Nightmare Fuel cleanup and maintenance

I'm thinking of cutting that Page. It seems to be relying too much on the fear of children going on dangerous adventures. There are also ZC Es, This Troper, and Natter as well. Here is the list of examples for reference:

• First example should be kids going on adventures. Sounds fun right? Wrong! It's terrible! In the very first book the two kids are in the dinosaur era. That's absolutely terrible! Think of all the carnivores there. They could've easily been chomped up and never seen again! It's especially bad if you're a parent with kids of your own.
• The books can take you anywhere. Anywhere. You can even go to Pompeii (which the kids do in one book). Think of how that'll work out.
• And how about earthquakes and the Titanic?
• At one point in the movie Annie and Jack are going out at night. Do you know what happens to kids at night? Yeah.
  • The kids are apparently allowed to walk on their own a lot. If this wasn't a kids series I would be really worried.
  • Frog Creek is a suburb—less crime tends to happen there.

edited 21st Jun '18 8:01:19 AM by SithPanda16

Yeesh, that's one of the worst Nightmare Fuel pages I've ever seen. It might be OK if it gave actual examples of scary things that actually DO happen (if such things do happen in the stories), but instead it just lists a bunch of vague scenarios and asks us to imagine the scariness. In other words, depending on what actually happens in these stories, it's either a bunch of Zero-Context Examples (if scary things do happen and this page doesn't explain them), or Fridge Horror (if nothing scary actually happens and it's up to us to imagine the possibilities).

Its just one hypothetical after another. Yeah, that's pretty bad.

This sounds like it was edited together by a bunch of Moral Guardians. Definitely cut.

Maybe there needs to be a reminder that hypothetical situations go on Fridge Horror instead of Nightmare Fuel.

edited 21st Jun '18 10:36:12 AM by ShawnRi

I've put up commented-out warnings on pages where certain rules have often been broken, including instructing people not to add Fridge Horror.

That's probably the best way to do it.

I've been wanting to go over NightmareFuel.Steven Universe for a while now. A lot of it sounds like overreacting, and the result is a very lengthy page. To be expected, given how gushy SU fans can be.

Oh, and there's a "general" folder as well. May as well start with that:

If this folder gets cleaned up, we could consolidate a few bullet points into one. How about something like this:

• The whole concept of shattering a Gem. Gems are immortal, due to their bodies being projections coming from their gemstone, allowing them to regenerate easily enough when damaged. But if the stone itself is destroyed? They can no longer project a body, leaving them trapped within their shards for eternity, futilely trying to rejoin their gem. To make things worse, The Diamonds dole this out as their standard punishment, casually inflicting a Fate Worse than Death onto any of their subject who fails in their task or attempts to rebel against their authority.

SU is pretty soft even in its portrayal of fear inducing material. There might be some Nightmare fuel in the series but it would be relatively little.

Zux: I think that works pretty well.

edited 21st Jun '18 7:21:25 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Yeesh. Reminds me of all the needless gushing RWBY's NF page had.

What you have is fine.

I was actually inspired by our cleanup of RWBY's page. If we removed the huge amount of gushing there, we should be able to do it here too.

I went ahead with the cuts and rewrite, so here's the next folder: promos!

Okay, so, after looking these over, I think we should just axe the whole folder. If the things described in these promos truly are scary, they'll have an entry of their own under their respective episodes, making them redundant. I've always been of the opinion that unreleased content makes for poor Nightmare Fuel material, and nothing here challenges this view.

Cut, cut, cut. Seen all the promos and nothing them about qualifies as NF.

From NightmareFuel.LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean

• Davy Jones' heart is not as crude and realistic as in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End but rather a cute little heart, similar to your health hearts, wearing Davy Jones' hat. Just like in the movie, Will Turner is about to stab it, but the cute little heart is so scared to die that you could only put your hands in your mouth when Will stabs it out of shot. For a game that loves to bowdlerize, it's quite disturbing.

Given that Lego games are Played for Laughs, I think this is stretching.

So Magic Treehouse was cut? Good riddance. Ironically, the Raven King pictured was scarier than anything mentioned on the page.

EDIT: Looks like NightmareFuel.Vanity Plate was also cut as Tropes can't have NF pages? A lot of it was exaggerated, but there were many genuinely scary Vanity Plates listed.

edited 21st Jun '18 10:50:29 PM by rjd1922

You may want to disable the folder commands. They regularly break in the forum. For instance Zux your second post opens up the folders in your previous post.

