History NightmareFuel / CareBears

** Dark Heart can turn into anything, and at the beginning he attacks a ship in his sea serpent form.

!!TV Series

* Professor Coldheart's first appearance had him luring runaway children and then mutating them into pathetic, voiceless creatures he kept as his slaves. His second appearance had him using a device to have every child in town frozen solid (and he took some time away from that plot to kidnap the Care Bear cubs, encase them in ice, and then kick them while singing about his plot). Later appearances had him keep it up - draining abducted children of energy to power a weapon, torturing a little girl by freezing her arm...

* In Welcome to Care A Lot, the scene in the first episode when Beastly thinks he saw a monster in a storm is terrifying.
* Plus, in the episode when Wonderheart gets impatient for her powers to work, when she is blasted away to another place, her belly badge is now grey.
* In the episode when all the Care Bears have nightmares is... Just kind of disturbing. Grumpy's dream is funny, it has him being bothered by singing flowers and cute animals. But Wonderheart's dream is just AdultFear. She dreams she is shrunken to a small size, and birds swoop above her. It finally reaches its peak when a humongous Floppy Bunny appears onscreen, smiling frighteningly cheerfully. Funshine's dream is even worse, as he is being chased by his motorcycle, and it ''is moving by itself''. Sweet dreams.
* The Care Bears don't just use their Care Bears Stare on villains. They sometimes use it on other people when desperate, but some people think of it as MindRape. Now, in the earlier incarnations the Stare was generally treated as a last resort (in one comic Professor Coldheart taunts and dares them to use the stare on him, and they use a few panels to rationalize that "well, he ''did'' ask for it, and it's never hurt anyone..."), but in later incarnations they became far more lax about it.

* Also from the second movie, this moment between the bears and Dark Heart:
-->'''Tenderheart:''' We're terribly sorry.
-->'''Share:''' Can we give you a hand?
-->'''Harmony:''' Let's give him a big hug!
-->'''Dark Heart:''' No. [[RedEyesTakeWarning [eyes redden]]] [[VoiceOfTheLegion Get AWAY from meeee!]]
* Hugs Bear shedding [[SingleTear a solitary tear]] after being [[HumanPopsicle stuck in an ice block]] in "Battle The Freeze Machine". Doubles as a huge [[TearJerker tearjerker]] as well.
* It's ''all'' PlayedForLaughs, but the death traps (yes, ''death'' traps) in Grams' story in the Nelvana episode "The Perils of the Pyramid" are creepy in their own right. They include being shot by a giant arrow, falling into a pit and getting [[BuriedAlive buried in sand]], [[DeathFromAbove crushed by a falling ceiling]] and [[FedToTheBeast winding up trapped in a pit with a giant cobra.]] Fortunately. The Professor in the story (Brave Heart Lion) manages to evade all of the traps due to the two young helpers (Hugs and Tugs) and through dumb luck (with Beastly being on the receiving end of the traps, but even he wasn't seriously hurt.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'', there is one scene when the villainous wizard makes an [[NightmareFace incredibly horrifying face]], as seen above. It's a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it moment]] that comes out of nowhere; at the very climax of TheVillainSong, which is a soothing, sinister-yet-sweet tune set to the gentle tones of a pair of ''ukuleles'', of all things, there is a sudden flash of lightning, which causes two things to first flicker across the screen. The first is the human girl screaming in horror, and then there's what she's screaming ''at'': the wizard's mouth has gaped out into an impossibly distended set of jaws that barely seem connected, with a mass of twisted ''fangs'' framing the gaping space, sitting underneath a huge, bugged out, almost insectile pair of blank white eyes. Then the lightning flashes again and the Wizard visibly reshapes his face back into its original human appearance, hastily spitting out the final line of the song. It makes quite a sight, especially when it's a JumpScare.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'', there is one scene when the wizard makes an [[NightmareFace incredibly horrifying face]], as seen above. It's a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it moment]], but when the wizard gets hit by lightning his face is huge, bugged out, blank-white eyes and a gaping maw full of ''fangs''. It makes quite a sight, especially when it's a JumpScare.

