Cartoons that really "shook" you

I'm not sure if it counts, but Professor Layton is sort of a visual novel . The end of the last game really brought me to tears

The Legend Of Korra Book 2 has a lot of pretty shocking moments (beginning with a lethal spirit-kaiju attack before the title screen), but here are a few of the ones that shook me the most:

• Korra threatening to feed a judge to Naga by sticking his head in the polar bear dog's mouth. It's quite a memorable way of demonstrating the hero's anti-heroic side! XD
• All of the "by the way, they're all dead" moments in Wan's story.
• Unalaq beating Raava to death in the finale. Spirits don't bleed, but that was a brutal scene, made all the worse by what it meant for the Avatar line and for Korra.

There's a reason why "it's a kids' show" is such a big joke in fandom. ;)

Pink Elephants On Parade was just too surreal for my young, impressionable mind. I still shudder when I think about it.

Pinocchio....I STILL can't watch the pleasure Island sequence...well, I CAN, but I usually prefer not to. No horror movie ever scared me like this one (you know, FOR KIDS!!!!!).

I remember when I was maybe 6 and had grown up on the lovely, fluffy Sonic cartoon with Screatch and Grounder etc... then I saw my first episode of Sonic Sat Am, complete with Sonic's beloved but Roboticized uncle flipping between ally and psychotic enemy (and strangling Sonic at one point) as they fought a losing battle against Robotnik.

Needless to say, I was really disturbed!

I was shooked by that Tom and Jerry short "Tee for Two". It's by far the most chaotic Tom and Jerry short. Every new scene's basically a gag without little continuation from previous scene aside Tom playing Golf.

Also, Donald Duck short "Vanishing Private". Donald's totally hilarious without anything resemble chaos here (and he made Pete crazy). Bonus point as one of Disney shorts where Donald's activity as a soldier is nothing but satire or just for laugh without any propaganda.

x6 Oh my goodness. The feels from that ending were unbelievable.

As for me, Lilo And Stitch. A few months ago, I watched it for the first time since I was nine, and I was shocked by how depressing it was. It also cemented Lilo as one of my favorite characters from a Disney film.

Whoever mentioned Galaxy High on the first page is awesome and should deserve recognition for it. I honestly thought no one remembered that show.

edited 17th Mar '14 4:52:52 AM by Explosivo25

I remember Samurai Jack's "The Tale of X9". An episode in which we see X9, a robot with human emotions, who narrates his life story to the viewer. The whole episode is effectively his biography, as he narrates to the audience how he was once Aku's top enforcer, and how he acquired emotions, how his line of robots became obsolete, and how he abandoned the evil side when he found Lulu (a dog).

Then our protagonist returned, and Aku kidnapped Lulu to force X9 to do One Last Job: Killiing Jack. Then the narration ends, we have a brief battle betwene X9 and Jack. X9 loses, and then, just before Jack strikes him down, X9 says in a solemn tone: "Save Lulu." Then Jack slices him down.

Jack walks off, but looks back with a look of My God, What Have I Done? to the fallen robot. The last shot is then a picture of Lulu X9 kept, and his words "...Sweet thing."

To this day, I find it one of the best cartoons I've ever seen, and my favorite episode of Samurai Jack.

Thanks to the TV Tropes main series pages, I remembered one of these recently that I'd blessedly forgotten about.

I was looking up episodes of old 80s and 90s horror-anthologies because I was in the mood for some cheese. It started with me searching desperately for the title of something I had remembered out of the blue seeing when I was something, like, 8, and did not know whether it was real or I'd dreamt it. (An episode of Freddy's Nightmares I looked up on Youtube, thank you, editors, for showing me that it was real). Because I'd been TV Troping and Youtubing things from other anthologies, I wound up looking up episodes of other stuff I vaguely remembered for fun to re-watch...

... Except for that dammed cartoon-episode of Tales from the Crypt. When I was on the TFTC episode-summary page, I just saw the description of the final episode, an animated gruesome-version of The 3 Little Pigs and I just started having flashbacks. OOO Oh, GOD! Not planning on re-watching that thing. I think it aired when I was a frickin' teenager, but it still made me unable to sleep that night because of all the over-the-top blood and gore. There was just something about it must have really bothered me to get that "AAAAH!" feeling just by reading a description.

Another one that I remember really shaking me - and it shook me for a long time until I finally desensitized myself to it enough to laugh at the jokes was one of the Simpsons Halloween mini-episodes. It was on Treehouse of Horror V, I believe. The episode where the teachers at Bart and Lisa's school start cannibalizing the students. It was really just over the top gorey, and there was the fact of the matter that before that episode aired, *I'd had nightmares like that.* I used to have dreams where my parents were cannibals and were trying to turn me into one (not very far-fetched, my father was a retail butcher), or cannibalism was happening around me and my mother told me to take care of myself (that's the part that really squicked me, where Marge told the kids to solve their own problems when they said murders are happening at school). I remember that I'd always laughed at the "school crossing" bib that Skinner wore in one scene, otherwise, I had to do a lot of "It's only a cartoon" to get over that stupid thing. The fact that the *other* cartoons in that Treehouse of Horror were so good only adds insult to injury.

