History NightmareFuel / DragonBall

[[caption-width-right:350:So remember, children: if you have a monkey tail, do not stare at a full moon. Otherwise, '''this''' will happen!]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Jesus Christ!]]

* Goku becoming an Oozaru/Great Ape right before Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong and Puar's eyes. Plus Goku [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sL6MzN0c40 original's transformation]], i.e his eyes turning red and heartbeat quickening before shifting into Oozaru is even more terrifying.

* When King Piccolo gets ''really'' desperate, he takes Tien hostage and orders Goku to do nothing. To put his opponent down, he blows rocks at Goku's limbs with such force that they break instantly, dripping blood off of them and making Goku scream in utter agony. Remember, Goku is ''fourteen'' during this part of the story.

** The end of the that fight. Goku dodges an energy blast, tries to surprise Piccolo, but gets nailed by another. The anime takes it time by going into slow motion, ''where we can hear Goku's heart beating loudly and slowing down till it stops''. Sweet dreams!
* Yajirobe is willing to eat anything, including mutated Namekians he has all reasons to think are demons and even human beings. In fact, when he thought Goku had been killed by King Piccolo he actually considered eating him before deciding it would be too disrespectful...
* The Cave of the [[TheSacredDarkness Darkness]] small filler arc where Goku (along Yajirobe) is sent by Korin to find the true Ultimate Divine Water to beat King Piccolo is literally the creepiest part of Dragon Ball? As it involves traveling to an Icy Mountain (full of killer snow monsters) and entering the dark cave underneath. It's especially unnerving when Goku stumbles across a Kami House ''inside the dark cavern'' and sees illusions of his happy smiling friends, who tell him to give up his quest in creepy echoey voices. Goku is outraged and flees only to be chased by Demon-Master Roshi and nearly killed, if not for Yajirobe's intervention. After Goku proves his goodness by saving Yajirobe's life, the Darkness [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/a/a1/Yami2.png/revision/latest?cb=20101020124053 appears]] and offers Goku the divine water but says it will definitely kill him. Goku gulps it down and nearly dies but Oozaru (the Saiyan beast inside him) gives a roar and Goku survives, powered up enough to beat King Piccolo. In the manga Korin just gives Goku the Divine Water, which after seeing the expanded anime story is quite disappointingly underwhelming.

* So you're watching the last few moments of Goku's fight with Piccolo, all is right, Goku gives a thumbs up to all his friends as they shout the countdown. Right when they get to nine, Piccolo gets up and fires a mouth beam straight into Goku's right shoulder. And this isn't Z where a direct hit from a beam causes some external wounds, and maybe torn clothes or something like that. No. This is Dragon Ball and Goku now has a hole he can stick his hand into under his shoulder. After writhing in pain for a while, Piccolo gets up and begins stomping on the wound over and over as Goku grabs the ground in pain. All the while, Piccolo is grinning ear to ear, and even laughing. Tenshinhan, Yamcha and Krillin try to help but Piccolo stops them before they can enter the ring. Goku, the badass, still manages to get up and get in an attack before a swift kick from Junior reminds him he has a giant hole in his body. Junior, the prick, then elbows Goku, right in the wound, followed by more blood curdling screams. And just to add injury to injury, Piccolo breaks Goku's leg.
** Earlier in the fight, Goku tricks Piccolo into breaking his right arm. Goku tells him to surrender, saying he can't fight with one arm. In response, Piccolo ''rips off his own arm, and grows a new one from the bloodied stump.'' Right then and there Piccolo was the biggest threat of the original saga, not just because of his strength, but because the only way to beat him was to be even stronger.
* At the end of the 22 World Tournament, when Krillin is found dead, and after Goku rushes off to find this killer, Master Roshi tells the remaining cast the story of the fiend responsible, King Piccolo, and the anime of this is pure nightmare fuel. Unstoppable demons everywhere, killing, ripping tanks apart, and implied eating the populous all over, with King Piccolo lording over and enjoying it all like a game. The years of darkness were only stopped when King Piccolo was sealed away, and the left note and the description of Krillin's murderer indicates King Piccolo is free once again...aaannd then the body count rises, all these fighters seen from past tournaments, just showing up dead, like Krillin, Goku MIA, Roshi dies, Chiaotzu is killed, so is the Eternal Dragon, it was dark times. Everything was pointing to a full-on return to the nightmare world of the past...then Goku wins, but skip ahead a few years and Piccolo Jr. shows up, the final demon-clansmen, and for the longest time his aim was to return the world to that nightmare. And to think the hero he is today never would have come to be, and instead he would have returned the world to that darkness, if not for Goku and sweet little Gohan.

