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* In [[Darker Than Black]], this is essentially a Russian contractor's remuneration. He seems to [[Complete Monster|really enjoy it.]]
* 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.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' comic book, an autistic child in a group home draws pictures, with accompanying text, of the Monkey King that (unbeknownst to the authorities) killed his parents. Soon, all the children in the home are independently drawing pictures of the creature, presaging its reappearance.
* In the ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|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.
* The fifth (Or is it [[Retcon|fourth]]?) [[Batman|Robin]] has an entire sketchbook full of violent and disturbing imagery. To be fair, [[Enfante Terrible|Damian]] was raised by The League of Shadows and lives in [[Crapsack World|Gotham City]].
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* 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.
* In the ''[[Silent Hill (Filmfilm)|Silent Hill]]'' movie, Sharon draws many pictures of Silent Hill.
* In ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' the boy says that he got into trouble for drawing a man being stabbed with a screwdriver. Now he only draws pictures of rainbows, because teachers "''don't have conferences about rainbows''."
* Adult example: In ''[[American Psycho]]'' Patrick draws pictures of naked women being killed. Sometimes he draws them in public.
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* In the extended edition of ''[[Dark City]]'' some time after May the prostitute is murdered by Mr Hand and the Strangers, the police discover her daughter hiding under a bed; she's drawing a picture of three white stick figures in black trenchcoats standing over her mother's corpse with knives in their hands.
* The mountain from ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.
* In ''[[Snakes Onon a Plane]]'', a boy draws the snake that bit his brother while they're still on the plane. It's later used to identify the type of snake so he can be treated.
* Inversion: The (adult) protagonist of ''Dreamscape'' drew a picture of the Snakeman, a monster he encountered and battled in a boy's bad dream. In a later foray into dreams, a villain who's seen this drawing adopts the Snakeman's shape to fight the hero: a reversal of the usual Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book cause-and-effect.
* The beginning of ''[[Children of the Corn]]''.
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* ''[[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.
* In ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]: Resurrection'', some characters find one in Michael Myers's childhood bedroom. {{spoiler|It turns out it was a fake planted there by the reality show producers.}}
* In ''Tales From The Hood'', a little boy keeps drawing disturbing crayon pictures of the "monster" that comes to his house... we come to find out that {{spoiler|the "monster" is actually his abusive stepfather.}}
* Subverted in ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]'' movie, where Wednesday makes disturbing art that her parents don't find worrisome in the least, and nor does she. Her teacher of course is a bit put off.
* ''[[Twenty Eight28 Days Later]]'': At the climax of his walk around abandoned London, Jim finds a board of messages, notices and pleas for help, including a child's drawing showing "Daddy" shooting "Mummy" because she's [[Zombie Apocalypse|infected with Rage]].
* In [[Mikey]] the title character draws a picture of a turkey decapitating a pilgrim with an axe for Thanksgiving, this disturbs his teacher and this is what leads her to question his upbringing.
* In ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night]]'' Billy, due to being traumatized by a maniac in a Santa costume murdering his parents, draws a picture of Santa shot with arrows and a reindeer decapitated with an axe.
* In ''[[Joshua (Film)|Joshua]]'' the title character draws a picture of a man with a bloody knife and a pile of dead bodies. {{spoiler|He did not do this because of abuse or trauma-- he did it because he wanted to get rid of his parents.}}
* The ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' series seemed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otooUzldew4 fond] of this trope.
* An interesting variation appears in ''[[Knowing]]''. In the prologue set 50 years ago, a classroom of schoolchildren is asked to draw pictures depicting the future, to be locked into a time capsule that will be opened in the present day. However, one disturbed girl writes down a seemingly random series of numbers, instead of a drawing. MIT professor John Koestler's son takes the piece of paper home, and he accidentally discovers that it is a doomsday prophecy.
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* In a ''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' novel, he's investigating a case in which dreams are involved. [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] finds out that a girl that has been exposed to said dreams... and then we find out she spends all of her free time drawing black spiders.
* In ''[[House of Leaves]]'', the Navidson children draw entirely black pictures when asked to draw their {{color|blue|house}}. Eventually, the narrator starts doing it too.
