History NightmareFuel / WalkingWithDinosaurs

* The whole premise of ''Sea Monsters'' is a group of time-travelers trying to dive with study very dangerous prehistoric creatures, so there are naturally quite a few scary moments, even though the humorous tone tries to keep it light. Special mention goes to the break between Part 1 and Part 2 where it looks like Nigel has been eaten by a ''Dunkleosteus'', and TheStinger showing mosasaurs approaching the sonar screen as the crew sleeps.

* Some scavengers in the series seem like to eat ''the eyes'' of the corpses. And the female ''Dimetrodon'' loses an eyeball after a fight.

** From the same episode, the giant flightless bird ''Gastornis'' killing its prey. It does it by ''shaking it to death'' while giving off strangled shrieks that are almost growls. The death is so drawn-out and just plain savage that it manages to be truly brutal even though it's BloodlessCarnage - though you ''do'' the sickening crunch of its neck vertebrae being snapped.

** From the same episode, the giant flightless bird ''Gastornis'' killing its prey. It does it by ''shaking it to death'' while giving off strangled shrieks that are almost growls. The death is so drawn-out and just plain savage that it manages to be truly brutal even though it's BloodlessCarnage.

* In a deleted scene in the US programation: the couple of adult cynodonts '''eat their own young''' to have more possibilities to escape predators. Since there isn't any fossil proof about this behaviour, [[{{Squick}} was it really necessary to show it]]?

* The giant ants in ''Walking with Beasts'' which devour the chick alive, depicting how the chick struggles to hatch from its egg as the ants swarm all over body and then the skeleton of the chick [[TearJerker when the mother returns]], caused many viewers to hate not only ''the entire ant lineage'', but even ant-scientists and ant-lovers since watching this scene. Zoologists and environmentalists have to [[SarcasmMode thank]] "Walking With" a lot.
** From the same episode, the giant flightless bird ''Gastornis'' killing it's prey. It does it by ''shaking it to death'' while giving off strangled shrieks that are almost growls. The death is so drawn-out and just plain savage that it manages to be truly brutal even though it's BloodlessCarnage.

** Even worse, someone thought it was a good idea to restore this scene in the DVD version.

* From the 3D movie: pretty much the entire forest fire scene.

* The feature-length WWD film currently in cinemas shouldn't escape mention. While light-hearted and anthropomorphized compared to the original mini-series, a few moments still qualify as rather frightening. The forest fire, [[spoiler: and the death of Bulldust the ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' at the hands of the ''Gorgosaurus'' pack, both stand out as unsettling to some viewers. And the way ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' protagonist Patchi, having lost both love interest Juniper and the respect of his brother Scowler, just accepts his fate of being eaten alive by scavenging troodontids and azhdarchids is both downright terrifying and [[TearJerker depressing]]. One of the azhdarchids even [[EyeScream pecks at his eye!]]]].
* The scene featuring that poor azhdarchid that is killed on-screen by a ''Gorgosaurus'' while attempting to fly away is pretty scary. [[HopeSpot It almost looks like he might make it too]], but then the tyrannosaur bites him by the feet and graphically pulls him to the ground in slow-motion. Even though, like most of the violence in the movie, it is {{Bloodless Carnage}}, that fact likely means nothing to many a small child. Granted, the mood is somewhat lightened by the humorous irony that [[spoiler: this is all happening ''while'' Alex the ''Alexornis'' is narrating the fact that pterosaurs have ''no natural predators'']], but still.

* In a deleted scene in the US programation: the couple of adult cynodonts '''eat their own young''' to have more possibilities to escape predators. Since there isn't any fossil proof about this behaviour, [[Squick was it really necessary to show it]]?

* In a deleted scene in the US programation: the couple of adult cynodonts '''eat their own young''' to have more possibilities to escape predators. Since there isn't any fossil proof about this behaviour, [[TearJerker was it really necessary to show it]]?

