Transformers Animated/Nightmare Fuel


 * Transformers Animated is disturbingly full of these, especially in Season Three when the writers apparently stopped taking their medication.
 * Blackarachnia, from the Transformation Trauma of her backstory on up through her vampire-style fangs and hissing. Let's not even start on causing all Detroit's organic life (including Sari) starting to wither and die when she tried to use the key. She looks even worse with her helmet off.
 * The episode where Lockdown first appeared, which was just creepy in general. Ripping parts off of conscious bots is not a pretty thing.
 * He doesn't rip them off. He removes them with surgical precision so he can use them later as his own, which makes it even worse.
 * Don't forget it's established that Transformers do feel pain in this episode.
 * The fact they threatened to take Swindle apart and auction the pieces, all while he was fully aware and conscious, and also unable to move or protest.
 * Just threatened? When Swindle, frozen in vehicle mode, was taken away by the Muggle authorities, the Autobots don't say word one and so nobody but them knows he's not just a vehicle.
 * Lugnut being eaten by All Spark-charged nanobots, and then being, you know, cut in half.
 * Wreck-Gar, for a second there on the barge. [Usual cheerful voice all the way through] "I am Wreck-Gar! I dare to be stupid! [Eyes turn bright red] I will destroy the whole city!" It was... very different from the other times he's casually lapped up other people's suggestions. Best seen in context.
 * Poor Wasp. Wasp's speech pattern and appearance were a shoutout to the loveable but luckless Waspinator from Beast Wars—except that Waspinator wasn't originally a mentally normal if slightly dickish person. The years that Wasp spent imprisoned for treachery against the Autobots apparently were horrible enough to completely warp his mind, and this is from the good guys.
 * And then in a later episode (this guy seriously has no luck), Wasp is transformed into the hulking technoorganic Waspinator. It's mercifully offscreen, but you can hear his screams and see his hand pounding at the glass of the chamber door. Later in the episode we have another Beast Wars shoutout turn disturbing.
 * You gotta hand it to the writers, they took the chew toy of Beast Wars and played him as shockingly straight as possible.
 * Poor got one of the most brutal moments in the show when he gets caught between an Advancing Wall of Doom and gets crushed into a metal cube. The former is made even worse by Word of God saying that
 * You forgot to mention that immediately after he was crushed,, ordered one of his unknowing subordinates to throw   remains into an incinerator.
 * Sari, after learning of her decides to use the Allspark Key to take a level in badass. At first it works...but then she completely loses control of herself and comes all too close to graphically killing her best friend Bumblebee. Why does the universe hate you, Sari?
 * Blitzwing, who is so funny that he doesn't seem scary at all... until you realize that he's a completely deranged, out of control, overpowered war machine, who gets double the weapons when he's at his craziest. And let's not get started on the way he laughs. And let's not ask what "servo salad" is made of.
 * Protoforms are like baby or fetal Transformers. Starscream's clones require protoforms to create. There were what was likely dozen of clones in that room. Megatron destroyed them all.
 * And, speaking of Starscream's clones, let's not forget that at least the first two were for all intents and purposes suicide bombers. Made with stolen 'babies'. Yeah.