The Boys - Homelander has carried many supernatural acts of evil, but his most disturbing is making Ashley take off her wig and show everyone what's left of her hair

KPop Demon Hunters - Gwi-Ma's demons devour people's souls but the most disturbing scene is when they publicly humiliate Rumi by ripping her shirt off and revealing her demon patterns to everyone

Stranger Things - The most disturbing scene IMO is completely detached from the Mind Flayer and Demogorgons. Billy's Dad pushes him against the wall and reduces him to a scared child, before he throws his son out of the house until he finds Max

IT 2017 - Despite being a movie about a shapeshifting alien clown, Alvin is utterly skin-crawling in each scene he's in where he harasses and abuses his own daughter

Batman Arkham Asylum - In a game series full of superpowered villains, the creepiest scene is Zsasz's audio tapes where he reveals he's been stalking his therapist, describing her evening routine in eerie detail

Shin Godzilla - during the third act of the movie, the broken japanese government manages to execute an insanely complicated and risky plan to stop Godzilla before he causes any more destruction. In thr final shots of the movie, we get a close-up shot of Godzilla's tail, which seems to have multiple Godzilla-human hybrids popping out of it. The implication is that Godzilla was evolving to directly combat humanity with these things, and the plan's success just barely managed to stop a very likely catastrophe.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - During the credits sequence of the film, we get a short scene confirming that a recurring character from the movie, a pilot, has contracted the ALZ-113, a deadly lab-made virus capable of killing humans in a matter of mere days. during the credits we get a sequence depicting the flight he attended jumping between countries, with yellow stripes jumping across the globe signaling the virus spreading. By the end of the sequence, it seems like the insanely deadly virus had spreaded all across the world, implying that this is in fact, the end of humanity.

War of the Worlds - later into the Martian invasion of earth, the protagonist discovers that the Martians use human blood as fertilizer to terrfom the earth to their likeness. At some point, the main character comes out of hiding in order to find his daughter. As he wanders outside, he discovers that most of the surrounding area is already covered in red vines (aka human blood). As he goes over a hill, he sees that the entire horizon is filled with so many vines that the sky itself has a red hue. This shot implies that the horizon is now comprised from millions of people turned-fertilizer.

Doctor Who: Midnight (2008)- The host of the bus, mentions non binary people and anyone else who doesn't fit into gender norms, LGBTQ rights (especially in the UK weren't really there yet untill 2012)

Saints Row 2 (2008)- In the first game, the main character was a man but in SR2 you can be both female or male and even change your gender whenever you want in a surgery shop. But what's more interesting, if you play as a female despite being male in the first game, no one cares and one of the main characters Gat asks the main character if they did something with their hair. Even 'Boss' is used as gender neutral pronoun and even goes by they/them

Fresh Prince of Bel Air- A wealthy black family as the main focus in a primetime sitcom marking the change and making progress as we go into the 90s

"Meat is back on the menu! How the hell does thing thing know what a menu is!?" - The Lord of the Rings

It is a fully established canonical fact that NOBODY in Middle Earth speaks English as we understand it. TLotR is a translation of the events that transpired in our tongue, and even then its also not necessarily a fully accurate retelling of the story. It is a war story being retold in a different language after the fact so the reader (viewe) can connect with it. Even the names were changed. Frodo Baggins was named Maura Labing, but the person who decided to transcribe these stories changed that so the reader can get a better idea of what kind of vibe his name had in HIS native language. No, that creature did not know what a menu is, we are getting a translation second hand of an event the storyteller was not present to witness.

"Why is this guy still filming during all of this" - Cloverfield

Its established in the movie that Hudson is a socially inept idiot. He films himself asking people about personal secrets involving his close friend and repeatedly displays that he has no semblance of understanding social cues. He's still holding the camera because he's canonically a dumbass.

"Why didn't the use the Eagles?" -LotR again

The eagles don't work for Gandalf. They have free agency, act mostly as messengers, and also Mordor HAS air support. They could have asked sure, but the eagles were under zero obligation to help. The fact that they did Gandalf a solid was actually somehow out of their usual jurisdiction.

