In General
- Occasionally, presumably because it's cheaper to animate, characters' heads will pulsate if crying, laughing or flaring up. Said effect makes you think their craniums are about to explode. Sometimes it ends up goofy like in Hunchback of Notredame, but one particular disturbing example is the baby in Mouse Police
, especially when combined with its pissed off look, and another in Dalmatians 3 where a rabbit is supposed to be laughing, but due to poor audio mixing the sound effect is much quieter, making it look like it's suffering a particularly violent seizure. - There's something distinctly disturbing about watching these guys try to pull of musical numbers, as with their Aladdin, with their limited animations and stock music tracks. Especially unsettling is the princess' song, which consists of the princess singing at the camera with three frames of animation tops (making it look like she's hiccuping over and over) while three identical old women, who are so crudely and hastily drawn that they look inhuman, wag their fingers at her.
Aladin
- At one point, the magician is gloating after he manages to make Aladdin believe that he is his uncle, telling his parrot that he'll soon be the owner of a treasure. When the parrot starts talking about gold and diamonds, the magician tells him his treasure is something "much better", while laughing dirtily. Bonus points for forcing Aladdin to go into a dark cave with him.
- When the magician believes he's going to marry Soraya, there is a close-up of him visibly drooling. Soraya is supposed to be underage.
Others
- Toward the end of Jamie: The Little Piglet, the title character is sent to the butcher as a suckling pig. The cartoon actually shows slaughtered and cut-up pigs, including a severed pig head on a table in a pile of pig's feet. She escapes, but we see a crowded pen full of other pigs who clearly won't.
- As Felix Recenserar points out, the Swedish dub of King of the Animals has that moment where one of the cute monkeys says "döda honom" ("kill him") over and over in a Creepy Monotone.
- In Dalmatians, Timmy and Toby are forced to work in the villain's canning factory. We see several scenes of them being worked, all while the villain brags about beating them and later admits that they might not survive. It's a darker storyline than most anything Dingo produces, and seeing the pups getting abused the way they are is pretty jarring and scary, especially for the film's age demographic.
- In Dinosaur Adventure, when the volcano erupts, Tio and Kree take shelter in a cave with some crocodiles, and are forced to stay there for a week until things are safe enough to go back outside. Think about that. These characters are forced to spend an entire week in a dark cave, knowing full well about the death and destruction occurring outside, and not knowing if their loved ones are going to live. Anybody going through that is horrific, and when you remember that one of the group is a child, the horror intensifies.
- From Pocahontas: The Old Bush, a small bush with black, soulless eyes made only of leaves. It speaks in a raspy voice and looks very uncanny, unfitting even for the rest of the animation, giving it a rather off-putting look. Phelous was certain that thing was out for blood the very second he saw it.
