The lyrics of "Scoundrel Days," which describe a man's broken psyche as he cuts his wrists open, heavily hallucinates and runs around his town — before throwing himself off a cliff in front of his townspeople.
Actually, several lyrics from the Scoundrel Days album are very creepy once you set the music aside. "I've Been Losing You?" About a Yandere's thoughts after he shoots his girlfriend to death. "Maybe Maybe?" About a Destructive Romance that finishes when the girl runs over the dude with her car.
The two rival racers from the Take On Me video, who attack The Hero and the girl inside the comic book. Not only do they look rather disturbing due to their stiff faces (unlike the warmly animated Hero and Girl), they also have very creepy lifeless eyes, and were going to MURDER the protagonists because the Hero beat them in a car race. The girl only barely escapes because the hero opens a portal back to the real world for her, while he himself is on the receiving end of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown using pipe wrenches.
The opening to the "The Sun Always Shines on TV," which counts as a Downer Ending to "Take on Me"; the hero painfully turns back into a comic book drawing and flees from the girl. As the girl looks down, crestfallen, an animated explosion in the background seems to indicate that the hero does not survive.
Both versions of the "Dark Is The Night" video have unnerving visuals of people in bondage. The official version mostly features scenes of Morten, Paul, and Magne in between those of 3 undulating women bound to one another in literal head-to-toe body stockings all joined at the hands. The banned version adds scenes of a man whose limbs are bound to poles that hinder his movement; at one point in the video, he falls backwards, seemingly in pain as he drags himself across the floor, leaving a chalk trail behind him; another scene briefly shows him collapsed as if dead. Yet another disturbing scene sees Morten Harket's face bursting out of his own stomach (achieved with projected images).
