58%%* Yuno from ''Manga/FutureDiary'' is an [[{{Yandere}} extreme]] version of this and the readers/viewers love her for it.
59* Guu from ''Anime/HareGuu''. When everyone is trying to draw the creature that took Haré's mom based on the descriptions, Guu draws a picture that [[BrownNote causes crying, fainting]] and several people to run away in terror. The audience is [[TakeOurWordForIt never shown the picture]], though.
60* Pluto in ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'' has very different ideas of what counts as "cute" from her coworkers. This naturally leads to her designing most of the "creepy" animals. [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyN0IPwX0AAcrcu.jpg This design]][[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyN0MoeX0AEBet0?format=jpg&name=large turns out]][[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyN0RSoXcAA8tc0?format=jpg&name=large to be]][[spoiler:[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyN1DLCWkAA3Ozy?format=jpg&name=large a koala]]]].
61* [[CreepyChild Little Kikuri]] from ''Anime/HellGirl'' likes to draw mutilated stick-figure bodies. Granted, she is an attendant of hell... Her drawings are just about the least disturbing thing about her -- how about the time when she threw flowers over a teenager dying from a traffic accident, after telling him that Hell is real, and then running away giggling.
62* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
63** StepfordSmiler Russia thinks nothing of his heart dropping onto the table in the middle of an Allied Powers meeting. According to him, it just "falls out occasionally". The others are grossed out and tell him "put it back on! eeeew!"
64** ''Finland'', of all people, might be an example of this trope, considering some of the things he does.
65--->'''Finland:''' ''[on the name of his new dog]'' I like ''Bloody Flower Egg''!\
66'''Sweden (his partner [[HoYay and self-declared husband]]):''' ... Le's think 'bout tha'...lat'r...
67** Hungary is also shown and revealed to be this, whether it's her penchant for scary things (in her Chapter 5 profile), Krampus escapades or managing to freak out Prussia like a deranged stalker.
68* Sawako from ''Manga/KimiNiTodoke''. In-universe, with those [[TheUnsmile forced]] [[SlasherSmile smiles]].
69* Mutsumi from ''Manga/LoveHina'' ends up one of these whenever she recounts an episode of [[ShowWithinAShow her favorite TV show from when she was a kid,]] ''Liddo-kun's Big Adventure'', similar to a scenario she and her friends are facing... except she always recalls her example from ''Liddo-kun'' [[AnalogyBackfire ending in some horrific disaster,]] leaving Naru and Keitaro (who also used to watch ''Liddo-kun'') skeptical that it actually happened that way.
70* The title character of ''Mato-chan'' is fascinated by bugs and frequently voices conclusions about her grade-school life that are informed by the anatomy and life cycles of insects (such as the tendency of female Praying Mantises to eat their mates).
71%%* Johan Liebert of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' is one of the most ''terrifying'' examples imaginable.
72* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
73** Konoka Konoe has one:
74--->'''Konoka:''' If you get hurt, I'll [[WhiteMagic heal you right up]].\
75'''Setsuna:''' And I will protect [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics Ojou-sama]] even at the cost of my own life.\
76'''Konoka:''' But I can't heal you if your [[ChunkySalsaRule head gets crushed into a splatter]], so be careful, okay? (Like a Tomato!)\
77'''Setsuna:''' O-Ojou-sama...\
78'''Negi:''' H-haa.. okay...?\
79'''Chamo:''' Konoka-neesan, that's too grim! Too grim!
80** Haruna, peeved that her close friends wouldn't inform a {{Muggle}} such as herself about the existence of [[HermeticMagic magic]], threatens to thoroughly torture each one of them, while drawing pictures for them of [[ToThePain how she'll do it]] (thankfully, that's as far as she goes). In general, lots of characters comment on how scary Haruna is.
81** Chizuru acts like this for both Kotaro and Natsumi, despite apparently being completely powerless. However, she does seemingly summon large onion stalks (to be used as suppositories) at will (and she's ''extremely'' ready to apply them as per the previous parenthetical statement), and she's already been seen slapping a high-level demon without thinking twice about it. So while it hasn't been shown why yet, she might be inspiring fear for very good reason. [[spoiler: Later, Chizuru gets her artifact from a pactio with Negi. It's a magical onion stalk that [[HealingShiv cures all ailments]] and [[MindControl forces the target to do as she wishes for a while.]] And yes, [[AssShove she uses it on Negi.]] HilarityEnsues.]]
82%%* Ritsuko Akagi fills this position several times in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
83* In the Skypiea arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'', Nico Robin assures Nami and Chopper that Zoro is alright after saving Chopper from sky sharks, because "the clouds haven't turned red yet." Other examples include Robin telling Nami that she's 50 meters up and she'll die if she falls, suggesting that their new boat should be named "Being of Darkness", and finding a Cerberus cute while it was attacking her. And this is her when she's joking; considering her powers, if you make her mad, you'll never stop having nightmares... that is, if you survive[[DramaticEllipsis ...]]
84* Mytho from ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' becomes one of these in the second season when his [[spoiler:heart is tainted with Raven's blood]]. He performs a ballet dance to "Night On Bald Mountain" (which those who have seen Fantasia will remember as the sequence with Chernabog summoning demons) with gestures that make his hands seem clawed and an intense, angered and almost pained look on his face. It sends a group of female dance students screaming when they watch it. He also later tells a character that he wants them to take out his heart, then "kiss it and dye your lips crimson with my blood." It's hard to tell if he's trying to scare her or if he actually thinks it's ''romantic''.
85%%* ''Manga/RaveMaster'': Let's bury the dog. That'll make him all better.
86* Kafuka Fuura from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. Much of her work comes across this way, but in particular, when she gives a scratchy recording of the Traumerei lyrics about "soup made by a lady in a catskin", "a neighbourhood where all the old ladies have disappeared" and "a hole as deep as a young man's height", inadvertently producing a song that can drive any who listen to it paranoid, depressed and insane, yet dancing to it as though it were an upbeat piece of pop music. On one occasion, Kafuka was assigned by Itoshiki-sensei to brainstorm ways that aliens could make contact with Earth. Kafuka immediately proceeds to describe a method that the aliens could use to take over the world ''[[ParanoiaFuel without anyone noticing]]'', before concluding that humanity will likely remain completely unaware, even as it is converted into a livestock race. At no point does it dawn on her that this might be in any way disturbing. A common fan theory, well supported in the anime, is that she is in fact a (literal) demon and doing it deliberately.
87%%** [[FunnyForeigner Matarou]] also falls into this trope occasionally.
88%%** What about Chiri Kitsu? "Meat doll", indeed.
89%%* Faust VIII of Manga/ShamanKing.
90%%* Kaede [[spoiler: (the anime edition)]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' is a non-{{Cloudcuckoolander}} example.
91* ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'': [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead Reading Yor's mind often scares the life out of Anya]], as her thoughts frequently default to dead bodies and harming and killing people, which she takes entirely for granted, only clamping down on it when she drifts into MurderIsTheBestSolution. Her NightmareFace also terrifies Anya to no end.
92%%* The wizard Cob from Goro Miyazaki's ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea'' is this. Especially after his VillainousBreakdown, he is ''terrifying''.
93* Kaoru Yamazaki of ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK''. As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a {{Moe}} character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]] -- indeed, he thinks the character would be an appropriate, attractive heroine for an HGame. The most disturbing this is that he is the most well-balanced character in the series and apparently gets happily married at the end. And indeed, while his issues may be disturbing, he doesn't let them become an obstacle to his life, unlike every other character.
94* In ''Manga/YuGiOhR'', pretty much ''all'' the Card Professors are eccentric, but Tilla Mook seems to fit this Trope; she not only uses monsters based on vampires, she seems to believe she ''is'' one, hanging out in a room resembling a cemetery and referring to her ace card, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire%27s_Curse Vampire's Curse]], as her "master". This is further emphasized by the way the Solid Vision Hologram system of the Duel Disks interpret Vampire Curse's effect; when summoned from the Graveyard this way, Tilla offers it her neck and it drinks her blood, at which points her Life Points decrease by 1,000 (the cost for using the effect), and the monster gains 500 Attack Points via the card effect.
95* In ''Manga/YuruYuri'', [[CovertPervert Chinatsu]] is this. While she appears to be an extremely innocent {{moe}}-machine at first glance, her aggressive approach to winning Yui-senpai's heart occasionally traumatizes Akari and her drawings... [[http://randomc.net/image/Yuruyuri/Yuruyuri%20-%2006%20-%20Large%2011.jpg oh God her drawings!]] The other girls are [[BlueWithShock horrified]] by them.
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99* The art works of Creator/HieronymusBosch, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzislaw_Beksinski Zdzisław Beksiński]], and Creator/FranciscoDeGoya (his ''Art/BlackPaintings'', in particular), as well as Japanese voice actress Creator/YuuKobayashi (for example, [[https://twitter.com/holy_kobayashi/status/339053820808138752 this drawing]] is meant to be of three pigeons, but it's utterly incomprehensible), make them champions of NightmareFuel imagery.
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103* In ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'', Kombo likes to regale people with stories of headhunters ([[RunningGag even though]] [[ArtisticLicenseGeography these only live in the Amazon]]), and of the hunting and feeding habits of crocodiles at the worst possible moments.
104* Creator/GahanWilson did a one-panel comic of a man painting a picture of horrific nightmare beings, cheerfully telling an anxious onlooker "I paint what I see!" - and this was the title of one of his cartoon collection books.
105%% * [[ComicBook/SecretSix Ragdoll]]
106* ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'':
107** The [[SerialKiller titular character]] is mostly aware of how creepy he can be - but when interacting with his beloved [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood six-year-old neighbor]], he apparently forgets. There's a reason the comic's first chapter is called "Traumatize Thy Neighbor".
108--->'''Johnny''': Do you know where the disinfectant is? [[FridgeHorror Some of this blood is mine]].
109** The biggest moment of this was probably the time Johnny [[BigDamnHeroes thwarted a man's attempt to kidnap the neighbor boy]]. That's perfectly heroic ([[TerrifyingRescuer terrified as little Todd may have been]]). Johnny, however, then proceeded to show Todd that the kidnapper was nothing to be afraid of - by ''ripping the guy's brain out of his skull''. He then announces that it's Tuesday, "UFO day!" and runs off into the night.
110** In Todd's SpinOff comic ''{{Comicbook/Squee}}'', Todd's WeirdnessMagnet is exaggerated and he manages to inexplicably evoke the friendship of TheAntichrist. Yep. The literal ''son of Satan''. Again, his new friend (Pepito) seems to have no idea how utterly terrified little Todd is of him.
111--->'''Todd:''' Umm, outside I saw a lot of smoke coming from your fireplace.\
112'''Pepito:''' It is not from the fireplace... That smoke was from the [[CrossesTheLineTwice roasting souls of the damned]]. [[{{Satan}} Father]] likes to take his work home with him.\
113'''Satan:''' ...Shall we dine?\
114'''Todd:''' No! [[BigNo Nooo!!]] I don't want to eat the toasty souls of the damned!\
115'''Pepito:''' I thought we were having Stove Top?
116* Loki's [[Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard God(dess) of Stories]] incarnation is dreadfully prone to do incredibly creepy things completely obliviously to their own scariness and out of the best intentions. Like just so turning their best friend's soul into magical jewellery, and when she understandably freaked out reacting basically as: What?! The world is ending, and you're much more portable this way!
117* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Nightmare]], the sinister Lord of the Dreams Dimension and one of ComicBook/DoctorStrange[='s=] biggest foes. The literal personification of fear and bad dreams.
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121* The snowmen built by Calvin in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes?''. His father at one point was wondering about taking him to a shrink...
122* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had one comic of a boy taking a severed head in a jar to show and tell. Although Larson deliberately made the head look more goofy-looking than gruesome, his editor still rejected it, but you can find it in ''The Prehistory of the Far Side''.
