I mean, that does happen with a lot of traditionally scary monsters to be fair. Look at how cutesy Halloween monsters sometimes get portrayed as, or dragons, which at least in the European sense would traditionally have been dangerous and scary monsters but nowadays are just as often friendly or protective as they are hostile.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and the Blustery Day
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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 year ago
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
How to train your dragon, but with traditional dragons. Yes please.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would be like when I grew up and saw a George Carlin special on tv and was like “oh that’s Mister conductor from Thomas! He does comedy? I have to see this…” And was instantly traumatized in a good way
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh wow. I am clearly older than you because Thomas was something that I was way too old for by the time it came on TV and I had plenty of Carlin’s albums, but yeah, that must have been a head trip. I wonder if there are any other examples like that. I can’t think of any off the top of my head.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 year ago
Bob Saget's entire career was a ruse to shock children. Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos. And then literally everything else he did was just different versions of The Aristocrats.
ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Bob Saget is an awesome pick. Tim Allen was sort of similar although it wasn’t nearly as shocking as Bob Saget. America’s funniest home videos was so lame that the bar was as low as possible.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
haha you should know - George Carlin hosted the very first episode of SNL, with the MUPPETS!
no shit. muppet.fandom.com/wiki/George_Carlin
Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 1 year ago
vrek@programming.dev 1 year ago
I hear he likes to *****!
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It already exists : youtu.be/0pdF1a7Qi9c
paddirn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Freddie the Friendly Dream Pal
kinther@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Helps you fight nightmares and is on your side
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Every heard of Scooby-Doo?
smigao@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s a ga ga ga ghooost
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Freddy kroger, Its 2 kinds of horror, being a low income cashier at kroger, and dealing with shitty customers.
And o yeah he also kills people in there dreams.
BobbyNevada@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
But then he gives a little moral and the end episode. During the nightmare: "Still looking for cottage cheese, Karen? Maybe it was inside you the entire time! Ha! Ha! Ha! " Then she screams to get the manager and slowly melts to a blob of cottage cheese. Then Freddy scoops some in a bowl, puts in some peaches, and says " Make sure you have a balanced diet kids! This is a healthy snack, right Karen? Ha! Ha! Ha!
ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I was watching He-Man recently and the PSAs at the end are kind of funny since Man-at-Arms talks about how practical jokes can make your friends lose an arm, eye, or life. They were straight shooters in the 80s!
rabiddolphin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The thing about freddy krueger that made him scary was that he was also a pedophile not just a guy with really long fingernails and acne scars
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have a baby Freddy Krueger plushie, he’s so cute with his li’l baby bonnet & training claws
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Isn’t that basically all fairy tales?
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Child-friendly fairy tales: a little girl went into the forest alone and got lost, she speak with an owl and ask the owl to guide her home, which the owl agree to guide her home and she went home scared but safe.
OG fairy tales: a little girl went into the forest alone and got lost, she speak with an owl and ask the owl to guide her home, the owl laugh, then fly straight to her and rip her face off, eating her alive.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Little girl in her new red hood goes to the forest, meets a wolf, tames him and brings him to be Grandma’s guard dog.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imagine growing up and finding out your Freddie the good dream boy is actually murdering people lol
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess kids grow up now with like Goofy Frankenstein’s Monster, but yeah. It definitely sounds ridiculous to us.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Yokai Watch is basically just that but pokemon, i think. And maybe Hotel Transylvania.
zourn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We did that in the 90s while they were still new. See: The Toxic Avengers.
Mamertine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s brilliant, but it’s gonna be decades before the things we associate with horror films become public domain.
I was curious what was public domain. I found this article. cuttingforbusiness.com/8-characters-public-domain…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Decades, true, but I still hope one day to see The Very Hungry Freddy Krueger.
JokklMaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s definitely already stuff like that for Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster.
ares35@kbin.social 1 year ago
"Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna Play?"
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Disney is VERY litigious , meaning that they will sue for copyright , saying that you haven’t use the public domain version of a character - you used their version - because their version has a pretty nose or whatever.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Bride is technically a monster but never harmed anyone, unless you count hurting Frank Jr’s feelings by recoiling from him in horror. #whenwomenrefuse
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean it’s happening already with certain characters that have gone from being in R rated movies to pg.
fossphi@lemm.ee 1 year ago
And also fantastic that when children’s media characters go into public domain, we get a lot of adult content ;)?
theodewere@kbin.social 1 year ago
lol google stuffed cthulhu plush
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You mean like all the child-friendly content built around Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummies, Zombies, Werewolves, Ghosts, but with Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, Ghostface, Jigsaw, Annabelle, Chucky, Pinhead, Xenomorphs, etc?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly. Don’t tell me you wouldn’t want to read Horton Hatches the Xenomorph Egg.
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You mean like Monster Squad?