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Astoria: Fate's Kiss / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** - In Season 1, it's mentioned that death isn't necessarily permanent for gods - reincarnation is always an option. Season 2 explains the actual process: A human may be born with the potential to become the dead god, but nothing will come of it unless they take part in a ritual to trigger the change, whereupon the human identity is essentially annihilated from the inside as the god is reborn. note : For example, the protagonist's mother was the reincarnated Hera, but she lived and died as a human, and the potential to become the goddess was passed on to her daughter instead. The reborn god keeps the human's memories, but the personality that was the sum of a lifetime of experiences and relationships is gone. *This is presented as an unambiguously good thing,* at least as far as the gods and their closest allies are concerned. At the end of Cerberus' Season 2 story, Hades mentions finding the reincarnated Hermes, and everyone cheerfully hopes the baby will grow up soon so Hermes can rejoin them. - Season 2, in Hydra and Medusa's routes, it also indicates that for the ritual to be successful, it requires a living human sacrifice as well. So not only is the 'host' human subsumed by the god, but an additional human needs to die as well during the ritual. - Cyprin's season 2 suggests otherwise, however, as Ares is able to release Hera's power with no sacrifice - although the Heroine is able to fight it due to her love of Cyprin.

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Assassin's Creed Syndicate / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Assassin's Creed: Syndicate isn't the type of game to take itself too seriously, being as light-hearted and humorous as it is. And that makes the terrifying moments that much worse. In fact, *Syndicate* is currently the fastest game in the series to both get get a Nightmare Fuel page and image. **Unmarked spoilers below.** ## Main Game/General - The escape from the laboratory in Sequence 2 has a good dose of this, short as it is. At one point a pipe smashes into the floor and it collapses, throwing Evie into the water. Many players their first time thought that it was a death scene, and a rather scary one at that, until they got control of Evie again. - Dr. Elliotson, in what little time he gets. In his Establishing Character Moment, he casually fails a surgery during a medical lecture, which doubles as Squick when you add those horrible sounds. His following nonchalance doesn't help. **Elliotson**: Unfortunately, it appears I've... *Rolls his eyes* ruined the organ. - In Sequence 8, the burning of the Alhambra Theatre. With little warning, Maxwell Roth orders his henchmen to burn it to the ground with all of the guests inside. Once Jacob has killed Roth and is making his escape, he starts to suffer from smoke inhalation as debris crashes down and blocks most of his exits. - While Crawford Starrick is a prime example of Evil Is Cool, many of his actions or plots can be downright unsettling. - His complete lack of hesitation to shoot one of his own men in the head for the heinous crime of...interrupting him while hes playing the piano in grief. - By the end of the game, his plan is to massacre the leadership of London at Buckingham Palace so that he can take control and make his search for the Shroud that much easier. - To add to that, his dance with Evie at the ball certainly qualifies. Starrick begins to dance with Evie, informing her that if she leaves, she will be shot. But he also tells her that once the dance is over, she will be shot. The thought of such a situation, to know that no matter what you do, you will be dead within the next five minutes - maybe a little longer if you do as they say, just another minute of anticipating death. Neither of them say a word after a short conversation, and every single second, Evie knew her death was coming closer and closer and there was nothing she could do about it but dance with him a little longer, accomplishing absolutely nothing but anticipating death for a few more minutes before being shot dead anyway. - Once he finally has the Shroud, his common attack seems to be to grab either twin by the throat. At first you get the thought he's strangling them, which is scary enough on its own, but then you realize *the Shroud is sucking the life out of them*. - Even Lucy Thorne gets some of this, if to a lesser extent - she boasts that she will kill the Frye twins by hanging Evie from the gallows and flaying Jacob when he comes to save her. Later she tells Evie that she will strangle her with the Shroud once she finds it. Even though that would mean Evie is wearing it and thus be unharmed, it's still unsettling. - At the very end of the main story, footage shows Violet da Costa handing the Shroud to Doctor Grammatica. Maybe a little unsettling that they have it, but nothing major. But in a pod behind them... sweet Jesus, that pod. Inside is a *horribly* failed clone of a Precursor, its skin peeling off, and a face that looks more like Jack the Ripper's mask with *flesh* instead of cloth. - Following that scene we discover de Costa is working with Juno. Juno's final line in the game is absolutely terrifying, considering her track record so far in the series. **Juno**: You have played your part, my instrument. I will save you. I will save you all. - Likewise, Juno's database entry is downright scary. It's clear that Shaun is afraid of her, and with good reason. **Shaun**: Nobody knows what she wants, or even what she's capable of. All I know is, she's dangerous, she killed a friend of mine, and she's our responsibility. - From the Assassin Intel collection, the fate of Giovanni Borgia. Poor kid's been dealt a bad hand to begin with, being born into one of history's most notorious Big Screwed Up Families, and then he gets Mind Raped by a precursor artifact into experiencing all the lives of his various messed-up relatives at once. ## DLC - The Jack the Ripper trailer, hands down. It starts with several police officers rushing to the scene of another of the legendary murderer's victims, a crowd already gathering. Then the Ripper starts talking about how the police will never catch him as a woman walks through the darkened back-alleys of Whitechapel until a man (whose face isn't seen) walks up, pulls out a knife and stabs the poor lady to death. The trailer ends with Jack standing within the wreckage of a burning building saying how much he loves his work, how he's planning to start over again, and taunting the Frye twins, and by extension, the viewer, to try and stop him. - The poster in the game box-art is plenty scary too. Jack the Ripper looming large like a monster with Evie staring up at the madman. - Now that the DLC is officially out, it gets worse - in the beginning and a few other sections, * you play as Jack the Ripper*. And he is just as, if not more, brutal than the Frye twins. This includes a series of brutal takedowns and a scream that can strike fear even into the police. What makes it worse is that the Ripper seems to have his own version of Eagle Sense. As in words will occasionally pop up on the screen, telling you "murderer", "betrayer", "coward", "kill", "rip them", "must not escape", among *many* others. The worst of these scrawlings early on? "KILL JACOB". - And that's only the beginning of the DLC - the next cutscene reveals that Evie may be the last of the British Assassins at this point in time, as mentioned by Abberline. Which means that Jacob spends the entire game after the first mission captured by the Ripper, being horrifically tortured physically and psychologically by the Ripper. - The hits just keep coming too. You know the Rooks? The gang you lovingly built up, saw saving children, and were a force for good? They all work for Jack now, and have kill on sight orders for Evie. - And we have Ubisoft's interpretation of the Ripper's history. Jack had watched his mother being butchered by Templars under orders for Starrick, and was thrown into Lambeth Asylum. Following Starrick's death, Jack was liberated from the Asylum and brought into the Assassin order by none other than **Jacob Frye**. - The final fight against Jack the Ripper. The first stage, you can't hurt him save by sneak attacks, and you are forced to listen as Jack endlessly taunts you to come out. If he sees you, he will chase you like a bat out of hell while taunting you about the Creed and your impending death. And the second part has him go into a full breakdown, with him yelling and screaming at Evie to show her inner monster to him. Perhaps just as scary is the way Evie finishes him, through his own brutal takedown.

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Assassin's Creed: Unity / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes For once, it's not the Animus that produced this glitch. - Remember John from Black Flag? That descendant of Aita who ||died trying to use the research analyst in Black Flag as a vessel for Juno||? He's received the same treatment as Desmond Miles, and ||is being used by Abstergo to find *other* Sages in order to unlock the Precursor genome to unlock even more Pieces of Eden||. - The ||prologue of Jacques de Molay||'s death is pretty spooky. Especially when he gets burnt at the stake and curses the King who watches him die with sadistic satisfaction with his cold gray eyes. The shot of his eyes with the burning flames reflecting is especially spooky. - The Mushroom Samba of ||Arno's initiation is pretty much an Arkham Scarecrow mission, with collapsing floors made of bones and skulls and statues with glowing eyes that follow you.|| - The bug that randomly removes character faces and leaves only their eyes, hair and mouths. For players who dodged being spoiled concerning the bugs, it's a shocking first experience to show just how utterly Ubisoft's QA team screwed up. - ||Germain's death|| looks unpleasant enough. Now see Arno with the face glitch savoring the moment as he slowly shoves his blade into ||Germain's|| throat. Sweet dreams. - The scariest thing in the *Dead Kings* DLC, is not the Raiders, not ||the First Civ ghost illusions, not the piece of Eden at the end, not the rats and bats, nor even the claustrophobic catacombs with piles of skulls dotting corners||. It's Napoleon Bonaparte who coldly keeps his subordinates in his place, burns a pack of rats with oil cooly and gives an epic Start of Darkness speech. **Napoleon**: "I know the human animal. What you fear, what you love? Is Rose a bad man? Undoubtedly. But I, Napoleon, can control him and turn him to what's best for France. The masses will gladly renounce their freedom if all can entertain the hope of rising to the top. With the artifact inside the temple, I will bring them the illusion of hope. And I will lead us to glory." - The scary part, ||he's right, and he ends up doing all of those things, making France and Europe his bitch and Arno Dorian can do nothing but watch in slackjawed shock at how Napoleon made a total fool of him||. - From the Rift Data, one of Juno's rants implies that Clay and Desmond are in some way still "alive"... and stuck in The Grey with her. Bad enough their deaths were pretty horrific (and brought about by Juno's own manipulations), but the thought that even *after* they've died, they still don't get release... - At the beginning of "The Jacobin Raid" co-op mission, the cutscene includes a depiction of ||Robespierre||'s beheading. When the same fate befalls ||King Louis XVI|| in a story mission, we see it from far away, so it's not that disturbing. The same can't be said for ||Robespierre||. We're treated to a nice extended close-up of his severed, mutilated head being held up, complete with facial wounds, a lolling jaw, and disturbingly realistic-looking eyes rolled back in their sockets. - You have to purposely go out of your way to see it, but in the mission where you fight Bellec, if you fail the second button-mashing QTE, you get a rather horrific cutscene◊ where Bellec mercilessly slashes and stabs Arno in the chest with his sword. While vicious kill animations are a staple of the series and isn't the first time where performing QTE button prompts is mandatory to avoid death note : Assassin's Creed III is the first entry with this distinction, the fact that *you* can be on the receiving end of brutal kill animations is pretty scary in its own right, and is notably one of the first instance in the series where the main playable ancestor note : While Haytham from Assassin's Creed III is technically the first one to suffer this, he was not under the player's control at the time of his death can be killed in a brutal manner onscreen within a cutscene.

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Asura Cryin' / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Demons and Asura Machina. - Demons: their very existence is antithetical to the world, and the world fights back by slowly eroding their bodies when they use their powers. Additionally, male demons begin to lose memories of his partner, and female demons lose their *ability to love* when they find a contractor. - Asura Machina: literally ||powered by the souls of little girls||. And they're a finite, expendable resource. - The First Stage World. Due to the alternate dimension experiment accident that started the whole mess, hizaika (basically the equivalent of the Warp) is eating away at the world itself, and only supernatural entities can actually see it happening. To everyone else, people and things they've known their entire lives are slowly vanishing, and even the memory of those things are vanishing along with them. Your best friend that you've known your entire life? Now he's gone, and you don't even remember him being there to begin with.

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A Study in Regret / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *A Study in Regret* started out as a torture/Death Fic one-shot. Then it got worse, and now, even with things looking up, there's still plenty of fuel for shivers and shudders... - We never get very much detail on Holmes's torture, except for Naja the viper, but he's so far gone by the time he's rescued. Think for a moment about how much it must've taken to reduce the Great Detective to that, and cue those shivers. - Speaking of Naja... that scene is just plain *scary*, especially if you're actually afraid of snakes. Snakes Are Evil, indeed. - M C A L L I S T... - Mary's and her unborn baby's lives are at stake. We're not just talking about a tragic loss that *did* happen off-screen in the Canon anymore - now we're dealing with adult fear, as well.

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Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **Unmarked spoilers below.** - The evils of slavery are EVERYWHERE in Port-au-Prince. One of your first missions is preventing an Overseer running down a slave woman and causally executing her. Pretty standard stuff, right? Then it happens again, and again, and again. You realize this is a common thing and Adéwalé can't be there for even a fraction of the slaves executed for trying to escape. - This is supplemented by all the slaves who are held in cages, being forced to drink from horse troughs, being whipped to death, and sold like cattle at auctions. The DLC very deliberately makes it *impossible* to rescue everyone and the trade continues on even when Adéwalé interrupts it. Becomes Fridge Horror when you realize all of this stuff *really happened.* - The penultimate mission. Adéwalé watches a slave-ship assaulted by the Governor's forces in retaliation for Adéwalé's actions. Adéwalé struggles to rescue as many slaves as possible but he's unable to get a fraction of them free before the ship falls apart around him. At one point, you're forced to watch dozens of slaves hanging upside down as they're drowned around you, Adéwalé unable to do a damned thing about it. This event triggers Adéwalé's Despair Event Horizon and Roaring Rampage of Revenge.

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A Tale of... / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *A Tale of...* is a Darker and Edgier Twice-Told Tale of *Disney Animated Canon*. It uses that to its advantage by featuring several frightening scenes. ## In General - The Odd Sisters are a set of creepy triplets who cause trouble for no real reason. They're the reason behind so much misery in Disney films, including Snow White's step-mother becoming wicked. *A Tale of the Wicked Queen* - Grimhilde has a nightmare of an Enfant Terrible Snow White asking for her heart. - The Odd Sisters threaten a young Snow White with death. They "joke" about how they'd like to kill her, cut her up, and make a potion out of her. To make it creepier, they're her distant cousins. - Grimhilde had an abusive father who loathed her. However, he died and ||his soul became trapped in a mirror.|| While Ambiguously Evil, ||the Man in the Mirror|| does torment Grimhilde and is a large reason behind her Sanity Slippage. - Grimhilde was already abusive and overprotective to My Beloved Smother standards due to her Sanity Slippage, but she wasn't out to murder her step-daughter until the Odd Sisters gave her a potion. She wasn't completely in control of herself and ||is so horrified during a moment of lucidity that she prefers death over surviving.|| - Grimhilde's fate is bittersweet. On one hand, ||she's happy with Snow again||, however ||she's stuck inside the Magic Mirror||. *Mother Knows Best* - When Gothel tries to revive her sisters, it fails the first few times but eventually they're revived just long enough to convulse in pain, all the while screaming for Gothel to let them stay dead while black oil pours out of their mouths. It even makes the Odd Sisters scream. - Mrs. Tiddlebottom and Mrs. Pickle come across Gothel and the Odd Sisters doing a ritual involving 8 year old Rapunzel. They're down in a dark cellar, singing and surrounding two dead bodies while an asleep Rapunzel lays between the bodies. The four women are dripping blood onto Rapunzel from wounds to their hands. It's less ominous than it seems - Rapunzel wasn't going to be hurt, at least - but it's still freaky. When they're awaken from their trances by Mrs. Pickle's screaming, they start convulsing, screaming, and pouring black goop out their mouths. - Gothel describes how it feels to die by turning to dust. It's very painful. - Mrs. Tiddlebottom describes the bloody story *Bluebeard* as a cautionary tale.

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Ask King Sombra / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Uber Sombra full stop. While Sombra in general is pretty funny, his Split Personality is every bit the monstrous creature he was in the two parter. - Of special note is during Coffee and Sombra's making camp while going up the mountain. Everything's normal...then suddenly, Uber Sombra takes control and tries to *murder her*. - What really makes it terrifying is that there was absolutely no build up or foreshadowing to this happening. Uber Sombra can completely take Sombra over without effort whenever he wants, and there's (so far) *nothing* anyone can do about it! Well, no one except Sombra, anyway, as the two personalities need to be in agreement for Uber Sombra to do anything. But his sanity and the extent of his self-centeredness make relying on him an unreliable prospect at the best of times. - Plus, later Uber Sombra shows he's *quite* willing to dispose of Coffee Talk if he can do so in a way Sombra can't find out about. - When Sombra finds out that Supremus Longhorn and Dominus were attempting to control his mind, Sombra becomes so enraged that Uber-Sombra takes control and tears off one of Longhorns legs (and would have ripped off the rest off if Pun didn't stop him).

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A Tale of Two Sisters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** - The immediate aftermath of Su-mi's first nightmare - as she starts to calm down, she hears a noise, just barely audible, coming from the other side of the room. She looks, and, after a few seconds, spots a pale, long-haired woman slowly crawling on all fours across the floor, causing her to gasp in terror and start to hyperventilate. This, of course, attracts the attention of the ghost - who proceeds to suddenly stand up in a split second before advancing on Su-mi, who is now too terrified to move. The utterly terrifying ambient score does *not* help. - The girl under the sink. The entire scene. - The ghost emerging from the cupboard to get Eun-ju. Not to mention the entire build-up to that scene... - The first nighttime scene in Su-yeon's bedroom. Her door slowly creaks open of its own accord... she shrinks back in fear... and after a moment of tenseness, a hand suddenly grips around the edge of the door. - The scene where the wife of the girls' uncle starts having a fit. It is frightening enough the first time around, but, on a re-watch, if one believes the theory that she was being possessed, the scene takes on a very different light. - The bleeding floorboards. - The morning after Su-mi is told that Su-yeon is dead. Moo-hyeon leaves the house on an errand, and Su-mi is left in the house, becoming more and more terrified as her delusions spiral out of control.

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A Thing of Vikings / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - This fic doesnt shy away from showing just how brutal this time period was. Slavery is the norm, massive amounts of ethnic/religious intolerance, and Rape, Pillage, and Burn is less a war crime and more standard operating procedure. - Snotlout has a moment where he's sitting on the mountainside and watching the rebel city *his* Roman dragon-riders attacked go up in flames and having flashbacks to his childhood. He *knows* what the noncombatants are going through down below, and it horrifies him, made worse by the fact that they specifically attacked the food supplies and the people going for water to put out the fires. - Then the rebels do the only thing they can do: Forage—or in other words, pillage the countryside's farms to make up the difference in food. - While undeniably awesome, the Battle of the Sound of Berk shows just how *terrifying* being on the receiving end of a dragon-enhanced army is when you are part of an army confined to the ground (or sea). Ships go up in flames or explode, men are crushed by rocks or drown in the sea, and worse, all from the POV of the men in the ships. - The Byzantines have a disturbing obsession with torture and dismemberment (to the point that Wikipedia has a whole article on it!), made all the worse by the fact that they consider it to be *merciful* compared to just killing someone. - The Berserker Clan and Savage live up to their names in Chapter 95. When they inflict punishment, they treat their prisoners like *an animal to hunt*, and when they catch them, if they're not already dead, they torture the prisoner first before killing them using an extremely brutal execution method. - The Screaming Death that was Fearless's nest-lord. It was already terrifying in the series, but here the creature tears through basically every dragon and human defence that might try to stand against it, forcing Toothless's sister Fearless to perform a Heroic Sacrifice to take it down by triggering a *volcanic eruption* that engulfs her *and* the Screaming Death (and takes out Mildew and Toothless's Whispering Death nemesis as collateral damage). - Book 3 ends with various dragon nest-lords, including Furious- a Green Death and the brother to Fire-Hunger- making plans to try and enslave walkers in revenge for the humans' recent efforts to enslave dragons, with Valka trapped in the middle as she lacks the support to argue for peace on any level, only able to imagine Stoick and Hiccup being killed as the 'dragon-killers' try to fight back... - In Chapter 127, the dragons put their plan to enslave humans into action. They attack a village in Greenland and the attack is told from the point of view of a farmer who watches in horror as the dragons not only take the village's live stock, but people as well before taking him. - The end of chapter 138 Deus Vult, Sir Henry the Sinister leads a religious mob of Christian Zealots into the Jewish quarter of the city of Caen and whips the mob into a blood thirsty frenzy, all from the POV of a pregnant Jewish woman, one of Esthers in-laws. The way Henry is described sounds like something from a nightmare. The scene ends with a Synagogue being set alight, with several Jews trapped inside. And at the end of the chapter, Sir Henry takes her hostage.

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Ask The Main Four / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Arc 1 - There were some questions directed at Kyle that turned out to be so disturbing, that Kyle wanted to leave the blog. After convincing from his friends, Kyle stays on the blog, with Cartman giving anons a "disturbing three strike" rule, which predictably gets broken, and Cartman bans the anons for a while. - After Butters makes a post about Cartman's private exploits to explain to the "peers" why he is hurt after getting called a whore by them (as well as why he has acted strange at some points), Cartman is absolutely furious (more so after Butters accidentally outed him during a Q&A session) and is under the impression that Butters is out to humiliate him further. So after Butters tells him that he needs to be honest once in a while, he grabs him by the shoulders and *screams* in his face (with accompanying text) , then continues to scream at him about "ruining" him. The emphatic text reappears when Cartman yells at the boys **"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I FUCKING NEED, YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!!"** after Butters punches him in self-defense. The image of his rage face during this is absolutely terrifying. **"ALL OF YOU GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE NOW!!"** - Patty Nelson's Halloween costume: a blood-splattered Creepy Doll, complete with empty eyes. Arc 2 - The Darker and Edgier tone of this blog gets turned up to eleven with only two words: Trent. Boyett. The author pulled absolutely no punches in changing the game for the second arc, and it shows. It really, *really* shows. Here's a breakdown of his finest moments: - In an offscreen post, Cartman is walking towards a rat-infested locker to find *Kenny's disemboweled, bloody, rat-ridden corpse!* Cartman's eyes are also dark blue as opposed to light blue, meaning Kenny has possessed him again. He awakens, frightened, but later on, he demands Kenny (in his bathroom mirror) to explain why he's acting strange... and Kenny's voice comes out of his mouth to explain that he's been murdered. Before he can give away the murderer's identity, we're treated to a visual of one of Cartman's eyes rolling into the back of his head as he gets cut off. This actually hurts Cartman, and he is left screaming at Kenny to explain his unexpected condition. - Oh, yeah, and it gets all downhill from here: another post reveals that the person who murdered Kenny is none other than a hellbent-on-revenge Trent. Kenny (from his POV) watches as he hides from Trent, with the latter calling out that he will not leave until he finds him. When he does, Kenny's POV shows not only his hands covered in his blood, but a seething-with-rage Trent as well, having been stabbed by his knife. Trent then shoves his body in his locker, leaving him to be eaten alive by his pet rats. When Kenny (who, by the way, has a slit throat and a disemboweled stomach, talking to Cartman like he's Jack Goodman from *An American Werewolf in London*) tells Cartman that he has possessed Cartman, the latter goes off on him (complete with another rage face that fills up an entire panel), which results in Kenny yelling back at him to tell the boys that Trent is on the loose and that they should keep themselves safe. - In the background of the first panel where Wendy visits Stan in the school cafeteria to talk to him about looking for Kenny, Trent is standing to the right. - Trent confronts Kyle in a bathroom, wearing Cartman's jacket and Kenny's necklace. He'd turned out to be a hulking, tattooed, juvenile menace—with a scarred-up face, piercing blue-gray eyes, a blond Mohawk/growing buzzcut and goatee triple combo, and a teardrop tat on the corner of one of his eyes. When asked by Kyle what he'd done to them, Trent reveals that he murdered Kenny by revealing his necklace that he stole off his person. When Kyle is about to lunge at him, he pulls a switchblade and tells him to join his friend, giving Kyle the ultimate hint. He then goes on to tell him that he's going to kill him, and that there is no escape. After preventing himself from getting stabbed (but he still gets his arm sliced open), an extremely enraged Kyle suddenly kicks him in the face (giving him a bloodied eye in the process) and proceeds to kick the absolute shit out of him. When he's about to deliver a finishing blow, Trent catches his fist ("BIG MISTAKE, RUNT!") *and kicks Kyle in the shin, breaking it!!* This causes the latter to emit a prolonged, blood-curdling scream (complete with him being visually illuminated in a blue-white glow and his scream filling up every panel involved) that everyone in the school hears. At that point, you could practically hear the literal bone-crunching sound and his agonizing scream. - Kyle's rage face as he's about to deliver his finishing blow. Keep in mind that while Cartman's two bouts of rage in the blog are terrifying, Kyle's is probably a bit more frightening, considering how nice of a guy he is. (Though, it would've been more frightening if his entire face was shown, and not just his mouth.) - On a different note, while we're on the topic of nice guys getting frighteningly enraged, that's nothing compared to when Stan calls Butters to notify him about Kyle's attack and hospitalization, as well as Cartman's disappearance and possible murder. Having spending every night looking for Kenny, getting chloroformed by Cartman, and in his words, the boys "turning [Kenny] into a fucking T-shirt design", Butters rips into him in an unexpectedly profane way. Eesh... imagining a nice, innocent boy being *that* pissed off would be enough to scare you. - When Kyle finds Trent's location via his laptop (he has Cartman's phone), he grabs a gun and is about to head out of the bunker that the boys are staying in when Stan tries to stop him. Kyle snaps at him that he's going to shoot Trent's legs off and drag him to jail himself. As he says that, watch his face. It has Ax-Crazy written all over it, he's that vengeful. He's even more pissed off when Stan disarms him by shoving him to the ground. (Again, it would've been more effective if, this time around, it'd been in color.) - After Stan disarms him and heads out of the bunker, Kyle manages to get out himself after a couple of attempts to climb the ladder despite his broken leg. When he climbs out of the hole, that manner he does it in is reminiscent of Sadako in The Ring. And he growls Trent's name while looking very deranged. - Kyle shooting Trent dead (after an unseen Cartman stabs him) while screaming in fury. (Once again, would've been more frightening if his face matched his screaming that's depicted in a speech bubble, so it seems that the author has something against depicting Kyle's rage properly for some reason.) He even manages to shoot the top of his head after he falls to the ground. After he's done, he's visibly traumatized and shaken at what he's done. Arc 3 - As Bathos as Cartman's sloppily-drawn slideshow of escaping from and killing Trent after he was kept captive by him is, there's still some horrifying shit. For starters, Trent *carves "NEVER FORGET" on Cartman's back, and plans to do the same to Stan and Kyle once he gets to them!* Then there's Cartman's proposal, which he used so that he could outsmart him. He convinces him to burn them alive like they inadvertently did to Ms. Claridge back in the "Pre-School" episode. And Trent accepts the proposal, like Cartman knew he would. Mind you, this is only the beginning of the third arc—which leaves some skeptical questions on whether the grisly trouble is over or not. - Kyle mentions his younger brother Ike causing an incident where he made all the school's computers play deaths set to Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" and get two students in trouble for it... *at age six.* He then goes on to mention him picking on a black-clothes and mascara-wearing kid (most likely Firkle Smith of the Goth Kids), going so far as to carve "fag" in his hair wax. Yeah, there's no doubt that he'll turn out to be another Eric Cartman. - He's basically himself from back when he was unknowingly hormonal imbalanced in the "Taming Strange" episode, if he went on to commit more debauchery. - Ike's introduction when answering questions. He's close to the camera, staring at it with dark eyes, his eyebrows positioned in a sinister manner, and a damn big Slasher Smile. Imagine waking up to that face looking right at you! - The blog's epilogue reveals that Patty Nelson is a sociopath, and Stan is unaware of this fact even after Cartman tells him that—the latter already suspicious of her in the first place. God knows if Stan will suffer by her hands. This makes him completely out-of-character, as Stan is straight-minded—therefore, another victim of Sibyl's piss-poor characterization. - Though that's nothing compared to Patty's twin sister Tammy, who's completely batshit psychopathic to the point of *burning their house down with them inside it.* The two escape, but not without Tammy suffering horrific burns as a result.

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes You thought that a movie about a linguist finding the lost civilization of Atlantis wouldn't be scary at all, did you? News flash; you thought wrong. **WARNING**: Spoilers are unmarked. - The opening scene of the movie. After an introductory quote from Plato, we're treated to a scene of a calm ocean landscape. Suddenly, there's a bright flash and a fleet of Atlantean vehicles outrunning *a mushroom cloud*. The king later explains he wanted to weaponize the Heart of Atlantis, apparently as an ancient equivalent to an . **atomic bomb** - The sinking itself is also chock full of this. Never mind Kida losing her mother, the barrier doesn't cover the entire city, leaving those trapped outside to die. - We aren't spared any details, either. We see a couple hugging each other as they watch the waves crash through the city, and the terrified final moments of the people who were right on the edge of the barrier banging futilely on it as the wave overcomes them all. - A subtle example: What's the very first vehicle in the frantic convoy of ships fleeing from the explosion? A **Leviathan**, and there are *five others* flying in formation behind it. It's harder to say which is worse: That Atlantis had a FLEET of those monstrosities, or that the explosion was so horrifyingly powerful that the *Leviathans* scatter before it like rats? - Imagine that kind of power in the hands of somebody like Rourke. Or the people he was gonna sell it to. If World War I was already a massacre unmatched by any war before it, a fleet like that would rend the world asunder. - The Leviathan itself. It's a crustacean-shaped Magitek Mechanical Monster with glowing red eyes and a deadly particle beam Wave-Motion Gun. Official measurements of the *Ulysses* state that it is 115 meters (roughly 377 feet) in length. The Leviathan's *smaller* claws are large enough to wrap fully around the *Ulysses*, and from turnarounds, appear to be somewhere near a twelfth of the Leviathan's total length. That gives the Leviathan a length that would be better measured in *miles* (being somewhere in the range of 12-14 thousand feet long, or 2-2.5 miles, twice the length of a Star Wars Star Destroyer). **Rourke**: What is that, a pod of whales? **Mrs. Packard**: Nuh-uh, *bigger*. - Watching it destroy the *Ulysses*. Good God, so many people die. *On-screen!* - One chilling and easy to miss aspect of the destruction of the *Ulysses* shows Audrey having to seal off a flooding corridor as three men are running towards her. Only two of them make out it before the door is shut. And it's not even commented on. - Not counting the Leviathan *swatting* some Sub-Pods so hard they explode, it's Wave-Motion Gun actually causes the skeletons of some people who were near the blast and lucky enough to not get hit with it directly to become visible for a brief instant, Dalek-style. Potentially, the Leviathan's most deadly weapon is *radioactive in nature* and it only starts using it once it becomes clear that the crew of the *Ulysses* can fight back against it. - It's not just the Leviathan but all Atlantis energy weapons cause this as shown briefly in the climatic battle. - When the expedition begins, there's a veritable fleet of Sub-Pods and four escape subs. By the time the expedition has escaped the Leviathan, *there's just one of each.* - Something else scary is that it's explicitly linked to the Biblical Leviathan in Milo's presentation. Meaning that in this Universe, at least one of Atlantis' machines was so horrifying and all-powerful that it directly influenced parts of The Holy Bible. - Let's not forget the bone-chilling shot where the *Ulysses* is scanning the seafloor, a seafloor covered in the wreckage of hundreds upon hundreds of sailing ships, and shines its spotlights across one section the seafloor...which then moves. - Then there's the shot where the Leviathan grabs the *Ulysses* in its mandibles and holds it there, as if to get a better look at it. Almost as if it's studying it for weaknesses... - Worse than that, it's incredibly clear that the Leviathan could have smashed the *Ulysses* into coin-sized fragments without even using the Wave-Motion Gun, and yet the *Ulysses* lasts almost five minutes against it. The conclusion that can be drawn from this? The Leviathan doesn't just destroy its prey; it likes *toying with them* first. A two-mile long invincible Mechanical Abomination with a sadistic streak. Great! The other possibility, that its on-board A.I has degraded due to over a thousand years of non-maintenance, doesn't help matters. - It gets *even worse than that.* When it snags the *Ulysses*, Milo is sent sprawling into the reinforced glass and when he gets back up he notices that the Leviathan is a machine as he's staring right at one of it's *eyes* which is peering into the *Ulysses*' control center and is bigger than him by a wide margin. As he says this, it's eye constricts until it's about half as big as Milo. *It's staring right at him, and him specifically.* - Considering how it shredded the Ulysses, one has to wonder... *what the devil was it built to defend Atlantis against?!* The other cultures of Earth were at the dugout canoe stage, at best! (The sequel provides at least one candidate in the form of the Kraken...) - Atlantis IS an empire, and the King was trying to wage war (against Athens, judging from Plato's texts). Which also creates another point of Nightmare Fuel: imagine you are one of those people in a dugout canoe, just minding your own business when, suddenly, a two mile-long LOBSTER OF DEATH erupts from the water, flies over to your village (it was flying in the prologue), and flash-fries it in an instant. - Worse, as noted above, the opening shot of the movie shows that there were four Leviathans coming in formation from a single direction. They're shockingly fast (outrunning both the explosion and some of the other, smaller vessels) *and they can fly*. Sweet dreams. - Possibly the worst thing about the Leviathan? It's not just huge and monstrously destructive, it's also **quiet**. The *Ulysses* crew have infinitely more advanced scanning equipment than the Atlanteans (or other ancient civilizations) would have, and they couldn't detect exactly where it was until literally the moment it hit them. Anywhere that's close to the ocean, it could strike, and you wouldn't have a clue or a warning until it was far too late. - The Leviathan also *does not relent* after destroying the *Ulysses* which means only one thing. It's programmed to leave *no survivors.* - Not only that, but keep in mind, Leviathans are unmanned *machines*, not vessels, and presumably don't have any kind of self-preservation instinct. And yet the first thing we see onscreen is a bunch of Leviathans bolting the fuck outta dodge when the cataclysm occurs, so we can assume that their internal targeting computers or whatever told them there was absolutely no chance of surviving the explosion. How many movies can you name where the Weapon of Mass Destruction is so powerful that it opens with the three-mile-long invincible giant robot *fleeing in terror from the explosion?* - It's entirely possible that the wars between Atlantis and other ancient civilizations were much more even than we are led to believe. This is a setting where magic and spirits exist in tandem with humans and are known to be manipulated by them. Who's to say there wasn't a equivalent to the Heart of Atlantis in other parts of the world. - It just points out what a horrible war monger the king used to be and just how much he has to regret from his past. Due to the way the Leviathan toys with its targets and goes out of its way to kill them even after destroying the main ship, it was built as a terror weapon rather than an efficient war machine. - The alternate opening featured a Viking ship following the Shepherd's Journal to Atlantis and encountering the Leviathan in a rainstorm. After it leaps from the water with frightening grace for its size it attacks the ship from below with its tentacles and snatches everyone off the ship while snapping the sail with its claws...and then proceeds to blast it point-blank with its laser, creating a mushroom cloud of water that destroyed every fragment of the ship save the Journal itself. - Rourke, the Big Bad of the movie. - When Rourke reveals his true nature and the crew armed with guns. Worse is he takes complete willingness to condemn the Atlanteans to death despite Milo's protests. **Rourke** : ( *smiles and meets up with Milo after the latter's swimming at an underwater mural* ) You have a nice swim? ( *Rourke and his crew are armed with guns.* ) **Milo** : Hey, hey, guys. What's going on? What's... What's with all the guns? ( *Mole leers at him greedily* ) Guys? ( *suddenly realizes and exhales* ) I'm such an idiot! This is just another treasure hunt for you. You're after the crystal! **Rourke** : Oh, you mean, *this* ? ( *reaches into his pocket and pulls out the missing page from the Shepherd's Journal.* ) **Milo** : The heart of Atlantis. **Rourke** : Yeah, about that, I would've told you this sooner, but it was strictly on a need-to-know basis, and... well, now you know. I had to make sure you were one of us. Welcome to the club, son! **Milo** : I'm no mercenary! ( *Kida is dragged from the water by Rourke's soldiers and fights them. She pins one of them and pulls out her knife, but Rourke shoots it out of her hand. His thugs then restrain Kida.* ) **Rourke** : "Mercenary"? I prefer the term "adventure capitalist". Besides, you're the one who got us here. You led us right to the treasure chest. **Milo** : ( *angrily* ) You don't know what you're tampering with, Rourke! **Rourke** : What's to know? It's big, shiny. It's gonna make us all rich. **Milo** : You think it's some kind of a diamond. I thought it was some kind of a battery. But we're both wrong. It's their *life force.* That crystal is the only thing keeping these people alive! You take that away, and they'll *die* ! **Rourke** : Well, that changes things. Helga, what do you think? **Helga** : Knowing that... I'd double the price . **Rourke** : I was thinking triple . **Milo** : Rourke, don't do this! **Rourke** : Academics. You never wanna get your hands dirty.... Eh, think about it. If you gave back every stolen artifact from a museum, you'd be left with an empty building. We're just providing a necessary service to the archaeological community. **Milo** : Not interested. **Rourke** : I gotta admit I'm disappointed. You're an idealist, just like your grandfather. Do yourself a favor, Milo; don't be like him . For once, do the smart thing . ( *Milo glares at him defiantly, Rourke sighs* ) I really hate it when negotiations go sour. ( *Snaps his fingers and his soldiers point their guns at Kida's head. Then he pulls out the missing page again and holds it up to Milo* ) Let's try this again. ( *grins evilly* ) - Rourke forcing his way into the throne room and interrogating the king. When the King refuses, Rourke punches the frail Atlantean king in the gut. A punch so hard it was a fatal blow—and the final straw for Dr. Sweet. When Sweet calls Rourke out, the latter just shrugs him off without a shred of remorse. Then Rourke threatens to shoot the wounded king with his pistol to get him to reveal the crystal's location. Just as the ruthless commander's patience thins, he manages to deduce the riddle himself. **Rourke** : How 'bout it, Chief. Where's the crystal chamber? **King Nedakh** : You will destroy yourselves! **Rourke** : Maybe I'm not being clear. ( *He punches Nedakh hard in the chest, shocking everyone including Kida, who rants furiously in Atlantean. The King falls to the ground, mortally wounded.* ) **Kida** : Moh-it gwenog-lo-nik! note : "I'll kill you for that!" **Sweet** : Rourke, this was NOT part of the plan! **Rourke** : Plan's changed, Doc . I'd suggest you put a bandage on that bleeding heart of yours. It doesn't suit a mercenary . ( *sits on the King's throne* ) Well, as usual, diplomacy has failed us. Now, I'm gonna count to 10, and you're gonna tell me where the crystal is. One... ( *cocks his pistol; Audrey, Sweet and Vinny all stare in horror* ) Two...Nine... ( *stops and looks at spiral-like symbol on Shepherd's Journal's cover, then at the same shape on the surface of the pool overlooking the throne. Close up of Rourke's eye as he puts the pieces together.* ) "The Heart of Atlantis lies in the eyes of her King." This is it! We're in! **Milo** : Rourke, for the last time you've gotta listen to me! You don't have the slightest idea what this power's cable of! **Helga** : True, but I can think of a few countries who'd pay *anything* to find out... **Rourke**: I know I'm forgetting something. I got the cargo, crystal, crew...oh, yeah. ( *punches Milo in the face*) Look at it this way, son. ( *smashes the framed photo of Milo and his grandfather with his boot*) You were the man who discovered Atlantis, and now you're part of the exhibit. - When Rourke throws Helga from the balloon and she falls between the propeller blades? Not to mention the implication that the fall broke her back. **Helga**: You said we were in this TOGETHER!! !!! **YOU PROMISED ME A PERCENTAGE** **Rourke**: Next time, !! ( **GET IT IN WRITING** *throws Helga off the zeppelin*) Nothing personal!! - The whole scene where Rourke loses his sanity and tries to kill Milo on the zeppelin. Before, hey, he's a little angry HOLY SHIT HE'S GOT A FIRE AXE!!! And then there's that Slasher Smile he makes while glaring at Milo like a hungry cannibal just before he starts swinging that thing. Arguably a scarier sight than the crystal abomination he later transforms into. **Rourke**: Tired, Mr. Thatch? Aww, that's a darn shame... 'CAUSE I'M *JUST GETTING* **WARMED UP!** - That whole scene where Milo does away with Rourke. Milo stabs him with some broken glass from Kida's containment box and turns the man into a roaring, monstrous crystal creature with red eyes. The creators of *Silent Hill* would be impressed. Not only that, but look at his crystal form. Kida's is glowing and almost goddess-like. Rourke's crystal form looks like it came from the depths of Hell. Especially the way it looks like there's fire in his mouth! - His scream when he goes crystal. Jesus! - Rourke's Transformation Sequence, in general. In particular what happens when it starts—he gains an absolutely *terrified* expression when he sees the crystal spreading across his arm, and starts rubbing said arm, as if desperately trying to stop the crystal from spreading to no avail. It's quite clearly excruciatingly painful. Then he finally dies when the balloon's propellers shred his body. The novelization and tie in books actually mention that the crystal "recognized Rourke's evil", meaning this isn't a random effect from an alien substance-it's a wrathful, vengeful entity inflicting a hideous punishment on the one who dared desecrate it. The King really was right to keep that thing locked underground. - Given the nature of the crystal, its possible he retained his consciousness after he was shattered by the propellers. Does he deserve it? After all that he has done and is willing to do, yes. But that is certainly not the best way to go. - Not even long after he's fully enveloped by the crystal, Rourke's skin begins glowing red and cracking open. He explodes on *impact* when the propellers hit him, but it also seem like he would've inevitably would've died anyway simply by the crystals making him shatter like glass. Makes you wonder if maybe the propellers gave him a quicker death than the one he could've gotten.. - Helga almost had an even more gruesome death than falling; she just barely missed being sliced by the propellers as she fell. Rourke was sliced up by the blades minutes later, though apparently his crystal transformation made it Bloodless Carnage. That's either better or worse. - The masked tribe that follows Milo and the rest of the crew through the caverns. If the director's mission was to throw off the audience that these strange, primal-looking creatures *weren't* the Atlanteans, then mission accomplished. - The fireflies. When Milo's flashlight first agitates them, a few of them start flying down to Milo. Irritated, he tries to swat at them with a roll of toilet paper, but it bursts into flames upon contact. He then notices the other fireflies landing on the other crews' tents, spontaneously setting them on fire where they land. He looks up, notices an *entire swarm* of them descending on the camp. Milo can only utter this stunned non-sequitur: "Fire." - During the attack, one poor truck driver gets *burned alive* when the fireflies begin attacking the front of the truck, and all he can do is vainly try to fight them off as he is surrounded by fire. Thankfully, we dont get to see all of it, and his misery was likely cut short when the fireflies ignited the nitroglycerin the truck was carrying, but its astonishingly brutal, especially for a Disney movie, - The Crystal Chamber can be considered Nightmare Fuel, if only in the sense that it's an eerie environment. Think about it: It's underneath the city, in a darkly-lit cave, where the only light source is the Heart of Atlantis, which gives off a creepy, blue glow. Not to mention that, hovering around the Heart, are huge, ominous rocks carved to resemble the faces of ancient Atlantean Kings. It also emenates a faint, mysterious humming sound (closed captions describe it as *murmuring voices*, which makes it more disturbing). Then Rourke kicks a pebble into the water, and the Crystal's color suddenly goes from ethereal blue to *blood red* and the ominous humming becomes louder. To a child watching the movie for the first time, it can be somewhat unsettling. - While it's justified (they were going to kill off an *entire* civilization just for profit, and they had plenty of chances to change their minds) seeing Rourke's men get absolutely destroyed and killed by the protagonists during the climax is at least a little unsettling. They were the last survivors from the crew after most were killed by the Leviathan. All this happened after the protagonists already had a funeral service for the ones that already died. They had no choice. So justified? Yes. Still incredibly tragic? Absolutely. - Just the nature of the remaining batch of crew-members who work for Rourke. Applying Rule of Symbolism, there's something inhuman about how they are almost always wearing gas masks, as opposed to the starting crew-members, who you felt bad for when they are killed by the Leviathan attack. But these guys? You can't see their faces, making them cold and alien.

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Atomic Blonde / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The bruised body of Lorraine in her bath combined with the purple Color Wash can be unsettling to watch. One wonders how she can still even *move*. - The film's aversion of Beauty Is Never Tarnished was originally going to go much further than what appeared in the final cut. Word of God states that early injury makeup tests for Lorraine had her so badly beaten that the whites of her eyes were no longer visible (though whether that was intended to be due to swelling or bleeding inside her eyes is unknown). - Bremovych is one scary, sadistic and ruthless KGB lieutenant. He brutally beats one of Percival's punk comrades to death in front of his own hapless friends with his own skateboard while his boombox plays the upbeat West German pop music hit "99 Luftballons" by Nena. - Lorraine stabbing the tall blond KGB agent in the cheek with her keyring during the fight at the movie theater. What's particularly gruesome is that the guy doesn't immediately pull it out of his cheek. He eventually does after the fight, leaving a hole in his face. And the guy seems to just *ignore pain* throughout.

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A Triangle in the Stars / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes You thought you were safe from nightmares? well, you thought wrong. This fanfic, as it had been born from two series prolific with such events, can also bring on the scare or at the very least mild disturbance. - Not even well into the story and here it comes in Chapter Two, where ||Bill poisons Steven's sleep and gives him a despairing and horrid nightmare, with *glee* might I add. Everyone is dead, shattered into dust, and Steven is left all alone in a ravaged Beach City.|| Can double as a Tearjerker. - The boy also expresses concern in the next chapter, worried that it was real. - "If you throw me off you're as good as maimed..." by Bill to Lars in Chapter Four. It was a threat the demon was not afraid to carry out, and the cloud above the teen's head even *darkened* further. Jeez, Bill. - In Chapter Eight, Bill is so angry ||that Sadie and Steven were taking selfies with his hat after ditching him at the school|| he wants to kill them, and his rage, which causes the ceiling to become a lightning storm, absolutely terrifies them. He even slips into his Voice of the Legion twice. - The ||Cluster Demons||, who make their official debut in Chapter Eighteen. They look disturbing at best, horrifying at worst, and their unwilling origin is even more horrifying. They were meant to ||reference the Cluster and the Gem Mutants from the primary home series, as well as cement just how far Gabriel had gone.|| And the authors did a good job of that!

