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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Tommy fucked up
*big time*. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Jasons maggot-infested corpse at the beginning.
- Paulas death is brutal even by the standards of this series. It takes place offscreen for the most part, but when we return to her cabin, the place looks like its been painted with her blood.
- Jason twisting Sissys neck around and actually removing it in the process.
- Jason standing silently in the middle of the road when two counselors are on their way to camp. Its not clear what his intentions are here, which makes it all the creepier.
- Jason punching Hawes in the chest so hard that his fist goes all the way through to the other side, with Hawes' heart in his hand.
- Jason walking in a cabin full of sleeping children, silently watching them. Then, Nancy, awakened by the sound of the door opening, lets out a terrified squeak. Jason looms over her and leans in. Nancy repeatedly says the "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" prayer with her eyes shut tight. Jason suddenly hears a noise and walks out of the cabin, but even with him gone, Nancy is so horrified, she looks like she might pee her pants. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives |
Freedom Fighters NEO / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Being Darker and Edgier than most other fanfics, Freedom Fighters NEO has a lot of scary moments. Although most of them are in the "Resurrection" story arc, which focuses around the revival of the characters from the Classic and X Series.
## Story 1: Resurrection
- Less pronounced than the others, but it's still there. Bowser Jr.'s Heroic Sacrifice to save Sonic's siblings from Copy X after Jules, Bernadette and Uncle Chuck (Sonic's father, mother and uncle, respectively) caused him to become the cyborg Dr. Koopa. Because Robotnik was using a variation of the Maverick Virus to control Reploids, Dr. Koopa got infected by Copy X. This allows him to see what happened to Repliforce and caused him to enter a psychotic state in which he was hellbent onto destroying all Maverick Hunters. The one he's most hellbent on killing? ZERO, and just because for Iris' death! And Dr. Koopa doesn't want to hear that Zero didn't WANT to kill Iris...
- Metallix's encounter with Dr. Weil. Metallix, having just defeated the Four Guardians and Copy X, learned about all of Dr. Weil's crimes:
## Story 2: Return of Repliforce
- Mostly seen with Dr. Koopa's psychotic state.
- The battle against Duo.EXE is rather scary. Duo.EXE was brought by Dr. Koopa from another dimension in order to destroy the Maverick Hunters. Duo.EXE sees evil within the hearts of your party members (Metallix, Sonic, X and Zero), and has them fight their evil energies (an alternate Emperor Metallix, Scourge the Hedgehog, Copy X and Omega Zero, respectively). Despite their victory, he's STILL not convinced, calling the victory of the player's party a mere setback, and starts a Hopeless Boss Fight on the American boss tune of Sonic CD... hopeless, that is, until the robot Duo arrives and saves them right when Duo.EXE is about to kill them. Then, Duo turns the tables and becomes himself a Hopeless Boss Fight for Duo.EXE (according to Duo, it's because Duo.EXE's justice energy went to his head). The only good thing out of confronting Duo.EXE is that the robot Duo becomes a party member for the rest of the story arc, and he is one of the most OP robots.
- The battle between Iris and Dr. Koopa is nightmarish if we put in the context: Dr. Koopa
*took out Iris' heart* in order to make her feelingless. Needless to say, it doesn't work, since Iris' thoughts allow her Ride Armor to attack Dr. Koopa. But if Iris' mind wouldn't have fought back, Dr. Koopa would have used Iris' body to kill Zero *for real*! Iris' victory prompts Dr. Koopa into creating Dark Iris and locking the real Iris, but when Dark Iris is kidnapped, he releases her to destroy both Zero, Dark Iris and the kidnapper. Although Iris only succeeds to kill Dark Iris, as the kidnapper is killed by Metallix, and Dr. Koopa comes back to his senses after Dark Iris' death, mostly because Iris forgave Zero.
- Layer is, in Freedom Fighters NEO, a situation in which Love Makes You Evil. She's willing to kill anyone opposing to the idea of Zero being her love interest.
## Story 3: M'egga Man's Revenge
- Roll's backstory: Despite the fact that, character-wise, Roll is closer to her Japanese and American version (though the American version seems to avert the Incest Subtext, which appears in the Japanese canon), her origin story is nearly identical with the one from the infamous Brazilian comic.
- Here's her backstory in a nutshell: Roll was originally a poor, little girl. Around the time Rock was created, however, this girl was kidnapped by some insane scientists. These scientists were turning street girls into biocomputers. This activity wasn't unnoticed: the little girl's kidnapping was noticed by a gang of Sniper Joes, who alerted Dr. Light, the one scientist they knew it wasn't involved in the project. By the time Dr. Light arrived, it was too late, and the girl was killed. In an attempt to give her a second chance to life, Dr. Light copied the girl's brain patterns and erased her memories, all while his at-the-time colleague, Dr. Wily, was working to shut down the project. He changed the girl's name to DLN-002 "Roll", as he intended her to be Rock's sister, but Wily figured out Roll was going to fall in love with Rock. He made a bet with Light in regards of this-bet that was passed onto X and Zero without them knowing! In fact, the ONLY other person aside from the two doctors who knows about Roll's previous life is Bass.
- Although Break Man (Blues corrupted by Robotnik) and Vesper Woman would hurt the Hunters to save Tempo, M'egga Man is utterly insane. He believes that the only way he and Roll can live the way he wants is if everyone in the world would just die, since no one would accept them as they are. Thankfully, Dr. Koopa snapped out of his psychotic state, and he helped rehabilitate M'egga Man.
- MARIO, full stop.
- He killed Dr. Koopa's uncle years before Dr. Koopa was born as Bowser Jr..
- By doing this, he would have orphaned the Koopalings if their uncle, Bowser, wouldn't have taken them under his wing.
- He also killed thousands of Koopa Troop members. He even killed thousands of converted Toads (fungi).
- Thankfully, Metallix knocked some sense into Mario, being upgraded for combat
**against** Mario, but the battle does show how psychotic Mario truly is. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FreedomFightersNEO |
Freelancer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The
*very beginning* of a new single-player game is pure Paranoia Fuel. It starts off with an exterior view of Freeport 7 in the Sigma systems, backed by the Sickly Green Glow of the Edge Nebula. A freighter is departing, and over the station's radio chatter, you hear the traffic controller assigning fighter craft as an escort because of "unknown contacts" on the station's long-range sensors. Without warning, multiple Nomad craft promptly appear (or decloak) *right next to the station* and blow it to bits in a single volley of obviously powerful torpedoes. As you later see on the news after reaching Manhattan, or read in Trent's personal log, there were *mere seconds* to get to safety, and Trent was among only seven survivors out of a population of *over 2600*. note : It's likely that all of the tiny group took refuge in the lone escape pod seen fleeing the explosion in the cutscene. And all those bystanders were murdered in cold blood in an attempt to destroy the Artifact MacGuffin that turns out to be the sole key to getting rid of the Nomads. Had that been lost, the human race would have been inevitably doomed right there and then. It's a Near-Villain Victory, and you *haven't even started controlling the Player Character yet*.
- Amidst the early missions, Trent's fellow Freeport 7 survivors get imprisoned or picked off one by one by Nomad-corrupted agents. Lonnigan and a thief (the original holder of the Artifact) get shot on Manhattan, right in front of Trent. Another one, Brandon Rowlett, gets abruptly blown away by Liberty Navy fighters moments after he and Trent meet in the California system. You can fight the three pilots who ambushed him, but they are armed with more of the powerful missiles they just used and make for a
*very* difficult battle (if you're not packing a good dodging strategy and enough countermeasure flares to deplete their missile ammo beyond the ability to defend — they have no guns). And if you *do* defeat them, if you pay close attention, your reputation with Liberty Navy doesn't tarnish and the exclusive item dropped ("Rowlett's Revenge") is named a "Nomad Prototype" in the loot hub instead of its actual name — strongly suggesting that the "Liberty Navy" fighters weren't your everyday police patrol.
- Sean Ashcroft, a criminal you apprehend for the LSF in the second mission, gets thoroughly Unpersoned in short order, after Juni interrogated him in his heavily-guarded and fortified cell (in the middle of a battleship) a few days prior in-universe. She notes that someone
*does not* simply escape from that. Shortly thereafter, Marcus Walker's entire cruiser squadron is suddenly listed by the Liberty Navy as missing *five years ago* when you might have played the previous mission aiding him mere minutes before. It just adds to the implication (and later confirmation) that something has gone horribly wrong within Liberty's military forces.
- During the Liberty section of the game, most locations (planets or Space Stations) are green or friendly to you, and red is reserved for enemy fighters. Then, when Trent and Juni are framed and have to make their escape from Manhattan,
**everything** save for Juni's fighter (and shortly Walker's squadron) is marked in red. Including Newark Station, Trenton Outpost, all of the trade lanes, and *Planet Manhattan itself*. What was once the safest place in the universe for you is now the most dangerous. And you're stuck in a small, weak single fighter against a *huge* Liberty Navy fleet — including multiple capital ships, which you have *never* faced before — that promptly start to open fire on you from all directions. Essentially, it's the opening battle against the Order fighters, only inverted against you, and all you can really do is Run or Die.
- Just the mere concept that Nomads can evict a human's organs and reside within their body as a Puppeteer Parasite.
- The Edge worlds are as far as one can go from civilization and reside within a Sickly Green Nebula, which makes it a creepy part of Sirius to begin with. Then comes the knowledge of Nomad presence in the area, along with the fact that their "homeworld" is not far away.
-
. This solar system is absolutely perilous, especially given the disturbingly powerful field of radiation surrounding the giant star that can kill you very fast if you're not careful. To make it even worse, the radioactive field also contains several ship wrecks (one of which contains a pair of "CODENAME" weapons) and is also rich in the ever-valuable diamonds (which you must either mine or obtain from the wrecks), making for quite the temptation to enter the field if you're particularly desperate. **Omega 11**
- Omega 41 is the same as Omega 11 - but much more dangerous and unnerving. Like Omega 11, it is veiled in a field of strong radiation, but
*unlike* Omega 11 (and just about any other system), it has a neutron star as the "sun" in the center. Going near the neutron star will deteriorate your hull *much faster* than the giant dying sun in Omega 11. And if that wasn't enough, the system is also populated by Red Hessians and Corsairs who will attack you if you're hostile with them. Good luck trying to brave this system because even the strongest ships may not last long without proper care.
- "Danger. Radiation damage detected." Even when you know you're about to enter a dangerous area, the sudden alert from your ship's system is sure to startle once it detects a major hazard such as radiation damage or explosive gas pockets. It becomes worse if you DON'T know if the area you're entering has such hazards, making it even easier to get surprised. Luckily, the alerts can be "removed" by turning the "Dialogue" sound setting all the way down, at the cost of turning off every other dialogue-based sound off. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Freelancer |
Freeman's Mind / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- In episode 8, Freeman gives us this horrifying anecdote:
"This window kind of reminds me of when I came home from school and there was some dead guy stuck in the smashed window of my apartment. He'd been trying to break into the place, but instead gutted himself on the insulated glass. That was
*not* fun trying to explain that to the police."
- Not sure what's more disturbing: How gruesome that story is, or the fact that Freeman found it to be more irritating than anything else. Then again, you could get some Alternate Character Interpretation out of this: Maybe Freeman was once more normal and stable, but the psychological trauma of things like
*that* happening turned him into a dysfunctional lunatic with next to zero empathy.
- Alternatively, he was already so crazy that he didn't really care. Or, he's in denial about smashing a guy through his window in a fit of rage.
- Also, even thought Freeman has violent thoughts it doesn't necessarily mean that he'll act on them. They're entirely in his head, and it's heavily implied that the viewer is seeing a part of Freeman that nobody else sees when talking to him. We're seeing inside the thoughts of a person, and that's much different than meeting them face to face.
- That's not particularly relevant. Besides, there are points where he's definitely speaking out loud to other characters. A pertinent example is when he asks a scientist if he'd like to be his human shield.
- There's also the fact that this has probably happened to people in real life. In fact, knowing Ross,
* : (the first Freeman anecdote in the show — the squirrel in the power lines — actually happened, just at a different school and to one of his professors) it might be based on something he heard in the news.
- Gordon Freeman's basically a deranged, unstable madman, who can be victim of weird episodes where he loses control of himself. For example, the "Class is in session!!" or "No comment!!" parts in episode 9. Sure, they were cool and everything, but what if he had other episodes like those in the past? Or if he could have more in the future?
- One Bullsquid gives Gordon some, and we get to hear about it:
**Gordon:** Yeah, that's right, moan! MOAN! That noise is exactly what I'll be thinking about when I try to go to sleep tonight! And I'll be dreaming about you sucking out my eyes with your tentacle face, while I'm nestled up against a stack of rotting corpses, then my intestines will burst with insects crawling out of them, then the screaming...
- A lot of Gordon's inner monologues qualify, given his Cloud Cuckoolander mindset. Here are a few examples:
- "Hey, that's a ladder! That means this is legit; this might actually go somewhere! I mean, it probably leads to a room filled with poison gas and a bunch of dead people that look just like me, but I don't
*know* that, so there's room for hope, I guess."
- When he
*does* fall in, he panics when his Geiger counter starts going off and he sees a security guard. "RADIATION. DEAD BODIES."
- "If any of these worms get in my hair, I swear to God I'm just gonna freak out. Yeah, worms get in my hair; the power fails and the lights go out; then some old guy with a raspy voice starts laughing and poking me with a stick. That would complete the experience."
- "I was expecting to look down there and see this giant eyeball looking up at me, angry at me because I blew off its eyelashes or something, then the whole building starts shaking and I guess I'd just ball up and cry, because what do you do when something that big wants to kill you?"
- His theory that the tentacle monster in the rocket test chamber is actually just the hair of a larger monster.
- At one point he theorizes about killing a security guard and using his
*intestines as rope.* He only decides against it because it would be too slippery.
- He must have been watching
*Machete* earlier.
- "What the hell was that?" (takes out his shotgun) "I saw something in the water. And these annoying, fucking, chittering noises isn't inspiring much confidence either."
- His theory that the headcrab zombies are getting more intelligent, evidenced by two of them playing with corpses as if they're puppets, and another pushing over a computer server to trap him in a room. And he starts speculating that the zombies might eventually start dressing up as the soldiers.
- "Captain Trigger Finger", considering the guy put a bullet in at least three unarmed scientists before Freeman got to Lambda, despite being meant to protect the scientists. And Gordon isn't wearing a helmet, so if the Captain snuck up on him...
**Freeman:** Some people thrive in chaos a little too much. Everyone else sees disaster, he sees a human shooting gallery... I bet if I wait a few hours and come back, he's going to be wearing a necklace made out of ears and painting pictures of demons or some crap on the walls with the scientists' blood.
- Freeman's all-too-plausible theory that the "reactor" in Lambda Core is nuclear in nature, and that it's on the verge of a meltdown. A potential China syndrome is nothing to laugh about. Even
*Chernobyl* never got that far.
- Freeman's breakdown when he first gets to Xen. It's definitely funny, but also disturbing considering how genuinely afraid he is. Not to mention the fact that he starts contemplating suicide.
- Freeman's reaction to the Nihilanth is the worst in this regard, as it's surprisingly dark for this series. Freeman begins breathing heavily, and you can hear his heartbeat. Then he starts screaming and rolls credits.
- What's worse is Gordon's reaction is a Call-Back to his encounter with the Tentacle. There he remarked that he might have totally broken down had the Tentacle been an insignificant part of a larger, now angered creature, that wants to kill him specifically. Now he's face to face with a giant Lovecraftian monster that's pissed off at him specifically and makes this abundantly clear since it psychically
*snarls his name at him.* The Nihilanth is Gordon's greatest fear about the invasion realized and he stumbled into it *completely on accident!* **Gordon:**
(thinking the Nihilanth Portal is a radio of some sort) Okay, let's try this centre orb here. Maybe it does something.
Check-check, mic check, hel- (teleports) -lo? (notices the Nihilanth turning to look at him and starts breathing heavily)
- In Episode 54, Freeman meets an Eli Vance-lookalike that tells him he knows "more than any one man should". Freeman brushes it off, but as he ventures through Xen he comes up with a surprisingly disturbing theory on how Black Mesa has been operating. Namely, they've been sending hundreds of migrant workers to Xen (pulled from the ranks of the security guards, explaining why there were ads all over the place in the earlier episodes) with no intention of recovering them. Some fell to their deaths, some exploded across space, and others were slaughtered (Freeman witnesses human flesh being hacked into pieces in episode 65).
**Freeman, episode 67:** There is a fucking Mengele on the other end of those teleporter controls, and he's not going to stop until he's teleported the entire world here, or else somebody kills him.
**Freeman, episode 68:** What was it that guy said to me? "I know more than any one man should"? He must've been *dead* serious when he said that.
- And what happens if Freeman
*doesn't* take the G-Man's offer? ||He gets teleported to a world of G-Men monsters with no ammunition.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FreemansMind |
Friday the 13th: The Game / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
-
. If he wasn't scary enough on the big screen, this game is the first one to truly simulate what it would really be like to be relentlessly hunted by a superhuman zombie. Axes, machetes, flare guns, shotguns? They all merely stun Jason for a few seconds. Alright, at least Jason is a Mighty Glacier, you can outrun him, right? Yeah, a Mighty Glacier with Teleport Spam at his disposal. You've finally gotten the phone box or the boat or the car fixed, or you managed to hit close to home by infiltrating his shack? He will be alerted the second you do, and remember he can teleport anywhere he wants. Well, once you pile into the vehicles, you're in the clear, right? Yeah, but Jason can teleport by moving boats and turn them over, dumping everyone into the lake and insta-killing them one by one. And you think getting hit by a car going at full speed will stop Jason? No, Jason getting hit by a car going at full speed **Jason Voorhees** *stops the car*. The absolute only thing that can truly stop Jason are by killing him (which is Harder Than Hard and takes insane skill, luck, and coordination with your team) or the police (approaching them as Jason mows him down, but he shakes it off).
- The executions are Gorn through and through. This game is Jason at his absolute most sadistic. One of the worst has Jason slowly and brutally caving his victim's skull in with his bare hands, until it finally gives in under the pressure. Several pints of blood comes spurting out of their eyes, mouth, nose, and temple. In fact, their eye sockets are utterly demolished and caved in, leaving nothing.
- And that's just one of the many ways Jason will brutally murder you. Another brutal one is him ripping out your jaw; you can just hear the bones cracking and ripping under Jason's intense pressure. Near a campfire? Jason will jam the fire poker down your throat while your dying body hopelessly attempts to pull it out before going limp.
- The soundtrack by none other than the legendary Harry Manfredini rivals Samuel Laflamme's
*Outlast* in terms of overwhelming thrill and dread. Counselor Pursuit is one of the best. It especially gets good at around 50 seconds. The 2 Minute Warning music that plays during the last two minutes of the round has been considered the most frightening soundtrack by several players, the screeching violins and foreboding music causes some people to panic.
- Even the music that plays when Jason is chasing you can get your blood pumping, whether it's Part 3's music that, while rather calm, is just a grim reminder that a normal human with a mask is killing you one by one, Part 2's menacing chord that makes you think you are walking right into his trap, Part 6's creepy audio that announces Jason's return as an undead abomination, Part 7's fast, brutal music that just screams
**RUN**, Part 8's slow, powerful beat that makes it clear that Jason is entirely done with this shit, or Savini-Jason's hellish sounds which many consider to be the scariest chase music, no matter which Jason is hunting you, the last thing you want to hear is the music cueing you in that Jason got you in his sights.
- Only NES/Retro Jason's chiptune chase music isn't inherently scary, and even then, the song's silent opening will throw many players off until they hear it pick up and realize that Jason is likely right on them at that point.
- At first, Part 9 Jason shared Part 3's chase theme, but now he's got his own, and it really gets your heart pumping as if it's telling you to run instead of fighting back.
- Part 4's theme is both blood-curdling and frantic, sending a clear message into your mind that you are being hunted by a relentless threat that cannot be stopped or reasoned with.
- Part 5 Jason (Roy Burns) brings a new nerve-wracking theme, still giving off vibes of absolute terror.
- What is worse than the music may be
*the lack of music*: Jason's "Stalk" ability mutes the in-game music while in effect, making it easier for Jason to sneak up on you without the musical cues to let you know he's close.
- While it's unlikely to ever get an official release on Steam, Part 10/Jason X's theme is terrifyingly intense and heart-pounding, since this Jason was, according to Word of God, going to be even more powerful than Savini Jason.
- When a poor counselor gets caught, anyone in the vicinity nearby would hear the dying scream and the blood splatter. It's terrifying to be rummaging quietly when a scream in the distance is heard as well as the gruesome sounds of the murder.
- An update to the game brings a new match opening: instead of just cutting down the random victim, Jason kicks them into a campfire and holds them down with his foot while they
*burn to death*.
- Another new match opening sees Jason come out of nowhere and throw a dart right into his victim's forehead.
- Finally, one sees Jason emerge from the lake itself and drag his victim into it from out of nowhere.
- The Jarvis House map has Jason sneak up behind his victim and Neck Snap them as they struggle fruitlessly.
- When the game starts on Pinehurst, the victim is butchered with an axe Jason found stuck on a log, probably the same axe that was used to murder Joey, Roy's son, at the beginning of part 5.
- Jason's Stalk ability in the hands of a good Jason player can be
*terrifying*. All it does is neutralize the music that signifies his presence. If they play their cards right, they can perfectly emulate Jason's Jump Scares from the movies and lead them into running right into him while thinking they're running *away* from him without realizing he's there until it's too late. Some can even utilize it for extremely effective jump scares by sneaking into a house the counselors are hiding in and hiding behind a door waiting for them to wander in.
- According to the Jarvis Tapes,
*A Nightmare on Elm Street*, *Halloween*, *Hatchet*, and *Shocker* all happen in the same universe as *Friday the 13th*.
- Let that sink in: there are
*at least* five psychotic, undying, supernatural murderers running around in the world presented by this game . Worse, it's heavily implied in the final tape that Tommy is being attacked by Freddy Krueger in his sleep while being institutionalized in Springwood as his doctor comments on mysterious lacerations he gets in his sleep, possibly stealth bridging the game to **at the same time** *Freddy vs. Jason*.
- The Virtual Cabin 2.0 got a few new scares prepared for you, just with the old one, you can find secrets and extras, the place isn't too scary if a bit unnerving since the counselors stand around like rag-dolls, just like the last one you can find secrets and solve puzzles, if you solve a puzzle the game awards you with a "secret patch" with a little board to show them off. If you collect them all, inside the cabin, a door will open that leads to the Jason gallery and a phone will be ringing. If you pick it up, Pamela Voorhees will answer, and suddenly her shrine will appear behind you before the game tells you that you finished the Virtual Cabin.
- But it only gets worse from here, if you play around with the computer and enter a certain significant date you'll start to hear a phone ringing but the only phone around isn't the one ringing unless you unlocked the Jason gallery, pick it up and you'll hear Pamela laughing. Suddenly the lights go out by an axe that hit the generator, and once you go upstairs again you see Jason stomping around and murdering the counselors before bursting trough the door so you can explore the outside cabin. Around the docks is a cherry can inside a vitrine with another board for patches, so you go look around for secrets again. While looking around, you might wonder why there's a fridge outside the cabin with a lock. If you manage to open it you get to see Pamela's rotten head inside the fridge (thankfully, Jason isn't around to stick an ice-pick into your face, unlike Alice). Or you might take a stroll to the graveyard and see a dirt pile which you can dig up if you found a shovel; do that and you find a coffin; open it and you see Part 6 Jason lying there. But nothing happens, you just might as well reenact the rest of Part 6's intro and stab a metal pole into Jason, who will promptly be hit by lighting and be resurrected and proceed to murder you in first person. Once you've done that, the other counselors outside will also be murdered in various gory ways. Or maybe you want to stroll around in the forest, a shield is warning you not to enter but if you do so anyway, Part 3 Jason will appear and murder you unless you follow a secret path. Once you collected all patches from outside the cabin, you can take the gas and power the boat to drive to the shore. Happy music will play and you see the police arriving before child Jason jumps out and drags you to the bottom of the sea like he did to Alice in Part 1's ending, telling you that you finished the Virtual Cabin again.
- Once you load the cabin again, a walkie-talkie will be outside the docks, which are presented as a dev-interview, where they talk about a weird glitch they had and fixed it using the debug menu which they accessed with a code every child that played games in the 80s knew. You go ahead and activate the debug menu to find more secrets. If you disable collision and activate collision detection, you hear static coming from a door, go near it and you end up in a glitchy room with no textures and another walkie-talkie. During the interview, the dev gets murdered by Jason who he thought was Kane Hodder pranking him. Yes, you read that correctly:
**Jason managed to enter our world and murdered one of the game devs!** After that, we get to **by far** the worst point of the Virtual Cabin: the entire place starts glitching up with broken patches floating around and leading you around the cabin, every item description became a garbled mess, and when heading downstairs, the corpse of Chuck Brungardt, Illfonic's CEO, flies through the window while the patches lead you to the Jason gallery with one of them holding one of the patches. Once you grab it, another Jason will hold one, take that one too and the Part 7 Jason will hold one, but this time he grabs and chokes you. Once you wake up, you find yourself inside a dark room. You quickly realize you are not in Camp Crystal Lake anymore, but on the Grendel. You go through a tunnel to the next room. Once you try to open the door, Über-Jason walks up to you and rams his machete in your face.
- The ways Jason dispatches the two NPC counselors in the single player challenges trailer are pretty nasty. He kills one by impaling him on a branch then driving the other half of it through his skull, then takes out the car jack the other is using to prop up the car he's working on, letting it fall on his head. Jason then stands there, watching him desperately try to escape before dying. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13thTheGame |
Fright Night (2011) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Again, just like the original film, Amy has that vampire mouth. Only in the remake, they've made it even more nightmarish.
- Also, the whole sequence where Charley saves Doris is pretty scary.
- The vampires' mouths in general. At first, you only really see fangs. However, once you see the true mouths, it's like staring into the mouths of sharks. Rows upon rows upon rows of jagged teeth.
- Jerry turning ||Amy||. While Charley can do nothing but watch.
- And he does it so nonchalantly too.
- Jerry in general is just creepy as hell, even before he's revealed to be a vampire. He almost comes off like a sexual predator. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FrightNight2011 |
Fritz the Cat / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Seeing cute furry cartoon animals having sex, doing drugs and killing each other in cold blood is nothing short of disturbing. And it certainly was for audiences back in 1972.
- Duke's death by being shot by a stray bullet. Instead of being killed instantly, he dies slowly and painfully, dazed yet devastated in his realization that it really is the
*end* for him. Cut to shots of billiard balls slowly bumping to a motionless state, accompanied by the sound of heart beats slowly coming to a stop, before he falls over dead.
- The entire riot scene. An all-too-familiar sight in the sixties. But even scarier is how
*easily* it begins. Fritz begins a heated, emotionally-charged speech atop a car in Harlem, urging the crows to rise up and rebel against the system that works them to the bone while living in the lap of luxury. All it takes is a policeman firing off several shots after getting a beer bottle to the eye. Riot police are brought in, Black Panthers start sniping cops from rooftops and eventually the air force is brought in to *bomb* the protest. And Fritz can only watch in horror, utterly helpless to stop the carnage that *he created.*
- Blue's spaced out look after shooting himself up with heroin.
- The farmer who is so annoyed by the chickens in his truck that he beats and shoots them to death.
- Harriet getting sadistically beaten with a chain by her boyfriend simply for wanting to leave the terrorist meeting for a date. Not only is she screaming and crying for them to stop the whole time, but the music score begins to devolve into cacophonous, atonal noise, adding to the scene's visceral horror. Fritz's attempt to stop the carnage gets him knocked out with a hot candle, leaving Harriet to be gang raped by the others. The fact that we don't even see the worst of it, with the scene cutting to a quiet evening outside their hideout a few minutes later, makes it even scarier. Fritz's Thousand-Yard Stare after entering the lizard woman's car says it all.
- Fritz being duped into suicide bombing the power plant by the Neo-Nazis, who the whole time have been scheming of ways in which they can destroy society as we know it in one fell swoop. The worst part is that there are
*actual white supremacists out there with this kind of ideology and modus operandi*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FritzTheCat |
Frequency / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Our introduction to the antagonist: because Frank didn't die, Julia was able to save a dying patient. But the ominous music and the way he opens one eye gives the very strong implication that something
*evil* has awoken...
- With John's dream (as the timeline changes again), the audience is led to believe that it's a remnant memory of his father's funeral before the changes in the past. ||Then we find out it was his
*mother's* funeral||.
- In a rather frightening case of What Might Have Been, Frank ||gets caught by Shepard (the Nightingale killer)|| while trying to protect the nurses and almost becomes a victim himself. It's only by the grace of two hippies interrupting Shepard that he was spared.
- The broken record playing Phil Phillips' "Sea of Love" when Frank walks through the murder scene of one of the nurses:
*"Do you remember wheeennnn w-Do you remember wheeennnn w-Do you remember wheeennnn w-"*.
- In the altered timeline, the implication that ||Shepard murdered
*his own mother*||.
- When Shepard finds his way to Frank and Julia's room...while Julia thinks he's Frank.
- Shepard's ||hand getting shot off in the past and thus necrotizing and withering away to nothing in the present||.
- While we know what's really going on the whole time, the first contact through the radio is quite disturbing from Frank's point of view, as a strange man suddenly contacts him, is unusually knowledgeable about his family, and finally states that he can
*see* how Frank just burned his desk. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Frequency |
Fringe / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Prepare to never sleep again. Ever.
*Fringe* has **a lot** of scary and disturbing stuff.
- The almost unbearable tension from the start of the teaser to the first sign of gross otherworldly mayhem. Nothing's happening
*yet*, but you just *know* this poor bastard is doomed... any... minute... **now.**
- The first five minutes of almost every episode. And a good portion of the rest. But especially Flight 627.
- A diabetic passenger on an international flight injects himself with what he thinks is his insulin, but is actually a fast-moving disease that first makes him ill, stagger to the lavatory, vomit on a stewardess, and then
*makes the flesh dissolve off his bones as it swiftly spreads to everyone else on the plane*.