The folder code keys on the folder name, so if you use two folders with the same name in different posts, it gets confused. We're getting that fixed for the 1.8 revision.

Yes, trope articles should not have trope subpages. Tropes apply to works, not to other tropes.

Oh, that's right. It's the use of the [foldercontrol] tag that doesn't work.

edited 22nd Jun '18 6:44:05 AM by Fighteer

The folder works correctly if you click on the folder control button to open it.

I agree that something made of LEGO is unlikely to scare anyone.

edited 22nd Jun '18 6:41:59 AM by Zuxtron

With the SU promos, I think the "In Too Deep" promo is the only salvageable point (mainly because of the music). Everything else is speculation about then-upcoming episodes that have long since come out. Anything else that isn't cut can be merged with the episode it actually happened in, if it's not there already.

edited 25th Jun '18 7:23:19 AM by rjd1922

The Summer of Steven one also has an image that isn't taken from the episode itself. But it's not really scary, just Steven looking beat up. Went ahead with the cuts. Moving on to season 1 next, since that season ended up being double-length I'll look at each half individually to make things easier. Also using a labelnote since folders don't work too well.

^{Season 1 A} 

Gem Glow

• As much as she became a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds in later episodes, the Centipeetle Mother is still the first Gem Monster to appear, and barring perhaps the Slinker she's also the most dangerous one seen thus far; at her full power, during the final fight, she cornered the Crystal Gems and would have probably killed them with her acidic spit if it wasn't for Steven's quick thinking.
  • Her design immediately sets the alien, unsettling trend for Gem Monsters in general, with her millipede-like serpentine body, rock-crushing pincer tail, leonine mane that vaguely makes her look like a demented caricature of an oriental dragon, and huge, serrated beak/mandible mouth with a huge, cyclopean eye on the inside. That spews ACID.
  • Think Centipeetle Mother's corrupted form was creepy enough? Well, the Steven Universe: Art & Origins book can prove that she could've been far worse.◊
  This sounds like "The monsters are monstrous", listing monstrous traits but not really making them sound very disturbing. The concept art does look pretty freaky. Leaning towards cutting this except for the last bullet point, though it might be salvageable if someone does find it scary.

• The evil painting might not seem scary at first, but when you learn via Word of God that its paint was made of ground up gemstones from other Gems, it gets seen in a whole new light and makes its death seem like a mercy kill.
  The concept of a painting made out of ground-up Gems (who, if you recall above, are doomed to eternal torment after being crushed) is pretty disturbing. I could keep this, but at the same time it relies on Word of God to be scary, so not sure.

• Frybo itself. You... just need to see the thing in motion to get the full effect of how Uncanny Valley it is. The effect gets worse when you see it restraining people using its Combat Tentacles and force-feeding them fries. Then things take a turn for the gruesome once Pearl javelins one of its eyes with her spear, causing ketchup to come spewing out, giving the impression of Bloody Eye Scream.
  • Frybo is actually more creepy now that we know the characters it was attacking so well. You'd be just as horrified as anyone on the scene.
  Frybo used to be the page image, and is often cited as one of the most frightening enemies in the entire show, so this could be kept. That last bullet point is pure natter though.

Cat Fingers

• You might not think being able to turn body parts into cats would be this. You would be horrifyingly incorrect. It comes out looking like a malformed telepod mixture of The Thing, Tetsuo, a monster from Silent Hill, and one of David Cronenberg's unholy creations. For those brave enough, this is the result.◊
  • The sound... They weren't meowing.
  • And the music in the background. That... did not help.
• When Steven starts losing control, he pretty much starts screaming for the Gems to help him... except they're too far away to do anything for him or even know about what he's going through.
• As the cats become even more out of control, some of them seem to emerge from Steven's eyes!
  I've also seen people say that they found this episode scary, so this might be a keep too. The Adult Fear example I'm not too sure about, though, and the last one could be merged into the first. The first one also needs fixing on the indentation.

Bubble Buddies

• Steven and Connie end up stuck in a pit at the bottom of the ocean floor, still in the bubble. If they weren't as close to shore as they were, well...
• The worm was quite possibly the ugliest-looking monster shown in the series up to that point.
  The first one is just "the heroes are in danger". The second equates "ugly" with "scary". Seems like both should be cut.

