Line #17 NightmareFuel/MonicasGang


1	''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' is generally a light-hearted, quirky child-friendly comic. But that only makes the scary moments more impacting. And with the manga spin-off being aimed at an older audience, even worse moments are present.
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5	!The Comic
6	* In "Coelhinho Perigoso!"(Translates as "Dangerous Bunny!"):
7	** Franklin creates a highly destructive weapon shaped exactly like Monica's plush bunny. In Jimmy's thoughts, he throws the bunny at Monica, blowing her up and making her [[LosingYourHead lose her head]]. Monica's severed head then starts crying, saying that she'll never be a normal child again. The next panels show Monica's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids amputated arm and leg]], then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Jimmy regretting what he has just done]] to his own friend. It's true that Jimmy was just thinking all this stuff, but that kind of thing is too much for a child.
8	** While the ending is rather heartwarming with Jimmy deciding to bury the bunny so no one else can find it and giving an ending monologue about how some things aren't meant to be used, it's still frightening from Franklin's perspective, who doesn't know Jimmy stole the bunny and decided to bury it and is desperately trying to find it with the intent of destroying, none the wiser to the fact Jimmy took it and later buried it. ParanoiaFuel of the highest caliber.
9	* Before the late 2000s, stories featuring the denizens of hell were quite frequent, but mildly light-hearted. Some, however, featured the darker aspects the concept suggests. One of the most famous is "O Deus Cebola", in which Jimmy loses his sanity after attaining godhood and has to be saved by Satan himself, who wants to prevent the boy from turning into a deity.
10	* The 1995 story "The Mystery of the Models" features one-off villain Caio Dossalto, who lures aspiring young women to his model agency in order to enslave them. The victims are tricked into wearing unremovable earrings, which electrocute them should they try to escape, refuse to starve themselves, or disobey any of Caio's orders. None of this abuse is played for laughs, and many girls are emotionally broken by the time they are introduced to the reader. One of them even proposes chopping off her own ear in order to flee.
11	* In "A Present from the Future":
12	** Jimmy is trying to figure out a plan in order to mess with Monica ([[ABirthdayNotABreak on her birthday]]), when he receives the visit of a mysterious time traveler from the future, who gives him a present box and tells him that Jimmy must give it to Monica in order to bend her to his will, but he '''mustn't, under any circumstances''', open it up himself, or else [[NothingIsScarier something inexplicably awful will happen]]. Jimmy assumes it's a bomb, but accepts it. Because apparently giving a ''bomb'' as a birthday gift to your friend ([[VitriolicBestBuds even if it's a friend you don't like that much]]) is just fine.
13	** At Monica's party, she manages to persuade Smudge into telling her what one of Jimmy's early plan drafts was: fill a box with gross insects and give it to her as a present. In order to outsmart him, Monica receives Jimmy at her party with all their friends dressed up as insects and tells him they have evolved into flesh-eating monsters. She then orders everyone to tie Jimmy up on a chair and announces that she's going to drop the gift's contents all over him, and does it while he ''begs'' her not to. The whole situation is so bizarrely nightmarish that the reader can just barely enjoy the actually heartwarming ending. [[note]] What was in the box was ''flowers''. The time-traveler was Monica and Jimmy's descendant, who came from the future to make sure Monica would receive the flowers from Jimmy and start falling for him (that's what he meant when he told Jimmy he'd be able to "bend Monica to his will" by giving her that specific birthday gift)[[/note]]
14	* After Jimmy steals Marina's magic pencil, he decides to force Smudge to take a bath by redrawing the latter as a fish. However, Smudge is unable to overcome his aquaphobia and refuses to dive into the nearby lake. He would have suffocated to death, had it not been [[NoFourthWall for the illustrator stepping in and redrawing him as a boy]].
