Nightmare Fuel / Victorious

The show itself got Darker and Edgier as it progressed, but they are a few moments in Victorious that appears to be some lovely Nightmare Fuel.

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• Sinjin’s Stalker with a Crush behavior is meant to be viewed for laughs, but some of his actions can come across as creepy. In “Wi-Fi in the Sky”, he managed to break into Jade’s house after she left for Beck’s and called from her living room. Jade is understandably upset that her classmate found out where she lived and broke in her house. While it doesn’t lead to anything bad, it’s still unnerving that Sinjin went that far with his crush on her.
• "Tori Gets Stuck" is such dark episode that many fans find it hard to return to.
  • First is that Jade, someone Tori desperately wants to be on good terms with, goes full-on Stalker without a Crush by snooping Tori's medical file (which is a felony on its own) and sends her a bouquet of bush daisies, which Tori is highly allergic to. And she got pretty close to them...
    • What's worse is that Tori seemed to be interrupted by Andre when describing what bush daisies do to her, implying that the effects could've been life-threatening. Had Trina not been in the area at the time, who knows how bad Tori's reaction would've been? Trina could've lost a sister and Jade could've ended up having blood on her hands.
    • On the subject of the medical file, it's never specified how much Jade knows about Tori. So, if this more villainous version of Jade had persisted throughout the show, just imagine what else she might've used against Tori...
  • Still not wondering what got into Jade this episode? She knew that Tori's rare blood was crucial for Robbie's operation, but she still intentionally misplaced a pint of her blood, thus endangering both Tori and Robbie's lives. All for the sake of taking over as lead of a school play. Wasn't this the same girl who displayed clear concern for his health in "Rex Dies"?
  • Now, consider that Jade did all this while wearing a smile on her face. She knew what she was doing and she still did it without a hint of remorse or hesitation.
  • On to the B plot, Robbie's condition is Played for Laughs, but he's right to be scared. Had that toy car lodged in his small intestine moved (which could've happened at any moment), it could've mutilated his guts. The doctor doesn't even try to sugarcoat this while saying it in front of him. As if the very real danger of a messy death wasn't bad enough, his parents, who've already been established by this point to not be his biggest fans, weren't even there. Oh yeah, let's try to remember that he's still a child!
    • Mind you, he was forced to swallow this car when he was 7; he is now 16. The fact that the car could've dropped out of his intestines at any point during that near-decade shines how much he was moving around in previous episodes in a pretty grim light. Remember the Dance Party Ending of "Tori the Zombie"? He could've started bleeding internally right there on that stage and died without even knowing why.
  • The episode is horrifying enough on its own, but don't be surprised if anyone well-versed in the medical field finds it unwatchable. The doctors here are pretty unprofessional and they do a pisspoor job of protecting their patients and guests. Hell, Trina was heavily implied to have walked out of there with stage 3 tuberculosis (which likely would've killed her). And it's horribly unsafe for anyone to donate 3 pints of blood in the same day (each donation should be 8 weeks apart at the least, especially for someone of a small body build like Tori's). Makes you wonder how this hospital hasn't been shut down for malpractice and child endangerment.
    • We see the effects donating 3 pints of blood in the span of a few hours has on Tori. Watching her get dizzy and collapse is pretty worrisome for all present (except Jade, of course).
  • This episode is already discomforting for those with hemophobia, but the blood splatter scene probably should've brought this episode a content warning.
• In "Prom Wrecker", Jade sets up a creepy looking video on the projector freaking everyone out.

  Andre: Hey, hey what is that? It's freaking everybody out.