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Atop the Fourth Wall / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *Beneath the seas, beside the flame* *Off the coast where the lost beast came* *To bring the world misery and shame* *A piece of the world is missing* *Atop the Fourth Wall* is a funny review show... that features a number of horrifying events and beings, including an Eldritch Abomination, a Killer Robot / Manipulative Bastard, a Multiversal Conqueror, a gun Powered by a Forsaken Child, and a heroic comic book nerd who, for the longest time, was edging further and further into Anti-Hero to the point of being nightmarish. Yeah, the city of Minnesota is *really* good at spewing out tales that fill us with terror. ## Atop The Fourth Wall Storylines - Mechakara. - From Sultry Teenage Super Foxes #2, **"All that he sees, he conquers."** Damn it, Mechakara, stop being creepy! - It's worse when you get the context. It's an Early-Bird Cameo of Lord Vyce's catchphrase/slogan. - The Clone Saga storyline also makes him arguably even *more* terrifying when you consider that by the end of all, after recovering his memory and realizing that he's now the very thing he utterly despises, any remaining sanity he had left is now long gone. Meaning that somewhere down the line, Linkara is going to have to deal with an old enemy who's likely even *more* dangerous than ever as a result. - Lord Vyce. He's a Multiversal Conqueror considered the most feared being throughout the multiverse. He's managed to *kill gods*, and effortlessly took out Linkara. And the kicker? He's doing it to save reality from something even worse than him. - The backstory of Linkara's Magic Gun. - It's a girl. The Magic Gun is powered by the soul of a dead girl who was *tortured to death* by her zealot parents. And the god they worshiped? It's the Entity. - Linkara's related breakdown. Think about it: this guy has faced killer robots, mad scientists, and horrible comics without batting an eye. His breakdown when he believes that he was the girl's father reminds us that he can, in fact, go insane if push comes to shove. - The Gaslighting Linkara goes through is pretty disturbing in and of itself. Especially the scene where Mechakara seemingly appears in Linkara's apartment to taunt him. *[Linkara is seated on his futon, staring closely at his Dragon Dagger]* **Linkara**: I am *not* insane. **Mechakara**: *[appears standing over him]* Talking to people that aren't there is a pretty good sign of insanity. **Linkara**: Someone is trying to *trick* me, trying to make me *think* I'm insane. **Mechakara**: Paranoia is another sign of insanity. **Linkara**: I am *not* listening to you. You are **not there**. **Mechakara**: Of *course* I'm not. *Delusions.* See where I'm going with all this? **Linkara**: I am going to proceed with the review. It will get my mind off of this. **Mechakara**: *[smirking]* You know, you really *should* kill Pollo. **Linkara**: *[through gritted teeth]* Shut up. **Mechakara**: He could grow up to be *me*, after all. *[mockingly puts hand over mouth]* Oops. There's that *paranoia* again. - The whole storyline is chock-full of real world fears. Brutal child abuse? Losing your grip on reality? Being abandoned and shunned by those you care about? Losing your most important memories without knowing it? Being responsible for the death of your *own* child? Nothing imaginary about those. - The Entity, aka Missingno. It's an Eldritch Abomination so deadly that somebody was forced *to conquer universe after universe* just to ensure this thing doesn't destroy *the entire multiverse.* **Entity**: *Huuuuumaaaan*! - The trailer for the Halloween review. Oh boy. Everything about it drips with creepy. The unsettling distortion of the voices, what sounds like Vyce reciting the poem from the Dead/Alive review, the mysterious voice at the start saying "EVERYONE IS GONE" and, to top it all off, Linkara's panicked cry of "Is there anybody out there?!" Oh, and the Entity storyline wrapped up in the same month. Joy. - *Street Fighter #1*: Cue cred- wait, what's happening to the video?!...time's up...what?! WHAT?! And then Linkara finds a new entry in the journal: - "IAMTHENEVERSHOULDIAMTHENEVERSHOULDIAMTHENEVERSHOULDIAMTHENEVERSHOULD" - And then there's the Entity's Leitmotif, a creepy little piano tune that adds a whole level of disquiet to what ever scene it's playing in. The tune's name? *"Evil"* (or alternatively, "Satanic"; Linkara says that he has two copies of the tune with different names). We're not making this up, the song actually has the name "Evil". - Planet of the Symbiotes: The combination of the murky lighting, odd angle and extremely freaky effect when 90's Kid opens his eyes showing light and static, revealing that 90's Kid is already gone and Linkara's alone with the Entity results in an image that seems very alien, and extremely disturbing. - And it gets even worse: The Reveal tells us that the Entity has been around since the first generation of Pokémon. Liz gets taken and the Entity *laughs*, then Linkara calls for backup and gets *no one*. Some really scary flashbacks reveals the Entity's systematic plan to remove every single member of the cast besides Linkara. And meanwhile, 90's Kid is slowly devolving, going from goofy and adorable to *smirking*, and then his voice gets higher and more electronic until... - 90's Kid has been gone *since the KISS Comics review*, maybe even longer than that, and *no one even suspected it* until now because Entity/Missingno was flawlessly impersonating him. - Early on into the "Electric Tale of Pikachu" review, the Entity laughs when Linkara mistakenly says that Vyce could destroy it...and not it's usual evil laugh. This time, it's a flat-out psychotic *cackle*. **Linkara:** Lord Vyce...he was trying to destroy you. **Entity:** HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! ( *suddenly serious*) He was an *obstacle*, not a threat. - Linkara's final conversation with the Entity. The fact that the Entity plans on finding "what happens when an Outer God dies" by killing itself (and that it's smirking as it does so) makes you wonder if it will come back and let Linkara know what happened... - What's more is that it identifies the entity as an outer god, one of Lovecraft's pantheons. Considering its age, it is likely the weakest. To put this into context, the only other outer god with a somewhat human form is Nyarlathotep, who is so powerful that if he wished he could obliterate the human race in a space of time smaller than we can perceive. He doesn't because he finds madness more entertaining. He exists in Dr Who continuity. The Doctor is afraid of him. The entity can kidnap you, but Nyarlathotep can be anyone it wishes and if it told you the proper pronunciation of its name you would go helplessly insane. Now imagine a gun made in a ritual to Nyarlathotep. Now imagine one devoted to Azathoth, a being so vast that it hurtles through space, destroying entire solar systems without even noticing. A fight with the entity was bad, but if someone summons another outer god, then you can expect an outright, completely irreversible apocalypse. - The end of the *Battle for Bludhaven* review has an enormous one for people who have seen *Suburban Knights*: Cloak #1's suggestion combined with that single drum beat from a certain villain's Leitmotif implies that Linkara might be going to *fucking Malachite* for help. - The end of 'Rock N' Roll #31": Things have taken a turn for the worse- Holokara has threatened to *kill* 90's Kid if he ever interrupts the show again by putting his freaking *arm* through his chest and *grabbing his heart until it stops beating*. I fear that Holokara might become the next Mechakara- or *worse*. Not only does the normally cheerful 90s Kid look genuinely scared but the very idea that a hologram can do that is terrifying; once it's got you, you wouldn't be able to fight it off as it's not solid and you'd just go through it. - And now again in *Future Shock #1*: Holokara effortlessly knocks out Harvey Finevoice when the latter confronts him about his treatment of 90's Kid, and tries to force him to get examined by Nimue. Worse, Holokara's cold rage from *Rock and Roll #1* has now morphed into full-on Dissonant Serenity. He keeps insisting that nothing's wrong with him, and when he curb stomps Harvey, he cheerfully implores Harvey not to get in his way again. "I'd hate to have to crush your neck. I mean, how would you ever sing again?" - The end of the *Catwoman - Guardian of Gotham #1* review. We *finally* find out why Linkara's magic isn't working. He's turning *evil*! Seeing Holokara's bad enough, but the idea that the *real* Linkara is on the path to being like that is just chilling. Although this does explain the Holokara's attitude; if Linkara's turning evil, and Holokara is based on him... - The end of the second issue essentially deconstructs Linkara as a whole. By showing all the times he's acted selfishly, reckless, or just plain ignored the feelings of his allies, the girl in his magic gun feared Linkara was turning evil and refused to work. The wizard even tells Linkara "These are not the actions of a hero." It's quite telling that all of Linkara's behavior, despite his intentions, would come back to haunt him. - What makes it particularly jarring is how little the viewer would have previously thought of Linkara's "evil" acts, brushing it off as comedy. Given the behavior of the average internet reviewer (and more specifically, a member of Channel Awesome), the viewer has effectively been conditioned *not to notice Linkara's behavior before this point*. - The Holokara's rant at the end of Batman: Jazz #1 is a further deconstruction: It plans to use Comicron 1's firepower to force Marvel Entertainment to make better written stories of its heroes under threat of death. This is what Linkara would've turned into had the Magic Gun not stopped his magic, and forced him to re-examine himself. - And now the Gunslinger's gotten a hold of Holokara's mobile emitter. Holokara is likely not happy, considering how his last confrontation with Linkara went, and if the Gunslinger can get him working again... Yeah. - Actually, the mobile emitter was tied into something in Comicron 1, something that Linksano fried. The scary part is that the Gunslinger might be able to tie the emitter into Sierra, and use it to make a Holoslinger. Think about it: our universe is toxic to the Gunslinger, but a hologram wouldn't have that issue, and could fight effectively. - Longbox of The Damned, while not actually an official part of the Atop the Fourth Wall universe, can still give you the creeps every October. May we say more? - Here's a happy thought: As of Starstream #1, The Thing, the creature best known from the John Carpenter film, is in the apartment. - The 2012 October trailer also hints that the trust between Linkara and his characters might be broken. Ironic since in the previous video he says that they're one of the main reasons that he won't turn evil- as they help to reign him in- and are true friends. Also Linksano has a pretty creepy Slasher Smile near the end of it as well. - *The Thing from Another World #2*- Harvey, Linkara, 90's Kid, and Linksano have turned on each other out of paranoia and fear. Their close friendship has devolved into an *explosion* of bickering and unfounded accusations against one another, not *one* of them taking the time to stop and *think* rationally, or *listen*- and all the while, a hooded shadow ( sent by the Gunslinger in an attempt to get Linkara angry enough to unlock his Magic Gun and therefore make it "up for grabs" to claim for his collection, enhancing their preexisting resentments and skewing their perceptions to believe they can't leave the apartment and can't communicate with the outside to do so) watches unseen. - The way the viewer realizes that the shadow is there? Linksano walks off screen, and the shadow, which looks like it was cast by him, *doesn't move.* - There's also Linkara dressed as Freddy for the Eye Catch prior and after the commercial break. - The mention of the planned Sci-Fi Thing sequel TV miniseries that got scrapped, and the revelation that in it, *the Thing finds a way to get around the blood test*. - The Ghost of Christmas Present says to Harvey "Where do you think you are right now?" Then the screen goes white as the video ends. - The Ghost of Christmas Past/Critic said the same thing. - The scene of The Gunslinger kidnapping Margaret. - The end of Star Wars 3D #1 NIMUE turns red and looks like she's ready to go HAL 9000 on everybody. - The Gunslinger's Orwellian home dimension has quite a bit of Nightmare Fuel. - To wit, what began with the well-intentioned idea to protect artists' rights in the Gunslinger's universe soon spiraled into curtailing Internet freedoms for the good of the people and eventually labeling expression itself as heresy against the State. The realization that it starts off from a similar scenario in real life makes it even more unnerving. - The whole introduction of Youngblood #5, with Linkara about as pissed as we've ever seen him, even using some profanity. - NIMUE's slipping. He-he-he-he has seen me. (bzzz) You're not going to win! - and if her Star Trek quote is any indication... she knows it and is terrified about it. - This is also the first episode to use the *To be continued...* Scare Chord, which can be startling if you're not expecting it and even if you are, it's still a pretty spine-chilling sound. - It's even scarier at the end of the Battlestar Galactica review. She asks Linkara if he is afraid of her, he says no and leaves and we get a zoom in on NIMUE and she says in a very scary voice: "You should be." - Marville is honestly how Bill Jemas sees the world. Think about that for a second. - Well, it could be worse—Bill Jemas isn't violent, and at least Marville isn't wish-fulfillment. - The stinger for *The Culling: Part 4*. Linkara reads the Absent Grimiore (the book on the Entity) and reveals that the Entity has relatives out there. *gulp* - Including one who takes the form of fear itself. And also might be possessing NIMUE - Worse still, its mysterious cousin is a small fish from their home universe. That's right, the creature that embodies fear itself have bigger, badder relatives who could easily destroy everything we know by **complete accident**! - The stinger for *Brute Force #4* has NIMUE acting up again."I'm going to kill you." - During NIMUE's ramblings, she mentions "Moloch". A name that has often been attributed to gods and demons. Possibly a name for the Entity's cousin, the King of Worms? - Also, Jaeris once had to completely reprogram Sierra, because Sierra started acting up, *just like NIMUE* is. Sierra could think at insane speeds, and had no one to interact with. As a result, it went insane, and attempted to kill Jaeris. And considering what we've heard from NIMUE (see the above), she's not too far from trying the same. - The October 2013 trailer where we see NIMUE completely losing it, her ramblings more intense and horrific than ever before. But the scariest bit of the trailer might be the very end. **NIMUE:** (terrified) Help me. - The ending to "The Thing From Another World: Climate of Fear #1 and #2".Linkara is now trapped aboard Comicron-1 as it flies away from Earth, with the only company being an almost completely insane NIMUE. - That was nothing compared to NIMUE screaming and yelling at Linkara during her breakdown before speaking normally like nothing was wrong. - Gets worse in the review of Climate of Fear #3 and #4. Not only has NIMUE gone full paranoid schizophrenia on us, no longer apparently comprehending what Linkara is saying, it turns out the King of Worms is behind her insanity-and he made her drive Linkara into his domain, presumably to wait until he can get around to doing whatever horrible things he has planned for Linkara. "Are you afraid?" indeed. - Spider-Man: Crossfire's cliffhanger brings us this after Linkara puts NIMUE offline. **Linkara:** Nimue? Nimue, please speak to me... *beat* **Vyce:** Your computer is dead, champion. Tell me... are you afraid? - The stinger to Space Odyssey 2001 #1: Harvey comes home to the apartment alone, only to be infected by a cybermat that was taken over by the King of Worms. - After a few months of breather reviews, a Freeze-Frame Bonus appears during the "Extreme!" Running Gag in the review of Youngblood #6: the caelestis won't come home and IN THE COURT OF WORMS WE ARE ALL DEAD. Oh, Crap!. - At the end of Athena #2 we see one of Linakara's morphers fail. He brushes it off, says it's new and that it took him forever to get his Zeo morpher to work right. The he casually notes *he hasn't seen it in a while* despite looking for it but brushes it off and when he leaves, a cybermat, controlled by the King of Worms most likely, comes and messes with the broken morpher. Uh oh. - A little fact that pops up at the end of the 300th Episode: The Margaret from the Mirror Universe *volunteered* for the ritual that made her what she is. And she still destroyed the cult afterwards. Thank God they're sealed away forever... - And to a lesser extent, Frank Millers art. It is painful and unpleasant to look at, and nobody looks properly human. - And to a greater extent, like the Bill Jemas example above, Frank Millers mind. And theres millions of people who think just like him. - During The Adventures of Jell-O man and Wobbly #1 when Linkara is overwhelmed by stupidity he attacks the camera. This comes off as scary rather than funny. - In the post-credits story portion, the Cybermats are seen spying on Linkara. And their distinctive noise is heard, growing louder and louder until the video ends. - In episode 24 of Let's Play Pokémon Omicron, Lewis accidentally knocks out a Corsola with Pokérus and worries about what might happen. Then out of nowhere, the screen starts to turn to static and glitches out. Then Lewis is suddenly on a new save file, acting like nothing happened. Considering that static included creepy, red eyes, it seems like something has returned... - In episode 41, the same thing happens after Lewis accidentally knocks out a Missingno he was trying to catch. And to make matters *worse*, the opening of the video is a black screen filled with static, [while part of the Entity's poem is being read by (apparently) Lord Vyce. Fitting when you realize he is becoming the new Entity....or not Vyce at least, as it turned out. - In The Stinger of *Marvel Super Special #17: Xanadu*, we get an in-depth legend about the King of Worms. In order to understand fear, the King visited a world without strife, hatred or fear, and planted a nightmare in the minds of every living being there. The inhabitants of this world grew unable to distinguish the dream from reality, and all went mad. Every being that wasn't Driven to Suicide killed one another until one remained. The King gave sanity to this survivor, forcing it to feel grief and sorrow for its actions. Just for the record, the King of Worms is one of The Entity's *weaker* cousins. - As an added bonus, a cybermat manages to infect Allen. - Remember that message in *Youngblood #6*, "the caelestis won't come home"? Allen mentions that he's been busy helping prepare the first manned flight to Jupiter. The ship is called the Caelestis. Uh-oh. - Has anyone else noticed that in recent videos, and as of *Kamandi at Earth's End #6*, Linkara's usual shelf props—most notably, his Legacy Morpher and Dragon Dagger, the Snowflame cutout, the Hostess Fruit Pies box, the Poke Ball, his Li'l Petti plushies, and his logo pillow—are all missing and there are more Cybermats than usual? The fact that it's during this arc that Linkara began having the post-credits Patreon plug is helpful to make the comparison in each video, as his shelf is still full of said missing props in the plug. - *Sonic Super Special #7*: The King of Worms is in control of Linksano. Which means, presumably, it's also controlling everyone else who's been attacked. - His idea of what the Borg Queen's body should have been: a giant spider with a bunch of weapon attachments. - The Stinger to *Cosmic Slam #1*. The King of Worms takes control of Sierra, knocks Jaeris unconscious (making it likely he's been overtaken as well) and disables Pollo's new body, forcing him into an older model. - And think about it from *Jaeris*' perspective. Sierra almost killed him once before, and he went to considerable lengths to make sure it would never happen again. But it's the work of an instant for the King to turn him, and suddenly Jaeris is at his mercy. - Harvey Finevoice bringing up the possibility that Pollo and Nimue were infected by the King of Worms as well. Considering that he's most likely a sleeper agent for the King, he could be lying to demoralize Linkara...or is he? - "The Thing: Eternal Vows #1 & 2" has Dr. Linksano showing Linkara how to get into the King of Worms' home dimension. Remember the "Sonic Super Special" stinger? The King controls Linksano already. He *wants* Linkara to come to him and wants Linkara to think he's found a back way in. And now also knows that Linkara is preparing weapons to destroy him. - In the following episode, we get the utterly chilling sight of the apartment crawling with cybermats, after which Harvey reveals he's also working for the King of Worms and shoots Linkara while the Walking Lizard can only watch and run. - Actually, funny story; that's not Harvey. It's an Auton. - *That reveal.* A lot of viewers will have been expecting something like this from Harvey for a while now, but that doesn't make the cold violence he turns on Linkara, right when he was looking to "Harvey" as the only immediate ally he had left, any less horrifying. - *The Thing From Another World: Questionable Research* - The King of Worms finally appears in person. And its goal is to make the other Elder Gods *afraid*. Not only that, but upon finding out Linkara is immune to its platinum masks, it lets him know in no uncertain terms that it will *dissect his soul* to find out why. - And then there's how it found that out: a cybermat came into Linkara's room while he was asleep, attacked and abducted him, and then returned him afterward...unaware that any of it had ever happened. - The *really* unsettling static affect that the King of Worms sometimes displays. It's like the Entity's eyes only covering his *entire body.* - The implication of what the King of Worms finds inside of Linkara's mind. It scares an eldritch god to death. - Made even worse by the fact that that's what does the King of Worms in. Yeah, those anti-Entity weapons? *They didn't even work!* - Linksano's disturbed, nervous behavior after performing the autopsy, gloved hands still covered in blood really sells it. - The King of Worms finally attacks Linkara... and we are treated to a disturbing vision where both the past villains and *Lewis, both his real self and the Linkara character* laugh nonstop and repeatedly kill him, all the while reciting some creepy dialogue. And on top of this, the Entity copy? *It stops to look at the audience. * We are inside with you! You will never get away! Your pain won't end! - The above quote is actually a reference to *The Exorcist III*. - We later learn down the line that that was NOT JUST a copy of the Entity at all. - Word of God says that the backwards Linkara is saying "Sleepwalk in eternity." Coincidentally, the next chapter of the Atop the Fourth Wall plot is "the Sleepwalker", and October is about *A Nightmare on Elm Street*... - The King's screams of "It can't be! It can't be! No, please, I did not know! I did not know!" This is because, as it's eventually revealed in the Delicious in Dungeon review, the King of Worms accidentally roused the Entity, who had been sleeping inside Linkara. The Entity is pissed off enough that it kills the King of Worms. - Lewis' laughing deserves special mention. He's surprised by something he sees in his camera's screen, then he looks up to check what it is, tilting his head in confusion.....and then he starts grinning. THEN he laughs. - Wanna know something about The King's actor? It's *Suede.* Brr. - Although played for laughs slightly, all of reality is lucky that the different multiverse's Insanos did not come up with the idea to work together sooner. The potential chaos of several very intelligent evil scientists is too scary to fathom. - The ending of *Nightmares on Elm Street* #1-2 review, which sees Linkara trapped in a similar situation to the *Elm Street* movies. - Who wants to bet that this year's outer god will be dream related? - The ending of *Nightmares on Elm Street* #3-4 ups it even further... because whatever is happening, Linkara is *still wide awake*. - The fact Freddy Krueger exists in this universe—or seemed to as the following episode hinted at him really being a being tied to the King of Worms - At the end of *Batman: Shadow of the Bat #58*, we see Linkara pacing in thought before moving a white pawn on a chessboard. Pollo then comes in, and the two have a discussion regarding past events, plans for the future, and some of Linkara's fears. At the end, when camera pans back out, we see that someone-or something- moved a black pawn off-screen. - Even creepier is Linkara's last line: Time to move some pawns. - The revelation that the King of Worms was a *lesser* god among his pantheon-a mortal being that ascended to his current status via outside forces. Between that tidbit of information and the above info pertaining to his death, it's no wonder Linkara is concerned about what might happen if something bigger and nastier decides to do some damage. - The end of the recent Longbox of the Damned: Midsummer's Nightmare has our replacement host suddenly and painfully turn into *Moarte*. **Moarte:** Well, my children! How's *that* for a twist ending , eh? (laughs) - At the end of *Superman and the TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids: Victory by Computer*, Linkara finally has the message from the future decoded. A mere glance at the first line sends him into a sheer panic that he orders EVERYONE aboard Comicron-1 immediately. What line would get him so panicked? - **"A piece of the world is still missing".** - Adding to this, he mutters to himself that he knew beating the Entity the way he did was too easy and enough that he's considering Vyce's help. - Some of the lower lines make the first one even worse, such as "Powerlessness fit him.", meaning The Entity is now in a better position than before! - Pay special attention to the wording of the last line, A piece of the world is *still* missing, implying that the entity *never* left! - The second line has some bad implications. "Sing a lie to misdirect fellowships." Makes you wonder if we can even trust the message or anything else. - The cold opening for *Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid #1*: a man and a woman are preforming a ritual that ends with them drinking a ... *suspicious* red liquid from a goblet. They then proceed to cough and gag, the flesh on their hands and around their eyes turning black, before finally collapsing, seemingly dead. - *Paranoid #2* doesn't end much better, with Linkara blinking out into darkness and being attacked and dragged down by many hands. He barely manages to shoot his way out and blink back into existence, covered in black smears. - The worst part is that said blinking was only from Pollo and Eliza's point of view. To Linkara, he saw black spots appear on the walls, which slowly begin to expand until they engulf *EVERYTHING*, all while Pollo and Eliza's argument fades into silence. - In part 3, Linkara is attacked by two ghosts who burn an upside-down Starfleet logo into the wall. He calls Nella for help and asks her what she knows about it. Her reaction says it all. Can this mean the return of Dark Nella? - In *Spider-Man: Cyber War*, we have Nella's description of what it was like being Dark Nella. *Brrr*. Also, that fact that Dark Nella had *followers*. Double *brrr*. - In *The Real Ghostbusters in Ghostbusters II #1-3*, Linkara encounters a grim-reaper like creature. He doesn't recognize it, but it sure as hell knows him... Ah... There you are... - At the end of *Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl*, going back to the original message, Linkara realizes something: The message pertains to Lord Vyce. Specifically, it lists everything he has done since his first defeat. And it will all lead him to becoming the next Entity. - The end of *Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #4* implies that Linkara is making a backslide into evil. - The end of *Ultimate Power #4* reveals that Linkara has been possessed by the Entity all along, and this was why 90's Kid had been working with Lord Vyce as far back as when it was first revealed in *Spider-Man: The Trial Of Peter Parker*'s review, not to mention Linkara's apparent backslide into evil. - The Entity is, if possible, even more nightmarish than its first appearance. Before, it exuded an aura of calm malice towards everything. This time, it *screams* at Erin that this is a game it intends to win. Bonus points for Erin's actress selling her horror at realizing she's trapped on a spaceship with an Eldritch Abomination. - Margaret the Magic Gun isn't going to be of any help. Why? Because the Entity has control over her, too. - The end of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Ep. 1-4* has Erin going up against the Entity again, this time with the sight of Comicron 1 restored to give Linkara help in the "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight with the Entity. At first, Erin is going along with this plan, but then she reveals that she has the Magic Coin, which she was trying to take from Linkara when the two of them first met and is made of a material *that drives Outer Gods mad*. It actually starts to work on Linkara, who suddenly begins to glitch out and show his Jekyll & Hyde tendency by playing chess *with the Entity, signifying which one was in control at the moment by Clark Kenting*. After he wins, the Entity separates itself from Linkara (looking identical to him, no less) and blasts Erin, who orders Seras to teleport herself and Linkara out of the ship. However, the day isn't exactly saved, since *the Entity now has a body of its own*. - Imagine if you will that, at the end of Moby-Dick, the whale died and Ahab, refusing to accept that the thing he was hunting died without him being the cause, snapped and decided to go homicidal. This is what Vyce does after Linkara gets the remnant of the Entity to kill itself, opting to try and destroy the entire universe via a singularity because he could not believe the Entity was dead. - It gets worse: Linkara manages to take care of both problems by tricking Vyce into entering Comicron 2, and sending both on a suicide run into the singularity, closing it. - Lavidian Scarn may not be as intimidating as Mechakara or Lord Vyce and is an arrogant Starter Villain, but throughout his and Linkara's bout in the Contest of Champions, he is shown to be capricious and violent-tempered, especially during his Villainous Breakdown. He also stabs Linkara in a final bid to claim victory. Thankfully, one can't die in the Contest of Champions, but if that weren't the case... - The intro to the "World War Hulk" review. With nothing more than an ominous drum track and a reverb over a deep, *loathing* tone of voice, the "Puny humans" speech is given the exact kind of mood it deserves. Namely, the mood of . **righteous fury** - The 500th Episode had several interludes showing a Bad Future taken over by Brother Eye. An eyepatch-wearing Obscurus Lupa told Linkara to find Brother Eye amongst the future setting. Linkara seems to have no luck finding him, but then he asks about Lupa's eyepatch... which she didn't even know she was wearing. And taking off the eyepatch *revealed Brother Eye underneath*, Hidden in Plain Sight this whole time! We were watching it all along and we didn't even know it... or was Eye watching us? - The end of *Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors* finally reveals the nature of the 'clone' ... and it's a doozy. First Erin enters the room while a thunderstorm is going on outside and we see Copy-kara in a corner with his back to the camera. He begins raving about how he's not a clone, and how "It fixed me. It fixed me! But it got me wrong!" before turning around to reveal his face slashed and bleeding, and a bloody knife in his hands. He begins stalking towards Erin, cursing his face and lamenting all the times he's died. "No! No no no no" He says. "This was the final time. For clearly I have arrived ... in hell!" Erin asks who he is, and he replies "I am the one they call Mechakara." as a lightning flash causes half of his face to appear as a robot. - The robotic skull flash is now included in the intro as of 2019. Even out of context, the whole scene can be startling to first time viewers not expecting it. - Somehow, Mechakara is even *scarier* as a human than as a machine. In his robot form, even though his voice is positively dripping with hate and menace, he usually speaks very calmly even when threatening to brutally murder Linkara. But now that hes human, hes positively *screaming* with rage about his fate, and comes off as someone who has truly discovered something horrible and has gone off the deep end. - During his rant he specifically notes that he "tried to cut the flesh off, but it just keeps sweating, and bleeding..." - The earlier cliffhanger of the "clone" regaining his memories. He starts off elated, then quickly spirals into screaming terror and despair at his fate. **Mechakara:** I remember! ...oh god, I remember... *I remember!* - At the end of *Youngblood: Judgement Day*, Linkara has a pleasant chat with fellow champion Tyler, the Blue Knight of Titan. However, the conversation turns dark at the end when Tyler gives Linkara a warning: Lord Vyce had sympathizers who agreed with his methods, and who might be gunning for Linkara. - Also in that review's "Extreme!" Running Gag, there is a Freeze-Frame Bonus...which includes these *delightful* messages: "Beware the architects of mirrors," which proves to be Halloween foreshadowing, "We have seen its harbinger. It is the sayer of doom," referring to the skeletal entity (see below), and, "She was left behind, now she's making plans." - At the end of *Clive Barker's Hellraiser #1*, after Harvey and Eliza calm Linkara down from his Halloween paranoia, Linkara notices Starfire and Chieri (the two cats Lewis and Vega adopted in real life) and wonders when they got cats... only for there to be a sudden burst of static to occur, after which Linkara suddenly say they've *always* had cats, backed up by 90's Kid... who's suddenly standing where Harvey was. - In *Clive Barker's Hellraiser Spring Slaughter*, while shifting through alternate realities at rapid fire, that grim reaper figure Linkara briefly encountered in *The Real Ghostbusters in Ghostbusters II #1-3* appears again, this time in Linkara's *home*. It says one line before dissolving into static in a way eerily similar to MissingNo's eyes: *Now... comes... your... dooms... day...* - Right after that, at the end of the episode, a weird hooded entity suddenly appears in Linkara's house, fiddling with some kind of device. It gives only the vaguest of answers to Linkara's questions, vaguely saying that, "Information contaminates the experiment," before saying that, "This never happened." Linkara is suddenly sitting in his couch, commenting that it was good to have a Halloween where nothing happened. - In *Pinhead 4-6*, a mysterious box appears in Linkara's house. Despite being contained in a forcefield, it activates and traps Linkara in another dimension. A figure made of shadows swiftly attacks him, claiming it has all eternity to make him bleed. - At the end of *Pinhead vs Marshall Law*, Confession telepathically scans Linkara's mind to learn what he fears. The process is excruciating for Linkara, made worse when the being decides to start torturing him instead. **Confession:** You may not fear pain, but that won't stop me from inflicting it. - *Spider-Man: Web of Life* indicates that Confession has been torturing Linkara for *hours*. - While Linkara's resistance to Confession is admittedly awesome, the torture process has left him exhausted and *pissed*. He practically growls at Confession for an answer about who sent him in a way that's eerily similar to Mechakara, all the scarier for being so quiet. **Linkara:** You knew about me the instant you started. You were ready for me... and confessions about what I'm afraid of are useless to you. You don't need my fears for that. But someone sent you, because *they* need to know. So... who sent you? - Linkara only escapes by a Deus ex Machina: Confession's tortures accidentally damage the mysterious stabilizer device seen last Halloween, causing the hooded entity (wearing an eerie Doctor Doom-esque mask now) to arrive and repair it, completely No Selling Confession's pain beams in the process, before dumping the two back in Linkara's home dimension (and purging Linkara's memory of the hooded figure again). Confession is *terrified*, pleading with Linkara to help him figure out what happened before everyone vaporizes him. - It's more understated, but The Reveal that the Bandit Chief is the one who sent Confession after Linkara just goes to show how low he's willing to sink in order to get the slightest scrap of information that can help him crush his opponents in the Contest of Champions. - *Youngblood: Strikefile #2* has another set of "Extreme!" messages: "She volunteered. She can't be saved," likely referring to Mirror Margaret, "Mirrors are brightest when dark shapes are in front of them," "The Architects are eternally patient," and, "The victims of Loxely want justice. It's how you beat him." - Linkara's newest opponent is Billy Torr, a telepathic Slasher. Who knows what kind of Mind Rape he'll bring to the table while hunting Linkara. Worse, Billy has already defeated Pilo and is smart enough to forbid Linkara from using Pyramidhead or the ghosts. - The 2022 Halloween storyline "Be All My Sins Remembered" initially retells the story for the Magic Gun. It seems to play out the same as the original...until it reaches the final lines: - Mirror Margaret has returned, and she catches Linkara in a chokehold, all the while Harvey is disturbingly nonchalant about his friend being tormented right in front of him. Something is very, *very* wrong here... - Mirror Margaret's story parallels Mark, in that they both became victim of the ritual for the Magic Gun forced upon them by their cult family. The similarities end here, as whereas Mark rejected the cult and exterminated them before turning over to the cause of good and decency, Mirror Margaret, perhaps in utter denial of her own terror and anguish, instead doubled down and chose to view herself as a god, and (as Linkara points out) chooses to act with immense cruelty and anger in tormenting others to validate her own existence. It's a chilling demonstration in how despite them having the same backstory, their difference in choices causes Mark and Margaret to take completely different paths, with the latter choosing cruelty, delusions of grandeur, and malice despite having every opportunity to make better choices. - Moarte gets involved when Mirror Margaret foolishly attacks his Longbox, and it's made immediately clear that he is much more powerful and brutal than she is. He casually ignores her feeble attempts to harm him, and nearly destroys her in the same way as he did to her former wielder, Mirrorkara. - What's more disturbing is The Reveal of Moarte's reason for even being in Linkara's home for all these years; as it turns out, back during the Guns and Sorcery Arc, Linkara had found out about a terrible and dangerous box that he thought could have answers as to why he had lost his magic. Except it turns out to be *Moarte's Longbox*, who was *not* happy to have his sanctum invaded, and nearly destroyed Linkara for showing up. It was only due to him being intrigued by Linkara's circumstances and his job that saved him from having his soul desecrated: In exchange for his life, Moarte would host the *Longbox of the Damned* show every Halloween. **However**, Linkara in return must not only uphold this, but also cannot involve Moarte in his "petty squabbles", because he *can* revoke the deal at any time. While Moarte only lets off Linkara with a warning (while strangling him) this time, this puts a very dark twist on something that for the longest time was not fully elaborated on, and makes it clear that while Moarte tolerates Linkara, they are very much *not allies*. And terrifyingly, Linkara is incapable of getting rid of him at all. - The final scene before the Bloopers: Mechakara has returned, and he has turned himself into a cyborg. ## Other - The entirety of the *Winter of '83* April Fools Analog Horror mini-series is this, demonstrating a masterful use of public domain footage, editing, and voicework by Lewis and his friends to create a surprisingly chilling storyline. Check out some of the frights here!

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As Told by Ginger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes A night of lost sleep...courtesy of Carl! - The episode "And She Was Gone". The video helps. Also a Tear Jerker, especially to anyone who has ever felt the way the girl in the poem is interpreted to be feeling. - There's also the fact that Carl and Hoodsey pretty much wanted to MURDER Noelle. They later only felt guilty because they thought they vanished the wrong person; who's to say that if they had the opportunity to do it again they would take it and make someone else vanish, which is pretty much dying. - In "Hello Stranger", Lois' nightmare with Carl's dehydrated sea snake coming to life, bursting out of her stomach and attacking her co-workers. - The entire second half of "Lunatic Lake", including the very end where the screen turns black and white and Hoodsey pops up wearing a gas mask. - In "Stuff'll Kill Ya", Hoodsey watches Carl leave his house. As soft guitar music plays, Carl walks under a streetlight, stops, looks at the camera, and all the lights in the background go out as a loud chord plays before the scene changes...all for no particular reason. - The end of the unaired pilot. As the show's typical acoustic guitar ending music plays, an exterior shot of the Foutleys' house is shown. When the music ends, the porch light flickers and burns out (which becomes a running gag in the actual series), followed by the infamous Klasky-Csupo "Robot" logo. - The scene towards the end of "Carl and Maude" when Maude suddenly falls over dead on the Foutleys' dinner table is a bit shocking and disturbing. - "A Lesson in Tightropes", when Lois walks in on an unconscious Ginger. Especially when we find out that Ginger almost died!

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Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The ending is pretty damn creepy. After scaring the hell out of bullies Tabby and Lee, Shane and Shana are revealed to be the Pumpkin Heads, and then they are revealed to actually be Human Aliens who can disguise themselves, and so were everybody else in the neighborhood they went to. As they depart, Drew offers them candy, but they say they actually eat *human flesh*, and they tell her she's not an adult and plump enough to be eaten just yet. The book ends with Drew continually asking if they're just joking...

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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** - We find out what happens to Desmond after *Assassin's Creed III*. Abstergo uses his DNA to research his lineage (Sample 17). How exactly do they do that? They take his blood and saliva from his dead body. Generous donor, indeed. It just goes to show that Desmond can't escape Abstergo even in death. - The Subject Zero tapes as well, which deal with an early experiment in Animus technology from the eighties which does Arc Welding in explaining how you can relive the past without being a direct relative. What is scary is when researcher Aileen Bock decides to start testing it on herself and her growing (yet justified) paranoia that that asshole Dr. Vidic is stealing her research. Pretty creepy. - Adéwalé explaining life as a slave on a sugar plantation to Edward and how he was forced to handle boiling sugar during his time there, either getting to witness firsthand the pain it caused to him or someone else. **Adéwalé**: And let me tell you something, Breddah. Boiling sugar is near the hottest thing on this Earth. Just a touch on the skin will stick like birdlime and burn on, leaving a terrible scar. **Edward**: Jaysus. - Truth in Television: any chef will tell you the thing they fear most is molten sugar. Knives will stop. Pots will bounce, and water will splash off. Sugar will cling to you and burn to the bone. - Blackbeard intentionally evokes this, of course. Since this particular version of the legendary captain isnt very fond of using violence to get what he wants (though hes more than willing to when push comes to shove), hes cultivated an image to make it seem as though hes the devil himself, here to haunt the seven seas. When he first dons his iconic flaming hat to show off to Edward, its Played for Laughs at Steve Bonnets expense. However, when hes terrorizing the Charles-Towne citizens he captured before Edward arrives, we see *exactly how* Edward Thatch built up such an impression that it still lasts centuries later. - The buildup during that mission only makes it worse. First, you find Hornigold repairing his ship, apparently after a fierce battle started by Blackbeard. After that, you sneak through a heavily-guarded patch of water, having to track down Blackbeard by following a path of wrecked navy ships and survivors. Even worse, it's foggy and you can't see what's in store ahead of you... - The Mushroom Samba of Edward Drowning My Sorrows has a lot of unsettling images, but the scariest is Edward swimming underwater to the surface, covered with dead bodies and sharks feasting on them. Woodes Rogers telling the story of "The Eagle and The Jackdaw" is particularly unsettling, and the whole thing has a weird *Far Cry* or *BioShock* Mind Screw vibe. - The "Eagle and Jackdaw" fable is told at what seems to be a party, where three targets show up in distorted Eagle Vision color. The moment you assassinate them, there's a flash, and they turn from soldiers to *normal civilians/Assassins* while the other guests just surreally point at you. And a detail easily missed is the hanging corpses on the right side... *some of whom look suspiciously like Edward's friends, including Caroline.* - Black Bart is himself highly frightening, especially when he gives his Rousing Speech to his crew; despite comporting like a pirate, he's more comfortable and less funny and odd looking than the other pirates, mostly because of his Dissonant Serenity, even in his death. It's mostly the coldness in his eyes though and his nihilistic views that allow him to betray his allies and kill with flippant glee. He's every bit the scary, Satanic pirate that people imagine them to be, complete with Dark Messiah appeal. - Most, if not all of the creatures that inhabit the water. - Diving for shipwrecks? *Everything tries to kill you.* But the worst are sharks, especially one that makes a flooded mineshaft its lair. The game makes a point of telling you to avoid it, as you won't be able to escape if it spots you. Though that makes sense considering that the shark in question is a *great white*. This one is especially unnerving as it's encountered in a smugglers' cove, and by that point in the game most players only think to expect sharks when exploring shipwrecks. - Almost worse are the moray eels that hide in holes and suddenly grab you... - The environment alone is terrifying: You're swimming along the ocean floor and most of the time the only air you have is what you can hold in your lungs. And several times you have to navigate underwear tunnels and caves, a terrifying idea for anyone even mildly claustrophobic. - Harpooning? Be prepared for *sharks to jump right at Edward*, or whales to nearly fall on you. - One mission has you sneaking through a swamp at night, and one conversation mentions how crocodiles roam the waters. If you miss this and decide to take a shortcut through the water, *you'll easily miss them sneaking up on you, and suddenly you're being attacked, barely able to see anything.* - One poor NPC isn't even safe *on land* in this mission. As you move through trees and rafters to keep up with a group of soldiers rowing in a boat, one comments that he's certain there's something in the water following them. They approach an outpost and another soldier walks up to talk with them a moment and confirm their status. Suddenly, a crocodile explodes from the water and grabs him, dragging him under before anyone can even try to do anything. You're probably just as scared as the other soldiers at this. "It took him! It took him! I told you!" "Just row, for godsakes! Row!" "I told you there was something! Didn't I tell you? Oh God..." - Hunting big cats can easily turn in you being the hunted. Especially when you think you are safe in a tree, only to realize that they can climb trees too, and a lot faster at that. - The mission from Sequence 2: *A Man They Call Sage*, gives you a good taste of how scary it can be to be on the *receiving* end of an Assassin attack. You start the mission escorting your Templar allies as they take the sage to the governor's *castillo*. The thing is, if you listen carefully you can hear the trademark sounds of Assassins shanking nearby guards and, if you look above/behind you at the right times, you can see them darting in and out of cover as they close in. Suddenly, you have a lot more sympathy for the guards you slaughter mercilessly on a regular basis, because you're essentially playing one of those escorting guards! - In the modern-day segment of the game, what John / Roberts / Aita had planned for R-L. And it would have succeeded if Juno inexplicably decided not to do so. - From that same scene, Juno's face. - The moment when you wake up after having been drugged by John and find that you are Alone with the Psycho. Never before have you been more relieved to see *Abstergo guards coming in with guns drawn.* - Not to mention the creepy, *creepy* sticky notes left all over the place. - And what message do the sticky notes carry? Nothing less than the Manifesto of the Instruments of the First Will, a newly minted cult that aims for nothing less than the total enslavement of humankind to the First Civilization survivor Juno. Voluntarily. "We Surrender", indeed. Even if it's implied that it was partly his doing, the thought remains creepy nonetheless... - Consider that every time you ignore a person to be rescued at sea while sailing about looting chests and doing missions, you're condemning a man to die by exposure or sunstroke on the open sea, when all you had to do was sail their way and press a button. - The final mission at the Observatory is this. When Edward arrives, the Spanish soldiers led by Torres have been busy, murdering the local Taino people. The way through the jungle, the pools, the streams is filled with corpses, burning huts, settlements and soldiers about to execute captives. All of a sudden Torres is not so Affably Evil anymore. - Then there's the Observatory's 'defenses'. They look like normal rows of light until you step into them, whereupon you're essentially *burned alive* **instantly**. *Anyone* who gets thrown into that light are completely disintegrated with only a faint red mist left. And for true Videogame Cruelty Potential, the optional objectives (which the real Edward actually did via Animus mechanics) involves throwing no less than four guards into them. - Furthermore, during this mission, one Spanish soldier who has been injured is lying off to the side before you even enter the room. Though Edward may not be able to understand him speaking in Spanish, he's clearly terrified, pleading along the lines of "Please, I don't want to die!" - The Templar practice of manipulating and hiding events throughout history is taken to new heights in the fourth title. The animus allows a level of propaganda to reach the general public unlike anything before. - Their monopoly on animus technology allows them to edit and alter existing real life footage to give the impression they desire. Namely vilifying the Assassins and portraying themselves as champions of order. It's one thing for a historian to say this is how history went down, it's still only an opinion, but genetic memory changes that. Any Templar backed account of history will be seen as indisputable fact. - They have begun the character assassination of the Creed's heroes, the evil bastards they stopped being lauded as heroic martyrs and are using their very memories against them. It feels a lot like the villains have already won. - Charles Vane's Sanity Slippage. It was funny at first, seeing him babble and become totally incapable of hunting anything, but then he gets guns and grenades and starts hunting YOU. And then he starts singing "Down Among the Dead Men" as he laughs. - The Legendary Ships have a somewhat sinister air about them. Because you're not allowed to board them, you never see or encounter their crew, making it almost seem as it the ships themselves are alive and out for your blood. Especially *El Impoluto* whose main tactic is to chase you down and ram you into submission. - The DEFY trailer has a whole bunch of nightmare fuel in it as you get to go up through the decks of a Spanish ship that's under attack by pirates. We get to see the bottom deck rapidly filling up with water, while sailors who are trying to escape are trapped underneath by a Spanish officer who's slashing at other crewmen with his *sword* and even *shoots one*, while on the top deck the rest of the crew is rapidly overwhelmed, with one particularly unlucky crewman being trapped by other pirates and screaming in fear; the camera cuts away just before he puts his flintlock pistol in his mouth and pulls the trigger. Really shows how terrifying Edward's crew probably is to other ships. - A bit of Fridge Horror, but after John asks you to hack the computer in Olivier's office he distracts the secretary by saying something that makes her run in the side hallway, if you go there she's nowhere to be found, then you remember the unfinished part of the building where you had to ride the window washer platform to the office...

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Attack of the Mutant Penguins / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - When playing the game, there's an occasional breathing sound coming from the Doomscale. Combined with a lack of music, it is remarkably unnerving. - In the MS-DOS version, the teleporter produces a creepy sound that sounds like a creature that's dying. - There is also a low sinister laugh that plays seemingly at random for no reason. - When it comes to the Atari Jaguar version of the game, the level theme "Horror High Jinxs" is terrifying in general, as the platforms are composed of a gooey mess of skulls and other body parts. For some levels with that theme, you might come across a penguin composed of the same dribbling mess. - As for the MS-DOS version, the seventeenth level named "Dribbling Puss Sacs" is pretty much the same as the theme, only the platforms and the body parts composed of them are blue. Some levels of the MS-DOS version even have graphics referencing that theme, such as the fifth level titled "Festering Boil Burst". - The MS-DOS version carries its own unique level known only as "?", though it is probably the best way to describe it. It is a surreal pale realm covered in random things including a clock, drooling monstrous teeth, and a distorted child's head that seems to be crying. - The game over screen might also creep people out with its especially monstrous looking penguin, especially how it comes up like a Jump Scare.

