History NightmareFuel / Moana

* Tamatoa is a giant, [[Narcissist narcissistic]] crab who was largely a comical villain, but still managed to be absolutely terrifying. Case in point, in the movie, he delivers a CurbStompBattle to Maui while singing a David Bowie-inspired musical number. It sounds hilarious but it's actually a genuinely chilling and disturbing moment.

* Tamatoa is a giant, narcissistic crab who was largely a comical villain, but still managed to be absolutely terrifying. Case in point, in the movie, he delivers a CurbStompBattle to Maui while singing a David Bowie-inspired musical number. It sounds hilarious but it's actually a genuinely chilling and disturbing moment.

* How about the nightmare Moana has when she falls asleep on the boat? At first it seems like she's managed to steer them back to her home of Motanui... And the black plague that was threatening when she left is now engulfing the entire island, as her parents desperately run toward her on the beach, only to be swallowed and consumed along with all other life on the island. It's not until she wakes up, understandably panicked, that both she and the audience finally realize it wasn't real. [[DreamingOfThingsToCome But if the Heart is not restored soon...]]

* [[RealityEnsues Moana's first attempt at sailing does not go well]]. After a wave capsizes her boat, she ends up getting her foot trapped in a reef and ''almost drowns.''
** To elaborate: She gets her foot caught after a massive wave totals her boat and sends her under in a merciless fashion. Her unprotected body is pounded against the coral reef by the undertow, and had this film not been made by Disney, we likely would've seen quite a bit of blood from her being torn up by the reef.

* The Kakamora may be little coconut... people... things... but they're also vicious pirates who attack without mercy and have strategies for corralling boats to their doom. There's also hundreds of them.
** To be more specific, the Kakamora ''themselves'' are not scary at all no matter how hard they try to be, but the ''barge'' they sail on that can split into separate parts, surround boats and ''crush'' them - ''that'' makes the Kakamora a force to be reckoned with.

* Te Ka, the monstrous lava demon [[spoiler:who is really Te Fiti in an angered form after having her heart stolen.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:A mortal has no business in a monster cave...]]

** One big one is Moana seeing some ''thing'' moving off the side. We don't see much but whatever it is [[{{Kaiju}} is gigantic...]] And do tell, [[Franchise/Godzilla what does this]] ''[[Franchise/Godzilla thing]]'' [[Franchise/Godzilla resemble]]?

** One big one is Moana seeing some ''thing'' moving off the side. We don't see much but whatever it is [[{{Kaiju}} is gigantic...]] And do tell, what does this ''thing'' resemble?

** But even before all that, special mention goes out to him picking Moana up by the back of her top and almost eating her, who at the moment was trying to distract him while Maui tries to get his fish hook back. After taunting her about her grandma. Considering how big he is compared to Moana, he possibly could've swallowed her whole and Moana would've been EatenAlive. And all Moana could do was squirm helplessly as Tamatoa lowered her closer to his maw...

** Part of what makes it so effective is how quickly it all escalates. At first he's singing about how good it is to be pretty and shiny, and ten seconds after that it's about eating them, and not long after ''that'' he's suddenly looking like an EldritchAbomination with lyrics that are a
TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that proves he knows ''all'' of Maui's secrets and exactly how to hit him where it hurts, and getting a VoiceOfTheLegion in places (basically, there are parts that sound like a chorus - where there isn't one that we can see). He goes from funny, to funny but thinking you look tasty, to any humor vanishing in an ''instant'' as the purely malicious creature, who knows things he can't possibly know by normal means and who stands at the top of the monster realm's food chain for a ''reason'', has decided to drop the act in terms of both appearance and personality, and make sure you suffer as he ends you. There's a good reason some wish he'd been the BigBad.

** But even before all that, special mention goes out to him almost eating Moana, who at the moment was trying to distract him while Maui tries to get his fish hook back. After taunting her about her grandma. Considering how big he is compared to Moana, he possibly could've swallowed her whole and Moana would've been EatenAlive. And all Moana could do was squirm helplessly as Tamatoa lowered her closer to his maw...
** Part of what makes it so effective is how quickly it all escalates. At first he's singing about how good it is to be pretty and shiny, and ten seconds after that it's about eating them, and not long after ''that'' he's suddenly looking like an EldritchAbomination with lyrics that are a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that proves he knows ''all'' of Maui's secrets and exactly how to hit him where it hurts, and getting a VoiceOfTheLegion in places (basically, there are parts that sound like a chorus - where there isn't one that we can see). He goes from funny, to funny but thinking you look tasty, to any humor vanishing in an ''instant'' as the purely malicious creature, who knows things he can't possibly know by normal means and who stands at the top of the monster realm's food chain for a ''reason'', has decided to drop the act in terms of both appearance and personality, and make sure you suffer as he ends you. There's a good reason some wish he'd been the BigBad.