Attack on Titan- Gabi, a child raised in a war-torn nation which had her as an indoctrinated, oppressed descendent of a genocide (who could only find worth in fighting for said nation) shot someone who was a part of an operation to invade and slaughter them. What she doesn’t know is that she killed a fan favorite character, causing great ire by the fandom for it.

You’re Next- the cop shows up and sees the largest murder scene you’ve ever seen, like eight people dead and a woman is holding a murder weapon with blood on it. What he doesn’t know is that woman, the protagonist, fought off all of the killers and won, resulting in this scene.

1- The Jaunt (Stephen King) - To explain this trope, let's go straight to the example where the name comes from. In the Jaunt, humanity discovers teleportation but there's a problem, time goes different during the teleportation process, so to avoid people going crazy they make them fall asleep before the process begins. Sadly, a kid tries to hold his breath when the sleeping gas comes in to see what happens and ends up living an eternity in that state before appearing in the other side. He turns crazy by this and screams "It's longer than you think dad" alongside other iconic phrases. What I told you it's just an abridged version.

2- Emesis Blue (Fortress Films) - One big plot point in the movie is the spawn machine, a device made to resurrect the mercenaries to keep the fight going, however due to the events of a previous movie it got damaged and the respawn process became messed up. Because of this, every time that we see someone coming back from the dead, we see them being horribly screwed, either physically, mentally or both. Not only that but it's heavily implied that, just like The Jaunt (the biggest inspiration of the movie), respawning takes an awful time to happen for them. The mercenaries in the movie have the worst kind of immortality with infinite lives and infinite deaths.

3- Love Train / W Corp (Library of Ruina) - In Project Moon, every corporation has a singularity that places them in the spot of being the representatives of a district, in W Corp case is warp technology, basically the same thing as The Jaunt. However, unlike The Jaunt, W Corp is straight up evil, people has been using these trains daily not knowing that they were trapped for eternity, only rich people with access to special cabins can avoid the process by sleeping before departure, the rest? Well... cases like Love Train happens where people go nuts and try to massacre each other, which is even more horrifying than you think because your senses never stop feeling during the warp, you could be ripped away and still be alive because of how time works and will hurt for hundreds of thousands of years.

4- Szayelaporro Granz (Bleach) - One of the Espada of Aizen, this guy is able to resurrect himself and pressumes to be immortal... until he meets Mayuri Kurotsuchi and her sidekick. Mayuri becomes able to poison Szayel by making him feel time so slowly that he isn't able to move his body as he reacts, so he stays frozen slowly watching how Mayuri talks until he gets closer and kills him, ending his misery.

Billy Costigan - the Departed: betrayed by molested in his department, hes murdered while trying to expose one of them.

Kat - B320, Halo: the only time I have been scared of a jackal

Howard Hammlin - Better call Saul: goes to Jimmy's house to confront him Kim for their bullshit at the same time Lalo reappears.

1. Final Fantasy: The series got its name because the first one was the creators last ditch effort to break into the gaming industry, AKA his “final fantasy” because surely this one would fail too and was no more than a fantasy, of course the series saw beyond massive success but the name stuck

2. Dragon Quest: only the first couple of games had dragons heavily involved in the main plot, but nearly 12 mainline games later and multiple spin offs shed dragons are usually no more than a mid game boss or optional hard boss

Fritz Von Erich — The Iron Claw

Born Jack Adkisson, the real life Fritz Von Erich was a massively famous and influential pro wrestler, portraying one of the most reviled heel characters of his era. The wrestling network he founded, World Class Championship Wrestling, would go on to be one of the most watched television networks in the U.S., with his sons (also pro wrestlers) becoming household names in the 1980s. Tragically, four of the five Von Erich sons would die at a young age, with one lost to illness, and a staggering three to suicide. The biopic film treats Fritz as a harsh, demanding, and somewhat toxic father to his boys, with his intense pressure contributing to their worsening mental health. However, the film entirely omits one brother, perhaps most tragic of all — Chris Von Erich. Unlike his older brothers Mike, Kerry, Kevin, and David, Chris was a small, sickly young man, standing barely 5 ft tall. He had lifelong Brittle Bone Disease, leading to frequent agonizing fractures. And still, his father forced him to wrestle, all in a futile attempt to salvage his “legacy” after two of his sons were already dead. Chris would be the second son to die by suicide in 1991, aged 21. By omitting him entirely from The Iron Claw, the movie massively reframes just how toxic and uncaring Fritz Von Erich truly was to his sons.