* Have you heard [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|The Call of Cthulhu?]]
* In ''Angela and Diabola'', [[Evil Twin]] Diabola terrifies her teacher by drawing an almost photorealistic picture of an execution. The school principal takes her in for special art classes, and Diabola freaks her out by drawing Diabola's family burning to death. {{spoiler|The picture catches fire and burns down the school.}}
* In ''Amityville Horror'', Missy draws a picture of Jody (her "imaginary friend" demonic pig) for her father after they abandon the house.
* This [[Trope]] apparently goes hand in hand with autism in media: In the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[The Regulators (Literature)|The Regulators]]'', an autistic boy who is posessed by a demonic creature draws pictures of the drive-by shooting in which his entire family was killed. The pictures are actually included in the text.
* In ''[[The Sisters Grimm (Literature)|The Sisters Grimm]]'', Little Red Riding Hood draws pictures of the family that she use to have before she went mad. At first, they look normal, cheerful and bright. Then, the pictures slowly become darker, until the only colors she used were black and red.
* David invokes this as a child in ''[[John Dies Atat the End]]'', after getting bullied, in order to be put into a special class.
* A milder version of this [[Trope]] occurs in ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]: Rodrick Rules''. Manny (who's only about 3-5, mind you) accidentally watches a horror movie that Rodrick (who's about 17) left in the VCR. Greg comes across Manny's drawings later, and remarks that ''"some of them were enough to give ME nightmares."''
** The [[Trope]] is played with earlier in the book. Greg and his mom and dad had to bail Rodrick out on his science project; Greg had to draw what he thought teenagers would draw after watching violent movies (imitating this [[Trope]], but not actually playing it straight).
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the TV series ''[[The World Chronicle]]'', a boy is exposed to the view of an alien eating his dog. When the heroes arrive, they ask to see any drawings he's made. We're shown the kid filling in the color of a [[Pokémon|Pikachu]] sketch... until the camera pans out to show that the wall is full of menacing drawings of the alien's eyes.
* In one episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', a severely autistic boy constantly draws squiggly lines on his whiteboard. The reason? He sees them constantly ''[[Eye Scream|because he has parasitic worms in his eyeballs]]''.
* Young Locke liked to draw the Smokey monster in the 'Cabin Fever' flashback in ''[[Lost]]''. Strange in that this was ''years'' before he first encountered it on the island.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inversion]]: The Empty Child from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' drew hundreds of pictures of houses and families, in keeping with the "Are you my mummy" theme.
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** The "Fear Her" example got worse when the picture of the abusive dad {{spoiler|actually came to life. The first time it came to life was after a tense period while Rose tried to find out what was in a wardrobe. When she opened it, the picture glowed red and growled, much the same way a screamer would do in something like the Ghost Car video. The second time, it actually escaped from the wardrobe that it had been drawn on and walked towards them, intent on abusing them from beyond the grave.}}
** The Eleventh Doctor's companion Amy Pond repeatedly drew images of "The Raggedy Doctor" after he first visited her as a child. It's not creepy in the usual way, but it's clear her meeting the Doctor [[The Slow Path|when she was seven]] has left her with some... issues.
* In an episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', a little boy at a hospital compulsively draws a monster that adults can't see. After Buffy kicks its ass, we see a picture he drew of the monster with X-ed out eyes and Buffy standing over it [[Buffy-Speak|all triumphant-like]].
* In an episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', Dean connects with a little boy who's been traumatized into mutism by witnessing his father's drowning. Said boy presents Dean with a picture of swirly dark water, representing the lake, and a red bicycle...
* In an episode of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', Hera Agathon horrifies her mother, Sharon, by drawing pictures of the Eye of Jupiter, yellow-haired women, and the number 6. Sharon, meanwhile, had been having dreams of Cylon Number Six taking Hera away from her, and walking into the Opera House on Kobol. It's creepier when you watch the show.
** And she does it ''again'' later in the second half of the season. Her seemingly harmless drawings of "stars" turn out to be {{spoiler|musical notation Kara uses to remember a song from her childhood - "All Along the Watchtower".}} Helo and Athena really need to get their daughter a new hobby, or at least take away Chekhov's Crayons.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Molly Walker suffers from nightmares and continually draws the same symbol in her more nightmarish drawings. Then she was [[Put Onon a Bus]] and we [[Noodle Incident|never found out]] [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|what it meant]].