* Shortly after setting out on her quest, Moana has a nightmare where her island is consumed by Te Ka's blight, with her parents running towards her and getting overwhelmed right before her eyes.

** But even before all that, special mention goes out to him almost eating Moana, who at the moment was trying to distract him while Maui tries to get his fish hook back. After taunting her about her grandma.

* Shortly after setting out on her quest, Moana has a nightmare where her island is consumed by Te Ka's blight, with her parents running towards her and getting overwhelmed right before her eyes.

** To elaborate: She gets her foot caught after a massive wave totals her boat and sends her under in a merciless fashion. Her unprotected body is pounded against the coral reef by the undertow, and had this film not been made by disney, we likely would've seen quite a bit of blood from her being torn up by the reef.

** Part of what makes it so effective is how quickly it all escalates. At first he's singing about how good it is to be pretty and shiny, and ten seconds after that it's about eating them, and not long after ''that'' he's suddenly looking like an EldritchAbomination with lyrics that are a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that proves he knows ''all'' Maui's secrets and exactly how to hit him where it hurts, and getting a VoiceOfTheLegion in places (basically, there are parts that sound like a chorus - where there isn't one that we can see). He goes from funny, to funny but thinking you look tasty, to any humor vanishing in an ''instant'' as the purely malicious creature, who knows things he can't possibly know by normal means and who stands at the top of the monster realm's food chain for a ''reason'', has decided to drop the act in terms of both appearance and personality, and make sure you suffer as he ends you. There's a good reason some wish he'd been the BigBad.

** Special mention goes out to the creepy four-armed purple-and-black anemone creature. (as seen on the right) JESUS CHRIST. Just look at the jerky, unnatural way it moves towards Moana. It doesn't get a lot of screen time but it still managed to be the freakiest scene in the movie.

* How about the nightmare Moana has when she falls asleep on the boat? At first it seems like she's managed to steer them back to her home of Motanui... And the black plague that was threatening when she left is now engulfing the entire island, as her parents desperately run toward her on the beach, only to be swallowed and consumed along with all other life on the island. It's not until she wakes up, understandably panicked, that both she and the audience finally realize it wasn't real. [[DreamingOfThingsToCome But if the Heart is not restored soon....]]

** One big one is Moana seeing some ''thing'' moving off the side. We don't see much but whatever it is [[{{Kaiju}} is gigantic.]]

[[note]]And he's probably being serious / dead-pan with that last statement, considering crabs probably don't follow the same conventions rearding cannibalism as humans do, he is ''humongous'' himself, and he is a ''monster'' version of crabs anyway.[[/note]]

** Special mention goes out to the creepy four-armed purple-and-black anemone creature. (as seen on the right) JESUS CHRIST. Just look at the jerky, unnatural way it moves towards Moana. It doesn't get a lot of screen time but it still managed to be the freakiest scene in the movie. [[note]] It's so freaking scary that if you search the page image of its face on Google, Google's only response is ''"Jesus"''. [[/note]]

** Part of what makes it so effective is how quickly it all escalates. At first he's singing about how good it is to be pretty and shiny, and ten seconds after that it's about eating them, and not long after _that_ he's suddenly looking like an EldritchAbomination with lyrics that are a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that proves he knows _all_ Maui's secrets and exactly how to hit him where it hurts, and getting a VoiceOfTheLegion in places (basically, there are parts that sound like a chorus - where there isn't one that we can see). He goes from funny, to funny but thinking you look tasty, to any humor vanishing in an _instant_ as the purely malicious creature, who knows things he can't possibly know by normal means and who stands at the top of the monster realm's food chain for a _reason_, has decided to drop the act in terms of both appearance and personality, and make sure you suffer as he ends you. There's a good reason some wish he'd been the BigBad.

* [[RealityEnsues Moana's first attempt at sailing does not go well]]. After a wave capsizes her boat, she ends up getting her foot trapped in a reef and ''almost drowns.''