- We also get a
*very lovely* closeup of the co-pilot's **||jaw falling off!!!||** *Good God...*
- Another episode involves a woman who emits a form of radiation when she's stressed that literally superheats the water in organic tissue. As a test, this woman is bound to a hospital bed and a rat is released into the room. She freaks out when it starts crawling on her, and the radiation makes the rat
*explode*. This example is only made slightly less sickening when you see the heroes trying to re-create the radiation to test it and save the woman, they end up blowing up a papaya in a rather sticky spray that was made ironically more amusing when Walter Bishop refers to said papaya as "The friendliest of fruits"....
- Was that the same episode with the woman whose head exploded in the opening (after killing everyone else in the diner, thanks to that radiation spreading ability)? Yeah...
- A gas released on a public bus crystallizes, trapping the passengers inside like flies in amber. I, being one who rides the bus regularly, still get the shivers when I remember the crazy of the day for that episode whispering
*"I know what's going to happen on the bus..."*
- A boy is surfing the web when a popup Blip Vert entrances him. A hand reaches out of the monitor, deforming it, and grasps the boy firmly by the head, boiling his brain inside his skull.
- A college professor is lecturing about virology. He starts to choke and sputter, then collapses. His TA attempts to give mouth-to-mouth, but pulls off when something bulges out his neck and starts to climb out of his mouth: A spiney looking slug.
- Ironically, it's a supersized cold. Which immediately makes the thing Nightmare Retardent for people with a biology or medicine background; for reference real viruses look like this. They also don't get much larger than a few microns across. You can drink that water in peace now, maybe...
- It could be modified (multicelluar?) or something? *pushes away water glass*
- Later explained on Walter's notes on the website, where Walter explained that he was wrong and it wasn't a cold virus but in fact a mutated, oversized stomach cell.
- The random newsagent who gets a two dollar bill and then his orifices seal up. His nose, his mouth, his
*eyes*, and he suffocates. It gets worse when Walter asks if anyone checked his anus and penis to see if those sealed too. It gets even worse when they try and get the guy responsible; ||one of the agents is exposed to the same chemical, and the main character tries to save him via a tracheotomy. The skin simply *eats* the trach.||
- The Bishop family
*weaponise* it in *"The Bullet That Saved The World"*. *Windmark* calls it barbaric.
- "Jacksonville" provides some absolutely terrifying Body Horror with ||a building from Over There colliding and merging with a building Over Here,
*fusing* the two buildings together, along with all its inhabitants. Made that much worse by Astrid's refusal to dissect the body of a man fused with his alternate. When someone who works every day on fringe cases with Walter is upset by something, you know just how extreme it is.||
- The Russian cosmonaut that became host to some sort of Radiation Vampire from space.
- Some other terrifying deaths include being eaten by an evil mole baby, the toxin the disintegrates your bones (creepy doll optional), a were-hedgehog ripping apart a plane full of people, David Robert Jones' exit in season one ||and four||,
**THE PREGNANCY IN EPISODE TWO**, having your pituitary gland removed while you are completely conscious, walking through walls failure, being bludgeoned with a suitcase by someone sleepwalking and thinking you're a demon from hell, the beetles that rip their way out of their human hosts while they're alive, several instances of brains melting, your heart being cut out and only dying hours after, contagious, immediately fatal cancer, rapid aging, acute exhaustion, spontaneous combustion, nanites, at least two instances of heads exploding, **BEING DEHYDRATED ALIVE WHILE SCREAMING/PLEADING WITH YOUR KILLER TO RELEASE YOU**, being drain of radiation until you were nothing but ash, a zombie being thrown into a turbine, the giant hookworm thingy, jumping out of a window because you've been infected with a thousand year old virius, a hallucinogen that can make your throat slit itself, being chopped up by butterflies, being suffocated with cling wrap...
- In the Series Finale, most of these splendid deaths get a little... let's call it a Hall of Fame run.
- Detective Olivia in "Brown Betty" ||getting trapped in a wooden coffin and thrown into the ocean, simultaneously suffering from claustrophobia and slowly drowning.||
*And Walter is telling this story to Olivia's innocent little niece Ella.* Surprisingly, Ella seems fine with the subject matter, as long as it makes for a good story.
- The Marionette. The ballet dance. Good grief... the ballet dance.
- The end of this video. And be sure to watch all the way to the end.
- Walternate and evil!Brandon
- Particularly Walternate's grin in 'Bloodline'. Brrr...
- The look of
*utter loathing* Walternate gives Olivia every time he sees her. *Especially* when he pulls her out of the tank in "The Abducted". And it makes a disturbing amount of sense considering she was the one who convinced Peter to stay.
- Olivia's deadpan statement "...But, I think he's the man who's gonna kill me." Complete with Scare Chord. Watch here.
- Getting
*erased from existence* is fairly disturbing in my opinion.
- You think that's bad; suppose you manage to undo it, and then find out that
*no one you love remembers you*. Oh, and ||you had a son you didn't even know about until after he'd been erased as well||.
- Olivia's situation in season 3 is somewhat similar. Imagine being all alone with a single ally in the entire world.
*Literally.* Not to mention the light deprivation torture, experimentation, imprisonment and potential organ removal (while conscious!) with little or no chance of rescue.
- Olivia's nightmare (daymare?) in episode two. Especially Broyles.
**Broyles**: Were you... safe? You weren't were you.
- Seeing a corpse that looks exactly like you is a pretty frightening idea.
- The episode "Bad Dreams." Especially the beginning. Ironic Nursery Rhyme. A woman alone with her baby in a creepy, empty train station. The train is coming. Someone is coming up to her. ||Then
*fricking Olivia Dunham* shoves her onto the tracks|| with this utterly blank look on her face.
- The other nightmares, which include Olivia guiding a woman's hand to slit her own throat and guiding another woman's hand to stab her husband, are equally terrifying.
- You've just been kidnapped. You rescue yourself because you're a Badass. You wake up handcuffed to a hospital bed. Again. With a sex offender sitting by your bed.
*Who doesn't like you.*
- Crazy Walter... lovable old man who likes candy. Walter with his brain rejuvenated?
*|| He frigging cuts off William Bell's hand and leaves him in suspended in amber.||* Holy shit.
- ||Considering the douche was just standing around, chatting causally while Astrid was bleeding in Walter's arms (shot by
*his* men) and turned Olivia into a Apocalypse Maiden... you can see where Walter was coming from. You can also add William Bell to Nightmare Fuel list.||
- The reason why ||Walter|| had those pieces of brain removed in the amber timeline. ||William Bell's plot was
*all his idea* and he knew *exactly* how to pull it off.|| Damn.
- This was alluded to way back in Season 2.
- The Observers,
*especially* in "Letters of Transit".
- Windmark
*smiles*. After four seasons of September being emotionless, it's just... not... right. **Windmark:** Hello, little girl.
- ||Windmark killing Etta.|| Because instead of unceremoniously shooting her in the head like a
*nice* monster who isn't emotionally invested in such things, he *chokes* her first, takes the time to ask about ||the bullet necklace|| (while he's nonchalantly choking her), realizes that the reason ||Peter bought it for her|| was because he loved her, and *then* shoots her in the stomach so she can slowly bleed to death.
- Windmark versus ||Peter|| is terrifying for two reasons. One, for an emotionless Transhuman, Windmark sure looked
*pissed off*. Two, Windmark ||shows Peter Etta's final thoughts.|| Apparently the only emotions Windmark is capable of are sadism and anger.
- Windmark stops smiling when ||Nina Sharp|| tells him why he and the rest of his kind sucks. The look he gives her...*shudder*
- Speaking of that episode (Letters Of Transit), the Special Edition Title. Yeah, the mere opening credits themselves. "So it's a bad future, which words are going to be used... oh". "Holy Shit!" Quotient up to eleven.
- That one Observer in "Letters of Transit" who forces the woman at the club to sit on his lap. They're
*supposed* to be emotionless but it was fairly obvious what they were implying. Her employer rescues her but still. Rapist who can teleport, brutally read your mind and catch bullets? *No, thank you.*
- ||Reanimating Jessica.||
*Eyes should not be doing that.*
- Let's not forget her distorted voice.
- All while talking like she's a little girl.
- The bad guy from "A Short Story About Love". Dehydrates husbands
*alive*, takes their pheromones and the tries to use them to sleep with (read: rape) the grieving wives. When the women wives realize that this guy is not their dead husband, he suffocates them with cling wrap. He tries to play the sympathy card and, unlike a lot of the other villains on this show, it *really* does not work.
- David Robert Jones. His partiality to inflicting Body Horror on unsuspecting innocents, his electric torture of Nina Sharp ||from the alternate universe||, the fact that he outplays
*both* Fringe teams, his creepy politeness, his brutal beating of Peter Bishop with a crowbar even though he probably could have just shot him or infected him with some kind of parasite... he's terrifying.
- David Esterbrooke's threat to Olivia. "I'm sure you'd want to start a family some day. It'd be a shame if something got in your way." Consider what that guy had been doing to women during that episode... *shudder*
- ||Meana Sharp. Because a bitchy alternate version of your surrogate mother drugging you in an attempt to destroy your universe is terrifying.||
- Doubles as a terrifying situation for Nina Sharp. She's got ||her alternate|| who can get into the most secure part of
*Massive Dynamic*, ||a sadist like Jones|| and the ||man she loves (who also happens to be a Mad Scientist capable of pretty much anything) all conspiring to use her surrogate daughter to destroy two universes (which also includes Rachel's family).||
- How the ||Observers torture Walter. Even complete with capillaries in his eye bursting. It makes it that much worse that he's having a seizure during all of this and trying desperately to protect his granddaughter.||
**Windmark:** You seem much more interesting as a human being... than as a vegetable. But all things being equal... I don't care which one you end up.
- The Japanese woman in the Black Market in 5x01. Just... sitting there. Not saying word. Just staring. There could be any number of nightmare-free reasons for this. Given the time and place... she's probably been mind raped.
- ||Simon's fate.||
*Damn.*
- The removal and reinsertion of Observer tech ||into Peter Bishop.|| The surgery itself (particularly the way the device seemed to activate on its own and attaches itself to his spinal cord, the dripping blood and the
*fricking twitching* from the Observer) and the potential consequences. He's either going to Take a Level in Badass or bad things will happen.
- The wormholes in 5x05. One dimensional portals looking into nothing but black.
- "Through the Looking Glass and What Walter found There":
- The Pocket Dimension is a very confusing place due to its unstable physics, making it very easy to become stranded in this fun-house-like apartment world. The laws of physics seem very random, with the exit to this dimension requiring a very specific set of movements to access. You can not even trust your eyes here, as the walls or features that appear to have no depth may conceal a hidden passage inexplicably behind them. A rebel that was stranded here only survived because there happened to be perpetual source of water.
- The end of episode, Windmark watching and the "Psycho" Strings playing in the background do not help matters:
**Observer:** I know what you have done. You have made a grave mistake. You do not realize what is happening to you.
- Peter ||reading Olivia's thoughts and then pulling out
*chunks of hair.*||
- Some of Walter's hallucinations in "Black Blotter" include images of Carla Warren's burnt corpse, somehow ending up in Observer ridden Manhattan with no idea how he got there and evil!Walter starring back at him.
- Those who had bad experiences with psychedelics might find Walter's sudden shift from downtown Manhattan to the boathouse and all the requisite disorientation distressingly familiar.
- The Creepy Doll in "The Human Kind" was.... creepy.
- The
*goddamn noise* you hear when someone is getting Mind Raped by Captain Windmark. That one, high pitched note... you hear it first and *then* you see his victims shaking and/or bleeding from various orifices.
- The only way to stop Windmark from brutally reading you and dooming the people you care about and/or the entire world is to either piss him off enough so he'll kill you himself or shoot yourself in the head.
- Michael, ||Donald's
*son*, giving himself up to the Captain Windmark to save the others.||
- What makes it worse, is how Windmark just short of gets into Michael's face.
- The whole thing regarding Michael, ||who takes the creepiness inherent to Observers and gives it a twist, being a Child and an actual eccentricity even for Observers.||
- The intros typically provide the names of fringe sciences, like teleportation, precognition, cloning, etc. For
*The Day We Died*, two additions to those lists are water and hope. For all of season five? It lists *Community, Joy, Individuality, Education, Imagination, Private Thought, Due Process, Ownership, Free Will, and Freedom.* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Fringe |
Foxcatcher / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Steve Carell's performance as Du Pont - **full stop**. He gives the character a very frightening presence, like a time bomb that you don't know when will go off. It got to the point where, according to Mark Ruffalo, the cast and crew avoided Carell as much as possible due to being that put on edge. **Mark Ruffalo**: "Everyone sort of stayed away from him. John du Pont was repellent, so the way they designed Steve's look, it made him repellent, and you didn't know what to say to him, or how to act around him. You never felt comfortable." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Foxcatcher |
Frequency (2016) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Frank reacting to not only hear of his death but also how for twenty years, he's been made out to be a dirty cop.
- Raimy's stunned reaction when Daniel makes it clear he has no idea who she is...after she had found the engagement ring he had bought for her.
- The way Raimy's mother takes the place of a nurse visiting a wounded Frank...and thus the target of the Nightingale Killer.
- Just the scene in itself, in which both Julie and Raimy are unknowingly sharing an Elevator with the Nightingale Killer, until the audience sees the rosary beads the man is carrying.
- The idea how many lives Raimy's mother saved over the years are now affected (and perhaps ended) because she wasn't around.
- That in one single instant, thanks to how Raimy changed the timeline, a dozen innocent women winked out of existence as "new" victims of the Nightingale Killer.
- Raimy finding ||Christa's mummified corpse in the Nightingale's house.||
- Julie, with young Raimy and Gordo, ||being held at gunpoint by Robbie, aka. the Nightingale, in 1996!|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Frequency2016 |
Friday the 13th / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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## General:
- Just the idea that there's a masked giant in the middle of the woods, watching you... waiting for the right opportunity to stab you with a machete or cave your head in with an ax.
- Crazy Ralph's rantings about a "death curse" may be — well, crazy — but the franchise proves he's not wrong. If someone does anything around Crystal Lake, even if every single person with the last name of "Voorhees" in the area is confirmed dead and buried, something will go pear-shaped and a lot of people will die gruesomely. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13th |
From Dusk Till Dawn / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Per site policy, Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages, so all spoilers here are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!**
- The first half of the film is arguably the most terrifying: it presents an entirely plausible scenario where a family is held hostage by a pair of desperate criminals, one of whom may well be a serial rapist and murderer. By contrast, the second half is all action/horror. Though bloody and gruesome, it is practically a relief when compared to the tension of the first half.
- The fate of Pete Bottoms, the liquor store clerk: being held hostage while being forced to act as if nothing is happening, having someone shot in the head right in front of him, being shot for warning a cop when he wasn't even trying to do that, and then being burned alive along with his shop.
- Seth leaves Richard alone with a female hostage. Seth returns and witnesses the result. It's made all the worse by the split-second flashes of the aftermath...
- "Do you wanna come over on the bed and watch tv with me?". Richie telling the hostage to lay on the bed and watch cartoons with him looks innocent (at first, given his mental capacity). By the time Seth returns, she is already raped and murdered.
- It gets worse in the show. In the film Richie shoots the hostage, but there's a pillow over her head. In the series, he cuts her eyes out.
- When Kate Fuller says "Richie, could you eat my pussy for me, please?", a disturbing realization is made. Before this point, one could've made an argument that Richie was simply being overly paranoid with the other people he's killed. But this scene up and reveals that his mind is able to hallucinate people saying things they actually aren't in reality. Meaning that he wasn't intentionally lying to Seth when he made those claims. Kind of makes you wonder if he even truly realizes he raped those women.
- Very briefly when the Fullers are taken hostage we see Kate from Richie's perspective, who uncharacteristically starts begging Richie to "eat my pussy." Just to drive the point home, the angle is intentionally shot distorted. If there were any doubts about how messed up in the head Richie is, this pretty much clinches it.
- The "Feeding Time" scene where all the hookers reveal their Game Faces as vampires and attack the bar patrons can be jarring for those not expecting it. A
*lot* of movie goers certainly were not expecting this. One even outright asking "The hell kinda flick is this?!"
- Notable parts include: Santanico face morphing into a serpentine look. Oddly, her look starts with her head suggesting a cobra's with her hair merged with her skin and then she shifts to a more streamlined bald-headed look (likely so Salma could still move her head for the scene).
- Her attacking and killing Richie before she's knocked off him.
- Razor Charlie and the other men's seemingly dead corpses suddenly reanimating back to life and roaring as hungry vampires.
- One of the hookers barring the door claiming "Dinner...is served" while her face turns more bat-like.
- The band likewise turning vampiric and using
*human parts* as their instruments as they play through the chaos.
- One unfortunate patron getting his neck sliced open from his vampire hooker, one hooker behind a shadow screen holding the head of another patron above her and drinking the blood pouring from its mouth, the hooker who tries to attack Frost that, unlike the others, doesn't go full bump face but the animated snake like eyes on her still make it unsettling.
- Chet Pussy trying to eat Kate only to have a golden crucifix necklace shoved into his mouth, causing him to convulse into smoke and green blood before expelling gore through both his eye sockets and dropping to the floor as a charred skeletal corpse.
- The closeup shots of the vampires' Nightmare Face as they devour the patrons.
- And finally Seth shooting at Santanico and her popping up unscathed and angry. She promptly knocks him to the floor and proclaims her as her new "dog" ending with the chilling line "Welcome to slavery". Luckily her monologuing gives Seth time to reload his gun and fire at the chandelier above them, dropping it on her.
- Richie suddenly turning into a vampire on Seth after he genuinely expresses love for his brother. It's so sudden and the effects really help with the shock.
- Likewise, Sex Machine turning after he gets bitten in the arm. As seen from his perspective, it just kinda happens... He loses his hearing for a moment, a demonic voice tells him to kill the others. Next thing he knows he has fangs and his hands turn into claws much to his horror. What really makes this horrific is that for a moment it looks like he still has his sense of self. He hides his hands behind his back and the scene focus on Frost. While Frost is still talking, Sex Machine suddenly rises behind him, completely vamped, and bites him without warning or any qualms about attacking his former ally. The same can be said of Frost, who gains his vamp face almost immediately.
- The whole experience of being trapped in a a nest of vampires makes you kinda dread what else the Titty Twister could be host to...
- Well in the series, it's a prison for Demons, to whom the vampires were
*slaves*!
- The end shot zooms out to show that the bar itself is the top of an Aztec temple embedded in a cliff, and it is absolutely
*covered* in wrecks of trucks. It shows that the events of the night were just the last in a very **very** long line of nights just like it, only with no survivors, undead or alive. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FromDuskTillDawn |
From Hell / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## The Comic:
- Every murder is shown and described in graphic detail. Gull himself becomes an in-universe Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, inspiring both
*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* and William Blake's *The Ghost of a Flea*.
- Capped by the entirely of Chapter 10, where Gull is killing ||and mutilating a woman who might not be Mary Kelly||. Remember, this was the murder committed
*indoors and uninterrupted*...
- This miniseries delves into the Jack the Ripper murders in graphic detail, and you'll be glad it's in black and white. (Then you read the appendix, which contains actual crime scene photos, obviously also in black-and-white. There, the lack of color is no help.) The violence eventually takes a back seat as the story delves into the mind of a misogynist madman, which is no less unsettling.
- In general, the depiction of Whitechapel's slum district is this. It shows what being on the Wrong Side of the Tracks really means and how terrible poverty can really be.
- The appendix "Dance of the Gull-Catchers" tells us why exactly no one will ever know who Jack the Ripper is, and how so many scholars have gone nuts and ruined their careers searching for the Ripper:
*"Koch's Snowflake begins with an equilateral triangle, which can be contained within a circle, just as the murders are constrained to Whitechapel 2nd Autumn, 1888. Next, half-sized triangles are added to the triangles' three sides. Quarter-sized triangles are added to the new shape's twelve sides, and so on. Eventually, the snowflake's edge becomes so crinkly and complex that its length, theoretically, is Infinite. Its AREA, however, never exceeds the initial circle. Likewise, each new book provides fresh details, finer crennelations of the subject's edge. Its area however can't extend past the initial circle: Autumn 1888, Whitechapel. What have we to look forward to? Abberline's school nickname or the make of Mary Kelly's shoes? Koch's snowflake: gaze upon it, Ripperologists, and shiver. The complex phantom we project. That alone, we know is real. The actual killer's gone, unglimpsed, might as well not have been there at all."*
## The Movie:
- In order to silence her, Anne Crook is roughly strapped down to an operating table while she's whining in terror and confusion, knocked out with chloroform, and then wheeled into a medical theatre to be lobotomized in front of an uncaring audience of students. Thanks to a Gory Discretion Shot we don't actually see it happening, but we can hear the crunches of her skull being cut into. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FromHell |
Friday the 13th (1980) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The end where after Alice kills Pamela Voorhees, she sails off into the lake on a canoe, and when everything seems peaceful and serene, the decaying child zombie of Jason jumps out of the water and drags her under. She then wakes up in a mental hospital and says "he's still there" after learning the police never found Jason's body.
The death of the victims, of course. Special mention goes to Jack, who got an arrow shoved through his throat just after realizing that blood was dripping from the bunk above his.
The beginning scene where Annie is picked up by an unseen person (later revealed to be Pamela) while hitchhiking. The scene starts off with her attempting to have conversation with the driver, but it is shot either from their point of view or from the road. Then the driver speeds past Camp Crystal Lake, causing Annie to beg her to slow down with no response, forcing her to jump out of the car, which the driver then halts the brakes and turns around to pursue her through the woods. Just when Annie thinks she escaped, the assailant pops up in front of her and knocks her down, and all we see is a brief glimpse of their boots and their hand holding a knife as they slash her throat. The way the entire scene is directed is very intense, and the most chilling part is this exact scenario could easily happen in real life. Remember, kids: NEVER get into a car with a stranger. FOR ANY REASON.
Pamela Voorhees chasing Alice throughout the camp, and channeling her dead son with creepy quotes.
"She can't hide. No place to hide."
Alice opening the door to discover Bill impaled on the door.
Imagine you're one of the two counselors in the beginning. You sneak up into an isolated loft to fool around. Someone comes creaking up the stairs and you stop and try to play it off. Not even once suspecting that the normal seeming woman you work with has any intentions but to perhaps tell you off. Then she sticks a knife in your gut.
The expression on Pamela Voorhees' face when she first attacks Alice (see Pamela's image on the Characters tab), a horrifying combination of pure malice, raging insanity and unadulterated gusto. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13th1980 |
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Tamara's death. She can only helplessly watch as Jason picks up a piece of a broken mirror and get closer to her. What doesn't help is her frantic, terrified sobbing as she keeps screaming "No!" She might've been an absolute bitch but it was hard not to feel scared for her.
- Eva's death, because Jason forgoes using any weapons and strangles her with his bare hands. It's not the most bloody death in the movie, and while Jason has used his bare hands before, it just seems to take so much longer than the other deaths, and Eva is forced to look into her killer's eyes as she died.
- McColluchs death is rather terrifying as well. Like Evas kill, its relatively bloodless and utilized no weapons, but the very thought of being forcefully drowned is horrifying, especially in an area as small as a barrel. He may have been a jerk throughout the film, but one cant help but feel bad for him when it happens. Him begging for mercy makes it even more horrifying.
- The nameless boxers death in the sauna is another bloodless kill (notice a pattern), but is still horrifying. Hes just laying there, a towel over his head, then without even realizing it Jason comes in, takes one of the hot sauna rocks and forces it into his chest. The thought alone that this couldve happened to anybody is creepy in of itself.
- The flashback showing Jason attacking Rennie underwater years prior. He looks scarier in that scene than he does in the present!
- Jason killing the worker down in the sewer, mostly because we only see what's happening through the duo's shadows.
- Julius's death and the buildup to the actual death. He decides to take on Jason himself in a boxing match and in spite of being trained at his skill and that his hands are left a bloody mess from the attack, it's still no match for the undead killer, who takes
*nothing* from all of his brutal blows note : which Kane Hodder really did receive (at his own insistence) and yes, actor V.C. Dupree's hands really were bloodied from the scene and kills Julius with a single blow that knocks the man's head off. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan |
From the New World / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"No one was able to lead an effective counterattack against the Akki... Approximately one thousand died in Kamisu 66 that day. All because of K."
Given that the series kicks off following a group of five 12-year old children living in a post-apocalyptic, but otherwise seemingly idyllic world, one would think there wouldn't be too much room for scary moments.
But as the five protagonists grow up, so does the amount of Nightmare Fuel...
- The monster that got one of your friends, and is now peering at you through your window? Your dad not only knows about it, but he breeds them! And no, he wont protect you! When he says theres no monster in your closet, hes lying!!
- The opening of the first episode. Nothing quite like seeing psychokinetic children massacring entire populations in the modern world to set the dark, gloomy tone of this series.
- Episode 4 makes this even worse in hindsight: ||while those with psychokinetic powers were only 0.2% of the world's population, only
**2%** of the world's population were left standing in the dark ages that followed.||
- The opening of the second episode is not much better, showing a newly crowned emperor abusing his powers by forcing the crowd attending his coronation to keep clapping by proclaiming that he'll psychokinetically immolate the first 100 people who stop clapping as "sacrifices" for the festivities.
- Later, we find out that the clapping continued for three days and three nights.
- The Akki from Maria's retelling of the tale of a villager's sacrifice.
- Throughout much of the first episode, Saki's friends tell stories of hideous monsters (such as the Nekodamashi) hunting students who struggle in school and a sealed-off room deep inside Zenjin Academy. Hearing Saki's mother lamenting the loss of her previous children not only serves as a Tear Jerker, but also confirms that Saki is in one hell of a Crapsack World.
- Imagine being a child growing up in this society. If you mysteriously dont develop powers, then you vanish. You dont know what the rules are, but if youre the type of individual likely to break them, then you vanish. If a blindfolded monk reacts oddly to you, then you vanish. ||Vanishing pretty much equals death||. By the time you reach adulthood, congratulations, you, without your knowledge, were born as a member of the near all powerful elite, passed all the hidden tests, and didnt stumble across a way to accidentally kill yourself.
- Worse still, is hearing the debates between the committee members about whether or not an attempt on a specific childs life was truly justified. It makes them sound like the choice can be completely baseless, and the only reason some children survive is a combination of luck and understanding how to survive an attack.
- Then theres the ||cat. You see it, and suddenly you lose the ability to focus on any task. All you can do is try to overcome the visually inflicted psychosis faster than it can kill you||.
- ||Right, imagine going into the middle of the fields. With your powers stripped by a monk who may or may not be losing it by the "Attack Suppression", you meet an army of hostile Bakenezumi. Then, after witnessing the monk brutally killing the army, a Fuusen-inu emerges. And you're its prime target. This is what Saki and her friends go through by the end of Episode 4.||
- The Queen in episode 5. What the hell is
*that?!*
- No one expected ||
*Shun*||, of all people, to have a Sanity Slippage episode. But Episode 8 showed him having a horrific case of this, from him suddenly wanting to be left alone (to the point of breaking up with ||Satoru||) to his blood-curdling Nightmare Face.
- Also, ||Shun's aborted egg-hatching project. That unborn chicken's eye stare could make you cringe.||
- Episode 9. All of it. From the disturbing revelation of ||the Fujoneko monster kennel in the basement of the school|| and the sheer brutality of the village towards ||Shun's neighborhood|| to its effective use of Nothing Is Scarier when Saki and Satoru are trying to find ||Shun|| and Saki ||running into a Fujoneko||, this is probably one of the creepiest episodes in the series thus far.
- "He was so talented...it's such a shame."
- Episode 10. If you weren't crying your eyes out, you were probably watching ||the animals, especially Subaru, that were mutated by Shun's Cantus and Shun's death|| in horror.
- Shun's revelation of the entire concept of Gouma (Karma Demons). ||A Gouma is someone whose Cantus abilities are directly tied to his/her subconscious. In other words, any thought, good or bad, becomes manifested through his/her powers. So if there's even one narcissistic Gouma with an apocalyptic subconscious, entire regions become subject to being violently and utterly erased from the Earth. The kicker? They can't control when they'll go off. No wonder the Ethics Committee wants to hunt and kill any potential karma demons...||
- Episode 12.
**Holy hell**, Episode 12.
- Pictured above: Asahina Tomiko telling the story about K. A boy with sociopathic tendencies, he initially doesn't stir up any trouble. And then he figures out his Power Limiter doesn't work, giving him a blank check to cause the utter annihilation of his village and his school.
- The kicker? In the first day of his rampage
**alone,** he killed 1,000 people. Combined with the people's inability to harm fellow human beings and, well...
- It's even worse in the novel where the atrocities he committed were described in pure detail. Ripping random people's torsos apart and subsequently playing a game of cat and mouse with defenseless civilians and giving them intentional hope spots just to make their deaths much more satisfying for himself was just the
*tip* of the iceberg for K.
- Also, K's facial expressions as an Akki.
*Gee beasties*, that's a Nightmare Face if there ever is one.
- And then there's the story of K's demise. While working as a nurse, Asahina finds K going into the hospital to treat his cold. Asahina shits bricks when she sees him, and so do the viewers.
- Fortunately, Asahina is able to obtain the medicine required for the doctor she worked for to poison and ultimately kill the sick bastard. But not before she witnesses K decapitate the doctor in a fashion too horrific for the anime to show. Brrr...
- The hospital itself. It's as if the village combined the absolute worst traits of Shalebridge Cradle and Brookhaven Hospital when they designed the whole goddamn place.
- How K kills his teacher, which is made somehow worse by the silhouette visual. Out of nowhere, he stands up, levitates his teacher while she's telling him to sit down and stop disrupting class, and stretches her limbs to proportions that can't be possible unless he's
*deliberately* keeping her body from breaking under the stress. He finally decides to stop by crushing her head like a fruit. Talk about an awful way to die. His classmates did not fare any better either. Being flung to the walls so violently that you end up *stuck* there in place isn't exactly a pleasant way to go.
- If you're easily spooked by child kidnapping, you will NOT like the fact that Mamoru has disappeared from his parent's house without a trace.
