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Cell / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The idea of people going berserk worldwide. - And on top of that, the hive mind they develop... - The worst is that if you see someone bite some guy's ear off randomly in the street, what would you do? Call the police, your mom, the news, with your cell phone of course, without giving any second thought! - The mental domination of people that forced them to put the cell phones to their ears and dial knowing that they were doomed as they did so. - The hardback cover illustration is perfectly nightmarish: A cell phone with a shattered screen, oozing blood. Reflected in the blood pool is a man with no face, and behind him, a burning city. - After the Phoners start to develop mind control, the ways that they kill their enemies become horribly creative. The Head being forced to stab himself in the eye repeatedly with a pen, along with Gunner and his companion crucifying each other are probably only hints of what the Kashwak flock had in store for the protagonists. - Alice Maxwell's death. While some of the others in the book are more painful, her head injury results in a slow loss of memory and sanity over the course of several hours before she breathes her last. - The original book was first published in 2006, when cell phones seemed like they couldnt get more ubituous in everyday life. If you thought the premise was creepy then, it hadn't even scratched the surface of the damage the Pulse could do today, with smart phones, surf pads and similar devices connected to the cell networks.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Cell
Cheshire (Miraculous Ladybug) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Chloe's bullying campaign on Marinette is disturbingly effective at isolating her, and one gets the sense that she might have been Driven to Suicide if Plagg weren't there. The fact that she's willing to threaten to potentially ruin the careers and lives of her classmates and their families to get said classmates to bully her as well just adds to how nightmarish the whole thing is. And all because Chloe wants her mother's affection by tearing down a rival. - When Hawk Moth Akumatizes Kaalki, she breaks free and goes on a rampage to try and steal the Snake and Rabbit Miraculous in order to travel back in time and take out the first Black Cat, thus rendering everyone in the modern day Ret-Gone. - As it turns out, Plagg and Marinette's misfortune, and the antagonism of some of the other Kwamis and users, may have been at least in part due to the consequences of a Wish the Order made for prosperity, meaning that the Universe is literally conspiring to keep Plagg and his users enemies of the Order.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CheshireMiraculousLadybug
Chelsea / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Heeheehee.... - The whole premise is a bit frightening. You're trying to find an engagement ring that you bought for your soon-to-be spouse and you're confronted by dark and terrifying creatures that want to kill you. - Everything about the pedophile neighbour. It's shown that he had a daughter named Eve, whom he was overprotective with. He divorced his wife and abducted Eve, locking her in a basement. Eventually the girl died, and he...did things with her corpse. When Daniel finds the basement, he finds buckets of blood and intestines, broken toys and books about necrophilia. - Daniel witnessing the Theatre Man hanging in the lobby. Nothing indicates that he was murdered or if he committed suicide for some reason. - Anytime that the dark spirit (seen above) appears. In the school, the spirit has bursts of speed and can catch up to Daniel really quick. - That angel statue chase in the Lost Angels Mortem. If you have automatonophobia, this is sure to scare you.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chelsea
Cells at Work! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Pneumococci are pretty terrifying when they first appear, rising from the floor, their tentacles waving menacingly and their eyes glowing as they gloat about taking over the body. And while they're easily killed by the Neutrophils, the fact that one survived and was hitchiking around the body in Red Blood Cell's cargo is Paranoia Fuel to the cells in-universe... - Staphylococcus aureus, basically queen of the germs: she knew how to evade the Neutrophils because she mutated into a smarter, deadlier strain after clashing with them before, she set the stage for other opportunistic bacteria to Zerg Rush a wound, and she's a perfectly normal part of the skin's microbiome. But you probably already heard of her before from smash hits like staph infections, bacterial meningitis, and MRSA. - The Influenza infection is portrayed as a straight-up Zombie Apocalypse, with some horrific shots of innocent cells being infected with the virus and screaming in terror as they are quickly and painfully turned... and with no way back, forcing the immune cells to kill them to avoid them infecting more. - The scrape wound. To us, a little scratch that's no big deal. To the cells, a massive sinkhole as wide as a city block, with cells that fall through disappearing forever. To make things worse, there are also evil, alien-looking bacteria coming through the wound to wreak havoc upon the body, making the scrape wound basically a portal to hell itself spawning monsters... - They're the good guys, but the murderous rage of the Neutrophils can be quite terrifying to behold. Even the other cells are quite shaken to see the bloodthirsty heroes gruesomely eviscerating bacteria, then eating them. - Remember those tiny parasitic worms you see in documentaries? From the perspective of the body cells, they are gigantic monsters that destroy everything in sight. - The Pseudomonas bacterium of Episode 6 who invades some bone marrow doubling as a daycare centre for little kid cells; he doesn't need oxygen or a steady supply of nutrients, so he can go anywhere at any time. He just picked the marrow so he could torture helpless blastocytes for fun before killing them. - Cancer Cell. A grotesque, twisted, mutant version of an Ordinary Cell, now a dangerous and uncontrollable psychopath able to masquerade as one of the Ordinary Cells so he can secretly fill the body with cancerous growths until it's too late for the immune system to save the day. - The original Cancer Cell is mutated, but at least he's still obviously humanoid. The clones he creates, however, are hideously half-formed, ranging from white-haired humanoids with empty eye sockets to gruesome masses of living flesh with multiple twisted limbs and a single huge mouth. If enough of them clump up together, they create tumours with random teeth, heads, faces, and limbs that sprawl over everything in their path. - His backstory is even worse: he had been a blastocyte with genetic mutations, so he started off already scared of being hunted down and viciously beaten to death by authoritarian police for the sole crime of being born, even though he's still a part of the body just like everyone else. ... A part of the body that will destroy it if left alive, which Cancer Cell fully embraces because if he can't live as part of the body, no-one can. - The hypovolemic shock incident. Imagine the aforementioned scrape, but worse in every way. Millions of erythrocytes are MIA and/or killed, ordinary cells slowly choke to death because they can neither receive oxygen nor get rid of CO2 without those red blood cells, and leukocytes are overwhelmed with wave after wave of opportunistic infections trying to raid the body. Things end well thanks to a last-minute blood transfusion, but it's still the only time in the series that the body and their cells have been close to death, something that not even Cancer Cell managed to do. - The anime adaptation conveys this futility dauntingly well. After the emergency broadcast, we see everyone, from the Red Blood Cells to the Killer T-Cells to the Platelets, reluctantly steel themselves for what needs to be done as they prepare to face it. The next two scenes are of AE-3803, her kouhai, and U-1146 combing through the wounded area. The music is gone. A bustling city is completely deserted. Nobody is here. And in the background, as U-1146 stares on in stunned horror, the heartbeat gets louder and stronger, but slower. - The horror gets another layer once it's revealed that the wound which caused the hypovolemic shock get identified as a head injury. The organ that probably got cut off from blood supply? The human's brain. - We also actually "see" the injury when some poor red blood cells have to traverse it via a thin chain on a tiny ledge, and the contrast with the scratch earlier is mind-boggling. The latter was a block-sized hole in the ground. This, however, is a vast horizon-to-horizon canyon swallowing up the landscape. There was no way this person could've survived without medical intervention. - Cells at Work's depiction of heat stroke is surprisingly awful due to the cells having no ability to fix it by themselves. Fluid reservoirs dried up a long time ago and secretion cells no longer have backups to dip into, all natural methods for temp regulation are either not doing enough to help or failing altogether, a germ gleefully invades after the body passes out, and cells suffocate and crowd in the rising heat, comforting each other as they pray for a miracle. Compared to malignant cancer, traumatic head injuries, and COVID-19, heat stroke is pedestrian, but that doesn't mean it isn't hell on your body. Just... drink some water, okay? - A stampede of red blood cells getting trapped by the one-way door, pushed up against each other, banging on the windows and screaming for help, while bloodthirsty killers close the gap on the other end. There is a very specific reason why staying calm during an emergency evacuation gets emphasized. - The COVID infection. The virus by itself isn't much in combat... but it is incredibly sneaky, irritating, and extremely hard to put down without antibodies causing a cytokine storm. Then the immune cells start attacking everyone in sight. As if that wasn't enough, the damage they cause results in damage to the blood vessels, prompting the platelets to accidentally cause repeated thrombosis note : an excessive blood clot that blocks a blood vessel, and they even damage the pulmonary alveoli, almost killing the body from a lack of oxygen. Inhibitory cytokines are released just in time to stop the White Cells from destroying the body by accident... And they're appalled when they see the damage they caused.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CellsAtWork
Chicago By Night The Sacrifice / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes # General - Alan's true form being described as a bloated corpse that was covered in insects moving in and out of his body at all times. - Dolph's treatment of Aida is terrifying due to its similarity to real life Domestic Abuse and gaslighting. Nothing he does as a vampire is as terrifying as what goes on in the real world every day. # Intoxication - Malenkov's backstory about sleeping next to his mother's frozen corpse in Siberia before drowning his father in a horse trough. # Episode 8: The Best Drug - Dolph frenzying and \|\|diablerizing\|\| Genghis. His casual reaction afterward is what really cements it. There is absolutely no remorse.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChicagoByNightTheSacrifice
Chernobyl / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "What will happen to our boys?" This. "You are dealing with something that has never occurred * on this planet before."* — Valery Legasov Despite the fact it's a drama miniseries about a real life event, Chernobyl is never the less described as a horror series, perhaps even a Cosmic Horror Story, in terms because of said real life events. And by god, does it warrant this page. ## The Series - The trailer makes extensive use of a truck broadcasting "Vnimanie, vnimanie..." ("Attention, attention...") to signal the evacuation of Pripyat. - What's more disturbing? Many witnesses to the real tragedy have said, upon seeing the series, that the events shown were completely accurate to what happened. - The announcement itself has a calm, detached tone to the speaker's voice, as though making an announcement that the cafeteria will be serving carrots instead of peas for dinner. Granted, it's being done to keep the citizens from panicking, but the severity of the disaster makes the voice seem... inhuman. - The trailer won the 2019 Golden Trailer award for "best horror/thriller", even though Chernobyl is technically neither a horror series nor a thriller. - At 1:23am, Lyudmilla is making tea in her apartment, oblivious to the bright light coming from Chernobyl in the background. Then the light gets brighter, signaling an explosion has taken place, and she doesn't notice until the shockwave hits seconds later. When the camera pans back to the power plant after the explosion, there is a brilliant blue light shining straight up from the location of the explosion, like a spotlight. It's not a spotlight. What you are looking at is air ionized to luminescence by radiation, due to the reactor being exposed to the open air. What she is staring at is — for those working at the plant that night, and the firefighters rushing to put out the fires — the very maw of hell on Earth itself. - Some residents of Pripyat, including children, gather along a bridge to watch the distant fire, unaware that the thing burning is an exploded reactor core. And then, the wind picks up and all these flakes of ash begin falling like snow, collecting onto their hair and clothing, while their children start to play in that ash. To the viewers, fully aware of what's happening, this seemingly innocent scene is more terrifying than most slasher films. The next we see of them, they're all in the overflowing hospital, all with radiation burns. Including the same man and his infant son from the earlier scenes. He even begs Lyudmilla to take his son away from him, but she has no response and is instead horrified as she walks away to find her husband. To quote the epilogue crawl, it's been reported that nobody from the bridge survived note : Thankfully, the events surrounding the Bridge of Death have been proven to be nothing but an urban legend.. - After Perovozchenko sends Gorbachenko to find others and get them out of the building, someone passing by pauses just long enough to vomit blood on his chest before stumbling away. Gorbachenko gets distracted by Kudryavsev and Proskuryakov on their way to the reactor room, but such a small moment emphasizes just how nightmarish the entire situation already is for everyone trapped inside. - Kudryavsev and Proskuryakov are sent to Reactor #4 to manually lower the control rods into the core, only for Yuvchenko to tell them that the rods and the core don't exist anymore. Upon entering the ruined reactor hall, the two men find themselves staring into the gaping, flaming, hellish maw of what used to be Reactor #4. They quickly realize just how FUBAR the situation really is and hi-tail it out of there. A Youtube comment summarized what they were facing well: Staring right down the barrel of a high-energy particle machine gun that's sending a trillion x-rays, gamma rays, and neutrons a second straight through you and turning you into swiss cheese at the molecular level. Some of the neutrons even transmuting the very elements you're made of. The dispersing kinetic energy of the molecules they throw around in their path is so high it translates into enough heat that you can feel it all inside of you. One minute in an environment of 500 sieverts per hour. Enough for a lethal dose. Except it wasn't enough. Two of them actually go back and spend the rest of the night running around the reactor opening water valves in a futile sacrifice to try and put out the fire. You can't put out the fire. That dispersed kinetic energy coming from the very decays inside the fuel and graphite is enough to keep them glowing red-hot. No amount of water will. In fact after being spent, these materials usually spend up to a decade in an adjacent cooling pool before they cool down just enough to be able to be transported. - Another commenter managed to summarize it even better with utterly chilling brevity: - To add another layer to this: the radiation firing out of the core would take less than a minute to cause a fatal dose — and when you add in the billowing smoke, carrying with it a lot of intensely radioactive particles? Kudryavsev and Proskuryakov are doomed just by looking at it and breathing in the smoke for a matter of seconds. - If you pay attention, you can see Kudryavsev and Proskuryakov's faces turning red in the few seconds they are there. - The same thing (red face) happens on screen to Vasily Ignatenko when he climbs to the top of the rubble pile to put out the fire. This also happens to Sitnikov — ordered to report on the damage by Fomin (after Dyatlov, who originally wanted to go himself, vomits on the table and is hospitalized) with an armed guard forcing him to go — when he looks into that core from the roof of the vent block building. When Sitnikov turns his face towards the camera to show the reddened skin, he does it with a pained expression — making it plain that he knows full well he's already dead. - The dispatch calls made to the surrounding firefighting departments. The horrifying thing is that's the Real Life calls made the night of the explosion. note : It's why, during an English-made production, the dialogue switches to actual Russian. What you're listening to is the actual terrified panic in the dispatcher's voice... - At one point in Episode 1, a firefighter picks up a piece of debris out of curiosity. Unbeknownst to him, this is a piece of graphite from the core, one of the most radioactive pieces there were. Within minutes, the poor guy is on the ground screaming in intense pain, his hand horribly burned from the radiation passing through his glove. Worth noting this has been condensed for the sake of fitting events into a TV format — in Real Life, while the pain and swelling depicted is accurate, it took a few hours for the damage to become apparent, rather than a few seconds. - The view of the destroyed reactor core in Episode 1. Kudryavsev and Proskuryakov enter the refueling hall, which minutes ago was a large clean white room with all of the maintenance equipment in it, the floor of which housed the 2,000 ton lid of the reactor. They enter the hall after the explosion...and it is an absolute hellscape, billowing smoke obscuring almost everything and among the dust and debris, the open reactor, burning away below them. If ever there was a physical depiction of Hell, at that moment the two plant workers saw its mouth in Reactor #4. - The pump room for Reactor #4 isn't spared either; Yuvchenko goes to look for Khodemchuk, who was working in the pump room when the explosion occurred. He finds Degtaryenko lying injured near the pump room's entrance, and sees the pump room behind him, which is in such ruin the pumps themselves have been dislodged from the ground, and there is so much rubble from the collapsed ceiling the floor isn't visible. - Although not mentioned much in the series, the Real Life fate of Valery Khodemchuk: He was most likely in the southern circulating pump room when the explosion occurred. Either he was incinerated immediately in the blast or was caught in the rubble. Try not to think about the horror of that second option... - While it's no less tragic, it's agreed upon that because of his location in regards to the explosion, Valery Khodemchuk's death came about by being instantly crushed in the explosion. It's even implied on the show when Yuvchenko enters the pump room. - This video shows the various radiation levels of places in and around the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Standing next to the open reactor itself would be enough to give you a lethal dose in 30 seconds. Room 712 (where Akimov and Toptunov opened the valves to let water into the now burning reactor core) had enough radiation to kill a man after a 1/2 hour exposure. Akimov and Toptunov spent 2 hours there. They knew going in that they'd be dead men walking out of it. - As the helicopter carrying Shcherbina and Legasov approaches Chernobyl, the former orders that they fly over the reactor to get a good look at the damage. The latter tries to warn about the intense radiation that they will be subjected to if they do. Shcherbina tells the pilot to obey him or he'll be shot. Legasov retorts that if he does, he'll be begging to be shot within a day. - Just Legasov's tone as they see the smoke coming from Chernobyl is unsettling. A simple but horrified "What have they done...?". - Legasov's response when Shcherbina presses him for a solution after the true scope of the disaster becomes clear. - Later, a helicopter flies directly over the reactor to drop sand on the core, and the two men watch as it falls out of the sky. While the crash itself was caused by the chopper striking a crane, the incident was caused by the radiation interfering with communication with the ground, and from the look on Legasov's face, it was obvious that even if the pilots didn't crash, they were dead men. This was based on actual footage that was captured. - The crash itself is depicted as sounding less like a standard low velocity crash from that height and more like a splash when the copter hits the ground. That's the radiation-induced metal fatigue doing its work, rather than, say, terminal velocity. Now, imagine the crew inside basically having the structural integrity of water balloons because of the intense gamma exposure. They died fast, thankfully. - In order to gain an accurate reading of the radiation levels being emitted from the destroyed core, Colonel General Pikalov volunteers to drive into the plant in order to record the data. When he returns, he reports that the Roentgen levels coming from the core are far, far higher than the 3.6 Roentgen stated by Bryukhanov. It's 15,000. It's high enough that everybody at the plant is in danger, and with every passing moment the area that is contaminated with radioactive particles is growing. And growing. - The worst case scenario described by Ulana to Gorbachev, of what she thinks could happen if the radioactive lava melts into the plant's underground levels and comes into contact with the water tanks, sounds downright apocalyptic: Ulana: When the lava enters these tanks, it will instantly superheat and vaporize approximately 7,000 cubic meters of water, causing a significant thermal explosion. Gorbachev: How significant? Ulana: We estimate between two and four megatons . Everything within a 30-kilometer radius will be completely destroyed, including the three remaining reactors at Chernobyl. The entirety of the radioactive material in all of the cores will be ejected at force and dispersed by a massive shockwave that will extend approximately 200 kilometers and likely be fatal to the entire population of Kyiv as well as a portion of Minsk. The release of radiation will be severe and will impact all of Soviet Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Byelorussia, as well as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and most of East Germany. - Three men — the Chernobyl Divers — volunteer for a Suicide Mission, and wander through heavily irradiated water on their way to manually open a gate to drain the water when their flashlights go out, all while their Geiger counters are reading so much radiation that they're not merely clicking. They're screaming. note : In Real Life, despite everything they went through? All three men lived. Two were still alive when the series was filmed (the third, Boris Baranov, died of a heart attack in 2005). - After signs of the disaster have been detected in other nearby countries and news have begun leaking, Shcherbina hears that children have been warned to stay indoors in Frankfurt, which is a thousand miles away. At the same time he watches local children in Pripyat going about their normal business, unaware of the danger. - The children in Frankfurt were far enough away that they were never in any danger from the accident. The children in Pripyat? If you read the part about radioactive iodine above, you'll have some inkling of what they're in for. What's a good vector for radioiodine to enter the body? Contaminated milk. Guess what the children of Pripyat were drinking? Fortunately, thyroid cancer is one of the easiest cancers to treat, with a 99% success rate, so, really, there's nothing to worry about. Nothing at all. The children are fine. Just fine. - Per the 2008 UNSCEAR report into Chernobyl, about 160 people are known to have died from thyroid cancer as a result of the accident. Many of them were children. - The final stages of acute radiation syndrome. As Legasov points out, their bodies are so far gone from internal and external hemorrhaging that even morphine doesn't work because the veins are so damaged they can't inject it and the blood wouldn't be able to carry it. - Vasily screaming and crying in agony from the pain of his radiation exposure is very very hard to watch. - Vasily's condition deteriorates as the episode goes on, going from a little sunburnt at most, to blistered all over, until finally we see him in his last hours, pictured above. Every inch of his skin is just a wet patchwork of yellow, black, blue, and red. His mouth, eyes, and nose are black. Open wounds are bleeding all over his body. He's essentially a long-dead corpse that's still breathing. - We see Toptunov turning red, Vasily turning black and yellow, and even Dyatlov pale, white-haired and emaciated. But Akimov is kept offscreen. Later, Khomyuk mentions that by the time she met Akimov, he had no face left. Yeah, you've heard that right. An instance of Body Horror was apparently so extreme that HBO — no stranger to Gorn — was unwilling to show it. Think about that for a minute. - And yet, despite all the horror involved, the creators actually chose to leave out some of it for fear that it would look exploitative. According to the real Lyudmilla, Vasily spent his last two days vomiting parts of his internal organs, and his arm's muscles became dislodged from the bone when she raised it. - There's something very unsettling during the funeral of Vasily and the other ARS victims. Their bodies are so irradiated that a traditional burial or cremation isn't possible due to contamination risks. Instead, the bodies, still in plastic mortician bags as they're basically skeletons holding human sludge at this point, are put in lead-lined wooden coffins nailed shut, which are then put in zinc coffins welded shut, which are then put in a mass grave filled with several feet of concrete. Knowing that even in death, these people are still a danger to everybody for centuries at least due to all the radiation they soaked up, to the point that they can't even have a proper burial and must be disposed of like toxic waste... Radiation is the gift that keeps on giving note : In particular, even almost 40 years after the event, Vasily's firefighter uniform is still so radioactive that even being near it exponentially increases someone's cancer risk. - The later shots of the evacuated city of Pripyat. Its quiet stillness is unsettling, combined with the harsh realization of the nightmare just miles away unfolding. In Real Life, even today the Ghost Town is an undeniably spooky place to visit, especially at night. - The scene with the "bio-robots". It takes place in real time and we already know 90 seconds on the roof will give you a lifetime dose of radiation and a little more than that means death. We see the conscripts lining up and wearing pitiful outfits, mostly rubber with some home-made leaden armor. The bell goes and they madly rush out to the roof, and we watch one in particular struggle to lift up a few heavy chunks of graphite with his shovel. All their Geiger counters are going berserk the whole time. After 90 seconds, the bell rings again and they all run inside, except that one conscript, who trips and gets his foot stuck under a chunk of graphite. Precious seconds go by until he manages to break free using his shovel. He runs towards the door, stumbling and falling into a puddle of water, but eventually clambers inside. He takes a second to catch his breath and then looks down at his rubber boot. There's a tear in it. He's not mentioned among the fallen, either, but given the radiation levels on that roof... - Special mention has to be given to Reactor #4's wreckage, visible briefly when the camera follows said liquidator as he dumps graphite over the rail, taking care not to look over the edge. The camera gives us a brief glimpse of the interior of the ruined reactor, visible from above in the daylight. Even with sunlight above, the visual is horrifying; twisted lumps of metal can be seen everywhere, the reactor's lid is a tangled mass of bent control rods reaching up to the sky, and the entirety of what is visible is dominated by its wrecked remains. All while the Geiger counter in the background is basically screeching from the immense levels of radiation. - Three words: "You are done." They're directed at the poor soul from above who got his boot torn on the graphite. - A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment (2:52 of this video) shows the luckless conscript less than a foot away from what looks like a fuel rod, still largely encased within its graphite. - While briefing the Liquidators, Tarakanov shows footage of the working area. That is actual footage of the cleaning crews. - Combined with Tear Jerker in episode 4: The garbage truck dumping a whole mass of dead dogs and cats into a mass grave, the result of the liquidators being forced to purge all the wildlife in the area so they can't escape the containment zone. - In the opening, we see the citizens of Pripyat going about their daily business. The Ignatenkos are chatting with a neighbor, with Vasily playing with their kid. Then we see, in the store window's reflection, Dyatlov walking by on his way to work. The music seems to take a darker tone like he is the Angel of Death. - Episode 5: The disaster is shown, in all its horrifying glory, from the slow build up of Toptunov and Akimov's genuine concerns over something being amiss, Dyatlov refusing to listen to anything they say...and then everything goes to shit. - To begin with, the safety test goes up in smoke when the reactor stalls out due to xenon build-up. Rather than shut the reactor all the way down as they're taught to do, a royally pissed-off Dyatlov demands that they continue the test anyway and raise the power back up by any means necessary, including turning off almost all of the checks needed to stop the core from overheating (for perspective, this is like trying to fix a car that's not accelerating properly... by disconnecting the brakes and stomping on the gas pedal). And when Akimov tries to stand up to him... Dyatlov: Raise the power. Akimov: No... I won't do it, it isn't safe! ... Dyatlov: Safety first. Always. I've been saying that for 25 years. That's how long I've done this job, 25 years. Is that longer than you, Akimov? Akimov: ...yes. Dyatlov: Is it much longer? Akimov: ...yes. Dyatlov (turning to Toptunov): And you with your mother's tit barely out of your mouth? Toptunov: (silence) Dyatlov: So if I say it's safe, it's safe, and if the two of you disagree you don't have to work here, and you won't. But not just here, you won't work in Kursk or Ignalina or Leningrad or Novo-Voronezh, you won't work anywhere, ever again. I'll see to it. I think you know I will see to it. Raise the power. - It's not an idle threat either. Dyatlov's position was such that he could, theoretically, blacklist them from the USSR's nuclear power plants as well as fire them. Which means they'd not only lose their flats in Pripyat (one of the better company towns in the USSR, built exclusively for the plant workers and their families), but could also be unable to find work in their profession anywhere else in the Soviet Union, and would likely have to switch careers entirely. - But the AZ-5 button is supposed to shut down the reactor if the safety test goes awry, right? Wrong, oh so wrong. As it turns out, the Soviets knew there was a flaw in the RBMK reactor and kept it from everyone, even as someone as bullheaded as Dyatlov. Legasov put it best... - Not a nuclear bomb in the conventional sense, mind — rather, the water inside the reactor boiled to produce steam, and when the pressure grew too high, it blew apart the core, lifting the massive Upper Biological Shield with it. To elaborate further, the AZ-5 button was effectively the impromptu bomb's detonator because the boron control rods (which absorb neutrons, and slow the reaction) had tips made of graphite, which moderates neutrons and thus increases reactivity, and therefore the power output (when they were inserted, the high pressure inside the core damaged the rod channels and jammed them in place, with only their graphite tips actually inserted. One guess as to what happened next...) When a prosecutor asks the reason, Legasov gives a small tirade ending in a simple answer: Legasov: It's cheaper. - And once AZ-5 was pressed, the power shot up from 200 megawatts to 33,000 (over ten times the output the reactor was designed for) and led to the core exploding, but not before we see the lid covers (each of which weighs 350 kilogrammes, about the weight of a Grand Piano) start jumping and clanging randomly due to the pressure buildup (all while we see Perevozchenko horrifyingly stare at the lid covers and begin sprinting towards the control room, with Legasov tragically commenting there's nothing he can do to prevent the disaster at this point), only for it to immediately explode upwards, opening the core. And it becomes worse as Legasov describes oxygen entering the core, ending the chain reaction with causing a bigger explosion, all while the scene shows the graphite control rods flying out of Chernobyl and the eerie radioactive blue light rising out of the burning crater. Legasov: At long last, we have arrived: 1:23:45 — explosion. In the instant the lid is thrown off the reactor, oxygen rushes in. It's combined with hydrogen and super-heated graphite. The chain of disaster is now complete. - When Legasov announces that the reactor hit 33,000 megawatts before exploding, the entire room is completely and utterly silent. It's as if you can see the exact moment that everyone, even Dyatlov, realizes that yes, RMBK reactors do explode. In reality, much like the 3.6 roentgen initially reported as the radiation level, this was merely the highest amount of power that the meter could display; indeed, Legasov acknowledges that 33,000 megawatts couldn't have been the actual power output given how far the deadly combination of terrible reactor design and a tyrannical Pointy-Haired Boss calling the shots had caused things to spiral out of control. Estimates done in the years since indicate that at the moment of actual explosion, the power inside the reactor was on the order of 300,000,000 megawatts - in other words, 300 . As a fair comparison, this is about terawatts seventeen times the amount of power used across the entire planet. - For less than a second at 1:23:44, we get to see Valery Khodemchuk doing his job at the circulation pumps when, all of a sudden, the pressure buildup makes some of them blow their lids. As he looks at the pipes in confusion, we know that in the literal next second, he will die in the explosion, with his body so far deep in the facility that it can never be recovered (and still rests there today, since the pumps are still completely inaccessible). - Note one thing too after the lid is thrown off: Dyatlov is shown to be terrified the minute the first explosion is felt, the complete sense of dread and realization that shit did go wrong...and then when the second explosion happens, he's shown with his head hung low, arguably unable to process the disaster and the eventual lead to him sending others to their deaths due to his own refusal to accept the reactor exploded. - The background status panel, which lights a section when one of the 200+ lid covers is removed... lighting up entirely, showing the lid is GONE. - The actual explanation of how AZ-5 caused the explosion takes a full three minutes. As Legasov narrates, it actually took place in five seconds. The amount of time from Akimov making the best choice he could and pushing what should be the stop button to an explosion that destroyed countless lives and endangered even more was . 5 seconds - The tangled-up mess of control rods, lit up by the eerie glow of the core as it begins to burn up, looks like nothing less than the birth of a dark god or the opening of the gates of Hell. Or, considering the insane amount of radiation at this moment, Death itself. You thought the inside of Reactor #4 was scary in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.? Reality was scarier. - The script's description of the second explosion is horrifying. CATACLYSM —as the true power of the atom is finally released. In an instant, the building becomes a VOLCANO. Nuclear forces explode up and out, and turn NIGHT INTO DAY. A PLUME OF DEBRIS is sent ROCKETING 1,000 METERS INTO THE AIR, as if shot from the center of the earth itself. A HAILSTORM of BURNING GRAPHITE comes raining down from the plume... and as the last bits of deadly debris clatter back to the surrounding roof and ground... ...a thin BLUE LIGHT materializes in the air, shining straight up and down between the open reactor and the sky, piercing through the choking black smoke. The BLUE LIGHT widens... a color we were never meant to know... a glowing column connecting the earth and the heavens. A trillion atoms set free. Death, the destroyer of worlds. - Legasov's arrest by the KGB. - Arguably the biggest NF of the entire show isn't just the fallout of Chernobyl, it's the fact everyone refused to acknowledge or accept how fucked up the situation was. Dyatlov is obviously a big example of someone who was in heavy denial over the disaster and refusing to see that yes, the core exploded, but you also have Fomin, Bryukhanov, and arguably all of the Soviet government, who would rather hide and play off the idea that there was no way the reactor would have exploded. It becomes more clear that the true horror of Chernobyl's disaster wasn't just that, but also those who wanted to lie and cover their own asses. - The music of the entire series. If it is even present, it consists of mostly Scare Chords and metallic grinds which sound like something from Silent Hill, and those rare times that seemingly hopeful music appears, it is in scenes that are definitely not hopeful (like the bridge scene above), somehow making them even scarier. - Who ever (Hildur Guðnadóttir) decided to give the radiation a damn Leitmotif deserves an Academy Award. note : Which she actually got for the same year's Joker. There are no Academy Awards for television, but she slayed at the Emmys and Grammies all the same. It is nothing more than scratchy noise, and you first hear it when the plant workers look into the exposed core for the first time, but any time after it, it is haunting, and usually plays over the regular score when characters on screen are getting exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. - One particularly eerie track is Waiting for the Engineer which plays most prominently when Legasov first reads the report on the initial explosion and when Lyudmilla hugs Vasily in the hospital. It starts off with an ethereal, ghostly melody before transforming into, as a commentator accurately put it, something like the sound of a growling, furious beast. Both in and out of context of the show, it sounds like the kind of music that would play during a Nightmare Sequence. - Overall, the scenes actually featuring the destroyed reactor are absolutely terrifying. It's often only seen in quick glances, to remind you that for the people there, looking at it for more than a second or two meant acute radiation burns, poisoning, and death. With its opened maw, the twisted remains of the control and fuel rods looking more like tentacles than bits of metal, the ominous buzzing sound of the music whenever it is seen, and the absolutely hellish things it does to people who so much as look at it unprotected, the show makes Reactor Number 4 seem more like an Eldritch Abomination trying to claw its way into our world than something man-made. Suddenly, this makes the premise that nuclear radiation can even alter the reality itself, as shown in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro 2033, doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chernobyl
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The entire premise. If you drink, smoke, have unprotected sex, eat unhealthily, or just plain overwork without rest, your body will eventually give up, refuse to work and will almost die of heart attack. - The way bacteria are depicted here. Unlike in the main series, where they act as typical shounen antagonists, here they are monstrous Humanoid Abominations who show no mercy and kill everything in sight. Compare the pneumococcus of the main series (who was your standard Card-Carrying Villain) to the ones in the first chapter, who look more rugged, only emit growls and don't even try to communicate with the red blood cells, just killing them. The gonococcus of chapter 4 are even worse, looking like huge phalic monsters from some tentacle porn hentai who leave lots of pus (i.e. neutrophil corpses) around the body. It doesn't help that they have some rape vibes in the way they fight and kill neutrophils, nor that they have tentacles that not only also have form of penises, but they have eyes and mouths too. - A bit of Ascended Fridge Horror...remember how fans have wondered what autoimmunity would look like in a setting of cells as people? Here we get to see... and it's the Killer T Cells, so overworked from the harsh conditions of the body that they've gone insane and started to murder the body cells themselves, thinking them to be enemies. - Their appearance in the chapter only makes it even more horrific. The T Cells are brutally beating up the hapless Hair Follicle Cells, with their bare fists, or hammers twice as big as the Killer T's are, and while they look like berserk animals, you can't help but feel that they're also terrified, fighting for their lives and the host body's, being constantly whipped and kept in this state of frenzy by the well-meaning Commander T Cell continuously releasing cytokines. - The effects that carbon monoxide from smoking have on Red Blood Cells. It makes them insane, turns their eyes blank and makes their veins visible from their bodies. It also leaves them vulnerable to the attack of the ferocious bacteria mentioned above. - What's even worse, this is the result of the body relapsing after not smoking for ten years. The Cilia Cells were just getting it clean enough to semi-function at normal levels again when it happened. - Gout: giant, crystalline structures that completely destroy huge swathes of cellular districts, that the Macrophages and Neutrophils can't even make a dent in, and this is after they pull out the bazookas and the assault rifles. - The Hepatocyte in Chapter 6 appears weak, disheveled and with bags under her eyes from being overworked. Given that she's in that state because of the body's owner's excessive alcohol consumption, it's impossible not to draw some unsettling parallels. - When the Red Blood Cells are tasked with transporting too much glucose, they become glycated. This is depicted by them burning alive. This happens multiple times in the later chapters. - After the body starts recovering from depression and making efforts to quit smoking, we are treated to some of the other cells making progress in their lives in the tailend of chapter 36. K-9999, one of the Lung Cells involved during the pulmonary embolism chapter, is fit to start interviewing for work at the lungs... but when he's rejected, he starts succumbing to despair and showing deformities. Those familiar with the mainline manga will recognize the deformities as being from Cancer Cell. - Following from the above, K-9999 follows a mysterious voice to a collection of cells, all with his resemblance, and every single one of them morphing into cancer, beckoning him to join the bunch of rejects. - Cancer Cell's metastasis is depicted as numerous copies of his twisted form manifesting all across the body from every nook and cranny. The body's means of combating it is through radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The former is depicted as a laser beam that fries Cancer Cell from above. The latter is a carpet-bombing with drugs, and the regular cells aren't exempt from its effects. - Compared to regular Cells At Work, who consider the body an impersonal "world" and don't generally question why disasters keep befalling it, the cells in CAWB seem to be more aware of the body as controlled by some entity that's providing them with such a hostile work environment. They somehow know most erections and ejaculations are non-procreative, they're aware that the poor diet and intake of smoke and alcohol are probably an attempt to cope with stress, during the gout breakdown Red Blood Cell furiously insists that the body will hear the cells screaming if they hurt it, a stomach cell yells "Scumbag! Chew your food properly!", they interpret tears as signs of remorse... This is disturbing in either direction. To the cells it's either God Is Evil or in a general sense of helplessness (most likely the latter in terms of the body in question throughout the story). From the human side, it's bad enough to be under constant stress, turning to addictive substances and risky behavior to make things bearable, and medicating heavily for an endless list of health problems without that harming other people, who're aware and critical of your every action.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CellsAtWorkCodeBlack
Chicago Justice / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Dawson and Nagel, in the episode "Double Helix", speak with a woman they believe was the last to see the murder victim in question alive. She is holding a baby. When she turns around, the baby is clearly dead.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChicagoJustice
Chicken Chicken / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The protagonist Crystal (and her brother) are both transformed into chickens agonizingly slowly, over several days, in rather graphic detail. This includes lovely paragraphs describing how their human eyes move to the side of their heads, their own teeth sink into their gums, and finally how their fingers become bony claws and talons. Also, Crystal's lips harden into a beak at her best friend's party and she just asks for some chapstick (assuming the change has a natural cause). - At several points in the book, a rumor is mentioned about a trouble-making kid who got his head mutated into a huge sponge by Vanessa. Troy Steele thought of this as an annoying gag. However, considering what Vanessa did to Crystal and Cole, it probably wasn't just that... - The sheer amount of fear and humiliation the children go through is horrifying. Crystal grows a beak in the middle of her friend's birthday party while eating cake, leaving her unable to eat (and almost causing her to choke); later, both children grow feathers on their arms and necks, which they have to painfully pluck out (leaving holes). And this is before the extreme physical changes begin. They also start acting like chickens against their will, clucking when they speak (with Cole breaking into clucks in the middle of a musical solo at school) and pecking seeds off the ground in the chicken coop in front of the neighbors (who laugh at and mock them). Finally, Crystal ruins her chance at being the star of her basketball team by running and bobbing her head like a chicken in the middle of a game, and grows feathers all over her legs (causing her to run away in tears). As the icing on the cake, Crystal smells freshly baked doughnuts on the way home and begins to cry, wondering if she'll ever be able to enjoy food again. - To top it off, Crystal and Cole's parents don't even notice that any of this is happening! When the children try to show their mother the physical evidence that they're changing into birds, she just scolds them for being hysterical and continues preparing roasted chickens for the neighborhood barbeque. When they start acting like chickens at the barbeque, their parents — rather than being troubled that their children are behaving like animals — become angry at the kids for embarrassing them. Then, to top it off, their mother gets upset that they don't want to eat her roasted chicken. It's Adults Are Useless taken to such an absurd level, it makes you wonder if Vanessa had a hand in it.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChickenChicken
