If this stuff chills you to the core, how can you enjoy any fiction with a moderate amount of thrill and risk in it? Surely even the latest Marvel movie would be too scary. Maybe they just take it to mean anything slightly unusual, maybe they are genuinely frightened by what they see here. Yet it seems like fully grown adults find this to be “nightmare fuel”. This is made for children, no child would even find this scary. At one point Adagio walks down an aisle caressing every student's head as she passes by like they're her possessions for her to play with (which is weird normally, but Nightmare Fuel if you're the kind of person that does not like to be touched). Them having No Sense of Personal Space in a really creepy way doesn't help either. The whole Enthralling Siren theme, with them pretty much seducing the students into a fight. > The shot of Dazzle's eyes lighting up comes off as a Wham Shot and is all the more frightening for it. What makes the entire scene work so well is that it's the first phase of their Evil Plan, and at first they seem to just be typical human villains, then the supernatural aspects begin showing up. The entire student body joining in, with a much deeper-voiced choir than we usually hear in MLP. The occasional close-ups of Adagio Dazzle's eyes flashing green. The entire thing is heavily implied to be a Hate Plague. With one song, the Dazzlings are tearing down the school spirit and unity that Twilight brought to the school, turning it into anarchy. The scary part is that the song is the antithesis to the first film's "Cafeteria Song": the exact same situation of a musical number stirring up the student's passions into an eager flash mob, but the polar opposite message in the lyrics. They're clearly working some sort of magic from their jeweled necklaces, and the room fills with sickly green fog, which the necklaces seem to be absorbing. The Dazzlings come in with this incredibly eerie and spooky song, sowing chaos and competition among all the students, who start infighting, each suddenly wanting to climb their way to the top of the heap. Already you must realize that this is is outrageous. I’m going to use a random example from one of the My Little Pony nightmare fuel pages, because these things are insanely bloated. One common tactic in the Nightmare Fuel pages is to take something that really isn’t shown as being exceptionally scary and hype it up. Many scary scenes exist in fiction, many emotional scenes exist in fiction, many times these things can occur in unexpected places or in content intended for children. This is similar for the Awesome, Funny, and Heartwarming stuff, but it’s especially pronounced on the pages I described. Maybe I bring it on myself for looking at them, but these pages attract people that clearly do not have grounded, reasonable emotions if they genuinely believe the stuff they are saying.
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