Nightmare Fuel / Ice Age

"Where's the baby?"

• The death of Manny's original family by humans as depicted in the cave painting. The paintings of the humans are scary too. Like real life cave art, they are just portrayed as black silhouettes without faces, which makes them look extremely unsettling as the animation for this segment is very dreamlike, making their movement look unnatural and skittish. Even their voices are just portrayed as high pitched yelling and chanting. Extra disturbing since this is likely how Manny sees humans, or used to.
  • If the paintings were human made, they detailed it unnervingly well and drew themselves in the aforementioned, indistinguishable creepy stick figures they believed animals saw them. If it's the work of an unseen anthropomorphic character, they've distressingly captured the misanthropic theme the sabers live by.
  • You think Manny's the only mammoth who lost his family to humans? Hell, mammoths only lasted as long as they did because they were a useful prey species, even as the climate changed...
• When Sid sees a frozen T. rex.
  • That entire "ice horror museum" sequence is kind of creepy...especially the glossed over spacecraft and its unlucky inhabitants.
• The entire "river of lava" scene. At first, the ice begins to melt under Sid's feet. It seems like nothing until fire bursts out everywhere, leaving the group to make it across a small ice bridge that is falling apart underneath them.
• Manny's reaction to The Reveal of Diego's betrayal. He comes close to killing him right then and there.
  Diego: I'm sorry!
  Manny: No, you're not! Not yet.
• Soto's desire to eat Roshan and threats towards Diego make him a no-nonsense villain.
  Soto: Alert the troops. We attack at dawn. And Diego, bring me that baby alive. If I'm gonna enjoy my revenge, I want it to be fresh...
  • After Diego's failure, Soto is furious but gives him another chance and pretty much threatens Diego if he fails again, he'll kill him.
    Soto: I want that baby, Diego!
    Diego: I'll get it!
    Soto: You'd better! Unless you wanna serve yourself as a replacement. We'll go up to Half Peak! Meet us there. It'd better be alive...
  • When he explains his plan to his goons on how to take down Manny.
    Soto: Mammoths don't go down easily. There's only one way to do it. First, you have to force it into a corner. Cut off its retreat. And when you three have it trapped, I'll go for the throat...
  • His ultimate fate: You can actually hear the icicles stab him to death. Yikes!
• When everyone goes to sleep after their dodo adventure, Diego suddenly wakes with glowing eyes. He then sneaks up to get Roshan from Manny's trunk, claws fully protracted. If it weren't for Soto's pack rustling in the bushes, he would have succeeded seizing the baby from the herd. His glowing eyes only appear in this scene, reminding the audience that Diego here is a villain until near the end of film.
  • There's also his cold warning to Sid earlier, right after Manny's convinced to have him track down the humans:
    Diego: {circling Sid and the baby} You won't always have Jumbo around to protect you. And when that day comes, I suggest you watch your back. Cause I'll be chewing on it.
    Sid: [suitably terrified] Help me.
• The cave drawings seen in the end credits of this film and the second can be this for some people, due to their uncanny, crudely-drawn appearances.

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