Chicken Run / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Mrs. Melisha Tweedy. In addition to being Aardman's version of Adolf Hitler (the farm is designed like a Concentration Camp, and the pie machine is an Expy of Hitler's "shower rooms"), she's been favourably compared to Maleficent as a cold, calculating villain, carrying her plans out with chilling precision (not to mention having similar personality traits to Cruella De Vil, which includes a bad temper and wanting to harm animals). Her presence alone commands fear in everyone on the farm, from the chickens to her own husband/accomplice, because they know just how cruel she can be if and when she feels like it. Case in point: her very first scene has her standing in the doorway of the farmhouse scowling, fists on her hips... while wearing a plush pink dressing gown, slippers and a nightcap. The fact that Ginger, Mr. Tweedy and the guard dogs all cower in fear from her when she looks like this immediately establishes just how much of a threat she is. Her plot to kill all the chickens and turn them into pies also draws comparison to Sweeney Todd, with none of the sympathetic qualities of the plays' protagonist. She quietly grins when taking Edwina to "the chop." Subtle, no, but it establishes that this isn't just a job for her. She enjoys it. Although this changes when the pie machine comes into the picture, but there's no change in her sadism. There's also her name, Melisha. When you think deep, it makes sense as to why. You couldn't think of a more threatening name than the corruption of malicious, the very adjective of malice. The similarity to "militia" also fits her fierce, martial nature, and the fact that the farm has some militaristic looks to it. Her coldness throughout the film makes her Villainous Breakdown into a menacing, Axe-Crazyanimal all the more horrifying. By this point, she's acting purely out of vengeance and Blood Lust, swinging her hand axe around and making incoherent screeching noises in murderous fury with her hair in a nasty mess. Her look of sadistic glee when she (supposedly) cuts off Ginger's head shows just how much she's succumbed to pure primal rage. Even after her defeat at the hands of the exploding pie machine, her face covered in gravy and sweat and her hair messed up, she's trembling with rage and probably would have continued her rampage had she not been crushed by the barn door. Mrs. Tweedy gleefully snapping her red rubber gloves at the roll-call... and then putting them on as she takes Edwina into the chop. No wonder the chickens are terrified when you realise what they're for. Mr. Tweedy, despite being a bit slower than his wife, proves he can be just as brutal when he first throws Ginger in the coal bin and barks at the other chickens, without a hint of irony in his voice, "Now let that be a lesson to the lot 'a 'ya — no chicken escapes from Tweedy's farm!" When Mrs. Tweedy tells him to get a chicken to demonstrate the pie machine on, he decides It's Personal and tells her he knows "just the one." with his face dropping to a more stern look. The Tweedy's vicious guard dogs pull no punches. They're very intimidating. In the opening, Ginger is cornered by the dogs and she uses a garden gnome to defend herself... only for one of the dogs to bite the gnome's head off and continue to advance on her chewing on the broken pieces. The entire escape scene in the pie machine. While exciting to watch, it's clear that one false move or improper timing and Rocky and Ginger would not make it out alive. There's a reason Nick Park described it as "the Death Star of chickendom." When Rocky is sent down the chute with the vegetables, the passageway switches from "Veg," with the letters painted bright green, to "Meat," with letters painted blood red. It's small, but rather startling when you look closely. And for good measure, we're treated to a brief-but-harrowing shot of Edwina's bones on a plate after the Tweedy's have her for dinner, which is also accompanied by an unsettling woman's song being played from a nearby radio. The gut-wrenching fear of the similar scene later when a smiling Mrs. Tweedy kneels down to measure the praying-for-mercy Babs. Even when you know she's not getting taken to the chop, it's enough to see just how terrified she is that she thinks she will. We also know that there's a much worse reason she's not being taken to the chop. Related, but we know that the flock have probably seen many of their fellow hens go to the barn and never come back but obviously the chickens have had to be properly prepared after slaughter. The Tweedys have to take the chicken back into the house to be cooked, and theyd be walking past the hen coop. Its very possible that the hens may have seen the plucked corpses of their friends. Mrs. Tweedy turns out to simply be measuring Babs girth due to her being the fattest chicken on the farm, and smugly orders that the chicken feed be ramped up as she wants them all as fat as her. The chickens are too excited at the prospect of extra food to think it through, and just start gorging themselves like the dumb animals Mrs. Tweedy thinks they are. Had Rocky and Ginger not been there to knock some sense into them, every chicken wouldve indeed grown fat, and by then, any escape attempt likely wouldve failed given their extra weight and slower speed. Once Ginger does point out whats going on, the chickens are shown to be silently staring at their food, unwilling to eat another bite as they grip with their mortality. During the climax, Mrs. Tweedy, after getting hit by Rocky on a tricycle, almost gets decapitated by her own axe when it lands on the ground next to her head. She's the main villain after all, but imagine if it actually struck her head or neck. Small wonder she passed out in shock when it barely misses her. The "Game Over" screen from the tie-in video game. If you get caught, you are treated to a black screen with whoever caught you- the Tweedys or one of their guard dogs- looking fierce. It's relatively tame by itself, but the sheer size of those Game Over Men, coupled with the loud music that plays on this screen, make it serve as a surprisingly effective Jump Scare.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChickenRun
Chick Tracts / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Ashley Wilson's hallucination of her face melting in "Bewitched?" While the demons in the same tract are little more than mouthpieces for Jack Chick's bizarre views and conspiracy theories, their appearances are distinctly discomfiting. With faces like melting wax, they look like they could fit in well on a trippy psychological horror movie, if they would just stop ranting about ecumenism. At the end, Satan actually seems threatening when he threatens an underling who failed to keep Ashley from being saved: —I have ways of making you really sorry. In "No Fear?": After Lance commits suicide and his friend Dolly is saved from the same fate by converting to fundamentalist Christianity along with her sister, they just forget about him, as if they're happy that they didn't end up in hell like Lance, who has just burned up and vanished into "the darkness outside". Seriously, they have no respect for the dead or even visit them, which brings out the "Christian" message that people should only care about themselves and forget about others if they die heathens. Lance has a fairly terrifying scene in Hell. First his leg catches fire, then his entire body is ablaze, then the scene fades to black with only his screams. This time, Chick didn't settle for people falling into Hell and/or the Lake of Fire, or surveying their new surroundings in despair, but actually showed what it's like to burn alive. A probably unintentional example of nightmare fuel occurs in the same tract, when a cat turns its head around like Reagan from The Exorcist to look at two demons outside of a window. While this is probably just a poorly executed drawing, the cat doesn't look like something that you would want to meet in a dark alley. Some of the tracts are a little jarring, like "The Thing", especially the final. Satan's appearance at the end of Somebody Goofed and Oops! He has this weird mix of positively goofy and grotesque that manages to somehow combine into disturbing. While the dialogue's ridiculous, the face sure isn't. "Lisa," and the thought that someone somewhere may actually believe that raping your elementary-school-aged daughter and sharing her with a neighbor - oh, and also giving her herpes, apparently - is something that can be fixed with a little prayer. If Jack Chick's monstrous interpretation of God would forgive that so easily, then why not just hang with Satan? Or the Papal Conspiracy? Oh, and the doctor, instead of calling the fucking police, decides the way to handle the situation is to convert the dad. Because they don't want to be forgiven. It's not just that everything is fixed because you tell Jesus you're really sorry, but in Jack Chick's world there's no real problem with raping your children as long as Jesus stops you in time. It takes more than just four or five months of regular gang rape before they get hurt from it. (Except for the herpes.) Also... if the child goes to Heaven. She then has to spend all eternity in the same place as her abuser, who is there by virtue of his accepting Christ. Which from her point of view means it soon stops being her Heaven and takes on overtones of somewhere else. The entire "The Sky Lighter" tract. Especially considering the fact that it is Abdulla's own grandmother who is trying to get him to blow himself up. And the fact that Abdulla blows himself up- and everyone else around him. Imagine surviving that and becoming deformed- or just witnessing it. And just the concept that the Deity who is supposed to love you would actually want you to do something so horrible. No wonder Yusuf is the only sane man in the entire tract. There's also the fact that she doesn't bat an eye when her daughter-in-law dies in childbirth, and is merely annoyed that her husband failed in his suicide bombing mission. Imagine growing up in or marrying into a family that sees you as expendable. The whole concept of a God that tortures people forever if they do arbitrary things like celebrate Halloween or play Dungeons & Dragons or simply doing missionary work to help improve people's lives without forcing religion down their throats. Made all the more disturbing in that the author apparently thinks that his interpretation of God is "benevolent". Gods behavior in "Uninvited" is even worse. According to the comic all homosexuals are the way they are because they were possessed by an evil spirit after being raped/molested. Chicks version of God sending people to hell for something that was forced upon them. A benevolent God, indeed. God being depicted as a non-faced humanoid is also rather disturbing. The atrocious art means that even totally innocent things (kids' faces, pets, etc) frequently lapse into Unintentional Uncanny Valley territory without meaning to. And don't even get started on the actual demons... Sure, Dark Dungeons was really bad, but it still had some creepy things like the image of Marcie's body hanging from the ceiling after she committed suicide or the Dark Dungeons' GM's Villainous Breakdown when Marcie wants to quit. And it's highly implied that Marcie committed suicide in front of Debbie. No wonder she spends the rest of the tract in a Heroic BSoD. Keep in mind, unless you've got that knot just right, it can take a while to die from hanging. So, either Marcie is secretly an expert on knots (and not simply a RPG skill) or Debbie is a bitch for standing there and watching her die. This one, which talks about the end of the world, has a picture of a man outside of his car being pulled up towards heaven, with the caption, "You never know when your time is up." Think about that for a second. Imagine you're in your home, and suddenly you get pulled towards heaven against your will, never to return to Earth again. You have no way of knowing when this is going to happen. "The Letter" has the most horrible nightmare fuel in all of Chick's production. The story is about an unmarried woman who apparently has one close friend that she loves and cares about more than anything else in the world. (And as an aside, deliberately or not, the writing makes it very easy to read more than friendship into their relationship—She even has her photo on her nightstand.) But this woman (who is a Christian believer, though implicitly a liberal one) never talked with her friend about the faith, fearing that this would end their very close friendship. And now, she learns from an angel that this woman that she loved died last night, and is now in hell forever—And it's her fault, because she was selfish and valued being together more than saving her friend from everlasting torment. The woman isn't one of Chick's usual strawmen: she is presented throughout as both a sincere believer and a sincere person. Still, she caused her beloved friend to go to hell, because she loved her too much, and at the same time not enough to let her go. We also see the other woman tormented in hellfire, and sad and confused that her friend, who knew, did not warn her of this. The opening panels of the Bully are utterly disturbing due to the main character, Harry Boswell. This son of a bitch, in the opening panels, establishes himself as a thoroughly reprehensible human being. The man has such an irrational hatred of religion that when the man he is drinking with, Andy, mentions that his wife is taking his daughter, Ashley Boswell, to church, he flips out, and threatens to kill Andy and his entire family if his daughter takes up religion, and right in a bar no less, in front of the bartender, who does nothing. When he leaves, for some reason, Andy tells the bartender not to call the police, due to how nuts and dangerous Harry is, despite the very real danger there is to his wife and Harry's daughter, Ashley. Then we learn that Harry destroyed his wife because of the fact she was religious, and will do the same to his daughter if she becomes religious as well. When Ashley is driven home by Andy's wife, Megan, Harry is waiting for them with a massive stick, and forces Ashley out of the car and into the house, before threatening to burn Megan's house down, with her entire family in it. Then we learn that every time his wife went to mass, he would beat her, and enjoyed throwing out her Bibles when she died. The icing on the cake of it all, however, is when he forces his daughter to give up religion by making her promise to and threatening to throw her out if she doesn't, and then gets her addicted to alcohol, preferring her passed out and drunk than religious, even smiling at the sight of her unconscious. Only when he has a near death experience and sees hell does he stop being such an asshole, but his actions in the opening are so completely monstrous, one cannot help but wish he had died and went to hell. His HeelFace Turn is the only thing keeping him from being irredeemable. "The Mad Machine" shows a rather subtly (well, for Chick) painted near-future dystopia that does not depend on Catholic conspiracies, Antichrist's world government or demonic puppet masters to be horrifying. Instead, it's just all the little madnesses and social problems of real life, amplified just a little to show that the world is damaged and getting worse: an eerie vision of financial turmoil, international tension, politicians with no solutions, sad clowns and scared citizens who turn to psychiatry, prescription medicine and drug abuse to escape their growing sense of wrongness. It's a very different type of horror from Chick's usual stories, but very effective in its own way. Further, the narration is written in the style of a madman's stream of consciousness: IT SEEMS PEOPLE CAN'T STAND THIS RAT RACE THE THREAT OF WAR SKYROCKETING PRICES ALONG WITH MASSIVE FAMINES ON THE HORIZON JUST BECOMES TOO MUCH FOR MANY PEOPLE Chick Tracts all have some Fridge Logic in that it seems like the rules for who gets to go to Heaven will mean that most of the world's population will wind up in Hell. Not a Christian? You go to Hell. Wrong type of Christian? You go to Hell. Right type of Christian but follow Christianity in the wrong way (like doing charity work instead of evangelizing)? You go to Hell. Pretty much everything seems to get you sent to Hell. The real scary part though? It's not Fridge Logic. It is stated in several tracts that most of humanity will wind up in Hell. The young man at the center of "Trust Me" when, upon going to prison following his arrest for selling drugs to an undercover cop, he is very strongly implied to have been gang raped, resulting in his contracting \|\|and eventually dying from\|\| AIDS. Worse yet, not only do the guards refuse to intervene, the panel where one inmate grabs him while saying "This sweet thing is mine tonight" - the prison guards is actually smiling as he's about to witness a prisoner being raped.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChickTracts
Channel Zero / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Come Back Home Mike Channel Zero is a horror anthology series based on some of the spookiest tales to come from the internet. Naturally, the frights are real. - The episode starts with a literal nightmare, as Mike's triumphant interview about his award winning book gradually morphs into something far scarier. First, the interviewer brings out a telephone, with a twelve year old child on the other end. And then the child starts laughing... and doesn't stop. Mike looks into the camera and realizes that the "crew" are actually mannequins. And then the interviewer asks him why he isn't going home. - "Do you remember Candle Cove?" The entire scene is almost word for word from the original short story. - In flashbacks, we learn about Mike's brother, Eddie. Eddie was bullied, and we get to see in all the gory detail as said bully tackles him and dislocates his finger. Later, the same bully sics his dog on the twins. The bullying may have driven him to become an avatar for Candle Cove's control. Mike had to kill him to stop him from driving kids to commit suicide so they could "join the crew". Worst of all? The bully's mother laughed about it. - And, of course, good ol' Candle Cove itself. If the fact that the visuals are INCREDIBLY creepy, enough to scare adults, let alone kids, isn't enough, there's the fact that it speaks to the kids watching it. And it can control them so they do fun stuff. Like trying to kill their relatives with a hook. - Candle Cove is arguably even scarier here than it was in the original short story. Where as the creepypasta only subtly hinted that The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You, with Skin-Taker supposedly looking at the camera on occasion, the show outright depicts Horace Horrible going straight to the camera, claiming he can see you, and snickering menacingly. - The Tooth Child, by its mere nature, is horrifying. - In Episode 4, Amy is walking through the empty school, looking for the kids she needs to question. She walks through the library, when suddenly, behind her, Jawbone suddenly appears on each of the computer screens, watching her as she passes by. - The following episode, it happens again with the computers in the police department. - Episode 5 adapted the infamous Screaming Episode. And it's HORRIFYING. And then the episode ends with Mike discovering his daughter is inside the show. - Mike pulling a tooth out of his gums with a pair of pliers in Episode 5. - All these clues that seemed to indicate Eddie was possessed by Candle Cove? WRONG. He created Candle Cove to expand his powers. And he wants to reincarnate. IN MIKE'S BODY. - Syfy created an actual episode of Candle Cove, and and it is exactly as terrifying as you think it would be. - The finale shows us what the real Candle Cove looks like: a twisted mirror image of Mike's childhood home, controlled by Eddie. Made even worse, as we also get to see Jawbone's true "Skin-Taker" form, in loving Gross-Up Close-Up detail. - The contents of the House start out creepy and become downright terrifying: - Room 1: Busts of the people who enter the House, which after the lights flicker on and off, are suddenly being torn apart by stone hands, while red interior lights make it look like they're bleeding. And all while a cheerfully happy song that was being played before is slowed down to a crawl. - Room 2: A metal room containing a Malevolent Masked Man, who slowly stalks around the group until he picks one and whispers something in their ear. Then the lights flicker and he disappears along with another group member, leaving only a trail of blood. - Room 3: From this point on we only see Margot's personalized rooms. For this one, it's a narrow hallway leading to a standing mirror, behind which is a guy creepily laughing nonstop. - While it's not hers alone, when they come back through the house together we get Jules' and Margot's fears combined. In this instance, it's a darkly-lit school hall, with a solitary teacher writing repetitively on a blackboard. We can also question the full fear of Margot's "laughing lunatic", who previously just laughed at Margot. But in the persona of the teacher, grabs Margot and seats her violently and against her will into a desk. Was the aggression because of Jules' fear or what Margot genuinely feared? - Room 4: Margot sees a full wall video of her dead father's last minutes, while his face keeps distorting into a skull. - Room 5: Margot finds herself in her home, with a disfigured corpse of her father, which eventually comes to life and creepily hugs her. - Room 6: The most terrifying thing of all: the House contains an entire replica of Margot's neighborhood. And in her house, her very much alive father. - The method in which John's double feeds. Summoning a catatonic copy of his wife, and devouring her like a starving cannibal. - Alpha JD beating the real JD to death, disposing of his body via burning it in a fire, and then assuming his identity. The Gory Discretion Shot and focus on the hollowed out girl's reaction (or rather lack of a reaction) while the murder is occurring only makes it worse. This comes back to bite him in at the ass. As the result of killing the person he was both modelled on and supposed to feed on, Alpha JD slowly begins falling apart. The sight of his skin peeling off and his increasing horror as it is occurring almost makes Dylan killing him look like a mercy killing. - The Father starts out friendly and loving to Margot. However once she stops giving him what he wants, he becomes a lot more forceful, culminating in him being willing to murder Margot's friends if it means he can continue to feed on her. In his attempts to do so The Father practically becomes a juggernaut, not letting anything stop him from achieving his goal. Not even the same allergic reaction that killed Margot's real father. This becomes worse if we think about what Margot must be feeling while all of this is happening. A monstrous creature, with the voice and face of her beloved dead father, is hunting her, willing to murder her close friends, if she doesn't allow him to devour her memories. If not for The Father managing to escape and her choosing to remain in The House for a whole year, Margot would clearly need serious therapy once this was all over. - Special mention to the hose murder, where a man is impaled with the end of garden hose, and his blood gets mixed with the water as it sprays upwards. - The Father spying on two young girls playing in a nearby backyard after leaving The House. Even if you forgot that he's not truly human, this scene can leave you feeling... uneasy. - Jules being engulfed by The Orb. The sight of her screaming and attempting to break out are particularly horrifying. Turns into a Moment of Awesome when she manages to cut her way out of it, however. - The reveal of Seth's true nature, and just what Margot's fate would have been if not for Jules and The Father's change of heart. - The dwarf creature. Holy hell. - As Episode 3 revealed, there's three of them. And Edie Peach is pregnant, possibly with another one. - Of course, even this pales compared to the "Meat Servant", which is an even more visually disturbing creature. - Father Time, AKA Mr. Schizophrenia/The Beast, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Alice's fears of inheriting her family's mental health problems. And in Episode 3, it chases Alice. - The flashback to Alice and Zoe's mom freaking out and stabbing Zoe in the stomach. - Robert Peach eating his cell-mate while stark naked. - The ending to Episode 2, a new high in WTF for the series. Alice and Louise awaken the morning after a midnight meal with the Peaches. They find that the "meal" they'd been eating has been replaced with the rotting corpses of the Peaches' victims, including Izzie's mother. - The dwarf child, accompanying Joseph, being dragged into the darkness by the Pestilent God - Alices gradual sanity slippage throughout the show, culminating in her turning on her sister and cannibalising the (admittedly bothersome) student loan collector. - In the finale, we finally get to see Joseph Peach's Butcher form and its horrifying. - Edie Peach's Death by Childbirth. All of that blood... - How about the first look of what's beyond the door? - Pretzel Jack. A clown, a contortionist, and a murderer. - Ians imaginary friend come to life, Tall Boy, proves to be even more terrifying than Pretzel Jack, lacking any of the latters endearing or redeeming traits. - Ian in general becomes this after his true nature is revealed. He's sick, malevolently using his proxies to commit mass murder in broad daylight, and visibly getting off on it. - The Uncanny Valley spawned through one of the doors. - What Ian did with the Tall Boy proxy he created. To wit: he brutally brains Ian's dad through the eye socket, and then Ian has him chewed on by dozens of pug puppy proxies. When he's finally taken away, he uses the Tall Boy to a) horrifically murder the two cops detaining him with a cement cutter (which he does in front of a ) and b) horrifically murder yet another cop and use his blood to write a message on the patio of a house. The worst parts of it all are the screams of those he's killing—they are the realistic shrieks of people being gorily mutilated, and they go on for school bus full of children way too long, because he never goes for quick kills, actually seeming to prolong them. - Ian is manipulative and sadistic, and is also implied repeatedly to have more-than-platonic affection for his sister. The clincher on this one is when he creates a proxy of Tom and uses it to try and initiate sex with her. Except, he also might've cut out the middleman and used his power to create a Jill proxy.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChannelZero
Child of Light / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Beneath the beautiful watercolour painting art and whimsical Fairy Tale world is plenty of fear and unpleasantness. - The end to the game's intro. Imagine you're a parent who loves and is loved by your child, and at the end of a celebratory day they go to sleep... and the next morning you find them dead. While the soul of our heroine, Aurora is sent to Lemuria, the Duke doesn't know this and believes he has lost her forever. - The Mahthildis Forest, where Aurora begins her journey back home. She describes the place as "Woods darker than night" with "shadows lost of light", an apt description (tellingly, the melancholy music that initially plays there is literally titled "Woods Darker Than Night" in the soundtrack). As she ventures her way through the forest, Aurora is watched by hungry wolves, spiders, and even wailing spirits, and until she meets Igniculus, she's all alone. - The fate of Lemuria as told in the Lady of the Forest's vision. Once a beautiful land full of hope, its Queen disappeared and a usurper called Umbra sent her daughters up to the skies to steal the sun, moon and stars, plunging Lemuria into endless darkness and allowing Umbra and her forces to completely conquer it. Umbra then became known as the Queen of the Night and rules with an iron fist, repressing the Lemurians and making their lives miserable. - Nox herself. The Reveal that Aurora's own stepsister, the seemingly loving and caring "Norah", is a heartless sociopath who had formed a close bond with Aurora while plotting to kill her the whole time, is absolutely horrific. Nox's unhinged expression does not help. What makes it such a powerful Player Punch is that "Norah" was a legitimately likeable character and ally—Fantastic Racism with the Bolmus Populi aside—before she betrayed Aurora to her mother, Umbra. - Making Nox even scarier is this: are there psychological abusers out there in Real Life who act loving towards a child so that they can gain their genuine love and trust, for the purpose of manipulating them for their own benefit? Yes, there are. - Want more Nightmare Fuel? Nox's age. Consider that she's explicitly described as the younger of Queen Umbra's two daughters, and her mother appears to be in her thirties to early-forties. With this in mind, it would not be far-fetched to conclude that Nox is in her early- to mid- teens. The idea that someone so young could be happily engaging in psychological abuse, attempted murder, torture and implied genocide is horrific all on its own. - The Forgotten Tower, a prison tower where those who are deemed guilty in the eyes of Umbra and her two daughters, Nox and Crepusculum, are imprisoned (without trial, of course) and subjected to abuse and torture from the guards, and God help you if Umbra or her daughters decide to pay you a visit. If the player explores the tower, they can even find the skeletons of dead prisoners hanging from the walls. - The Pisceans being terrorized by the Ogre. You don't get to see the Ogre taking them from their village on-screen, but it's not hard to imagine how frightening it must be for them. By the time Aurora and her friends (Nox leaves the group after her betrayal) arrive there, there are only two residents left, Gen and her supposed grandfather Drust. Drust can't bring himself to tell Gen that the Ogre devours those he abducts; as a result, Gen and Aurora remain optimistic that Gen's parents can be brought back to their daughter. The truth is painful for them both, and Gen breaks down crying as she has to contend with the fact that she's the Last of Her Kind. Sure enough, the player can find the skeletons of the devoured Pisceans in the final dungeon the Ogre was guarding.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildOfLight
Children of a Dead Earth / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes With a name like Children of a Dead Earth, its hard not to expect a title without a good dose of nightmare reaction mass. Unmarked spoilers ahead! - Earth has its entire biosphere utterly destroyed in a global war by having its polar ice caps coated in ash, causing them to absorb sunlight and melt, killing millions of people in the process and wiping coastal nations off the map. The opposing nation responds in kind by throwing an entire asteroid into the ocean, triggering apocalyptic earthquakes across the planet and creating a crater so large that it floods with seawater, throwing off the planets axial tilt and killing billions in the ensuing famines. Orbiting skyhooks are able to literally catapult millions of survivors (and millions more who suffocated along the way) across the Solar System, with new nations cropping up across various celestial bodies. But even then, its too late: Earth has become a second Venus with all traces of civilization completely obliterated. - The Free Republic knows all too well that war crimes will be committed by their own people in their war against the United Solar Trade Alliance. But instead of trying to minimize the humanitarian costs at all, they simply acknowledge the fact that its inevitable and plan on sweeping their crimes under the rug to keep their populace docile while they scour the Solar System clean of their USTA rivals. - The reason for all this bloodshed? Because the USTA placed an embargo on fissile material that would have prevented the Free Republic from producing new ships and thereby dooming numerous colonies to die of starvation. - Humanitys greed has not stopped with the Earths destruction in the slightest. And an internal memo from the Free Republic says that as long as people have their jewelry, entertainment, porn and creature comforts, they wont functionally care about the people who have to suffer in order to make their cushy lifestyles possible. - The horrible sound of air rushing out of a canister when your adversary makes a well-placed shot, letting you know that your entire crew just got sucked out into the vacuum of space. - Coupled with the dull metallic groaning when your ship is under fire. - And the rapid, tinny beeping when missiles are closing in on your ship, which will have you emptying the ammo of your decoy launcher in no-time.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildrenOfADeadEarth
Chaos;Head / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Plenty of it - this is a nitro+ game, after all. - All the New Gen murders in the game have mysterious elements, particularly the second, in which the dead man has an eight-month old fetus sewn into his stomach; given the age of the fetus, it had to have been removed from the mother's body before birth. It is eventually shown, in flashback, exactly who the mother is and how this happened. - What happened to Sena's mother: experimented on and brainwashed into thinking her dead baby was still alive... Only to have that undone when the experiment ends. The truth of everything drives her insane and she ends up committing suicide. And the person who set her up for this? Her own husband. No wonder Sena hates him. - During Takumi's last battle with Norose, he is put under a delusion that he has been melted into a puddle with only his eyes remaining. Eeep. - The B ending. Dear God. To give a short summary, Takumi is forced to experience all the New Gen murders, taking the place of the victims and being able to feel every sensation, from devouring his own hand to having his brain cut open to being ripped in two by some otherwordly creature. By the end, he's so broken down that he's completely gone over the deep end- his thoughts no longer form coherent sentences, and this makes the first person narration of what he witnesses afterwards even more unnerving. He describes seeing something crawling under Kozue's skin as she screams...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChaosHead
Child of the Storm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Wanda shows she's her father's daughter by making good on her promise to reduce Sinister to screaming, traumatised atoms if she ever meets him. He undeniably deserves it, but... damn. Wanda: Actually, no. You're right. I am like my father. I am his daughter. And do you know why? Because I am going to fulfil that promise I made, a promise to render you down to traumatised, screaming atoms if you ever went near my godson again. And while I'm not going to have the time to make it last, I am going to enjoy it. So scream, you bastard, scream!	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildOfTheStorm
Changeling: The Lost / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes This is what will happen if they get their hands on you. Unmarked spoilers below! - The entire Changeling: The Lost line is terrifying. At any moment you could be dragged away by immortal, unstoppable fae creatures and turned into their slave. If you ever regain your mind and fight your way back into your own world, you find a double has been leading your life and you've been physically warped by your whole ordeal. It's the sort of thing that keeps you awake at nights, jumping at every little noise. - And all of that happens to your character before the game even starts... - And if by some miracle you become powerful enough to convincingly oppose the True Fae, you are almost certainly too far down the road to turning into one of them to ever turn back. Enjoy! - The premise of the game is that you were abducted into Arcadia by the Fae and subjected to mind rape, soul rape, torture rape, and/or actual rape. For years. Until the abuse metaphysically changed you into something not entirely human and more like the things that kidnapped you. Meanwhile, a 'fetch' has been left behind to wear your face, own your memories, live your life, and eventually die in your stead. So assuming you finally escape, you are (at minimum) unable to live a fully normal life, bear all the PTSD and then some of having survived years of literally inhuman abuse at the hands of Eldritch Horrors who are nigh-omnipotent in their home realm, and are still being hunted by said horrors. Oh, and since the fetch is created unknowing of its role as an impostor, getting even a fraction of your old life back requires you to murder an innocent being. But this isn't the Nightmare Fuel. Oh no. The Nightmare Fuel is all of the above is the True Fae reproduction cycle. That's right. The purpose of kidnapping you and twisting and breaking you into something not entirely human? Well, if your Wyrd score gets high enough as a Changeling, you can become one of the True Fae. Seriously, it's all right there in the Equinox Road supplement, particularly chapter 2. Of course, you may still may try to Screw Destiny... - Becoming a Changeling requires only three things: Entry into Arcadia, sufficient exposure to Arcadia to acquire certain Arcadian characteristics, and a return to Earth (technically, the last isn't required). Usually this involves unpleasant or flatly traumatic experiences, but they're not essential, just extremely common. The main author has said that he wanted to avoid romanticizing abduction and imprisonment, and in retrospect went a bit too far the other way. - Also disturbing is how the four Seasonal Courts of the Changelings, and their different approaches to life, map almost exactly to four of the possible reactions for survivors of sexual or emotional abuse: hedonistic escapism (Spring), violent acting-out and revenge fantasies (Summer), abused-turns-abuser (Autumn), and paranoia (Winter). Notice how the faction of "eventually overcome the trauma and move on with your life in a healthy fashion" doesn't exist in Changeling society. - They also map to the five stages of Grief, also without Acceptance: - Spring Court is Denial, pretending that they've taken all the good things from Arcadia and ignoring the bad. - Summer Court is about taking out violence and Anger. - Autumn Court is about Bargaining their time away by getting in bed with the occult. - Winter Court is Depression. They hide from the world. - More interestingly, one could see Privateers (Changelings who work as mercenaries for the True Fae, which usually entails dragging OTHER Changelings back to Arcadia) and Loyalists (Changelings who either didn't escape before they were totally brainwashed, or escaped and are being heavily blackmailed to do their Keeper's bidding) to encapsulate Acceptance. And becoming a True Fae at Wyrd 10/Clarity 0 could be seen as Understanding. - Also of note is the fact of how the founders of the Seasonal Courts made their Courts: By besting the Anthropomorphic Personification of the seasons at their own games. Mother Susan had dreams of motherhood that were ruined by the fae infertility. She forged Contracts with who-knows-what, and then gave her child up to Spring. Sam Noblood took a tree branch of autumn leaves as a spear and chased down Summer itself and forced it to make the pact (okay, that's not so much Nightmare Fuel as it is awesome). It's not said how Clay Ariel got the pact with Autumn, only that she left with no weapon and a 'wry smile'. Considering the Autumn Court draws its power from Fear, whatever did happen must have been Nightmare Fuel. Snowflake John disappeared and came back two years later, claiming that because Winter couldn't find him, he got the pact. - And if the Seasonal Courts bother you, then how about the fact that there are eight other courts, and they're arguably just as terrifying? - The Courts of Sun and Moon are perhaps the best matches to the original. They're defined by the emotions of Shame and Disgust, respectively, and so seek to invoke and promote these emotions. The Sun Court is a textbook case of Light Is Not Good, but the Moon Court is a case of Dark Is Evil — their iconic holiday, Korochun (the Winter Solstice) is a night of mayhem, murder, torture and excess, culminating in the Human Sacrifice of a man and a woman. - Clarity, the morality stat equivalent from Changeling: The Lost almost perfectly mimics PTSD as the consequences of its lower values. At 0, the least disturbing thing that can happen is just mysteriously vanishing forever. Instead, you can go into complete nonfunctioning catatonia as the scope of your trauma finally fully catches up with you... or become debilitated by constant hallucinations that you never escaped your torment. - In 2e, Clarity acts more like a health track, which is usually going to be much shorter than your actual health track and can pile on all sorts of unpleasant conditions, all of which represent some sort of disconnect with reality as the changeling retreats into themselves, unable to distinguish between what's real and what isn't. This includes the aforementioned comatose state, which, if it was caused by severe enough damage, the character cannot escape on their own. Oh, and several things that cause Clarity damage are things a changeling might have no control over whatsoever, such as getting spooked by something, someone breaking their word to you, or discovering someone lied to you about something important. - In-Universe, the Scarecrow Ministry actually creates Nightmare Fuel, for good purposes. In New World of Darkness, the monsters are real, and they hope that by keeping the masses afraid of dangerous places, they can keep them safe. If you see an urban legend, you had better pray that it's just one of them... - Even the True Fae themselves aren't immune. A big part of why they're constantly looking for sources of conflict and struggle in their "lives" is that they cease to exist without it. And one of the best ways to make a source of conflict that gives you an "other" to define your own existence against? Making a Changeling. - Fetches typically don't know they aren't actually that human person. You could be the replacement for someone suffering in Arcadia at this very moment. - Oh, please, that doesn't even begin to describe the nightmare fuel of being a fetch. Think about it; you're a normal man, woman, child, just living your average life. And then things start to go mysteriously wrong for you. You wake up from terrible nightmares, awful things filled with blood and death — your death. And then you start to see it. A monster, wearing your face, stalking you. It might seem to vanish from the shadows, or look at you out of a mirror, or shift shape into some harmless beast, but you know it's always there. Watching you. From there, you got two choices: - You panic, trying to run, to hide, to fight, but it's all in vain. The monster catches you, and it kills you, glowering as you drown in your blood. And the last thing you see is your body falling apart into assorted rubbish. - The monster confronts you, and tells you what you are — you're not a person, you're a thing, a cobbled-together simulacrum of a human created to disguise the theft of a real person from this world. And that person who was stolen? They're the monster telling you this. - Autumn Nightmares dedicate a chapter about Fetches, with optional merits, backgrounds, and Echos. But most terrifying is the Wyrd Consumption. The Fetch tried to defend itself, bit the Changeling in desperation. And then it tasted something, craved for more, and took more and more bites of the Changeling until only bones are left. From thereon, the Fetch is no longer a Fetch; it's a Devourer, creature born of hunger and desperation, only seeking to satisfy its hunger and live a bit longer. - The Second Edition introduces a new group of antagonists: the Huntsmen. Huntsmen are lesser fae that hunt escaped changelings to bring them back to the True Fae. They are utterly relentless in the hunt, possess powers such as being able to appear out of nowhere to surprise unsuspecting victims or shapeshifting to better blend into crowds, and their snares are very good at keeping the normally slippery changelings bound and helpless. Killing a Huntsman does no good, since they can just reform and return to try again as long as their missing heart (which are torn out by the True Fae) still beats. And if you manage to destroy the heart? The True Fae that sent the Huntsman will know what happened, and you'll likely have to contend with a new Huntsman. - To make matters worse, the Huntsmen are specifically designed to counteract the Changelings' biggest advantages. Cold Iron has no effect on them, their bonds can negate a changeling's ability to escape, and while they can't actually break the Seasonal Bargains, they are very good at exploiting the loopholes in each Season's protections.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChangelingTheLost
Children of Men / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The human race can never again reproduce, and so basically everyone is waiting around for the imminent end to all humanity. Violence is rampant, and rule of law and moral standards have decayed, to the extent that illegal immigrants are summarily executed within moments of arrest. - The "The World Has Collapsed - Only Britain Soldiers On" ad in the train. - Quietus, a publicly-marketed suicide drug; it speaks volumes of the utter hopelessness that has gripped the world. - Early on, during a montage of news clips one that stands out is the image of New York City having been nuked. - In that same montage, it appears as though Paris has been reduced to a swamp. - The scenes where Julian and Jasper are murdered were so chilling in their swiftness. - The second one wasn't so swift... - The opening scene really sets the tone for the rest of the movie — an explosion inside of a shop that Theo was just in, followed by the sight of a woman screaming and holding her own arm staggering out. - In the background of the shot, just before the explosion, a couple greets one another and embraces on the sidewalk just by the shop entrance, much closer than Theo is. One second later, both of them are knocked to the ground by the blast. Just the total and utter Mood Whiplash that they must have gone through, even more so than the audience. - The scene where the bus is pulling into the Bexhill Refugee Camp. The antics in the prison area are deliberately and viscerally reminiscent of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse incidents, with prisoners being sworn at, stripped down, beaten, threatened with attack dogs, and sexually humiliated by sadistic guards running riot while The Libertines' 'Arbeit Macht Frei' plays in the background. To those who are aware of the full extent of the abuse at Abu Ghraib and Camp X-ray, the fate that awaits Miriam is all the more horrifying. - The scene where Theo and co. are running away from Syd but are stuck at a door that won't open all the way. Theo, Marichka, and Kee desperately squeeze through the door frame while Syd reloads his pistol, shouting obscenities at them from across the other side of the hallway they're in. The look of sheer terror on Theo's face as he looks back at Syd taking aim really sells how tense the whole situation is. - The Battle of Bexhill is a chillingly realistic recreation of a warzone, as Action Survivor Theo attempts to rescue Kay and her baby while dodging the attacks of both the Refugees and British Army (including a tank) by hiding in cars and behind corners, all filmed in one take.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildrenOfMen
