History NightmareFuel / DuckTales1987

* Magica De Spell's shadow. She is at first a mute servant and ButtMonkey who tries to steal Scrooge's dime. Then she becomes self-conscious and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turns against Magica]], transforming [[http://images.tvrage.com/screencaps/17/3394/54909.jpg into a horrifying]] EldritchAbomination with red GlowingEyesOfDoom and an unsettling [[EvilSoundsRaspy hissing voice]].

* The Golden Death nearly overtakes the entire world before it's stopped. Scrooge ultimately has to ''throw'' the heavy goose just because he can't get there in time. That means that everyone (whom the viewer has been getting to know and love for the entire show) was effectively ''[[KillEmAll dead]]'', even if it was only for a moment or two.

* The Sirens, no doubt about it. Three blond female duck heads sharing a purple, limb-less, flabby body? Check. Said heads [[VoiceOfTheLegion creepily groaning in unison]]? Check. GlowingEyesOfDoom? Check! Said flabby body revealing a [[UncannyValley demented, hideous, deformed, monstrous, enormous face]]? Oh so very, very much.

** Another relatable fear is Huey admitting that he's scared of a video game villain who's one of the illusions terrorizing them. Many of us can remember being afraid of fictional monsters and villains (Such as [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Plankton]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs the Evil Queen]], [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]], [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella De Vil]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]], etc.) as young children, considering that they're [[ObviouslyEvil truly]] [[CardCarryingVillain evil]], but we never admitted it because we were afraid our friends would think we were wimps. Hell, video game villains can arguably be worse than ones from TV or movies because you effectively have to confront them yourself as part of the game, even games meant for younger or all-ages audiences. Imagine being a kid and being confronted by, say, Dracula from ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', Ganon from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', Kefka Palazzo from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', Bowser from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' or Dark Matter from ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}''.

** First Doofus' banana turns into a monster (with creepy green eyes, red slithering tongue, [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily rows of sharp, jagged teeth]] and a scowling voice provided by none other than Creator/FrankWelker which sounds surprisingly similar to [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Megatron]]). Then his nightmares quickly gets a lot more serious, when his school bully Bully Beagle shows up and threatens him. When Scrooge finds him, [[TheWoobie Doofus cries about how much he hates it when Bully picks on him]].

* And then there is the nephews' teacher, Mrs. Quackenbush, an ugly (anthropomorphic) vulture with crazy eyes, talon-like finger nails, and a raspy voice.

* The siren, no doubt about it. Three blond, female duck heads sharing a purple, limb-less, flabby body? Check. Said heads [[VoiceOfTheLegion creepily groaning in unison]]? Check. GlowingEyesOfDoom? Check! Said flabby body revealing a [[UncannyValley demented, hideous, deformed, monstrous, enormous face]]? Oh so very, very much.

* The Sea Monster, a gargantuan green-skinned red-eyed horned sea serpent who is introduced attacking one of Scrooge's cargo vessels with a disturbing roar and eating Archibald Quackerbill alive. Shortly afterwards, it appears out of nowhere to grab Scrooge himself and carries him off. Then it goes after Launchpad and the kids.

* Scrooge's GoldFever -- not in a scream-out-loud fashion, but in a subtler, quietly unsettling one. Scrooge's mania for anything valuable is often just accepted casually or {{played for laughs}}, but the events from the dragon's big entrance to the climactic FriendOrIdolDecision ultimately play it dead seriously and draw attention to what severe consequences it could have if he ever failed to control it.

* The episode is creepy no doubt, but there wasn't anything in it that sent it into complete nightmare territory... at least up until the point where the shadow of a skeleton comes out and starts ''strangling Uncle Scrooge''. Then he goes limp. Granted, we knew he wasn't dead (he's the hero and this is a Disney story), but the visuals could have fooled the viewer.

** Another relatable fear is Huey admitting that he's scared of a video game villain who's one of the illusions terrorizing them. Many of us can remember being afraid of fictional monsters and villains (Such as [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Plankton]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs the Evil Queen]], [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]], [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella De Vil]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]], etc.) as young children, but we never admitted it because we were afraid our friends would think we were wimps. Hell, video game villains can arguably be worse than ones from TV or movies because you effectively have to confront them yourself as part of the game, even games meant for younger or all-ages audiences. Imagine being a kid and being confronted by, say, Dracula from ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', Ganon from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', Kefka Palazzo from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', Bowser from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' or Dark Matter from ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}''.

** Another relatable fear is Huey admitting that he's scared of a video game villain who's one of the illusions terrorizing them. Many of us can remember being afraid of fictional monsters and villains (Such as [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Plankton]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]],[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs the Evil Queen]], [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]], [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella De Vil]], etc.) as young children, but we never admitted it because we were afraid our friends would think we were wimps. Hell, video game villains can arguably be worse than ones from TV or movies because you effectively have to confront them yourself as part of the game, even games meant for younger or all-ages audiences. Imagine being a kid and being confronted by, say, Dracula from ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', Ganon from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', Kefka Palazzo from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' or Dark Matter from ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}''.

** Another relatable fear is Huey admitting that he's scared of a video game villain who's one of the illusions terrorizing them. Many of us can remember being afraid of fictional monsters and villains (Such as [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Plankton]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] etc.) as young children, but we never admitted it because we were afraid our friends would think we were wimps. Hell, video game villains can arguably be worse than ones from TV or movies because you effectively have to confront them yourself as part of the game, even games meant for younger or all-ages audiences. Imagine being a kid and being confronted by, say, Dracula from ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', Ganon from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', or Dark Matter from ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}''.

* The Golden Death nearly overtakes the entire world before it's stopped. Scrooge ultimately has to ''throw'' the heavy goose just because he can't get there in time. That means that everyone (whom the viewer has been getting to know and love for the entire show) was effectively ''dead'', even if it was only for a moment or two.

* The Sea Monster, a gargantuan green-skinned red-eyed horned sea serpent who is introduced attacking one of Scrooge's cargo vessels with a disturbing roar and eating Archibald Quackerbill alive. Than shortly after, it appears out of nowhere to grab Scrooge himself and carries him off. And than it goes after Launchpads and the kids.

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