History NightmareFuel / MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks

** The TransformationSequence. Good lord, the TransformationSequence! Their amulets glow bright red and cover them in red energy, the Dazzlings turn monochrome and sprout pony ears and longer hair like the heroines, then suddenly a layer seems to crack off of them, demonic wings emerge from their backs and their [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes glow red]].]] Much like the Dazzlings themselves, there is just something inherently ''wrong'' about it all, which makes it all the more unsettling than the simple act itself. [[spoiler:A major factor is that while the Rainbooms actually transform, with the Dazzlings, it's more like [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan something is being]] ''released''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2LK6ydvRns "Welcome to the Show"]]:

* [[spoiler:They're ancient Sirens that once plunged Equestria into strife and disharmony, allowing them to nearly take it over until Star Swirl the Bearded banished them to the human world to defeat them because they would be powerless there. Except they weren't, and after Sunset brings magic to Canterlot High they begin to rebuild their power to terrifying levels.]]
** look closely at the Siren's appearance in the flashback sequence and again when they come out as [[spoiler: the avatars of the anthro!Dazzlings]]. They have ''fins''. What ponies in the MLP world had fins and lived in the ocean? ''Sea Ponies!''. It's freaking brilliant that the old image of the overly-happy Sea Ponies (''Call upon the Sea Ponies'' anyone?) was completely inverted into a much darker idea.
** On top of that, the prologue shows them causing disharmony in a diner and feeding off it. These girls ''look'' and ''think'' like teenagers, but are far older. Just how long have they been doing this to defenseless humans?
* [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140819010524/mlp/images/e/eb/Adagio_Dazzle%27s_sinister_grin_EG2.png Adagio Dazzle's]] SlasherSmile in the preview clip of the movie. Later in the actual movie, she starts making that face ''a lot''. Kinda makes you wonder just how [[AxCrazy mentally stable she is]]...
* When Sunset is showing the Dazzlings around CHS, she notices their necklaces, and when she gets closer, asking about them, Adagio ''grabs'' her hand! The way Adagio does it makes it seem like she's about to ''hit'' Sunset (and from the way Sunset rubs her wrist afterward, it probably hurt).
** Similar is how Adagio gets up in Aria's face when the other girl tries to assert her authority over Adagio's.
* The hatred CHS has for Sunset. If it was our world, Sunset probably would have been outright ''attacked'' by now! Or maybe she would have done [[DrivenToSuicide something awful]] to herself...

* Rarity [[PeoplePuppets being jerked around by Photo Finish]] thanks to her metallic outfit, unable to control her movements.

** Quite the sinister song, even more so than "Let's Have a Battle". The latter could at least be interpreted as a motivational, if morally corrupt number, where as the former feels more like the villains are gloating over a victory you never saw coming. From the lyrics alone, the moment you're listening to the song, you are snared in their web, and by the time you realize it, ''it's already too late''. The way the song is presented in the film [[spoiler:it could also be seen as them singing directly to the Rainbooms, who are shown rapidly falling apart during the montage. The Dazzlings are that much closer to getting what they came for.]]
** Even scarier? If you look at "Let's Have a Battle" that's ''exactly'' what happened to the student body, and likely to the viewer the first time viewing. The supernatural aspects and brainwashing didn't happen at the ''beginning'' of the song: they happened half way through. The first half was the hook, by the time they began brainwashing, everyone was already listening to the song.
** The entire song is basically a weaponized version of an [[EarWorm Ear Worm]] to the viewers. Celestia and Luna blissfully staring and the students swaying as the Dazzlings sing doesn't help much.
** It gets worse when you realize that this is what the Dazzlings plan to do to ''everyone on Earth'' if not stopped.

* A lesser example is Maud Pie's cameo during the slumber party; her human version's appearance has an UncannyValley vibe when illuminated in the dark kitchen.

** The Dazzlings' part in this dueling number with the Rainbooms ''definitely'' counts. Not only is the beat and tone freaking terrifying, the Dazzling's opera-like singing borders on OminousLatinChanting at times and their dialog isn't much more calming at all. It's definitely the most ominous number for them. They sing it as [[spoiler:they obtain their true power again, transforming them into anthro forms and allowing them to begin their take over. It also allows them to summon avatars of their true forms, which are pretty frightening in their own right.]]