* [[CatsAreSnarkers Korin]] has three weird jars in the Senzu Bean room and Goku looks into them. In the first one, Goku sees Chi-Chi in the past and tries to call her but fails. The second jar has Bulma and Oolong cooking and having fun at Kami House in the present. When Goku opens the third one a crazy red centipede bursts out, and wraps itself around the room giving Goku surreal visions of the future. It's a creepy moment among many.

* But the creepier thing is Tao did the the world '''a favor''' by killing the General. Blue is the most unsettling Dragon Ball villain and that's counting Piccolo vomiting up eggs and even Majin Buu. General Blue has [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi get up]] complete with an arm band and acap, and being a blond pretty boy with TheFightingNarcissist personality, Blue alludes to [[MasterRace the Aryans]], and if ''that'' wasn't evil enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking all versions of him speak in a high pitched effeminate voice]]. Oh, and also? Blue is a shameless pedophile, openly swooning over young boys.

** The pedophilia aspect of General Blue was mercifully kept out of the US Dub, though this is just as creepy as at one point when he gets angry at Bulma and makes the same ''suggestions''. Oh, by the way, Blue is a blazing misogynist. You know all those Dragon Ball ladies (Bulma, Launch and Chi-Chi)? General Blue thinks they're all disgusting.

* [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/2/28/The_Pirate_Robot_appears.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140509204800 The Pirate Robot]], nuff said.

* Lunch's transformations. One moment she's sweet, innocent, good enough to ride the Kinto Un, then she sneezes and becomes [[TheDreaded a fearsome gun-toting psycho whose passage is said to leave not a blade of grass intact]].
* Goku becoming an Oozaru right before Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong and Puar's eyes. Plus Goku [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sL6MzN0c40 original's transformation]], i.e his eyes turning red and heartbeat quickening before shifting into Oozaru is even more terrifying.

** Tambourin's flashback makes it now less scary. With him giving the Tournament Announcer a JumpScare hanging down from the ceiling like a monstrous bat, to dodging all of Krillin's attacks before breaking his neck with a kick. The wide open eyes of Krillin as he drops dead is just the cherry on top.

** The end of the that fight. Goku dodges an energy blast, tries to surprise Piccolo, but gets nailed by another. The aniem takes it time by going into slow motion, ''where we can hear Goku's heart beating loudly and slowing down till it stops''. Sweet dreams!

* At the end of the 22 World Tournament, when Krillin is found dead, and after Goku rushes off to find this killer, Master Roshi tells the remaining cast the story of the fiend responsible, King Piccolo, and the anime of this is pure nightmare fuel. Unstoppable demons everywhere, killing, ripping tanks apart, and implied eating the populous all over, with King Piccolo lording over and enjoying it all like a game. The years of darkness were only stopped when King Piccolo was sealed away, and the left note and the description of Krillin's murderer indicates King Piccolo is free once again...aaannd then the body count rises, all these fighters seen from past tournaments, just showing up dead, like Krillin, Goku MIA, Roshi dies, Chiaotzu is killed, so is the Eternal Dragon, it was dark times. Everything was pointing to a full on return to the nightmare world of the past...then Goku wins, but skip ahead a few years and Piccolo Jr. shows up, the final demon-clansmen, and for the longest time his aim was to return the world to that nightmare. And to think the hero he is today never would have come to be, and instead he would have returned the world to that darkness, if not for Goku and sweet little Gohan.

* A lot of the first area in the series take place in [[TheLostWoods scary forests at night]] with wolves and bats. With the classic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCXoQ_ZcjYo threatening fight music]] played to it.

