The most terrified you've been when experiencing a non horror media. (Beware spoilers)

I wanted to make this for fanfics but I decided it had too much potential to be limited to that.

• The Fanfic He Saves Her Twice from the Captain Underpants fandom. Its such a cute and fluffy fanfic but the fanfic gets realistically terrifying when two weird men try to kidnap a little girl and then pull out a weapon, which I thought was about to be an active shooter situation. This terrified so many readers including me, because it opened with a trigger warning and that warning filled me with so much dread. That part until the part where things get silly and then badass was one of the most terrifying experiences I had reaing fanfiction.

• When Steven gets his gem removed. I never had so much dread and fear from a cartoon before then.

• When Darkhead corrupts Cure Sky and forces her to become evil, leading to the most brutal beating on the show. And then he tries to force her to kill Cure Prism on Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure. MAJOR SOARING SKY PRECURE SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 49

Edited by AegisP on Feb 29th 2024 at 7:36:27 AM

If you cover up what work the spoiler is for, it becomes a Self-Fulfilling Spoiler.

I know this is probably cheating since it was meant to evoke terror but this Youtube video on the Mr Incredible meme and his face becoming increasingly terrifying as he reacts to REALLY messed up manga like A Cruel God Reigns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyT3rBxGszU

Probably social media. The reputation and sense of authority some people have is daunting.

This might be drama importation.

Ravenholme in Half-Life 2. Also the G-man from that game. Also the TV playing distorted trumpets. A lot of that game actually.

The True Lab in Undertale. There's a lot creepy in that game, but that's the only point I actually felt scared.

Haven't seen the film myself, but watching Steve Reviews' video on the anime of Barefoot Gen was absolute horror when it got to that scene. Even thinking about it now, it's disturbing. This actually managed a 12 by the BBFC, but it may be scarier than any 15-rated film I've seen.

A lesser candidate would be the face-melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark (doesn't bother me much anymore, but I used to be unable to look at it directly.)

From Digimon Adventure 02, Malomyotismon torturing Arukenimon to death. Legit messed with me. And this was on Fox Kids, I don't know if they edited down from the Japanese, but it was plenty terrifying in the english version.

Edited by diddyknux on Apr 14th 2024 at 6:43:04 AM

I'll preface that The Wolf of Wall Street is among the most disgusting films I've seen, not due to anything particularly gross shown, but simply because of how reprehensible the cast of characters is. Made even more infuriating by them being the kind of people who have caused much of the economic hardships of the past decades, quite a bit which has made my life more difficult. But the most horrifying scene in the movie has nothing to do with gross economic crimes or rampant hedonism, but with child-endangerment. There is a scene where DiCaprio's character tries to kidnap his own daughterand comes close to killing her in a car-crash. That scene stands out as the most shocking in the whole film, which makes the Misaimed Fandom all the more infuriating.

You can find out right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc2rFSqQQKw

VIDEO;Arukenimon being tortured psychologically before being killed in Japanese.

Edited by AegisP on Apr 14th 2024 at 7:10:56 AM

not as bad wizardmon dying!

I tend to be more afraid of non-horror media than horror media, maybe because horror media is supposed to be scary, so I'm expecting it all, or because you usually know exactly where the horror is coming from. But I can legit freak myself out over non-horror media if it's got enough room for me to speculate or feel the Nothing Is Scarier vibe, because possibilities are up to my own mind.

Angel Dust being raped during the Poison song in Hazbin Hotel. I have never felt that viscerally sick and horrified watching something in a cartoon.

The walrus in Pingu deserves a special mention. Now that I’m older, it simply feels out of place.

EDIT: I remembered Elsagate. Content farms are so grotesque and uncanny, it makes my skin crawl and stomach churn.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on May 3rd 2024 at 5:09:55 AM

I used to get genuinely creeped out by the Parrot on Neopets. You know, the one that really just says random quotes (and isn't accessible on the map)? Something about disembodied quotes, especially in the context of the ARG-esque site plots of the olden days, just gets me overthinkin'. Feels super eerie and I can't explain why.

Edited by WarJay77 on May 4th 2024 at 11:36:27 AM

I grew up in the 1980s, an era when they weren't afraid to scare the utter bejesus out of children in stuff that was aimed primarily at them.