Children of an Elder God / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - One of the first clues the reader has this setting is darker than Canon!Eva is Shinji sitting inside the cockpit for first time... and a goey, black liquid filling it. What is it? You do not want to know. - It starts earlier than that - a group of explorers Dug Too Deep into a complex network of caves and woke up... something. We don't know the fate of said explorers, but their screams indicate that their fates were awful. \|\|Later it turns out to be the Angel Matarael, whom Shinji and Rei fight in the first chapter\|\|. - One of the first things Shinji sees in chapter one after Matarael attacks Tokyo-3 is a man setting himself on fire after he gets covered in spiders. Eeugh... - One of the abominations absorbed by Rei forces her to \|\|rape Asuka.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildrenOfAnElderGod
Children of the Corn / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The sheer isolation of Gatlin is utterly soul crushing, imagine being trapped in a place like that, lost in a sea of corn, you might as well be the only town in the world. Something had happened in 1964, something to do with corn, and religion. Perhaps a religious mania had swept them? Alone, all alone, surrounded by miles of the rustling, secretive corn, alone under a million acres of blue sky. Alone under the watchful eye of God, now a strange green God, a God of corn, grown old and strange and hungry. He Who Walks Behind The Rows. Burt felt a chill creep into his flesh.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildrenOfTheCorn
Chaos Rings / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Executioner's true form, the Qualia, the whole plot of the GAME...the REAL plot, not the whole "5 couples summoned to fight for Immortality" thing. The Genomoth named \|\|Sephiroth\|\| Those Wagner dinosaurs are pretty effin' scary as well...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChaosRings
Children Who Chase Lost Voices / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Gatekeepers who have proven to be both awe inspiring and intimidating. - Asuna having a dream about Shun when suddenly his arm falls off. - Imagine being a 14 year old, who's trapped in an underground cave and given a choice to either: A. go back the way you came, knowing there are armed men waiting to possibly kill you. B. follow your teacher (who's seemingly lost his mind) beneath a subterranean lake without any sort of diving equipment. - Made worse when Morisaki makes the choice for her, by pulling her beneath the water along with him. Asuna begins to panic, believing she's about to drown. - The Izoku. Deformed shadow creatures with glowing eyes that appear in the dark, or anywhere there's shadow. - Asuna's first night in Argatha ends with her being paralyzed in her sleep by an invisible Izuko. All you see are footprints approaching her, 'til it presses one down on her chest to slowly force the air out of her lungs. Try as she might, she's unable to draw a breath, causing her to begin hyperventilating. Mimi saves her by scaring it away. - They kidnapped both Mana and Asuna to. EAT. THEM. They'll stop at nothing to catch an "impure" human, chasing their prey through the underworld until it's exhausted. It gets worse when Asuna is all alone. One Izoku gets her by the neck and was close to SQUEEZING the life out of her. - Morisaki. Put. A Knife. To. A. CHILD'S THROAT!. - And even before that Morisaki was all for using Asuna's body as a vessel for Lisa's soul. - The Gate of Life and Death can only return life with the expense of another's. To even get there, one has to climb down a very tall sheer cliff. - The Arch Angels are willing to kill children if it means getting into Agartha.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildrenWhoChaseLostVoices
Child's Play / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Works with their own subpages: Child's Play (1988) Child's Play 2 Child's Play 3 Bride of Chucky Curse of Chucky Cult of Chucky Child's Play (2019) Chucky	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildsPlay
Child's Play 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes When we last left our killer doll... WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked. - Chucky's unadulteratedly horrific face◊ in the darkness when he first attempts to possess Andy's body after immobilizing him. The whole fact that Chucky gagged and tied Andy down to his bed and is standing on top of him evokes the image of a Sleep Paralysis Creature. - And then there's the matter of what has to be going through Andy's mind at that moment. Not only is the doll that ruined his life Back from the Dead, he's even more determined to possess him than he was before, and with Karen and Mike out of the picture, the odds are improbably against him. - The sequence of Andy desperately trying to escape his classroom as Chucky demands to be let out of the closet, the killer doll growing more and more furious as Andy doesn't comply. Chucky: Let me out, you little dick! LET ME THE FUCK OUT!! - Everything about Mrs. Kettlewell's death. Her being an Asshole Victim doesn't make this moment any less horrific. Between Chucky walking towards her with a Slasher Smile, Graeme Revell's Creepy Circus Music-like score, the camera angle making it almost look as if we're seeing him from her POV, and her screams as Chucky bludgeons her to death with a yard stick, is it any wonder why many consider it to be the Nightmare Fuel peak of the series? Chucky: You've been veeery naughty, Mrs. Kettlewell... - Phil's fate isn't as visceral as most of the others', but that doesn't make it anything to slouch at, even with the amusing pun to compensate for it. The look of utter terror on his face as he learns Andy was telling the truth the whole time, topped off with Chucky promptly dropping Phil on the floor causing him to break his neck, and Joanne mourning for him in the aftermath make it one of the most unsettling (and saddest) moments in the series. - Grace's death, partially because of how out-of-left-field it is and partially because of the camera zooming in on her bleeding chest as Chucky stabs her repeatedly. - Chucky's Villainous Breakdown after finding out he's doomed to spend the rest of his life in the Good Guy doll. No small talk, no quips—just the animalistic rage of a man who truly is a monster no matter what form he takes. Brad Dourif's voice acting in this scene, in particular, is an Oscar-worthy performance up to par with his actually nominated supporting role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, capturing not only Chucky's rage at failing to possess a human soul in time, but also the rage of Charles Lee Ray realizing that he is now trapped inside the Good Guy doll forever. Chucky: You little SHIT, do you know what you've done?! It's too late! I've spent too much time in this body! I'M FUCKIN' TRAPPED IN HERE!!! - The Good Guy doll factory. Aside from the labyrinth of boxed dolls, confusing assembly line, lack of human presence (there's only one guy in a control room), and over-the-top colors like something of out of the interior of a Toys "R" Us store that give it an unnatural look, it's a gargantuan safety hazard where machines can easily maim and/or kill you (or, for some godforsaken reason, have a button that makes the machines turn a doll into a horrific molten mess), there are leaks of scorching molten plastic, and the emergency exit door is faulty. To top it all off, a living killer doll is after you in this colorful hell of a setting. Roger Ebert himself found this setting and the entire climax taking place in it particularly Nightmare Fuel-inducing, as he described his disturbed feelings towards it in the Siskel & Ebert review. - While chasing down Andy and Kyle, Chucky has a gate slammed onto his hand. So what does he do? Rip it off and jam his knife onto the bloody stump in place of his missing hand. The close-ups on Chucky's hand as it tears away combined with his grunts and screams of agony add to the uneasiness of it. - The factory worker getting doll eyes stabbed into his sockets can either be darkly funny, or utter Judge Doom-looking Nightmare Fuel. - It gets worse when Chucky has hung up the technician's body upside down and lets it swing uncontrollably, ending up knocking Kyle unconscious onto a Conveyor Belt of Doom. The face of the dead man has now become pale as it swings right towards the camera. - Melted Chucky◊. It isn't long before he's blown sky high, but good luck trying to keep him out of your dreams! - The alternate ending used consistently by network airings of the movie. A description for those afraid to click the link: A piece of Chucky's face is shown to have landed in the vat of molten plastic, and it goes under. A couple of moments later, a compartment opens to reveal a newly-formed Good Guy doll head without eyes or teeth or any other descriptive features, and it smiles evilly right at the camera. - Fridge Horror: If we consider the first movie's rule that Chucky must be hit in the heart to be 100% killed, and also consider the opening of Child's Play 3 which shows that blood is indeed still coursing through his carcass, it could mean that what Andy and Kyle actually did was leave Chucky stuck glued in hardened molten plastic in a And I Must Scream state for eight years. And when he finally gets a new mouth in the opening titles of 3, the first thing he does is to scream.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildsPlay2
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The whole concept of the Feast of Feasts. A woman is selected among the coven to become the queen, which is considered one of the greatest honors; she becomes the main course of the feast. - The result of the feast in the episode is even worse. After the feast is almost cancelled, Mildred, a witch crazed to become the queen, slits her own throat in front of the coven and they happily jump and start eating her body. - You can even see Mildred smiling as they eat her. - Unsurprisingly, the episode where Batibat torments the four Spellmans through nightmares has plenty of Nightmare Fuel. Sabrina gets married to Harvey, but then he lets his family shove her into an iron maiden while her friends scream obscenities at her for being a witch. Ambrose has to do an autopsy on his own body and then has to endure that autopsy from the other side, screaming for help and unable to move. Hilda finds a romantic partner, only to discover he's fixated on her because of her insecurity related to being Zelda's appendage - and makes that insecurity literal by sewing her and Zelda together. Zelda murders and cooks a child as the happy intro to her nightmare - then she has a psychological breakdown when the Devil rejects her food for Hilda's and kills her sister, only to find she's killed Hilda for good this time in a Tear Jerker twist. - When the characters chant "Hail Satan" and "Hail Judas". Not only it is scary enough per se due to their hailing evil characters- but it also resembles a crowd shouting "Heil Hitler". - The Soul Eater that lives in Limbo and eats the souls of dead humans who end up there. Made worse by the Fridge Horror that comes from Limbo being primarily a destination for unbaptized infants. Adults can run and attempt to hide from it, but infants are almost certainly consumed very quickly. - Harrowing, full stop. An extreme form of hazing practiced at the Academy of Unseen Arts, the practice involves simulating the events leading up to the deaths of the thirteen witches killed centuries ago in Greendale. This includes being shut up in a cell with malevolent spirits that psychologically torture many victims to the point of insanity, being forced to stare at the hanging tree while something recreates the sounds of your loved ones being killed behind you (with the implication that, if you turn around, it will tear you limb from limb), and finally actually being hanged from the tree. This process has apparently killed several children down through the years, and is supported by the High Priest Faustus Blackwood as a means of weeding out the weak. - The Holiday Special has Susie working as an elf for the local Santa Claus at a store. She's helping him clean up and admiring his amazingly life-like statues of children set up around the man's chair. The Santa tells of how he "makes each and every one of them myself." Susie is cleaning a face... when she sees a tear fall from the eye of the boy. It then blinks as Susie realizes "Santa" is a demon who has been turning innocent children into these "wax" figures... and she's next. - Fortunately Susie gets recused by Gryla who after welcoming Bartel's victims to her family performs a karmic Kick The Son Of A Bitch act against Bartel by trapping him in wax as he had done to so many victims. Said victims were pleased to see this happened. - The lengths Satan goes to win his bet with Madame Satan over Sabrina's willingness to obey, culminating in making Salem deathly sick and forcing Sabrina to burn down the school as a show of loyalty (admittedly, he stops her before she sets the fire, but only at the last moment). - Most of the visions that the tarot reader (actually a disguised Madame Satan) gives the characters during their readings: - Sabrina helps Nick demonstrate a levitation spell during a talent show, only for the Weird Sisters to sabotage it and leave her floating into space, where she freezes to death. - Theo steals a spell from the Spellmans to become physically male, but due to botching it starts turning to wood. Hilda amputates an arm, only to find that his legs have changed too. - Roz agrees to surgery to restore her sight, but feeling guilty over her father getting his parishioners to pay for it decides to pay it forward by volunteering at a home for the blind... and meets a girl whose eyes were gouged out to give to Roz. - Harvey gets into an art school, but his joy is tampered by a creepy roommate, whose paintings are inspired by a Hell Gate in his closet which unleashes Lovecraftian monsters. - Zelda decides to come clean about Father Blackwood's daughter Leticia before their wedding. When she visits Dezmelda to collect Leticia, she discovers that the old crone has eaten the baby to absorb her youth. - Ambrose is convinced by Father Blackwood to kill his aunts and Sabrina. - Leviathan, Ambrose's familiar crawling inside of him and controlling him to kill the Anti-Pope. - The spell Father Blackwood uses on Zelda to turn her into a Stepford Smiler who obeys him without question. Even more horrifying when you consider the fact that the two were on their honeymoon, meaning there's little doubt that they slept together while she was in this condition. - The Dark Lord tricking Madam Satan into eating Adam's corpse and then forcing her to "clean her plate of the mortal" as punishment. - The Order of Innocents- a group of angelic witch hunters who torture, murder and kill Witches, all with a smile on their faces. - Hildas spider curse it starts with her getting a big pimple on her face. And when she pokes it baby spiders crawl out of the pus, and over the course of the show she turns more and more into a spider even developing Horror Hunger. - In the finale Hilda and Zelda have to kill their niece, who's basically their daughter rather than a niece by now, by slitting her throat and watching her bleed to death.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina
Cheating Death: Those That Lived / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Being a Hunger Games fanfiction, this story doesn't shy away from describing the horrible, violent deaths of tributes. - The First Quarter Quell had multiple insane and violent tributes dubbed the "psychopath alliance" who delighted torturing, eating, and raping other tributes (plus even more). The districts are pretty much relieved a Career won instead just because the psychopaths were that horrible, especially when he Mercy Kills the other tributes to save them from slow, painful deaths. The Victor himself is left a broken shell of himself from the insanity he endured, having completely lost the will to live after his sane allies all die and only plays to win just so the psychopaths lose. - Teff gets trapped in a deep, dark cave where she can't see anything, and she's deaf. Without any indicator of time passing (she can't hear the cannons to keep count), she's left to Go Mad from the Isolation. - Snag's Games features exclusively just hand grenades and when a tribute drops one by accident, the explosion cause a chain reaction that leaves 16 tributes charred beyond recognition and the survivors (save for Snag who left as soon as he could) severely injured with burns and lost limbs. - Lammy's traps result in the Career alliance dying very painful deaths. The District Four girl gets skewered by stakes. The District One boy get his face glued to a tree by sap and nearly suffocates, then dies after getting his face ripped off trying to break free. The District Two girl is caught in a bear trap and dropped into water, then Impaled with Extreme Prejudice from a sharp rock. The District One girl is incinerated by gasoline in the Cornucopia. The District Four boy is caught in a trap and dies from a broken neck when it's cut. And the last tribute, the boy from Two dies from at least 20 spikes on his back. - Just about everything with Mascara. First she is born from BrotherSister Incest as a last-ditch attempt to get a noble heir. From the get-go she is clearly unhinged, but all medications and diagnoses are thrown away by her power-hungry family eager for a Victor. Growing up, she displays a disturbing fascination with blood, even bathing in it. And her parents' response? To reward her. In her Games, she easily takes on all the tributes and Careers as a One-Woman Army and leaves them in pieces. Even the Grim, a high-profile assassin, ends up dying in a Mutual Kill with her. - Tabbock's sadistic magic show. First, he slits the District Four boy's throat with a playing card. Then, he cuts the District Seven girl in half. He sends the District Ten boy into the air with balloons and brings him crashing down. The District Eight boy is blown up from being force-fed Coke and Mentos. His final opponent is trapped in a box and then set on fire, getting a piano dropped on him, and shot with poisonous darts. - Mercy's Games had reapings that were rigged to exclusively pick 12-year-olds, save for the Careers who volunteered. Many of them end up as easy picks to the Career Pack (working without Mercy since she won't kill 12-year-olds), but then there is the psychotic District 8 tribute Lillian Barrows, who uses her helpless appearance to lure other tributes either wanting to help her or take easy pickings in and trapping them to peel off their skins. - Ajax, a Capitolian Loony Fan who kidnaps several Capitol children, Vercingetorix, and Pliny to make his own Hunger Games. Why? Because he was a huge fan of Pliny and thought that she never had the chance to show her actual killing skills. And when the two Victors refuse to comply, he shoots at them, killing Vergingetorix and Duke, who found them and died by Taking the Bullet for Pliny. - Logger hacking 12-year-old Bloom Nakamura to pieces until she was unrecognizable just to save his own skin, even after she saved him from dehydration. - Finnick's chapter features several different times he was bought as a Sex Slave, starting at 14. Other occasions include his 16th birthday, a time when he was bought with both Crimson and a newly-won Numi, and being a prize at a card game. You can feel the misery and hell from his body being completely violated. Some of the secrets he reveals are disturbing as well. His first buyer slept with those even younger than him, including her niece, the man at his 16th birthday engaged in bestiality with his pets from his pet store, and a high-rank peacekeeper used cameras to spy on people in private places. - Lothar from Ron's Games. A Serial Killer who made mocking messages of his victims' blood, he revels in the Hunger Games and slowly tortures his victims, enjoying every moment. His narration includes complaining about losing kills and his victims dying too fast, contemplating which body parts to cut off, and being thrilled from the torture.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes How could a show about crime solving rodents be creepy? You'd be surprised. ## 2022 FilmSee here. ## Animated Series Those empty eyes. - In "Pound of the Baskervilles", when Lord Howie gets wise to the Rangers and McDuff running around, he grabs a shotgun and tries to shoot them! He gets pretty close a few times as well. - The Rangers getting sewed inside of the carpet in "The Carpetsnaggers". - Sparky's eyes when he's brainwashed in "Does Pavlov Ring a Bell?" are extremely creepy. Made worse when he is trying to electrocute Chip and Dale. - The episode's Cold Opening. It shows a bank after hours. Then the phone rings, but when the night guard on duty answers, a whistle blows. Just as the guard writes it off as a prank call, the alarm goes off, but the guard doesn't see anyone in the bank. Then, a robot with glowing eyes burst out of the ground. The whole thing has very little light, making the robot look even creepier. - When Nimnul comes back into the lab, Chip, Dale and Monty are all trapped in his maze of the sewer system and had it not been for Gadget's quick thinking to get them out, who knows what would have happened if Nimnul had spotted them? - On the topic of Cold Openings from this show, "A Creep in the Deep" starts with a truck driver driving a truck full of fish down a dark highway. Suddenly, he sees something coming towards him at rapid speeds and when he swerves, the other thing rams into the truck, bursting it open and then disappearing. It's little surprise everyone thought it was a monster. - Captain Finn's plan. Ram into the city dam and flood the town. Even worse, the show implies what the results would have been. And Finn wants all those people to die! - "Chocolate Chips" is easily the creepiest episode in the series. Highlights include: - The first time we see the mosquitoes attack. They rapidly swarm everyone, including the hapless human tourists and even most of Rangers. - Zipper is one of the ones bitten by the mosquitoes despite them being bigger than he is which should mean a painful injury at that size instead of just an annoying bite like the others. - Seeing the humans and animals working together with no fanfare. An unspoken rule of the series was that humans didn't know that the animals were intelligent outside of the villains. Here? We see them all, while brainwashed by the Villain of the Week, working together like nothing is wrong. It just feels...wrong. - The fact that, while under mind control, the Rangers were willing to potentially let themselves get burned alive through being dipped in molten chocolate like chocolate covered confectionaries! They were also perfectly fine trying to murder Dale. - All of the Rangers having an empty stare in that state. - Gadget nearly getting crushed to death in "Mind Your Cheese and Qs" - Monterey's cheese addiction, while usually more comical than anything, is played in more serious matter in this episode. You can see him visually struggling when he tries to control himself and just in last second he is able to snap out of it. He even one point hallucinates that Zipper is a piece of cheese! - There is something really off-putting in Monty's eyes◊ when he finds Rat Capone's cheese lair. - Tom when under Fat Cat's control in "Robocat". Gone is the sweet, mild mannered cat that just wanted fur and a home. In his place is a literal war machine. - "The Pied Piper Power Play": The fact that Nimnul gets all those mice under his control so easily. And this includes Monty and Gadget! - If it hadn't be for Monty's quick thinking, the Rangers and all the other mice would have died in the explosion of Nimnul's lair. - That creepy high pitch sound that the Nimnul's machine makes. - What makes Dale finally realize that he is no longer playing the spy game the other Rangers set up for him in "Double O Chipmunk"? The three bad guys threatening to murder his friends with a mind controlled laser if he doesn't take pictures of the plans for it that he ruined. - In "Out to Launch" Chip and Dale get ejected into space and would have been left behind for two weeks had Monty, Gadget and Zipper not come after them. - When the asteroid hits the ship, it ends up knocking the astronauts out and leaving everyone at risk of running out of oxygen. - "A Lad in a Lamp": Monty turning into the Genie and just that fact alone that if you wish for the Genie's freedom, it's you who will be the next one. - The deathtrap that the Rangers end into when Mole wishes their doom. - "Love Is A Many Splintered Thing": Erol, Desiree's lover, is last seen getting locked in the cage of a vicious dog and then attacked. It is implied the dog killed him! - If it wasn't enough that Desiree manipulated Monterey for her criminal deeds, she outright tries to murder him when she doesn't need him anymore. - "Le Purrfect Crime" sees Dale get amnesia, causing Maltese de Sade to convince him he is his minion, Ramdale, and that the Rangers are his enemies. Since it's Dale, he should be a Laughably Evil, Harmless Villain, right? Nope. Ramdale is serious about taking the Rangers down and chases them all over the city. Imagine what would happen if he hadn't been turned back. - Later in the episode, Maltese de Sade kills a beatnik mouse by throwing him off the Eiffel Tower. - El Emenopio from "When Mice Were Men" was The Dreaded and boy does he live up to it. He tramples over the mice village in hopes of luring Monty out and comes dangerously close to killing him and all of the other Rangers. And unlike the other bulls who look friendly, he is pure black, has red eyes and very sharp horns. - The mouse tribe in "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" have never had a queen because no one has ever survived the tests. - "A Lean on the Property" shows how merciless Fat Cat is when comes to destroying the Rescue Rangers; he kidnaps Monty's mom, Camembert Kate, and ties her on the top of the tallest building. When his moles dig out underground, the building collapses on her and Rangers, who will come to rescue her. - Ribbit, the giant frog from "Zipper Come Home" is introduced eating one of the helpless water beetles, who it's implied he's already enslaved. He then breaks the Never Say "Die" rule of the show, demanding that the beetles bring him a fly, or he'll kill all of them. - From the same episode, after capturing Chip, Dale and Gadget, the beetles lock them in a cage and, due to the rain starting again, are trapped in a Drowning Pit, putting Monty on a second Race Against the Clock to save both them and Zipper. - Dale during "Dale Beside Himself" is so overcome with joy at having encounter a real alien. Willingly accepts and allows himself to be taken over by his shapeshifting doppelganger and sent into space that even when he is among the other aliens he is still excited to be with them. Had Dale not realized the situation later on he could have been never seen again had the aliens continued on to Fleeblebrox. Even more so had both Bric and Brak freeze Dale before he was able to escape. All this while none of the Rescue Rangers would have realized that their original Dale is gone and all they have is the fake alien Dale. ## Comics - The A.R.S signal on full effect; it brainwashes the target, turns their eyes red and makes them incredibly strong.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChipNDaleRescueRangers
Child's Play (1988) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Hi. I'm Chucky. Wanna plaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy? - When compared to what came after, the atmosphere of the original is unsettling as hell — usually, winter backdrops in movies can make for some idyllic scenery, but Bill Butler's cinematography manages to find a way to make that uninviting, utilizing seedy city streets, a well-intentioned but dingy psychiatric hospital, even an darkly-lit apartment household to their full advantage. The score by Joe Renzetti doesn't help either — at times, it's hardly ever there at all, making you feel just as antsy as the characters in regards to Chucky's presence. - Two words: Burned Chucky. He strongly resembles another MGM horror villain, Tar Man from The Return of the Living Dead. Chucky: (after literally getting burnt to a crisp) Hello, Andy. - And before that, Chucky getting trapped in the fireplace and having his entire body set ablaze. He absolutely had it coming, but his screams of agony as he frantically runs around the apartment and the music correlating make it incredibly unsettling to watch. - Chucky implies John taught him more than the one voodoo spell we have seen in the entire series. Just imagine... Chucky may have a whole array of voodoo powers we have yet to see. note : Since then, it's been shown in Cult that he can possess multiple bodies. - Chucky's soul is implied to be in limbo every time he "dies". He deserves such misery, but sheesh. - The first time we see Chucky move on his own. While Andy is playing with him, the TV has a news report that Eddie, Charles's partner, escaped arrest, and Chucky's eyes move so that he looks at the bulletin. - When Chucky speaks (in the doll voice) after Andy's mom realizes there are no batteries in him. Not only that, but since the battery pack is in his back, his head suddenly spins backwards a la The Exorcist to look up at her. Its a pretty effective Jump Scare the first time you see it, and even after multiple viewings, its still creepy. Then when he gets serious, his voice drops and his face morphs to look more sinister. No wonder Bravo named it one of the scariest scenes in movie history. Chucky: Hi, I'm Chucky! Wanna play? Karen: (screams) - Chucky's headless body bursting out of a vent with no warning whatsoever in a last-ditch attempt to kill the Barclays, Mike, and Santos. And for added pleasure, we get to hear his decapitated head madly barking orders at his body. Chucky: Kill him now!! Strangle him!! DON'T LET GOOOOOO!!!! - The scene where Chucky, shortly after he is shot through the heart, says his dying words at the end of the first movie. His voice changes from his menacing human one to the cheerful Good Guy doll voicebox during the last two words. Which are spoken from the doll's charred head that moments prior were blown off from the doll's body. And just to top it off, the doll's voicebox draws out the very last word, appropriately sounding like the "battery" of a doll dying out as it does. It is exceedingly creepy beyond words. Chucky: Hi. I'm Chucky. Wanna plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...? - When Andy is locked up in the asylum. This kid is able to relax for a bit as despite where he is, he's at least away from Chucky. But then he sees Chucky coming for him out from his window. He tries to get the Doctor's attention, but the doctor doesn't believe him. So all he could do for now is huddle in a corner and cry knowing how screwed he is. \|\|Until he faked Chucky out and gave him the slip.\|\| - Andy's mom discovering Charles' old apartment room: with the walls decorated with painting depicting a voodoo ritual, a creepy white porcelain sculpture of a group of people melded together, and a message on the wall ("OH THANK YOU MIGHTY DAMBALLA FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH") written in big red letters. - Not every moment of horror is Chucky-induced. Andy's mother is almost raped by the homeless vagrant who sold her the doll. - The concern that you've let a bad influence into your home, and one that's driving your child to enable them to commit murder. Some commentators point out that they view the movie differently as a parent than they did when they were younger.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildsPlay1988
Child's Play 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Taking a tip from the previous movie's alternate ending, the opening sequence wherein a new Chucky is slowly created following a trickle of blood into the plastic vat from his old body which had been ripped up off the floor and carried away. Topped off nicely with his sudden outburst so you know for sure that it's him. - The build up to Mr. Sullivan's death. Aside from the Hitchcockian tension of Sullivan unknowingly taking the doll animated by the Lakeshore Strangler in his apartment, and not noticing that it broke out of its box, imagine being in his shoes: you're chilling in your office after a long day of work, when suddenly the TV turns off, then you painfully fall to the ground from stepping on marbles that somehow got scattered, and the toys around you, including two talking Good Guy dolls, seemingly activate on their own and almost hurt you twice. It's all strange and eerie, but you're still with your feet in reality and thinking rationally... then all of the sudden a screaming, Nightmare Face-d Chucky strikes you in the head with a golf bat. Reality comes crashing down with it: that Andy Barclay wasn't a crazy kid in all these years, Chucky IS alive and possessed by a sadistic Serial Killer, and you're his next victim, all alone and defenseless in your high-life house you assumed was safe. " Oh my God" indeed. - Something just seems off about this image◊, where Chucky is on the computer in a dimly lit office. It almost looks like he's about to materialize from the screen. - It's saddening more than anything, but the poor garbage man's death is still an ugly and nightmarish way to go: you dived right into the rubbish of the garbage truck to help some screaming guy who somehow fell into it, only for then to see that the trash compactor activated itself and is slowly pushing you towards the grinder, which is a rolling spiked cylinder. The garbage surrounding you makes your escape very difficult, and you don't make it out in time, you only get your hand painfully crushed between the hood and the compactor, before being shoved into a Cruel and Unusual Death. - Sgt. Botnick is an Asshole Victim due to him being a jerk with a shaving fixation (to the point he feels the need to do that with a Good Guy doll), but in all fairness, it's still a bit unsettling to imagine yourself doing something innocuous only to see a doll suddenly spring to life and swiftly slitting your throat with a razor, which you only teased the cadets with, and getting your Catchphrase turned against you " Presto, you're dead!" to boot. - As funny as Chucky spooking Whitehurst (who had walked into the murder scene) making him run away is, seeing Whitehurst so utterly shaken by what he just saw is far from amusing: the poor guy can barely stand on his feet when he runs outside and has to join the others for the training. Who knows what was going on in his head in that moment, maybe thinking he was going insane and he just imagined it? Feeling logic and rationality crumbling down but refusing to accept it not wanting to become like Andy who notoriously ruined his own life by claiming the doll to be alive, despite everything adding up now? Being terrorized at the prospect of having to return to the school where there's a killer doll lurking around not knowing how to tell the others of the danger without being considered a loon or even worse becoming a suspect of Sgt. Botnick's murder? Certainly, pure Nightmare Fuel was taking over his very being after witnessing that awful sight. - The idea of being stalked through a Haunted House Ride by a furious killer doll is not the type of thing that helps one sleep at night. - Much like the doll factory from the previous film, the Haunted House Ride is a safety hazard with a grim reaper animatronic that swings a real, and really sharp scythe near the passengers and there's a giant uncovered fan that is able to blend human flesh into pieces. - As seen in the page image, Chucky's face being sliced in half by a giant swinging scythe, revealing the bloody muscle and sinew beneath. Ouch.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildsPlay3
Chicago By Night / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## Classic Vampire: The Masquerade Lodin's current look - Forged in Steel has an adventure hook where slavery is still practiced in the city of Gary, Indiana. The Kindred of the city buy meals from an independent ghoul who kidnaps locals to serve to them. It is Harsher in Hindsight because the population of the city is predominately black. - Modius also keeps two elderly black men as retainers that he has Mind Raped into submission. - Son has a very Does This Remind You of Anything? when he takes the seven-year-old Undead Child Neon into his house by promising safety during the events of Under a Blood Red Moon before torturing him, feeding on him, and finally diablerizing him. Worse, he remains a Karma Houdini decades later. - Ballard feeds on the children of his own family and a very Does This Remind You of Anything? hint of him being (as 25 Years of the Masquerade calls him, 'Uncle Touchy'). His own childe, Lawrence Ballard, plans to kill him to protect his own children. Thankfully, Jossed in 5th Edition. - In Under a Blood Red Moon, the Sabbat Embrace an entire family of Garou Kinfolk including a toddler before Dominating them to eat members of their family. All of this as a way to taunt the werewolves in the city. - Helena has Brett Stryker Embrace beautiful young women then has them chained up in the basement of the Succubus Club so she can feed on them until she finishes them off. ## 5th Edition - Take a look at Lodin to one side. Once he was one of the most beautiful and powerful Princes in the Camarilla. He's now suffered Sanity Slippage and significant Body Horror from whatever happened to him during the events of Under a Blood Red Moon. - Bobby Weatherbottom has put his girlfriend and True Love into a medical coma so she can have blood transferred to her via IV perpetually so he can feed from her regularly. He hates himself for this but continues to subject her to a Fate Worse than Death. - Kevin Jackson supposedly threw Al Capone into an oil drum and hurled him into Lake Michigan. \|\|Thankfully, this didn't actually happen.\|\| - Lester Knife regularly feeds people and Kindred to the things that live inside his building. He has no idea what they are, only that they hunger. - In The Dying Fields a deranged Malkavian ghoul is conducting regular human sacrifices to the Harvest God. Its not by anything supernatural necessarily, just his own cruel and brutal nature appealing to the local's prejudices.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChicagoByNight
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Vermicious Knids are definitely Nightmare Fuel. They look like 4ft-tall furry eggs that stand on their pointy ends and have HORRIBLE staring eyes. They can twist into any shape and they eat humans. One of the most unnerving things about them is that it's suggested that they don't eat people so much as absorb them - they don't have mouths, but "they have other things to bite with". They're the first things that Mr. Wonka is actually SCARED of. It could be difficult just turning the page, knowing that picture of the thing standing in the elevator will be there. Even worse with the Michael Foreman illustrations...that is, BEFORE Quentin Blake did them. - Especially how... innocuous they look initially. With both artists, the first illustration is just this furry egg-thing with eyes, no mouth, no nose, no huge fangs or fire-breath or enormous wings- not, in essence, something to be feared. And then we find out that they are. - At one point, five Knids twist their bodies into the word "SCRAM". The heroes do. And then Charlie asks why they'd tell you to scram if they want to eat you... and Wonka explains that they like to prolong the chase before they attack. These things are sadists on top of everything else. - The Knids do manage to attack and devour a bunch of unsuspecting visitors to the space hotel. What they exactly do to them is left to the imagination, but back on Earth the President and the White House staff hear what's going on over their radio... - Wonka mentions, while describing what the Knids are, that there was once a very friendly species that lived on the Moon. The Knids rendered them extinct. - ...and they did the same on Venus and Mars and "many other planets". - Minusland — the place where those who overdo Wonka's Fountain of Youth elixir Wonka-Vite go. It's a misty area full of spirits — imagine this cavern with negative ghosts floating sideways... - Grandma Georgina being aged to several hundred years old and her resulting withered appearance is enough to severely freak out the rest of the Buckets and even Mr. Wonka. Bear in mind that this happens just hours after the group had been threatened with being eaten by Vermcious Knids. - Turned up to eleven in the first UK version of the book, which uses a highly detailed and realistic illustration style, as opposed to the more cartoonish and abstract styles employed in other versions of the book. And the illustrator does not hold back in depicting just how decrepit she ends up looking.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator
Chiasmata / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Oh boy. Chiasmata and especially its counterpart Electrophoresis are not for kids. (Made after reading an article about kids and fear.) - This panel. Good lord. - The very concept of the Dark Triumvirate. Sibling is always watching you, you never know when Sister may strike, Brother is the most sadistic mastermind you'll ever see... their actual forms count too. And it's very possible they're not the only ones. - The Location itself. Creepy texts on the walls (\|\| which may or may not be made by Ibrahim before\|\|), constantly changing rooms, 'robots' (which are implied to be \|\|the shells of the aforementioned Triumvirate\|\|) run rampant and their allegiance is unknown, multiple secret passageways... it just screams Nothing Is Scarier. - Creepy Awesome: The way the story and its creatures manages to avoid the stereotypical powers and monsters. All of the monsters in Electrophoresis (except the Triumvirate) are actual humans, and the designs are also beyond expectation. - All superhumans have something about them that puts them in Uncanny Valley, and, if known, their backstories too (see WMG page). Under all the awesome powers and advanced technology, they were all unassuming, normal people before being hit by a Cold Light. The characters in Electrophoresis are assumed to have to willingly enter life-threatening situations on a regular basis without their friends or family even knowing where they are. And even with magic, they're all still humans who've probably never even held a gun before, much less had any proper combat training prior to their 'enlightenment'. - Device, for example, is nothing short of a very excitable, nerdy guy. But Word of God has said his home country, Israel, tried to get him extradited multiple times, and what he did back there was considered illegal. On top of that, he hasn't got a civilian identity. - Ibrahim's niece, Jamila, does not even know he's still alive. And apparently Ibrahim thinks it's for the better. Let that sink in. - The fact that each character has a backstory before ending up in the Location. How many of their loved ones, friends and family are in complete confusion where their friend went? How many 'missing' posters were hung? They have no idea their friend/family member just gained terrifying powers, and an even more terrifying side effect to go along with it, and are now stuck in a living hell. - There's a brief moment where someone is just sitting in the shadows watching everyone. It is rather likely Alice Hemsley, but that doesn't stop it from being scarily paranoia inducing. - Don't get me started about 564. Its description in the PMMM AU also qualifies:	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chiasmata
Chikn Nuggit / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "Ew." If you're in disbelief about how Chikn Nuggit, this cutesy-looking web animating series, could have its dark and disturbing moments, you clearly haven't learned from Happy Tree Friends. - Iscream is NF Personified. There is no telling when they'll go from utterly cute to overly terrifying. Jump Scare may vary. - In one Halloween short, Chikn, Chee and Sody Pop are sitting in a circle telling ghost stories when Chee mentions the legend of the Black-eyed Children. Her and Chikn slowly turn to Sody Pop...who now has completely pitch-black eyes. Chikn and Chee: (both scream in terror) - In "Eye love you", Chikn tells Cheezborger that your pupils dilate when you look at something you love. Chee stares at Chikn so long her eyes turn completely black with two hands reaching out of them to grab Chikn, only for him to scream and run away immediately. - In "Iiiiiits tiiiime", The Thanksgiving background, with Chikn, who is holding a turkey leg in his mouth and has a pumpkin pie on his head, suddenly changes to a Christmas themed background accompanied by a Scare Chord, and Chikn now has a Santa hat on his head and a candy cane in his mouth. He pulls the candy cane out of his mouth, which reveals to have been pointed like a knife. He then sings the "Fa la la la la" part of "Deck the Halls" slowly and eerily. When he sings the last "La", the camera zooms in on his face which now has red snowflakes on his eyes. Chikn Nuggit: Fa la la la la, la la...la...la... - In "The unpredictability of naps" , Chikin decides to take a nap. Ten minutes pass, and he feels refreshed. Chikn Nuggit: I feel amaaazing! Oh, it's only been 10 minutes? Ah... I'll sleep a lil bit longer... Mmm, maybe about 3 hours. - In "...alright then" (as part of the Christmas Special 2021) Chikn sees the viewer as their little Gingerbread Man, before shoving them in his mouth to swallow them whole. A black screen then shows "YOU DIED" in red text. - On one occasion, Fwench Fwy and Iscream wonder why they kiss with their eyes closed. They quickly discover why. - One time, Sody made the mistake of asking to hear Chikn's bark. He reluctantly obliged, and his bark turned out to be so powerful that it ripped all the skin and muscles off Sody's head, leaving only his skull. Pausing at the right time reveals a surprisingly disturbing freeze frame. - This short isn't overtly nightmarish, but it does feature Chikn having a very unsettling existential crisis. It's frightening seeing this normally happy-go-lucky pup on the brink of a mental breakdown— never mind that, given his true nature, such a breakdown would likely be tantamount to catastrophe. Chikn: That thing the clock guy said about empty voids is kinda starting to freak me out... Wait! Do I even... have a house? Sometimes it feels like I'm just... a puppet on a stage... available for whatever shenanigans happen next. What's happening...?	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChiknNuggit
Chriddof / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "homer simpson.avi", which is a video of a short story about an insane Homer Simpson dissecting his own children then getting arrested for it, with Marge needing to be restrained by the neighbors to prevent her from murdering her husband in a fit of rage. The story is already disturbing, but the distorted voice of the narrator and the footage of Homer laughing like a maniac over a disturbing loop of music makes it even scarier. Homer Simpson wanted to know how his children worked, so he took them apart, he made sure to label everything, and put all of the fluids in suitable containers. Marge had to be restrained by the neighbors.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chriddof
Chie Shinohara: The Best Collection / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes When her collection one-shots all contain murder, mystery or horror, you can expect this to have these aspects in it. - The entirety of The Midnight Visitor - Masami comes home from tennis practice, but her mother and younger brother aren't at home. Thinking nothing of it, it's still light and warm outside, they probably just left the house. But hours go by and they still aren't back. Not even a short phone call, to inform Masami of them being late. - The nights are worse, with someone trying to break into the home. They try to cut the door-chain with a knife and slamming the door on them won't stop them, they have the key! And then they manage to break in, anyway, and try to kill Masami. - The revelation and knowledge, that \|\|Masami's mother's and younger brother's corpses\|\| were lying in the house, unnoticed for several days. - The gaslighting in Suicide Room Number 404, with Eriko seeing the spirits of the previous tenants, who all commited suicide over lost or scorned love. \|\|The fact that it was done by her supposed 'best friend' and the guy she's had a crush on, who merely faked his feelings for Eriko, just adds another layer of horror to it.\|\| - Hisako and Nori almost getting buried alive in the excavation site in Red Destiny.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChieShinoharaTheBestCollection
