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2[[caption-width-right:257:'''[[HellIsThatNoise FRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!]]''' ]]Don't think just because most of Neopets are [[SugarBowl colorful, cute and welcoming]] doesn't mean they can't be [[NightmareFuel scary as hell.]]
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4* The very first plot had [[MadScientist Dr. Sloth]] planning to hit Neopia with his mutation ray, turning every pet into a mutant. To make it worse, he captured the Space Faerie, the only being capable of stopping him.
5* Some of the colors you can paint your Neopet are pretty scary.
6** The Transparent color. [[http://pets.neopets.com/cp/6l88vgkc/1/4.png This]] is what happens. Sure, Invisible was literal... But ''[[BodyHorror this]]'' is what happens when your pet is permanently stuck in an X-ray!
7** The Mutant color makes your pet look horribly ugly and menacing with a dose of BodyHorror, including features like extra eyes, limbs, or heads. The [[http://pets.neopets.com/cp/39thxh84/1/4.png Mutant Kau]] takes the cake, especially compared to a normal [[http://images.neopets.com/backgrounds/sketch/1024_kau.jpg Red Kau]]. It has tentacles coming out of its mouth!
8*** ...but it's got nothing on the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original, unused]] [[http://bogleech.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-mutant-neopets.html Mutant Aisha design,]] which has the body of a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} chestburster]] and elongated eyeballs popping from its sockets in lieu of the ear stalks. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Can't imagine why they redid that one.]]
9** The Burlap color makes a pet look like a CreepyDoll or ScaryScarecrow made from ragged burlap, with ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}''-style button eyes and a stitched-up mouth.
10** The Wraith color makes your pet look like a demonic ghost or LivingShadow with a purple glow, a jagged SlasherSmile, and what can only be described as glowing empty sockets for eyes. The [[https://wardrobe.jellyneo.net/rainbow-pool/?pet=nimmo&colour=wraith Wraith Nimmo]], in particular, appears to have a BellyMouth!
11** The Robot color isn't particularly scary, besides the fact that some Robot Neopets don't appear to have faces or have only rudimentary faces. Until one takes into account that the outer plating of a Robot Neopet counts as clothing and can be removed, exposing the wiring underneath. Were you expecting the uncased Robot Poogle to look like [[http://pets.neopets.com/cp/4os8gf9t/1/4.png this]]? Yeah, didn't think so.
12* The entire Haunted Woods probably counts, if you go into detail... There's a tree with an [[NauseaFuel exposed brain]] ''and'' [[EyesDoNotBelongThere a face]] there!
13** The games that are based off the place, too. One has a friendly Kacheek that has to feed the [[BigEater Esophagor]] ''constantly'', or else [[BodyHorror he would become a Mutant forever!]] Yeesh.
14* The ''Web of Vernax'' game also has a rather menacing soundtrack, what with hunting Mootixs and all.
15* There is a creepy animation for the Y8 Day Six of the Advent Calendar. A young Sophie the Ixi and her family are enjoying some holiday time at home. For some reason there is a distinctly foreboding theme playing to the cheery scene. Then three dark figures loom just outside the window...and there's a knock at the door. Sophie happily answers the door only to see three zombie Neopets looming over her. She looks up at them, horrified, then shrieks bloody murder. The gift for that day is a screaming Sophie toy. See it [[http://www.neopets.com/winter/advents_past.phtml?year=2006&day=6 here]].
16* Back in the older days of Neopets, there was an incident where Maraqua was hit by a whirlpool. You actually could go in and see the entirety of Maraqua with a whirlpool scene over the top of it. It gave you a serious close up on what happened.
