History NightmareFuel / Disney

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ToyStory

** "The Lone Chipmunks" had Chip and Dale subduing Peter my ''pulling his pinky finger way back''.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/WhoFramedRogerRabbit

** Similarly, the "Rock-a-Bye Pooh Bear" episode of ''The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' in which a tornado or hurricane or something strikes and carries everyone away in increasingly convoluted ways, leaving poor Piglet all alone when it passed. Scary as they were being carried away, and scary when it passed and everything was ''too'' calm. And of course, it was more or less focusing on Piglet because he's the one who'd be the most frightened in such a situation.

** The fact that those demon-spirits [[spoiler:most likely took or ATE Dr. Facilier's soul]].

** Sweet Merciful Christ. The entire last 15 minutes of the Sleepy Hollow segment is all about the mental shock-and-trauma. Not only do we have Brom Bones' ultra-creepy song to put Ichabod on edge, Icky then has to trek home through a Forrest O'Doom where everything seems to want to kill him. And then something wants to kill him. [[spoiler:And it does.]]

* [[Disney/TheHunchbackofNotreDame Judge Claude Frollo:]] religious fanatic, dirty old man, and ''genocidal maniac.'' Also, most other Disney villains have some comical sidekick to lessen the horrifying impact of them being there. Frollo doesn't; he has a black stallion that looks as vicious as he does and seems to have come straight out of hell.

*** In his VillainSong, when he sings the line, "And let her taste the ''[[FireAndBrimstoneHell fires of hell!]]''", you can hear in the background the vision of Esmeralda ''screaming as she's presumably burned alive.'' Eeep.
*** Oh, not just burned alive, you naive little thing. Burned ''eternally''. It's hell, remember?

*** In his final moments in the film, he looks positively ''demonic'', resembling the Joker from the '89 Batman film (the film from which the last chase scene takes inspriation). Let's not forget the delivery of his [[spoiler:very ironic FamousLastWords]] : "And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!"
*** His [[spoiler:KarmicDeath]] can also play a role [[spoiler:from both the statue coming alive for a second and screaming while falling to his death with ''him'' being burned alive.]]
**** [[spoiler:Especially if you consider the hypothesis that the living statues were the products of Quasimodo's mind. Frollo was an evil bastard the whole time, but at climax of the film, he goes full stop insane and starts hallucinating too -- but instead of helpful, funny characters that Quasimodo projects, he gets a roaring flame monster that accompanies him in his last moments, as he falls to his death.]]

*** Oh, and the fact that ''he wants to murder a child'', and we see it explicitly shown, not by trying to drop him off the side of the house, or something, but with a ''realistic looking rifle''. Pixar actually made a kids' film where a ''creepy old man tries to shoot a little kid''. Has a children's film ever gone that far before? I'd like to know.
*** [[TheRescuersDownUnder Oh, one has...]]
**** See the page image for EvilPoacher.

** Forte the Organ from the Enchanted Christmas version. His [[http://www.eree.org/filmblog/films/beautyandthebeasttheenchantedchristmas.png snide grin and black eyes]].
*** Not to mention the fact it was voiced by TimCurry, aka [[{{IT}} Pennywise]] among other things. Anything voiced by that man can qualify for [[TheGreatestAdventureStoriesFromTheBible Nightmare Fuel]], [[TheWildThornberrys accidental]] or [[WesternAnimation/TheMightyDucks otherwise]]

** Gaston suddenly stabbing the Beast in the side with a huge SlasherSmile on his face. And as he falls to his death, if you pause the movie and look closely he has '''SKULLS''' in his eyes.
*** That's nothing when you take into account the former option for Gaston's death: Apparently, when stabbing The Beast on the roof before falling off, he reacted while falling to his doom in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzAfmVAZ1Y a very similar fashion to Heath Ledger's Joker when Batman threw him off the roof in]] TheDarkKnight.
* ''MonstersInc'': The Scream Extractor.
** What about Randall? At one point he attempts to throttle Sully, and Mike couldn't even tell! If Mike hadn't thrown the "snow cone," Sully would have been killed.
* Disney's Hong Kong Disneyland is celebrating Halloween in a very, well distinct way... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ummyUPef55c Just watch.]]

* LiloAndStitch may not seem to have this, at first glance, but during the movie [[spoiler:[[AdultFear Lilo is taken away by Cobra Bubbles]]]]. Huge MoodWhiplash in the finalized theatrical version. And there is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIbZBT0qSsU deleted scene of Jumba's attack]] that is HONF in itself.

* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'': Mother Gothel's abuse of Rapunzel. Horrifying.

** If you go look at it, you will want to clear that image out of your mind! It's at 0:51 here [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI9CfAqHWOE]]

* Anyone seen those signs for a new "Alice in Wonderland 3D" movie? That Mad Hatter terrified me and my friends while we waited to see "Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen". He looks as though he stares into your soul and watches you.

* FindingNemo. [[BeserkButton Rage-mode Bruce]] is TERRIFYING. And his entrance isn't much better; the first we see of him is a load of massive sharp teeth. Maybe I'm slightly biased because of a pretty bad shark phobia, but Bruce is easily one of the scariest things in that film.
** That scene at the end where they are in the fishing grounds. Just the cries and screams of dismay as the crowds of fish try to swim away from the net. and then knowing that they are going to be hauled up and die of suffocation.
*** [[ItGotWorse or worse]], imagine if you were one of the fish that wasn't in the net but someone you knew or loved was.

* The breakdown from "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iumEGAUceDg Der Fuehrer's Face]]". "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqCeEG5hs0 Education For Death]]" is even worse: a short where a little boy becomes a Nazi and basically lives a crappy dystopia life before dying at the end of the film.
** The ''really'' scary part is how close this was to the reality...

** What about the Air Conditioner!? That made me afraid of air conditioners for years.

** There was an odd one that had to do with not being superstitious. For some reason, Tigger figures it's a good idea to try and cure Piglet's supersitiousness (is that a word?) by causing him loads of bad luck. Eventually Piglet becomes so traumatized and paranoid by it all that he ends up sitting on a stool in a room, muttering to himself in BrainLock.

** Ironic since the [[{{Dinosaur}} movie it was based off]] wasn't even NightmareFuel. In fact, I found it to be the blandest Disney movie ever. Better ride than movie,, but let's not get into that.
*** Actually, the ride predates the film; it used to be called Countdown to Extinction, then they renamed it to tie in with the film.
**** Nope, Countdown to Extinction was intended as an [[EarlyBirdCameo Early Bird Ride]] for the whole movie, and it's always used both Aladar and the Carnotaur.
**** CTX was really intense, and wasn't really as much a tie-in for an upcoming family film. The ride was modified to tie in more.

* There's the lesser-known Disney film, ''TheBlackCauldron''. Its BigBad, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqqojdPmlJ4 Horned King]], is all by himself one of the most horrific Disney villains, being [[TheGrimReaper a skull-faced, brown-robed nightmare]] with horns and the menacing voice of John Hurt. But then you add [[DemBones the warrior skeletons]] reanimated by the Black Cauldron, [[ImplacableMan the Cauldron Born, who lurch out of the cauldron, attacking anyone in the way]]. They shamble inexorably from the Horned King's castle to slaughter all in their path, and boy, do they not skimp on the slaughter and death in this movie. It ended up needing several cuts to avoid an ''R'' rating, and that still left in some of the blood.
** This troper watched The Black Cauldron when she was little, and ran away screaming when Gurgi was going to jump into the cauldron. She still doesn't know what happened next.

* From ThePrincessAndTheFrog, '''''"[[IronicEcho ARE]] [[DarkReprise YOU]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath READY!!??]]"'''''
** In the theater ''this'' troper was in, there were a '''lot''' of crying kids at that scene.
*** Facilier [[spoiler:getting dragged away was mildly unsettling, but the SCREAMING FACE ON THE GRAVESTONE OH GOOD GOD I WILL NEVER UNSEE THAT!]]
*** When this troper saw it first, she closed her eyes during that scene. The parts she did see, however, she wasn't fazed by. So, when she decided to see the movie again, she decided to keep her eyes open the whole time. [[{{This is SPARTA}} BIG. FREAKING. MISTAKE.]] [[TroubledFetalPosition (huddles in corner, crying quietly)]]
** For those interested, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMrqcXEYZpM&feature=related "ARE YOU READY!!??"]] PrincessAndTheFrog definitely beats DragMeToHell in climax scariness. You're welcome.

** After seeing the movie 8 times, this troper realized when the shadows run through the town, the ones walking on the shadow of the gate make the irl gate lantern bend. For some reason, this creeped her out to the extreme while she was fine with pretty much everything else.
*** Not to mention their voice. It sounds something like a slowed down howl, sped up laughter, and a shriek '''combined into one'''. This is what nightmares are made of.