- The fact other people could not fight against Boy K demonstrates how fragile the society is. Through its own social and genetic engineering, it has effectively made 99% of the population unable to defend themselves against the very ||Akki and Gouma|| that society's rules exist to prevent. Unlike society in real life, the civilization of
*From the New World* cannot handle even a few negative exceptions to the norm.
- Rather, the society
*was* this fragile during boy K's rampage, ||over 200 years before the present day||, but since then they developed numerous countermeasures to prevent the history from repeating itself.
- Episode 14. ||Upon returning home, Saki gets interrogated by the Board of Education. Impatient and flat-out rude to Saki at times, the board members clearly want to execute her for knowing about their methods of disposing children. It's not hard to end up wondering how the hell Saki remained calm during the process, let alone call out the Board for sending Fujonekos on Mamoru.||
- While trying to convince Saki to ||bring back Maria and Mamoru into the village||, she explains that humans with PK are more destructive than nuclear weapons. Unlike nukes, an Akki has unlimited energy from Cantus and is bound only by one's body, allowing him or her to wipe out entire districts without breaking a sweat.
- Also, the images that accompanies Tomiko's explanation of an Akki's potential for destruction. ||
**IT'S K, NOW WITH A FULLY REVEALED** **NIGHTMARE FACE◊.**|| Yeesh.
- Episode 15, when we learn what the monster rats have been doing to their queens, ||lobotomizing them,|| Satoru's and Saki's ||suspicion that they might be willing to do it to humans.||
- Just the fact that the monster rats are advanced enough for things like ||surgery (albeit unsafe surgery)||. They even have a ||DIET BUILDING||.
- Episode 16 features Saki having a nightmare after ||failing to find Maria and Mamoru.|| In this horrible dream, you'll see Saki surrounded by Deranged Animation and monsters of all shapes and forms. Such Squick-tastic creatures look like they escaped out of
*Berserk* and into Saki's head. Ugh...
- Oh, and that long-haired boy? ||He tells Saki to let Maria die in a chilling manner.||
- Not just that. Taking the subsequent story arc in mind, ||If the hair color and the uniform are anything to go by, it's heavily implied to be Maria's own child telling Saki to let his mom die.|| I'll let that sink in for a minute or two.
- The environment of Saki's nightmare itself. It's as if Saki's trapped in Hell... ||and the long-haired boy is the master of all those disgusting monsters (otherwise known as none other than Satan himself).||
- Yeah, no. ||If the disturbing hints of episode 18 are any indication, it would have been better for Maria to be dead from the start.||
- Episode 18: ||
|| It has to be one of the most ominous and creepy uses of a child's handwriting in recent times. **Hello◊**
- How Yakomaru ||carries out his attack on Kamisu 66. Utilizing far superior technology such as guns and poison gas, they easily slaughter the villagers in the middle of the Summer Festival. They even manage to kill two of the committee members
*despite* their cantus powers. And if that's not enough, **some of the soldiers even blended into the crowd,** fooling most of the villagers until it was too late.||
- The attack is so horrifying and reprehensible, Tomiko believes Yakomaru to be as bad and despicable as
**K**. Make of that what you will...
- Maria appears in the end, ||more or less recapping how and why she left the village with Mamoru.|| But then she reveals another reason why she left: ||she wanted to have children, something that would have been biologically impossible if she stayed with Saki. Keep in mind, this appears after Yakomaru received information about the human societies AND Tomiko revealing that the bones Yakomaru laid out belong to Mamoru and Maria.|| Do the math.
- Episode 19. Yes, there's already an entry for it after its
*15 second preview.*
- From its excellent use of the disturbing imagery (of people getting hunted) to the implication that ||
**AN AKKI** is being used as Yakomaru's main weapon against the villagers||, one can tell that the episode is going to be one hell of a horror show.
- The sheer preparedness of the Bakenezumi in the episode. From having soldiers ready to fire on Satoru and Saki in the fields ||to having ambushes set up for the arriving party inside the building||, they sure make entering an already creepy Abandoned Hospital even
*more* terrifying.
- Which leads to the long-awaited arrival of ||the Akki. Having already killed everyone save 3 people in the hospital, she quickly establishes herself as a monster hellbent on killing every person she sees. And then she returns and makes it crystal clear why she's so dangerous to Saki and Satoru by brutally murdering a fleeing survivor and Fujita.||
- ||Also, that cry. Mix a child screaming with one of the Bakenezumi screeches and you get one hell of a horrifying sound.||
- ||The fact you can't see who the Akki really is. Yes, you have images of black smoke surrounding the child, as well as trippy images of a demon with unlimited power. But without a real clue on who the Akki is, it makes the viewers dread
*thinking* about the child, much like Saki and Satoru.||
- Episode 19 essentially turned the genre of the show into Survival Horror. Sneaking across a destroyed hospital with a faceless, unbeatable Akki at your tail? Oh boy...
- Episode 20 doesn't let up the Nightmare Fuel. ||Having an Akki on their tail, Satoru and Saki find themselves trapped within a small boat. And they know that if they try to run, they'll get spotted and killed by the bastard. They
*barely* escape by hiding the boat and quickly floating to ground, but good God was it tense...||
- Also, that suicide-bomber fish. As if its nasty aesthetics aren't bad enough, there is the fact that it could easily wipe out entire districts and scores of people in one explosion. The fact that it was able ||to infiltrate and wipe out Kamisu 66 by exploiting the canal system|| doesn't help matters at all.
- The images of the boy's experiences in the battlefield. ||Putting War Is Hell to the max, bodies twist and break, buildings explode, and groups of people get jumped and shot to death by Bakenezumi human-doppelgangers. Good luck getting those images out of your head after seeing them.||
- Episode 21 reveals who ||the Akki|| really is, so you think that now the Nothing Is Scarier trope's been lifted, it's going to get better, right?
*You're dead wrong.*
- Let's see: ||To start, we have her walking to Shisei as she casually incinerates every citizen that stands in her path. When we see her face, it's a face of a happy, almost relaxed girl who's no more than 12 years old. And just when you think Shisei has a chance of at least temporarily halting the Akki's rampage, Satoru reveals that Shisei only wants to buy time for the villagers to escape, knowing full well that he has Death Feedback and the Akki does not. Unfortunately, no one (save Saki, Satoru, and Niimi) got the clue and the next thing you see is the Akki dragging Shisei off the ground, crushing him, and
*ultimately snapping him in two.* And she does so with a hysterical laugh. Before long, she and Yakomaru's reinforcements cleans up the village, complete with off-screen genocide and screaming survivors.||
- ||Her babbling is something else. It implies she doesnt know the human language, and the monster rats didnt appear to teach her how to speak their language. Basically, the main characters are looking at a human warped into a walking distortion of their late friends. Its not even entirely clear how the situation went from two friends to a walking parody of humanity. Was the conception willing? Were there labotomies involved, since the monster rats had no problem doing it to their queens? Just what type of upbringing did the child have?||
- To say nothing of Yakomaru's ultimate scheme: ||He wants to give the humans a taste of their own medicine and make the bakenezumi the gods, not the other way around. By killing Maria and Mamoru, he abducts their child and raises her to become an Akki. Then, as the Akki wipes out human villages, the hospitals would be kept intact so the armies could abduct human infants (as infants of a vanquished colony are considered spoils) and raise them to become Akkis as well. So even if his original plan fails, Yakomaru would only have to wait until the human children develop PK for him to overrun not just Japan, but Eurasia as a whole and quite possibly the world. Brrr...||
- The tunnels underneath the ruins of Tokyo Saki and Satoru go into in Episode 22 are filled with piles bug infested guano, as well as gigantic, bloodsucking slugs that drop down from the ceiling to ambush prey. What's worse is that Kiromaru says they haven't even begun to see the worst stuff yet.
- The series finale ||finally sees Saki and Kiroumaru defeating Maria's child once and for all. However, this was not before the child unleashes a ear-piercing scream (complete with one hell of a Nightmare Face◊) as she brutally blasts a hole through Kiroumaru. The Gorn that ensues does not help one bit.||
- The above is downright pleasant compared to ||what ultimately happens to Squealer. Two words: Eternal Hell. It's a process that sends signals of extreme pain from every nerve of the condemned's body, all the while regenerating all damage sustained using Cantus. This means that no matter how much Body Horror and torment he endures, the people in charge of his punishment will prevent him from dying. Worse still, he's kept in the museum of Exospecies
**as the human settlement's trophy**. Jesus, talk about And I Must Scream. When Tomiko said she would inflict pain no creature has ever felt before upon him *she meant it*.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FromTheNewWorld |
From Russia with Love / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
For the James Bond Nightmare Fuel index, see here.
## The Film
- Donald "Red" Grant in general. There's rarely been a more evil, stone-cold, implacable psychopath in the entire Bond series. Every time he shows up, someone dies.
- The very opening scene. It looks like Grant has
*killed James Bond* by brutally strangling him, with the victim completely helpless... until it's revealed it was a human practice target wearing a mask imitating Bond's face.
- A special mention has to go to his murder of the Bulgarian agent in Hagia Sofia. Grant doesn't
*need* gadgets or weapons, he can kill a person with just *a couple of blows*.
- "The first one won't kill you. Not the second. Not even the third. Not until you crawl over here and you
*kiss my foot!*
- SPECTRE henchmen using
*humans as practice targets*.
- The scene where Blofeld (off screen) describes how Siamese Fighting Fish pick off their tired opponents, and how he compares them to how SPECTRE operates.
- Kronsteen's death. Even though he dies in 12 seconds, it seems like an eternity. Even Klebb was visibly sweating and shaken by this.
- For that matter, Rosa Klebb's death near the end of the movie. After getting shot, she gives off a death wail, before slowly crumpling to the ground for like a minute and a half, mouth still open in pain. And all of this is on-screen. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FromRussiaWithLove |
Frostpunk / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# In General:
- The Great Frost itself. Scientists across the globe trying to find the cause (and possible ways to reverse it), since the catastrophe seems to deny the very concept of physics. Even with all the factors from ash clouds to the Sun dimming, it should have been impossible. Then a theory about
*The Saffron Cloud* appears, forbidden to even talk about by the pre-Frost governments, a chemical/climate-altering weapon of mass destruction. The preparations were originally made "just in case" (i.e. there was a possibility it wouldn't happen), before the Frost came over the course of weeks. How much of the current Crapsack World state was really caused by nature, and how much by the human factor?
- In the city the population - barring some potential American refugees from Tesla City in
*A New Home* - is entirely white British. The reason for this is found in the lore. As the temperature dropped and it started to snow the first places to fall to the frost was the southern equator unprepared for heavy snowfall and the waves of refugees from Europe, the southern parts of the planet fell into disarray and eventually fell silent. Its implied throughout the story that your region is possibly the last inhabited one left on Earth, and until the expansions came out, that your *city* may be the last.
- And that's not even getting into that from the genetic standpoint human population must be at least several hundred strong to even have a chance at survival. If you survive at the cost of human lives, you can end up below the minimum level of 500, which means that if the cold does not kill your descendants, the inbreeding will.
note : The human population presuming pristine and deliberately varied genetics can actually go as low as 8 theoretically and still be viable. Now granted in this situation we don't have pristine genetics or deliberate selection for diversity but presuming some assortment from different districts of London with different genetic backgrounds such as having some level Greek ancestry, African ancestry, Asian ancestry, Celtic ancestry, and some other varieties of European are mixed into the gene pool that could easily drop the required number to one or two hundred. Given this story takes place with London having been at the relative height of its Imperial Age this is quite likely as London was both a center of commerce as well as having relatively recently had settlement from the Mediterranean world at least in terms of genetics.
- If food runs scarce, you get the option of passing a law to eat the dead. It's a rather long chain of events starting with food riots, then starvation, then your guards catching cannibals in the streets, and then people storming the cannibals' hideout - even your guards requesting permission to intervene are not sure if this is a lynching of the guilty or an attempt to get some of the meat for themselves. At first you simply allow covertly cooking dead bodies (or, if the relevant law is passed, using them as fertilizer), and then people will do it themselves. In the Frostland, your scouts can find not one and not two sites where entire settlements have fallen because of this.
- The Purpose paths in the Book of Law. Both involve giving your citizens something to believe in (unity in purpose and toil in Order; connection through religion in Faith), and in both cases, people are slow to accept it. Faith, in particular, is a slow boil, and it takes several days before the City has any amount of religious followers. Order immediately has supporters, but also dissenters who know all too well how authoritarianism starts - and then the nightmare fuel happens. The scary thing isn't that both paths take you to totalitarian dictatorship; it's that your citizens
*demand it*. You don't force any of the Laws; the people do, and they will violently and gruesomely murder dissenters who saw the red flags. They will want propaganda, patrols, excommunications and inquisitors, and will hate you for not giving it to them. In keeping Discontent low and Hope high, you may feel forced to follow the people's demand and create their New Faith/Order - or you can stand your ground and see your city tear itself apart. Authoritarianism doesn't come from one person; that's just how it starts. It comes from all of us.
- Some of the things your citizens start to do whenever you start signing harsher laws under Faith or Order, particularly in
*The Refugees*. If you sign Public Penance, a lynch mob will proceed to march a good 20 Lords, in the nude, to a gallows in an attempt to lynch them. You're helpless to stop this unless you have Faithkeepers/Peacekeepers...
- Once you sign New Faith or New Order, a quarter of your people
*immediately* see the red flags and protest against the signing of it. If you decide to go through with it, these protesters are all either killed or converted back to your cause by force. A brief pseudo-animation plays of people being dragged away, beaten, and murdered, before one such soul is unlucky enough to be put on an steam-powered execution platform to be boiled alive. Oh, and you can now do that *once every couple days*, just in case it wasn't already clear how nasty things are getting.
- What is the preferred method of public execution in this game? Chain a half-naked person (when it's -80 Celsius) to a scaffold and boil them with overheated steam from the generator. If you never embraced the New Order / New Faith, in the event of a mutiny you will simply be cast out of the city: your people do not want to kill you, and simply banish you into the Frostland, in recognition of your genuine attempts to make things better for everyone. However, if you established the executions, they will drag you to your own invention and kill you in your own signature way. And it does
*not* happen offscreen; you even get to hear your character briefly cry out in agony before the Game Over screen comes on, displaying their (still lashed to the platform) frozen corpse.
- If you follow the Faith path, several events will appear involving the public flogging and/or execution of heretics and sinners. You would expect an option to spare them (i.e. stop the lynching) which you always had before... Except your Faith Keepers will outright refuse to save the filthy sinner, stating that people are doing what is right.
- In a setting where being too humane can spell doom for your people, you will have to revert to options that the game considers evil, mocking you for becoming a tyrant even if you never used those... Just because you even considered them. Even when you had no choice, even if you tried to apply only the minimum amount of force and persuasion, even if you were honest to your people and mildly punished only the absolute worst of arsonists and murderers - history will remember you as a bloody tyrant who abused Order or Faith and exploited child labour.
- Even worse, apparently this was the canonical path. Your outposts in the latest expansion outright say New London rules them all with an iron fist, and are willing to take any opportunity to break free.
- The Serenity trailer begins fairly optimistically, showing an apparently-thriving city ruled over by a benevolent leader, only to transition halfway through to the same city - only now visibly darker and grimier, with the ruler about to face execution by the steam-exhaust method seen in the Faith/Order path. We're then treated to a
*lovely* display of just how nasty this method is, with the captain audibly shrieking in agony as the superheated steam boils him to death. The trailer then ends on a final pan across the city, now frozen and desolate beyond the leader's frozen corpse (still chained to the Generator's execution platform), heavily implying that the citizens may have doomed themselves by executing their captain.
- The trailer for Frostpunk 2 is... ominous, to say the least. It opens with a long, slow pan over and through a seemingly-abandoned series of snow and ice-covered buildings as an unknown figure delivers a seemingly pre-recorded propaganda speech about the The Needs of the Many, and how those who sacrifice today will "reap the rewards of tomorrow." As the speech continues, the camera reveals a Trail of Blood through the snow and the sight of a bloodied sledgehammer, leading up to a final Wham Shot: the speaker's frozen, half-naked corpse, hands tied and his skull bashed in, kneeling in the middle of the frozen ruins of the city - with the words "LIAR" written in blood on his chest.
# A New Home:
- You think you know cold?
*-150 Celsius.* For comparison, not even Mars gets temperatures that low. It freezes soil, sends people to infirmaries in droves, and many will be found dead in their beds afterwards. As the sky darkens, more and more people will beg you to let them leave their posts to be with their families in their last moments or at least pray before they die... Which you can forbid, plummeting their hope even further down.
- Almost no other experience in
*all of gaming* can inflict the same kind of leaden, overpowering, soul-crushing *despair* on a gamer as the climax of the *A New Home* scenario on their first playthrough if they didn't manage to master the game *extremely* quickly. If your preparations were inadequate for the unprecedented challenge of the Great Storm you will be forced to watch helpless as the temperature goes down and down and down and just when you think it can't *possibly* get any colder, *it does.* Your mines freeze over, your workplaces shut down, your coal and food reserves dwindle, your houses become tiny freezers, your infirmaries overflow, hope falls, discontent soars, your citizens begin to die, first one by one and then in ever-increasing droves, and the generator gutters and dies as, unable to do anything else that will make a difference, you desperately pray that the dawn will come before the last life is extinguished. Not for nothing is *Frostpunk* considered the most gut-wrenching city builder game ever made.
- The story and fate of Tesla City and its inhabitants fits this description. Lead by a despot who valued his citizens only so far as their usefulness to the city, workers and engineers and children who were no longer considered useful - such as the sick and the amputees - were either exiled into the Frostlands or left to die aboard the ship they arrived in. Nearly all the exiles themselves slowly starved to death in icy Frostlands, but the city itself ended up fairing off far worse, with nearly the entire population being electrocuted to death or forced to leave when the Generator was completed and turned on.
- When your scouts find the Tesla City, it is described as there being charred bodies lying the streets and the stench of burned flesh lingering in the air. Furthermore, your scouts see lightning streak from a tower, hitting a building and leaving a gash in its roof. The Teslaites never stood a chance inside that human bug-zapper. At least your scouts manage to turn it off... Except there is a 50% chance they will do so at the cost of their lives.
# The Fall of Winterhome:
- The scenario begins with your city in ruins and a good 15% of the population dead. You know your predecessor was an idiot and that he didn't go down without a fight... But burning over 90% of the settlement appears just a massive final defiance on his part, which makes you ask just how horrible his actual rule might have been that people were willing to risk THAT to get rid of him.
- If you dig a child out of the burned rubble, an event will tell you that the child will die without immediate care that you can't provide. There is a chance of him surviving if you have Infirmaries running and with space for them in time.
- No matter how good you are, you cannot save everyone. The Dreadnought is limited to 500 people, meaning that someone in your 600+ people city WILL die. Either you kill them off deliberately trying to maintain order, or the engineers keeping your Generator stable will be left behind (possibly with you, if you choose to not abandon them in the darkest hour).
- The engineers, at one moment, will ask you to let them on the Dreadnought ahead of time, at the cost of abandoning more people in the doomed city. If you refuse, they will rant at you to not be surprised if the Dreadnought just stalls in the middle of the Frostlands. Considering that this is exactly what happens in the end, it's entirely possible that someone aboard decided to doom the survivors over a petty disagreement with the Captain.
- You have an option to launch the Dreadnought while incomplete, either without enough supplies or with too little space, or just before people actually get aboard. Even worse, it seems that this is what canonically happened: it did not go very far, and of the 500 people it's designed to carry, only two hundred survive to see the New London at most.
# Refugees:
- If you don't welcome the Lords then they will surely die. Either you build expensive guardhouses and they leave to freeze to death in the Frostlands, or your people go to their camp and slaughter them all. The fact that makes this nightmare fuel is that a large number of the Lords are just children. Their innocent blood is on your hands for rejecting them.
- Most of this scenario is spent creating a free city of like-minded working men and women, and division isn't a big deal. Then you see the marker for "The Lords" slowly creeping towards your City on the map... Subverted in that, while the Lords are a bag of dicks, they're not armed and don't intend to force the Refugees out of the City; they just want to live there. They're still a problem, but at least not one that is as terrifying.
- Even more so with Lord Craven. A name like that is truly fitting for a final boss! Which he sort of is. He did do horrible things in London, but by the time he reaches the City, he's depowered, afraid, and only looking to save people. The challenge he brings is actually that your own people will want revenge for his deeds...
# The Last Autumn:
- Worksite accidents tend to have huge explosions, happen without warning, and inevitably result in massive injuries. Workers caught in the accidents can be heard screaming in pain - they will be injured and likely crippled for life. While the 19th century was by no means the best time in regards to work safety and regulations, these accidents are of horrifying scale... And it's up to player whether to introduce safer conditions which completely nullify these accidents (and risk falling behind the schedule), install safety equipment in case of an accident (which costs valuable resources) or just send people into mines full of toxic gas and let them die in fires and explosions, knowing all full well of the potential losses and broken lives. And what's worse is that it's all justified: not meeting the goals means freezing to death for both workers and future refugees.
- A few events warn you of foreign spies and agitators trying to undermine your construction efforts: from spreading propaganda about labor unions to outright instigating arson. Even in the face of extinction, the great empires can't seem to stop fighting among themselves.
- The cold, stern tone of your superiors' messages, in which they show just how little the IEC cares for its employees. They just tell you calmly how bad things really are (which you keep your people from learning, even censoring their letters) and cold-heartedly describe how other Generators fail one by one. To them truly death is merely a statistic... Which is exactly how many players will feel after playing a few scenarios on their own.
- Assistant engineer Euphemia "Effie" Mac'Lachlan who appeared in the cinematic can later be found at what's left of Site 107 and will join your crew. The Generator exploded, killing nearly everyone on the site and making Site 113 the only hope for Liverpool. She was there, she warned them it might happen, she begged the Sitemaster to install precautions, and yet nobody listened because, apparently, she was too young to have their ear. Now you see before you the consequences of ignoring pleas of the engineers.
- A more disturbing implication (although the player has to deliberately invoke it to apply, and this was likely not intended). In the main game, House of Pleasure is a measure not encouraged in any way, and building it (hell, even considering to build it) will result in a drop of Hope. In the Last Autumn, it has no penalties other than a few health risks, and your workers honestly see nothing wrong about having it on site. For it to work, you need five volunteers. You don't just invite women from London, no: you order five of your employees to do it. Can be even worse if you sided with one class and order ladies from the other to participate: either your Engineers will enjoy the company of the oppressed class, or your workers will get revenge on the once-privileged Engineers in one of the worst ways possible.
- The Automatons are not available in this scenario. You would probably expect the signature technological marvel of the British Empire to appear in the prequel, considering the importance of the Generators... But you have to deal with all this the old-fashioned manual labor way since (officially) it's just cheaper and the machines are too valuable to risk using them in such dangerous work. Then an off-hand mention comes in a letter, stating that mechanical walkers were used to fire upon the crowd during the riots. The life-saving machines that your people in New London saw as their angels of hope were never tools of salvation: they were weapons from the start. Your engineers in The Arks can optimize the production of the Automatons by removing the components "reserved for future expansions", without mentioning what kind of expansions those were... Well, now you know the answer. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Frostpunk |
Friday the 13th Part III / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Vera getting getting shot in the eye with a speargun.
- Awesome as it may be, Jason lumbering around with an axe lodged in his head is quite the painful sight.
- The dream sequence near the end. The moment where it seems that Jason is still alive and kicking is pretty hair-raising, but what really sells the scene is the Call-Back to the original film with the now-decayed Mrs. Voorhees jumping out of the lake.
- As silly as the execution may have looked, Rick getting his head crushed so hard that his eyeball pops out is still a pretty gnarly way to go.
- Just before that, you can hear Ricks skull cracking as Jason squeezes his head.
- Andy being bisected and stuffed away on an overhead railing, only being found when his blood drips on Debbie's book.
- Following this is Debbie being stabbed in the chest through her hammock. Even worse is that she has already been established as being pregnant.
- Jason's portrayal in the first novelization by Michael Avallone is significantly more unsettling than in the film. Here, he wears a plain white mask more similar to Michael Myers' mask, and is much more sadistic and vocal, as he openly laughs maliciously at his victims and is outright stated to cannibalize and sexually violate the bodies of his victims. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13thPartIII |
Friday the 13th Part 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As creepy as this is, you got to admire how much Jason loved his mother.
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Mark's death is simple yet effective. The sequence starts with some nice build-up, as he sits in his wheelchair on the porch, and slowly realizes that something is amiss. Several moments of silence go by, before he unexpectedly takes a machete to the face. The impact is so great that the entire blade is lodged sideways into his skull and his chair is sent falling backwards down the steps.
- The climactic scene in which Ginny discovers Jason's shrine to his dead mother, complete with her decapitated and decaying head on full display.
- The head appears earlier in the film as well, when Jason leaves it in Alice's fridge for her to find for no discernible reason other than pure sadism.
- Sandra and Jeff have the most creative deaths in the film, with the two of them being impaled by a spear as they make love, with the tip going all the way through their bodies and out the other side of the mattress. The uncut version is even worse as the viewer is treated to a full body shot of the spear going in along with close-ups of the two being splashed with blood on their faces.
- Harry Manfredini's score is enough to keep you on edge, with manic "Psycho" Strings abound.
- Jason's shrine is pretty horrific, but there is an extra layer that is easy to miss because it's visual only and appears briefly. Taking place five years after the first film, Paul mentions Alice disappeared two months after the events of the original. Leaning against the shrine, next to Terry's body, is a well rotted corpse. That corpse is Alice
note : the skull still has the ice pick embedded in it, left to decay in the woods for five years. Even more disturbing, when you realize Jason brought her body back as "tribute" to his mother.
- The ending is pretty effective, as the movie leads you to believe that Jason is about to come barging through the front door, only to pull a bait and switch and have him break through the back window to grab Ginny instead. Making it even worse is the following scene, showing Ginny, alive and well being loaded into an ambulance, while Paul is nowhere in sight.
- The uncut death scenes discovered in 2020 are quite gruesome and rival some of the later films in how sadistic they appear.
- Alice is not only stabbed in the temple, but through her head and out her nose with her giving a shocked expression as she dies and spits blood.
- Scott bleeds out slowly as his neck is cut.
- Crazy Ralph is fully choked out as Jason garrotes him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13thPart2 |
Fruits Basket / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
If you turned into this without a bracelet, you'd push people away too.
*Fruits Basket* may have The Power of Friendship and The Power of Love as two of its main themes, but don't be fooled. Frightening elements abound, especially as Cerebus Syndrome kicks in.
- Kyo's true form as shown in the page image, a monstrous beast with an appearance that looks less like a cat and more like a mix between an insect and a reptile, complete with oversized and elongated limbs, razor-sharp teeth and a horrific smell that makes Tohru vomit the first time she encounters it. The only thing that stops him from transforming is the bracelet of Juzu beads he wears on his wrist at all times.
- The bracelet itself is a source of this. According to Kyo, it's made from human bone and dyed in human blood.
- The anime adaptations (especially the 2019 version) waste no effort into showing how agonizing Kyo's transformation is, making it look like something straight from
*Resident Evil*.
- The extent of just how much of a Big, Screwed-Up Family the Sohmas really are. Abusive Parents are the norm, those cursed by the Zodiac animals all have massive psychological issues, the one cursed with the Cat is automatically deemed a pariah and abomination who exists to be shunned, persecuted, and ultimately locked up in solitary confinement for life, and
*nobody* has the nerve to stand up to Akito for her abusive behavior. And as indicated by the flashback showing Ren's early days with Akira, they've been that way for *generations*.
- Akito is a good source of this whenever she appears on-screen. The head of the Sohma family and God of the Zodiac, who happens to be an Ax-Crazy Psychopathic Manchild and Mood-Swinger who can go from calm to physically violent at a moment's notice. Whereas Kagura beating Kyo senseless in nearly every scene they have together is entirely Played for Laughs,
Akito does to the Zodiac members or any other targets of her wrath is funny and only serve to highlight how fucked up in the head she is: **NOTHING**
- Hatori is nearly blind in his left eye because Akito attacked him simply for asking for permission to marry Kana. The manga doesn't show what happened, but both versions of the anime do; in the 2001 anime, Akito threw a vase at his head, and in the 2019, she slammed him face-first
*into a mirror*. Kana was so traumatized by the incident (not helped by Akito gaslighting her into taking the blame) that Hatori was forced to wipe her memory.
- Rin gets the worst of it from her. In response to Haru dating Rin, Akito throws the latter out a second-floor window and lands her in the hospital. When Rin later tries to steal a box from her room on Ren's orders, Akito one-ups herself by giving her a Traumatic Haircut and locking her in the Cat's Room to starve. It's hardly surprising that at the end of the series, Rin is the
*only* member of the Zodiac who refuses to forgive Akito for everything she's done.
- Her relationship with Yuki started out friendly... until she snapped and started using him as an outlet for her cruelty, from locking him up in a windowless dark room for days on end to outright giving him A Taste of the Lash, with his parents and brother doing nothing to stop it even as he begged them for help. It was so bad that Haru literally begged Shigure to let Yuki stay with him so he could get away from her.
- Not even children are safe. When Hiro lets it slip that he loves Kisa, Akito responded by beating Kisa so brutally she landed her in the hospital for two weeks.
- The real kicker? Akito Used to Be a Sweet Kid until she snapped under the heavy abuse of her mentally unstable mother Ren, who hated her from before she was born out of petty jealousy that her husband could possibly love another woman, even
*their own daughter*; she went so far as to threaten to *abort Akito* unless Akira agreed to have her Raised as the Opposite Gender. As a whole, Ren is all of Akito's worst traits rolled into one, only amplified tenfold and minus any Freudian Excuse or anything remotely positive or redeemable, and whereas Akito is able to undergo a HeelFace Turn and work on being a better person at the end of the series, Ren never does.
- Hana's Psychic Powers are largely used as a comedic element, such as when she largely uses them to intimidate the Prince Yuki Fanclub whenever they harass Tohru, but her backstory reveals that her threats against them are not idle and she really
*can* use them to cause harm. After being tormented by a bully and force-fed live newts, Hana snapped and wished with all her heart for him to die... and the bully immediately collapsed and landed in the hospital, much to her horror. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FruitsBasket |
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
You need to see a doctor about that ax wound, and maybe visit a plastic surgeon while you're at it.
