History NightmareFuel / Madagascar

** If Melman does actually touch Alex or land on the ground, the resulting [[NonStandardGameOver fail cutscene]] simply consists of Alex staring at Melman while making a mocking taunt about his victory, stepping closer and jumping up to snatch Mort, and running away with him. Even if Alex doesn't try attacking Melman in this instance, and Melman [[CutsceneIncompetence simply stands there without a fight]], it doesn't make it any less scarier.

---> '''Gloria:''' Unless we all wanna be steak, I suggest we beat it!

The fifth level Mysterious Jungle introduces them in the final area of the level. They make an odd [[HellIsThatNoise shriek]] as they attack, move oddly when they walk, and will sometimes [[JumpScare drop from the trees above!]] And it won't be the last time you see of those suckers... They continue to pop up in several more levels, in fact, the tenth level Marty to the Rescue has two {{Giant Spider|s}} approach Mort with the intent of eating him if you don't get to him in time.

The fifth level Mysterious Jungle introduces them in the final area of the level. They make an odd [[HellIsThatNoise shriek]] as they attack, move oddly when they walk, and will sometimes [[JumpScare drop from the trees above!]] And it won't be the last time you see of those suckers... They continue to pop up in several more levels, in fact, the tenth level Marty to the Rescue has two {{GiantSpider|s}} approach Mort with the intent of eating him if you don't get to him in time.

The fifth level Mysterious Jungle introduces them in the final area of the level. They make an odd [[HellIsThatNoise shriek]] as they attack, move oddly when they walk, and will sometimes [[JumpScare drop from the trees above!]] And it won't be the last time you see of those suckers...

!!First movie:
* Alex's first ''real'' roar. Each one gets louder and more savage. It's haunting ForeShadowing to the dilemma the group faces in the movie's later moments.
* Seeing all the dead human skeletons in the crashed plane is enough to make anyone uncomfortable. Said skeletons constantly flung around and played with like toys both detracts from this [[BlackComedy by being hilarious and cartoonishly inappropriate]] and adds to it for pretty much the exact same reason.
* Alex's growing SanitySlippage as he becomes a true, wild, [[HorrorHunger hungry]] lion is used for a lot of laughs, with him envisioning the others as talking steaks and the famous "You're biting my butt" line, but it doesn't change the fact that there's still a portion of the movie involving watching the protagonist helplessly descend into a savage state where he wants to hunt down and eat his lifelong friends purely out of ''instinct'' from being a carnivorous animal trapped on a wild island. It doesn't help that as he grows more feral, his mane grows dishevelled and he gains [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises crazy eyes]] and [[AbsurdlySharpClaws sudden extending claws]], as well as pulling off a [[SlasherSmile deranged grin]]. [[OnlySaneMan Maurice]] sure points this out.
-->'''Maurice:''' Your friend here is, what we call, a deluxe model hunting and eating machine! And he eats steak. Which is ''you''.
** After going savage and forcing the other animals to flee from him, Alex isolates himself within the perpetually dark badlands where the Fossa live. The look of their domain is already pretty unsettling, but [[DreamSequence we get to watch him suffer from a freaky nightmare hallucination]] in which his spiky, barricaded area becomes his zoo enclosure, and a pleading Marty becomes a cheering crowd of steaks.
* Alex drifting through the ocean inside of a tiny crate, floating away from his friends. [[HarsherInHindsight The sequel makes this a lot harsher]] with the reveal of an almost-identical childhood experience being how he got separated from his family and ended up in a zoo to begin with, making it more than likely the poor guy was probably suffering from a lot of subconscious and repressed trauma during the whole ride. Yeep.
* The Fossa being almost entirely savage and gibbering carnivores [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals in a cast full of coherent and largely anthropomorphised animals]] definitely sets them apart from the rest of the trilogy's characters in an unsettling way, even if they still get a fair amount of goofy moments.

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!!Other media:
* ''NightmareFuel/MadagascarEscape2Africa''
* ''NightmareFuel/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted''
* ''NightmareFuel/PenguinsOfMadagascar''
* ''NightmareFuel/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''

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* Alex's first ''real'' roar. Each one gets louder and more savage.

* Alex's growing SanitySlippage as he becomes a true, wild, [[HorrorHunger hungry]] lion is used for a lot of laughs, with him envisioning the others as talking steaks and the famous "You're biting my butt" line, but it doesn't change the fact that there's still a portion of the movie involving watching the protagonist helplessly descend into a savage state where he wants to hunt down and eat his lifelong friends purely out of ''instinct'' from being a carnivorous animal trapped on a wild island. It doesn't help that as he grows more feral, his mane grows disheveled and he gains [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises crazy eyes]] and [[AbsurdlySharpClaws sudden extending claws]], as well as pulling off a [[SlasherSmile deranged grin]]. [[OnlySaneMan Maurice]] sure points this out.

* ''NightmareFuel/MadagascarEscape2Africa''
* ''NightmareFuel/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted''

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[[caption-width-right:350:What in the name of God is wrong with Alex's brain?]]

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* The Fossa being almost entirely savage and gibbering carnivores [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals in a cast full of coherent and largely anthropomorphised animals]] definitely sets them apart from the rest of the trilogy's characters in an unsettling way, even if they still get a fair amount of goofy moments.

* Alex's growing SanitySlippage as he becomes a true, wild, [[HorrorHunger hungry]] lion is used for a lot of laughs, with him envisioning the others as talking steaks and the famous "You're biting my butt" line, but it doesn't change the fact that there's still a portion of the movie involving watching the protagonist helplessly descend into a savage state where he wants to hunt down and eat his lifelong friends purely out of ''instinct'' from being a carnivorous animal trapped on a wild island. It doesn't help that as he grows more feral, his mane grows disheveled and he gains [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises crazy eyes]] and [[AbsurdlySharpClaws sudden extending claws]], as well as pulling off a [[SlasherSmile deranged grin]].