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There is actually LOTS to fear when you're in the Loud house.


Main Series

  • The show offers some doses of Realism-Induced Horror every now and then. One such instance being the exterminator in "Along Came a Sister" gassing a pair of innocent caterpillars while laughing wickedly. People who get their sick kicks from harming and killing animals are sadly all too real.
    • After getting dumped by Kirby and then Lord Tetherby in "Out on a Limo", Lincoln is forced to venture home alone in the dark across town. The worst part of it is that, apparently, nobody else took notice of this. How Lincoln turned up completely pristine with no questions asked by any of his family is anybody's guess.
  • "Along Came a Sister" reveals that Frank is a girl, and Lisa explains that females are always sluggish before giving birth. Frank laid an egg sack in an air duct that hatches right after Lincoln heads out to bring Frank back to his class. The baby spiders crawl through a vent, and then Leni starts screaming. This is especially scary for arachnophobes!
  • In "A Tale of Two Tables", Lincoln's entire nightmare about what could happen if he stays at the grown-up table instead of the kiddie table. The worst parts are probably his parents' heads revealed to be roast turkeys, and the table chaining Lincoln up and dragging him down a dark purple vortex, the faces of his five older sisters surrounding him while chanting "ONE OF US... ONE OF US..." Fortunately, the episode ends completely differently.
  • In "One Flu Over the Loud House", some of the zombie-like imagery of the flu epidemic, including the infected girls' pale green skin and wonky yellow eyes. A special mention goes to Lynn Sr.; in order to keep Season 1's gag of his full face never being shown, he's entirely in silhouette, except for his sickly yellow eyes.
  • In "Lynner Takes All", the original scene where Lynn hastily brushes her teeth had her gums outright bleed. Little wonder the final version ended up having her instead losing a tooth.
  • Rita's trap in "Fool's Paradise" actively involved using an at-risk Lily as bait, requiring her to save her infant daughter from a scenario that would very likely kill the baby with scant seconds worth of leeway. In other words, Luan deliberately put Lily in mortal peril just to force her family members to fall prey to the trap instead.
  • "Time Trap!" is easily the darkest episode of the show yet. The Loud siblings travel back in time and inadvertently ruin their parents' wedding, and they return to a to timeline where Lynn Sr. and Rita swore off kids. As a result, the Louds all slowly fade away from existence, one by one. Not helping is that most of them react in utter horror as they vanish completely. It's one of the closest times one will come to seeing a Nickelodeon cartoon where kids die.
  • Joyce Crandall, state undersecretary of water leisure from "Save Royal Woods!", ticks off every single box under Corrupt Politician; she wants to flood Royal Woods to made a sixth Great Lake both as a birthday present for her mother and, more importantly, a promotion to oversecretary. When questioned, she simply blows off everyone's concerns about the whole situation. She even derides Royal Woods in her Villain Song by saying that there's nothing special about it.
  • "Lights, Camera, Nuclear Reaction" has Todd becoming convinced he's a supervillain and stealing a nuclear reactor with the intent of annihilating Royal Woods with it. Lincoln manages to save the day in the end, but it's a chilling thought that all of Royal Woods was literally seconds away from an agonizing death.
  • "The Orchid Grief" features a rather gruesome scene of a giant mosquito sucking the innards of a small cute beaver. It's just oddly violent and shocking for a series like this.

The Loud House Movie

  • The movie is Darker and Edgier compared to the series, and it's displayed best in the climax's battle, where it's nighttime, Lincoln gets knocked unconscious at one point, Morag would have killed Lincoln's whole family if he had not intervened at the last second, and Lincoln and Lily nearly fall to their deaths.
  • During the final confrontation between the Louds and Morag, Lucy distracts a Morag-controlled Lela by daring them to come get her and falling off of a building. Lela comes dangerously close to eating Lucy before Lucille catches her!

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