Serious Steven

• In this episode the Gems find themselves stuck in what seemed like a never-ending death trap. It was rather unsettling to see both Amethyst and Pearl beginning to get very worried about not only getting out of there, but also that they had no idea how the place worked.
  Another case of "the heroes are in danger".

Tiger Millionaire

• Pearl calling Amethyst out on using her powers on humans has some teeth to it. Amethyst is a Gem, and thus a lot stronger than the wrestlers she was fighting.
  Not sure what this example is calling scary: Amethyst using her powers on humans, or Pearl calling her out for it. Either way, neither of these are actually scary.

Arcade Mania

• Garnet's Third Eye is actually pretty awesome looking, but the way it moves and glows when she's completely hypnotized by the video game is downright creepy. She looks like something is taking over her mind, and Steven being unable to snap her out of it only makes the scene more nerve wracking. Thankfully a much more lighthearted explanation arose now that we know Garnet's Sapphire half has the clairvoyance and the single eye, maybe it was just a rare chance for fun, low-risk practice for her Future Vision, and the Ruby side was refusing attempts to make Garnet stop?
  Garnet's third eye was only mildly creepy at most when it was first shown, and stops being so entirely in later episodes, as the entry so unhelpfully explains, ruining any scariness to be found here.

Giant Woman

• Steven getting swallowed by the monster bird. Sure, he's unharmed, but the entire inside of the bird is littered with skeletons. And that's before gigantic arms start tearing into the bird. Sure, it's revealed to just be Pearl and Amethyst in their fused form, Opal, but in the split second before you know that, it's pretty scary.
  Steven getting eaten by a bird is yet another case of "the hero is in danger". The skeletons are just a background detail, you'd have to be overthinking things to focus on them specifically. Opal saving him is not scary at all, as this entry itself explains, since it's only a few minutes until we're told that it's Amethyst and Pearl, and it's easy enough to figure it out yourself immediately, so the fear doesn't actually last.

So Many Birthdays

• This episode demonstrates another consequence of Steven losing control of his powers. Should he act too old, his gem will shapeshift and age his body, to the point where his human half will die of old age Steven also appears to have lost his sanity, as he is sitting on the floor and gasping for breath without focusing on the other Crystal Gems.
• The increasingly frantic behavior of the Gems as they repeatedly tried and failed to de-age Steven, combined with how close Steven came to actually dying in this episode, made for some of the show's first unsettling viewing.
  First bullet point could be a keep. Second one is describing In-Universe fear, so cut.

Lars And The Cool Kids

• Rose Quartz's moss. It seems to have some level of sentience, and at one point succeeds in engulfing the titular "cool kids", who are audibly struggling to breathe, then proceeds to slowly ooze over Steven and Lars as they frantically try to get it to the top of the hill where it supposedly wants to be.
• The face Steven makes right before he yells at Lars for badmouthing his mother. Now, he had every right to yell at Lars like that but dear God, did he have to pull that face?
  First one sounds OK, innocent civilians nearly died in a disturbing way. The second one is a Zero-Context Example, plus I'm not exactly a fan of "a character makes a scary face"-type entries.

Onion Trade

• Much of Onion's behavior is extremely disturbing: he steals a bag of chips from a vending machine, makes his moped explode in flames and tries to drown Beach city with toys for no real reason other than boredom. He even tries to KILL the Gems by crushing them with cars! It doesn't help that he has pretty much the same blank expression the whole time and doesn't get any comeuppance for his actions.
• Onion's expression when he offer to trade Ranger Guy for a replicator wand is unexpectedly terrifying. Made worse by the pitch-black background and growing sounds of fire sirens wailing in the background.
  I'm under the impression that being scared of Onion is more of a community meme than a serious reaction. Not sure about either of these.

Steven The Sword Fighter

• Pearl being stabbed from behind by her hologram. There is no blood, but it is still rather unsettling.
  • She gets stabbed in probably the most violent manner a children's show can get away with. Her hologram suddenly comes up from behind with no warning and impales her through the chest. Her pupils shrink to dots, her hair dishevels, and she lets out a gasp of pain. Garnet and Amethyst react in horror, Steven watches in disbelief with tears in his eyes, and only her shadow is seen as her hand loosens on her sword, causing it to drop slowly to the ground. Then the sword can actually be seen through her chest, though there's no blood, and she desperately tries to comfort Steven before she explodes into a poof of smoke. If she wasn't a Gem, she'd be unquestionably dead.
• Hologram Pearl, period. Especially when it goes into its "advanced" setting.
  • And especially the way its mouth moves.
• When Hologram Pearl starts going after Steven, and none of the other Gems are around to help him. He's a young child alone in a dark room with an entity designed to try and kill you with a sword.
  First one sounds OK aside from the bad indentation. Second one is a ZCE with more bad indentation. Third one also sounds OK.