- Jimbo has a pretty brutal death, what with his hand being nailed to the counter with a corkscrew and Jason slamming a meat cleaver in his face.
- Jason killing a random hitchhiker by stabbing in the back of the throat, with the blade going all the way through the other side.
- Made even worse by the fact that Tom Savini pretty much did just that behind the scenes as well. The actress had a prosthetic attached to the side of her neck for Tom to stab through, meaning she had to let him grab her and stab through the prosthetic with a real knife right next to her neck.
- Jason stabbing Paul in the crotch with a harpoon gun and then pulling the trigger.
- The suddenness of Terri's death makes it quite memorable, as we are spared Jason's initial attack, only seeing him catch her due to their shadows from a sudden burst of lighting. After cutting away to the inside of the house for a brief moment, we are treated to a shot of her being impaled on the outside wall with a shot from Jason's speargun.
- Jason essentially crushing Doug's face with the palm of his hand.
- Jason slitting Axel's throat with a bonesaw and then snapping his neck.
- Jason's rather...
*muted* reaction to having his hand split with a machete.
- Tommy hitting Jason in the eye with his own machete. Jason proceeds to fall down, with the floor pushing the blade further into his skull.
- The sheer detail that goes into Jason's demise is pretty notable. His face contorts grotesquely as the machete runs up his skull and you can hear him moan in agony if you listen carefully. The effect is cringe-inducing, even if you feel Jason deserves it.
- Tommy going to extreme lengths to finish him off is one of the most horrifying moments in the series. Even if the later movies never followed up on the implications of this movie's ending, the way it's presented here is chilling.
- Sam's death noises are incredibly frightening. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter |
Fullhouse / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Charles:**
You're in pretty big trouble, aren't you?
**Stephanie:**
Yeah.
**Charles:**
Well, how about you do what I do and just think of a really funny movie, like "Home Alone" or "Roger Rabbit" or something. That always works for me when I'm getting it.
**Stephanie:**
...Getting what?
**Charles:**
Well, you know, when your dad's pounding you! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Fullhouse |
Fuan no Tane / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The infamous "Tacit Agreement", pictured above. The nurses at an unnamed hospital have an unwritten rule... if you see a "baby" when walking from the delivery room to the maternity ward, never acknowledge it, never talk about it to anyone, *and for the love of God, don't hug it.*
"...the scariest part is that
*no one at the hospital will talk about it.* Which implies that *everyone* has seen this thing at some point, and (understandably) been scared shitless by it, but they *can't discuss it openly.* Imagine having that kind of experience, and having no one you can talk about it with—not even to check to make sure other people have seen it too, and you're not just going crazy. That damn thing would be hiding behind every pleasant sentence spoken between any coworkers in that place, undermining every positive emotion, making any smiles false, turning everyone into a liar, each person wondering, "Did they see it too? Are they thinking about it right now? How come no one else will talk about it? Am I the only one?" | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FuanNoTane |
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Shou Tucker's reappearance as a chimera. His spine was fused to whatever animal he was combined with in a way that makes his head look upside down. Also the fact that he talks entirely in a WHISPER after this event.
When Edward comes across the crime scene of one of Barry the Chopper's victims. Upon accidentally having the cover taken off her body, its position reminds Ed of the transmutation attempt on Trisha, and he gets a flashback of its horrible, pulsating face, causing him to (understandably) pass out from remembering it.
The scenes in the decaying, bombed out shell of a city. That's WWI era London. While that may not seem so disturbing, bear in mind that in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), it is said that every time alchemy is performed, some dead soul from that world will have to lend its energy to make it happen. Even if the manga/Brotherhood 'verse works differently, it's still creepy.
All the freaky shit from the first episode. When Al and Ed are in the Gate and Al is being forcibly pulled in, screaming for his brother to help him while Ed reached for him. Their hands barely touch for an instant and then Ed is screaming in disbelief, anger, and then bloodcurdling pain as he clutches the bloody stump of his leg.
The bird chimera that Cornello put together to resemble Rose's lover. Its repeated agonised cries of "ROSE" make it seem like the thing is in pain and Cornello created it by murdering various birds and using their soul, Al punches it out of its misery but even its death(although its unconfirmed if it died or if Al just knocked it out but if its dead then its a Mercy Kill) with it twitching and making horrible noises is pure Nightmare Fuel.
Cornello in general, while he's a joke villain in the Manga and Brotherhood, here he's a genuinely creepy antagonist who commits some utterly vile acts all while wearing a massive smile on his face throughout.
The time when Wrath, pre-"awakening", accidentally fused himself with a bed. It's a bit like the Tele-Frag article when you think about it.
When he fuses himself with Sloth and she is literally evaporating because Ed transmuted her into ethanol. The reaction with his body causes his skin to become permanently burned, and he tears free of her while screaming in pain.
Envy killing Ed via a blade through the chest with blood spewing everywhere. Top that off with a closeup shot of Edward's pupils dilating as he finally dies. And Envy's freaking huge Slasher Smile as he was doing so.
The Mind Screw moment when you see the flashback of Izumi trying to bring her baby back to life: It looks like the transmutation worked because her baby's body swells and actually starts crying, but it failed, and she hands her child to the Gate. The creepy shadow arms grab it and yank it back through the Gate while it's still crying. Izumi is shown remorsefully reaching out to her helpless baby as it is pulled away from her. When the Gate closes, she lets out a bloodcurdling scream.
Kimblee's method of dispatching his foes or just people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Plus unlike the Brotherhood version, this version of Kimblee forgoes any charm or etiquette, relishing causing death and pain out of ruthless nihilism and slowly turning human beings into bombs or mutilating them for kicks.
Speaking of Kimblee, like Barry the Chopper mentioned below, he is much more horrifying in the first anime and considering the Blue-and-Orange Morality of the Brotherhood counterpart, that's really saying something. In the Ishval flashback early on in the series, Kimblee is seen blowing up entire buildings with a Philosopher's Stone and laughing maniacally. And remember, this guy actually influenced Barry to become the serial killer he is now.
Kimblee's death deserves a special mention. He is first impaled by Scar in a duel at Liore and just when you thought he was already done, Kimblee crawls with the last of his remaining strength towards Al and transforms him into a walking time bomb. All while literally having his intestines blown apart, spewing blood from his mouth, and unleashing one of the most disturbing Nightmare Faces in the series. The man was so nihilistic and hell-bent on turning Alphonse's hollow armor into a bomb that he didn't even care what would happen to himself. And just to add more nightmarish undertones into his twisted philosophy on humanity and its pointlessness, Kimblee deliberately makes his armor react slowly with oxygen, just so Al can realize with time how pointless his efforts have been. And then he dies believing that no one could ever save him. Holy shit.
The death of Basque Grand at the hands of Scar. After Scar deconstructs his gray matter with alchemy, blood shoots out of his ears, nose and eye sockets in slow motion. Even creepier is how fragments of Red Stone shards fuse with the flesh on his tattooed arm upon contact.
In the video game Curse of the Crimson Elixir, the Elric brothers are sent to investigate the village of Bord'wan with Riza. You find the place in complete shambles — all the houses are blown out and many are covered with bloodstains (even the path you're walking on). It's dark as night, infested with scores of inky-black Golems, and has some suitably creepy music in the background.
An early chapter has the brothers investigating Shou Tucker's house. Know Resident Evil? You'll be getting familiar vibes walking through the mansion, but not because of zombies. When you look at Tucker's diary, it's clear that he's lost it. And then you find his glasses.
Near the end of the game, Ed's contact with the Crimson Stone causes him to end up in a blank white void. His only guide are blinking red lights, and touching them allows him to see Crowley's memories of his slow and steady descent into complete madness after failing again and again to create the perfect Golem body to place his lover's soul into.
In The Broken Angel (of which Elixir is a prequel to), Carmilla melting into a human-shaped mass of inky-black goo. Her screams of pain and rage don't help matters.
"Can I... eat him??"
The episode where people in a town are infected with a disease that slowly kills a person by turning their skin into a stone-like substance. Made all the worse with the closeup of one of its victims: Lydia, an innocent young woman, has her face disfigured so it resembles rotted, stony bark.
Lujon attempts to save a small boy from the disease with alchemy at one point. The poor kid pretty much exploded. While screaming in agony.
Also something of a Tear Jerker, but, at the end of the episode, the entire town has become infected with the illness. Their bodies are shown on-screen, and seeing all of them with the rocky skin is just flat-out horrifying.
The whole thing with being stuck inside the Gate. Wrath described it pretty well: Stuck there. Sentient. No way to escape. And now let's think about Al's body being there, surrounded by all those eyes...
Envy's final form in Conqueror of Shamballa. To put it into simple terms, the movie has Envy as this enormous dragon-like serpent, with razor-sharp fangs, that can move at lightning-quick speeds and more or less relies on the single emotion of envy. This, and witnessing dragon!Envy chomping down on Hohenheim, all of Hohenheim's blood gushing out and then dripping out of dragon!Envy's mouth... Brrrr....
Envy and Hohenheim in the movie. Hanging up there, having something pierced through your body, waiting for something finally to happen... Highly unsettling, especially considering the time period Hohenheim hung there in Envy's mouth!
The expression on Mustang's face as he is ready to kill himself in the Ishbal flashback episode is nothing short of haunting. What's worse is that unlike the Brotherhood incarnation, ||Mustang was the one who killed Winry's parents under orders from the military!||
Barry the Chopper. Unlike in the manga/Brotherhood anime, his sadism is not only played seriously, it's also terrifying. In episode 8, he kidnaps both Winry and Ed, with Ed tied to a chair with his automail arm taken off and Winry Bound and Gagged. He graphically talks about how he likes slicing people into pieces, makes several nightmare faces, slices Ed's arm, and mentally tortures him before finally trying to murder him.
There's also Ed's reaction during this scene. Keep in mind, he was twelve when this happened, and he reacts the same way anyone, especially a preteen boy, would. Not to mention he was all alone. Ed manages to escape his bondage by turning the chains into a spear; that's when Barry starts swinging, and Ed starts screaming. He's completely terrified. The only other time we've seen him so scared was when he and Al tried to bring their mother back. After Al and a few State Alchemists arrive to save them, Ed breaks down sobbing.
Ed: I thought he was going to kill me. I honestly thought I was gonna die. I was so scared... so scared...
Much later, Al meets Barry again, now as a disembodied soul attached to armor just like him, and — also unlike the manga — there is absolutely no humor attached to this. Al is terrified to see that the serial killer who almost murdered his brother and their friend is not only still alive, so to speak, but is more dangerous than ever before, and now the skull-faced psychopath has the government's blessing to kill as much as he pleases so long as he does it on the grounds of Lab 5.
Martel's death. It's roughly the same as in the manga, but the most major difference is that the actual killing is shown from Al's point of view. Also, Al told her to hide in his armor to get away from Bradley/Pride.
The way Greed's body contorts when he dies. His eyes are bulging, his skin is dried up, and his mouth is agape as if he wants to scream but can't. Ed's scream of agony as his dissolving body sinks into the floor makes it all the more chilling.
Hughes' death is only a little different in this version, but in a way that largely changes the atmosphere. The part with Lust is mostly the same, it's when Hughes goes to use the phone in the lobby. The random girl he runs into is replaced with the Fuhrer's secretary, who is the anime's version of Sloth and also tries to kill him. It gives it a kind of Paranoia Fuel feeling, like the homunculi can be anybody and anywhere, and there's nowhere to run.
That horrible thing that Ed and Al made when attempting to revive their mother? It lives on and eventually becomes Sloth.
In episode 50 of the series, Gluttony is unable to eat Alphonse in order to create the Philosopher's Stone due to his grief over Lust's death. Dante is annoyed with his inability to cooperate and erases the ouroboros tattoo on his tongue, reducing Gluttony to a mindless being whose only desire is to eat. This even shocks Envy, who seems scared of Gluttony's "pure" form.
The point in the movie where Gluttony chomps down on poor Wrath. He is caught between Gluttony's jaws, and blood oozes from his mouth. As Gluttony drags Wrath further in, a horrible crunch is heard as Wrath screams out in pain. By the time Al transmutes them both, Wrath appears to already be dead. It's especially horrifying in the dub, where Luci Christian actually sounds as though she's in horrible agony as she speaks.
Scar's older brother is revealed to have suffered Sanity Slippage. The combination of his lover's death, failing to revive her through human transmutation, and the imposing threat of a war on his home eventually pushed him over the edge. Using his own body, he misguidedly planned to create a Philosopher's Stone out of Ishval's people during the massacre to resurrect his dead beloved. He wandered out onto the battlefield completely tattooed and naked with Ax-Crazy eyes and tears streaming down his face as Scar watched in horror. It didn't end well.
Not to mention the reason he was naked; the sacrifice he made for human transmutation to bring back his lover/Lust? It's strongly implied to have been his own genitals. OUCH.
Eckhart and her Thule Society mooks in the movie crossing the Gate over into Amestris... and subsequently getting themselves transformed by whatever the hell's in there. The viewers can even see said mooks practically screaming as the Gate morphs them. When Hughes shoots a heavily mutated Eckhart on the return trip, it comes across as a blessing.
King Bradley revealing himself to be a homunculus is way more chilling and foreboding in the 2003 anime, certainly helped by the fact that in this version, The Reveal is much later in the series, and Bradley's true identity as the homunculus Pride had not even been foreshadowed. It's a much more terrifying version of the above mentioned change to Hughes' death, as it not only gives the idea that the homunculi can be everywhere and nobody is safe... but they also have so much hidden influence that ''the leader of the country'' is one of them.
Lust attacking Scar in the Central Library. The difference here is, instead of sporting her usual smirk, Lust instead goes into an almost doll-like, wide-eyed Slasher Smile, and it is unsettling◊.
The lifeless Nina dolls that Tucker has created in his attempts to revive her.
They just... stare blankly at everything, don't react at all, and seem unable to move or speak. Even after Tucker attempts to use Al's Philosopher's Stone to "finish" them, they're stillEmpty Shells. It's even more wrong considering how cheerful the original Nina was. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FullmetalAlchemist2003 |
Full Metal Panic! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Kaname's life in Japan was as good as over when Amalgam moved in on her and Sousuke with enemy agents ready to mow her down in case they can't get to her. And she feels responsible for civilians getting caught in the crossfire. **Kaname**: Innocent people are getting caught up in this! **Sousuke**: There's nothing we can do about it.
- At one point, a civilian gets wounded in the leg when Sousuke uses a frag grenade to take out one of Leonard's Alastors chasing after Kaname. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FullMetalPanic |
Fright Night (1985) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Whats wrong? Dont you want me anymore?
- Many of Chris Sarandon's line readings.
**Jerry:** *[casually]* Of course, now that I've been invited, I'll probably be dropping by *quite a bit*. *[mildly dark]* In *fact*, any time I *feel* like it.
- Jerry walking up to Charley's mother as she sleeps in bed, making good on his not-so-subtle threat to "drop by whenever I feel like it," all the while Brad Fiedel's score takes on a
**very** sinister note. The moment, however, is mitigated somewhat when Jerry suddenly turns and strolls out while whistling *Strangers in the Night* (though even that in itself is pretty menacing).
- The makeup effects on Amy toward the end. A particularly freaky scene where she turns into a freakishly cartoonish vampire with More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
- This also comes with a bit of Enforced Method Acting. William Ragsdale wasn't allowed to see Amanda Bearse's full makeup until they actually started shooting, and if you look at his face when she turns to attack him, you can see he's legitimately scared out of his mind.
- The scene where Evil Ed is revealed to be under the covers of Charley's mom's bed with a red wig. The wig's pretty narmy, but the face gives a legitimate Jump Scare.
- Also when he turns into a red-eyed wolf (a real one), and then after being stabbed through the heart by Peter, he slowly turns back into his human form, and what is meant by change is that a near-naked humanoid with a wolf's face slowly morphs back into a human shape which looks disturbing and demonic and the gurgle as he's slowly dying will leave an impact on you. In addition to the hand effect of solidifying back into a human shape as well.
- Billy Cole, Jerry's caretaker/partner who goes from Perpetual Frowner to Affably Evil in a nanosecond of his introduction.
- Also the fact that he was really hard to kill and wasn't even a vampire, but hinted to be a slime zombie monster as the graphic death scene of green slime and later sand gushing out of him and rapidly melting/decaying into a skeleton; and giving one last smile as its satisfied that it managed to scare the shit of out of our protagonists.
- Jerry going One-Winged Angel and becoming a creepy Bat Out of Hell, which was even originally the effect that Richard Edlund designed for the librarian ghost's One-Winged Angel form in
*Ghostbusters (1984)*, but it was kept out of that film because it was just too frightening for it.
- Ed's left alone in the alley after pranking Charley and Amy. He turns and sees Jerry standing not far away. Then Jerry starts to pursue him at a leisurely pace, and he flees. After five minutes or so, Ed thinks he's lost the vampire. THEN Jerry pops up behind him with a pleasant "Hello, Edward." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FrightNight1985 |
Fullmetal Alchemist / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This cheerful story focuses on two kids who, respectively, lose an arm and a leg and a
*whole body* while trying to bring back their beloved dead mother (the magnificent result of which is shown on the right).
Though an idealistic series, a certain mangaka threw in some vivid portrayals of horrific biological mutations, ridiculously murderous monsters, serial killers, utterly hellish warfare, and a sadistic deity.
Ladies and gentlemen, Hiromu Arakawa presents
*Fullmetal Alchemist*. For examples from the first anime see here.
# All spoilers are unmarked.
- Basically every form of Human Transmutation results in you getting tossed through the Gate of Truth — except for one form: Transmuting other people into a Philosopher's Stone. You pay no price — it's all on them.
- Isaac McDougal from Episode 1 of
*Brotherhood*. From his powers, to his plan for Central, to his increasingly unhinged facial expressions... augh. He mostly freezes people *from the inside out*, and at one point, he knocks a guard over, and it looks like the guy *shatters into bits*. Then there's at least one case where he boils another guard's body fluids, and we're only shown his hand, which is red and raw... And this guy claims he's just trying to get revenge on Bradley for Ishval.
- Episode 2 of
*Brotherhood*, "The First Day", is *full* of this. Ed and Alphonse's bodies disintegrating, the screaming, the blood...
- The
*thing* that Ed and Al created when trying to bring back their mother. All those twisted limbs, the pulsating, the horrible gaping mouth, the eyes and that strained, gasping noise... It's like the creature was struggling to breathe.
- Its ribs were
*sticking out of its chest,* and its limbs were halfway through its body in some places. And Al's soul was in its body. No wonder he blocked out that memory.
- The fact that... whatever it is wasn't actually Trisha is somehow both relieving and even more terrifying. On the one hand, Ed and Al didn't have to worry about their mom dying twice. On the other,
*two kids* managed to create *a complete Eldritch Abomination*.
- The same can be said for Izumi Curtis. In her attempt to bring her stillborn baby to life, she ended up losing her sexual organs and left with a misshapen thing. She is very relieved when Ed tells her it's not her child, but she still brought an unholy creature into the world just like her pupils.
- Shou Tucker himself. The very thought that a man could transmute his
*wife* and later his *five-year-old daughter* and her dog Alexander into a chimera is just nauseating in all sorts of ways. From Nina's garbled speech, *she wasn't even fully aware of what had happened*. Worse yet, remember, the chimera is half-dog. It's hard to tell how much of her understanding is Ninas or Alexanders. And then Scar shows up and Mercy Kills her.
- Also, Nina doesn't seem to be aware about what her dad did to her mom (at least not until Ed reveals the truth after seeing Nina as a chimera), which manages to be an unholy trinity of Nightmare Fuel, Tear Jerker, and Paranoia Fuel. Imagine someone you love doing that to your mother, while you're "blissfully" unaware, and they continue to simply
*pretend* to care about you.
- When Roy Mustang tells Ed and Al about Tucker's first chimera, there's a shot of a creature crouching in darkness◊, its face a grimace of agony, as Roy sombrely adds that the only thing it ever said was "I want to die", and that it either managed to starve itself to death or got someone to Mercy Kill it. Even worse, until Ed and Al found out the Awful Truth,
*no one* realized what Tucker had done, and Mrs. Tucker spent her last days as a mutated experiment suffering horrific pain.
- Shou's complete obliviousness to the idea that he did anything wrong is frightening all on its own. Anybody with a healthy mind would immediately realize that performing these kinds of experiments on humans, especially their own loved ones, is beyond immoral. Sociopath extraordinaire Shou Tucker intellectually understood that he would be convicted as a criminal if he was found out (sure enough, that's exactly what happened when Ed and Al pieced it together), but not only did he think that what he did to his wife and daughter was
*acceptable*, he expected to be *rewarded* for it. Remember, the only reason he was "rewarded" the first time is because he wasn't caught. In the *Brotherhood* anime, a scene is added after Ed is restrained by Al to keep him from beating Shou to death, where Shou picks up his State Alchemist pocket-watch and happily declares that he gets to *keep his job*. Ed immediately kicks the pocket-watch out of his hands where it breaks, and tells him that there's no way in hell he'll continue to be employed by the Military now that his secret is out.
- Consider this: it's pretty easy to figure out that something is wrong with Shou long before The Reveal, what with Roy's sombre recount of what happened to the first chimera i.e. Mrs. Tucker, the Scary Shiny Glasses, and his asocial personality which does not escape his five-year-old daughter Nina's notice and leaves her feeling lonely. Yet the sheer depths of Shou's depravity in his obsession with remaining a State Alchemist is such that he
*still* manages to be horrifying. A rare example of an Obvious Judas that still manages to shock viewers, because his actions are *that* horrible.
- Ed's nightmare after Nina's death is turned up to eleven in the
*Brotherhood* anime. It features a front view of the Nightmare Face of the resurrected "Trisha", while in the manga, it's only living Trisha with Blood from the Mouth. What made it infinitely worse is that he tried to play it off as not so different.
- Said nightmare then features Nina and Alexander turning into the chimera Shou made.
- Scar's M.O. as an alchemist killer. His right hand takes you apart from the inside out, which looks way more graphic and painful in the manga. Tucker's blood bursts from parts of his body, complete with a shot of his blank, dead eyed face. And then he was about to do this to Edward. As in,
*a child who had nothing to do with the war in Ishval!*
- Roy Mustang. Episode 53/54. What happens when Envy reveals he's the bastard who killed Hughes? Roy's facial expression immediately changes into
**the Death Glare to end all Death Glares**. Not to mention his personality does a complete 180, acting like a demon of unfathomable fury and rage has possessed him to torture and kill Envy in the most brutal, cruel, and frightening ways imaginable. Not to mention that after Envy tries to get Mustang to hesitate by *imitating Hughes*, Mustang's glare actually gets *worse.* Then comes a barrage of flames to Envy, making the whole scene as terrifying as watching The Emperor torture Luke Skywalker all over again.
- Not to mention, watching Roy char "Hughes" is rather unsettling. Even Envy was horrified that Roy could be so ruthless.
- The ways in which a Homunculus dies in the
*Brotherhood* anime — listening to them *scream in terror* as we see, in vivid, gory details, **each layer of the human body being rotted away layer by gruesome layer!**
- The inside of Greedling. Those huge, demonic screaming faces staring constantly at its victims behind a constantly-shifting, blood-red background.
- And Ling is
*still conscious* inside of all that. True, he took in Greed willingly, but it's still amazing he stayed sane in all of that.
- Also, notice when Ling is making the deal? We can see him grab and bite one of them!
- The armors with souls attached to them that were guarding Laboratory #5. There are sixty-six, or possibly even more revived souls like Barry the Chopper and the Slicer Brothers whose souls were sucked out of their bodies, in a process so painful that it prompts
*Barry the Chopper* to say matter-of-factly that he wishes that the perpetrators had just executed him. Unsurprisingly, a vast majority of those souls are completely off their rocker, just like the... people... who brought them back.
- The fate of the first Greed. He got melted down to his core... slow and painfully in a vat of molten metal. To make it worse, the Big Bad
*drank his remains*. Greed's reaction to this? **Insane laughter.**
- The making of the Philosopher's Stones... Which involves your body internally exploding and and getting your soul ripped out and trapped in a tiny, rock-sized container... along with probably a dozen more souls.
*And you are conscious. The whole time.* Those screams of despair aren't there for no reason... And it has been done for centuries...
- Maria Ross's "death". She gets flame broiled by Mustang in Episode 17, and her burnt corpse is very graphically displayed. It was actually a cadaver created by Mustang, but still...!
- Every single time Gluttony stares at the screen.
- Envy's true form. As if the idea of turning souls into Phlebotinum wasn't scary enough, this consists of seeing their distorted faces begging you for release from their tortured existence. A melting, dripping, mutating bodymash of emaciated faces begging for their mommies and/or death. The true form is upped to eleven in the anime. It's the way that all the faces are moving, all the time...
- During Ed's fight with Envy in this form, he hears one of the faces calling out "Big brother... wanna play?" Understandably, this immobilizes him due to reminding him (and the audience) of Nina Tucker.
- Envy's Sleep-Mode Size. It's particularly abhorrent and uncanny. Looks like the hybrid of a maggot, a human fetus, a caterpillar, and some wide-eyed fish. It also somewhat invokes Vagina Dentata.
- The disturbing imagery gets turned up even further in
*Brotherhood* in the scene where Marcoh defeats Envy. Misshapen heads vomiting out misshapen heads and tortured screaming.
- And then there's the almost
*half-melted*-looking Envy, writhing around on the ground while screaming for everyone to not look at him... *augh*.
- Gluttony's true form is shown several episodes/chapters before Envy's. His entire front half
*splits open*, baring his open ribcage, which extends from his jawline to his groin and rakes forward. His entire lower jaw is gone, leaving tusk-like ribs near his jawline, and his exposed, Ouroboros-tattooed tongue slavering in the open air. Looking inside the opening reveals nothing but inky blackness and a single eye, almost exactly like the one in the Door of Truth. And then he goes on an insane rampage, *erasing* large sections of the landscape with what appears to be some sort of invisible Kamehame Hadoken, but is actually him *extending his ribcage faster than the eye can see* and swallowing whatever he catches. From the most cheerful, childlike, and seemingly least dangerous and malicious Homunculus, this was a *nasty* surprise.
- And then he
*eats* Ed, Ling, and Envy, and we're treated to an inside view of his stomach; or rather, where everything he eats goes. It is an infinite, featureless plane, with chunks of all the evidence, ruins, and people Gluttony's ever eaten still intact inside. The plane is filled with a similarly infinite ankle-deep *sea of blood.* Worst of all is how, as Envy fatalistically explains, there is *no way out*. The place is another dimension: literally infinite. The only thing normal people can do is wander in the sea of blood, waiting to die. Ed finds a way out, but that method isn't pretty either, and if it weren't for Envy's Philosopher's Stone, probably fatal.
- The episode...
*The Ishvalan War of Extermination*. It's as horrible and nightmarish as it sounds. We see Amestrian soldiers gunning down civilians of all ages en masse, the sheer horror of the genocide, and learn the scary reality of what it means to be a sniper from Riza Hawkeye herself. Seeing all the horror makes one understand why Scar despises Amestrians for much of the story.
- Pride, what with all the giant mouths and eyes as his true form inside a human child-looking container. And the anthropophagy. And the homunculus cannibalism. And all those Slasher Smiles after eating Gluttony. Enfant Terrible indeed. More so in
*Brotherhood* than the manga, since apparently Studio BONES learned a bit when they animated *Soul Eater*; he grins like Medusa.
- As Gluttony dies pleading for Pride to stop and crying out in pain, Edward and Ling stare in pure horror and disgust, realizing just how ruthless Pride truly is.
- Especially in the anime, where he absorbs Kimblee... alive. Worst part is, you watch it from Kimblee's point of view, and those jaws... those horrible jaws... then... CHOMP.
- And in the end, when Kimblee reveals that he's still alive within Pride, because the sounds of all the people screaming in agony, non-stop, is like music to his ears.
- Don't forget, all of this is coming from a kid, whose first appearance is gushing over Ed. When you re-watch it, all of Selim's interactions prior to being found out as Pride are incredibly creepy, akin to a predator toying with its prey.
- Here's one in the manga that is more psychological horror than a scary image, but still pretty scary. Riza discovers Pride's identity. Pride is a Living Shadow of eyes and mouths and likes to rip people to shreds or eat them (that's the visually scary part). What makes it even scarier, is that Pride can basically appear anywhere there's a shadow, so for several scenes, Riza is paralyzed with terror just by seeing a shadow near her, as Pride could devour her at any time and could hear everything she said. Luckily, she is able to pass a coded message to Mustang and escape from this, but it's still pretty horrifying she could die from a single misstep.
- What happened in Hohenheim's backstory. Realizing way too late that you may have made a
*huge* mistake in helping your friend in the flask, just before everyone starts dropping like flies, an ENORMOUS eye opens up beneath you that sucks you in, and your body is disassembled while you shriek in fear and agony. And *then* waking up to discover that you're the only one still alive in your ENTIRE COUNTRY, have been manipulated into practically causing genocide against your own people and thus share responsibility of the horror — and *then* discovering you've become immortal and the souls of half of the inhabitants of your country are within you, screaming in pain, sorrow and anger *every minute*? The Scream says it best.
- Add to that his realization that because the Homunculus was made from his blood, it mirrored his own desires: When he was a slave, he wanted freedom and knowledge, at least subconsciously.
- The sounds of Xerxes' end. You can hear people crying out in fear or pain as the transmutation spreads — then a shock wave runs from the center of the circle, and the cries stop. Dead.
- The Cyclops soldiers, which look like the unholy spawn of the Mass-Produced Evas and an especially ugly zombie. The
*Brotherhood* anime has them all awaken with a chorus of horrible screeching. Like millions of souls screaming of unexplainable torture. Equally disturbing is their tendency toward creepy giggling and Psychopathic Manchild behavior which along with some of them calling for their parents strongly implies the ravenous monsters contain children's souls.
- When Envy recreated his body using those said Cyclops soldiers. They basically devoured each other and then formed an abomination/blob.
- A small but still frightening moment comes just before Envy restores his body. Watching May run from all of the mannequin soldiers, with little to no help, looks like something out of a horror movie. If Envy had waited to absorb the mannequins, since watching them eat May wouldn't be out of character at all for the little sadist, then she would've been in for a rather gruesome fate.