** I was under the impression the hot wax in the climax was actually lava that had DESTROYED THE ENTIRE CITY, mostly due to slight short term memory and Frollo's "I'll find her if I have to burn down all of Paris" line. The movie itself doesn't make any sense as a young kid, which is probably how Disney got away with all that.
** When Frollo holds baby Quasimodo over the well and says he's sending the baby "back to Hell, where it belongs," my five-year-old self took that too literally and thought that the well was an actual portal to Hell. It was horrifying.

** Keep in mind Alien Encounter was meant for the teen/adult crowd at Disney World. The only people who really got traumatized were the impressionable people who saw it; mainly 5 year old children.

* The original rumors for Night Kingdom: an entire villains park.
** Am I the only one who thinks that sounds '''AWESOME?!'''
*** NO YOU ARE NOT.
**** FUND IT! This would be AWESOME! The Disney villains rock and really need to get their due.
**** Only if [[ThreeLittlePigs The Big Bad Wolf]] is in it. He deserves to be on this page already. In his first movie, his single desire is to murder and eat the pigs, and he has an awesome EvilLaugh. In his second movie, he tries to murder and eat LittleRedRidingHood. And in his third movie, he's training his kids to murder and eat the pigs to [[VillainSong a song about]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome what you can cook pigs into.]] Too bad his kids were {{Retcon}}ned into Lil Wolf.
*** Yeesh, in the third movie the Wolf came ''[[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt this close]]'' to eating the pigs, [[LetsMeetTheMeat having them tied down with apples in their mouths and everything]].
* ''Disney/TheJungleBook'': Kaa. How Disney got away with ''that'' in the 60s is well beyond this troper.
** The scene where [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRASn4tcXFE Kaa the snake is hypnotizing]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSVkY-01r5o and ready to devour, the boy]].
** ''"Go to sssssleeeep"''.
** Others, on the other hand, find this scene to be Fetish Fuel.
*** More like they find '''''Kaa in general''''' to be [[PowerPerversionPotential fetish fuel]]. [[http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=Kaa B]][[http://brokenteapot.deviantart.com/art/Kaa-s-Smashing-Slaves-125909481 e]][[http://brokenteapot.deviantart.com/art/Yep-more-Kaa-148451772 h]][[http://brokenteapot.deviantart.com/art/Kaa-s-New-Triple-Mount-Bonus-153244353 o]][[http://brokenteapot.deviantart.com/art/Kaa-hypnotizes-Launch-141058347 l]][[http://kaa-fan-art.deviantart.com/ d]], the tip of the iceberg!!!

** Don't forget Sa'luk's fate in ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves''. I swear to God, there's a brief moment where you can still hear his [[AndIMustScream (now muffled) screams after he's fully turned to gold]].
** Keep telling yourself over and over again ''"it's only a gold [[SuperSmashBros Master hand]]... It's only a gold [[SuperSmashBros Master hand...]]"''

** The Organ from the Enchanted Christmas version was, in this troper's opinion, even scarier. Not to mention its [[http://www.eree.org/filmblog/films/beautyandthebeasttheenchantedchristmas.png snide grin and black eyes]].

** And this troper being a P&F lover, the second nightmare in that episode is also rather scary, as the thought of that happening to Flynn-Fletchers and Perry is not a pleasant thought, and is always relieved to see Perry wake up.
** The scene near the climax of ''Summer Belongs To You!'', when the gang has crashed on a deserted island and there's literally nothing left of their plane-turned-boat except the seats and one lone giant rubber band. Watching [[CheerfulChild Phineas]] suffer a complete mental breakdown as he tries to salvage something, ''anything'' from their surroundings that they can use to get off the island and make it back home in time, all the while slowly coming to the realization that he can't just build his way out of this one, that they're in serious trouble this time and, in a way, it's all his fault. Watching him ''give up'' and go sit on the shore to watch the sunset--not because he wants to, but because it's the only thing he feels like he ''can'' do. Even though he does get better thanks to a pep talk from Isabella a minute later, it's still terrifying to sit through.

* Maleficent, from Disney/SleepingBeauty, why did Disney think it was a great idea to put the fucking devil in a children's movie? Thanks to her I couldn't sleep for years. Damn those horns...

** Well, did Disney actually consider it a children's movie? I'm not sure if the AnimationAgeGhetto existed back then or not, and in any case this troper often gets the impression that WaltDisney thought of himself simply as making movies, not children's movies.

** Dear God. [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} This troper]] is almost 20 and ''still'' can't get up the nerve to watch that scene with the dress.
** Also, the entire scene when Cinderella escapes from the castle at midnight. Everything just becomes so ominous...