Rose's Room

• Rose's Room. Basically, Steven ends up in his mother's room which materializes everything he could want, but it's all made of clouds. So he wishes to leave to get donuts. But everyone in the town starts acting weird, barely moving, glitching up and repeating motions or speaking only in repeats of things they've said before. Steven first realizes something is wrong when his dad starts repeating old advice instead of answering what he's actually asking - and then the town starts actually falling apart, revealing itself to simply be another construct and basically crashing under its own weight. It's played entirely for horror and it is terrifying.
• As if Frybo wasn't bad enough the first time, we get to see him again. Except this time, he's not doing anything inherently horrifying. He's just standing there and handing out fry bits. Which are glitching as he replaces each box with another one in the exact same place. While staring out of a dark room. Nothing Is Scarier.
• Lars and Sadie are just standing behind the counter when Steven goes to buy donuts, not realizing he's still in Rose's room. They're completely motionless until they talk, where their voices are in complete unison and sound completely robotic. Then they slide backwards out of the room, without a walking motion. Steven is understandably creeped out.
• Steven sees Connie and calls out for her... Only to result in a Jump Scare when she turns around and is revealed to have no eyes. Then the voice clip from "Bubble Buddies" where she says "It was incredible!" gets played over and over again, echoing throughout the "town", all while she stands there motionless and eyeless.
• Then the room just starts glitching more as various residents of Beach City pop out of nowhere. The staff used the distance models instead of the regular models however, which adds another layer of Uncanny Valley.
• The effect is made worse with the room's representation of Greg. From the moment Steven sees Sadie and Lars, the way everyone and everything acts is so off that it seems obvious to the audience that Steven is still in the room, but when he finds his dad, who responds coherently to what he says at first, it's hard to see anything wrong with him, so the build-up to the reveal that he's also an illusion as his words and actions become repetitive and nonsensical is even more gradual and jarring.
• The whole episode is extra unsettling if you're a frequent gamer. Basically, imagine every eerie or game breaking video game bug you've ever run into - falling through the world, looping NPC dialogue, objects phasing into each other, the soundtrack glitching, characters sliding instead of doing their proper walking animation - all starts happening at once, in reality, and you have no idea why.
  First one sounds OK. Second is misuse of Nothing Is Scarier. Third one is describing In-Universe fear. Fourth sounds like misuse of Jump Scare. Fifth is kinda lacking in detail. Sixth could be OK. Seventh sounds unnecessary.

Coach Steven

• Amethyst and Garnet's Fusion, "Sugilite" is undeniably cool, being a gigantic, trollish, four-armed, rock-star looking thing. And then, moments after her introduction, she's shown to be immensely destructive, brutish, and virtually uncaring when she accidentally hits Steven with a rock. And that's before she shows up again, nearly destroys Pearl by sending her into a Heroic Blue Screen of Death mode, and shows that Gem Fusions can actually be a downright terrifying case of rage-fueled identity erasure.
  • Steven gets struck by a rock, flung by Sugilite, recklessly flailing her wrecking ball. Steven is more resilient than the average human due to being Half-Gem, and so when Steven shows off his "battle damage" and we see this tiny cut, it seems laughable, but if he weren't so durable, he could have had some major trauma, if it didn't kill him. Pearl's reaction to Steven being hit was very justified, seeing as Sugilite is huge, powerful and reckless. Who knows what could have happened if he'd been accidentally struck by her wrecking ball itself when she was winding back to smash more pillars.
  • Sugilite having enormous fangs and five eyes, two of which are Prophet Eyes is enough to make her Nightmare Fuel.
  • As the Fusion reaches its zenith, a dragon breathes out Sugilite's form like fire. The dragon actually sounds as if it's screeching as Sugilite emerges.
  I don't find Sugilite scary, but maybe she could be kept if her description is rewritten to not focus so much on how cool she is. Second point is nothing but "what if?" style Fridge Horror. Third is very weak, just saying that having five eyes is scary. Fourth also is pretty weak.