** The [[spoiler:TransformationSequence. Good lord, the TransformationSequence! Their amulets glow bright red and cover them in red energy, the Dazzlings turn monochrome and sprout pony ears and longer hair like the heroines, then suddenly a layer seems to crack off of them, demonic wings emerge from their backs and their [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes glow red]].]] Much like the Dazzlings themselves, there is just something inherently ''wrong'' about it all, which makes it all the more unsettling than the simple act itself. [[spoiler:A major factor is that while the Rainbooms actually transform, with the Dazzlings, it's more like [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan something is being]] ''released''.]]

** [[spoiler:The fact that the Dazzlings were able to do this by perverting ''ThePowerOfFriendship'' by getting the Humane Five to fight so they could steal their magic!]].
** [[spoiler:Notice how, just before the Dazzlings change, some students in the audience freak out and try to shield themselves before they become brainwashed. They knew what is happening, even for a little bit. That alone is terrifying, but think about [[AndIMustScream the implications]] of that]].
** [[spoiler: Not helped by the fact that they were also brainwashed in the last movie, or the fact that they briefly break free when the Rainbooms start playing, only for the Dazzlings to put them under again.]]
** One very ''subtle'' thing? [[spoiler:Pay close attention and you'll see the fully powered Dazzlings have ''sharp teeth''.]]
** The possibility that the Dazzlings [[spoiler: are not even safe from ''each other''. During the finals, there were moments where Aria and Sonata's mouths were not synching up with the lyrics, only still singing the chorus, while Adagio sounds like all three of their voices are being channeled through her. This suggests that at that point she can exert control over both Aria and Sonata; further implied by when her eyes glowed red, she was ''transferring'' her power to them instead of all three of them reaching point simultaneously.]]

Now it's time to ''finish you!
* Just how damn ''effective'' the Dazzlings are as villains. They're smart (well, Adagio is, Sonata's TheDitz and Aria isn't leader material), savvy, utterly unscrupulous, and their plan makes a frightening sense. Unlike Sunset Shimmer, they left absolutely nothing to chance (one of the largely-cited problems with the last film was that if Twilight had just gone to Celestia and Luna, the events of the movie could have been avoided. This was the ''first'' thing Adagio went about eliminating). After taking over the school you can easily see them moving on to larger gigs, quickly becoming new pop-idols for millions, ''literally''. And ''nobody'' would be able to stop them because nobody would even understand that they ''need'' to be stopped. After all, universal adoration bordering on quasi-religious worship is what we've more or less come to ''expect'' from pop-star audiences. [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans And they aim not just to subjugate, but to cause strife and conflict to feed on, so the world under them would NOT be a happy place]]. You can easily believe that they nearly conquered Equestria once.
* Related to the above, they're scarily smart at using what little direct influence they have with their weakened powers to nudge people into doing what they want them to do [[spoiler:like how they manipulated Trixie into trapping the Rainbooms]].
* The short "A Case for the Bass" has Applejack's friends becoming fed up with the Flim-Flam brothers. We get a POV of Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash [[https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2014/5/24/635041__safe_rainbow+dash_pinkie+pie_fluttershy_rarity_applejack_animated_equestria+girls_screencap_looking+at+you.gif looking like they want to beat them up]]. Pinkie Pie even cracks her knuckles!
* A minor one, but the Dazzlings have been on Earth for God-knows-how-long since Starswirl banished them. [[FridgeHorror How many tragedies, wars, and other events are they responsible for?]]

** What makes the entire scene work so well is that it's their introduction, and at first they seem to just be typical human villains, ''then'' the supernatural aspects begin showing up. The above shot of Dazzle's eyes lighting up comes off as a WhamShot and is all the more frightening for it.

* [[spoiler:They're ancient Sirens that once plunged Equestria into strife and disharmony, allowing them to nearly take it over until Star Swirl the Bearded banished them to the human world to defeat them because they would be powerless there. Except they weren't, and after Twilight brings magic to Canterlot High they begin to rebuild their power to terrifying levels.]]
* To add to the above point, look closely at the Siren's appearance in the flashback sequence and again when they come out as [[spoiler: the avatars of the anthro!Dazzlings]]. They have ''fins''. What ponies in the MLP world had fins and lived in the ocean? ''Sea Ponies!''. It's freaking brilliant that the old image of the overly-happy Sea Ponies (''Call upon the Sea Ponies'' anyone?) was completely subverted into a much darker idea.
* On top of that, the prologue shows them causing disharmony in a diner and feeding off it. These girls ''look'' and ''think'' like teenagers, but are far older. Just how long have they been doing this to defenseless humans?
* [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140819010524/mlp/images/e/eb/Adagio_Dazzle%27s_sinister_grin_EG2.png Adagio Dazzle's]] SlasherSmile in the preview clip of the movie. And later in the actual movie, she starts making that face ''a lot''. Kinda makes you wonder just how [[AxCrazy mentally stable she is]]...

