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It appears that many Nightmare Fuel pages have problems, including:
1. Listing non-scary things that made the viewer feel slightly uncomfortable at worst.
2. Having spoiler tags on them (which is against the page's guidelines).
3. Listing Fridge Horror and fan theories.
And much more!
On a few occasions, people from outside the site's community have pointed out our overly lax usage of Nightmare Fuel to make fun of us, meaning that it can legitimately harm our reputation to let this go unchecked.
The TRS thread
meant for redefining Nightmare Fuel started to become a place for cleaning up Nightmare Fuel pages in general, so we may as well move these discussions to Long Term Projects where they belong.
Here are the guidelines to determine whether something is Nightmare Fuel or not.
- This is a page whose name is intended to be taken more literally than most. It's not enough for material to be scary; to truly qualify, it has to be frightening enough to legitimately unnerve/disturb the viewer, with actually being nightmare-inducing as the ultimate endpoint.
- Good signs that something IS Nightmare Fuel include if:
- It left you feeling shaken even after the credits had rolled, you turned the last page, or are otherwise done with the work.
- You have a hard time falling asleep if you think about it at night, or have a literal nightmare about it.
- You dread that episode, scene, level, chapter, or song during re-watches, and consider skipping it.
- With that said, don't add something just because it happens to be your personal phobia. For example, spiders can be scary and many people have arachnophobia, but just because a spider happens to be in the work, it does not make a Nightmare Fuel entry. It needs to reasonably be scary to someone without the phobia.
- Don't confuse tension with fear. If the hero is in trouble, but you know he'll make it out okay at the end, it's probably not Nightmare Fuel unless the threat is especially disturbing.
- Good signs that something IS Nightmare Fuel include if:
- Explain WHY the entry scared you. Try to convey your sense of fear to your readers. Avoid putting up Zero-Context Examples.
- Remember that Weblinks Are Not Examples, and neither are quotes on their own. You should explain the horror in your own words, rather than rely on others to do so.
- Don't add things that might have scared someone. If it didn't scare you, and you don't personally know anyone else who was scared, you shouldn't be adding it to Nightmare Fuel.
- Nightmare Fuel should stick to you even after you're done with the work.
- If something is initially presented as scary but turns out to be harmless, it's most likely not Nightmare Fuel since The Reveal makes the scariness vanish.
- Jump Scares are a good source of Nightmare Fuel, but not all of them automatically qualify: being startled is not the same as being scared.
- Hypotheticals are not Nightmare Fuel:
- Remember that Trailers Always Lie: a scene that is presented as scary in the trailer could very well turn out to be inoffensive in the finished work. Only add examples from unreleased works if they were especially terrifying in the previews.
- Fan theories do not belong on the Nightmare Fuel page under any circumstance. No matter how much evidence they have to support them, don't add them until they've been officially confirmed. In the meanwhile, take them to Wild Mass Guessing.
- Fridge Horror goes on the Fridge page, not Nightmare Fuel. Don't add it unless it's Ascended Fridge Horror.
- Keep in mind the work's intended audience when considering whether or not something is Nightmare Fuel.
- If something is normal or expected in the genre, it does not automatically qualify. Violence in a Fighting Series or gore in a horror movie must be especially disturbing or gruesome by the work's standards to be Nightmare Fuel.
- Remember that Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films. If a work is rated PG-13 or higher but would only be scary to young children, it's not Nightmare Fuel.
- The standards on what qualifies as Nightmare Fuel are especially stringent on works aimed at children and pre-teens: kids have hyperactive imaginations, so even something benign can give them nightmares.
- Spoiler tags do not belong on Nightmare Fuel pages. Much of what scares us comes from inherently spoilery stuff such as death and the unknown, so finding spoilers on these pages should be expected.
- Nightmare Fuel is an Audience Reaction, so it needs to be scary for the audience. Describing how the characters react to something scary isn't needed. Just because something scares them, that doesn't mean it scares us as well.
- Nightmare Fuel is a No Real Life Examples, Please! page. Meta-examples involving the actors, production, or behind-the-scenes incidents are not allowed.
