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[[Ugly Cute]] characters, and those trying to design them, walk a thin line. If they run too close to the "Ugly" side of the scale, you can wind up with something that warrants a [[Nightmare Fuel]] warning, due to how messed-up it looks.
This basically covers what happens when animators try for [[Ugly Cute]] and fail spectacularly. Then again, sometimes the "failure" [[Nightmare Fuel|is intentional]]. Compare [[Uncanny Valley]].
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== Advertising ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4kHmbZTvyI This Kinder Surprise ad from the 1980s.] Horrified an entire generation of ovoid-shaped-chocolate-product-eating kids in Western Europe.
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* The toenail fungus monsters in those [http://www.familyfootcare.biz/ffc_graphics/photo-product_lamisil.jpg Lamisil ads]! You know, the ones that [[Squick|zealously peeled up people's toenails and dove headlong into the nail beds]]?▼
== Art ==
* Some of [[Hieronymus Bosch]]'s paintings might be considered this, such as [[wikipedia:Christ Carrying the Cross (Bosch, 1515–16)|his painting of Christ Carrying The Cross]].▼
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* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' has the unspeakably creepy flying monkeys.
* 1985's ''[[Return to Oz]]'' has the Wheelers and Jack Pumpkinhead, who then calls Dorothy "Mom"!
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* The 80s French programme ''[[Telechat|Téléchat]]''. [[Joueur Du Grenier]] (the French equivalent of [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]) even dedicated [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tChrpzpYhKU his first Special] to this programme and how it abused this trope to no end.
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* Basement Jaxx's "Where's Your Head At" is an upbeat-sounding dance song, but the video has monkeys [[Uncanny Valley|with human faces]] who, after playing guitars a bit, chase a man through a science lab, tearing through safety nets, before the man is captured in a [[Mad Scientist]]'s experiment, where people have their heads switched with animals.▼
* Nutcrackers are not festive symbols of holiday cheer. They are terrible, grimacing figures of rage with toothy, lipless mouths that open into their chests. That they are generally dressed in military garb and carry weapons does not help. And since they're made to, you know, crack nuts, it's easy for a child's mind to seize onto the idea of them crushing other things, such as the bones in one's fingers. Overexposure may numb the terror, but won't remove the underlying wrongness of the malevolent, garish things. How something so ghastly became a symbol of yuletide festivities is absolutely baffling.▼
** Indeed, in [[E. T. A. Hoffmann|ETA Hoffmann]]'s ''[[The Nutcracker (novel)|The Nutcracker and The Mouse King]]'' (the basis for the famous [[The Nutcracker (theatre)|ballet]]), once the young male lead is transformed into a nutcracker, he must find a woman who can love him despite his ugliness to have any hope of breaking the curse.▼
== Theme Parks ==
* Boglins are incredibly gross looking.▼
* Bobbleheads are weird looking because of their abnormally large heads.▼
* There are more than a few examples of [[Nightmare Fuel]] to be found in good old Disneyland/Walt Disney World. Simply put, there is a darn good reason why ''The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World'' has a whole ''chapter heading'' about "Disney, Kids, and Scary Stuff". Take the costumed mascots, for example. Whenever one of those gets anywhere near a small child, there's a 50% chance that child will cry in terror!
{{quote|'''[[Robin Williams]]''': "Disneyland for a three year old..? Mickey Mouse for a three year old..? Bullshit! Mickey Mouse to a three year old is a six foot fucking rat!"}}
* A completely straight example: When Ed "Big Daddy" Roth designed the characters in ''Rat Fink'', he was aiming for the ugliest creatures in the world. He succeeded.▼
** In ''Tales Of The Ratfink'', Ed Roth (voice by John Goodman) describes Ratfink as the Anti-Mickey Mouse so it's kind of fitting.▼
▲* Some of [[Hieronymus Bosch]]'s paintings might be considered this, such as [[wikipedia:Christ Carrying the Cross (Bosch, 1515–16)|his painting of Christ Carrying The Cross]].
▲* The toenail fungus monsters in those [http://www.familyfootcare.biz/ffc_graphics/photo-product_lamisil.jpg Lamisil ads]! You know, the ones that [[Squick|zealously peeled up people's toenails and dove headlong into the nail beds]]?
== Toys ==
▲* Boglins are incredibly gross looking.
▲* Basement Jaxx's "Where's Your Head At" is an upbeat-sounding dance song, but the video has monkeys [[Uncanny Valley|with human faces]] who, after playing guitars a bit, chase a man through a science lab, tearing through safety nets, before the man is captured in a [[Mad Scientist]]'s experiment, where people have their heads switched with animals.
▲* Bobbleheads are weird looking because of their abnormally large heads.
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* Any character from ''[[Psychonauts]]'' is quirky at least (the camp kids are odd but still relatively cute) and often bizarre (characters like Loboto, Crispin, and most of the mental realms' inhabitants).
== Web Original ==
* The Anthrosauri in ''[[Poharex]]''.
* Everything ever in ''[[Salad Fingers]]''. EVERYTHING.
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* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' uses this trope on a regular basis.
* ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' has King Gator, the grotesquely [[Non Sequitur Scene|animated]] crocodile who has horrified children for years with his sexually ambiguous nature and innuendo (specifically, the song "[[Non Sequitur Scene|Let's Make Music Together]]").
** It's more likely that the kids were scared by the fact that there actually IS an alligator living in the sewers. It contributed nicely to the general creepiness of the whole world.
* [[Rankin
** "We hates it... ''hates'' it... ''FOREVER!''"
*** "Is it... scrumptious? Will it taste... delicious?" ...It wiiiiill.
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* Lots of stuff in ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'', like the ''plague victims'' in the episode where Flapjack gets a pet rat, and the sea monster things from "How the West Was Fun"!
* A few in ''[[Invader Zim]]'' were especially ugly. Bloaty comes to mind. There were also a lot of grotesque background characters who ranged from unpleasantly greasy to clearly disfigured.
* Most anything in [[John Kricfalusi]]'s oeuvre.
▲* A completely straight example: When Ed "Big Daddy" Roth designed the characters in ''Rat Fink'', he was aiming for the ugliest creatures in the world. He succeeded.
▲** In ''Tales Of The Ratfink'', Ed Roth (voice by John Goodman) describes Ratfink as the Anti-Mickey Mouse so it's kind of fitting.
== Other ==
▲* Nutcrackers are not festive symbols of holiday cheer. They are terrible, grimacing figures of rage with toothy, lipless mouths that open into their chests. That they are generally dressed in military garb and carry weapons does not help. And since they're made to, you know, crack nuts, it's easy for a child's mind to seize onto the idea of them crushing other things, such as the bones in one's fingers. Overexposure may numb the terror, but won't remove the underlying wrongness of the malevolent, garish things. How something so ghastly became a symbol of yuletide festivities is absolutely baffling.
▲** Indeed, in [[E. T. A.
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