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Astral Cabal / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Nightmare Fuel pages are Spoilers Off. As such, **all spoilers are unmarked. Read at your own risk**. - As usual for Dangan Ronpa-based works, the executions count as Nightmare Fuel: - In chapter 1's execution, Moonsault, Heather Sunderland, SHSL Professional Wrestler, is chained by her ankles to a device that's moving along an entrance ramp, while the loudspeaker makes an announcement about all of Heather's past victories and accomplishments. The mechanism extends up, taking Heather thousands of feet into the air, so she can see Monobear with a sign that says "BORING". The device finally catapults her off, and she falls through a ring of fire, dying on impact. - In chapter 2's execution, Fight or Flight, SHSL Actuary Mayoi Jiami is randomly and wrongfully chosen to be executed after the class votes for the wrong person as the culprit. She's held prisoner by her arms by two gray figures, and no matter how much she struggles they just hold her tighter in place. The figures then throw knives at a painting of a butterfly nearby, and every time a knife hits a body part on the butterfly, the insides of Mayoi's body also get stabbed by some mysterious force, causing Mayoi to cry in agony. After slicing up the insides of Mayoi's body, the gray figures throw one last knife that pierces through the butterfly's abdomen, which results in Mayoi's heart mysteriously being stabbed, which finally kills her. - In chapter 3's execution, The Only Way Out Is Through The Perfume Department, Monobear chains SHSL Cosmetologist Naohiro Fujiwara to a chair in a makeup studio, and Monobear appears to give Naohiro an intentionally bad makeover. Then, Monobear takes five bottles of perfume and sprays the contents in Naohiro's face, one bottle at a time. However, it isn't really perfume, it's a deadly poisonous gas, and it takes five agonizing bottles of it to finally kill Naohiro with the fifth. - In chapter 4's execution, Hospitals Are Scary, SHSL Pediatrician Lukas Breivik is strapped to a hospital chair. Monobear appears in a doctor's outfit and uses a bread knife to slice up Lukas's stomach, finally turning and leaving so Lukas can bleed to death. - In chapter 5's execution, Nyan Cat-Astrophe!, SHSL Feline Specialist Toru Kanno gets a giant Pop Tart and a jet pack attached to him, and is then sent out into space while the Nyan Cat song is playing. Toru's jetpack eventually runs out of fuel, and then *explodes*, taking Toru with it. - In chapter 6's execution, This Is Your Fate!, SHSL Astrology Expert Nikki Hera is sitting in a room with an astrology magazine. They look up their horoscope sign, "Scorpio", and the fortune is that a run of bad luck will cause Nikki's death. Then the campfire in the room starts spreading out of control, and eventually starts burning Nikki's shoes. They desperately run and jump into a nearby lake, only the lake is made of *oil* instead of water, which only makes the fire on Nikki's shoes even worse and causes Nikki to burn to death. - In chapter 7's execution, Discipline Is Overrated, SHSL Animal Tamer Shika Sayuri is randomly and wrongfully chosen to be executed after the class incorrectly votes for a suicide when in reality the victim was murdered. Shika is attacked by animals in a circus, but this time Shika's crop doesn't work on them, and the animals maul her to death. - In chapter 8's execution, Homesickness, it's a subversion, because it's the Mastermind who's being executed and she goes to her execution area of her own free will, and dies painlessly. The Mastermind's identity is the SHSL Inventor, Tokiko. Tokiko sits down inside a rocket that looks like a child's drawing, and presses one button to launch the rocket into space with her inside it. Then she presses a second button to make the rocket explode, taking her with it. - Chapter four's murder, and the means. Miwa is found with her heart cut out of her chest and her face *cut off*. To make matters worse, her killer actually reveals that while she *had* been sedated, by the time they started cutting her face, *she was awake*. - The Chapter 8 murders, not so much in method, but in timeframe: not only did the killer murder Hirashi and Yasu in the middle of the afternoon, but killed them within *7 minutes* of each other. - Astral Black and Astral Blue have their own Nightmare Fuel moments: - In Astral Black's chapter 1 execution, Trust Exercise, SHSL Camp Counselor Hans Ariwara is placed in a summer camp during a "trust exercise", with Monobear "children" walking around. Hans gives them all commands to help them finish the exercise, but they don't listen to him, unable to cooperate, and as they walk past him they actually inflict minor injuries on him. Hans finally tries the "swinging log" part of the exercise, but as he passes by the third Monobear, he's pushed off the log, and he is then "hung" by his friendship bracelet, snapping his neck and killing him instantly. - In Astral Blue's chapter 1 execution, Supernova, SHSL Cosmologist Honoka Yoshida (who is not the culprit but was randomly chosen to be executed after the class voted for the wrong person) is placed in a room resembling outer space, and the stars collide together producing toxic gas that causes Honoka to slow down as she's running away. When they finally stop, Honoka thinks she's been given a reprieve, only for two *planets* to collide next, causing a "supernova" that kills Honoka instantly. - In Astral Black's chapter 2 execution, The Last Laugh, SHSL Comedian Koemi Takibana is placed in a laboratory with an On switch near a creation of hers, but that turns out to be just a stage as the props and set comes crashing down. There are Monobears in the audience, and Koemi accidentally backs up onto a stool that chains her to it so she can't get up. The Monobears demand comedy, but every time Koemi tries to make a joke, a buzzer cuts her off. The Monobears finally decide to get the comedian off the stage the old fashioned way, but instead of a vaudeville hook, a giant scythe comes out from backstage and decapitates Koemi. - In Astral Blue's chapter 2 execution, Sea Shanty For A Scorching Swinging Ship, SHSL Castle Actor Henri Bonheur is placed blindfolded on a ship that suddenly starts rocking back and forth, knocking him about, and the ship is set on fire. The rocking ship finally knocks him into the flames repeatedly, and then the ship starts spinning around and knocking him about even more, until he finally dies from a combination of being burnt and beaten to death. - Astral Blue's chapter 3 motive. Using Dangan Ronpa's infamous memory removal techniques, Monobear threatens to completely erase the existence of each student's most loved and important person: and as if removing them *entirely* from their memories wouldn't just be enough, to then Unperson them so that they no longer exist anywhere at all. Some of them are almost entirely broken, many students are terrified that Monobear could even find out their loved one's identity. One person hopes someone else will kill, others hope *they* will be killed. - In Astral Black's chapter 3 execution, Fleet Of Little Ships, SHSL Aviator Dimitri Averin is placed inside a plane in a glass change, but soon Monobear appears piloting an enemy plane. Because of the glass cage, Dimitri can't maneuver away from the enemy, so he has to shoot Monobear down. But then *more* Monobears appear piloting enemy planes, and even more appear every time Dimitri shoots *those* down, until finally Dimitri runs out of ammo. The Monobears use their planes to clip the wings of Dimitri's plane, causing Dimitri to die in a plane crash inside the glass cage. - In Astral Blue's chapter 3 execution, Time Is Running Out, SHSL Silk Aerialist Choko Kobayashi has to climb up an extremely long length of black fabric, while Monobears are chasing her from below, and she has to make it to the exit at the top in 60 seconds. She *almost* makes it, but for some reason the Monobears below her jump off the fabric and blades rise from the floor. Choko takes a bit of a rest in relief, but this costs her the final few seconds she needs, and she doesn't make it to the exit before the buzzer sounds that her time is up. Monobear appears at the top exit and uses a chainsaw to cut through the safety lines attaching the fabric to the carabiner, causing Choko to fall to the floor below, onto the series of blades that then rip her body to pieces as the Monobear audience applauds at the show. - In Astral Black's chapter 4 execution, Falling Flat, SHSL Band Member Zacharie Morrison is placed on a giant drum being played by Monobear over a recording of one of Zacharie's own concerts. Every time Monobear hits the drum, Zacharie is sent flying into the air, and because he is sent flying higher and higher with each beat, eventually he starts breaking his bones every time he lands. After all of his bones are broken except his right arm, the final time he is sent flying into the air, Monobear crashes two cymbals on him, crushing him in between the cymbals and sending his broken, deceased body back to the drum below as the Zacharie recording thanks everyone. - In Astral Blue's chapter 4 execution, Hero Quest, SHSL Lyricist Marco Mason is deposited in a cold and snowy place, and he picks up a broadsword that is laying nearby. The voice of a woman he recognizes, "Sally", calls out to him to save her, before something dark pulls the woman back into the nearby tower of snow and ice. Marco takes the sword and enters the tower. He climbs to the top, but along the way the tower keeps fighting his efforts, sending fire and spears at him. Marco narrowly dodges all the traps and reaches the room at the top of the tower, only to find out that the woman isn't really "Sally", but Monobear himself wearing a blonde wig and purple dress. Then, a black and white dragon with red eyes enters the room and breathes fire at Marco, roasting him to death. - In Astral Black's chapter 5 execution, Bump In The Night, SHSL SFX Artist Yukiko Kurosawa is placed in a darkened version of her old middle school. She finds her old classroom and sits in the desk where she sat at while attending that school, only to find a black featureless creature with teeth. Yet Yukiko realizes that the creature is a fake, and tears the makeup off to reveal Monobear in a suit. Yukiko scoffs at the poor special effects and leaves the classroom. A monster attacks her outside in the hallway, but Yukiko pulls off the mask to reveal someone in a disguise. Finally, a gigantic black creature attacks Yukiko, so Yukiko again tries to pull off the special effects again...only this time, the skin won't come off. The monster is *real*, and it spits *acid* to boot. The monster chases Yukiko down the hallway, but surprisingly, Yukiko is able to escape by ducking into a classroom, fooling the monster into harmlessly continuing down the hallway. However, because of the chase, Yukiko is too panicked to breathe properly, so she reaches for her inhaler...which she never actually got back, and Yukiko desperately flails about struggling to breathe before collapsing to the floor, attempting to crawl away before finally dying of loss of air. - In Astral Blue's chapter 5 execution, there are *two* executions, because the class mistrialed on a double murder, so Monobear chose two innocent students to wrongfully execute instead of one. In the first, Down With The Queen, SHSL Ice Skater Chiasa Adichi is placed onto an ice skating rink, with a metal hand shoving her from behind, making her skate, although the walls of the rink have jagged edges of ice sticking out from them. Chiasa does well at skating at first, but blocks of jagged ice shoot up from the icy floor unexpectedly, and while Chiasa dodges the first two, she crashes into the third. While she's dazed from the crash, two metal hands come out and grab Chiasa by the ankles, forcing her to repeatedly skate into every next block of jagged ice until she's bruised and cut up. They finally retreat, giving Chiasa a breather, only to finally return and shove Chiasa into the jagged ice on the wall, killing her by impalement. In the second, It's All Your Fault, SHSL Geologist Shirogane "Rhythm" Katsumi is forced to choose from one of several random paths. Upon finally choosing a path, Rhythm ends up on a building rooftop, with a watch on his arm reading **2.5 Minor**. This, as it turns out, is an earthquake reading, as there is some minor shaking of the ground below the building. Rhythm is then attacked by a mysterious shadowy figure as the number on the watch keeps climbing, from 3 to 4 (Light) and finally to 5 (Moderate). As the watch's number increases, so does the strength of the earthquake, and since the building keeps shaking, Rhythm cannot concentrate on fighting off the shadowy figure. The figure wins the fight and then drags Rhythm to the edge of the roof and drops him. Rhythm grabs onto the roof's edge, but the figure stomps on his hands, causing him to fall to his death.

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A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Echthroi, intangible beings whose goal is to "X" (completely remove from existence) everything and everybody. They have the ability to send time travellers careening off course into Projections, their own visions of the desolate, violence filled places they're trying to turn every planet into.

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Audition / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "Nightmare Fuel"? No, those two words don't even begin to describe the horrors this movie is composed of. - Any sequence involving the man in the bag. - The scenes where Asami puts the piano wire to good use. While giggling like a schoolgirl. Viewers may be reduced to peeking through their fingers during these scenes and trying vainly not to think about *their* feet suffering the same fate... - Also, "Kiri kiri kiri" (Cut cut cut)... although it's translated incorrectly in the subtitles as "deeper". - The torture sequence made it into Bravo's *100 Scariest Movie Moments*. This should be a big clue. Even better, that scene made John Landis, Eli Roth and Rob Zombie cringe. Think about that for a moment. - This scene. (The one with the tongue.)

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Assassin's Creed: Valhalla / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Between the poor, staticky audio, the words themselves, and the context of the message, the recording left by Basim that led Shaun, Rebecca, and Layla to find Eivor's remains is rather creepy. **Basim:** I lived, I died, and now I sleep. And in my sleep, I dream. And in my dream, I see an end to the doom that will grip the earth once again. Find the Wolf-Kissed, find the Mad One, find me, and save us from another death.

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A Study in Emerald / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## Original Short Story ## The Graphic Novel: - The Old Ones are even more horrifying than they were in the story. Rafael Albuquerque draws them wearing human clothing but keeps their faces obscured. It's as terrifying as it sounds. - Victoria wears a crown, cape, and a mask that keeps her face hidden but her many tentacles still come through. - Prince Drago is even more terrifying by virtue of being a Half-Human Hybrid. He has human hair, wears a top hat and an Ominous Opera Cape but the tentacles popping out where arms should be are just *wrong*. Plus we never see his face; Victoria at least wears a mask, but the Prince's face is hidden in the shadows.

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Autechre / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Pretty much all of their songs are this! The amount of Hell Is That Noise and Sensory Abuse within them (particularly their later songs) can make it easy to see why at least someone would be unsettled, if not outright terrified. - Seriously though, do *not* listen to their songs if it's late at night or you're in a dark room. No really, DON'T. - *Incunabula* isn't as unsettling as their later albums, but a good chunk of the songs on there such as ''Bronchus 2'', ''Kalpol Introl'' and to a lesser extent ''Lowride'', can still give out the chills. - Their second album, *Amber*, also has the delightfully paranoia-inducing closer that is "Teartear". - "Nuane", the last track on *Chiastic Slide* - especially its ending, which is one long, droning bass that is accompanied by a salvo of beeping and buzzing sounds (think computer hardware). This all goes on uninterrupted for about 3 minutes, when the song fades out. - "Gantz Graf" has so much Sensory Abuse that it's sure as hell something that resembles the chaos theory. Listen to it for yourself here. Enjoy. - *Quaristice*. This is quite possibly the darkest and most haunting out of all the Autechre albums - indeed, this is where their sound is arguably at its most avant-garde. There's plenty of tracks on their with their own sounds and indeed own ways of terrifying you. - *IO* has an unsettling melody that repeats for the entire song... *as well as* a voice sample that's highly muffled and cracks a lot. Oh, and because Autechre are Autechre, it glitches a load too. - *Fol3.* **What the hell are those sounds?!** This song is so avant-garde, there's almost no pattern to it that can be made out. A different part of the song is thrown randomly at any moment. - *WNSN* is another offender. At least it's possible to make out a pattern in the song though... - "Melve" consists of a simple yet anxiety-inducing melody, and nothing else. - "Shimripl casual" from *NTS Session 4* feels like waking up in and exploring a strange, unknown landscape with a constant sense of dread throughout. - *Confield*, otherwise known as "Hell Is That Noise: The Album." It was around this point where their songs started to sound a lot darker and more chaotic, not to mention haunting... - "Eidetic Casein" has some downright terrifying sounds that can only be described as those you'd hear if a carousel was having a breakdown. - Of note are the two tracks, "Parhelic Triangle" and "Bine", both of which are considered to be some of Autechre's most terrifying songs. The former is a rather eerie tune that drifts and crackles with ominous bell tones heard throughout, and the latter is a frantic, fast-paced wall of strange beats and horrifying sounds that may send one's paranoia levels through the roof. - "Lentic Catachresis", the ending track of the album, feels like the end of all madness; it starts with some distorted robotic voices and moody, yet creepy and depressing synths, until it suddenly speeds up and stays that way for a while until it just as suddenly glitches and fizzles out. In other words, *Confield*'s ending feels more like an abrupt stop or even a *death* than a true ending. - "Fermium" from *Untilted* is another one packed with hellish Sensory Abuse (as are all of the songs on that album), but the last 60 seconds can get especially horrifying. - The music video for "Second Bad Vilbel". It consists of a lot of cryptic and odd imagery, such as a faceless humanoid with an enlarged hand (pictured above), and a robotic creature that sits in a blank room and later outside in some water, which mostly just stands motionless in place until it "transforms" midway through. - The song itself is ominous, what with the loud static, heavy beats, and dark drones. It all adds to the video's eeriness. - The Japanese bonus track for *PLUS*, "p1p2", which consists of unnerving howling and low bell noises.

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A Storm of Swords / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The prophesies of the Ghost of High Heart. *I dreamt I saw a shadow with a burning heart butchering a golden stag, aye. I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks, but when her eyes did open, oh, I woke from terror.*

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Attack on Titan / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Gross' Breaking Speech to Grisha is so eerily terrifying in his complete lack of regard for Eldian life; all because of the accident of their origin and history. He also does a Thousand-Yard Stare directly at the viewer while he casually injects a restorationist in the spine and waxes lyrical on his extreme Darwinian Straw Nihilist mindset. It's just chilling. **Sgt. Major Gross:** You want to know why? *[regarding the Eldian persecution]* Because it's fun, why else? It's fun watching humans being devoured by monsters. Sure, there might be a few who don't want to see it. But most people like watching brutality. Think about it, we've been at peace since we were freed from Eldian rule. Decades of peace are great, but there's something missing. These days you hardly get to feel *alive*. Do you wake up feeling like you might die today? I don't know how many people do... But the fact is, that's the natural mindset for all living things. But in a society that takes peace for granted, the people who think that way are *abnormal*. Well, I'm different. We're all gonna die, but me, I'm prepared for when my day comes. And that's because I face the *truth* of this cruel world and try to understand it. You have to *enjoy* your education. And my sons learned something watching their dogs tear apart your sister. It *built character*. - In a way the dub effectively toned down and normalized the speech; it's not "fun" to him, but "interesting", and some of the heavier context in his words were rephrased to be more like a hobby of seeing what happens rather than simply being a Straw Nihilist, with the casual tone of the speech nailed down to a T. The result is sounding less like an overdramatic military fanatic against Eldians, and more like anyone else that legitimately gives not one damn about the loss of Eldian life simply because that's how it goes, which works for his job and hobby alike — he's probably even said these same words to other victims before. - Gross also finally meets his end by his very machinations shortly thereafter from Kruger pushing him into a space directly with the infamous Kawaii Titan. At first he seems like he's in disbelief that Kruger just betrayed him or that he fell inside. Then he freezes up upon noticing the Titan angrily glaring at him. The screams are as horrifying as they would be for any other Titan victim, and the worst part is that this is one of the few times in the series the reader/viewer may genuinely not be disturbed by them, or even *celebrating it* just because Gross was the biggest Asshole Victim in the franchise at this point, bar none.

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Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Fetus Terrible werewolf's birth ||and Sylvester's choice to shoot it with a silver bullet.|| Peter Strubbe's Eldritch Abomination form. A mundane and thus all too realistic version of the treatment of Michael Winterfox.

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Aurora (2019) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The fate that befell the citizens of Vash is worse than just dying. The Collector sealed the crater that the city was built within, burying Vash and all of its inhabitants. Normally upon death Vash would sever their connection to him as a funeral rite, but since Vash is gone, that can't happen. Instead, their souls are trapped inside the ruined city,unable to pass on. And since the connection wasn't severed, Vash and Kendal can hear them down there. Vash: [furious, sword raised]I CAN FEEL THEMSCREAMING! In Chapter 2 Kendal and Alinua investigate the site, and the former hears the people of Vash slowly realize their predicament. We only see fragmented snippets, but they're chilling. And Kendal, with no way to unearth them, is forced to leave them down there so he can stop the Collector. Later in Chapter 11, Erin mentions that by his count it's been a sef note : one week and a half since Kendal was "born". The people of Vash have been stuck in total darkness, unable to move, breathe, or even communicate with one another, for eleven days. Children who carry the Chimeric Plague are born with a natural gift for lifemagic and an intricate green birthmark vaguely resembling the great rune for Life. What sounds like a blessing quickly turns into a curse, as the child's power inevitably goes out of control before they're even five years old, killing themselves and irreversibly mutating everything in the vicinity. Even worse is that despite being called a plague, it behaves nothing like a transmissible disease usually would; there's only ever one chimeric carrier in existence at a time, and after one dies, there's no way to know where the next one will be born. The Collector tells Vash her true motives, and they're terrifying. Basically, she inadvertently touched the remaining mind of the Life elemental Primordial, which not only seemingly made her The Ageless, it affected her mind, convincing her that Life regretted her choice to become the planet, and thus she is capturing souls in order to reconstitute Life by killing all life on the planet. And even without getting into the can of worms of whether or not Life wants this, doing so would release the Void Dragon from the planet's core and let him continue devouring stars! At the end of Chapter 10, we're introduced to Tynan for the first time. He makes his entrance by arriving in an enormous storm to the shores of Crow's Head Plains, where the local god attempts to intimidate him into leaving. He manifests before them in a lightning strike, and strikes them down in a single blow soon after. The chapter ends with the god's incarnation disintegrating to nothing as the rainfall begins and Tynan advances over the plains... Tynan: All talk. Always just talk. Only one of you could ever really back it up. But from what I hear, he's gone. I wonder how you'll manage without him? I've waited long enough to find out. Tynan's backstory, told by Tahraim in Chapter 12, is sobering in of itself. He was once a completely ordinary storm that, by happenstance, blew over to a civilized area and grew a sense of self from feeding on their terror. So, it sought out to cause more terror and eventually, it became a god. And unlike most gods who are bound to a certain area such as a city or a plain, Tynan is the storm itself - he has no boundaries, no need for worshipers long as there's fear, and he's effectively invincible since there's no physical body to strike, meaning that even other gods are powerless before him. All of this happened by sheer chance one day. Tahraim: At the end of the day, when all pretenses are shed, a divine body is still just a body... and a storm is still a storm. Tynan: You don't really care about these mortals. They're just fuel for your power, and now they'll be fuel for mine. I'd be doing you a favor, if you really think about it. Think how much more orderly your city will be without any people. Even once the party manages to gain the upper hand while fighting him, he turns the tables back on them by turning into a dragon. He might not be able to incarnate into this form indefinitely, but he's much more powerful; Erin casts enormous fireballs at point-blank range and they only inconvenience him at worst. In particular, the panel of Erin's outstretched hand in front of Tynan's maw of teeth scaredmany readers. Come chapter 18, Kendal has figured out that he can summon Vash into his body by stabbing himself with his sword. Though not shown directly, the implication was still disturbing enough that Red included a long warning page for people who could be triggered by self-harm. All forms of elemental corruption are bad but two of them stand out. Life corruption. Unlike the other elements, Life magic can more easily get around the soul-barrier protecting the body and cause chimeric alterations and mutations, and it's considered the most dangerous of the main six for this reason. The Chimeric Plague showcases just how bad it can get; when the carriers lose control, they emit a wave of raw, untempered life magic, killing the host and mutating all living things caught in its wake. Said living things, plants, animals and people, cannot be restored to their old selves and are driven insane, attacking anything they can find. Cave corruption. Those who suffer from this are overwhelmed by intense hunger. While some hunger for things like vegetables, more dangerous variants include bone marrow and blood. Spend long enough in the Singing Caves or in a region affected by famine or plague and you turn into a degraded monster that knows only hunger. And if that wasn't enough, unlike corruption from the main six elements, it's unresponsive to all treatments. Once you're affected, you're affected for life. In Chapter 19, we see what everyone is doing in the aftermath of the battle against Tynan. Kendal is unconscious and not healed enough to wake up, and a peek into his dreams at the end of the chapter shows that Kendal is currently being grabbed by an inky black void of hands, presumably the lost souls of the people of Vash that have yet to move on. The look of horror on his face as he realizes exactly what's going on really sells the scene. Even if the very last page of the chapter subverts it by having these souls actually be friendly, the few pages before it were still very scary.

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Autobot Academy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes RP - So, Ramjet says he survived the forest trials, albeit with some scratches. What are we treated to? - On the first Night, there's Aranea and Circuit's "Conversation". - First off, Circuit is not afraid to blackmail Aranea. - Second, Aranea almost murders Circuit. ON THEIR FIRST NIGHT. - The Elephant monster thingy. Good god. Even if it was just a performer, it is disturbing as hell. - The demeanor in which Sideways can take people's powers. I mean, just imagine someone as much as **Brushing** you, and all of a sudden they look exactly like you, although different. And they have all your talents and powers... *shudder* Comic - The Bad Future comes to be after the Siege leads to a massive war that devastates both the Cybertronian Commonwealth and the larger galaxy, including Earth.

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A Student Out of Time / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Given the fact that this blog is specifically about preventing an event known as The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History, it's not surprising that there are many creepy and disturbing moments throughout. - The Tragedy is this for those who are in the know, and for those who learn about it, it is absolutely terrifying. Just the idea that the APOCALYPSE is only a couple of years away and will result in countless deaths and the destruction of society is horrible, and the details given by the time travelers are beyond horrific and evil. It's no wonder everyone who hears about it responds with terror and usually throws their lot in with the Quantum Crew.

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Atomic Puppet / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The surreal landscape drawn over Mega City by Mr. Inkwood in "Quick Draw". It's a desert wasteland populated by all sorts of nightmarish creatures that serve Inkwood's every command. The ominous music goes perfectly with it. - The... *something* that Ms. Erlenmeyer encountered and transformed her into Queen Mindbender. It's never seen or described, but we're probably better off not knowing what it is. - Claude's death was pretty gruesome for a kid's show. ||After he successfully copies Atomic Puppet's powers, his body morphs into a load of Body Horror from the excess. When AP discovers that making contact with Claude gives him even more power, he puts himself on Claude's hand, causing Claude's muscles to swell to grotesque levels until he *explodes*.|| - The Bad Future presented in "Hero's Holiday" is pretty damn grim. Mega City has been transformed into a hopeless Crapsack World under the tyranny of Professor Tite-Gripp (who is as powerful and ruthless as ever in his old age) that wouldn't look out of place in a warzone. Joey has grown into a '90s Anti-Hero fighting a lone war against Tite-Gripp, Mintenberg makes a cameo as a gibbering garbage-eating hobo, and the citizens of Mega City have holed themselves in their rundown homes in their despair. And all because of AP's bitterness over being a puppet destroying his friendship with Joey.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - This story features a very frightening concept that involves spirits known as the Kemurikageghosts that haunt people and kidnap children. ||Although the beings causing trouble arent the real deal||, the legend is very, *very* real: Long ago, a warlord named Toz abducted children when villages could not provide, and they were never seen again. The mothers of these lost children died of grief, and the poor souls of these weeping mothers became known as the Kemurikage. Consumed by sadness and an insatiable thirst for vengeance, they abducted the children from the warlords encampment, but even then they could not pass on until the first Fire Lord brought the warlords to justice. Compared to any spirit weve seen, these are like something straight out of a Japanese horror movie.

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Atlantis: Milo's Return / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **WARNING**: Spoilers are unmarked. - The first portion of the film takes place in Krakenstaff, an eerie Norwegian town populated with blankly-responsive townsfolk and controlled by Edgar Vulgud, a malicious old man in cahoots with the Kraken, a horrific mind-controlling tentacled sea monster. Dagon, anyone? - Vulgud himself. He essentially made a deal with the Kraken, giving the souls of the townspeople to the creature. - The Kraken is so large, we almost never see the entire thing in view, only closeups of its body. Even when you *do* see the whole thing that doesn't make it any less horrifying, since it's a massive mess of glowing eyes and tentacles with a titanic maw. Not only that, but it can also hypnotize you and is shown to be intelligent enough to willingly attempt to exert control over a town full of people. - The way the Kraken has the ability to mind-control any unsuspecting mind. It's especially scary when it seamlessly lures Audrey to it, and then takes over Vinnie *without being noticed*. - Vulgud's death. It's not shown on screen, but after the Kraken is defeated, the movie cuts to a shot of the cave showing Vulgud's clothes covered in dust. Considering the last time we saw him before this had him in pain as the Kraken was taken down, one wonders if he felt himself superaging to death. - There's a deleted scene where Inger asks her baby to give her a hug and it's a baby Kraken, a disturbing nod to the *The Shadow Over Innsmouth* plot point of the Deep Ones mating with humans to yield monstrous offspring. - The Dust Coyotes. Imagine you are just walking along somewhere, not a care in the world, and suddenly a dust storm appears out of nowhere. Then you hear the howling and thousands of red eyes start staring at you with malicious intent. Then the dust takes on the form of a thousand coyotes, all of which are snarling and howling and has the intention of ripping you to shreds. Imagine seeing them at night. Yeah, sweet dreams. And if that wasn't enough, the villain of that particular part is turned into ONE OF THEM! There's no telling if he's simply been made a ghost, or a mindless servant to attack any intruder such as himself. - While riding through the dessert trying to solve the mystery of the dust coyotes, the group passes a man named Chakashi. When they drive past him again, they figure it's just a twin brother. And then out of nowhere a third supposed "brother" appears in front of the vehicle, a manifestation that startles everyone as they stop a hairbreadth before hitting it. - Surtr, a giant fiery demon summoned so that Ragnarok may begin...AND IT ALMOST SUCCEEDS. - Ymir. He's so big he's mistaken for a mountain.

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Avataro Sentai Donbrothers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## General - The Hitotsu-Kis main requirement for them to materialize is that a human's desire need to be so extreme, it is the *only* thing on their mind. The most horrifying part about this is that they aren't created or forced upon them by the villains; they're made by innocent civilians, probably trying to live out their lives like the rest of us. - Hitotsu-Kis that are eliminated by the Nōto are not just simply killed, but *wiped away from human existence*. Even more terrifying, is that Kaito knows whenever it happens. It renders normally stoic café owner unsettled, while looking at the new Avataro Gear appearing before him. - Lessened by episode 15 revealing that many of the victims are simply sent to another dimension, and then lessened even further in #46 when it shows that even those whose cube have cracked have come back. - Being chosen at a Donbrother is no cakewalk either. Finding about the masquerade of the world through a pair of mysterious glasses put every single member through the wringer, with their lives worse for wear with no way out in sight. The only way out is to gain enough Kibi-Points to go free, but even those have their consequences if used improperly. Not to mention the fact that just like the Hitotsu-Kis, the Donbrothers are also normal civilians who suddenly find themselves in the middle of a fight they have no idea about. ## Main series - The normally mild-mannered Tsuyoshi showcasing sheer rage towards Mashin-Ki for hurting his wife. This even causes him to interrupt Taro's Finishing Move on him to let Sonoi take the kill instead, rendering Mashin-Ki's host dead as a result. The episode then ends with an Inner Monologue in which he states that Mashin-Ki deserved to die for hurting Miho and that he will continue protecting her no matter what he has to do. - The Cliffhanger of Sonoi witnessing the passengers on a Bus Full of Innocents vanishing after exiting a cave with the only thing remaining being clear slime dripping. The then normally stoic general shouts that the Juto are coming! - Whatever Sonoza saw when he looked into Sonoi's eyes while he was still in a trance made him reel back in shock. - Haruka uses her Kibi-Points to quit being a Donbrother. Her wish rewrites reality in a way that someone else became Oni Sister along with the Trauma Conga Line she faced in the first episode. Marina, unlike Haruka, lacked the mental fortitude to handle her plagiarism scandal and suffers from PTSD whenever she remembers her previous job. This renders her unable to handle the DonBlaster for too long, as it reminds her of a camera. - Kenji Sayama, who was previously Keisatsu-Ki, is one of the bus passengers who went missing in the bus accident the previous episode. Not only is he revealed to be alive, but he now sports Glowing Eyes, Fangs Are Evil and a beast-like demeanor, attacking a ramen eatery and wolfing down their meats before knocking out a ramen chef who tried to stop him. Then he proceeds to hum to himself as he folds an origami, while the public looks on in fear, just to finish the origami of a cat face and meow like a cat. - The Noto meet with the "guardian" (Jin) to ask him about the Juto getting loose. Jin warns them that if the Juto are free then both the human and Noto worlds will become a hellish landscape. - Sayama's entire presence in the episode is off-putting. - First he's seen in the office folding more cat origamis out of Tsubasa's wanted poster. - When the police officers chase after Tsubasa, he attacks another restaurant, stealing meat to give himself Super Speed to overtake Tsubasa's bike. Even Tusbasa using a hidden door to escape isn't enough. - During his fight with Tsubasa, Sayama's head cracks and moves in very stiff, unnatural ways. He then grabs Tsubasa by the shoulder, lifts him off the ground, and shoves a cat origami into his mouth. The scene shifts to show his Juto form before he puts the origami in his mouth, with the head looking exactly like the one Sonoi saw in his vision. - The reveal that Tsuyoshi's wife, Miho, is connected to the Juto. - After seeing Tsubasa, she initially doesn't know who he is. She then cranes her head and instantly shifts personalities, quickly taking out the origami in his mouth and crushing it in her fist. She manages to quickly leave before Tsubasa can catch her. - At the end of the episode, she takes out the note she left for Tsuyoshi and begins to fold a crane origami with it. She then stares at it dead-eyed, while what can only be described as a crying infant echoes in the background. - What adds to this is that right before she starts folding origami, the outro is playing and abruptly stops right as she tears away her note. This adds to the overall creepiness of the scene and give some major Mood Whiplash. - Taro reveals to Sonoi that after Don Onitaijin finishes a battle, he becomes momentarily weakened. Sonoi uses this opportunity to strike him down without a fair fight, leaving the rest of the Donbrothers speechless. Taro disappears in a cascade of cubes, seemingly killed in front of the team's eyes. - The fact that the Monster of the Week was none other than Tsuyoshi comes off as quite disturbing, especially when he's outwardly the softest of the Donbrothers. He even apologizes to Taro for letting it happen to him. - Kaito cautions Haruka and Shinichi about the bad things that will happen with them being at negative Kibi-Points, and that it should happen soon enough: - Haruka loses function of her legs and is wheelchair-bound for half of the episode. - Shinichi loses his ability to create haikus and subsequently loses his will to live. - Later, Haruka suggests using more of her points to bring Taro back, but Kaito outright tells her that she might drop dead if her points go any lower. - Most of the people "killed" by the Noto are actually held in a cyber prison within the Noto Layer, with seemingly no way out. However, there is a heartwarming lining as Taro's return suggests the Donbrothers might be able to rescue the Noto's other victims as well. - Some of the cells there however are notably destroyed with nobody in them suggesting that at least some of the people sent there did in fact perish. - Earlier Haruka mentions how scary Jiro looked when he suggested slaying them so his own companions would come to him. This episode's halfway point shows how scary he can be when his Split Personality surfaces, as he hunts each of the Donbrothers. The only hint that he's coming for them is that he recites a twisted version of the tale of *Momotaro* in a creepy tone. Thankfully all he was after were their sunglasses and powers, so no one had to be slain. - The sight of sentient *origami* crawling into their victims' mouths. If Tsubasa didn't wake up in time he would meet the same fate as his fellow friends. - Out of all the victims that day, only two made out of it: Tsubasa, who was challenged into keeping the event a secret for a whole year, and Natsumi, who was taken away in a dark void. All others have been sleeping since. - We are finally shown why the Juto are so much of a threat: the Cat Juto devours a fellow Anoni that was just answering a call. - Tsubasa had quite the dog day: first he couldn't undo his transformation, then he was pelted with rocks by girls who thought he was weird, then he was chased by dog catchers, soon lost his ability to talk, was chased by the Cat Juto, lost his memory and sense of self, and even turned into an actual dog. All because a dog's grduge cursed him. Had the Kijino couple not found the broken shrine and cleaned it up, chances are he would never be human again. - The Donbrothers face-off against the Juto for the first time. However just like the Noto their attacks are not working at all, showcasing that there truly isn't anything that can kill or even harm the immortal monsters. - Sonoi revealing that the **Don Clan** is responsible for the Juto's existance. They were trying to find an alternative form of substance for the Noto Layer only to end up with immortal, shapeshifting monsters that prey on the inhabitents they were supposed to serve. - Don Murasame claims there are two of himself as well, comparing himself to Jiro to an extent. And it's not far off: when he is sleeping, anyone who holds the Ninjark Sword will go more feral than Feral Jiro, rapidly reducing their tone to growling like a beast and having a grim shadow around their eyes. And worst of all: they won't remember what they did while under influence of the Ninjark Sword. - Shinichi is a specially eerie: he manages to bust out a menacing haiku before relentlessly chasing after Kiji Brother and Oni Sister. - Taro took the Ninjark Sword when he couldn't transform and everyone's reaction was an immediate Oh, Crap!, before he transformed normally and was completely unaffected by the feral urges. Their fears however were not baseless, since Taro is the most skilled of them all it would spell certain doom if he went feral. - The last part of Sonoi's funeral involves filling his casket with the essence collected from Taro, which causes him to come back to life with an eerie glow in his eyes. - Tsuyoshi selling Tsubasa out to the police for "taking" Miho from him. Making things even creepier is his Psychotic Smirk to the police when he tells them that Tsubasa is clearly guilty, which just showcases his twisted joy of removing an obstacle towards his own personal happiness. - In the preview there is a Deleted Scene that wasn't shown in the episode, which just showcases Tsuyoshi on the floor of his own apartment. The actors provide more context to the situation: after Natsumi awakens and runs away with Tsubasa, Tsuyoshi returns to his apartment alone and starts cleaning while humming the theme song. After that he has a mental breakdown that leaves him unconscious on the floor. - The scene that *does* happen, however, is Tsuyoshi waking up the next day with an apparently bright and positive outlook, as if nothing had happened the previous night. One can only imagine the amount of Tranquil Fury has has built up inside him. - Jin reveals to Tsubasa not only that his prison is located in the sealed gate that the Juto used to enter the human world, but also that the Juto must have found a different gate, meaning that the Noto's only means of containing them is now completely moot. - Trapped in the Jūto's world, a Cat Jūto shoves an origami down Tsubasa's throat once more, this time assuming his identity as well. The Jūto proceeds to masquerade as him in the human world, and re-enacts "Kenji Sayama"'s incident in the ramen store. - Tsuyoshi's unhealthy obsession and dependency on his wife takes an even worse turn with him treating a doll as a Replacement Goldfish. - **Don Killer**. In a series where serious injuries are usually reserved for the more plot serious battles, Don Killer's ability to take out and really hurt everyone with ease is absolutely scary. Even *Taro*, who usually doesn't let anything get to him, is uncharacteristically scared of it, and even another robot designed to counter it could only just make it stop by forever fighting it. - Let all of the above sink in and remember it was made by the Don clan in case the Donbrothers went rogue...Then made Don Killer Killer in case *it went rogue*. The Noto probably didn't killed the Don clan because of trying to make peace with humans, but because all of their solutions not only went horribly wrong but also *the safeguards were just as destructive to everyone*. - Jiro shows Tsuyoshi the picture of him with his crush, Rumi, but Tsuyoshi sees nothing but Jiro himself in the picture, which leads him to assume something is really wrong with Jiro. - Tsuyoshi once again shows how dangerous he is when his wife is threatened: he ruthlessly confronts Tsubasa and would have either fatally wounded or killed him without a hint of remorse if Sononi hadn't taken the bullet for him and snapped him out of the frenzy. - Crossing over with Tear Jerker: we finally meet the Penguin Juto and it's Terasaki, Jiro's adoptive father. What's unsettling is that he's *fabricated Jiro's entire life.* His friends and girlfriend? Fake. The cooking Jiro claims to be from Rumi? Made by Terasaki himself. The reason for doing this? The real Terasaki is over 100 years old and close to dying in the Juto forest so he has been grooming Jiro to be his successor in guarding the forest. When he actually tries to do that, *Taro* consumes the origami himself, saying only he should be responsible for sealing the Juto away. - As much as the 3-on-1 beatdown from Sonoshi's posse is well-deserved after his selfish antics to protect Miho, the cruel fate waiting for Tsuyoshi as he gets captured is anything but pleasant as Shinichi, Haruka, Sonoi and his party can't do anything as they watch Tsuyoshi being dragged into the Noto's prison dimension in horror. If one has to remember what it's like to be imprisoned after a Noto general defeats the Hitotsu-Ki and sends their human host in said dimension. With Sonoshi and their team around and Taro still trapped in the Forest of Slumbers, Tsuyoshi is not so lucky, and realizes that he is all alone... - She may have had it coming for a long time, but seeing the Crane Juto/Miho get practically beaten to death by the other Juto is downright nightmarish to watch. - Just the appearance of Sonona and Sonoya is enough to make the Overseers recoil in dread. And their cruelty knows no bounds as they dispose of the Overseers with scary ease and gives a hard time to the 9 Donbrothers. - And Sonoya is played by *Kohei Murakami*. Yes, *that* Kohei Murakami, "friendly" smile and all. - None of the Overseers can put up a fight *at all*, all they can do is scramble away and try to transform, only to realize the Council just steals their armored forms from them to finish them off with.

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Avengers Assemble / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Avengers Protocol - Part 1 - The Red Skull, seeing that his plan to steal Cap's body failed, decides to steal Iron Man's armor instead. What we're treated to is the sight of Tony hovering in mid-air, screaming and writhing in pain as the Skull slowly tears the arc reactor out of his chest. Blood Feud - The vampires invading Avengers Tower certainly qualify as creepy, and Black Widow in agony as Dracula exerts his control over her, speaking through is even worse. Hulked-Out Heroes Hulk's Day Out - The whole premise of this episode is just terrifying: There's an unknown threat out there that's badass enough to kick The Hulk's ass and make him freaked out that the world is going to end. ||Though as it turns out, Hulk was just hit by Thor as a quick method of getting to Earth.|| The actual threat Hulk discovered was still pretty terrifying though. Bring on the Bad Guys - Captain America ||tied up and being dropped 10,000 feet in the air from the Helicarrier.|| - ||Hyperion's back.|| - And if that wasn't bad enough ||he's joined up with Red Skull.|| ||Genocidal Superman Expy|| + ||incredibly ruthless and brilliant Nazi Super Soldier|| = Seriously Bad Times Ahead. Mojo World - Mojo's chair over-charging from the Hulk's "knock out" in the arena, causing his stomach to expand to horrifying extremes. Complete with veins! By the Numbers - ||Red Skull has the Tesseract, the Avengers are defeated and outsmarted, the Cabal has won. They have proven themselves to be a major threat to the Avengers, and seemingly unstoppable.|| - Hyperion burning a crater into the Hulk's bicep with his heat vision, and then *punching it*. Needless to say, you can't imagine the pain that the Hulk had to go through after *that*. Guardians and Space Knights - Hawkeye almost getting *impaled* through the eye from a needle structure on an alien tower. Exodus - The Reveal that ||Skull was going to have the entire Cabal killed while they believed they were marching into a world handpicked for them to conquer. Yes, Skull was going to murder hundreds if not thousands of HYDRA and AIM agents, Atlanteans, vampires, and Dracula, MODOK, Hyperion, and Attuma.|| *Hyperion* of all people is horrified at this. The Final Showdown - The way the Cosmic Skull utterly rips apart the Avengers. ||He blinds Hawkeye, destroys Captain America's shield, and drives the Hulk into a frenzied rage and then sets him lose against the rest of the team.|| - Four words: ||Thanos gets the Tessaract.|| The Arsenal - Upon touching the ||Power Stone||, Captain America receives a vision of ||Thanos *destroying the Earth*.|| This leads to ||the stone overloading, leaving Cap absolutely horrified and screaming at the top of his lungs as the stone's power almost *kills* his teammates.|| Valhalla Can Wait - Hela using her Death Touch on Hulk, causing him to revert to Banner, and then changing him back against his will, in order to gain compliance from both Hulk and Thor. The Age of Tony Stark - Kid!Tony hiding alone in his lab from a deranged Red Skull? Especially considering that the Time Stone is embedded in Tony's chest, and considering what Red Skull did in the first episode... Head To Head - MODOK's face sticking out of the Tricarrier's wall is really disturbing. Widow's Run - The Infinity stones whispering to certain people. Promising them that they can be all powerful. - Even worse is how easily the Infinity Stones can corrupt people. The whole reason Black Widow steals them in the first place is because ||they're already corrupting Iron Man. Even Heimdall and the Guardians of the Galaxy quickly fall prey to their influence.|| - Five words: ||Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.|| Thanos Triumphant - ||Ultron gaining the power of all the stones.|| - ||Thanos manages to *kill* a majority of the Avengers with the Time Stone by aging them into dust. *Onscreen*.|| - ||This wasn't even a quick death for all of them. It took multiple, long hits to take care of Hulk.|| Avengers Underground - Hyperion ||totally vaporized those three Atlantians. While offscreen, the implication is chilling.|| The Inhuman Condition - Blackbolt is locked in an Electric Torture device by Ultron, unable to do anything other than scream. However, getting him to scream is exactly what Ultron wants, as Blackbolt can level a building by just whispering. Even his little gasps of pain cause enormous tremors. With Ultron's device amplifying the sound of his scream, it could *wipe out the entire planet.* - Tony, after being unable to get Blackbolt out, rips out the amplifier instead, leaving the weapon useless. Ultron responds by stringing him up and using his arc reactor as a backup amplifier by digging numerous cables into his chest. Seeing Double - For a show that's otherwise rather juvenile for the most part, the revelation that the ||Red Room washouts were killed and revived as mindless cyborg zombies|| is pretty dark. The Drums of War - Black Bolt's plan to stop all the mind controlled Inhumans. Use a device (which doesn't even work properly) to force all Inhumans into a cocoon state. Only problem being that once placed in that dormant state, the Inhamans would go into a coma. One from which there was no guarantee they would ever awaken from. - The moment when Truman Marsh ||reveals himself to actually be Ultron in disguise||. Avengers Revolution - Ultron's plan to focus enough ultra violet radiation through his new vibranium body to superheat the earth. Thus killing off all life on the planet. Prison Break The Incredible Herc - Ares ending up trapped in Tartarus, along with the Kraken. Dimension Z - Arnim Zola's attempt to control Captain America by ||downloading his conscious into an implant placed inside Steve's body. Even going as far as incorporating a chest plate displaying a digital image of Zola's face on Steve's chest||. The Most Dangerous Hunt - Ulik and another troll planning to cook and *eat* Bruce and T'Challa after they'd captured the two lost heroes. All Things Must End Shadow of Atlantis - Part 1 - The tentacled- *thing* that Tiger Shark summons to attack the Avengers, by using the Horn of Neptune. - The episode ends with T'Challa being forced to watch, as Tiger Shark sneaks up on Shuri from behind. With T'Challa unable to help his little sister.

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Attack of the Clones / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In the formerly official novelization, it is revealed that the Sand People whipped Shmi so much, she could only feel the whip as a brush across her back. That's how badly her nerves were damaged. The novelization takes it further; Anakin kills every living thing in the Tusken village, men, women, children, and animals, and then burns it to the ground. Another one from the novelization; the rescue attempt by the moisture farmers. The Tuskens strung a wire across the ground, resulting in at least half of the thirty farmers being decapitated, and Cliegg losing his leg. Anakin's subsequent conversation with Padmé isn't much better. Worse still-Hett had a child from a Tusken-raised woman, A'Sharad'Hett, who was taken in by the Jedi. His interactions with Anakin, colored by Shmi's death, would be one of the factors that would eventually turn A'Sharad'Hett into Darth Krayt. Apparently, during that scene, you can hear Qui-Gon's disembodied voice yell "ANAKIN NO!!!" followed by the sinister breath of Darth Vader. When Anakin charges at him during their climactic duel, Count Dooku casually throws some Force lightning at him, which causes him to scream in agony as Dooku then hurls him against the wall. While Anakin is laying there barely conscious, we see that his clothing is burnt and smoke is coming off of him. That must have hurt like hell. Jango Fett's beheading is pretty graphic. There's no blood, but look closely and you can see his head go flying out of his helmet. Now keep in mind that his 10-year-old son just saw this happen. That would traumatize him for life. Considering that kid grew up to be BOBA FETT, he probably was traumatized. Star Wars: The Clone Wars would later show the immediate consequences of this: Boba, still a young teenager at the oldest, goes out for revenge against Mace Windu for killing Jango and teams up with established bounty hunter Aurra Sing to do so. Their scheme involves Boba infiltrating a group of clone cadets in early training to try and assassinate him, culminating in crashing an entire star destroyer and nearly succeeding in killing both Mace and Anakin. When they learn that their attempt has failed, they reveal that they have some hostages—again including a few clones, Boba's own "brothers"—and kill one of them before they're stopped. All because Jango was basically just hired for a job and Mace was basically just defending himself in a pitched battle.... During the fight in the droid manufacturing plant, one poor Geonosian falls over onto a red-hot plate. As if that weren't enough, he's immediately crushed by a hydraulic press. *shudder* Those creatures in the Geonosis arena. Jeesh. Especially the acklay. That high-pitched roar sends chills up your spine. The stuff of nightmares, truly. The reek is quite unsettling due to the EU statement that it's normally a herbivore. It's been starved into a mostly carnivorous diet, which is where the red coloring comes from. The sequence near the end where Dooku lands on Coruscant (which occurs at sunset). As his ship approaches Palpatine's secret lair in an industrial sector, the music shifts into a bone-chilling rendition of The Emperor's Theme, and then a One-Woman Wail as Palpatine himself (in his Darth Sidious guise) shows up to greet his apprentice, leading to this exchange: Dooku: The Force is with us, Master Sidious. Palpatine: Welcome home, Lord Tyranus. You have done well. Dooku: I have good news for you, my lord: the war has begun. Palpatine: Excellent. Everything is going as planned.