* The Spirit in the Movie is a spirit of implied demonic origin, being sealed away in a book. She "befriends" Nicholas, a lonely boy who wants friends, and convinces him to turn her magic on the town and eventually the entire world, removing everyone's feelings and making them violent and hateful. By the end of the movie Nicholas has gone completely crazy and power-mad, and she comes within two people in the entire world of destroying Care-A-Lot forever. Many modern-day reviews have expressed amazement at the MagicIsEvil plot, with special attention paid to the scene where Nicholas chases Kim and Jason through the funhouse with intent to kill/seriously injure them.

** The scene when he captures the Care Bears is terrible. [[FateWorseThanDeath Their prison is in crystals.]] To make it worse, the Bears and Cousins are [[AndIMustScream fully conscious in there]] and they are ''visibly frightened''. Thankfully, [[spoiler:Dark Heart [[HeelFaceTurn reforms]] at the end of the movie.]]

* The Care Bears don't just use their Care Bears Stares on villains. They sometimes use it on other people when desperate, but some people think of it as MindRape. Now, in the earlier incarnations the Stare was generally treated as a last resort (in one comic Professor Coldheart taunts and dares them to use the stare on him, and they use a few panels to rationalize that "well, he ''did'' ask for it, and it's never hurt anyone..."), but in later incarnations they became far more lax about it.

* Professor Coldheart'a first appearance had him luring runaway children and then mutating them into pathetic, voiceless creatures he kept as his slaves. His second appearance had him using a device to have every child in town frozen solid (and he took some time away from that plot to kidnap the Care Bear cubs, encase them in ice, and then kick them while singing about his plot). Later appearances had him keep it up - draining abducted children of energy to power a weapon, torturing a little girl by freezing her arm...

* Professor Coldheart' first appearance had him luring runaway children and then mutating them into pathetic, voiceless creatures he kept as his slaves. His second appearance had him using a device to have every child in town frozen solid (and he took some time away from that plot to kidnap the Care Bear cubs, encase them in ice, and then kick them while singing about his plot). Later appearances had him keep it up - draining abducted children of energy to power a weapon, torturing a little girl by freezing her arm...

* A general example: A majority of the villains are this, more often then not.
* The Spirit in the Movie is pretty damn creepy on her own. She makes Nicholas go completely crazy and power-mad, and comes within two people in the entire world of destroying Care-A-Lot forever.

* In Care Bears Family, No Heart is just an evil, horrifying wizard who is obsessed with making the world lacking of caring. His appearance is creepy, and his motives aren't any better.
* In one episode of Care Bears Family, No Heart teams up with Dr. Fright (who looks, sounds and acts like a ''vampire'' and enjoys putting people into DeathTraps to scare them) to get rid of the Care Bears. Throughout the episode, No Heart intimidates Dr. Fright, particularly when he promises furiously to show the doctor "what the word fright ''really means!''" should he fail. Naturally, the Care Bears escape... which is when No Heart, now in the shape of a writhing tornado of blackness with his glowing red eyes shining out of it, envelops a shrieking Dr. Fright [[YouHaveFailedMe and carries him away into the sky]].

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* In The Care Bears in Wonderland, there is one scene when the wizard makes an [[NightmareFace incredibly horrifying face]]. It's a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it moment]], but when the wizard gets hit by lightning his face is huge, bugged out, blank-white eyes and a gaping maw full of ''fangs''. It makes quite a sight, especially when it's a JumpScare.

* The Spirit in the Movie is pretty damn creepy on her own. At first she just is yellow, but later in the movie her skin turns to a ghastly green. That. Was. Scary.
** The part when she turns Nicholas evil is even worse. And when he releases the shapeshifting spell, childhood nightmares happen.

** Dark Heart is worse than the Spirit. He can turn into anything, and at the beginning where he attacks a ship in his sea serpent is kinda creepy.

** Whenever his voice gets distorted is scary too.
** The scene when he captures the Care Bears is terrible. [[FateWorseThanDeath Their prison is in crystals.]] To make it worse, the Bears and Cousins are [[AndIMustScream fully conscious in there]] and they are ''visibly frightened!'' Thank God that [[spoiler:Dark Heart [[HeelFaceTurn reforms]] at the end of the movie.]]
* In The Cares Bears in Wonderland, there is one scene when the wizard makes an [[NightmareFace incredibly horrifying face]]. It's a [[FreezeFrameBonus blink and you'll miss it moment]], but when the wizard gets hit by lightning his face is just....nnngh. [[spoiler: Huge, bugged out, blank-white eyes and a gaping maw full of ''fangs'' makes quite a sight, especially when it's a Jump Scare.]]