Joking Victim

• Lars breathing fire due to Sadie putting too much fire salt on his doughnut. Even if he deserved it, it's still pretty horrifying, especially when he starts running around setting the town on fire.
  • There was one point where he was ready to use this on Steven. Sadie stops him, thankfully, but imagining what would happen is scary as is...
• In most cartoons, Fire-Breathing Diner is a funny consequence of spicy food... but here we see just how dangerous it would be if this could really happen.
• Did "The Incident" that resulted in the donut shop no longer making its own donuts involve some sort of comedic noodle event with Lars getting caught in an oven explosion or does the silhouette surrounded by the blast marks belong to a third employee who is no longer with us? The increasingly dramatic music when the scene is revealed and the fact the silhouette creepily resembles the documented reports of negative shadows cast on walls by people vaporized by nuclear explosions does not help.
  I feel like everything here should be cut. The first one is just saying that a character being in pain is scary, and the badly indented sub-bullet is speculation. Second is more Reality Ensues than Nightmare Fuel. Third is thankfully commented out already on the page, but ought to be cut entirely due to being speculation.

Steven and the Stevens

• This episode have multiple Stevens building dozens of alternative timeline versions of himself to fight each other. When the starting story Steven sees the chaos and pain this causes, it convinces him to destroy the Time Machine, resulting in all the alternative Stevens to painfully disintegrate around the Steven whose story will play out without the device. Some are begging for help as they die while the first Steven desperately tells that normal Steven to find another solution before disintegrating himself as Steven looks on in horror. Then Steven writes a song about it.
  This could be a keep aside from that last sentence.

An Indirect Kiss

• As the crack in Amethyst's gem gets bigger, her form further degrades into Body Horror. And then she starts emitting a series of terrified shrieks...
  • Although, this would most likely have been an attempt to lighten him up, as Amethyst's reverse dialogue after the screaming says "Cheer up, will ya?"
• Earlier, Amethyst tries to assure the Crystal Gems and Steven that she's not going to get any worse. But then, mid-sentence, she goes into something uncannily like a seizure caused by a brain disease or a foreign object. Just seeing it gives one the second-hand feeling of how sudden and painful it makes it to so much as utter a word.
  Both of these sound like they might be OK aside from that bit of natter.

Mirror Gem

• The kaleidoscopic image the mirror made out of Steven's head laughing is a little disturbing. It doesn't help that the heads float without a body and the laugh echoes after a while.
• Lapis was trapped in a mirror for who knows how many years, with no one to talk to and no one to help her escape it, far from her home planet.

  Steven: What's it like being a mirror?
  Lapis (mirror): (Playing back) You work!

  • Even without knowing it was Lapis it's horrifying. Garnet asks Steven to hand over the mirror. The mirror's reaction is to scream "Nooooooo!" in Steven's voice. On a loop. It screams and screams and screams...
• The face Garnet makes◊ when Steven accidentally slaps off her shades, accompanied by a discordant Scare Chord. Brrr...
  • In general, the concept of Garnet being angry at all. Considering she is usually stoic but occasionally cracks a smile or funny comment, here she is genuinely FURIOUS, and for the first time we even hear her yell at Steven. It's incredibly jarring.
• The entire situation is grim. The Crystal Gems know that another Gem is trapped in the mirror, yet they do nothing to help her. This is where the show starts to foreshadow that the Gem species is, by human standards, immoral and destructive, with the Crystal Gems being the exception, fighting against their own species to protect the Earth.
  • They don't just refuse to help her, they emphasize to Steven that the mirror should be treated as a tool, not a person with thoughts and feelings, and try to put it back in storage when they're presented with evidence that it might be self-aware. Yikes.
    Pearl: It's talking to [Steven]? It shouldn't be able to do that, it should only be following orders!
    Amethyst: Let's bubble it!
    Garnet: (after Steven protests that the mirror doesn't want to go with the Gems) Steven, it's just a mirror. A tool. It can't "want" anything.
• When Lapis begins attacking the Gems, Pearl's terrified shout for Steven to run is chilling.
  First one is described as just "a little disturbing". Second sounds OK. Third is very weak, especially that bit of natter. Fourth one is just saying that the Crystal Gems aren't completely good guys, which is more of an unpleasant thought than actually scary. Fifth is another In-Universe reaction.