123%%* ComicStrip/{{Lio}}, the main character from the comic strip of the same name, is the newspaper comic strip flag carrier for this trope.
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127* ''Fanfic/ADifferentMedius'' has Bebo Cole, the only [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu friendly Specter]] that Buwaro and co. have encountered thus far. Looks like a strangled corpse with a broken neck [[spoiler:(which he is)]], whose mouth is forever bleeding? Check! Casually talks about [[spoiler: the fact that Specters are dead demons and angels]], among other disturbing topics, like it was nothing? Check!
128* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' fandom is a group known as The Angst Lords. Their stories specialize in FridgeHorror and MyGodWhatHaveIDone moments guaranteed to leave you with the desire to hug someone tightly to reassure yourself that the story is over and, indeed, fictional.
129* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rose]], from ''Fanfic/EyesWithoutAFace'', and by extension the story's author. The way she calmly comments on all the horrible things that happen throughout the story can be [[NightmareFuel VERY UNSETTLING.]]
130* While [[Anime/OnePiece Robin]] is this in canon and [[Anime/{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] doesn't shy away from it, they talk about various nightmarish scenarios in ''Fanfic/FlyFree''. This is followed by similar conversations between Robin and Gaara. Then come the chunin exams, along with an OriginalCharacter, Ketsueki Daiya, who is apparently an insane, AxCrazy nine-year-old that will ''[[GigglingVillain giggle]]'' about [[AndShowItToYou ripping out other genin's hearts]].
131%%* [[EldritchAbomination Discord]] plays this role in ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum''. [[spoiler: [[EvenEvilHasStandards Though not for the reason you expect.]]]]
132* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/StarlightOverDetrot'', Slip Stitch falls right into this. He's a cheerful, happy, perky coroner who runs a morgue 'n' ice cream shoppe. (Two guesses where he keeps the ice cream.) [[spoiler:And after Hardy gets himself killed, he [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue wakes up in that morgue]], and gets to read a lovely little description of what Slip Stitch wanted to do to his corpse. In happy, chirpy, perky notes.]] No guesses what character ''he's'' following in the hoofsteps of.
133* The vocaloid fanfic ''Fanfic/RottingCamellias'' has many characters that could be classified as this. Special mention goes to Mayu, who is all cheer and smiles while [[spoiler: throwing knives at her stuffed rabbit and threatening to kill Miku for not singing]], but this trope could easily apply to many of the other characters, like Teto and Rin.
134* In ''Fanfic/TheRoboutianHeresy'', Corax and his Raven Guard. Not only they create various monstrosities, they also knew that [[HumansAreCthulhu humans are inseparable from the Chaos]] and work to further the agenda of Ruinous Powers, worshipping them as parts of the Chaos Undivided.
135* Izuku in ''Fanfic/DeathNeedNotApply'' manages to unsettle his classmates far more than Bakugou or Todoroki despite being less brutally violent than them. Within "The Zone" (which includes U.A.), no one can die and will heal from any injury, including dismemberment and destroyed organs. Since "The Zone" has existed for over a decade, people living within it think nothing of resorting to murderous violence over petty arguments. In class, Bakugou and Todoroki will murder classmates with violent rage and cold precision respectively. Izuku will gouge out eyes, snap necks, and impale his classmates while offering friendly advice on how to avoid such injuries. Izuku's CheerfulChild demeanor combined with his brutal tactics result in several students being outright terrified of him.
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139* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Anyone from Halloween Town. Although who can really blame them for decorating Christmas with spiders, bats, coffins, jack o lanterns, and {{Shrunken Head}}s? To them, [[ItMakesSenseInContext it's all very merry]].
140* In Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', the schoolchildren enthusiastically present a painting they made, depicting the battle between the "Warriors" and the grasshoppers, with various scenes of horrible carnage. The highlight of this is the kindly and lovable caterpillar, Heimlich, shown as cut neatly in half, on their teacher's recommendation that the scene needed drama. When poor Heimlich saw it, he went from green to white in an instant.
141* {{Satan}} himself (or rather, his nephew, who is supposed to be a ''non''-fallen angel) gets this role in a segment of the animated film ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'', based on his story "The Mysterious Stranger" ([[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cqi5F5MqqTQ YouTube link]]). As if the unnerving animation wasn't enough, he builds an adorable little claymation village for the children to play with - and then kills all the residents brutally while [[HumansAreBastards talking about how silly and petty humanity is]]. Popular rumor to the contrary, this scene ''is'' on the DVD release of the movie, in all its glory, although it has been known to be cut out of TV airings.\
142What's worse is in that in the original story, the Angel has such a force of personality that the characters still loved him greatly, even while they're horrified by his very detached view of humanity. [[WhatTheHellHero At one point he causes a friend of theirs to drown]] instead of allowing him to [[FateWorseThanDeath live to an old age where he'll be bed-ridden for '30 years',]] viewing it as being more merciful. It's implied he's such a horrifying bastard because like other angels, he has no knowledge of good and evil, having never eaten the ForbiddenFruit.
143* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'': Weird Girl is a superstitious parody of an OracularUrchin who rambles all the time about her cat's prophetic powers. Needless to say, she doesn’t fit in well with the other kids in New Holland, especially when she delivers her ominous pronouncements in a monotone voice with an unnerving stare, ''about them''.
144* ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'' has Eve, a caring StepfordSmiler MamaBear who, because she's an AxCrazy {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, would make various death threats against anyone who would harm her loved ones, including ripping out wolf anatomy's and shoving them down their throats or grasp at another wolf until they stop moving. However, some of the other wolves, such as [[PapaWolf Winston]] and [[OnlySaneMan Kate]], would be easily intimidated and shocked. Despite this, she believes that her threats would make a point.
145* Darla Dimple from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance''. She's [[EnfanteTerrible evil]], but we don't know that at first... thus making her [[IAmSong introductory number]], about the Ark, really creepy:
146-->'''Darla:''' Now, the people they were so bad\
147That the Lord made the rain come down!\
148And He washed away their bad cities,\
149And He washed away their bad towns--\
150And all of the people ''drowned''! ''('''Chorus:''' wails)''
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154* Tommy De Vito from ''Film/GoodFellas'', as expected from an AxCrazy maniac with a genuinely [[HairTriggerTemper animalistic temper]]. If it isn't obvious, he's definitely not a man you would ever want to cross paths with, or even attempt to piss off. It says a lot that he is considered the cruelest, most brutal character of the whole film. And for bonus, he's this even when he's casually speaking.
155-->'''Tommy''': You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
156-->'''Henry''': Just... you know, how you tell the story, what?
157-->'''Tommy''': No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!
158-->'''Henry''': ''[long pause]'' Get the fuck out of here, Tommy!
159-->'''Tommy''': ''[everyone laughs]'' Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.
160* ''Film/PoltergeistIITheOtherSide'': Reverend Kane, especially when crooning his IronicNurseryTune. The fact that his actor, Julian Beck, was dying of cancer shows in his character, too.
161* Sheriff Merrill from ''Film/TheTommyknockers''. She collects foreign dolls, [[CreepyDoll most of which look completely terrifying]]. Predictably, on a school field trip, one the children is frightened. [[spoiler: All these fears eventually come to motion when they come alive and break her skull.]]
162* Patrick Bateman's frequent morbid sketches throughout the book/film ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' certainly qualify, assuming you believe the AlternateCharacterInterpretation that is Patrick imagining all of the horrible things he is said to have done in the novel/movie.
163* Parodied in ''Film/ScaryMovie3'', with Cody's bizarre drawing of Samara parody Tabitha.
164* ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'' not only has plenty of Nightmare Fuel, but an unwitting NFSA in the form of Grandpa Creator/ErnestBorgnine, whose whimsical, heartwarming bedtime stories are filled with terrifying monsters and cute animal death (ironically, this is instead of letting him watch a horror movie). This unfortunate problem results from a very, very simple '''''incredibly bad idea'''''; the movie was made from two failed ''horror movies'' (including one that blatantly plagiarized Creator/StephenKing)... but they couldn't get them picked up like that, so they retooled them as a single family film, using ''exactly the same stories''. The very fact that someone thought it was a good idea to greenlight this script as a family film may make this TruthInTelevision, to a degree.
165-->'''Child:''' The monkey [[KickTheDog killed the dog]]?\
166'''Borgnine:''' I told you, it's a [[DemonicDummy bad toy]].\
167'''Child:''' What happens next? Does it kill Michael?\
168'''Borgnine:''' Well, now you're getting ahead of me.
169* In a variant of this, Sharon from the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie gained a habit of unconsciously drawing creepy pictures that even she herself would be afraid of when she'd come to her senses.
170* In ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'', Lydia takes the creepy {{Goth}} thing a little too far, wearing outfits better suited for funerals at family dinners (and given the reaction - or rather lack of it - from her parents, she clearly does it all the time). Lydia herself believes this is why she can see [[InvisibleToNormals the Maitlands]] and ghosts in general, being "strange and unusual" as they are.
171* ''Film/TheRing'':
172** Aidan, after watching the cursed tape, started drawing pictures of Samara, buried people, and huge circles that look a bit too much like the Ring.
173** [[EnfanteTerrible Samara]] was quite the Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, too, what with her "[[TheInsomniac insomnia]]" and her chilling IronicNurseryRhyme. It's no wonder she was drawn to the other CreepyChild in the movie.
174* In ''Film/DonnieDarko'', Donnie draws disturbing images of "Frank", a humanoid rabbit with a monstrous face. Being the MindScrew that it is, though, [[spoiler:It turns out that Frank is actually real, and Donnie is simply drawing an accurate depiction of his Hallowe'en costume. The movie, especially the director's cut, suggests that Frank is Elizabeth's boyfriend.]]
175* ''Film/{{Superbad}}'' features a humorous variant of this, in that it is not that the images young Seth draws are scary, but they all involve penises in vaguely disturbing contexts (signing the Declaration of Independence, bursting out of a man's chest à la ''Alien'', RidingTheBomb from ''Dr. Strangelove'', etc). They still result in him being sent to a psychiatrist though. Seth himself was, however, fully aware that what he was doing was utterly bizarre and quite disturbing but was unable to stop himself, describing it as a sort of compulsion.
176* ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'': Near the start of the movie, the kindergarten teacher shows the mother a picture which Aston Kutcher's (then 5-years-old) character has drawn: and it's him standing over two mangled corpses with a bloody knife in his hand. Subverted, because [[spoiler:at first it appears that 5-year-old Evan had innocently drawn it, then it's revealed to have been his adult self, with a motive in mind.]]
177* In the [[TheMovie film version]] of ''Film/BattleRoyale'', Instructor Kitano paints a crude, childish scene which portrays all of the students killing each other in various gruesome ways, but with Noriko standing unscathed, and with a saintly halo, in the midst of it all. Whether this means that Kitano is a creepy old man, or that he merely sees Noriko as a surrogate daughter ([[ParentalAbandonment to make up for his negligent fatherhood]]) is up for debate, but Shuya and Noriko's reaction to the painting was everything but favorable.
178* The minstrels following Sir Robin in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. Although their song starts upbeat, their description of his bravery soon turns quite gruesome:
179-->He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp\
180Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken\
181To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away\
182And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin...\
183His head smashed in and his heart cut out\
184And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged\
185And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off\
186And his penis...
187* The [[IronicNurseryRhyme cheerful rhyme game]] the children are playing at the beginning of ''Film/{{M}}''. This is actually TruthInTelevision - both cases M was (allegedly) based on (Peter Kuerten and Fritz Haarmann) inspired rhymes such as these in the populace. Less scary in the original German, where they included lines such as "he'll turn your ass into ham".
188-->''Just you wait a little while,''\
189''Soon the man in black will come''\
190''And with his little chopper''\
191''He will chop you up!''\
192You're out!
