History NightmareFuel / DragonBall

* Tao did the world '''a favor''' by killing the General. Blue is the most unsettling Dragon Ball villain and that's counting Piccolo vomiting up eggs and even Majin Buu. General Blue has [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi get up]] complete with an arm band and a cap, and being a blond pretty boy with TheFightingNarcissist personality, Blue alludes to [[MasterRace the Aryans]], and if ''that'' wasn't evil enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking all versions of him speak in a high pitched effeminate voice]]. Oh, and also? [[AdaptationalVillainy The anime makes Blue a shameless pedophile, openly swooning over young boys.]]
** Even in the mostly family friendly DBZ ''Budokai Tenkaichi 3'' game, General Blue is creepily suggestive towards Kid Trunks in their unique dialogue at the start of the match, which is all kinds of wrong and even older [[TimeTravel Future Trunks]] is creeped out facing Blue.

* Tao did the world '''a favor''' by killing the General. Blue is the most unsettling Dragon Ball villain and that's counting Piccolo vomiting up eggs and even Majin Buu. General Blue has [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi get up]] complete with an arm band and acap, and being a blond pretty boy with TheFightingNarcissist personality, Blue alludes to [[MasterRace the Aryans]], and if ''that'' wasn't evil enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking all versions of him speak in a high pitched effeminate voice]]. Oh, and also? [[AdaptationalVillainy The anime makes Blue a shameless pedophile, openly swooning over young boys.]]

* [[CatsAreSnarkers Korin]] has three weird jars in the Senzu Bean room and Goku looks into them. In the first one, Goku sees Chi-Chi in the past and tries to call her but fails. The second jar has Bulma and Oolong cooking and having fun at Kami House in the present. When Goku opens the third one, a crazy red centipede bursts out, and wraps itself around the room giving Goku surreal visions of the future. It's a creepy moment among many.

* The anime's Cave of the [[TheSacredDarkness Darkness]] small filler arc where Goku (along Yajirobe) is sent by Korin to find the true Ultimate Divine Water to beat King Piccolo is literally the creepiest part of ''Dragon Ball''. As it involves traveling to an Icy Mountain (full of killer snow monsters) and entering the dark cave underneath. It's especially unnerving when Goku stumbles across a Kami House ''inside the dark cavern'' and sees illusions of his happy smiling friends, who tell him to give up his quest in creepy echoey voices. Goku is outraged and flees only to be chased by Demon-Master Roshi and nearly killed, if not for Yajirobe's intervention. After Goku proves his goodness by saving Yajirobe's life, the Darkness [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/a/a1/Yami2.png/revision/latest?cb=20101020124053 appears]] and offers Goku the divine water but says it will definitely kill him. Goku gulps it down and nearly dies but Oozaru (the Saiyan beast inside him) gives a roar and Goku survives, powered up enough to beat King Piccolo. In the manga, Korin just gives Goku the Divine Water, which after seeing the expanded anime story, is quite disappointingly underwhelming.

* At the end of the 22nd World Tournament, when Krillin is found dead, and after Goku rushes off to find his killer, Master Roshi tells the remaining cast the story of the fiend responsible, King Piccolo, and the anime version of this is pure nightmare fuel. Unstoppable demons everywhere, killing, ripping tanks apart, and implied eating people all over, with King Piccolo lording over and enjoying it all like a game. The years of darkness were only stopped when King Piccolo was sealed away, and the left note and the description of Krillin's murderer indicates King Piccolo is free once again...aaannd then the body count rises, all these fighters seen from past tournaments, just showing up dead, like Krillin, Goku MIA, Roshi dies, Chiaotzu is killed, so is the Eternal Dragon, it was dark times. Everything was pointing to a full-on return to the nightmare world of the past...then Goku wins, but skip ahead a few years and Piccolo Jr. shows up, the final demon-clansmen, and for the longest time, his aim was to return the world to that nightmare.

* Goku becoming an Oozaru/Great Ape right before Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong and Puar's eyes. Plus Goku's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sL6MzN0c40 original transformation]], i.e his eyes turning red and heartbeat quickening before shifting into Oozaru is even more terrifying.

* A lot of the first areas in the series take place in [[TheLostWoods scary forests at night]] with wolves and bats. With the classic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCXoQ_ZcjYo threatening fight music]] played to it.