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Avengers: Endgame / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *All* spoilers on this page are left unmarked. You Have Been Warned! *"It's definitely Barton. What he's done here, what he's been doing, for the last few years — if you'd seen what he's left — I gotta tell you, there's a part of me that doesn't even want to find him."* — **James Rhodes**, explaining to Natasha Romanoff his fears about finding the now vigilante Clint Barton. Serving as the Grand Finale of the original Myth Arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's perhaps fitting that *Avengers: Endgame* has a far greater dose of horrors than previous films in the franchise. Retaining the darker tone and violence of its predecessor as well as genuinely terrifying scenes of its own that easily could have bumped the film up to an R rating, the end of the Infinity Saga *will* keep you awake at night (at least when you aren't crying your eyes out). - The beginning of the film takes place during the Snap in Clint's POV. He's just spending an ordinary day with his wife and children when they suddenly disappear without explanation while he isn't looking. What really hits it home is that we see wisps of dust billowing away, but it's such a minuscule amount that it's only because we know what happened in the previous film that we recognize it. To those without that knowledge, like Clint, it's a *literal* Blink-and-You-Miss-It; his family disappeared without a trace. - The film also shows what places like NYC and San Francisco look like after the Snap: completely lifeless. The weather is murky and dark, showing how low the atmosphere has fallen with only half of life on Earth. Keep in mind that Thanos wanted to erase half of life in the universe to have resources last and reduce the risk of the Overpopulation Crisis that befell his home planet Titan. And this is the end result: Earth didn't thrive; it is utterly silenced and visibly rotting. - The psychological damage done to humanity is arguably even worse. Every human being has been deeply, irrevocably scarred. Everyone has lost people they love (half the people they love, in fact), and it's likely they *watched* as those people turned to dust in front of them. No explanation, no help coming, no hope of return. It's amazing that society didn't collapse overnight as 3.5 billion humans went insane with rage and grief. Which is implied to be a real issue, considering there are therapy sessions set up to help people come to terms with The Snap. It will take *generations* for the world to get over the damage done to its collective psyche. Perhaps best exemplified when Scott asks a passing kid what happened...and the barely-teenaged boy just gives him a cold, dead Thousand-Yard Stare, before riding away. - The confrontation with Thanos in the Garden features some graphic violence and Body Horror that would not be out of place in an R-rated film. - Thor actually does make good on his previous failure. Violently. What makes it scary is the buildup: Carol crashes straight into Thanos' hut and gets Thanos in a headlock, while Thor enters and immediately *severs* his arm, causing Thanos to scream even louder than when Stormbreaker was shoved into his chest. When Thanos is restrained by the other Avengers, he congratulates Nebula on noticing his honesty and even regrets his abusive treatment of her. Thor stands silently hearing Thanos' spiel about the Stones' destruction. Then, all of a sudden, the familiar sound of Stormbreaker charging up, with its blade glowing blue and Thor's cry of rage, are all signs that warn viewers of Thanos' quick end as Thor, in absolute rage, slices Thanos's head clean off. **Rocket:** ...What did you do?! **Thor:** *...I went for the head.* - The shocking amount of Gorn there is in the scene, putting aside the aforementioned burns on Thanos' body. When Thor slices off his arm, for about a split second it shows the exact *moment* he chops it off, leaving behind a burnt stump that seems to be *caked* in his Alien Blood; if Thor had dismembered him just a bit slower, it could have easily led to the Titan bleeding out. And then, when Thor finally decapitates Thanos, in the midst of a burst of his blood, *his jugular vein can be seen hanging from his neck, and a portion of his spinal cord visible from the bottom of his head*, also for a second only. - Speaking of Gorn... When we are "re-introduced" to the 2014 Timeline Thanos, he enters the throne room of his flagship through a portal, his two bladed sword casually slung over his shoulder like a fishing rod; a very standard villain entrance were it not for that curious *red* shimmer that glistens like water over his *golden* armor... then the sickening realization hits that it isn't the *lighting* that's red, it's the *blood* slicked over Thanos' *entire* armor that is glowing red. Thanos had just returned from a triumphant battle, and had butchered so many foes up-close that his armor is *painted* from head-to-toe in their blood. The fact that he enters the scene with a casual swagger that one has returning from a relaxing walk in the park implies that he murders armies like this so *regularly* that a bloodbath like this is a *morning routine* to him. - Past Thanos viewing the same scene in Nebula's memories *actually shows the cut where Thanos' head was* for a split second, though it's being seen through a hologram that partially censors it. - 2014 Thanos himself doesn't even flinch at what is basically a recording of his future death, making you wonder what deep shades of hell made him so cynical that he isn't disturbed by such. Or is an indication that really, what happens to him after he does the Snap is of no concern to him. **Gamora:** *[watching the recording from the future]* What did you do to them? **Thanos:** Nothing. Yet. They're not trying to stop something I'm going to do in *our* time. They're trying to undo something I've already done in *theirs* . **Gamora:** The stones. **Thanos:** I found them all. I won. Tipped the cosmic scales to balance. *[Gamora kneels before him]* **Ebony Maw:** This is your future. **Thanos:** It's my *destiny* . *[the recording starts playing again]* **Nebula Prime:** *[in the recording]* My father is many things. A liar is not one of them. **2018 Thanos:** *[in the recording]* Thank you, daughter. Perhaps I treated you too harshly. *[Thor chops his head off. 2014 Thanos' reaction?]* **Thanos:** ...And *that* is destiny fulfilled. - Before the Avengers actually manage to find Thanos at the Garden, they spend the entire time looking for him via *any means possible*. Steve even presses Tony for any clues Thanos may have given him during their fight. If you think about it from the remaining Avengers' perspective (with the exception of Tony's because he absolutely wants nothing to do with Thanos anymore after nearly getting killed), the mere thought of a near-omnipotent madman just roaming around doing God-knows-what somewhere in the universe is frightening enough that they are willing to instantly jump at any info about Thanos' whereabouts. Even worse is the possibility of Thanos coming back to Earth with his entire army brought back using the Infinity Gauntlet and deciding to finish the job. Even with Captain Marvel on their side, the Avengers know that they lack too much manpower to mount a proper defense so they decide to ambush Thanos. This conversation between Natasha and Steve sums up the desperation everyone feels as they go to what they felt was a Suicide Mission: **Natasha:** [Ambushing Thanos] is gonna work, Steve. **Steve:** I know it is... because I don't know what Im gonna do if it doesn't. - Even given who the target was and what he had just accomplished, the whole assault against Thanos and his death is as brutal as it is cathartic. Once they find Thanos (albeit weaker than before), the Avengers sent there for the ambush proceed to effectively crush him in just a few minutes, highlighted by the fact that Thanos didn't try to throw a punch back. It really cemented that the remaining Avengers had practically nothing else to lose by that point and were willing to do *anything* to at least get something out of their loss, if not save everybody that Thanos snapped. Rhodey especially hits it home with his suggestion of killing Thanos as a baby when they figure out time travel (although Bruce's reactions to that suggestion helped frame it in a comically dark context). - Once we see the universe after the Time Skip, it reframes Thanos' entire attitude in this scene, and potentially all of the previous movie. Sure, Thanos of 2014 is supposedly without the Character Development gained from the betrayals of Gamora and Nebula, and his sacrifice of the former, but it's this reframing that shows the sheer monstrosity of Thanos' character that has *always* been there. And it's summed up by one line: **Thanos:** You should be grateful. - Specifically, it gives us a taste of the true monstrous sociopathy in Thanos beneath the veneer of well-intentions long before we meet his younger self. He fully expected people to be happy, never considering that they'd be anything but at the loss of so many, including their loved ones. If the idea that Thanos cried because killing Gamora made HIM alone feel bad didn't cement that he's a sociopath who has no empathy for others, the entire ambush scene juxtaposed with the Time Skip should. - Think about Scott Lang for a moment. He gets pulled out of the Quantum Realm by a rat randomly hitting the button needed to pull him back. From his perception, he was gone for only five hours. When he gets back, he learns that five years have passed...and the world has lost half its population, including the Pyms and the Wombats. Scott Lang finds himself in a Bad Future that few can dream of. The fact that he didn't fall into a Heroic BSoD from sheer horror is phenomenal. - He finds a memorial to "The Vanished" and frantically searches it while uttering a Rapid-Fire "No!", hoping to not see Cassie's name. Her name isn't there, but another one is: **His own**. His little girl thinks her father, her hero, has been dead for five years... and Scott has missed five years of his beloved daughter's life. - Cassie and Scott are both visibly shaken when they see each other again. It takes him a while to realize this strange teenage girl is Cassie, and she's doubting her eyes as she tries to fathom how her father's return is even possible. Look at her body language; you get the sense she's expecting this to be some cruel trick. It's basically a fulfillment of Hope's worrying moment in *Ant-Man and the Wasp*; after all this time, would a parent and child even recognize each other? - Everything about Nebula's terrible experience in the past. While everyone else save Clint and Natasha get adventures in the past that are either lighthearted, fun, or heartwarming in some way or another, Nebula's takes a deep turn into misery when Thanos finds out what the Avengers are up to. It says a lot that Nebula, usually unflappable and emotionless, reacts with *unbridled terror* upon realizing that he's cottoning on. We once again see how he treats his so-called children: He *tortures* Past Nebula in order to figure out what appears to be nothing but a simple glitch. And her own past self, desperate for her father's recognition, brutalizes and nearly kills her in turn...and can't even break free even when it's clear on some level she wants to. As Nebula isn't one of the primary Avengers, the whole sequence comes with the very real fear that she's about to be killed at any moment, especially when Thanos decides to do what was very nearly a Kill and Replace to sabotage the Avengers' efforts. - Think about the Battle of New York in the new timeline, from the point of view of the original Avengers of that period. The battle is won, Loki is in custody, and the Tesseract and the Scepter are being taken away. Then, suddenly, Tony has a heart attack and, in the confusion, Loki grabs the Tesseract and teleports away while, as far as they can tell, someone who may be Loki or an unknown third party impersonates Captain America and tricks S.H.I.E.L.D. into giving him the Scepter. Also keep in mind Loki's objective was to get the Tesseract to Thanos and he's probably going to go deliver it now, and the HYDRA agents inside S.H.I.E.L.D. briefly think Steve Rogers has joined them (though in after-action reports, they'll probably think it was Loki). Whatever is going to happen in the future of this timeline, it can't be good. - The heart attack becomes worse when you remember that Tony already had a near-death experience just about an hour ago. The others might be worried if it's a side effect of whatever happened to him in space. - The time for Scott and Tony between when Loki teleports and Tony figures out another time to take the Tesseract must have been a nightmare. Everything up to this moment said everyone had one shot at this and they missed. Even worse, Tony — the one who took the responsibility of protecting the Earth from Thanos the most personally — has now failed in what is most likely their last chance. Its a worst case scenario made real. - Remember wincing at seeing Gamora's corpse at the bottom of Vormir after Thanos sacrifices her for the Soul Stone during *Infinity War*? Now you get to see that all over again...but with longtime Avenger Natasha/Black Widow instead. That also comes with the bonus of the blood spatter on the rocks around Natasha's head *not* being Alien Blood as it was with Gamora. All of this after seeing Natasha and Clint effectively having a skirmish of who would *sacrifice themselves first* so the other could leave with the stone. - Natasha's death also serves as a explicit confirmation about what is easily the most harrowing thing about the Soul Stone: a sacrifice for the stone is a *permanent* exchange. Anyone whose soul is given up for the stone cannot be brought back, *even* with all of the Infinity Stones in tow. Banner intones with regret near the end of the film that when he used the stones to revive everyone Thanos erased, he tried bringing Natasha back as well, but to no avail. By the same token, the Gamora that now exists in the prime timeline is a different Gamora from the past that does not know any of the Guardians. The Gamora that previously existed in this timeline and was sacrificed by Thanos for the Soul Stone is still dead, and it's only through Past Thanos taking Past Gamora with him into the present that *any* Gamora exists in this timeline at all. - The full extent of the damage that the Infinity Stones exert on its wearer, when used all at once, is shown. - The initial surge of radiation upon the Stones ingratiating with the wielder causes the Hulk to *double over in pain*. He survives activating them due to the radiation already in his body, though it costs him the use of his hand; even at the end of the movie, his arm is shown in a sling, indicating that the damage caused might be permanent. His arm is also drained of muscle mass, suggesting the Infinity Stones can Life Drain their user without sufficient protection. - Tony's use of it, while being a normal human, is what causes his death: After donning it, he only has enough strength to speak his Pre-Mortem One-Liner, while after activating it, he dies where he stands, with his final words being a barely-audible "Hey, Pep." - As Tony wields the Stones, you can actually see the energies tearing through his armor. After his snap, his body is so badly damaged, his ear has burned off. And Tony, one of the most notorious Motor Mouths in movie history, can't even speak to Rhodey or Peter when the two discover his damaged state. - 2018 Thanos' Two-Faced appearance as mentioned above. His final appearance is made all the more damning in that unlike the two human Avengers utilizing a high-tech gauntlet solution, he was a Titan with a gauntlet *specifically forged* to handle the use of the stones. - The Mood Whiplash after the successful snap back. Clint gets a call from his wife, Scott admires some birds seemingly returned in one of the compound's gardens and happily states that their plan worked...and then a wounded Bruce looks up and sees the shadow of Sanctuary II blocking out the sun, and a missile headed for them. Seconds later, the Avengers Compound is hit by a bombardment of *dozens* of missiles, reducing it to a giant pile of rubble. - In the immediate aftermath of the bombardment, Banner (who's effectively down an arm due to using the Gauntlet), Rhodey (who is paraplegic and now stripped of his mechanical leg braces), and Rocket (who, despite his enhancements, is still a raccoon and physically pretty weak) are trapped under tons of rubble as water from the river pours in. For anyone suffering from claustrophobia and/or hydrophobia, it's a terrifying sequence. Rocket, in particular, is freaking out. He eventually reaches the point where he just stops talking and starts to cry out, sounding like a terrified animal or kid, which is made even worse by the fact that Rocket almost never shows fear like this. - Immediately after this, Clint has been knocked somewhere into the ruined bowels of the Avengers' base along with the Infinity Gauntlet. He seems fine, picks up the Gauntlet, and prepares to find a way out. Then, he hears a quiet growl, so he fires a light arrow at the darkness behind him, which reveals a pack of Thanos' Outriders charging him, out for blood. The cramped setting, red lighting, and snarling monsters evokes images of *Aliens* as well as the scares that movie brought. - Thanos's conversation with Tony, Cap and Thor before they battle perfectly shows just how far he has gone off the deep end. Having seen that everything he did and will do has been for nothing - that no one will ever appreciate his efforts to balance the universe, that history will never vindicate or consider him anything other than a monster and a mass murderer, and that people will always seek to undo what he did- rather than admit he got it wrong in his methods to save the galaxy, Thanos simply declares this time he will use the Infinity Stones to eradicate all life, then remake the universe in his own image, one that appreciates everything he has done to achieve balance. For all his claims about saving the universe, Thanos proves what he really wants is to just be adulated as a hero and silence the condemnation of those on Titan who called his plan insanity for good. **Thanos:** You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me. I thought by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive. But you've shown me that's impossible. And as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist. **Tony Stark:** Yep, we're all kinds of stubborn. **Thanos:** I'm thankful. Because now, I know what I must do. I will shred this universe down to its last atom and then, with the Stones you've collected for me, create a new one, teeming with life...that knows not what it has lost but only what it has been given. A grateful universe. **Steve Rogers:** *[disgusted]* Born out of blood. **Thanos:** *(smugly)* They'll never know it... *(seething)* because you won't be alive to tell them ! - The Russo Brothers revealed that they had originally planned on having 2014 Thanos obliterate the population of his timeline's Earth, along with the Avengers, and then come to the present with 2014 Captain Americas Its probably best that it wasnt included, as it would have been horribly gruesome to see Caps decapitated head. **severed head.**

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Avengers: Infinite Wars / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In a war, the need to win will make monsters of men, and when you bring superheroes along, it's only going to get worse. - Briefly referenced when Rex is shown to be disturbed at the notion that the Separatists may try to recreate the Ant-Man technology after they capture Scott and remove his suit (fortunately, others are able to rescue Scott in time). - While the Avengers are still strong warriors more than capable of helping out, the Separatists still have their share of heavy hitters to challenge them. - First, we have Durge, a Nigh-Invulnerable Psycho for Hire who calls most living beings "meat" and relishes in the opportunity to butcher clone troopers for their (technically) Mandalorian heritage. He's the first heavy hitter they have to constantly fight, and boy does he prove himself one of the toughest foes they have ever faced off against. - Next, we also have General Grievous, a cunning fighter who you do NOT want to face thanks to his cybernetic enhancements and combat skills courtesy of Count Dooku's training. With his willingness to slaughter anyone to get his way with killing Jedi, he's a threat even to a speedster like Quicksilver. - Savage Oppress is no less terrifying due to his brutal savagery in combat and superhuman durability from Mother Talzin's magical enhancements. In the chapter he's introduced in, he manages to take out an entire Republic outpost by his lonesome *without needing to use his lightsaber*. If he wasn't so single-mindedly ruthless in killing everyone in sight, he'd be a foe that even the Avengers would be hard-pressed to defeat - Karness Murr, in a bid to work around his curse, uses the Strange Supreme method of consuming interdimensional creatures to then usurp the body he's using into a regular body for him to then return to power. The results are *less* than pleasant to see - The fate of remote village residents at the hands of Karness Muur between Chapters 54 and 55. - Ghost Rider is full-on Creepy Good. Given his power set, the Penance Stare doesn't make things nice for those caught in the gaze. - Then there's what it does to someone with a millennia of sins on his hands. Staring Muur punishes not just him, but the creatures, causing him to disintegrate to dust. - In what is the only time the heroes would agree with Palpatine on anything (if they knew all his plans) is when he reflects that it's a relief Ultron hasn't discovered the plans for the "battle station" that will become the Death Star, as Palpatine is keeping that on a separate physical storage device without access to any networks. Just the *idea* of Ultron getting access to the Death Star... "nightmare" is too mild a term for it, considering that he could probably find the flaws in its construction on his own and assemble it far more quickly than the first was created in canon. - In the same scene, Palpatine uses the Force to reach Vision and watch him in the Jedi Temple, while reflecting about acquiring the Mind Stone. If a powerful Sith Lord with an Infinity Stone is very bad news, imagine a near-omnipotent Emperor with *all six Infinity Stones* - Luckily, this is mitigated by the fact that the Infinity Gauntlet is so volatile that only someone on the level of the Hulk could even hope to survive using it even once, and since Palpatine is obsessed with immortality... - Spider-Man finds a familiar black ooze on Mortis, which results in him receiving a new black version of his suit. Readers aware of the comics will be aware that not only will that suit increase Spider-Mans aggression and rage, but it will eventually become the distinctive look of his personal enemy, *Venom*. - Granted, Word of God has confirmed that Venom himself will not appear, but that doesn't mean the symbiote won't be a problem later... - Anakin's Flash Forward on Mortis includes visions of new enemies coming to his galaxy, concluding with a vision of a figure that can't possibly be anyone besides Thanos himself, followed by a nightmarish dread-filled rendition of the Snap as Anakin watches *everyone* he holds dear turn to dust. On a personal level, Anakin also engages in a duel with a figure in black armor who is clearly intended to be . **Darth Vader** - Ultron decides, as part of his new strategy, to make peace through "evolution", as the Republic and the Avengers discover his newest project at The Citadel: a man machine hybrid abomination chock full of Body Horror that could give Karl Heisenberg a run for his money. - He also takes mental control of the padawan pack, keeping them totally under his control, but still distinctly human to unnerve anyone facing them. Barriss is able to confirm that there's nothing left of her former friends in them before she performs a Mercy Kill, but it's clearly still a traumatizing experience for her. - As if that wasn't enough, he's also converted Admiral Trench into a cyborg arachnid-like form, with Natasha wondering out loud if Ultron deliberately intended Trench to be Peter's Evil Knockoff. - Back on Earth, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Danny Rand witness the results of a brutal attack in an Irish restaurant in New York that left the place riddled with bullets, explosions, and corpses. The next scene, set minutes earlier, all but states that this was the work of **Frank Castle, A.K.A. The Punisher**. - The Jedi suspect that thirty missing Jedi, mostly Padawans, and over seven hundred MIA Clones have been captured by Ultron. - The next chapter informs, that it's not just Jedi and clones disappearing but ordinary people from across the galaxy as well as Kyber crystals and artifacts connected to the Sith. - When Maul makes a direct appearance, his words suggest that he is not only in an alliance with Thanos (whom he calls **master**), but also with the *Yuuzhan Vong*... - What's more concerning are that his meeting with Deechi and Scintel suggests that two species that where already horrifying on their own, will now have access to the technology and resources of Thanos. - To make things worse, later Maul recruits Pre Vizsla and Prince Xizor, gaining access to the Death Watch's and Black Suns' resources, soldiers and technology. - And, if it wasn't terrible enough, chapter 90 reveals that the survivors of Outbound Flight were rescued and now they serve Thanos - including *Jedi masters, knights and padawans*. - In chapter 89, Grievous and the Techno Union take a page from Ultron's book and create a laboratory in Nelvaan to mutate Nelvaanian warriors with a blaster grafted to their arm and some form of control device on their chest. If Peter and the Symbiote weren't able to rip the control device, they would be forced to kill the mutated warriors in self-defense, just like Barriss in the Citadel. - Even after said warriors were rescued, Obi-Wan points that they will have not only physical scars, but psychological ones, and now it's up to them to heal themselves. - While spying the enemy forces in Onderon, the Avengers discover that the invading army includes a very familiar foe the Chitauri. It means one thing: Thanos will show his face in the Galaxy Far Far Away very soon. - Earlier, the rebels were ambushed by a insectoid/humanoid unknown alien whose description match (later confirmed) the *Sakaarans*. - On top of that, another of the attackers the rebel camp was ambushed by, if one pays attention to their description were the *Outriders*. - In Chapter 92, we finally see why Maul was on Onderon. All the tyranny and fear he spread through Sanjay Rash, the sacrifice of pawns, the collection of rare Sith artifacts, even the revival of Freedon Nadd, a very feared and Sith Lord that causes every individual attuned to the Power Cosmic to react, were merely stepping stones to his true goal, the Soul Stone. This question even makes Freedon Nadd uncomfortable. - The sheer strength of the Sith ritual used by Maul and Savage to awaken Freedon Nadd, to the point that *every Force user* in the Galaxy could feel it, plus beings like the Celestial siblings, the Bendu, the Symbiote, the Avengers touched by the Mind Stone, Spider-Man and Ego's children. - In addition to all that, the chapter ends on the disappearance and likely kidnapping of Ahsoka Tano, making the "liberation of Onderon" a hollow victory with Dendup effectively dead and Ahsoka taken. - The Trandoshans already have a bad reputation in both Canon and Legends as ruthless hunters, but here they prove to be more sadistic and sociopathic by allying themselves with Ultron and receiving cybernetic enhancements only to have more targets to hunt. - If, in the Canon, the Fortnite-style Trandoshan Moon was already a Hellish Jungle, here we have not only the cybernetic-enhanced-Trandoshan hunters, but also *Ultron Drones* acting like prison guards - In chapter 94, we see that Grievous, completely enraged with the prospective ceasefire between the Republic/Jedi/Avengers, the Mandalorians, and the Separatists/Sith, decides to open himself to the idea of leaving the CIS and join the *True Sith* if only to have a chance of killing more Jedi. - Chapter 95 reveals that Ultron has found a way to harness the Force himself; by turning captured Jedi and Sith into extensions of himself and keeping their minds alive while trapped inside their bodies. He's able to harness their powers on his own merits until they're killed by the original transformation. - Chapter 96 reveals that Ultron has destroyed Geonosis and rendered the natives basically extinct (unless any of them were offworld at the time); the only thing that stops it being worse is that Ultron didn't find what he was looking for (he had heard rumours of secret plans being on that planet at one point, but they had fortunately already been removed). - The fact that Ultron knows that the secret plans exist is terrifying, because anyone who has watched the movies knows that the plans are for the Death Star, one of the most terrifying weapons in sci-fi history. The Avengers are running out of time - Chapter 97 has the World Between Worlds brought up by Momin and his Sith faction, with *Rebels* fans no doubt remembering how it can be used to alter time significantly. The Son knows how to access it, though fortunately, he refuses to let his Sith allies actually use it for their goals. But when Gethzerion asks why, the Son reveals that there is something, or rather someone, imprisoned within the World Between Worlds, someone even the Celestials are afraid of. - Chapter 98 has Anakin have a second duel with the manifestation of Darth Vader he encountered on Mortis. While it's soon clear that this Vader isn't definitively from *Anakin's* personal future, Anakin is clearly horrified when he realises who this Sith actually is, and various Jedi and Avengers deny that Anakin could ever become something that terrible. - In chapter 99, during his third duel with Vader, Anakin experiences a Force Vision of the Canon Timeline, including him killing Count Dooku, Sidious directing Force Lightning to Mace Windu, Operation: Knightfall, all the events on Mustafar, Vader and Ahsoka's duel on Malachor and Alderaan's destruction by the Death Star. - In chapter 100, IW!Spider-Man and Jedi!Spider-Man are sent to an alternate New York City... where 1610!Spider-Man was murdered by the Kingpin. - And then you remember that all the displaced Spider-people need to return to their home universes before they die from cellular decay. - Chapter 101: - Whatever is going on in this version of Spiderverse is somehow worse than mere universal glitching. Whatever the Kingpin unleased in the collider is affecting EVERY spider person. And that includes Miles. - IW!Peter is feeling the greater weight of the promise he made to his Aunt about coming home where he is faced with the Universe of 1610!Spider-Man, who died in the line of duty, something that has always hung over his head but is a clear and present reality that he now has to contend with in passing on and leaving his loved ones behind. - Jedi!Peter cuts off Hammerhead's arm during the battle on Alchemax, much to the horror of both the Spider-Gang and the Sinister Six. Being a survivor of a war that lasted six years, he is more on the edge after all the loss and pain in his life. - Seeing his other self's skill with a blade prompts Peter B. to muse that he fears this version of him meeting Wade (Wilson, A.K.A. Deadpool) let's not talk about it anymore, for everybody's sake. - Chapter 102: - The consequences of Kingpin's actions on Earth-1610 are happening not only there, but also on Earth-IW: the Clones report strange glitches on ships and buildings all over Coruscant, and Iron Fist and White Tiger travel through the Infinity Gate to warn the Avengers that New York is having glitches as well. - During the battle of Brooklyn against the Sinister Six (or Ten in this case), Jedi!Peter is gravely injured by the Green Goblin, and an already-traumatized Miles Morales suffers a flashback of the night when 1610!Peter was killed, making him unleash an electric wave that strikes both the Goblin and Park'r. - To add insult to injury (or trauma), Miles also witnesses his uncle Aaron Davis/Prowler being murdered by the Kingpin after he spares his nephew. **Worse**: Miles has to leave Aaron's body behind in an alley after being almost arrested by *his own father* (to be fair, Jefferson didn't know who this Spider-Man was). - The mysterious energy being is captured by Doc Ock... and God knows *how* the mad scientist will use it to fuel the Collider.

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Attack of the Mutant / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## The book provides examples of: - The Masked Mutant, a sociopathic shape-shifting comic villain who is hellbent on killing his biggest fan. To this end, he takes on the form of an attractive young girl to get close to him, graphically disintegrates his own henchman *on page*, and finally tries to kill the boy by *melting him in acid*. It's also worth noting that the book never explains just what he is or how he became real. It gets worse when you consider the Fridge Horror of The Masked Mutant: He impersonates a teenage girl so flawlessly that Skipper still believes "Libby" was on his side right up until the moment that The Mutant reveals the deception. In short, he can not only shapeshift, but he's a fairly skilled actor too. Imagine what someone like that could do if they had a motive beyond "kill my biggest fan": The mutant could have impersonated any number of influential figures and seized a great deal of political power. He'd be a regular Barty Crouch Junior. ## The episode contains examples of: - The episode gives us a first person view of the titular mutant spying on Skipper from behind some foliage, and then landing on his bus shortly before he introduces himself to Skipper as "Libby". - He also impersonates a bus driver later on, creating plenty of Paranoia Fuel. Who else could the Mutant have impersonated in Skipper's life? Wilson? His parents? - After Skipper gets zapped by the scanner in the Mutant's HQ and thus ||turned into a comic book character||, he occasionally starts to see things in "comic book vision". There's no explanation for this until the end, and it's very random and very creepy.

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Avengers: Infinity War / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *All* spoilers on this page are left unmarked. You Have Been Warned! *"Hear me, and rejoice! You have had the privilege... of being saved by the Great Titan. You may think this is suffering. No...it is salvation. The universal scales... tip toward balance because of your sacrifice. Smile - for even in death... you have become children of Thanos."* — **Ebony Maw** on the Mad Titan's worldview. Following his cameo in The Stinger of *The Avengers*, the Marvel Cinematic Universe spent six years building up Thanos as the ultimate threat. Now, it's time to see the Mad Titan unleashed, and fittingly, this film is **way, way, way darker** and contains way more Nightmare Fuel than all of the previous MCU films. - Right off the bat, the movie starts with a black screen... in complete silence. After a few seconds, the Marvel Studios logo begins, but its usual fanfare is also silent. Then, ominous music becomes audible, followed soon after by a distorted voice. It's a distress call from an Asgardian (voiced by the director of *Thor*, Kenneth Branagh) as everyone else is being slaughtered by the Black Order. *"This is the Asgardian refugee vessel, * **Statesman**! We are under assault, I repeat, we are under assault! The engines are dead, life support's failing. Requesting aid from any vessel within range. We are twenty-two jump points out of Asgard. Our crew is made up of Asgardian families, we have very few soldiers here. This is not a war craft, I repeat, this is not a war craft!" - The way the first shots of the movie are filmed and the whole situation is revealed to the viewer bit by bit is also quite tense. We see the Asgardian ship getting fired at with its shields failing, and then we cut to someone's feet walking over Asgardian bodies while an ominous voice praises Thanos and declares that the dead should be grateful, until Ebony Maw's face is revealed. The only Asgardian left standing is Loki, who stares petrified at someone in front of him, who is then revealed to be Thanos, reciting his sympathetic monologue. And then you realize that one of the bodies lying at Thanos' feet is a beaten up Thor, who Thanos picks up by his collar and carries as if he's a small child. - The Black Order members look like something out of your worst nightmare, and all four are portrayed as sadistic Blood Knights who are utterly loyal to Thanos, and eager to enable his goal of universal genocide. They're also very effective in battle, and can seriously make one doubt that the Avengers can actually defeat them. - During Thanos' massacres of the Zehoberei and the Asgardians, Ebony Maw can be heard speaking over the carnage, giving grand speeches about how the victims should be grateful that they were privileged enough to be chosen to be "saved" by the Great Titan and that even in death, they are *all* Children of Thanos. One of these speeches, as Maw walks among dozens of murdered Asgardians, is the very first line spoken in the film after the "Marvel Studios" title card. It comes off almost like something out of Jonestown, and makes Thanos's ideology seem much like the death-worship it was in the comics. - Thanos single-handedly defeating *the Hulk*. At first, they make it look like the Hulk is the only one who can stand with Thanos toe-to-toe due to his brute strength. But then, the Mad Titan strikes back by landing equally powerful yet calculated hits on the Hulk's vitals before lifting and slamming the latter to the floor, turning one of the most powerful heroes in the MCU into a bloody pulp. What is more frightening is that Thanos accomplishes this *without using any of the Infinity Stones*, which truly testifies just how dangerous of a threat Thanos is. - Loki's death is horrifying. Thanos effortlessly lifts Loki up by his throat with the hand that's wearing the Infinity Gauntlet and squeezes, with Loki struggling against the grip, until his eyes start to become bloodshot and bulge out. And then he snaps his neck with a Sickening "Crunch!", causing blood to drip from his mouth, nose and eyes. The strangulation before the neck snap is drawn out, with a good look at his kicking legs and his bloated face before it's over. It truly looks like an execution and might be the most realistically graphic and brutal death in the MCU so far. It's actually surprising that the death itself didn't give the film an R rating. - When Tony and Bruce are at the Sanctum in New York, commotion stirs outside, people panicking over something large, an aircraft, hovering over the city causing destruction. People were uncomfortable in theaters thinking back on 9/11 and the eerie parallels. In-universe, it's even worse, people in New York are reminded of 9/11 *and* the attack of 2012. - Vision getting impaled from behind by Corvus Glaive, with no warning whatsoever. You can also hear what sounds like bones breaking. - The attack on Gamora's homeworld. Not only is it immensely destructive and brutally indiscriminate, half of the remaining population afterwards is separated from the rest and then gunned down on-screen by Chitauri, while the remaining half is Forced to Watch from across the aisle. In the background, you can hear Ebony Maw giving a demented "sermon", similar to the one he gave the Asgardians earlier on in the film, to the captive Zehoberei, demanding acceptance and even gratitude for the impending slaughter. Meanwhile, the Zehoberei cry heartbreaking screams as they watch their friends and family die before them. - Though the effects are temporary, Thanos uses the Reality Stone to petrify and dice up Drax (who was attacking him) and turn Mantis (who was just standing there) into spools of fleshy (and still alive) threads. - After thwarting her attempt on his life, Thanos has been keeping Nebula in a special magnetic torture chamber which simultaneously pulls all the cybernetic parts of herself (read: most of her) in different directions, causing her tremendous amounts of pain. To add to the existing Body Horror, if you look hard enough, you can even see her exposed brain. note : And said brain appears to have been divided into two separate pieces, crossways. In order to make Gamora tell him where the Soul Stone is located, Thanos then increases the force that's ripping Nebula apart at the seams, as Gamora weeps and her sister shrieks in agony. - Ebony Maw attempts to coerce Strange into releasing the spell he has on the Time Stone by drilling a number of crystal needles into his flesh, one at a time, *slowly.* The needles start to glow as they pierce his skin, giving the audience a nice, back-lit view of Strange's veins and arteries as he visibly tries not to scream. It becomes a case of Dramatic Irony when you realize that Strange used to be a neurosurgeon and he is now on the opposite end of what he used to excel at while he's still conscious. - Gamora's death. She knows it's coming and tries to kill herself to avoid a worse fate, but Thanos prevents it from happening just so he can kill her himself to get the Soul Stone. Audiences can feel the dread alongside her once she realizes Thanos does love her and therefore is ready to kill her, and there's nothing she can do about it. - Tony's fight with Thanos ends with Tony being stabbed through the abdomen with his own nanobot-sword, so deep that it visibly sticks out of his back. And as if that image wasn't enough, blood starts dripping from his mouth as he gasps and whimpers in pain and fear, and the look of horror never leaves his face. - Thanos's army of Outriders is nightmarish; an army of mindless alien monsters driven only to kill, heedless of the cost in their own lives (Okoye looks disgusted and horrified when she sees them flinging themselves at the energy barrier, heedless of it burning them, severing limbs and bodies). When they join the battle, they just keep coming, smashing their enemies down through sheer weight of numbers, before clawing, biting and flinging them around like rag dolls. Bruce's situation is particularly terrifying as the Outriders drag him down and start trying to bite and claw their way through the Hulkbuster suit to get at the human inside. It's best not to think of what would have happened had Thor not arrived when he did. - While the deaths of the Black Order are *rightfully* deserved and downright satisfying to watch, they're still rather grisly in their own right: - At the end of the film, the Avengers are mostly in the forest beyond the Wakandan battlefield after their final fight with the Black Order. Then Vision has a painful lurch caused by the Mind Stone, and he can only whisper to Wanda hes here. The wind starts blowing a little. The Avengers look up in confusion, and Steve orders everyone to rally at his position. Then the Space Stone-induced portal opens. After over twenty movies and a decade of build-up, the moment arrives like the fated meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs - Thanos arrives on Earth. - The Avengers briefly have a standoff with Thanos, who calmly, but sternly, turns his attention right towards Vision. The Avengers are looking an extinction event in the eyes. And the worst part? Theyre just about completely helpless against him. Steve tried once again to rally the team, but none of them do anything more than slow him down. And Thanos simply walks slowly towards his mark, an almost remorseful, placid look on his face, knowing what hes on the verge of doing. And he barely exerts any effort to defeat the attacking Avengers. The Avengers can do nothing but delay the inevitable extinction. - Thanos taking the Mind Stone from Vision also takes out *part of Vision's skull*, leaving him with a gaping hole in his forehead through which circuits and wires are clearly visible. The audience is essentially looking at the remains of Vision's brain after a lobotomy. Thanos reversing the process is also quite horrifying to watch. You can observe Vision's explosion in reverse, basically how the pieces of him that are shattered around assemble. All in slow-motion. And of course playing this in reverse shows exactly how he died. The only reason Disney could get away with it is because Vision is a robot. - Defying any and all expectations, he was able to collect all six Stones, defeat both halves of the Avengers and snap the Gauntlet's fingers, cause the deaths of billions - **Thanos wins.** *just on Earth alone.* Anyone who was expecting The Good Guys Always Win to apply were absolutely . **speechless**

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Avengers Standoff / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - What Pleasant Hill is. ||It's a specially-made prison designed to "rehabilitate" criminals by suppressing their memories and their personas via a Reality Warper, who draws out a "good you" from within.|| The town is made up of something akin to a hybrid of 1950s and modern day sensibilities, but all of that is fake, something like *The Truman Show*. What makes this truly nightmarish is the fact that ||Maria Hill has no qualms in doing this "rehabilitation" to anyone with powers, no matter how liked they are.|| - Even more so is ||Kobik's thoughts on this. She thinks its a game. Just pretend.|| This is heartbreakingly shown when ||Orrgo demands she restore him to his dog form because he found happiness there and she just blows him off with that reasoning.|| - There are also villains who, upon being freed, the first thing they do is *run*. ||They don't want to help Baron Zemo||, they want to go as far away as possible!. - A revelation in *Captain America: Steve Rogers* #2 makes this even worse: ||Kobik is a Red Skull-made Cosmic Cube. When she makes people happy and changes them, she also changes them into HYDRA sympathizers, because that's what the Skull wanted. Steve was affected when he had his youth restored. What about the All-New All-Different Avengers and the Unity Squad? Even more, what about the *villains*?!||

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At the Edge of Lasglen / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Everything about the plague, really. It's a fusion of H1N1 and Marburg, which would not have been possible without magic (since they're two very different sorts of virus). It's 100 percent fatal; once symptoms show, death usually comes within two to three days, during which time the victim is delirious with fever and bleeding from every orifice. It wipes out most of society in less than a month. Parts of several chapters are devoted to it in lovingly nauseating detail, along with the memories of the few survivors who find New Lasgalen (or are found by the Elves). - The architect of the plague, Avathar, is for much of the story walking Nightmare Fuel in his own right. The sole fallen Maia to escape the destruction of Angband, he found a volcano and took a snooze for around eighteen millennia. When he woke, he adapted to the human world very fast via Mind Rape, and spent the next two centuries shaping and manipulating the world (including the rise and fall of Nazi Germany). He creates the plague out of essentially pettiness.

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A Very Long Engagement / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes And that's a normal day on the front... - *All* of the scenes set on the front during World War I, in which the conflict's sheer horror is in full display. That war left France with a big demographic gap and hundreds of thousands of crippled and emotionally scarred men. - The French trench gets shelled and the soldiers almost get buried alive. - French soldiers are mowed down en masse in the assault under a rain of bullets trying to reach the German trenches. - Manech witnesses a fellow soldier who got stuck in barbed wire being blown to bits by a shell and finds himself covered with said soldier's guts. He freaks out as a result. - Someone had the brilliant idea to turn a hangar containing a hydrogen blimp into a field hospital. Sure enough, the building gets caught under artillery fire, and a shell directly gets stuck in the roof without exploding. Then the blimp's cable gets loose and the blimp gets closer and closer to the bomb's nose and... *CLICK* The resulting fiery blast kills everyone bar Benoît Notre-Dame (who managed to barricade himself), including hapless wounded soldiers, one of which lost eyesight and couldn't grasp what was going on and desperately called for help. - Benoît Notre-Dame enters Mathilde's room to murder her in her sleep but backs away when her cat awakens. - Tina Lombardi murdering commandant Lavrouye for ignoring the pardon order that would have saved her boyfriend. She feigns starting to have sex with him, straps him on the bed and gags him, then shoots in the mirror above the bed with a gun. Cue the nice shots of shards falling directly onto Lavrouye's fat belly, and him either having a stroke on the moment or being left to bleed to death. He deserved it, but still.

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A Tale of Two Cities / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The way Dr. Manette ended up in the Bastille. He wrote a letter to an official, revealing the crimes of two brothers (Charles's father and uncle). The brothers intercepted it and had him sent to prison without a trial, and he stayed there for eighteen years. - The descriptions of the French Revolution, and how some of the revolutionaries (namely Madame Defarge, Vengeance and Jacques Three) want to send Charles's daughter to the guillotine just to have more people die.

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Aviators / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Tyler Shaw's ability to write music can translate into some pretty scary stuff, you know... - "Shadows". There's something **terrifying** about Discord going through a Yank the Dog's Chain-HeelFace Revolving Door... ||Thankfully, From All Sides, the next track, subverts it.|| - "Spirit of Chaos". This proves that Aviators can infuse pure, undiluted, **TERROR** into a badass song. His inspiration would be proud, and having Discord's laughter at one point does NOT help. - "Monster". He and Omnipony can turn All Love Is Unrequited into something truly scary. Wanna know what's it about? Well... Discord discovers that Princess Celestia, his one and only love, does not love him back, and he becomes the very monster she thinks she is. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. - "One Last Letter". It comes with the genre, even if it IS infused with Electronic Music. Balloon Party's second album "After Party" includes a VIP Mix, which in turn infuses the song with Dubstep, and then there's the video's opening narration... ||On the video, the words "CHAOS IS RISING" show up with a very dissonant Scare Chord after the song proper ends.|| Discord's won, all right... - "Her Darker Side". Beware the Nice Ones indeed: The song details Twilight Sparkle's Jumping Off the Slippery Slope and causing a complete and total apocalypse. - At first, *The Far Side* seems to be a song about transcending mortality. Then you read the description, and realize that it's actually about a spirit luring people to their death. Those lyrics suddenly take a far more sinister turn, and you almost fell for it. Tell me all your secrets I could be your key to the afterlife Feel the rhythm in my cold heart I could make your soul a work of art - "Dreams of the Deep" as an album has it's title track based in an already nightmare fluey source but "Wall of Sleep" takes it to the next level, with talking about horrors manifesting from your very dreams. - "My Church" is the earliest song in the Bleeding Sun universe, and is about an influential cult leader who predicts the end of the world and calls his flock to follow him, as only he can lead them to a new kingdom after the coming war. The cult leader will one day become the Elder, the Big Bad of the entire setting, making the song all the more chilling. - "When Our Bodies Wash Ashore" is a *Bloodborne*-inspired song about a fisherman losing his mind and heart to an eldritch sea goddess, with the art in the video showing screaming skeletal faces in the mist. *My own senses wash away * I've let go of my eyes Grant me life beyond the veil For this humble sacrifice You're the next to float along As we all grow insane Let the dream pull you below No more watchers will remain

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Awesome Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Ready? Ready doesn't even FUCKING DESCRIBE IT! "Awesome Reach", so very much. Although the boners certainly make it funny. From "Awesome Cracks Down": "COFFEE FOR EVERYONE..." Mr. Literal. Until "Let's give him a hand!" Link's mental breakdown culminating in him ripping the skin off his face in "Link to the Awesome." WHAT IS ZELDA!?! Ash going through Deranged Animation at the end of Pokeawesome 2. Ash: DEFEATED NOW, BITCH?!

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Awaken / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## Series - The prologue is very eerie. A child wearing what looks like a prison uniform wandering around a burning village, a man trying to attack the child but being attacked by someone else instead, people murdering each other while the child watches with apparent indifference... - The serial killer sends advance warning of when and where he'll kill his next victim. Jung-woo and his team get there early and search the place for the killer. He succeeds in killing his victim anyway. And no one sees him even though the police are looking for him and the victim is surrounded by dozens of people.

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ATTACK on MIKA / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - *Creepy sister...*: After Himeka kills Kotomi's dog Ron with weed killer, she starts making twisted facial expressions reflecting her true self. After Kotomi moves to Hokkaido with Aunt Takako and her pets, the story ends with the shot of a malnourished Himeka flashing a creepy grin as she holds a lighter, with a torn-apart teddy bear at her feet (implied to be hers), preparing to burn down the house. The mother's reaction says it all. What's more, Kotomi herself even told her mom that Himeka was like this *since she was little.* - The fact that Himeka is malnourished in the first place implies that her parents started abusing *her* after Kotomi moved in with Aunt Takako. - The ending is even scarier in the original Japanese version due to the music, the special effects, Himeka referring to herself in third person, and the mother's Big "NO!" sounding more frightened. - The fact that Kotomi fell into depression after Himeka killed her dog and their mother neglected her. Had Aunt Takako not intervened, Kotomi would have either died of starvation or at Himeka's hands. - *My sick and coddled sister said she wanted my boyfriend...*: Since she was little, Kasumi smiles with *solid black irises* at her sister Masumi whenever she mocks her about how their parents are on the former's side. She still smiles like this when she declares she wants to take Masumi's boyfriend Ren as her own. - Gozumi from the episode *Twin sister kicks her down the stairs... But it doesnt stop there...* kicks her sister Saki down a flight of stairs and tortures her at the hospital just because Iketa asked the latter girl out. - The scene where Gozumi carried a still-recovering Saki in a wheelchair out of her room and *threatened to push her down the stairs again* if she didn't break up with Iketa. The twisted expression on the former's face while doing so doesn't help matters. If Iketa had not intervened, Gozumi would have probably hampered Saki's recovery or murdered her. - This scene from the episode *My elementary teacher went missing over summer break. 10 years later * is pretty bone-chilling: Ms. Midorihara flashes a Nightmare Face at Hiroki and starts to act predatory towards him, even going as far as *chasing him down the street when he fled*. Even when it turned out to be an act to ease Hiroki's guilt for accidentally ruining her life, it's still scary.

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Attack on Titan (2016) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Although the game is a lot less gory than its' source material, some of the Final Subjugation Target Appeared cutscenes are pretty unnerving. Why? Because they're from the POV of a Titan victim!