* The giant ants in ''Walking with Beasts'' which devour the chick alive, depicting how the chick struggles to hatch from it's egg as the ants swarm all over body and then the skeleton of the chick [[TearJerker when the mother returns]], caused many viewers to hate not only ''the entire ant lineage'', but even ant-scientists and ant-lovers since watching this scene. Zoologists and environmentalists have to [[SarcasmMode thank]] "Walking With" a lot.

* The giant ants in ''Walking with Beasts'' which devour the chick alive, depicting how the chick struggles to hatch from it's egg as the ants swarm all over body and then the skeleton of the chick when the mother returns, caused many viewers to hate not only ''the entire ant lineage'', but even ant-scientists and ant-lovers since watching this scene. Zoologists and environmentalists have to [[SarcasmMode thank]] "Walking With" a lot.

* In a deleted scene in the US programation: the couple of adult cynodonts '''eat their own young''' to have more possibilities to escape predators. Since there isn't any fossil proof about this behaviour, [[TearJerker it was really necessary to show it]]?

** Lioplurodon is ''the'' definition of a SeaMonster, managing to make {{Jaws}} look like a sardine in comparison. Its size in the series may have been greatly exaggerated (Liopleurodon is actually 40 feet long, but the show depicted it as big as 75 feet long), but that still doesn't make it any less scary (in fact, you could probably say that the size exaggeration was actually ''[[RuleOfScary intentional]]'').

* The agony of the armoured herbivore Scutosaur killed by the mammal-like Gorgonopsid in WWM: you can see the blood of the former gushing out of its neck!
* ''Walking With Cavemen may be retitled "Walking with Nightmare Fuels" as well, it's full of these from the start to the end... especially about the exaggerated realism of some death scenes.

* The feature-length WWD film currently in cinemas shouldn't escape mention. While light-hearted and anthropomorphized compared to the original mini-series, a few moments still qualify as rather frightening. The forest fire, [[spoiler: and the death of Bulldust the Pachyrhinosaurus at the hands of the Gorgosaurus pack, both stand out as unsettling to some viewers. And the way Pachyrhinosaurus protagonist Patchi, having lost both love interest Juniper and the respect of his brother Scowler, just accepts his fate of being eaten alive by scavenging Troodons and azhdarchids is both downright terrifying and [[TearJerker depressing]]. One of the azhdarchids even [[EyeScream pecks at his eye!]]]].
* The scene featuring that poor azhdarchid that is killed on-screen by a Gorgosaurus while attempting to fly away is pretty scary. [[HopeSpot It almost looks like he might make it too]], but then the tyrannosaur bites him by the feet and graphically pulls him to the ground in slow-motion. Even though, like most of the violence in the movie, it is {{Bloodless Carnage}}, that fact likely means nothing to many a small child. Granted, the mood is somewhat lightened by the humorous irony that [[spoiler: this is all happening ''while'' Alex the Alexornis is narrating the fact that pterosaurs have ''no natural predators'']], but still.

* The feature-length WWD film currently in cinemas shouldn't escape mention. While light-hearted and anthropomorphized compared to the original mini-series, a few moments still qualify as rather frightening. The forest fire, [[spoiler: and the death of Bulldust the Pachyrhinosaurus at the hands of the Gorgosaurus pack, both stand out as unsettling to some viewers. And the way Pachyrhinosaurus protagonist Patchi, having lost both love interest Juniper and the respect of his brother Scowler, just accepts his fate of being eaten alive by scavenging Troodons and azhdarchids is both downright terrifying and [[TearJerker depressing]]]].
* The scene featuring that poor azhdarchid that is killed and eaten on-screen by Gorgosaurs while attempting to fly away is pretty scary. Even though, like most of the violence in the movie, it is {{Bloodless Carnage}}, that fact likely means nothing to many a small child. Granted, the mood is somewhat lightened by the humorous irony that [[spoiler: this is all happening ''while'' Alex the Alexornis is narrating the fact that pterosaurs have ''no natural predators'']], but still.

