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Nightmare Fuel / The SpongeBob Movie Game

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What kind of old lady are you!?
Bearing in mind this game is based not only on a movie that's actually darker than even the mainline series itself, but possibly THE darkest SpongeBob movie considered, this was inevitable.
  • Bit of a minor nightmare fuel moment, but starting in the second major world of the game, Jellyfish start wearing Plankton's bucket helmets, which means that Plankton's Mass Hypnosis plot to Take Over the World extends even to the local wildlife!
  • Inside the Thug Tug, you can clearly see that SpongeBob and Patrick are absolutely terrified, as they run while flailing their arms and screaming. Not helping is the fact that the enemies and environments start getting Darker and Edgier from here on out.
  • The Shell City, Dead Ahead level. The levels taken place in Planktopolis are also frightening (and hard).
  • The Cyclops. In the Google-eyes and Smelly Knickknacks level, SpongeBob and Patrick slide on hoses and the Cyclops pops up out of nowhere as you are sliding, and when you are sliding on the electrical cables on the higher level, his hand pops up in front of the jumps.
  • Dennis, the Plankton Statues, and the Frogfish, of course.
    • Speaking of the Frogfish, unlike most of the enemies who taunt or laugh at SpongeBob or Patrick when they harm them, if he hurts Pat when he's using his tongue to attack him... he licks his own lips... And it's just the first boss in the game!
  • Admittedly, the fact that some enemies pop out of parts of the scenery is rather unnerving.
  • Some of the soundtrack is off-putting as well.
    • One good example is the music for the Now That We're Men level. In addition to the disturbing accordion sounds and whatnot, genuine screams can be heard.
  • Chapter 5: Entrenched of the PC version is quite spooky, especially at the beginning. If you interact with skulls, Big Bulging eyeballs will suddenly pop out of them, while you cross the abyssal plains (which is shrouded in fog at first), you will hear haunting ambient noises. The same sounds you hear at the beginning of Rihanna's Disturbia Music Video.

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