* Goku becoming an Oozaru right before Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong and Puar's eyes. Plus Goku [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sL6MzN0c40 original's transformation]], i.e his eyes turning red and heart beat quickening before shifting into Oozaru is even more terrifying.

* Any of the sexual assaults made towards Bulma, especially that time the two Red Ribbon Army soldiers [[IhaveYouNowMyPretty were creeping]] on her despite her trying to explain she only 16. The manga has Bulma run away straight away in gag fashion, but the anime expands the unsettling scene, having the goons tackle her to the ground before she throws sand in their faces and running away. Goku saves her and the whole thing is laughed off on goffy manner, but still it's very disturbing to have rape implications in show aimed for kids. And this wasn't the first time Bulma was put in that situation...

* [[CatsAreSnarkers Korin]] has three weird jars in Senzu Bean room and Goku looks into them, in the first one Goku sees Chi-Chi in the past and tries to call her but fails. The second jar has Bulma and Oolong cooking and having fun at Kami House in the present, when Goku opens the third one a crazy red centipede bursts out, and wraps itself around the room giving Goku surreal visions of the future. It's creepy moment among many.

** The scene where he kills General Blue is somewhat disturbing, too. He boasts that he can kill the general with his ''tongue''... and then he lives up to it. He just sticks out his tongue out and uses it to puncture Blue's skull, killing him almost immediately. It's over so quickly that it almost doesn't even qualify as a fight.
* But the creepier thing is Tao did the the world '''a favor''' by killing the General. Blue is the most unsettling Dragonball villain and that's counting Piccolo vomiting up eggs and even Majin Buu. General Blue has [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi get up]] complete with an arm band and acap, and being a blonde pretty boy with TheFightingNarcissist personality, Blue alludes to [[MasterRace the Aryan]], and if ''that'' wasn't evil enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking all versions of him speak in high pitched effeminate voice]]. Oh, and also? Blue is a shameless pedophile, openly swooning over young boys.

* Chiaotzu has always been creepy, since he's based off Chinese Vampires, and his creepy voice didn't help in the times where he was a villain.

* Krillin's death at Tamborine's hands gets no mention here? The manga version is a pretty unsettling MoodWhiplash; Krillin volunteers to get Goku's things for him and not one page later we hear him scream. The gang rushes in to find him dead with his eyes [[DiesWideOpen wide open]] and the announcer lying near him saying a monster came and took the dragon ball and the martial arts society list. Goku holds his friend's body and says to the horror of both his other friends' and the audience's that Krillin is, without a doubt, dead. Very chilling...

** Tambourin's flashback makes it now less scarier. With him giving the Tournament Announcer a JumpScare hanging down from the ceiling like a monstrous bat, to dodging all of Krillin's attacks before breaking his neck with a kick. The wide open eyes of Krillin as he drops dead is just cherry on top.

** The end of the that fight. Goku dodges an energy blast, tries to surprise Piccolo, but gets nailed by another. The aniem takes it time by going into slow motion, ''where we can hear Goku's heart beating loudly andslowing down till it stops''. Sweet dreams!

* So you're watching the last few moments of Goku's fight with Piccolo, all is right, Goku gives a thumbs up to all his friends as they shout the countdown. Right when they get to nine, Piccolo gets up and fires a mouth beam straight into Goku's right shoulder. And this isn't Z where direct hit from a beam causes some external wounds, and maybe torn clothes or something like that. No. This is Dragon Ball and Goku now has a hole he can stick his hand into under his shoulder. After writhing in pain for a while, Piccolo gets up and begins stomping on the wound over and over as Goku grabs the ground in pain. All the while, Piccolo is grinning ear to ear, and even laughing. Tenshinhan, Yamcha and Krillin try to help but Piccolo stops them before they can enter the ring. Goku, the badass, still manages to get up and get in an attack before a swift kick from Junior reminds him he has a giant hole in his body. Junior, the prick, then elbows Goku, right in the wound, followed by more blood curdling screams. And just to add injury to injury, Piccolo breaks Goku's leg.

