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Not to be confused with [[The Taming of the Grue]]. See also [[Nothing Is Scarier]], where the menace isn't visible but is all the scarier for that.
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== Anime ==
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** And let's not forget that this is a kids' show set in the middle of a century long war. There's no blood or corpses on screen the entire time, but it's explicitly mentioned many times how relatives died in battle or where executed by soldiers, and it's shown how soldiers abuse helpless farmers or how benders are put to forced labor in concentration camps. There's even a full scale genocide, and open discussions about assassinating the [[Big Bad]]. If there's a way to expose eight years old responsibly to these topics, Avatar probably comes closer to it than anything else.
** The scene with Hama when she talks about {{spoiler|bloodbending}} with such pride and pleasure also counts.
** The fate of, uh, Zuko's face in "The Storm" is a good use of [[Scream Discretion Shot|three]] [[Gory Discretion Shot|different]] [[Shadow Discretion Shot|kinds]] of discretion shot to get the point across while still being ([[Family
** The [[Uncanny Valley|creepy]] [[Paranoia Fuel|smile]] of Jo Dee.
* ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters|AAAHH!!! Real Monsters]]'' is a series about, well, monsters that scare humans. All of their "scare scenes" are very effective in showing how the monsters scare humans without scaring the audience in the process, mostly through giving said monsters individual personalities and motives (they're only doing it to complete school).
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* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog (Animation)|Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', which often turned the [[Surreal Horror]] up a bit too much, and we all learned the hard way that you can't unsee this stuff...
* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.''
* Some episodes of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' including ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E17 Stare Master|Stare Master]]'' and ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E3 Lesson Zero|Lesson Zero]]'' go into this territory.
== Real Life ==
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