17* The Spooky Food Shop. It has a cute name but horrible wares. For example, the Blumaroo Steak, the description of which reads thus: "What goes bounce, bounce...whirrr....splat?" Then there's the several food items that involve Petpets, like the Baked Intesteen and Roast Tentacle. Let's not forget the pumpkin pie, either. Its description says: "Legend says that they used to make these pies out of [[FridgeHorror something]] [[NothingIsScarier other]] than pumpkin in the past..." The Neopets Team horribly confirms that ''the Neopets'' sometimes eat food products made from [[ImAHumanitarian OTHER NEOPETS]], and some even eat Petpets! And it's not even necessary, since there are other foods in this shop that are perfectly fine, like [[EyeScream Mashed Eye Potato]]. The Tyrannian Food Shop isn't much better. There is an item called Stick-O-Mynci, and it's apparently chunks of Mynci flesh skewered on a stick and "roasted to perfection". The Lost Desert Food Shop also has dubious food items, most of them involving Petpets.
18* Beware, all users with laggy computers, or who dare to wait between levels on certain games (looking at you, Typing Terror). You might be [[JumpScare surprised by]] [[ScareChord something...]]
19* There is just something oddly creepy about most of the Advent Calendar animations and accompanying music.
20* [[http://www.neopets.com/halloween/haunted_house.phtml The Haunted House]]. It's a Choose Your Own Adventure flash game from the old era of Neopets. Two pets are driving along a road during a storm and they break down right near a haunted house. All manner of horrible things can happen to the pets in the house: [[TakenForGranite they can get turned to stone]], [[DemBones turned into skeletons]], caught by shadows and even EatenAlive. If they don't leave their car, they see ghostly faces and if they still don't leave, [[NothingIsScarier you see their empty car before the scene changes to a police officer on the phone, stating that the pets were never found]]. The early era of Neopets was definitely dark.
21* The loud sound effect that always plays when you lose Darigan Dodgeball and [[EndlessGame considering the type of game it is]], losing is inevitable.
22* The JumpScare at the end of Lair of the Beast is the most famous example, and the current page image. It's just a pterodactyl that screams very loudly at you and can't do anything to your pets and/or account, but still. Oh, and you can get the same animation if you stop on a certain space in Wheel of Monotony, except this time it also can reduce your pets' health to one point. It's, unfortunately, the most common "prize", so expect to see this animation ''a lot.'' Furthermore, back before the wheels' revamps, landing on the space that brings you to this will go to the page without confirmation taken, so imagine just browsing another tab while the wheel's going, and then all of a sudden... '''FRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'''!
23* The infamous Beast also appears in Bouncy Supreme. The game is about a jelly Blumaroo bouncing on pillars over a volcano to get away from it. If you lose all of your lives or run out of time, the game over screen appears and plays a loud roar, just as effective at {{jump scar|e}}ing you as the Lair of the Beast. Not to mention the scare that comes with the concern for the fate of the Blumaroo.
24* The [[http://pets.neopets.com/cp/7ggncwn9/1/4.png Malevolent Sentient]] [[http://images.neopets.com/art/misc/mspp12.gif Poogle Plushie]].
25* ''Neopets: The Darkest Faerie'' has some pretty creepy places. This includes a maze-like dungeon towards the end of the game that has what looks to be ''execution chairs''.
26* Back when the site was run for college students, the NP Staff team did two contests where their avatars [[http://www.neopets.com/island/sacrificers.phtml were competing]] in a ''Series/{{Survivor}}''-like game where their avatars got killed if they were voted off, and stuck in a [[http://www.neopets.com/winter/skilodge.phtml murder mystery plot]]. While it was essentially meant to be nothing more than BlackComedy, the deaths got quite gory.
27** The end of the murder mystery plot had the murderer revealed to be a robot controlled by [[BigBad Dr. Sloth]].
28* One of the TCG cards, [[https://67.media.tumblr.com/61a5a5c1e7b9eea4eb30bb429498e8fd/tumblr_n46qi14nEN1r6ykb2o1_400.png Wocky Beast]], features a bipedal Wocky with its face upside down and one gigantic swollen eye ''with no pupil!'' The only consolation is that his card is labelled as a Hero card, so he could be an example of DarkIsNotEvil. The caption doesn't make it any better.
29-->''They never went back to the fairground again, not after what they saw...''
30* [[FridgeHorror If one really thinks about it]], the Grundos' [[BackstoryHorror backstory]] as a SlaveRace is a mixture of this and TearJerker. It's shown throughout the Dr. Sloth storylines that they are kidnapped, mutated, and brainwashed. They can, however, get a HappyEnding if you adopt them.