** The forest fire scene is what scared me as a child. I remember being terrified of being caught in a fire after that.
*** That one scared me so bad I only remembered it in nightmares. I thought for sure it was just a nightmare until I saw the movie again over a decade later.
*** Even scarier if you grew up in a place were forest/wildfires actually happened often enough to scare you anyway. This LA-born troper still can't watch that scene more than ten years after first seeing the movie.
** The scence with quails hiding, only for one of them to panic, fly up into the air and then get shot. We even get to see it's body fall to the ground!
* ''TheMadDoctor''. Basically, this is the guy who at first appears kidnapping Pluto using a disguise like the Phantom Blot, which was only erecting 'alarmed' expression onto a chicken's face, but when he reveals his true self, the chicken CRIES. He plans to create a chimera out of Pluto, and the Mad Doctor evilly laughs as he CUTS DOWN PLUTO'S SHADOW WHILE THE DOG IS HOWLING IN AGONY. When Mickey tried to rescue Pluto, Mad Doctor just casually comes up to Mickey like nothing happened, which means, ''poor Pluto might've been dead'', while Mickey has been strapped into a table and was about to cut down with a see-saw... Thankfully, it turned out to be AllJustADream.
* [[http://lukefarookhi.blogspot.com/2008/08/david-hall-and-alice-in-wonderland.html David Hall's early concept art]] for ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' shown in various books and the DVD documentary Reflections On Alice. The Cheshire Cat (hell, just about every character) has a mouth of pointy shark-like teeth and horrifically staring eyes, The baby's morph into the pig is horrific, the Mad Hatter and March Hare chase Alice with a large pair of scissors and a knife respectively, Alice is about to be decapitated by a grinding gear that may as well flay her, and it's all drawn in a horribly grotesquely realistic, ghastly style.

* This troper unpleasantly recalls watching ''TheFoxAndTheHound'' as a little boy. That confrontation just before that scene with the bear.

* DonaldDuck's breakdown in the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment of ''FunAndFancyFree.'' Surrounded by death, no possible source of food beyond the bit of bread and beans, and absolutely no hope. He freaks out and tries to eat his plate and silverware. Mickey and Goofy almost have to strangle him to get him to stop. Then he sees the cow they own and literally goes AxCrazy on it in an attempt to kill it. The scariest things about these scenes weren't Donald suddenly going apeshit or his murderous impulses, but the realism of said portrayal. Donald's insanity is the result of desperate starvation due to an extreme famine, and it's a common fact that desperation due to near-death situations usually brings out the most violent, ugliest sides of human nature.
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'': Mother Gothel's abuse of Rapunzel. Horrifying, and it became the first film that I cannot watch again simply because of how repulsive I find the villain.

* You wouldn't expect the Disney version of a popular story to be the most graphic version, but that's what happened with ''Mickey's Christmas Carol''. When Scrooge (played by [[DuckTales Scrooge McDuck]], naturally) is in the graveyard scene with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, the Ghost shoves Scrooge into his own open grave. The bottom of the grave then begins to open up, and smoke and fire begin wafting up from it. A terrified Scrooge begins scrambling up the sides of the grave to try and get out, but the Ghost doesn't let him. The Ghost then takes off his hood and reveals himself as Big Bad Pete, Mickey Mouse's ArchEnemy. We're then treated to a bone-rattling scene of Pete laughing hysterically as the bottom of the grave completely falls away to become a pit of fire and brimstone, with Scrooge frantically begging for his life and trying to avoid falling into the pit. Most other adaptations this troper has seen typically only have Scrooge dying alone and unmourned, or suffering some sort of LaserGuidedKarma for being such an asshole (the adaptations done by TheJetsons and WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}, for instance) but the Disney one is the only version of the story that actually shows Scrooge at the risk of burning in hell.

