Nightmare Fuel / Disenchantment

"It's like ham, but it's not ham."

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Season 1

"The Princess of Darkness"

• The whole exorcism scene definitely took a few pages from The Exorcist. When Big Jo is sent to remove Luci from Bean's room, the Enchantress casts a spell that forces Luci to possess Bean for real (by going down her throat) to try and fool Big Jo into thinking there's no demon to exorcise (very poorly).
  • Bean's eyes are glowing red and she's blankly staring into space with her mouth wide open, exposing Luci's eye. But the real sickening part is when Luci contorts her body in different ways that the human body can't, starting by twisting her head around 360 degrees For the Lulz. And the fact that Bean is aware of what's happening to her (and groaning in pain) is even worse.
  • But what's more frightening than Bean's demonic possession? The exorcist, Big Jo himself. This guy, who's acknowledged to be creepy even in-universe, seems a bit too zealous about hunting demons. When Jo's first few tricks fail to expel Luci, he resorts to setting Bean's bed on fire. Not because he expects to hurt Luci (he knows demons are immune to fire), but because he's crazy enough to risk burning Bean to death just to deprive Luci of a body to hide in. Luci, while pointing out how insane this is, voluntarily leaves Bean's body and surrenders himself to Jo just to save his friend's life.

"Castle Party Massacre"

• Guess what happens in this episode. When Bean comes back to the throne room to try calling off the party, she finds that the Land Vikings have already slaughtered almost all the party guests, leaving the room littered with dozens of bloody corpses and dismembered limbs.

"Faster, Princess! Kill! Kill!"

• When looking for a job, Bean decides to try her hand at becoming a butcher... in a pet shop.
• When Bean is preparing for her role in carrying out the public execution of Gwen the Witch (which she repeatedly hesitates from doing), Luci tells her "If you're nervous, just look into my eye." This is followed by Bean getting a nightmarish vision, giving a glimpse into Luci's demonic nature; she sees millions of screaming, damned souls forming what looks like an evil face, emitting high-pitched laughter.
• Hansel and Gretel. Unlike the original fairy tale, THEY'RE the ones who eat people, and not the Witch. At first, their homicidal/cannibalistic behavior is played for black comedy, but it does start to get a lot creepier, especially when Bean falls into the room where they keep all their discarded body parts.
  • Special mention goes to the various candies and desserts made out of human flesh. Not only are the images themselves grotesque, they're colored and detailed much more realistically than the rest of the show. It looks like something out of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.
  • Similarly, the cotton candy Bean falls into just looks... wrong. It seems to be CGI and is rendered photorealistically, giving it an Uncanny Valley effect. Oh, and it's filled with near-mummified corpses.
  • Hansel and Gretel also clarify that, no, they did not go crazy after being kidnapped by the Witch (who actually adopted them). They were already crazy. And they ate their parents.

To Thine Own Elf Be True

• Elfo's death. At the end of the knights' raid on the village of Elfwood, one of them fires an arrow into Elfo's back, killing him while Bean and Luci watch in horror. Unlike all the other deaths and violence in the show that were played for black comedy, Elfo's demise was treated with dead-seriousness.
• The flashback narrated by Zog, where he recounts how he and a much younger Bean saw Dagmar being turned into stone after drinking poisoned wine. Like the incident with Elfo above, there's nothing funny about it.

Dreamland Falls

• Queen Dagmar proves to be one hell of a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. Little did Zog or Bean even know, Dagmar was the one who poisoned the wine with the intention of killing her own husband, only failing because she accidentally drank the wrong glass. After being brought back from death, Dagmar continues to set her true plans in motion. She turns several people to stone with the same poison and frames Oona for it, causing Zog and Oona to turn against each other out of fear. When Zog eventually figures out what's really happening, Dagmar tries to kill him again, and then releases a massive flood of the poison to turn (almost) everyone in Dreamland into stone. After Dagmar tricks Bean into leaving the country with her, Zog is left behind in his petrified ghost-town of a city.

Season 2

The Disenchantress

• Whatever Dagmar and her siblings are up to. They are apparently planning to use Bean as some kind of sacrifice or vessel for some dark magical power. The ritual they plan for her involves screwing a crown into her skull. And they're not even sure if it will even work; they've tried it before with their youngest brother Jerry, and it made him a simpleton with divots in his head.

The Lonely Heart Is A Hunter

• The music box which Dagmar left for Bean. The music alone is unsettling, but it's two separate instances of the box playing that stand out.
  • Whilst exploring a secret passageway that leads to an underground cave system beneath the castle, Bean's torch suddenly goes out, leaving her in darkness... and then the music box suddenly starts playing right next to her.
  • Understandably freaked out, Bean smashes the music box and throws it out her window. The next shot shows her asleep in her bed... only to awaken to the sound of the repaired music box playing on her nightstand.

Season 3

Subterranean Homesick Blues

• Zog arranges to fake his death and have Penderghast sneak him out of Dreamland. As he rides out in a coffin with viewport, he sees Penderghast's head on a pike above him. Once he reaches the graveyard, he discovers that he's been riding with the Archdruidess the whole time, and he can only watch as she buries him alive with a vicious grin on her face.

You’re the Bean

• Speaking of taphophobia and claustrophobia, the B-plot of the episode revolves around Zog slowly suffocating in his coffin and losing his sanity the more he stays inside of it. Even when the underground creatures save him by accident, the experience traumatized him so much, that he has a Sanity Slippage for much of Season 3.

The Madness Of King Zog

• When Zog hears Dagmar's voice. Compared to his other antics, it comes across as a jarringly realistic hallucination.
  Let me in, Zog, and I'll let you out.
• Freckles. It might not be a coincidence that Zog only gets him after the aforementioned hallucination of Dagmar. It's shown several times he might well be able to move and speak on his own (confirmed in part 4), which paints a lot of what "Zog" says through him in a different light, adding a different unsettling element: A loved one now driven so completely insane they can't speak, and the thing they're supposedly using as a coping mechanism is either not actually helping, or is just part of someone else's plot to make things worse. Adding to that is, since he's a puppet, he's a creepy little bastard anyway.

Bean Falls Down

• Doubles as Tear Jerker. Bean is truly at her lowest point at the series. Luci is dead, Elfo has been taken, and now she's at the mercy of her mother about to be married off to some unknown being in Hell.

Season 4

What To Expect When You're Expecting Parasites

• How Sea Trogs reproduce. Their victims are kept alive, even from drowning, to allow the worms to eat them from the inside, rotting the unmarked flesh at the same time, until the infected individual dies when the parasites tear their body to get out. In addition, victims remain conscious during the process, but under the mental control of the worms. The bright side is they don't seem to feel pain during the process. The dark side is they are actually happy to be slowly eaten to death. Truly, one of the most disgusting and disturbing elements in the entire show.
• Sven's death. A second after saying he's okay despite having spent months being eaten alive, his eyeballs explode with thousands of worms pouring out.
• On a more realistic note (so maybe a scarier note), Bean stuck alone in the flooding building at the bottom of the sea, trapped by the currents, and unable to escape, desperate to the point of begging Satan and her mother (which is the same for her) to come and save her while the last air pocket is submerged, and then spend a long time underwater, until she pass out from oxygen deprivation. Bean was one minute away from drowning to death, if Mora didn't find her.