Ocean Gem

• The way the water clones mirror their Gem counterparts. Uncanny Valley much?
  • How the Steven Clone comes out, first by lifting Steven off the ground, then yelling at him in Lapis' voice.
• Then there's the retaliation the clone does to Connie and Steven. Damn, even if it was in self defense, Lapis was willing to drown both Steven and Connie right then and there a la water orb engulfing the face!
  First one sounds pretty weak and lacking in context, plus it has bad indentation. Second sounds OK.

edited 22nd Jun '18 10:31:32 AM by Zuxtron

Throwing the rest of the Lego Video Games out there. All of them have the same problem as the cut Pirates of the Caribbean page, in that the fact that they're Lego makes it hard to be scared by them.

From LEGO Batman

• There's just something unsettling about the bright red eyes on Joker's◊ Batman Beyond skin.
• Black Hand is in LEGO Batman 3, with a surprisingly horrifying character model. Mercifully, he's not in the main game.
• The statue of Abin Sur during the Indigo Tribe level in LEGO Batman 3 might not make any sense at first, but comics fans will know that this is because Indigo-1 murdered his daughter. This means that when Flash, Cyborg and Martian Manhunter step foot on the planet, they're fighting a child-murdering sociopath at the head of an equally sociopathic group of criminals.

From Lego Dimensions

• There is a Weeping Angels section, complete with a terrifying Jump Scare if they catch you while you're frozen in a lock. Just before that, you're in a graveyard filled with winged statues. You constantly expect them to attack, but they don't. At least, not until you get inside...
  • To clarify, at two points in the level, you're stuck in rooms with several Angels while regular blackouts occur. The Angels take full advantage of this each time.
  • It gets worse in the level that comes with the Doctor. The Angels appear again - and this time, they move based on the camera's movement. They know you're there. At least they don't attack you this time...
• You rebuild the Jurassic World park, and it doesn't look like anybody learned any lessons. They're got multiple I. Rex eggs incubating, and are screwing around with DNA even more.
• In a case of Ascended Fridge Horror and if not proving, then acknowledging a morbid fan theory, there are companion cubes to destroy in the Portal 2 Adventure World. They contain skeleton parts, or more plainly, human remains!
• The giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man from the end of the Ghostbusters Level Pack, which, unlike the one that appears in the main story, is not a giant version of the minifigure, but an Uncanny Valley giant Lego model.
• When using a DeLorean treadmill in the Portal 2 Adventure World, the "present time" ticker will read "E 99 9999 99 99". It's pretty chilling when even a time machine doesn't know how long Chell had been in cryo-sleep before Portal 2...
• Look closely at the start of the Midway Arcade level pack. There's a skeleton in a security booth. How do you suppose the Midway Arcade characters killed him, anyway?
• If you have the Scooby Snack gadget, other characters can eat it and temporarily take on a new ability from it. But if you feed it to cute and lovable Gizmo, he'll transform into an evil Gremlin!
• Some of the finishers can be pretty gruesome; take for example the Cyberman's, in which they forcibly turn the enemy into another Cyberman. Or Finn, who summons skeletons to drag the enemy into the ground.
• Any expectations that the Mission: Impossible level would off all of the IMF agents in a Denser and Wackier manner than the movie (a la Doc Brown getting hit by a baseball in the Back to the Future level) would become dashed when Jack gets flattened in the elevator shaft, and the player doesn't see his remains. The second right before this happens, the game immediately cuts to Sarah accidentally spraying mustard over Ethan. It's clear what that mustard spray is supposed to represent.
• One of the Mad Hatter's hypnotized patrons muses that if she had two heads, she could buy twice as many hats, then wonders if she could go get that done somewhere. Made less scary due to the player remaining unaware if she actually goes through with this operation.
• While it fortunately doesn't do anything the Tails Doll is in the Marble Zone.