31* The backstories of some of [[http://www.neopets.com/evil.phtml the villains]] are surprisingly chilling, [[VileVillainSaccharineShow especially for a kids' website]].
32** [[http://www.neopets.com/evil/showcreature.phtml?villain=7 The Jelly Chia]]. Basically, a crazy candy maker named Wizzle created an "edible friend" in the form of the Jelly Chia. He loved the little thing and took care of it...until Wizzle got hungry one day and decided to try and eat it. Instead, the thing ''jumped on him, devoured him and dissolved him alive''. And then we get this lovely gem...
33--->If you look carefully at that old, disused chocolate factory on the hill, you may still be able to see this lonely Chia bouncing around, and you may still hear Wizzle's screams. [[NothingIsScarier Don't go inside however... whatever you do....]]
34** [[http://www.neopets.com/evil/showcreature.phtml?villain=5 The Shadow Usul]], whose entry begins with this: ''"... creeping slowly up the wall, the shadow usul did not make a sound. The light from the moon illuminated the whole area, apart from a slow, crawling blackness, an area in which no light shone. climbing up to the unlocked window, the shadow flowed inside like a river of darkness..."''
35** [[http://www.neopets.com/evil/showcreature.phtml?villain=11 Count Von Roo]], whose entry is topped off with the epitome of ParanoiaFuel.
36--->Always make sure your window is closed at night, because if you leave it open, you may not be there in the morning...
37** [[https://www.neopets.com/evil/showcreature.phtml?villain=13 Vira]] was once a pretty young Acara who wished to be the most beautiful Acara in the world, but an unknown entity heard her wish and made her ugly instead. Ever since then, she hands out cursed magic mirrors to give other Neopets the same fate as she.
38--->Anyone who looks into her mirrors at first finds themselves very beautiful, but that beauty fades into ugliness, and the mirror whispers with a dark voice, "There's only one way to get your beauty back..."
39** [[https://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=253 The Three]] are a trio of spirits, a Faerie, Gelert, and Skeith that represent Revenge, Greed, and Ambition. They whisper in the ears of kings and rulers during dire times, telling them to commit terrible deeds in the name of power. Entire kingdoms have fallen because of them, with new kingdoms being built on the ruins of the old ones, and the cycle continues. It is implied that they are on a level of evil even above villains like Captain Scarblade and Galem Darkhand, who are still just mortal, flesh-and-blood Neopets at the end of the day, no matter how evil they are. The Three are immortal, apparently ageless spirits who will always exist, and they cannot be stopped or punished in any way, because [[YouCannotKillAnIdea revenge, greed, and ambition will always exist]].
40--->Up the stairs of the old ruined castle the caretaker climbs, holding a candle for light, causing shadows to flicker along the walls. Sometimes, these caretakers say the shadows make shapes that they shouldn't, but everyone knows that isn't possible. However, they do anyway. ''Why do you stay here? Your king is insane, the castle in ruins... you deserve so much more. Take the army, they'll listen to you... find a better land. Take it from those who look down upon your kingdom. You could be rich beyond your wildest dreams...''\
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42Caretakers never last very long. No one lasts long once the voices begin... but the damage they do before going is unspeakable. Kingdoms have fallen, collapsing on themselves. Eventually they are forgotten, and a new nation is built upon the land, with no memory of the first... and so the cycle goes. The only thing that seems to be a constant is that prickly feeling along the back of your neck, when your mind considers a dark deed... and that's where they are waiting for you.
43* The game ''Spell or Starve'' is about the malevolent AI Neopet v2, who is so lonely he's kidnapped you and forced you to play his new word game. After 3 days, you are on the verge of starvation and have no choice but to play along in order to escape.
44* Xandra crashing Faerieland to the ground, changing the entire site forever. When you tried to visit before it was restored the game displayed the following message. For veteran Neopets players who grew up with Faerieland, it was a DarkestHour.
45-->Something ''horrible'' has happened...