* One episode of the ''[[The X -Files]]'' centers around a young boy who compulsively writes seemingly random lines of zeroes and ones on sheet after sheet of paper. At the end, these hundreds of sheets of paper covered in binary are laid out across the living room floor, forming an image of a smiling girl.
** Another one had a painting gorilla (you know, apes are sometimes taught stuff like painting or sign language) - the paintings were UFOs or something. The ape in question, however, was more communicative than most human [[Trope]] examples, as she explained it (as good as an ape could) using aforementioned sign language.
** Yet another one had strange insect creatures tormenting the family of a little girl, who drew pictures of strange insect creatures tormenting people. Turns out, she's a [[Reality Warper]] of sorts with very morbid thoughts that become incredibly realistic hallucinations. The solution? Put her in a blank white room and have her watch TV until it cripples her imagination.
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** One girl had her throat slit but lived. She couldn't talk afterwards, so she drew her attacker. She drew the Devil.
*** {{spoiler|It gets revealed that the man who attacked her was just nicknamed the Devil.}}
* In the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' episode "Datalore", the crew found a bunch of drawings on the wall in Soong's laboratory depicting the Crystalline Entity.
* ''[[Eureka]]'' had this in its second or third episode, thanks to autistic savant Kevin Blake and a really freaky ghost... [[It Makes Sense in Context|well, kind of.]]
* One of the films in the swedish police series ''[[Beck]]'' ([[Beck|no, not that one]]) involves an autistic boy drawing penises over and over again. It turns out one of his caretakers is abusing him...
** In a rather humorous turn, when the titular detective tries to get the kid to draw (in a hope that it'll give him clues), Beck draws a rather simplistic pig (another detective later remarks that it looks like a potato). When we later see the kid, his father is rather puzzled by the fact that the kid keeps drawing really detailed pigs.
* Not sure if this actually fits, but ''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'' explains the origin of all the Monsters in the series as actually {{spoiler|those drawings of abandoned children Shiro and Yui Kanzaki, which the former brought to life when he became a [[Mad Scientist]].}}
* In [[Stargate SG -1]], there is a character named Cassandra. She's Janet Fraiser's adopted daughter, and an alien. She's adopted and living on Earth because a Goa'uld decided to use her, a ten year old girl, to set a trap. This trap involves murdering ''every single person'' on the ''entire planet'' besides her. And then, Cassie was left alone on the planet for at least hours, possibly days, surrounded by the corpses of her family and everyone she knew, completely alone. Later in the episode, when she's at the SGC, Cassie shows Sam her drawings, which are full of stick figures bleeding, lying on the ground dead, or both. And one single stick figure standing up, surrounded by stick-figure corpses.
* Sketch Comedy Show ''Bienvenidos'' had an sketch about a school psychologist calling a mother because the son had suddenly shift from bright, colorful pictures to ominously-looking drawings on black crayon. After discussing what this could mean, they decide to call the boy. {{spoiler|The kid of course, [[Subverted Trope|is very sane and his drawings are truly innocent]], is just that he already used all the other colors of his crayon boxes, and in fact he is truly ''pissed'' that they have to come to these extremes so his mom could believe that he really needs a new box}}.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'' had a teenager named Hiroki Makise who had diaries detailing how he would hold hands with a girl he liked... only to then reveal that he had an entry on how he'd crash a bus filled with girls who dumped him (with good reason) and he was ''happy'' about it because they were going to be "shooting stars".
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== [[Music]] ==
* In episode 10 of [[The Residents]]' ''The Bunny Boy'' series, the titular character gets an email containing bizarre drawings from a girl named Wendy, specifically three pictures of rabbits in disturbing situations, and one of a cyclops covered in roaches. The song based on the video (or the other way around) also mentions pictures of faces covered in scratch marks, a horse split in half, and a big black spot surrounded by the word "NO!" scribbled a hundred times.
* From [[Pearl Jam (Music)|Pearl Jam]] "Jeremy".