For example, in The Brave Little Toaster: where to even start. The air conditioner losing his shit and giving himself the mechanical equivalent of a coronary? The "workshop" where an a self-aware appliance was ripped apart to obtain a spare part. Or the cars in the junkyard singing about the futility of life while being set on a conveyor belt to a compactor to be summarily killed! Dear God!

Or The Secretof NIMH! The cat, aptly named Dragon! The tractor! A kid who was sick with pneumonia and on the edge of death! The spider! The freakin' "Great Owl". Kids sinking to their supposed doom in a mud pit. You know, for family entertainment.

And The Last Unicorn? The Harpy killing Mommy Fortuna? The Red Bull. Hell, even the living tree was terrifying in its own right.

There was Hugo The Hippo, a film about hippos being brought in by the sultan of Zanzibar to combat a shark problem. But then after the sharks are gone, they go on a slaughter of the hippos, leaving only one left alive.

And that's not all.

The Smurfs: There was an episode that featured the Smurfs being subjected to a Hate Plague that worked like a zombie apocalypse, as any Smurf bitten was transformed into a purple menace that went around screaming and seeking to bite their fellow Smurfs.

And Nickelodeon was kind enough to bring us Unico wherein we had a vengeful doll that turned human beings into block puppets to make his castle, or a demonic looking guy/vampire who plied a teen girl with alcohol and was going to either rape or kill her, and this was not dumbed down for the broadcast.

And in the original The Care Bears, Professor Coldheart was clearly a stand-in for a pedophile! Yipes.

I liked the "Save the Dinosaurs!" minigame in 3D Dinosaur Adventure. :) Until I encountered the giant insects. Especially the mosquitoes. Not only did they look very fearsome magnified in size like that, so did the buzzing sound they made when they drained your time. x_x Even the taunting Dromaeosaurs weren't that creepy. Well at least I made a joke about the giant fleas. When I saw them, I said aloud "Giant fleas! Dogs must have had nightmares like this."

I would like to mention The Looney Tunes Show. The episode "Itsy Bitsy Gopher" involves Bugs Bunny having a venomous spider in his house. I remember feeling jumpscared twice when I first watched this episode. The first time was when we suddenly see that the spider has jumped on Porky when Bugs was telling him that it wouldn't do that. The second time was when the spider bites Bugs after he finds out that he just rescued it for nothing.

Paper Mario gave me nightmares as a kid. The thoughts of traversing the Dry Dry Desert and Forever Forest were daunting and their atmospheres were unsettling. I needed my friends to help to venture through them.

The dark Dry Dry Ruins were creepier, the dimly lit rooms and creepy voices. The enemies appearing out of nowhere gave me jump scares. Oddly enough, I never recall getting a Game Over from fighting them.

Once I got to Boo’s Mansion, all my fear and paranoia disappeared. The Boos were really silly and their challenges were amusing. Tubba Blubba never scared me but I could never figure out how to get past him in the hallway. I needed my friends’ help again.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on May 10th 2024 at 2:44:10 PM

Off the top of my head, I would say the "mad watch" scene in Alice in Wonderland (1951). That, or the destruction of the grotto in The Little Mermaid (1989).

Edited by Kahran042 on May 11th 2024 at 4:33:42 AM

Maybe this is more "creeped out" and "disgusted" than "scared", but seeing the "chocolate man" deodorant commercial used by Lynx in the UK and Axe in the US in a compilation of nostalgic commercials was an upsetting moment. The seemingly charming intent of it fails to register when the concept is basically TV-friendly cannibalism, all on someone whose face is frozen into a grin as it happens. It took a while before I could willingly watch it again. Honestly, most "popular" scary commercials don't feel as messed up as this.

The Godfather, when the newspapers showed the aftermath of the killings of Sollozo and Mc Clusky, the actual act is fine by me but the newspapers were extremely accurate depictions of terrifying crimes done IRL and just as scary. It even scared me to realize real life murders wouldnt be any different.

I remember struggling to sleep for three days after finishing Nineteen Eighty-Four. If you know, you know.

DO IT TO JULIA!!!!

Oh, PTSD, lovely. Haven't had one of these in a while. Thank you very much. Have a nice day.