193* In ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'', right after the children's father has been hanged, and the other kids in town mock them by singing the song "Hing, Hang, Hung". This in itself is pretty creepy, but it doesn't get better when the little girl, too young to fully understand what has happened, cheerfully hums it to herself afterwards.
194-->''Hing, Hang, Hung,''\
195''See what the hangman done,''\
196''Hung, Hang, Hing''\
197''See the robber swing,''\
198''Hing, Hang, Hing, Hang,''\
199''Hing, Hang, Hing, Hang,''\
200''Now my song is done''
201* In at least one ending of ''Film/HideAndSeek'', Emily draws pictures that [[spoiler:give away her own split personality.]]
202* A mild moment in ''Film/SomeKindOfWonderful'': Eric Stoltz and Elias Koteas are in detention, and Koteas shows Stoltz a drawing he's just painstakingly completed, saying, "This is what my girlfriend would look like without skin."
203* ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' has Captain Spaulding, a NFSA mixed with a MonsterClown running a literal nightmare fuel station: a gas station with a spooky ride attraction based on local legends built onto the side (free fried chicken with each ticket!).
204* In ''Film/StrangersOnATrain'', we get two NFSA's for the price of one! Bruno and his mother (neither the picture of perfect sanity) are talking at home; she shows him her latest painting. He starts cackling delightedly and claims she captured his father to a "t" - the picture is a feverish nightmare portrait of wild glaring eyes and claws. Mom looks a bit confused and says it's supposed to be Saint Francis.
205* The kid in ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' (based on the original ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' episode) creates a no-way-out nightmare world for the others, but considers it all just good fun himself.
206* Nina, from ''Film/BlackSwan''. Her dancing as the Black Swan, rather than being sensual, is instead [[RedEyesTakeWarning terrifying]].
207%%* Kruger from ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. You know it's time to run whenever you see him or his squadmates enter the picture.
208* Wanda Maximoff of Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. For most of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', she is an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette with GlowingEyesOfDoom, she sneaks up on the heroes a lot, and [[MindRape induces terrible visions]]. Later, in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', she lays a CurbStompBattle on [[spoiler: Thanos himself]] in all her nightmarish glory.
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212* The award-winning novel ''Literature/KnowledgeOfAngels'' by Jill Paton Walsh features a young girl that was [[RaisedByWolves brought up by wolves]] being taken to a church for the first time. Imagine the reaction of a child that does not even know OF the Bible, let alone the details of the stories within it, coming face-to-face with a full sized Crucifix statue for the first time. By and large, quite a lot of religious iconography - particularly relics and images of martyrs - must be horrifying to young children who have no idea what they are meant to represent.
213* ''The Series/SpittingImage Book'', by the producers of the satirical 1980s TV show, included a parody of the WesternAnimation/{{Noddy|sToyLandAdventures}} children's books by Creator/EnidBlyton, in which Big Ears advises an unhappy Noddy to cheer himself up by singing happy songs. Noddy then proceeds to dance and sing a happy tune that quickly turns into a horrific, Wilfred Owen-like lyric about World War I. ("Oh what does it matter / If things aren't so merry / And death-shrouded corpses / Lie ready to bury"). The parody ends with Big Ears saying, "I don't see what you're so happy about. You've spoiled my whole bloody evening!" and an illustration (in the style of the originals) of him about to hang himself.
214* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', Mr Teatime himself qualifies as this; even the ''Assassins'' are horrified by him because even they have standards, and he is just too uncanny and unspeakable to be condoned. Lord Downey, head Assassin, privately decides that he will meet with a little "accident". Add this impression to his childlike behavior and outlook on life, and he genuinely horrifies people.
215* In ''Mathemagics'' of the ''Literature/ChicksInChainmail'' anthologies, Riva's daughter draws a picture of her home planet for class, which leads to an angry meeting between the teacher and Riva.
216* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', [[WildChild feral girl]] Sharon describes the circumstances that left her that way with all the comprehension of a four-year-old, and that innocence arguably makes her descriptions (and impersonations) of the attacking zombies and [[spoiler:the parents murdering their own children to keep the zombies from getting them]] that much more terrifying and [[TearJerker saddening.]]
217-->'''Sharon:''' Mrs. Randolph... was Ashley's mommy. Ashley was my friend. I asked her where was Ashley. She started to cry... Mrs. Randolph was dirty, she had red and brown on her dress.
218* In the ''Literature/DresdenFiles'' book ''Changes'', Toot-Toot the fairy comes out with this (spoileriffic) gem: "[[spoiler:Harry's the new Winter Knight!]] Which is fantastic! [[spoiler:The old Winter Knight]] mostly just sat around getting tortured. He never went on adventures or anything. Unless you count going crazy, I guess." Hilarious, but ''jeez''.
219* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid:''
220** Fregley is both a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant and a NauseaFuel Station Attendant, since he's so blissfully unaware of how his bizarre and disgusting behavior frightens and repulses others.
221** At one point in the series, little Manny accidentally watches one of Rodrick's horror movies instead of his kiddy cartoons. Greg stumbled upon a couple of Manny's [[NightmareFuelColoringBook drawings]] after that, and was pretty creeped out.
222* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
223** Rubeus Hagrid, in his role of Professor of Care of Magical Creatures, teaches the students at Hogwarts all about "interesting critters". Unfortunately, what Hagrid calls "interesting", his students call "dangerous and frightening". Then again, it's a matter of perspective. Hagrid is half-Giant and has been around such creatures all his life, and he's a good teacher in that he teaches the most important rule about them: ''Treat them with respect.''
224** There's also Luna Lovegood, who spouts creepy conspiracy theories, whose bedroom wall has a painting of her friends from Hogwarts surrounded by chains forming the word "friends," and whose general oddness is off-putting to the other characters.
225* Bod, the central character of Literature/TheGraveyardBook, seems slightly creepy at the best of times, mostly due to being raised by ghosts in a graveyard but also because of his tendency to remain unusually calm in situations where most people wouldn't be. However he becomes this trope in ''Nobody Owens' School days'' when he uses a few ghostly tricks (such as fear manipulation, manipulating someone's dream, and what appears to be some sort of illusion projection) to scare a couple of bullies into changing their behaviour. Then there's how he ends up dealing with the Jacks...
226%%* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': President Snow and the Gamemakers.
227* ''Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'': Name a particularly disturbing scene in ''Authority'' or ''Acceptance'', any scene. Chances are, Whitby figures into it somehow. It starts with Control discovering Whitby's [[spoiler:nightmarish wall paintings of Area X, with Whitby chilling out on a storage rack among them]], and goes to [[spoiler:Whitby fighting his own clone at the lighthouse.]]
228* Rosalie Hale from ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' is quite casual, matter-of-fact, almost flippant when she tells Bella the tale of how she [[spoiler:tortured to death her rapists and almost murderers]], back in the Thirties.
229--> '''Rosalie:''' "I'm sorry. I'm frightening you, aren't I? I got carried away."
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233%%!!!'''By Creator:'''
234* [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira]] often did this intentionally in her routines. (Which was the whole point, and played for laughs.)
235!!!'''By Series:'''
236* This is the whole point of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.
237* Simmons from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' trying to reassure other characters that her beloved poisonous insects, deadly viruses and other biohazards are actually nothing to be scared of and, in some cases, [[NightmareFetishist actually adorable]], tends to have the opposite effect of making them ''more'' nervous.
238* The title character of ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''. He's a big, purple, disturbingly cheerful Tyrannosaurus [[FridgeHorror whose cast of kids changes every year.]]
239* The Cousins from ''Series/BreakingBad''. You know it's time to run when they come for you. Almost everything about them is disturbing in nature.
240* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
241** Giles had a talent for drawing gruesome stick figures to illustrate his points.
242** Buffy gets a drawing as a gift from a kid that she saved. Even her mother liked it, despite the fact it was a gruesome and bloody display of her killing the MonsterOfTheWeek.
243** Anya has NoSocialSkills, displays BrutalHonesty, and has a thousand years' worth of knowledge about demons. This results in such things as her mentioning [[SantaClaus a demon who flies around on a sleigh pulled by reindeer]] [[BreadEggsMilkSquick to disembowel children]] casually at Christmas dinner.
244* In the third Halloween episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'', Annie Eddison fits this trope like a glove.
245* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
246** The Doctor's later regenerations particularly love this trope, when they're not being the source of the NightmareFuel themselves.
247** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer "Fear Her"]] features a young girl whose already creepy drawings (her father appears as a horrific demon with dripping fangs and burning eyes) are taken to a whole new level by some ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: they move, scream, wail and even threaten to kill anyone who looks upon them — not to mention that anyone she draws [[AndIMustScream becomes a faceless, screaming scribble for all eternity]].
248** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence in the Library"]]: As if killer shadows and animated StrippedToTheBone corpses endlessly repeating their last words in confusion from not realizing they're dead aren't ''creepy enough'', there's the little girl's psychologist (or that's who he seems to be at first). He reassures the girl — who already looks creeped out — that her world isn't as real as the monsters in the shadows, and then cryptically tells her that only ''she'' can save the cast. She doesn't look comforted. At all.
249* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
250** This is River's hat. When she's not completely insane or killing people, she's saying reaaally creepy things in a perfectly conversational tone, with absolutely no idea how scary she sounds. "Safe" has her mentioning, kind of off-handedly, a method of draining blood from the human body without leaving a mess, prompting Mal to call her "morbid and creepifying". In "Out of Gas", River tries to comfort Shepherd Book like so: "You think we're going to run out of air. That we're going to die gasping. But we're not." Silent beat, while Book smiles hesitantly at her. "We'll freeze to death first."
251** In "War Stories", Simon is given [[spoiler:Mal]]'s severed ear. He's being tortured.
252--->'''Simon:''' It's a clean cut. [When they get [[spoiler:Mal]] back] I should be able to reattach it. *{{beat}}* Assuming there's a head.
253* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Phoebe. She gives Monica "Gladys" - a hideously drawn, semi-3D portrait of a lady who looks like a witch, scary enough to stop even Joey from sleeping. There's also her psychic reading of the pencil. "I don't know who this is, but it's not Debbie." Cue everyone looking freaked. And there's the ''children's song'': "Oh, Grandma is a person that everyone likes, / She bought you a toy train and a bright shiny bike, / But lately she hasn't been coming to dinner, / The last time you saw her she looked a lot thinner. Now your parents told you she moved to Peru, / but the truth is she died and someday you will too." Poor, poor little children. When Phoebe is asked to tone down her children's songs and maybe write about farm animals and things like that. She comes out with, "Oh, the cow in the meadow goes, 'Moo'/Oh, the cow in the meadow goes, 'Moo'/Then the farmer hits him on the head and grinds them up/And that's how we get hamburgers/Now chicken!" PlayedWith in that the kids eventually love her for telling the truth.
254* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Ramsay Snow, whose appetite for torture seems to know no bounds.
255* Mr. K from ''Series/GoOn'' veers into this territory occasionally. Such as when he requests one of someone's teeth.
256* Lily's father from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' invents children's board games for a living, including titles like "[[{{Squick}} Diseases!]]" and "[[MonsterClown There's a Clown Demon Under the Bed]]." They're about as successful as you might think.
257* ''Series/{{Inazuman}}'''s second BigBad, [[TheGeneralissimo Führer Geisel]] is exceptionally terrifying even for a 70s {{Toku}} villain. He looks like a cross between an [[PuttingOnTheReich SS commandant]] and {{Dracula}}, is cold and [[NoNonsenseNemesis no-nonsense]] in contrast to the usual hamminess Toku villains have, regularly has his forces massacre people, and makes his introduction after pulling a merciless EvilerThanThou on the previous BigBad (who was already pretty bad by himself). In fact, he's pretty much singlehandedly responsible for making ''Flash'' a DarkerAndEdgier show to the original ''Inazuman'' series.
258* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', Charlie sings a song entitled "Nightman", which is heavily laced with Freudian sexuality. He has no idea why this song is so disturbing to his friends.
259-->'''Charlie:''' It's about the Nightman coming in and I become him. I become the spirit of the Nightman.\
260'''Mac:''' It sounds like a song where a guy breaks into your house and rapes you.\
261'''Charlie:''' What? No, listen: 'It's just two men sharing the night, it might feel wrong but it's just right.'
262%%** And then there's The Nightman Cometh...
263* ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'': [[ObliviouslyEvil Alain]] had a pleasant, nostalgic conversation with [[TheIngenue Kanon]] while keeping her brother as a toy after enslaving his soul because that's his idea of friendship. He actually had that conversation with her ''because'' she was worried about her brother's sudden disappearance and didn't tell her it's his fault because that might worry her more when there wasn't even anything wrong going on. He genuinely thinks that Ganma are justified in their invasion on Earth, because it is for the sake of spreading their perfect, conflictless society where no one suffers. It completely escapes him that the utopia is a thin veneer painted on a [[EldritchLocation poisonous, decaying world]] where no one can even ''exist'' as anything else than a HumanPopsicle remotely controlling artificial body.
264* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': Misora Isurugi, the [[TheBabyOfTheBunch baby of Nascita]] [[FamilyOfChoice family]], can be creepily cheerful if she gets enough sleep and threatens people with grievous bodily harm if woken up. Notably, she poked an unconscious man with her plush toy and happily proclaimed him dead when he didn't stir. Tied him up with chains, too, so getting excited over a cow anatomy puzzle is just a cherry on the top for her.
265* The episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', "Present Tense". Deacon and Kelly give Doug and Carrie a painting of one of their pictures together for an anniversary present. Unfortunately, in the painting, Carrie's right arm is grossly enlarged and Doug has nasty-looking buckteeth. Carrie even admits that she has nightmares about it and feels like the eyes of the painting figures are following her; not to mention that she and Doug sometimes imagine each other with the deformities. It turns out that Deacon and Kelly gave them the painting to get back at them for a bad anniversary gift the Heffernans gave ''them'': a set of statuettes of stereotypical-looking black jazz musicians. It would seem a more appropriate title for the episode would have been "Revenge is a Dish Best Served with an Anniversary Present".
266* In ''Series/LittleHowardsBigQuestion'', one episode has Big Howard attempting to coax Little Howard into sleep using a lullaby his father used to sing to him. In it, he sings the giant mutant bed-bugs won't bite so long as Little Howard stays very, very still, and that the monsters under the bed ''did'' once kill a child for going downstairs in the middle of the night to get a glass of water, but that Little Howard should be okay since there's still a quarter of the kid left, and that while Little Howard is sleeping he'll be 'downstairs with a Ouija board, communing with the dead'. Little Howard complains that this is the scariest song he's ever heard, but it's subverted when he falls peacefully asleep anyway.
267* A ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode has Radar enrolling in a creative-writing course by mail and soliciting the other characters for amusing anecdotes. When it's Frank Burns' turn, he shares a story from his youth that "always breaks me up"... about a disabled neighbor kid who lost control of his wheelchair, rolled down the stairs and across the lawn, and crashed into Frank's dad's car.
268-->'''B.J.''' (''horrified'') That must have been awful!\
269'''Frank:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Nah, he just scratched the paint a little.]]
270* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
271** Mike and the bots parody Ernest Borgnine's role as this in ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'' in one segment when they begin reading a series of children's books written by Ernest Borgnine. They all have cute covers and innocuous titles but feature sickening amounts of death and torture. (All except the book titled ''Dr. Blood's Orgy of Gore'', which is about a group of bunnies who get sweaters.)
272** In the opening host segment to [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E23TheAmazingTransparentMan "The Amazing Transparent Man"]], Mike - normally a good-natured doofus who can [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds go a little bit too far on occasion]] - puts on his best KubrickStare and a pair of [[HillbillyHorrors worn bib overalls]] to become "Mikey", a staring PsychopathicManchild with an obsession with matches.
273* In an episode of ''Series/NightCourt'', Bull enters a story filled with NightmareFuel into a children's book contest. He is so horrified to learn that his story actually frightens children that he breaks both his hands in a fit of rage.
274* ''Series/{{Outnumbered}}'':
275** Ben. It's true all the time but his family are more or less used to it, so it only really becomes noticeable during his class camping trip. His campfire scary stories and general pranks induce panic attacks, asthma attacks and warning symptoms of mental breakdown (such as whimpering and rocking) in the other children, while his teacher starts smoking again after having to deal with all of this.
276** Karen too, especially in the earlier seasons when she was younger. Her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm89VKlI8-o&ab_channel=BenR pictures]] are a prime example:
277--->'''Sue:''' Lovely, that's a lovely picture of [{{beat}}] what is it of?\
278'''Karen:''' A cow... killing some people because it doesn't want to be made into food. He's ripping their heads off and their arms off and shooting them and that one is of people getting hurt because the cow's killing them and the cow doesn't want to be made into food. Because I don't like burgers.
279* [[GenderBlenderName Mary]] Lightly, a consulting expert on serial killers who shows up on ''Series/{{Psych}}'' whenever [[SerialKiller Yin]] [[CriminalMindGames and Yang]] are in town. Everything about the way he looks, dresses, speaks, walks, and behaves is just strange enough to be simultaneously incredibly creepy and somewhat baffling, but just mundane enough to never be overtly threatening or malicious and to make it clear he isn't doing it on purpose. He has NoSocialSkills, [[StrangeSyntaxSpeaker unnecessary awkward and creepy choices of words]], more unsettling [[CharacterTic Character Tics]] than you can count, an almost-but-not-quite-incriminatingly detailed understanding of the way Yin and Yang think, and [[NightmareFetishist a borderline fetishistic obsession with his work]]. Both times he appears, he's immediately (and understandably) suspected of being the serial killer. But no... he's just really ''really'' creepy.
280* Mr. Jelly, the unintentionally scary [[MonsterClown clown]] on ''Series/{{Psychoville}}''.
281* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'': Claire can't understand why her cartoon about a girl who can make people's heads explode by looking at them was pulled from the school paper.
282* Lou Di Maggio and the Atwell Avenue Boys from ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS4E4TheWeight The Weight]]". The whole scene involving them is genuinely disturbing.
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286* A few of the songs by Music/TomLehrer, such as "Who's Next" and "We Will All Go Together When We Go" could make [[Music/TomLehrer the man]] come across as a NFSA. He also wrote a lovely lullaby that would fit the trope. On a lighter note (although that's not exactly difficult with two songs about nuclear annihilation), he has a cheerful ditty about the delightful spring pastime of "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"
287* Music/{{Vocaloid}}:
288** Music/{{Machigerita}}-P, who is responsible for such lovely songs as [[CircusOfFear "Dark Woods Circus",]] [[FireAndBrimstoneHell "On the Bottom of The Red Swamp",]] [[TheGrimReaper "Guard and Scythe",]] [[BedlamHouse "Madness; Because of Her Knowledge",]] and [[CreatingLifeIsBad "Test Tube Princess".]]
289** Music/{{Mothy}} is another example for the songs within the Music/EvilliousChronicles. To give you an idea, on subset of the Chronicles is the Seven Deadly Sins series, and it features gems like [[RapeAsDrama mass rape]], [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalism]] (and AutoCannibalism), and a synthetic plague that kills an entire town.
290** And the there's Hachi; any works he makes that aren't scary are usually at least [[MindScrew confusing]].
291** One more: Kikuo has several cheerful, upbeat-sounding songs, sometimes featuring voices and lyrics that are almost childish. Then you look at the lyrics and realize that several of the songs are about child abuse in some form, as well as possibly abortion or miscarriage, double-suicide, and one that could either be taken as sexual abuse by someone the singer calls "Daddy" or—if you read the lyrics more literally—cannibalism. And almost all of them sang to cheerful, upbeat tunes that get stuck in your head.
292** Though it should surprise absolutely no one who's familiar with his work, Deino's creation Calne Ca combines Miku's design with elaborate cybernetics and gratuitous insect imagery, though he maintains that she isn't an evil character.
293* Music/TomWaits has had entire albums that qualify, fitting neatly into the [[CircusOfFear snarling, horrific sideshow]] aesthetic of his music.
294** ''In the Colosseum'' gives us these lyrics.
295-->''The dogs are having someone who is screaming in the mud''
296-->''It's always much more sporting when there's families in the pit''
297-->''And the madness of the crowd is an epileptic fit''
298* Music/ScissorSisters gave us "I Can't Decide", the most upbeat, cheerful, lively and happy song you'll ever hear about casually plotting someone's cold-blooded murder.
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302* The Swedish Chef of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has a really jolly, somewhat ManChild personality which he maintains especially when trying to kill animals in horrible ways. Notably trying to cut off [[{{Keet}} Robin's]] legs before Kermit and Scooter realize what's going on (granted the Chef was forced on stage earlier then he was supposed to). DisproportionateRetribution much? It doesn't help that the Swedish Chef is the only Muppet with actual human hands. (He even seems to have what looks like a wedding ring in one recent appearance, but Lord only knows who his wife is.)
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306* Whoever the hell drew the illustrations in the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' sourcebook ''Innocents''. Okay, they're supposed to be scary, but this book specifically deals with child characters and the horrors faced there. The images haven't gotten any less disturbing. For a more direct example, the children writing notes found as flavor text throughout the book.
307* In the same vein as ''Innocents'', the indie RPG ''TabletopGame/LittleFears'' is about children fighting allegorical monsters for fun topics like child abuse, kidnapping, and molestation.
308* The ''MyImaginaryFriend'' game books are filled with childish journal entries talking about their lovable imaginary monster and how they disemboweled their evil teachers and such.
309* Every single follower of the [[EldritchAbomination Chaos God]] Nurgle in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Bloated, rotting, contagion-spewing shambling corpses, they just want to give you a biiiig hug so that you too can know the joy of being blessed by the Lord of Decay. Papa Nurgle loves you~
310* A ''lot'' of folks in the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' setting are like this. It would take too long to give a complete list, but one example: There's a taxidermist in the Lower Ward of Sigil who's a member of the Dustmen who ''really'' loves her work, and if a customer is an attractive type, she might ask for his or her corpse after his death. (And she is deadly serious about it. What makes this especially creepy is the fact that at least three customers apparently accepted this offer - they are displayed in her shop.) Of course, the Dustmen as a whole are a rather creepy bunch, who tend to hang around undead and worship death more often than not, even the ones who aren't evil.
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314* VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice and [[VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns sequel]]: Alice Liddell, Full Stop. Her mind is a very scary place.
315* Bebedora in ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad: Twilight of the Spirits''. She's a horribly creepy demonic young girl marionette who apparently has no eyes, can 'see' emotions as color and casually talks about Ending The World. Oh, and she can possess people and make them do whatever she feels like doing, whether they want to or not. [[http://www.flyingomelette.com/arc4/arc4bebedora.html This page]] should give you a vague idea of what kind of, uh, person-doll-demon-thing she is.
316* Why ''hello'' there, [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Subject 16]]! Why don't you regale us with some more of your insane ramblings, pieced together from the broken psyche that used to be your mind? Oh, and you've embedded coded chunks of your [[BrainUploading uploaded mind]] all through a system that is ''already'' independently capable of destroying a person's sanity? Thanks. The Animus wasn't scary enough on its own.
317-->'''Subject 16:''' ''She sees me raise the knife...''