46* One of Jhudora's [[https://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=191 entries]] in the Neopedia has her doing... ''something''... to a Kacheek who had already failed her quest by bringing her an item five seconds too late.
47--> "Do you know what Illusen says about failure, little Kacheek?" Welldap shakes his head. "She says, 'Failure is its own punishment.'"\
48Her laughter fills the room... every shadowy corner, and every corridor. "I say..." she pauses, watching the darkness swirl about his neck, ready to devour his head. "Illusen suffers from a severe lack of imagination."
49* [[http://www.neopets.com/art/storytell.phtml?issue=127 This]] Story-Telling Contest about Jhudora taking over Neopia in a BadFuture where smiles are nonexistent, pets are shadows of their former selves, and several species went extinct due to her actions.
50--> "That's when Jhudora cast her ultimate spell. Historians think she had it planned from the start. Once she used all the other Faeries to take control of Neopia, she--she..." tears began to pour from the young Wocky's eyes.\
51"She what?!?" asked a frantic Jurgis.\
52"Oh, Jurgis!" Lerea cried, "She cast a spell to destroy all wings!"\
53"But, but... without wings!--" Jurgis stuttered in shock.\
54"Yes. The winged pets that had fought so valiantly-they... fell." Jurgis tried to swallow the lump in his throat, but could not. "They fell from the high clouds of Faerieland, and perished upon impact with the sea." Jurgis shook his head in horror. It was just too much. It was not only the Eyries that were extinct, but the Scorchios, Shoyrus, Unis, and Draiks, too! The Eyrie fought back tears; so many fine species lost--forever...
55* Maybe not as horrifying as the others, but in the Cyodrake's Gaze plot, Orrin had been quite literally locked in the storeroom just before the storm hit. If the boat had actually sunk...Made worse by the fact that Captain Tuan seemed to have forgotten Orrin was down there, and didn't remember until the next morning.
56* There is a random event that says that all your pets are sick and hungry, your items are stolen and your neopoints are all gone... but it's AllJustADream. It's ''horrifying'' the first time you get it. Maybe not so much after that, but still.
57* [[http://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=208&criteria= A Halloween Tale.]] DEAR. [[AtomicFBomb FUCKING]]. GOD! It may be the scariest story on the site to date. [[EldritchAbomination Just... what IS that old lady?!]]
58** The worst part? [[NothingIsScarier We never find out exactly what Old Lady Doppelganger did to the poor children. They may have been brats, but they didn't deserve it.]]
59* One of the fun images contains what seems to be [[http://images.neopets.com/template_images/meepit_scary.gif a simple white Meepit, with only a blinking animation]]... until for [[FreezeFrameBonus a split second]], it turns into '''[[http://i.imgur.com/AYwQK86.gif THIS.]]''' For anyone who isn't willing to click the link, it's a Meepit with elongated ears, a big disturbing stare, and a huge maw with a set of ScaryTeeth.
60* Petpets can get ''eaten'' by Turmaculus when trying to wake him up, or disappear completely if zapped with the Petpet Lab Ray.
61* The Desert Abominable Snowball is a puddle with snowman features inside, implying the Snowball got melted alive. The only consolation is that they can still talk to your Neopets, which means that at least they aren't ''dead''.
62* The April Fools' prank where everyone got The Scourgies, they even implied that Neopets could ''die'' from it.
63* Edna is not (established to be) evil, and it was an accident, but her turning some Feepits into Feepit Pie is scary. There is also the rumor that she "smites" people who go near her tower.
64* One of the phrases that Desert Petpets can say is "A CURSE ON YOU". Another spooky thing that Desert Petpets do is this.
65--> [Name of Petpet] starts to glow and shudder...
66* The ''Tale of Woe'' plot from Neovia certainly counts. A mysterious SnakeOilSalesman sells mysterious potions to the townfolk of Neovia, turning them into nightmarish and twisted monstrosities. Then there is [[FromBadToWorse the curse that the Spirit of Slumber cast on them...]]
67* Another JumpScare can come from the Snow Beast, which comes along roaring when you wait too long on Snowball Fight.