From LEGO Harry Potter

• In the the Forbidden Forest level from the First Year, you can see evil white eyes in the dark watching you. And yes, the level has John Williams' creepy score.
• Bowtruckles are pretty harmless (at least they don't try to rip off your eyes like in the books) and helpful to create stairs, but they make some weird noises and howls enough to make you jump.
• When Harry ends up in Borgin and Burks, he looks around at the creepy items. He then sees a large figure, which the camera moves up to (not before showing a couple skeletons) to reveal his face. Thankfully, it's only Hagrid.
• The Grey Lady coming from a corner in the Mirror of Erised level. She doesn't make noises and doesn't hurt you, but it's very unexpected.
• Ghost characters make a creepy howl while attacking. The noise is much creepier in the Years 1-4 videogame.
• Aragog and his family chasing Harry and Ron in the Ford Anglia.
• When casting Crucio, it puts the person you're holding in extreme pain, eventually killing them. When you're using it as Tom Riddle, he laughs.
  • Lucius laughs too, even when using it on Draco.
• Destroying a Dementor leaves pieces of its skeleton bouncing around on the floor.
• Voldemort's death is just as bad is in the last film. Instead of ashes, he turns into small LEGO pieces that get flown away but his face also shows pain.
• When the trio goes to Hogsmeade during Year 7, an unsettling alarm goes off and Death Eaters pop up everywhere and attack.
• With the stormy weather, eerie music, and new teachers laughing maniacally, Year 7 at Hogwarts is about as dark and uninviting as you'd expect it to be.
• If you are in Diagon Alley during Year 7 (both parts), Death Eaters will pop out of nowhere and attack you.
• Year 7 part 2 has students running in panic all over Hogwarts.

From LEGO Jurassic World

• The Indominus rex stalking Owen and Claire in the old Visitor Center from Jurassic Park as pictured above. First time you see the dinosaur abomination, her red eye is just there lurking at you through a hole. Afterwards she'll try to attack Claire and Owen through jumpscares Dino Crisis style. Poor Claire, she is naturally scared of it.
• The Indominus' first moments stand out as more than a little creepy too. First, while the raptors have plenty of things to play with in their pen, the Indominus has only scattered bones laying around (of what, is unclear, and she's only fed by food crane. What happened to the sibling?), out of which she makes angry faces. Also, the sides of her pen have insane scribblings of her terrorizing humans. Finally, when the Indominus breaks out of her pen in the movie, she crashes the gate open. In this version however, she sticks her hands through the gate, rippling her fingers around the edge in a incredibly disturbing manner. The music doesn't help too.
• Indominus in general is a lot creepier in the game than in the movie. Even though several of her scary scenes are toned down, she acts much more humanlike than her movie counterpart. Examples include her throwing a car at Zach and punching down a tree just like a human would.
• The Velociraptors are still very scary despite having very funny moments in key creepy scenes. They are the dinosaurs that do more Jumpscares specially through ambushes and will attack any character even if it is Kelly or Timmy.
• When fighting the "Big One/Clever Girl" in the "Restoring Power" level, as she gets defeated in a failed ambush, she runs away with a scream that sounds very human...
  • Heck, that whole section! You're making your way through the jungle, and every so often out of nowhere a raptor will jump out and try to maul your character whilst they desperately try to fight them off via QTE. And this happens multiple times.
• The "Restoring Power" level. It's a dark place with very little light and has a Velociraptor disappearing with a Scare Chord.
• Pretty much the entirety of the level where Tim and Lex have to escape from the velociraptors in the kitchen is extremely unnerving and feels like a level from SIREN.
• During the level in which the raptors have teamed up with the Indominus rex, the game cuts back to Claire and the boys in the ACU ambulance talking to one another, when they hear rustling at the door and a raptor eye peering through the crack in the door.
• Another thing that's kind of creepy... the Spinosaurus doesn't have any irises. Its eyes are just a blank beige... it's more then a little unsettling.
• In Jurassic Park III, the escape from the breeding facility throws a lot more Raptors into the mix, with them popping up out of the woodwork from left and right. This would have made the scene in the film much more terrifying, and it's still unnerving even represented by plastic toys.
• At several moments during the game, you can hear the T-Rex roar in the distance. It often happens completely at random and if you're not expecting it, you'll get a jolt.

From LEGO The Lord Of The Rings

LEGO The Lord of the Rings

• Trying to enter an area blocked off by Sauron's gaze results in a sudden extreme close-up of the Eye of Sauron.
• No matter how hard they try to play it for laughs, they couldn't cut down on the nightmare fuel that are the Nazgûl and their horrifying screams.
• Surprisingly, the scene when Frodo is stabbed with Morgul Blade is not censored, neither with Gory Discretion Shot nor otherwise.