318* The Little Sisters in the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' games exhibit traits of the NFSA, referring to the dead bodies they harvest ADAM from as "angels". In the second game, if you have a Little Sister with you when you use an electricity plasmid on a Splicer, she might cry, "Look, Mr. B! She's ''dancing''!" She will also exclaim in glee about marshmallows when you set them on fire. All Little Sisters have been tampered with in the perception department, to the point that all of decaying Rapture looks like wonderful, golden, shiny places, and for all we know, that's what they actually LOOK like to them: Electrified people burst into merry dance, flaming people are holding marshmallows...
319* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has two: first Izanami, ''[[PhysicalGod the Goddess of Death]]'' and the second is [[spoiler: Susanoo]] better known as [[BigBad Terumi]].
320* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'': In the AlternateRealityGame ''No Known Survivors'', there's a guy on a research ship receiving mail from his daughter, crude drawings with the repeated singing "Three Happy Spacemen, Three Happy Spacemen". The subject? Her father brutally killing his coworkers, which he does. And in mission 2 of the game proper, there's a nice young woman ([[EyeScream unfortunately visually impaired]]) cradling and talking to her friend, [=McCoy=]. She gives you the kinesis module that [=McCoy=] had her save for you. Oh, and by the way, [=McCoy=], is a headless, limbless corpse at the time.
321* The primary subject in ''VideoGame/DiscoverMyBody''. He's consistently very upbeat about the deformations his body has accumulated, perfectly happy to detail every bit of the experience from his end -- as much as he can manage, anyway. We know he's happy because he thinks the DeathOfPersonality that comes with the mutations and joining the mycotic HiveMind that's growing into him will finally help his crippling loneliness, which makes things worse still.
322* Emily's drawings in ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', if the player causes a lot of chaos (by killing indiscriminately).
323* ''VideoGame/FableII'' has the ever pleasant and friendly Chesty, a living treasure chest who just wants to be your very best friend and play games with you. After [[spoiler:pulling you into a nightmare and transforming you back into a kid]]... well... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71QQRDxEUi0&fmt=18.html ''Yeah...'']] Even better is when you can get back into the dream afterwards and open the door that was locked before. There you find [[spoiler:what happens to those who stayed his Very Best Friends...]]. Of course it is still not as pleasant as when you get the invitation to his party. You end up a little late to the party, and [[spoiler:VERY glad for it.]] There are also the banshees who say such wonderful things as 'how do you know if they're really even your family?' if [[spoiler:you decided to revive your murdered family at the end of the game.]]
324* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', who could forget Orson's wife Monica? [[spoiler: She's been brought back from the dead, but it's GoneHorriblyWrong.]]
325-->'''Monica:'''[[spoiler: Darlingdarlingdarlingdarling....]]
326** Henry from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' tends to insert gruesome murder fantasies into otherwise normal conversations, and can't really figure out why everybody is scared of him.
327---> '''Henry:''' ''Hello, Robin. I sure do love lunchtime [[HeroicComedicSociopath and ripping thumbs off!]]''
328** Kagero from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is a straightlaced ninja who isn't much like other examples of this trope at all, [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible but she fits the trope's description]]; she enjoys painting as a hobby, but all of her paintings are grotesque and nightmarish, even when she's painting something innocent like a dog.
329* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' has an almost literal instance of this trope in the Daycare Attendant. A note found in the [[NightmarishNursery Superstar Daycare]] has a parent complain that her child, who had no previous sleep issues, had begun refusing to sleep with the lights off and wetting the bed after being left in its care. It's not hard to see why: said animatronic is a lean [[MonsterClown clown-like]] robot with a permanently affixed SlasherSmile and overly fluid motion, who also switches between a 'Sun' and 'Moon' variant depending on whether the lights are on. The Sun sees no issue with [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace dragging Gregory around]] while shouting in his face about all the activities it has planned. The Moon is ''worse'', as upon its NighttimeTransformation it decides to 'punish' Gregory for being up past his bedtime while muttering in a [[EvilSoundsRaspy raspy voice]] about 'naughty children.' Needless to say, this thing is HatedByAll, precisely because it's [[UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot too terrifying]] for a bot intended to look after toddler-age children.
330* ''VideoGame/FranBow'': Fran Bow's one since she's a CreepyChild, and the game's both about and told from her perspective. Her response to the game's less dangerous horrors is predominantly curiosity and childlike wonder. This can be jarring, when she responds this way to carrion worms, headless anthropomorphic deer, and dead babies in a well (one of whom, she remarks, was very smart to bring its placenta; the placenta is a jetpack of blood and nutrients).
331* From ''VideoGame/GameAndWario'', we have 5-Volt, the mother of 9-Volt who checks to make sure her son isn't up all night playing video games in "Gamer". She shows GlowingEyesOfDoom when angry, her presence is accompanied by [[HellIsThatNoise a creepy ambient tone]], she creep into your room through your TV like the dead girl from ''Film/TheRing'', and can (most likely ''will'' [[ThereWasADoor break your window and climb into your room]].
332* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' has a somewhat subdued example in Joel. He is normally as nice and sweet of a guy as can be imagined, constantly looking out for his friends... but he also comments that the Crimson Horizon "looks like blood right before it's dried", and that one can "stare giant marine skeletons in the eye sockets" in a museum.
333* 343 Guilty Spark from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' is ''far'' too chipper about the Flood and how the only way to combat them is by killing everything.
334* ''VideoGame/LayersOfFear'' has the artist and protagonist. Not only does he take his house crumbling into Wonderland-esce madness quite well, he also saw nothing wrong with submitting a ''very'', '''very''' violent and gory version of Little Red Riding Hood as illustrations for a childrens book. In general does his art get really disturbing over time, but he sees nothing wrong with that, to the shock and horror of those that initially loved his work.
335 Fado from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. (Uh, [[http://zeldawiki.org/images/8/8f/Fadooot.png this kid]]. Her name's AllThereInTheManual. Apparently, no connection to the two later Fados.) When you meet her in the Lost Woods after the TimeSkip, she's taken a turn for the creepy. "That guy isn't here anymore. Anybody who comes into the forest will be lost. Everybody will become a Stalfos. Everybody, Stalfos. So, he's not here anymore. Only his saw is left. Hee hee." ... "Heh heh heh. Are you going to be...too? Heh heh!"
336* Agitha from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' loves bugs. She just LOVES THEM SO MUCH.
337* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'': The [[NightmareFuelColoringBook crayon drawings]] seen in Part 1's Prologue, [[spoiler:which depict part of the first game's story (Max's wife and baby are killed)]], are definitely the work of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, even if we don't know how anyone else reacts to them.
338* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has [[spoiler:Izanami, who gives the Protagonist his powers and is a literal Station Attendant. She could technically be considered one by trope definition as well, because she thought that she was merely giving the humans what they wanted.]]
339** In the anime especially, Shadow Naoto. Said Shadow is seemingly quite playful, and breaks down into tears at rejection, and is generally quite lovable with its oversized lab coat. Until Naoto pushes too many buttons, at which point the Shadow stops being so cute and childish and proceeds to ''psychologically tear Naoto apart''.
340* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' featured Marta, a cheerful old lady whose job it is to remove the teeth and organs of corpses. Your character, an {{immortal|ity}} with a powerful HealingFactor, can have her remove your internal organs and crack open your skull in search for items hidden by yourself before you were struck with amnesia. Oh, and hey -- there's no anaesthesia.
341* ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam And Max Save The World/Season One]]'' demonstrates this in Hugh Bliss. Max is enough of an example himself, but if anything, Hugh Bliss is just as bad with his constant cheeriness, his unnatural powers, [[spoiler:the fact that he's a colony of germs]], and when you use the bug on him in ''Abe Lincoln Must Die!'', guess what? ''He knew you were listening''. People say that [[spoiler:him being the villain]] was unexpected? His cameo in season two [[spoiler:in hell, complete with ''Film/TheExorcist''-style head turn,]] certainly doesn't help things.
342* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' has Emma and her disturbing drawings (''They Mostly Come At Night''), the "day care center" in the Amity House (''Virgula Divina''), and probably a few more that I'm forgetting.
343* Say howdy to [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100404211011/s__/sengokubasara/images/4/4b/Oichi-SB2.png Oichi]] from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. Basically designed to give you the creeps. If the demonic shadow hands she fights with aren't bad enough, her dissonant voice and creepy lullaby singing when she's smashing your face in might just give you a good scare.
344* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'' gives us the BigBad, [[spoiler:Albert Simon]]. He is an AffablyEvil [[EvilSorcerer Sorcerer]] set on kick-starting Judgment Day. Because he sees his end goal as basicly being able to undo all the damage he does along the way and then some, he remains polite, friendly and jovial the whole time. He steps over bodies, donates tomes-of-eldrich lore to madmen, and practices necromantic rites with a pleasant pasted on smile and kind tone as is usually reserved for the average tea-party.
345* Speaking of ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', there's the recurring demon Alice. She's an adorable little blonde girl... who was raised by two powerful demons, granted massive magical powers, was driven insane by them, and wants you to [[FateWorseThanDeath be her friend]]. Her [[TokenMiniMoe cuteness]] and [[CreepyChild childlike attitude]] just make the sadism (torturing the Hare of Inaba in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', for example) that much creepier. Plus her SignatureMove "Die For Me!" is the most powerful dark-elemental instant death spell in ''any'' game she appears in and involves summoning an army of undead.
346** Even better (or worse), the original appearance of Alice in ''Shin Megami Tensei 1'' is that of [[spoiler:the ghost of]] a little girl raised by those demons, whose only friends are the ghosts of everyone in Roppongi in Tokyo, killed by the demons to force them to stay there as her friends forever. Her SignatureMove shouldn't even be rendered as a command, but instead a question -- she desperately wants you to stay and asks, "Would you die for me please?" out of loneliness, not anger or spite.
347* And let's not forget [[spoiler:[[VillainProtagonist Revya]]]] from ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters''.
348* From ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
349** The Medic is a MadScientist and DeadlyDoctor, perhaps ''the'' most terrifying on the entire team, and considering [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores its pedigree]], that's saying a ''lot''. Even the Heavy, the [[BoisterousBruiser towering Soviet brawler]] who smashes his way through the enemy ranks with a roaring laugh, is commonly put off by the Medic's sinister tendencies. The Medic's take on all this? As far as he's concerned, he's just practicing medicine.
350** The Pyro also happens to be this in an inadvertent way. ''Everyone'' is scared of [[TheSpook them]], and rightfully so considering they're a destructive {{pyromaniac}} who in "Meet the Pyro" alone is shown [[OneManArmy systemically and brutally annihilating the entire BLU team]]. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness In Pyro's own head, however]], they picture everything as a wacky SugarBowl that they interact with sincere joy and childlike wonder, [[ObliviouslyEvil completely unaware of how the cherub they gave a lollipop to was in fact a Heavy they just decapitated with an axe, among other things.]]
351---> ''[[SoundtrackDissonance Do you believe in ma~gic... In a young girl's he~art...]]''
352* The nurse in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' is constantly telling you that she hopes you come back with terrible, life-threatening injuries so she'll have something to do.
353* Madotsuki from ''VideoGame/YumeNikki''; almost all of her time is spent sleeping and concocting [[NightmareSequence nightmares]] [[EldritchAbomination that wouldn't be]] [[EldritchLocation out of place]] in a CosmicHorrorStory.
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357* WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'s Nanashi Mumei was regarded by fans and colleagues as TheCutie of her generation, but her "cursed" pictures have given her the image of a cutie with a barely hidden darkness inside. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdi3mURJjkU The first of these pictures]] (which has become an iconic emote linked to her) was a portrait of [[MemeticPsychopath Suisei Hoshimachi]] that turned into a NightmareFace bared fangs and glowing red eyes. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTyH3gvoElY Her debut in hololive no graffiti]] plays into this, contrasting her cute speech and mannerisms with sudden outbursts of violence and wiping out civilisation.
