Nightmare Fuel / Freddi Fish

• The music that plays when Boss and Spongehead show up, notably in the first game.
• The Squidfather could be this. He never speaks intelligibly (and is the only intelligent being in the first game with this trait), his lackeys are terrified of him, and his plan involved hoarding (and presumably ransoming) a resource that most of the other ocean-dwellers would die without.
• Kids who played Maze Madness were often terrified of the sounds the enemies made and how some of the music always had an eerie feeling, like the music from levels 46-50.
• The music that plays in the sunken ship in the fifth game is extremely creepy.
• Spongehead the Shark's laugh in Maze Madness is downright terrifying.
• The first game's sunken ship music was eerie, and the atmosphere in the ship was really creepy. The fact that you only have the company of two other fish there doesn't help matters.
• A Dummied Out cutscene shows Freddi Fish imagine that she's feeding Luther to Eddie the eel.
  Luther: Whatcha thinkin' about, Freddi?
  Freddi: Oh, nothing, Luther.
  • That scene was thankfully not used by default in the final game, but still.
  • Pay attention to Eddie's mouth; he's not clean about it. You can actually see chunks of Luther in there (though it's thankfully nothing too descriptive).
  • Honestly, Eddie in general was pretty creepy, especially with his electricity that let you just barely see his bones.
• When Freddi Fish and Luther ask their octopus friend Barnacle Bob where he got a particular pulley in his pulley store, he sings "It was the schooner Hesperus, that sailed the wintry sea! The skipper had taken his daughter along, and she sold this here pulley to me!" This is referencing a poem about a tragic shipwreck. So either Barnacle Bob took the pulley from the shipwreck, or a child sold him a potentially crucial part of a ship that led to the wreck of the ship and her own death.

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