{{quote| At home drawing pictures<br />
Of mountain tops<br />
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Comes up several times in the ''[[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|New World of Darkness]]'' [[Sourcebook]] ''Innocents'', which is based around playing as a child. One chapter opener in particular concerns a boy who, over several days, draws a monster getting closer and closer to his bed. The last drawing he made shows the monster standing directly over his bed, him hiding under the covers...
{{quote| "Carl drew this one yesterday. When he had art time today, he refused to draw anything. When the teacher threatened to discipline him, he broke down in hysterics."}}
* In the ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' [[Sourcebook]] ''Time of Thin Blood'', the fictional prose included insane asylum patients drawing simplistic stick figures with hungry maws in place of heads during the Week of Nightmares.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Some storybooks in ''[[Rule of Rose]]''.
* In ''[[Parasite Eve]] 2'', your main target is Eve, a young girl who was grown from your own superhuman DNA, in order to control the genetic monsters that the evil organization are also making. Her 'upbringing' has left her rather disturbed, as you see when you find her 'play-room'... childish crayon-drawings of people burning to death or being devoured by monsters...
* In ''[[FEARF.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.
* Occurs in both ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'' and ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]] 2'' by the Little Sisters, one [[Tear Jerker]] example includes tombstones with "Mom" and "Dad" on them.
* ''[[Condemned]] 2'' has this in spades in the doll factory.
* In the intro cutscene to ''[[AMY (Videovideo Gamegame)|AMY]]'', the title character is seen drawing a chaotic scene of {{spoiler|the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] that left most of the city's inhabitants dead}}.
* ''Carrie Careless and the Galette des Rois'' from ''[[Ib (Video Game)|Ib]]''.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[John Dies Atat the End]]'' tie-in blog features an entry in which John and Dave start appearing in [http://www.johndiesattheend.com/updates/?p=170 the crayon pictures of a young boy that they've never met]. ('''possibly NSFW''')
* ''[[Marble Hornets]]'' has Alex drawing hundreds of pictures of the [[Slender Man]], as well as the mysterious Operator Symbol.
** Just Another Fool, a spinoff ARG blog of the Slenderman Mythos, includes an entry where the journal that was passed to both of the Slenderman's victims is examined via [[YouTube]] video. The video reveals not only the Slenderman drawings that the journal's owner made, but the ADDITIONS to said drawings that the journal's next keeper made, outlining stick figure corpses that were only faint outlines on the original sketches.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Boo draws a picture of Randall in ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', though she only draws him once, and once Sulley sees the picture, there's no horror or confusion.
* Not a monster example, but [[The Simpsons|Bart]] draws a seriously disturbed illustration expressing his first days in kindergarten in "Lisa's Sax". Fans commonly refer to it as the [http://springfieldfiles.com/albums/notes/0036.JPG "SAD drawing".]
{{quote| '''Homer:''' Oh, it's a lovely drawing, he's so creative, it's -- AAAAAH! ''Burn it! Send it to hell!''}}
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** Along with carefully drawn bullet holes in the walls and roof.
* There is a genre of similar drawings, sometimes called "schkolnaya murzilka" ("The School Murzilka", Murzilka - strange furry soviet comic book characters) in post-soviet areas. It usually contains some combination of [[Mind Screw]], [[Surreal Humor]] and [[Surreal Horror]] with famous cartoons, fairy tales etc. Also frequently occurs as a result of a post-soviet child watching horror movies.
** Ukrainian [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4209908/ Mikhail Bondarev] drew stuff like this throughout his school years (sometimes with his classmates). Though the drawings are obviously tongue-in-cheek, a strange mix of video game and pop culture themes with over-the-top violence, absurdish situations and general surrealistic mindscrew make them at least slightly creepy. Check [http://www.whoismikhailbondarev.narod.ru/art/rahlo1.jpg this], [http://www.whoismikhailbondarev.narod.ru/art/discoteka.jpg this] or [http://www.whoismikhailbondarev.narod.ru/art/lavkraft.jpg that one], inspired by [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]. The fact that he's now studying medicine (pediatrics) does not help even though he's quite [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|nice actually]].
 
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