LEGO The Hobbit

• Arachnophobes won't like the Spider Bomb weapon. It's a spider's egg sac that explodes into a swarm of spiders when thrown. If an NPC is in the area, they will swarm around them and damage them. Several bombs can be thrown to create a large mass of them, but they eventually fade.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

• Venom's level. It's loaded with Spider-Man: Web of Shadows levels of symbiote goo which you can get caught in, the enemies are half-possessed symbiote victims, and then there's Venom himself. Special mention goes to Venom's rather unexpected Jump Scare. Bet you didn't see that coming in a LEGO game.
• Venom can also become a Big Fig (similar to Hulk and Abomination). Only problem is he literally TEARS HIMSELF IN HALF to do so! With the looks, and the screeches of pain, it looks very horrifying. Considering that he shows a host inside him during his battle, the transformation must be excruciating.
• Lizard's grab involves him eating his opponent.
• Ant-Man's special has him shrink himself further than in normal gameplay, enter his opponent's body and explode them from within.
• The final boss is a brainwashed Galactus. Loki plans to make him devour Earth and Asgard.

LEGO Star Wars

• The Emperor's Force Lightning during the battle with him, especially if you aren't aware how to stop him.
• Lego Star Wars 3 has the level with the Zombie Geonosians.
• The large non-playable monsters in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars combine their natural elements with LEGO pieces where you attack them. Upon destroying the LEGO elements, they look... horrifically mutilated. Special mentions to Acklay and Gor.

Since the POTC page was cut, these should be too.

There are some decent examples in there, but a lot of the other examples feel too tame to be considered NF. I don't think we should cut the pages, just the examples that don't work.

edited 23rd Jun '18 7:58:55 AM by SithPanda16

Here are some of the examples that are pretty decent

• Black Hand is in LEGO Batman 3, with a surprisingly horrifying character model. Mercifully, he's not in the main game.
• There is a Weeping Angels section, complete with a terrifying Jump Scare if they catch you while you're frozen in a lock. Just before that, you're in a graveyard filled with winged statues. You constantly expect them to attack, but they don't. At least, not until you get inside...
  • To clarify, at two points in the level, you're stuck in rooms with several Angels while regular blackouts occur. The Angels take full advantage of this each time.
  • It gets worse in the level that comes with the Doctor. The Angels appear again - and this time, they move based on the camera's movement. They know you're there. At least they don't attack you this time...
  This could use some revision but I think it has good potential.
• In the the Forbidden Forest level from the First Year, you can see evil white eyes in the dark watching you. And yes, the level has John Williams' creepy score.
• When casting Crucio, it puts the person you're holding in extreme pain, eventually killing them. When you're using it as Tom Riddle, he laughs.
• The Indominus rex stalking Owen and Claire in the old Visitor Center from Jurassic Park as pictured above. First time you see the dinosaur abomination, her red eye is just there lurking at you through a hole. Afterwards she'll try to attack Claire and Owen through jumpscares Dino Crisis style. Poor Claire, she is naturally scared of it.
• The "Restoring Power" level. It's a dark place with very little light and has a Velociraptor disappearing with a Scare Chord.
• Trying to enter an area blocked off by Sauron's gaze results in a sudden extreme close-up of the Eye of Sauron.
• Venom can also become a Big Fig (similar to Hulk and Abomination). Only problem is he literally TEARS HIMSELF IN HALF to do so! With the looks, and the screeches of pain, it looks very horrifying. Considering that he shows a host inside him during his battle, the transformation must be excruciating

I'm wondering who those examples are intended to be Nightmare Fuel for, exactly. Eight year old kids? Bronies?

Bringing up this example from The Death of Superman, because personally I'm not getting scary from the example - at least not as written - but I'd like a second opinion:

• Nightmare Fuel: This version of Doomsday is arguably this as he not only is a killing machine devoid of consciousness but he also possesses heat vision and also unlike the previous adaption the fight between Doomsday and Superman seems to be going way more in Doomsday favor and isn’t as equal. The brutal beat downs he gives to the Justice League isn’t much better

I'd say it's a bad description. While I can understand why someone might find that take on Doomsday scary, the entry does a poor job conveying that.

Edit: Maybe if there were some elaboration on why this is scary, beyond just saying Doomsday is more powerful, the entry could be salvaged. Perhaps some more details about how brutal the fight was.

edited 23rd Jun '18 3:06:41 PM by SharkToast

Speaking of which, that page also has this example for the original comic:

• Nightmare Fuel: The infamous bloodied S-Shield.

This is a pretty blatant Zero-Context Example. Why is a bloodied S-Shield scary?

Also, any comments on the Steven Universe examples I put up? They're in a labelnote instead of a folder so maybe those involved in the cleanup didn't see it.

edited 23rd Jun '18 7:08:37 PM by Zuxtron