Nightmare Fuel / The Annoying Orange

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

• If watching talking fruits with human faces wasn't scary enough, The Cursed Onion Ring Tape is sure to give you nightmares.
• All the times seeing sentient food get cut up by Knife. Their screams... And it's all Played for Laughs.
  • Sure, in 'Iron Apple', the Mandarin (Orange) is played for laughs. However, it's kind of jarring to see Orange go at Iron Apple whilst snarling in absolute rage and fury, with a clear intent to kill. His main weapon of choice is also a hate-induced version of his laugh.
  • Spike's death in Tough Enough is downright brutal in how drawn-out it is. After half a minute of No Selling Knife and a set of nutcrackers, He Who Must Not Be Seen resorts to using an frickin' hatchet and pickaxe to basically bore a hole in Spike's head, which is followed by him physically working his fingers into Spike's wound and slowly ripping him completely in half. All of this is underscored by Spike slowly changing from confident bravado to screaming in agony as he's slowly cracked open.
  • Greg the Tomato from SKYDIVING! could probably give Spike a run for his money in the most terrifying death department. After tossing a chainsaw away while in mid air, Greg pays the price for the most gruesome example of a Brick Joke: said chainsaw comes down and outright impales Greg with enough force to pop out his eyeballs! Greg's still screaming corpse being dragged along by the chainsaw and the foods screaming in horror add to the effect. Yes, even Orange of all people was horrified at that death.
  • Muddy Buddy’s death could outweigh both Spike and Greg as he’s slowly peeled to death, starting with his face. His scream and Orange being his usual self don’t help at all.

• The Haunted Leaf Pile is the stuff nightmares are made of. Warning: it's not the fact somebody dies as per usual.
• Have you ever wanted to experience being killed by Knife in FIRST PERSON?
• Normally, it's intended to be funny, but sometimes seeing Orange's victims getting so annoyed and angry is genuinely terrifying.
• Pretty much anytime the screams sound too realistic to be funny.
  • Special mentions go to Muddy Buddy April Fruits Day Youtubers, Mommy and Me, and this potato.
• Withered Foxy appearing out of nowhere to jumpscare the viewer, not once, not twice, but thrice in Ask Orange #64: Pear's WORST Nightmare! is genuinely horrifying. Not helped by the fact that it happens without warning.
• At one point in "World's Longest Wazzup!" Pear mentions the trope when he sees Orange's redesign of the American flag.
• Jump Scare! and its sequel are definitive examples. We recieve a Jump Scare from Orange, Pear, Marshmallow, and in the sequel, Grapefruit and an unnamed egg. Not only that, but the fact that their skulls jump off their skins when getting scared its absolutely terrifying.
• The big sundae from the Massive Ice Cream Sundae Challenge probably qualifies as a definitive Knight of Cerebus for the series. For starters, he eats many people (one of them being a child) just to make himself more powerful, which is considered cannibalism. Even Orange and Little Apple are appalled by his evil acts.
  • How the big sundae dies could also qualify. Grapefruit is able to defeat him by turning the thermostat on. Being a sundae, he quickly starts to melt and we get to see his eyes melt (Though not his mouth thankfully.) and once it’s over, everyone is pretty much standing on his remains.
• "Knife Of The Living Dead" shows that Orange is capable of annoying the dead; giving way to quite the Gorn fueled zombie designs. For example, Strawberry from Kitchen Carnage is missing an eye and has a knife stuck to his head, Tomato has a blender blade stuck on him, and Durian probably has the most revolting appearance of all: He's still split in half, and still has the pickaxe dug into him.
• While it's still a normal AO episode for the most of it, "Directed by Michael Baygel" has the titular bagel cue several explosions, culminating in cuing the Casteroid. More specifically, a world-threatening bottle of Castor Oil that will destroy Earth if it collides with it, just for the sake of awesome explosions. Thankfully, it's thwarted by a literal Plot Hole, since it is a Michael Baygel production.
• "It's A Wonderful Knife" has probably the most fucked concept of twisting a classic phrase on it's end: "everytime a bell rings, an angel clips it's wings". And that means, Angel Foodcakes are randomly stabbed to death with knives anytime a bell is rung. it can be part Crosses the Line Twice, but the fear factor still stays.
• A lot of Creepy Pasta's stories border on this with many dashes of Creepy Awesome, but the main champ for them all is "The Funky Paw"; Grapefruits character accidentally spreads a foul-smelling curse upon his town, causing them all to rally against him. But since killing him would actually mean freeing Grapefruit from his terrible situation, they give him an even worse punishment: Let him live. Let him live in a desolate town with a smelly pile of money nobody wants, and the girl of his dreams continuously puking on him, for his entire life.
  • Did we mention anyone in Creepy Pasta's stories, no matter what role they play, will die if their character is dead too? It's very much implied Grapefruit wasn't so lucky in this story.
• The intro for Shocktober 2020 looks like it came straight out of a Sequel Hook from a horror film. It starts off with Orange bursting out of a grave as a zombie, which seems simple enough...but then he suddenly dissolves into slime on the spot, and things only go downhill from here. Slime!Orange starts to crawl forward as Slime!Pear and Slime!Grapefruit (sporting their appearances in the Shocktober 2018 intro) do the same before the suddenly crash into each other, which results in them fusing into a slimy monster. It's also implied that Orange, Pear, and Grapefruit aren't the same fruits they were before, because now they're a fused being who is out for blood, judging by how that monster lunges right at you with a snap.
  • What's worse? After the monster lunges toward the screen, the title card is shown with Orange's laughter being heard. If you take a closer look at the monster's appearance, you'll notice that he, Pear, and Grapefruit are sticking out on a few points in its body after becoming a singularity. This gives off some extremely disturbing implications that all three are still conscious.
• The Grimace Shake is just as warped as ever, although it is weighed out by some of it's ways of death being hilariously executed. However, when Grapefruit decides to mix it with a protein shake, the results aren't so pretty, to put it lightly.
• Marshmallow seems like the last character to be on this page right? Nope as when they are angry, things go bad for the instigator. Though the real scare is that we don’t see what exactly happens to the soul who upsets Marshmallow though we always see the aftermath of Marshmallow’s rage. The most we've seen of Marshmallow brutalizing someone on-screen is a Funny Background Event in Buddy Cops.