* Similar to the above scene is how Adagio gets up in Aria's face when the other girl tries to assert her authority over Adagio's.
* The hatred CHS has for Sunset. If it was our world, Sunset probably would have been outright ''attacked'' by now! Or maybe she would have done [[DrivenToSuicide something]] to herself...

** The Cutie Mark Crusaders' appearance in the song. Their rocker getup combined with their [[SlasherSmile wide eyes and the nice view of all their teeth]] makes them look crazy, Sweetie Belle's in particular makes her look like a serial killer. Not helped when the lights go out and [[ByTheWhitesOfTheirEyes all you see is their wide-open eyes.]]

* Related to the above, they're scarily smart at using what direct little influence they have with their weakened powers to nudge people into doing what they want them to do [[spoiler:like how they manipulated Trixie into trapping the Rainbooms]].

* Just how damn ''effective'' the Dazzlings are as villains. They're smart (well, Adagio is, Sonata's TheDitz and Aria isn't leader material), savvy, utterly unscrupulous, and their plan makes a frightening sense. After taking over the school you can easily see them moving on to larger gigs, quickly becoming new pop-idols for millions, ''literally''. Unlike Sunset Shimmer, they left absolutely nothing to chance (one of the largely-cited problems with the last film was that if Twilight had just gone to Celestia and Luna, the events of the movie could have been avoided. This was the ''first'' thing Adagio went about eliminating). And ''nobody'' would be able to stop them because nobody would even understand that they ''need'' to be stopped. After all, universal adoration bordering on quasi-religious worship is what we've more or less come to ''expect'' from pop-star audiences. [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans And they aim not just to subjugate, but to cause strife and conflict to feed on, so the world under them would NOT be a happy place]]. You can easily believe that they nearly conquered Equestria once.

* A minor one, but the Dazzlings have been on Earth for God-knows-how-long since Starswirl banished them. [[FridgeHorror How many tragedies are they responsible for?]]

* a minor one but they stillhad some power before they drained the rainbooms and have been on earth for a 1000 years how many wars and great tragedies in history are they responsible for

* The girls go straight to Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna to get the Dazzlings kicked out after seeing their evil power in action. Celestia and Luna brush it off as Sunset trying to make someone else look bad out of spite and say how nice it was for the Dazzlings to put on a performance for them... and their eyes glow green, showing they're under the Dazzlings' spell too. Adagio was DangerouslyGenreSavvy enough to brainwash them first.

* Just how damn ''effective'' the Dazzlings are as villains. They're smart (well, Adagio is, especially in the DangerouslyGenreSavvy department, Sonata's TheDitz and Aria isn't leader material), savvy, utterly unscrupulous, and their plan makes a frightening sense. After taking over the school you can easily see them moving on to larger gigs, quickly becoming new pop-idols for millions, ''literally''. Unlike Sunset Shimmer, they left absolutely nothing to chance (one of the largely-cited problems with the last film was that if Twilight had just gone to Celestia and Luna, the events of the movie could have been avoided. This was the ''first'' thing Adagio went about eliminating). And ''nobody'' would be able to stop them because nobody would even understand that they ''need'' to be stopped. After all, universal adoration bordering on quasi-religious worship is what we've more or less come to ''expect'' from pop-star audiences. [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans And they aim not just to subjugate, but to cause strife and conflict to feed on, so the world under them would NOT be a happy place]]. You can easily believe that they nearly conquered Equestria once.

* [[VillainSong "Let's Have a Battle (of the Bands)"]]. The Dazzlings come in with this incredibly eerie and spooky song, sowing chaos and competition among all the students, who start infighting, each suddenly wanting to climb their way to the top of the heap. They're clearly working some sort of magic from their jeweled necklaces, and the room fills with [[SicklyGreenGlow sickly green fog]], which the necklaces seem to be absorbing.