- Father's 'true' form in Chapter 97, a black humanoid thing with huge eyes all over of his 'body', the mouth, and how the black goo-thingy came out of his body.
- It's not helped by the fact that he immediately eats his own skin in an animalistic way with only his mouth showing at first before revealing his eyes.
- It's implied that the blob is actually a small bit of Father's true form; there is a giant eye in the middle of the dark ceiling and when he absorbs all of Amestris, he's revealed to actually be this giant black cyclops. That thing had been living underneath Amestris for centuries.
- Chapter 102, when the Homunculi
*force* Roy to open the Gate, and he loses his eyesight *even though he didn't do anything*.
**Mustang**: "What are you talking about? Are you *with me,* Fullmetal?"
**Ed**: "Huh? What are you talking about..."
**Mustang**: "It's pitch black... I can't see a thing. Where are we? Can you see any lights?"
- The...
*thing*... which was created from Pride using the Gold-Toothed Doctor as 'raw materials' for the transmutation. Sure, he deserved it, but *still*...
- The Blind Alchemist Gaiden/OVA. Not just physical horror, either. The sheer psychological shock is pretty disquieting as well.
- To be more specific, Ed and Al hear word of an alchemist named Jude, servant of a noble family, who has successfully performed Human Transmutation to bring back their daughter Rosalie after her untimely death. For this, he has to pay a toll of both his eyes, rendering him incapable of seeing the smiles return to his masters' faces. The kicker? The Humbergang family is actually lying to him to spare his feelings. Not only did he fail to revive her daughter, they wind up adopting a young girl to pretend to be Rosalie in order to keep up the charade. Meanwhile, a room in the house now contains a bed hosting the zombified remains of what was brought back during the Human Transmutation. And given what we discover about Ed's attempt at reviving Trisha, it's not even the real Rosalie in that bed.
- Chapter 104. Everyone is dead.
*Everyone*. Havoc? Breda? Falman? Fuery? They're dead. The Briggs soldiers in Central and in the East? Dead. Winry? Dead. Pinako? Dead. Gracia and Elysia? Dead. The Ishvalans, the people in Rush Valley, the Youswell coal miners, every cast member that has ever made an appearance in the series is dead, their souls stored inside a monster. Their bodies? Empty like the people of Xerxes.
- Episode 61 "He Who Would Swallow God": after Father absorbs God instead of the normal intro song we're shown everyone whose souls were taken in complete silence.
- In
*Brotherhood*, they show the Ishval Massacre. The parts that show the Ishvalan civilians being trapped in the city and mowed down mercilessly while they scream for help (particularly images of the *children* being shot to pieces) is very haunting. The music and Deliberately Monochrome effect do not help.
- Father answers the question: "What if I was to give birth to
*humans*?" The humans he means? *Hohenheim's friends from Xerxes*, who are emaciated and barely conscious as they walk with a Zombie Gait while bursting from Father's humanoid body. The King is in there, still thinking that he is immortal. And then Father proceeds to nuke them all into oblivion. Those poor souls have been trapped for centuries in an endless torrent of crazed, screaming companions, only to abruptly obtain freedom — giving them just enough time to see the world, and then be blown away to nothing.
- And that's only in the anime — the manga's version of this scene was
. Right before Father proceeds to vaporize the Xerxesians, you can see their bodies rapidly decomposing as they stumble about — **somehow even worse** *and they don't even seem to realize it the entire time*. Their eyes begin *melting* out of their sockets and the King's jaw begins to fall off as he tries to talk to Hohenheim. Father reducing them all to ashes almost comes off like long overdue Mercy Kill for them.
- The characters' reactions to the sight of this says all that needs to be said about it: they're horrified at the sight before them, and Alphonse says aloud that everything about this is completely and utterly
. **wrong**
- Half Nightmare Fuel and half Tear Jerker, but Izumi's reaction to the zombie
*baby* trying to get her attention suggests that she's trying not to vomit from sheer emotional shock.
- In Chapter 106 of the manga, Pride's body is slowly falling apart from forcing Roy to open the Gate. So what does he decide to do? He makes a cut on Ed's face and forces his shadow arms inside to take over Ed's body as a new container. You can see the shadows force their way inside and slowly spread across Ed's face and shoulders.
- The
*Brotherhood* version, where he gives his speech, then uncovers his eye to reveal that *half his face is just a gaping hole into a raging storm of tormented, screaming souls*. And then some of his shadows stick out of where his eye socket should be! OWOWOWOWOW. It's heavily implied that Pride feels no pain from that.
- Pride is really,
*really* angry in that scene in sharp contrast to his normal unflappable self. Moments before he tries to take over Ed's body, he *screams* furiously at him, with that creepy Voice of the Legion of his.
- In Chapter 107, Ed finally regains his right arm. This is a good thing, right? Except... if you look closely, you can see there are now automail parts
*fused into his flesh* where the arm regrew. Not to mention the fact that it looks like it belongs on a malnourished beggar, particularly in contrast to his other arm.
- Father's original form, "The Dwarf In The Flask", because it seems like he's the embodiment of pure evil, and you don't even expect or even know it, more or less, is somewhat frightening.
- Father getting trapped in the gate by Truth. The
*Brotherhood* episode came out, and watching Truth talking with a cold indifference while Father gets pulled in complete with him *screaming and sobbing, asking for repentance*.
- When Lust is burned to death in Episode 19. Dear
*God,* that scene. When Roy sets her alight the first two times she gasps in pain, then the third time we get a good look at what's left of her scorched face as she starts to scream. And then he does it again and again and *again* and she keeps screaming in utter agony. No doubt she deserves it, but *damn* is it hard to listen to.
- Just before Lust is completely incinerated, she lunges at Roy whilst roaring with rage. The look on her face◊ as she does so is
*terrifying*. It stands in sharp contrast to how calm and collected she usually is.
- Then there's Envy's turn to get burnt. The man known as Roy ceased to exist for a few moments, replaced by some wild primitive beast man that happened to look like him. And one of the first things he does is set Envy's eyes on fire! "How does it feel to have the liquid in your eyes boil?!" Though he was talked back to his senses.
**Envy:**
(
*writhing in what can only be assumed to be horrible agony*
) MY EYYYYYEEEESSS!!!! THEY'RE
*GOOOONNNNE!!!*
- The moment in Chapter 107 when Greedling punches God!Father in the eye and it shows
*his hand stuck in his* *eye socket*. Nerves seem to be traveling from said eye-socket, under Greedling's skin, and up his arm, trying to take his Philosopher's Stone with him.
- Episode 41. The scene where Ed gets gored
*through the stomach* by the beam. Edward's bone-chilling screams of pain as the Chimeras pulled it out of his stomach as he simultaneously healed himself. He was *burning through his soul* to do so. This with him screaming in agony and trying desperately to focus through the pain for just long enough to seal his wound.
-
*The Sacred Star of Milos*. There was one hell of a cure for insomnia when the man we thought to be Long Lost Sibling of Julie Crichton, Ashleigh, reveals that he was actually a former bodyguard who murdered her parents, ripped off skin with the tattoo of half the Milos transmutation circle and the face of her brother and *grafted* both of them to his body. This was just after he impaled her friend and his underling with a sword that opens up to drain their blood so it could fill the city wide 3-dimensional transmutation circle, and before he *tore* off skin with the tattoo from his body so he could match it up with the one on her body. And we later find out not only was her real brother fully conscious when his face was ripped off, but he *survived* it when he appeared to give his identity thief a very painful death.
-
*Sacred Star* also has the Industrialized Evil of the city-wide transmutation circle. The *entire city* was built into a machine for mincing people and turning them into a Philosopher's Stone; we don't see what it does to the soldiers, but we do see a *lot* of blood going through the pipes. Notably, no homunculi seem to have been involved; the whole thing was, to all appearances, of purely human construction.
- The Gold Tooth Doctor's creepy Slasher Smile, from one of the most depraved characters in the series. Not only did he make the failed Wrath-would-bes monsters, the bastard slit Riza's throat, nearly killing her. She's left bleeding out on the floor as Roy is torn between screaming at Gold Tooth in rage and screaming for Riza to stay alive.
- While he is a bastard for being so willing to sacrifice most of Amestris just to become immortal and being a Dirty Old Man, General Raven really doesn't have any nightmarish qualities about him. However, one of the eyecatches of the episode wherein he's killed by Olivier Mira Armstrong shows Raven with this utterly sinister◊ Slasher Smile, revealing his true nature.
- The Liore Riot. Even after Cornello's defeat, Envy ended up impersonating him and used his charisma to turn the populace into a howling lynch mob obsessed with bringing "the Father's word" to the world. Disagreements began, and what began as a simple riot became what is described as the
*single bloodiest conflict* in the entire history of the world, full of massacres, destruction and Cold-Blooded Torture. The fact that Liore is still around afterwards is nothing short than a miracle.
- It's even worse in
*Brotherhood* than in the manga, since we see the riots *immediately* start at the end of the episode, and there's a *huge* raging mob outside the church... Not helping is how *Rosé* of all characters tries to pull a gun on the Elric brothers for what they did.
- This isn't even the first time Envy has pulled this off. The powder keg that was the annexation of Ishval only descended fully into a war of extermination after Envy took the guise of a soldier who had been
*against the occupation*, offered a seemingly friendly smile to a child to come across like the same guy, then shot that child in cold blood. The fact he can do this kind of thing taking the visage of someone who's either been shamed or who would seem completely OOC doing what he intends to do with his look, yet still get all the desired effects is extremely frightening. Imagine your staunchly anti-war relative initiating a shootout at the local police department which goes so bad it sets an entire town into lockdown. **Envy can do that. In fact Envy gets his kicks that way.**
- In a smaller (but nonetheless completely horrifying) instance, Envy uses this trick to get the drop on Hughes. Hughes had just escaped from Lust, seen through Envy's charade as Lt. Maria Ross, and palmed a knife to stab Envy with. Then Envy shapeshifts into Hughes' wife. The look of despair on his face right before he dies is heartbreaking. Well, except to Envy, who brags about it later on two separate occasions.
- Hughes' death, full-stop, from how
*sudden* the scene was (in the manga, anyway; *Brotherhood* extended it a bit). The last thing Hughes sees before he dies is something that looks exactly like his beloved wife, smiling as she is about to murder him. Contrary to how happy he usually is to see her, the look on his face right before Envy pulls the trigger is pure horror and despair, and then he's gone. That is the last face the reader sees him make alive. The next shot of him is *his blood-soaked corpse*, still lying in the phone booth with Envy long gone.
- Not helping is how Hughes had attempted to call Roy, only to get killed just before/as Roy answered the phone. Roy naturally freaks out after he calls Hughes's name and gets no answer for it, making for some in-universe Nothing Is Scarier.
- After Scar captures Tim Marcoh, he decides that it'll be easier to travel if Marcoh can't be recognized, so he
*blows the skin of his face off*, complete with lots of blood and a close-up of Marcoh's eye between his fingers that clearly shows *exposed muscle*. And he's *crying from the pain*. All of this happens without the slightest bit of warning beforehand.
- When Envy confirms to Mustang that he's the one who killed Hughes —
*and then shifts into Gracia again*, just to rub in the fact that Hughes was killed by someone wearing the form of his beloved wife. It's really quite dreadful to watch the face of the normally kind and gentle Gracia wearing a huge, demented grin as her husband's killer babbles about how great the 'utter shock, the dumb confusion' on Hughes' face was as he died. Naturally, this slams down *hard* on Mustang's Berserk Button.
- Mustang ripping the Philosopher's Stone out of Lust only for her body to regenerate around it. The image of it is
*not* pretty, and serves to remind you that Lust is a monster in both the figurative *and* literal sense.
- In "Yet Another Man's Battlefield," a Freeze-Frame Bonus is one you may want to miss. When Maes Hughes shoots Heathcliff Erbe (who'd just shot Roy), the look on his face is one you'd never expect to see on the guy: unrestrained, sheer fury mirroring Heathcliff's own furious despair. Considering we never see anything quite like this with him, it's actually quite disturbing and terrifying to see, and makes one wonder what Maes might have gone on to do if Roy had been killed. Take a look for yourself at 1:46.
- From the same: his response to Roy's Armor-Piercing Question at 3:16. That desperate look in his eyes gives away that yes, he has realized the horror of the guilt of which Roy speaks as well as how very little he can do about it now.
"Can you really hold the woman you love, with your blood-stained hands?"
- The incident weighs on both men so much that Roy has to ask for 30 seconds to recuperate and get back up and Hughes gives him that time, neither man moving a muscle. The sun was down at the start of the 30 seconds. It was up again by the time they finished. That's a hell of a weight to carry on your shoulders. It also makes it look pretty freaky when Roy, Maes, Gracia, and some walking soldiers seen in a far shot from above are the only ones moving in the train station scene afterward.
- When Scar is healed by his brother in Ishval, he is helped by Winry's parents and wakes up in a medical tent. In the last attack, he'd lost his arm... so you can understand his confusion and horror when it looks like he woke up
*with his brother's arm in its place*. No wonder he had a major Freak Out.
- Episode 27,
*Interlude Party*, or Hohenheim's flashback/dream episode, just for how... *weird* it is. It starts out normal enough, looking like a flashback to an old conversation between Hohenheim and Pinako at a party of some kind. Then the younger Pinako makes reference to stuff she shouldn't know about yet (Ed and Al's transmutation attempt), Hohenheim starts fatalistically talking about how hopeless everything is while the other people there seemingly start dropping like flies, and Father randomly shows up at one point and attempts to give a Breaking Speech to Pinako. And then he grabs her and *rips her face off*, only for her to *turn into Hohenheim*. And it's all interspersed with bits of previous episodes, just making it weirder. Sure, it's implied that Hohenheim may have drank himself to sleep, since there's a bottle next to him when he wakes up, but *still*... It's one creepy Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FullmetalAlchemist |
Friendship is Betrayal / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
You can guarantee that almost every arc will end with at least one. Celestia ||executing Luna||. What happens to ||Gilda|| at the end. Fluttershy ||blinding the Red Dragon, which then commits suicide||. ||What Rarity does to the lead Diamond Dog when he resists her brainwashing||.Rarity: ||A disobedient dog should be put out of his misery||. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FriendshipIsBetrayal |
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The very last shot of the finale. Lord knows how Sōsuke got out of that alive...
- One word: POOONYYYYY!!!
- Episode 3 of
*Fumoffu* has an interesting case when Sousuke envisions Kaname being tortured. The visual is of her being tickled with feathers, but because it's heavily pixelated, the viewer's imagination is entirely likely to fill in the details of something much, much worse.
- The case of Kaname being kidnapped and Sousuke retaliates by kidnapping the gang leader's sibling and threatening to do the same with the other delinquents by visiting their relatives. ||Although the leader's sibling was cool in playing along since he was getting a toy.||
- It's Played for Laughs, but the fact Sosuke is completely unable to get Karate even with Kaname explaining him the thing twice is unsettling. Especially if you're the unlucky guy facing him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FullMetalPanicFumoffu |
Friday The 13th: The Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- There were a lot of disturbing situations in the series, despite its overall cheesiness. One of the freakiest episodes, "The Long Road Home", involved a body-transferring amulet. A corrupt hick with a penchant for stuffing animals (and people) is shoved down the stairs by a chair containing the decayed stuffed corpse of his grandfather and is on the verge of death; rather than dying, he transfers his mind into the corpse. Normally, this would restore the corpse to a living, intact condition, but perhaps being rotten and stuffed with sawdust was too much to overcome. When the madman reappears, he hisses eerily, "Why die?", as if even life as a decaying monster is better than death to him. (Unfortunately, captioning revealed that he actually says "Party time," which while a Call-Back to something he said to his brother earlier in the episode is too trite to be really scary.)
- His abdomen got slashed at one point, and when he runs out of the house his foot gets caught in a trap set in a nearby tree, at which point he's hoisted up by his ankle and the corpse's rotted insides and sawdust start spilling out due to the wind as he screams in agony.
- The episode with "Mesmer's Bauble" is quite disturbing. A homely guy uses it to make himself popular and handsome so that he can become the love of a singer he had a crush on. But then he decides loving her is not enough...he has to
*be her*. Cue a scene where he is literally melting into her body. And if that wasn't bad enough, when the bauble is removed all the wishes are canceled causing him to revert from a beautiful woman to a homely man in an equally disturbing way. *And this all happens onstage in front of a live audience.*
- We never found out what the scarecrow did with the heads it collected. Perhaps they were planted in the ground as literal seeds for the good harvest?
- Veda, the Creepy Doll from the pilot episode "The Inheritance", is
*evil* with a capital E-V-I-L, and the girl who ends up with her is just as bad. (Is the doll influencing her? Was she already somewhat bad to begin with? Or is it a little bit of both?) Mary's also one of the few possessors of an artifact to survive the episode, and in the end she actually got what she wanted (her strict stepmother's dead and she has her indulgent father to herself again) - what might she become when she grows up?
- No list of this series' Nightmare Fuel can be complete without mentioning "My Wife As A Dog". It's bad enough that the cursed collar starts turning the man's "disobedient" wife into a dog. The ending makes it worse because the bad guy WON. While the collar is eventually recovered and taken back to the shop, the original wife is still very much a golden retriever.
- The Rapid Aging deaths in "Cup of Time" and "Face of Evil." Also in the latter, the model who gets horribly burned by igniting her aerosol spray.
- The Body Horror in "Faith Healer." Both the disease healed when the preacher first uses the glove, and the cancer which Jack's friend wants healed, are horrifically superb makeup jobs. (But then, the episode
*was* directed by David Cronenberg...)
- Watching a "Tattoo" come to life and attack you is bad enough, but when it's a scorpion...?
- The entire concept of "Brain Drain" is terrifying—not only is it based on the Real Life practice of trepanation that is already Nightmare Fuel, but it goes beyond that into pulling out intelligence and sentience along with spinal fluid. On top of
*that*, the scenes where the machine is used are cringe-inducing between the poor victim writhing and screaming as they are strapped in the chair and the look of ecstasy on the villain's face as he uses it. Having it used on Jack's Old Flame was just the last awful touch, especially when it seems her memories and personality were absorbed into the villain...
- What happens to the victims of the escape cabinet in "The Great Montarro" is bad enough, all off-screen for the most part but testified to with a vengeance by the sheer amount of blood that leaks out of it, but when the latest victim is freed from it so that the impalement is reflected back onto Montarro, we get to see in all its gory detail just what happened to him.
- If you need any more reason to be afraid of dentists, "The Electrocutioner" gives you one more, where the dentist's chair is actually a cursed electrocution chair that literally dissolves you into energy when you're strapped into it, for the villain to then absorb when he sits in it. The way he received these powers during his botched execution and what happens to him in the end are also rather horrific.
- In "Better Off Dead", it's a toss-up which is most horrifying: the nature of the villain's experiments that result in wild, savage victims drained of a certain chemical in their brains, the fact this happens not only to a friend of Micki's but also (temporarily) to Micki herself, or when the villain's daughter (for whose sake he was carrying out his scheme, to create the vaccine needed to heal her hyper-violence) attacks him and literally tears his throat out.
- The acid death given to one of the high-school rapists in "Crippled Inside" is both this and Nausea Fuel.
- Both the makeup job on the user of the hearing aid in "Stick It In Your Ear" when they are being overwhelmed by collected thoughts, and the scenes where they bloodily rip the hearing aid out, are graphically disturbing. The climax, in front of a late show's live studio audience, is especially horrific. Seeing the hearing aid pulse like a beating heart is also unsettling.
- In "Mightier Than the Sword", all of Alex Dent's victims are basically possessed by the evil of the fountain pen, forced to commit countless murders, and only freed of the curse right when they're about to die...in other words, waking up with no memory of what they did, only to end up executed for something they're actually innocent of. The poor fellow in the Cold Open actually gets put in the gas chamber onscreen, pleading to see his wife and begging for mercy while the villain watches with wicked satisfaction. Even worse is that the pen gets used on Micki, and while it's not clear why (perhaps because the villain is killed by her, perhaps because she had the evil drained from her without then being killed herself), she retains enough memories of what she became under its influence as to have a quite terrifying nightmare of herself attacking Jack and slashing his throat open. Needless to say, poor Micki is left very traumatized as the credits roll. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FridayThe13thTheSeries |
Funny Games / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Terrifying not because of any of the usual horrific creatures or supernatural occurrences, but because it's just
*people*, there's never any question of that, and they do it all with friendly, reasonable smiles. You'll be looking over your shoulder for days. "Can we borrow some eggs?"
- The sudden appearance of the opening and closing credits featuring "Bonehead" by Naked City are intentionally startling and unsettling. The end credits in particular, with Paul staring straight at the audience for the entirety of them, feel deeply disturbing - after the utter downer of an ending, and knowing what's going to happen to the people in the house Paul has just entered after those credits end.
- The fact that Paul and Peter casually murder Georgie is already bad enough. It gets worse when one considers that the two men were first seen harassing the Farbers' neighbors and that they already killed off the neighbors' daughter, who is a young child just like Georgie.
- Even after Paul and Peter leave the Farbers alone, the scenes without them are still rather tense as given the way the two of them were toying with the family, there is a good chance that their unexpected exit was just another trick...which it was.
- The way one of the killers rewound the movie after the mother kills one of the pair, thereby completely changing the scene, can be very disturbing.
- The final scene where Peter and Paul take the mother on one final boat ride is incredibly tense, due in part to the fact that there's barely anything going on until near the end. It's mostly just Peter and Paul contemplating reality while the Bound and Gagged mother sits between them trying to free herself, only for one of the boys to catch her and toss the knife away, waiting an agonising couple of seconds before the other unceremoniously shoves her into the ocean and they continue talking like nothing happened. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FunnyGames |
Future Card Buddyfight / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Hundred:
- In the beginning of the 1st episode of Hundred, Yamigedo is eating a planet after it was destroyed by the Hundred Demons
- Ikazuchi was tricked by First Knight of the Apocalypse, Gratos into releasing Yamigedo's seal. Then, the Fuchigami Clan was turned to stone and Ikazuchi had his memories altered by Gratos to believe he was abused by his clan and that he knowingly unsealed Yamigedo to get revenge on them.
- In 37th Episode of Hundred, Gratos assembled the Inverse Fiends to do the Yamigedo Seal Prevention Formation to thwart the Omni Lord's Sealing Ritual. With that, Yamigedo was able to successfully metemorphise into O-Yamigedo.
- In the 38th episode of Hundred, Yamigedo awakens on the moon evolved into Specter of Darkness Wasteland, O-Yamigedo and devours the Eight Omni Lords, and their allies and proceeds to head to Earth from the Moon. Also, The Inverse Fiends have their Inverse Omni Lords.
## DDD:
- The whole 10th episode of DDD has Gao turning into a fish.
- One of the scenes of the 11th episode of DDD has Gao still as a fish.
- During Gaito's flashback about his pet Sparrow, a cat appears, and kills the sparrow
*onscreen*, traumatising the poor kid.
## Ace:
- In the 11th Episode of Ace, Ranma falls off the cliff.
- In the 13th Episode, 19th Episode and 23rd Episode of Ace, When Vile Ranma covers the flag to Lost World, Vanity Husk Destroyer appears in his large form with a roar.
- In the 29th Episode of Ace, When Haru tells his brother that he's now an ally of Lost World. Both the background and the music is dark and scary. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FutureCardBuddyfight |
From Concert to Chaos / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
If you've read the story, you'll know that
*From Concert to Chaos* is *not* for the faint-hearted.
- The second part of Chapter 4. Imagine if you were in the same situation as Miku and Rin, being brutally and senselessly attacked by two people, you didn't even know existed, who are out for your blood, and blaming you for
*something you didn't even do*.
- Or even more to the point, imagine if you were unfortunate enough to be in the audience as this whole thing was going on. You and more than 16,000 others (including more than 5,000 children) are now trapped in a huge wall of fire. People are catching on fire and being trampled all around you, and there is an unimaginable amount of panic.
- The part when a now homicidal Zatsune manages to escape from prison and is now hell bent on killing Miku. Yes you heard that right. She had already beaten her to within inches of her life, and now she plans of
*MURDERING HER*. And that part in Chapter 7, right before the final showdown, where she is gleefully saying that she'll make sure that Miku suffers as slow and painful a death as possible. Brrrrr. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FromConcertToChaos |
Fury (2014) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
After a fair bit of brutal street fighting, which ends with the Germans surrendering after the American tanks and soldiers pour a sea of bullets and shells into the buildings they are fighting from, we see the German soldiers marching out with their hands up. Most of them are obviously children. Not in the New Meat sense like Norman, but literal Child Soldiers. The monstrous SS officer forcing the children to fight against the Americans is summarily pointed out by the Germans and executed on the spot by the Americans.
- The execution of said monstrous SS officer in the town can be a bit unsettling. The fucker certainly deserves it, but there is no ceremony, no "And This Is for..." statement, or anything. Wardaddy simply asks the
*Burgermeister* if thats the guy responsible for hanging kids. The *Burgermeister's* traumatized Blunt "Yes" reply indicates his own disgust with the man, but he clearly seems to think the American troops will conduct some kind of their famed democratic process and perhaps take him away formal trial, or at least take the guy out back and out of sight before wasting him. Instead, he's simply placed in a clear line of fire while the infantry sergeant calls one of his guys to pull the trigger. The soldier selected looks like the Angel of Death (they even call him "Angel") in a GI uniform: clothes disheveled, helmet and hood pulled low over his eyes, face shadowed and only barely visible, but carrying an unmistakable Death Glare nonetheless, and an M1A1 Thompson submachine gun best suited for close-range combat. He gruffly shoves the *Burgermeister* out of his way, sprays a dozen rounds into the SS officer's chest, then keeps walking without batting an eye. The mayor is stunned at the nonchalance of the whole thing. **Wardaddy:** [In German] Is he the one whos been hanging kids? **Wardaddy:** [Pointing] Shoot that guy. **Infantry Sergeant:** Thisun? **Wardaddy:** Yeah, him. The SS cocksucker with the busted wing. **Infantry Sergeant:** [Grinning] Hey, Angel! This one's yours! *Auf weidersehen*, asshole!
- The SS officer himself is unnerving too; he's completely emotionless even when it's clear he's going to die, and the way his body jerks and shakes as he's gunned down doesn't look human either. It's possible he didn't realize what was happening until "Angel" raised his gun but it's also possible he was well aware of it and maintained his cold, emotionless demeanor all the while. It's hard to tell which is worse. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Fury2014 |
From Fake Dreams / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Shirou stumbling upon vampire victims for the first time. Not just for the standard zombie apocalypse factor, but also for the small insight we get into his mental process for not being able to make it in time to save the first victims.
- How Louvre kicks the bucket. Truly horrifying, it nearly feels like a slasher movie turned on its end with the human actually Horrifying the Horror.
- First, Shirou gets rid of his regeneration power by forcefully binding his time stream to Gaia's. This has Louvre doubt his sanity.
- Then, Shirou bestows upon him the full extent of what the cursed sword Kiritsugu is capable of: not merely crippling magic circuits, but even the SOUL, therefore destroying memories. He ends up an undignified, blubbering mess that is just scared witless of Shirou, before being finished by his Storm of Blades.
- Some Dead Apostles missions Shirou had to deal with.
- Witch!Caster ||turns her Master into a living wand||—which involves putting her in a test-tube, unable to scream or move.
- Chapter 37 mentions a Sealing Designate who tried to make Pokemon. Harmless, right? Then we get to know what happened when they found it:
- Shirou being a very unique hybrid case of... an Incarnation of the sword element, a Living Apostle, with taint from dragon, monster, and divine blood, and protected by a very powerful Fae artifact... This makes for a very peculiar regeneration process when all of these bits work together to fix his body as it gets broken in more and more... creative ways. For example, the sight of him regenerating a blown up heart out of blades causes every Servant on the scene to pause in abject incomprehension or outright disgust, even outright monsters like Rider.
- Shirou's Apostle instincts acting up when he runs on fumes and instinctively making him want to bite anyone close.
- Assassin!Kiritsugu's situation. Not only he's forced to serve the whims of a mad witch,
*his children are contestants in the Holy Grail War*, meaning he could be forced to hurt them. The scene where he almost uses an Origin Bullet on Archer - a future version of Shirou - is nothing short of fear.
- Archer's past is this for Rin, moreso when he reveals he was executed and she was
*probably* right there.
- Shirou's reaction to seeing Archer and taking in the whole of his life and existence as a Counter Guardian, reduced to a blurbing, quivering mess, finally realizing what Kiritsugu wanted to prevent, only able to profusely apologize.
- Witch!Caster messing around with Sakura's curse in front of Archer:
- This could have led to a berserk shadow unleashed with all the nightmare factor from the
*Heaven's Feel* route.
- Or push Archer into killing (likely again!) Sakura to save the world.
- Fina proving in Chapter 58 why he is NOT a foe to be trifled with, taking hostages among Shirou's protectorate. Given his track record, this means Fina signed in for a horrible death.
- Two hostages get remotely spared... but the last one ends up in Tear Jerker territory.
- Chapter 59 has an Internal Reveal with Lorelei finding about a LOT of the secrets Waver and Sirius had been hiding, which means a horrible fate might still await Shirou, Waver and everyone involved.
- She knows about him having a Reality Marble, and that he becomes a Servant in an alternate timeline, bringing about the Counter Guardian who participated in the war as the Archer Servant.
- She is even one step away of realizing he is the Ash of Miracles, and Waver only gets off the hook by using Exact Words and Metaphorically True statements, but things won't be pretty at all if she decides to act on this, and she's clearly shown as hesitating.
- An omake dealing with Shirou in the world of Fate/Grand Order reveals that most of the cast in the From Fake Dreams version of the game died in the Fourth Grail War. Kirei himself recalls Shirou dying in Kiristugu's arms shortly after the man found him in the fire's wreckage. Makes one wonder just what happened to the Kiritsugu of that world given how Shirou was his last tether to sanity in canon. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FromFakeDreams |
Forum of Thrones / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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# Book 1
- The Prologue ends on a rather nightmarish note, when Maester Eaton realizes that a killer, the same man who poisoned Lord Robert for months without anyone noting, has been watching him all along. The killer strikes a polite conversation with him, which on its own crosses over into Dissonant Serenity territory, before offering him to choose his way of dying. Eaton, knowing there is no chance for him to survive this, has no other choice but to calmly accept and leap into his own death.