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361* In ''Webcomic/AnEpicComic'', Bowser has the ability to change his dimensional appearance from events before the comic. Putting that into thought and seeing a glimpse of what he can do, how far can he go before it reaches a limit?
362* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily''.[[color:purple:Sometimes Waluigi thinks. He thinks about the most important things in life.]] [[GrossUpCloseUp WAAAAAA!]]
363** Also, ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' apparently [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/196-zombiefinale/ tells frightening zombie stories.]]
364* Feferi Peixes from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is could be the poster child for this trope. A cute, [[PungeonMaster bubbly]] girl who beyond traits that are usual for her species also has fins on her face and a grin comparable to a shark. She's often full of optimism even when the situation doesn't call for it, which is likely because she constantly gets prophetic hints from EldritchAbomination, one of whom acted as her [[RaisedByWolves surrogate mother]]. And that doesn't even get into her ghostly affairs. Or the fact that she's absolutely terrifying when she's angry.
365-->'''CC:''' Because, stupid.\
366[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004894 CC: I'M D------EAD!]]
367** Incidentally, she's not actually ''angry'' there. She's at most mildly exasperated.
368** Feferi is one of two characters in the entire series not to be scared to death of the Noble Circle of Horrorterrors-- she was raised by one, after all, so her reaction to them is basically that of a GenkiGirl visiting her relatives. She even wants to introduce her friends to them, and doesn't understand why nobody else wants to sleep after the death of their dreamselves.
369** After going from an emotionless ghost to an angry robot, God Tier Aradia is ''just so excited and so happy'', even when talking about throwing a "corpse party" for [[spoiler: all the dead trolls.]] One notable scene well into Act 6 has her not even saying anything. Just standing off to the side in the middle of a conversation with a [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=007970 huge, creepy grin on her face.]]
370* ''Webcomic/LovelyLovecraft'': Howard to some degree, as he is a child version of horror master H. P. Lovecraft. He is relatively unfazed by Phil and Pickman, remaining calm enough to identify them as a Night Gaunt and a ghoul respectively.
371* From the ''[[Webcomic/NatureOfNaturesArt NofNA]]'' AprilFools strip: [[http://www.nofna.com/?T=1-1-999-1 Pikachu's new trainer]].
372* From the summer of 2010, Diedrich of Website/GaiaOnline gleefully shares a few facts about the grisly fate of airship crews, then just as gleefully offers to captain one for you in Frontier Skies.
373* Hannelore in [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1171 this]] ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''.
374-->'''Hannelore:''' Do you get the recurring dream where the rapping penis tells you to kill your friends too?
375** Made worse a couple panels later where she demonstrates this rap.
376** She's a [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=546 somewhat light hearted example of this]]. It usually comes out [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=596 while trying to comfort others]].
377* The Hairy Criminal from ''Webcomic/GunShow''. [[NonIndicativeName Who isn't actually that hairy at all.]]
378* [[http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000484.html In this]] ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'', T-Rex attempts to write a book for children which combines a cute story with {{Anvilicious}} [[AnAesop Aesops]]. The result, however, is a book which reads "Happy Dog loves to play fetch with a boy named Timmy! Timmy is Happy Dog's best friend. Timmy is made of meat. Your whole family is made out of meat".
379** He sold an accompanying T-Shirt with a stick-figure-ish family of Dad, Mom, Son and Daughter with frowns on their faces with the caption "My Whole Family Is Made Of Meat". When I wear mine around, I get looks ranging from bemusement to outright horror.
380* The unfocused powers of the eponymous 8-year-old RealityWarper of ''[[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus1.html minus]]'' make her practically this trope personified. Among her more disturbing actions are [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus45.html a magic show]] which features a ''literal'' Cut The Lady In Half act, [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus88.html swapping the heads of everyone]], and [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus40.html inducing rictus grins in the townsfolk]].
381* A great many of ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' strips are either about this trope, or done in that style. See for example "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/kinder-interview/ Kinder Interview]]" and "[[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skeleton-clown/ Skeleton Clown]]".
382* Lie Bot from ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' invokes this trope at times, most notably in the "What is the [[http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09052006 saddest]] [[http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07302007 thing?]]" exchanges with Philippe.
383* Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}: [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/you-are-alone-not This unique take]] on [[HumanoidAbomination Rei Ayanami]] of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' smiling has Shinji quite disturbed.
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387* The ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' Hallowe'en cartoon "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/homestarloween.html Homestarloween Party]]" features the characters telling a light-hearted campfire story - until Strong Sad's turn, when he suddenly packs the story with all kinds of depressing and disturbing twists:
388-->'''Strong Sad:''' And the robot's human brain remembered his children and his stolen life, and he was moved to tears. But the tears shorted out his circuits, and fried his brain, and the robot toppled over, and he crushed his children, and the Goblin, too. [[ShootTheShaggyDog And none of them lived]].
389** Similarly, in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/dumpingtontoon.html A Folky Tale]], Strong Sad's folk hero alter-ego Saddy Dumpington will reveal some horrifying fact ("I just saw a baby chick choke on a worm. They both died!") in a cheery voice, and then add "Isn't that great?", apparently unaware that most people find that sort of thing "miserable and depressing". Saddy ironically becomes NightmareRetardant when he tries to purposefully depress the local townsfolk by dressing as a "weird snake".
390*** But then Strong Sad tells that [[spoiler:the townsfolk laughed so hard they fell into a coma for the rest of their lives.]]
391** There's also Senor Cardgage who was once heard singing a creepy rhyme in a "daycare" with a ChalkOutline outside and even creeped out Strong Bad by walking in place with disembodied traffic noises echoing around him.
392* The titular character from WebVideo/{{Dad}}. Especially in one of his most disturbing videos when he smashes the sweets.
393* WebAnimation/SaladFingers falls quite nicely into this trope, with his childish, almost playful voice, his fetish for rusty objects, his finger puppet "friends", who he routinely talks and sings to, and his tendencies for self-mutilation.
394* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' has Cecil, the narrator and community radio host who cheerfully reports happenings such as glow clouds that rain dead animals, ritualistically slaughtered pterodactyls, and people being killed en masse by mysterious mute children.
395* ''WebVideo/{{Mega64}}'': Sean. For example, his room contains nothing but a broken alarm clock, a table, two chairs, and an incredibly creepy painting of two clowns.
396* In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest-'' v1, in [[PsychopathicManchild Cillian Crowe's]] backstory, [[CreepyChild as a child]] he would draw very unpleasant pictures of his imaginary friend Haddy apparently causing a massacre. At another point, his class was working on a play, and on the day of the performance the background ended up covered in stage blood with "I will KILL you" written all over. Needless to say, his adoptive parents were freaked out, enough to [[ParentalAbandonment abandon him]]. [[SelfMadeOrphan This did not end well for them.]]
397* Creator/DougWalker's persona from ''WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses''.
398** However bad Ask That Guy may be, WebVideo/BennettTheSage (especially as depicted in the special [[ChristmasEpisode holiday episode]]) is ''tenfold worse''. And here's something to consider: in RealLife, Bennett was only twenty years old when the segment was filmed--and there's every indication that he wrote all his own dialogue. Think about that for a moment.
399* The late edarem, a Website/YouTube user, seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wdmSL2-Ock this video]] (probably his most popular video) lip syncing Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman, was an old man in his 70's who went to jail in the 80's for a sex offender conviction, but was released and seemed to have turned his life around. His videos include his daily life, tips with household chores (including cutting a bagel, brushing a dog, etc), tips with daily life, general oddities, and song lip syncing, among others. He didn't seem like a mean old man, but rather, a very gentle, entertaining and helpful person. However, this didn't not stop him from coming off very creepy. Tragically, he died back in prison again, after it turned out that simply putting up these videos on Website/YouTube was considered a violation of his parole.
400* [[WebVideo/WarningReadersAdvisory The Nachzehrer]] is a strange cross between this and FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.
401* [[PoliceBrutality Hall Monitor]] from ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers''. Particularly the minute he senses any sort of illegal activity, as he switches into RabidCop mode and punishes the offender with extreme prejudice.
402* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSkT77010fE This guy]]. Who knew a how-to video on making iced tea could be so friggin' creepy?
403* According to WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay, their friend Plague of Gripes from youtube is this, from having lived on a farm and seeing how fucked up animals can treat each other.
404* A few characters from WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan. But especially, [[JerkJock Joseph]] and [[DepravedKidsShowHost Doofy The Dragon]].
405* Creator/TeamFourStar's version of Mr. Popo in ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'' easily qualifies, with heaping helpings of BlackComedy to even it out.
406** One clip even has Popo creeping the hell out of the guy editing the video.
407* blameitonjorge comes across as this due to the disturbing subject matter of his videos, and the eerily calm and monotone voice he delivers the narration of them in.
408* Jessica from ''Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous''.
409-->'''Jessica (In a high, childlike voice):''' "Murder! Murder! Murder!"
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413* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' gives us [[AlmightyJanitor Peppermint Butler]] who innocently declares that, in exchange for a favor he did for Finn and Jake, he will take their flesh as payment. The heroes giggle a bit at what they think is a joke before he says he'll take it from them in their sleep. His eyes [[BlackEyesOfEvil glow black]] when he does, and Finn and Jake are more than a little unnerved. There have since been more than a few hints that Pepperment Butler is secretly evil. In the above mentioned episode, he was revealed to be personal friends with Death. In "Return to the Nightosphere" there's a photograph in the background showing him caddying a game of golf for Marceline's Dad (aka the demonic Lord of All Evil and basically Adventure Time's version of Satan). In "Too Young" he got nervous when Finn asked to see his aura with a machine Princess Bubblegum invented. The hints seem to have been confirmed in "The Suitor", in which he is caught several times [[SummoningRitual summoning a demon,]] making it possess [[Cloudcuckoolander/WesternAnimation Cinnamon Bun's]] body and trying to interrogate him for the location of some equally evil object. The bubblegum guardians keep pulling him away from this to make him do one of his royal duties and [[TheMatchmaker try and find Princess Bubblegum a suitor.]] Eventually resulting on the best suitor making a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the demon.]]
414** [[AxCrazy Lemongrab]] in general, especially in his most disturbing episodes.
415* A Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' features a level-headed and soft-spoken onion-spider-creature named "Willie Nelson" who lives in the attic. When the main characters try to make Willie Nelson scary, they fail miserably. It's not until the last part of the episode where you find out that [[spoiler:Willie Nelson has been keeping hundreds of dead and mangled bodies in the attic on meat hooks to feed on]]. Needless to say, all the characters are horrified, but Willie Nelson doesn't understand why they're so freaked out. It's just "juice" for him.
416* Cheryl, the secretary from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
417-->'''Cheryl:''' You seriously don't think that's hot?\
418'''Pam:''' I seriously think you're scary.\
419'''Cheryl:''' No, nononono. Like, a big sweaty fireman carries you out of a burning building, lays you on the sidewalk and you think "OK, he's gonna give me mouth to mouth", but instead, he just starts choking the shit out of you, and the last sensation you feel before you die is that he's squeezing your throat so hard that a big glob of drool slips right off his teeth and -- *blurp* -- lands right on your popped out eyeball.\
420''[{{Beat}}]''\
421'''Pam:''' Jesus Christ!\
422'''Cheryl:''' I know, right?\
423'''Lana:''' What the hell?!\
424'''Cheryl:''' I'm wet just thinking about it.
425* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Princess Azula trying to act like a normal teenager.