Guidelines when proposing cleanup of a page:
- Some rules are pretty objective. If you see a Zero-Context Example, Fridge Horror, Real Life example, speculation, In-Universe reaction that isn't scary to the viewers, examples that explicitly describe themselves as not being very scary (including "mildly creepy", "somewhat unnerving", and other synonymous phrases), or examples that are just scene summaries without going into detail about why it's so scary, you can (and should) remove them immediately without coming here to ask.
- You should also strip all spoiler tags from the page. Itty Bitty Wiki Tools has a tool for that, but it can cause problems, so if you use it be sure to preview the page and thoroughly look it over.
- Once you've fixed the objective issues with the page, bring it here so we can look at the more subjective problems, such as examples that may not be scary enough to qualify. If a consensus is reached that a certain entry does not qualify, it can be removed.
Edited by Zuxtron on Aug 1st 2020 at 9:40:30 AM
(Also, since I got my editing permission suspended, I will be here to post any questionable example and have other people do the job)
That show is Cow and Chicken, and the disembodied legs are comedic parent characters and not scary at all, though it may disturb some people.
The joke there being that in some kids shows, parents would only be shown from the waist down. And perhaps an homage to Mammy from Tom and Jerry.
I don't see how Cow and Chicken is a Ren and Stimpy clone, it is not nearly as creepy and deranged.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest times![]()
Same.
Edit: Should I go ahead and remove the examples I mentioned here
and here
if they haven't been removed already? The former is one I posted about in August (but didn't think to ask if it was OK to remove at the time), and the latter is the most recent one I posted about.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 30th 2020 at 2:27:06 PM
I got a rock for Halloween.
Berserk Button: misusing Berserk Button
Just came by to post that I had deleted this from NightmareFuel.The Powerpuff Girls:
- As part of the show's animesque style, every time an Earth-Shattering Kaboom is shown, it's done in complete silence, implying that the force from the explosion is so great that it takes a few minutes for the sound to catch up with the image or even that the very film you're watching can't capture, let alone recreate, such an awesome sound. Either way, it's chilling!
This isn’t even Fridge Horror- it is taking something clearly non-scary and trying to make it scary.
One of these days, all of you will accept me as your supreme overlord.Speaking of something that's not scary, but is presented as such, this example in NightmareFuel.The Berenstain Bears has always annoyed me, and comes off as a pretty good sum-up of the problems of such pages:
- When Mama Bear goes on a rampage, throwing the cubs' toys into a trash box, it's terrifying. Brother and Sister even start crying for help.
Edited by BigJimbo on Dec 30th 2020 at 10:14:29 AM
NightmareFuel.Web Original is in serious need of a cleanup. Lots of dead links and ZCEs, among other issues (I just had to remove an example for the 3 Guys 1 Hammer video).
Edited by jandn2014 on Dec 31st 2020 at 6:40:31 AM
The Mama Bear example seems more like people implying discipline and/or bad parenting is NF. I think at one point Daddy O Five had one at one point which was mainly the parents being arseholes to their kids like smashing an Xbox and forcing the kid to pay for it.
Edited by Klavice on Dec 31st 2020 at 3:57:27 AM
There's a fine line between discipline and plain child abuse, so I don't consider the two to be the same issue. (Good thing that was cut.)
How's your day been?OK, here's an attempt to analyze each example.
- Whenever the bears got angry in the books, their expressions could be quite unsettling. An example would be Papa yelling at Brother and Sister and slamming his fist on a table
◊ in Forget their Manners. Cut. Many tropers have argued that angry faces are not NF.
- "The Bad Dream" Merge all three sub-bullets, move them to the main page and specify it's an In-Universe example.
- The Space Grizzlies toys according to Sister Bear, who needs to be bribed into playing with Brother.
- From what we see of the Space Grizzlies movie, it is pretty action-packed and violent. Brother Bear admits that he enjoyed it, but was scared at certain points.
- Also an In-Universe example, as they were enough to give Brother and Sister actual nightmares.