** The Oozaru by itself. Any time Goku (or any Saiyan who still has their tail) looks at the moon, he transforms into this hulking weremonkey strong enough to demolish an entire castle in its ''first appearance,'' and any semblance of his usual self is replaced by a desire to lay waste to everything in its path. The only way for the transformation to end is if either the night ends, Goku's tail is cut off, or the moon itself is destroyed; otherwise, the Earth may as well have been doomed well before [[Anime/DragonBallZ Raditz arrived]].
* The Red Ribbon Army. The most evil army in the world, powerful enough that the world government, that has its own considerable military forces, won't dare to confront them. In addition to conventional weapons they have advanced combat robots (that would later evolve into Gero's Androids), powerful martial artists that can tear through tank armor, a prototype MiniMecha that can make short work of said martial artists, and at least one nuke. And the reason for their rampage? Not taking over the world (as they themselves think), but [[EvilIsPetty their boss wants to become taller]].

** The scene where he kills General Blue is somewhat disturbing, too. He boasts that he can kill the general with his ''tongue''... and then he lives up to it. He just sticks his tongue out and uses it to puncture Blue's skull, killing him almost immediately. It's over so quickly that it almost doesn't even qualify as a fight.
* But the creepier thing is Tao did the world '''a favor''' by killing the General. Blue is the most unsettling Dragon Ball villain and that's counting Piccolo vomiting up eggs and even Majin Buu. General Blue has [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi get up]] complete with an arm band and acap, and being a blond pretty boy with TheFightingNarcissist personality, Blue alludes to [[MasterRace the Aryans]], and if ''that'' wasn't evil enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking all versions of him speak in a high pitched effeminate voice]]. Oh, and also? [[AdaptationalVillainy The anime makes Blue a shameless pedophile, openly swooning over young boys.]]
** Even in the mostly family friendly DBZ ''Budokai Tenkaichi 3'' game, General Blue is creepily suggestive towards Kid Trunks in their unique dialogue at the start of the match, which is all kinds of wrong and even older [[TimeTravel Future Trunks]] is creeped out facing Blue.
** The pedophilia aspect of General Blue was mercifully kept out of the US Dub, though this is just as creepy as at one point when he gets angry at Bulma and makes the same ''suggestions''.
*** Chi-Chi says it best in his Tenkaichi 3 bio: ''"He's part of the Red Ribbon Army, he talks like a woman and he's creepy..."''
* Let's face it: ''Goku himself'', for his enemies. [[BadassAdorable He looks like a cute child]] but is [[SuperStrength super-strong]], NighInvulnerable, and, as a child, has ''zero'' compulsions about killing his enemies. And if he looks at the full moon he turns into a gigantic ape-like berserker. There's a reason [[GodzillaThreshold Pilaf was so terrified of him that he released Demon King Piccolo]] and Gero went completely insane and fixated on killing him with incredibly powerful robots (that are actually far more powerful than what he thought necessary), ''before'' finding out he's a member of a race of genocidal space warriors...
** Goku's rampage in the Red Ribbon compound. [[TheJuggernaut He was casually massacring them all, the rare hits they scored barely annoying him]], and [[NukeEm throwing a]] ''[[NukeEm nuke]]'' [[NukeEm at him]] only resulted in a destroyed mountain... And to make things worse, he was supposed to be dead. Worst of all, had Goku not hit his head as a child, ''that would have been the end of the whole planet''.
*** [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Team Four Star]] represented it perfectly in [[https://youtu.be/uNyAfXOTG5A?t=8m56s their animation of the death of Gero's son]].

* Chiaotzu has always been creepy, since he's based off of Chinese Vampires, and his creepy voice didn't help in the times where he was a villain.

* Krillin's death at Tamborine's hands. The manga version is a pretty unsettling MoodWhiplash; Krillin volunteers to get Goku's things for him and not one page later we hear him scream. The gang rushes in to find him dead with his eyes [[DiesWideOpen wide open]] and the announcer lying near him saying a monster came and took the Dragon Ball and the martial arts society list. Goku holds his friend's body and says to the horror of both his other friends' and the audience's that Krillin is, without a doubt, dead. Very chilling...
** The anime version of this is arguably worse. After the tournament ends, the gang manages to head to a restaurant to celebrate Tien's victory until Goku suddenly remembers leaving his things at the tournament grounds. Krillin volunteers to go all the way back and get them like the manga. For one eerily intense moment, Goku suddenly gets a strange feeling and stops Krillin. He quickly brushes it off however and goes to eat with the others. Even during the meal, however, Goku doesn't join in and decides to wait for Krillin, still unable to get over his foreboding about his friend. It quickly descends into something more nightmarish as Goku suddenly can hear Krillin screaming in pain (in the dub he even screams Goku's name!) Goku immediately runs all the way back to the tournament and finds the same scene as the manga; Krillin dead and his four-star ball stolen.
** What really makes this version scary is the ominous [[TearJerker music playing]] in the last seconds of the episode. Also, the screen turns an eerie blue with the last shot of Goku holding Krillin's corpse with the same open eyes like in the manga. Terrifying...
** Going back to the moment where Goku stops Krillin briefly, it makes for some serious AdultFear with Goku thinking that maybe he could have prevented his death if he had only said something.

