6 cartoon characters that traumatized us as children

Batman – Scarecrow

The Scarecrow has always been one of Gotham City’s most disturbing supervillains. Thanks to the gas in its composition, it awakens the worst fears of those who inhale it. In the third episode of the animated series Batman (1992), the first appearance of Jonathan Crane aka the Scarecrow is excellent. In addition to wearing a very strange mask that elongates his face, he puts Batman through a lot of torture. In this episode, titled Scarecrow, Bruce Wayne/Batman breathes in Crane’s product and suffers from hallucinations. First his father surrounded by fire telling him he’s a disgrace to the family, then in the next episode, a giant scary skull comes close to snapping the Dark Knight in two! Another sight.

Bruce recovers with his catchphrase “I am Vengeance, I am the Night, I am Batman”! Fortunately, because here we are not yet recovered!

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – the witch

In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, there is only one true villain: the queen, who transforms into a terrible and terrible witch. Poor Snow White, a friend to everything that lives in her forest, seems to want to live a quiet life surrounded by animals and the 7 dwarfs, until she crosses the path of the beautiful red apple and hides a deadly poison created by the Queen, while becoming a nasty witch. Drawn features, an arched nose with an impressive eye-colored wart giving the illusion that it has three, one tooth, thick eyebrows and thin hands with pointed nails: this character is exciting for children. movie for the first time.

Her actions do nothing to improve the picture, as after Snow White falls into an almost eternal sleep, she tries to destroy the dwarves who are chasing her with a huge boulder. Lightning, like a punishment sent by fate, comes to punish him for his bad behavior, and the young audience finally calms down!

Pinocchio – forge

Behind his feigned nobility, his rosy cheeks and his big smile, Pinocchio’s ginger is a monster in its purest form, as seen at the end of his conversation with Gran-Coquin and Gideon, when he suddenly formulates his plan and face. takes on an evil expression.

His plan: to exploit the defiance of some jerks, promise them mountains and wonders, invite them to spend their holidays on an enchanted island, and let them turn into donkeys, so he can then sell them to the highest bidder. Cruelty in question, we’ve rarely done worse!

The Little Mermaid – Ursula

Surrounded by two wave eels, trapped in an underwater cave with walls lined with strange creatures, a sprawling Ursula can scare anyone.

If you are sometimes wary of appearance, in this case you can trust them and go your own way. Not content with evolving in an evolving environment that is deplorable to say the least, the Sorcerer of the Deep seeks to steal the voice of his victim. The entire program, which She wore a mermaid It would be better to take him back without hesitation.

Mad Escape – Stacy’s Rabbit General

We can never be too careful about animated films… La Folle escapade, released in 1978 and directed by Martin Rosen (who, by the way, is the revered work of Guillermo del Toro) is by no means for children. Because beneath its cute exterior depicting the fate of rabbits, in fact, lurks a great and terrible dark (horror) film; A fable about a totalitarian world where the air of war is not really cold.

Here, in a disturbing anthropomorphism, rabbits kill and mutilate each other. In this gallery, the character of General Stakis (General Woundworth VO), one-eyed and bloody, all claws out, hung by a sort of zombie rabbit, gave nightmares to sensitive souls.

Taram and the Cauldron – The Dark Lord

A cursed film, born with great pain at the house of Disney, then a complete creative introspection and a failure at the box office (which we return to in more detail here), Tarami and the Magic Cauldron was released in our regions in November 1985. completely unusual. Dark for the Big Bay House, the film was even violent. We also saw there, for the first time in a house work, the character Taram, who was bloody after being beaten.

What also caught his eye, of course, was his villain, the terrible Lord of Darkness: an inescapable grave sound, clawed fingers, blood-red eyes, a skeletal face hidden under a hood flanked by two horns. A castle obsessed with reviving an army of the dead using a famous cauldron.

The writer of these lines had the pleasure – or misfortune, it depends – of discovering this character in theaters (at the Grand Rex, Wednesday afternoon session!). It cannot be said that there was a general panic in the audience, children who screamed in fear when they discovered this, cried, some of them buried their heads in the back of the chair or in the arms of their distraught parents. From memory, there has never been a Disney villain this scary, and never will be…