Books
- Pretty much the entirety of Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand. Highlights include Rani's consciousness being trapped inside of a bat after she listens to a mermaid song, various characters slowly going mad with power as they think about what they can do with unlimited wishes (especially Clarion, who contemplates turning herself into an empress and eventually uses the wand to effectively mutilate an entire species of hawks), and the final battle with the wand, which starts physically throwing fairies around. Never Say "Die" is completely averted, as it's explicitly said that Vidia is near death. Bloodless Carnage is averted, too, as Clarion winds up stuck on the ground bleeding out from a leg wound.
- The part in Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg when Hook grabs Prilla and holds her so tight she can't breathe, so she tears up his hand until he bleeds and he lets her go because he's Afraid of Blood. Again, Bloodless Carnage is very much averted.
- The fact that any fairy could drop dead at any time because of disbelief. This happens to multiple redshirts over the course of the main series, but the main characters are (theoretically) just as susceptible to it as the background characters are. This includes characters like Queen Clarion, who's basically the only authority figure outside of Mother Dove, so there's a fair bit of Fridge Horror when you think of how it must feel to know you or your leaders could randomly die and you'd never see it coming.
- Again in Gail Carson Levine's trilogy: the fate of every existing fairy depends on Mother Dove and her egg, which are both mortal and fragile. When the egg cracks due to a hurricane, it's a major problem that requires an island-wide quest—but it's a thin, delicate egg, and could break at any time. It's a miracle any of the fairies are even still alive.
Films
Tinker Bell
- It's little unsettling for some people anytime Tink gets angry, as seen here.
- The sprinting thistles. They can come out of nowhere by uprooting themselves from the ground and suddenly stampede all over, destroying things and hurting fairies in the process. Even Tinker Bell and her friends were terrified the first time the thistles are seen in the movie.
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
- The fight between Terrence and Tink can be a little frightening to watch. Not helping matters is that after Terrence leaves, Tink looks at the scepter, then looks at the calendar, and thinking she's not going to finish on time, Tinker Bell just screeches on the top of his lungs! To make matters worse, IMDB and Common Sense say this film is targeted at preschoolers aka, very young kids. Tink's scream is so loud and unsettling, that it's enough to make any young viewer cover his/her eyes and ears in fear.
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
- Vidia and Tink's reactions to the butterflies that were on display in the human's household. Considering the fact that in the films, they've shown that the insects are all personified and the live butterfly in the jar that Elizabeth's father caught has cartoonish eyes, its mildly shocking to see them dead and on display.
Secret of the Wings
- The fact that fairy wings can break when exposed to extreme temperatures for so long (bitterly cold temperatures for warm season fairies and sweltering temperatures for winter fairies), losing the chance of them to ever fly again. There was no way to heal broken wings, at least until Tinker Bell and Periwinkle put their wings together which healed the former’s.
- The entirety of Pixie Hollow freezing. Thanks to the ice machine collecting more ice from the river, it causes the winter region to slowly freeze into the warmer seasons starting at the border between the Autumn Forest and Winter Woods. It even destroyed some of the branches of the trees in the autumn region, showing that it can potentially kill off the flora in the warm seasons. Thankfully the frost fairies used frost to protect the warm regions before the freeze can reach them.
The Pirate Fairy
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast
- Gruff first sprouting his horns. Sure, it later turns out he's a good guy, but the way his horned shadow looms into the scene with his eyes aglow and green lightning crackling behind him makes him look downright demonic.