426-->'''Azula:''' ''[after winning a volleyball game]'' [[SeriousBusiness Yes! We've defeated you for all time! You will NEVER rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation!]]...[[MoodWhiplash Well, that was fun.]]\
427'''Azula:''' That's a sharp outfit, Chan. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} Careful, you could puncture the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battleship, leaving thousands to drown at sea.]] ''[[[{{Beat}} awkward silence]]]'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Because it's so sharp.]]\
428'''Chan:''' Umm, thanks...\
429'''Azula:''' [[UnholyMatrimony Together, you and I will be the strongest couple in the entire world. We will dominate the Earth!]] ''[[[PlayingWithFire columns of blue fire burst from her hands]]]''\
430'''Chan:''' Uh... [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon I gotta go]].
431* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Freaky Fred. He's not really nightmarish, he's just... ''naughty''.
432* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': Bushroot, being the sympathetic but kind of unstable scientist that he is, often causes much unintended horror with his experiments like trying to marry a giant mutated vampire-potato and never realising the whole monster thing, creating again and again quite a few monsters in his effort to make friends and leaving creepy husks of his body behind. And all this, while being whiny, affable and wimpy.
433* Nug of ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' is an in-universe supplier of FridgeHorror, often inadvertantly terrifying Frizz with his unnerving assumptions of the outcomes of some of their schemes.
434-->'''Frizz:''' I'm gonna fall!!!
435-->'''Nug:''' If you did, you'd probably break every bone in your body...probably.
436* Ed from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', whose grip on reality has been severely weakened by a near-constant diet of horror comics and B-movies. His idea for a scam in "It Came From Outer Ed" involves dressing his friends as skeletons and astronauts, making them pass each other pancakes, shouting "Evil Tim has beckoned you all, for you all will pay with your brains!", and then ripping up a stuffed bunny with his teeth. Yet he still considers this a piece of light-hearted fun, even when the curse kicks in and he and his friends are mobbed by angry crows.
437** When regaling [[RashomonStyle his side of the story]] in "Once Upon An Ed", Ed comes up with an alternately ridiculous and terrifying tale of the Kanker Sisters (the three trailer trash [[StalkerWithACrush Stalkers With Crushes]]) hideously mutated by eating radioactive mashed potatoes, who torment Ed and his friends by [[CoveredInKisses throwing enormous, sloppy kisses]] and shooting rays from chickens on their armpits that turn houses into giant hygiene products ("Evil soap! Deodorant!"). And then they can merge their heads together to shoot a giant kiss.
438--->'''Eddy:''' Ed, your story's gettin' weird!\
439'''Edd:''' My Ed, what an enchanted world you live in.
440** At the beginning of "Is There an Ed in the House?", he draws a portrait of Rolf... with a monster looming behind him. Ed gleefully explains "Rolf's head is about to be ''crunched'' by a four-legged mutant bus driver!"
441** And let's not forget when he dressed up as a space monster in "The Day The Ed Stood Still" (though considering [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 what the title alludes to]], what would you expect?) and got a little ''too'' into character... ''"I am a '''monster!'''"'' The whole thing eventually degenerates into a pastiche of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' movies.
442** The HalloweenEpisode. Ed takes in even more B-movies than usual, which causes him to occasionally [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness see the world as one]]. This turns a simple trek to a mythical neighborhood that gives out tons of candy into a battle against monsters summoned by witches.
443* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': A variant of this trope occurs when Fry first tries to play the holophoner without the assistance of his internal parasites; while he earnestly tries to portray his feelings, the result is a hellish, poorly-played song about a Frankenstein-esque monster. His rationale for this performance was that he "got nervous and started thinking about neck bolts".
444** This happens to Fry quite a lot. At a holophoner recital, Fry tries to play a tune called "The Grumpy Snail". Things go alright for a while... until the snail spouts fangs and starts foaming at the mouth.
445--->''"It's TOO grumpy!"''
446* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Stumpy has no sense of reality due to always reading comics, playing violent video games, and watching horror movies. His art is (in-universe) regarded as absolutely terrifying, and in one episode he finds chalk drawings inside a cave depicting a group of friends partying on a cruise ship and changes the picture so a giant meteorite falls on them.
447* Finding any ''single'' character in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' to represent this trope is a hard task, as that show basically ''ran'' on this trope. That said, if one had to choose, it would definitely be [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Barber]], the resident 19th century doctor and barber of [[NotSoSafeHarbor Stormalong Harbor]]. Expect plenty of BlackHumor revolving around the surprisingly graphic descriptions of his offscreen [[MeatgrinderSurgery Meatgrinder Surgeries]] and grotesque patients whenever he's around.
448** What about Candy Wife?
449* The members of Dethklok from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', given their morbid lyrics and subject matter and the fact that every single one of their concerts results in a bloodbath.
450* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
451** [[PhysicalGod Princess]] [[TheSacredDarkness Luna]] has rather scary tastes. Example? On the pony equivalent of Halloween, she travels to Ponyville in a demonic chariot pulled by menacing, bat-winged pegasi, donned in a hooded cloak ''made of bats'' and accompanied by DramaticThunder and the sky spontaneously darkening. [[NoSocialSkills She seems to think this is a perfectly normal way]] [[FishOutOfTemporalWater for one to arrive to address her subjects]], and that turning fake spiders into real (harmless, granted, but still terrifying) ones is a fun thing to do. Her dark gothic figure and [[NoIndoorVoice echoing bellow of a voice]] don't help whatsoever. This comes in handy when she realizes that sometimes her subjects ''like'' being frightened, which lets her win them over with some lighthearted scares.
452** [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie]], a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} if there ever was one[[note]][[DependingOnTheWriter Except when]] she's a total idiot[[/note]], sets a precedent of being too mentally unstable to even feel fear no later than the show's second episode. One of the most obvious instances of this was the Season 2 premiere, where she's so enamored by [[GodOfEvil Discord]]'s [[ActuallyPrettyFunny twisted sense of humor]] and ability to make the clouds rain chocolate milk that she initially makes the argument that said AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[OrderVersusChaos chaos]] should be allowed to unleash [[RealityIsOutToLunch his demented]] [[WorldGoneMad reign of terror]] [[SugarApocalypse on Equestria]]. She does occasionally demonstrate fear responses, but "Luna Eclipsed" implies that even these are all put-ons meant for her own entertainment (which explains why they're just as often about completely irrational things -- like mistaking Twilight's gala tickets for "bats on [her] face" or believing Spike to be a ghost -- as rational ones).
453* Occasionally, on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Stu Pickles' toy inventions have a tendency to unintentionally creep out the kids of the show. The best example is "Mr. Friend", a [[MonsterClown creepy-looking robotic clown toy]] whose flawed design (complete with stuttering, twitching, and occasional sparking) made him seem dangerously out of control. The scene where Tommy and friends decide to fight back against an accidentally activated army of them is perhaps the greatest moment of the show.
454** Similarly, an old Reptar toy (a green dinosaur) was forgotten about in ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' It freaked the tweens out a lot, considering that it was implied the Reptar was coming back from the dead to torture them for forgetting about it. Uh... they were toddlers? Jeez!
455** The two episodes called "Interview with a Campfire" have strong ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' themes (taking place in the woods, near a lake, people going missing, etc.) and most of it is shot using a camera, like ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''.
456* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' features [[PsychoElectro the Dominator]] from "XCVI", the ruthless man who kidnapped the children. The fact that he's a mere human with a intense air of cruelty and malice willing to commit atrocities for pure enjoyment makes him pretty scary and chilling. That, and his creepy fixation in Ashi's beauty.
457* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
458** Homer makes a young Bart a [[MonsterClown misshapen clown-shaped bed]]... which is so horrifying that Bart stays awake constantly, muttering "[[MemeticMutation Can't sleep, clown will eat me]]".
459** During the episode in which Bart has his first day of school, he makes a drawing to commemorate the occasion, complete with a stick figure of himself being stabbed with knives and plenty of crayon blood. Homer's reaction?
460--->'''Homer:''' ''[not paying attention]'' Oh, it's beautiful! Oh, oh, let's put Bart's beautiful drawing up on the fridge!\
461'''Marge:''' Homer, stop. Will you please look at the drawing?\
462'''Homer:''' Oh, all right. What... ''[looks at drawing]'' ...AAAH! Burn it! Send it to Hell!
463** Then, of course, there's Bart's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior when the school shuts down.
464--->'''Marge:''' There's just something about a boy flying a kite at night that's so... unwholesome! ''[Bart looks over his shoulder at his parent's window]''\
465'''Bart:''' [[CreepyMonotone Hello, mother dear...]]
466** Then there's the appropriately-named episode "Cape Feare", where the Simpsons go into the Witness Relocation Program and move into a houseboat to protect Bart from Sideshow Bob. When Bart -- having been receiving death threats from Sideshow Bob, and understandably a little on-edge and fearful to begin with -- tries to go to sleep, Homer bursts in at the most inappropriate time brandishing a knife, yelling '''''"[[MotorMouth BARTDOYOUWANTSOMEBROWNIESBEFOREYOUGOTOBED]]?!"'''''. Seconds later he comes back in screaming '''''"[[MotorMouth BARTYOUWANNASEEMYNEW]][[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw CHAINSAWANDHOCKEYMASK]]?!"'''''
467* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Something Smells", Patrick tells the story of "JustForFun/TheUglyBarnacle" to [=SpongeBob=] to try to cheer him up:
468-->'''Patrick:''' Once, there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.\
469'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ...That didn't help at all.
470* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', Little Larimar is a sweet, soft-spoken [[spoiler:un-corrupted]] gem... [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming whose favorite sound is human screaming]]. Granted, it's specifically screams of ''excitement'' (she panics at screams of ''fear'', and later comes to find that laughter is an acceptable substitute), but it does make her a lot creepier than her kindly attitude suggests.
471-->'''Larimar:''' Human screams are my favorite of the Earth's delights! I want to hear the human screams ''forever''.\
472'''Steven:''' [[LampshadeHanging Okay, that's kinda troubling]], but your heart's in the right place!\
473'''Larimar:''' One day, ''I'll make you scream, Steven''.
474* On ''WesternAnimation/SuperMansion'' Jewbot falls into this in episode 12, where he horrifies American Ranger when he makes a suit designed to emulate the appearance of human skin in an attempt to make Ranger feel more comfortable.
475* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': In an episode in which Raven travels with very young kids -- an awkward prospect for all of them, as she's potential Nightmare Fuel herself -- the oldest of the kids has the power to bring her imaginary friend to life. Invisible at first, "Bobby" is finally revealed to be a giant teddy bear... which sprouts six-inch claws and jagged-line fangs when its maker sics it on the bad guys.
476* Somewhat subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', where Plucky spends the night over at Buster's house, spending the whole time watching gory horror movies on videotape (one of them a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'') and laughing like he was watching comedies. He then has nightmares when Buster convinces him to go to sleep. However, this is ''double-subverted'' at the end when he wakes up and wants to watch the movies again (at which point Buster finally kicks him out).
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479[[folder:Real Life]]
480* In Website/YouTube, there's a lot of unusually bizarre, frightening and disturbing videos. Of course, these videos are definitely the work of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant.
481* Creator/LFrankBaum wrote the ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]]'' books as a less scary alternative to what he perceived as the too-creepy fairy tales of the day. Well, then, if that was your purpose, then you failed miserably, Mr. Baum. because the series is known for its {{Surprisingly Creepy Moment}}s, with a fair amount of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and NightmareFuel for a little kid's series. Many readers have also noticed some oddities about how Oz is presented (often due to ValuesDissonance), such as how [[BanOnMagic no one but the two regents are allowed to use magic]] or how the former Wizard of Oz is [[DesignatedHero treated as a "good man" despite all his previous misdeeds]]. It's essentially a dictatorship, [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans but it's a ''benevolent'' one, so few citizens are unsatisfied]]. ''Still, these UnfortunateImplications are enough to make writers brainstorm''. So the '[[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]] books is reinterpreted as more [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical political than intended]]. As a result, Oz and its characters routinely get referenced in dark, political manners and many adaptations politicize the setting. Glinda the Good Witch and the Wizard of Oz are especially prone to getting reinterpreted as more [[AdaptationalVillainy amoral than intended]]. The Emerald City will also be turned into a StepfordSuburbia that looks pretty and shiny but hides darker secrets underneath. To resume, ''Creator/LFrankBaum unintendedly created a whole literary genre, that is a Sub-trope to FracturedFairytale called DystopianOz''.