- It becomes nightmarish in hindsight, but once knowing his secret there are just so many red flags about Wolfius' behaviour that his apparently amusing crazy antics are just flat out terrifying.
- Noelle's introduction to Marak establishes that something is very, very off about her. Like most Red Priests, she is too calm, to serene to be anything but creepy. Though her appearance is human, the way she acts and how Marak instantly noticed the inhuman warmth about her suggest that she is anything but.
- On top of that, there is Marak's vision. Starting straightforwardly, it begins to grow darker as it goes on, showing death, destruction, fiery rain and horrifying slaughters. Even Marak is shocked by what he sees.
- Harren Hoare's court session features his version of justice. A man that was caught stealing bread is humiliated, beaten (by the king himself no less) and given a cruel death, all in front of the fully apathetic noblemen. And this is the most powerful king in Westeros, ruling over the largest and strongest kingdom of them all.
- The Burned Man's description of Butterfly is painting the rival crimelord as pretty much the most terrible monster imaginable. While much of his opinion might be subjective, some of it certainly is not and this alone is already enough. Him hinting at the Fate Worse than Death that will await any of his employees that get caught by the Solvers crosses the line even further when you realize a majority of those working for the Burned Man are children.
- Richard's interaction with Wolfius. Seeing the deranged psychopath harrassing an innocent barmaid, Richard rushes to her aid. This harmless, selfless deed gets him a spot on Wolfius' list and it is implied that the killer later arranged for Richard to find him fresh in the act of having killed a random bystander in a remote alleyway, so that he can lure him into a trap. It works, Richard is caught by Clayton's assassins and absolutly helpless, left at their mercy.
- Ellena has a very brief, blink-and-you-miss-it interaction with Brynden Rivers, known as Bloodraven, known as the Three-Eyed Raven when she touches a weirwood tree. Keep in mind, Brynden is not even born yet, he merely watches through space and time by using his weirwood centuries later.
- For someone who has masterfully played the part of an Ambiguously Evil Knight Templar, seeing Harris just snapping and killing Ser Ilhan is a very uncomfortable thing to read about.
- Though slightly subdued by the happy ending, the presence of Samuel and Jaylon aboard the Pale Princess proves that by saving Jaron's life, Ellena has angered forces way beyond anything she could ever hope to achieve. To make things worse, the only one that could help her, Terroma, has left the ship shortly before this, leaving her defenseless against Butterfly's wrath.
- After a chapter of being absent, Noelle reappears in full form. This time, she bewitches a knight of Raylansfair, at least temporarily, convincing him to bring her and Marak to Harris Flowers, for reasons of her own. The creepy atmosphere during her bewitching scene and the otherworldly lightning makes it only worse.
- Harlan Hoare's introduction. Cheerfully, he is shown in his hobby as a semi-professional torturer, having just amputated a prisoner's leg. The mad whispers in the dungeons imply that either he or the much more professional chief torturer Holt Torv have a history of mistreating their captives simply For the Evulz.
- And if you thought that Harlan was bad, the end of Torvin's storyline introduced Harmund, a man so terrifying that even Harlan cowers in front of him, doing whatever he says. It is telling that in a family consisting of Harren and Harlan, Harmund is considered the most evil and dangerous of them all.
- Kersea's storyline gives us a closer look at the assassins. Led by Clayton, the other members are Alysanne and Wolfius. Kersea being the Token Good Teammate is appropriately horrified by their approach to a mission, during which Wolfius goes out of his way to ensure civilian casualties and a painful death for his targets.
- Maya's nightmare, though minor compared to the rest of the chapter's Nightmare Fuel, is terrifying. In her dream, she sees Orson Royce as she imagines him to be, a terrifying monster, half-shrouded by darkness, with blades where his teeth should be.
- Alys being chased through the Riverlands by the deranged Harlan Hoare and his men is always bordering on a horrifying catastrophe. The only reason she even escapes at all, terrified and close to breaking down, is thanks to a kindness from Torvin Breaker and Edward Anturion.
- The titular crimelord makes his first appearance in the story and from the very beginning, it is clear that he deserves his reputation. A foul-mouthed racist with anger issues, who also happens to be one of the most powerful men in the city of Oldtown.
- As much as it is a Kick The Son Of A Bitch-moment, the death of the fake Butterfly manages to be quite unsettling in its own right. Harpy, so far one of the kinder characters in the story, shows some seriously dark urges, when she finally gets her hands on the wounded and defeated man. After getting permission to kill him, she does so in the most brutal, drawn-out way possible. She is horrifed at herself afterwards.
- The final part of the chapter is just pure Nightmare Fuel, paired with major Paranoia Fuel. As it turns out Maron Mullendore has played everyone, from the characters, to the readers, as he revealed himself to be the crimelord Butterfly, having sent another man to die in his place. He proceeds to show that, as bad as that scapegoat has been, he is a thousand times worse, when he tortures and mutilates Lunett Kawl right in front of her lover, Lucas. After that, he takes him and Leonard prisoner, basically promising them to give them a fate more gruesome than poor Lunett's.
- If anything manages to top the moment of Mullendore's reveal, it has to be Lucas' torture in this chapter. First, he is slowly worn down by the Sphynx, Mullendore's masked chief torturer, before the crimlord himself just snaps, mutilating Lucas by cutting off several of his fingers and cutting out one of his eyes before he finally breaks, essentially ending his career as a knight.
- Wolfius' attack on Lyria and Rosalie sees him deliberately terrifying them. Given how creepy he is even when not trying means he really pulls every trick here, appearing more like a supernatural force of nature than just one man. He wounds Rosalie by stabbing her in the gut, leaving her to bleed out and a wounded Lyria too weak to save her daughter.
- Kreep, being Wolfius' son is more than his equal in, uh, kreepiness. Everything, from his Creepy Monotone voice, his lack of emotion and his Nightmare Face is terrifying, even more so than his father and his blind obedience to such a deranged man does not make things any better.
- Though it is not picked up much further in the current chapter, the beast of Raylansfair is first mentioned and one of its dismembered victims is shown. Whatever it is, it has to be monstrous in size and strength and it seems to prey exclusively on humans.
- After the traumatic events of Chapter 5, we finally get a good view how heavily Lucas has been affected by his ordeal. He has been broken to the point where he sees cruel visions of the Sphynx, who torments him even long after being freed from his dungeons.
- Ellena's perfectly innocent adventure with Himani, where they chase after the harmlessly eccentric beggar Roach quickly turns nightmarish when the Tom and his Alley Cats arrive. Spotting Himani and Ellena, the two children are forced to run. Himani does not make it and the last thing Ellena hears from him are his desperate cries for help.
- Very briefly during their break-in into the lower levels of the archive, Maya spots something that fills her with dread, basically kickstarting her flight from the building: A shadow, a moving shadow in the shape of a long, thin humanoid... something, stalking the halls of the archive.
- After their failed attempt on Harren Hoare's life, the king takes vengeance on the Breaker brothers in his own way. He slices Garthon's cheek open, taking vengeance for the same wound he suffered at his hands. Torvin however... Torvin gets it worse. A gleeful Harren reveals to him that he has captured his pregnant lover and that the abuse she suffered at the hands of his sons caused her to lose the child... before he summons a servant to actually present the stillborn baby to the entire court, utterly breaking Torvin in the process.
- Mullendore toying with Harpy at the end of the masquerade has been absolutely devastating for her and is quite chilling come to think of it. It shows that this man, one of the most vile men in Oldtown and her sworn enemy, knows exactly who she is and feels confident enough to even hint at his own identity, showing perverse glee as he notices her figuring it out.
- The massacre in Tanner's Alley, the chapter finale, is nightmarish for a completely different reason. After six chapters of playing it relatively safe in terms of deaths, this marks the turning point, in which the story proves that truly Anyone Can Die. Over the course of one long, brutal part, half a dozen named characters are killed.
- The very end of the chapter. Though Mullendore is critically wounded, the Burned Man and his organization are destroyed. This time, there is no one to help, as nothing can be undone. After years of careful planning, Mullendore has actually won.
- Otis Shiff. Just, everything about Otis Shiff. The man, appearing like a typical grumpy, yet kind-hearted farmer, turns out to be one of the worst characters in the entire story. Being a Serial Killer, he targets exclusively children, to take vengeance on parents who mocked him after the death of his daughters. Clearly broken over the tragedies in his life, there is nothing that holds him back from giving in to the worst urges in his mind. As such, he lures children into his hut, before torturing them horribly over the course of weeks. And he almost manages to do the same to Ellena.
- As wholeheartedly deserved as it is, the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Otis suffers at the hands of Marak is terrifying for the same reason Harpy's murder of Butterfly is. Seeing Marak, usually a jovial guy, show so much utter fury is a stark and scary contrast to his usual behaviour. Then you remember he has to face Terroma and Raenna later in the chapter...
- After several chapters of build-up, the identity of the beast is finally revealed: It is a monstrously huge direwolf, the largest of its kind, wild, utterly ferocious, yet of such a great intelligence that it actually manages to lure Richard and his companions into a trap, using one of their own as bait. It is so superior to them that it outright toys with them!
- Continuing her discoveries from the last chapter, Maya has another run-in with the thing in the archives. This time, it has left the lower levels, stalking through the upper halls, chasing after her as she frantically searches for an exit. Her panicked attempts at escaping, while the thing is looking for her are quite probably the most scary moments in the entire story.
- Noelle has always been a character strongly rooted in magic. Then, she unleashes her full power for a moment against Raenna and her companions and you realize, she has been holding back all this time. Summoning flames out of thin air, conjuring heat, she becomes almost unstoppable, taking down most of the group on her own.
- The final part of the chapter holds two moments as well. First of all, the Ironborn arrive in Raylansfair, ready to slaughter its people without mercy. Perhaps even worse is that their arrival gives Wolfius a chance to escape from his planned execution, in a situation where only few guardsmen are able to chase after him.
- The entire chapter holds the record for being the most bloody and devastating chapter of the entire story and this says something. Just about every reader has lost at least one character they liked deeply, as one by one, characters that have been developed for years get cut down unceremoniously.
- Among the leaders of the raid is a certain Clint Volmark, known as Cleaver Clint. His participation in the raid narrows down to plundering the city and trying to burn it to the ground. The brutality he shows is almost numbing and displays just how far the Ironborn are willing to go and it is implied that this is nothing out of the ordinary for them and the culture they grew up in.
- Edward Anturion explains the thing in the archive from Maya's parts. It is not a real entity, but a powerful spell, an illusion that becomes reality due to people believing in it, taking the form of what they fear the most. He demonstrates this by deliberately sending one of his raiders to death, basically sacrificing his own men to get something of great value from this archive. The scene were Alys' own illusion, taking the form of her father, is chasing her and Carvin through the archive as they try to flee is not making things any better.
- Wolfius, from start to finish. After finally tracking down Lyria, he nonchalantly orders the death of Urid, before getting into a fight with Lyria. Surprisingly, she wins by cracking his skull open, nearly killing him in the process. In this moment, he pulls his trump car: The beast of Raylansfair. Revealing himself to be an extremely powerful warg with a god complex, Wolfius explains his next step. He is going to kill Lyria, eating her while warged into his direwolf, right in front of Rosalie. He does this while forcing the girl to watch, threatening to blind her if she does look away. And then, he goes on to warg into his wolf once more, as we get to see Lyria's final moments from her own Point-of-View.
- The very end is one, especially for Lucas. Once more, he is confronted with Maron Mullendore, but this time, he has to realize that he has teamed up with his brother, Petyr, the same man that has pushed him out of Darkdell in the first place. The two men that have caused Lucas the greatest harm have now teamed up for their own, nefarious goals. And as the heroes that saved Raylansfair, they are in a very good position to actually succeed.
- Just like in Chapter 6, Lucas' visions are back. This time, they take the form of people he failed, as spectres of Lunett, Dairon, Samantha and even Harris torment him mercilessly, figments of his own, broken mind, as he becomes almost mad with guilt over the mistakes he made.
- After gaining possession of the object Edward Anturion wanted to steal from the archive, Willfred quickly finds himself enthralled by it. Becoming oddly fond, secretive and defensive over it, it becomes clear that whatever Edward has tried to steal, it has a mind of its own and is trying to force Willfred to bring it away from the archive and Raylansfair.
- As much as she has been a bad person, Sherryl's death is horrible and actually pitiable. Over the course of just a few hours, she is disfigured gruesomely and abandoned by the only man she ever loved, in the most callous way possible. Now a broken mess, the once prideful woman is Driven to Suicide.
- Though it has been a highly anticipated and heroic moment, the arrival of Aegon Targaryen does hold some horror too. After being introduced to the different kingdoms for an entire book, Aegon's Conquest now threatens quite a number of sympathetic characters and given the power he wields, it is unlikely every single one of them will make it through the Conquest unharmed.
- Balerion, the Black Dread only appearing in the final moments of the epilogue, lives up to his name in the way he is described. There is something truly unnerving about his description, especially his sheer size.
# Interlude
- Mern Gardener's Interlude, though showing that the king does not trust Petyr Vyrwel and Maron Mullendore one bit, also shows that he has one severe problem regardless. One of his closest advisors is revealed to be none other than Devrin Oakheart, the third member of the conspiracy and a man he is shown to trust wholeheartedly.
- Naturally, Harren Hoare's Interlude holds one moment that is quite scary. It is not shown in the story proper, but the fate of Clarisse Pyke, Torvin's lover, is finally revealed. After using her to get Torvin to where he wanted him to be, Harren quickly ordered her death. That being said, he left it to Harmund to do the deed and his son did things... his way instead. Harren finds her by chance a month later. The sight of her in whatever condition Harmund left her in is shocking even to him, so he finds himself forced to give her a Mercy Kill.
# Book 2
- If the title wasn't enough indicator, it is a grim reminder of the terror and destruction a full grown dragon can inflict upon an army, as Balerion himself is unleashed upon the Mooton-Darklyn alliance, killing several hundred men on his own without even being slowed down.
- Lord Grenn Mooton's point of view on the carnage and his final moments are nightmarish from beginning to end. Particular mention deserves his description of Balerion, whom he notes to be almost as large as the city of Maidenpool, one of the largest in the Riverlands.
- And coincidentally, this chapter was posted only a few days before The Spoils of War aired, giving a pretty graphic idea of what Daenaerys' ancestor did 300 years before.
- After seeing what one dragon can do in the prologue, we are treated to a bit of Fridge Horror when Ellena sees all three of them for the first time, a sight as magnificent as it is terrifying. So far, only Balerion has been unleashed, but the sight of all three of them hints at just how powerful the Targaryen's truly are in the war to come.
- The Sandstorm is
*very* unsettling in their tactics, an effect Word of God deliberately tried to achieve by giving them tactics similar to that of terrorists, in a setting that is absolutely inexperienced to this type of warfare. Their delusional, indoctrinated mindset is also quite shocking. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ForumOfThrones |
Futurama / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Welcome to the future, at least as seen through *Futurama*. Please be warned of unmarked spoilers abound. Which makes sense, as this is the future.
Or, to put it another way,
**Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.**
- "The Sting" may make you cringe forevermore at the sight of furry bumblebee bodies. Fry's death, Leela's hallucinations, followed by her descending into madness, her attempting suicide just so she can be with Fry, and Leela getting attacked by bees after she throws the honey against the wall. The only consoling thing is that none of this happened, Fry was alive, and that the whole thing was Leela's coma fantasy.
- It's revealed that Leela was in real danger of dying from her coma, though. It's hinted at when she tries to attempt suicide by eating the honey, knowing that three spoonfuls will kill her. That may have been a sign of her organs crashing and why Fry was begging her to stay.
- The space bees themselves. You know they're insanely deadly when Professor Farnsworth, who's perfectly fine sending his crew on suicide missions, refuses to send them on this mission, as later heard by the old crew's last recording that Leela found. Except apparently the Professor goaded them into going on the mission by saying
*they* weren't as good as the crew before them... **Crewman:** Captain, the bees have us surrounded! Oh, the Professor was right, we *aren't* as good as his old crew! **Captain:** Well I aim to prove him wrong. It'll take more than deadly bees to keep us fro - *(buzzing intensifies)* OH LORD! **AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!**
- The scene in Leela's dream when Fry put his hand inside the hole in his body.
- One of Leela's apparent hallucinations is the walls with the faces of the other members of the crew chanting, "
**YOU KILLED FRY! YOU KILLED FRY! YOU KILLED FRY!**". That may seem silly on paper, but hearing them repeat to Leela over and over that she killed Fry is pretty chilling. Then again, there is some comedy when she tears the wallpaper off, only for Bender's face to appear on the floor and snidely remark, "You killed Fry."
- The height of Leela's Sanity Slippage:
"I'll find Fry's coffin, get his corpse and keep it under my mattress to remind me that he's really dead."
- The "Don't Worry, Be Happy" scene with the grinning cartoon bees stinging the entire eerily cheerful crew and causing them to swell and blow up one by one. Soundtrack Dissonance at its most primally unsettling. Plus if you pause at the explosions you can see loose eyeballs and teeth!
- Though it's a throwaway line, the effects of the bee venom if you're allergic to it. According to Professor Farnsworth, the allergic reaction would cause the victim's insides to
*boil out of their eyesockets*.
- Seeing how Yandere the Planet Express Ship gets in "Love and Rocket" is actually rather terrifying, especially when she reveals she plans to kill Fry, Leela, and Bender to be with Bender forever.
- Speaking of yanderes against Bender, the Don-bot's daughter Bella going after him while he's in the Witness Protection Program, wearing a mourning gown, armed with a laser gun and her bell making frightening church bell chimes and then it turns out that when she shot him dead, she killed a completely innocent robot and Bender was safe on Earth all along! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Futurama |
Frozen II / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"I know in a couple years, these will seem like childish fears, so I know this isn't bad, it's good.
*Excuse me*." **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Elsa getting mercilessly smacked around by a horse spirit that keeps pushing her back under every time she manages to get a breath of air is nerve-racking. Even her ice powers do little to save her from the hits.
- When Gale sucks the characters into a tornado, the scene is mostly played for laughs, with Olaf enjoying the ride, Sven finding himself riding Kristoff, and Anna trying to avoid being sick. Yet there is something disquieting at seeing Elsa and Anna tossed around like ragdolls, especially if one takes into account how dangerous tornadoes can be in real life.
- While Olaf's first song is funny and cute, the scene he sings it in is disturbing. Olaf wanders alone in the woods singing a song about how everything has a mundane explanation while various supernatural creatures try to
*kill* him.
- At one point he looks into a pond only to see the Nokk staring back at him with its Glowing Eyes of Doom. Even he freaks out at that point.
- At another point he walks through a dark place where creatures with red eyes and sharp fangs glare at him. Unlike all the other supernatural elements, this is never explained at any point in the movie.
- The image of Agnar and Iduna in their final moments, holding each other before the ocean waves kill them, is certainly chilling. Just a few moments of their voices and this image is enough to conjure their death.
- The well of Ahtohallan - which is something of a Trauma Conga Line for Elsa (and Anna indirectly);
- Right when Elsa reaches the edge of the drop-off and stares down into it, the verse "Dive down deep into her sound, but not too far or you'll be drowned." from "All Is Found" is heard. Not only does it sound very eerie given how it echoes through the area, but it also serves as a chilling last-minute warning to Elsa.
- Adding to its creepiness is that it looks like a quiet, beautiful forest rather than any kind of threat or danger.
- The well holds all the world's memories, including your own, as Elsa discovers. Ahtohallan reminds Elsa of her mistakes (abandoning her kingdom) and near-miss tragedies (Hans courting Anna). It could easily turn into a Psychological Torment Zone for these reasons alone, but also for the temptation it presents. If you have a question about anything in the past, be it your own or someone else's, it is here. You can find it. The answer you're looking for is just a lliittttleee further down. Pay no mind to the frost gathering on your fingers, you're almost there. You can turn back before you freeze. Then, just as you find what you are looking for, you also find that your feet are frozen to the ground. You are now one of the world's memories.
- Here, Ahtohallan shows a vision of King Runeard as he raises his sword to attack the unarmed Northuldra leader from behind. Elsa and Anna were raised believing that their Grandfather was a just and kind ruler of Arendelle. The shot is almost identical to Hans attempting at executing Elsa herself in the first film, though here its all but shown that Runeard
*succeeded*.
- King Runeard himself is walking nightmare fuel once his true nature is revealed. A ruthless, xenaphobic tyrant who desires control over everything underneath him, he built the dam seemingly as a peace offering, but in actuality, as a way to weaken the Northuldra's lands so he would subjugate them to his rule. When the Northuldra leader expresses his concern about the dam, Runeard outright murders him in cold blood, causing a brutal battle between Arendelle and Northuldra. Even after his death, his actions continued to haunt all involved, even throughout the first film. Hans's actions in the first film were bad, but King Runeard's actions here were just
*pure evil*. **Anna:** ( *staring in horror at the ice statue of Runeard about to murder the defenseless Northuldra leader*) Elsa's found it. **Olaf:** What is it...? **Anna:** The truth about the past. That's my grandfather, attacking the Northultra leader, who wields no weapon. ( *closes her eyes in horrifying realization*) The dam wasn't a gift of peace. *It was a trick.* **Olaf:** ( *quietly*) But that goes against everything Arendelle stands for. **Anna:** It does, doesn't it?
- Elsa freezing is shocking, particularly with its sense of finality. Elsa, just moments after the emotionally charged revelation of her true nature and power, finds herself looking down in terror and horror as she realizes
*she*, the Snow Queen, is turning to ice and is about to die alone.
- Olaf's Disney Death is sure to traumatize some kids, with him slowly dying in Anna's arms, complete with a heart-wrenching realization that love is what stays the same.
- Olafs reaction doesnt help matters. He is initially uncaring if not unaware of whats happening as he observes his flaking, but the realization hits him and Anna like a ton of bricks when they realize what this means for him, and for Elsa as well. He then collapses in Annas arms as they try to comfort each other while he disintegrates, in a manner eerily similar to the infamous I dont feel so good scene.
- Anna's reaction. As if one of her closest friends slowly disintegrating in her arms wasn't bad enough while, leaving her all alone in a dark and unfamiliar cave she also has to deal with the implication that his death means that her last family member is
*also* dying at the same time, somewhere she can't see, in a way she can only guess at, after all the warnings and pleas from Anna to accept her help and do this together...
- Grand Pabbie says they must hope Elsa's powers are enough for the journey. He wasn't kidding. While Elsa ultimately wins against and calms down the spirits when they go amok, she still comes way too close to being killed - indeed, she
*is* killed in the end and only brought back by Anna's actions. Heck, Anna has to stop her from following the earth giants. Let's not picture the scene if Elsa didn't listen. Not to mention Elsa winding up in that aforementioned well, where we see even Elsa's cold tolerance has its limits.
- While we're on the subject of nearly getting killed, let's not forget Anna. Her leading the earth giants to the dam and egging them on to destroy it brought her closer to death than any of Elsa's fights with the spirits! Also, consider she does this right after picking herself up from watching Olaf die and realizing Elsa is dead. You couldn't fault someone for thinking Anna may have had different intentions before saying she wants them to go to the dam, especially since "The Next Right Thing" has her briefly sing about being ready to succumb to darkness.
- If you look closely when Anna is getting the Earth Giants to throw boulders, one of the first ones is barely above Annas head. Not in a sense of her outrunning the boulder, but by barely NOT being fast enough. If Anna had been a smidgen faster, she would have been hit in the back of the head with a boulder she didnt even know was coming. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FrozenII |
Future Diary / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
In accordance with Nightmare Fuel policy,
Ladies and gentlemen, the Yandere Queen
herself. Deus help us all.
**all spoilers are unmarked!**
## YunoIf you don't find Yuno "Yandere Queen" Gasai to be very endearing and Moe, you'll most likely find her to be one of the scariest, craziest, most deranged girls in anime. Here are some examples:
- Her initial introduction. It's made very apparent that she stalks Yukiteru. The one part that stands out the most is when she's looking through the mail slip in the door wishing Yuki good night right after he tries to avoid her after seeing dead bodies in her house at night.
- Her digging a massive hole in her house while singing about Yukiteru... then forgetting why she was digging the hole at all in the first place.
- The crowner for this is when she first comes to the realization that everything will be okay if Tsubaki just disappeared. The pleased-as-punch look on her face as her alignment shifts permanently to Chainsaw Good is downright unsettling.
- Yuno's menacing Death Glare in episode 4◊ after overhearing that Tsubaki insulted her and told Yuki to avoid Yuno. Said scowl with shrunken irises is also used in this action figure as well.
- During the event with Hinata, Yuno admits without blinking that she wants Yukiteru to be all alone with no friends because she wants to be the center of his world. Had Yukiteru not resigned himself to referring to her as his girlfriend to calm her down, she literally would have killed Akise, Hinata, Mao and Kosaka on the spot.
- When she drugs and locks up Yuki with the intention of keeping him safe and together with her.
*Forever.* *Shudder.* Of course, this is after we learn that she killed her parents.
- When you find out that this Yuno is from an earlier timeline. She's essentially gone back in time and killed
*herself* so she could be with Yuki. There is nothing this girl won't do.
- Then there's the implication that Yuno was going to torture Yukiteru's mother with her "tools" (weapons) unless she approved of Yuno as a potential bride for her son. She says to herself at night while giving a creepy unblinking stare in bed in the anime that it's a good thing that Yuki's mother was so nice because that way Yuno didn't have to use her "tools" (weapons) to persuade her. Also there was her suddenly opening her eyes in the anime after taking a shower and going into a Troubled Fetal Position. The music made it even creepier.
- This last point gets a Call-Back when Yuki's dad comes back into his life. Yuno spends the day spying on the two and Minene planning on stabbing his dad if the opportunity arises. She only backs out on the idea after believing that he's understanding like Yuki's mom.
- The idea that Yuno was invited into the game of death together with the one she loved, killed him and everyone else and became god, only to finally reverse time to before her becoming god for the sole reason of a few hours alone with Yukiteru, only to later kill him and do it again is more scarier than anything else she had ever done in this series. Capable of making the rest of eternity be about a time loop where she kills everyone for the sake of her loved one over and over and over?
- Chapter 53 showed that Yuno allowed Yuki to kill himself so she could become God and bring him back to life. When this failed she jumped back so she could be with him again for two-three months, killing all the while. When Yuki once again refuses to kill her, she intends to kill him and go back to do it all over again. Presumably indefinitely. Luckily this is only the 2nd-world.
- The same chapter showed Yuno's chillingly broken reaction to the realization that bringing Yukiteru back from the dead was something she just wasn't capable of despite her new godlike powers, on top of showing her unsettling attempt at trying to do so. The result was Yuki's soulless body cradled in her arms, with the vacant and blank-eyes expression showing that nobody's home. Doubles as Tear Jerker if you still manage to sympathize with Yuno.
- A particularly disturbing mention must be given to Yuno in Chapter 49/Episode 22: Yuno has stabbed herself and Akise has left her for dead, and is trying to reach Yukiteru before he kills the Eighth and Hinata/Mao/Kousaka. Yuno, seemingly bleeding to death on the ground, calls Yuki and tells him that her diary told her that they were going to betray and kill him. Yuki, in the middle of a mental breakdown at the time, believes her and shoots (and kills) Hinata. Yuno, on the other line, starts
*laughing her ass off*, while a shot of her diary reveals that, no, Yuki's friends weren't lying. She just didn't want them to have him. Good Lord.
- Yuno's cheerful smile in Chapter 50/Episode 22 after stabbing Akise. There's also her furious expression in the same chapter/episode as she's watching Akise kiss Yuki and how she tells Akise completely seriously "You die here and now!"
- In the following chapter there's also her slicing Akise across the throat and later decapitating him. Also counts as a Tearjerker.
- The part where it's revealed that Yuno's control-freak mother, who measured everything she did from how many hours she got to sleep to how many calories she had a day, used to keep her in a cage and starve her in an effort to raise her to be a model person. Her father, meanwhile, was so busy with his job that he completely missed any of this happening. To top it off, she eventually kept them in the cage when she had enough of their treatment of her and starved them to the point where they died. What's worse is that it started out as a lesson. "This is what you were doing to me. If you promise not to do it, I'll let you go and we can be a happy family again." When they spurned her, she just left them there. Yuno now keeps her parent's corpses in a cage and talks with them. Later, she chops off their heads and carries them around with her.
- Yuno has a unnerving habit of staring creepily at people. One notable scene is when she finds out Kurou Amano is trying to find and destroy Yuki's phone which will kill Yuki in the process.
- When Yuno first meets Yuki she surprises him with a kiss. It's creepy rather than romantic.
- Chapter 53/Episode 23: Yuno suddenly sitting up and spitting out the pills after she had supposedly committed a 'lovers suicide' with Yukiteru.
- 1st-world Yuno killing 2nd-world Yuno and saying "I don't need two of me." Followed by 2nd-world Yuno writing "Help me" on the wall with her own blood upon hearing Yukiteru's voice.
- In the follow-up manga titled
*Redial*... Yuno Gasai of the 3rd-world is shown to be a normal school girl. With friends and family. Just one problem with that. She is haunted by the dreams that contain details of this story, the first Yuno's story. It make her feel like something, *someone* is missing... and the FIRST thing that she goes and does is begin stalking her world's Yuki
- SUPPOSEDLY normal. In the anime, she's sitting with her friends when she looks out the window and sees 3rd-world Yuki with the girl he'd originally been crushing on. Her hands tremble as she clutches her cup of tea and her voice sounds a little strained as she tells her friends she's fine. For the observant it suggests that 1st-world Yuno supplanted her analog AGAIN in this new world, if only to observe Yuki from a distance.
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*Any* form of Fan Disservice with Yuno involved, ranging from holding her parents' skulls whilst in her underwear to her clothes being ripped and on the verge of being gang-raped by Tsubaki's gang members to even the whole sex scene with her and Yukiteru.
