Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Difference between revisions

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The combination of a disturbing image rendered in a crude, childlike style is a powerfully scary one in and of itself, but just as unsettling is the window onto a child's view of sex/violence/Cthulhu that it gives us. The idea of [[Children Are Innocent|innocence]] being exposed to things it finds frightening, or things it can't understand, is a classic way to play off [[Adult Fear]] and at the same time deliver a bucketload of [[Nightmare Fuel]] rendered in red crayon.

If a [[Creepy Child]] draws pictures, they will be this trope. If it's the [[Monster of the Week]] the child has been drawing, expect the [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]] to come in handy when the heroes come along - after all, now they've got a wall full of pictures of their enemy.

If a [[Creepy Child]] draws pictures, they will be this trope. If it's the [[Monster of the Week]] the child has been drawing, expect the '''Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book''' to come in handy when the heroes come along - after all, now they've got a wall full of pictures of their enemy.

Compare [[Room Full of Crazy]], [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]. Also related to [[Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour]].

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== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[The Mothman Prophecies]]''. An orderly says that Mary was sketching "angels". Well, angels that look like black-shrouded demons in the general shape of a moth. Seems like the residents of Point Pleasant were, too.

* The mentally ill girl in ''Dark Floors'' draws stylized versions of the monsters that attack the ~~group--before~~ the attacks happen. She also tends to draw constant circles {{spoiler|which symbolize the fact that she's been living the events of the movie over and over again for an indefinite number of loops while the monsters try to convince her to come with them.}}

* The mentally ill girl in ''Dark Floors'' draws stylized versions of the monsters that attack the group—before the attacks happen. She also tends to draw constant circles {{spoiler|which symbolize the fact that she's been living the events of the movie over and over again for an indefinite number of loops while the monsters try to convince her to come with them.}}

* The pictures drawn by the little boy in the English-language version of ''[[The Ring]]''.

** This was later spoofed in the third ''[[Scary Movie]]'' with the kid's drawings of "Tabitha", the Samara-lookalike.

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* Parodied, like many things, by ''[[The Onion]]'', which [http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-children-still-traumatized-one-year-after-seein,1285/ played this trope] on Janet Jackson's infamous [[Nipple-and-Dimed|"wardrobe incident"]].

* Not really an example of this [[Trope]], but [http://somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/trippin-on-fema.php this SomethingAwful Photoshop contest] based on a literal Nightmare Fuel coloring book was too good to pass up.

* [http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/dspl_thread.php5?thread_id=397908&x=james+book+for+tom This] /x/ thread. (NSFW<ref> female genital images.</ref>)

* [http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/dspl_thread.php5?thread_id=397908&x=james+book+for+tom This] /x/ thread. (NSFW<ref>female genital images.</ref>)

* Most of [[Sonichu]] and the art of Christian Weston Chandler looks like this. CWC is a 28 year old [[Man Child]] who draws like an eight year old... and uses his webcomic as an outlet for gory revenge fantasies and sexual wish fulfillment, as well as drawing porn of himself outside the comic in the same infantile style. The overall effect is very much like one of these.

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* The first chapter of ''The Prehistory of [[The Far Side]]'' consists of what Gary Larson claims to be drawings from his childhood. They depict his parents as cartoonishly ~~abusive -- playing~~ fetch with the dog using him as the stick, making him ride in the trunk of the car, and putting bars on his bedroom window.

* The first chapter of ''The Prehistory of [[The Far Side]]'' consists of what Gary Larson claims to be drawings from his childhood. They depict his parents as cartoonishly abusive—playing fetch with the dog using him as the stick, making him ride in the trunk of the car, and putting bars on his bedroom window.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==