History NightmareFuel / Superbook2011

* "The Road to Damascus": The episode opens with Chris and Joy coming home from school, discussing asking Gizmo to go to the park for a game of soccer. Then they notice that the front door is both unlocked and wide open, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness something they both note is out of character for Phoebe]]. Chris calls out for his parents as he and Joy come up the stairs, worry clear in his voice, only to confront someone ransacking his father's lab after having tied up Gizmo. The stranger attempts to throw a stool at Chris, but while he misses and activates the house alarm (summoning the police to arrest the burglar shortly after), the whole experience still doesn't detract from the very realistic horror of [[PrimalFear coming home to find a robber in your house]], not to mention [[AdultFear the risk of said robber harming you (or your kid, if it's your kid who came home and caught him)]]. It's no wonder Chris wasn't feeling particularly merciful before the Superbook adventure.

* "David and Saul": The scene where David is playing his music in an effort to soothe Saul's troubled spirit, only for Saul--with [[RedEyesTakeWarning bloodshot eyes]] and [[TheResenter hatred for the greater praises that are going to David instead of himself]]--to sling his spear at David, then to charge at David himself when that attack fails. David's shocked and horrified expression is quite the appropriate reaction to have [[AdultFear when someone you thought you could trust suddenly tries to kill you for seemingly no reason]].

* "The Birth of Moses": This one runs hard and fast with the AdultFear trope. Think of how you'd feel if soldiers came kicking down your door to snatch your child/younger sibling, a newborn infant at that, out of your hands with the express intention of murdering that innocent child. For Miriam and her family, the tension is there throughout the episode that their efforts to keep baby Moses safe will end up being for naught.
* "Paul Keeps the Faith": Another episode that leans on AdultFear and PrimalFear, combined with the fact that the events depicted in this episode are based on historically-documented information. People being taken from their homes and imprisoned or killed because of their beliefs, parents and children being separated by imprisonment or death, [[WouldHurtAChild children being targeted for said imprisonment or death]]...and that's without getting into Nero's personality as witnessed by Chris, Joy and Gizmo, where he's revealed to be someone with [[DissonantSerenity low-key]] [[AxCrazy insanity]] who can fly off the handle at the slightest drop of a hat (do ''you'' know anyone who you have to walk on eggshells around because the least little thing can set them off?).
** The aforementioned encounter with Nero also has some added Nightmare Fuel for anyone who [[FridgeHorror stops to think about it long enough]]: the kids are basically AloneWithThePsycho, and someone who's already demonstrably cool with watching an entire city burn as well as ordering his men to kill innocent people--''[[WouldHurtAChild including children]]''. How comfortable would ''you'' be with knowing that your child, however unwittingly, is [[AdultFear about to have a run-in with a murderous psychopath with nobody present to save them?]]

** The aforementioned encounter with Nero also has some added Nightmare Fuel for anyone who [[FridgeHorror stops to think about it long enough]]: the kids are basically AloneWithThePsycho, and someone who's already demonstrably cool with watching an entire city burn as well as ordering his men to kill innocent people--''[[WouldHurtAChild including children]]''. How comfortable would ''you'' be with knowing that your child, however unwittingly, is about to have a run-in with a murderous psychopath with nobody present to save them?

* "Paul Keeps the Faith": Another episode that leans on AdultFear and PrimalFear, combined with the fact that the events depicted in this episode are based on historically-documented information. People being taken from their homes and imprisoned or killed because of their beliefs, parents and children being separated by imprisonment or death, [[WouldHurtAChild children being targeted for said imprisonment or death]]...and that's without getting into Nero's personality as witnessed by Chris, Joy and Gizmo, where he's revealed to be someone with [[DissonantSerenity low-key]] [[AxCrazy insanity]] who can fly off the handle at the slightest drop of a hat (do ''you'' know anyone who you have to walk on eggshells around because the least little thing can set them off?).

* "The Birth of Moses": This one runs hard and fast with the AdultFear trope. Think of how you'd feel if soldiers came kicking down your door to snatch your child/younger sibling, a newborn infant at that, out of your hands with the express intention of murdering that innocent child. For Miriam and her family, the tension is there throughout the episode that their efforts to keep baby Moses safe will end up being for naught.

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