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{{work}}{{Darth Wiki}}''Chick Tracts'' have several disturbing moments that can traumatize you, especially since they make it seem so easy to go to Hell. Frequently, [[Scare'Em Straight]] methods are used by Chick to the point where a reader has PTSD from reading some of his work. But that's the whole point. To scare you into accept Christ into your heart.
* Ashley Wilson's hallucination of her face melting in "[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0045/0045_01.asp Bewitched?]"
* ''Happy Halloween'' has enough examples for its own page.
** Just the sole idea of a Halloween-related comic is enough to scare more than a few, but they manage to make October 31st seem more evil that it actually is.
** The spider in the haunted house can scare readers with arachnophobia.
** Also, when the witch drops them into a random room, Timmy, Bobby and the unnamed kid with glasses stare directly at the audience with very weird and cringeworthy faces as Bobby says, “What’s that?” They make ''Halloween is Grinch Night,'' ''Are You Afraid of the Dark,'' and ''It’s Not Scary'' seem suitable for the same Kidz Bop demographic that ''ZOOM'' is aimed at.
** The sequence where they're in fake Hell takes up the whole page 7. And 7 is supposed to be the lucky number. It gets worse on page 11, where while Timmy is dragged to Hell for real, you can see his gory face.
** In fact, this comic was even referenced on an episode of ''MindMash'' when aired on The WB. It could not get past the censors when aired on Comedy Central, however, as their censorship for the comic was a Kidz Bop cover of Noggin's “I Don’t Like Candy Corn.”
** Same goes for Lance in "No Fear?": after he commits suicide and his friend Dolly is saved from the same fate by converting to fundamentalist Christianity along with her sister, they just forget about him, as if they're happy that they didn't end up in hell like Lance, who has just burned up and vanished into "the darkness outside". Seriously, they have no respect for the dead or even visit them, which brings out the [[Accidental Aesop|"Christian" message]] that people should only care about themselves and forget about others if they die heathens.
* Some of the tracts are a little jarring, like "The Thing", especially the final.
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