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Awful Hospital / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Shh, shh. Just a quick prick of pain and it'll all be over. Please don't squirm. Mama loves you with all her heart. Don't let this comic's unique art style, quirky characters, and corny surrealist humor fool you; it's *absolutely* horrifying. For one, it takes place in the worst hospital in the multiverse and pure, unfiltered existential horror is around every corner, and considering the lovely person behind *Mortasheen* and *Don't Get Spooked* is behind this as well, that's saying a lot... **As per policy, Moments subpages are Spoilers Off pages. All spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned.** - First off: the sheer, visceral Body Horror spread throughout this comic is enough to make one's stomach violently spin 360 degrees. You may gag at some points during the comic, but we understand. - The Bloodstain's room is just so creepily designed. That eye-spider in the top-left corner, not to mention The Bloodstain. Looks like a murder took place here a long time ago, doesn't it? Then, a few panels later, if you've ever happened to wonder whether a moment could be Nightmare Fuel *and* Heartwarming at the same time - The death scenes. You go from Fern being fine in one panel to being dead or a split second away from death in the next, with the background going completely red for "good" measure. - The Abyss is what lurks outside of the hospital, and it is a completely black void filled with extremely massive Eldritch Abominations. The Hospital seems a lot more appealing, now, doesn't it? - Judging by the commenters' reaction, Dr. Man. By himself, he's a slightly creepy human doctor. Next to everything else in the Hospital, he's Dissonant Serenity incarnate. - Apparently, judging by Jay's first and only encounter with him, the commentators are right in assuming that Dr. Man isn't actually human. He's just gotten much better at disguising that fact by the time Fern arrives. - BBQ Girll's true form is subtly displayed on this page - hover over the second image. While it's been shown on other Bogleech projects before, it's especially disturbing here. - The talking door. Or to be exact, something that isn't a door. The comic (and the talking door itself) try to make *very* clear that it is not, in fact, a door. What isn't revealed is whatever it *actually is*. - Aw, a nice flashback to Fern's life with her child. Oh, but now the child's getting weird... but of course, we knew that would happen anyway. And then- AUGH. Hover over it. - Tori's Character Blog implies that bringing Fern's back to life was accomplished through *extensive* trial and error. Then she drops this bombshell: Luckily, [she] exists in enough doomed layers that there's no short supply of fresh parts, but that in itself is troubling, isn't it? I didn't know so many layers were going to end so abruptly. - There is no way that Harmburger trying to get into the hospital's pediatrics ward◊ will end well. - Let's think of Fern's son, in the maternity ward. Just who do they have assigned to take care of him? What are they feeding him? Are they changing his diaper? Do they know that babies need to be burped? Has his illness gotten any worse? What kind of tests and experiments are they running on him? Are any of the other infants a threat to his safety? Can these doctors differentiate between symptoms of illness versus signs of good health? - Behold, the Moldsucker. And according to Celia, it's a Super-Persistent Predator; once it spots a member of her species, it'll keep chasing until one or the other is dead. - A look at the Maternity Ward.◊ - The five-pages-sequence with Phage, starting with this one, is pure Mood Whiplash. First, there's the "purge", which we don't see besides a terrifying red flash. Then, Phage decides to personally address the problem. As in, he directly threatens the commenters, donning a Nightmare Face for the occasion. - Staph and Maggie are two of the nicest, friendliest, and considerate traveling companions that Fern could ask for. But considering how they have absolutely no qualms about eating the corpse of a newly deceased friend, no regret about dying, themselves, and are even perfectly content to let a newborn being, (one who identifies himself as a PERSON,) kill himself, (albeit for a noble reason,) there's also a lot about them that still manages to be horrific. - They seem to regard Fern's determination to preserve her **own** life as an adorable quirk. As though that life amounted to some decade-old T-shirt that their lovable oddball of a friend just couldn't bring herself to part with, for whatever reason. **Maggie:** We just need ya to take a plunge offa this here pusfall an' get ate up by some rapidworms, on accounta our friend here's *powerful* attached to this here particular mortal coil! - The leadup to Fern's encounter with the Dolphins is nothing short of horrifying. First, she gets a surreal dream message. Then, an ominous shadow stalking her. And it just gets worse. Bogleech is dedicated to turning what people think of Dolphins right on its head. - And thus, after the deranged creature makes its debut invading Balmer's fortress, it somehow gets worse. So, so much worse. - When our heroes finally make it past the Polyp in the marrow caves, they're confronted with this. As if that wasn't bad enough, you'll notice the party for scale in the bottom center. - Some Furry Reminders amount to cute little gags. Once they passed the polyp, Fern was treated to a reminder about her companions that came like a plunge into ice water to the point where she momentarily stopped seeing Celia, Staph, and Maggie as people. *But right now, as you watch them strip the putrid flesh from a bloated mockery of your own face All you see are THINGS.◊* - The Commentators were very **seriously** alarmed by this reaction. **Bogleech:** This is a near-record number of comments in only one day, I think it's only beaten by the cafeteria door battle but I might be wrong? **Commentator:** You might say things just got a little too real. - This isn't good. - Just before his death, Balphin had thoughts to share with Fern about her son. Bleak thoughts. **Balphin**: I just feel the need... to apologize... for not devouring you as soon as I had formed. **Fern**: Uh, that's alright. Wasn't really hoping you would. **Balphin**: Oh, but Fern, when you find him, you may wish I had. - When Fern returns to her Hospital room, after being killed in The Morgue... we find that her room has undergone a slight (yet significant) bit of redecorating. Specifically, a metallic plaque has been riveted above her bed where the artwork used to hang; showing the Parliamentary Birthday Cake winking and promising "SOON :)". - The fact that it's riveted metal shows that it's **aware** of how Fern (and her Commentators) operate. It won't let its message be taken down and utilized as an inventory item, note : like with the clown painting's frame that was made into a weapon, and the "ART" that was made into a map. - How did that steel plaque GET there? Was it transported to that spot through paranormal means? Or did someone on the Hospital Staff have it *posted* up there? - After returning to the hospital Fern, when she checks on the Spleen, comes across this lovely scene. - THE TV! LOOK AT THE TV! note : For those who couldn't see why this is shocking, the TV showing an ad of some kind of anti-human cream first showed Redbert in the background, the second one showed the Parliament, and in the eye of that creature, it shows a silhouette of Fern crossed out. Whatever is up with the TV, its clear that the Parliament is making it known that they specifically want Fern dead for good. - Jay never truly hits rock bottom. The more "screen time" the story grants him, the more heinous he is revealed to be, and the more evil he commits. - Even worse than Jay himself, is his plight. He seems to be stuck in an endless loop of having an injury, mutating into a horrible monster, getting killed while in monster form, and then waking up back in his room with a completely different injury, which he remembers as always being there. We currently have no idea why this is happening, or how long it's been going on. - Jay's Armslob form itself is no slouch either. The fight against him seems to have outright traumatized Fern, who normally takes things in stride. - His later transformation into the Eye-slob is *even worse*. Thankfully the little guy kills the tension starting from when he becomes playable for the Commentors. - The ottoman. Despite the creature's reference to a certain game, the thing is absolutely terrifying! - Apparently The Parliament written a book like The Very Hungry Caterpillar... It is an allegory for their Assimilation Plot, which plans to hatch from Fern, eat Phage, everyone Fern knows and loves, and even the commentators themselves. Even worse, the book is self censoring to the characters in-universe, meaning that the commentators can't help or warn them of this revelation. - Fern finds a personal journal of Jay's and we get to see his Sanity Slippage throughout it, with him detailing all the times he has had a "wakeup" which basically means how many times he's either become a slob or died. Disturbing details include implying he killed his ex-wife there under the suspicion she was a slob and the fact that Jay has been here since 2026. The last kept in page not only end on a Jump Scare but also shows how long he truly has been in the hospital for. - If that's not enough, the hole in Jay's room turns out to be filled with grey-zoner corpses. - The coffeefication of Jay. He comes out looking like a man who was thrown in a vat of corrosive brown fluid, and it mutated him into a shrieking, eyeless, skeletal monstrosity with clawed talons. - L??? FINAL JAYSLOB ATTACKS! The Art Shift doesn't help, either. - And just when it seems Fern and Willis have finally killed the Final Jayslob, this happens. To put that scene crudely, Crash is *pissed off beyond all meaning*. **Crash:** M-MEDDLINGGG SHIT-SACK!!! YOU W-WANT SOMETHING DONE RIGHT... ...YOU DO IT... ...YOUR- *FUCKING* ... **SELF!** - Crash takes a page from Balphin's book after his fight with Fern. **Crash:** ...your.... son..... .....wont... .......heal.... **Fern:** ...I won't accept that, I'm sorry. I won't stop trying. Someone, something, somewhere in this hospital or one of these weird worlds could know what to do. **Crash:** ....no.... no, f-fern....... ....you wont.... ....when you find him..... you just.......... wont.........want........ **Fern:** W...what?? ...What are you saying, Crash? - What the heck did Flair *do* to Jay in order to tame him so completely? - I think they just get along. - If it came down to combat, humans could stand a chance against some of the *minor* Hospital staffers, such as Cathy or Gardenia. But several of the high-ranking doctors are as mighty as **GODS.** Dr. Mizer's estimated to be Level 1300. Dr. Phage's level is said to be even higher. Crash was downright untouchable when he attacked Fern. Even young little Willis stands at a sturdy Level 15... how much MORE powerful must his MOTHER be? And where do you think some of the other staffers, such as Dr. Man and Nurse Molly rank? - The fact that Nurse Molly would attack Fern on sight from the beginning, and now Dr. Mizer seeks to obliterate Fern... how many MORE of these all-powerful Hospital docs are going to want to end Fern as the story progresses...? - As seen on page 606, Dr. Phage considers 80 dimensions to be a "ridiculously limited number," of dimensions to be moving in simultaneously. Considering that M-Theory posits that the universe contains twelve dimensions, and any being from a dimension higher than another is infinitely more powerful... Physical God doesn't even *begin* to describe the power wielded by the doctors... - With the Purple Book we get to see the nature of the Grey Zone and how completely disregarded it is. The Grey Zone is essentially what we perceive as the observable universe, and lies at the center with all the different Zones surrounding it. The reason why it is so low regarded is because of the sheer nothingness the majority of our universe consists of. The book also shares a belief that it implies that most other Zone residents seem to have, that it might be better to eliminate the Grey Zone completely in order to make travel to other Zones much more convenient. This casual disregard and the implications of it are unnerving to say the least. - The index page you briefly see whenever you click on the latest comic button features Phage's eyes staring at you from the darkness. - Burgrr's expanding into the Hospital, turning Dr. Phage's lobby into a food court. **Commentator:** So, as far as I can tell, the platonic concept of curing sick people is being merged with the platonic concept of meat processing. For reasons that I hope are obvious, I think we need to make preventing this a priority. - Fern manages to find an envelope in Dr. Man's office containing pictures. The first few are creepy showing Parliament infection and a Slob but the final one is the most disturbing. A picture of what looks like a mutated Dr. Phage, possibly implying that he is already infected or something is impersonating him. - Inside one of the locked files we find out that a hospital in the Grey Zone actually experienced something similar to slobification, described in *nauseating* detail, and it's implied it might have been a very early strain of the disease the Parliament created. - On top of that, the initial victim of the disease is completely forgotten by everyone except for the narrator, and the disease slowly spreads via Meat Moss to infect the other patients, and the "forgetting" effect of the virus slowly spreads with it, to the point where the entire hospital is avoided and ignored by those outside of it, with even animals passively avoiding it. - Though the cancer has died at the end of the notes, there are only 2 doctors and no patients left inside the hospital, and the narrator goes into a place that heavily resembles the Plank Maze. That raises a question: this file was found inside of Ora, so how did it get there? (Then again, it could have been Dr. Man) - Crash's error log, which details how he was infected by the Parliament. It was so traumatic that it apparently haunted Crash until he "died". At first, its content seems like ordinary fake antivirus ads... Then the windows start glitching and descend into Word-Salad Horror. And it only gets worse when Crash finally gives in and installs the virus scan made by the Parliament. - Everything was going well, Phage fell for Fern's trap, Willis got into his office, and *finally* brought Fern the password that she's been looking for for the majority of the comic... And then, without any warning, THIS happens. Just how many things see Fern this way?! - As a **Level 1** Doctor, Dr. Man has **400 hearts.** For comparison, the Immense Thing had 36 hearts, and the Final Jayslob had 38 hearts. Both of them were at Level 15. - The Polyp estimated Dr. Mizer to be Level 1,300. If we multiply 400 by 1,300, it comes out to Dr. Mizer having an estimated **520,000 hearts.** - And Dr. Phage is reckoned to be **EVEN STRONGER** than Mizer. You don't want to pick a fight with doctors! - Somehow, it gets even worse! According to Dr. Phage in Dr. Gynnie's profile, she is *the* strongest doctor in the hospital, even more powerful than him. And the last person to betray her trust is "probably still figuring out how to put itself right-side in!" *And Fern is currently pretending to be her newest temp!* - Now think about that Dangerous Apple that Fern has in her possession. What kind of power must that little fruit contain to "keep a *DOCTOR* away?" note : (Well, one of the ones who AREN'T Dr. Man, anyway.) - Here's how Dr. Man measures the level of deadly, otherworldly, unpredictable menace of every part of the Hospital Fern's already explored, versus that of the Maternity Ward. Right when Fern is just about to enter the Maternity Ward. **Dr. Man:** It is my professional opinion, Fern, that what you have experienced thus far of the Hospital represents its healthiest and safest remaining conditions. - It's revealed that the very concepts of children and pets are slowly merging, to the point that they and their related concepts even override each other in speech. **Dr. Gynnie:** You and I will be dealing primarily with BdAoBgY, but If you have any quessshtionsh about bDaObGy, you should be asshking the good doctor note : Fleagood! - A subtle one, but when Eyeslob removes the Burgrr employee hat, it's revealed that its interior is composed of living meat◊, in the form of some sort of sucker- or sphincter-like orifice. - Turns out not even Dr. Man and his office were safe from the rapid degradation of the Hospital. And from the looks of the now unhinged door outside and what happened to the desk, it's implied something broke *out,* instead of *in...* and even worse, both Fern and Magdolene say that the the office is smelling like *cake...* - In that same segment, after dealing with at least two creatures from the Abyss, an Abyssal Skittergramp appears and attacks! It's substantially scary, not to mention cringe-inducing, as one of its attacks is described to "make [Fern's] spinal column twitch". Eugh. - Jerry's interrogation has given us a lot of scary insight into the Parliament's nature and plans. Turns out, the reason that they can't be perceived by the Hospital staff is that they have somehow managed to alter the perception of the Hospital itself: to the Hospital, the Parliament poses no threat and is completely healthy, so the Doctors can't even perceive them. - Fern's humorous Mushroom Samba as a result of being hit with surgical anesthesia takes a turn for the surprisingly creepy when Fern gets into a fight with a Folder, a Starfish Alien species that shows up repeatedly in Bogleech's works. While its strange (and nonstandard) artwork is offputting already, the *real* disturbing bit occurs when Fern attempts to "Request Gels". At first, the Folder is happy to give Fern excess Cysts, damaging Fern but increasing her maximum health... but then Fern *doesn't stop*, continuing to drain the Folder dry note : without any input from the commentators, mind you while sporting a Slasher Smile and screaming cereal catchphrases like a G-Rated Addled Addict even as the Folder starts crying it pain, curling into a fetal position, and lashing out against everyone in sight. It's geniunely disturbing to read, especially since this is *Fern* doing it. - We finally got a clear explanation of what the Old Flesh was: it's **the concept of death itself**. It was the very first thing that ever died in order to introduce the concepts of "sickness" and "decay"; and, from there, introduce the concept of "health", "growth", and new things (reality as we know it) growing from old dead things (the Old Flesh). Therefore, if the Parliament succeeds into its plan to turn all of reality back into the Old Flesh, we won't just be assimilated into it; we will die with it in a Class Z "Omniversal 404" Apocalypse How scenario. - Even worse, it will be all pointless in the end; reviving the Old Flesh will also revive its mortality, and it will inevitably get sick and die to form another reality. The Parliament will have murdered every being in the universe and caused untold destruction just to win the right to *do it all over again.*

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Autistic Communist / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Much like the game it was based on, the videos by the *Autistic Communist* have their fair share of frights. - In *Yuri Kidnaps MC but she defiantly isn't normal and it ends kinda badly*, Yuri lures MC to her house before knocking him unconscious an tying him to a chair. When Monika arrives to the house, Yuri takes her hostage as well. The two are then made to witness Yuri cutting herself with one of her knives as her way of blowing off steam. After the two succeed at escaping her house, they return later on to check on Yuri. To their horror, they discover that Yuri killed herself, having impaled herself with one of her own knives. - *Natsuki becomes a cannibal* is self-explanatory in itself. After being made to go without food for three days, Natsuki kills MC in desperation, and cannibalizes his left thigh. She also murders her father and giddily leaves his body to decompose on the floor upon failing to move his body. - Part-two sees Natsuki happily greeting her dead father and MC as if expecting a response. - Worse, Natsuki becomes curious as to what else she could do with MC's corpse...leading to her hand going down towards MC's crotch. - Even Monika is freaked out by it. - In one video, Sayori returns in Act II despite being removed from the game by Monika. The description of Sayori's appearance is nearly Lovecraftian with her contorting as she was glitching. After being repaired by Monika, Sayori talks about what she learned from her experience being dead: how life itself was meaningless. As such, Sayori deletes Natsuki and Yuri (and MC possibly) from the game, saving Monika for last. However, it is then revealed that Monika only made Sayori believe that she was revived and gave her the illusion that she had command powers. Monika then redeletes Sayori, ending the video on Sayori's enraged tone of voice. - In *Doki Doki literature Cult*, MC is made a sacrifice by the deranged cult members after Yuri takes a sample of his blood and tastes it (she also implies that she had done the same to other potential members they lured into the clubroom). And then it turns out that they ultimately have no reason as to why they are sacrificing MC, other than they were bored. Worse, Sayori implicates that her partial motivation for luring MC was to spite him for making her feel bad that one time.

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A Wind in the Door / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Echthroi, intangible beings whose goal is to "X" (completely remove from existence) everything and everybody. If need be, they can perfectly impersonate someone, the disguise only penetrable by those who can summon the deepest feelings of true love for the person.

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Awful Hospital Roleplay Forum / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The encounter with Ehye, the ancient order god who wants to destroy all life. Took place in The Voice Of Reason's mind, with excellent buildup, tendrils coming out of mind walls pushing people around, sickly green lights in dark mind corners, and a huge hybrid monstrosity bound in spider silk, speaking in a booming voice about the destruction of all things. Suspense was palpable. - The Enigma is fairly terrifying, but was most so during its young stage, where it killed a major character and had a childlike, zombie-esque hunger. Its eagerness to feed and the question of whether to keep using it against the Zeren was suspenseful. It's not exactly the same kind of horror now, but it is still extremely ominous. - The Enigma Appeared to observe the group in Red November, and proceeded to trick the blue hat Benny into drinking blood. Benny went into a fit of sobbing and soon puked a wad of blood that started to crawl away before being killed by Mark Scopes.

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A World Less Visible / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Zeke is Forced to Watch as the love of his life is beaten and tortured, then ends up the one convicted of the assault - At any given time, Adam's free will can be completely overwritten by Wren. She makes him slaughter his best friend. - Khait in full demon mode, especially given he is a Heroic Comedic Sociopath. He can apparently suck the life out of someone in less than a second.

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A Witch's Tale / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Demon's Mouth Inn is alive, and swallows Liddell to restore her health. It warns her that it might accidentally digest her. Some of the monsters include a pair of lips attached to a perfume bottle, floating masks, grinning cats, maids with horns and sharp axes, and fleshy marshmallow blobs. The regular battle music includes howls and screams. Some of the items can be this, such as drinking Poison to recover MP. Defeated monsters are crushed into bits, even if they're living creatures. The Grim Reaper is a Bonus Boss who appears in random, preset treasure chests and whose stats scale to your stats. His attacks include messages like "Liddell is about to descend into hell!" and failing to defeat him quickly will result in instant death for the party. Death is sharpening his scythe... Every kingdom has a horrific backstory. Rem Sacchras was created by Queen Alice to make a seventh kingdom in order to complete the seal on the Eld Witch. But the land was ruled by evil, and to appease the evil being, she chose to sacrifice the younger twin princess from Rem Boreas, and the younger sister's bitterness towards being sacrificed manifested in poison. The Eld Witch's second daughter wreaked havoc on Rem Boreas, killing the Ice Queen's two daughters in the process. Rem Boraes froze over completely as a result. The Eld Witch ruined Florin, which was then occupied by the Winged. She killed all of the peaceful Winged and burned their wings off, and Rapunzel's diary describes the pain she felt when it happened. Oceria was a surface kingdom, but got submerged when the Eld Witch's third daughter grew jealous of its magic. In Al'Sahra, the Eld Witch's daughters cursed the land to burn forever. Princess Shahrazad was killed the day after she was crowned, and Lyra is tormented with nightmares of what happened. Artis fought in the war without magic at all, using machines. They were all turned into scrap, including Dorothy's dear friends. Most things about the Cheshire Cat, as he's decidedly unfriendly and has a very creepy air to him. The Cheshire Cat teleporting Liddell underwater via a giant picture of his face, which turns the screen black and shakes it around. Both Liddell and Loue are frightened at first. The Cat's rant in the ocean world about Liddell needing air to breathe can be pretty unnerving. Cat: What do all humans need to live? Liddell: Don't know, don't care. Cat: *hisses* Ugh. Air, you stupid child! The music for the Maze Forest, Slumberland Invitation, is quietly unsettling and makes you feel you're being watched. It also has creepy, quiet sounds in the background. At the end of the first playthrough, the Eld Witch ||stabs Queen Alice through the back, killing her||. The first playthrough's ending, where ||Loue and the inhabitants of Wonderland demand Liddell become their new queen and seem poised to tear her apart when she refuses||. || The optional fight with Loue. It's particularly frightening since without warning, he doesn't seem to have a problem with tearing Liddell into little pieces.|| Alice killed the Eld Witch's daughters and denied them reincarnation rights. In the New Game Plus you can fight their hateful shadows. Just getting into most regular battles wherein a black portal appears beneath Liddell and she's engulfed by a black wave that drags her inside!

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Avantasia Protag AU / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes For an AU based on the idea of the four Avantasia protagonists living together as roommates in the ostensibly normal, modern world, there sure is plenty of Nightmare Fuel to go around. Beware of spoilers. - In *Wicked Memory*, that nightmare Scarecrow has in the second to last chapter could inspire any reader's own nightmares. - Most of the middle part of *A Thousand Nights*, especially the scene of the ghosts trying to drag Aaron into the portal.

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Autodale / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The titular town of *Autodale* possesses a lot of nasty horrors hidden underneath its superficially peaceful and idyllic appearance. **All spoilers are unmarked.** In general - One that only comes from a combination of "Don't Feed the Freaks" and "Immortal Machine": when the traveler is out in the world, we see many giant female corpses hooked to cables. How many beings like the Matriarch were there? And why do some appear to have been trying to drag themselves away from their machines, while others are clearly bound far more unwillingly than the main Matriarch, tied up? Just what was going on in those other towns that failed? - The timespan covered by the shorts is at *least* 2000 years, as is between "No Monsters" and "Friendly Shadow." Autodale's clearly not going to fall on its own. Especially not with Hive running so much of it. No Monsters - The reveal of what happens to those deemed Exceptional: they have most of their major organs removed, barring their heads and lungs and heart, and are used to power the giant female robot. - While the episode never elaborates on how one is considered Exceptional, it's implied that being Exceptional means you truly see Autodale for the Dystopia it is. - Possibly lessened by Word of God: somebody can be deemed Exceptional for having an important talent or skill that doesn't fit the mold: Shadow was deemed Exceptional for his great problem solving skills. - When we see the Exceptional woman hunted down by the Handymen, she takes refuge near a dumping ground for Ugly people. Instead of helping her, they alert the Handymen to her presence and silently watch as she's taken away. Children's Toys - A tiny moment of terror when the little girl realizes the same Handymen that protect her also kill people, and realizes this while *standing right near one.* Don't Feed the Freaks - A lot of the terrain the young man travels is surreal and terrifying. Gravity is weak in some areas, leading to his scarf floating up, as well as anything he drops or dismantles. There are skeletons of people impaled on what look like elongated bits of grass, waving in the wind. And the random giant corpses that litter the world, some of which he uses for shelter, aren't at all comforting... Model Citizen - The ending for many Autodale citizens. Once your child has grown up to have a family of their own, you are deemed unnecessary for the community, and you are sentenced to die and your body was thrown into a ditch with the word "UGLY" etched on your mask. The most terrifying part? This treated as a normal and inevitable fate. - In most Dystopian worlds, one is forcibly taken away when they season past their prime. But in Autodale, the adults decide when their time comes. The Robinson couple take pride in the fact they raised Junior to be a dutiful, respectful citizen. But if the ending is any indication, he is on the same ruinous path as his parents. Friendly Shadow - Because the little girl's father was killed, her mother is "taken away" and deemed Ugly. She outright says she failed because she's a Widow. - Hive decides that because the little girl is associated with the Freak and likely traumatized, she will be considered Ugly. Autodale isn't above *killing traumatized children*, considering it a Mercy Kill. - Ever wonder what happened to all those Exceptional people? Well, it turns out that the half a dozen we see in "Monsters" has grown to an enormous size, now called Hive. Meanwhile, their power has grown, too, as not only do they power the town, they also control it, like a shadow government. - Because he kept his promise to the girl's mother, it's implied Shadow will lose his humanity and be a puppet controlled by Hive. His main contact simply wants to rewire him, but the rest of Hive debate whether or not to "give him the coat." - While the Friendly Shadow shows his fair share of sympathy, there's also his robotic side that can take over, depending on the situation. His robotic side is extremely cold and ruthless, as evidenced when he guns down the adult freak, and *keeps* on firing at it, even though the Freak is already dead. Word of God states that his human side constantly battles his robotic side to keep it at bay. - In the same sitting, Word of God also reveals that Autodale has been going for thousands and thousands of years, and the Friendly Shadow has been like this for at least a century. Immortal Machine - We are finally introduced to the Mayor, and like Hive, he is downright disturbing. His origins as a human are long past, and he's now a rotting, mouthless corpse with dangling strands of skin, hooked up to life support. - We learn the origin of the Matriarch: *She's Mother Nature* (or at least a similar earth goddess). When the Mayor met her, she was at the brink of death, and the world was clearly dying with her. While his machinery has kept her (and, by extension, the land around Autodale) alive, it has come at a terrible cost: The Uglies are ground up into liquid and directly injected into her. - She cries out in clear pain during the injection process. It might be keeping her alive, but it's clearly far from pleasant. - The Mayor seemed to be trying to get the exceptional girl to begin finding a better way for Autodale. Instead, she became the central head of Hive, who thinks his way of doing things is the *only* right way and is possibly more rigid and conformist than he ever was in her fervent support of the system he created and grew to want a solution to. - We finally get an explanation for *why* Autodale was founded: to survive after the end of the world. - Even worse. The Mayor has since become aware of the fact the world isn't ending. Earth is healing, the Freaks are now the apex lifeform. Earth is just unable, or even unwilling, to support humanity, and the Mayor is not pleased.

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A Wrinkle in Time (2018) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The delivery of the trailer's final line."The only thing faster than light... is the darkness." Meg's ||initial|| attempts to tesser look like she's a tormented spirit screaming. Camazotz's uncanny synchronization. Aside from the kids bouncing their toy balls at the same time, there's the creepy music of a single violin tune repeating again and again. Red's reveal as ||a literal puppet. Becomes even creepier when he willingly allows his strings to be cut.|| The reveal of the IT being ||not merely a giant evil brain, but an evil brain so insanely large that it's literally the battle ground for the climax.|| Not only is the IT ||big, but IT's also very much alive and very capable of harming anything inside.||

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Axe Murder Boyz / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - "God Only Knows." The lyrics are from the perspective of a murderer, who keeps his female victim's corpse at his house, has sex with her corpse, and consumes her flesh. Due to his Sanity Slippage, he is never aware that what he is doing is wrong, although he does question it, hence the refrain. - AMB's collabo with Boondox, "The Harvest", is pretty nightmarish, too, describing how AMB and Boondox were led to murder by a spirit possessing a sling blade.

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Aztec / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes There's a reason nobody will judge you if you choose to skim or skip over these parts of the books. Deliberate Values Dissonance is very much in effect here. - The first sacrifice that Mixtli is taken to see by his father when he is a boy: A man is volunteers to be the sacrifice because he's dying of a condition that causes him to have trouble breathing The man is stripped naked and tied spread-eagled between two posts. After a long chant, the priest drives an arrow into the sacrifice's genitalia and *twists* it. Then the rest of the priests proceed to fire arrows at the man's chest until he dies. It may surprise you to learn that the man dies screaming. - Oh, and the ritual music is played on drums and with flutes, the beat sticks of the former are made from *human thighbones* and latter are made from *human shin-bones*. - The rain ritual which features music, plenty of dancing, a giant tub and the sacrifice of two slave children, each about four. Before the ritual, the two children, a boy and a girl, are well-cared for and well-fed. But at the ritual, the priest pinches them until they cry because it is believed that the more they cry, the more thunderstorms will come and the more rain will fall. The attendees begin to cry as well but that's not the end of the ritual. A priest then approaches the children and paints a mask on their face that he tells them is so they won't get water in their eyes when they swim in the sacred water. After a bit of chanting, the two children are lifted up to the tub and the priest swiftly daubes the olí paint over their mouth and nose. See, as Mixtli explains, the sacrifices have to die in the water but not because of it. So the two children suffocates as they helplessly splash in the water. By the way, their proud parents are watching the whole time and were the ones who gave them up to be sacrificed though it's only fair to note that they, like everyone else, think it'll earn their children a place in the best heaven so it's more done for love than malice or indifference. - The ritual that ||Nochípea|| stood sacrifice to. It is never explained in details how it was carried out but we know it entailed the dismembering of the child. Why? Because we see a priest wear the parts, including her tipíli note : Vagina over his tepúli note : Penis, while he performs a puppet show with her thighs. - Oh, but it *is* described, earlier in the book. Mixtli's wife did not attend the ceremony, as she thought bad vibes might get into her milk while she was pregnant. You must have blocked it out for being too traumatizing. The sacrifice is chosen and spends several days being raped by as many people as are eager to have a piece; heterosexual sex only, because it's a fertility rite. If the sacrifice is hesitant, a temple priest holds her down and does the honours first. Then the sacrifice is led up the stairs of the temple, playing a song on a flute. When she (or he) reaches the top, she is seized and bent over the sacrificial altar. Her heart is cut out and her head cut off. The priests then take the pieces into the temple and flay the skin from the body. The smallest priest dons the skin like a suit, wearing the skin of one thigh as a conical cap, and dances back out, waving the thigh bones as a blessing wand. He has spent days taking psychoactive drugs so he can dance with abandon, often for several days. He taps the audience members who get close with one of the wands. The flayed skin is called something like the "garment of gold" because by the third day it has turned yellow, rotted and crusty in the heat, and smells so bad no one wants to get close for a thigh bone blessing. - The descriptions of hundreds of human sacrifices, so many the blood and excrement coat the shiny white stairs, made in the dedication of the Temple of Huitzilopochtli pale by comparison. - The mildest is the garlands method in which the convicted are strangled with cords disguised as garlands. It's not implied to be a quick death. - A special shout out to the death of ||Jadestone Doll|| as described by Mixtli. Ho boy, as bad as she was, that is still one horrifying death. - To elaborate, she wakes up naked in the center of a labyrinth and atop the flayed body of her last victim. Oh, but the body's not completely flayed. Oh, no, no, his head and *genitalia* is still there because she's not just lying on top of the body: it's lying *inside* her. Mixtli provides some lovely imagery of how she must have fled from the sight only to end up back there again with ||Pactli||'s more and more decayed and insect-eaten corpse. Mixtli gives a chilling depiction of how she looks when she is dragged out by the gardener the next morning: her face and body is bleeding from cuts made by the thorny walls which she likely threw herself against to try and escape or stumbled into in the dark. Her fingernails have been torn off. She's torn out chunks of her own hair with parts of her scalp being visible as a result. Oh, and her mouth is locked in a permanent, silent scream. Mixtli may not be too far off when he concludes that she died because her heart gave out from fright. - Oh, and said last victim? Mixtli believes that ||Pactli|| was likely flayed *alive* because the condemned kitchen workers had nothing to lose and no love for him. - Then there's Mixtli's execution of the priest who made the mistake of sacrificing ||Nochípea|| while he was away. Mixtli has the man staked out, still wearing the girl's flayed skin, and repeatedly drenched in a substance that causes the skin to shrink as it dries in the sun, causing him to slowly be crushed to death inside of it. Particular mention must be made of the way that the constricting skin forces blood into the priest's penis, until it becomes so overloaded with blood that it **bursts like an over-inflated balloon**. - What really happened to ||Tzitzi|| and the disfigured state it left ||her|| in. It doubles as a Tear Jerker. - The fate of ||Chimáli|| can be seen as this: he's castrated and his eyes and tongue are cut out. - What the soldiers choose to do to the settlers and especially the children after the death of ||Mixtli's daughter, Nochípea|| is an unending source of nightmare fuel. We'll leave it at that and given what you've read so far on this page, that should tell you something. Oh but don't worry, whatever dark things you may imagine won't come close to what actually happens in the book. - The detailed description of the Inquisition-era "heretic burnings" at the stake. Mixtli describes one he watches late in his story, and the reader gets to read about Mixtli's own burning in *Aztec Autumn*, including the sights and smells.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes This may be a kid's show, but Avatar: The Last Airbender certainly has no shortage of terrifying moments. **Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages. You Have Been Warned.** The Southern Air Temple - The episode has the first jaw-dropping instance of nightmarish imagery the show spit out- the moment Aang spies a heap of Fire Nation soldiers' skeletons all gathered around another skeleton leaned against the wall- Monk Gyatso's. Not only are they the first legitimately depicted deaths in the series, but it's on a scale of its own when you realize it premiered on Nickelodeon- a *kid's show network.* Then you see that they're all charred black... meaning they burned to death; killing people by burning them alive... on a children's show! Worse, Aang goes into a terrifying rage that sets off his Avatar State and he loses control. Everything around him turns dark, he surrounds himself in a sphere of wildly spinning air powerful enough to kick up a tornado, and starts levitating. You can only see his shadow-obscured face with cold, glowing eyes and an eerie whirring sound pulsating from him. - Place yourself in Aang's shoes: scared of his responsibility as the Avatar, he leaves his friends and possibly his family, and to him that was only a few DAYS ago. Then he sees the skeletal remains of his people and teachers after holding some desperate hope his people were still alive. That's when reality sets in and he realizes the horrible truth: he's completely alone and truly the last of his people. Who knows what Aang would have done had Katara not stepped in to comfort him. Winter Solstice, Part 1: The Spirit World - The Hei Bai Spirit is as freakish in its appearance as its behavior. Although it appears as a panda bear when docile, when pissed it becomes an unstoppable six-legged, light spewing, black-and-white monster that destroys everything in its path and moves in flashes. Not to mention it had a disturbing habit of terrorizing a village near its protectorate forest by abducting one villager each day despite the Fire Nation being responsible for the destruction of its forest. Eventually it might have taken them all and it managed to take Sokka! - Bonus nightmare fuel points include how its monster form is based on the design of the Mass Production Evangelions from Neon Genesis Evangelion according to Word of God. That's right, the creators designed a spirit to look like a rabid EVA unit! Winter Solstice, Part 2: Avatar Roku - We see Fire Lord Ozai for the first time albeit only a vision of him. The terrifying part? He's seen completely in shadows surrounded by flames before he roars a huge stream of fire and generally looks demonic. It's here where both we (and Aang) realize what he truly has to defeat. - When Roku manifests through Aang, he saves the heroes and drives off Zhao's forces *by activating the volcano under the fire temple.* The cold glare he turns upon the traitorous fire sages suggests they'd be going the same way as the temple if he had less control over the Avatar State. Jet - The titular character, who plans to flood a valley, killing an entire town's worth of Fire Nation soldiers and civilians alike. Keep in mind that he can't be older than *sixteen*, yet he's trying to commit mass murder on a whole town of innocent people just to get rid of the Fire Nation troops. **Jet**: Now listen, you are not to blow the dam until I give the signal. If the reservoir isn't full, the Fire Nation troops could survive. **The Duke:** But what about the people in the town? Won't they get wiped out too? **Jet:** Look Duke. That's the price of ridding this area of the Fire Nation. - Jet's insane fervor against the Fire Nation would not be the first instance that the series would present and speaks volumes of how awful the Fire Nation has been since Aangs absence, as well as the disturbing He Who Fights Monsters issue of many who are fighting the Fire Nation. The Storm The Blue Spirit - The Yu Yan. These guys are the best archers in the entire Fire Nation, possibly the entire world, and when ordered to have absolutely no qualms about ganging up on a twelve-year-old boy like a pack of wolves. Just the look on Aang's face after they have him pinned to the log. - Even before it's revealed to be Zuko, the Blue Spirit persona is incredibly creepy due to its silent Implacable Man accuracy, stealth, and lethal precision with dual blades. It's no wonder Aang screamed in genuine terror when he showed up swinging his swords. The Northern Air Temple - The Mechanist mentions that the Fire Nation demanded weapons and technology from him in return for leaving him and his people alone. The kicker? The Mechanist's group were a harmless band of refugees displaced by *a flood* - not even the war - and then moved into the vacant Northern Air Temple simply because it was there and no-one was using it. But apparently, that's not good enough for the Fire Nation - if you're not from there, then you owe them for simply existing, and if you can't pay up, they'll destroy you. The Waterbending Master - We get some good parental worries when Iroh goes out for a walk, leaving Zuko alone on the ship... When a group of pirates come to blow it up. We cut away from the explosion—to *Iroh's reaction to it.* Imagine leaving the boy who is like your son alone for ten minutes, and coming back to find the place where he was ablaze, with no sign of life anywhere. - Add to that the knowledge that Iroh already knew the pain of losing a son, and you have a Tear Jerker moment as well. The Siege of the North, Part 2 The Avatar State - An Earth Kingdom general attempts to get Aang to use the Avatar State at will. He tries to provoke Aang into entering the Avatar State by actually Earthbending Katara INTO THE GROUND as if she's in quicksand, and she disappears while screaming in pain and fright. Needless to say, this provoked Aang to go into the Avatar State, and he goes berserk and starts attacking everybody in a blind rage. The Swamp - The atmosphere of the episode was incredibly creepy. - Early in the episode, the Gaang hears a bird with a cry that sounds *exactly like a human scream,* disturbing all of them, because they can't find where the sound is coming from. - The visions. Katara thinks she sees her mother, only for it to be an illusion. She collapses to the ground in tears. Then, Sokka sees Yue, who says in a creepy, echoing voice: "You didn't protect me." She disappears... and when Sokka turns around again, she's right behind him, staring at him blankly, accompanied by a scare chord. - Vision!Toph's laugh is downright creepy due to it having a echoic effect. - The swamp actually has a mind of its own. - Huu's swamp-monster disguise made out of vines. The way it glides around is unnerving, too. - The swamp is *terrifying.* Two words: **Tentacle.** **Vines.** They slither up to you whilst you sleep and then DRAG YOU OFF, SCREAMING. Avatar Day - The spider that built a web in Sokka's mouth at the beginning? *bwuaaaah* Doubles as Nausea Fuel. - The whole notion that the people of Chin Village wanted to kill Aang, a child, for an act one of his past lives committed is unsettling. Even worse when it's revealed that Kyoshi, the past life in question, wasn't even guilty and they still wanted to kill Aang using one of many punishments displayed on a raffle wheel. The punishments included being put on a bed of nails, being put on a whipping post, boiled in oil, eaten by shark, thrown in a razor pit, mauled by platypus bear, and burned alive. - Even better is that the village was that dead set on persecuting the Avatar that they didn't give a damn that he is the only one who could stop the Fire Nation from winning the war. As long as they can get their "justice", the world (and possibly even *themselves* in the long run) can burn. Zuko Alone - Zuko's memories are absolutely TERRIFYING in their depiction of Azula as a true fledgling sociopath. Zuko mentions that she feeds the sweet little turtleducks by throwing bread directly at the ducklings, and while her other acts of petulance and spite are childish, they are a definite foreshadow of what she'll be like later. The fact that she can completely switch personalities and play the innocent so convincingly even when her mother knows how manipulative she can be is quite chilling, as is her total lack of empathy for her "friends" and her family, even after their mum is banished, her only reaction is to taunt Zuko with how she's no longer there to stop her tormenting him. However, the bit where she opens Zuko's bedroom door at night and happily sings "Dad's going to kill you!" and explains every detail of why she's certain and, for once, isn't lying is one of the scariest moments of Creepy Child Troubling Unchildlike Behavior in history. The Chase The Library The Desert - Team Avatar's situation is this in an eerily mundane way. Now that their trusty flying bison is gone, they're stuck in the middle of a Thirsty Desert with little food or water and no way to cross it before their supplies run out and they'll die of thirst. They're eventually saved by what seems to be a pure Deus ex Machina. - Aang in the whole episode. Sure, Katara calms him down before any real damage is done, but think about it...this one sandbender stole a rare animal. It turns out it belongs to the Avatar, who is very, very upset about losing his one living remnant of his people. And then Toph says one thing too many, and Aang's eyes start glowing. At this point, there is nothing the sandbenders can do to get him back. They start pleading, saying they'll help in any way they can, but they quickly realize that he's beyond reasoning. Eventually, Sokka just grabs Toph and makes a run for it along with them. - Preceding that, Aang saving Momo from the Buzzard Wasp. While it is meant to overlap with awesome for the rescue, Aang blasts the wasp and it drops straight to the ground. Aang, raised his entire life as a Martial Pacifist and respect for life, is so distraught and angry at another loss after Appa that he, without hesitation or even a lingering thought, by all appearances killed a creature in one blow. - Even worse is that the scene was the first time Toph ever experienced being around a pissed-off Aang in the Avatar State and considering she's blind all she could feel was the land trembling and Aang, going from "Twinkle Toes" to sounding like a demonic force of nature in a moment. Her agape mouth and terrified expression before Sokka takes her to run tells volumes of how scared she probably was. - The vulture wasps. Giant insects that combine all the unpleasant looking features of vultures and wasps. City of Walls and Secrets - It may be a "kid's show", but there is no way in hell that the bit where Long Feng introduces the replacement Joo Dee wasn't designed to terrify everyone watching. - The swamp is scary. Bloodbenders are terrifying. Joo Dee being replaced? Easily the most horrifying moment in the entire series. - The music that first plays when Joo Dee is introduced. Just THAT should show you that she's bad news... - Even before you know about the brainwashing, that constant, creepy, fake grin the Joo Dees have is very... unsettling. - The entire episode counts as one. The mysterious secrets...The tortuous brainwashing...The Perpetual Smilers...The denial about obvious facts...Really, the episode seems to be a love letter to George Orwell's 1984!. Ba Sing Se might as well be called Oceania in any case. - The Dai Li themselves are insanely terrifying to have as enemies. They're some of the city's and by extension the Earth Nation's strongest Earthbenders that rely on stealth and precision and can swarm their targets by clinging to walls like spiders with sheer numbers and deadly silence. They're responsible for stamping out any dissent within the city and are greatly feared by every social caste because of how successful they are at their jobs. It only took a handful to take down the Earth Kingdom's generals and stage a successful coup with Long Feng in charge. As Azula aptly put, whoever controls the Dai Li controls Ba Sing Se. - Jet's brainwashing at the hands of the Dai Li. He even gets brainwashed with a trigger phrase to make him a loyal pawn of Long Feng if needed. - The situation for the Earth Kingdom becomes quite nightmarish when examined closely. The Earth Kingdom is literally the last and only effective force that can do battle with the imperialistic and destructive Fire Nation led by the psychopathic Fire Lord Ozai and the kingdom is literally spread out in individual towns slowly being dominated by the Fire Nation and citizens abused by Fire Nation troops and Earth Kingdom soldiers alike as seen in Zuko's travels. The Kingdom's last stronghold of Ba Sing Se, the place all desperate refugees are trying to flee to after hearing false tales of sanctuary and good living, is actually a highly segregated caste system society where the poor refugees are shunted off into crowded slums left to starve and everyone else is constantly watched by the Dai Li Secret Police while the Earth King is none the wiser. Think a fantasy form of North Korea but worse. On top of that, the whole kingdom is being fed knowledge that the war between the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom is not happening by the Dai Li and their leader Long Feng trying to turn the kingdom into his personal puppet state. As a whole, the situation is an absolute nightmare for any Earth Kingdom citizen trying to find sanctuary. Appa's Lost Days - The scene of the circus. The episode won the Genesis Award — an accolade awarded by the Humane Society of the United States to individuals in the major news and entertainment media for producing outstanding works which raise public awareness of animal-related issues — for its REALISTIC portrayal of animal abuse in the circus. Sweet dreams... - Appa looking for a place to sleep causes him to run into an angry boar-q-pine. This animal is much smaller than Appa, but it's still huge and covered in quills. Even though Appa drives it away, a number of its quills still get jabbed into him. - It's also a rare *subversion* of the Bloodless Carnage- if you watch Appa try to yank out the quills in his body stuck in him from his scuffle with the boar-q-pine, he *bleeds out*. Lake Laogai The Earth King - Zuko's nightmare during his coma, in which he is a scarless Fire Lord in some sort of throne room accompanied by two dragons, composites for Azula and Uncle Iroh, encircling and whispering to him. Made even creepier by the fact that Azula's dragon is enticing Zuko to 'fall asleep', whilst Iroh's dragon fights to keep him 'awake' (a metaphor for Zuko's internal good vs evil conflict and a clever piece of foreshadowing for the events of the season finale.). The vision ends with Zuko being swallowed by his surroundings and Ursa screaming for Zuko's help. The Guru - During his training to unlock his first chakra, Aang experiences a vision of... quite terrifying things (Sozin's Comet, Fire Lord Ozai, Katara being dragged under the ground) but what's REALLY terrifying is when he opens his eyes... AND HE'S SURROUNDED BY FIRE WITH A SPECTRE OF WHAT WE CAN ONLY PRESUME IS THE FIRE LORD STANDING JUST OUT OF REACH! It's all in his mind but still! Crossroads of Destiny - Aang goes into the Avatar State and rises into the air, encased in a pillar of light. Katara looks on with admiration and awe, the music gets upbeat and seriously epic, and it looks like we're about to see a repeat of the Book One finale... and then Azula fries him with a bolt of lightning, in the middle of the transformation sequence. Worse, Aang is left with a gaping scar dead center in his back where the lightning hits, big enough to burn off a good deal of his arrow tattoo, plus a second one where the lightning came out the sole of his left foot. - Azula in the final two episodes of Book Two as a whole is very unnerving to watch. We've already seen how much more dangerous she is than Zhao was, and even before the outcome of all of her plans is revealed, the sheer composure and confidence with which she carries herself as she puts those plans into motion gives the two episodes a far more sinister and foreboding atmosphere than the Book One finale did even at its most dire moments. The Awakening - The fact the Fire Nation have taken over the world at the point of the story after the Earth Kingdom fell once Azula took over Ba Sing Se with the only remaining forces left free being the Water Tribes who stand no chance against the Nation. On top of that, the whole world thinks the Avatar died at Ba Sing Se, destroying most people's hope that the Fire Nation can be stopped. The Beach The Avatar and the Fire Lord - The dragon catacombs. Dragon skulls strewn about make for some awful childhood nightmares. - Let's not forget how Avatar Roku actually died: poisoned so badly by volcanic gas paralysis sets in, his vision turns dull and blurry, and he can't breathe at all. Then Sozin, his best friend for life, pulls the mother-of-all backstabs in the series and leaves him to be buried under the unbelievable heat and airless horror of an avalanche of volcanic ash. Fang, Roku's own dragon, can't rescue him in time, causing him to make a futile effort to shield him from being buried alive, but that only serves to kill them both. At least Roku isn't too upset about showing his own demise to Aang, but Ta Mihn had to have been destroyed by his loss. The Puppetmaster - The entire episode goes for a very clear horror theme, and most of the action takes place either at night or in a near-empty wooden house in the middle of the woods. And the musical direction reflects it, with a recurring use of discordant music boxes even in the title card and "Psycho" Strings. Even the way Hama's drawn and animated in a way reminiscent of a J-Horror villain, like something out of a Junji Ito creation. - Bloodbending, the art of turning someone into a People Puppet by Waterbending their body fluids. The concept is already horrifying, but the way it's presented with jerky, puppet-like movements and sickening crunch sounds, as well as the completely horrified responses the very idea is met with with plays it for all the nightmare fuel it can be. - When The User is performing bloodbending a use it too much, they become soulness husk of themselves not caring what they are doing is wrong and become insane. The look of their eyes say it all when Hama escape from prison, she was a happy southern water tribe girl best friends with Kanna until the fire nation attack and took every waterbender from their home. Days went from months, the prisoners only can drink from their mouths so they couldnt waterbend themselves out. After discovering the full moon, that she can use waterbending it gave the chance for Hama escape but while escaping she use brute and look like a zombie with no soul, her eyes look so lifeless. Being a bloodbender has a price when user is using bloodbending. - In general, the concept of a form of bending which quite literally invades someone's body and overrides their own autonomy is a *very* special kind of horror, and Katara's tearful, broken response both to being on the receiving end of it and forced to use it *herself* against Hama to save her friends plays it in a way that carries some truly horrible undertones. - And they were so kind as to take it up a notch in *The Legend of Korra*. It makes perfect sense why Katara would outlaw the practice. - Hama herself. She seems like a kindly old woman at first, but by the time you reach her final moonlight duel with Katara, the animation and lighting make her incredibly disturbing. Wrinkled, twisted features, veins popping out her arms, long willowy hair and skeletal hands with nails like claws. The scariest feature has to be the Slasher Smile, with her expressions growing downright *demonic◊* as her vengeful colors begin to seep through. - Hama has an *entire dungeon* hidden in a mountain filled with civilians chained just like she was by the Fire Nation, being visited regularly enough to keep all of them alive. Who knows how long many of them have been down there, let alone what she's been doing to them. The fact Toph repeatedly describes screaming beneath the mountain is never heard or explained. What exactly was Hama *doing* down there? - The entire description of people *screaming beneath the mountain* is like an old horror in itself. In particular, the shot of the mountain after Toph realizes exactly why she heard it complete with "Psycho" Strings is one of the most frightening in the episode. - Why Hama would do all this? Years of imprisonment in those Fire Nation Tailor-Made Prisons for waterbenders made her snap, and desperate for escape she invented bloodbending. Think about spending years cooped up in a cage, being starved and dehydrated, only being kept barely alive... what made Hama cruel was the Fire Nation's cruelty toward her and her people. - How about Katara's ghost story at the beginning of this episode? Never fails to give the chills. Even though the story has nothing to do with the episode itself, it sure as hell sets up the mood. It's quite telling that all of them, even *Toph*, are visibly shaken by the story. - Even more chilling is the fact that according to Katara, not only is the story true, but very personal in her family. **Sokka:** Is this one of those "a friend of my cousin knew some guy that this happened to" stories? **Katara:** No it happened to *Mom* . ( *Sokka stiffens at this* ) **Katara:** One winter when Mom was a girl, a snowstorm buried the whole village for weeks. A month later, Mom noticed she hadn't seen her friend Nini since the storm. So Mom and some others went to check on Nini's family. When they got there, no one was home. Just a fire flickering in the fireplace. While the men went out to search, Mom stayed in the house. When she was alone, she heard a voice. *"It's so cold and I can't get warm!"* Mom turned and saw Nini standing by the fire. She was blue, like she was frozen. Mom ran outside for help, but when everyone came back, Nini was gone. **Sokka:** Where'd she go? **Katara:** No one knows. Nini's house stands empty to this day, but sometimes, people see smoke coming up from the chimney, like little Nini is still trying to get warm. - The fact that the fate of Nini's family is never truly solved and the events surrounding it are just plain bizarre. It's not just a genuinely scary Ghost Story, it's a disturbing Riddle for the Ages that is never really bought up again. Certainly wouldn't want to be from the Southern Water Tribe after hearing *that* story. - The moment that Katara is forced to use bloodbending herself to stop the mad bender from forcing Sokka to *run his blade through Aang*. Hama twitching like mad and slowly dropping to the ground with an expression of pure agony is horrifying all on its own but there's Katara herself - she can only look on in wide, twitch-eyed horror before shutting her eyes as she brings Hama to the ground, as if she can't even bear to watch what she's doing. It's clear the entire experience is *traumatizing* for the poor girl. Nightmares and Daydreams The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse - The War Zeppelins are incredibly intimidating. They're huge, they have snarling faces, shoot cannons, are nearly unassailable because they are crawling with firebenders, and can pretty much only be sunk by a fully realized Avatar- or EACH OTHER. Not to mention they are later used as the Avatar-verse's version of a weapon of mass destruction. - When Ozai fires lightning at Zuko. Apart from the obvious implications of shooting to kill his own son, the most terrifying part of this exchange is the lightning itself. This is the only time we actually see Ozai bending without the power of the comet. Previously, we have only seen Iroh and Azula shoot lightning; when they did, it took a couple seconds to charge up the energy, and the bolt itself was blue and branched. Ozai's lightning comes out in a split second, deadly focused, and WHITE. That moment alone is enough to cement him definitively as THE most powerful firebender in the series, dwarfing Azula's formidable power and even making Iroh look shaky by comparison. Here is the scene for reference. Western Air Temple - There's one in the episode where Zuko joins the Gaang. Zuko spends the entire episode trying to prove himself to the group. No one accepts him except for Toph who wants to give him a chance. She goes to where he is camping for the night, but Zuko mistakes her for an assassin and firebends, burning her feet. The kicker is that she's essentially completely blind. Her feet are useless. What hammered it home is the fear in her eyes as she panics while he desperately tries to explain it was an accident. - That scene where the Combustion Man continues attacking the Gaang *even after Zuko tells him to stop and offers to pay him more if he did*. This man is so dedicated to being an assassin, he'll try to kill you even if his employer cuts his contract! - The Gaang *had* escaped his clutches twice at that point, the second time embarrassing him by somehow disabling his firebending. It's possible it had become Personal for the man. Which is terrifying in itself. - The ending where Katara threatens to kill Zuko if he steps out of line is pretty frightening, especially the close-up shot of her face: it looks like she's threatening the *audience*. The Firebending Masters The Southern Raiders - "I am about to celebrate becoming an ONLY CHILD!" If it wasn't clear before how much of a sociopath Azula is, the utter and terrifying glee with which she says that should be the perfect indicator. - Katara is downright terrifying. She's out for revenge for who killed her mother and she even used bloodbending on the first man she thought was responsible. She then uses her unparalleled waterbending mastery to control the rain and almost kills the man who *is* responsible. Suffice to say, Yon Rha was lucky that Katara spared his life even when she had the chance to kill. Just, whatever you do, do not get her actually angry. - It's not just the actions. The sole idea that Katara, sweet, nice, motherly Katara could be so possessed by fury as to actually kill someone, anyone, is horrifying in itself (and, somehow, just as sad). Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang - Azula's Villainous Breakdown. Straining at handcuffs, and the NOISES she was making. The closeup of her face as her eyes flood with tears as she sobs and screams loudly does not help *AT ALL*. It makes you feel sad for her. Alas, Poor Villain. - Ozai's sheer ruthlessness in his firebending towards Aang, absolutely not letting up. And Aang is trapped in his rock sphere trying to protect himself, the feeling of utter helplessness is palpable. When Ozai unleashes an extremely powerful fire blast, it blows Aang so hard into a pointed rock formation that he's finally able to go into the Avatar State and becomes a godly being surrounded by all four elements. Both cool *and* terrifying. - Once Aang enters the Avatar State, he starts by reaching out of the pile of rocks he's buried in and grabs Ozai by the beard, giving the Phoenix King a good look at the **absolutely pissed off** Physical God looking straight up into his soul and jumping up to greet him. Ozai tries to blast Aang with a handull of fire, but the Avatar effortlessly deflects it and, before Ozai can react, blasts him with a hurricane force air stream that knocks him very far into a massive rock pillar. creating five massive streams of fire while letting out this otherworldly *roar,* not the standard Voice of the Legion accompanying the Avatar State, looking almost like an amazing and terrifying beast of flame. Ozai can only watch and barely stand on his feet as Aang rips boulders out of the ground, forms giant streams of fire, and summons raging winds and tons of water, this is the one time where the Avatar State seems less like a Physical God, and more like a terrifying Humanoid Abomination. - Once in the Avatar State, Aang becomes an unflinching sentinel with one single goal in mind: **kill Ozai**. He drops all pretenses of holding back, and immediately rushes down Ozai, relentlessly using all 4 bending arts to throw him around like a ragdoll. After several minutes of the Fire Lord running away for dear life and Aang countering any amount of fire that Ozai throws at him, the Avatar catches the Fire Lord, throws him onto a pillar with immense force to stun him, and locks his limbs in place with Earthbending. When he starts talking, his Voice of the Legion makes Aang sound like a judge sentencing someone to death. **Avatar State!Aang**: **FIRE LORD OZAI, YOU AND YOUR FOREFATHERS HAVE DEVASTATED THE BALANCE OF THIS WORLD, AND NOW, YOU SHALL PAY THE ULTIMATE PRICE!** - Aang's first time Energybending on Ozai of all people is as visually stunning as it is unsettling. Beams of light shoot out of their eyes and mouths before engulfing their bodies and Ozai's energy creeps and corrupts Aangs like some kind of viral infection. According to the Lion Turtle who gave Aang the ability, bending another's energy requires one's own energy to be unbendable or one will be corrupted and die from the attempt. Word of God described the scene as Ozai and Aang's souls flipping inside out, with Ozai's corrupting Aang's until the very last moment. If Aang failed, he would have either died or had his soul corrupted by a monster like Ozai with all the power of the Avatar in tact! - The way removing people's bending is treated in *The Legend of Korra* (practically a Fate Worse than Death, with most of the victims *begging* for it not to happen and visibly traumatized afterwards) makes Aang's use of energybending rather... uncomfortable. The Benders are used to it being an extension of their body, so getting rid of it would be like ripping off somebody's arm... or one of their senses. Or both. Even worse, Amon's method doesn't strip someone of their bending, just their ability to use it. Meaning they have their abilities constantly just out of reach but are functionally perpetually chi-blocked. Of course, considering that this is Fire Lord Ozai that receives it, he absolutely deserves it. - The villains plan for the tie-in video game. She blames Benders for the war and has come up with a plan to rid the world of Benders and replace them with her machines. Her gadgeteer skills were initially used by the Fire Nation, but once she was freed, she continued making her machines with the intention of ending the war her way via mass genocide.

