Judging by the name Nightmare Ned, both the video game and the Short-Runner definitely need Nightmare Fuel into them.
- The whole game has some of this. Particularly the Drain Snake.
- The gonkified Weird, Wild, and Wonderful are bad enough to look at, but they're even worse they start attacking and make creepy sounds.
- This... thing
◊. It gleefully hops up and down, trying to flatten you, while wearing that terrible Slasher Smile. - The giant disembodied Eldritch Abomination claws from the intro. Even more horrifying on the CD-ROM cover.
- In the good end, it's revealed that said claws belong to a giant monster version of Ned himself!
- There’s a lot of this particularly in the Graveyard stage. In one instance, you end up in a dark mausoleum where you must help a (presumably dead) little girl retrieve her nightlight from a bat, all while a piñata is painfully moaning in the background.
- In the same stage, Ned ends up in his own parents' graves as their zombified corpses try to close in on him before he escapes.
- The unreleased version of the "In The Locker" theme, called "The Avenger", features a few, new unsettling lyrics:
- The Hospital stage. The stage starts with Ned strapped down on a table rolling down a hallway avoiding Mad surgeons who rip out his organs! Come the very next scene and Ned is in the operating room getting nasty-looking new organs randomly put him by a beaver that's clearly been experimented on.
- In another scene, Ned ends up in a disgusting mouth full of germs, worms, rotted teeth, evil dentists, and a blob monster who wants to eat him.
- Before that, the way Ned enters the mouth. He has to hop onto a dentist's chair that is a mouth with no lower jaw and be swallowed!
- In another scene, Ned ends up in a disgusting mouth full of germs, worms, rotted teeth, evil dentists, and a blob monster who wants to eat him.
- Ned getting turned into a slug. He has to crawl into a hole in the wall while avoiding the woman who suddenly goes mad waving a salt shaker around!
- The skeletal demon found at the top of the tree in the graveyard.
- The sheer randomness of the game—as one Let's Player put it, it feels more like a nightmare than more mature games like Silent Hill, which are designed to emulate nightmares, because at least those have structure.
- What about the TV series...? Not a lot of people have seen it, but Nightmare Ned is up there as one of the most disturbing cartoons produced by Disney. Everything about the show drips with a freakish atmosphere; the vivid colors, twisted scenery, strange music and even the characters, from their designs to their voices to how they treat Ned just screams "wrong". And that's not even getting into Ned's nightmares. Everything freaky about this world is exaggerated to Hell in Ned's nightmares, with the production team seemingly going out of their way to be as bizarre as they could. Frequently, characters in Ned's nightmares go from calm and friendly to screaming and demonic at the drop of a hat, so you have no idea who to trust. Ned's dream self is often powerless against monsters and freaks who want to kill him, mutilate him or transform him against his will, and they tend to succeed worryingly often. Yes, Ned's nightmares frequently end with him dying or being mutilated. Sweet dreams.