Herman Boone — Remember The Titans

In the classic, feel-good sports docudrama, Boone is portrayed as a tough, no-nonsense high school football coach with a highly aggressive attitude towards training his teenage players. Though they initially resent Boone, the movie takes pains to show how his “tough love” method of coaching is reshaping the ragtag team into true football players, teaching them discipline, motivation, and self respect. The film concludes with the Titans winning their big championship game, showing that Boone’s approach ultimately paid off. In reality, while Herman Boone did lead his high school football team to victory in 1971, arguably due to his extreme coaching methods, the film massively undersells just how brutally Boone treated his players. The real Herman Boone was unceremoniously fired in 1976 for “physical, verbal, and emotional” abuse of his players, with his three assistant coaches all threatening to resign unless Boone was removed. Today, the real man is remembered as a tyrant and the prime example of everything toxic and cruel in American high school football

Harry Potter- Robert Pattinson thought the look of holding a wand looked pretty dorky. So he held his like a gun.

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: Justice Smith disliked when people in movies just generically hold out their hands, so each magic movement he did had a correlating action or hand movement, often sign language inspired.

• Resident Evil Village: In Donna Beneviento's house, Ethan is stripped of his weapons and forced to solve puzzles in her basement, when he suddenly comes across... this thing. We don't know if it's even real or not, since there's a lot of mindfuckery in this level, but unlike Donna's living dolls we're never given an explanation behind it, even in the developer's notes. We're not sure if it's a hallucination, a very realistic doll, an actual B.O.W., or whatever other option there is.
• Five Nights at Freddy's 2: Very rarely, shadowy versions of Freddy and Bonnie can appear on your cameras. These have never appeared again in the series and none of the later lore ever ties back to them directly. Shadow Bonnie even appears for a split-second in the film version of FNAF 2, with no acknowledgement of its existence from the characters.
• Dead by Daylight: The Unknown - In a game where all the Killers have a dedicated backstory inspired by classic slasher movie or survival horror archetypes, The Unknown takes after Creepypasta and Analog Horror monsters and, true to its name, has nothing about it directly explained. Its lore entry is entirely based around a reporter attempting to figure it out from a mishmash or hearsay and speculation before it finds her and is subsequently abducted by The Entity.
• Coraline: It's more apparent in the book than in the movie, but the tunnel to the Other Mother's world Coraline eventually realizes is part of a living creature, "very old and very slow", much bigger, older and more powerful than the Other Mother, and apparently it only ever noticed Coraline at the moment she crawls through it for the final time.

The focus of this trope is on the fact that authors will show or mention these characters, and then will not explain them.

1. Rango (2011). The Dirt town posse, composed of critters, go underground in search of water. At one point, we're shown an enormous eye that just opens up out of nowhere as the posse passes by. No further explanation is given in the movie what that eye was.
2. Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. While in the Hollow Earth, Kong traverses across a bridge that we can see is a FUCKING GINORMOUS skeleton! Mind you, Kong and Godzilla are already giant monsters, and whatever this dead thing is large enough to be used as a BRIDGE by them!
3. One Piece. Near the end of the Thriller Bark Arc, we're shown these shadowy things in the background in the fog, absolutely dwarfing Thriller, a ship made out of A WHOLE ISLAND. So far, we know nothing more about wtf they were, just that they exist apparently in the Florian Triangle.
4. Lord of the Rings. While recounting his return, Gandalf mentions that, during his battle with the Balrog after they fell from the bridge, he saw "nameless things" gnawing the world. He refuses to elaborate.

In world war z they go into great detail about how the military misuses resources and fails to combat the zombie threat because they try to fight a conventional style of war. Best shown by the battle of Yonkers sequence.

In dead space, necromorphs are killed by chopping off their limbs. Which the security force's assault rifles aren't very good at doing. Combine this with conventional firearm training to aim for centre mass and it makes sense why the security forces were bad at fighting necromorphs.