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Ava's Demon / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes What, you thought just because the artwork's bright and pretty, Ava's Demon doesn't get creepy? HAH! - Gil's death at 4 years old. GOOD LORD, that's a horrible way to die. - Maggie casually crushing a fairy/pixie to death while in her Inner World. - The scene where Ava meets Maggie in the dreamspace. Particularly how it ends. - During Ava and Odins conversation at TITAN HQ, Ava finds a dumpster filled with empty drug containers, never a good sign. Things get worse when some of those said drugs happen to be isoflurane, rophypnol and midazolam which are known as heavy duty sedatives, anaesthetics and muscle relaxants. The one Ava is holding? That's Pentobarbital, which is more infamously known as the primary substance in the lethal injection used in modern day US executions. Its safe to say that TITANs haven isnt all its cracked up to be. - Most likely those drugs were injected into Prudith to not feel any pain when she was stripped to her brain, eyes and her nervous system. - The out-and-out TITAN propaganda on this page. - Six's speech makes it abundantly clear that TITAN recruitment is, like most real-life cults, about crushing peoples' individuality and self-confidence to keep them dependent. They're preaching outright *psychological abuse* like it's good for you, and that's just as horrifying as any Body Horror. - Prudith yelling at Ava from the 11/20/14 update. She almost manages to out-creepy Wrathia who's yelled at Ava for 15 YEARS. - The next few updates right after that, however, put everything else on this page to shame. The process of becoming a follower of TITAN is pretty extreme. To say the least, we do not recommend eating any time soon. - The horror continues with the 12/01/14 update. While *slightly* less terrifying than the update directly before it, it features enough Body Horror to put Strategos Six or any of the other high followers in a different light. - Making it even worse is the realization that, since the process was calibrated for ** ** and not Prudith, and the former is far shorter and slighter than the latter, it's going very wrong. Prudith's brain, eyes and nervous system are being squeezed into a shell that's *Ava* *much* too small for them, basically liquefying what's left of her. It's been confirmed she was essentially dead by this point, and *definitely* dead by the time the flames start, or shortly after. That **definitely** **death rattle ** - And all of this was foreshadowed about 600 pages before, but we didn't know what we were seeing. A flyer casually showed how TITAN intends to remake its citizens as part of its Assimilation Plot, but until we saw it from the inside, it was merely creepy. - The final fate of Prudith. HOLY CRAP. - Of the "slightly unnerving" kind, Nevy on page 1429. Seriously, she looks weird, even for her. - Wrava's rage is horrifying to behold. - Wrava slaughters an entire room of followers. Keep in mind these followers aren't malicious, and probably don't know what really goes down in Titan. Some of them were children. - The video finale for Chapter Seventeen. *GOD.* - It has frequent flashes of insects and monsters rising out of the lava landscape before they grab hold of someone and drag them down against their will. - Wrava *literally* raises all hell- monsters, lava, shit melting, everything. Also, think dragonflies are bright and happy? HA! The way too detailed lava fireflies rising out of the lava will give you nightmares. - Ava flashing in and out of black-and-white skeleton cross-sections of her skull, in time to the music. Also the moments where her *eyes do not belong there.* - The final fate of Strategos Six- they fight their best, but they're only a single life-form against a pactmaker. In the end, they get pulled under lava by hands of something. That is *not* a pretty way to go. - To our surprise, they didn't! They survived that! Now, it seems like they are contacting someone, and it might be TITAN himself. - Confirmed! Though Titan is NOT happy. - In the aftermath there's only ashes and ruins. Only the hosts, Strategos Six, and the Arrow twins are alive. - Gil and Maggie manage to commandeer an escape ship away from the now destroyed TITAN HQ. Odin, having grabbed Ava for one reason or another, manages to get onto the ship right before the hatch closes. Gil, remembering the destruction and terror Ava just wrought on the entire base, is promptly terrified. Once he learns more about Maggie than he'd hoped, he realizes he's stuck in a tin-can with a possible kidnapper (Odin), an attempted murderer and liar (Maggie) and a super-powered, murderous abomination (Ava, natch) with the darkness of space at his back. Fun times for Gil. - After years of waiting, we finally hear TITAN speak. And from what can be gleaned from the conversation with Strategos Six, there are some horrifying implications. From his implied disdain for humanoids, the seemingly low opinion he holds of his followers, and that he could be bigger than we originally thought, the Fridge Horror is very real. - Nevy, bless her soul, continues to be randomly creepy on page 1851. - Wrathia's interactions with Ava at the moment are horrendously off putting, due to how much they ooze of No Yay. Not helping the fact is that Ava enjoyed being in that Wrava state, reveling in the power she had, and Wrathia laughing when Ava suggests she could come down the "high" it gave her. - And now it's just getting worse, with Ava drooling what looks like lava or magma from her mouth there.....and she's....she's got poppies coming out of her mouth! They are all over her, and that potion turns out to have been a curse. One shudders to imagine what would become of the other hosts if and when they take theirs. - Nevy is PISSED... Also possible seizure warning because Nevy is bioluminescent and apparently her powers include Brainwashing for the Greater Good!! And she's positively GLEEFUL at the thought of doing that to Ava. - In chapter 23, after her argument with Gil, Ava has a breakdown and starts *ripping off her own nails* while thinking they're not her nails, they're Wrathia's. - One of the more benign examples that's given a dose of Black Comedy thanks to the context, but Pedri leaning just a *little* too close to Ava while she's talking to Odin on page 2157. He's a big hulking brute covered in what appears to be ritual scarring, wearing a skull mask and a necklace of what we hope aren't child alien skulls. What makes this even more disturbing is two things: Pedri is implied, like Wrathia, to actually be much, MUCH bigger than he appears and what we do see of his face and body looks a lot like Odin. - Imagine waking up one morning and looking up at the sky only to see that the sun has collapsed into a *black hole*. And since there's no sunlight, vegetation can't grow, and without vegetation, animals can't eat and neither can people, eventually leading to a resource war as the world's population is doomed to a slow and inevitable death by either starvation, spaghettificaion, or self-destruction. That's what's happening to Odin's homeworld. - Also, the flashback shows that Odin had his purple and square-shaped pupils when he was about ten years old, meaning he *died* around that time or before... - He downplays it in the 11/30/18 update but Odin has a huge scar he got from when he was around 10 years old. It looks very like his entire right side was split open and he had to sew it up himself. He says he "fell." Sure, Odin. Just a little fall. - Congratulations. It's now confirmed that, yes, TITAN *does* have people brainwashed. - TITAN's elite Followers don't even really care that much about each other. Six's reaction to their new Third-in-Command slicing apart an Engineer whose only crime (apart from, you know, being a Follower) was being in front of Taxiarch when she decided to test out a weapon said Engineer gave her? Essentially, "Good job, someone reassemble/replace that!" - Odin is dreaming not-so-sweet dreams. Also, it's almost certain that his fall is what killed him at 10 years old. - Tylotung makes a Nightmare Face on page 2655. Considering how cute she is normally, it's *very* unsettling. No wonder Erios screams for her to leave them be.

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Azure Rain / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - ||The children in Illdresil Gera and Marina Omega were unconscious when they were slaughtered so they didnt feel any pain or fear. Its even shown that Selkess killed them quickly so they wouldnt suffer. Lleuwellyn, on the other hand, woke up after having the mark burned over his eye with acid, just in time for him to be conscious when he was killedif the ritual hadnt been interrupted.|| - All the other children, at least those killed by Selkess, were killed in discreet, pretty much painless, efficient ways. ||Except for Kwoltan Gera, where his master plan is to shove them through a meat grinder feet-first so they feel every bit of their bodies being torn apart before they die. Not only is this gruesome but it shows just how far gone he is|| - Baltan is The Ace, a child prodigy with solving mysteries, a genius when he really puts his mind to work, a damn good shot, and always has at least one fully loaded gun on him. Eureka is The Big Guy, strong enough to break cement and bend steel bars without a lot of effort, etc., with heightened senses of sight, smell, and hearing. These two together seem like a pretty unbeatable team. They worked with the nastiest of the nasty in terms of criminals and always came out on top, so it seems like they should be nothing but confident dealing with one that theyve caught before. WRONG. - When they come to the full realization that theyre dealing with Selkess, not a copycat, Baltan almost has a nervous breakdown. - Azzie rebounds from his life of abuse pretty quickly thanks to the Power of Love, but he was alone with an abusive parent for fourteen years and had absolutely no way of knowing that anything she did was out of the ordinary, including things like starving him and trimming his nails (which to an Azure is basically declawing, repeatedly). Just let that sink in. - The hospital scene in Azure Rain when all of the sick Azures are coming out of the basement definitely qualifies. The way they were being treated was horrible enough, some being described as having maggots growing in their open wounds. Imagine being in the first floor lobby when all of them come out, VERY (understandably) pissed off. - The narration in the first chapter also states that Azures that have come back to life are usually in a very feverish and deranged state when they do and these Azures have been starving for possibly YEARS. This scene is clearly meant to call to mind zombie horror movies and is one of the only times when the Azures are potentially played straight as zombies. Baltan and Azzie leave before the reader finds out what happens to anyone else. - Selkess in general, given that hes a serial killer who targets children and knows everything youre going to do before you do it. The fact that ||the souls of the children he kills are offered to an Eldritch Abomination|| takes this already bad setup and makes it infinitely worse. - Just the fact that most of the main cast has or had Abusive Parents and nobody in their lives did anything about this even though it was very public in most cases is pretty bad. A few characters get parental substitutes, but for the most part parental abuse just goes totally unpunished in the Azure Rain world. - Eureka vs. Selkess. Though its fully deserved, the idea that Selkess has to use all of his strength to prevent Eureka, who up until now has always been described as a very kind, loving man, from *tearing his fucking throat out*, is pretty unsettling. - Imagine being Baltan after ||Eureka got shot.|| Not only is your best friend hurt and you have no idea whats going on, but the child you are looking after is missing. There are very few feelings worse than having someones life entrusted to you and not knowing where that person is or if theyre okay. - Kreor: An Eldritch Abomination that is considered a god in the East that despite not being popular has a fairly strong and very devout following of people who will gladly kill you and your kids in his name whether hes actually real or not. - What is he the god of? Death, madness, and time. So its implied that in the East, it is believed that if you get old enough (time), you either die (death) or go insane from age (madness). What a bleak society to live in. - And he gains power by ||feeding on the souls of children killed during the winter solstice. Selkess hints that hes not the only one offing kids to feed the god, hes just the one who has the vessel and needs to complete the ritual, so hundreds of kids could have been killed over the sixteen years or so that the resurrection has been being attempted and could still be getting killed|| - Members of his cult use clown as a code to identify each other. What makes this a Nightmare Fuel entry is the fact that clown is used because no one but Kreor followers have ANY idea what a clown is because clowns DO NOT EXIST in the Azure Rain world. Kreor is at least not from their world and very likely not from their dimension. ||Which kind of makes Baltans What the hell is a clown? a Wham Line||

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Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes # Per wiki policy, this page contains unmarked spoilers. You Have Been Warned!Although it's not to the extent like *Luminous Avenger iX* and *Luminous Avenger iX 2*, it still deserves mention. - The Vanishing World Non Standard Game Over. Dear lord... To summarize: If you allow berserk GV to either use his septima or get hit too much, he will eventually lose control of his powers and revert back to a Primal Dragon where the screen goes all white and the only highlight visible being his silhouetted self in his monstrous form. After this, he proceeds to obliterate everything on a planetwide scale, all while accompanied by a sinister BGM as he does so. And no, you don't get to continue from the last checkpoint because the world is **gone**, so back to the title screen you go. - The second boss in the game, BB, has one nasty surprise: If Kirin gets hit by his specters four times throughout the fight, the screen suddenly fades into black, Kirin is framed by a *laughing black skull*, then BB just *instantly kills her*. - Moebius's Damnatio Memoriae Special Skill not only has the power to assault Kirin and Gunvolt with past events of their lives, it has a scary side effect; if Gunvolt is the one struck by the attack while using specific Image Pulses: Gunvolt will be warped to an alternate timeline created by Astral Order where Nova has successfully implemented Azure Striker into his body and wields it with his Psychokinesis, or an ominous future where Asimov is about to go mad with power. There's also the implication that another scenario of Damnatio Memoriae cast Kirin into the world of *Luminous Avenger iX 2* as an Optional Boss in that game. Oh, speaking of striking Gunvolt? Anthem Gunvolt in this game is The Juggernaut immune to *everything* the game throws at him... except Moebius' Damnatio Memoriae. Just *how* powerful is Moebius that he alone can stop the unstoppable? - And speaking of Asimov, he returns in this game as a superboss, and he just sounds... wrong. *Very* wrong. - First, he parrots his lines in the first game where he wants Gunvolt and whichever-girl-beside-him become King and Queen. Given that this is highly implied to be Asimov from the *iX* timeline, which happens because he killed Gunvolt, this is a major warning about his deteriorating mental state: not only he sounds like a Broken Record, he has apparently *forgotten about the murder*. - Then, he intends to make Kirin live forever along with him after, as he literally puts it, *removing unnecessary parts from her*, a.k.a, what he did to Mytyl. - What's worse, Asimov admits that his own body isn't holding up much longer, which foreshadows his decision to cast off his physical form and embrace a pure lightning electronic form, Demerzel, who will turn utterly insane and inflict over a century of genocide upon non-Adepts and oppression on Adepts. - Lastly, his final Limit Break, "Volt X re:Age", is pronounced roughly as "Voltic/Voltaic Rage" instead of what the spelling would suggest. Which other character in the franchise has a Limit Break with audible pronunciation but nonsensical spelling? None other than the no-less-batshit insane Elise in the first game, suggesting that Asimov's sanity is already a fraction away from completely shattering. - Epilogue: ATEMS Episode brings its own Nightmare Fuel in the form of Azure Spirits. Initially, the plot of ATEMS Episode is merely ZedΩ collecting Azure Spirits for research purposes. At the climax of the game, ZedΩ, Layla and Kirin return to Sumeragi's Future Institute of Technology only to find that the lingering Azure Spirits in the depths of the facility has coalesced into a replica of *Primal Dragon Gunvolt*. However, it doesn't stop there: After defeating the replica, at first, ZedΩ is happy to find a massive amount of Azure Spirits he can take as research material. However, he then gets a panicked phone call from Sistina that the Azure Spirits they have gathered and stored with them suddenly have gone missing and, soon after, said missing Azure Spirits just barge in, promptly possess Layla and drive Luxia berserk, forcing ZedΩ to fight her to get her back to her senses. All this leads ZedΩ to a terrifying conclusion: Not only Azure Spirits can innately drive Adepts berserk, they are apparently *sentient* and it's safe to say that the planetwide attacks from Berserk Adepts (as mentioned in the ending) came from the spirits themselves and not from Moebius as initially assumed.

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Ayakashi: Romance Reborn / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **Moments pages are Spoilers Off. Be warned.** ## Koga's Route - Kyonosuke gives the heroine an ultimatum: either be owned by the government, becoming their sole Onmyoji and having her life as it is now erased, or *die*. - At the end of this route, *Kyonosuke attacks Koga repeatedly*. He continues to fight Koga until the carnage is unleashed, then proceeds to call him a "beast," like he thinks all oni truly are. Kyonosuke *keeps* attacking after that, because for some reason he *really* wants to kill Koga. - Speaking of the carnage, just imagine *having to live with it*. Poor Koga already accidentally killed someone he cared about, and he's so traumatized and depressed that he doesn't care if he has to die to protect his friends (which doubles as a Tear Jerker). Knowing you could lose control and attack someone you love, perhaps fatally, is horrifying. ## Aoi's Route - The heroines neighbors read a newspaper article that Akiyasu helped get published. It claims that she is behind the red eye phenomenon by drugging people. Her house gets mobbed with angry people. If that wasnt bad enough, this is also part of Akiyasus scheme to drive the heroine to despair. - Doubles as a tear jerker: Akiyasu forces the heroine into a dream where she never met Aoi. Things get worse and worse for her in the dream, culminating in *her father's execution*. At this point, she is in such despair that she's wiling to give Akiyasu her soul. Thank goodness Aoi invaded the dream and got through to her. - Akiyasu getting possessed by Taira no Masakado. *Holy hell*. There is something quite unnerving about those not fully red eyes. - Due to the animation being slowed down by technical restraints (the wraith is moving behind him as he is moving himself), it (likely inadvertedly) makes him in this state all the more creepy. - The very first time we've seen someone possessed by a wraith, their movements were odd, jerky, violent and strange. This time, we see that there is still a portion of Akiyasu controlling his body, if small. It is enough to interrupt the wraith for a few seconds, speaking a few (desperate) lines before roaring again. ## Yuras Route - Doman Ashiya, the Onmyoji who cursed Yura, is seriously creepy. He takes joy in the fact that Yura has to kill animals, and hes sadistically gleeful when the hex returns to Gaku and Gaku is *literally dying*. Not to mention the fact that Domans human body is long dead and his current one is made from clay, making him a Creepy Doll. - Taira no Masakado's wraith appears as a huge, spiraling pillar of dark energy that sucks other wraiths into it. - Yura is told by Doman that he can lift the curse if he kills the heroine. He almost does itthen the heroine talks him down by reminding him how bad Gaku would feel if Yura did this to save him. Yura, understandably, feels really bad about the whole thing. Oh, and Doman has fun tormenting Yura like this. - Much of the cursed plane scene is this. - When Yuras guilt appears before the heroine, animal bones suddenly lie at his feet, and the flowers shes holding also turn into animal bones. - The black-haired Yura *actually stabs the heroine through the chest*. Its only a dream world, so shes not actually harmed, but *still*. - Hisui is quite a violent character, who will attack any human in her way (like Tatsuomi), and mind-controls Ayakashi to do her bidding. - She tries to cast a spell on Gaku only for Kuro to take the bullet. As a result, Kuro briefly loses his mind as he shifts into his true form and attacks Gaku. Luckily Gaku is able to free him from Hisui's control. - The heroine investigates where Oji goes by himself every night and runs into a terrifying wraith made up of *a lot of wraiths tied together*. - Oji's arrest. The government only took him because they needed to blame *someone* for the red-eye scare. Everyone who knows Oji knows there's no way he's behind it. - During the first confrontation with Kagemaru, Hisui begins to tell everyone the Senkitai's plans—then Kagemaru tells her to "stop blabbing" and gags her with his spider web. The heroine is shocked that he attacked his own ally. - The discovery that, in his former life, Toichiro killed the heroine's brother. It's quite shocking prior to the reveal of his reason. ## Toichiro's Route - The kitsune village has really harsh laws. Betrayal is punishable by death, and Shuichiro would have been sentenced to death *by his own father* if Toichiro hadn't begged for his life. - The kitsune who disguises himself as Toichiro. We never find out who he really is, but it's implied he's Toichiro's Not Quite Dead traitorous uncle Keijiro. ## Shizuki's Route - Kagemaru attempts to murder a government official at the Entertainment District. He also sets fire to the place. - Shizuki's "puppeteer charm." It turns out to be a Subverted Trope, but Keijiro still tried to cast it on Shizuki, who also had to endure various experiments from Keijiro. - The "youjin" soldiers, who seem to have no will of their own and only act if Aizen commands. One of them even shoots at the protagonist and Shizuki (before Aizen stops him)! Then in the Night Chapter, we learn that they were made by the army experimenting on humans and ayakashi. - Just as in Book I, Kagemaru continues to mistreat Hisui, this time suspending her in the air with his webs. ## Kuro's Route - The humans see the raiju and assume it wants to eat them, despite it making no move to attack. The army proceeds to form a special unit specifically to kill it. Much of the route is spent trying to save it without putting the humans in danger. - Then Hiroyuki *shoots* the raiju while Kuro and the protagonist are trying to talk it down. *Then* Kuro deliberately shifts into beast form and gets caught in the trap meant for the raiju, and the rogue soldiers assume he's the same beast and *want to burn him alive*. Luckily, this quickly becomes heartwarming when Hiroyuki realizes it was Hisui, not Kuro, who attacked his village and protects him (and the raiju too). ## Embracing Lost Nightmares - Related to Koga's Power Incontinence above, Yomi (a baku) *also* has to live with an uncontrollable power, which makes him really scared...which only makes it more likely he'll lose control. - It's also implied that Kuro has a similar Power Incontinence. We see his past and how he thinks about not wanting to hurt anyone. As of his route, it seems he does not have one, but is more concerned with people being scared of how his true form looks. - Kuro was found by the Lorenzi circus troupe *all beat up*. Poor guy has definitely been through a Break the Cutie.

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Baby Driver / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** - Buddy's descent into just overall visceral revenge. He's basically a hybrid of the worst supervillain ever and a horror movie slasher who uses guns instead of knives or machetes, taking out whoever is in his way to get vengeance on Baby. - The Rasputinian Death of Doc is quite brutal. He was already shot several times by the dirty cops a few minutes earlier, so when Buddy mows him over with the police cruiser, you'd think that would be the end of it....only for Buddy to then *back up the cruiser over Doc's head before continuing his pursuit for Baby*. Even though Doc was a Bad Boss, you can't help but wince at that, especially so since he did go out trying to protect Baby and Debora from Buddy and the aforementioned cops. - Bats in general. A stone-cold, trigger happy psychopath and basically a serial killer. His death can also be pretty unsettling; while he deserves it for being a huge Jerkass, him getting suddenly impaled through the chest and then the unfittingly calm piano music of Blur's "Intermission" slowly dying out while blood is oozing out of his mouth can be seen as rather disturbing. - Darling's description of Buddy killing people who piss her off is meant to be unnerving, and fulfills that purpose extremely well. - Buddy falling onto his car before it explodes is somewhat gruesome, but also a fitting end. - For those who value their hearing, Buddy deliberately firing two shots *directly next to Baby's ears* is horrifying.

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Babel Or The Necessity Of Violence / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - We begin the novel with a sick young boy being found in a house surrounded by the rotting corpses of his dead family members. We know that its going to be a difficult read. - When Robin fails to attend one of his lessons, Lovell brutally beats him with a fire poker, all while showing no emotion. - One night, a white Oxford resident begins to harass Robin and Ramy, and from his tone, its clear that he wants to fight. Being harassed on the street at night is a terrifying situation, but one all too relatable to many people of color.

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Avatar: The Way of Water / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes *"You're not leaving, are you, Jake? Knowing I'm out there. Knowing that I'll never stop. I'm coming for you. And when I do, I'll kill your whole family."* — **Quaritch** - Recombinant Quaritch and his Recom team come across the camp where human Quaritch fought Jake's Na'vi avatar in the first movie. He's unsettled by the entire place (especially after seeing the remains of his original body within the deactivated AMP unit), and after seeing the replay from the AMP unit's camera that shows Quaritch's death in full gory detail, Recombinant Quaritch vows to kill Neytiri and also crushes the skull of his human skeleton before leaving. - After years of peace and happiness for Jake and his family, the RDA returns in force with an entire fleet of ships. As they land, their thrusters incinerate miles of forest, and we even get a shot of several terrified animals fleeing before being engulfed by the flames. Then they unload many Amplified Mobility Platform units and their heavy vehicles for further destruction. The intent is immediately clear: humanity isn't coming back to mine for resources, they're coming to *stay*. - From what we saw of Bridgehead, or better known as the RDA's new stronghold on Pandora, its overall design looks like a combination of a heavily-armed military fortress and factory complex. The entire place is not only protected by 19 miles worth of defensive walls, it also had an extensive perimeter defense system made up of many huge guns and missile batteries, ready to shoot down any flying animal that gets anywhere close to the fortifications, mounted ikran and wild tetropteran alike. Then there's also the **Kill Zone**, which is a strip of empty earth roughly three miles wide that separates Bridgehead from the rest of Pandora which earned its name because anything that ventures into that area is automatically targeted and killed by overwhelming amounts of ordnance. And that's not counting a massive standing army within Bridgehead itself, which includes several Dragon Assault Ships. Humans aren't playing around anymore this time. - When Spider was captured by the Recombinant Quaritch and brought back to Bridgehead (aka Bridgehead City), Gen. Frances Ardmore actually put him in some kind of high-tech Mind Probe interrogation machine to find out any information about Jake and his family's whereabouts. Spider was practically screaming "I DON'T KNOW!" repeatedly and his nose was bleeding until Recombinant Quaritch slammed his hand on the stop button. - The entire sequence with the Akula, a ferocious mosasaur-like Sea Monster that chases after Lo'ak through the reefs relentlessly, in a sequence similar to when Jake was hunted down by a Thanator in the previous film. The scene brings out everything we fear about the deep ocean. Not only does Lo'ak has to struggle to survive against the beast in an unfamiliar environment that limits his survival options, his air is also slowly running out, and the only way to avoid drowning is to swim up to the surface and leave himself vulnerable... - Kiri having a seizure while underwater is just as horrific as it sounds especially considering that the bioluminescent life appears to seize with her. - In the climatic battle on the sinking ship, Spider spots Neytiri — a woman he's known and trusted since childhood — and appears to be about to run out to her when he sees her fighting with a human soldier, whom she easily overpowers and rather savagely kills. The sight of this causes Spider to hesitate and stay hidden, and it's honestly hard to blame him. While *we* know Neytiri isn't some monster and is acting out of grief for her murdered son, for one of the first times we see a Na'vi in a more sinister light and this the moment where Neytiri goes absolutely berserk (as in Berserker Asura-levels of pure rage): in this case, being not just a hissing, snarling, ten feet tall alien with glowing eyes and sharp fangs, immensely faster and stronger than any human, and with superior senses, but one who up to that point was shown to be stern yet compasionate, now fueled with revenge and pure blistering hatred that are completely beyond human comprehension, making Neytiri seem less like a grieving mother and more like **a rabid wild animal.** All in all, it's a genuinely unsettling glimpse at what it would be like to be a human faced with a Na'vi who wants you **dead**. - The tulkun hunt, which is based on real-world whaling practices, is nothing short of brutal. The whalers *specifically* target mothers and calves because they're easier targets, deafen the pod with depth charges and use ultrasonic cannons to disorient them, whilst shooting them with explosive harpoons until they drop from exhaustion. Did we mention that the tulkun are fully sapient and *the RDA is well aware of this fact*? - Even worse, it is later implied that, offscreen, they killed Roa's orphaned calf before they left, *simply to make a point* (to both the tulkun pod and the Metkayina) *that no-one was safe*.

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Avatar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Run! **DEFINITELY RUN!!!** - The scene of Hometree being burned and brought to the ground. It's heartbreaking and terrifying at the same time, especially since it's inevitable that many Na'vi, including children, were killed. - The 9/11 parallels, said to be unintentional, are extremely eerie. From the collapsing tree trunks to the ash and smoke after the collapse, it really does resemble September 11th. - Colonel Quaritch stabbing the Thanator got a bit... violent. You can tell from the savage rage he has when twisting the knife into the Thanator's throat that the fight has got him now. - And the fact that Neytiri, bonded with the Thanator at the time, *felt all of its dying pain as her own.* - Banshees and Thanators and Viperwolves...As beautiful as Pandora is, it's home to some terrifying lifeforms. - The earlier scripts had a bunch of much nastier creatures that never made it into the film proper, such as the Snake Tree, a Man-Eating Plant with six fanged heads like a hydra that baited it prey with half-eaten carcasses of its previous victims, the Slinth, a feline-like creature with a venomous harpoon for a head, or the Manticore, an earlier beta version of the Thanator that was equipped with a venomous stinger tail and scythe-like mantis forelimbs... - It's worse when you read the versions in the older scripts, where the constant predator attacks around the human settlement were not evidence of an over-hyped Death World. Rather, it was due to Eywa, the global hivemind formed by all living things, *deciding that humanity's presence on the planet was an infection, and the beasts attacking the camp were its immune system trying to keep the infection contained. * - When the Na'vi are shown losing the battle... that flaming direhorse... - What makes those few minutes when the Na'vi are being massacred indiscriminately even more horrifying & tearjerking is that things like this have actually happened in the real world. Not the mini mechas & the 10-foot-tall humanoids, but time & time again in our history indigenous people have gone up against a foreign power armed with vastly superior military technology in defense of their lands. Many of them fought bravely, sometimes extremely so. Yet, except for a handful of times, they lost. Very badly. - What happened to Norm's Avatar. What really makes it freaky is when he's forced out of his chamber, clutching his heart, shuddering and breathing... - A deleted scene reveals that Wainfleet walks up to him and shoots him at point blank range with that massive gun of his. Imagine the outcome of that... - Even if Norm's Avatar had a painless and pacific demise (which he hadn't, but that's beside the point), poor Norm actually experienced death. Not a near death thing, but for a moment he felt how it feels to die. Think about it. - So does Neytiri when her ikran Seze is fatally shot. - Much of the final battle is a Mook Horror Show to the RDA troops who scream out in terror upon seeing their horrible imminent deaths, like the Samson aircraft doorgunner who sees the Scorpion gunship's rotors coming at him, or the soldier who falls when the Valkyrie shuttle is critically damaged before getting crushed between two heavy pallets of explosives. - The soldiers on the ground when the Pandoran wildlife comes crashing down on them, literally in a few cases, and are crushed, gored or eaten alive. - Pandora's atmosphere is extremely toxic to humans, and yet it has *just* enough essential gases to make asphyxiation lengthy and quite painful - specifically hydrogen sulfide, which *burns* the mucous membranes lining the esophagus, and causes other nasty damage to the lungs. Even very limited and minor inhalation could result in permanent damage - luckily Jake tossed away his human body in the end. On average, a human asphyxiates from carbon dioxide build-up and poisoning while their head is trapped in a plastic bag from roughly 1 to 2 minutes. Due to Pandora's slightly lower C02 content (18%) and high enough presence of oxygen, it's stated that it takes roughly *four minutes* to fully suffocate. This is shown near the end where Jake is gasping for breath for quite some time before he collapses and starts convulsing, after the mobile lab was exposed to the Pandoran air by Quaritch in his AMP suit. If Neytiri hadn't shown up and quickly figured out how to operate the exopack, Jake would've suffered a rather graphic and gruesome death. - This didn't make it into the final cut, but in the draft of the script, Tsu'tey survives his fall out of the Valkryie Bomber. Wainfleet, loaded up in his AMP suit comes across him. He doesn't shoot him. He doesn't stomp on him. Instead, *he brings out a knife, picks up Tsu'tey by the queue and slices it off at the base*. Keep in mind that a queue is akin to a Na'vi's nervous system. Tsu'tey's screams are said to be agonizing. Make matters worse, he holds it up like a trophy. - The scene where Neytiri tries to drag Jake's unconscious body through the forest while massive tree clearing machines roll towards them. Think about it: desperately trying to carry someone you just realized you love away from these machines that are so massive they are clearing away 20 ft tall trees like they were nothing. It's particularly heart wrenching to hear her screaming at Jake to wake up. - Not to mention that particular grove of trees was a direct link to her ancestors. The RDA was essentially bulldozing a graveyard and cathedral at the same time. - Quaritch in general is absolutely terrifying once he's finally freed of the faint vestiges of a leash Selfridge has him on. Between casually sipping on coffee while having Hometree utterly destroyed (even *Selfridge* seemed to quietly show some remorse upon witnessing the carnage), his willingness to risk Pandora's human-unfriendly atmosphere just for a chance to land a killing shot, the sadistic pleasure he takes in slaughtering anything Pandoran as well as defectors like Jake or Trudy, and how much punishment he can and *will* take, and you have yourself one of the most monstrous General Rippers in fiction. ## The games - In *Avatar: Pandora Rising*, in the background of the picture of the bio for Volodin, a Russian Mad Scientist who joined the RDA because he knew they wouldnt restrict his genetic/bioengineering experiments like the governments on earth did, an Avatar can be seen in a tank, that looks like the genetic material for a *Viperwolf* was added to the usual human/navi mix, while Volodin himself is about to cut into a dead viperwolf on a table in front of him. - His bio also mentions that the RDA is fully aware of his extreme and potentially deadly side projects, but the heads of the Transgenetics SciOps team look the other way because hes very useful. So, not only is Pandora a Death World with Everything Trying to Kill You, it is the current home of a Mad Scientist who wants to play Mix-and-Match Critters with its inhabitants.

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Babar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes While most of the series offers "slice of life" morality lessons, complete with anthropomorphism, a number of the earlier episodes dealt with rather frightening and even violent issues. ## Original books: - Babar's mother gets shot by a hunter on the second page of the first book, *The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant*. - The first book also has an illustration showing the old King of the Elephants taking the poisonous mushroom that killed him and then writhing on the ground, his skin a livid green. - There is a memorable Nightmare Sequence in *Babar the King* with Misfortune and her beastly minions threatening Babar. ## TV Series: - "Babar's First Step", in which a viewer is introduced to the merry elephant tribe before Babar grew up and "civilized" them, in which Babar's blissful times of playing in ponds with other baby elephants and his mother are ended by a hunter with a rifle. He gets no name...he is "the Hunter". The elephants don't know what the sound of his rifle blasting means, and the elders assume it is a "monster". Babar's mother is eventually shot while the herd are fleeing the Hunter, complete with Babar being thrown from her back and screaming and crying for her in the mud after she is shot. - Then getting to watch her make a last, desperate attempt to cover their escape by charging the Hunter; she gets fatally shot and falls over on screen, close range. - Made in 1989, elephant cognition (funerals included) had already received considerable publicity. You could not tell your children that this was "just a cartoon". - Even if he deserved it, the fate of the Hunter is surprisingly horrifying. In "Babar's Triumph", the Hunter sets a fire in the jungle to help him and his men fight Babar and the other animals, but the fire gets out of control and starts sweeping back over the camp. His men, understandably, freak out and drive off in a jeep, being so panicked that they actually *drive straight through the closed gate* in their justified haste to get away. The Hunter, however, refuses to leave, fruitlessly demanding they come back, then doing a Skyward Scream about how he won't run and furiously vows to destroy the animals... which then trails off into a Scream Discretion Shot of incoherent, enraged wailing as flames simply sweep over the screen. "Boys Will Be Boys" has a flashback to this scene as Babar talks to Rataxes about the past, and he mentions casually to Rataxes that this was the last that was ever seen of the Hunter. - The episode "The City of Elephants". Halfway through the episode, Babar has this twisted nightmare where he gets confronted by "The Beast of Misfortune", a giant red elephant that laughs/growls etc. in a very deep voice, and "The Beast of Haste", a small white ghost elephant thing capable of contorting itself into various shapes. - The episode "Conga the Terrible" is a Trapped-with-Monster Plot taking place on an Isle of Giant Horrors. Babar and his friends (along with Rataxes and Basil) get shipwrecked on an island (named Skull Island) that is home to a Kaiju-sized Killer Gorilla with a fearsome reputation, who proceeds to menace them several times over the course of the episode. It is not until the very end of the episode where Cornelius decides to stand up against the ape and learns that he's actually a Gentle Giant who just plays up the monstrous act to keep away hostile people from his island. - "My Dinner with Rataxes" has the tunnels, these huge, winding, maze-like tunnels with tons of dead-ends and bottomless pits to boot. Even worse, Babar's kids and Rataxes' son Victor discover them while playing football, and they end up getting lost, as do Babar and Rataxes themselves when they look for them. If Celeste and Louise didn't come to their rescue, Rataxes would've taken his, Babar's, as well as their own children's lives, which almost surely would have triggered a war between the elephant and rhino nations. - Rataxes intended to use the tunnels to launch a surprise attack on Celesteville, and lets it slip. **Basil**: You ordered these tunnels done years ago, during the, uh, *(whispers in Rataxes' ear)* hostile period. **Rataxes**: Oh yeah. *(chuckles)* I was going to use this to launch a surprise attack on... ( *Babar overhears before Rataxes finishes the sentence. Rataxes stammers*) The-the pelicans. **Basil**: Yes, that's right. Those pesky pelicans. - The episode "Witches Potion" deals with Flora being bitten by a Purple Night Shadow, a incredibly deadly venomous snake. While we don't see it bite her, we *do* hear the sound of it hissing, followed by her slumped unconscious on the ground. Making this already scary scenario worse: there is **no** known medical treatment for this snake's bite, with the doctor grimly telling Babar and Celeste that all they can do is keep her on life support and hope she overcomes the venom, an outcome implied to be so unlikely as to be outright miraculous. If Alexander hadn't risked life and limb to seek out the legendary hermit known as Winifred the Witch, and if she hadn't turned out to have discovered an herbal remedy for the venom, Flora probabl would have **died**. **Doctor**: There is no known remedy for this poison. All we can do is hope.