- Two-Ton Grizzly. Now we know where Too-Tall gets it from, and the only thing that can actually scare him. Cut. Seems to be Fridge Horror.
- Sister coming home crying in pain, covered in bruises with her clothes disheveled. Mama and Papa immediately fear the worst, with Brother correctly suspecting that another cub beat her up. When Sister explains that a cub named Tuffy did so for no reason, Brother Bear understandably goes to school and wants to find the bully who hurt his little sister. He only doesn't because he won't hurt a girl, and Tuffy mocks him. Cut. Many have argued that Adult Fear isn't NF.
- The bully Tuffy revealing to Sister after being hit that she has Abusive Parents and is terrified of what they'll do to her when they find out what she's been doing at school. Just the idea that anyone in Bear Country could be capable of bringing up their cubs this badly is an unsettling notion. Maybe keep, it is somewhat unsettling.
- "Visit the Dentist" involves Sister worrying about the dentist while simultaneously wondering why her freshly loose tooth isn't coming out. She's afraid that he'll yank it, but when they get to the dentist, he assures her that it will come out all on its own when the time is — oh wait, no, he grabs it with a piece of gauze and yanks it. Also maybe keep, I can see children being scared of the scene.
- The slightly eerie feel of Bears in the Night, accentuated by the simple narration, can be unsettling to some. See some for yourself.
Cut. It's eerie, yes, but eerie doesn't always equal scary.
- The narration (with or without the audio) of ''The Berenstain Bears and The Spooky Old Tree''
where Brother, Sister and a third bear cub (presumably Cousin Fred) explore a spooky forest and the inside of a tree (which looks like a mansion in its interior) in the dark of the night unaccompanied. They go through a hole, go up a "twisty old stair) where some alligators in a moat attack and just miss Fred, walk on a broad ledge, go through a hall with suits of armor where one's ax lands on Sister's walking stick just missing her, and end up getting chased by a giant sleeping bear. They make it home safe....only for adult readers to pick up...the spooky old tree is conveniently close by! I'm conflicted: maybe children would be scared, but this could just as easily be Fridge Horror or Adult Fear.
- "The Trouble With Strangers"
- With Brother's encouragement, Sister goes to Papa Bear to ask why talking to strangers is bad. He then tells her bad things can happen when you trust someone you don't know. To prove his point, he shows her a newspaper article that reveals a cub was kidnapped and recently found, with a suspect being questioned. There may be a cubnapper still out there in Bear County! Some people have talked about this moment being scary, I think, so probably keep.
- The fairy tale he reads her, about Wily Fox leading Silly Goose to his lair. All it takes is a few snaps of his jaws, and Silly Goose is gone except for a few feathers floating in the air. No wonder Sister lies awake at night, thinking about the newspaper and the story. Cut or merge with the above sub-bullet.
- "The Berenstain Bears’Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze": The book with the Beary Bubbies mentions that at a giant sale event for them, two parents got into a fight. It is so bad that the police have to break them up. You can see it in the illustrations. Cut. It's a severe scuffle, yes, but that's about as bad as it gets.
- "Too Much Internet"
- The way that Teacher Bob describes Internet predators. He says that they lure you and your friends into a trap to cubnap you. Lizzie is shaken, even as she says that her dad would protect her. Her classmates are similarly scared. Cut. Seems to be Fridge Horror.
- Queenie's sister setting her up with a random guy online, and helping her get dressed for a date. Fortunately, she goes along to serve as a chaperone and it turned out the date was Too-Tall, but imagine if it had been a random older guy. Cut. Seems to be Fridge Horror.
- If you read the title, you'd probably think it's probably just a boring old "don't spend too much time online" book, or maybe a slightly-unnerving "don't give out your personal info online" book. Actually, it's kind of the latter, but moreso. One of the cubs spends a lot of time (but not so much so that it's an Obsessive Hobby Episode) on a kids' poetry website, but then it turns out that criminals have been using the site to transmit secret codes about bombing Squire Grizzly. That's right— Squire Grizzly would've died if not for the cubs' discovery. Even worse, the codes were in rhyme, giving off a "creepy nursery rhyme" vibe, and the girl who found the scary poem? Lizzie Bruin, who warns Bonnie, Squire Grizzly's niece. Cut. While it does address a more serious issue, it still seems to be Fridge Horror.