** However, his VillainDecay finally kicks in, most of his transformations were too scary for kids, so later rarely does anything himself, he normally just sends Beastly and Shreeky do do his dirty work. After that, NightmareRetardant comes along, at long last.
* In one episode of Care Bears Family, No Heart teams up with Dr. Fright (who looks, sounds and acts like a freaking ''vampire'' and enjoys putting people into Death Traps to scare them) to get rid of the Care Bears. Throughout the episode, No Heart intimidates Dr. Fright, particularly when he promises furiously to show the doctor "what the word fright ''really means!''" should he fail. Naturally, the Care Bears escape... which is when No Heart, now in the shape of a writhing tornado of blackness with his glowing red eyes shining out of it, envelops a shrieking Dr. Fright [[YouHaveFailedMe and carries him away into the sky]]...

* This is FridgeHorror at its finest: the Care Bears don't just use their Care Bears Stares on villains. They sometimes use it on other people when desperate, but some people think of it as MindRape. Now, in the earlier incarnations the Stare was generally treated as a last resort (in one comic Professor Coldheart taunts and dares them to use the stare on him, and they use a few panels to rationalize that "well, he ''did'' ask for it, and it's never hurt anyone..."), but in later incarnatons they became far more lax about it.
* The first episode of "Care Bears and Cousins" has the Care Bears plus the Cousins ''almost disappearing from existence'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to the Share Cloud not getting any Care Hearts]]. Although they get the Cloud the Care Hearts to stop themselves from vanishing off the face of the planet, [[FridgeHorror it's frightening to think that they]] '''''[[FridgeHorror WOULD HAVE]]''''' [[FridgeHorror disappeared if they hadn't done so]].

* Hugs Bear shedding [[SingleTear a solitary tear]] after being [[HumanPopsicle stuck in an ice block]] in "Battle The Freeze Machine". Doubles as a huge [[TearJerker tearjerker]] as well.

* In the second movie, Dark Heart is worse than the Spirit. He is a frightening, demonic shape shifter who is purely sadistic, and the scene when he captures the Care Bears is terrible. [[FateWorseThanDeath Their prison is in crystals.]] To make it worse, the Bears and Cousins are [[AndIMustScream fully conscious in there]] and they are ''visibly frightened!'' Thank God that [[spoiler:Dark Heart [[HeelFaceTurn reforms]] at the end of the movie.]]

* In the episode when all the Care Bears have nightmares is... Just kind of disturbing. Grumpy's dream is ActuallyPrettyFunny, it has him being bothered by singing flowers and cute animals. But Wonderheart's dream is just AdultFear. She dreams she is shrunken to a small size, and birds swoop above her. It finally reaches its peak when a humongous Floppy Bunny appears onscreen, smiling frighteningly cheerfully. Funshine's dream is even worse, as he is being chased by his motorcycle, and it ''is moving by itself''. Sweet dreams.

* Hugs Bear shedding [[SingleTear a solitary tear]] after being TakenForGranite in an ice block in "Battle The Freeze Machine". Doubles as a huge [[TearJerker tearjerker]] as well.

** The part when she turns Nicholas evil is even worse. And when the shapeshifting spell is let out, childhood nightmares happen.
* In the second movie, Dark Heart is worse than the Spirit. He is a frightening, demonic shape shifter who is purely sadistic, and the scene when he captures the Care Bears is terrible. Their prison is in crystals. To say it was a FateWorseThanDeath would be an understatement. Frankly, it is an AndIMustScream moment taken UpToEleven. Thank God that Dark Heart has a HeelFaceTurn at the end of the movie.
* In The Cares Bears in Wonderland, there is one scene when the wizard makes a NightmareFace. It's a blink and you'll miss it moment, but when the wizard gets hit by lightning his face is just....nnngh. [[spoiler: Huge, bugged out, blank-white eyes and a gaping maw full of ''fangs'' makes quite a sight, especially when it's a Jump Scare.]]

* In Welcome to Care A Lot, in the first episode when Beastly thinks he saw a monster in a storm is terrifying.