68* Jhudora can be pretty creepy. Her Gallery of Evil entry states that while she hasn't done anything truly evil just yet, that's ''why'' she's creepy. [[ParanoiaFuel Nobody knows when that's going to change, or how terrible her first malevolent action will be]].
69* The Awakened are an army of undead Neopets, led by [[CreepyTwins creepy Wocky twins]] named Lanie and Lillie. It is implied that they themselves are UndeadChildren, and that they are responsible for [[GhostlyGoals doing away]] with other Neopets. Then there's dialogue like this, which is PlayedForLaughs but is actually disturbing when you really think about it:
70-->"Someone told us there was a war and we should go somewhere safe."
71-->"We ate him for breakfast. Yum."
72* In a Neopedia entry about [[http://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=196 The Deserted Fairground]] an Acara is telling her friends a scary campfire story about the aforementioned attraction. The story goes that on its opening night, Halloween, monstrous Neopets snuck into the fairground, unnoticed in the crowd of costumed fairgoers. As the clock struck twelve, they attacked. Despite the desperate attempts of the trapped fairgoers, only those who had left before midnight survived. The story doesn't leave anything to the imagination -- the unlucky pets got ''eaten'' and all that was found in the morning was a ruined fairground and ''"wet earth beyond the gates"''. Legend has it that the fairgrounds come alive on Halloween, with the same danger to visitors who stay past midnight. After hearing the tale, the friends decide to go see if the story's true, and [[SarcasmMode surprise]], it is. They play and then prepare to leave just before midnight. The Acara nervously asks her friend for the time but his watch has [[StoppedClock stopped]]. Then the gates ahead of them [[DownerEnding suddenly swing shut...]]
73* The Neopets Team loves indirectly saying there has been violence while at the same time saying there's no violence. A book called "How to Teach Your Pet Not to Eat Everything They See Book"'s announcement description is as such: "It's been a while. You decide to check on your Pet. You open the door and – oh not again! You better pick up this guide: How to Teach Your Pet Not to Eat Everything They See Book. You can get your hands on a copy at the Book Shop. And then you might want to grab some towels to clean up the spilled... [[red:milk]]..." 'Milk' is in bright red text, indicating blood.
74* In the "Tale of Woe" plot, one of the puzzles has the player trying to open an old metal door with...[[NothingisScarier something]] covering it. In the official solution for the plot The Neopets Team officially and insistently said the ''something'' was rust, but it didn't look like rust to some players, who think this was a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial to draw attention away from the dark elements of the plot. Later, after opening the door, the player finds the skeleton of a Neopet, a nurse, who'd died after being trapped inside when all the asylum's patients went on a rampage one day. This is illustrated in the comic as well.
75* The [[http://images.neopets.com/tcg/c_dfaerie/0036_RS01.gif Annihilation]] trading card, which shows the Darkest Faerie burning an unknown Neopet alive until all that's left of them is a skull. Talk about FamilyUnfriendlyViolence.
76-->'''Caption:''' She always greeted uninvited guests with a "warm" welcome.
77* The [[http://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=189&criteria= tale of the Amulet of Thilg]]: In the ancient days of the Lost Desert, a cruel pharaoh enslaved many pets and forced them to build a massive pyramid as a monument to his glory. Many pets died making it, and when they could take no more, they took their revenge by unleashing a magic spell on him. This turned him into a statue except for a single drop of his blood, which transformed into a deep red gemstone. His son became ruler after him and treated the Lost Desert's citizens more fairly, but secretly vowed his revenge on them. He set the gemstone into a golden amulet, put a curse on it, and hid it in his father's pyramid, waiting for its time to come. [[NothingIsScarier The article ends with a footnote stating that the research group who discovered the amulet never made it back to the museum, and none of them were ever seen again.]]
78* The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_10_26_at_83842_pm.png Scary Abandoned Plushie]] trading card, which currently provides the page image for VengefulAbandonedToy, shows a creepy-looking, one-eyed stuffed Acara lying on a tree stump in the pouring rain.
79-->'''Caption:''' Through the sheets of rain, one eye glinted malevolently.
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