- "The Freaky Funhouse": The circus people knocking out Ralph, tying him up, and tossing him into the nearby lake. All while the cubs are watching and convinced Ralph drowned. They feel sorry for him, even if he was a con artist. I'm again conflicted, because it does make a better point than most examples.
- The animals in "The Christmas Tree", who attack Papa for attempting to cut down trees. Cut. I don't think animal attacks in fiction are automatically scary.
- Hell, Papa risking his own cubs' lives just to find the best Christmas tree is terrifying itself. Cut. Seems to be Fridge Horror.
- And all of this could've been easily avoided if Papa just bought a tree locally! Cut. Not frightening at the slightest.
- "Meet Bigpaw" does a good job of building up the menace and dread until Bigpaw properly appears on-screen. The Scare Chord when Mama foresees Bigpaw's impending arrival, followed by Papa laughing it off, only to cut to a P.O.V. Cam of Bigpaw arriving at the border of Bear Country, is particularly chilling as it reveals Bigpaw is indeed Real After All. Keep, I can see this scene scaring children.
- The narrator retells the prophecy of Bigpaw's arrival, noting that he is Gaia's Vengeance for if the bears become selfish and greedy. As we see from the pumpkin patch and Papa's attitude, this is indeed Judgment Day. The music builds up as the narrator admits that some legends are real, and the scene cuts to the animals of the forest fleeing in terror as they hear of Bigpaw's approach. With each successive animal that gets the message, they imagine a scarier, more monstrous figure and run for their lives. Not really sure.
- The end of the first act, when Papa and the townsfolk learn that Bigpaw is nearby in Sinister Bog. The narrator and the music again collaborate to leave things on a highly ominous note as Brother and Sister, blissfully unaware of the apparent coming danger, go about their business. Cut. I don't think it's enough.
- His Villain Song has some notable moments where it gets freaky, particularly the scene where he explains that one of the things he likes to do is chew; and explains it with a tree. There's also the "grind and tear and rip it all" lyric— he explains this by using said tree and snapping it in half with his two bear hands. Cut. Both lyrics are not adequately scary.
- The background music can get really dramatic at times. It helps that it was done by Elliot Lawrence (yes, that Elliot Lawrence). To be fair, Elliot also did the music score for the earlier specials. I'm unsure again.
- Sister's fear of strangers in "The Trouble With Strangers". The worst of it actually comes early when Papa reads several newspaper articles to Sister regarding stranger danger. Among them is a headline reading Stranger Bothers Cub. Suddenly Bear Country doesn't look much safer than real life — if anything, it seems particularly riddled with kidnappers (“Missing Cub Found”) and sex offenders. It's just as likely to be Fridge Horror as it is legitimate.
- When Mama Bear goes on a rampage, throwing the cubs' toys into a trash box, it's terrifying. Brother and Sister even start crying for help. Cut. This is the kind of example that makes us look like cowards.
- "Forget Their Manners" has Papa being driven to rage and intending to tear the Politeness Plan to pieces, with a maddened look on his face. The psychopathic music that plays during this helps surprisingly little. Another not-scary moment blown out of proportion.
Papa: WHERE'S THAT CONFOUNDED CHART!?
- In "The Wicked Weasel Spell", Weasel McGreed hypnotizes Bigpaw into thinking everyone is a mosquito and trying to smash them, including the cubs! Cut. Seems to be Adult Fear.
- Brother's nightmare in "Trouble at School". Cut. Since when is casual dialogue with an echo effect scary?
Brother's Teacher: Didn't you do the worksheets?Sister: You didn't even do the worksheet I brought home on Monday. Boy, are you behind.
- The evil, green version of Sister in "The Green-Eyed Monster" can be disturbing. Keep. Somebody claimed this is well-supported as a NF moment.