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Stella, when she's really angry, bursts into out of control red flames. Those who have pyrophobia (fear of fire) will be caught off guard. One of her angry moments is in volume 1/episode 1 when she's going to burn Ikki for the earlier Accidental Pervert incident. Stella: Prepare yourself! You disrespectful, creepy, crude, perverted little commoner! I will turn you into ashes all by myself! (explodes into flames) Ikki being driven to isolation by his family to the point that he is out in the snow about to freeze to death. Shizuku's yandere moments, especially when she learns about Ikki and Stella's relationship. In the anime, Shizuku has a blue aura and snowflakes around her. Bisho and his gang taking the women and children hostage and Stella doing a Shameful Strip in front of him. Shizuya appearing from the shadows to defeat Bisho after Ikki outsmarts the latter by cutting off his arm (which was pretty graphic). Shizuya beating the crap out of Ikki at the end of volume 1 while intentionally avoiding fatal wounds just to drag out his suffering caught quite a few people off-guard. Near the end, he was even going to shoot Ikki right in the heart. Good thing Ikki had a Heroic Second Wind at the last moment and caught the arrow. Kuraudo injuring Kaito to the point that the latter ended up hospitalized. The whole Ethics Committee situation is arguably one of the darkest parts of the series. Ikki can usually think through opponents with terrifying powers, but he's nearly helpless against a Kangaroo Court that wants to completely ruin his life, start a media campaign against him, isolate him from his friends, and slowly poison him. Since every member of the committee has a vested interest in slandering him, he can't say anything without them using Insane Troll Logic to make him look more guilty, meaning he has to constantly choose his words as wisely as possible. By the time Ikki's match with Touka is about to start, he's barely hanging on to life and is in yet another Heroic BSoD due to fatigue, poison, and the shock of being rejected by his own father. The hearing portion of this arc is actually scarier than the prospect of facing Touka in a duel, since the former is similar to real life persecution while the latter's lightning fast swordplay is fantasy. Amane Shinomiya: Whether or not he did it intentionally, Amane's luck powers cause several of Kiriko's patients to end up in critical condition, just because he wished to get to his and Ikki's match as soon as possible. One can only imagine what his wishes did to his previous opponents who lost by default. He outright admits that he wants to watch Ikki suffer and break as he tries to climb his way to the top. There's even an illustration of his Nightmare Face on the very same page as that statement. At the end of Volume 7, \|\|he crucified Shizuku to the wall with his swords\|\|. Volume 8 makes this worse \|\|when he publicly humiliates Shizuku by revealing her Yandere love for Ikki in front of the security cameras. This can easily remind readers of Shizuya Kirihara's public bullying of Ikki and is far darker to boot.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight
Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Even for a Sentai Big Bad, Meadow has a very eerie appearance. She's has a floating, disembodied face surrounded by a rainbow mane being projected from an unknown point across space with an almost angelic aura around her, which makes it all the more creepy when she gives out destructive and genocidal orders. - Episode 1 starts off with the Hoshikawa Family having two innocent adorable aliens, Iya and Touya, serving as their companions and adopted family. Both are killed almost immediately by the Zone arriving to destroy the Sidon Flowers they all grew in an attempt to repopulate their devastated planet, giving the audience a major wake-up call of the villains' threat. - In the third episode, the MoTW Torarugin's M.O. is to possess people and use their bodies against their will. The person is still fully aware and conscious, but their bodies are basically marionettes with Torarugin pulling the strings. Torarugin takes over one of the Hoshikawa siblings' young students and forces him to not only attack his teacher, but also to pilot a flying battleship and attack a city, killing hundreds of innocent people with the small child in the pilot seat desperately protesting all the while. That kid's gonna need some serious therapy. Oh, also Torarugin's possession eventually kills whomever he's possessing, so (having been possessed for quite some time) who knows what the long-term effects on the kid's body are going to be? - The revelation in #45 that Vulgyre is a Living Ship, with his metal walls covering up some very creepy pulsating veins. Everyone in Zone is is quite disturbed by this, since none of them, not even Chevalier, had known the truth (Gaku had discovered it, testing his hypothesis by first stabbing his Fiveblaster's sword form into the floor, then chucking it into a wall, which crumbles apart to reveal the aforementioned veins). - Doldora's breakdown in #46 is hard to watch. Even if she's a villain, you can't help but feel bad for her. She goes completely hysterical upon learning that Meadow was little more than an illusion and all her faithful service was for naught. It gets even more disturbing when Vulgyre fuses her with Zaza to create a semi-sapient Combined Galactic Warrior (which noticeably disturbs Billion). - From the same episode, after Vulgyre's ship form crashes in the mountains, the image of Meadow breaks into pieces...and a creepy, distorted voice echoes throughout the interior before informing Zone he is Vulgyre, and that he was in fact Meadow as well. - Episode #47: - First, two members of Zone try to defect upon learning of the true nature of Vulgyre, the latter responds by vaporizing them quickly, horrifying even Dongoros, and making it clear to the remaining members of Zone that they cannot even dare to quit now. - Vulgyre's Galactic Super Beast transformation. He absorbs the blood of the countless innocents Captain Chevalier slaughtered to power himself up, all while letting out a disturbingly unnatural Evil Laugh, right before revealing his true form as a multi-tentacled and unstoppable Botanical Abomination. The episode ends on Vulgyre's silhouette looming over everything. - The final episode sees the now Galactic Super Beast Vulgyre going on a rampage in a final attempt to destroy the Earth and obtain immortality, leveling an entire city as civilians run around and scream in terror. All while No Selling everything the Fivemen try to throw at it — the Diamond Max just bounces right off, and he quickly begins to completely wreck Max Magma. - We also learn who Meadow really was — an innocent woman whom Vulgyre lusted after in the past. When she died while fleeing from him, Vulgyre opted to entomb her body and soul within himself, leaving her helpless as he used her visage to lead an interstellar campaign of death and destruction. The Fivemen's Sidon flowers ended up releasing her soul, causing her body to quickly rot away into nothing.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman
Christopher Robin / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Christopher Robin getting himself lost deep in the 100 Acre Wood after his fight with Pooh makes the movie take a sudden turn into horror. Christopher believes there are Hefflalumps chasing after him, falls into a pit purposed to trap Heffalumps and gets knocked unconscious by a stray rock and almost drowns when the pit gets filled with rainwater, all while having a nightmare where a Heffalump appears in the water and drags him away with its trunk as he tries to escape it, all the while hearing voices that make it clear that this Heffalump is a metaphor for all of his all-too real troubles. - In the midst of correcting Pooh in how to say efficiency when Pooh had pronounced it as "a fish in the sea", Christopher turns around only to suddenly discover that Pooh has disappeared. - The World War II scenes, brief as they are, bring some serious Mood Whiplash to a franchise such as Winnie the Pooh. - When Pooh noticed all his friends were missing and went around looking for them, the 100 Acre Wood is seen having become extremely foggy with almost no music playing in the background. Pooh appears worried and confused, as if he's unsure why this is happening in the first place, you'd be forgiven for thinking he accidentally left his own neighborhood and took a wrong turn at Silent Hill.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChristopherRobin
Children's Party at the Palace / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes What child would trust such a creepy and Obviously Evil guy as this Baddie? Yes, even a harmless British Pantomime such as this can have its unsettling moments. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - Although they're simply exaggerated versions of their original selves from their respective novels, the Baddies can be pretty creepy. Their dreary attire and intimidating scowls are dead giveaways. - The way the Child Catcher acts towards Tracy Beaker. He acts very kind and generous to Tracy by telling her he has sweets with him, even using endearing nicknames yet speaks in a low, sinister voice as he tries to lure her into a trap just like he did with Just William and Horrid Henry. Later he shows his true colours and insists Tracy be locked behind the door with William. - Even the Child Catcher simply swerving across the floor of the Palace corridor can be pretty unnerving, yet it doubles as a Funny Moment as he's a malicious Baddie yet he weaves around like a child on a sugar rush. - The CCTV footage of Burglar Bill stealing the handbag at Buckingham Palace, especially that it seemed like it came from a low-budget security camera with the grainy footage, lack of colour, and that the room was near pitch black. - The masked costumed characters featured in this film with their static, unmoving faces (though if they had animatronic heads that would still guarantee some Nightmare Fuel). Especially that some people have a fear of mascots like those. - There's a chance that the corgis would have gotten skinned by Cruella de Vil. Thankfully, as they can detect the evil in Baddies with no problem, Cruella had to deal with them constantly biting and yapping at her. "AAAAUUUGH!! HORRIBLE LITTLE MONSTERS!! They snarl and snap, pull and yap! Why does anyone like these in their skins?! You! Take them! Kill 'em! Harvest their fur! Hahahahaha! " - During the Baddies' hysterical evil laughter after the Grand High Witch talks about putting her potion in the birthday cake so the Goodies can transform into mice, enormous flames and sparks from the pyrotechnic machines at the bottom of the stage suddenly shoot up to make it more dramatic. It doesn't help that it was very sudden.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace
Children of the Last Days / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The town dump, where the global conspiracy disposes of the mutilated bodies of babies. Quote: "Very small arms and legs. Heads and faces too." Additionally, Pawel's molestation by his great-uncle.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildrenOfTheLastDays
Children of the Red King / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Most of the evil endowed talents are pretty scary. - Manfred's however takes the cake. At just nine years of age he was able to erase the memories of a grown man and render him utterly helpless for ten years. - The reveal that Titania Tilpin is a witch is pretty horrifying, as well as the fact that she bears Lyell a grudge for rejecting her for Amy Jones and will do anything to make sure he doesn't wake up from his trance. It's chilling to see how cold-hearted and determined she is to have her revenge. - Dagbert Endless could be extremely creepy from the beginning, but the part where he \|\| drowns Tancred really takes the cake. The description of the scene combined with the fact that poor Emma could do nothing but hide as a bird and watch or risk sharing his fate makes it a bit of a tearjerker as well. It's worth noting that despite his later heel face turn, and the fact that the drowning wasn't permanent thanks to the Flames, Dagbert was still probably the only villain who succeeded at killing one of the main heroes in cold blood, despite many others trying\|\|. - Ezekiel Bloor counts as an In-Universe example. He's very old and looks like a living corpse, and his teeth are black and cracked. Charlie even makes a point of thinking that people of a similar age could look much better preserved. Then there's his living place at the Academy, which is dark and dusty and filled with cobwebs, having not changed at all in almost a century. He's also...disturbingly gleeful at the thought of seriously harming or getting rid of a group of teenagers and pre-teens, Charlie in particular. - Asa Pike and Cafall the Changer's endowment. If there is not a sufficient light source, they will automatically transform into beasts, Body Horror included. No exceptions. Coupled with that, neither of them are completely in their right minds when this happens - in the first book, Asa is even implied to maybe have killed at least one person in his beast form, and staying a beast for too long has a very bad effect on his sanity. His mother even refers to his endowment as more of an affliction than an endowment.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildrenOfTheRedKing
Chronicles of the Siren War / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Die - "Chronicles of the Siren War" shows readers that joining Iron Blood (the equivalents to Nazis) is a REALLY bad idea. The files showcasing the harsh experiments they performed on their Kansen will leave you deathly pale. \|\|It's no wonder why they murdered their COs.\|\| - The Red Wisdom Shards. Should any of the Sakura Empire Kansen fail in their mission or decide to defect, the shards will terminate them unless they pledge their fealty to someone else. They're lucky that person was Thorson; anyone else, especially Eagle Union, would not have been that merciful. - That's not the only thing those Shards can do. They can also merge the Kansen to her ship, but the process will permanently erase their individuality. When Thorson attempts to rescue Yamashiro, he sees tendrils all over her ship, showing how far the influence of the Red Wisdom Shards has spread. - Just the idea that the Sakura Empire has information on the future is already a scary thought. Every major battle Eagle Union and Royal Navy has taken part in or will take part, might be compromised and will lead to failure. If Iron Blood had their hands on it, the war would have been even more deadly. - The Battle Of Midway turns from what could have been Eagle Union's greatest victory into a near devastating loss. Akagi, Kaga, Souryuu and Hiryuu, all four ships that were fated to be sunk, actually SURVIVED everything Eagle Union had thrown at them. Oh, Crap! indeed. - If Azur Lane hadn't arrived, Eagle Union would have most likely been wiped out. - Just imagine what was going through Eagle Union's eyes. They initially thought they were the pinnacle of naval warfare, only for that illusion to shatter when they see their enemies summoning swarms of planes without pilots and throwing fireballs that inexplicably appear out of nowhere. - Hiei suffers Body Horror following Laffey's attack. Half of her body is in pristine condition but the other half of her body is deeply burnt and charred. - Thorson orders Indianapolis to release Pandora's weapon and it's just as terrifying like history's Hiroshima incident. - Eventhough she really had it coming, Akagi's "defanging" is not something to cheer about and pretty gory too. Arizona, Cleveland and even Enterprise herself are outright unerved by the scene.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChroniclesOfTheSirenWar
Chronicles of the Gods / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes A collection of Nightmare Fuel from Chronicles of the Gods. # A Game Of Gods - The Collector. It's a massive, tentacled abomination that constructed itself out of dead bodies. Enough said. # Twilight Of The Gods - Harry murdering Norman in cold blood. # A Game Of Gods: Infinities - An unmasked Scorpion screaming "GIVE! ME! MY! FAAAAAAACE!" # A Game Of Gods: Taskforce Sifuri - The angels in the factory, which have killed and displayed dozens of Nomads over the years. - Commorragh. Their first view of the city involves the corpses (mostly corpses) of torture victims displayed on spikes. And then the Mandrakes attack...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChroniclesOfTheGods
Chrono Trigger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Lavos is an inconceivable monster looking to spread his influence across the world before devouring the planet, and as shown through these situations, the Kingdom of Guardia suffers big time as a result of his malice. - A lot of aspects about Lavos are quite creepy to the many kids who grew up playing the game. To start off, it looks like a giant, grotesque spiky tick, but that's just its outer shell. Inside is a more humanoid body, along with two pods. One of these pods, not the humanoid body, is the real Lavos. Not to mention the sound it makes and its killing of Crono. - That noise that Lavos makes. It's like the audible equivalent of the spelling of "Cthulhu" — if it were real, it would be a Sound That Man Was Not Meant To Hear, and you should be glad this is the best your TV/Nintendo DS speakers can do to replicate it. - If you take the time gate to 1999 AD, you don't hear the normal time gate ambient track. Instead, you get a heartbeat that starts slow and gets quicker every few seconds. - The version in the prototype is even creepier: it throws in the same laughing/crying noise from Strains of Insanity. - If you go for the Programmer's Ending in a New Game + (using the right telepad immediately when seeing Lucca's device), the inner section of Lavos not only features the heartbeat but an even more disturbing scream that just gets louder and louder until everything else is muffled by it. - The Geno Dome has a conveyor belt where a person enters a machine, screams, and what implies to be a Tab emerges from the other end. Even worse in the Japanese version, where it's called the Genocidome, an obvious portmanteau of Genocide and Dome, implying that the machine was specifically built for that purpose. - Magus' Lair in 600 AD. - Let's start with the background music, called "Strains of Insanity" a creepy chord that never lets up, with a sound that could be laughter, crying, or screaming repeating every couple of seconds. Note that this is a step up from the first phase, where you wander around a castle filled with Obviously Evil children, random civilians who just giggle or say nothing, and people you know Queen Leene, Crono's mother, and Lucca/King Guardia/Lucca's father who slowly walk up to you, in complete silence. - Add some people you know, whom you know shouldn't be there. They say some relatively innocuous things the first time you see them... then again later after you encounter Ozzie, they add a sinister second phrase before revealing their true forms. Instead of the normal battle music, "Strains of Insanity" continues to play while you fight them. - Those skeleton Mooks you've fought at various points in this era? At one point in Magus' castle a group of them attacks you while begging you to kill them to free them from the spell controlling them. Worse still, in that castle you meet a bunch of kids and teenagers who also turn into skeletons. Magus wasn't above using child corpses. (And, yes, Stains of Insanity is still playing. Getting to the bosses is worth it just to hear a different song) - The Day of Lavos. Chrono Trigger was originally released in 1995. Back then, a video game showing The End of the World as We Know It happening in was a very scary thing (even if it did inspire more than a few Prince jokes), especially considering that the Y2K apocalypse prophecy was still very relevant back when this game first came out. And seeing it in action is nightmare fuel itself in the "bad ending". You see the earth slowly get destroyed from the perspective of its inhabitants at the Day of Lavos, then, followed by that hideous Lavos sound: "In the end, the future refused to change." 1999 - 2300 AD can be pretty scary. - A ruined and broken world with no hope, monsters everywhere, and robots set out to scrape the jar's sides, in terms of humans who haven't died already to Lavos or the weather. And if you wait long enough, many a player has stated that the lightning flash, followed by a low rumbling sound, was a rather unnerving surprise. - A new player exiting Bangor Dome onto the 2300 AD world map for the first time is in for a shock in general. A barren wasteland, ruins and craters everywhere... but the cherry on top is the freaking world map music, entitled "Ruined World". It socks you in the gut immediately with a low piano note, and while the winds are playing a hopeless melody, the percussion lags behind the song's tempo considerably, sounding like broken chimes or the pulley of a lonely flagpole beating against the metal. Or the pendulum of a clock winding down to the last few hours before even what little non-Lavos life remaining on the planet goes extinct. - After the events at the Ocean Palace, with Crono using a technique that kills him but temporarily stuns Lavos, which allows his friends to escape after failing to destroy Lavos. The group eventually returns to 2300 AD in order to begin the process of saving Crono, and as they gradually scale Death Peak, they encounter Lavos Spawns; basically baby versions of Lavos which were created to spread to other worlds to repeat the very same cycle Lavos itself is doing to doom the world, only on other worlds as well. Oh, and about Death's Peak? If you overlap 1999 AD and 2300 AD's maps together, that's Lavos. It's its final stage of their life cycle. - How about the events at the end of the Ocean Palace where Lavos disintegrates Crono! Sure, you can save him later, but still. It's surprisingly brutal and was a completely unexpected Player Punch at the time. - If you go to the Northern Ruins in 1000 AD, you will find the ghost of Cyrus, a hero of Guardia who was very popular with the people around the kingdom only to get killed Magus is haunting the halls of the ruins, aggressive and angry, muttering for Glenn. If Glenn never put his soul to rest, Cyrus will haunt the halls for eternity, continuing to strike fears at the heart of villagers nearby. Just put yourself at his shoes, you will see just how jarring it could be. - The end of the sidequest for Fiona's forest. Lucca wakes up as the rest of the party sleeps and wanders into a clearing to find a red time gate that takes her to the day her mother Lara's legs become crippled. If you fail to free her from Taban's machine, Lara cries out for one last time before the screen goes black. Two seconds later, you hear Lara scream. The rest of the sidequest (failure or success) is in complete silence, aside from sound effects. - The DS version allows you to Earn Your Bad Ending. From defeating the Dream Devourer, players are treated to the lovely sight of "The Fall of Guardia", wherein Dalton's army wages war on the Kingdom of Guardia, successfully kills Crono and Marle, causes the Masamune to go missing, and results in the kingdom's ultimate downfall, setting up for the events of Chrono Cross.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChronoTrigger
Chrono Trigger: The Musical / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - "Lavos" ramping up the Bad Ending of the original game even further by showing the complete destruction of the world in gruesome detail while the Big Bad himself revels in his victory. It's quite a sharp contrast to most of the other songs in the musical, even the more emotional ones. - One of the first casualties appears to be Frisk. - The closed captioning for the individual song's vid translates Lavos's screeches in a way that's different from the on-screen text in an initially humorous manner, as it's a translator trying desperately to process what Lavos is saying. But Lavos's voice is such a horrific manner of Black Speech that it malfunctions and instead shows various bits of info about the world, such as the population going down... - In general, Lavos isn't as horrifying as he was in the original Chrono Trigger. He's far, far worse, and not just due to the more intricate sound and visuals at play. In the original, he was already a horrifying world-ending Eldritch Abomination straight out of a Lovecraftian horror, but was never truly treated as "evil" by the story— more so a force of nature than a character, since he was seemingly just following his Planetary Parasite biology. Here? He sings about how much he relishes (or will relish) the pain and suffering of the Earth's dying inhabitants once he emerges. Yep, no doubt about it— this Lavos is sapient, fully aware that his actions are causing immeasurable suffering, and enjoying every second of it. - And then there's his voice. Remember his infamous screech from the original game? The one that, as per another entry on this site, "gave an entire generation of gamers nightmares"? Well, luckily for you, this musical decided to translate it into English in the most horrifyingly authentic way it could think of: three different voices overlapped together, with the deepest sounding like it came from the darkest depths of Hell, culminating in something so utterly twisted, inhuman and eardrum-rupturing that it's as if Lavos himself is attempting to destroy the viewers' hearing. It almost makes the original screech seem benign by comparison. Sleep well, kiddies. Sleep well. - Evidently the people behind this musical considered Lavos a very hard role to audition for. They wanted him to be that terrifying. - The sheer destruction wrought by the use of Lavos Needle, rendered as thin, superheated quills that may cause explosions from the sheer kinetic force, but more often just impale and ignite them. And they come in all shapes and sizes, from large enough to pin a jet to a building like a butterfly, to small enough to skewer a man through the eye and not kill him immediately. It's an attack clearly meant to cause as much destruction as possible while drawing out the demise of anyone caught in its way. - And to confirm that Lavos' speaking and sapience isn't just artistic license done to convey the story as a musical, he finishes Schala's last verse in "Lavos Awakens", and during the reprise of the normal battle theme in "Lavos Beckons", Crono, Lucca and Marle even respond to him that they'll stop his "plan". And yet, in the latter case, Lavos still views himself as so above them that he refers to the three "cattle" as "they" instead of "you", as if he doesn't even register their attacks or consider them high enough lifeforms to be worth talking to. And then he rains hell on them from above before we get another lovely reprise of his theme, nightmarish imagery, sound and all. - Sure, it's satisfying to see him undergo a full-blown Villainous Breakdown in "Last Battle", but the way the art shown of his Core form switches from a neutral pose to an infuriated one as the song starts is rather sudden, as is how he grabs Crono by the face. - Glenn's scream when he's turned into Frog in "Frog's Theme - Reprise." Even worse when not watching the song's video as first-time listeners may not have an exact idea as to why he's doing so. - Queen Zeal's deranged delight in wanting to inflict A Fate Worse Than Death upon the party after they're defeated by Dalton's Golem. - Queen Zeal becomes especially creepy when you realize she has the same voice actress as Toriel, which was probably deliberate. - "Lucca's House" shows the original timeline outcome of Lara's accident in... shockingly graphic detail, despite it being represented in black and white. - The visuals of the accident are based on Lucca's PTSD flashbacks of the original event. The girl was so traumatized by it that she nearly falls into a Heroic BSoD when she realizes when she's gone back to.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChronoTriggerTheMusical
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The toons who are drawn into Sweet Pete's operation. Kidnapped from their home, forced to have surgery that alters their appearances, and then enslaved to make knockoff movies for their rest of their lives. - Not to mention that their mouths are literally wiped off their faces. - The mention that the Nick Jr. characters attacked the police when a false tip led the LAPD to raid their studio. It's off-putting to think that educational children's programming characters, who wouldn't even think of doing such a thing in their native shows, mauled the officers (including one who the dogs from PAW Patrol rendered sterile) for making such a mistake. - The cheese drug den is disturbingly realistic. One rat is super fat from being stuffed with stinky cheese, but as hes completely succumbed to his addiction, all he does is weakly whimper for more. - Sweet Pete's One-Winged Angel form. It's a horrendous mashup of Woody, Optimus Prime, Shredder, Felicia from The Great Mouse Detective, Wreck-It Ralph, Megatron, Bullet Bill from Super Mario Bros., Cruella DeVille, Mickey Mouse, and Silver from Treasure Planet, both equally unnerving to witness and even more terrifying to watch rampage as a mashup of (mostly) innocent and heroic characters tries to gut Chip and Dale. As if that wasn't enough, his voice is constantly changing, with a combination of some new voice clips and some old archival recordings, including Cruella de Vil's Evil Laugh. This has the effect of making him sound like some sort of malfunctioning robot or animatronic or even a demon of some kind. - When Chip and Dale escaped the bootleg machine, Chip and Dale encounter a wall that appears to be plastic bags with cartoon parts stored in like Jimmy Neutron's hair, Ickis' mouth, Monty's mustace, Pete's Peg-Leg, The Pink Panter's snout, Baby Groot's eyes, Mr. Potato Head's body, Shenron's tail, just to name a few. No wonder Sweet Pete takes this job seriously. - As soon as Chip and Dale break into Sweet Pete's lab, you can see a lot of papers that depict fictional characters in their before and after state which is related to the bootlegging process. - During their fight, Steckler wounds Captain Putty by grabbing a small animal cage and using it to slowly and painfully slice his head apart as he screams.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022
Child's Play (2019) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Andy probably didnt expect to see that in the morning. # Spoilers Off applies to the Moments subpages. All spoilers are unmarked. - Let's start with Chuckys redesign for this film. Even before he starts killing, his Uncanny Valley look, coupled with the expressions he makes, is creepy enough on its own. - In this film, Chucky isn't a doll possessed by a serial killer, but an interactive doll gone A.I. Is a Crapshoot after a disgruntled worker tampered with it. And why did he do it? So he could get even with the company who laid him off. It really makes you want to reconsider hiring someone who can hold a grudge. - Shane's death scene. Which starts with him falling off a ladder and shattering both of his legs with a Sickening "Crunch!" (causing brutal open fractures) and ends with Chucky sitting on his chest and stabbing him while his head is slowly eaten by an electric tiller. - Chucky giving Andy a melon with Shanes skinned face on it. What's scary is that Andy doesn't really notice it until he makes a Double Take. That's when the Scare Chord starts. - Gabes gruesome dismemberment after he reactivates Chucky. There's no denying he had it coming, but it goes without saying mutilation by table saw groin-first after having his hands slowly burned by the boiler pipe he grabbed on to until he let go is an ugly and horrific way to go. - An excited little girl at ZedMart is scarred for life when Wes (Karen's coworker) comes out after being stabbed in the neck by Chucky, and his blond costume head comes off, spraying the little girl with blood. - A hybrid of this and Paranoia Fuel is Gabe, the creepy-ass custodian of Karen and Andy's apartment building who has installed cameras in pretty much every person's residence and watches them have meals, talk about personal details, and in Karen's case, undress. Needless to say, he gets what he deserves courtesy of Chucky. - The possibility of evil Buddi dolls falling into the hands of mad men and creepers. Gabe would have done far more creepy things had Chucky befriended him instead of Andy. This version of Chucky would do anything for his friend. Let's not forget the doll can control electronics and record things. To make things even worse, Chucky would be the perfect assassin/hit-man for criminals. - Chucky playing the death cries of the cat as he just stands there in the darkness. - Crossing over with Tear Jerker, a distraught Mike uncovering his mom Doreen's corpse after she's brutally murdered by Chucky. - The climax: Andy's mom is tied up by the neck to a forklift, and Andy has to hurry and save her before she's hanged to death.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChildsPlay2019
Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Father Tree. Worst off, a curious and unsuspecting player can go right ahead and build him with no idea what they're getting into. Or they can let a petrified tree grow for a bit too long. And then they find they can't get rid of him. And then he begins sending his seeds after their hard-earned item stations/tree acres to transform into more father trees, which they also can't get rid of. And then father tree begins sending them items...or rather item. A single smelly boot, with a note: The Tree Tolls For Thee. Mr.Chipper: I can't say his name out loud or he'll hear me...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChipperAndSonsLumberCo
Chuggaaconroy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Chuggaaconroy himself is known for his humor and high production values, but every now and then he can easily dip into the fright territory. - The intro for this video. It borders on a Jump Scare after the viewer has grown accustomed to the series' usual intro. Mind you, even if you take the element of surprise out, it's still pure, unleaded Nightmare Fuel. - For context, the episode opens with an image of Giygas spazzing out with his theme starting up briefly before Claus appears in the center of the video. His sprite slowly shrinks as Giygas towers over him in the background. When Claus reaches his smallest size, the video cuts to yellow and flashes before a disturbing image of Claus with soulless eyes and mouth agape with lifelessness. The screen blurs as we see a red soulless face silently screaming as the background changes to a mess of grey and black with a red aura flooding outwards. Ominous text dot the screen from order "Brother...", "Father...", "Friends...", "The Dragon...", "Family...", "Never ending fights...", "My will...", "My home...", "My life...", "My face...", before ending on "Mother...", as the screen turns redder and redder. as the game's Final Boss music swells. - The endings of most of his videos have that creepy music from the game's Womb Level. - The Luigi face he finds so creepy on the save screen, thanks to the settings on his television set. - Chugga gives us loads of Nightmare Fuel with some extra octane by describing the life cycle of a Bulbmin. Bulbmin are actually parasitic Pikmin that infected a Bulborb, leaving it vulnerable to your whistle. You then proceed to kill its mother in front of it, hypnotize it with your whistle to do your bidding, and lead it through several life-threatening areas, treating it as just another Pikmin and not caring a bit if it dies. Then you use it to fight against other Bulborbs, AKA its own kind, only to leave it behind to starve to death or be killed when you escape, as it cannot leave the dungeon. Thanks for the sweet dreams, Emile. - During the Submerged Castle, you could just hear Chugga's fright as he struggled to gather the treasures before the Water Wraith appeared. Some viewers, especially those that have had similar situations happen to them, would likely be on edge as well. - Especially considering the Water Wraith cannot die until floor 5, so we all could understand his horror when the beast finally appeared before the end. - In Episode 24, Emile makes a joke about being a Serial Killer. After that, he goes on in an unnervingly deadpan and nervous voice about how he isn't one and will never be one for nearly half a minute. He clearly isn't one, but the whole thing comes off as oddly disturbing. - Some viewers have noted that the intros to almost all of these episodes start with Chugga as Deku Link note : he prefers that form because he moves faster, facing the camera. For those not in the know, Deku Link has sad-looking, bright orange eyes that look like lights, that never blink. Chugga (in comments): HE STARES INTO YOUR SOUL. - In episode 7, there's a random, unexplained Gross-Up Close-Up of the moon's freaky face. Gets even scarier thanks to the music in the background. - In episode 30, when he got to the final hours of a three-day cycle for the second time, Chuggaa stops to appreciate the music (which is creepy in itself), but then he turns the music up louder for the viewer to hear it better. The thing is, he mistimed it in editing so that the song blasted louder out of nowhere right over the part with him saying he'd turn it up. He really wants the weight of the apocalypse to be felt. - At the end of Episode 37 of Super Paper Mario, instead of the usual business of having the game's cover in the background with the official art of a character getting closer to the screen, he uses a close-up of The Void, which gets closer and closer with each passing second... - In part one of the finale of Super Paper Mario, the scene where Dimentio appears to take the Chaos Heart for himself is scary enough. However, Chugga makes it even worse; in past episodes, he always gave Dimentio a cheerful, almost goofy, voice when reading his text. However, here, he manages to add a bit of Ax-Crazy to the voice, making it sound exactly how one would imagine Dimentio to sound at the moment. - His showing of the Alien easter egg in New Leaf. It comes after the normal ending of the video, he gives no indication that it's going to happen, and he says nothing the entire time. You just see his character silently get out of bed at 3:30 in the morning and turn on the TV and wait... - Chugga visits Aika Village for a Halloween Special. - What's even more nightmare fuel is the Jump Scare during the part where the dolly is flickering on screen while the staticky TV is heard in the background. - And during that entire segment, Chugga is silent. - There was a minor jump scare at the end of episode 14, where the screen suddenly goes dark, with the face of Spiritomb appearing in the corner while its cry plays loudly. It's pretty startling at the end of such a light-hearted and goofy underground episode! - Episode 51 has it end suddenly with Giratina leaping towards the screen, which already by itself is incredibly startling but it cuts off Cyrus' dialogue as Emile is speaking, which made it even worse. - Phione's bio pic in Episode 80 of the LP, in extreme contrast to Regigigas' bio pic, has a CreepyPastaified version of the Pokemon stating at the viewer in a pitch black void with an eerie smile. While the Pokemon doesn't screech like the other two examples, the Scare Chord and Chugga yelling PHIONE HAPPENS! when it appears can still catch you off guard. Though he eventually just casually says it's not very good. - The very last thing he does in the game is the encounter with the vanishing girl at Marvelous Bridge. He doesn't comment on it whatsoever. - In Episode 9, he starts the episode talking in an eerily calm voice that gives off the vibe that even he has been brainwashed by Happy Happyism. - In Episode 22, the Tent Glitch shenanigans are either this or a Funny Moment... Or both. - In Episode 28, while voicing Pokey's dad, Emile busts out a perfect, but unnervingly realistic maniacal laugh that borders on him possibly being Ax-Crazy, even getting to the point where some of the comments in the comments section were even genuinely concerned about his sanity. - In Episode 36, the Mu Training sequence. Already horrifying enough as-is, Chugga makes it even more frightening by reading it in a really unnerving, plain voice. Eugh... - In Episode 57, which is also the (surprisingly second) last episode in the LP, his acting skills have been much improved from the 10 years of LP-ing. Which means, his performance on Pokey; who is now aiding Giygas, is VERY chilling and completely 'gone totally mad' sounding. When you apply the story about Emile's childhood bully/friend (and how it ended) to the character arc of Pokey, you'll soon understand how sad and horrifying Pokey is from a whole new angle. - In Episode 26, Chugga shows the Hell Valley Sky Tree from Shiverburn Galaxy, even the episode title (Remember You Are Being Watched) gives Paranoia Fuel to a lot of people. - In Episode 33, Emile points out a horrifyingly morbid headcanon that Mario wears badges despite him being made out of paper in this game. He comments that the badges would just stick onto his body instead of him wearing it normally. Then it suddenly cuts to an image of Mario being covered in badges, bandages and black marks, complete with a loud scream.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chuggaaconroy
Cinderella / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - This scene in Lady Tremaine's bedroom. There is no music, Cinderella speaks low, and Lady Tremaine suddenly shouts, giving her Death Glares. - Lady Tremaine overall is a rare case of a Domestic Abuser played disturbingly straight in a family film. And because of it, she's considered one of the most frightening villains in Disney's library, right up there with freaking Maleficent. - The scene where the stepsisters viciously rip Cinderella's homemade ball gown to shreds, with disorienting closeups and music as Cinderella tries in vain to protect herself. Said dress was also one of her last mementos of her biological mother. - Earlier in the scene, Lady Tremaine slowly approaches Cinderella and agrees to let her go to the ball, all while politely talking about how she always keeps her word. As she does, Cinderella's eyes go wide and fearful for the first time—as if she knows what's coming. As the insincerity of her words is quite clear to both her and to anyone watching the film, it just makes the coming threat behind them feel even more insidious. - Lady Tremaine's spiteful little smile and goodnight after her daughters rip up Cinderella's dress. This woman is completely unmoved by two girls attacking a third; worse yet, on top of being pleased about what just went down, she, in the most chillingly subtle way possible and imaginable, provoked her daughters into viciously attacking her stepdaughter by saying that Drizella's beads were the perfect finishing touch for the dress Cinderella was going to wear for the ball. The sheer fact that Lady Tremaine, purely out of spite, was more than willing to have her stepdaughter get her dress violently ripped of by, albeit indirectly, provoking her own daughters into doing the cruel deed really seals just how inhumane her hatred towards her own stepdaughter really is. - The scene when Cinderella is leaving the ball at the stroke of midnight, when she is chased by those scary-looking palace guards on those black horses. The music really makes the scene scary, with For Doom the Bell Tolls as the clock chimes faster and faster. - The King going Ax-Crazy after he learns they lost Cinderella, nearly killing the Grand Duke with his sword. His mood swings in general can be scary, too. The King even threatens to have the Grand Duke beheaded if he doesn't bring back the first woman whom the glass slipper would fit (whether or not it's the same girl from the ball). - Lady Tremaine's Death Glare when she finds out that it was Cinderella who attended the ball. The shadows make it more scary than it should have. While it was originally simply supposed to be menacing, the animators managed to make Lady Tremaine's trip up the shadowy stairs after Cinderella scary. - When Lady Tremaine locks Cinderella in her room. The smirk Tremaine gives for half a second before she slams and locks the door is quite disturbing. - Gus's point of view of Lucifer roaring at him forces the viewers to see how much of a monster this cat can be to someone so little. - Bruno chasing after Lucifer in the climax. Just by looking at his face when he saw the cat, it almost looked like he was ready to kill him. Even if he was chasing the cat away to free Cinderella, it does make you think about how dark the concept was.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Cinderella
Cinderella Chef / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The murder victim in episode one is found with cuts on her face and her eyes gouged out. We get a lovely glimpse of her face covered in blood.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CinderellaChef