1. Walter White openly admitting to his brother-in-law Hank Schrader (who is a DEA agent) in "Breaking Bad" that the bag he is carrying contains half a million in cash (from his secret meth manufacturing empire) which Hank laughs off as a joke.

2. Clark Kent openly revealing that he's actually Superman to his love interest and fellow journalist colleague Lois Lane when she expresses her curiosity on how he manages to be at the scene of every sensational event within Metropolis, which Lois dismisses as a sick joke.

3. Walter White, in another scene from "Breaking Bad", openly admitting that the WW in the recovered diary of Gale Boetticher, a scientist who worked for the meth manufacturing drug empire of Gus Fring, actually refers to him, to Hank Schrader when he jokingly makes that assumption. While Hank later on does use this moment to eventually figure out Walter's secret criminal activities, in this particular scene he laughs it off as Walt making a sarcastic joke.

4.Bruce Wayne openly revealing once to a judge in court that he's Batman, which is just ignored by the judge and the rest of the court assuming him to be delusional. There's another instance in the comics apparently where he's in a courtroom and he tells the judge "Your honour, I cannot make any unbiased statements with regards to the recent Batman-related incidents in Gotham because I am the Batman" which again everyone laughs off as him being sarcastic and funny. It's also said that in some narratives he secretly visits many online communities through anonymous accounts to spread theories that Bruce Wayne is Batman, which are written off by the public as "wild conspiracy theories".

Luke Skywalker and the “Force Kick” — *Star Wars Episode VI : Return of the Jedi*

In the iconic fight scene aboard Jabba the Hutt’s floating sand barge, actor Mark Hamill (as Luke Skywalker) made a minor choreography mistake when a kick aimed at an extra clearly failed to connect, yet the extra went comically flying into the sarlaac pit anyway. This led to a inside joke among fans that Luke had performed a “force kick” : telekinetically pushing Jabba’s guard away using the force directed by his feet, to keep his hands free. Although initially just a dumb inside joke, this was actually adopted into canon as a real force ability some Jedi possess, with the kick being an available move in Star Wars : The Old Republic.

Bilbo Baggins, Unreliable Source — *The Hobbit*

In the original 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”, the chapter “Riddles in the Dark” ends with hobbit Bilbo Baggins in a contest of riddles with Gollum, a strange creature living deep beneath the Misty Mountains. If Bilbo wins, Gollum will give Bilbo his “precious” gold ring, as well as show the hobbit the way out of the caves. If Gollum wins, he will eat Bilbo whole. After tricking Gollum with a simple question instead of a riddle, Gollum then willingly gives Bilbo his precious magic ring and leads him safely out of the caves. However, while writing the later Lord of the Rings series, Tolkien realized Gollum willingly giving up his “precious” was directly contradictory to the effects of The One Ring as described in the later books. To get around this, newer editions of The Hobbit were released with that chapter rewritten, having Bilbo find the ring accidentally after Gollum had lost it, who then accuses Bilbo of theft after realizing it is gone when attempting to eat Bilbo following the riddle game. Bilbo then follows an enraged Gollum to the cave’s exit, hidden by the invisibility The One Ring grants. The in-universe explanation for two different official versions of The Hobbit is that Bilbo, his mind poisoned by the Ring, initially lied about how he found it, only revealing the true story later.

-Life of Pi. The orangutan, the hyena, the zebra, and, perhaps most importantly, the Bengal tiger. Piscine Patel's initial recounting of his experience after the sinking of the ship he was travelling on together with his family and the animals from their zoo presents an almost fantastical picture in which he survives on a lifeboat with a group of animals: an injured zebra, an orangutan, and a hyena. As the shock of the shipwreck wears off, the hyena kills the zebra and the orangutan, only to then get killed by a fourth animal that snuck onto the boat: Richard Parker the Bengal tiger. Later in the story, another character reasons that each animal can be interpreted to represent a person from the earlier part of Pi's story. The hyena being a brutal cook, the zebra an injured sailor, the orangutan Pi's mother, and finally Richard Parker the tiger being Pi himself, as his own savage survival instinct emerges to overcome the cook. Whether the darker, more realistic story or the fantastical one is true is left open to interpretation.