## Other Diary Users
- The Third Diary Owner is Takao Hiyama, homeroom teacher of Yuna and Yukiteru. He's different from the other diary owners though. While the others were mayors, terrorists, cops, or even school children, this guy is a SERIAL KILLER. Oh, and boy is he paranoid about being caught. As the serial killer he is, Hiyama wears a hat/wig thingy to hide his identity, a gas mask with goggles and a bulletproof and apparently EXPLOSIVE-proof jacket. This makes him impervious to almost ANYTHING. His trademark weapon is a MACHETE. Oh, he also keeps a diary that records his victims and decides how to best corner and inevitably kill them. He didn't get much screen time in the end, but if it wasn't for him, Yukiteru's identity as First most likely would have stayed secret for longer as he was the first one to discover him (with possibly the exception of Eleventh, but he had hax). This guy is THE killer.
- Reisuke (The Fifth) is a prime example. A 4-year-old who floods the entire Yuki household with poisonous gas in order to kill Yuki and Yuno. The innocent expression he keeps throughout just makes it creepier.
- Tsubaki aka the Sixth's back story and what she threatened Yuno with.
- John aka the Eleventh's ideals: He's basically a Hitler who can see the future.
- Yuki's transformation into a Well-Intentioned Extremist bordering on Axe-Crazy almost as frightening as Yuno. It's Break the Cutie, Corrupt the Cutie, Start of Darkness, Sanity Slippage, and Toxic Friend Influence all rolled up into a drawn out, horrifying ordeal. And he is just a fourteen year old boy... What makes this worse is that some viewers/readers were actually cheering when Yuki finally snaps and starts killing people wantonly. Sure, he Took a Level in Badass, but when he's killing Eighth's orphans, using Minene and Nishijima as bait to lure Eleventh and his goons, and
*murdering his friends in cold blood,* you almost start missing the old Yuki.
- Chapter 57 also has Yuno releasing the seals on Mur Mur. Which in turns makes Mur Mur rabid. Which in turn has her bite off Uryuu's arm. Christ.
- Yukiteru attempts to destroy Minene's cell phone by throwing a dart, but she moves the phone away from her face, resulting in the dart meeting her eye. She gets second scoop of Eye Scream, when she is drugged by Twelfth, and unable to fight back, has her bad eye plucked out of her head. By hand.
## Other
- Kurou Amano, Yuki's dad, appears in Chapter 30 claiming to just want to check on his son, but it turns out that he has only returned to destroy Yukiteru's diary in order to fulfill a deal with Eleventh. Despite his only clear desire being to free himself from his debts, he does try to save Yuki when the latter almost falls to his death, but takes the parachute away from Yuki before the tower crumbles soon after. He then stabs his wife when she tries to take him to the police and escapes, though is stabbed to death himself two chapters later by the Eleventh's men.
- The third opening of the anime is downright gruesome - a naked Yuno is seen standing in an iron maiden (a torture device) just as the spiked door closes, all the diary owners are seen dying or dead, mostly Impaled with Extreme Prejudice. Twelfth, Fifth and Third are all bleeding from their faces or drowning in their own blood, Eighth
*explodes* into a pile of blood, Eleventh dies with a goblet of his own blood, Seventh die in each other's arms whilst bleeding and stabbed, Ninth and Fourth shoot each other, and Sixth crying tears of blood in a room filled with dead naked men. And then Yuno steps towards a guillotine as the blade comes down. Tenth's bloody fate is not shown but maybe that's for the best.
- Mur Mur's One-Winged Angel, while she is normally cute and bratty then JE◊SUS◊CHRI◊ST◊!
- A few of the OST tracks count. "Cries from Avici" is a
*very* good example, and it's even worse when you translate the lyrics, which are all about her not fearing Hell because it's what she *lives every single day*. Brrr... And the rabid, wild pace of Third's theme "Antares CR302", fits perfectly for a Serial Killer.
This page is a testament to my love for you, Yukki-kun. You aren't allowed to leave. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FutureDiary |
Fuzzy Memories / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**The Nightmare Fuel page is for post-viewing discussion, so all spoilers are unmarked per wiki policy.**
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*"Camp Castaways"*: Juvia being all alone on the deserted island, before beginning to hear an out of nowhere and creepy voice begin to speak to her, telling her how useless she was as a friend. While it is more a Tear Jerker than anything, the fact that this comes out of nowhere in a Breather Episode and basically leaves Juvia in a state of genuine horror and silence can leave some viewers at least a little unnerved.
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*"Hook, Line, and Screamer"*:
- The scene where Doc is suddenly dragged off into the forest, leaving behind a destroyed movie screen and scattered about chairs in the process. Upon Mimi returning after hearing his screams of terror, all she finds is the mess that remains after the attack, with no signs of Doc or anyone else.
- Later on in the episode, Doc decides to mess with the remaining players in the challenge by pretending to be a dead body near the beach. When someone comes across him, he is actually knocked out in the process, leaving him completely motionless, and due to his status as a ghost, without a pulse as well. When Zetsu starts believing the entire challenge may not be a joke, he actually starts freaking out at the body, completely terrified and possibly even traumatized by the sight of his "dead" friend. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FuzzyMemories |
Gakkou Gurashi / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This is the Nightmare Fuel page for Gakkou Gurashi so prepare for spoilers. So please keep your moeblobs safe okay? Good! Here we go.
- So ok, you have your cute and cuddly moe school girls and a teacher with pink hair and so on. You have a perfectly saccharine opening to make you say that it is your typical moe school girl show right? Right? ||WROOOONG!! You have your moe characters under threat from the undead and that they have to literally stay alive in school campus for days and days while fending them off||. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GakkouGurashi |
Gabby Duran & the Unsittables / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
With a bunch of aliens some were bound to give you nightmares.
*ALL SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED*
## General
- While most of the aliens we see are nice and friendly, some are a little off putting though compared to some other alien related shows and films its not too bad.
## Season 1
So your Gor-Monite Child Is Going To Explode
- While he is nice Jeremy's true form is kinda disturbing especially the razor sharp teeth that go back so far.
- Swift knocks Gabby out, ties her to a chair, and leaves her at the mercy of The Orb (who almost kills her).
- The fact that Gor-Monites can't drink soda without dying, imagine if one didn't know what they were drinking and exploded unexpectedly. Their only hope? Breath mints, and if they cant get any, well that's it.
- And the bubbling Jeremy's stomach does.
- The school keeps a stuffed bird in their trophy case, and to get the breath mints Jeremy eats it to shape-shift.
- Keep in mind he couldve just eaten a feather than the whole thing, but theres a chance he ate the thing whole.
- The nightmarish invasion of the vulture Jeremy turns into.
Wesley And The Fischman
- The episode isnt that bad, but the fact that the kid of the week fears humans for eating fish.
Crybaby Duran
- More of a tearjerker, but the fact that everyone in school brutally harasses Gabby after hearing she may have cried. Based on a rumor they dont even know is true.
- Skye and her family can read anyone's thoughts with the smallest amount of physical contact, your privacy isnt safe around them.
- Skye almost dies from an overdose of mind reading.
- Gabby has to take the memories out of Skye to save her, but now she has to deal with the burden of knowing way too much.
Crushin' It
- The child Gabby has to babysit is essentially a G-rated version of Predator.
- Gabby becomes this for the boy she's crushing on. All her attempts to confess that she likes him result in him getting hurt. The next time Gabby sees him, he's in a wheelchair and screaming "Witch!" at the sight of her.
Olivia Gone Wild
- After accidentally eating an alien candy, Olivia goes on a sugar rush that not even Gabby's rival can control. Things get scarier when she finds herself lost in a fun house and starts screaming, "Polkadot!" over and over again.
The Darkness
- You think depression is bad? Swift's form of depression includes screaming like a banshee and melting into a puddle. And sometimes, they never come out of it.
- Even
*worse* is that Orb wants to simply throw his melted corpse into the *trash*!
Skys First Youth Overnight Sleeping Event
- Sky's father threatens to erase all of Gabby's memories of Sky and take Sky back home if she is in danger again.
The Note
- Gabby imagines what might happen if everyone found about the alien kids. Namely the government taking them all to a laboratory.
Tailoring Swift
- The Mungos trick Gabby into babysitting their daughter, but what they really want is to kidnap Swift and make him into a stretchy, flexible suit.
- The Mungos' appearances are creepy, with their black suits, sharp teeth and large sunglasses that hide their green eyes.
Enter the Dranis
- Gabby thinks she's won a vacation, but it turns out to be a trap set up by Jeremy's sister Dranis who plans to use her as bait to lure Jeremy and Swift back to Gor'Monia and then vaporize Gabby's hometown once they're back.
- After saving the day, Gabby, Jeremy, Swift and Wesley return home only to find Dina walking into the basement and see all the alien tech.
## Season 2
Mom Wipe
- After Dina finds out about the aliens, she is quick to try to call the police. Swift stuns her and warns Gabby that if they don't wipe her memory of the incident, there will be certain aliens who will do everything they can to protect their families, even potentially kill her.
The Vibe | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GabbyDuranAndTheUnsittables |
Galaxy of Fear / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As
*Goosebumps* in SPACE, this series has some good ol' Sci-Fi Horror. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- While Tash tapping into the Force in
*Eaten Alive* was a calming sense of being connected to something vast, in *Ghost of the Jedi* she feels the same kind of thing in a very different way.
It was like suddenly being plugged into a computer that could tap into all the information in the galaxy at once. Or maybe like becoming part of a starship's sensors, reaching out hundreds of light-years into the universe.
This strange sensation suddenly made Tash feel as if she were slipping, falling away into the cosmos.
- While Tash says at the end of
*The Brain Spiders* that being in a brain spider wasn't that bad, the fate of the villain of the book...
Above their heads, on the fourth shelf from the top, in the third jar from the left, one of the brains almost seemed to shudder frantically in its pool of yellow-green chemicals.
No one heard him, except perhaps for a few very enlightened monks. But they ignored him. They knew that Grimpen would remain on his shelf until he became enlightened, or until the end of time.
Whichever came first.
- Spore is the scariest main threat yet. It's The Virus, but unlike the virus in
*The Planet Plague* the infected still look and sound like themselves. In some ways it's like some kind of Expy of The Thing; someone it's infected can go around for a while acting normal, then...
Hodge's eyes seemed to explode with thin, dark, vinelike tentacles. More dark vines burst from his open mouth. They lashed out violently, wrapping themselves around the doctor and sinking right into the Ithorian's skin.
- It assimilates people
*instantly*. It infects Hoole, who the kids trust, and then Zak. And it talks to Tash. The words it use remind her of her desire to connect to the Force, but twisted and awful. She runs and feels horribly alone and betrayed, and hides while it searches for her. Spore exists to assimilate minds and will not let any escape it. It can control thousands, maybe millions. When it was unleashed on Ithor long ago, it took a hundred years and much Jedi intervention to stop it - and not only are the Jedi gone now, but the Empire wiped the records of how they did it, and thinks it can cut a deal. Hell, Jerec wants it to infect the crew of his Star Destroyer so it will enslave them and get them to do what he wants, and in return he'll *give it* planets!
"You will join me. You'll be a part of me
. Didn't you want to become one with the Force? Isn't that what you told me? [...] The Force is nothing. If it ever existed, it belonged to Jedi who died years ago. I can offer you something more. Join me, and you will join thousands, millions of others
. [...] You know, you're not strong enough to stop me. Not nearly strong enough. Once you're under my control, I'll make you my primary host. I will be
*you.*
"
- An aspect of
*The Doomsday Ship*. When the alarm sounds that the ship will melt down and explode, Hoole puts his charges into an Escape Pod before going to help others. While he's doing that, the two leave the pod to help reunite a mother and her child and try to get back, but a Jerkass thinks they're cutting him in line, so he *locks them into a storage closet* - by the time they break out the escape pods have launched.
- Y'ever wonder what could have caused Dr. Evazan to get the death sentence on twelve systems? You will after reading this series.
- If you have any sort of phobia about insects, especially swarming insects like locusts and carrion beetles, or biting ones like swarms of ants?
*The Swarm* is Exactly What It Says on the Tin and your skin will crawl. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GalaxyOfFear |
FTL: Faster Than Light / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*"This was supposed to be for use in Nebulas and other, more creepy areas, but listen to the thing! *
FTL
* is not a psychological horror game, and this track was way too freaky and claustrophobic. Still pretty cool, though."*
—
**Ben Prunty**
, the composer of the
*FTL*
soundtrack, on the Cut Song
"Horror"
*FTL: Faster Than Light* is light on graphic depictions of violence and horror, leaving it up to the player's imagination to fill in the gruesome blanks.
## The Nightmare Fuel must have a Zoltan Shield Bypass!
- You can be extremely cruel to enemy spaceships. You can do things like starting on-board fires to burn everyone alive or destroying their oxygen system to suffocate everyone to death. Of special note is one small variant of the Slug Scout (or Slug Interceptor) that has outboard oxygen and engine modules not accessible from inside via doors - you can easily wreck their air supply and their engines, then sit back and watch them slowly run out of good air, especially if they have weak weapons and can do little more than pound ineffectually at your shields while they slowly choke.
- A popular strategy to deal with boarding parties is to simply lock the doors and vent the area of oxygen via your airlocks. This creates a situation where they are desperately trying to bash down your door whilst they are slowly suffocating to death.
- Sometimes an enemy ship will desperately offer everything they have in surrender so you don't finish them off. You can say no and kill the ship for even more resources.
note : You might actually get less resources by doing this, but hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
- The Giant Spiders Random Event. The first possible option is sending in your crew, and if you're unlucky, your crew gets to deal with massive spiders coming out of a vent, before you finally leave, losing a crew member in the process.
- The Damaged and Dilapidated Space Station Random Event. The whole place is filled with corpses and the stench of death and decay. If you're unlucky, one of your crew members can contract the fatal disease that wiped out the station, and not even a Clone Bay will save them (an Improved Medbay will, though).
- An event that involves boarding a station going through an epidemic is freaky in itself. Some versions of the event have the stationers breaking under the stress and lynching the leaders of the colony that are trying to save them. You get to see first-hand how the end started for those poor people.
- Then there's another disturbing event where you go to a distress beacon for a Federation base. There's no one alive on board the station, and the living quarters (and only the living quarters) have blood stains. There's no mention of what happened to the bodies, if they are even still there, or the people aboard besides that the Rebels did it. Your crew just silently turns off the distress beacon and leaves.
- Nebula sectors can be frightening due to the empty-sounding explore music.
- On the original soundtrack, there is a bonus track aptly called "Horror". This was supposed to be one of the nebula sector tracks, but was removed because it was considered too scary. So if you think the current nebula tracks are scary, be glad this track didn't make it in.
- When enemy crew die, they don't make any noises. When
*your* crew die, you get to hear anywhere from the grinding *clank* of Engis being dismantled to humans groaning in pain as their last bits of HP are wiped out. However, this dying grunt is also helpful, as it alerts you that you are now minus one crew (and if you have a Clone Bay, it serves as your cue to power it).
- The Explore version of "Debris" sounds very lonely and ghostly, painting the feeling of exploring abandoned wreckage in dark areas of space. The Battle version sounds less ominous, but is reminiscent of alien abductions.
- For those fighting the Flagship's second phase for the first time, the distinct "
**WARNING** POWER SURGE DETECTED" klaxon gives you that dreadful feeling that something very, *very* bad is about to happen to your ship. Followed by a swarm of drones or lasers turning your ship into a hopeless sitting duck of a burning wreck, or if you're lucky, *only* a supershield recharge for the Flagship.
- Some of the "uneventful" beacons. There are quite a few beacons where you find abandoned mines and no life signs are detected, with no clues given as to why they're completely empty. And then there's the event where "a rudimentary automated planetary defense system is looping its message into space: "Warning! Quarantine Level 5 in effect under FHA Act 22, article 11.2. Warning! Quarantine Level 5..." Just what is going on there?
- There's an event where you can encounter a Mantis cruiser lined with the dismembered remains of Rockmen. Sure, a bunch of rocks on the hull of a ship might not seem that gory at first, but imagine if it were
*human* remains instead and you get an idea as to why the blue option for Rock cruisers in response to this event is written as "Ram the **bastards**."
- There is an Out of Fuel event in which a large piece of debris, identified as a derelict Rock frigate, drifts by your ship. If you choose to send an away team to investigate it, one of the possible outcomes is an insane Rockman on the frigate will suddenly appear take one of your crewmembers hostage and demand scrap from you. Should you choose to refuse and you also happen to have a clone bay, the text will explicitly state that there is no sign of activity in the bay, leaving the fate of the abandoned (but still living) crewmember ambiguous...
- The Rebel Fleet is
*always* advancing towards you, and their encroachment takes the form of an ever-expanding circle that takes over the current sector from left to right; they can claim multiple nodes at a time. Given that you're using the eponymous Faster-Than-Light Travel, it's implied that they're taking over multiple *star systems* every time you jump. That friendly colony of miners you were just helping? That shopkeeper you were just buying vital supplies from? *Gone*, and in their place is a powerful Elite Fighter with orders to tear your ship to shreds and offers nothing of value besides a single fuel cell. And there's a *massive* fleet of Rebel ships in the background as you fight, pushing hard the feeling that you're all alone and surrounded by bad guys, which become *functional* in *Advanced Edition* where they fire Anti-Ship Batteries at you; now imagine a fleet like this in *every corner of the galaxy*, given that by the time you reach the Last Stand, the Rebels have pretty much taken over everything between the start point and the Federation rendezvous point. Given that the Rebels are human supremacist *fascists* and no other faction or species in the game comes anywhere near their rate of conquest, it's hard not to feel like Humans Are the Real Monsters.
- When using a hacking drone on the medbay system, instead of healing, it will instead deal damage to the enemy crew, meaning whatever poor souls are inside of the medbay are locked in a room with swarms of nanobots deconstructing and ripping apart their flesh. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FTLFasterThanLight |
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:
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## 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/Gamebooks |
Fun and Fancy Free / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"One day, a mysterious shadow crept over the valley... and then something dreadful happened..."
- Lumpjaw the Bear, the villain of the "Bongo" segment, has his moments of threat and terror. His massive sharp teeth and claws are shown to easily tear through trees and boulders, and the close-ups of his roaring, red-eyed face can definitely elicit a fright out of viewers.
- The cow, especially when she realises Donald intends to kill her.
- Donald Duck's hunger-induced nervous breakdown in Mickey and the Beanstalk. Surrounded by death, no possible source of food beyond bread and beans being cut into its absolute thinnest to maintain resources, and absolutely no hope for the situation to get better. He freaks out and tries to eat his plate and silverware. Mickey and Goofy almost have to strangle him to get him to stop. Then he sees the cow they own and goes Ax-Crazy on it in an attempt to kill it, both figuratively and literally. The scariest things about these scenes weren't Donald suddenly going mad or his murderous impulses, but the realism of said portrayal. Donald's insanity is the result of desperate starvation due to an extreme famine, and it's a common fact that desperation due to near-death situations usually brings out the most violent, ugliest sides of human nature.
- It is not helped by the fact that Donald gave two memorable terrifying faces in anticipation of using the axe to kill the cow and when he was starting to kill it. In the case of the latter scenario, Donald's irises become blood red and his sclera bright yellow as he goes into a hunger induced rage. In the case of the former, Donald gains thin, but noticeable ripple rings of alternating colors and his pupils shrinking in size to fit in the rings. This look combined with a Slasher Smile helps to create an iconic Donald Duck Sanity Slippage moment that that is Played for Drama instead of the usual comedic and over the top reaction.
- Even more unsettling is that it's not made readily apparent that Donald is going after the cow at first. First Donald notices the axe hanging on the wall, then he glances to his side and the camera then focuses on Mickey. After Donald sneaks away, Mickey is then shown reacting to Donald, screaming "Donald! No, no!", and the camera then turns to the place where the axe was hanging, now empty. Until Donald is shown approaching the cow in the next shot, the audience is being led to believe that Donald was going to
*kill and eat Mickey*.
- Also, when Mickey reveals he sold the cow for magic beans, Donald's irises turn red once more as he angrily leaps up to the ceiling and starts pulling his feathers out in frustration.
- The unsettling sequence of the beanstalk creeping through the farmers' house at night as they sleep, accompanied by eerie music. It feels like watching some kind of home invasion.
- The dragonfly and the fish that eats it.
- Willie the Giant, though largely comedic, has his moments of being a genuine threat. When this happens, he drops his humor and cheerful attitude completely and becomes legitimately terrifying:
- The sequence of Willie kidnapping the Harp is pretty unsettling to watch for very young viewers: First the giant's shadow covers the entire land then we see from behind the Harp how a pair of giant shadow hands approach the Harp as she helplessly watches in horror, the next shot the Harp is gone and her balcony is in ruins.
- During Willie's Villain Song "Fe Fi Fo Fum", he shows off his vast magical abilities, including the ability to "disappear into atmosphere". He turns completely invisible before a pair of hyper-realistic, disembodied eyes flash onscreen with a creepily playful "Peek-a-boo!", as if Willie is Breaking the Fourth Wall.
- When he wakes from his sleep to spot Mickey's group making off with the harp, Willie's eyes flash red before giving chase, with Luana Patten giving a startling and sudden shout of fright as this occurs.
- During the climax, Willie reminds the audience that he's a
*giant*, more than capable of grinding Mickey and his friends to dust... if he can catch them.
- The Latin Spanish dub makes Willie a bit more scary by not only making him say the phrase
*"I sense the smell of human flesh!"* but also mentioning that, apparently, **THE DEVIL** challenged him... but not only that, he also **BEAT THE DEVIL.** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FunAndFancyFree |
Full Metal Jacket / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Pvt. Cowboy: Remember, it's just a bad dream, fat boy.
The (pictured) face that Pvt. Pyle makes in his mentally broken down state doesn't help make the scene any better. It gets even worse from there.
The moment when Joker finds the now-completely insane Pyle sat alone in the pitch-dark bathroom, who then looks up at him with a full-on Kubrick Stare and just dissonantly says "Hiii... Joker..." with his rifle nearby — which Pyle has loaded with live bullets — is bound to send chills down your spine.
Private Pyle's breakdown and death in the novel is as disturbing, if not more so, than the movie. Joker comes upon a completely psychotic Pyle having a full conversation with his rifle, speaking to it as it were his lover and back to himself in its "voice." When Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim (whose name was changed in the movie) tries to discipline him, Pyle shoots him, convinced that Gerheim a jealous lover who is caught in a love triangle between him and "Charlene." Just before that, however, as he realizes that he's going to die, Gerheim immediately becomes calm, and congratulates Pyle on finally becoming a killer.
Sergeant Gerheim is suddenly calm. His eyes, his manner are those of a wanderer who has found his home. He is a man in complete control of himself and of the world he lives in. His face is cold and beautiful as the dark side surfaces. He smiles. It is not a friendly smile, but an evil smile, as though Sergeant Gerheim were a werewolf baring its fangs. "Private Pyle, I'm proud—" Bang.
The deaths of Doc Jay and Eightball. The sniper before finally finishing them both off took her sweet time torturing the both of them by shooting them at least three to four times to try and lure extra enemies to them.
The slow motion shots of them being shot and screaming in excruciating pain doesnt help either.
Cowboy's death. He gets shot right through the chest and spends his last few moments shouting and cursing in disbelief along with gasping for air before dying in Joker's arms.
The reveal of who the remorseless sniper is. And it's a pigtailed 15-year-old-girl.
How close the sniper came to killing Joker just before being gunned down by Animal Mother.
How quickly the sniper goes from being a cold remorseless killer to praying as she lays dying from her gun wounds.
Animal Mother suggests leaving the sniper to suffer at the mercy of the rats in the building ready to eat her.
"Shoot... me... shoot... me...". Not to mention Joker's Thousand-Yard Stare after the deed is done.
The door gunner, a cackling, mass-murdering Sociopathic Soldier whose first and only appearance heralds some of the most chilling episodes of War Is Hell within the film. That a man can conceivably be so broken and so psychotic he can thrive in the element of the Vietnam War is as horrifying as the violence itself. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FullMetalJacket |
Gamera / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As with most Kaiju, Gamera is no stranger to some rather offputting imagery. While the Showa Era doesn't have that many creepy moments, the Heisei Era is when things start to kick into high gear.
*Run*
- The Heisei incarnation of Gyaos are nothing
*but* this, being soulless, endlessly evolving, endlessly reproducing, all-devouring murder machines that not only already wiped out Atlantis, but are fully capable of doing the same for *us.* It's incredibly telling that the creator of Attack on Titan claimed that *they* were the inspiration for the titular maneaters of the manga
- It should be noted that their iconic screech has been altered into Hell Is That Noise status, and the additional sound effects, some of which sound like nauseated groaning, aren't much better.
- Pictured is the incarnation used in the 2015 short film. It's basically everything stated above about them cranked past 11. Just listen to how they sound
-
*Gamera 3: Revenge Of Irys* is chock full of these. In particular, the scene where Gamera is fighting against several Gyaos and pretty much just destroys the area with no regard for human life (except for one child he deliberately saves from a Gyaos). The people who survive the ordeal aren't grateful that Gamera stopped the Gyaos, they're terrified that they were nearly killed. Needless to say, all governments of the world put quite a bounty on Gamera's head.
- The mortally-wounded Gyaos screeching in pain as its on the ground before Gamera roasts it alive. One of its
*eyes* is hanging from the socket.
- Gamera's design in this movie is nothing short of monstrous, going from the gentle-looking, rather expressive and even vulnerable turtle Kaiju of the previous two movies to a beady-eyed, hulking, spike-covered Implacable Man.
- When Gamera blasts a Gyaos out of the sky and it explodes sending molten chunks of burning Gyaos-flesh raining down on unsuspecting civilians.
- Irys. Imaging a creature that starts off as an Ugly Cute tentacled...thing with a shell, but quickly grows into an Eldritch Abomination. To make things worse, it feeds by impaling you with its tentacles and draining you of your body fluids. And, it tries
*twice* to absorb a little girl so it can consume her and become strong enough to kill Gamera.
- Zedus makes up for his lack of grandiose powers or an overtly scary design with his sheer aggressiveness and blood-thirst, as well as his tendency to appears out of nowhere for a good old Jump Scare. He is scary enough that the entirety of the film's tone turns darker the second he becomes active in the plot. To exemplify, his very first scene does a very effective homage to Jaws where a man that survived one of Zedus' rampages on a fishing boat is stranded at sea, and can only try and vainly swim away in horror when he sees blood-covered fishing equipment surfacing from the sea, right before Zedus pulls him underwater and eats him, noticeably a pool of gushing blood comes out as the scene ends.
- In comparison to other franchises of the same genre, this series has no qualms about showing monsters eating people. Barugon, Gyaos-which have destroyed entire civilizations due to their ravenous appetite, Zigra (he never actually ate anyone on screen, but he wanted to use earth's population as a food source), and Zedus. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gamera |
Game Theory / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages, so all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!**
- The
*Polybius* video starts with a disclaimer mentioning how disturbing the topics brought up in said video are, and then quickly dives into unsettling visuals, such as blood dripping down images at certain parts. The topics of the video itself aren't much better, as he discusses the true purpose of Polybius, being a secret government experiment covered up after cases of memory loss and other conditions became widespread.
- MatPat's gallery of executions by elephant in "Why Mario is Mental, Part 2". He tries to give the viewer a feel of what it's like to be
*crushed alive* by an elephant - all accompanied by artistic depictions. He does to to explain just how painful Mario's preferred method of killing really is.
- His two parts
*Doki Doki Literature Club!* video is noticably glitchy and seemingly haunted by Monika, who even speaks (fully voiced to boot) at a few points. The first part has his catchphrase be corrupted into a Broken Record that keeps saying Just Monika and the second part, after theorizing that the true threat (or at least the threat of Team Salvato's upcoming game) is none other than Yuri, has her seemingly *killing* MatPat as he's saying his catchphrase before going after the viewer!
- The
*Petscop* videos. MAN, OH MAN. The first was bad enough, with him describing in vivid detail the real-life death by suffocation of Candace Newmaker during a "rebirthing" attachment therapy session. But the second is even worse, as it cranks the creepy editing, surprise jumpscares and glitching from the *Doki Doki* episodes to a whole new level and uncovers what seems to be a series of murders and abuse caused by a man named Marvin and how he's the shadow man.
- The Try to Fall Asleep theory, delving into nightmare deaths and hallucinations, including two lovely anecdotes and real-life deaths. If that wasn't unnerving enough, Mat then theorises that Dr Richard Norberg, the therapist who advised the protagonist John Herrin to sleep it off, is a Psycho Psychologist with ulterior motives, with the doctor cutout gaining a black Slasher Smile and reaching out to John Herrin with white gloves. As the episode ends, the camera zooms in on Norberg as his eyes turn red.
- The ending of the theory based around the "Bob" mod for
*Friday Night Funkin'*. The whole theory discusses a unsettling ARG where a man created a self-aware AI, which murdered him and his wife and disfigured and rendered his young daughter comatose, all using a mysterious black ooze. MatPat ends the video discussing the AI, Bob, when it attacks and corrupts him with the black goo. MatPat is heard gasping and struggling to breathe through the outro, as Bob's hyper-realistic eyes fill the screen and it gloats about killing the host. Even the sponsorship segment after the outro is styled to look like MatPat's funeral, with his friends and family mourning in the audience. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GameTheory |
Games Of The Killer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"This is the worst work vacation of my life..."Voice of The KillerHands of The KillerDrool of The KillerEyes of The KillerFlesh of The KillerBlood of The KillerEars of The Killer | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GamesOfTheKiller |
Game of Thrones / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Gnight, folks!
*"There is only one hell, Princess: the one we live in now."*
—
**Melisandre**
Remember all the Nightmare Fuel that
*A Song of Ice and Fire* had? With *Game of Thrones*, it's now in live action. **Enjoy.**
For
*House of the Dragon*, see here.
Spoilers Off applies to all Moments pages, so
**ALL spoilers are unmarked**! Proceed with caution.
- The treatment of the smallfolk is downright horrific. They are the ultimate victims of the series, as they are frequently murdered, tortured, and raped for literally no other reason than cruelty. Worse of all, while we are only shown a handful of scenes, it's clear that horrific acts like these happen
*everywhere and every day* in Westeros.
- Aerys Targaryen II had a passion for burning people alive, and he was prepared to immolate his entire capital city in wildfire to spite his enemies.