* A lot of the first area in the series take place [[TheLostWoods scary forests at night]] with wolves and bats. With the classic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCXoQ_ZcjYo threatening fight music]] played to it.

* But the creepier thing is Tao did the the world '''a favor''' by killing the General. Blue is the most unsettling Dragonball villain and that's counting Piccolo vomiting up eggs and even Majin Buu. General Blue has [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi get up]] complete with an arm band and acap, and being a blonde pretty boy with TheFightingNarcissist personality, Blue alludes to [[the Aryan MasterRace]], and if ''that'' wasn't evil enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking all versions of him speak in high pitched effeminate voice]]. Oh, and also? Blue is a shameless pedophile, openly swooning over young boys.

* But the creepier thing is Tao did the the world '''a favor''' by killing the General. Blue is the most unsettling Dragonball villain and that's counting Piccolo vomiting up eggs and even Majin Buu, firstly General Blue has [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi get up]] complete with with arm band and cap. Plus being a blonde pretty boy with TheFightingNarcissist personality, Blue alludes to [[MasterRace Aryan]], if that was evil enough all versions of him speak in high pitched effeminate voice. But wait's there more, Blue is also openly homosexual but there's nothing wrong with that, no the bad part is Blue is a pedophile (being attracted to young boys).
** Even in the mostly family friendly DBZ ''Budokai Tenkaichi 3'' game, General Blue is creepily suggestive towards Kid Trunks in their unique dialogue at the start of the match which is all kinds of wrong and even older [[TimeTravel Future Trunks]] is creeped out facing Blue.
** This the pedophilia aspect of General Blue was mercifully kept out of the US Dub and Blue was also given more heterosexual leanings, though this is just as creepy as at one point when he gets angry at Bulma and makes the same ''suggestions''. Oh forget to mention, Blue is also a blazing misogynist, so you know all those Dragon Ball babes? (Bulma, Launch and Chi-Chi) General Blue thinks they're all disgusting.
*** As Chi-Chi says it best in his Tenkaichi 3 bio ''"He's part of the Red Ribbon Army, he talks like a woman and he's creepy..."''

** Goku's rampage in the Red Ribbon compound. [[TheJuggernaut He was casually massacring them all, the rare hits they scored barely annoyed him]], [[NukeEm throwing a]] ''[[NukeEm nuke]]'' [[NukeEm at him]] only resulted in a destroyed mountain... And to make things worse, he was supposed to be ''dead''. And worst of all, had Goku not hit his head as a child ''that would have been the end of the whole planet''.

* Tenshinhan was terrifyingly brutal when he was Crane Student assassin, terrorizing folktown and breaking Yamcha's leg. Even more violent is Tien's past where we see Tao Pai Pai abusing the hell out of him while Chiaotzu and Crane Hermit watch.

* King Demon Piccolo's AxCrazy behavior, The original Demon King manages to give a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Goku so badly that it stopped his heart.

* The Cave of the [[TheSacredDarkness Darkness]] small filler arc where Goku (along Yajirobe)is sent by Korin to find the true Ultimate Divine Water to beat King Piccolo is literally the creepiest part of Dragon Ball. As it involves traveling to a Icy Mountain (full of killer snow monsters) and entering the dark cave underneath. It's especially unnerving when Goku stumbles across a Kami House ''inside the dark cavern'' and sees illusions of his happy smiling friends inside, who tell him to give up his quest in creepy echoey voices. Goku is outraged and flees only to be chased by Demon-Master Roshi and nearly killed, if not for Yajirobe's intervention. After Goku proves his goodness by saving Yajirobe's life, the Darkness [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/a/a1/Yami2.png/revision/latest?cb=20101020124053 appears]] and offers Goku the divine water but says it will defiantly kill him. Goku gulps it down and nearly dies but Oozaru (the Saiyan beast inside him) gives a roar and Goku survives powered up enough to beat King Piccolo. In the manga Korin just gives Goku the Divine Water, which after seeing the expanded anime story is quite disappointingly underwhelming.
* Goku's Doll. Popo makes a sort of copy of Goku, and the look on it's face can be a touch unsettling. Then it starts to make sounds with it's mouth as it begins to charge a Kamehameha and it gets even creepier.
* So you're watching the last few moments of Goku's fight with Piccolo, all is right, Goku gives a thumbs up to all his friends as they shout the countdown. Right when they get to nine, Piccolo gets up and fires a mouth beam straight into Goku's right shoulder. And this isn't Z where a direct hit from a beam causes some external wounds, and maybe torn clothes or something like that. No. This is Dragon Ball and Goku now has a hole he can stick his hand into under his shoulder. After writhing in pain for a while, Piccolo gets up and begins stomping on the wound over and over as Goku grabs the ground in pain. All the while, Piccolo is grinning ear to ear, and even laughing. Tenshinhan, Yamcha and Krillin try to help but Piccolo stops them before they can enter the ring. Goku, the badass, still manages to get up and get in an attack before a swift kick from Junior reminds him he has a giant hole in his body. Junior, the prick, then elbows Goku, right in the wound, followed by more blood curdling screams. And just to add injury to injury, Piccolo breaks Goku's leg.