15	* Franklin transforms Jimmy into a human-snail hybrid as part of a ploy to defeat Monica. Near the end of the story, Maggy is blinded by hunger and tries to eat Jimmy, but not before covering him with salt first, which causes him to scream in agony as his eyes melt and his mouth is filled with foam. Thankfully, it turns out that the procedure was not fatal, and in fact was the cure for his condition, but the circumstances and imagery are far darker than what would be normally expected from the comics.
16	* A Christmas story (featured on one of the ''special Christmas edition'' of all things) seems more like a horror story than anything else. Jimmy accidentally breaks a star ornament (a favorite of his mom) and goes with Smudge to buy another one... Only the store is run by two witches who transform people into ''Christmas tree ornaments'' (worse, they have boxes filled with them). Jimmy's mom buys Jimmy and Smudge and they have to watch as she and Jimmy's father grow increasingly scared when Jimmy doesn't come home (worse, at the police station, the cop admits he isn't sure if they will be able to help because ''there are several people going missing on the town and they have no idea of what's going on''). Smudge at one moment is relived that at least now, no one is going to force him into taking a bath... ''[[AndIMustScream Jimmy points out that after Christmas they will spend an entire year locked away in a box and this will go on forever until the day someone breaks them]]''. Earlier, one of the witches was leaving to transform more people and they laughed about how those people might fall and break apart (implying it has happened). The story has a happy ending since Santa Claus realizes what was going on and fights them, turning the people back to normal, but ''sweet Jesus, what the hell was that???''
17	* A fairy once tried to 'fix-nature' (with the usual 'watermelons on trees' stuff) and thought Monica was a bunny due to her teeth and turned her into one. First, imagine yourself suddenly becoming an animal with no idea of what happened or why. At least, she could still speak and explained what had happened to her friends. Jimmy and Smudge lock her in a cage (too small for her to even stand up), glad that they won't have to deal with her anymore. When Maggy, horrified, asks how they can do it to a friend, they nonchalantly reply that Monica isn't a friend anymore, she's a bunny and it isn't like they know how bring her back to normal. While they promise to take care of her, you can see they are thoroughly ''enjoying'' what they are doing.
18	* In "Chicobum", Chuck Billy becomes a living bomb after eating a ''grenade'' he mistook for a pine. Everybody but him finds out and decides to do everything they can to keep him safe, or the grenade could wipe half the village. In the end, the grenade's owner, Zeke's great-grandfather who fought on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutionalist_Revolution Brazilian 1932 Revolution]], reassures them that it stopped working long ago when he took out the gunpowder. But then, when they retrieve the grenade and toss it out, it '''explodes''', and the old man calmly comments on how there was still a little powder in it, completely unfazed by the fact that one of his trophies nearly killed a child.
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20	!The Manga
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22	[[caption-width-right:350:...and this is NOT from the End of the World Supersaga, mind you!!]]
23	* The first BadFuture. In his ambition, Jim ended up creating an artificial intelligence that took control of the world's devices, reducing the earth to an apocalyptic wasteland. The resistance leader is Monique, a descendant of Monica who specifically states Jim didn't end up with Monica. The worst part? Jim finding his future seal reduced to a skeleton in the office.
24	* The second BadFuture makes the above look like a ''Bug-a-Boo story''. The main four are possessed and taken over by evil entities under the Flying Donkey's bidding, Maggy's latent magic saves her, Monica and Smudge, but Jim decides to keep the entity within himself because of the powers it gave him, to use them for his ambitions. The three turn on him and warn the others against him, but Jim convinces most of the boys to join him with the promise of making a better world, Smudge obtains Captain Fray's powers and turns evil, Maggy isolates herself out of fear that people are only using her for her magic, leaving Monica, Sunny, Denise and the rest of the gang to lead a resistance against them after Jim takes over the world and all communication devices with Franklin's help and turns everything into a Crapsack World.