* In the episode when all the Care Bears have nightmares is... Just kind of disturbing. Grumpy's dream is ActuallyPrettyFunny, it has him being bothered by singing flowers and cute animals. But Wonderheart's dream is just AdultFear. She dreams she is shrunken to a small size, and birds swoop above her. It finally reaches it's peak when a humongous Floppy Bunny appears onscreen, smiling frighteningly cheerfully. Funshine's dream is even worse, as he is being chased by his car, which would be terrifying if someone tried to run you over with their car, only this time the car ''is moving by itself''. Sweet dreams.

-->'''Dark Heart:''' No. [[RedEyesTakeWarning [eyes redden]]] [[VoiceOfTheLegion Get AWAY from meeee!]]

-->'''Tenderheart:'' We're terribly sorry.

* The first episode of "Care Bears and Cousins" has the Care Bears plus the Cousins ''almost disappearing from existence'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext due to the Share Cloud not getting any Care Hearts]]. Although they get the Cloud the Care Hearts to stop themselves from vanishing off the face of the planet, [[FridgeHorror it's frightening to think that they]] '''''[[FridgeHorror WOULD HAVE]]''''' [[FridgeHorror disappeared if they hadn't done so]].

* In :Welcome to Care A Lot, in the first episode when Beastly thinks he saw a monster in a storm is terrifying.

* This is FridgeHorror at its finest: the Care Bears don't just use their Care Bears Stares on villains. They sometimes use it on other people when desperate, but some people think of it as MindRape. Now, in the earlier incarnations the Stare was generally treated as a last resort (in one comic Professor Coldheart taunts and dares them to use the stare on him, and they use a few panels to rationalize that "well, he ''did'' ask for it, and it's never hurt anyone..."), but in later incarnatons they became far more lax about it.

* This is FridgeHorror at its finest: the Care Bears don't just use their Care Bears Stares on villains. They sometimes use it on other people when desperate, but some people think of it as MindRape.

* In the episode when all the Care Bears have nightmares is... Just kind of disturbing. Grumpy's dream is ActuallyPrettyFunny, it has him being bothered by singing flowers and cute animals. But Wonderheart's dream is just AdultFear. She dreams she is shrunken to a small size, and birds swoop above her. It finally reaches it's peak when a humongous Floppy Bunny appears onscreen, smiling frighteningly cheerfully. Funshine's dream is even worse, as he is being chased by his car, which would be terrifying if someone tried to run you over with their car, only this time the car ''is moving my itself''. Sweet dreams.

* The part when she turns Nicholas evil is even worse. And when the shapeshifting spell is let out, childhood nightmares happen.
* In the second movie, Dark Heart is worse than the Spirit. He is a frightening, demonic shape shifter who is purely sadistic, and the scene when he captures the Care Bears is terrible. Their prison is in crystals. To say it was a FateWorseThanDeath would be an understatement. Frankly, it is an AndIMustScream moment taken UpToEleven.
** Thank God that Dark Heart has a HeelFaceTurn at the end of the movie.
* In The Cares Bears in Wonderland, there is one scene when the wizard makes a NightmareFace. It's a blink and you'll miss it moment, but when the wizard gets hit by lightning his face is just....nnngh.

* In one episode of Care Bears Family, No Heart teams up with Dr Fright to get rid of the Care Bears. But when Dr Fright fails, No Heart carries him away, promising to show him "What fear means."

* In WesternAnimation/CareBears:WelcomeToCareALot, in the first episode when Beastly thinks he saw a monster in a storm is terrifying.

* In the episode when all the Care Bears have nightmares is... Just kind of disturbing.

* In the second movie, Dark Heart is worse than the Spirit. He is a frightening, demonic shape shifter who is purely sadistic, and the scene when he captures the Care Bears is terrible. Their prison is in crystals.

* In The Cares Bears in Wonderland, there is one scene when the wizard makes a NightmareFace.

* In one episode of Care Bears Family, No Heart teams up with Dr Fright to get rid of the Care Bears. But when Dr Fright fails, No Heart carries him away, promising to show him "What fear means." Cue the FridgeHorror, people!!!

* In one episode of Care Bears Family, No Heart teams up with Dracula to get rid of the Care Bears. But when Dracula fails, No Heart carries him away, promising to show him "What fear means." Cue the FridgeHorror, people!!!

* In the episode when all the Care Bears have nightmares is... Just kind of disturbing.

* In WesternAnimation/WelcomeToCareALot, in the first episode when Beastly thinks he saw a monster in a storm is terrifying.