Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Difference between revisions

* [http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2010/06/victims-of-abuse-dont-get-fairytale-endings.html This PSA] shows the girl telling a fairy tale about her mother while drawing on the picture of her to show the abuse suffered.

* A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9REhdmJ36rg PSA from Japan about autism] subverted this trope: A kid was shown colouring in many, many pieces of letter-sized paper in solid black. {{spoiler|She's interviewed by shrinks, institutionalized, she keeps right on going. Then a social worker finds a puzzle piece in a drawer and thinks "hmmm..." The child is then shown arranging the pieces on the floor, and the camera zooms out to see that it is in the shape of a whale}}.

* A really creepy one from Singapore's Health Promotion Board, to provide awareness of cervical cancer, is a print advertisement of a child's drawing of his family. There's the sun in the sky, and stick figures for everyone: "me", "dad", "sister"... but above "mom", a tombstone is drawn instead. Brrr.

 

* In the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' movie ''End Of Evangelion'', we briefly see a series of an angry-scribbled crayon pictures, reminding the reader of Shinji and Asuka's horribly traumatic childhoods. Supposedly they were drawn by real-life abused children.

** Also shown in the Director's Cut version of episode 22.

* The small girl in the fourth episode of ''[[Divergence Eve]]'' drew images of the Ghoul on the pavement of an alley with crayon before she got attacked by the [[Monster of the Week]]. {{spoiler|Then she continued to draw it after she was shut in the [[White Void Room]].}}

* In ''[[Yuru-Yuri]]'', Chinatsu's coloring book shows her [[True Colors]]. Unlike most other examples in this page, this is [[Played for Laughs]]. Also, Chinatsu isn't a kid, she's in junior high.

* In the ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' comic, a rather disturbing picture is drawn by 13-year old Walter Kovacs ({{spoiler|later known as Rorschach}}), showing his mom and a man, both naked and fused together. The picture is accompanied by a transcript of Walter describing a disturbing sexual nightmare he had where he watched his mother and this man having intercourse. The way their bodies merge together symmetrically makes the picture resemble {{spoiler|a Rorschach blot.}}

* ''[[Bio Apocalypse]]'' IS this. Literally.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Poltergeist]] 2'': Carol Anne draws a picture of the sinister Reverend Kane, who looks uncannily like Fred Phelps.

* Subverted in ''[[Superbad]]'', {{spoiler|as no real motive is ever given for Jonah Hill's penis drawings.}}

* ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]'' features a subversion: the picture 7-year old Evan draws (of himself standing over two mutilated prison inmates with a bloody knife in his hand, which he has no recollection of drawing) appears to be an example of this trope, but is in fact [[Time Travel|an example of something else entirely]].

* In ''Noroi: The Curse'', drawings made by Kana and Marika depicting strange patterns and (in Kana's case) hanging figures. Hori's fliers about ectoplasmic worms might also count.

** Another example is a little boy who witnessed {{spoiler|his father}} bash his mother's head in with a lamp. He trusts Olivia the most, so she's the one who sees the picture he drew of the attack. Lots of red crayon there...

** Then there's the episode where Benson and Stabler are called in because a little girl is drawing some rather ''interesting'' pictures, and her teacher is concerned. Turns out she saw her (underage) big brother and her stepmom doing it.

** Yet another one with a young, bullied boy with apparent split personality disorder, who draws a picture of basketball-playing kids lying dead on the ground with a shadowy figure holding a gun standing over them. The scary guy is "Zoltar", the kid's alter ego that he insists killed the boys when {{spoiler|it was the kid himself in response to intense bullying that he couldn't take anymore.}}

** Possibly the saddest example from SVU: a little boy who {{spoiler|accidentally}} shot a little girl on the playground at school, draws himself while being interviewed in the squad room. When he's asked what he thinks should happen to him, he draws flames engulfing him because he believes he should burn in hell.

* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' has you explore an [[Hell Hotel|abandoned hotel]] that's haunted by the spirit of a guest that went mad and slaughtered his family. In one bedroom, amidst a pile of toys and colouring books, you find a picture drawn by one of the murdered children: it shows a happy family holding hands- but the father's been replaced by a hideous wild-haired creature surrounded by flames.

* In the hospital level of ''[[Max Payne 2]]'', one wall is adorned by a child's crayon drawings that recap the blood-and-tragedy-filled first game.

* In ''[[The Suffering]]: Ties That Bind'', Torque's son Cory draws a picture of his father's mental state: Torque lies pinned to the ground by his monstrous [[Super-Powered Evil Side|insanity form]] as Carmen and Blackmore look on. An impressive feat of Nightmare Fuel considering that Cory has been dead for quite some time when this picture was drawn.

** Also, Jordan's guide to the various Malefactors not only includes photographs and artistic sketches, but a few drawings clearly produced by children. Thankfully, the game doesn't go into explicit detail as to what happened to these young artists, though players [[Inferred Holocaust|can probably guess that it wasn't pleasant.]]

* In ''[[F.E.A.R.|Project Origin]]'', one of the classrooms at Wade Elementary has a bunch of crayon drawings by the children posted up on the wall. These drawing include flaming demon heads, towering piles of dead bodies, people on fire, random drawings of Alma, and the Point Man shooting Paxton Fettel.

* In ''[[Heavy Rain]]'', after the [[Time Skip]], Shaun's room contains a crayon drawing of the accident that killed his brother and hospitalized his father.

* ''[[Condemned]] 2'' has this in spades in the doll factory.

* In the intro cutscene to ''[[AMY (video game)|AMY]]'', the title character is seen drawing a chaotic scene of {{spoiler|the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] that left most of the city's inhabitants dead}}.