25	** The other boys' fate in that future needs an entry in itself. They are modified into Jim's EliteMook robots and turned against their former friends. One is Todd's robot, a gigantic tank of a robot armed with blades, shields and flamethrowers. The other EliteMook shown on-screen and Jim's strongest robot, Silent, moves without making a single sound, no matter how it moves, and is able to sneak up even on the most prepared fighter with total impunity until the moment of contact. Silent is revealed to be ''[[CuteMute Hummer]]'' of all people, and that is Hummer's ''only'' appearance in the manga to date. Even worse? Issue #98 reveals that all of Jim's EliteMooks are ''assimilated into their robotic bodies and their actual human bodies die at the point the assimilation is concluded and they are brainwashed into psychopath killing machines''.
26	* The entirety of the Flying Donkey arc. It takes what was a very corny horror story from the comic books and turns it into a [[DarkerAndEdgier mythos featuring the biggest horrors in this series' history]].
27	** A young girl puts on a horse's skull over her face to pull a malicious prank on the local children, but can't see where she is going and dies by falling into a lake. Her vindictive mother kills said children as part of a ritual to bring her daughter back to life, though the ceremony fails and causes the victims to become the Children of Umbra instead.
28	** Jim arrogantly tries to exploit the Children of Umbra, hoping to become famous by recording them on tape. This not only leads to him being killed after falling victim to the ghost girl's hallucinations, but also to Monica, Smudge and Maggy's deaths, as they come into contact with the BigBad and are transformed into her mindless puppets.
29	** By exorcising the spirit of the Flying Donkey, the protagonists may have played UnwittingPawn to the Children of Umbra, who are hinted to have become evil after 20 years in limbo. The story's final panel depicts all the citizens of Sococó da Ema wearing Spokesperson's mask, implying that the children have taken control of them.
30	* The Reversed Tower arc (#90-92). It turns Captain Fray into an agent of the pestilence which threatens to corrode the world and reshape it to their own notion of order. The gang has to resort to Maggy's innate magic to guide them, but it falls upon Smudge, the closest person to Captain Fray, to save everyone from the growing madness of the titular place - a series of underground levels designed in the fashion of [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante's]] ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'' by an elite group to assume control over humankind, and upon which an orphanage was built as a front, to which a child Fray was sent after his parents died from a landslide. It turns out that he made a pact with the Serpent, the leader of the insects, to have his life saved in the event, and in return they gave him powers that cause corrosion and decay. Once he reaches adulthood, the Serpent comes to demand he becomes the bearer of the Curse of Pestilence, for if he refuses, it will pass on to the person he loves the most - his nephew, Smudge. And that is how he became the Captain Fray we know.
31	* The last BadFuture story before the [[ContinuityReboot new serialization of the manga]] is a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''.
32	** Even the [[https://issuu.com/tmjedemais/docs/edi____o_99_-_o_parque_assombrado two animatronics on the front cover]] are obvious [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Freddy Fazbear and Springtrap.
33	** How the amusement park met its downfall directly mirrors that of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 Fazbear's Fright]]. It burned to the ground one night, and ''thousands died trying to escape the place.''
34	** The truth behind what happened is even worse: nobody really died from the fire, it was caused by Future Denise, who was trying to shoo people away from The Silent, the cyborg who came from the future with her and escaped. His first act was [[ForTheEvulz to kill as many people as he could just for kicks]], and because he was too fast to be seen, no one could see him coming until it was too late.
35	%%* [[http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltwnteG7O31qbnzf6o1_500.jpg Yikes.]] Weblinks Are Not Examples. Do not unhide without adding context.
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38	!The Graphic Novels
39	* White Night is a primordial evil being that takes the form of an eerie white mist. It preys on indian tribes, possessing the males, who are transformed into cannibalistic monsters, and devouring all women and children. It only leaves a single survivor, whom White Night compels to seek refuge in another tribe, thus guiding it to its next victims.
40	* In Tina's graphic novel, Katia is walking home, when she notices someone in a car appears to be stalking her. Though she manages to safely arrive at her place, she breaks down and cries in her mother's arms. The prospect of being kidnapped is horrifying on its own, but it is made worse by the implication that Katia's status as a black gay woman has led to so much harassment that she has become paranoiac.

Context NightmareFuel / MonicasGang