Animations with their own pages:
- In Dusk's Dawn when Donut saves Star Whistle from the villain's sceptre, he shouts, "No!" like someone scolding his child rather than in despair.
- In the buildup to The Transformers: Combiner Wars, a number of intro videos were released describing the titular Combiners as huge threats, to the point that Optimus Prime initiated a final duel with Megatron and then went into exile out of fear of the destruction the Combiners would cause if they joined the war in earnest. Come the very first episode, and Windblade, a regular-sized Transformer, dismembers and kills one of the said Combiners almost single-handed. And not just any Combiner, but Menasor, traditionally one of the most powerful (and mentally unstable) Combiners.
- Manga Soprano:
- First of all, the translation errors, typos, and inconsistencies in the (stilted) dialogue, as well as the shoddy, phoned-in, thick-accented voice acting make the English dub hard to take seriously.
- Even the original Japanese version isn't safe from its narmy moments, especially the stories starring Casino since the voice acting for him tries to sound as stuck up as possible but ends up making him sound like a cheerful old lady.
- The antagonists act in dramatic, over-the-top ways no real person would do, which makes them hard to take seriously, especially when they speak out their plans to ruin the protagonist, break out in an Evil Laugh, indulge in Evil Gloating to their hearts' content, or undergo a Heel–Face Turn after a speech from the protagonist.
- Being an animation, the artists always make the antagonists as ugly as possible to contrast them to the protagonists. However, there are occasions where they end up going overboard, giving us cases like Burimi from "My Sister Robbed My Fiancee! However, the person who looted it was…"
whose design is so cartoonish it clashes with the rest of the setting and borders into Nonstandard Character Design. - Some thumbnails have an illustration of the episode's antagonist making Psychotic Smirks that make them look menacing or like they got away with ruining the protagonist's life, even going as far as altering the lightning or depicting them against a dark background to make them look as evil as possible and trick potential viewers into watching the episode. However, the speech bubbles always have any mention of the story's key details in red and one of the fonts usednote , on top of the aforementioned translation errors ruin the effect.
- Done In-Universe in RWBY Chibi. Ruby puts on a play of "Red Riding Hood", but Yang, obviously not happy with her role as the grandmother, starts acting like a Large Ham, leading to a drawn out and comedic death sequence. Ruby gets fed up and yells that "The audience can't be sad if they are laughing!"
- The book series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has some terrifying and downright traumatizing stories and images. Then somebody took it upon themselves to animate the stories. Some of them are effective, but some of them... In one of the more famous stories, "Harold", Harold is terrifying in the illustration. In the animation, he looks to have a LEGO head.
- The fictional BFOG DVD "Anti Piracy screen", seen here, despite the "(Jumpscare)" in the title, is instead hilarious rather than scary, thanks to the poorly done voices, broken English (e.g. "Piracy screwed Olympic and Paralympic mascots!") This scene after the first screen is nonsensical:
- (Vinicius and Tom of the 2016 Rio Olympics and Paralympics is standing on a field next to a road)Vinicius: Sorry, you're going home.(as he says this, the road stretches suddenly.)
- The second screen and the jumpscare fails to be scary, thanks again to the poorly-done visuals, and Soohorang sounds like he's about to ground the viewer.Soohorang: OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH!