* ''DarkwingDuck'': [[KnightTemplar DarkWarrior Duck]]. Behind the cartoonish comedy, the bright colors and the hammy over-the-top performance and you'll see a man who has become so consumed by his grudges and madness that an entire big city has to suffer. If the big and scary-looking war machines he uses don't scares you than his new and terrifying appearance, his red eyes and angry-looking face will do it, and if not even that than the fact that he sends people into jail for years for such petty thing as jaywalking will do it. And if his entrance wasn't enough to make it clear what something is wrong with Mallard's head, than Launchpad will make it clear when he tells his story on how he got fired from the sidekick job because he though they "should arrest the crooks before giving them the electric chair". And then you'll ask where [[ArchEnemy Negaduck]] went, or where the other heroes of St. Canard, including [[LoveInterest Morgana]], went, or [[FridgeLogic why the American government would allow one man having totalitarian control of a city inside their borders, JosephStalin style, without trying to take him out]]. And it ain't stopping there; when Darkwarrior Duck gets his hands on Quackerjack's time machine, he's planning to use it to go back in time so that he can rewrite the Code of Hammurabi so that even "being cranky in the morning" will be punishable by death. It would make the medieval juridical system look humane in comparison. Or go back right at the time when the evolution of landwalking animals is being started, and then delaying it until he would get "few rules straight". But the moment when Drake Mallard's insanity hits the high point is when he aims a missile launcher right at his daugther just some few inches from her face, with a closeness enough to get himself blown up as well if he pulls the trigger, while angrily rants on her past "criminal tendencies". Sure he don't pulls the trigger but Darkwarrior Duck's KnightTemplar personality was so great that it made the [[JusticeLeague Justice Lords]] look like your friendly neighbourhood patrol police officers. They atleast had the mercy enough to just lobotomize the supervillains, and not even Negaduck was this extreme when he found out his daughter had turned against him.
* ''{{The Haunted Mansion}}'' especially the climax with the fireplace... this troper saw it a theater full of families with their toddlers and preschoolers, and thought she would go deaf from the screaming. There was also something about the ringing telephone in the middle of the empty secret corridor that filled her with dread.

* ''DaveTheBarbarian'' had Twinkle the Marvel Horse, a deeply disturbed rainbow horse with the mannerisms of ChristopherWalken. Most of his clips have been gathered [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnnhPl2KUg here]]. His scenes are extremely jarring because they're literally the [[MoodWhiplash only source of dark humor in the series]].

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/SleepingBeauty

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Pinocchio}}

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLittleMermaid

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/AtlantisTheLostEmpire

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/BeautyAndTheBeast

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Fantasia}}

** "The Barnyard Battle" - When they introduce "THE ENEMY".

* "The Fire Fighters" features a scene where Minnie is seen coughing up smoke and nearly suffocates from it.

* [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Mozenrath]]. Just... [[KnightOfCerebus Mozenrath]]. Do NOT let the [[DracoInLeatherPants leather pants]] fool you. The only people in his "kingdom", and his own father figure, are brainless zombies. His power is CastFromLifespan, yet half the time he gives every indication that he not only finds it worth it but also ''enjoys'' it. But what this troper always found creepiest was that goddamn wheel-of-conquest in "The Citadel." Willing to use a completely random system to decide where to attack? That's probably sicker than the nightmare fuel elements that ''are'' purely fantastic. He's both ''actually good'' at coming up with strategies (it's just that Aladdin is better), and at the same time completely insane and clearly doing it ForTheEvulz. ''Jafar'' scares this troper less than Mozenrath does, because with him it was fairly obvious that he was fueled by envy and resentment (i.e. not conquering Agrabah because it's there.)

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLionKing

* NightmareFuel/AtlantisTheLostEmpire

* HightOctaneNightmareFuel/AtlantisTheLostEmpire

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBraveLittleToaster

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheHauntedMansion

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace

** Warren Spector says he wants [[EldritchAbomination The Phantom Blot]] to give kids nightmares. And HighOctaneNightmareFuel is, after all, stuff meant to cause nightmares. Could we have an entry that's close to not subjective?

* ''TheMadDoctor''. Basically, this is the guy who at first appears kidnapping Pluto using a disguise like the Phantom Blot, which was only erecting 'alarmed' expression onto a chicken's face, but when he reveals his true self, the chicken CRIES. He plans to create a chimera out of Pluto, and the Mad Doctor evilly laughs as he CUTS DOWN PLUTO'S SHADOW WHILE THE DOG IS HOWLING IN AGONY. When Mickey tried to rescue Pluto, Mad Doctor just casually comes up to Mickey like nothing happened, which means, ''poor Pluto might've been dead'', while Mickey has been strapped into a table and was about to cut down with a see-saw... It all turned out to be AllJustADream, but if it continues, then it adds the 'High Octane' in NightmareFuel, because admit it... ''The Mad Doctor Won And Killed Mickey''. OurHeroIsDead ([[AllJustADream thankfully not actually]]).

** ''[[Disney/TheGoldenTouch "Is the richest king in all the world to starve to death?"]]''