  • The video contains a whole lot of screaming, creepy-looking images and blood.
• Jade's re-audition is an extremely disturbing horror film that she wrote, directed, and starred in. It's Jade, lying in a bathtub with a Jack-in-the-box playing "Pop Goes the Weasel." There are screams in the background and a voice moaning from inside the Jack-in-the-box "Let me out." Suddenly a little boy on a rocking horse appears beside the bathtub and asks, "Why are you doing this?" Jade replies in an incredibly creepy monotone, "Because you're bad." She then starts humming along creepily to the song while the little boy whimpers, "No, no, no, no." He starts yelling "Stop it! Stop it!" The Jack-in-the-box pops open and Jade screams in her "man voice" "POP GOES THE WEASEL!" The little boy completely loses it and starts screaming, "I HATE YOU!!!" while Jade screams back, "I LOVE YOU!!!" It's way creepier than it sounds.
• "Terror In Cupcake Street" is the resident Halloween episode, so frights are to be expected here.
  • The gang is traveling in a giant cupcake float that goes 4mph. It breaks down in a bad neighborhood of Los Angeles, leaving them stranded. And they're all wearing candy jammies.
  • Tori, a fairly small sixteen year old girl, goes out to look for help. Alone.
  • Tori looks out the window on the cupcake float and sees a man in the street petting a dog only to realize it was actually a large rat... And he was eating it.
• The Monster Clown at the gas station in "Car, Rain, & Fire". "Can I get a ride...to your house?" The way that he moves, like a strangely hypnotic dancer, is also quite unnerving. The girls rightfully run to the car and flee the place. Jade even sounds unnerved when warning Tori that he's approaching her from behind.
• Black Comedy taken to the extreme in "Driving Tori Crazy" when Jade drives Tori to the middle of a desert with a shovel in the back. After Tori jumps out the car and runs away, Jade looks at the shovel and says to herself, "Next Time". Not to mention the creepy lullaby she sings which leads Tori to running away.
• Fawn "Ponnie" Leibowitz is essentially a mixture of a Manipulative Bitch and a dangerous mental patient. She's bent on ruining Tori and driving her to insanity, often through the use of meticulous Gaslighting. And to make matters worse, nobody believes Tori when she tells them about Ponnie, meaning she's vastly on her own. Were Tori not the daughter of a cop, Ponnie likely would've succeeded, and even then she gets away in the end. She's the closest the series has to a Knight of Cerebus.
• In "Robbie Sells Rex", Robbie begins to slowly go mad due to lack of Rex, and starts hallucinating in class, which results in Cat and Jade's faces morphing into versions of Rex. It's insanely disturbing.
• In the infamous episode "Brain Squeezers" the gang, including Sinjin, compete for the prize money in the game show no one heard of. If you answer the question wrong you get a "doink!". The first doink shows Robbie getting spray by the Pus Blaster right in his right eye. Then Trina gets pelted by nuts and bolts, which cause her head to bleed. Beck gets hit right in the gut by a guy wielding a bowling ball on a stick, Cat got hit right in the jaw twice, Jade was pelted by salt, batteries, and a car battery, Andre gets pelted by batteries for no reason, and Sinjin got hit by the toilet even when he was about to answer the question. A few doinks later, we see the gang, except Tori, got seriously hurt. How this game show is legal is anyone's guess.
• Cat's Sanity Slippage in "Cell Block" was rather terrifying to behold. Even Jade who gets a kick out of tormenting her is affected by this emotionally.
  Jade: Its kinda sad watching Cat go mentally insane. I always thought it would happen more gradually.
  • While not Nightmare fuel per se, the mere fact it took five people to restrain the normally calm sweet and ditzy Cat when she wanted her phone and the fact being she’s stronger than she looks could have some serious implications if Cat ever actually does have a mental breakdown.
• "A Film by Dale Squires", Cat's character Monica kisses Beck's character, but then dies. Jade's character tries to make sure she's alive, to no avail. Beck's character is then interrogated, followed by a scene where Jade's character takes a bloody knife and cleans it off. (Cat, watching this, gasps.) Jade's character then puts the knife in a drawer with a picture of Monica. After she shuts it, the last scene shows a car driving in the night on a lone road. Plus, that music really feels creepy.
• In "Beck's Big Break", when Robbie has a dream of a GIANT REX towering over him in a darkened atmosphere while he's in a cereal bowl, and the giant Rex blasts him with snot. Doubles as Nausea Fuel.
• Melinda Murray's injury. She gets an arrow impaled through her hand, coupled with her agonizing screams afterward. While she was a horrible woman who definitely had it coming, seeing the arrow go through the hand is still pretty unnerving.
• The earthquake in Andre's Horrible Girl.
• A good portion of ''Locked Up''◊- Traveling to a war-torn foreign country run by an authoritarian dictator, getting put up in a less than third-rate hotel infested with creepy-crawlies, being forced to perform for said dictator when you try to cancel out due to personal safety concerns, being unfairly tried and imprisoned due to a simple accident or misunderstanding, being incarcerated in a jail that's even worse than the hotel you were put up in, complete with sadistic or uncaring guards and violent inmates, need we continue?
• In "Tori and Jade's Playdate", two guys show up on Jade and Tori's "date" and proceed to disregard any boundaries or personal space, repeatedly touching the girls despite their visible discomfort, refusing to leave even when Jade and Tori tell them that they want to be left alone. It takes the girls singing "Take A Hint" directly in their faces to get them to leave and even then, it turns out, at the end of the episode, that they went to the play anyway and start walking towards the stage. Jade and Tori's reactions are actual fear and they both take off running. The last part is Played for Laughs, of course, but being harassed like that and finding out that they followed you is terrifying.

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