- How it appears in Sister's dream is particularly unnerving. Sister hears it calling out for her, and she turns over in bed to see a copy of herself across the room, only this Sister has green fur and a devious smile that tells you she's bad news. Sister herself is scared and hides under the sheets, but the Green-Eyed Sister comes up from the foot of the bed, telling her to go outside and coaxes her into taking Brother's new bike for a ride for herself. While Sister has her vices like everyone else, the Green-Eyed Sister has a clear nasty aura to her that would clearly be out-of-character for the real Sister to have, making for an unsettling and just plain off appearance. Keep, probably merging with the above bullet.
- The ghosts in the Haunted Forest level of Berenstain Bears' Camping Adventure. If you leave them around on the screen too long, they will moan with their fur standing on end as they attack you. They also do this in the second bonus level although they can't hurt you. Again, I'm unsure.
To put it another way, it's like these entries are telling us why the audience reacts instead of telling us what the reaction is. NF is supposed to focus more on the what than the why. It's the focus on the why that leads to scene summaries rather than the actual reaction. Most examples that end up here just need a better balance of why and what or just need to have the what added in.
Properly explaining a Nightmare Fuel entry (based off of this text above) feels... incomprehensible to me. Getting what the majority Audience Reaction is would feel daunting it seems — and something tells me that the personal sensation could die when the entry is properly written, making the writer of the entry refrain from adding what would've been a valid example.
The only Audience Reaction that I've seen with large portion of the audience in horror is on the discussion page for SCP-3125
and tales directly involving it in qntm's Antimemetics Division series.
Edited by SomeLibre on Jan 1st 2021 at 8:18:26 PM
Cassie | they/them/he | Help needed for filling out entries on the Series X SCP categorySo, I got this
as a You Tube ad and it scared the shit out of me. Comments seem to agree. What I'm asking is is this an Advertisement or a Public Service Announcement?
...Christ. I'd put it under PSA, even though it's not from a charity organization, its purpose is to be a PSA about ocean welfare and the dangers of plastic. The toys are available for pre-order, but again, it's all to make a point to the public.
Either way, definitely valid Nightmare Fuel. It might also fall under Toys on the Other subpage, since the toys are real and it's the design that's truly terrifying.
Edited by mightymewtron on Jan 1st 2021 at 10:46:54 AM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.![]()
What in the holy name of our lord did I just watch? Definite addition, I should not have watched that right before I was about to go to sleep. Maybe PSA? It seems to be advertising a product though.
Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Jan 1st 2021 at 12:02:49 PM
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallSpeaking of advertising, allow me to give you some of the most questionable examples on Advertising:
- Hostess did a series of commercials in the 90s and 2000s that featured an animal approaching something that appeared to be a Hostess snack product, but wasn't, and would prompt that animal to ask "Hey, where's the cream filling?" However, the creepiest ad involves a boy teasing a doll with a toy cupcake, which prompts her to come to life with one angry face.
(Maybe the doll example can stay, but at least the others will need to go.)
- There's also this commercial
. A woman walking to her car in a parking garage late at night is stalked by a creepy little ghost girl who suddenly appears and disappears. The woman suspects someone's following her, starts to panic and rushes to the car. Once she gets in, the ghost girl suddenly appears on the window and the woman screams. Turns into Nightmare Retardant when she starts telling the woman about all the money she could be saving on an iPhone. (This is only questionable by virtue of Nightmare Retardant.)
- There's also this commercial
- This commercial
for Rayovac batteries starts out this way, with a scary mid-90's CGI CD player with two rows of sharp teeth coming to life in the middle of the night, and starts eating whatever batteries it can find, compounded by the batteries screaming in terror as they try to flee. It gradually transitions into Nightmare Retardant when the lights come on and the CD player is chastised by Michael Jordan for not using Rayovac batteries, as well as the fact that said batteries the CD player was eating were frightened Duracell and Energizer batteries. (This is only questionable by virtue of Nightmare Retardant.)