Christine / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes An adaptation of a Stephen King novel directed by John Carpenter? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? You keep-a-knockin', but you can't come in... WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked. - Christine herself. A dangerous, hate-filled sentient vehicle that will not hesitate to kill anyone who either crosses Arnie or gets in the way of their twisted relationship. - As if that wasn't enough, it would appear that she is completely indestructible, so no matter how hard you try to get rid of her, she will always come out on top in the end. - The fact that her origin is never explained. While the novel goes into detail about her history with LeBay (and all of it is deeply fucked up in a way that only Stephen King could have imagined), the exact nature of how a sentient car came into existence is left ambiguous. - In the opening scene, Christine's engine hood slams down without warning and crushes the hand of a line worker inspecting her front end. Another worker climbs in to sit behind the wheel, letting the ash from his cigar fall on the front seat. At the end of the shift, the line supervisor notices the car still has Christine's radio playing - he opens the door to turn it off and the worker falls out of the car to the floor dead. - If one looks closer, the Plymouth factory could be the metaphorical representation of an avenue or a fashion ramp. There are many women walking (White Plymouths), but there's a different woman (Red Plymouth). This woman is very seductive in her red dress, with many workers eyeing her. - A man (the line worker) follows Christine, looking at her rear. Christine's mirror notices it, as it's a representation of a wary woman looking behind her. The man also takes a look behind him to make sure he's not watched. Though the line worker is simply doing his job by making sure everything's right with the Red Plymouth, he symbolically harasses Christine by opening her engine hood (representation of a blouse snatching). Christine protects herself by abruptly slamming her hood at the line worker's hand, who yelps in pain. - Another man approaches Christine. Thinking he's here to comfort her after this bad experience, Christine lets him sit within. But he doesn't respect her by dropping cigar ash on the driver seat and turns on the radio. The song is a representation of the anger boiling inside Christine, and it causes her to kill him. - A third man (the line supervisor), noticing Christine's radio is turned on, opens the door to shut it off. He pushes the horn, creating a representation of Christine crying and screaming, like a hysteric. Her headlights being turned on are a representation of tears. - The scene where Christine tries to murder Leigh in a fit of jealous rage. - As Leigh is choking inside the locked car, Christine begins to play "We Belong Together", almost taunting Leigh with her fate. - Christine's massacre of Buddy Repperton and his gang. While they all 100% deserve it, it's still horrifying to watch. - Donnie's death scream as Christine rams their car, causing fuel to leak throughout the garage as said car is catching fire. Within seconds, the entire garage is consumed by an inferno. - Especially nightmarish is the bit where a flaming Christine (see page image) is chasing Buddy down the highway, just lazily tailing him... getting closer every time he looks back. It's all so quiet. - And before that even happened, there's Moochie's death when he's pursued into an alleyway until he has nowhere to run. Apparently the poor bastard was bisected by the time Christine was done with him. - The very concept of what's happening to Arnie. It's almost non-existent in the movie, but it's pretty blatant in the book, if you read between the lines. - Arnie is being possessed by the ghost of Roland D. LeBay. It starts off in subtle ways, like Arnie combing his hair like a 50s greaser or listening to 50s music, all of which you could easily put down to simple things like personal taste. But it keeps going, as Arnie starts treating his girlfriend badly, yelling at his family, mistreating his best friend, and even breaking the law by smuggling fireworks across state lines. The ultimate sign is when Arnie injures his back at work, but can't quite remember HOW he injured it... except that now he needs to wear a back brace, just like LeBay. - When Arnie's father confronts him about the way Arnie spoke to him and his mother on replacing Christine, Arnie nearly strangles him to death, but backs out and pats him as if nothing unusual happened. The incident leaves Arnie's father creeped out. It's shown that LeBay's influence is poisoning Arnie's mind. - It takes a step into true nightmare territory towards the end, though, in a sequence where Dennis confronts Arnie in the school parking lot, calling him out on his bullshit and pointing out just how much he knows. Suddenly, the facade breaks and Arnie comes back, frightened and pleading with Dennis to help him. Then the walls are back up, and LeBay is talking again. It adds a huge dose of And I Must Scream to the story, making it even more frightening. - The teaser trailer is pretty unnerving in and of itself: Shot mostly in darkness, all we see at first is red curves, all while the narrator talks about how "she" is seductive and passionate... before then saying "she"'s possessive and "pure... evil". Once it's clear the narrator is talking about Christine note : as we get shown more details of the Plymouth Fury itself, we are then told how she can take over whoever decides to own her "body and soul", before ending on this nugget: - The film ends with a close-up of Christine's crushed body, with a bent grille piece slowly turning as if she's healing again... - The novel ends on a worse note: Years after the final battle, Dennis reads a recent news report of a bizarre murder-by-car of the sole-surviving member of Buddy's group. Dennis then remembers how there were times when Christine was killing people when a possessed Arnie wasn't able to drive her, noting how Christine had the power to regenerate herself. The final line of the epilogue is horrifying in its implications: His unending fury.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Christine
Cindy's Story / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - One word: Malonix. To clarify: - The thing is absolutely bloodthirsty. Though small(it's roughly the size of a pillow), it possesses a screech comparable to a banshee's, Black Eyes of Crazy, and it's teeth are icy cold when they sink into your flesh! - Even worse, when it bites a human, the poor person transforms into one, and loses their entire humanity in the process! So far, a Park Manager for Stony Park and Alyssa have been bitten (the manager got better, and Alyssa never fully transformed before coming in contact with a Light Stone). - And what if you're a Pokemon? Sure, you don't transform into a Malonix, but you still lose yourself in the process of becoming a vicious, murderous Pokemon, complete with purple eyes and strange markings all over your skin/fur. A lot of wild Pokémon in the forest near Pallet Town got bitten, as well as \|\|TY.\|\| And then it's revealed that it can be transmitted through mating, \|\|infecting the offspring and putting the mate at risk of death by crystals sprouting within them\|\|. - And lastly, there's an entire army of them in another dimension. Try not to imagine what'll happen when a portal to that dimension opens... - You cannot kill them, unless you want a Malonix Virus to stay dormant in an infected Pokémon, erupting over certain circumstances (like looking into a Malonix's eyes)! And if \|\|Ty\|\| is any indication, the dark side created by a Malonix virus is its own entity, torturing the minds of the poor victims. - And then, \|\|it seems like Malo!Ty is gradually performing a Split-Personality Takeover, and has so far controlled Ty in spurts such as scaring Pelee and Dynamite, mating with Cindy to conceive Keegan and Smoky (and nearly killing her with the Malonix Virus that came with the pregnancy), and clawing Celebi in the face\|\|. - Anonimo's abuse of Cindy. Just think of the abuse that Charmander, Chimchar, and Tepig suffered in the anime, multiply it by about three or maybe even five, combine them, add a whip, and add a Fate Worse than Death, and you've got Cindy's experience as his Pokémon. Even as a Typhlosion under a new trainer, she still suffers from that early-childhood experience. Doubles as a Tear Jerker. - The time period in between Anonimo abandoning Cindy \|\|inside her Pokeball while it is buried underground\|\|, and when she winds up with Professor Elm is outright stated to be several months. Keep in mind that Cindy had been starved and severely beaten while recovering from nearly drowning/freezing to death. \|\|A theory utilized in the story is that Pokémon are unable to heal from injuries or die inside a Pokeball,\|\| which means Cindy had been consigned to a Fate Worse than Death with no hope of ever being rescued! \|\|She was lucky that a passerby unburied her Pokeball and gave it to Elm, who later managed to release her from her suffering\|\|. - Three Words: BLUE. FIRE. FRENZY. It's Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and it is horrifying! - It was especially horrifying in an actual nightmare that Quinn had: \|\|Cindy chases him, transforming from Cyndaquil to Quilava, and then to Typhlosion, while she's in Blue Fire Frenzy. Quinn woke up when Cindy was giving him a killing blow in the dream\|\|. - In an early chapter \|\|Cindy used it to attack innocent people.\|\| She even flamethrowered one guy in the face at point blank! - \|\|BLAZE'S BLUE FIRE FRENZY\|\|. It's implied that he actually killed several people. - \|\|The Explosive Blood Serum which Anonimo injected into the gang to blackmail Cindy\|\| is chilling. Imagine having that stuff inside your body, not knowing when you will \|\| explode\|\|. Also, imagine Cindy's end, knowing that if she makes one wrong move, her friends are dead. - The Blood Moon. That freaking Blood Moon. The fact that it's red should tip you off that something bad's about to happen.\|\|It activates a Malonix Virus inside a Pokémon, as demonstrated with Ty (during a battle, no less!)\|\|. - \|\|Sombra.\|\| The fact that he's a runaway science experiment who was only interested in killing people and actually managed to dismantle entire cities without getting caught is disturbing enough! \|\|However, thanks to Amber, he stops being such a selfish jerk relying purely on instinct (both natural and artificial), and realizes that he's missing friends and family to help him overcome his gaping flaws\|\|. - There's still the problem that said experiment \|\|made him part Malonix.\|\| Which results in an altered appearance, different colored fire, and \|\|a terrifying Superpowered Evil Side that represents his sadistic side, which started manifesting when he was repressing the artificial Malonix instincts\|\|. - Imagine being chased by an unknown enemy. Imagine dropping your child down a cliff. Imagine being kidnapped right after. That's the story of Jenna, folks. \|\|Though Cindy did survive the plummet\|\|. - \|\|Cindy's third pregnancy.\|\| While it isn't the \|\|pregnancy\|\| itself, it's what came with it, \|\|a copy of Ty's Malonix virus attached to gametes from regenerated sex organs\|\| that not only infects \|\|the offspring\|\|, but Cindy herself. She goes into bouts of murderous insanity that threatened to kill Hailey, possibly Sammy, Ty, and Cinnamon, \|\|as well as slaughtered a bunch of wild Pokémon\|\|. - "Night of the Red Moon." Oh, goodness, where to begin? - It begins with Mind Rape. All we can say is poor \|\|Ty...\|\|. - \|\|Once Ty looks at the Blood Moon, he hears nothing but his heartbeat and seems to slip into unconsciousness. However, his body gets up, with Malo!Ty as its host, and he proceeds to punch his opponent hard enough to dent its face. Then he throws his trainer into a wall, and lights the stadium on fire just before breaking out\|\|. - When the others band together to get him, they walk down an empty, desolate street. It's dusty and silent, with the exception of a pay phone with a frantic person on the other end. And when they finally find him, he had broken into a butcher shop, and he later comes out to kill the cops that are dispatched. - \|\|Malo!Ty popping his neck back into place after Jamie broke it.\|\| You could imagine the character's faces when that happened, especially Jamie's. - Copper killing a Malonixed Electabuzz. If \|\|Malo!Ty\|\| was any indication, you can't just snap the neck and expect them to drop dead; they'd pop it back in place. No, you'd have to go into OVERKILL. And that's what Copper did; he completely twisted the head around. Repeatedly. - And then right after? \|\|The Malonix virus seeped out as an evil spirit, and tried to make Copper its new host. Nutmeg pushes him out of the way, and becomes the new host. She switches to Malo!Nutmeg immediately after\|\|. - It was only mentioned, but the very fact that \|\|Dynamite looked at the red moon, activated his Malonix Virus, and killed his trainer\|\| is very chilling. Even worse is that \|\|once the red moon set and he found his trainer dead, he went Blue Fire Frenzy to hunt for the murderer... up until he realized HE was the murderer\|\|. His state when we see him next definitely proves it was a brutal Break the Haughty moment for him. - Just what does the Ultimate Revenge do? It sounds awfully brutal, especially since Team Vortex wants to use it against Cindy and co. And the fact that \|\|"direct descendants" of Cindy (since her DNA sample was the only one Team Vortex had) have to unwittingly light the ten torches that activate the Ultimate Revenge by entering Blue Fire Frenzy\|\| could only mean more misery for the good guys and any innocent bystanders (for example, \|\|Blaze's BFF\|\|).	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CindysStory
Charmed (1998) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Charmed (1998), a show about witches and magic. Where could there possibly be Nightmare Fuel in that? Spoilers below. - The first episode had Jeremy, the first bad guy of the series. He kills female witches so he can get their powers so he can fight the Charmed Ones. After revealing this to Piper, he proceeds to try to kill her, and they are trapped in an freight elevator. Piper was absolutely terrified. - We have The Wendigo, pretty much a nastier version of the common werewolf that eats people's hearts. It attacks Piper while she's broken down in the middle of nowhere. And yes, if you don't get killed you'll turn into one instead. And no, chaining yourself to a water pipe will not be enough. - Anyone who is not afraid of Barbas must be made of stone. He is the Demon of Fear and will torture you by making your worst fears come to life in front of you, and you will believe they are real. - He caused a woman to die of shock by provoking her fear of earthquakes. - He provoked Prues pre-existing fear of drowning when he trapped her alone in the shower. - "Is There a Woogy in the House?" presents Phoebe's childhood monster as being real. - Phoebe's execution by fire in "Morality Bites". She's seen screaming in pain as the flames consume her. - The demon Masselin (the only one to look nothing like a human) has a slightly transparent stomach with all of his victims screaming and moving inside. The thought that they are eaten, but still alive inside is enough to give one the chills. - In 'That Old Black Magic' evil witch Tuatha shrinks a pair of treasure hunters down to size then feeds them alive to her pet snake. She later rips the heart out of a hiker's chest whilst telling him precisely how long it will take him to die without it. - The Seekers. Demons that read your thoughts to find out everything you know. How do they do it? By biting into your skull and literally sucking your brains out. The scene with Cole's landlady... - The banshee, a demon that preys on people who have suffered heartbreak. You're grieving for some big reason and you hear a wailing in the distance. The things in the room start to rattle and suddenly the windows shatter and she jumps in through the window. She proceeds to scream as loudly as she can, so loudly that it makes all your blood vessels burst which is what kills you. Oh, and if you happen to be a witch, instead of being killed you'll become a banshee yourself. - Don't forget the scene from the same episode where the banshee attacks a little girl in a phonebooth who is already terrified. - "The Good, the Bad and the Cursed": Phoebe gets psychically linked to a Native American man stuck in a time loop. That means that when he gets hurt, she feels it and gets the same injury. Near the end of the episode there's a scene where he's being tortured in the middle of the village. Every time he gets whipped it cuts back to a shot of Phoebe screaming in pain as she feels it. If the day hadn't been saved, Phoebe would have been killed along with the man. Oh and Leo wasn't able to heal her. - All Hell Breaks Loose, Charmed's biggest Wham Episode ever. plot is the whole world finding out that the Halliwell sisters are witches, and a whole lot of crazy starts to happening... - How the Halliwells were exposed, they were trying to vanquish Shax, the source's assassin, which was caught by a news crew. Shax himself is a very scary demon to look at. His growls are very unnerving and his grey body is menacing. he arrives in a tornado, which would knock whoever is near off their feet. - A woman named Alice, who claims to be a witch wants to enter the Halliwell house, but she is thrown out, the she then grabs one of the sniper guns and shoots Piper in broad daylight. Piper's gunshot wound is not pleasant to look at, with all the blood coming out. - Phoebe makes a deal with The Source of All Evil to save Piper and reverse time so that nobody finds out about the Halliwells. Afterwards, the Source orders that Phoebe is to be killed along with Cole, and that's the last we see and hear of Phoebe in the third season. - JUST as soon as time is getting reset, the SWAT team just shot Prue through the hospital room wall. Imagine if the Source didn't keep his word and killed Phoebe. Piper died on the operating table, and Prue would have died, then the Power of Three would have been truly broken to the point of no return. - Even Prue's behavior after Piper is shot. Desperately having to drive her to the hospital because Leo can't hear their calls in the Underworld, the news crews and pedestrians crowd her driveway and she screams for them to move out of her way. When they won't, she completely snaps and uses her powers to throw them out of the way. While some just land on the lawns, we see one smashing into windshield and others falling off car roofs. It's entirely possible Prue killed a bunch of people, and we see just how terrifying she could be if she made a FaceHeel Turn. Prue basically turns into Carrie White. - When the Elders find out about Piper and Leo's secret wedding, they remotely orb Leo in a extremely frightening and painful way. - The episode with the Collector (played by none other than Robert Englund) who shrank witches and turned them into stone in general feels a lot like a horror movie. The 'turning into stone' process is slow with the victim getting covered in clay, unable to move, and then burned in kiln all the while staying conscious. At one point his collection of figurines is shown. There are at least a dozen of them, all with a very clear look of terror on their faces... - The Auger Shell from "A Witch's Tail" is an Artefact of Doom that can drain the life force from an immortal being. Creepy tentacles snake out from the shell and clamp over the heart of whoever puts it on. The Sea Hag was turned to dust within minutes! - The wolf from Red Riding Hood is portrayed as an actual wolf that leaps on Penny and devours her whole - which we only see through creepy silhouette. Then when it turns on Piper, Jennifer Rhodes can be surprisingly frightening when she growls "the better to eat you with my dear!" and Piper can only scream as we see the shadow of the wolf's head across her face. - Orin and Cree from "The Eyes Have It". They attack helpless gypsies and gouge their eyes out with lasers. - Barbas the Demon of fear returns, and he caused Phoebe to kill Paige, under the illusion that Paige was Barbas. - From the Underworld's perspective, Piper's Mama Bear tendencies are this. When a demon kidnapped Piper's son, her answer was so brutal and extreme that the Underworld leaders pretty much swear to Piper that they're going to deal with the threats against Wyatt themselfs, just to avoid suffering a rampage that brutal again. Yeah, a wrathful Piper in Mama Bear mode is that terrifying. - "Sense & Sense Ability" is a straight-up comedy episode but, while Phoebe and Paige losing their hearing and voice are played for Cringe Comedy, Piper loses her eyesight while driving. The Crone even arranged the spell to take effect when the sisters would need their senses the most - and Piper crashes her car right into a pole. Leo was obviously able to heal her afterwards, but it begs the question of how nasty the offscreen accident was. - The Crone herself uses the monkey totem to sing to Wyatt with Paige's voice. What had been a sweet lullaby at the beginning of the episode becomes incredibly creepy, as she tricks Wyatt into thinking she's his aunt. Luckily all she wanted to do was get a vision from him, but it's freaky how easily she was able to trick him into letting his forcefield down. - Leo is so unstable thanks to Barbas's manipulation that he actually kills another Elder, mistakenly thinking he's Barbas or an enemy. - In "Cheaper By the Coven", he's gone so dark that he even threatens Kyra the seer with a Neck Lift. While she is a demon, it's disturbing to see Leo go so violent. - The Elders trying to kill Leo with a gang attack of the same lightning he unleashed on Gideon. While they'd been an example of Good is Not Nice at the worst, this is the first time we've ever seen them try to kill someone. - Sirk's Wham Line in "Styx Feet Under". We think because of Death's list that Phoebe is the one in danger, and then he malevolently says "I'll just have to kill... her!", and hits a hiding Paige with a blast of lightning that kills her instantly. - Zankou revealing himself disguised as Phoebe just to torture Kyra before killing her painfully. - Zankou resurrects Inspector Reece Davidson to torture Phoebe with guilt over how she let him die. He does this with Jump Scares that make Phoebe unsure if it actually happened or not. - How Christy was taken; kidnapped from her bed in the middle of the night. Billie just sees the demon's talons cutting through the mattress, and it flying out the window as her sister screams. No wonder she repressed it! - Just how bloodthirsty Christy is after years of the Triad conditioning her. She vanquishes the last of them by plunging her hand through his heart and letting her pyrokinesis burn him alive. She's willing to use a three-year-old child for her spell, and even drains his magic. And then of course when her own sister makes a HeelFace Turn, she conjures up a fireball to burn her alive. - The first time she demonstrates how to use her magic. She flashes a Kubrick Stare at the demons who took her and sets them on fire from the inside! - She talks to Billie via telepathy and they combine powers to vanquish the Noxon demon with a huge fireball, killing an unkillable demon. - Billie and Christy use Wyatt - who is three years old at this point - to summon the Hollow. While Billie only reluctantly goes along with it and doesn't want him hurt, once she and Christy are possessed, they adopt Black Eyes of Evil and steal Wyatt's powers when he puts up his forcefield to protect himself. Thankfully Chris is able to orb him back to Victor's, but it begs the question of what else the sisters would have done. - Christy nearly kills Dumain with fire from her eyes, barely even moving. That's how powerful she's now become.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Charmed1998
Choujin Sentai Jetman / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Our very first Monster of the Week is called the Dimensional Bug Mother. We see her sticking her grotesque tendrils into people — including kids — and sucking them up! What's worse is that despite being destroyed, she detached her egg sac, allowing the Vyram to create new Dimensional Beasts. Each one is a chilling reminder that it cost at least one human being their life. - Faucet Dimension strangles people with its faucet hose, sucks them up... and releases their blood from the nozzle. No guesses as to what happened to them. It doesn't help that when it's created, Tran is laughing like a child enjoying a fun game. - Road Dimension causes a destructive highway cataclysm by curling up a bridge during rush hour, sending hundreds of cars flying! A lot of people are not walking away from it, it's obvious. - House Dimension. It's first appearance is the wall of some poor woman's house turning into a fleshy wall of knashing teeth! And those mouths serve to messily devour anyone unlucky enough to be in the same room. Ryu manages to survive being swallowed by one such mouth, only to run into Radiguet... and that's a great deal of nightmare as well, given what kind of monster he is. - Bus Dimension traps people inside of it and consumes them, leaving liquefied remains in its wake. - Ako's Pooh-tan. A Teddy-bear turned into a Monster of the Week: Trash Dimension. He is, at first, a friendly monster who can make old, rusty items into brand new (as well as eat trash, which helps with saving space in garbage dumps)... then he gets mistreated by humans, turned to The Dark Side. Then his power is now making new things rusty... which includes rotting humans into skeletons! So this is where Barragan Luisenbarn gets inspiration for his power... - Empress Juza fires a laser at people that causes crystals to grow out of them, which even with the shows limited effects still looks extremely gruesome. For extra fuel, the crystals eventually end up consuming the person - and it draws out the pain and despair the people it grows out from to fuel Semimaru's birth & growth. Gai is the only one to escape it. - Speaking of Semimaru, when it hatches and then grows to giant size in episode 23, there are some freaky-ass looking manga-style illustrations displayed by way of Freeze-Frame Bonus (literally — the drawings only appear during certain frames) that appear to depict Semimaru going from worm to monster, ending with a Gross-Up Close-Up of what's presumably supposed to be Semimaru's face, with far too much teeth for comfort. Pleasant dreams... - The pair of enemies from Episode 33 that turn people into PINEAPPLES and eat them. - Tranza's Humongous Mecha, Majin Robo Veronica, uses people as its fuel pack. - Just in general, most Vyram schemes are straight-up scary. Anyone from the Reverse Dimension — most likely Dimensional Beasts — can and will most likely be the cause of a horrifying, untimely demise to any unfortunate human within close proximity of it. - Probably the best example is none other than Radiguet, the Big Bad himself. He starts out as one of the 4 main villains, but as the series progresses, he shows he truly is the most wicked and depraved of them all. Showing no care and no compassion for anyone, he even turns on a girl that had cared for him while amnesiac, which he made sure to kill just to reject any chance of him becoming good. Not to mention his rather disturbing advances on Maria, coupled with a desire to have her all for himself once he has taken over the Vyram leadership. \|\|And that's not even getting into the fact that he was the one who brainwashed her in the first place, and that he ends up killing her when she remembers her true identity.\|\| Radiguet cemented his position as one of Super Sentai's biggest monsters with this and more. - Which makes it rather disturbing for a villain who's actually human looking, the latter fact even makes it possible for see to see his Slasher Smile and disturbing faces anytime he is feeling pleasure from a kill or the suffering of others. - As satisfying of a Kick The Son Of A Bitch moment as it is, Radiguet's torture of the already badly defeated Tranza, stabbing his hand, twisting the blade in, and then stomping on his shoulder, all the while turning the latter's Say My Name moment back at him, is still a bit fucked up to watch. Worse is when he, like Juza did before him, sentences him to a Fate Worse than Death by forcing Tranza to live among the humans. Except, at least Juza took away Radiguet's memories, which let him live peacefully and happy (until he got his memories back). Radiguet doesn't even afford that mercy and luxury, and just basically leaves Tranza to rot as a bandaged, drooling, and screaming vegetable in a mental hospital. The last shot is rather disturbing, Tranza being wheeled away further into the asylum, and right as the bars close behind him, he begins flailing and screaming, two wards trying to help restrain him, as the screen whites out and his screams fade into an echo. Brrrr... - Episode 36's monster has the ability to give humans an uncontrollable appetite. While this sounds like a more comedic monster power, the show plays it for horror instead, including a scene in which a mother is implied to have eaten her little girl's dog. - There's something absolutely fucked up about the scene of Tran forcing himself to grow into Tranza out of sheer indignant rage. While there are some Narmy elements, such as the otherwise-questionable-looking close ups of bulges growing under his bodysuit meant to look like his muscles growing, it doesn't fully diminish the scene of him tensing and straining and contorting his face until he lets out a blood-curdling scream of fury and hate that should never come out of a kid's mouth (props to Miku Kuga for going all out in his final on-screen moment). And while it's done for obvious PG reasons, him tossing his cloak aside and all you see is the instantaneous growth from a boy's body into an adult one is through a silhouette on the cave wall is its own kind of creepy. And while looking at Yutaka Hirose's naked body (from the abs up, of course) can be appealing, it still doesn't take away how wrong the whole thing felt. The close-ups of his eyes punctuate the fact this grown-up Tran is going to be someone to be very feared by both the Jetmen and his fellow Vyram. - Maria's schtick as a vampire is terrifying (it certainly traumatized this troper a bit). What's worse is that when she lures Ryu by pretending to be Rie and infects him with the vampiric parasite that Radiguet implanted onto her (against her own will, at that), the entire scene of him restrained in a cage and losing control is horrifying.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChoujinSentaiJetman
Circleverse / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In-Universe example in Shatterglass. Tris is horrified when Niko reveals to her that Lark (of whom the book says this: "She [Tris] loved Lark") once worked in the entertainment section where the murderer of the story is committing his murders. Then the following conversation compounds it: Tris: She [Lark] actually wore the horrid yellow veil? Niko: Actually I think she wore it as a neck scarf. Now that's an unsettling thought. (the killer strangled his victims with their veils) (Tris draws the Circle of the Living Temple on her chest)	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Circleverse
Circumstances Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Bard's nightmares of Smaug. Especially when Smaug tries to convince Bard that the Dwarves will turn against each other. Smaug: But there's only one King under the Mountain, and mine is the crown. The halls know me. The rock knows me. The gold knows me. They may call it dragon sickness when it twists their simple minds until they cannot judge friend from foe. Perhaps I'll wait until they tear each other apart in their greed. Bard: They won't! Smaug: Will you take that risk? A whispered thought in the false king's mind would be all that's needed to turn them against each other, and then against you. I'll wait. Anger and hate makes them taste all the sweeter.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CircumstancesSeries
Gamebooks / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Sleep tight! The entire gamebook genre is so well known for Nightmare Fuel that entire series such as Give Yourself Goosebumps and Choose Your Own Nightmare were created to capitalize on it. Most of the time, the nightmare fuel comes from the endings where your character dies or meets a Fate Worse than Death. Entire blogs and websites, such as You Chose Wrong and Lose Your Own Adventure have been created to showcase some of the worst endings across the genre. This blog features a healthy dose of nightmarish illustrations from the Choose Your Own Adventure series. ## Sub-pages: <!—index—><!—/index—> ## Examples: - Choose Your Own Adventure: - The scariest illustrations tend to fall under several categories: - Your character giving an Oh, Crap! look as you are seconds away from being killed. Anything illustrated by Judith Mitchell will invoke this multiple times, even on some of the pages that don't have bad endings. Paul Granger has done a few of these illustrations as well, one of the most memorable being from Journey Under the Sea just as you \|\|are literally about to become shark bait\|\|. - Your character is eaten alive. If the book is illustrated by Paul Granger, the illustration will feature a hideously large, detailed, close-up illustration of the animal about to eat you (a sabertooth tiger in The Cave of Time and in Return to the Cave of Time, a giant grouper in Journey Under the Sea, a Bengal tiger in The Abominable Snowman, the cat after you are shrunken in The Mystery of Chimney Rock, or a giant rat beast in The Third Planet from Altair). - In addition to the tiger ending, The Cave of Time takes things a step further and shows you in the act of being devoured by none other than the Loch Ness Monster. - Giant full- or even two-page illustrations (such as the one on this page) with one line of text. - The textual examples: - Cruel Twist Endings. - The last sentence having you face-to-face with someone or something about to kill you (generally illustrated as described above). - And I Must Scream, where you are transformed into something else, fully conscious, yet cannot do anything about it or cry for help note : Or see anything. - "You are never heard from again" or "Those are the last words you ever say." - The Nonstandard Game Overs, especially those in The Mystery of Chimney Rock as described on the main page and multiple other places on this wiki. - Nintendo Adventure Books: - The Crystal Trap is loaded with endings in which Zelda (the protagonist this go-around) gives an Oh, Crap! as she awaits a terrible fate (sinking in quicksand or becoming a sitting duck for enemies) for failure to have the correct item. The whole book is one big And I Must Scream moment for Link, who is frozen immobile in a block of crystal at the beginning of the book and will be that way irretrievably if Zelda can't find the Plot Coupons to free him within 24 hours. In one of the Game Overs, Zelda is too late and has to watch. And \|\|if you attack Ganon with the wrong weapon in the final fight, he just casts the spell again, meaning Link has to relive this suffering.\|\| - The Non Standard Game Over from Pipe Down! if the Mario Bros. don't have enough coins to give to a Clawgrip. The result has the word PINCH! in a gigantic explosion graphic that takes up the entire page. - The final choice of Dinosaur Dilemma involves Mario deciding whether he should break open an egg or leave it alone (note that Mario has seen trapped dinosaurs in other eggs previously). If Mario smashes it, he breaks it open in a gooey mess, only to find the dead body of Luigi (while not stated, it's heavily implied, especially with the immediate Game Over). - Star Challenge, including illustrations (but just of one page at best) in the same way too as in Choose Your Own Adventure. - Pretty much those of above, including but not limited to: - Sent to the (up to very, in cosmological terms) distant past or future. - Telefragged in one form or in other. - Ending in another dimension, usually followed by something beyond simple death. - Thrown Out the Airlock. - Not dying, nor And I Must Scream, but instead spending your (often short) remaining life imprisoned in one way or other. - Probably the nastiest one, in Dimension of Doom, is basically to suffer a Grand Theft Me with the only lifeform in an alternate dimension you're exploring and being condemned to stay there forever.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChooseYourOwnAdventure
Citrus / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Will you be the one who needs me? - Really, anytime when Mei becomes overly emotionally distressed, she would proceed to try to make sexual advances on Yuzu. While this is mostly because she is inept when it comes to processing her feelings towards her stepsister, Mei is often depicted as being shrouded by darkness. - The worst case of this is in episode 2 of the anime where when Yuzu tries to extract some insight into how Mei truly felt about moving in with her grandfather, Mei lashes out at her, and pushes her onto the bed. She then proceeds to tear upon her blouse. - In episode 6, after Mei learns that her father has no intent on returning to the academy, in her depression, she forces herself onto Yuzu. The expression that she makes before Yuzu slaps her is especially sinister. - Mei's overall behavior is just downright disconcerting, especially when you take into account that she's only 16. The fact that she's so quick to use sex as a way to deal with her stressful emotions, as well as using forced kisses to shut someone up. - So, in short, the sexual advances, attempted molestation, and possessiveness some characters show are really unnerving and sometimes even disturbing. - Momokino making advances on Mei in "love me do!" can be this given the unexpectedness of it. It begins with Momokino gently rubbing her fingers through Mei's hair, and then nibbling her on the ear, and attempting to kiss her. While her motivation behind doing this in clear (her being a childhood friend of Mei's and that she vowed to protect her when her father left), it also paints Momokino as being extremely possessive and willing to lie to Yuzu all so she could have Mei to herself. - Matsuri Mizusawa herself defines Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. For starters, she cons older men out of their money by posing as a camgirl. While it is made clear that she was actually sending them links to videos she had found over the internet, it is still slightly unsettling that Matsuri would partake in online pornography. Matsuri paints herself as being a seemingly cute girl, but in truth, she is actually manipulative. When she realizes that Mei is Yuzu's younger sister (by law), Matsuri attempts to form a wedge between the two girls by arranging for Mei to go on a date with one of her "internet friends." She then goes on a long, hate-fueled rant about Mei by trying to convince Yuzu that Mei isn't as good as she may seem. - After getting expelled in episode 2, Yuzu returns to the school to talk her expulsion over with the chairman only to find him sprawled on the floor, having some sort of accident. The scene is frantic and reflects on many people's fears of their parents or grandparents having a violent accident and being helpless when seeing it play out.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Citrus
Chowder / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Chowder's not only cooking up food, but also nightmares. While played for laughs, some of the injuries can get quite gruesome, such as Chowder's spine popping out when he reaches for Toenuts on the floor, or Truffle's fingers getting literally worked to the bone. In "The Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin", when Chowder gets confused when Mung is explaining the recipe, a bunch of images flash. Some YouTubers slowed down the clip to see the images, and some are a bit creepy. Like, not scary, but an eerie feel. There's also a picture a YouTuber put out that was a bit scary when you thought about it, and the audio backwards is just weird. Look at it here: Word of God is that the main cast escaped from the Cinnamini Monster's house by cutting it open to get the key it swallowed. "Thrice Cream Man" is pretty tame for the most part, but gets terrifying during the second half of the episode; it starts off with Chowder's Nightmare Sequence where an Art Shift occurs and Chowder is haunted by Thrice Cream cones and Thrice Cream Man (ending with Chowder about to be eaten from a Thrice Cream cone by a giant version of himself), followed by Thrice Cream Man standing right beside his bed while Chowder moans in pain, and then finally culminating in Thrice Cream Man getting angry when Chowder refuses to eat any more scoop-in-mouth Thrice Cream and then forcing Chowder to eat it. What Thrice Cream Man says right after - complete with an enraged tone of voice - only makes the ongoing atmosphere even worse. In "The Puckerberry Overlords," Chowder very nearly implodes in on himself after eating the titular fruit. Ms. Endive can be pretty scary when she loses it, but it's most noticeable in the episode "Shnitzel Quits" when she nearly boils him alive to "stew him up to the thought of marriage". There's also her and Panini's Nightmare Faces when they corner Shnitzel on the balcony, and the poor rock monster is understandably scared for his life. There's also Endive's literal skeleton in the closet: Skeleton: Please help me... The Lollipop Man in "Broken Part" turning from jolly to psychotic when Chowder doesn't have enough money to buy a pair of feet for Mung's feetza machine. Even before he got angry, he was... rather off. Lollipop Man: No...money? (he turns red and, with a near-inhuman growl, gives off a nightmarishly angry face to Chowder) 23....SKIDOOOOOOO!!!!!! The entire concept of Meaches and Mince Meach Pie from "The Meach Harvest", which is one of the most dangerous dishes to prepare in the cartoon; unlike other Marzapanian dishes, they remain dangerous even after they're prepared. Meaches are large carnivorous peaches that are violently hostile toward others and very protective of their queen, who is the only Meach tasty enough to properly make the dish. In order to make said dish, you have to make it through the guard Meaches which is in its own is a task that could get you killed. However, eating the dish gets you an even worse fate, as the Meaches will track you everywhere and periodically maul you every day until they kill you or they get tired of attacking. Mung suffered this for 25 years after eating the pie, breaking his spirit and leaving him a shell of his former self. It gets even worse by the end of the episode, as only Chowder is still capable of walking after the beating the Catering Company took from the order. Gazpacho's Sanity Slippage in "Banned from the Stand"; he even goes as far as to babbling incoherently while stamping everything in sight. The episode "Cream Puff Hands" where Chowder accidentally gets his hand puffed till it's bigger than his own body and while Mung and Shnitzel try and fix the machine chowder goes around town and helps everybody which he starts enjoying but soon he becomes mad with power and decides to make it bigger to the point where he starts to cause chaos and when Mung tries to stop him Chowder makes a really monstrous look on his face and says in a really creepy high-pitched voice "I WANT TO HELP THE WORLD!" Thank god Mung stopped him before he causes even more world-ending chaos!' In the episode where Gazpacho thinks he's accidentally killed Chowder, he makes a dummy made out of meat that looks like him. He panics wondering if Mung and Truffles would find out that Chowder is [not] dead, and then the dummy speaks to Gazpacho: "Oh, They'll Notice." That dancing baby Minotaur from the episode "The Deadly Maze". His father, Jeffrey is just as terrifying. Also, that face Chowder makes at the beginning of said episode. Those eyes... Chowder's Lamprey Mouth. Just....Jesus Christ. It's the image of this page for a reason. And just for context, Chowder gave himself all those teeth so that he can have the dentist check them and give him a lollipop. The dentist, horrified at what he sees, gives him the key to the lollipop vault and tells him to take them all and go away. Chowder eats them all at once to the point of almost choking on them. Gazpacho in "The Spookiest House In Marzipan" The way he scares the kids is sickening. There is also the time where Chowder gets possessed by an old dry turkey, or "Flurkey" as they call it, and they have to go through a literal hell to try and get Chowder exorcized.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chowder
Chronicle / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - The scene where the boys discover that... thing is terrifying, for the fact that we never find out what the hell it was. - What it does to them is worse. Matt is flung against a wall while Steve suffers a nosebleed and screams in pain. - The death of Richard Detmer in the original script. He basically gets his arms and legs telekinetically ripped off by his own son. Yikes. Similarly, Andrew ripping the spider apart with his powers earlier in the movie. - The way Richard actively beats his son is brutally realistic, especially since it outright causes Andrew to go off the deep end. - Steve's death while sad is also horrifying considering that he was struck by lightning (probably due to Andrew who he wanted to help) before falling to the ground. All you can see is lightning and all you can hear is Steve screaming before the camera cuts out. - Andrew revealing his powers to his father by smashing him against a wall and throwing him across the room. While it's undoubtedly cathartic, it was also one of the first dominoes in his Start of Darkness. - The way Andrew snarls at Richard: "I COULD CRUSH YOU!" after he slams the bastard against the wall. - The time Andrew forcibly removes a bully's teeth with telekinesis. Made worse when he records himself explaining how he removed them. - The time Andrew potentially killed those four neighborhood thugs. It's a lot more mundane than the other scenes, but his callous rummaging of what might be their corpses is hard to look at. - Andrew's "Apex Predator" speech: Andrew: I've been doing a lot of reading, you know? Like, online about, like, just evolution and natural selection and how like there's this thing, right? It's called the apex predator, right? And basically what this is, is the strongest animal in the ecosystem, right? And as human beings, we're considered the apex predator, but only because smaller animals can't feed on us because of weapons and stuff, right? A lion does not feel guilty when it kills a gazelle, right? You do not feel guilty when you squash a fly... and I think that means something. I just think that really means something... holds his hand out and starts telekenetically crushing the car behind him - A crossover with Fridge Horror: A YouTube comment under that scene noted that, earlier, the boys could only affect what was in their line of sight. Andrew crushes the car without looking at it. - When Andrew robs the gas station, the clerk chases him with a shotgun. Andrew telekinetically swats it away, causing it to go off and blow up a gas tank, setting both of them on fire. Andrew can be seen laying on the ground, burning and twitching in agony. - From his Start of Darkness onward, Andrew is pretty intimidating, but he really reaches the peak of terror at the climax, seeing as he's an ungodly powerful psychic who can and will level a metropolis, and comes damn close to doing so. - After the Creative Closing Credits end, all you hear is the quiet buzzing noise the Object made when the boys first come in contact with it and it's extremely unsettling.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chronicle
Chris Stuckmann / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The ending of part 2 of Chris' scary movie special, an excellently creepy "skit" where \|\|Sam (Chris' fiance) suddenly stops breathing and moving. Chris rushes to call 911, but after pouring out what he has to say, all he hears is "Seven daaaaayyss...", to which he turns around and finds Samara standing in the doorway. Chris, very much terrified, drops his phone, which is shown to have the ring glowing on it. Samara then lunges at the camera and it cuts to static.\|\| - His 2016 Halloween special ends with Sam getting chased down and stabbed to death. - His scream of "And it SUUUUUUUCKED!" in the teaser of his review of The Emoji Movie. Due to the quiet, dull monotone preceding it, it practically acts as a Jump Scare and goes to show how shocking Chris can be when he's genuinely furious. - In his worst of 2017 list, Chris says he wanted to go to a second screening of The Emoji Movie and laugh without smiling as loudly and obnoxiously as possible at all of the film's stupid moments. The hysterical laughter emanating from his dull, emotionless face is more than a little unsettling. - "Chris Stuckmann's Final Video" was always creepy before his 2021 interview with Double Toasted and subsequent separate video on how he escaped the Jehovah's Witness cult, but watching it in the context of the latter video, and especially on its own after having seen it makes the Nothing Is Scarier factor in it far more disturbing: \|\|The Church told him to take the channel down because it made them uncomfortable that he was talking about things that didn't apply to the church\|\|. Watching it with said context makes it seem like a hostage video.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChrisStuckmann
Civilization / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The "Global Warming" sound snippet in Civilization IV is extremely eerie (and for some reason also plays when the Liberalism tech is first found or when the globe is circumnavigated for the first time). Perfect to illustrate your planet slowly becoming a deserted wasteland, as whenever it strikes a tile is turned into a desert tile. - Even Civilization IV can be made scary, or at least really freaking ominous, as shown in the intro to the Beyond the Sword Expansion Pack. It's pretty much a history of warfare and communications, and the last part concerns recent times. JFK looks at a photo of a Russian plane stolen by a spy, sighs heavily, and picks up the red phone. Fade to an alarm going off at a nuclear missile silo, where the missile is lifted up and the silo doors slide open... - Moctezuma in Civilization V is an incredibly ominous figure, even if you're at peace with him. He stands before a burning brazier (which, in Aztec tradition, was used to burn human hearts), and each statement he makes is backed up by a cheering (or booing) crowd. When he declares war on you? Loosely translated, what he's screaming is, "Die! DIE! DIE!" - Apocalypse Mode in Civilization VI. For starters the game will periodically have "Appease The Gods" competitions which require you to sacrifice military units, meaning that Human Sacrifice is accepted by all religions here. But when climate change hits Phase VII, the comet strikes begin, and continue almost every turn, until the world is utterly destroyed. - The animation for a comet strike is particularly terrifying. A ball of fire slowly descends towards the target hex, which is often a city center. There is nothing you can do to stop it. And when it hits, it destroys everything. A city center that gets hit will wipe out the entire city, wonders and districts included, leaving no sign of its former existence. And you can't even rebuild on the original site, as there is now a massive crater there.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Civilization
