Creepy/unsettling Pokemon designs?

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    Are there any Pokemon that somehow, in some way, you find unnerving to look at?

    It doesn't bother me so much now, but when I was little, Jynx really creeped me out. She's not human - yet at the same time, looks just human enough to be unsettling. I dreaded exploring ice path.

    Cofagrigus because it's a living coffin. Enough said.

    Cubone, because every single one in existence apparently has a dead mother and decides to wear her skull for whatever reason.

    Not really a Pokemon technically, but Missingno is also creepy because it can corrupt your savegame, and possibly your whole cartridge.
     
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    Sableye with its creepy grin, Gengar as well. Also Malamar, I found it unsettling even before seeing it in the anime.
     
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    hhhHEHHHHEEEELP
    From the moment I saw it, I was unsettled haha.
     
    Mr Mime with its creepy smile and the fact it practically breaks the fourth wall in the 3DS games.

    Crobat in 3D.
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    I don't mind it as much in the 3DS games though.

    Exeggutor's Red/Blue sprite with its unproportioned body and creepy smiles.
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    Shiinotic with its black, souless eyes.
     
    There's actually a multitude of Pokémon that set me off. The Whismur family, Sigilyph, the Ultra Beasts, and a few others simply for their bizarre designs, and Sableye because it looks really unsettling.

    Plus, have you seen Darkrai's legs?
     
    Conceptually, the Paras line is pretty disturbing imo - it "evolves" by having the parasitic mushrooms on its back take over control of its body. I know it's not even the worst, most Ghost-types have far creepier backstories/dex entries.

    Visually though, I definitely agree the UB's have a very unsettling, un-Pokémon look about them. Sableye kind of creeps me out too, especially in the later games where it makes that "ticking" motion when animated.
     
    I think the Litwick line is pretty creepy since I've read their Pokédex entries. Those Pokémon are actually malicious/evil :(
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    And look at its face with the creepy smile!
    Litwick shines a light that absorbs the life energy of people and Pokémon, which becomes the fuel that it burns.
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    While shining a light and pretending to be a guide, it leeches off the life force of any who follow it.
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    When I was playing through Red as a seven year old kid, two things used to absolutely freak me out in those games.

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    MissingNo. absolutely scares me. It's like the Cthulhu of the Pokemon Universe. A promise of absolute power but at the ultimate price of the slow destruction of the entire game's universe. When finding MissingNo. it was like unleashing a great, powerful and unstoppable evil. After I had unleashed MissingNo. in the original Red version when I was little, that thing haunted me across my pokemon games for a few years, destroying save files, distorting pokemon, NPC's and even towns, it turned my game into a horrific mess, it was practically traumatic to me.
    I have many memories of MissingNo. and not a single one is good. Even to this day, his picture is absolutely unsettling to me.

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    The original art style of Gastly was pretty freaky to me (before the anime decided to turn it into that silly looking floating black ball). I actually remember having a nightmare as a little kid about being haunted by a Gastly that looked exactly like the original sprite style for Red and Blue. Just a misty floating face haunting me with that disturbing fang filled smile. Don't get me wrong, I do think this is the absolute best art for Gastly, but it's the best art because of how creepy and unsettling it is in this form.
     
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    I absolutely love Ghost-types as a whole, ever since I faced down Morty as a kid. But, even though I love Ghost-types, there is one Pokemon that just gives me all the wrong kind of heebie-jeebies.

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    BANETTE!!! I know that all Ghost-types are creepy and unsettling in thier own way. Gengar is a nightmarish shadow, Misdreavus enjoys screaming in your face, Drifloon abduct kids or at least tries to. Every Ghost-type has something that makes them scary. But that's fine by me, because they're supposed to be scary. They're ghosts! They're creepy in all the right ways, and I love them for it. But Banette. Freakin' Banette! I'm fine with Shuppet, but not Banette. I don't know what it is about those freaky little voodoo dolls, but Banette is on a whole other level of nightmare.

    Also, while I'm perfectly fine with them, my Dad can't stand Mr. Mime.
     
    Honestly I don't really find a lot of the Ghost Pokemon in existence to bet that... scary. I mean yeah they CAN be scary... but a lot of the time they're just cute. Or awesome looking. Or sometimes both. But THIS thing....

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    It's got eyes on its arms and I don't approve. ;-;

    Really what is with this thing? It's a tentacle monster with eyes on every tentacle. It's even an amalgamate of 7 of its pre-evolution a la Magneton and Dugtrio. I don't know what they were thinking here but it reminds me of parasitic worms and I can't say I like it.

    The Ultra Beasts in general I'm... ok with, for the most part, but Buzzwole is also kinda scary, what with it being a giant mosquito. Parasect also is creepy as its situation reminds me a lot of cordyceps fungus, which like the mushrooms infesting Paras infects and takes over its insect host, forcing it to propagate its spores until it keels over and dies. Scary stuff there.
     
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