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Nightmare Fuel / DC Super Hero Girls (2019)

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Little Lauren's already had experience with dropping terrifying moments into seemingly colorful shows... and this one would be no exception.


#MeetTheCheetah

  • This episode introduces the Cheetah, and being a stealth villain, one can expect a lot of atmospheric scares.
    • First off, the fact that the entirety of the second half takes place in the dark. It more or less resembles a horror movie after a while.
    • Each of the girls (except Wonder Woman) gets taken off one by one. Especially since it seems like the Cheetah isn't even there... until she strikes. Batgirl's tracker, for example, keeps showing a red dot approaching her. Everywhere she seems to come from, she's not there until she gets caught. Oh, and that's because the Cheetah lunged at her from the ceiling.
      • How does Diana find Bumblebee in the climax? She sees Cheetah biting her wings when in tiny mode. And if she didn't arrive, she would have eaten her! Yikes! If that doesn't show how bloodthirsty she is, what will?
    • After everything seems said and done, we are given one last shot of Barbi washing her face in the bathroom.
      Barbi: Let go of the green-eyed monster, eh, Diana? [her mascara runs, resembling the Cheetah] And why would I ever want to let go [eyes and teeth shift] of this? [starts laughing evilly, facing the screen, while the scene fades]

#ShockItToMe

  • This episode as a whole is pretty disturbing, especially if you've been a victim of cyberbullying. To put this in perspective, the girls (sans Diana) were so embarrassed after their fights with Livewire that they were unwilling to even fight (at first).
    • It only gets worse in the climax where Livewire was outright willing to murder Diana in front of a whole crowd, who immediately stop laughing and realize how serious the situation is.
    • Also, Livewire hammering in the fact that everyone (initially) found her pain funny. Doubles as a Tear Jerker when it seems Diana is actually thinking that she may be right.
      Livewire: See, Blunder Woman? The people love me! Hear them laugh? Laughing at you? You're just a joke to them!

#SoulSisters

  • Katana, despite being a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Stealthy, ruthless, and comes with a magic sword that can steal the souls of anyone the blade hits. As demonstrated throughout the episode, starting with a criminal, all of the Super Villain Girls, and, within two minutes of Part 2, all of the girls except for Wonder Woman.

#RageCat

  • Even before Dexter gets his Red Lantern Power Ring, he's a dangerous and vicious cat who maims everyone. Once he does get his ring, he becomes much more dangerous and willing to kill whoever he wants, with the only source of humor being him showing distraction to a string.
    • In fact, this might be the most terrifying version of Dex-Star ever. When he coughs up his "hairballs", he makes the choking motion a real cat does, before it comes up as red lava destroying everything it touches. He doesn't so much fly as he stalks his prey on an invisible surface.

#BackInaFlash

  • The Bad Futures Barbara causes by fixing her mistakes. The entire city and possibly the rest of the world has been destroyed by Starro. And in another, the world is under the complete rule of General Zod. Barbara and Barry's reactions are appropriate enough.

#PowerSurge

#AllyCat

  • You can see a corpse holding the Book of Destiny at the beginning. It can be quite disturbing in a kid show.
  • Lex's gameplan after obtaining the book. A catastrophic meteor, said by him to be "extinction-level", was going to hit the city. And while everyone would be without any leadership or ways to live, Lex will be there, offering support in exchange for control over the city... and then, the world. This plan was so insane that even Catwoman was disturbed and disgusted.

#Retreat

  • The whole episode plays out like a zombie movie, thanks to Poison Ivy reanimating dead plants. And it's definitely not for comedy, either.
    • Those who have a vine from the Plant zombies turn into one themselves. Very slowly, as demonstrated with Hal.
  • Just the whole fact that Pam was outright trying to murder them all. Including Jessica, who the two were briefly becoming friends in #Misgiving Tree.

#DinnerForFive

#LivingTheNightmare

  • The girls' nightmares, courtesy of Fuseli. Fuseli himself resembles and very well could be a demon, goblin, gremlin, or imp.
  • Zee's worst fear is an all-blue version of herself that represents all she fears. Once unleashed by Fuseli, she almost gets defeated until she faces it head on.

#AllAboutZee

  • Casey Krinsky. She starts as a creepy and hyper-obsessed stalker to Zee, but then her true colors reveal themselves and it all goes downhill from there.

#TheFreshPrincessOfRenFaire

#HappyBirthdayZee

  • The same blue magic that overcame Zee in "#IllusionsOfGrandeur" and "#LivingTheNightmare" returns here, and it's revealed to be fueled completely on negative emotions. We get another display of this power as she accidentally lets out a spell that hypnotizes her friends.
  • Zee's friends in general under said spell.

#WarriorandtheJester

#NightmareInGotham

  • The Joker. He gives Gotham its "scariest Halloween", but also doesn't want anyone else to top his actions in the future. His solution? Killing everyone living in Gotham and destroying the city so no one will be alive to surpass his feat.
    Supergirl: Well, [hauls Solomon Grundy] that takes care of the monsters!
    Green Lantern: Not all of them...

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