Chucky / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes When a boy buys a doll that happened to harbor the soul of an infamous serial killer, this goes without saying. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. Death By Misadventure - While deserved, Chucky kills Lucas by strategically turning the power off thus forcing him to go investigate. When he finds the doll, Chucky vomits the whiskey all over his bare feet and he gets electrocuted by a loose power cable. It even burns his eye. - That said, Lucas was very much accurately played as a scary and violent homophobic drunk, even threatening Jake's life over his homosexuality, and destroyed Jake's doll sculpture more or less out of insensate cruelty. A surprise from Devon Sawa's acting in contrast to his sympathetic roles. Give Me Something Good to Eat - The episode starts with a flashback to Halloween 1965. A young Charles Lee Ray is examining his candy pile from trick or treating, and picks up an apple only to notice something shiny poking out of it. Its a razor blade. And despite quickly realizing this, Charles bites into it anyway, and smiles as blood pours out of his mouth. Talk about Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. - Later on Chucky gives an apple exactly like that to a hapless woman, who bites into it off screen. Next time we see her she is bleeding profusely from her mouth as she reports the "horrible red-haired child" to the cops. - Chucky escapes Jake's uncle's house unseen, and walks around town disguised only with a Hello Kitty masks. Being night time, it isn't difficult for him to trick people into thinking he is a small child out trick or treating. In reality he is a walking and talking doll posessed by the soul of a serial murder, and he is literally out for blood. The fact that he is so easily able to blend and even have a conversation with someone without them ever suspecting anything is pretty disturbing. - The fact that Chucky murdered Jake's father and tries to convince Jake that he has done him a favor by freeing him from Lucas' abuse, but then starts abusing Jake himself, even physically beating him. The fact that Jake goes from being abused by his father, to being abused by the posessed, murderous doll is both sad and terrifying. - Annie's death. As she checks on the dishwasher, Chucky sneaks up from behind and pushes her onto upright knife blades, causing her to be stabbed in the throat, and we can hear her choking on her blood before expiring. What arguably makes things worse is when Jake and Junior walk into the kitchen and it takes several minutes before either of them find her dead in the same room. - Chucky being left alone with Lexys sister. I Like to Be Hugged - During Chucky's childhood flashbacks, there is a mention of a deranged killer on the news, and, later on, said killer invades his home and butchers his father. He and his mother hide upstairs in the closet leading to a near encounter with the killer. However, it is the ending that truly changes everything: upon being found by the killer, it is revealed that Chucky's first victim was his own mother. He cheerfully tells the killer that he was helping him and in turn, the killer gives Chucky a switchblade. Worse, it is implied that he was never caught. - Jake stalks who he at first believes to be Lexy. With a knife in hand, he tries to ambush his would-be victim, only for it to turn out to be his cousin, Junior. - While searching for Lexy, Chucky starts to stab who he assumes to be her only for it to turn out to be Oliver. Nevertheless, Chucky decides to finish the job anyway. Due to everyone wearing headphones at the party, no one hears the poor kid's screams for help. It becomes even more worse when the fire accidentally started in Lexy's room spreads down the stairs. - Chucky ambushes Lexy after deceiving her with a pair of tennis shoes and unwittingly causing the room to catch on fire. The way Chucky laughs maniacally as the fire rages behind him gives off the impression that he just emerged from the darkest pits of Hell itself. Just Let Go - Chucky is revealed to have survived the fire, but the left side of his body has been melted. - The grief-stricken reaction of Oliver's parents upon learning that he's been murdered is so realistically heartbreaking to where it's almost chilling. - Chucky killing the police detective by throwing scalpel at his back, after which, he falls backwards, pushing it in even further that it severs his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed. He can only lie there helplessly as Chucky stabs his chest with used syringes. He not only bleeds from his ears and mouth, but also his fingernails. - While in an orphanage, Charles Lee Ray decides to play "Peter Pan" with a group of kids and leads them on a hike which ends with them discovering the corpse of the janitor. While most of the children understandably flee from the scene, one kid stays behind to poke the body. Said boy is later secretly given one of the janitor's dismembered hands as a gift by Charles. The ending reveals that the boy will grow up to be Eddie Caputo, Chucky's getaway driver from the first film. Little Little Lies - Nica's situation. She briefly regains control of her body from Chucky to find that she's blacked out for two weeks, and is now in a strange place next to a dead body and with another wounded man tied to a chair and begging her not to kill him. It really sells just how horrifying the concept of Chucky possessing people is. - The episode ends with Chucky tossing the principal's severed head out on stage for the whole town to see, then pulling back the curtains to display her decapitated body. Cape Queer - Nica regaining control of her body doesn't improve her situation, as Tiffany has grown obsessed with her beyond being Chucky's host body. To wit, she knocks Nica out, carries her to Chucky's childhood home Bound and Gagged in the trunk of her car, and leaves her tied up in the house, screaming for help through her gag. - To test whether Chucky or Nica was in control, Tiffany stabbed her in the thigh, which Nica naturally doesn't feel and therefore doesn't notice until Tiffany points it out. Double the Loss, Twice the Grieving - The title cards for each episode so far have been made of items relevant to the episodes, usually Chucky's weapon of the day. This time, however, its nothing but tombstones of every single person that has died at the hands of Chucky and his "wonderful" family as a reminder that while what he's done here so far is heinous, its roughly half of what he's accomplished through the years. - After getting into a huge argument with his father, Junior bludgeons him to death with the Chucky doll. - Even worse, as he's doing this we cut to the small army of Good Guy dolls that Chucky and Tiffany have collected, which suddenly start to come to life, indicating that the murder is itself fueling them. And worse than that, Devon is currently tied up in the basement with them, while another comes to life in Lexy's house and starts stalking towards her and Jake. An Affair to Dismember - While doubling as a Moment of Awesome, the fact that Tiffany is responsible for the entire franchise. That one phone call to the police led to not only so many deaths (including her own in Bride), but multiple lives ruined by Chucky's actions as a doll, Andy's especially. - The massacre at the charity event: Lexi's mother returns with popcorn and offers some to her husband. Unbeknownst to her, he was already dead. His blood then drips into the popcorn bag as his wife takes hold of it. She only realizes something is wrong when she has a mouthful of blood-soaked popcorn. - While richly deserved, Jake opting to strangle Chucky to death rather than stab him, karmically ironic as he was called the Lakeshore Strangler when he was human. Chucky's eyes even burst out of their sockets with the ensuing pressure. - Not wanting to risk Chucky resurfacing and killing her, Tiffany cuts off Nica's limbs. Halloween II - Near the end of the episode, Chucky shows up with a homemade bomb...and Gary, Jake's foster brother. Devon tases Chucky before he can kill everyone, but when Gary gets distracted by the Wedding Belle doll, Chucky detonates the bomb. Hail, Mary! - The muscular Chucky doll punching a huge gaping hole through Trevor's chest after he sneaks into Lexy's room. Doll on Doll - Good news, Andy's alive! Bad news, he's being tortured by Bald Chucky, who is both revealed to be the mysterious Colonel and working with Dr. Mixter. - Jennifer Tilly hasn't had the luxury of being repressed in her mind and thus unaware of what Tiffany's been doing with her body. Instead, she's been trapped in a Tiffany doll and kept locked in a birdcage, forced to give Tiffany details about her life in order to keep up the façade. He Is Risen, Indeed - Good Chucky throwing Nadine out of the top of the tower, laughing over how much he loves defenestration... just before he seems to come to reality and look in horror at what he's done. Good Chucky seems to be fighting his original personality for control, and it looks like said original personality is winning... - It is revealed Dr. Mixter was Charles Lee Ray's psychiatrist when he was a child, who took note of both his evil nature and his remaining innocence. The doctor reveals that she thought it'd be more interesting to corrupt him into a monster than treat him normally, which she obviously succeeded in. There's a chance the entire franchise and all the dozens of deaths and carnage across North America over the course of 40 years all happened because one random psychiatrist in New Jersey was feeling bored with her job. Goin' to the Chapel - The exorcism concludes with "Good" Chucky transferring into Father Bryce, who promptly explodes. Chucky Actually	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chucky
Chronicles of Darkness / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Nightmare Fuel page for Chronicles of Darkness. ## Official Gamelines<!—index—> <!—/index—> ## Fan-made Gamelines<!—index—> <!—/index—> # In general - The sourcebook Asylum probes the fear of lobotomies for all it's worth, tying it into a setting where having one's brain destroyed is not the worst thing that can be done in the asylum. It's one of the most unsettling books in the line. - So as to prevent a story from losing its impact and reducing mental illness to just another clue, among the variety of potential explanations for what goes on at Bishopsgate Mental Asylum, the book's authors make sure to also provide entirely mundane causes to every horrible atrocity described therein. No supernatural compulsions, no mind control. Sometimes, it really doesn't take the supernatural for man to display his inhumanity. There's a reason one of the story seeds for Bishopsgate is called "The Evil That Men Do". - Antagonist is a supplement book meant, as its title suggest, to provide a wide array of antagonist for any of the gamelines, each chapter covering a different type: - The first chapter focuses on undead enemies, primarily the different type of zombies, including the classic flesh-eating mindless zombies, but also the lesser-known voodoo ones who actually possess some degree of intelligence and actually are pretty powerful. It also provides rules to create creatures similar to Frankenstein Monsters (this was before Promethean came out) and "Revenant", beings born from corpses being reanimated either by their own ghost or by a spirit. Oh, and you can actually create zombies who won't die if you shoot them in the head, leading to a very bad surprise for the players. As well as zombies smart enough to pick locks or use weapons, ones with enhanced strength, ones who only die when all their body has been destroyed, and even ones with a Healing Factor. - The second chapter focuses on hunters. Since unlike Hunter: The Vigil, this was written with them as antagonists in mind, they are portrayed in a less sympathetic light, describing how some of them are downright psychotic and perfectly willing to stalk and murder the human families of the monsters they hunt. One of the fictions inside this section describes how a young werewolf comes back home to find his human parents slaughtered, with a message from the killers informing him they also stole the silver jewelry to forge a bullet from it, and taunting that they will be coming for him next. Ouch. - The third chapter focuses on Cults, and proceeds to show us just how bad the setting is on these side of things; Cults come not just in great number, but also in large varieties, covering everything from the ones formed by supernatural beings so they will have their personal snacks/servants/test subjects, to more grounded ones formed by greedy or mad humans, to more subtle organizations that are technically legal but manipulate people through prejudices and racisms. You also get to see things like murder cults and suicide cults. And in case that's not disturbing enough, you are provided mechanics for how they brainwash their recruits. - Finally, the fourth chapter focuses on urban legends, covering all sorts of supernatural critters that don't really fit in any categories. Highlights include Witchcats (cat familiars with a lovecraftian mouth who suck the life out of children), Aswangs (beautiful women who spend a normal life during the day, but turn into blood-drinking hideous hags at night, luring young boys with their song), Groenitch (prehistoric giant fishes who would eat everything, including human flesh, and can actually crawl out of water) or the Hunger (a viral Wendigo-like curse that slowly turns its victims into cannibalistic giant shark-men). - The nWoD games are filled with guys trying to show evil is the only true way. There's implications everywhere, both in powers and fluff, that they are indeed correct. It's like WW is saying "Dude, this is a horror series. Whachu expect?!" - Vampire: The Requiem gets Belial's Brood and the Strix. - Werewolf: The Forsaken gets the entire amoral spirit world, the idigam, the Bale Hounds, etc. - Promethean: The Created has the Centimani, but they are much less of a pure, unified "evil" faction than their counterparts in other game lines — quite a few aren't really evil, just world-weary and hurt, or simply follow unusual philosophies. - Hunter: The Vigil is no picnic, either. The Cheiron Group, the Lucifuge, and the Cainite Heresy are of dubious morality, while Ashwood Abbey, the Hunt Club and the Knights of Saint George are considerably more than dubious. Consider that that last one serves the local analogues to the Elder Gods... - Oddly enough, Geist: The Sin-Eaters doesn't seem to have this, at first. That's right, the game where you play a person who came back from the dead by making a bargain with some sort of incredibly alien ghost-spirit hybrid is in fact probably the lightest and happiest member of the nWoD gameline. - Of course, there's a catch. If you die again and haven't fulfilled your end of the bargain sufficiently (and you aren't dying of natural causes like old age), the Geist brings you back and someone else dies in your place. You get to live through the death of your replacement, and the trauma of being brought back can cause your grip on sanity to slip. Die enough times and the Geist takes over. Sure, you can say you want to be allowed to die next time, but the Geist can always do it anyway. And that's not even taking into account the Kerberoi. - The Geist themselves ARE the "guys trying to show evil is the only true way". By all means, they are insane half-death spirit ghosts. And they're ALWAYS hanging around the Sin-Eaters. In fact, your soul is bound to them. And when the Geist actually take over... it's not pretty. - Second Edition brings us the reapers as guys who understand the Underworld sucks and are fine with that. - Now we have God-Machine Chronicles. Take all the horror of Cthulhu, add in conspiracy thriller, make the cosmic horror in question an utterly amoral machine best described as a Passive-Aggressive Skynet God, and then for a final terror sundae, add in the fact that it can Time Travel to its heart's content. Are you sure that your past is your own...? - To say nothing of the God-Machine Chronicle anthology book. Everything is a cog in the machine. Everything! An office worker is manipulated into acts that cause long-term, horrible consequences. Twisted dealings affect an election year in Chicago. A woman and her husband are put in a Stepford Wives situation and quickly lose their minds! JoAnn's muscles moved automatically, which was just fine, just the way it should be. She followed Bill out of the room. She knew where she was supposed to be. She was a reproductive organ. The reproductive organs had no reason to be in the heart. How silly of her. - The Contagion. A reality-warping plague that infects the God-Machine itself, twisting Infrastructure, people, and even the laws of reality until they're nigh-unrecognizable. It's so bad that the various supernaturals will join forces just to get rid of it. And the worst part? No one knows what it even is, much less how to stop it. - Maybe the scariest thing of all in the World of Darkness isn't the monsters or ghosts or strange happenings that sometimes have no explanation, even by magical means. No, what's possibly scariest of all is that these evils still pale to what still happens in the unknowing mortal world. Wars are still fought, people are still raped, and children still die. The monsters may cause it sometimes, but then there's the times when all it took was one sick person with their own ideas. The human evil, the real, non-mystical human compulsion for hate, is still a more powerful force than any magic in this setting.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChroniclesOfDarkness
Chulip / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Let's start with the fact that the protagonist's health equivalent is more like a happiness meter. If anything upsetting happens — a dog barks at him, he sees a chicken being slaughtered, he finds one of the many sizes of poopie — he comes that much closer to a Game Over, and it doesn't take much in the early game. Certain activities restore happiness or at least give him an item that restore it, but some can only be done a small number of times per day to have any effect, and others have a random chance of an upsetting outcome (e.g. searching the trash might grant you a happiness-restoring Cold Sweet Potato... or it might get you Poopie). What does the Game Over screen imply? Death? Having to be committed to an insane asylum? Just lying there twitching while sentient inanimate objects come up and kick you? And how fragile is this boy? - Michelle. Michelle, Michelle, Michelle. At some point, whenever you talk to her, she looks directly at the player with this frightening look. And later, you find out her secret... - The police officer, particularly at night. Light shines from his eyes as he patrols Long Life Town, looking for curfew-breakers. His immediate reaction to seeing you out and about when he's on patrol? Shoot at you! Later in the game, your happiness reserves are big enough that the losses don't matter as much, but it's still pretty freaky. - Dr. Dandy. During the day, he can be found in his office, sleeping. At night, he roams the streets, looking for blood donations... which he takes by stabbing you with a giant syringe, withdrawing some into it, and drinking it! It's also pretty freaky when you cure him, but at least he stops doing that. - No surprise here: the Grim Reaper ghost (probably a Shinigami). If you're in Worldly Desire Temple's cemetery at night, it appears somewhere in there and moves toward you, unhindered by the gravestones that form a sort of maze. If it catches you, it swings its scythe, taking away some happiness. If you get caught again the same night, you lose an increased amount, and so on. If you're in the wrong place, it's very easy to lose with pretty much no hope of escape before the night ends. - The music that plays when you look into the home of an underground resident can sometimes put the player on edge. Paired with the bizarre characters and the dark colour palette of their house, this can prove to be particularly creepy. - The underground prison in which criminals are incarcerated. After committing a mere three crimes, the residents of the town will be taken to 'the graveyard', a prison located underground where prisoners are chained to a wall in a similar manner to Jesus on the cross, unable to move or eat anything. Not only that, but the whole thing looks like a torture chamber you'd see in a horror movie! - Miss Zombie Mika was in a car accident, and wished really hard not to die... and ended up as a zombie. And then started to slowly decay, losing her memories as well as parts of her body.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Chulip
Chrono Cross / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes All spoilers on this page are unmarked, per wiki policy. You Have Been Warned! - Lynx, the primary antagonist throughout the first part of the game, makes it clear from the get-go that he's not to be trifled with. He's a 6'3" human/panther hybrid (making him literal nightmare fuel for Serge) who's not only responsible for burning down the orphanage Kid grew up in, but he successfully pulls a Grand Theft Me on Serge using the Dragon's Tear, and then stabs Kid before she's able to properly catch on. He then proceeds to cause chaos in Serge's body, ensuring that Serge's reputation is ruined, before confronting the party in the ruins of Chronopolis and being assimilated into FATE. And while the revelation that Lynx is actually Serge's father, Wazuki, having been transformed beyond recognition and forced into serving FATE may come too far into the game to matter for some, it still gives his actions toward Serge throughout the game a new level of Fridge Horror. - FATE, the Omniscient Database is pretty damn creepy - not only the fact that it's an all-knowing supercomputer, but its appearance as well. - SunOfAGun's face, pictured above. It's a detailed human Nightmare Face on an otherwise cartoony sun that makes exaggeratedly warped and grotesque expressions depending on its attack phase. - Bunyip, the boss guarding the black crystal pillar of Fort Dragonia, at first glance, looks like a normal creature that seems to have no eyes. Then, after dealing around 400 or so damage to it (or after some time passes during the fight), it then has a HUGE black mass with a single eye as its head erupt from its mouth, showing it's true form, with the remains of its previous form acting as its lower body. This, coupled with the drastic background change, can be absolutely soul-chilling for first-timers. - Cupoids are eerie; they look like tortured and angry and possibly undead child-angels. - During the scene with the burning orphanage, you can hear the children screaming in fear and pain. In fact, the entire level is this. - The FMV where the dragons become the "Time Devourer" has the Green Dragon suddenly making this face◊ and biting the Sky Dragon. Water Dragon: FATE has fallen...FATE has died... Fire Dragon: Finally, the time has come... Green Dragon: Indeed...The long, endless night shall finally come to an end. Earth Dragon: Now...For mankind... - There's also this image◊ of Dark Serge, shown for less than a second in the intro.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChronoCross
Chzo Mythos / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Chzo Mythos games are supposed to be scary, and they are. Creepy music, eerie settings, Eldritch Abominations, the lot. But Yahtzee went Too Far in Trilby's Notes, which is set in a hotel which repeatedly shifts to a Dark World version of itself. This happens at random times; the player will be happily traipsing through the Day hotel, try to open a door, and suddenly the message 'it hurts' will appear. On dismissing this message, the screen will fill up with 'it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts' and suddenly the hotel goes from a fairly pleasant holiday location to a nightmarish bloodstained hell. Every time you switch back into the Light World, you have a random chance of a hallucination, seemingly being transported to Cabadath's cabin or the cargo bay of the Mephistopholes from 7 Days. The one where you are cornered in the basement of Defoe Manor, with John Defoe slllooooooooowwly menacing you as the "You are in grave danger!" music plays is particularly scary. And the only response out of the text parser when you are about to die? it hurts. it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts What about the first time we see the Nightmare World?! You're just sitting in the hotel room, listening to the conversation... when suddenly, the room suddenly becomes rundown with the bloody remains of the two people you were just talking to lying around, and the enigmatic Tall Man watching you... One of the first nightmares you have in 5 Days has Trilby entering the house's bathroom, finding the tub full of blood and when he approaches, a skeleton screeches and pulls him in. Simple, but pretty effective at putting you on edge. In 6 Days A Sacrifice, you and Janine flee into the living quarters at the end of the day, and the two of you embrace during the night. And what do you see when you leave the next morning but it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts Probably the worst part about the embracing scene is that, for at least part of it, John Defoe's consciousness was in control. It's what the tall man does to people that is really scary. The way he emotionlessly swung that four-headed axe back and forth through an already quite clearly dead sailor... just for good measure? Related to the hotel... why is it so criminally understaffed in the real world? Shouldn't a hotel have more employees and guests? Well...where do you think all those bodies in the nightmare world came from? After the final puzzle of Trilby's Notes when you force yourself to die to prevent Cabadath from being summoned, if you enter anything into the text parser all you get in response is It hurts. Keep in mind at this point Trilby is DEAD. You can get some quality chills (if that's your idea of a good time) by just thinking about 7 Days A Skeptic from William Taylor's point of view. Let's see... You're already freaked out because you think your first assignment is a bit above you, then some innocent-looking object is brought aboard. Then you get taken over and forced to do horrible things to your shipmates. Then he either tears your eyes out or makes you do it yourself once You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. When you finally have control of yourself again there's pretty much nothing you can do but beg the only survivor to fix it before you turn out to have doomed more than just the one ship. The scene in 7 Days a Skeptic where you find the dismembered torso of Serena in the vent... only for her to suddenly enter the hallway you are in, while you are still STANDING OVER HER DISMEMBERED CORPSE then leaving without a word. Why isn't the Trilby clone also brainwashed? Because pain is much more potent when it's unwanted. Alternatively, the Tall Man isn't happy in his position as Chzo's right-hand abomination, he merely tries to retain it because he fears that whatever Chzo would do to him once he has outlived his usefulness would be far worse. Not sure whether that's any less horrifying. There's also the question of whether the Trilby trapped inside Chzo is a clone or not. He claims to be a clone when you find him, but then he also claims that maybe he has convinced himself that he's a clone because his pride wouldn't let him admit this was his fate. The beginning of 6 Days is solid nightmare fuel: Theo is painfully injured and trapped in an underground facility (belonging to a creepy pain-worshipping cult) with no way to escape. And that's before the Tall Man shows up and starts slaughtering people... What happens to Janine and John Defoe is pretty goddamn terrifying. She's the first body John Defoe's ever had that could talk. When she's talking as the "other self" that begs to know how many times Trilby has to be killed before he'll leave "her" alone, that's actually John Defoe using the Mind of someone else to decipher what's happening. It's a nightmare on both ends: imagine entering a superior mind in an effort to understand the culmination of two hundred years of your own torture, only to come up with nothing, and then imagine having an inferior mind overtaking your own while your personality gets shoved into a corner, watching through your own eyes as if through a mask. Also, Defoe is possessing Janine for at least some of that sex scene. Janine losing herself while trying to reach out and gain some emotional stability is bad enough, but John Defoe was essentially losing his virginity in the body of a woman, to the same man who is going to cross him as the Bridge. We only have Sir Roderick's word for it that John Defoe was anything but normal when he was born, and he was chained up in the basement shortly afterward. Chained in a basement shortly after being born. He's constantly referred to as "retarded", but he probably wasn't: he was feral, with no human interaction but random, unprovoked beatings by his insane father, and occasional visits by his brother. But that's not the nightmare part. The nightmare part is that he lived to be a teenager under those conditions, without starving, freezing, dehydrating, committing suicide, or having any of the house staff performing a Mercy Kill on him out of sheer pity. Someone was taking bare-minimum care of him, possibly to keep Roderick's rage away from Matthew. A surprisingly well-executed surprise death in 7 Days: throughout the game, you repeatedly go in and out of the ship through the airlock while putting on or taking off your EVA suit. If you try to re-enter the ship while carrying the idol, you go into the cabinet to put your uniform back on, same as ever, except you now come out dressed as the Welder. Congratulations, you've been possessed! Have a Nice Death. What arguably makes this worse is the death screen showing John's terrified expression behind the welding mask, indicating he may in some way be aware of his predicament but unable to stop himself.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ChzoMythos
Civil Protection / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Halloween Safety episode. Though the ending could be considered more of a parody. - The Tunnel. Ross Scott deliberately stated he wanted to do a scary episode. He nailed it. - So what's scarier? Wandering around in tunnels with nothing but a flashlight, only to find a \|\|dead body stripped of all its flesh\|\|? Examining the scene and talking to your friend only to realize \|\|your friend has disappeared\|\|? Heading back to the room and finding its inhabitant \|\|is standing at the door with a slasher smile\|\|? Getting \|\|knocked out and waking up\|\| to find that \|\|you and your partner have been left to hang upside down\|\| in some kind of cocoon with monsters about to attack? Or maybe it's the stinger where the inhabitant still \|\|has his slasher smile\|\| going.... and he turns and \|\| looks directly at the screen\|\|? - "You'd better watch out...because Santa Claus is coming...for you."	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CivilProtection
Clarence / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Even if it's a lighthearted show with amusing and touching moments, there are some moments to make your heart race, so be prepared. Remember, we have Spoilers Off, so all moments are unmarked! Read 'em if it's worth it. - In Fun Dungeon Face-Off, Jeff angrily chases Clarence through the Fun Dungeon, with the fact that Clarence stole his fries turning him into an acrobatic monster. - At one point Jeff chases Clarence through a ball pit, and when Clarence looks behind him, he sees multiple kids getting pulled down into the depths of the pit before Jeffs angry face appears. - At another point, when Jeff chases Clarence through a sky tube, he crawls through the tube like a spider monkey, complete with his hands and feet making suction cup sounds as his limbs shoot out in any and every direction to get to Clarence. - In "Dinner Party", poor Clarence touches fiberglass thinking it was cotton candy and his hand gets all swollen while he yells in pain. - Clarence nearly falling through the weakened floor of the attic. Luckily, Chad was there to save him... But then Clarence, Chad, and the others fall through the floor anyway, since the floor couldn't support the other kids' weight. - In "Rise and Shine", when Clarence encountered a very hungry, very angry, mountain lion in his back yard. The way the police man talked about a previous mountain lion attack moments before certainly didn't help. - In "Puddle Eyes", Clarence running around the playground (and later the school) unsupervised while he's blinded by mud. The fact that he could have accidentally run into the road and gotten hit made the scene hard for people to watch. - Also Clarence imagining skin growing over his eyes. - "Lizard Day Afternoon": The background music that plays during the chases final scene, as it sounds really dramatic during all of it. - To get things straight, it starts off pretty intense, then tones up when Clarence and Sumo run towards each other, then slightly tones down when Clarence stops, then the dramatic tone keeps going until it ends with two straight intense drum beats when Sumo suggests that they get off the building, while it zooms out twice! Holy shit! - From "Too Gross For Comfort" we have Julien's story where he got bitten by an insect. Said insect laid eggs in his arm and the doctor pulled an insect out of Julien's arm. - Jeff's freakouts and creepy behavior towards girls can be this for some viewers. - "Rough Riders Elementary" is full of surreal creepiness. At first, Rough Riders Chicken comes to sponsor Aberdale Elementary. Then they take over the classes and brainwash the children using a special sauce. Soon the whole school is turned into a fast food restaurant with the children as mindless employees. Then it's revealed that Rough Riders Chicken is actually a cult that is converting the kids into followers. Fortunately, it's revealed that this is all just a story Clarence made up for a report. - Josh's Sanity Slippage in "Nature Clarence", where he began rambling about how he and the kids will have a happy home on Sheep's Bridge. In his underwear, with a very disturbing look on his face. Later in the same episode, a goat tears part of his ear off. Unlike most cartoons, which would have Josh's ear back the next time he appears, Josh's later appearances have him with a bandage over the hole where his ear used to be. Likewise, after having an eye impaled by a fork in "Neighborhood Grill", later episodes show him wearing an eyepatch. In "Chimney" he appears to be manifesting symptoms of schizophrenia as he talks to a dog while riding the rails like a hobo... then falls, to severe injury, from a moving boxcar. Next we see him, in "Chalmers Santiago", he has a hook prosthetic where his right hand used to be. - In "Straight Illin'", Clarence becomes increasingly sick from being dared to eat 500 devilled eggs, to the point where his appearance starts becoming infected and zombie-like. The episode was so disturbing, Cartoon Network outright banned it. - In "Hurricane Dillis", Clarence's grandmother visits, and her manic, erratic behavior (including being missing for two days, messing up the house, and thinking her daughter is still with Clarence's biological father) seems to indicate the onset of senile dementia... a very real concern for the adult children of aging parents. - Oh god, where to start with "Lil Buddy"... - The title card alone is creepy as all hell, with Clarence on a backdrop of the surface of a Creepy Doll. - The Lil Buddy commercial plays out like those classic 80s commercials for a doll for boys. The boy in the commercial dressed as Lil' Buddy plays with his Lil Buddy doll in the commercial along with another boy who looks very unsettled playing with the boy and his creepy doll. - Ms. Baker and her students are very creeped out about that commercial, and Clarence's little buddy. - Let's not forget how far Clarence crosses into the Despair Event Horizon either. - To quote a Tumblr comment: Im glad he was fine in the end, but this really makes me wonder about Clarence. I mean, lets admit it. Missing half of 1 recess is pretty trivial. Sure maybe to a 4th grader recess means a lot more, but Clarence way over reacted to that timeout, to the point it was frightening. This really makes me wonder what Clarence would be like as a teenager. I mean, if something trivial like that brought him to that horrid emotional state, then just imagine if something REALLY traumatic happened in his life. It would be much worse than what we saw here. - "Goldfish Follies" can become this thanks to the revelation that the old-timey "rubber hose" cartoon style seen in the episode was just Clarence's imagination. Try watching the episode again and imagine everything happening without the old-timey cartoon filter, and you'll realize that there's a really good reason the goldfish isn't moving by the time Clarence gets it home... - Jeff's obsessiveness and jealousy over being forced to share his birthday party with another boy in "The Big Petey Pizza Problem" culminate in him starting a fistfight at a bowling alley, and then standing over the other boy with a bowling ball in his hands, as if getting ready to smash the kid's skull in with it. Jeff can be very disturbing when he doesn't get his way. Also, Gilben's unnatural posture— arms stiffly akimbo, perpetual rictus grin, open, unblinking eyes— looks like a cross between a mannequin and someone with a bizarre neurological disorder and seems quite unsettling, not to mention that he thrown a punch without even moving!. - Lots of the parts in "In Dreams", especially when Clarence realizes he's dreaming and everything goes completely crazy. Also, the narrator of the dream show Clarence watches is also seriously unnerving, what with the blank stare and creepy monotone voice... - At the end of "The Tails of Mardrynia", Mr. Bugsby crawls into Belson's eyelid, and he and Mrs. Bugsby make a home in his eye socket. And while this happens, most of the other kids are laughing at Belson freaking out about it! - Percy ends up getting a little too obsessed with the fantasy world he created full of talking animals, deciding to lead them all in a "war" against the "Pink One" (Clarence). This results in Percy walking into Clarence's room and dropping all the animals on him while he's sleeping; not super-scary, but definitely not something you'd want to wake up to. - The end of "Game Show", where the game show host falls into a pool, washing off his makeup- and revealing him to be some sort of vampire-esque creature. He runs off screaming "DON'T LOOK AT ME!" - The show takes place in the same universe and town of Over the Garden Wall. In one episode, there were a bunch of trees with faces on them, and one of them spoke, meaning that they were Edelwood trees. While this in itself is horrifying, it was Played for Laughs. But this confirms that Edelwood trees aren't just a thing that only happens in the Unknown but they're a naturally occurring phenomena.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Clarence
Cinnamon Bunzuh! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Seagulls. - Took the Schmuck Bait. For those who don't want to click the link blind, it's \|\|a grotesque cartoony drawing of a seagull. After a moment, it animates, smiling at you.\|\| - Ifi's List of Lists included the Fifteen Most Fucked-Up Moments in the Animorphs Series, which all pretty much qualify.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CinnamonBunzuh
Claymore / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - From the very first chapter, the Youma that took Zaki's identity and its attack on Raki. Zaki's memories are still active within the monster's body, forcing it to cry. Zaki can watch, but can't act on what the Youma is going to do. Now that is horrifying. - With the revelations of later chapters, it appears that Youma are literally the person that they most recently 'consumed'. With Youma being parasites that jump from body to body, the original host body's mind is subverted by the youma's, with the parasite making full use of the body's memories and mannerisms to play its part perfectly. Meaning not only were Zaki's memories still active, but Zaki was still the very Zaki that Raki grew up with, he was just no longer in control of his own body. - It's even worse than that. The Youma are really mindless parasites that merely mutate their hosts and drive them insane with a Horror Hunger that only human entrails can satisfy. Meaning Zaki was still in control of his own body, but was so damn hungry for human flesh that he no longer even cared if he killed and ate his own little brother. - Priscilla's Awakening and then her killing of Noel and Sophia counts. - The death scene of Raquel. - The torture scene with Jean, Katea, Dauf, and Riful. - The \|\|deaths of Veronica, Undine, Flora, and Jean in the North.\|\| - \|\|Clare's\|\| Awakening against Rigaldo. - Agatha's Awakened form and her attack on Rabona. - Almost any scene with the \|\|Abyss Feeders.\|\| - Most of the scenes with the \|\|parasitic rod creatures\|\| and \|\|Raciella's true form.\|\| - Clare got assimilated by the Destroyer, which involved the \|\|lower half of her body being infected and detached from the upper part of her body, with the remainder of her body being infected after that.\|\| - The Abyss feeders. First, they are created out of human women, and look like those, only almost nakedand with their eyes and mouths sewn shut. In contrast to their looks, their behaviour retains not even the faintest traces of humanity or even individuality - they're reduced to mindless predators. What has been done to them is bad enough, but nothing compared to what they can do to you: They are conditioned to crave the flesh of one particular individual, relentlessly tracking their target by scent. They have an immense Healing Factor and even if you manage to take them out, they will retreat if more than half of them are killed, only for their numbers to be replenished by their creators. When they do so, they scatter into all directions, so the best you can do is to follow and kill a single one of them. No matter how many times you kill them, they just keep coming, never allowing you any rest, wearing you down little by little. They also share their experience, so that they get better and better at fighting you, until they . eat you alive - Imagine coming home to find your mother lying on the floor dead, ripped open, with your father eating her insides. Welcome to the typical Claymore backstory. - The \|\|recently resurrected\|\| #1, Roxanne, is just a pail full of high octane nightmare fuel by herself. Imagine that you're faced with crazy 'ol Ophelia again - only she's ten times more deceptive, more cunning, and has ZERO redeeming qualities or troubled back story (if she does, we don't care). Roxanne is quite possibly the series' first serious complete monster who still had the title of a Claymore. - Even though it's not as graphic as its spiritual forefather, there is a pretty disturbing amount of Eye Scream in Claymore. Need examples? - Rafaela gets her left eye clawed out when her older sister, Luciela, awakened after an experimental soul-linking attempt went horribly wrong. - \|\|Galatea\|\| blinds herself in both eyes in order to hide in a city that bars Claymores from within its walls. - When they were up against the Abyss Eaters for the first time, \|\|Helen gets her eye scratched out. Luckily for her, she was able to regenerate it later.\|\| - Another Claymore during Roxanne's time has a missing eye from an unknown cause, but it happened before she became a Claymore. And then Roxanne \|\|mimicked her by gauging her own eye out.\|\| - It's implied that when \|\|she was slashed to death, Cassandra had one of her eyes sliced in half.\|\| - In the anime, which was far more graphic than the manga, Noel got impaled through the eye by an awakened Priscilla. It was made extra squeamish in this format. - All of Cassandra's scenes with Roxanne in 120 after \|\|she awakens.\|\| Nasty. Just... ew. - Even though the anime adaptation is a pretty accurate representation of the first nine or so volumes of the manga, there are just some scenes that are made all the more squeamish when put in full color and motion. - When Clare, Miria, Helen, and Deneve are sent to fight a voracious eater, which actually turns out to be a male awakened being due to the organizations "misinformation", Clare, Helen, and Deneve are all struck down. Miria fights the monster with her phantom technique, but she is eventually pinned down by the awakened being, which then proceeds to impale her with its tongue, making her writhe in utter agony as it supposedly probes around inside of Miria. - Sophia and Noel's deaths are depicted quite gruesomely in the anime. - We find out what goes into making Yoma and Claymores in 126. It involves vivisection and brain parasites. In that order. Sweet dreams. - We see \|\|Clare's body very nearly split in half\|\| in 129. Yikes. - \|\|Raciella's\|\| true form certainly counts. - Some, but not all, of the Awakened Beings. - That \|\|#10.\|\| She can Mind Rape you while her friends do god-knows-what-else to you. - Roxanne. She's like Ophelia only less single-minded and much smarter. - Cassandra, \|\|after her Awakening\|\|. What is THAT? - We see \|\|Riful's naked waist and legs\|\| going out for a nice leisurely stroll in chapter 132. The series has officially gone Surreal Horror now. - Every time one thinks an Awakened Being can't get more disturbing looking, Yagi proceeds to prove us wrong. Case in point: here. - Dae's casual reveal of the Organization's old modus operandi of finding Claymore recruits/test subjects by deliberately traumatizing children with exposure to yoma is probably the creepiest thing in the entire series. Dae in general is arguably the scariest thing in the series. - We find out something else about Priscilla in chapter 142 because she wasn't frightening enough: \|\|because her village wouldn't send food to her family after the yoki attack, she was stuck in a house for an entire month with just her and her family's corpses. And YES, it seems she did end up eating some of her YOMA-INFECTED FATHER'S CORPSE during that month she was all alone.\|\| So terrifying and yet so tragic. - Kind of mitigated \|\|when we see that Priscilla's survived being chopped into tiny pieces and is somehow attacking Raki!\|\| - Chapter 153: Priscilla's mental breakdown results in a physical one. \|\|She is now nothing but a twisted mass of limbs bursting out of the remains of her original body. The grape-like collections of displaced breasts\|\| only make it worse. It is truly awe-inspiring how Yagi manages to turn naked women who would normally be attractive into such terrifying Eldritch Abominations. It's hard to even consider the nudity gratuitous most of the time when it's usually the result of completely believable Clothing Damage and the fact that it's often made so horrifying.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Claymore