- Not to be outdone, the American McDonald's decided to create a new mascot for their Happy Meals, called Happy. This one's tame compared to most things on the list, but still somewhat creepy. Here it is
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- Not to be outdone, the American McDonald's decided to create a new mascot for their Happy Meals, called Happy. This one's tame compared to most things on the list, but still somewhat creepy. Here it is
- McDonald's:
- The McDonald's commercials from Pakistan
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- The Crash Bandicoot commercial might be a contender of the creepiest of them all, because Cortex has a realistic face.
- In the Hello Kitty commercial they gave her a mouth, and it doesn't look pretty.
- The McDonald's commercials from Pakistan
- This Dairy Queen Popcorn Shrimp commercial
has a shrimp man enjoying the product when his wife asks him what he's doing. After the man tells his wife he's eating Dairy Queen popcorn and offers some to her, she realizes it's popcorn shrimp and chastises him for it. Right after her husband remarks how he felt something familiar about them, she asks him where their kids are, before they look at the popcorn shrimp box and realize they're eating their own children, leading them to scream. Some viewers might find it hilarious, however. (Seems to be too Played for Laughs to really be scary.)
- Some anti-depressant commercials choose to portray the "depression" as a cute little blob of sadness. Apparently, somebody in charge of a commercial advertising anti-abdominal pain/diarrhea medicine thought that this was a neat concept, and designed this horrifying thing
◊: a happy, smiling lump of knotted intestine.
- Chuck E. Cheese's:
- In early-1995, the restaurant ran a pretty spooky commercial
where three kids were at a German, Chinese and Mexican restaurant looking at their food in disgust (with some pretty creepy culture-appropriate music playing in the background - such as an off-key yodeler for the German restaurant). The kids all whined "I should've said Chuck E. Cheese please" and were abruptly teleported to a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. (There's literally nothing nightmare-inducing in this one.)
- In early-1995, the restaurant ran a pretty spooky commercial
- IHOP:
- This 1969 ad
tries to be whimsical with its Moog synthesizer music, Chipmunk singing and footage of a family running in slow motion, but the execution is just disturbigly surreal. (Again, I had trouble finding something really scary.)
- This 1969 ad
- Seven of the Panda Cheese Ads
usually featured two people somewhere either in the hospital, resturant, work office, or anywhere else. One of them usually has the Panda Cheese product on their food and they would ask another one if they wanted some cheese. The other one would refuse because they didn't like cheese for some reason. After that, the Panda mascot for the cheese product appears out of nowhere with a close-up on his uncanny-looking face with small black beady eyes and a frown on his face, while the song "True Love Ways" by Buddy Holly plays in the background. As he stared at the person who rejected the cheese as people looked on with confusion, he would without warning usually thrash the place where the man or woman were at all because they rejected his cheese products. It then ends with the announcer saying to the viewer, "Never Say No To Panda".
Getting people to buy their products is one thing, but showing the panda going crazy because they rejected the product is going too far. This probably scared kids into buying Panda Cheese because they probably thought that if they refused, the Panda mascot would come after them. Three of them stand out:- The first one has a boy and his father at the grocery store shopping for stuff they need. The boy asks his father if they can get some Panda Cheese, but the father says no to him. Then the panda stands there as the boy and the father look on with confusion, and tips the cart over in anger for rejecting his cheese products. In the second one, which is part two of the shopping ad, the boy asks the father again for some Panda Cheese. The father is about to say no, but then he sees the panda standing there. He remembers what happened the last time he said no, scared of what the panda might do to him, so he gets two of the cheese products. After that the panda follows him and the boy to make sure the father doesn't reject the cheese again.
- But the scariest one is the last one: a man is in the hospital as the nurse comes in with his food and she asks the man if he wants some Panda Cheese, but the man refuses to have some cheese with his food. The Panda appears again he then goes over to the man and thrashes the whole place, and then snaps his IV support, probably killing the man in the process, all because the man doesn't like Panda Cheese.
The Nostalgia Critic: This is how every one of them goes. And it's kinda scary as hell! The way he appears out of nowhere, the way he stares at you, that eerily creepy song, everything about this is a world of no. Most of the time it's him destroying something, but here, it's attempted murder!- The Nostalgia Critic actually found that the Panda wouldn't be out of place in horror films.
