* Laverna brainwashing Elina in the first movie. There's just something deeply unsettling about the way Elina acts.
* The Depths of Despair in the second movie are an underwater cavern filled with tendrils that capture Nori and Elina, nearly crushing them.
-->'''Elina:''' (fearfully) What's it like down there?
-->'''Nori:''' I don't know, no one's ever been down there. And if they have, [[NothingIsScarier they never came back up to tell...]]
* The second movie has Nalu, a merman, captured and held above water so he'll suffocate from the air.
* At the end of the second movie, Laverna is turned into a toad. It seems to be a classic case of ForcedTransformation, but by the third movie she uses her form to her advantage and poisons the Guardians with toad venom.
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