** Honestly, just Tambourine period. Piccolo is undoubtedly stronger even in his old age, but Tambourine was created to kill every World Martial Arts Tournament contestant, and he did a damn good job of it, completely [[CurbStompBattle stomping]] every entrant he came across. Krillin? A swift kick was all it took. Goku? Utterly trounced him in their first encounter. Bacterian? Offed with little effort. King Chappa, a former champion in his own right? Didn't stand a chance. Pamput? Killed in front of plenty of adoring fans. Giran? Snapped through his Merry-Go-Round gum like it was tissue paper. Nam? ''Taken out completely off-screen!'' TheDragon he may have been, but Tambourine was the first true HeroKiller and definitely showcased why that was.

** On a meta level, since the episode debuted in 1988, that almost certainly means that at least some of the production team were alive at the time of the bombings 43 years earlier.

** Earlier in the fight, Goku tricks Piccolo into breaking his right arm. Goku tells him to surrender, saying he can't fight with one arm. In response, Piccolo ''rips off his own arm, and grows a new one from the bloodied stump.'' Right then and there, Piccolo was the biggest threat of the original saga, not just because of his strength, but because the only way to beat him was to be even stronger.
* At the end of the 22nd World Tournament, when Krillin is found dead, and after Goku rushes off to find his killer, Master Roshi tells the remaining cast the story of the fiend responsible, King Piccolo, and the anime version of this is pure nightmare fuel. Unstoppable demons everywhere, killing, ripping tanks apart, and implied eating people all over, with King Piccolo lording over and enjoying it all like a game. The years of darkness were only stopped when King Piccolo was sealed away, and the left note and the description of Krillin's murderer indicates King Piccolo is free once again...aaannd then the body count rises, all these fighters seen from past tournaments, just showing up dead, like Krillin, Goku MIA, Roshi dies, Chiaotzu is killed, so is the Eternal Dragon, it was dark times. Everything was pointing to a full-on return to the nightmare world of the past...then Goku wins, but skip ahead a few years and Piccolo Jr. shows up, the final demon-clansmen, and for the longest time, his aim was to return the world to that nightmare. And to think the hero he is today never would have come to be, and instead he would have returned the world to that darkness, if not for Goku and sweet little Gohan.

* But the creepier thing is Tao did the world '''a favor''' by killing the General. Blue is the most unsettling Dragon Ball villain and that's counting Piccolo vomiting up eggs and even Majin Buu. General Blue has [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi get up]] complete with an arm band and acap, and being a blond pretty boy with TheFightingNarcissist personality, Blue alludes to [[MasterRace the Aryans]], and if ''that'' wasn't evil enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking all versions of him speak in a high pitched effeminate voice]]. Oh, and also? Blue is a shameless pedophile, openly swooning over young boys.

* Krillin's death at Tamborine's hands gets no mention here? The manga version is a pretty unsettling MoodWhiplash; Krillin volunteers to get Goku's things for him and not one page later we hear him scream. The gang rushes in to find him dead with his eyes [[DiesWideOpen wide open]] and the announcer lying near him saying a monster came and took the Dragon Ball and the martial arts society list. Goku holds his friend's body and says to the horror of both his other friends' and the audience's that Krillin is, without a doubt, dead. Very chilling...
** The anime version of this is arguably worse. After the tournament ends, the gang manages to head to a restaurant to celebrate Tien's victory until Goku suddenly remembers leaving his things at the tournament grounds. Krillin volunteers to go all the way back and get them like the manga. For one eerily intense moment, Goku suddenly gets a strange feeling and stops Krillin. He quickly brushes it off however and goes to eat with the others. Even during the meal, however, Goku doesn't join in and decides to wait for Krillin, still can't getting over his foreboding about his friend. It quickly descends into something more nightmarish as Goku suddenly can hear Krillin screaming in pain (in the dub he even screams Goku's name!) Goku immediately runs all the way back to the tournament and finds the same scene as the manga; Krillin dead and his four-star ball stolen.

[[caption-width-right:350:So remember, children: if you have a monkey tail, do not stare at a full moon. Otherwise, '''this''' will happen! (this make Sayians similar to werewolves)]]

* Launch's transformations. One moment she's sweet, innocent, good enough to ride the Kinto Un, then she sneezes and becomes [[TheDreaded a fearsome gun-toting psycho whose passage is said to leave not a blade of grass intact]].