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Babylon 5 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Meet Bester's girlfriend. *As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You have been warned.* - In the span of few weeks (most of which Michael Garibaldi was in coma), Garibaldi went from celebrating his best friend getting engaged to having a trusted CI killed, being shot in the back by his protege, failing to stop the assassination of president Santiago, his friend being reassigned, his attacker getting successfully freed, and Garibaldi doesn't know if Major Lianna Kemmer was on board (Word of God, no, she wasn't). - Hyperspace: Everything is a bright swirling mess, currents pushing ships this way and that, if you lose your navigation systems or your engines, you will drift off the plotted route and will, in all likelihood, be lost forever. Even in the event of full-scale war, very few of the races are willing to fight in Hyperspace for this reason. - To make it worse, there are even rumors that there is... *something*... living in Hyperspace. The rumors are true, although the Shadows are more haunting it than anything. The actual things we see living in Hyperspace, the giant jellyfish things in *Crusade*, are benign, if silly. - From Bad to Worse: once you find out that Hyperspace is *not* the only alternate dimension, and you begin to deal with things such as Thirdspace, which is home to... something much worse. - To be exact, it's a Thirdspace alien race who believes that they are the only race worthy to live, and is so powerful that it took *Vorlons and Shadows* and *all other First Ones* to unite just to survive and drive them back. Vorlons explicitly stated that it destroyed thousands of species in its universe... and continues to do that. They also look like this. - Mind the following fact: the parallels between Cthulhu with his buddies and that race *are intentional*. - Dr. Franklin gives us a vivid first-hand story about how he got to watch a friend of his accidentally get spaced. Struggling, desperately flailing his arms and legs, trying to breathe... and death by spacing is not a swift experience. **Franklin:** "A lot of people make jokes about 'spacing' somebody. About 'shoving somebody out an airlock'....I don't think it's funny. " - The "Soldier of Darkness" from "The Long Dark". It's invisible, can supposedly travel through walls, and it pulls your organs out through your mouth. - Death by Mind Rape. And if in your dying moments you should think of your friends or loved ones, they will be put in danger as well. - The Na'kaleen Feeder from "Grail" combines this with the Soldier of Darkness. The Centauri quarantined an entire planet just to contain the threat this entity posed, and they're one of the more advanced races of the B5-verse. - The entire concept of the Minbari War: one man's tragic mistake nearly dooms his entire race to extinction. - The fanaticism a species would have to condone such an action is scary too. - The Psi Corps, anybody? - Telepathy in general is depicted as pretty damned frightening on the show, with even an 'average' P5-rated telepath being able to slip into a person's mind and rifle it for their secrets, or cause intense pain. Garibaldi is considered one of the toughest characters on a series replete with badasses, but the telepaths of the Psi Corps were able to abduct him and craft a sleeper personality so convincing *it fooled the entire command staff and nearly got Sheridan killed*. And what's worse? He couldn't take revenge on Bester because Bester had him programmed with what he termed 'an Asimov', rendering Michael incapable of harming Bester or even allowing him to come to harm. Telepathy in the *Babylon 5* universe is *terrifying.* - Pretty much the entire episode "Intersections in Realtime", partially because it's done in a way that feels very brutal and real. - The ending of the episode is particularly brutal. Sheridan's spent the entire episode being tortured by Clark's regime, his torturer a bureaucrat who tries to make Sheridan confess that alien influence compelled his rebellion. After being tortured viciously and continually refusing to break and sign the confession, his torturer urgently presses that it's last chance before he's sent to Room 17 to be executed. Sheridan refuses and is wheeled to Room 17. Where he's secured to a chair and a completely new bureaucratic torturer comes into the room to begin the cycle of torture all over again, repeating the exact same opening speech the first torturer said verbatim. - JMS used notes from *Amnesty International* and *PEN International*, advocates for political prisoners and real interrogation techniques. - As awesome as it was, Lyta mind-controlling the entire bar in "Wheel of Fire". Just imagine that you're one of those customers. - G'Kar's whole experience with Dust. From his rage-distorted features, to him flinging Vir around like a ragdoll (it's not even clear if Vir is alive at that point), to his Mind Rape of Londo, where he carried a disturbing resemblance to Freddy Krueger. - The Drakh and their Puppeteer Parasites. - Particularly in the Expanded Universe (the Centauri Trilogy), the pointman on Centauri Prime is described as materializing "out of the shadows" and blending back into them when he's done instructing Londo. They can also transmit pain through the Keeper on command, the results of which are described in a bit more detail in the books. - Drakh "Keepers." A spider-like cyclops which sinks its hooks into your nervous system with razor-sharp appendeges, and cannot be extracted without either killing the host or simply re-growing in the same spot. The prospect of being closely-monitored for the rest of your life and never having any privacy drives the hosts to near-madness. - The *Passing of the Techno-mages* trilogy had its share of nightmare fuel, particularly in the final novel with the things Galen saw on Z'ha'dum in its industrial hub surrounding the Eye: masses of live sentients herded down grim corridors to be dismembered and used to make the "substrate" of Shadow vessels, or their neural systems being made into Technomage chrysalises. As horrible an imagining of hell as anything, in those vast underground corridors. Then imagine Weirden (who Galen was intended to replace) being forced to be the neural hub of the Eye, which directed all that activity, for 1000 years. - The various scenes of the "Shadow surgeons" and their whirring instruments (all depicted from the vantage point of their victims lying prone beneath them), to Carolyn's flashbacks ("Ship of Tears"), to Londo's being prepped for his Keeper. All of these are remembered as nightmares, implying their Playing with Syringes is done while the victim is in some kind of sleep or trance but the mind remembers it. - Mr. Morden: "Flesh does what it's told." *Brrr.* - Emperor Cartagia: scarier than the Vorlons and the Shadows because he's all too real. The nightmare of dealing with a madman - of never knowing whether or not what you say or do will set him off and cause him to kill you and your entire family. Also? He just sold out your planet to a race of eldritch abominations. Sleep tight! - The worst part? He wasn't tricked, or lied to, at the most the "cost" of the deal was underexaggerated. This man pulled a Deal with the Devil on behalf of his entire race, *willingly and knowingly*. And he's the one in charge of the second or third most advanced of the "young" races. - And that as pure and unsullied a spirit as young Vir had to commit murder to stop him. - His Villainous Breakdown when G'kar escapes is gloriously nightmarish. - The very concept of Soul Hunters, in a universe where souls are not only real but *physically observable*. Imagine being denied whatever afterlife may exist/you personally believe in just to be confined to a jar for someone's "collection" for all eternity. No wonder most races react to the Soul Hunters with extreme hostility! - In *The River Of Souls* the soul hunter visiting the station displays an orb *that may have the souls of the men who robbed the Soul Hunters*. And those souls are screaming in agony. - Even more frightening. . . *what if the Soul Hunters are right?* What if there is no afterlife, and the soul ends with death, and the only way everything you are is not lost forever is to be placed in that collection? - And *then*. There's the fear that the Soul Hunters invoke with just their presence. They like to pop up when they *know* someone important is about to die. As in these bastards *instinctively* know when someone's gonna die, even if that person has no idea. As individuals, they aren't any less vulnerable than the average intelligent species. However, if one sees their ships hanging around, it isn't because they really want just the one soul; they're there to mop up all the loose souls once the massacre is over. No one takes notice of Soul Hunter ships once the killing begins, and, when it's all over, there's no one around to stop them. - Catherine Sakai found one of the "First Ones" by accident at Sigma 957 and almost didn't survive. Now imagine all the over expeditions that *didn't make it*. Sure you might find mineral riches or some valuable artifact or you find Sealed Evil in a Can. Pray you never run into some of the First Ones. Some are just indifferent others are downright sadistic. - Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Lieutenant Keffer is killed by the Shadow vessel, just as the scene ends his body burns red from the water in his body vaporizing from the light of the Shadow vessel. Freeze-framing it clearly shows the lovely image of Keffer's burning body just before the Shadow blows him to atoms. JMS points this out in the commentary. JMS felt sorry for the actor. Still did it. Took much satisfaction from it, it seems. - The interrogator from *Intersections In Real Time*. He looks about as menacing as an accountant, which only makes the things he does to Sheridan worse. It takes Cold-Blooded Torture to a new level, as he treats the whole thing as being as boring and routine as doing your taxes. Sebastian from "Comes the Inquistor" at least had the decency to look the part of a sadistic torturer. - Likely meant to embody "the banality of evil," something observed about Eichmann at his trial, or some other Nazi war criminals who simply did such things in a normal day's work. And yes it is a particularly scary embodiment of sociopathy. - The four ways for Orbital Bombardment that don't involve using standard weapons: - The mass driver drops asteroids on the target planet. It was so bad that the Centauri (who invented it) *made treaties to ban its use against planets* after the war they invented it for ended with numerous worlds made uninhabitable as *collateral damage*-and when Refa broke the treaty even other Centauri are disgusted, even if it was being used against the wholly hated Narn. In fact, their use was considered horrific enough that the *Vorlons* issued a formal protest. Consider that the Vorlons rarely bother to even show up to Security Council meetings with the younger races, considering such problems as beneath them. - The Vorlon Planet Killer: a simple ship with a cannon so powerful that it makes planets uninhabitable with one shot. They have at least two of these. - The *Shadow* Planet Killer, also known as the Death Cloud: an *immense* ship made of smaller components that fire missiles that burrow in the target world's surface until they reach the mantle, at which point they explode with enough strength to *shatter the surface*. Again, they have at least two of these. - On the topic of the planet killers, note the *at least*. One of them was only discovered *after* their owners departed the galaxy. It is indicated that the First Ones left behind all manner of nasty problems for the hapless younger races to deal with. - The antimatter converter, whose beam turns the target's surface into antimatter and lets it react to the non-converted matter in contact with it. A single standard-sized ship armed with this can lay waste to a planet in hours. Two races have it: the Vree, who reverse-engineered it from relics, and the Minbari, who invented it before or during the last Shadow War. That's right: the Minbari invented a device that's possibly more horrifying than the Shadow Planet Killer *when they were far less advanced than they're now*. And now you know who did what to Z'ha'dum to reduce it to a barren wasteland. - A number of conflicts fought without Shadow or Vorlon involvement in the backstory: - The Garmak-Minbari War, fought when the Garmak mistook the Minbari for a paper tiger and raided them. There's two versions of it, but both are horrifying in their own way: - The first version saw the Garmak fight the Minbari for four years before losing (it helped the Minbari were still recovering from the previous Shadow War)... But whatever the Minbari did in the final offensive not only left the Garmak so weak the fledgling Centauri Republic could just waltz in, conquer everything with little or no resistance and reverse-engineer their technology, it the single event that, after hundreds of years, *still* terrifies the Centauri. - The second version had the Centauri assemble their forces to take on the Garmak, jump in a system with a large concentration of Garmak ships, charge their weapons... And then look in horror as some unknown ships jumped in, annihilated the Garmak, and left. After other races identified the mystery aliens as the Minbari and explained they didn't attack unless provoked, the Centauri slowly explored Garmak space-and found only ruins. Again, this is the single event that left the Centauri terrified of the Minbari for centuries to come. - The aftermath in both cases: Garmak space was what is now most of Earth Alliance, and when humanity ventured into it they found the ruins of the *Centauri settlements abandoned after a civil war in the 21st century*. Of the Garmak, nothing remained. - The brief confrontation between the Streib and the Minbari. As per their modus operandi, the Streib attacked Minbari civilian ships, took prisoners, and experimented on them. All we know of the Minbari reaction comes from Delenn saying they "tracked them back to their homeworld and made sure they understood the depth of their mistake"-and that it took them centuries to dare and show their face around once again-at which point they resumed their raids and targeted Earth Alliance under Clark. They don't appear or are mentioned anymore after this. - The Centauri-Orieni War. This is the war they invented the mass driver for, and between them and their enemies doing the same (just less efficiently) dozens of worlds were made uninhabitable as *collateral damage* (the bombardments were aimed at military targets on the planets)-and the only reason the Orieni aren't extinct is that the Centauri came to their senses as they were about to attack their homeworld and accepted their surrender, at which point they proceeded to disassemble the Orieni military power-and included a ban on use of mass drivers against planetary targets in the treaty, before spearheading treaties banning it with the future League of Non-Aligned Worlds. - The Drakh got involved at one point, manipulating the Orieni (who worshiped the Vorlon as gods) into losing the war faster and more devastatingly and retreating to the planet they used as base back in the day. Then the Orieni realized the Drakh weren't just traitorous allies but Shadow minions. The Drakh don't have a planet base anymore. - This conflict was an order of magnitude more devastating than the final Shadow War. - The Centauri civil war in the 21st century. It weakened them enough they had to abandon most of what is now the League and Earth Alliance... And the planets claimed by Earth Alliance had no inhabitant, only ruins. - The Dilgar War. With the Dilgar being basically space Nazi, only *worse*... And trying desperately to find a new homeworld before their sun goes nova, as it does two years after the war ended and Earth Alliance took away their ways to leave their home system. - Early in the war, the Dilgar had found an ideal homeworld in Mitoc. It was effectively an idealized version of the Dilgar homeworld, complete with the native as a slave population (at least they'd survive). Later, the Liberation Fleet composed of the EarthForce expeditionary force and what the free League Worlds can spare, is on the verge of breaching its defenses and land troops to free it... And the Dilgar, out of nowhere, hit the planet with enough nukes and mass driver strikes to collapse the environment and exterminate everyone on it, *including their own civilians*. As the Dilgar commanders all died in the war (except Jha'dur, who was kidnapped by the Minbari) and the records were destroyed during the fall of Omelos (the Dilgar homeworld), nobody knows why they did it. - The Hyach are revealed to have covered up that their planet actually spawned two parallel sentient races...because the other one, the Hyach-Do, were gradually subjected to harsher and harsher treatment by the Hyach and ultimately wiped out in a genocide by gigantic bonfires. And in doing so, they actually doomed their own race to extinction as the Hyach-Do contained a piece of genetic material essential to their ability to procreate, leading to a slow but sure extinction of their own through decreasing birth rates in each generation, with all the Hyach for hundreds of years helpless to stop it as they need the help of the other races to have any hope of restoring whatever it was they lost, and that would mean explaining why they lost it, which none have been willing to do for centuries. - Kosh during "Interludes and Examinations", and the Shadows' retaliation. When Sheridan first confronts Kosh, asking the Vorlon to send a fleet into a single battle with the Shadows for a morale boost, Kosh acts like his regular enigmatic self and says the Vorlons are not prepared yet. When Sheridan presses on with the issue and demands the Vorlons should start pulling their own weight: Bridge personnel: We're getting an energy surge. Ivanova: Location? Bridge personnel: I don't know, it's a non-localized phenomenon. - To put this into perspective, C&C is usually able to track the location of an energy source when it is on the station, as they did when the Ikarran bioweapon (which itself was based off Shadow technology) used its main weapon. But when Kosh does nothing more than get mad, he creates an energy surge that C&C can only interpret as "non-localized". - When the Shadows attack Kosh and kill him, we don't get to see the struggle as Kosh is assailed by three Shadows at once. Only brief flashes between Kosh's room and Kosh with the image of Sheridan's father in pain at every strike. Once the Shadows are done, the aftermath is a wave of energy rippling across the length of the station, and Kosh's mutilated encounter suit. - Londo coming after you. He's a Magnificent Bastard and wastes no time to do you his worst, and while amusing to the viewers the effects are *always* terrifying: - The first time, G'kar has taken the lead in an offensive on a Centauri agricoltural colony and used Londo's nephew as the spokesperson to justify the invasion. Londo doesn't say anything, he just grabs random pieces of equipment in his apartment and assembles them into a gun, and marches out to meet with G'kar. Talia senses his intentions and has Garibaldi stop him, but he was already near G'kar. - The second time, G'kar (who doesn't know what Londo had almost done him) is looking for a plant needed to perform a sacred ceremony for the Narn on the station, an extremely rare plant that was almost driven to extinction on his homeworld during the Centauri occupation and with the one that G'kar was supposed to use being destroyed in a (genuine) shipping accident. There is exactly one on the station-and Londo has it. Londo proceeds to spend the entire episode lording it over G'kar, first asking an outrageous price for it after G'kar broke in his apartment to look for it (Londo of course was keeping it somewhere else), then, after G'kar procured the money, announcing he changed his mind and will use it to make himself a narcotic tea, ruining it for the ceremony in the process, and explains why he's doing it-and that he knows it'll make G'kar an outcast and possibly endanger his life. Sinclair intervenes, using the station's regulations to confiscate the plant and give it to G'kar, but Londo nearly got G'kar ruined with ease. - The third recipient is lord Antono Refa, a fellow Centauri who was using his influence to start multiple wars that could have spelled the destruction of the Centauri Republic when the Shadows would turn against them. Londo first tries to reason with him, but Refa laughs and asks him why he should do that-and Londo replies "Because I have asked you to, and because your loyalty to our people should be greater than your ambition, and because I have poisoned your drink". The moment Refa drunk from that glass, Londo had him in his clutches *forever*, and there was nothing Refa could have done to change that. - The fourth time the recipient is once again lord Refa, who Londo has been lead to believe he murdered the woman he loved in retaliation for the above and is wondering why exactly Londo became hostile enough to start a feud between their Houses but hasn't got him killed yet. The answer is easy: because he doesn't want just to kill him, but to *destroy him*, ruining his reputation and House Refa. Thus he got him beaten to death and framed as a traitor, making sure he knew what was about to happen to him. - The fifth time he's trying to get the Shadows off Centauri Prime before the Vorlon Planet Killer arrives, and by now he knows their agent, mr. Morden, is the one responsible for the death of Londo's beloved. Morden is foolish enough to refuse... And Londo has to do the job himself, before finishing the job with him. - And when the above *doesn't* get the Vorlon to recall their Planet Killer, he realizes they consider *him* Shadow influence... So he orders Vir to kill him and bring proof to the Vorlon. The Vorlon recall their Planet Killer for another reason before Vir can obey him, but it still shows that *nothing* would stop Londo from obtaining what he wants. - Finally, the series end with the Drakh secretly putting the Centauri under their heel and using Londo, now the emperor, as their puppet ruler. The Expanded Universe shows that Londo spends the next few years to insure the Centauri military might will become greater than it has ever been... And that his death will trigger it being set against the Drakh with fully genocidal intentions. - Ivanova using the Great Machine in "Voices of Authority". At first it starts off as an exhilarating ride through the universe guided by a kindly Large Ham... until the Shadows almost catch her. Watching her get penned in by more and more of their Glowing Eyes of Doom as she struggles to pull away is terrifying. **Ivanova:** Draal... I'm not alone. It sees me. It knows I'm here... It's pulling me in, I can't stop it! **Ivanova:** I can't... It knows I'm here... *It knows my name!*

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Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - If Awesome loses a life, there's a chance that one of the animations will show his corpse rotting into a skeleton. - The giant bees roughly the size of Awesome are supposed to look like cartoony companions. Several creative liberties with their anatomy, like their beak-like mouths and giant eyes, left players unnerved. - The animal council. They have a bizarrely foreboding theme, and several council members (which includes many apex predators) look like they're about to strike. If you get their question wrong, the soundtrack suddenly stops on a distorted electronic noise, as if your Genesis just crashed. It doesn't help that the croc and jaguar appear to have bloody teeth, since their gums and tongue are colored the same. - The Game Over screen. Awesome's abandoned grave can be seen in a garbage dump, with the environment going down with him. - Several aspects of the beta: - Awesome's Expressive Health Bar shows his face gradually decaying until it becomes a skull. - The aforementioned rotting life lose animation is the only one that plays in this version. - The unused Game Over effect has the screen go red upon losing the last life, makes the final product's screen even worse.

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Back to the Future / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Works with their own pages: - Doc gets to witness his fate in 1985-A firsthand. He wasn't *just* locked up in a mental institution per Part II; he was also **lobotomized.** It does a lot to explain why he was so eager to abandon science altogether and settle down in the less-advanced society of 1885 in Part III. - The idea that he might fade away for real when the Lone Pine timeline reasserts itself is *literal* nightmare fuel for Marty, who dreams that Lone Pine Marty comes back to watch it happen. Worse, Doc takes his side, with a dialogue authentic enough to easily serve as the *happy* ending of a story about Lone Pines Marty. There's something uniquely chilling about getting a first-person perspective on the stock evil clone scenarioparticularly since Lone Pine Marty is as conscience-stricken as you'd expect the Marty we know to be in the same situation. **Marty:** Doc, you gotta help me! Help explain *[Doc walks through Marty's fading form]* **Lone Pine Marty:** You too, Doc. He's just gonna *vanish?* **Doc:** That's the theory. Let's see how it plays out. **Lone Pine Marty:** You know, mad as I am... I'm sorta *sorry* to see him go. **Marty:** No, no... **Lone Pine Marty:** Sure, he tried to take over my life and all, but... **Doc:** He's not real, Marty. He's just an aberration. A bubble in the time stream. And it's time for that bubble to... **Marty:** *POP!* *"Great Scott..."*

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Babylon (2022) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The opening party features a young actress having an overdose while her **very** heavyset lover sobs in a panic. The scene's fast-paced editing will make you feel almost as freaked out and anxious as the characters, to the point where even the rest of the party can feel vaguely unsettling. - The crew member on Nellies first talking film that dies of heatstroke after being stuck in a hot booth, despite him earlier begging to be let out, but Max (Ruths assistant director) kept forcing him to stay in there until they got their shot. - The entire scene where Nellie fights a snake qualifies if you have ophidiophobia. It doesnt help at all that Nellie actually gets *bitten* by the snake and its teeth likely stayed in her neck for several minutes until Fay cuts the snake off from her neck. - **James McKay**. Literally everything in the film involving him. - When we are first introduced to him, he appears normal, until a few closeups reveal he is emaciated, with heavy eyebags and using makeup to cover up... uh, whatever it is that's happening to his skin. When he laughs, his teeth are downright nasty and yellow. - Tobey Maguire's performance. We've seen him be rather mild mannered, we've seen him try to be threatening but fail. Here? There is nothing goofy on display, he's a downright slimy fuck and everything about him just feels off and disgusting. He can somehow make smearing makeup on his face feel disgusting. - He takes The Count and Manny to "the last place on earth anyone is allowed to have fun"... a literal hole in the desert, in a tunnel. He takes them into the tunnel and the first thing we see is a brutal, bloody cage fight, with weird synthesizer music. Unlike the previous fights seen in the movie, this is brutal and not fun to watch at all. Then they go a level deeper, and see several disfigured people lurking about, looking dazed out of their minds. At this point, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd accidentally gotten the third act of a David Lynch movie. Then they go a level deeper, and run into an alligator... then beyond that, see a large, Herculean man who *eats live rats*. And then, he discovers the fact that the money Manny and The Count gave him is fake. Naturally, they're fucked. Manny then grabs a nearby mace, rams it into Wilson's neck, and the two run up the many levels to ground, narrowly escaping with their lives. To call this Surreal Horror would be an understatement. - It is no small exaggeration to say that it feels like the characters are descending deeper and deeper into hell. - And then when Manny goes to pick up The Count at his place, everything seems quiet for a moment. Until one of McKays associates suddenly barges into the place and shoots The Count and his roommate dead, with their blood splattering onto Manny. Even Manny wets himself from seeing this happen.

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Back to the Future / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Marty watching Doc Brown get shot. Twice. He's *seventeen*, and he watches his best friend get shot. Then he tries to prevent it, and arrives just in time to watch him get shot AGAIN, and feel like there's nothing, ever, he can do about it. - Then there's Doc's reaction when he sees the terrorists coming, and everyone knows shit is about to hit the fan. **Doc Brown:** Oh my God. They found me. I don't know how, but they found me... **Run for it, Marty!!!** - What's also shocking about the scene is that the terrorist aiming the machine gun stops firing at Doc when the van stops right in front of him. This tricks the audience into thinking they might just take Doc alive, but *without warning*, the gunman suddenly *holds down the trigger* with a terrifying expression of rage on his face. Doc even *screams* in pain and terror ||at least the first time||. Then the terrorist aims his gun at Marty. Luckily for him his gun jams. - Just in general this scene becomes 10 times darker in the aftermath of 9/11.

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Avengers of the Multi-verse / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - *Night of the Beyond*: - Amity Park, Bellwood, and Magus Bazaar are all afflicted by a Hate Plague that causes everyone to see everyone else as monsters and attack each other in a panic, with casualties being narrowly averted. - The Cabal's plan turns out to be resurrecting *Dagon* and using him as an attack dog. - *Forces of Nature*: - Vortex and Undergrowth, two of the most dangerous ghosts that Danny ever faced, are now working together. And the first thing we see them do is effortlessly tear through the Guys in White headquarters. - Not only do the Cabal steal the Anti-Ecto Converter for their own use, but they modified it before it was used on Vortex and Undergrowth in order to give the Avengers a future surprise... - Breach drops an entire *building* on Undergrowth, and it barely slows him down. - Van Kleiss can not only sustain himself through Energy Absorption now, but he can also use the energy to mimic EVO transformations in beings that normally are immune to nanite-based mutations, like ghosts, which he demonstrates by combining Undergrowth and Vortex into one entity that is capable of giving *Titan* and *Atomix* a run for their money.

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Back to the Future Part III / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The scene where Buford Tannen tries to hang Marty for calling him "Mad Dog" and upsetting a spittoon onto him. Not only is this the only time in the trilogy where Marty is too weak to fight back (after the poor guy has already been dragged through the streets by a horse), but Buford comes extremely close to killing him. The camera shows Marty struggling to breathe, choking, and desperately clinging onto the noose in a vain attempt to be strangled less. If Doc hadn't been there, he most certainly would have been dead in minutes. Made even scarier when you find out that Michael J. Foxalmost died while filming this scene. The safety line keeping the pressure off his neck failed and he was actually hanged. Fortunately, the trilogy's stunt coordinator, Walter Scott, realized what had happened and he got resuscitated. What's worse is it was mentioned that the newspapers had stopped keeping track of Buford's kills at this point, so if Marty died, nobody would know about it. And prior to that, right after the spittoon's contents land on him, Buford tries to shoot Marty at point-blank range. If it wasn't by sheer luck that Buford was out of ammo, Marty's life probably would have ended right there. The scene where Marty discovers 1985 Doc's tombstone in 1955. Both he and 1955 Doc are rightfully horrified at this discovery, with 1955 Doc looking like he's on the verge of having a heart attack. He becomes so unnerved that he urges Marty not to stand on the hollowed earth, and Marty immediately steps away. 1955 Doc: What kind of a future do you call that?! It gets even worse later when Marty, under his guise as "Clint Eastwood," becomes embroiled in 1985 Doc's feud with Buford and accepts the challenge to duel him over a few petty insults. Doc's name vanishes from the tombstone, but Marty's starts to appear as they realize that he may very well get himself killed in Doc's place. It takes some lucky improvisation on Marty's part to avert this fate. The Mood Whiplash that happens when Marty tells Doc they're out of fuel. He honestly believed the whole car was powered by Mr. Fusion, only for Doc to explain that only the time circuits are, with a horrified look that Marty slowly shares. Before, Marty was worried about Doc stuck in the past, but now, he realizes they are both trapped there. There's a rather intense moment in the novelization when Buford confronts Doc at the dance. Doc slowly realizes to his horror that just because he dies on Monday, that doesn't mean he will get shot on Monday. And it dawns on him that, in a day before modern medicine, he could possibly die a slow, painful death. Seamus' story about his deceased brother, also named Martin, that is eerily similar in many respects to Marty. Like Marty, he was easily provoked lest people think him a coward, and ended up getting stabbed in the stomach during a bar fight. Marty: Wait a minute. You have a brother named Martin McFly? Clara slipping while walking along the speeding locomotive after the boiler exploded and dangling upside down by the hem of her dress, her head just a few feet from the ground and throbbing pistons. Doc was not in a better position himself. Marty's return to 1985. Just as the train is about to smash into the DeLorean, Marty has a massive Oh, Crap! moment and frantically tries to open the car door. He escapes a millisecond before the car is absolutely demolished. It's almost as if the DeLorean knew it was about to be destroyed and didn't want to die alone. Truth in Television: The solenoids on the DeLorean's locking mechanism were infamous for engaging and trapping occupants inside.

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BadwaterVideos2009 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - *TF2 sawmill gameplay*, the video that kickstarts the channel, already sets up an unsettling mood. It features a RED Scout with a *Team Fortress 2* HUD running around Sawmill until they somehow stumble into the set of a *Garry's Mod* machinima. And when the player making the set makes eye contact with the Scout, he *bolts out in a hurry* until he's caught from behind, whereupon he promptly screams in terror. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus, Scouts icon in the UI is replaced with his 3D model in an A-Pose, only furthering the idea that hes now being manipulated against his will. The next video reveals that he has been turned into an actor for the player's machinima. - *hl2 2009-08-15 18-17-36-64.avi* shows the RED Scout attempt the flee the scene, only for the BLU Heavy to quietly shake his head, as if telling him not to move, until to be suddenly deleted by the player from offscreen, letting out a cut-off scream as he disappears. The player then approaches the RED Scout, and the whole screen distorts. Just what happened to him? - *Melonman to the Rescue* looks like a classical "TF2 Freak" video, featuring a funny character with a wacky design and powers. But as the Meloman and the RED Engineer celebrate, you can barely see the BLU Scout dragging himself across the floor in the background (as if agonizing from being blown up by Melonman), with the video ending with the player abruptly rushing at their direction. - *Melonman VS The Teethineer* introduces the aforementioned Teethineer, with all of his Facial Horror. However, the most unsettling part is at the end; when Melonman pounces on him, he looks to the side, and an offscreen *Remove Tool* points to his face. Melonman then proceeds to beat the Teethineer until he gurgles in his own blood with a *very* noticeable Animation Bump. *Did the player force a person to beat another to death at gunpoint?* - *Dr. Metalhead Rises* shows the aforementioned Mad Scientist planning to use a BLU Soldier defeated by Melonman in his plans. However, later on in *Questions and Answers* the channel's operator would tell us the next Melonman episode was canceled due to "technically difficulties" and how "some things didn't work out". Cut to a Wham Shot of a BLU Soldier dragging himself across the floor, bleeding profusely and grunting in pain until he's abruptly deleted by the player. - This video, above all else, proves that the sentient ragdolls are genuinely mutilated to create the machinimas' characters. What does that mean to Melonman, Dr. Metalhead and the Teethineer, with their Non-Human Heads and Facial Horror? - *How I Make GMOD Machinimas Tutorial* is a festival of revelations, such as the player casually spouting how "it is good to weld them to the ground so they do not wander off after filming", and showing how they can seamlessly transition between different maps through a white void. Just what is wrong with this person's game? - *The Teethineer Interrupts Tea Time* has the Teethineer getting blown up by his own grenade after trying to interrupt Melonman's tea time. Once that happens and he crashes through a barricade, beyond his voice distortion stopping, you can barely see his hand twitching as the player's shadow is visible in the corner. Are we seeing the Teethineer's *death throes*? - *Discarded* has the RED Scout in the dark room of gm_construct after avoiding the player there, surrounded by nothing but a single light in the darkness, until he stumbles into various piles of junk; the items the player has discarded. As he picks up a wrench, combined with the description of "Enough Running", it give us a Hope Spot that the RED Scout is about to bring the fight to the player... only for that hope to be shattered in the next video, *Subjugate*, where the player finally catches him. He then proceeds to engage in Cold-Blooded Torture, using the Finger Tool to break one of his fingers, then shoves a *saw blade into his torso*, all while giving us one hell of a Kubrick Stare. And finally, he stops and starts glaring at the screen for a couple of seconds before the video ends (pictured above). - The appearance of the poor RED Scout after Badwater tortures him in *Revelation* is a sight to behold. He's been horribly disfigured and several props have been shoved into him, including a lamp, a crossbow arrow bundle, a pipe, some rebar, and his limbs are in the wrong place. It's no wonder he silently asks for the other Scout in the room to take his toolgun and Mercy Kill him.

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Bad Creepypasta / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Usually absolutely none when it comes to the actual stories, but sometimes the Brits can get pretty scary when they're angry. In the second part of their reading of "Dating Game", Jacob shouts "FUCK YOU!" when the author decides to have the over-the-toppsycho bitch in the story murder aninfant. It's so loud and even though was to be expected, (the reaction, not the baby killing) it can still startle a lot of viewers. A very similar thing happens in their riff of "Clockwork: Your Time is Up", with HoodoHoodlumsRevenge guest-starring. Everything starts out fine, they're laughing and having a good time, even cracking a joke about Natalie being forced to read a textbook (rather than being hit by it), as the situation slowly gets darker and darker. Then, Hoodo starts warning the others about what's coming next, and the story takes a complete nosedive into being uncomfortable when they get to the part where it's heavily implied in the most disgusting way imaginable that Natalie gets sexually abused, if not outright raped by her brother, Lucas. The reaction from Jacob stands out the most as he calls out the audience for suggesting the story in the first place and then, a few minutes later, he grumbles "Thank you so much to everyone who suggested this. This is such great comedy," sounding utterly disappointed in his fans for even recommending this story for them to read. Another good example of this is in their reading of "Jeff the Killer vs Michael Meyers". After Jeff and Jane start making out, Toby completely loses it and starts screaming. It's so loud that it apparently scared their cat, only for Toby to yell, "FUCK THE CAT! FUCK THIS STORY!" and then storm off. The voice that Jacob puts on for the Clown Nurses in Ronald McDonald House when they're putting the main character under anesthesia. While best described as cockney Gollum, it manages to perturb Matt and Toby into a brief silence. Jacob: "We love to see you smile." Toby: "...That was a weird voice." Jacob calmly saying "I would like to express this as clearly as I can," before screaming "STORIES AREN'T PEOPLE!!" during the Christmas Special is startling to say the least.

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Bailey School Kids / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Even as a light-hearted series aimed at young audiences, *Bailey School Kids* still manages to be unnerving from time to time. **WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked.** - Mrs. Jeepers. Even though she really knows how to keep her students in line, she's mostly harmless, but the fact that she may or may not be a vampire is unnerving to think about. Perhaps her scariest moment is that it's never clarified just *what* she did to Eddie at the end of book one. He tries to pass it off as just a scolding in subsequent books, but it's clear he's hiding something, and he's clearly shaken whenever it's brought up. - The atmosphere of the second book, *Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp,* is particularly nerve-wracking, especially when the kids are out in the middle of the woods on a hiking trip and get stalked by a very creepy shadowy figure who might be a transformed Mr. Jenkins and has distinct canine ears and fur. - In "Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance" Mr. Squash chases the kids off the mountain for unexplained reasons and the kids are saved at the last second by the bus. In the last chapter, the park ranger confirms she's never heard of Mr. Squash and the last settler moved away years ago. Not only do the readers never learn just who Mr. Squash really is, it's one of the few times the monster being real would have been the less scary option as opposed to a crazy homeless man who was trying to kill the kids. - Scout from "Ghouls Don't Scoop Ice Cream." Granted, she's visually not much more than your (stereo)typical goth and never directly antagonizes the protagonists (she even joins in on their fun at the end), but she's described as having red eyes and talking in a slow, serious voice. - The illustrations, both cover and interior, are sometimes unnervingly realistic. For example, one picture◊ from "Aliens Don't Wear Braces," as well as the cover art◊. - The idea that vampires, aliens and what have you may actually exist can be Paranoia Fuel for young readers. - The plot of "Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips" is disturbing in a more realistic sense. Eddie's great aunt Mathilda has been sick in bed for days, if not weeks, and her health deteriorates to the point she's found passed out and thought to be *dead* by Eddie and his friends. They've no choice but to call her an ambulance, but Mathilda says they can't because she doesn't have money for the hospital. While the kids are able to discover the money that belonged to Mathilda's dead husband Jasper, which not only covers her hospital stay but also lets her get her house fixed, it's still terrifying to note Mathilda could've actually *died* because she apparently doesn't have health insurance to cover a hospital visit. And the fact this is *still* a problem people are struggling with today, Mathilda was very, very lucky. - The illustrations for this book have a more sinister air to them due to the kids trying to figure out if the Monster of the Week is Eddie's dead great uncle Jasper. Howie thinks he sees Jasper up in the attic near the beginning, but this is dismissed as a shadow. Two more illustrations show an actual shadow, shaped like a man wearing a hat, lurking in the background that no one else notices. There's even a two page spread of the kids and Aunt Mathilda in her smoke-filled kitchen after her dinner burns, with a silhouette of a man standing right behind Liza and Howie in the smoke emitting from the burnt food. While in this case, Jasper is genuinely benign and trying to help his wife by leading the kids to his hidden money, it doesn't change the fact that his presence in the artwork is unsettling and only vaguely human compared to the other supposed monsters in the series.

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Bakemonogatari / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Ougi Oshino is a very bizarre character at best, and very creepy at worst, with the palest skin in the series, so pale, that it looks supernatural, which freakily mix with the black hair. Not helped by the wide, pitch black eyes, long sleeves that cover her hands for the most part, as well as maintaing a smile at most times. - That's not even mentioning their relationship with others, particulary Araragi. - A few of the openings can be pretty unsettling, mainly due to the surreal visuals and subtle uses of Foreshadowing. - In Kizumonogatari II, when Araragi is being cornered by Episode during their fight, Hanekawa suddenly appears and tells him the weakness of the vampire hunter's mist technique. What Episode does to this? He attacks her with his cross and causes Hanekawa a wound so severe she ends with her guts spilling out of her body (in all its glory, without any kind of censoring like in the aforementioned fight of Araragi against Kanbaru). Fortunately for Hanekawa, she is healed before something worse could happen. - Araragi's Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Episode for this is not better either. In his wrath, he beats Episode so savagely that, if Meme wouldn't had appeared, he would had probably ended not only killing his oponent, but also losing his humanity. - In the opening to *Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu-hen*, we are treated to a gorgeously animated scene of Araragi *spontaneously bursting into flames* after being exposed to the sun, due to him just recently becoming a vampire. The combination of the fluid animation, muted color palette, and Araragi's guttural screams of pure anguish as he's being cooked alive make this scene all the more frightening. - In *Kizumonogatari: Reiketsu-hen*, we have this lovely scene of Araragi, excited to return to Kiss Shot for his celebratory farewell party with her after their sweet bonding moment just a few moments ago, walking in on her feasting on Guillotine Cutter's now dead body (guts and all). What makes this scene worse is how casual Kiss Shot was being with Araragi even as she shows him Guillotine Cutter's half eaten head by the hair in front of him, with Guillotine Cutter's head and body being rendered in complete CG to show just how unnatural the scene was. Araragi throwing up afterwards is an understandable response to the whole thing. - Just minutes later, in the throes of a Despair Event Horizon, Araragi briefly fantasizes about Hanekawa. Said fantasy ends with him kissing her, and then accidentally *ripping her face off* with his teeth. - See No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the main page; Suruga's constant hysterical screaming of "HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!" while savagely beating Koyomi is quite disturbing. Good thing it was censored... - Senjogahara can be a little frightening with her threats... - The way the snake decides to attack Koyomi. - There's also one of the final scenes in the last episode. The cat licks Koyomi's neck and his tongue is sharp enough to cause Koyomi to spout blood out of his neck. - Near the end of *Tsukihi Phoenix*, we find out that Tsukihi, Koyomi's younger sister, ||has been possessed by the apparition of a Dying Bird ever since she was in her mother's womb, giving her immortality and never truly being human.|| And how is this revealed, you may ask? ||By having Kagenui command Yotsugi to *suddenly destroy half of her body* **right there in front of Koyomi**.|| - Araragi's rage here somehow manages to be worse than his rage in Kizu against Episode, because unlike his rage moment before, there's no tranquil fury before he fully goes mad with rage. Instead, he turns into a *wild animal in human form*, nearly grabbing hold of Yotsugi. Thank God Kagenui stops him from trying to gruesomly murder Yotusgi. - You thought Kanbaru's beatdown on Araragi was bad? The one he receives at the hands of Kagenui in the climax of Nisemonogatari is as terrifying as that one. Araragi is beaten so brutally he ends severely deformed (like if he was a zombie) and with a hole in his rib cage. See the results yourself to look how bad it is.◊ - From Mayoi Jiangshi: - It's partially due to the series' Anachronic Order, but Ougi's first and sudden appearance without fanfare comes off as unsettling. It's even creepier since Koyomi is strangely open with her. - The realization that Hachikuji's death and subsequent Lost Cow are the only things that kept the world from ending in the main timeline. That is a lot of pressure on one person, even if they didn't know it. - Kisshot's appearance at the end. She doesn't do anything particularly horrible onscreen, but her reaction upon seeing them... - The ending of the Nadeko Medusa arc ||has the newly-awakened Snake God Nadeko *stabbing Koyomi*, whose body is already torn up from her previous assault, and giggling creepily in a shower of his blood. The entire arc is her descent into insanity.||

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Avengers Reassembled / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Yamcha's (the Extraordinary Avengers' werewolf member) backstory: ||Goku did *not* get the brain injury that made him The Hero of the "Dragon Ball" universe and instead grew up to be the world conqueror that he was meant to be by Saiyan design. The scarier part was not that he annihilated all resistance and allowed the Saiyans to conquer the world, but the Saiyans also found out how powerful a Human/Saiyan hybrid can become... and set up hybrid-breeding *rape camps*||. Although he knows "good" Saiyans, Yamcha shows he has absolutely *no* love for Goku/Kakarot ||when the Goku that taught Captain America arrives to the Mansion and Yamcha becomes overcome with berserker rage *just by seeing him*.|| - ||Toji (Quicksilver) being shell-shocked at having run into Jack and Arcee's Destructo-Nookie|| is pretty funny... ||except that Word of God is that what Toji saw was a sex scene worthy of the *Species* movies between two bio-mechanical Others (read "barely humanoid-looking spider beasts").||

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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes One of the scariest examples of this is in Season 1 Episode 7. The gang puts Yuuji and Shouko together in a haunted house attraction in an amusement park based on an abandoned hospital. Hideyoshi starts talking into the PA system in a filtered voice combined with his incredible acting skills to sound just like Yuuji. He starts saying over and over that he prefers Himeji over Shouko in Yuuji's voice. Shouko, of course, thinks it's really him. Then an assortment of weapons for Shouko to use fall and dangle from the ceiling, *including a bat riddled with nails,* which she grabs. Mind you, the two are in a *narrow hallway* so Yuuji can only run in one direction and hope Shouko doesn't catch up to him. Luckily, we don't see what happens because the episode cuts to the scene after the ordeal. **Yuuji:** Why are you guys doing this!? She's *really gonna hurt me!* **Shouko:** ...You're right.

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Bakuten Shoot Beyblade / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Yes, this series has its own share of truly terrifying moments. Season 1 - The Europe arc in the first season is a long one. Before, bit-beasts were nothing more than something that could provide power to the beyblade of its wielder. Then, suddenly, an opposing bit-beast mauls Takao's dragon, and we're introduced to just how dangerous a bit-beast in the wrong hand can be. The reason the European legends derivated from the bit beasts treat them as monsters? They *did* fall in the wrong hands more than once. - Living at Volkov's monastery. You have to take part to painful exercises, you could be experimented upon, and if you lose a beyblade match, maybe one you had no chance in hell to win, Volkov will make you disappear. - It's *even worse* in the Japanese version as pupils at the abbey who lose a battle are perceived as weak and get **locked up** as if it were a prison cell. Alexander's cries are downright chilling. We never even find out what happened to the boy... - The battle on the ice with Kai is chilling in S1E45, especially at the end when Max beats him and the ice starts to break. Kai initially just stands there in shock, considering letting himself sink ...and then when he *does* decide to move, he discovers his feet have frozen to the ice and he *can't*. - Boris is *terrifying* in S1E49. The guy uses a bit-beast that moves at high speeds and causes the air around their opponent to cut them, making it so they get harmed badly but not in a way that can be perceived. His strategy is to make the opponent quit by threatening their life, and he is clearly all too fine with killing Rei. Even though Rei beats him, he still nearly dies and is hospitalized until the final minutes of the season. Season 2 - The Europe arc example above permeates the whole second season, culminating when it's revealed *why* the Saint Seals want to seal all bit-beasts away: once upon a time, evil people used bit-beasts for their own gain and in the process nearly *destroyed the world*. - The cyber bit-beasts arc in the second season. Bit-beasts were already terrifying once we found out what they could do, but now the bad guys get the means to *mass-produce them*. Ones that only grow stronger with time, and turn you in a madman who obeys their creators. If you're not perfectly healthy and sufficiently strong when you use them, you *risk death*. Season 3 - In episode 3 of the Japanese version, Takao has a nightmare of his former teammates Max and Rei leaving him whilst he gets pulled back by a monstrous hand. - Brooklyn getting more and more unstable after his loss to Kai. Pictured above is his bit-beast Zeus, a particularly dark and powerful spirit whose origins are never explained.

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Bakugan: Battle Planet / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Bakugan: Battle Planet - Episode 44: Tripp's plan after Wynton is able to evolve Trox. He corners Wynton into an alleyway and uses a Bakugan brainwashing device on him. The end result is a Brainwashed and Crazy Wynton sending out a moon powered Lupitheon laying waste to the city while Tripp manipulates the public into making him a threat that needs to be contained. Had Dan not been able to snap Wynton free of his control, the rest of the Awesome One's would be detained by the army, and their Bakugan would've been taken. To make matters worse ||Tiko revamps the idea to even more disturbing results in the future||. - Episode 67: Tikos brainwashing of Strata causes the poor guy to run completely mad and unhinged, freaked out at ever possibly seeing Tiko. As soon as Tiko decides to use him to attack the Brawlers, forcing Benton to resort to martial arts and a freeze ray just to restrain him. - Episode 68: Bentons nearly attacked by Strata, the latter having a major mental while being strapped down by Bentons medical facilities. - Benton gets infected by the V-Virus thanks to coming into contact with the V-Virus, and like Magnus' becomes Tiko's main host. Unlike Mangus, Benton can only watch internally as Tiko takes complete control of his body and intellect, using his connections to brainwash all of his workers, former antagonist, attempt to murder his sister, and turn the public against Bakugan. Armored Alliance - Thanks to MCQ, large shipments of illegal devices are being disturbed towards adults used to control Bakugan to commit crimes. Throughout the series, large numbers of cities have been totaled and destroyed by Bakugan, and Magnus' attempts to stop them has barely resulted in crime going down. - Haavik forcibly entering Dan's mind, defeating him in a Bakugan battle and turning him into a loyal servant. To make matters worse, while fighting his friends, Haavik turns Dan, Drago, Cyndeous, and Gillator against the Awesome Brawlers. Even when they defeat Dan, Haavik's control over Dan leads to the boy rolling out his partners again, exerting them way beyond the limit several times on the point of collaption. Geogan Rising - The new Bakugan one of the rockers was able to acquire has enough power to break through a Drome, nullifying the only way to prevent damage done outside of the environment back to normal. - During the Awesome Brawlers and Drago's first return to Vestroia, the Brawlers face new Bakugan ||and their future partners|| who nearly end up attacking them without any partners of their own, had Drago not been there to protect them. Evolutions - Wrath's Disney Death. When Dan and Drago harness elemental energy to evolve into Dragonoid Genesis, Wrath attempts the same thing. The result? He disintegrates, with no trace of his body left. - "The Wrath of Wrath", full stop. - Wrath is now selectively invisible, allowing only the Awesome Brawlers to see him. In addition, he constantly shuts down their attempts to put up dromes. As a result, all the collateral damage caused by their battles with him remains, and the Awesome Brawlers are accused of being delusional when they try to explain what really happened. Both the town of Los Volmos *and* AAAnimus have turned on them. - How did Wrath survive his Literally Shattered Life? He took control of Faustus' body, and unlike earlier in the season, he has full control. - After his defeat, both Wrath *and Faustus* are trapped in the Baku-Ball.

