History NightmareFuel / BattleForDreamIsland

Yes, this is not a funny gag. Despite its off-the-wall artstyle, familiar brand of humor, and reliance on reality TV stereotypes, even a show that spawned an [[Main/ObjectShows entire genre]] quite like ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' can have its fair share of [[NightmareFuel unnerving occurrences]]. After all, it isn't a battle between anthropomorphic objects to win the ownership of an entire luxury island... without '''stakes.'''

** Special mention goes to the ending of Episode 5a. Freesmart gets swallowed up by Evil Leafy, and the remaining two minutes are Evil Leafy standing on the edge of a cliff with quiet music in the background, with nothing happening. It's surprisingly unsettling.
** It's implied she's a GeniusLoci as well. Why? BFDIA 5B is a game set inside Evil Leafy after Freesmart, Golf Ball, Tennis Ball and Rocky are swallowed by her. It's actually pretty creepy. A red ground, grey skies, spike death traps... and what is with that music?

* In BFDIA 5d, Freesmart drive the Supervan through the Goiky Canal, '''which is over 500 miles''', to get to Yoyleland. This means everyone on Freesmart dies multiple times throughout the journey as they are travelling through water with no oxygen to breathe, meaning they have to be recovered multiple times. When they reach Yoyleland, thousands upon thousands of dead bodies litter the bed of the canal in the end. The fact that no music plays until the end of this part makes it more ominous.

** Also, notice how Fanny gets angrier and angrier as she rants toward Loser. It makes her sound serious and rather intimidating. This definitely falls into SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct.
* The ways the contestants try to bring Four back are usually silly (Pillow licking Lollipop, Bottle hitting Golf Ball with a club, Gelatin bending a fork...). Then the contestants try breaking one of X's legs to make the shape of Four. Remember that the leg X had broken was the same one he had bandaged up in "Fortunate Ben". The last attempt is Firey stabbing Donut with a syringe and then getting whatever is inside of him through it. Sure, they got Four back (albeit liquified), but it looked like they sucked out some of Donut's cherry filling along with it. He looks like an onion ring when Four is sucked out.

* In Fortunate Ben, Four literally tears X's leg off off-screen.

** And what makes this so terrifying? Simple: There's something about it that wasn't in any elimination place: The isolation. The contestants are put into their own rooms, and '''literally no one else is there'''. They are left alone with their thoughts. If you watched WebAnimation/ONE, you will probably know why that's such a bad thing...

* In "Happy Birthday, Battle for BFDI", the contestants literally eat their friend and fellow competitor, Cake. His line really sells it.

** Ice Cube removing Pin's face [[DisproportionateRetribution because the latter stopped Ice Cube and Book from going to Match's dance party]]. What makes it more terrifying is that we get to see in Pin's perspective what it looks like, with the scene becoming progressively darker and the scene shutting off like an old TV and the last thing that she sees is Ice Cube sadistically smiling. It's also worth noting that she was generally fine mentally without her limbs but after becoming faceless, her sapience drops to slightly more than that of [[Characters/InanimateInsanity Box's]], putting her in an AndIMustScream Scenario.

** Ice Cube removing Pin's face [[DisproportionateRetribution because of what the latter did in BFDIA 5a]]. What makes it more terrifying is that we get to see in Pin's perspective what it looks like, with the scene becoming progressively darker and the scene shutting off like an old TV. It's also worth noting that she was generally fine mentally without her limbs but after becoming faceless, her sapience drops to slightly more than that of [[Characters/InanimateInsanity Box's]], putting her in an AndIMustScream Scenario.

** Ice Cube removing Pin's face [[DisproportionateRetribution because of what the latter did in BFDIA 5a]]. What makes it more terrifying is that we get to see in Pin's perspective what it looks like, with the scene becoming progressively darker and the scene shutting off like an old TV.

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* In TPOT 10, we finally find out where the eliminated characters are. An upside-down WretchedHive with '''no way out, ever'''.

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** The hell dimension returns in, and it apparently has a tighter grip around its occupants than whatever the standard BFDI afterlife is, given that cranking the HPRC is more difficult to do when recovering anyone who was sent there.

* The hell dimension returns in BFDIA 10, and it apparently has a tighter grip around its occupants than whatever the standard BFDI afterlife is, given that cranking the HPRC is more difficult to do when recovering anyone that was sent there.
* Also in BFDIA 10 is Fries convincing Bomby and Needle to dig underground. This is surprisingly disturbing because you can tell that they clearly don't want to before getting sent into a trance-like state.

* Also in BFDIA 10 is Fries convincing Bomby and Needle to did underground. This is surprisingly disturbing because you can tell that they clearly don't want to before getting sent into a trance-like state.

* The '''entire''' season is one big NightmareFuel.

** The mere fact that if the cure was never found, then this could've been the end of the BFDI series, is highly unsettling, seeing as the [[DownerEnding bad ending]] could’ve easily happened had it not for some [[DeusExMachina lucky coincidences.]] Had they not happened, the zombies could’ve easily overtaken Goiky and the [[NothingIsScarier whole series would probably end right there.]]

** Anyone that gets crushed by the compactor gets sent to what is essentially hell, and the characters there are also animated in a very disturbing CGI artstyle. It's also confirmed In-Universe that this '''does not''' normally happen when someone dies, though YMMV on whether or not that makes it worse.

* Four becoming next-level mad (provides the above image). ''Definitely'' the angriest we ever see Four. Holy crap. The sky turning red with the menacing angle and Four's eyes becoming black help sell the scene.

* '''[[EvilCounterpart Evil]] [[KnightOfCerebus Leafy]].''' Sure, she’s just a [[PaletteSwap color swap]] of Leafy with bulging eyes. But then she reappeared in “Get Digging”. In that episode, she chased down Book, Ice Cube and Spongy, teleported over to them over a long while away and then randomly sank into Spongy when he collapsed. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Pencil and Match seemed pretty happy about the latter.]]

* In “Welcome Back”, [[FreezeFrameBonus Evil Leafy shows up in the science museum for a split second]] after Tennis Ball said about borrowing the Wall Teleporter.