** The anime version of this is arguably worse. After the tournament ends, the gang manages to head to a restaurant to celebrate Tien's victory until Goku suddenly remembers leaving his things at the tournament grounds. Krillin volunteers to go all the way back and get them like the manga.

*** As Chi-Chi says it best in his game bio ''"He's part of the Red Ribbon Army, he talks like a woman and he's creepy..."''

* childhood flashback was terrifyingly brutal when he was Crane Student assassin, terrorizing folktown and braking Yamcha's leg. Even more violent is Tien's past where we see Tao Pai Pai abusing the hell out of him (while Chiaotzu and Crane Hermit watch).

* NightmareFuel/DragonBallZ
* NightmareFuel/DragonBallGT
* NightmareFuel/DragonBallSuper

* Any of the sexual assaults made towards Bulma, especially that time the two Red Ribbon Army soldiers [[IhaveYouNowMyPretty were creeping]] on her despite her trying to explain she only 16. The manga has Bulma run away straight away in gag fashion, but the anime expands the unsettling scene, having the goons tackle her to the ground before she throws sand in their faces and running away. Goku saves her and the whole thing is laughed off on goffy manner, but still it's very disturbing to have rape implications in show aimed for kids.
** And this wasn't the first time Bulma was put in that situation...

* The Cave of the [[TheSacredDarkness Darkness]] small filler arc where Goku (along Yajirobe)is sent by Korin to find the true Ultimate Divine Water to beat King Piccolo is literally the creepiest part of Dragon Ball. As it involves traveling to a Icy Mountain (full of killer snow monsters) and entering the dark cave underneath. It's especially unnerving when Goku stumbles across a Kami House ''inside the dark cavern'' and sees illusions of his happy smiling friends inside, who tell him to give up his quest in creepy echoey voices. Goku is outraged and flees only to be chased by Demon-Master Roshi and nearly killed, if not for Yajirobe's intervention. After Goku proves his goodness by saving Yajirobe's life, the Darkness [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/a/a1/Yami2.png/revision/latest?cb=20101020124053 appears]] and offers Goku the divine water but says it will defiantly kill him. Goku gulps it down and nearly dies but Oozaru (the Saiyan beast inside him) gives a roar and Goku survives powered up enough to beat King Piccolo.
** In manga Korin just gives Goku the Divine Water, which after seeing the expanded anime story is quite disappointingly underwhelming.

** And Goku curbstomped them.

** And this wasn't the first time, Bulma was put in that situation.

* Goku becoming an Oozaru right before Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong and Puar's eyes. Plus Goku [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiJLVtR0v0I original's transformation]], i.e his eyes turning red and heart beat quickening before shifting into Oozaru is even more terrifying.

** When he initially confronts them, Goku is sucked in, and we see ''it actually does it''. Had Goku not used the Power Pole to not fall all the way in, he'd have been melted and turned into sake... And when he got out, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Goku stole the gourd and roll-called them them until they missed a call and got sucked in]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking after he had to pee while inside to boot and the gourd caught the smell]]. They are let out, but then they have to work for the villagers at gourd-point...