10. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Sleeping Beauty is one of the early Disney fairy tales. Girl is cursed and falls asleep, prince kisses her, she wakes up with no questions and lives happily ever after. Just like all romances.
Squick aside, the nightmare fuel has nothing to do with either Aurora or Philip. It has to do with Maleficent, the woman/witch/what-the-fuck who cursed Aurora.
The one with the Nice Hat, not the bird. (I don't even care if it is a real hat or not. IT LOOKS COOL.)
Maleficent is the embodiment of evil. She has no real purpose or meaning behind the evil...she is evil for evil's sake. This means she has no morals, no consciences. In other words, she's terrifying. She says she curses Aurora because she wasn't invited to the gathering, but we all know she would have done it anyway.
Because the King and Queen haven't figured out about attempting to avoid fate, they agree to let the Three Good Fairies raise their daughter in the woods until the time given by Maleficent has passed. Maleficent, of course, searches fruitlessly for her, but fails to find her for sixteen years. Unfortunately, being a Good Fairy doesn't mean you're smart, and while flying overhead, Diablo (the bird) spots the flares from the magical duel going on in Aurora's cottage. Maleficent puts two and two together and heads them off...
Aurora falls asleep as promised. Philip is captured, but manages to escape Maleficent's castle (with some Fairy help) and attempts to rescue Aurora. Maleficent is having none of it...
Yeah.
And if you feel like writing this off, just remember: That dragon is really in the Disneyland show Fantasmic!
Still think that dragon isn't scary?
Didn't think so.
9. Dumbo (1941)
Oh, boy...oh boy. Dumbo.
If it's been a while, a little elephant with big ears is born into the circus. His mama loves him, but everyone else makes fun of him for his giant ears.
It goes downhill quick when he is brought into the circus. An obnoxious boy pulls on his ears, which causes her to grab him and spank him.
(It's the only video I could find, give me a break)
Apparently, spanking another species is bad, because she's branded a "mad elephant" and put in chains...and elephant jail.
Dumbo goes to visit her, which is depressing as hell...
And then...
The moment you've been waiting for.
Dumbo gets drunk as shit and sees THAT.
Christ, I done here...
8. The Lion King (1994)
As with Sleeping Beauty up there, The Lion King's main nightmare fuel comes from its main villain, Scar. Scar (because I'm sure you've all forgotten) wants to be king, so he kills his brother Mufasa and has his son, Simba, banished (though he had aimed to kill him).
His first moment of pure nightmare/awesomeness comes during his epic Villain Song, "Be Prepared."
Not only does it lay out exactly what Scar has in mind (killing his brother and nephew), the hyenas mimic the Nazi marches from WWII Germany. Bad Nazi Scar. Bad.
Next up, we're in a gorge with Scar and Simba...
Cue the horrific stampede of wildebeest...
Mufasa comes to his son's rescue and manages to get him out before being pulled back in himself. He leaps to the cliffside and begins to climb to safety. He gets almost to the top and sees Scar standing at the top, watching him, and he pleads for help.
Scar then clamps down painfully on Mufasa's paws...and utters the single most spine-chilling line ever uttered... (In 27 languages, just to drive the point home)
After Simba finds Mufasa's body, Scar banishes him and sends his hyenas after him. They fail to catch him, choosing instead to let him starve in the desert. Fast forward to Simba's adulthood after Nala finds him and smacks some sense into him. Simba returns to find Scar has completely neglected his true duties as king and turned the Pridelands into a wasteland. Simba and his friends challenge Scar's reign, resulting in a fiery battle that's every bit as brutal as you can imagine. Minus the blood, of course.
And then Simba throws Scar off a cliff. He survives...but not for long...
You see, in hopes that Simba would spare him, Scar sold out his hyena buddies. Unfortunately, they heard him. And they weren't happy about it, especially after all the shit they'd put up with...
That's right. This whole time you were afraid of Scar...you were fearing the wrong guy.
And that's part 2! Part 3 shall be upon us...after I watch some more MLP:FiM.
AGENT R IS OUT. PEACE.
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