#fridge horror

[grimalkinmessor]

Not to keep harping on it but Death Note has plenty of fridge horror to go along with the unintentional humor and romance.

Like,,,the ENTIRETY of Wammy's House is such a fucked up concept. An orphanage where they crank out genius kids into the world by...what? What are they doing with those kids? What do you mean one of them died in there? Wait—and the second one is a serial killer? And one joined the mafia? What—WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THOSE KIDS—

Not to mention the intricacies of L and Watari's relationship. He's seen as a butler/father figure until you find out that he's an inventor/war vet who took in an orphan with the express purpose of making him useful. No wonder Wammy's runs the way it does when the og, the man it is named after sees children as tools and means to an end. And, given that L has already made them so much money playing stocks that it doesn't even matter anymore (Mr. Builds A Skyscraper To House Five People), why is Quillish still with him? To keep an eye on him? To make sure L doesn't forget where he came from? Out of some sort of guilt for never teaching him how to take care of himself because those weren't the skills that Quillish thought it important to cultivate? Or maybe even to keep him dependent on Quillish to keep functioning properly.

And then there's the horror of L himself. Not even the implications of him, but the proof of who he is and what he can do. The thought of a man with so much money and power and influence that if he wanted to make you disappear, if he wanted to torture you or hold your loved ones hostage or kill you and everyone that's ever shaken your hand he could and no one would fucking bat an eye—that's fucking terrifying. (Where the fuck is Beyond—) And, not only does he have the power to do all that; no one would question it because he's part of Law™. His every action can be excused as being part of the Greater Good, despite the fact that L himself has admitted that everything he does is for his own benefit and/or entertainment.

Light, of course, is an obvious horror—but one of the most horrific things about him is glossed over. I'm not someone who personally believes in the Death Note's corruptive powers or aura or whatever, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the fact that, once you give up the Death Note, your memories of it are erased. All the people you've killed, all the things that you've seen, you've still seen and done all those things, you just don't remember it. There's a hole in your mind, and all that prickly, thorny mess that grew in you when you were a killer is still there, choking you—you just don't know why. Why are you so unfazed by death? Why don't you cry when your mother dies? Why are you so afraid of being something that looks like you? Will you ever be certain of anything again? Will you ever, truly, know yourself when you can't remember all the atrocities you've committed? Can you ever change and grow again if your roots are gone? Or are you stuck in stasis forever now, your mind stalling in one place in order to keep you from remembering the people you've killed?

#death note #fridge horror #people always talk about the unintentional romance or humor #but i dont think people talk about the unintentional horrors enough #quillish wammy #l lawliet #yagami light #light yagami #wammy kids #*rattles my cage* #THE IMPLICATIONS..!.;THE IMPLICATIONS OF IT ALL..!.!!! #you know for a horror show the horror is extremely well hidden #but then again i DO like scares you gotta think about for a minute #okay but srsly where is beyond #like realistically he was probably put in prison but also canonically im not SURE he was put in prison #bc really do you think quillish wants that on record? one of his experiment orphans committing murder? #or L even do you think L wants someone running around with his secrets and FACE?? #i would not be surprised if they just fuckin bodied him afterwards no pomp and circumstance just chucked him in the bog #or worse....he might be back at wammys #locked up in the fuckin basement or some shit #that place is SCARY bro

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Do you think there is a version of events where the anti-morphing ray does end up working in the story, but with a twist?

The ray doesn’t work on Tobias because he is a hawk permanently, but during the process of his torture and tinkering with the device….Taylor’s scientist team discovers the cure for nothlits.

Unsure if there has been a fic done under that premise or it is has really been considered before. Would love to hear your thoughts.

I love this idea, because it has so many layers of fridge horror. In theory, this could be canon all along and we just don't know it, because the yeerks wouldn't have a reason to release any such cure during the war. This might just have happened, but Tobias (and Arbron) never got to see the benefits.

#animorphs #fridge horror #nothlits #morphing #anti-morphing ray

[homeofhousechickens]

Have you ever experienced "Fridge Horror"? And if so what was it?

Fridge horror is the kind of horror that takes a little bit to kick in. Like you get up to get a snack and then it hits you.

I think the most recent example I personally experienced is when the doors and windows disappear in Skinamarink. Like it was kind of funny at first (like ooooo the doors are gone) then I thought what it would be like to actually have that happen to me in my own home as a young child.

#Horror #horror media #fridge horror

[ultraericthered]

If I had a nickel for everytime Keith Silverstein voiced a silver haired glasses-wearing villain who in one version is a better man and father who could be redeemed but in the other version is an irredeemably horrible man and father who’s unrepentant to the end, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice!

