The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom/Fridge

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Fridge Horror

• The draconification process that Zelda undergoes seems horrific enough, but at very least, despite it being a Deus Ex Machina, she is restored at the end. Which, let's face it, came as no surprise to most players. However, consider this: should the "split timeline theory" be true, it is very possible that there is at least one (possibly even two) timelines where there was no cure, leaving Zelda trapped in her monstrous form forever. A thought that is as horrific as it is tragic.
• The Marbled Rock Roast is more like a Fridge Disgusting example. While it is clear from the start that it May Contain Evil and all the Gorons are addicted to it, when Link and Yunobo reach the last room of the Fire Temple, they discover that the boss - Marbled Gohma - is literally made of the same stuff as the Marbled Rock Roast. This means the Gorons have been eating parts of a giant rock-spider monster. Hard to say whether that’s cool, disturbing, or just plain gross.
• The alternate timeline seen in Age of Calamity had a much happier outcome, seeing as how Calamity Ganon was decisively thwarted once and for all while the Champions and King Rhoam managed to survive... or at least, it did before this game revealed that Ganondorf himself was lurking deep beneath Hyrule Castle biding his time until Rauru's seal wears off, and that he's way more powerful than Calamity Ganon ever was. No one knows he's even beneath the castle to begin with, and Link and Zelda only stumbled upon him due to the Malice leaking out from underground... over a hundred years after the Great Calamity. And since Link and Zelda won't have been put in a situation that would lead to them not aging a day over the course of the coming century, they'll either be dead and buried once the Demon King returns, or they'll be way too old to effectively fight him. In other words, Age of Calamity is as far from a Golden Ending as you can get, and Hyrule is screwed.
• Hearty Durians and Great Horned Rhinos, which were highly sought after due to being (or in the rhino's case, providing) some of the best cooking ingredients in Breath of the Wild, are nowhere to be seen in this game. They were such potent health-boosting and money-making ingredients that you hunted them to extinction, You Bastard!
  • Alternatively, the great environmental shakeup caused by the Upheaval may have had something to do with it. Thanks to multiple new species of monsters showing up out of nowhere, they may have simply been hunted into extinction by these new foes. Of note are the fact that the Tabantha and Hebra regions, where the rhinos could be found, are now among the places where you can fight Gleeoks...