I'm another one who was traumatized by Dumbo and the Pink Elephants On Parade sequence. People made fun of me for years for that.

A couple of less-frightening examples for me were Heavy Metal and The Last Unicorn. Those were the first times I was made aware that the Animation Age Ghetto existed, and what it was like on the other side of it. The important thing to note was that I was 5 when I saw those. "Mommy, those are breasts! And that guy just cursed!"

Some cartoons that really shook me were:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where Judge Doom reveals himself to be a toon when that whole time, he was killing off toons left and right.

Avatar the Last Airbender had several episodes that shook me including the puppet episode where they introduced the technique of blood bending for the first time and the Boiling Rock episode where Mai and Ty Lee betrays Azula.

Definitely King Triton destroying Ariel's grotto in The Little Mermaid, especially when you see how King Triton looks so scary during that scene.

The Legend of Korra where it was revealed that Tarlok can blood bend.

Mighty Max had a brilliantly mature yet understated moment when Max, Norman and Virgil are tracking a recently released, unstoppable and very violent demon that has ties to Norman's past. They approach a house that was broken in to, Norman steps inside, grimaces and refuses to let Max enter, heavily implying the family inside was gruesomely slaughtered. Max is annoyed, claiming that he sees plenty of violence on TV while Virgil tells him "real violence has real consequences." For a kids show that tries to entertain you with action, I think it's one of the first moments as a kid that got me fascinated with stories and the theories behind them.

"Remember the bad guys on those shows you used to watch on Saturday morning? Well, these guys are not like those guys. They won't exercise restraint because you're children. They- will- kill- you if they get the chance. Do not give them that chance."

The looks on the kids' faces when she gets to the "not like those guys" part.

Pretty much the second half of the Adventure Time episode "I Remember You". "I need to save you, but who's going to save me?"

Like, just because someone's making a Heroic Sacrifice doesn't mean they have to be all stoic about it.

Hell a LOT of moments in The Incredibles really shook me.

Seconded.

The Pinocchio scene with the kids transforming into the donkeys, yes, that was really messed up. The idea that they were transformed while being totally aware of their transformation, staying that way forever, and unable to communicate their distress or the fact that they're really human, and the fact that their parents will never know where they are ever again... it's really fucked up.

Plus the Coachman never gets a comeuppance. Hurrah!

(now that i think of that, isn't that contrary to the Hays Code?)

That's what they said about Mr. Potter.

I second Xavier: Renegade Angel. It's one of the very few cartoons that has given nightmares from when it aired until this day.

Correction, it started when it aired those two promos before it premiered. When the first one aired late at night in 2007, I got a good look at the main character dancing to Middle-Eastern music and couldn't sleep. Saw the next promo the next day, while having no footage from the show, ended very eerially with a warning that XRA would crush your soul in tune to distant, low-pitched dubstep. *shudders*

Then I watched the show in the fall of 2007....Big mistake for my 12 year old self.

I've never saw anything like Xavier Renegade Angel in my life at the time (aside from David Lynch's work). It was so disturbing that when I introduced it to a friend, his mother saw him watch it and banned him from watching TV for a month.

There are plenty of other toons that gave me the chills (Wondershowzen, Ren and Stimpy, Gargoyles, etc.) Today, all pale in comparison to WHERE THE DEAD GO TO DIE.

edited 11th Apr '14 1:18:25 PM by TheLemsterPju

"Heart of Ice" from BatmanTheAnimatedSeries. I remember sitting there with my dad, blinking at the screen because I couldn't believe what just happened. There simply was no happy ending. And Mr. Freeze's closing monologue just killed me. I still tear up when I watch it.

The series finale of AvatarTheLastAirbender. I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter, so it was the first time something on that scale had ended. They'd fought so long and so hard, and finally they won.

And, in retrospect, the 2k3 TMNT episodes Insane In the Membrane, Same As It Never Was, and I, Monster were pretty shocking.

edited 10th Apr '14 7:13:53 PM by UmLovely

His what saw him watch it?

For me I suppose that various scenes in the Brave Little Toaster kind of did. XD Looking back on them now they aren't particularly scary, but when I was younger they were. Those scenes would probably be... Well, the nightmare clown scene is obvious- everyone says it's scary now but I think it's more- "wow that looks kind of surreal," instead of, "wow what nightmare fuel." Different strokes for different folks though. Another scene would probably be the Master almost getting his hand crushed, and the scene in the woods when Lampy gets struck by lightning. Otherwise I can't think of anything else- kind of just that movie, but possibly other things! Who knows!