#Sailor Moon #manga #anime #Professor Tomoe #Miraculous #Miraculous Ladybug #ladybug and cat noir the movie #Gabriel Agreste #keith silverstein #villains #comparison #meme #funny #fridge horror

[mawinswag]

god that last shot from the pilot where it pans slowly to Pomni's face got me in a way no show has in *years*

like the finality and sweeping emotion of the music would be standard fare in the ending of the children's shows TADC is meant to emulate

but in the context of the pilot, it's like Pomni finally realizes that this horrifying reality is her life now like OH MY GOD it's so horrifying and dreadful with just basic music and cinematography THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD Y'ALL OH MY GOD

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #digital circus #fridge horror #i actually watched the pilot more than once #thats how good it is aaaaaa

[myreputatioooon]

Maybe I'm misremembering but Ariane's diary entries at the very least implies that Vineta, the SIGNALIS equivalent of Planet Fucking Earth is monocultural and I find that fucking horrifying on so many levels.

She clocks Elster's accent as Vineta, not A Vineta accent. The Vineta accent.

Fucking hell

#SIGNALIS #Signalis spoilers #Fridge horror #LSTR #Elster #Ariane Yeong #Ariane Signalis #i could write up a whole essay but I dont have the brainpower to even BRAIN DRAFT

[theworkshopmann]

Fridge Horror

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#Fridge Horror #cosmetic #tf2 workshop #the workshop Mann #tf2 #Team Fortress 2 #tf2 medic #the medic #red medic #blu medic

[levy120]

Might as well throw this out there instead of just spamming the folk on discord, because I was just working on a little ficlet for Captain Laserhawk when a horrible epiphany struck me.

None of this should have come as a surprise because Rayman outright says so, says that ‘Eden saved his life’ and that ‘he'd be nothing without them’ but it passes so quickly with so much going on and so many worse revelations to come that we hardly get the time to stew on what. that. means.

Let me set the scene for you.

You are Eden, all new in power and, ready to shape the world in your image.

The hybrids are fresh in, they are your product, your campaign, you introduced them to the world.

But the general public has not been kind to the aliens from dimension X, so why would they be kind to hybrids. But you need this to work because they are the backbone for your entire corporate machine.

You start opening jobs for hybrid people especially - outside of their designated purpose to feign integration.

Jobs like PR and customer complaints, for people to vent and people who can de-escalate.

And suddenly this weird little alien dude is there to apply for the position.

And you say "but we're looking for hybrids. You are not a hybrid"

And suddenly that thing gets desperate. It has a degree, by what it's saying it's absurdly overqualified for the job. And here it is glorifying a callcenter job because literally everything else it tried did not work out. It doesn't say so outright but you can read between the lines when it says it's an ‘expert in dealing with criticism’ and that 'on the phone no one sees its face’...

You do not post a public job offer for ‘propaganda officer’.

Even just media representation or moderation is sth that you need to apply for, there are no offers unless you are already a big shot.

Rayman probably turned up at Eden looking for the lowest of lowest jobs and might have let a couple things slide during an anxious job interview that made Eden realize "this unique and quirky and marketable creature is so very VERY desperate. It's going to be eating out of the palm of our hand SO MUCH, no matter what.”

So they make a counter offer instead.

When Rayman says Eden took him in, it very much implies they 'discovered him' more than 'he actively approached them'.

You don't say ‘you'd be nothing without your employer’ or that they ‘saved your life’ for getting a job you apply for that you know you deserve. 

Job interviews are all about selling yourself and spilling confidence - fake or not.

"Here I am! You should have me because I'm the best possible fit for your company!”

Rayman's tale is very much NOT that.

The guy has been fighting rejection just to be rejected more and then comes Eden and preys on that very vulnerability.

Rayman is miserable behind the scenes, but there's such a disconnect in the way he acts to being treated unfairly and the way he talks about Eden regardless of that because what else can he be but grateful for even having gotten where he is right then to begin with.

#rayman #captain laserhawk #clabdr #speculation #fridge horror #yes there's a fic coming #Edit: The fic is here #It's “Alien in America”

[virtuouswhitehatorganization]

Can We Just Dwell On The Fact That Heed Kept Two Men As Her Helpless Prisoners In Her Own Home?

Seriously, as said before there is something really creepy about the way she could do anything with them under her spell. And seriously, she kept them in her house against their will as she kept them brainwashed. Again despite being a small fry compared to them it's scary that you can be forced to be someone's prisoner and not fight back. And again appear to others to just be jelling with them as you are trapped in your own mind. As well as the fact due to gender perceptions, no one would suspect foul play or suspicion two previously independent men are trailing behind this woman. With Omega they can excuse it because he's long time been her friend and partner, but with Coyote who probably had a strong villain reputation it would take a lot of questioning why he is so submissive to the whims of this woman. As said before, if the gender roles were were swapped this would be a whole lot creeper that she kept them imprisoned and brainwashed in her house.

