History NightmareFuel / TheSopranos

* The final scene during the restaurant in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E21MadeInAmerica Made in America]]" (the series finale). Also doubles with ParanoiaFuel. It infamously ends with a sudden SmashToBlack mid-scene. And all of its implications, for better and for worse, [[NothingIsScarier are absolutely haunting.]] But [[ItWasHisSled you probably already knew that]].
* Any time Tony gets angry. [[UnstoppableRage Really]].

* Janice's ''very'' [[JumpScare sudden vision of Livia dying]] by falling down some stairs. While it's comical on a second viewing, the StaggeredZoom of Livia's demise is enough to catch distracted viewers off guard, especially with Livia's deathly face and the highly abrupt break in the structure of the scene. [[https://sopranosautopsy.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/livia-stair-sign2.jpg The way her eyes comically bulge is extremely creepy.]]

** Tony's compulsive murder of [[KickTheSonOfABitch Christopher.]] After the two narrowly survived a car crash, Tony pinches Chris' big nose, causing him to choke on his own blood. What adds to this is Tony's cold, dead-eyed look as he's doing it.

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** Vito Spatafore is beaten to death, then has a pool cue rammed into his anus. His wife describes him as no longer looking like a human being.[[EvenEvilHasStandards Even the DiMeo is genuinely disturbed by this.]]

** Vito Spatafore is beaten to death, then has a pool cue pushed into his anus. His wife describes him as no longer looking like a human being.

* Being a mobster in the modern-day can be horrific, both from the perspective of his own characters and from the perspective of the viewer. Just imagine the day-to-day life of the main characters, knowing that law enforcement is hot on their heels and that there are plenty of people who may want them dead (and those people may or may not be in their own crew). They have to live their lives never knowing if today will be the day that they are finally arrested or killed, and never truly being able to trust even their best of friends.

** Tracee's death is possibly one of the most disturbing murders in the entire series. Let's just say that, yes, it ''is'' possible to punch someone to death. Especially when there's a convenient highway railing around for you to slam their head into. Also doubles as OffingTheOffspring, as Tracee was pregnant with Ralph Cifaretto's son.

** Adriana's death. Silvio drives her to the forest and casually talks with her about Chris. Then Silvio reveals his true intentions, pushing her to the ground and ruthlessly executing her while she crawls away like an animal.

* TheMafia in general. Most of the mobsters are disturbingly violent and ruthless in running their business. Perhaps the most disturbing example comes from a flashback. There's Tony's flashback to when he was a kid, watching his dad Johnny [[{{Fingore}} cut off Mr. Satriale's finger with a butcher knife]] for failing to pay a gambling debt.

* Livia's memorial, in which Pussy's ghost is seen reflected in a mirror, and, more ambiguously, a mysterious figure (who vaguely looks like a young Uncle Junior) can be faintly seen slowly walking up and down the stairs. In a show that doesn't normally focus on such elements such as this, that touch of supernatural is rather unsettling.

** Paulie's murder of the old woman in the retirement home. Made even more creepier by her ''extremely'' fake looking eyes on her recently smothered face.

** Tony Blundetto's death at the hands of his own cousin and brotherly figure, Tony, and the gory close-up of his buckshot-ravaged face after Tony Soprano blasts him several feet backwards into a pile of wood with a shotgun. Furthermore, the slaying is upsetting not just for the graphic detail of Blundetto's face, but also for the fact that the last thing Tony Blundetto ever saw was his cousin and friend approaching him with a shotgun, pointed right at him.

** Tony's compulsive murder of [[KickTheSonOfABitch Christopher.]] After the two narrowly survive a car crash, Tony pinches Chris' big nose, causing him to choke on his own blood. What adds to this is Tony's cold, dead-eyed look as he's doing it.

Given that ''Series/TheSopranos'' focuses on TheMafia, it's easy to find disturbing content in this show. Besides that, there's some weird, unsettling dreams experimented by the main characters.

* The onset of Junior's dementia, while prime fodder for absurd comedy, is also a bleakly disturbing source of AdultFear. Most notably in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS5E3WheresJohnny Where's Johnny?]]", in which he wanders lost through Newark in his bathrobe searching for his dead brother.

** Brendan Filone's MoeGreeneSpecial. The kill itself is a GoryDiscretionShot, but later we see an unflinching close-up of his empty socket. It's especially chilling, given his sadistic killer gleefully taunts him before blowing his eye out.

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[[caption-width-right:350: And the violence just gets worse.]]

* "[[Recap/TheSopranosS3E4EmployeeOfTheMonth Employee of the Month]]". As Melfi leaves work, she is trapped in a stairwell, pinned down, and raped by a random man as she sobs and begs for him to stop. He doesn't stop, finishes, and runs away. Worst of all, while there is a chance to do so, he's never punished.

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Given that ''The Sopranos'' focuses on TheMafia, it's easy to find disturbing content in this show. Besides that, there's some weird, unsettling dreams experimented by the main characters.

** The second dream sequence in "Calling All Cars", pictured right, is incredibly disturbing. In that dream, Tony arrives at a dingy, unlit house, and sees a dark and silent silhouette of a woman resembling Livia Soprano (Tony's AbusiveMom, no less) standing on some stairs. The woman slowly walks down, stops, and creepily stares at Tony. Just as Tony enters the house, he wakes up. NothingIsScarier indeed.

** Tony's compulsive murder of [[KickTheSonOfABitch Christopher.]] After the two narrowly survive a car crash, Tony pinches Chris' big nose, causing him to choke on his own blood.