482** On a similar note, ''Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}}'' was originally written to be a Christmas present to the children of the author's neighbors and family. One imagines he didn't much like these children, as beyond the horrifying content, it's a book entirely about what children ''shouldn't'' do if they don't want a SpaceWhaleAesop to befall them.
483* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil Eduard Khil]], he of the viral "[[https://youtu.be/6S8OsJOP4Bw Trololo]]" video in which he perpetually wears TheUnSmile.
484* {{Nursery Rhyme}}s. "Rock A'bye Baby" is probably the worst.
485-->''Rock a'bye baby\
486On the tree top\
487When the wind blows\
488The cradle will rock\
489When the bough breaks\
490The cradle will fall\
491And down will come baby\
492Cradle and all...''
493** Creator/ShelSilverstein addressed the scariness of "Rock A'bye Baby" in [[http://www.dictionary-quotes.com/rockabye-baby-in-the-treetopbrdont-you-know-a-treetopbris-no-safe-place-to-rockbrand-who-put-you-up-therebrand-your-cradle-toobrbabybri/ this poem]].
494** In fact, in the very first appearance of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'', Marge used this nursery rhyme to put Maggie to sleep, only to scare the hell out of her.
495** Seven of Nine also lampshades the disturbing factor on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' when the Doctor (no, not [[Series/DoctorWho that one]]) sings a 24th-century version of the rhyme.
496--->"Are you trying to soothe the infant or traumatize it?"
497** And of course, "It's Raining, It's Pouring", featuring an old man who bumped his head and didn't get up in the morning.
498*** ''Three Blind Mice'': The farmer's wife cut off their tails and they're running around in circles.
499*** During [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918]] (which killed 10 times as many as WWI) children would skip rope to "I had a little bird/Its name was Enza/I opened the window/And in-flu-enza".
500*** Even creepier for the fact that that strain of flu probably originated from a bird flu.
501** ''Ring around the rosie'' is not about bubonic plague, as anyone who has had the disease can testify, as the symptoms listed sound more like Spanish Flu or Pneumonia, not that that wouldn't be scary in itself. Still, once it gains a sinister meaning it will remain chilling no matter how innocent.
502** ''Humpty Dumpty'' is another horrifying example. People often think of Humpty Dumpty as an egg, but there's absolutely nothing in the rhyme that indicates this. That makes the idea that after his fall, "all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again" all the more sinister.
503*** Not necessarily, as it's believed that ''Humpty Dumpty'' [[http://www.rhymes.org.uk/humpty_dumpty.htm is about a large cannon]], which was mounted on top of a wall in Colchester during the English Civil War. The wall was blown to bits, and the cannon came crashing to the ground. Neither the king's cavalry nor his infantry could put it back together.
504*** Some scholars of literature believe that ''Humpty Dumpty'' was originally intended to be a riddle, and the answer was "an egg". Once the answer became well known, the character in the rhyme was depicted as a living egg.
505** It has been suggested that "Jack and Jill" is about the beheading of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and the second verse was an attempt to make it safe for children. However, the earliest printed versions predate those events.
506** "Goosey Goosey Gander" is said to be about about a R.C. priest sheltered by an aristocratic family in England when Catholic worship was illegal. The priest-hole (a secret room where the priest could hide) was in the Family's private quarters, where only the most senior (and thus most trusted) servants were allowed.
507** One interpretation of ''Mary Mary Quite Contrary'' is that it refers to the torture devices that were used by Mary I (Bloody Mary). "Silver bells" are thumbscrews, "cockleshells" a genital torture device, and the "pretty maids" are the Maiden, also known as the guillotine. However, there's no confirmed evidence of the rhyme dating from Mary's reign, and although there was a guillotine-like device that went by that name- the Scottish Maiden- it wasn't even built when she was alive. The other contender, the little-used Halifax Gibbet, didn't go by the name 'Maiden'. Besides, most of Mary's executions were by burning.
508* ''[[http://www.reason.com/news/show/133876.html A Scary Thing Happened]]''. A coloring book to help children cope with disasters.
509** A thread archived in the Website/SomethingAwful Comedy Goldmine presented the goons with this coloring book. They made it even more Nightmare Fuel-y that it loops back around to hilarious. And sometimes they just made it more Nightmare Fuel-y.
510*** Also mocked on Website/SomethingAwful and just as freakish: ''[[http://www.guidancechannel.com/talkingterrorism.pdf Will They Fly A Plane Into Our House?]]''
511* People who have jobs that others may find disturbing generally fall into the category. Mercenaries can be some of the scarier ones, because the person in question can be one of the nicest, most grounded people you know, but have no problems gunning others down for a paycheck.
512* Children with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, whether from abuse, war, natural disasters, etc, very often re-enact the trauma in pretend play (this is part of why anatomically correct dolls can be used to test for sexual abuse). A little girl trying to convince a boy her age to let her tie him up and french-kiss him is pretty creepy.
513** The part with the dolls is debatable, there are studies that suggest no correlation, while others do.
514*** Considering that the dolls were used by doctors to MindRape their young patients in more than one case... Eeep.
515* Creator/NeilGaiman: A very sweet looking, [[JustForFun/OneOfUs humble and fanboy-ish]] writer who has written stories that have included, among other things, [[Literature/AmericanGods vaginas eating people]] and people eating babies. Oh, and he's responsible for an onset of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQC0QVXa33o Koumpounophobia]] through [[Literature/{{Coraline}} an entire generation.]]
516* Shaye Saint John. She originally came from a film by Eric Fournier, made popular by Website/YouTube (I think so...). Here, have a look at her [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ShayeSaintJohn YouTube channel]], [[http://www.myspace.com/shayesaintjohn MySpace page]], and [[http://www.shayesaintjohn.net/ website]]. Yes, she has a website. May she rest in peace.
517* It could be said that medical doctors either are this from the start, or get to this point. Most of us are at least a little bit squicked by the thought of cutting people open and pulling out their entrails, or seeing the results of a [[BodyHorror terrible accident or disease]], but for them it's just an average day at the office, or a fascinating puzzle.
518** If medicine is your interest, whether you practise it or are simply interested in the subject, you could be this, if subjects like pathology, toxicology and haematology are particularly interesting to you.
519** Double that for coroners, forensic scientists, funeral home staff... really pretty much anybody who works with death on a regular basis, especially the horrible and gruesome variety.
520** Dr. G (of Discovery's ''Dr. G: Medical Examiner'') has got to be one of the absolute best for this. She's one of Florida's leading coroners, and she absolutely ''loves'' her job. "Oh wow, look at all that pus!"
521* Andrew W.K. [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/apr/07/andrew-wk-juvenile-restraining-order wrote a song about a girl he had a crush on when he was 17]]. It was supposed to be romantic, but it came off... [[StalkerWithACrush creepy]]. He actually got a juvenile restraining order for this.
522* Arguably, criminal prosecutors and other law enforcement, especially when dealing with violent crime. They have had to look at many grisly and gruesome crime scene photos, not to mention hear some truly horrifying stories of abuse/violence from victims (including children). One of the key lessons to learn is "don't let it get to you."
523* Erik Danielsson of Watain. Watch or read any interview of his. The "wtf?" creeps in when you realize he's not kidding about anything he says.
524** Many BlackMetal artists can be this, actually, especially of the one-man, DSBM (Depressive-Suicidal Black Metal) variety.
525* A picture of a standing woman smiling. She's surrounded by sitting, depressed people... In a Nazi Death Camp.
526* Contrary to the trope KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms, there are ''some'' children who, for whatever reason, have seen so many horror movies (or scenes from such) that they're used to it. It can be pretty disconcerting to be sitting on the couch watching a horror film and then having a young resident of the house who you thought was in bed walk in, sit on the couch, and ''calmly comment on the action on the screen''.
527* Drawings by Creator/YuuKobayashi. All her drawings that we are exposed to are [[http://kotaku.com/5336385/beautiful-woman-scary-drawing horrifying]].
528* The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and similar hymns about the Second Coming come off as this to non-Christians. If you aren't prepared for it, an upbeat song about the end of the world is rather disturbing LyricalDissonance.
529** It's disturbing to plenty of Christians as well, since the song was written by a member of an extremely heterodox sect that believed Jesus had his Second Coming in the form of the Union Army during the American Civil War. This seriously raises the octane level in the nightmare fuel when one considers that the song shows up in mainstream hymnals.
530*** This was not lost on Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) on [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11, 2001]]. The triumphalist use of this hymn at the memorial service was part of the reason (along with a SuspiciouslySpecificSermon) [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most Rep. Lee was the only Congressperson to vote against]] the congressional resolution that became UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror.
531* Creator/HenryDarger was a deeply god-fearing hospital custodian who spent his nights writing and illustrating [[Literature/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal a 15,145-page book]] about [[LittleMissBadass little girls rebelling]] against an evil empire that horribly tortures and murders them. Many of the illustrations depict the girls naked, and with penises. Since the massive book was only discovered after Darger's death, nobody knows entirely what was going through his head as he wrote it, but judging by his detailed autobiography and diary notes, he'd been badly abused as a kid and the book was his way of working through his experiences.
532* Let's see: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild gas mask zombies]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace robots who kill humans for organs]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink statues that move when you don't look]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary shadows that eat you alive when they touch you]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour cracks that can erase things out of existence]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut aliens that you forget about when you look away]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh duplicates made of flesh]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks puppets that remain inactive and cause people to forget they died]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen living snow]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn Wi-Fi that abducts your mind]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E4Listen the monster under the bed]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater a hive mind with the minds of dead people that get inserted into robotic bodies]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent being killed and resurrected over and over again for 4.5 billion years while trapped in a castle that always changes]], and just about everything from ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. Yup, Creator/StevenMoffat has long achieved this status.
533* A childish outlook on mature issues, such as a stick figure drawing of a bloody massacre? Dig through some of the footage at the [[http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMovie/ Invisible Children]] project dealing with ex-ChildSoldiers from Northern Uganda sometime.
534** The folk song ''The Children Draw Guns'' was written after the author saw a display of art by Guatemalan-exile children who had been assigned by their innocent teacher to draw a picture of home.
535* The children that were taken out of the Branch Davidian Compound before the horrifying end to the stand-off at Waco were these sort of kids, having been taught "Playground Songs" about bloody revolts and the death of non-believers while dancing in a Ring-around-the-rosie fashion.
536** In the documentary that shows it, the children were seen drawing disturbing scenes, including one child depicting the compound up in flames three days before the actual event. Chilling.
537*** What they were singing were actually Old-Time Gospel standards. The one about "holding up the bloodstained banner" is the beloved old classic "We Are Soldiers", published in 1880. See note below about "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
538*** Similar songs are taught to the children of extremists in some countries, including charming little ditties about how they want to grow up to become suicide bombers. Sung in their sweet little childish voices.
539* Even ordinary young children can become this, because they don't always grasp the real-life ramifications of what they're talking about.
540https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ycvWFhHmTc
541https://www.buzzfeed.com/asiawmclain/parents-share-the-creepiest-thing-their-kid-said
542* Creator/JunjiIto has made his career out of this, with his brand of horror being the stuff that even nightmares would be afraid of, as well as making Creator/HPLovecraft look like Creator/WaltDisney. It's even telling when his LighterAndSofter works have a few unnerving moments that might make someone feel uneasy. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And]] let's not forget [[NiceGuy his laid-back personality in real-life]] that's quite unnerving to the point of almost looking like DissonantSerenity.
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