#villainous #villainos #miss heed #villanos #coyote villainous #coyote villanos #coyote #villainous coyote #villanos coyote #omega nuclear #omega #fridge horror

[sweatersexual]

can you imagine how much consulting the oracle before his quest to the hesperides must have traumatized luke

#the fridge horror man #fridge horror #pjo series #luke castellan

[allanjh]

A must-see tourist attraction in west Texas, the world's largest restaurant takes "drive-thru" to a whole new level. Located just outside Gumption, TX, this huge Golden Corral was constructed in 1989 when the nearby ill-fated Mystery Flesh Pit National Park was still open to the public.

After the tragedy of 2007 and resulting closure of the park to the public, business dropped precipitously, but it has remained open due to its status and novelty, as well as a lucrative partnership with Anodyne Corp.

However, it's best not to dwell on where the ingredients come from.

#ai art #ai generated #mystery flesh pit #nostalgia horror #fridge horror #golden corral #liminal #liminal spaces

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Since Cassie is “temporally grounded” (whatever that means) and she can remember all the wacky alternate timelines, do you think she ever brings them up now that the war is over? She probably has all sorts of verbal bombs she could casually drop. (And that nobody would believe.) Like, “yeah in the version of reality where we didn’t meet Elfangor, Marco and Rachel ended up dating.”

(On a darker note do you think that means she remembers the timeline where Tom dies)

I love the idea that Cassie's extra knowledge of timelines makes her kind of weird and off-putting. I'm a huge sucker for "prophet character is bizarre and quite daffy because they're unstuck in time" as a trope. (E.g. Drusilla from Buffy, Merlin from Sword in the Stone.) So if Cassie is only like 80% sure which timeline she's currently living in, and slips up every so often... yeesh.

Among other things, she'd remember Jake dying in #11, everyone being fascist enslavers in MM3, the future where everyone but controller-Rachel is dead from #7, herself as Scary Resistance Leader in the future from #41, possibly whatevertheheck went down with Rachel and David in #48, and the no-Animorph universe of MM4. That's a lot to keep track of, especially considering she'd remember an entire decade apiece of the futures from #7 and #41 while her own war in reality only lasted three years.

There are some existentially horrifying implications to that idea. She'd remember her own death. She'd remember entire decades when all her friends were gone. And if she can't always remember what everyone else remembers, and has to occasionally go "Oh yeah, that was just after the time Jake blew up the Chrysler Building — wait, no one else experienced that, never mind" then that's so freaking disturbing to contemplate. Dang.

#animorphs #fridge horror #cassie animorphs #sario rip #cursed headcanon is cursed #and yet #headcanon accepted #[also: I thought everyone remembered Tom dying?] #[but maybe I'm the one unstuck in time?]

[alethianightsong]

I'm watching the Whole Cake Island arc and can't get over how Big Mom purposely gave the desserts personality & feelings so that she can eat them alive. Then I learned her backstory and now I'm thinking her first tea party gave her a preference for eating things that can scream and wriggle. I thought Dressrosa was disturbing but Whole Cake takes the cake.

#charlotte family #charlotte linlin #big mom #big mom pirates #whole cake island #totto land #one piece #one piece linlin #fridge horror #one piece totto land

[ultraericthered]

A thought has struck me....

If I had a nickel for every "Mid" quality animated film from 2023 primarily for kids and fans of the IP, not the best received by critics, not very long in runtime, very light on story but filled with Easter Eggs and references for the die-hard fans, and featuring a show-stealing evil monarch villain who sings a quirky villain song at one point and gets imprisoned in the end, I'd have two nickels.

#Disney #Wish #Nintendo #Super Mario Bros #movie #comparison #meme #fridge horror #Heinz Doofenshmirtz #Dr. Doofenshmirtz #memetic mutation #oh the irony

[epicgnome23]

Reading a fanfic where a kid dies and a Banette them to fulfill their wish of being a Pokémon trainer, now that’s sweet and all but like the fridge horror that is a few months later when the gym leaders are talking about up and coming trainers in the region and they all start talking about the weird kid who doesn’t talk and has only ghost Pokémon. Then the reveal that it’s just been a Banette puppeteering the kids body like a flesh mech this whole time.

#pokemon #banette #fanfiction #fridge horror

[myreputatioooon]

You will probably be able to tell that I'm involved hardly in the horror game (and sometimes other media) scene because a common thread in all the games I've watched videos of are the fact that the protagonist who is oftent he victim of the "monster" is always the little guy like (less than) minimum wage employees or innocent people wrongfully harmned by something The Monster is also entangled in and maybe a victim of as well

Idk there's just something about the protagonist and sometimes even the Monster being victims by the decisions of Higher Ups that put you in such a horrific position and now your pitted against each other. Just another layer of horror that is consistently present

#this includes ROBLOX horror btw #FNAF #five nights at freddy's #Batim #bendy and the ink machine #Poppy Playtime #Garten of BanBan #The Walten Files #Mystery Flesh Pit #MFP #TWF #Roblox Vents #<<<that game made it all click btw #Fridge Horror #sometiems the protagonsit is the Victim of an absurd lack of safety measurses. or rather almost always