* The feature-length WWD film currently in cinemas shouldn't escape mention. While light-hearted and anthropomorphized compared to the original mini-series, a few moments still qualify as rather frightening. [[spoiler: The forest fire, and the death of Bulldust the Pachyrhinosaurus at the hands of the Gorgosaurus pack, both stand out as unsettling to some viewers. And the way Pachyrhinosaurus protagonist Patchi, having lost both love interest Juniper and the respect of his brother Scowler, just accepts his fate of being eaten alive by scavenging Troodons and azhdarchids is both downright terrifying and [[TearJerker depressing]]]].

** From the same episode, the giant flightless bird ''Gastornis'' killing it's prey. It does it by ''shaking it to death'' while giving off [[HellIsThatNoise strangled shrieks that are almost growls]]. The death is so drawn-out and just plain savage that it manages to be truly brutal even though it's BloodlessCarnage.

* The whole premise of ''Sea Monsters'' is a group of time-travelers trying to dive with study very dangerous prehistoric creatures, so there are naturally quite a few scary moments, even though the humorous tone tries to keep it light. Special mention goes to the break between Part 1 and Part 2 where it looks like Nigel has been eaten by a Megalodon, and TheStinger showing large animals approaching the sonar screen as the crew sleeps.

* New Blood: It's not surprising if any kid back in 1999 that saw the series for the first time has been scared by the death of [[spoiler: the baby cynodont who wandered too far]] and the look on [[spoiler: the ''Postosuchus''' face as he dies (she's drooling, and her eyes are ''blood red'')]]

* The giant ants in ''Walking with Beasts'' which devour the chick alive caused many viewers to hate not only ''the entire ant lineage'', but [[FridgeLogic even ant-scientists and ant-lovers]] since watching this scene. Zoologists and environmentalists have to [[SarcasmMode thank]] "Walking With" a lot.

** The agony of the armoured herbivore Scutosaur killed by the mammal-like Gorgonopsid in WWM: you can see the blood of the former gushing out of its neck!
** ''Walking With Cavemen may be retitled "Walking with Nightmare Fuels" as well, it's full of these from the start to the end... especially about the exaggerated realism of some death scenes.

** New Blood: It's not surprising if any kid back in 1999 that saw the series for the first time has been scared by the death of [[spoiler: the baby cynodont who wandered too far]] and the look on [[spoiler: the ''Postosuchus''' face as he dies (she's drooling, and her eyes are ''blood red'')]]
*** This is nothing compared to a deleted scene in the US programation: the couple of adult cynodonts '''eat their own young''' to have more possibilities to escape predators. Since there isn't any fossil proof about this behaviour, [[TearJerker it was really necessary to show it]]?
** "Cruel Sea". Just..."Cruel Sea". It's not surprising if it didn't make a whole lot of people not want to go anywhere near any coastlines for a while... in particular, that part where the bitten-off ''Opthalmosaurus'' tail slowly sinks to the sea floor is what did it for many people.
** Another deleted scene from the original: [[{{Squick}} the dead tyrannosaur embryo out of the broken egg]].
** The giant ants in ''Walking with Beasts'' which devour the chick alive caused many viewers to hate not only ''the entire ant lineage'', but [[FridgeLogic even ant-scientists and ant-lovers]] since watching this scene. Zoologists and environmentalists have to [[SarcasmMode thank]] "Walking With" a lot.
** Some scavengers in the series seem like to eat ''the eyes'' of the corpses. And the female ''Dimetrodon'' loses an eyeball after a fight.

*** The fact that some of our ancestors in the program are portrayed with a rather... [[UncannyValley grotesque look]] makes this program even more scary. That means that we are descendants of Nightmare Fuels. Every person that you see every day, including you, is descended from those Nightmare Fuels. So we are surrounded by Nightmare Fuel every day. Come to think of it, Walking With Cavemen could also count as [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]].
*** Maybe these ancestors ''were not'' so Nightmare Fuelish in RealLife... but producers thought well to make them as scary as possible because of the umpteenth RuleOfCool example. However, see the australopithecine's look in WWB, they are even nice-looking... It seems many WWD continuations ''really like'' to play straight the DarkerAndEdgier trope (not only ''Walking with Monsters'').
*** Anthropologists often say if Neanderthals would be alive today and clothed, they'll pass unnoticed in our modern cities.