Nostalgia Critic: This is so creepy, I could legitimately see him in horror films. Like imagine him in the hallway in The Shining instead of the girls. [shows the scene where Danny meets the girls, only it's the Panda instead of the twins] Or maybe he was really on The Ring tape the whole time. [shows Rachel watching the tape, only to see the Panda. The phone rings, and when she picks it up, "True Love Ways" plays]
The shrimp one could be Nightmare Fuel if you're young and find that screaming and Jitter Cam to be scary, since it's kind of sudden and loud.
The intestine medicine commercial is Squick at best.
I'm convinced the Chuck E. Cheese one must have just unsettled somebody when they were very young, because I don't see why it's nightmarish to the general population. Sometimes kids get scared of things for no plausible reason - I used to be scared of this PSA
(it still creeps me out for some reason), and I still can't tell why.
A lot of the Panda Cheese stuff might better belong under Fridge Horror. The way he destroys the place is usually quite comical, but I could see the panda costume and the way he stares creeping somebody out. Then again I might be biased as I saw the Nostalgia Critic special that played it as nightmarish. Either way, the entry seems a bit lengthy.
Edited by mightymewtron on Jan 2nd 2021 at 12:46:23 PM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.How was the Chuck E Cheese one scary at all? At most the Mexican one was a little offensive, but not scary. That one can be cut at least.
The IHOP one I'll make an argument for because the music is quite creepy, if nothing else.
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallCan someone take a look at NightmareFuel.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012? Because skimming through the Season 1 folder tells me there's a lot wrong with this page.
How's your day been?Not to mention due to some formatting separating examples by episode, some sections look unusually empty (such as The Pulverizer).
How's your day been?Does anybody wanna look into NightmareFuel.SCP Foundation? Alot of the horror on the site these days tend to be the Fridge Horror type, which 0% fits on this namespace.
- SCP-3867
is harmless on it's own, an anomalous website telling you what your pet is doing when you check it... But the account of a pet being Buried Alive by it's owner For the Evulz, from the perspective of said pet is an effective reminder that yes, there is no limit to human cruelty, that manages to be chilling because, unlike the many, many anomalies the SCP Foundation handles, a human burying a loyal pet alive just For the Evulz has most likely happened many times before in real life...
- SCP-4634
is a collection of "out of order" signs that, when placed on a doorway, cause rooms to cease their intended function. For example, placing an instance of SCP-4634 on a kitchen door leads to the kitchen's appliances to stop working, the utensils to bend out of shape, and ingredients to rot incredibly fast. That's not the scary part. When the Foundation first discovered SCP-4634, the signs were found in a collection of 128 large stone monuments scattered across the globe, on the inside of the monuments' doors. Removing the signs caused the entire universe to shift, with planets and stars alike changing their orbits, the asteroid belt fusing together, and the death of all life, all in less than 7 hours. Following this, a new set of stone monuments with a new set of SCP-4634 spontaneously appeared on Earth, resetting everything back to normal. The implication of all this is that reality as we know it is the universe being out of order. Which raises the question - what is the universe's purpose when it's functioning?
- SCP-5140 "Everest"
refers to a collection of corpses scattered around Mt. Everest, predicted to be around 100-200. These corpses completely absorb all heat of those who make contact with one of them, causing the victim to die and become another instance. Not that bad so far but we get a pretty disturbing mission log of an annual expedition going wrong, with the team steadily falling and the last survivor claiming he saw the corpses starting to animate. This however seemed to be due to hallucinations caused by malfunctioning equipment. Then we get the kicker: an incident log occurring in April 25th, 2024 where warming global temperatures caused an avalanche revealing that there are much more corpses comprising Everest, as much as 45% of its mass or around 714 billion corpses. Let's hope that the incident of them animating really was just a hallucination and not a sign of things to come.

Oops I had forgotten I had asked a question here (I blame the Christmas whisky)
Thanks. I'll comment it out and add a note in the edit reason linking to this post.