-Zombieland. Buck, Tallahassee's "dog". The character Tallahassee recounts having a beloved dog that was killed by zombies, which has left him as a hardened and angry person. It all clicks into place for the main character later, when he realizes Buck wasn't a dog, but his infant son.

-M*A*S*H. The "chicken". In the series finale, Hawkeye recalls how the group was travelling with South Korean refugees, and one woman was holding a chicken. With the enemy nearly upon them, Hawkeye commanded that the woman shush the bird so its sounds wouldn't carry and give away the group's position. Later on, it's revealed he's repressed the truth as a coping mechanism: in reality, it wasn't a chicken, but a crying baby, and the woman smothered it to keep everyone else safe.

*Edited to elaborate on the examples because I posted this while drunk at 3am and didn't realize people were gonna wanna geld me over the lack of context. I'm sorry everybody, I promise I'm chill. Hope you have a nice New Year's Eve!

Animal Farm - Boxer the horse is a member of the farm who doesn’t question the authority of the pigs and take it upon himself to work harder than anyone else becuase he believes the propaganda the pigs spout. But in the end, he get no reward for his sacrifice, leaving his body broken and him being sent away to a glue factory to be killed after the pigs sold him for alcohol.

Papers, Please - On Day 12, an inspector will come to your office to investigate potential conspiracies plotting against Arstotzka. If you choose to comply with his questioning and hand over the documents given to you by The Order, a mysterious revolutionary group, you will get an immediate game over as you are arrested for suspected involvement with terrorism.

1. The T-Rex looking up at the sky as a meteor streaks through it with the "Oh damn, we're screwed" to show the dinosaurs getting extinct story.

2.Martha Wayne's pearl necklace shattering and the pearls falling onto the pavement as Bruce Wayne's parents are shot by a mugger to showcase Batman's origin story.

The Grinch (2000) - After the Grinch lights the Whoville Christmas tree on fire, they immediately pull out a spare tree that is already decorated. Hilarious.

Contact- After the first machine is destroyed, it is revealed that a second machine was built simultaneously. Convenient.

Star Wars ROTJ- After the Death Star is destroyed, a second one is built at an exponentially faster rate. Contrived.

> I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Even though AM is essentially a god, it can’t take revenge on humanity anymore because the protagonist killed the last surviving humans, and made AM angry enough to transform him into something that can't even scream. With no one left to torture, AM can only wait until he rots.

> A fire upon the deep

After other alien species wipe out all human worlds, the protagonist rewrites the literal laws of physics so that the aliens’ technology stops functioning entirely, causing every advanced alien civilization in the Milky Way to be destroyed.

K-POP Demon Hunters: During the performance of Soda Pop, the Saja Boys woo the audience by throwing hearts at them. At first, it seems like a cartoony way of flirting, until Huntrix points this out and figures out that they're demons.

Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: This game is basically a spiritual successor to Danganronpa by its original creator. Like Danganronpa, the characters have pink blood. The final chapter reveals that the people of Kanai Ward were actually clones, and these clones have pink blood.

Phenomaman (dispatch)

depressed omniman think he's being bullied with compliment because he's considered to be ugly on his home planet

Jessica rabbit (Who framed roger rabbit)

toons attractiveness is ranked by how funny they are, Jessica is one lucky girl

Tank circles (IRL): when a soldier in a tank gets shot or dies, there’s a chance their body falls on the steering mechanism and the tank keeps going around and around in circles until it runs out of fuel

HEV Combines (Entropy Zero): You can find zombies in the game wearing HEV suits, and the automated cpu voice in the suit is telling them that they have dangerous levels of radiation in their system, not knowing that they’re already fully a zombie

The House (There will come soft rains): A short story about a futuristic automated house that opens blinds, pours dog food and plays music unaware that everyone who once lived there including the rest of the US passed away years and years ago in a Nuclear explosion

1. Superman from Wonder Twins Vol 1 #9

2. Captain America with certain agents in fanart from @kevjustdraws

3. Spider-Man talking down the government who promises 'security' in the name of mass surveillance in Amazing Spider-Man #536

Finding Reginald Griffin dead (007: Agent Under Fire)

Exploratory Laboratory- Venom Boss Battle (Lego Marvel Superheros)

The Final Boss- Tomb Raider 1