** [[spoiler:They're ancient Sirens that once plunged Equestria into strife and disharmony, allowing them to nearly take it over until Star Swirl the Bearded banished them to the human world to defeat them because they would be powerless there. Except they weren't, and after Twilight brings magic to Canterlot High they begin to rebuild their power to terrifying levels.]]
** To add to the above point, look closely at the Siren's appearance in the flashback sequence and again when they come out as [[spoiler: the avatars of the anthro!Dazzlings]]. They have ''fins''. What ponies in the MLP world had fins and lived in the ocean? ''Sea Ponies!''. It's freaking brilliant that the old image of the overly-happy Sea Ponies (''Call upon the Sea Ponies'' anyone?) was completely subverted into a much darker idea.
** On top of that, the prologue shows them causing disharmony in a diner and feeding off it. These girls ''look'' and ''think'' like teenagers, but are far older. Just how long have they been doing this to defenseless humans?

* [[VillainSong "Let's Have a Battle (Of the Bands)"]]. The Dazzlings come in with this incredibly eerie and spooky song, sowing chaos and competition among all the students, who start infighting, each suddenly wanting to climb their way to the top of the heap. They're clearly working some sort of magic from their jeweled necklaces, and the room fills with [[SicklyGreenGlow sickly green fog]], which the necklaces seem to be absorbing.

* When Sunset is showing the Dazzlings around CHS, she notices their necklaces, and when she gets closer, asking about them, Adagio ''grabs'' her hand! The way Adagio does it makes it seem like she's about to ''hit'' Sunset (and from the way Sunset rubs her wrist afterward, it probably hurt.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9wpl2TZwKI "Under Our Spell"]] is quite the sinister song, even more so than "Let's Have a Battle". The latter could at least be interpreted as a motivational, if morally corrupt number, where as the former feels more like the villains are gloating over a victory you never saw coming. From the lyrics alone, the moment you're listening to the song, you are snared in their web, and by the time you realize it, ''it's already too late''. The way the song is presented in the film [[spoiler:it could also be seen as them singing directly to the Rainbooms, who are shown rapidly falling apart during the montage. The Dazzlings are that much closer to getting what they came for.]]

* The end of "Under our Spell" has a scene of the various bands fighting, which then zooms out from Adagio's gem, and Adagio doing an EvilLaugh.

* The Dazzlings' part in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2LK6ydvRns Welcome to the Show]]'', a dueling number with the Rainbooms, ''definitely'' counts. Not only is the beat and tone freaking terrifying, the Dazzling's opera-like singing borders on OminousLatinChanting at times and their dialog isn't much more calming at all. It's definitely the most ominous number for them. They sing it as [[spoiler:they obtain their true power again, transforming them into anthro forms and allowing them to begin their take over. It also allows them to summon avatars of their true forms, which are pretty frightening in their own right.]]

-->'''The Dazzlings:''' Now you need us, come and heed us, nothing can stop us now!

** [[spoiler:Notice how, just before the Dazzlings change, some students in the audience freak out and try to shield themselves before they become brainwashed. They knew what was happening, even for a little bit. That alone is terrifying, but think about [[AndIMustScream the implications]] of that]].

* The short "A Case for the Bass" has Applejack's friends becoming fed up with the Flim-Flam brothers. We get a POV of Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash [[https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2014/5/24/635041__safe_rainbow+dash_pinkie+pie_fluttershy_rarity_applejack_animated_equestria+girls_screencap_looking+at+you.gif looking like they want to beat them up]]. Pinkie Pie even [[BreakTheCutie cracks her knuckles]]!

* The short, "A Case for the Bass", has Applejack's friends becoming fed up with the Flim-Flam brothers. We get a POV of Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash [[https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2014/5/24/635041__safe_rainbow+dash_pinkie+pie_fluttershy_rarity_applejack_animated_equestria+girls_screencap_looking+at+you.gif looking like they want to beat them up]]. Pinkie Pie even cracks her knuckles!

** The [[spoiler:TransformationSequence. Good lord, the TransformationSequence! Their amulets glow bright red and cover them in red energy, the Dazzlings turn monochrome and sprout pony ears and longer hair like the heroines, then suddenly a layer seems to crack off of them, demonic wings emerge from their backs and their eyes glow red.]] Much like the Dazzlings themselves, there is just something inherently ''wrong'' about it all, which makes it all the more unsettling than the simple act itself. [[spoiler:A major factor is that while the Rainbooms actually transform, with the Dazzlings, it's more like [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan something is being]] ''released''.]]