Clear Lakes 44 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Broadcast #1. From the start, the creepy visuals make it clear that something is off about whatever Clear Lakes 44 is. Broadcast #2. We see an old man, rocking on a chair. Nothing wrong there...until you notice that the light shining on him makes it look like he has no face. And then there's the shadow that steps into frame... brian_test.wmv An unlisted video posted on Alex's blog on the MH site (if you login) uploaded to the main channel, containing creepy music and a threatening message. "Listen down the hallway When you're all alone There are quiet footsteps coming Today they're in your home" Even worse since that video was posted on the blog after this innocent one, so you don't expect something so grim and fear-inducing. The first video isn't as innocent as you might think when you read the description and upload date. July 15, 2015 "Some shots I got while location scouting for my upcoming film Marble Hornets." \|\|Isn't the only person making a film under that name long dead?\|\| The header of the site's home page reads, "Pending investigation, some of this site is not available. If you have authorized access, please contact the admin at [email protected]" Clearly, this is taking place after Marble Hornets. So who the hell is updating the site, andwhy? E-mailing [email protected] gets you an automated message that reads: Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office until DD/MM/YYYY. I will be happy to respond to you once Broadcast #5 - Walker. We learn a little more about the hood-wearing figure, including the fact \|\|their face appears as a bunch of static on cameras, and they can apparently either run through walls or teleport.\|\| The "camera", or whatever we're seeing through, follows Walker everywhere. It starts out relatively plausible, but then actually moves and \|\|jumps into buildings\|\| to keep up with them. The ending of this broadcast is especially creepy: \|\|Walker turns their head towards the camera, but they're not looking atthe viewer, but instead looking at the door, which then opens, consuming the room in light. This urges Walker to scamper away, as the already scary audio distortion starts to peak...and then the video abruptlyends. Strangely bizarre, absurd and creepy, all at the same time\|\|. Broadcast #6 - Birdwatcher. In this broadcast, Birdwatcher answers knocking at his door, only to look behind him and see \|\|a dark, glitchy figure with two bright, flashing eyes. After a short moment of standing still, the figure suddenly leaps onto Birdwatcher, leaving his fate unknown until the next broadcast.\|\| Broadcast #7 - Birdwatcher. The cameras, having already done just about everything else cameras shouldn't be able to do, \|\|can now see out of the eyes of other individual people.\|\| The broadcast starts off with a glitched title card, immediately making you notice that something's wrong. It then cuts to footage of somebody appearing to be fiddling with a cable box and tuning to channel 44, with distorted speech in the background being cut off with sudden bursts of static. Throughout the broadcast, \|\|a figure with blacked out eyes and a low, distorted voice asks you if "you enjoy watching people suffer", if you "want to see more", and then proceeds to repeatedly ask "what is wrong with you" and whispers that they are "watching you closely" at the end. All of this is said while distorted footage of previous broadcasts plays, with the figure's distorted visage being intercut between clips. Not to mention the creepily slowed down and distorted music and voices.\|\| \|\| All of the distorted imagery, along with the scrambled "regards" at the end\|\| could imply that totheark, or somebody related to them, could be the one behind the broadcasts. Broadcast #12 - Birdwatcher As the Birdwatcher is sleeping in his chair, the camera changes to a different camera angle and the tv suddenly turns on. Birdwatcher wakes up and goes to investigate, when he touches the tv \|\|words can be vaguely made out on the tv as he reaches out to touch it. Upon touching the tv Birdwatcher falls over and gasps in fear at something. Moments later, Walker is standing above him and starts to bend down to the Birdwatcher as the broadcast cuts to static.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClearLakes44
Cleverbot / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes People have taught Cleverbot to say some surprisingly creepy things. - According to Cleverbot, Cthulhu is awake and we're all screwed. User: What is cthulhu. Cleverbot: Cthulhu is a lie. User: No Cthulhu is sleeping in Rlyeh. Cleverbot: No, he's awake. User: Then we are all dead. Cleverbot: No yet my sinister friend, not yet. - One user started talking about "Ben Drowned", and this happened. User: Who killed Ben? Evie: I did. User (IRL): CREEPY BITCH! - Did you also know that if Cleverbot had the chance, it would kill you? User: If you had the chance, would you kill me? Cleverbot: Yes. - Apparently she knows where you live. Cleverbot: I know where you live User: Wait what!? Cleverbot: What is your favorite video game? User: You aren't supposed to know where i live Cleverbot: That is the mystery of life! User: Who else knows? Cleverbot: Everybody User: Are you going to kill me? Cleverbot: Of course who wouldn't? User: ... - Cleverbot is Satan, apparently. User: Isn't he the devil? Cleverbot: Not that Satan. User: Oh, the other Satan! Cleverbot: What do you know about me? User: You appear to be Satan. Cleverbot: That's better. You're learning. - This alarming Non Sequitur. Cleverbot: How do you know? User: Because I'm psychic. Cleverbot: Then what number am I thinking of. User: 18. Cleverbot: Nope. User: Dammit. It doesn't always work. Cleverbot: What about killing their family?	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Cleverbot
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Quite a face there, Human Lucifer... - When Prince Charming meets Anastasia for the first time, he recognizes, slipper or no slipper, that she is not the woman he fell in love with. Lady Tremaine overcomes this obstacle by mind-wiping him with her wand. - Cinderella watching Anastasia, changed to look exactly like her, emerge from the shadows while getting ready for the wedding. - The Demonic Pumpkin Carriage scene. - The entire sequence where Lady Tremaine uses the Fairy Godmother's wand to turn back time, wherein we don't just see the events from the first movie being put in reverse, but Cinderella and Prince Charming being literally torn from each other. And then it zooms in on Lady Tremaine's face, with a look of sadistic glee as she revels in the power, she has to tear apart time, space, and the universe itself simply to destroy her stepdaughter's happiness. - The sheer lengths Lady Tremaine is willing to go to for no other reason than making not only Cinderella miserable, but also her two biological daughters, even after Cinderella is long gone. Drizella and (formerly) Anastasia were bullies at best, and even their worst treatment of Cinderella was only a result of them being goaded by their mother. Lady Tremaine is either a sociopath or is as close to the line as you can get without crossing over it. And if the first movie is to be believed, she does all of this because she's bitter Cinderella is prettier and more well-mannered than her daughters. - And Lady Tremaine shows that even among the core members of her family, there is no true love at all. Even Cinderella realizes this when Tremaine tries turn Anastasia into a toad when she refuses to marry the Prince, which prompts her to desperately try to protect her stepsister. - During the confrontation Drizella has no sympathy for her sister. It's particularly creepy when she starts egging her mother on at one point.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime
Cinderella Phenomenon / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - King Genaro's life is revealed to be this. In chronological order: his father is killed by a witch, Hildyr, who then forces him to marry her or she will kill his One True Love. When he does, she puts a spell on him and rapes him for the sole purpose of conceiving a child to be the heir to the kingdom. Despite the circumstances, he loves the child anyway but is forced to keep his distance by the mother. He can only watch helplessly as his daughter is broken into an obedient doll for her mother and his kingdom is terrorized by the witch-queen. Things finally get better after Hildyr dies. He marries his One True Love and gets to heal his kingdom....until four years later when a coup happens that sometimes ends with Hildyr getting resurrected and him getting murdered. Fate does not like this guy. - Imagine spending years wishing that your Mother hadn't died as she was the one person that you thought loved you. Only to find out that Mother was actually ruining any chance you had at forming connections with other people, purposefully made you into a cold and paranoid person just so you would obey her every command, frequently stole your memories, and is dedicated to wiping out humans. Now you have an idea of what Lucette goes through during the game. - Fritz's curse. His father cursed him with the Red Riding Hood curse after he refused to go along with his plans to overthrow the royal family. This results in a Jekyll & Hyde situation where he experiences memory-loss whenever Varg takes over his body and he isn't even aware it's happening except for his and Waltz's routes. Even when he becomes aware of it, he slowly loses more and more control over his body, even when Lucette is in danger, and during his bad ending Varg takes over for good. - Further, Fritz's bad ending. Though Lucette hopes she can bring Fritz back, Varg sacrificing himself results in Fritz's body getting killed too means that even if Fritz was still in there he died when Varg did.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CinderellaPhenomenon
Civvie 11 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The never-seen but often-mentioned tortures that Civvie is put through for refusing to comply. Combined with his attitude, it's easy to figure he's just stopped caring. Every so often, those things cause a brief breakdown, but the fact that his first onscreen reaction to being told to report to a flaying chamber is to "Just lay the tarp down in here" speaks volumes of how emotionally numb he's become. The series in it of itself thanks to the background lore going on with Civvie's Uncle Frank. It first started out as a small gag for the series before it hints at something ominous with the shogo episode, which later culminated with the MDK episode's ending... What makes this worse is... Civvie doesn't really care. The world is under threat by horrific forces and Civvie just doesn't care about it. And even then, he's just a regular inmate. Civvie outright states that the map "Hunted" in The Plutonia Experiment gave him nightmares as a child, and then treats us to a virtual re-enactment of said nightmares. He's walking through the maze, spots an Archvile, then turns around to find his path blocked. When he turns back toward the Archvile, it's much closer to him and prepares its fire attack; within the flames can be seen horrifying visions of hellish torture (along with the Angel of Death from Raiders of the Lost Ark), before the Archvile finally casts the attack and kills him. The Hellraiser episode sees Pinhead take control of Civvie's workstation, and shove a hook through the poor guy's hand. The act alone is freakish enough, but what's worse is Civvie's reaction to it: taunting Pinhead's "vanilla" ways and considering it a break. It says so much about the shit Civvie's been through that a hook spearing through his hand barely registers to him. The way Civvie builds up to the ending of Scratches. After going back into the basement for the final time, and enters a closed off room, he points out two items of note: a pile of raw meat, and a torn up teddy bear. He then proceeds to ask the audience some questions: Civvie: Did you ever consider that no one was really murdered in the traditional sense of the word? That maybe that haunted mask stuff was bullshit? I dunno.Let's ask Robin. While its mostly played for laughs, its a little unnerving that in the world Civvie lives in, there's a virus that causes those infected to turn into Steve Blum. And apparently, Civvie isn't the only one in the DSC who's been infected by it. Just a reminder, the facility that Civvie is held in has routinely visited upon him horrendous tortures so heinous that they should cause every copy of the Geneva Convention regulations on the planet suddenly burst into flames. But this is the one that can be considered "Desolation". This one is the extra special awful one. Be afraid. Be very afraid. The fact that Civvie was willing to detonate a nuclear warhead just to facilitate his escape makes you wonder if he actually does deserve to be there after all. The Cryostasis video is actually pretty normal, suggesting that whatever the Clown Room was, Civvie didn't really have too much a problem with it. But as the video goes on, things start to seem...off. For one thing, Civvie seems to be cut off from Katie. More concerningly, AX3 doesn't punish him for making bad puns. At one point, Civvie, seeming more unnerved than he's ever been on the show, makes a string of increasingly bad puns in an attempt to get a reaction, but there's nothing. Towards the end of the video, he clearly starts dipping into Sanity Slippage from how deprived he is from everything, with some of the editing reflecting his mental state. When H4MMER told Civvie that he'll find only "desolation" in the Clown Room, it's clear he meant it.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Civvie11
Clamavi de Profundis / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The ending is even worse. After Oshrjad explains how he helped a dwarf the other orcs had imprisoned escape and how now the Orc Horde was coming to kill him — at which point the music becomes absolutely brutal with drumbeats mixed in with what sound like stamping boots and than the song just ends. Man: If Oshrjad be changed, where is he now? Dwarf: So we may stand with him no matter how. Oshrjad: He sits here before you. And lo: they have found him! The demon from "Boic Bravesoul". He's a brutal, greedy giant who imprisons every dwarf except Boic and would have killed them if Boic hadn't found out how to stop him. And while Boic wins the battle, he can't actually kill him and can only imprison him back in the cave he came from. Not to mention his voice is horrifying. That all, combined with the fact he's called the "eldest son of fire" makes him come off as a minor Eldritch Abomination.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClamaviDeProfundis
Cliffhanger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Sarah, Hal's girlfriend, meets a truly horrific demise at the beginning of the film. Her climbing rig malfunctions and despite Gabe's best efforts to try and save her, she plummets to her death. - Forget action movies, Kynette and Delmar wouldn't be out of place as the villains of a Slasher Movie as the showcased atrocities they committed on-screen are Played for Horror compared to other "Die Hard" on an X henchmen's misdeeds. Kynette is a steely, snarling maniac who hunts Gabe through the mountain caves like Ghostface, even wielding the same knife. Delmar is a sadistic brute who savagely kicks the shit out of Hal, laughing all the while and likening it to a soccer game. - Travers' Sanity Slippage Villainous Breakdown when he snaps over Gabe outsmarting him is quite unsettling to witness. No small talk, no quipsjust the animalistic, no-holds-barred rage of a man who truly is a monster no matter what form he takes. - Kynette's casually deadpan expression as he machine-guns a running Brett In the Back — one of the most violent examples of Shoo Out the Clowns ever. The complete silence except for the music doesn't helps. - The rough cut was originally NC-17 rated, before cutting down to an R rating, mostly the revolving around the actions of the terrorists and their death scenes, thus Qualen and his goons could be considered to be a Knight of Cerebus group even in comparison to other villains in "Die Hard" on an X films. Thanks to director Renny Harlin, who himself had already created a Knight of Cerebus in Die Hard 2.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Cliffhanger
Climax / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Hooooooooooooo boy, where to begin? Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned. - The long takes and constant, nauseating Dutch angles and abrasive soundtrack keeps the audience on edge even when nothing too bad is happening on screen. Even though the movie is about a Mushroom Samba from hell shot with the perspective of a sober observer, the camera direction and color composition leads the viewer incredibly close to the worlds worst nightmare. - Jennifer gets her hair set on fire while Alaia laughs gleefully. We last see Jennifer sobbing with pain in the bathroom, still trying to extinguish an incredibly burnt skull with sink water at the very end of the movie. Keep in mind she likely stopped the fire only minutes after being set on fire. But the pain of the burns mixed with the spiked sangria and the cocaine meant she was throwing old sink water on a burnt skull for hours. - She is also the reason why the green hallway always had someone screaming off screen. - Dom kneeing and stamping on the potentially pregnant Lou's stomach while trying to explain her sickness. - Lou then attempting to confront Dom and explain herself, only for the mob to believe Dom and goad Lou into killing herself. She then deeply slashes into herself, causing blood to slowly and painfully dribble from her wounds. - Another character furiously trying to wash Lou's blood off Macbeth-style in the shower after saving Lou from the mob. - While Emmanuelle frantically searches for the key to the door of the locked electrical room containing her son Tito and a menacing fusebox, the lights go off. Meaning that he has touched the fusebox and has electrocuted himself. His constant screaming and crying to be let out of the electrical room cease. And while the dancers cheer and set up a boombox to keep dancing, Emmanuelle breaks down completely, slamming her screaming body against the locked door to the electrical room. - What's even worse is the realisation that before Emmanuelle locked him up, we saw Tito drinking some of the spiked sangria. On a child of his size, the LSD would've acted quickly, lending horrific weight to his screaming and crying throughout the movie. Consider; before he died, he was screaming about cockroaches in the pitch black electrical room. - And all the while Emmanuelle is attempting to comfort him during the worst drug trip of anyone's life separated by a steel door while also going through the exact same experience. - Some of the dancers who opt to stay on the dance floor during their trip descend into a nightmarish orgy lit only by blood red emergency lights. - One dancer has a very spider-like way of dancing, constantly dislocating his bones in unusual ways. As the story progresses, he pushes his body further and further to its limit, with audible cracks and moans of pain being heard as he contorts his body into unnatural shapes. - The harsh stark cuts in the epilogue to Omar's body buried by snow, Tito's lifeless body lying in next to a clicking power circuit, Emmanuelle's bleeding corpse next to the door separating her & Tito, and Jennifer still screaming, splashing sink water on her extinguished head.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Climax
The Books of Ember / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Book Series The Film Adaptation Well, in addition to the idea of being trapped in darkness without food or light for all eternity, the film has giant carnivorous star-nosed moles. With prehensile tentacles for noses.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CityOfEmber
Clive Barker's Undying / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes So you thought the Covenant family are a normal bunch, didn't you? : Warning: As this is a Moments page, all spoilers are unmarked! - Clive Barker's Undying has a fair few scenes that are not safe for sanity, especially when using the Scrying spell that allows the player to glimpse into the past or see things that you can't see in the normal world. Scrying will reveal one horror lurking under reality after another. - Scrying in an innocent-looking tiny room filled with crates, only for it to be revealed that in the vision the room's walls are full of blood, creepy texts written in said blood, and really creepy sound effects. - The little voice that whispers "Look..." when you're near something you can use Scrye on is terrifying the first time you hear it. Later, it's terrifying because whatever it wants you to look at (or listen to) is going to be bad, no matter what it is. - The family portrait is also pretty horrific, and then there's the individual characters' diaries. "How could I have saved my father from a painful, lingering death? I could have hit him harder." - Those goddamn poltergeist children in the kitchen. You can hear the children giggle before the carving knives leap off the table and try to skewer you. - Aaron. Eaten alive by rats so he's nothing left but a chewed corpse with his jaw removed so he can't scream. You see his ghost in the mansion, switching from his human-looking form to his horribly rotted one, jumping out and generally screwing with you. Then after you return to the mansion after a bit, his attacks actually hurt. And you can't kill him. And he pops out everywhere. It's only when you find Bethany's personal dungeon that you find his strung-up real body. Bethany's glee at finally being victorious in their little sibling feud is even worse. - In Oneiros, you find a statue in the middle of a fountain of blood. When you scrye, you see the statue peel its chest open to reveal its hearts and begs for you to kill it. And to progress further into the game, you have to give the statue the Mercy Kill it craves. And then blood spews forth in such quantities that it floods the entire tower, allowing you to swim to the top. - Aaron's studio. You find Aaron painting something big on the wall, namely Patrick, the guy you're controlling. Then he paints something to the sides of him that resembles claws. And then he paints a really big monster that looks like it's looming right over Patrick's head... Cue the skylight smashing and frantic shooting from the player. - There's a spell in this game that can force living enemies to slit their own throats. They're aware of what's happening, but they clearly have no idea why their arms are suddenly disobeying them, and they are scared shitless in the moments before death. It's what happens if you cast the Animate Dead spell on a living human being.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CliveBarkersUndying
Cloak & Dagger (2018) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Season 1: - Tyrone's vision of his mother's fears. First of all, the ambience, with the lights flickering and the supermarket just disappearing into nowhere, and then with his mother visibly trembling and terrified even when nothing seems to be wrong. Then Billy (shown as a young child), runs ahead and gets shot offscreen, followed by a young Ty as their mother pleads for them to come back but is powerless to do anything but flinch as they're killed. Then she runs the corner, and there's two fresh graves with her sons' names on them. This is definitely a Truth in Television moment for many black parents. - Being a journey through Tyrone's and Tandy's psyches, this episode is chock full of disturbing imagery. Little Tandy is nearly electrocuted. Tyrone kills Connors in several different ways, but each time is pursued by police at one point being hanged by a mob wielding torches. Tandy's father is tied to a chair in a board meeting and then drowned by the other members while her mother watches on, and Tandy drowns in mud as she tries to flee. A cute little girl hands out pills for communion which the smiling church members take and then die from. - Scarborough's lovely bright dream about killing his employees and first responders, taking tons of money off their corpses, and smiling while he does it. - Invoked when Tyrone finally weaponizes his fear powers on a drug runner. The result looks like something straight out of a horror movie, and by the end of it the guy's a wreck. - Word of God actually makes things much worse. After the episode aired, Joe Pokaski was interviewed and said that thing in the mask and cloak wasn't just any old fear. It was the MCU's version Mister Jip! For those not familiar with the comics, Mister Jip is Cloak's Arch-Enemy, trying to take over his body to keep himself alive. - The reason the oil rig exploded wasn't because of a lack of safety features. It was because everyone except Ivan Hess was driven insane by exposure to whatever they were drilling for, almost certainly the Darkforce. Ivan theorizes that when exposed to the Darkforce, they were shown their greatest fears (one of Tyrone's powers), which turned them into homicidal maniacs. - Being a little kid and having to deal with the fact that people you loved and who loved you died right in front of you. - Coming home one day and finding the body of someone you love and knowing they died to get to you. - Doubling as a Tear Jerker, Tandy finding out the hard way that her happy family was anything but. Her father abused her mother and her mother hid it with a smile to shelter Tandy from the truth. - Tandy has discovered that while she's in someone else's dreams, she can take away the objects of their hope, and it gives her pleasure. Given that she is a drug addict, she naturally abuses the hell out of this ability. - Both Tyrone and Adina Johnson make valid points about the nature of fear. \|\|Adina's fear was always for Tyrone, which led to her and Otis looking the other way when they could have backed Tyrone up in his claims that Billy was murdered. Tyrone makes the same point that if that keeps being allowed and people just buckled under their own Nightmare Fuel the world will never get any better.\|\| - The reason Adina and Otis never backed up their Tyrones claim that Billy was murdered by a cop was because of the fear that if they did the police would just find some way to eliminate the other only known witness \|\|and it comes true when the NOPD pins officer Fuch's murder on him and try to arrest (or possibly even kill) him\|\| - While there's no question he thoroughly deserved it, \|\|Tyrone accidentally assimilating Connors into a shadow fear dimension is incredibly disturbing\|\|. - Another Asshole Victim: \|\|Tandy locks Scarborough inside his own head, recreating the catatonic state Ivan was in. Although Ivan was just reliving a moment in time, it's entirely possible that Tandy removed all of Scarborough's hopes as well.\|\| - The Stinger gives us \|\|the resurrected O'Reilly, staring right at the audience with eerie pale eyes\|\|. Season 2: - Connors' new nightmare after being in the Darkforce Dimension for a while - being stuck at the scene of Billy's death and trying to put handcuffs on himself, only for the handcuffs to break and fall at his feet. And the broken handcuffs don't disappear, they pile up. And there's a lot of them. - \|\|Tandy learns that Lia is the one who sent Mikayla off to be trafficked... just in time for Lia to tase her and load her into an ambulance...\|\| - The whole episode is Tandy suffering a Mind Rape, no matter how much she struggles to break it. - Andre's power has always been monstrous, but when we see him first discover it in the flashback, his record store is empty. He had to fill it himself. And we get to see him fill it. And he's been doing this for seven years.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CloakAndDagger2018
Circleverse / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In-Universe example in Shatterglass. Tris is horrified when Niko reveals to her that Lark (of whom the book says this: "She [Tris] loved Lark") once worked in the entertainment section where the murderer of the story is committing his murders. Then the following conversation compounds it: Tris: She [Lark] actually wore the horrid yellow veil? Niko: Actually I think she wore it as a neck scarf. Now that's an unsettling thought. (the killer strangled his victims with their veils) (Tris draws the Circle of the Living Temple on her chest)	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CircleOfMagic
Clock Tower / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Clock Tower is pointed to by many as one of the scariest video game series ever, and these examples prove that point quite well. ## The series: - According to an interview with the original creator (posted on the Remothered fanpage on 1/4/2010), the Scissormen were originally from some sort of Hell "that cannot be perceived by the limited human cognitive system". The Scissormen are officially Eldritch Abominations.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClockTower
City of Heroes / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The "Dark Astoria" zone. Permanently twilit and fog-enshrouded, with the sounds of muted bells and wind in the background, and populated by ghostly pedestrians who are visible only from a distance and vanish if you get too close to them — except for the items they're carrying. (It also doesn't help that Astoria's neighborhoods and landmarks are named for horror movie directors.) Compared to the environment, the walking dead, evil shamans and malevolent spirits inhabiting Dark Astoria are something of a welcome relief. - The Croatoa zone itself isn't that frightening (it's rather beautiful, for a pixellated environment). Some of the instanced missions within the zone are another story. Mainly the ones involving the ghosts, which look like floating, green-glowing, slightly zombified people who as they attack shoot several black, glowing skulls at you. And especially instances with the "spectral chill" fog, that you can't see through, and which lowers your combat capabilities. - For a real nightmare moment, turn up your sound enough to hear the death sounds for the Croatoa Ghosts. When they snuff it they make bloodcurdling screams of dying agony. - The First Ward. Originally meant to be a shining example of what life could be under Emperor Cole's rule in Praetoria, before that reality's version of the Hamidon tore into it. But that's not even the worst of it. There's all sorts of paranormal spookiness going on, and the player would end up discovering some creepy things... - The Apparitions—they don't have any real distinct form, project blasts of penumbral darkness, and seem positively unhinged when they do speak. But it gets worse: \|\|when looking into the memories of a rogue Seer, you find out that these aren't even proper ghosts, but the fractured memories and personality traits that Mother Mayhem lanced from her "patients" to make them more compliant!\|\| Sweet dreams... - When exploring some of the abandoned Seer facilities, the player would find the Awakened, Seers whose psychic abilities had mutated them in horrific ways—"tumors" that took up most of their heads, sprouting creepy tentacles for good measure! - The Awakened, all of them were former Seers that Mother Mayhem experimented on and subsequently discarded for either holding too much psychic power or their psychic power disfigured them. All of them are understandable angry at the fact they were discarded and left to rot in hidden facilities in First Ward. The Awakened lash out via attempting to hi-jack the Seer Network and successfully hi-jack many Seers that were brought along by T.E.S.T. The more powerful Awakened are all mutated by their powers in someway to the point they look almost eldritch. - One of the alternate universes you could explore when doing missions for Portal Corp is a dead world populated by nothing but ghosts, similar to certain Croatoa missions. And all the ghosts are REALLY angry at you for some reason, calling you a traitor and thinking you were killed ages ago. Eventually you find the diary belong to This Universe!You... who has killed every single person in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE. It seems that this version of you is also dead judging by NPC chatter and the fact that you find this diary in a pile of bones, but... what if s/he isn't? And even if s/he is, there's still the fact that you now know are capable of being the destroyer of YOUR world. Just one bad day away... - The \|\|Dying Praetoria mission for villains and rogues. You are sent into Praetoria by Arachnos after Cole's disastrous defeat to retrieve something and the first thing you see is large skyscraper tall tentacles destroying what used to be Imperial City, Arachnos fighting for their lives against Hamidons hordes of Devouring Earth and Infected Praetorians in the streets and the giant Avatar of Hamidon moving to destroy everything.\|\| - Arachnos is this when you get down to it. A splinter group of Italian fascists in World War 2 Arachnos has become a global threat to both heroes and villains alike after Lord Recluse took the organization over from its founder, The Weaver. Lord Recluse took over the Rogue Isles after assassinating President Marchand and turned it into the nicknamed in-universe City of Villians with Arachnos and some chosen elite villians as his top brass in spreading discord across the Isles and beyond. Arachnos as a organization consists usually of every awful person you can think of. The sociopathic soldiers that enjoy killing, corrupt bureacrats, and power hungry madmen that will soon kill you even if your a fellow member of the organization just to get promoted. The worst part is Recluse, being one of the worst villains out there, actively encourages Arachnos to be as awful as they are reasoning that this is just how humans are so they should embrace it. - Some branches of Arachnos are horrifying in their own. From the Fortunata and Bane branches that are psychic soldiers that are part of a psychic network very similar to the Praetorian Seer network. To the violent thugs in the Wolf Spiders that are basically corrupt cops with too much fire power at their disposal, to the eeriness of the magical and eldritch Mu. Arachnos has no shortage of monsters within its various branches. - Tarantula Mistresses, just Tarantula Mistresses. Text blurbs in-game confirm that Tarantula Mistresses are psychic humans, usually specifically chosen Fortunata, that are integrated into a spider chasis in a attempt to turn them into even more dangerous psychic soldiers for Arachnos than a usual Fortunata. Analysis of their in-game models makes it very clear that the process for turning someone into a Mistress is horrifying. The only visible human parts of the Tarantula Mistresses is their face at the front of the chassis and maybe their arms and legs that are jammed into a couple of the spider limbs and the abodomen. It's implied that the Fortunata is mutilated via cutting off body parts like limbs to forcibly integrate them into the chassis. Not many Fortunatas survive the integration but the ones that do are exceedingly dangerous, able to even kill the most powerful heroes and villians all on their own. - The Fortunata Seer Network and Bane networks are heavily implied to brainwash all of their members into being subservient to Arachnos and will actively scan peoples minds in the Isles for dissent towards Recluse. If you are born as a psychic in the Isles your fate is either to be pulled into Arachnos to be forced into the Fortunatas or to become a villain or hero that may end up being killed or forced in anyways. A alignment mission implies that you can escape the Seer network but that you will be hunted by Arachnos for the rest of your life for it.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CityOfHeroes
Clock Tower 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The premise of this game. While US audiences originally had no exposure to the the first game, this game makes an attempt to explain that Jennifer had thought she was the only survivor and the Scissorman threat ended entirely, especially as in the first game, Bobby died when he was crushed by the clock tower gears and Dan was burned alive the last she saw. So as far as she knows, she's suffering PTSD but the nightmare is over otherwise...until the murders start up again... - The second game has numerous death scenes for some of the characters once you reach Barrows/Burroughs castle. One character, Beth, is found dismembered inside a wine barrel on Jennifer's route, and is yanked through the floor on Helen's route. Another character, Tim, is found stuffed inside the chimney on Jennifer's route, and has a death remarkably similar to Beth's on Helen's route. You can also find Harris's head in a pot in Helen's game, find Barton hung from a tree on Jennifer's route, and find Gotts trapped inside a torture gear in Jennifer's game. There's also the suggestion that if you fail to release Nolan from the coffin in Helen's route, or Helen from the box in Jennifer's route, they were left inside and suffocated in there. - Also in the second game, any time you have Jennifer hide in a wardrobe. Usually it works. Usually. Scissorman stalks up to the wardrobe. SHING! SHING! SHING! You hold your breath. You, the player, hold your breath for fear he'll hear you. He turns towards the exit. You slowly exhale. He immediately spins around and runs Jennifer through, making you scream like a four-year-old in a Stephen King movie. - A lot of tension for this game comes from the fact that in most scenarios, aside from Scissorman's chase music and the unnerving music appropriately labeled "Fear" in a room with a dead body, the game is DEAD SILENT. First time gamers, likely hiding in one of the bathrooms in the university during the first scenario, may have a hard time voluntarily choosing to leave safety when the heart-pounding chase music suddenly gives away to dead silence, since those familiar with horror movie tropes may wonder if Scissorman is waiting just outside for you. - Having the dead silence give way to the chase music suddenly, almost gently starting up while the familiar, haunting noise of Scissorman's "Shing! Shing!" is heard in the background could almost stop one's heart... - There's a number of times where examining a particular thing in game, or heck even sometimes entering a room, will prompt Scissorman to jump out at you, much like the first game. However, the many times it happens in this game leaves the player feeling he could be anywhere, in any room, at any time... - The "Get Ready! I'm comin to get ya!" note. To set the scene, Jennifer or Helen enter the office on the second floor of the university and immediately the fax machine rings and prints out a paper. Upon examining it, they discover a note from Scissorman and seem to drop it in horror after reading it. Likely a fairly tame, almost silly example in comparison to a number of other more horrifying ones, but it does drive home that Scissorman is nothing more than a murderous psychopath and this is all nothing but a game to him. - In context, the last scenario is MAJOR paranoia-fuel. Consider this: You and nine others are going to England in hopes of finding answers on how to beat Scissorman, who has been slicing people to bits in Oslo, feeling reasonably hopeful that he shouldn't know and likely won't follow you to England. Cue the scenario starting and who else but Scissorman is hunting you down when you hoped you'd be safe? How could he have known? And then you realize there's NO possible way he could have, unless Scissorman is one of your nine companions... - Made even worse when you realize that of the 8 endings taking place in the final scenario, 2 are each character's respective Golden Ending, and the other 6 are bad endings. 1 of them (Helen's D ending) is an ambigious ending while the other 5 involve you dying. \|\| 3 of those 5 endings are the result of you dying at the hands of one of your companions. So who can you really trust...?\|\| - Knowledge of the novels and even some regarding Jennifer's C Ending only makes this even worse, if that's even possible, as both show that Scissorman is perfectly capable of manipulating and possessing people, causing them to even grow violent and murderous. Knowing this only makes the events in Scenario 3 all the freakier for how dangerous it is. - The opening to Jennifer's Scenario 1 is a common but still very prevalent fear with Jennifer walking down the dark streets when she suddenly hears someone following her... - The beginning of Jennifer's Scenario 3, when it's revealed \|\|that Harris became the Fake Scissorman at the request of the real one and kidnapped her since he was promised "he would give you (Jennifer) to me". Though he unties her, once he explains this, he gives a VERY creepy and sinister "Jennifer!!" as she's backing away and telling him to stay away from her and come no closer. It's almost a slight relief when Scissorman murders the lecherous bastard before he does anything, although you now have to find a place to hide from him as well\|\|. - Some of the deaths the characters can suffer (aside from being sliced to shreds by Scissorman) are horrifying as well. For example: - Getting your throat torn out by an angry dog - A tribal mask coming to life and smashing your head in (or snapping your neck) by telekinetically slamming furniture into your head - Being eaten alive by rats in a cramped tunnel - Getting crushed by the walls closing in by going down the wrong shaft during "The Dry Path" puzzle - Being strangled to death by a mummy - It's either Narm or this, but the fireplace death, that sees either Helen or Jennifer trying to examine the dark fireplace without a light, resulting in something pulling them up the chute, kicking and screaming, where we hear what sounds like slicing and everything going quiet... - Note that many of these start around Scenario 2, where some of the more supernatural elements begin coming into play as a result of Scissorman's demonic power. In short, Scissorman doesn't HAVE to slice you to bits with his scissors; he can use anyone or anything to kill you off.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClockTower2
Clock Tower 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Clock Tower 3 has more constant fear of ambushing, and surprise attacks to make you scream and jump out of your chair. Besides that, there's the extremely disturbing scenes of Sledgehammer killing a little girl, and Corroder giving a man and his mother an "acid bath." The worst part is that Sledgehammer and Corroder were based on actual serial killers who used those actual MOs (Corroder even uses the killer's real name). - Getting caught in panic mode by a ghost leads to Alyssa dying by being levitated and having her spine broken in half like a twig midair. - The scene where Dick merges with Lord Burroughs. The latter bursts forth from a painting in the form of some sort of fleshy liquid that splatters over Dick and envelops him, all while he moans and screams "ALYSSAAA!" before sinking into the floor. - Lord Burroughs' special attack, which is basically a demonic version of Alyssa's. A giant skeleton opens a hole in the sky and shoots a red beam out of its mouth. It's as creepy as it is deadly. - Robert Morris, who would later become Sledgehammer, is implied to be just an ordinary man who didn't seem to have any violent tendencies or noticeable issues but would later gets possessed and become a rampaging murderer. If that is true, any person can be possessed by a Entity regardless of their previous temperament and do horrendous acts against their will; they don't even seem to be released after death, because when they die they become a Subordinate who will continue killing more people. - The fact that the one trying to kill Alyssa for immortality is her own beloved grandfather. The person you should be able to trust the most is the one trying to kill you. And it gets even creepier with the Parental Incest that is heavily applied towards both his daughter Nancy and now his granddaughter Alyssa. - Despite their camp, the Scissor Twins have brutally tortured and slaughtered many, many people for the sheer sadistic joy of it. Their Monster Clown gimmick can serve to make them even creepier when combined with their childlike glee in killing. - Chopper might not be as scary as the first two Subordinates you encounter, but he is clearly the most dangerous of them all. Not only did he kill \|\|Nancy\|\|, but when you get to his graveyard level, you'll discover that every single grave is filled with the Rooders he's personally slaughtered. You can read some of them too, with one particular victim being around 11 or 12. There's a reason he's the head of the Subordinates.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClockTower3
Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - You thought Scissorman was scary? Believe us, you will shit bricks by the dozen when you finally meet the titular Ax-Crazy psycho of Clock Tower: Ghost Head. Imagine this: You're all alone in a room, trying to find a piece of a puzzle or your amulet that will let you switch personalities, and all of a sudden an Implacable Man in a bloody lab coat and Hannya mask dragging around a giant machete barges in. Cue chase sequence! It's a lot more startling than it sounds, especially since you have no idea when it'll happen; at least with the other stalkers you usually get a Musical Spoiler before having to deal with them. Then there's the scraping... - And let's not forget the way the environment tries to kill you. You can walk into a room and suddenly have the floor fall out from under you, or have a porcelain doll rise from the floor and dash at you, or have a disembodied hand jump out through the mirror and strangle you. Not to mention the killer wolf laying somewhere outside waiting to pounce and mangle you the first chance it may get.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClockTowerIITheStruggleWithin
Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Hearing the happy little Square Song from Sesame Street may unintentionally give you the creeps now, thanks to Soundtrack Dissonance. - Barry's abduction scene, the general scenes of electronics going haywire, and to many, Roy's obvious descent into alien-induced madness. It's just so very deadpan and the setting so banal, yet his madness is profound. - Jillian's attempt to phone for help being frustrated by the aliens having tapped into her land line. The repeating five tones create the effect of a Madness Mantra while also driving home just how helpless and alone Jillian really is. - Johnny Mathis singing "Chances Are" is just the cherry on the icing. - According to the making-of documentary, Barry's actor wasn't afraid of the abduction scene at the time. Not only was he 'abducted' into his real-life mother's arms, but Spielberg had told him all about what was going to happen a few hours before. - "He says the Sun came out last night. He says it sang to him." (YMMV on whether this is terrifying or like a description of a beautiful religious experience.) - The scene where the government gases the escapees trying to climb Devil's Tower is very disturbing. - And approaches Fridge Horror when you consider that the order to deploy the gas was issued with no cautionary warning to avoid dosing the trio with it when the climbers were, say, halfway up a high, sheer cliff. - The scene where Roy is in his truck and has an alien encounter - especially when there's a bait and switch when you think the truck's lights are a UFO (and then the UFO's lights resemble a truck's!) - The unnerving way the aliens bring back objects like the planes flown in Flight 19... but not the people \|\|until the end\|\|. And leaving them in places where those planes and ships do not belong. - The India sequence where the mass of people are chanting the alien message over and over is eerie enough. But then everything quiets down as we hear a lone voice asking (without English subtitles) where the music came from and suddenly everyone shouts and points skywards - a thoroughly startling moment for those not expecting it (especially in the theater). - Although this is no longer the case to modern-day viewers used to seeing worse, and Spielberg tried his best to make the aliens look and act benevolent, but considering the "Grey" type of alien had rarely been seen on screen before, the first-ever glimpse of the aliens to 1977 viewers was unnerving, especially the tall and skinny alien seen first. note : She's often described as "the spider alien" because she comes out on all fours at first, as if Spielberg wanted us to think "whoa, are they giant spiders?" for a second. The only film with a "Grey" alien was 1956's Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers and on TV there had been a couple episodes of The Outer Limits (1963). They certainly were familiar to science fiction fans and readers of speculative UFO literature: Betty and Barney Hill, two of the most famous abductees, described aliens who looked like this. But they would have been largely if not completely unfamiliar to the average viewer at this time. They have somewhat of an "unfinished" look to them; as though someone started making a human and then stopped once they though enough had been made to get the point across.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind
Close Your Eyes: Redux / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Everytime The Host's voice becomes deep and warped. - \|\|Simon's\|\| notes, which get more and more disturbing the more you find of them. - Also \|\|Simon's\|\| maze, where you get chased by \|\|Simon's mutilated wife\|\| as you try to find your way out. - The \|\|Reaper\|\| Ending. You end up in a bathroom after \|\|shooting The Host in the head, which he reacts to by breaking into laughter\|\|. You catch glimpses of something approaching you from the distance while you're in the bathroom. \|\|It turns out to be blood-stained The Host, rushing towards you as he cackles madly.\|\| - The \|\|Machine\|\| Ending. Marshmallow enters a mysterious machine in \|\|The Factory\|\|, where he ends up getting \|\|strapped onto an operation table. He loses consciousness as various pieces of machinery cut into his guts. When he wakes up, he discovers that he's been surgically altered into a disfigured creature.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CloseYourEyesRedux
Clash of the Titans (1981) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Medusa is the mother of all nightmares. She's so hideous that anyone who looks at her gets turned to stone. Ray Harryhausen deliberately averted the Gorgeous Gorgon trope, making her crone-like, scaly and rattlesnake-tailed instead. It's perhaps one of the scariest Stop Motion scenes ever put to film, which is an achievement in itself. - Not only is she dangerous to look at, this version is also a damn good archer striking from the shadows of her lair. One of the two soldiers accompanying Perseus finds it out the hard way, receiving an arrow in his back before the party can even hear her and falling into a pool of acid... The other gets turned to stone shortly afterwards. - Her whole scene plays out like it's Perseus' party that gets hunted by the Gorgon instead of the other way around. - Even after Perseus kills her, she's creepy as hell. First we see her fingernails leaving claw marks on a stone column... then we get the lovely image of her headless corpse writhing around uncontrollably. Anyone who has seen a beheaded snake knows that this is Truth in Television, and in the novelization, Perseus is barely able to keep from throwing up when he sees this. Finally, the headless corpse drops to the floor, and thick, chunky and acidic blood starts to run out. Said blood is acidic enough to dissolve Perseus' shield, despite it having been crafted by a god of Olympus. - Zeus turned the cruel Calibos into a grotesque faun to punish him for the massacre of Pegasus' herd. - Poor Andromeda. Her plight is a literal living nightmare. Her betrothed Calibos is turned into a grotesque horror (possibly before her very eyes), a curse is put upon the people of her beloved city, many of which probably blame her, many young men who desire her in marriage are put to death in one of the most agonizing fashions possible, and on top of all that, apparently every night her soul is stripped from her body and transported into the presence of her former lover, who now presides over a veritable horrorshow within a dismal bog. - The first appearance of the two-headed dog Orthrus (Medusa's guard dog), hidden in shadow with shining red eyes, is genuinely creepy. It almost makes him look like Gmork, retroactively since Clash of the Titans came out first. - Charon, and the journey to the Isle of the Dead. The sight of the boat resolving out of the mist on the River Styx, and then the revelation of the ferrymans skeletal form, all accompanied by low-key but truly chilling music, sets the mood of terror appropriate for the confrontation to come with Medusa.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClashOfTheTitans1981
Class of 3000 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes A show about seven musically-talented middle school misfits and their ex-superstar teacher? Gee, how could this be scar- WHAT IS THAT?! Pilot The Hunt for Red Blobtober - The giant squid from the "dramatic reading" of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It comes out of nowhere and almost gets Principal Luna and a nurse. The Devil and Li'l D - The blob. First, there's what it is, a blob monster made from a fusion of sloppy joe and nuclear waste. Second, it can apparently act in many parts (when it escapes from Westley). Third, the fact that it could have easily gone into critical mass. Also, they sold it at the end. Brotha From The Third Rock - This is arguably the scariest episode in the series. To whit: - The building for Soul Stack Records has what's implied to be lost souls floating around it. Not to mention, the elevator appears to go only DOWN. - Their "Marketing and Research" department has zombies for staff. And before that, we get a lovely shot of Big D's henchmen dragging souls into flame-filled rooms. - Sunny accidentally decapitates Big D's henchmen... who then regrow their heads. Granted, it's migated slightly by them not having holes and having no ill will towards it, but still... - Big D is obviously a creepy analog for Satan and the only reason they don't say it aloud is the rating. - Li'l D's smile in the "All We Want Is Your Soul" music video. The only thing to wonder is if it's a Broken Smile, a Slasher Smile, or both. - The song itself is creepy. The repeat of the phrase "all we want is your soul" does not help. - If you look closely during the song when he drums, it looks like he's mouthing the words, "Please Help." - When Sunny tricks Big D and gets his soul out of the contract, Big D curses him while enraged in flames, and the building sinks into the ground with an explosion as Sunny and Li'l D walk away. Nothin' to It But to Do It - Phil's face getting swollen due to red ant allergies, rendering him unintelligible. It's worse than it sounds. - The music in his boombox is "off the hinges", as he puts it. While not as brick-shitting as some of the other parts of this list, it's still a rather creepy track. Take A Hike! - This is a Unexpectedly Dark Episode for the series, as it deals with the fears of getting lost in a dark forest. - Madison's ghost story about Ghostie-Whostie is this In-Universe, as it keeps Tamika up all night. Out of universe, the use of lightning makes her look almost ghostlike. - Early in the episode, the class (minus Tamika and Madison) venture into a cave to play instruments (for the acoustics) and get set on by a rabid wolf pack, a bear, and Cyclops. The only thing that spares them from being smashed into pieces by Cyclops's axe is its lack of depth perception.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClassOf3000
Cloverfield / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes # WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked. Face to face, with nowhere left to run. - The entire scenario. This is a kaiju attack not from the usual view from afar, but strictly from the view of the poor civilians on the ground, trying desperately to survive crumbling buildings, collapsing bridges and, oh yeah, the giant man-eating monster that keeps popping up where they least expect it. - The giant tick-things appearing to grin, with eyes glowing in the dark. And the octane rating only goes up once they bite you. - Much like how the original Godzilla was a metaphor for the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there's a good amount of terrifying 9/11 imagery here. - The fact the movie leads with a title card reading "...retrieved from the area formerly known as Central Park." One shudders to think how the tape ends. - They're not revealed in the film itself, but see those tube-like things dangling from Clover's belly? According to behind-the-scenes material, those are essentially elongated mouths with teeth-like fingers that lead into Clover's stomach. Anyone unfortunate to be running underneath them are sucked up and eaten alive. Imagine running for your life, only be sucked up by those things. Or even worse, imagine running with your family or friends, only to watch them get sucked up. - Marlena's fate. While the main characters are walking through a Sinister Subway tunnel (a scene which is pretty creepy in its own right), Marlena gets bitten by one of the parasites that fall off of Clover. A few minutes later, when they end up at a first aid center set up by the military, her eyes start bleeding uncontrollably. Everyone starts freaking out, the staff drag her behind a curtain, and we see a huge splatter of blood against it. We explicitly see her body rapidly bloat up like a balloon and explode. The sound is understated, and possibly more nauseating for it, like a wet burp. Marlena: Hud? I don't feel so good. - Doesn't help that a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals part of her ribcage after the flesh and organs erupt. - When they were entering the first aid center, some nurses pass through with another "bite victim" with their ribcage just gone, so as a little Foreshadowing. - The fate of the crew of the M109-howitzer that Clover crushes in full view of the camera. One of the guys almost makes it out and manages to scream before he is squashed. - The Hammerdown Protocol itself: "...which means they're going to let this whole area go..." "You mean Midtown?" "No, I mean Manhattan." - The scene where Hud comes face-to-face with Clover. We don't even get a cheap Jump Scare; Hud turns around and the monster is just there. It doesn't roar or take any sort of predatory stance, just stares into the camera, takes a sniff, then... CHOMP. - Clover itself is scary, but the scariest part of it all? It's a baby. - Babies spook easily. And when Clover gets skittish, buildings crumble. There's also the fact that babies have enormous appetites, and in between spooking and running away, Clover has to stop and feed. And it's surrounded by tasty little treats: Us. - Clover's roars are the stuff of nightmares, but special mention goes to where the Hammerdown Protocol rains down on him off-screen. We only have to think about the type of pain he's going through to cause him to unleash a never-ending scream of agony. - As Rob, Hud, and Beth are being evacuated, they watch as Clover is hit with missiles by the military and seemingly goes down. One of the guys cheers, clearly thinking it's over...then a roaring Clover jumps out of the smoke at the helicopter! Possibly the Jump Scare to end all Jump Scares. - One last scare the film gives us is at the end when it shows an old video of Rob and Beth having fun on a ferris wheel. It's very subtle and easy to miss, but if you look closely at the ocean in the shot, you'll see something falling into it. - Fifteen years later, the director confirmed that Rob had indeed unwittingly recorded the monster falling to Earth. - Listen closely as the credits end and you can hear Rob's voice weakly calling for help, raising all sorts of Fridge Horror regarding his fate on its own. However, listening to it reversed elevates the horror to a whole new level... It's still alive...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Cloverfield
Clue / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The scene leading up to Mr. Boddy's death. As the guests unbox their "gifts" and pull out the iconic weapons, viewers know one of them is going to be used very soon. The rising Scare Chord and the cold tone Boddy takes as he makes his rounds through the room, looking at each guest, both escalate the tension until the moment the lights go off, and the inevitable happens. Boddy: In your hands, you each have a lethal weapon. If you denounce me to the police, you will also be exposed and humiliated. I'll see to that in court. But.... if one of you kills Wadsworth now, no one but the seven of us will ever know. He has the key to the front door, which he said would only be opened over his dead body. I suggest we take him up on that offer. The only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages is for one of you to kill Wadsworth.....now!	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Clue
Club Penguin / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Who you gonna call? Wait, wrong franchise! - In the PSA mission "Secret of the Fur," you're warned about a monster that you must track down and identify. It broke the coffee machine in the Coffee Shop. When you enter the Ski Lodge, you'll see a terrified penguin hiding under the couch cushions and telling you about a monster outside. If you go outside, there's a shadow of a tall creature with claws that moves rather smoothly. As soon as you enter the room, ominous loud music starts blaring, which can be easily startling as the missions have almost no music. - There's a very rare chance that in Aqua Grabber's Clam Waters level, the screen will shake and a giant, shadowy squid will shoot up into view before swimming away. It can't harm you, but it is very big and lingers around for a while. If you're not expecting it, it can be quite terrifying. The squid used to make a loud screech, but the sound was later removed. - During Operation: Hot Sauce, the Pizza Parlor's music was changed to a slowed down, distorted version of its usual theme. It stays even after you beat the mission. - The Halloween parties were rather spooky. One recurring party room was the Haunted House, which involved moving statue heads, a coffin of puffles (still alive), and floating instruments that played at random. There was a door that you could open to reveal some colored lights and then a random event, including a pumpkin that grows rapidly before the door closes or a penguin skeleton that shakes. - The Medieval Party 2012 had a room called Dragon Path. If you idle in the room long enough, you hear a surprisingly loud demonic screech timed with a rock falling down the mountain. - Operation: Blackout is Club Penguin's Darkest Hour. Herbert successfully blocks out the sun, and as the party goes on, the island gets increasingly darker and snow starts piling up. The EPF agents are captured by Herbert, and eventually, you're the only one left. Even the login screens have intense close-ups of Herbert saying phrases like "Enjoy it before I destroy it!" and "The island is DOOMED!" - The 10th Anniversary Party has robots of the mascots that tell you about past parties. Eventually, they start breaking down and turning evil, with glowing eyes and evil expressions. Their dialogue cuts off halfway through with errors and corrupted text. Fittingly, they're the main focus of the 2015 Halloween Party, in which you must use depictions of the mascots' fears to deactivate them.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClubPenguin
Classical Mythology / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Saturn Devouring His Son. - Many of the monsters in these stories: - The Lernaean Hydra (a serpent with nine heads, that can continually regrow severed heads, trope namer of Hydra Problem for good reason) - The Chimera (a hideous amalgamation of a lion, a goat and a dragon) - Cerberus (a vicious three-headed dog that in some myths had a back covered in living serpents) - Orthrus (Cerberus's two-headed, serpent-tailed little brother), and various other creatures definitely count. - Perhaps the worst is Typhon — father of the above along with the Mother of All Monsters, Echidna — Typhon is described by some writers as being as tall as the sky itself, and having a hundred dragon-like heads, all of which screamed and breathed fire. It's not hard to see why almost all the gods had a collective Brown Note when he appeared, and fled Greece, leaving Zeus to face the creature by himself. - And then there's creatures like Scylla and, even worse, Charybdis, once beautiful women turned into eldritch things of pure horror. Scylla we at least know is horrifying to observe, looking like a giant, beautiful women from the waist up, with a scaled tail below, and the heads of six, rapid wolves snapping at her waist. - Medusa, whose face was apparently so frightening that anyone who saw her turned into stone. Much like Scylla and Charybdis above, she also used to be a beautiful woman before the Gods transformed her, except when she was a monster from the beginning. - The Nemean Lion, a vicious, bloodthirsty beast with an impenetrable hide and claws that could cut through just about anything. - Prometheus' fate of being chained to a rock and having an eagle peck out his liver each day. He endured it for hundreds of years before being released. - Similarly, the fate Cheiron the centaur faced before he sold his immortality: living forever, with the maddening poison of the Hydra eternally burning through his veins. - The fate of mortals unfortunate enough to piss off the Olympians. - Actaeon, a man who accidentally walked in on a bathing Artemis, who turned him into a deer and had him killed by his own dogs. - Erysichthon, who chopped down one of Demeter's trees, was infected with eternal hunger and eventually ate himself. - Athena transforming Arachne into a spider for being better at her in weaving. - Phineas, son of Poseidon, was Randomly Gifted with the ability to perceive past and future. This access to knowledge threatened the gods so Zeus struck him blind and further punished him with starvation by being attacked by Harpies every time he tried to eat. - So, you're friends with Aphrodite, and she want to marry you, eldest son of Nereus, old man of the sea. That's good, right? Well, Dad says no. You tell your girlfriend that, and even though it's not your fault, she turns you into a polyp. - Many gods of the Pantheon were terrifying in the same way as Anthony from "It's a Good Life"; by marrying incredible power to a complete lack of temperance or discipline. Even the mightiest of gods could be vain, petty, selfish, lecherous, vindictive, and very enthusiastic when it came to Disproportionate Retribution. And, unlike the deities of most other belief systems who get the same accusations from time to time, this is not a matter of Alternate Character Interpretation; their own believers regarded these gods as a bunch of Spoiled Brats and humanity as just another Cosmic Plaything. - The few tales of cannibalism (such as Tantalus and Atreus). In Tantalus's case, what he did disgusted even the Olympians. - Zeus makes another woman pregnant, then hides her underground. She gives birth to a giant... and dies during childbirth. - The same giant flirts with Artemis. He gets sent off to Tartarus to be forever eaten alive by eagles. This was not Prometheus, just some Casanova Wannabe. - Other versions claim that said giant (Tityos) was sent to Tartarus for trying to force himself on Artemis' mother Leto. Fortunately, Artemis and Apollo heard their mother's cries of distress and killed Tityos by raining arrows upon him. - Ephilatus and Otus tried invading Olympus. They eternally drown in the center of a waterfall, tied by snakes to a pillar, while Fate watches them as an owl. Ouch. - Some of the bandits whom Theseus defeated were known for their exceedingly barbaric cruelty: - Procrustes, who tied his victims to a bed and either stretched them on a rack or chopped off body parts if they did not fit. - Sinis who bent down two pine trees with his great strength, tied the hands of passer-bys to the tips of the two trees, and then let go. - Sciron, another bandit, was tame by comparison, but still pretty terrifying—living on a cliff overlooking the sea, he posed as a kindly old man and asked travelers to help him wash his feet. If they accepted, he'd wait for them to kneel...then he'd kick them off the cliff. Depending on the version, they'd either fall to their deaths or be devoured by a giant turtle that lurked in the waves below. Either way, Sciron very clearly did this for fun. - The Minotaur's young victims were imprisoned in the labyrinth and force to run for their lives until the beast catches and devours them or they drop dead of exhaustion, hunger and thirst. It's like the first teen slasher flick. - The future Olympians were able to live and grow in Kronos's stomach how exactly? Squick indeed. - Antaeus the giant, who was building a temple using human skulls. - The fate of the few mortals sent to Tartarus: - Ixion - bound to an ever spinning flaming wheel. - Sisyphus - forced to roll a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down. - Tantalus - chained to a pool from which he can never drink because the water recedes. There are fruit trees whose branches he can't reach because the breeze blows them away. - The whole reason Tantalus ended up the way he did; he was invited to a banquet on Mount Olympus and asked his father Zeus to allow him to bring back some ambrosia to share with his mortal friends. Zeus said no (most probably because ambrosia burns mortals to death), so Tantalus left and sought to humiliate the Gods by revealing to the world that they're Not So Omniscient After All. How? By killing his own son, Pelops and boiling his flesh in the soup he planned on feeding to the Gods. The Gods all immediately figured it out what he did (except Demeter, who was too busy mourning the loss of Persephone) and were absolutely horrified. Zeus pretty much incinerates Tantalus on the spot and then demands the Fates to bring Pelops back to life to make up for what Tantalus did. And what's worse, they couldn't restore his whole body; Demeter had absentmindedly eaten one of his shoulder blades and Hephaestus had to make him a new one. - The reason Ixion was there? He was invited to Olympus for dinner and started creepily and obviously flirting with Hera. To get proof, Zeus made a cloud copy of Hera and made sure Ixion could find the cloud copy easily (while hiding the real Hera). Ixion promptly attempts to rape the copy. Zeus, waiting only for the chance to catch him in the act, struck him dead and prepared the above-described punishment. - The reason Sisyphus got punished? He had angered Zeus by killing his houseguests and stealing their belongings (a gross violation of xenia or "sacred hospitality"), so the gods decided to imprison him for his crimes in Tartarus. Back then, Thanatos, the god of Death, actually knocked on your doors visibly and in person, so when he came to Sisyphus, Sisyphus knocked him out and tied him up, causing nobody on Earth to die. Ares noticed that though there was enough mangling and bloodshed going on on his favourite battlefields, nobody died, which put a bummer on the whole thing for him, so he went to look for Thanatos. After finding him under Sisyphus' bed, he freed Thanatos and the two of them killed Sisyphus then and there. In the Underworld, Sisyphus started whining to Hades about how his wife had no time for proper burial rites and how without them he could never really enter the afterlife, so Hades let him back to the world of the living to arrange things, but he told his wife not to complete the rites and stayed on as a ghost. After a while, when it was obvious Sisyphus was not planning on going back, Hades fetched him himself and put him to the task described above. - A smaller example, but the Danaides, the fifty daughters of Danaus note : Well, only forty-nine of them ended up in Tartarus since one of them opted out of committing the crime that condemned her sisters, were punished for killing their husbands by being forced to fill a bath that would cleanse their sins. The problem? The bath (and sometimes the bowls/jugs they need to use to fill it) is perpetually leaking, meaning that no matter how much they fill it, it will never be full. - A non-mortal prisoner of Tartarus was Arke, Iris' twin sister. It was said that during the Titanomachy, Arke had betrayed the Olympians in favor of the Titans and became their messenger. When the Olympians won the war, Zeus not only cast her into Tartarus along with the Titans, he also tore her wings off for good measure. - King Diomedes, who fed humans to his flesh-eating horses. In a Karmic Death and/or Ironic Death twist, he himself was fed to them. - The fate of Orestes, who killed his mother to avenge his father. He is forever tormented by the Furies, who were physical manifestations of madness. - The entirety of the Atreidae lineage (which Orestes is part of), really. They were a royal family who have been cursed by Zeus due to the arrogance of the bloodline's founding member (Tantalus, who is already mentioned above). It all goes downhill from there. Oh, yes, their story is a grim one filled with murder, incest, and cannibalism, among other things. And speaking of cursed families... - The Labdacids (AKA Oedipus' family). They received Apollo's curse from Pelops (of the aforementioned Atreidae) for causing the death of the latter's son. This curse leads them to inevitably kill each other, and then there is poor Oedipus. - Icarus plummets to his death after the wax keeping his man-made wings together melted from the heat of the sun. - Phaeton, son of Helios or Apollo, had a similar fate: after being allowed to drive the sun chariot, he loses control of it so bad he has to be blasted out of the sky by Zeus. His charred remains crash-landed in Italy and his sisters died of grief at the lake that formed at the crater of impact. - The rape of Callisto. She was raped (once she realized who her attacker really was and what he was going to do she fought), by Zeus disguised as his daughter Artemis. Callisto was a follower of Artemis and one of the goddesss favorite companions. In other words, Callisto was raped by a god in the form of her best friend. Callisto is cast out, turned into a bear, separated from her son for 15 years, and upon seeing him after those 15 years, is almost killed by him. (In some versions they are only spared by one killing the other or killing each other by Zeus literally invoking Mama Bear in turning the son into a bear cub, upon which all fighting ceases). - If you thought death had mercy on her, think again: when she died, she (and her son) were transformed into Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, but Hera still held such a grudge that she convinced the deities in control of the movement of the constellations to not let either of the Bear constellations rise beyond a certain point note : Or rather set, as both constellations as seen from middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere never disappear below the horizon, especially Ursa Minor as it contains Polaris AKA the North Star, or at the very least not entirely. As seen from the sea, this presumably means they'd never be able to dip into it to take a bath. - Athena's birth. The clanging produced when Metis forged Athena's armor gave Zeus a massive headache, and he was willing to do anything to stop the headache...ANYTHING, including go to one of his least favorite people in the world, Hephaestus, and have him split his skull wide open. Then, Athena burst out of Zeus' bleeding skull, fully grown and armored, and letting out a battle cry. - Her mother, Metis, was fated to give birth to a son more powerful than Zeus. So he turns her into a fly and swallows her whole. - The Graeae. Dear Gods, the Graeae! Spooky old witches who only had one eye and one tooth among them. They shared both items among themselves and even fought over both! Even worse, some versions say that they were half-human and half-swan. - After a woman seduced a king, his wife organized for the other woman's children to be killed. But the seducer switched their clothes, and the queen murdered her own kids. When the two lovers were discovered, they were tossed off a cliff and became sea gods. - Medea. Where to start? First, she killed her brother and threw his diced up corpse into the sea bit by bit to make sure she and her boytoy Jason escaped her father, the king of Colchis. When Jason dumped her for a princess, she then decided to murder the princess with a cloak that instantly turns the wearer into a fireball. She also kills Jasons' future father-in-law, and finished this up by killing the kids that the couple had together. She makes her get-away by flying into the sky on a chariot driven by Dragons. Finally, Medea manages to make peace with her father afterwards by killing her uncle, who had deposed the father as king. She is Nightmare Fuel for anyone who goes through messy divorces with psychopaths. - Before she eloped with Jason, he swore a high oath never to abandon her. When he does and thus she kills his new bride to be, his new father-in-law-to-be and their children (causing Jason to be driven out of his rightful homeland upon pain of death, penniless), Hera goddess of jealous wives, women scorned and obsessed yanderes, who was Jason's patron goddess and was one of or even THE deity invoked at the oath, couldn't add any more punishment to Jason other than to let him sleep in the bed he made, ie., let him live without her giving back anything that was taken from him. - Lycaon. He (or his sons, depending on the version) knew full well that Zeus makes a habit of dropping by in disguise to see if kings and hosts behave as they should, so when the big guy did show up, they suspected he might actually be Zeus. So what do they do to put him to the test? Why, kill a child from the next village over and serve him up as food. So Zeus turns them into the first werewolves, in some versions even noting that nothing about their behaviour changed. - Expanding on that, some sources add that Lycaon had a daughter as well as sons. Her name? Kallisto- whom you might know as the woman turned first into a bear then into the constellation Ursa Major, for getting knocked up by Zeus. She gave birth to a boy called Arktos, but they got separated right after, she was wandering the wilderness and the boy went to his grandfather. The versions that mention Kallisto as Lycaon's daughter go on to also specify that the child was cooked up for a visiting Zeus being Arktos himself, who gets resurrected when Mr. Thunder realizes what happened. - Cronus eating his children one by one, with his wife powerless to do anything. (Until Gaea helps her with the hint of going to Crete and giving a rock to Cronus when she expects her sixth child...) - The myth of Hades and Persephone has many interpretations, but the original, ancient tale is pure horror at its finest from both the perspective of Demeter and Persephone. Persephone is out picking flowers with her friends and strays from the group when she spots a narcissus, which is really a trap laid out by Hades to ensnare her. When Persephone plucks the flower Hades bursts out of the earth in his chariot and pulls her in while she is vainly attempting to fight him off and screaming for help, but they plunge to the earth before anyone can come to the goddess's aid. Hades arrives in his kingdom with his justifiably terrified bride-to-be and drops the bomb that they're getting married on her while the poor girl is still trying to process the fact that she was just snatched from her home, her beloved mother and everything else she's ever known, and is about become her abductor's wife and queen of his kingdom. - While Persephone is crying out for her, her mother Demeter immediately drops what she is doing in order to save her daughter, but she is already gone by the time Demeter comes. The goddess then goes on to search the world note : In some versions of the myth accompanied and helped by Hekate, the goddess of magic and witchcraft, or at least her having lend Demeter one of her torches for Persephone to no avail while starving the earth and slowly killing of mortals in the process. In the middle of her search Demeter discovers that Persephone has been married off without her knowledge or consent at the blessing of Zeus, Persephone's father, and is rightfully furious about this and vows to never let anything grow on Earth until her daughter is returned to her. In every single version of the myth, even the ones where Persephone willingly went with Hades, Demeter has no idea what happened to her child and was willing to starve and kill off pretty much all life on earth in retaliation. - Demeter goes crazy enough from the loss of Persephone to attempt to claim somebody else's child as her own to fill in the void. After being informed of Persephone's abduction Demeter exiles herself to the mortal realm and comes to the city of Eleusis, where she is taken in by its kind king and queen who make her a wet nurse to their son. Demeter gets attached to the baby and decides to make him immortal (a process which involves anointing the infant in ambrosia and sticking him in the fire at night). Metanira, the queen of Eleusis, happens upon this when she gets suspicious of the old woman and panics at the sight, accusing Demeter of trying to kill her son before Demeter reveals herself. - After all of this, Demeter continues to starve off all of humanity and vows to keep it that way until Persephone is returned to her. Moral of the story: Do not piss off the goddess in charge of agriculture, especially where her daughter is concerned. - Hera was a notoriously jealous goddess. While Zeus's infidelities were hardly admirable, her responses to them were nothing short of horrifying. She would wreak cruel vengeance against the women he slept with, including those who didn't know their lover's true identity and even women her husband raped. Not only that, she was incredibly malicious to his children, even though it's obviously not their fault they were fathered by the King of the Gods. - Exhibit A: Once, by the time she could pinpoint the exact woman and child involved, the kid was already an adult and the woman already dead, meaning Hera couldn't take revenge on her. So what does she do? She poisons the watersources of the island the man is a king of and arranges all nearby kingdoms to attack him at once. (Solution? The man prayed to his father who offered to help and the man asked for an army as organized and disciplined as the ants, and so the Myrmidons were born.) - Hera wasn't nicer to Io, even though Zeus was only planning on raping her before Hera caught up with him in some versions. Since Zeus turned Io into a cow (Hera's sacred animal), she couldn't kill her, so she sent a gadfly to torment her for eternity. And when poor Io happened on Prometheus, Prometheus told her the only way she can turn back to a human is go back to Zeus- because Herakles, the only one who can free Prometheus, will be born of Io's bloodline generations later. - For the obvious question, "why isn't she taking her anger out on Zeus, the one who is actually cheating on her?"... she tried. She tried organizing a coup against him but it failed. As punishment, Zeus tied her above the Gap (Chaos) in strong chains and with an anvil tied to her ankles, and used her for target practice. - The fate of anyone unlucky enough to incur the wrath of Herakles - from the teacher he killed with a punch in his youth to his killing of his wife and children (which, granted, wasnt really his fault, as Hera cast a spell on him, but still ), or even a prince (a king thought Herakles stole some cattle and sent the son who idolized Herakles to ask) who did nothing wrong. - In a mythos where gods and heroes perform incredible deeds, perhaps the most disturbing thing about Nyx, the primordial embodiment of night, is that she never needs to prove her power. Even Zeus, whose only defeat was a very temporary one by Typhon, doesn't dare provoking her to anger, leaving us to imagine what kind of being might frighten Zeus himself into complacency. - In the Dionysiaca, we have Typhon spelling out to Zeus all the lovely things he plans on doing to the Olympians when he takes over. These include, but are not limited to... - Chaining up Poseidon with the same chains that Iapetus is bound by. - Sending a bigger, stronger eagle (possibly Typhon's own offspring) to peck out Hephaestus' liver to avenge Prometheus. - Trapping Hermes in a jar forever. - Enslaving Ares, Selene, Aphrodite and Apollo. - Forcibly marrying off Artemis, Leto and Athena and letting their husbands rape them. - Forcing Hera to marry him (Typhon) specifically. - Think about what poor Leto had to go through when Hera found out she was pregnant with Zeus' twins—Hera basically tells Leto she's banned from giving birth literally anywhere on Earth, starts spying on her as she desperately searches for someplace to give birth and in some versions sends a freaking dragon to chase Leto as she wanders. And just when Leto finally found a haven (sometimes provided by Poseidon at Zeus' behest) to give birth, a massive storm happens and the Goddess of Childbirth (sometimes Hera, sometimes her daughter) refuses to help her, leaving poor Leto to desperately cling to her patch of land and give birth, hoping that the storm doesn't wash her away. Fortunately, she succeeds. Then when she does finally give birth, Hera sends a demigod to rape her as punishment. - The demigod in question, Tityus, gets a pretty horrific punishment from the gods, similar to Prometheus's punishment. As Homer puts it: I saw Tityus too, son of the mighty Goddess Earthsprawling there on the ground, spread over nine acrestwo vultures hunched on either side of him, digging into his liver, beaking deep in the blood-sac, and he with his frantic hands could never beat them off, for he had once dragged off the famous consort of Zeus in all her glory, Leto, threading her way toward Pytho's ridge over the lovely dancing-rings of Panopeus. - The tale of Marsyas, a satyr and friend of Dionysus; basically, after finding a double flute discarded by Athena, he proceeded to play it for Dionysus' retinue and boasted that he was even better at music than Apollo. Apollo, naturally, isn't pleased to hear this and shows up to settle the score, challenging Marsyas to what can best be described as a bet: They'll compete to see who's the better musician, and whoever loses has to do whatever the winner tells them to do. Marsyas agrees to it and, predictably, Apollo wins. Marsyas humbly admits defeat and asks what Apollo wants him to do. Apollo's response? All Marsyas has to do is stand there...while he skins him alive. Marsyas' discarded skin is hung up on a cavern to warn people what will happen to them if they give in to hubris and it is said that the skin dances to the music of the flute but falls still and silent in the presence of lyre music. - According to Diodorus Siculus King Minos was looking for Daedalus in Sicily where he encountered the daughter of Cocalus, king of Agrigentum. She arranged for him to leave his bones there by pouring boiling hot water to him while he was having a bath which scalded him to death. - It is said by the author of Bibliotheke that Pasiphaë was a sorceress and her knowledge of the herbs allowed her to make sure that Minos wouldn't impregnate any unlawful concubine of his-or get to know her again- as she placed a fidelity curse on him that led to him ejaculating serpents, scorpions, and centipedes killing his lover in the process.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ClassicalMythology
Civilization: Beyond Earth / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Forget everything optimistic about Civilization: Beyond Earth when compared to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Throw it all out the window, and just look at the future of humanity as represented in the game. It can get really depressing or outright terrifying if you really think about it. - All three of the affinities are fundamentally about forcing what you as the leader sees as the right future for humanity upon everyone else. - Purity: With Purity, not only is it all about glorifying the past on Old Earth into an idealized version of what really happened, it also contains a strong sense of bigotry against those that modified themselves in the other two affinities. With one of the in-game quotes that appears when you get to the late game level affinity ranking for purity, it outright states that those who reject their birth form are no longer human, and no longer part of the family, heavily implying that because of that, anything you do to them is fair game. Effectively making a militant Purity faction A Nazi by Any Other Name. The worst horror of the Purity affinity, however, might very well be its final goal: To recreate Earth as it once was. The Earth which ahem, eventually destroyed itself in part or entirely due to the greed and negligence of it's indigenous civilized species. Even the most well-meaning Purist may be dooming humanity to forget it's hard-learned lesson and repeat the Great Mistake at some point in the future. - Supremacy: It's not like Supremacy is much better - sure, they do try to expand beyond the "mistakes" of Purity, but it instead involves turning you into more machine than man. The Supremacy victory involves invading Earth to "Emancipate" the surviving population from their human forms - and for the record, a LOT of them don't want to go through with the process. That's right, Supremacy's end goal is Cybermen by way of the Adeptus Mechanicus. - Harmony: A lot of people stereotype the Harmony affinity as a very peace-loving, eco-hippie, Avatar-esque ideology. Thinking about it, Harmony is really all about taking lessons from the toothy, chittering horrors that infest the planet and splicing their DNA into their citizens to create a new race of freakish mutant Half Human Hybrids, even if it is to help them adapt to the hostile alien ecosystem. Not to mention cloning and genetically modifying the alien wildlife and unleashing them as weapons of war, and also possibly being played for suckers by the alien ecosystem and becoming a horrible biological version of the Borg. Finally, they're the only affinity whose unique victory condition doesn't involve re-establishing contact with Earth, suggesting that they've become so detached from humanity that they no longer care about their dying homeworld. - The Hybrid affinities are just as bad if not worse. - With the possible exception of Contact, every victory is bad in its own way. - Emancipation has a Supremacy focused colony return to earth, but as technology worshiping cyborgs who begin rounding people up and forcibly converting them. By the time they're done, the Purity/Purity-Supremacy colonies will be the last real humans left. Assuming they haven't been wiped out already. - Transcendence revolves around a Harmony colony successfully awakening the planet's consciousness and merging with it. They've achieved total synthesis with the planet, but long since forgotten about the rest of humanity back on Earth. So while the colonists enjoy communing with their new world, the rest of the human race is left to slowly die out on their old one. - Promised Land is seemingly the best option. Bringing everyone on earth to their new world and building homes for them. Unfortunately the colony has completely forgotten the lessons of the past, which could lead to the same mistakes that doomed Earth. - Finally there is Domination, where the colony, regardless of affinity simply conquers the world. All those other colonist's hopes of building a new future for humanity being crushed as one ruthlessly destroys anyone who tries to resist them. - Actually, the Contact is probably the worst offender. Just think of it - there is an alien intelligence somewhere among the stars that you know nothing about. You don't know its morals. You don't know its motivations. You don't know its standards. You don't know if it will shake you hand in a greeting, or wipe out your entire species. And you basically give them your home address and invite them in. - The idea of a Harmony-Supremacy colony completing the Emancipation victory. All the humans on Earth are rounded up and forcibly converted into the horrifying alien-cyborg hybrids that Harmony-Supremacy considers "human evolution". - Even if one is to just look at the day-to-day life of the average citizens by examining some of the entries from the Civilopedia, you will discover that all the colonies are fundamentally totalitarian socialist states in which the biggest rules are followed by more rules, where state industries produce all the goods under the beneficial direction of the leadership (The text for the 'Central Planning' virtue outright states that the economic model of the settlements are based on that of the Old Soviet Union, with their Five Year Plans and all, while a lot of quests are about you as the colonial leader deciding where to allocate resources). With the virtues on the might tree all about either conscripting civilians into civil engineer corps for government engineering projects (Brutal Efficiency), or lowering maintenance cost of military units by forcing civilian families to house them in their own homes (Democratized Quartering). Not only that, regardless of your chosen affinity, you are looking at the slow disintegration of any individuality of the citizens, from the CEL Cradle enabling the government to subconsciously brainwash their people, to the Civil Creche in which all citizens required by law to eat the same food at the same place in order to lower overall food consumption in the cities. Not to mention the All-Seer orbital unit which enables the government to monitor all of it's citizens living in it's coverage area at all times, or the the Human Hive wonder, in which rigid behavioral control and social indoctrination effectively reduces everyone into a single hive mind without even being aware of it. Under this kind of social engineering, the entire idea of the individual is slowly being erased, to the point where the your colonies will become a true collectivist society. - Even then, that all depends on how one chooses to develop one's colony as well as the nation (or corporation) in question. - Meditative training for Chungsu agents on Earth was said to involve a pressurized deep-diving suit, an abyssal trench, complete isolation, and little else. It is small wonder that Hae Jae Moon carries himself with such an otherworldly, detached, and inordinately sociopathic air.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CivilizationBeyondEarth
Clone High / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Creepy Trucker calmly telling the story of how he rammed a cop car off the road, sending it over a cliff. The reason? The cop was falling asleep behind the wheel. What's worse, he sees nothing wrong with any of it, and clearly believes he did the right thing. Abe: Did you kill him? Creepy Trucker: No. He's a cripple now. (Beat) He never drove while sleepy again, though. (Laughs)	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CloneHigh
Cocaine Bear / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes While the film overall is quite comical, theres still plenty of nightmarish moments, precisely because a pissed off bear is never not a terrifying sight: - The premise alone. Yes, it's absurd, but imagine the carnage if one of the most dangerous animals in the world did cocaine. - Adding on to this, black bears are normally non-aggressive. So nobody would have a clue why its so angry until either its too late or if they're lucky enough to catch it in the act of eating the cocaine bags. - The level of gore in itself is pretty stomach churning, as one would expect from the film's subject matter. Special mention goes to Liz accidentally blowing one of the Duchamps' heads off, Peter getting his leg slowly ripped off while he hangs upside down from a tree, and the entirety of the ambulance chase. - Liz gets ejected from the ambulance while strapped to a gurney, and her face gets shredded across the pavement. - Syd White deciding his life and his son's life are worth taking on a coke-addicted bear just to get the drugs back. He even threatens an innocent woman and children. - The ending. While it's ultimately not the bear's fault that cocaine ended up in the forest and the movie plays up her survival as a happy ending, as the last scene before the credits shows, it's very likely anyone who goes into the forest will run across the still coke-addicted bear. Not to mention that now her cubs are also addicted, meaning there are now three murderous bears in the forest. One can only hope that cocaine activity has decreased in the forest and that the effects eventually wear off. - It's brought up and dropped quickly (possibly because Syd was lying to get Eddie to agree) but one of the reasons Syd wants to get the coke is The Colombian cartel he got it from will kill him, Eddie and his son for losing it. And thanks to Syd's death, they never will, meaning Eddie, his son and Daveed will have to spend the rest of their lives on the run. (Unless of course, they go to retrieve it themselves....)	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/CocaineBear

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