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Bakugan / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The final episode of this arc, "Gone, Gone Bakugan", has lots of horrors, in showcasing the full terrible power of the Forbidden Cards and the depth of Spectra's depravity. **Spectra:** (chuckles evilly) Bakugan are no more than animals. *I* am Drago's master now. He is under my complete control. Talk all you want; he can't hear you anymore. - Then, Spectra starts bringing out the Forbidden Cards. Once again, the "wings" on the cards wrap around Drago's colossal body just as they did Helios to take effect. On Spectra's second Forbidden Card, *Diano Durance X*, the "wings" don't just wrap around Drago's body, they lash out to ensnare Apollonir's body, including around *his neck,* as Drago uses them to absorb his energy. - We get another brief Hope Spot as Apollonir wins the first round with Drago. Spectra quickly crushes it in the next round's opening as Spectra uses his next Forbidden Card, *Vestroia X.* This time, in addition to the "wings", the card causes Drago's muscles to enlarge in the same disgusting way as had been done to Helios just 2 episodes earlier. This time, we get to *see* Drago's muscles and veins as they expand slowly, complete with nasty squelching and squishing sounds, almost like bones popping. The veins don't just appear on Drago's limbs, either. They appear on his wings and even *his eyes.* And the whole time, we get to hear the lovely sounds of *Drago groaning and grunting in pain* as the Forbidden Card increases his power and forces him to access the energies of the Perfect Core. - After this moment, Spectra begins using the Forbidden *Fusion* Ability Cards, forcing Drago to access the Perfect Core's power to change his own attribute and use abilities from all 6 attributes. So now the Forbidden Cards don't just let Spectra force Drago to boost his own power like crazy, but to access all the possible powers of a Bakugan. This line from Spectra outlines just how Drunk with Power he's becoming: **Spectra:** (evil laugh) Now you get it? Drago's perfect! The other Bakugan we experimented on couldn't handle so much power. As long as I have Drago and the Forbidden Cards, we are unstoppable! - Every new Fusion Ability only causes Drago to feel more and more pain as he takes in more and more of the Core's energy. And after Spectra's had him cycle through all 6 attributes, Drago's in so much agony that he starts *shedding tears from the strain.* Apollonir sees what's happening, which leads to this conversation. Never Say "Die" is averted in this series for a reason... **Apollonir:** The power of the Forbidden Cards and the Perfect Core are too great! The combined energy is burning out Drago's new body! He doesn't have much time. **Dan:** What? **Apollonir:** The new body we gave him wasn't meant to contain so much might! I'm afraid Drago could- **Nemus:** *Drago could die!* - Following this, the 5 other Ancient Warriors of Vestroia, currently spectating the battle, explain *exactly* what Drago's death would result in. Because Drago remains symbiotically linked to the Perfect Core, if Drago is killed, the Perfect Core will be unable to sustain itself, and New Vestroia will be destroyed. In other words, Drago's death would result in the deaths of millions of innocent Bakugan, not to mention the Vestals currently on New Vestroia. And Spectra? **He couldn't care less.** **Spectra:** If the Dragonoid doesn't survive, then it just means he wasn't worthy. Then, I'll just have to find *another* Bakugan who *is!* - Fortunately, Spectra's plan is stopped and Drago is saved, but if the worst happened, Spectra would have crossed the road into **Omnicidal Maniac territory.** **All within 2 days!**

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Baldur's Gate / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **WARNING: Per wiki policy, Spoilers Off applies to Moments pages. All spoilers will be unmarked!** - The Chanters standing outside the inner fortress of Candlekeep, spouting out the prophecies of Alaundo, one of which sets the tone of both games. It may seem like meaningless gibberish at the time, but later on, after learning more of your foes, their plans, and yourself.... **Chanter**: The Lord of Murder shall perish, but in his doom, he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny. Chaos will be sown in their footsteps. So sayeth the wise Alaundo... - Chapter 1 of the first game. You were just attacked by a large man in menacing armor who was demanding Gorion give you over to him, same armored man cut down Gorion, *a powerful archmage*, with all the effort of a dealing with a goblin, and you're left on your own, realizing you can't go back home, and only your tag-along best friend is at your side in a wide-open, hostile world, with only the advice to seek out Khalid and Jaheira as your only lead. **Narrator**: The dawn is especially cruel this morning. You awake with the realization that you have not been living some horrible dream. Ambushed, you saw Gorion cut down before your eyes, and even his powerful magic could not stop the onslaught. It was his wish that you flee, but that does not remove the feeling of helplessness that now overwhelms you. "Hand over your ward," the armored fiend had said. He was after you and you alone, but why? If only Gorion had given some clue, but now you are alone and lost. Candlekeep is near, but you will find no quarter there. The readers pay for their serenity with rather draconian entry rules, and without Gorion's influence, their doors will remain closed. - The dream sequences, in which Irenicus gives you increasingly dark and morbid Breaking Lectures. It becomes even worse when you find out the Irenicus that talks to you in your dreams isn't Irenicus at all. Its Bhaal himself, trying to goad you to The Dark Side. - Anyone familiar with the dream sequences of the first game will likely find the second ones lukewarm at best. The dreams you have in those are much more symbolic, but backed by the narration of Kevin Michael Richardson and an excellent background theme and can be quite freaky to the unprepared, especially if you haven't already been spoiled as to their nature. - If you visit the Temple District at night, you'll run into a Shadow Thief. He won't attack, but he will start babbling a deranged "song" when you speak to him. It sounds like the typical ravings of a madman at first...then the song describes how an innocent man was forced to watch his friends and family be butchered because he refused to get involved in the current guild war. The song suddenly becomes much more chilling when you realise who the song is describing. "You can't hide! War will find! *YOU CAN'T HIDE! WAR WILL FIND!* **AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!**" - The first game has encounter after encounter with increasingly difficult bounty hunters, from the ridiculously easy Carbos and Shank who are no match for you by yourself, to later ones who can stand toe to toe with your entire party and give them a run for their money if you're not careful. Many of them carry a bounty notice, which observant players will notice are in increasing amounts of gold on their head with each one. While definitely not the creepiest thing on this list, remember that you're a sheltered kid, barely any more than 20yrs old, lacking any sort of field experience, and you're being hunted wherever you go, starting in your own home you've never left. The intro to Chapter 4 sums the feeling up quite well... **Narrator**: One thing is for certain: someone has taken a very personal interest in your death... - The "Albert & His Dog" sidequest. A cute little boy comes up to you and asks you to find his dog, Rufie, who's missing? Aww, poor thing. Found the dog and Rufie turns out to be a wolf creature and not a regular dog? Um, okay, starting to get a sense of something being...a bit off here, but whatever....Return with Rufie and Albert transforms into an ogre mage (original)/nabassu or pit-fiend (EE) and thanks you for helping him before teleporting Rufie back to Hell? *WTF*!? - It's actually in your best interest experience point-wise to kill Rufie and report back to Albert, who winds up pissed and tells you he'll never trust you again, and your journal makes mention of having made a VERY powerful enemy of the demon. While nothing comes of it, you can't help but wonder... *who or what exactly did you just piss off!?* - Your second visit to Candlekeep in the first game when everyone's been replaced by dopplegangers. "DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE MEAT!" - Even better, even better, when you get to the end of the catacombs, Gorion shows up and tries to convince you that none of the dopplegangers were real, and instead you just murdered all of your old childhood friends in a bout of insanity. Of course, he turns out to be a doppleganger, too, but it can really mess with your head for a brief moment. - The whole ordeal is especially creepier if the player misses doing the Seven Suns investigation for Scar and doesn't trigger certain encounters, missing out on the presence of doppelgangers being a threat, which is easy to do if said player finds themselves more drawn to the now accessible library-castle in the center of the map. All the player knows is that their friends are terrified of some nameless thing, and the whole affair becomes an example of Nothing Is Scarier until their first encounter with the False Phlydia in the catacombs. - For a mixture of horror and Tear Jerker, find Captain Brage and right click on him to hear a mixture of insane laughter and broken sobbing. - Take a closer look at that bandit camp. Apparently they decided to decorate their camp with rotting corpses. - There's nothing in the game that says this, but you might still wonder if one of the flayed bodies ringing the top of Tazok's tent could be Kivan's wife...especially if he's in your party. - The cries in the Fear Test in hell in Shadows of Amn. - The Underdark. An enormous sub-terranean world filled to the brim with beings so dangerous and evil that it can compete with the lower planes. - For extra scary points, try bringing Aerie there. Aerie, like all the Avariel, is claustrophobic. Upon realizing where she is and that there's a very good chance that she'll never see the sky again, she suffers a Heroic BSoD. - The illithid cave. You're captured the instant you enter the cavern and are forced to fight in a arena. You escape and have to fight your way out with every room containing some of the worst creatures in the entire game. And the only way to escape the complex is to slay the Elder Brain. Have fun! - On top of being one of the most dangerous monsters in the game, Beholders are very scary looking. They're huge, flesh coloured heads with several eye stalks, massive mouths with razor sharp teeth and a huge central eye with a constant Death Glare to boot. - The wraiths in *Throne of Bhaal*. These... *things* exist solely to torment anyone they encounter by reading their minds, taking on the forms of their deceased loved ones, and then reciting all their deepest doubts, fears and failures to them, all the while "reminding" them how said loved one's death was their fault. It's borderline Mind Rape, and is enough to drive *Jaheira* to near-tears. - The wraith is particularly brutal with Aerie. It will make her think that her mother has been killed while searching for her and she will believe it for the rest of the game. Talk about trauma. - Irenicus's lab may become tedious in later playthroughs, but it's chillingly terrifying the first time you go through it. You've just recently escaped after weeks of torture and are now wandering around, no weapons, no armor, no spells, no companions except the equally weakened Imoen, Jaheira and Minsc. You have no idea where the rest of your friends are or what befell them. You have no clue what's going on, where the resident Mad Wizard is or when he'll be back. It's eerily quiet. And every door you open reveals horrors worse than the last. Brrr.... - Yoshimo's description of the Geas, and what happens to those who try to break it. - In *Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal*, Anomen asks Keldorn about one of the battles the older knight was in, clearly expecting a story about his legendary heroism. Keldorn instead tells him, dispassionately and in full detail, about how he and his unit were subjected to horrific atrocities. - To sum up: First, Keldorn's unit was betrayed to the enemy and decimated in battle. Second, the enemy captured them and stripped everyone naked, living or dead. They then tied each living knight to one of their dead fellow soldiers, and left them all on the battlefield. As they they were Forced to Watch their friends' bodies rot, some of them died of exposure or went insane. Keldorn escaped, saved everyone he could, and then sneaked into the enemy camp and killed everyone who had done this to them. It's a testament to his Heroic Willpower that he's *still* fighting after all of that. - In comparison to the games, the books' depiction of the spider-infested Cloakwood ruins were pretty damned horrifying. - All of Durlag's Tower. It's creepy enough on its own, with its trap-filled halls and powerful monsters. But bit by bit, the tower shows you what Durlag went through, why he built hate into the very stones of that place. All Durlag ever wanted was a home, a family, but it went so very, very wrong. - Throughout the tower, you will find both old bones and bodies of previous adventures, presumably killed by monsters or traps. How many traps did this place originally have before adventures started either disarming them or dying from them? - All in all, if Chapter 6 failed to scare you with how doppelgangers could steal the faces of your friends, Durlag's Tower and its backstory brings to the forefront how utterly TERRIFYING doppelgangers are. Sure, they may not be especially difficult in a fight (with exception of the spellcasting Greater Doppelgangers), but in a world where these creatures exist, how can you know from one minute to another that the person you're looking at is your friend or family member, or just a monster wearing their face? And as the game shows, when there's one...there's typically a bunch of them nearby as well, so who else can you believe in? Is it any WONDER why Durlag went batshit insane? - The teaser to *Baldur's Gate III* gives us a view of Baldur's Gate under siege, with dead Flaming Fist soldiers littering the streets. One survivor stumbles exhausted through an alley, preparing for a desperate last stand. Then suddenly he vomits blood, his teeth fall out, and a horrible transformation starts, culminating in four tentacles bursting out of his mouth. Seconds later, a newly born illithid rises into the air. And then a flash of lightning illuminates the clouds, and the sky is full of mind flayers. Then another flash reveals what can only be described as something big. Possibly Ilsensine himself. (The logo◊ seems to suggest it). - Even worse, this transformation we see is something that normally takes a week to complete, yet the poor soldier is turned in under a minute. Just what is going on? - One track on the original soundtrack - "Fighting for Survival" - *really* fits its title and manages to make any fight terrifying.

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A View to a Kill / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes For the James Bond Nightmare Fuel index, see here. - May Day. A perfect gender-flipped Scary Black Man. When she's not throwing Death Glares, she kills people ruthlessly. - How utterly cold and ruthless Max Zorin is. Some of the horrific ways people die because of him include: - Dropped from a Zeppelin. - Being chopped up by an underwater turbine. - Drowning in a mine flood/collapse. - Machine-gunned while trying to escape said flood. - The last one? *Zorin is laughing* while he kills his own men. The ugly grin as he's peppering them with bullets is quite nauseating, reminiscent of The Joker. - That ain't the half of it...watch his lips; it almost looks like he's talking to himself. - One unfortunate mook tries to climb out of the flood onto a fallen scaffold... which is attached to still-live power cables. Shock and Awe ensues, with Zorin gleefully shooting the man in the back *as he's frying*. - Even *Roger Moore* was horrified by the massacre. - The root cause of all this? Zorin is the end result of a Nazi Super Breeding Program Gone Horribly Right. In fact, his mentor Dr. Mortner is a Josef Mengele expy who partook in barbaric experiments on pregnant women during The Holocaust. We don't see anything of it, but it still would be nauseating. Also, why on earth the Soviets would hire an Evilutionary Biologist who also did the same experiments on Soviet POWs is beyond one's mental grasp. - Pola Ivanova's captured partner is shoved into a water turbine *head first*. - Zorin sets City Hall on fire and leaving Bond and Stacey to their fiery fates. It takes some fast improvisation by Bond to get himself and Stacey out alive. - It may be Played for Laughs, but just imagine being the officers stuck on that bridge with their cruiser hanging precariously on the edge as it's in a fully vertical position. It's a miracle they managed to crawl out of their car alive after it comes crashing down. - Zorin's plan to sink Silicon Valley and corner the microchip market involves triggering a massive earthquake by flooding multiple faultlines, which certainly would result in *millions of fatalities*. And the fact that he very nearly succeeded having actually flooded the fault. - Bond gripping the ropes of the blimp as he and Zorin glide over San Francisco. Anyone easily spooked by heights may feel their heart skip a beat at some moments. - Then there's the fight atop the bridge, which ends with Zorin gripping, and sliding off the side of the cables and into San Francisco Bay hundreds of feet below. All the while, Bond and Stacy struggle to maintain their hold on the riggings to avoid a similar fate. - Dr. Mortner's Villainous Breakdown, crazily brandishing a roll of dynamite as he attempts to blow up Bond. It ends with him and Scarpine dying in an explosion.

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Baldur's Gate / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes **WARNING: Per wiki policy, Spoilers Off applies to Moments pages. All spoilers will be unmarked!** - The Chanters standing outside the inner fortress of Candlekeep, spouting out the prophecies of Alaundo, one of which sets the tone of both games. It may seem like meaningless gibberish at the time, but later on, after learning more of your foes, their plans, and yourself.... **Chanter**: The Lord of Murder shall perish, but in his doom, he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny. Chaos will be sown in their footsteps. So sayeth the wise Alaundo... - Chapter 1 of the first game. You were just attacked by a large man in menacing armor who was demanding Gorion give you over to him, same armored man cut down Gorion, *a powerful archmage*, with all the effort of a dealing with a goblin, and you're left on your own, realizing you can't go back home, and only your tag-along best friend is at your side in a wide-open, hostile world, with only the advice to seek out Khalid and Jaheira as your only lead. **Narrator**: The dawn is especially cruel this morning. You awake with the realization that you have not been living some horrible dream. Ambushed, you saw Gorion cut down before your eyes, and even his powerful magic could not stop the onslaught. It was his wish that you flee, but that does not remove the feeling of helplessness that now overwhelms you. "Hand over your ward," the armored fiend had said. He was after you and you alone, but why? If only Gorion had given some clue, but now you are alone and lost. Candlekeep is near, but you will find no quarter there. The readers pay for their serenity with rather draconian entry rules, and without Gorion's influence, their doors will remain closed. - The dream sequences, in which Irenicus gives you increasingly dark and morbid Breaking Lectures. It becomes even worse when you find out the Irenicus that talks to you in your dreams isn't Irenicus at all. Its Bhaal himself, trying to goad you to The Dark Side. - Anyone familiar with the dream sequences of the first game will likely find the second ones lukewarm at best. The dreams you have in those are much more symbolic, but backed by the narration of Kevin Michael Richardson and an excellent background theme and can be quite freaky to the unprepared, especially if you haven't already been spoiled as to their nature. - If you visit the Temple District at night, you'll run into a Shadow Thief. He won't attack, but he will start babbling a deranged "song" when you speak to him. It sounds like the typical ravings of a madman at first...then the song describes how an innocent man was forced to watch his friends and family be butchered because he refused to get involved in the current guild war. The song suddenly becomes much more chilling when you realise who the song is describing. "You can't hide! War will find! *YOU CAN'T HIDE! WAR WILL FIND!* **AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!**" - The first game has encounter after encounter with increasingly difficult bounty hunters, from the ridiculously easy Carbos and Shank who are no match for you by yourself, to later ones who can stand toe to toe with your entire party and give them a run for their money if you're not careful. Many of them carry a bounty notice, which observant players will notice are in increasing amounts of gold on their head with each one. While definitely not the creepiest thing on this list, remember that you're a sheltered kid, barely any more than 20yrs old, lacking any sort of field experience, and you're being hunted wherever you go, starting in your own home you've never left. The intro to Chapter 4 sums the feeling up quite well... **Narrator**: One thing is for certain: someone has taken a very personal interest in your death... - The "Albert & His Dog" sidequest. A cute little boy comes up to you and asks you to find his dog, Rufie, who's missing? Aww, poor thing. Found the dog and Rufie turns out to be a wolf creature and not a regular dog? Um, okay, starting to get a sense of something being...a bit off here, but whatever....Return with Rufie and Albert transforms into an ogre mage (original)/nabassu or pit-fiend (EE) and thanks you for helping him before teleporting Rufie back to Hell? *WTF*!? - It's actually in your best interest experience point-wise to kill Rufie and report back to Albert, who winds up pissed and tells you he'll never trust you again, and your journal makes mention of having made a VERY powerful enemy of the demon. While nothing comes of it, you can't help but wonder... *who or what exactly did you just piss off!?* - Your second visit to Candlekeep in the first game when everyone's been replaced by dopplegangers. "DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE MEAT!" - Even better, even better, when you get to the end of the catacombs, Gorion shows up and tries to convince you that none of the dopplegangers were real, and instead you just murdered all of your old childhood friends in a bout of insanity. Of course, he turns out to be a doppleganger, too, but it can really mess with your head for a brief moment. - The whole ordeal is especially creepier if the player misses doing the Seven Suns investigation for Scar and doesn't trigger certain encounters, missing out on the presence of doppelgangers being a threat, which is easy to do if said player finds themselves more drawn to the now accessible library-castle in the center of the map. All the player knows is that their friends are terrified of some nameless thing, and the whole affair becomes an example of Nothing Is Scarier until their first encounter with the False Phlydia in the catacombs. - For a mixture of horror and Tear Jerker, find Captain Brage and right click on him to hear a mixture of insane laughter and broken sobbing. - Take a closer look at that bandit camp. Apparently they decided to decorate their camp with rotting corpses. - There's nothing in the game that says this, but you might still wonder if one of the flayed bodies ringing the top of Tazok's tent could be Kivan's wife...especially if he's in your party. - The cries in the Fear Test in hell in Shadows of Amn. - The Underdark. An enormous sub-terranean world filled to the brim with beings so dangerous and evil that it can compete with the lower planes. - For extra scary points, try bringing Aerie there. Aerie, like all the Avariel, is claustrophobic. Upon realizing where she is and that there's a very good chance that she'll never see the sky again, she suffers a Heroic BSoD. - The illithid cave. You're captured the instant you enter the cavern and are forced to fight in a arena. You escape and have to fight your way out with every room containing some of the worst creatures in the entire game. And the only way to escape the complex is to slay the Elder Brain. Have fun! - On top of being one of the most dangerous monsters in the game, Beholders are very scary looking. They're huge, flesh coloured heads with several eye stalks, massive mouths with razor sharp teeth and a huge central eye with a constant Death Glare to boot. - The wraiths in *Throne of Bhaal*. These... *things* exist solely to torment anyone they encounter by reading their minds, taking on the forms of their deceased loved ones, and then reciting all their deepest doubts, fears and failures to them, all the while "reminding" them how said loved one's death was their fault. It's borderline Mind Rape, and is enough to drive *Jaheira* to near-tears. - The wraith is particularly brutal with Aerie. It will make her think that her mother has been killed while searching for her and she will believe it for the rest of the game. Talk about trauma. - Irenicus's lab may become tedious in later playthroughs, but it's chillingly terrifying the first time you go through it. You've just recently escaped after weeks of torture and are now wandering around, no weapons, no armor, no spells, no companions except the equally weakened Imoen, Jaheira and Minsc. You have no idea where the rest of your friends are or what befell them. You have no clue what's going on, where the resident Mad Wizard is or when he'll be back. It's eerily quiet. And every door you open reveals horrors worse than the last. Brrr.... - Yoshimo's description of the Geas, and what happens to those who try to break it. - In *Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal*, Anomen asks Keldorn about one of the battles the older knight was in, clearly expecting a story about his legendary heroism. Keldorn instead tells him, dispassionately and in full detail, about how he and his unit were subjected to horrific atrocities. - To sum up: First, Keldorn's unit was betrayed to the enemy and decimated in battle. Second, the enemy captured them and stripped everyone naked, living or dead. They then tied each living knight to one of their dead fellow soldiers, and left them all on the battlefield. As they they were Forced to Watch their friends' bodies rot, some of them died of exposure or went insane. Keldorn escaped, saved everyone he could, and then sneaked into the enemy camp and killed everyone who had done this to them. It's a testament to his Heroic Willpower that he's *still* fighting after all of that. - In comparison to the games, the books' depiction of the spider-infested Cloakwood ruins were pretty damned horrifying. - All of Durlag's Tower. It's creepy enough on its own, with its trap-filled halls and powerful monsters. But bit by bit, the tower shows you what Durlag went through, why he built hate into the very stones of that place. All Durlag ever wanted was a home, a family, but it went so very, very wrong. - Throughout the tower, you will find both old bones and bodies of previous adventures, presumably killed by monsters or traps. How many traps did this place originally have before adventures started either disarming them or dying from them? - All in all, if Chapter 6 failed to scare you with how doppelgangers could steal the faces of your friends, Durlag's Tower and its backstory brings to the forefront how utterly TERRIFYING doppelgangers are. Sure, they may not be especially difficult in a fight (with exception of the spellcasting Greater Doppelgangers), but in a world where these creatures exist, how can you know from one minute to another that the person you're looking at is your friend or family member, or just a monster wearing their face? And as the game shows, when there's one...there's typically a bunch of them nearby as well, so who else can you believe in? Is it any WONDER why Durlag went batshit insane? - The teaser to *Baldur's Gate III* gives us a view of Baldur's Gate under siege, with dead Flaming Fist soldiers littering the streets. One survivor stumbles exhausted through an alley, preparing for a desperate last stand. Then suddenly he vomits blood, his teeth fall out, and a horrible transformation starts, culminating in four tentacles bursting out of his mouth. Seconds later, a newly born illithid rises into the air. And then a flash of lightning illuminates the clouds, and the sky is full of mind flayers. Then another flash reveals what can only be described as something big. Possibly Ilsensine himself. (The logo◊ seems to suggest it). - Even worse, this transformation we see is something that normally takes a week to complete, yet the poor soldier is turned in under a minute. Just what is going on? - One track on the original soundtrack - "Fighting for Survival" - *really* fits its title and manages to make any fight terrifying.

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Balto / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Spoilers Off applies to all "Moments" pages, so **all spoilers are unmarked.** - Within the first 15 minutes of the film, Aleu is nearly killed by a hunter she mistakes as a friendly human, who nearly shoots her point blank for looking like a wolf if not for Balto saving her at the last second. Suffice to say, this act traumatizes her for the rest of the film and fuels her self-loathing. - Balto undergoes a spiritual journey, which includes disturbing taunting red-eyed wolverines who disappear in thin air. - The mysterious demonic bear Aleu encounters in the cave. It's not remotely natural and waits until Aleu gets close enough to try and kill her before trying to hunt her down.

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Hetalia: Axis Powers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## Warning: Spoilers Off applies to Nightmare Fuel pages. Proceed at your own risk. - Belarus scratching at Russia's door and tearing out the doorknob when trying to "become one" with him. Not to mention the close up on her rather insane facial-expression or her repeating constantly "Let's get married!" Russia, who's pretty insane himself, even cries Tears of Fear when he's about to be cornered by her! - Anytime Russia goes into Yandere mode. And there's the "Bloody Sunday" strip, in which he finally snaps and starts gunning down his own people as they're rioting in the streets ("If they hate me, they're not Russian.") before turning to Lithuania and stating "We don't want children who can't play nice, do we?". One of the strip's first sentences is even "The country has gone mad!" - In the strip about the White Sea Canal, Russia is first subjected to heavy labour under terrible circumstances and with shoddy equipment (and repeatedly told by his boss, who by timeline should be *Stalin*, to suck it up cos it's Russia), then when the job is finished he is told by said boss it was All for Nothing after all because the measurements were off which meant the canal was too small to be used for the purpose it was supposedly built. Russia turns to the boss saying "What did you just say??" and nearly chokes him. - Russia is completely casual about walking into a meeting soaked in blood and mentioning that Stalin told him to destroy tanks with his bare hands, which it seems he did in fact manage to do. Your mileage may vary on whether this leaves you more scared *of* Russia or *for* Russia. - His extreme abuse of the Baltic Trio. Plus, Lithuania's wounds. - One strip/episode implies that Latvia is short because Russia's "shows of affection" are *slowly crushing his spine*. And Russia promptly tries to make up for it by *stretching him*. - The fact that the dub's version of "kolkolkolkolkol" was turned into "kill kill kill kill kill kill"... - Russia thinks nothing of his heart dropping onto the table in the middle of an Allied Powers meeting. According to him, it just "falls out occasionally". - Japan betraying China in the strip "The Story about the Early Days of China and Japan". Let's just say China was scarred forever because of it. - What makes it even worse is the drawing of Japan as he takes out the katana. It might just be the art style, but it looks like he's trying to actively resist doing it. Add in his quiet "Forgive me" earlier (said in response to visiting China late at night, but possibly as a prelude to the attack) and the possibility that nations are forced to obey their bosses no matter what, and we get that Japan was *forced* to attack his older brother. Whole 'nother layer of nightmare fuel right there. - *Paint it, White!* gives us a few good ones. For starters, there's the opening scene, with a woman running from a group of Pictonians chasing her. She thinks she escaped and found a police officer... Only to find out that he was just turned into a Pictonian himself! She just stands there, terrified, while she herself is converted. Then there's the final fight, where everyone but Italy is converted. It happens slowly, so we get to hear everyone screaming as it happens. And unlike the other people converted, the nations just *freeze* afterwards, while the aliens walk around them. - That woman mentioned? She's the only Pictonian victim who *never gets changed back*. That being said, she also chooses to Stay with the Aliens who pretty much made her their queen, so it probably wasn't too bad for her. - The Pictonians in general, really. They're probably the closest thing the show has ever had to real villains, plotting to take over the world by systematically erasing all forms of individuality and excitement, making the world as bland and faceless as they are. And if Italy didn't show them how great happiness and excitement can be, *they would have succeeded*. - England's creepy Black Magic ritual also counts. He wore a black robe, everything was dark and then he suddenly started chanting something...and then the magic circle on the ground started to shine and RUSSIA appeared. - Speaking of England's rituals, the full version of the song he sings at the campfire to which America yells that it feels like they are summoning the devil? It actually *is* a summoning song, with creepy lyrics about everyone burning ("let not even their ashes remain"), with a voice that sends chills down your spine. - There's also mention of Hungary's penchant for scary things. Given her at times disturbing elements in history (eg. Bathory), and her creepy aura as she plans on beating Prussia...it's best not to think about it too much. - There's also her response to Prussia getting away with Silesia: she crawls out from under Prussia's bed, like a character from a Japanese horror movie, creepily hissing for him to give back Austria's vital regions. - While still humorous, the anime version of Russia's scarf coming to life to strangle America is a bit frightening, possibly due to most of it taking place off-screen. - Kid Greece as a Creepy Child in *Beautiful World* episode 10. Teenage Turkey is telling a joke about the afterlife to him and Kid Egypt, only for Greece to start philosophizing, in a totally flat voice that maybe when we die there's nothing else and if someone erases proof of our existence, did we really live at all? Turkey and Egypt look freaked out. Thankfully Greece switches to talking about cats. - The closeup of evil Santa's eyes in "Hetalia of the Dead". - The nations appear to have a Good Thing You Can Heal factor going on, with Lithuania continuing a conversation with an arrow in his head and Russia being fine one scene after jumping out of a plane. Considering they appear to spend a lot of their lives on the battlefield or otherwise in danger, this has plenty of And I Must Scream potential too; there's no indication that they're immune to pain.

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Bambi II / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The "deer call" scene. The call does a spot-on imitation of Bambi's mother (and it's a creepy, gentle repetition of "I'm here...It's me...Hello...") which combined with Bambi's last shred of hope of seeing his mother alive again, almost gets him mauled by a pack of hunting dogs and shot. He's literally paralyzed with fear when he sees the hunting dogs on his way. - Just the whole situation up until the dogs is damn creepy. Alone in a deserted forest, a disembodied voice calling out to you, luring you out onto an empty field that is completely white and with nowhere to hide. And still that voice keeps calling. Bambi himself was pretty freaked out once he saw the meadow. He knew something was wrong but he just didn't want to give up hope. - A reminder this was based off of a scene in the original book, but with the parental fear intensified. The Great Prince catches up with Bambi, just in time to see a faint glimpse of the hunter's scope, and the sight of his son about to mauled by a pack of vicious dogs. He tries calling out to him desperately to run, only for Bambi to not respond. - It really hammers home that the deer, and the wild animals in general, don't understand what Man really is: another predator. Because none of the others use tools or weapons. But Man doesn't have claws or sharp teeth or strength or speed. They have their brain. And that has elevated them to a threat beyond the deer's understanding. They can kill from a distance, or mimic their dead loved ones, or mask their scent, or send other animals after them, and there's nothing the deer can do but hide and pray. Because there is no escaping Man in the end. He'll always come back. - When Mena is caught in the snare and hunting dogs begin closing in. Bambi meanwhile has locked up in terror from the sight of man like before, with Mena unable to break free and protect him, begging and screaming for him to run as the dogs get closer. Even when Bambi snaps out of it, it only intensifies as he decides to turn back and pull a Heroic Sacrifice and lure the dogs away from her. - Both of Man's appearances are signified by frantic birds flying away and giving a creepy distorted crow that sounds like a mix of a bird call and a human cry of "MAAANNN!". - During the final chase, Bambi tries to hide in the tall grass. All we can see are lumps of grass rusting where the dogs are searching and closing in on Bambi as he waits terrified. The near silence of the soundtrack as this happens only makes it more intense. - The moment where the final remaining hunting dog confronts Bambi on the cliff. The dog looms over him, teeth bared, lightning flashing... brrr. To give you an idea (because it's scarier in animation), look at the page image. Thankfully, it then turns into Awesome when Bambi bucks it off the cliff. - A lower key example, but Ronno emerging from the bushes to harass Bambi after being taken by Mena. Unlike his previous pompous taunting for most of the film beforehand, Ronno's goading comes off more sinister and closer to real life bullying, cruelly taunting Bambi till he finally snaps and gives him the vicious battle he wants. This gives a creepy allusion to the more bitter and terrifying presence he takes on as an adult shown in the first film, and it's only more unsettling since he's still just a child. **Ronno:** Hello Princess... - What makes the fight even more unsettling is that it's a *shot for shot recreation of the fight they have in the original movie.* - Ronno gets increasingly more vicious as the fight continues. At one point he has Bambi down he tries to grind him under his hooves as he tried to in the first film, leaving a nasty engravement on the ground where *Bambi's head was a second before*. After Bambi floors him twice, Ronno goes completely apeshit and bucks him viciously from behind with no regard for Mena in front of him. The last shot of the fight before they are distracted by the hunting snare going off is Ronno pinning Bambi to the ground ready to stomp him again in a rage. While this was conveyed as standard animal practice in the first film, the more humanised treatment of the midquel makes it more clearly a vicious extremely frustrated little kid trying to brutally harm the target of their scorn. - The entire film, when looked from the Great Prince's perspective, is packed with parental worries. His mate is killed by hunters—a mate who he seemingly never spent much with because of his duties as Prince, which must play on his mind. But he doesn't even get the chance to grieve properly for her: he has to focus on his responsibilities to the herd as well, and tries to grieve by not mentioning her at all and shutting Bambi down any time when Bambi mentions his mother. He's new to being a parent and can't seem to connect with his son. Just days later, his young son—the only thing he has left of his beloved mate and a son who he loves in his own way—is lured out into the open meadow, freezes while dogs get close to him. The Great Prince only just manages to fight them off and even his lecture towards Bambi shows just how scared he was. Then, when he finally manages to bond with his son, Friend Owl introduces Mena and Bambi is so sad that he wishes his father dead. His son leaves with Mena—minutes later, he finds Mena trapped with dogs chasing after his son. And when all seems fine and Bambi's defeated the dogs, Bambi falls off a cliff and seemingly dies. The Great Prince is obviously heartbroken—he just can't catch a break.

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Bambi / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In the book, Bambi and his father examine the body of a poacher who has just been shot dead note : Contrary to common belief, the poacher did not die from his gun backfiring. That sort of accident does not produce wounds of the type or in the location described in the book.: "Do you see how He's lying there dead, like one of us? Listen, Bambi. He isn't all-powerful as they say. Everything that lives and grows doesn't come from Him. He isn't above us. He's just the same as we are. He has the same fears, the same needs, and suffers in the same way. He can be killed like us, and then He lies helpless on the ground like all the rest of us, as you see Him now." There was a silence. "Do you understand me, Bambi?" asked the old stag. "I think so." Bambi said in a whisper. "Then speak." the old stag commanded. - Fun fact: this sequence was storyboarded to be included in the animated movie. Walt Disney himself intervened to say he found it too graphic and wanted it cut. Well, thank the gods for that.

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A Wrinkle in Time / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Black Thing - the grandaddy Eldritch Abomination, a kind of Outer God composed of pure, black evil. And it's always hungry. IT, a giant disembodied brain that enslaves or outright absorbs your mind. IT is the literalEldritch Abomination and Hive Mind that runs the entire planet of Camazotz, subsuming any dissenting minds within ITself and cowing the rest into fearful, blind obedience. Anyone placed in IT's tender care either ends up completely insane or absorbed into IT, with the only exception being Meg. And it's rammed home exactly what kind of eldritch horror the kids are dealing with when Charlesnote : All references to Charles in this section refer to Charles under ITs control. Normally, Charles was a loving little brother toward Meg. lets slip how IT thinks of ITself: Charles: IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist. An actual nightmare: all roads on Camazotz lead ultimately to IT. At one point, the kids are accidentally transported to a two-dimensional planet for a few seconds. It nearly kills them. IT's servant, The Man With Red Eyes, who talks about the potential enslavement of the universe in the politest terms possible and doesn't open his mouth when he talks. He lets the mask slip when he actually laughs at one point, a laugh that would not be out of place from a Lovecraftian Great Old One (which essentially he is.) Then he channels IT to take control of Charles Wallace... The rather casual, banal way which Charles explains how Camazotz deals with illness - even minor ailments such as the common cold. Charles: We let no-one suffer. It is so much kinder to simply annihilate anyone who is ill. Nobody has weeks and weeks of runny noses and sore throats. Rather then endure such discomfort, they are simply put to sleep. Calvin: You mean they're [literally] put to sleep while they have a cold, or that they're murdered? Tessering: what does nothingness actually feel like? If you're doing it properly, such as the Mrs. Ws can do, it feels mildly uncomfortable, like being in a walk-in refrigerator. If you don't, such as Mr. Murry's frantic tesser away from IT, you get hit with absolute-zero cold. Now combine that with the fact that they had to tesser through the Black Thing to escape. It damn near kills Meg, and even though she survives, it takes Meg a lot of time and very careful care from the Beasts of Ixchel to recover from that.

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Banana Fish / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The existence of Banana Fish itself. This is a drug that causes you bad trips after bad trips, trapping you in a nightmarish and painful version of the world created by your own mind. After Abraham "perfected" it, it was used as a way to brainwash their victims and make them believe that someone specific was the source of their pain and fear, prompting the brainwashed to kill innocent people, of course, even when they manage to assassinate their target, the fear remains and the victim of Banana Fish in their desperation kills themselves. Even if you somehow survive, you are still trapped in your own mind by the effects of the drug and there is no cure. - Throughout the story, we see several examples of how this works but the most heart wrenching example is of ||Shorter||. We're talking about a character that did everything they could to protect their friends and family, consequences be damned but Banana Fish destroyed them and ||Ash|| was forced to kill them before they could fatally harm ||Eiji|| - And even prior to that we see how is that the serum was put to work on ||Shorter||. They injected him with Banana Fish right in front of ||Eiji|| forcing him to watch the pain an horror take over his friend all the while Dawson was screaming over and over that ||Eiji|| was the cause of ||Shorter's|| misery and fear and that the only way to end the suffering was to kill ||Eiji||. The sheer evil and glee on the scientist's voice and face adds another nightmarish layer to the cruelty of the scene. - The abuse and harassment that Ash had to endure since he was a small child is nothing short of devastating and horrific. Starting with the fact that it all started when he was seven and by the hands of a member of the community that was highly respected and loved, so, no matter what he said, *no one* believed him and the only reason he was able to avoid getting murdered like many of that man's other victims was because he charged him, a callous advice his dad gave him because he thought it was too much of a bother to actually look into what his son claimed. This is also Truth in Television with many a victim not being able to get justice because their claims aren't believed. - Adding to this is that, even after it was demonstrated the man was a monster, no one bothered to apologize to Ash or tried to give him comfort, but rather he was cast aside and hidden away as if he was a nuisance, which in turn prompted him to leave for the city where new horrors would take hold of him. Dino would take advantage of his youth and beauty and had him prostitute himself for *years*, even having him be part of porn videos where he clearly suffered at the hand of grown men that only used him for their own sick pleasure.

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BanG Dream! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Yes, even for this franchise, there are some creepy things happening. - Although played for laughs, Taes expression after hearing the news of Space closing down is rather unsettling. - The entirety of the 6th Afterglow event. The atmosphere is creepy and tense the moment girls first step foot into their school after hours. - Moca mentioning the Seven mysteries of Haneoka, each a chilling tale. **Moca**: There's the midnight piano, the moving anatomy model, strangers in the mirror, the extra staircase... The sound of basketballs in the gym, the well... - You might have noticed that thats only six mysteries, and youre right. Moca doesnt remember the seventh. She remembers it later, however. This happens right before an unseen presence rushes at Afterglow, they all scream, and the screen turns white. **Moca**: They say the ghost of a student prowls the halls at night, looking for someone to play with, and playing pranks on people... - Somebody unseen mimics Tomoes voice, leading to confusion and fear from the five girls. - The girls start singing one of their own songs, and the piano inside the schools music room starts playing along... - The fact that the story doesnt even end with Afterglow all making it out of the school, making how they did a mystery. - The mystery of the well turns out to be Nightmare Retardant in the Cursed Well and the School Spirit event. Turns out the ghost in the well is just Kaoru, and the story of the ghost pulling students into the well at night was just Hina tripping and falling into the well, bringing Kaoru with her. - One episode of the first season of Garupa Pico implies Hello, Happy World freeze to death on top of a mountain. They actually made it back somehow, but the way they were missing their way in the mountaintop... - This Lisa card◊ is more than a little unsettling, what with her empty eyes and pale gray skin. This is because in the "Terrible Horror Night" event, it is revealed she is the true identity of the rumored ghost girl in red clothing at CiRCLE's rehearsal studio.

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Banshee / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Banshee presents itself as an idyllic town like any other... but don't believe it for one second... - The pilot episode features the real Lucas Hood gunned down in a shootout with two burglars. There's a massive hold in his right hand and he's bleeding fast. Right off the bat, this show makes one thing clear: This is reality, and in the real world, anyone can die. - In **The Rave** a bunch of kids at the party go into shock from a new drug, including Deva. Lucas manages to save her, but not the Senator's son. The scene of her and him foaming at the mouth is not pretty to watch... - The drug dealer responsible is tortured by Proctor, for causing the death of the state senator's son, and his finger is cut off by Burton and fed to one the guard dogs. Then Burton lets the dogs loose on him. You don't need to guess what happens next. - This scene also contains massive Squick due to the fact that Proctor cuts the dealer's finger off, then immediately goes back to eating, *with the same knife.* - Damien Sanchez, initially appearing as a charming and handsome MMA fighter, turns out to be a sadomasochist, as one Hooker finds out the hard way. When she tries to resist, Sanchez beats her and rapes her. - Lucas ripping the ear off of one of the Moody boys. - Carrie being assaulted by an abusive biker in broad daylight. If Siobhan hadn't come around the corner... the biker would not have received a quick death. - The bikers' retaliation at Siobhan for killing one of their own. They slash her car tires, force her out of her own house and then burn it to the ground. - Hood's beating at the hands of the Albino. He takes everything Lucas throws at him and counters it without a sweat. He even breaks Lucas' knuckles by blocking a punch with his elbow. Then he stabs Lucas in the ribs, non-lethally, leaving him a bloodied heap on the floor. - Hood's revenge is even more terrifying. After pretending to submit to the Albino, Lucas "asks for it." When the Albino exposes his genatalia, Hood stabs it, and summarily cuts it off. Despite this, the Albino fights back, attempting to strangle Hood, only to get his eyes gouged out. Even then, it's not until Lucas jumps onto his back chokes him, that he stops. And for good measure, he places the Albino's head atop a barbell, then drops a Dumbbell on the back of his neck. - His brutal assault on the Albino's "butt-boy" Billy beforehand was not nice either. - Two thugs hold Deva and several students hostage at her school. Carrie, who had just sold Hood out to Rabbit, now finds her daughter in peril and has no way of getting to her. Lucas gets this as well, when he sees it on the TV of the Motel room. - The fight Olek and Carrie AKA Anastasia. If you thought they might go easy on each other because of their bond, you would be wrong. **Dead wrong.** The fight lasts for the majority of the episode with both sides getting the better of each other at some point, Olek overpowers her due to his sheer strength, forcing Ana to resort to using whatever she can find as a weapon, from a chair to window panes, and even tries to hang him. None of it takes. What's even creepier, is the fact he's clearly enjoying every minute of it. - Max getting kidnapped while Carrie can't do a damn thing about it. - Lucas' torture at the hands of Rabbit and his men is not easy to watch, especially when the plastic bag is used to suffocate him. - The battle between Rabbit's men and the Banshee Police deserves special mention. Especially when Lotus shoots an RPG wielding member, causing him to blow up two of his comrades, **blasting their remains across the room.**

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Banjo-Kazooie / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Well, these *are* the guys behind *Donkey Kong Country* after all, not to mention the copious amounts of subtle adult humor.In order for Nightmare Fuel tabs to survive, a new writing style is going to be used, nicknamed **Example Lobotomy**. Basic rules: just list facts as they are, don't just say "character X" or "the X scene" (such zero context examples will be zapped), Spoilers Off, italics to be applied to works' names only and not to give emphasis on what tropers say. "X scared me" is already implied by the mere addition of that example by the troper. - All in all, there's actually a surprising amount of disturbing content in both games. And, as the characters themselves acknowledge, "this is a family game" - which might well be a shameless acknowledgement of what they managed to sneak past the censors. - The Game Over screen, true to Rare tradition, where Gruntilda succeeds at stealing Tooty's beauty: the former becomes a shapely, sexy villainess, while Tooty turns into a green monster and starts lashing at the camera repeatedly: "Banjo, your sister wants a word with you...now!". What makes it worse that, as it happened in *Donkey Kong 64*, the sequence is also triggered when quitting the game. All of this is backed up by the BGM, a brief rearrangement of the Click Clock Wood theme played by a Banjo and a Kazoo. - Treasure Trove Cove. A beautiful tropical island/beach area. Just be sure to stay out of the water... A great white shark, called Snacker, will suddenly appear out of the blue, and Suspiciously Similar Song of the *Jaws* theme kicks in. Also, one of the Jinjos and a honeycomb piece are underwater, several platforming segments take place across the water, and there are two occasions in which you absolutely need to swim for your life across a stretch of the sea. While this example may not be the most threatening in writing, it's fair to say that this was, to many, one of the most tense parts of the game. - Clanker's Cavern. You start looking around a horrible, oily, grimy, scrap-metal waste tank-like area, in stark contrast to the bright and cheery atmospheres of the last two levels, and finding the only way to go is through a narrow pipe in grimy yellow-brown water. You swim along the pipe, until you see what's on the other side. Razor sharp teeth. A giant, metal shark is looking right at you as soon as you arrive. - Not only that, but you have to go inside that metal abomination. Luckily, the creature isn't malicious in any way — the sharp teeth he has are used exclusively on garbage — but all the bloody looking stuff meshed in with all that rusty steel stuff looks rather discomforting. The music that plays sounds so melancholy it only adds to the creep factor. - The entire level in general forces you to explore underwater, worried about your oxygen meter, through grimy tunnels which seem to go on forever, and one even stops at a grill, revealing the main area, and the surface with air you would be able to relish if only you had more time... And enjoy the realistic drowning animation. - Early in the level you're going to have to swim to the bottom of the place to free Clanker so he can ascend, as both getting inside him and using him as a stepping stool is critical to finding around half of the items hidden in the area. The lock keeping him down is very very very deep underwater, so deep that your air gauge isn't sufficient to go straight down from the surface and then get back up before you drown. Your only source of air down there is a friendly fish who provides oxygenated air bubbles, but the finicky swimming controls make them hard to grab. And all the while you're down there, the music adds "helpful" Psycho Strings. Like so. - The same "Psycho Strings" soundtrack also plays, appropriately enough, inside certain sections within Clanker the Shark's body. - The above tension about drowning gets taken up to eleven in the later stage Rusty Bucket Bay, where the water is so polluted you can't even breathe while swimming on the surface. Not only that, you lose air twice as fast underwater. Oh, and in one section, Snacker's back. And this time, he doesn't talk. - The pyramid maze in Gobi's Valley; there is a maze in a mummy king's tomb. Said mummy king is pissed off that you broke into his tomb, and forces you to complete the maze. The maze is very frantic and fast-paced, and you only get about 60 seconds to complete it, with urgent-sounding, panic-inducing music playing the whole time and tons of enemies trying to attack you. The camera also does sporadic rotations that make it even more difficult, not to mention the fact that the Witch Switch is located in a seriously hard-to-reach place that's about as far from the exit as possible. All in sixty seconds. - While the maze itself isn't any more difficult than the one in Mad Monster Mansion, the consequence for losing is the player's controls are locked as the view goes first-person, looking straight up at the lowering spike ceiling... - One particularly unnerving enemy in Gobi's Valley are the Slappas, which are giant mummified hands that emerge from the sand to chase after and crush you. They aren't difficult enemies to deal with, but unlike most other enemies in the game, they don't have anything resembling a face or Rare's signature googly eyes to push them into Ugly Cute territory. Worse, when you kill them, you can see their bones and flesh when they break apart. - Mad Monster Mansion: although many claim it's supposed to be a "goofy, kiddie" ghost house, that still doesn't stop it from being very frightening with its giant ghost in the dining room, the nigh-invincible skeleton and ghost enemies, the creepy-voiced flower pots and creepy music in the churchyard as well as the creepy church with the disembodied ghost hand inside. - The Grimlets in Rusty Bucket Bay are especially terrifying. They're basically disguised as cowl vents with huge fangs that lunge at the duo when they get too near. They look like this◊ in the actual game, but their beta designs were◊ even worse. One tell-tale sign that the cowl vent is actually a Grimlet in disguise is by their relatively light gray exterior and reddish-brown interior. Another warning sign is that they menacingly growl and give a nasty glare if Banjo gets close; they will make a biting sound if an egg is fired. Grimlets are one of the few completely invincible enemies in the game - even the Wonderwing is ineffective against them and will make Banjo bounce back after touching these baddies. - The final area of Gruntilda's lair qualifies. Unlike the jaunty theme that's been played throughout the rest of the lair (and its various remixes near each of the world entrances), the music here is grim and haunting. Combined with the forboding architechture, it's a chilling indicator that Gruntila's through playing around — your adventure is almost over, and the Wicked Witch is playing for *keeps.*

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Barbarella / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The biting dolls are the most obvious example, with their prominent, pointy, razor-sharp teeth. They all have very demented appearances, some with blank eyes. The kids setting them to attack Barbarella also count because of how sadistically gleeful they look while watching Barbarella suffer, not to mention they make the dolls move slowly to drag the horror out. - The Black Guards have whips that let out human-sounding shrill screams when they use them. It's mostly just odd, but it can be startling the first time you hear them. - The Chamber of Ultimate Solution. Ostensibly a place to put an end to your life if you so desire, once you go in, *you can't get out again* if you happen to change your mind or even if you just entered by accident like Barbarella and Pygar did. The only choice given is between three doors or getting eaten by the Mathmos. Undeniably Evil Laughter can be heard coming from behind the doors, however the audience never learns exactly what is behind each one.

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