** What they sing before attacking the Humane Six.
-->What we have in store\\

Now it's time to ''finish you!''

* Related to the above, they're scarily smart at using what direct little influence they have with their weakened powers to nudge people into doing what they want them to do [[spoiler:like how they manipulated Trixie into trapping the Rainbooms]].

* The girls go straight to Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna to get the Dazzlings kicked out after seeing their evil power in action. Celestia and Luna brush it off as Sunset trying to make someone else look bad out of spite and say how nice it was for the Dazzlings to put on a performance for them...and their eyes glow green, showing they're under the Dazzlings' spell too. Adagio was DangerouslyGenreSavvy enough to brainwash them first.

* When Sunset is showing the Dazzlings around CHS, she notices their necklaces, and when she gets closer, asking about them, Adagio, ''grabs'' her hand! The way Adagio does it makes it seem like she's about to ''hit'' Sunset (and from the way Sunset rubs her wrist afterward, it probably hurt.)

* Just how damn ''effective'' the Dazzlings are as villains. They're smart (well, Adagio is, especially in the DangerouslyGenreSavvy department, Sonata's TheDitz and Aria isn't leader material), savy, utterly unscrupulous, and their plan makes a frightening sense. After taking over the school you can easily see them moving on to larger gigs, quickly becoming new pop-idols for millions, ''literally''. Unlike Sunset Shimmer, they left absolutely nothing to chance (one of the largely-cited problems with the last film was that if Twilight had just gone to Celestia and Luna, the events of the movie could have been avoided. This was the ''first'' thing Adagio went about eliminating). And ''nobody'' would be able to stop them because nobody would even understand that they ''need'' to be stopped. After all, universal adoration bordering on quasi-religious worship is what we've more or less come to ''expect'' from pop-star audiences. [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans And they aim not just to subjugate, but to cause strife and conflict to feed on, so the world under them would NOT be a happy place]]. You can easily believe that they nearly conquered Equestria once.
* Related to the above, they're scarily smart at using what direct little influence they have with their weakened powers to nudge people into doing what they want them to do [[spoiler:like how they manipulated Trxie into trapping the Rainbooms]].

** On top of that, the prologue shows theme causing disharmony in a diner and feeding off it. These girls ''look'' and ''think'' like teenagers, but are far older. Just how long have they been doing this to defenseless humans?

* Similar to above scene is how Adagio gets up in Arias's face when the other girl tries to assert her authority over Adagio's.

** The possibility that the Dazzlings [[spoiler: are not even safe from ''each other''. During the finals, there were moments where Aria and Sonata's mouths were not synching up with the lyrics, only still singing the chorus, while with Adagio it sounds like all three of their voices are being channeled through her, suggesting that at that point she can exert control over the others; further suggested by when her eyes glowed red, she was ''transferring'' her power to them instead of all three of them reaching point simultaneously.]]

** The possibility that the Dazzlings [[spoiler: are not even safe from ''each other''. During the finals, there were moments where Aria and Sonata's mouths were not synching up with the lyrics, only still singing the chorus, while with Adagio it sounds like all three of their voices are being channeled through her, suggesting that at that point she can exert control over the others; further suggested by when her eyes glowed red, she was ''transferring'' her power to them instead of all three of them reaching point simultaneously.]] It also gives the idea that there were more sirens than just the Dazzlings. What ever happened to them, though, is left up to the viewer.
** Might be lessened by how Twilight mentioned that there were only three sirens at the beginning of the ponies' segment.

** [[spoiler:They're ancient Sirens that once plunged Equestria into strife and disharmony, allowing them to nearly take it over until Star Swirl the Bearded banished them to the human world to defeat them because they would be powerless there. Excee t they weren't, and after Twilight brings magic to Canterlot High they begin to rebuild their power to terrifying levels.]]

* Related to the above, they're scarily smart at using what direct little influence they have with their weakened powers to nudge people into doing what they want them to do [[spoiler:like how they manipulated Trxie into trapping the Rainboowms]].

-->'''The Dazzlings:''' Now you need us, come and feed us, nothing can stop us now!