- Wildfire itself is an alchemically created liquid that bursts into sickly green flames, the closest equivalent to antiquity's dreaded Greek Fire. And not even ocean water can extinguish it, as demonstrated in the Battle of the Blackwater.
- Joffrey Baratheon is barely past adolescence, but he's uncompromisingly brutal and will not hesitate to maim or kill anyone who annoys him as long as he knows he can get away with it. Equally terrifying is that the Lannisters are willing to indulge him and keep him in power as long as they get to rule Westeros in his name.
- Any scene involving Ramsay Bolton. Some of the things he enjoys doing are flaying people alive and feeding people who bore him to his bloodthirsty hounds. And what makes him more terrifying than Joffrey is that he is actually intelligent and also a fearless fighter. He is easily the most evil monster in the entire show.
-
**GREGOR CLEGANE**. He is a Psycho for Hire who will murder anyone (children included) and commit rape.
- The degree of Paranoia Fuel in the first four seasons is palpable, as there's a constant feeling that anyone can be killed at any time, even if they do everything right. Usually, death comes from a character's mistake, but there are also several moments where it's just because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
- The White Walkers in general, they're just too good at what they do. Take over Hardhome, check; giant wights, check; capture a dragon, check; destroy the wall, been there done that.
- The dragons are terrifyingly fast, exceptionally strong, and can easily light entire crowds of people on fire.
- Hell, the freakin music for the White Walkers is pretty unnerving. Doubles as Awesome Music.
## Season 1
- The White Walkers, if not solely for their utterly terrifying eyes.
- Though it is clearly a well-known form of justice and execution, there is a strong Dark Age tone to the scene where Ned's sons watch him decapitate Will, the Night's Watch deserter (who, in a way, was the first hero of the story), with his huge greatsword. It lets you know right away that our noble heroes the Starks have a dark side and aren't always completely right in their actions.
- When Princess Daenerys tells her brother that she doesn't want to marry Khal Drogo and that she wants to go home, Viserys starts talking to her as if she is a dumb child, casually explaining that aligning with Drogo and the Dothraki is the only way to get home and that he would let his entire army and their horses fuck Daenerys if it means getting an army to take back the Seven Kingdoms.
- An even better indication of how twisted and scary this series is going to be comes at the end when ten-year old Bran stumbles upon Cersei, the queen, having sex with her twin brother, Jaime Lannister. Then Jaime shoves Bran out of a window. Cue the end credits.
- Joffrey showing his true colours by clearly cutting Mycah for the sadistic pleasure, and then, when Arya hits him over the head to defend her friend, Joffrey goes wild, swinging his sword at Arya with clear intent to kill, ending up with Arya on her back with Joffrey's sword at her throat. Had Nymeria not intervened by mauling Joffrey, he'd have probably killed, or at the very least mutilated Arya.
- Robert's discussion with Ser Barristan about the last words of their foes. He calls in Jaime to quiz him about his own experiences — and to needle him once again about the fact that, yes, he killed Aerys Targaryen. It backfires when Jaime replies perfectly calmly and coldly, "He said the same thing he'd been saying for hours:
*burn them all.*" Even Robert appears to be freaked out by this.
- Robert describing the first man he killed, a soldier sworn to House Tarly, who, after Robert already crippled him with his first blow, cowered on the ground and begged for Robert to "Wait, wait!" The way he talks about it really lets you imagine how awful it would be to be on the wrong side of Robert and his warhammer. It also shows just how merciless he can be toward his enemies.
- Although he's completely deserving, Rast waking up to find Jon, Grenn and Pyp holding him down and a direwolf's fangs inches from his throat is somewhat frightening.
- Ser Hugh's death in the tournament; Sansa screams, Arya goggles in shock, even King Robert looks stunned as Hugh takes a lance to the throat and is left slowly bleeding to death. Even more horrifying is that it's left deliberately ambiguous whether Hugh's death was because someone wanted to silence him or Gregor Clegane just felt like killing him for the fun of it.
- In the immediate aftermath of the above incident, Littlefinger tells Sansa the charming story of how the ten year old Gregor permanently disfigured a six year old Sandor by shoving his face into a fire for the "crime" of playing with one of Gregory's toys without permission.
- While it's also an awesome moment, it's a little terrifying to see the naked fury on Daenerys's face as she threatens to have Viserys's hands hacked off if he ever lays a finger on her again. Judging by the look on his face, Viserys realises she's not making an empty threat.
- Ser Gregor Clegane cutting off the head of his horse in a temper tantrum.
- Gregor's first line in the series, immediately preceding this. Very eloquent:
"
**SWORD!**"
- "Cut her throat. Be done with it."
- Jaime's chilling Death Glare, directed at Ned after he's driven a blade into Jory's eye.
- A group of wildings discuss how they'll head south in order to avoid the White Walkers. Implying that the wall may not be keeping everything out of Westeros... or won't be for much longer...
- The discussion in the throne room about Gregor Clegane's lead invasion of the Riverlands butchering women, children and fishes so as to point the finger at the Tully house, shows how quick Tywin Lannister is to avenge a slight, any slight. Quite an Establishing Character Moment for a rich lord we're yet to even see.
- The Sky Cells are a pretty frightening concept when you imagine what it must like being a prisoner there. There's no protection from the elements, and you could never sleep easily, always fearing that you would fall out of the window — not to mention the terrifying vertigo you'd have all the time. It seems like the ultimate point is to drive prisoners to suicide and give them an easy means of accomplishing it. The floors are also somewhat slanted, meaning you can unconsciously find yourself rolling right off the edge in your sleep. Tyrion's Oh, Crap! look when that almost happens to him says it all. Apparently there are
*worse* cells that have even *steeper* inclines.
- While it's a comparably tame scene for that show's standards (which, of course, isn't saying much), the way Viserys is killed (by getting a pot of molten gold poured on his head, AKA being involuntarily forced to participate in an ALS Gold Bucket Challenge video) is quite scary, as you can only imagine the pain... In addition, he dies gruesomely in front of his sister, who had to watch it and do nothing. Yeah, Viserys was a dick to her, but he was all she had, and she had to watch him die knowing that even if she wanted to, she couldn't do
*anything* to save him.
- The way Drogo, in full Blood Knight mode, crouches down and gets in Viserys' face as he dies screaming. It's like Drogo just wanted to absorb and relish in all of the suffering he's inflicting.
- What Viserys did, or rather
*threatened* to do, that prompted this grisly end is pretty horrible as well. He stumbles into the Dothraki's feast drunk and armed and starts shouting for his sister. When Daenerys tries to calm him, he goes straight up to her and holds her at swordpoint, specifically pressing the blade against her stomach, where she's pregnant with her and Drogo's child (and Viserys' own nephew). Viserys tells Daenerys to inform Drogo that if he doesn't hold up his end of their 'bargain', then he'll take Daenerys back, adding that he can "keep the baby. I'll cut it out and leave it for him." It's clear from Dany's disturbed reaction and Viserys' deranged manner that he might not just be making empty threats; he is apparently far gone enough to actually go through with cutting his little's sister unborn baby from her womb in front of her husband.
- The build-up starting when Daenerys tells him he'll have "a golden crown that men shall
*tremble* to behold".
- Daenerys' response to her brother's death. Although at the time it could be contributed to a severe case of PTSD, in hindsight it is a chilling sign of things to come. From the beginning, Daenerys enjoyed watching people die in agony.
- The assassin who failed to kill Daenerys who is forced to walk tied behind her and Drogo's horse, naked and exposed to the elements. The state he's in, he doesn't look like he's going to last long.
- The exchange between Maester Luwin and Osha when she insists, despite his skepticism, the White Walkers have reawakened.
**Maester Luwin**
: The things
you speak of...they've been gone for thousands of years.
**Osha**
: They wasn't gone, old man...they were
*sleeping*
. And they ain't sleeping no more.
- Khal Drogo's enraged declaration of war against Westeros. Even worse is not just Daenerys' extasic face during the whole speech, but also the fact that didn't even blink when Drogo declared that the Dothraki are going to rape women.
- Ned's plan to seize the throne from Cersei and Joffrey goes completely awry when the Gold Cloaks he assumed were on his side begin killing his men alongside the Lannisters. Before he can draw his own sword, Littlefinger has a knife to his throat.
- The aftermath of the Battle of the Green Fork. Tyrion wakes up and sees he's being carted through the blood-soaked battlefield, where the hill tribesmen are seen holding down and mutilating the wounded Northmen.
- In "Baelor", while we don't get to see anything, the unearthly screaming noises coming out of Khal Drogo's tent as his life is "saved" through blood magic are more than a little chilling. Add in a little Fridge Horror, it's clear from the way that the other characters are acting that only Dany can actually hear the sounds.
- Down in the dungeons, Varys urges Ned to confess to treason and urge his son's northern army to stand down, saying Cersei will spare his life and let him go off to exile in the Night's Watch. Ned flatly refuses to compromise his honour, even to save his own life, but he's given pause when Varys reminds Ned that the Lannisters still hold his daughter hostage...and implies that Sansa will pay with her life if Ned continues to defy Cersei.
- Ned Stark's execution is still unpleasant to watch. The utter build up towards the scene whilst Sansa screams hysterically for Joffrey to stop it, Ser Ilyn getting ready to use the sword, and Yoren constantly holding Arya back from watching is mentally unnerving. Worst is the fact Ned's only fear of the situation was that Arya may have to watch his execution to which luckily he died knowing she wasn't and Yoren was there, but just imagine the inner turmoil he would have suffered before death if Yoren wasn't there to shield Arya from watching. It gets worse. Once it was over, Yoren lifted her up so that she was looking over his shoulder. He was walking away from the Sept, so while Arya may not have seen the execution as it happened, she
*did* see her father's headless body and the Hound holding up his head.
- It's quite unnerving to see Varys acting insanely out of character -
*running* to Joffrey to plead with him. And friggin *Cersei* is begging for him to stop. They both knew just how much destruction Joffrey's boneheaded decision is going to cause to the realm.
- Even worse is the fact that Ned ultimately died because Joffrey, a petulant sadist, seemingly wanted to know how it felt to order someone's execution and watch it happen, not realising the major consequences this would have for the Seven Kingdoms.
- The episode opens immediately after Ned gets decapitated. We are greeted to some sickening shots of the blood-soaked blade, The Hound holding the severed head up in the air, the crowds roaring in applause, guards dragging away the headless corpse, Sansa fainting in horror at Cersei and Joffrey's feet.
- Sansa not only has to see her father's execution - but Joffrey makes her look at his severed head mounted on a spike. As well as Septa Mordane's and presumably other members of her household she's known all her life.
- The aftermath of Daenerys and Mirri Maz Duur's attempt at blood magic to save Drogo. He was indeed healed of his fatal wounds and illness, but is left in a permanent catatonic state.
**Mirri Maz Duur**: He lives. You asked for life. You *paid* for life. **Daenerys**: This is not life! When will he be as he was? **Mirri Maz Duur**: When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry, and when the mountains blow in the winds like leaves.
- Also, the price of the spell turned out to be greater than a mere horse, since Dany's child Rhaego came out of her womb stillborn and freakishly deformed. The docile way Mirri Maz Duur describes the poor thing really sells it. It's the epitome of Body Horror, with a little adult fear added into the mix.
**Mirri Maz Duur**: "Monstrous'', twisted... I pulled him out myself. He was scaled like a lizard, blind, with leather wings like the wings of a bat. When I touched him the skin fell from his bones. Inside, he was full of grave worm".
- "I am the dragon's daughter, and I swear to you that those who would harm you will die screaming."
- Then Dany proceeds to burn Mirri Maz Duur alive.
## Season 2
- Littlefinger's pleasant little story about a whore he bought who was much too sad and how his losses were mitigated. It's as much what he doesn't say as what he does — nothing about his tone when he says "he wanted to transform her" suggests that the man who bought that poor girl was
*not* just going to turn her into Westeros's Next Top Model. The rumors earlier in the series of him catering to necrophiles don't help. (Another unpleasant possibility, could this man perhaps have been Qyburn?)
- We actually get to see hints of what happens to Craster's sons. It's not pretty. The hissing and snarling of the watching White Walkers doesn't help either.
- Jon telling Mormont he saw
*something* take Craster's son, and Mormont replying he'll likely see it again. They've both seen there are far more dangerous things north of the Wall than wildlings, and they're heading deeper into its territory.
- In the opening titles, amidst all the beautiful clockwork intricacies of the different cities on the map, Harrenhal is a blackened, broken piece of clockwork where nothing works or moves.
- We find out that Joffrey is more interested in watching women forced to beat each other, possibly to death, than having sex. While this
*may* have been more to send a message to his Uncle, it's still disturbing how gleeful he looks during it.
- This is especially horrifying for Ros, who has barely gotten over seeing a woman's baby girl get butchered, and is now forced by an insane boy to slowly beat one of her friends to death with a mace for his sick pleasure. And he threatens to shoot her with his crossbow if she doesn't do it.
- Arya gets to watch people being tortured horribly by ingenious use of a rat, a bucket and a torch (which actually was a real method of torture in the past), killed and having their heads hammered onto pikes for at
*least* two days, all the while knowing she could very well be next. Many of the people she's with are watching their families receive this treatment.
- The fact that the Mountain picks the guy who was staring at him. He had escaped being picked before, thinking it was because the Mountain was put off by his stare, but it turns out that it was completely random. The idea that someone could be so completely detached from humanity that he literally has no more reaction to someone looking at him than to a turned back is terrifying.
- The closing scene, wherein Melisandre gives birth. The shadow child/son/demon/shadow
*sounds like Stannis.*
- Renly's death. Being stabbed in the back by a shadowy assailant, and seeing your own wound in the mirror — and then as you're choking on your own blood, you see that your attacker looks quite a bit like your older brother.
*And then it roars at you before it disappears*.
- It all happens so quickly that neither Catelyn or Brienne have time to react; Catelyn notices
*something* dark with spindly limbs rapidly crawling through the tent past her feet...then seconds later Renly is dead; at first all Brienne can do is scream "NO!" in shock and horror while Catelyn can't seem to say anything at all.
- Theon executing Ser Rodrik Cassel. He doesn't have the strength or proper armament to behead him in a single swing, so there is a gruesome scene of Theon repeatedly hacking away and then roughly
*kicking* Ser Rodrik's head away. At least the first blow seemed to kill him, meaning he didn't feel any of the subsequent ones. Bran and Rickon are watching the whole time and both are sobbing and screaming, with Bran even pleading with Theon not to do it and that he'll do anything if he'll just spare Rodrik.
- The riot at King's Landing turns into this when the starving townspeople start dismembering and devouring members of the royal entourage. The High Septon is heard screaming in agony, and two seconds later, several men are holding up his dismembered, bloody arm as frenzied cheers go up from the crowd. Sansa is chased down and almost raped by a group of men. Her screaming and pleading as she's held down is really hard to watch. Thank god the Hound had a Big Damn Heroes moment, though it was really close.
- What really drives it home is Tyrion's utterly horrified reaction as he witnesses the High Septon being literally torn to pieces.
- The Pyat Pree doubles. They slit the throats of the Thirteen without a flicker of emotion. Their dissonant serenity follows Daenerys as she tries to escape: 'A mother should be close to her children!' Stab one through the back? It just sighs in exasperation and disappears, leaving only garments behind.
- Sansa's first period, especially when she realizes that now she's fit to marry Joffrey. A prospect that she doesn't relish.
- Daenerys and Jorah's attempt to escape the Qarth council chamber, with doubles of Pyat Pree blocking their every path. The off-kilter camerawork just adds to the unease.
- Theon presenting the burnt corpses of the boys.
- The troops that Jaqen had killed effortlessly and undetected, then propped up in their at the gate of Harrenhal so that Arya, Gendry and Hot Pie can escape. What did he do to that guy's head?
- Having Brienne killing you is scary already. Having her state to your face that she is going to kill you, in the slowest and most painful way possible,
*by ramming a sword up your crotch*, while you're lying on the ground unable to do anything about it is a lot worse.
- In a fit of rage after his defeat, Stannis starts strangling Melisandre, asking her "Where is your god now? Will he save you? Where is your god!?" To which she submits, holding out her arms as if allowing him to kill her, and says, "Inside you."
- What's more haunting is the way she calmly describes what Stannis's future will be like if he stays his course:
**Melisandre**: This war has just begun. It will last for years. Thousands will die at your command. You will betray the men serving you, you will betray your family, you will betray everything that you once held dear... and it will all be worth it. Because you are the Son of Fire, you are the Warrior of Light. You will sweep aside this pretender and that one. You *will* be king.
- Dany's experience in the House of the Undying. Eventually she comes to the throne room of the Red Keep in King's Landing. Why is this scary?
*Winter has come.*
- The scene gets even scarier when we reach the actual time of the scene later in the series and see the events leading up to that moment. All that snow and destruction didn't come from the White Walkers; Dany did this all by herself.
- Three blasts. Even more chilling is Edd and Sam's slow realization of what is happening for the first time in thousands of years.
*(second blast blows)*
**Grenn:** Two blasts is Wildlings. *(draws sword)*
**Edd:** We're not fighting them alone. Come on!
*(third blast blows)*
**Grenn:** *Three* blasts?
- The fates of Doreah and Xaro — locked in an dark, empty vault to slowly die of thirst, starvation or asphyxiation.
- Bonus points in how they would likely resort to cannibalism in order to survive a bit longer. That is, if they didn't suffocate first.
- Might be lessened by the very easy He's Just Hiding theory that, like his claim that the vault was full of treasure, Xaro's claim that the vault is "impenetrable" is a lie.
- Our first good look at a White Walker, and the
*massive* army of wights at the end.
## Season 3
- We don't see the battle for the Fist of the First Men, but the sounds of it in the prologue are horrific enough; the screams of men and animals, the clash of swords, battle cries and the truly demonic howling of the White Walkers over it all effectively gives the chaos and horror of the Night's Watch fighting a hopeless battle against an enemy devoid of pain, fear or mercy, without ever showing a sight of the battle itself.
- The state of Harrenhall. 200 prisoners of war were butchered by the retreating Lannisters and left rotting in the open just to spite Robb. As Robb surveys the carnage one of the bodies starts to cough, his throat slit, seemingly the only survivor. His name? Qyburn.
- During Tyrion and Cersei's conversation, we get a glimpse of Cersei's Troubling Unchildlike Behavior growing up. It's easy to see where Joffrey gets it from:
**Cersei**: You've slandered me to father before. **Tyrion**: Slandered? When? **Cersei**: You told him I had my guards beat that servant girl at Casterly Rock. **Tyrion**: You *did* have your guards beat her. A girl of nine, I believe. **Tyrion**: *(disgusted)* She lost an eye, if I remember correctly.
- The Unsullied, a slave army trained from birth with only a quarter of them surviving. Their final test is to buy a newborn baby slave and kill it in front of its mother. They currently number eight thousand. The scene where the slave trader slices off one of their nipples to demonstrate that they're impervious to pain isn't too pleasant to watch.
- Dany sure is lucky Ser Barristan Selmy came to her rescue or she'd have fallen prey to the Manticore that was inside a seemingly harmless hollow ball the warlock girl gave her. The Manticore itself is creepy enough; a large shimmering green scorpion-like bug with what looks like a face on its stinger and a poison so powerful it kills in seconds.
- Orell during his warg period. There is a brief three second shot of him looking up to the sky with completely white and vacant eyes *shudder*
- While well deserved, Theon's torture at the hands of the Bolton men qualifies.
Theon: WHAT DO YOU WANT?!
Guard: I
*want* to do this.
*(shoves pick under his fingernail)*
- The Walk of Punishment, where slaves are crucified after being tortured for the tiniest disobedience. Daenerys offers water to one, but he refuses, looking forward to being free in death.
- The scene of Locke chopping off Jaime's hand alone is nightmarish. We don't even get the kindness of a Gory Discretion Shot, we watch the bastard bring the knife down on Jaime's hand and the moment it's done it takes a few seconds for Jaime to realize what just happened and he pulls back his stump where his hand once was as he begins to scream in horror and we see the injury in all its disgusting glory.
- Brienne's attempted gang rape at the hands of the Boltons. For a character so strong, confident, and generally badass and awesome to be brutally beaten and dragged off into the darkness while screaming in fear is extremely unnerving.
- Theon gets caught in his attempt to escape the Dreadfort and is captured by Bolton men. They actually brace him to the ground and pull down his pants as one of the Bolton men seems to be undoing his while promising to fuck Theon into the dirt. We are left with the horrific certainty that they were going to rape Theon right there and then had the boy not come and saved Theon. Going from the remarks their leader made this is standard practice for them whenever they apprehend escapees.
- It's pretty raw when Theon gets chased into the woods on horseback by Bolton men, and one of them knocks him off his horse by striking him in the chest with a morning star. The fact that he survived this without wearing any armor is even worse. What makes it extra painful is the ringing sound effect mixed with Theon's agonized gasp when he hits the ground. Ouch. Very ouch.
- The spiral of severed horse parts arranged in the snow, no doubt left by the White Walkers for the Night's Watch to see.
- In the opening credits, among all the clockwork on the map, Winterfell is shown burnt to a crisp, with black smoke billowing from the burnt remains. It's incredibly creepy and unsettling.
- The story of how Varys was castrated: a sorcerer fed him a potion that paralyzed him but left him fully able to feel the pain, then used the parts for a spell that let him talk to some demon or spirit. Varys is a man who knows of terrible things, yet he still has nightmares of the voice coming from the flame. And then the reveal of that very sorcerer in a box, very much at Varys's mercy. The background music is
*extremely* creepy note : it's Melisandre's theme, Tyrion looks more and more freaked out until the revelation, the sorcerer is clearly terrified and whimpering through his gag, and Varys is... calm, and *very* satisfied. What truly makes the scene is that you feel terrible for Varys. He's describing the worst and most terrifying moment of his life and its hard to not feel bad for him. And then you see Tyrion's face as he looks at the box and is connecting the dots. And that's when you realize that behind the persona that Varys shows to other characters, he's truly one of the most dangerous men in series.
- Cat shaking Bran up a tree in one of his dreams, calling back her last conversation with him in a deranged fashion, before pushing him off the tree... "Promise me! Promise me! PROMISE ME!!!"
- Theon suddenly discovering that he's been led straight back into his torture chamber is terrifying; he's so stunned he can't even articulate the betrayal and can only beg incoherently, while his betrayer has a truly deranged look of enjoyment on his face. Also, while it's not elaborated on in the scene, so might be more a case of Fridge Horror, it makes you wonder; what sort of person would go through all that trouble (including killing some of his own men) and build up so much trust (including getting the only true confession of Theon's feelings in the series), just for the sake of playing some sort of game? Someone who wants to move up in a Crapsack World.
- The scene at Craster's Keep is all very subtle and
*very* effective Nightmare Fuel, as tensions in the house rise and you can just see the more level-headed brothers of the Watch getting more and more uneasy, knowing something awful is about to happen. Everyone's reactions are chillingly realistic, as anyone who's been in a similarly unstable situation with many people involved could tell you.
- Rast and some other brothers staging a mutiny against Lord Commander Mormont at Craster's Keep, with Rast stabbing Mormont in the back. There's a Hope Spot where it looks like Mormont might at least choke Rast to death before he dies, but then Rast stabs him again and throws him on the ground before stabbing him over and over.
- Osha's story about how her lover disappeared, and then came back one night... as a wight, who tried to kill her even after she stabbed it in the heart. She had to burn down their home to kill it, and is clearly still traumatized.
- Theon's already nightmarish torture reaches a distressing new low. After the torturer baits him with beautiful women in order to get him aroused, he then brutally beats a weeping, trembling Theon to the ground before having two of his cronies hold him down, and then after smugly stating how he knows that Theon's cock is his "most precious part" and that he is "just going to make a few alterations", he crouches over a shrieking, flailing Theon's crotch with a hooked gelding knife, and gleefully prepares to start cutting while Theon begs for mercy... And note that the camera goes out of focus at the end of the scene. Yes, we've actually reached the point where even this show thinks something is too horrible to be shown onscreen.
- The actual 'sex' itself is an exercise in Fan Disservice. At no point in the scene does it seem sexy — at best it seems to be a cruel parody of Theon's wildest fantasies, and at worse seems like actual rape, considering the girls climb aboard while Theon cringes and explicitly tells them to stop.
- Locke and his men putting Brienne into a pit with a hungry bear, with only a wooden sword to defend herself.
*And laughing and singing as they anticipate her getting killed and eaten.*
- Gendry's ordeal at the hands of Melisandre. First he is drugged with likely spiked wine and then is seduced by her, only to be tied to the bed and have leeches attached to his chest, abdomen, and... somewhere very painful.
- Granted it's directed at Joffrey after he persists in making a total asshole of himself again and this borders with Moments of Awesome and Funny, but Tyrion's very audible and cold rage in his tone and the look of fury on his face as he drives a knifepoint into the table and fearlessly threatens to cut off Joffrey's dick in front of everyone certainly left many viewers as silent as the court. Note that up until this point, Tyrion has done nothing worse than slapping his nephew and making non-serious threats behind his back and all to help him be a better man, but it's obvious at this point after Joffrey has attempted to have him killed and refuses to quit humiliating him, Tyrion's hatred for Joffrey is just as strong if not stronger than Joff's.
**Tyrion**: There will be no bedding ceremony. **Joffrey**: *(smiles nastily)* There will be, if I command it. **Tyrion**: *(stabs his dagger into the table, making everyone fall silent)* Then you'll be fucking your own bride with a *wooden cock.*
- Joffrey's ever growing madness. It's very subtle, but he's pretty much telling Sansa to her own face how he plans to invoke lord's right and rape her after Tyrion's had her. He doesn't wait for a response telling her Ser Meryn and Ser Blout will hold her down for him.
- The White Walker stalking towards Sam and Gilly, while a huge flock of crows perch on a nearby weirwood tree and scream. We also see just how useless normal weapons are against the White Walkers, when it grabs Sam's sword and shatters it.
- Arya is falling deeper and deeper into Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. One example is the way she calmly turns towards
*Sandor "The Hound" Clegane* and tells him, "Someday, I'm going to put a sword through your eye and out the back of your skull."
- The Red Wedding.
- "The Rains of Castamere" starts to play. Nothing even happens as it does, but after an entire season of references to the song, the viewer already knows it's the Lannisters' theme and something really, really horrible is about to happen.
- Catelyn turns to Roose Bolton (Robb's most powerful bannerman present and thus supposed to be his closest protector) for reassurance after the Rains finishes playing, only for him to slowly turn towards her with a flat-out disturbing, smug Psychotic Smirk (up until now, he has been a stoic, silent, and serious man with little obvious discontent with the Starks) and Kubrick Stare as he looms her via his eyes to lift the sleeve of his shirt to which Catelyn notices he's wearing chain mail and thus understanding immediately he has betrayed Robb.
- Lothar Frey
*repeatedly stabbing Talisa's pregnant stomach*, after which she stands up — clearly so stunned by the attack that she has no idea what to do — allowing us to see the blood gushing out while she screams in pain.
- Some soldiers are playing at dice in the yard. As soon as the carnage starts, the Frey men all pull out their swords and violently massacre the shocked Stark soldiers before they can react. After this, some soldiers surround Grey Wind's pen and shoot him with crossbows.
- Robb getting shot multiple times with crossbows bolts.
- Once this Talisa is stabbed, a bunch of other people who are also at the tables suddenly start getting brutally killed. There's something about the
*way they are killed* that's kinda disturbing.
- Roose Bolton: "The Lannisters send their regards." *STAB*
- Walder Frey is completely indifferent to Catelyn's holding a dagger to his own wife's throat, saying that he can always find another wife. Not to mention that the poor young girl looks terrified when Catelyn grabs her.
- Catelyn's reaction to Robb's death. She has an look of absolute horror on her face, silently cries her eyes out as Robb dies in front of her, screams/cries out in anguish as she slits the throat of Walder's wife, and then looks on in Stunned Silence before Black Walder Frey comes up and slices her own throat open.
- The complete lack of credits music after this scene
*does not help matters.*
- An extremely subtle one, but for those who have followed the third season through the King's Roadmap, soon after this episode was broadcast, the app disappeared and in its place was a page just saying 'Gone'.
- The sight of the Freys massacring the Stark forces is horrific. The entire camp is in flames. Men are being butchered all around. We see a man with his legs cut off, a man being lynched, and a man being stabbed over and over by at least 5 people. And then we see those Frey bastards parading around the decapitated body of Robb with Grey Wind's severed head impaled on it◊ while mockingly chanting "The King in the North." It really hammers home how twisted and evil the Freys really are. And unlike when Ned was executed, Arya has a front-row seat to witness the profaning of her brother's corpse. Even the Hound, himself no stranger to brutality and war, has this "Holy
*shit*, this is fucked up" look on his face as this is all going down. Contrast this to how the Lannister soldiers dispatched Ned Stark's household in Season 1. They were merciless and quite brutal, yes, but there was a sense of efficiency and professionalism. With the Freys, they *rejoice* at their cruelty and seem to take pleasure in killing the Stark forces in the most painful ways possible.
- The Small Council meeting, where Joffrey gleefully tells Grand Maester Pycelle to send for Robb Stark's head, as he's planning to serve it to Sansa on his wedding feast. Everone present — Varys, Tyrion, Pycelle, even Cersei and Tywin, are alarmed (each in their own way) that their twisted little "king" is getting completely out of hand. And when the master schemers are scared, guess what that means for the general populace.
- Bran's story about a Night's Watch cook who killed his king's son and served him in a pie. The king liked it so much he asked for more. And if you've read the books, you'll know that the gods punished the cook for his breaking of Sacred Hospitality by turning him into a massive white rat cursed with eternal hunger, but only able to eat his own children.
- The Evil Gloating scene between Walder Frey and Roose Bolton about the Red Wedding, while several Frey servants are cleaning the bloodstains off the floor. Now, Joffrey may have had his insane outbreaks, but he is just a child. This is the first time we see competent, serious villains revelling in the heinous crime they just committed. The smile Roose gives deserves special mention. The creepy smile just goes to show, like father, like son.◊
- Ramsay decides that "Theon" is too noble a name, and decides to give him a name more befitting someone as broken as him. Like "Reek." Theon is in for a whole lot more suffering, but the scene just positively
*drips* with No Yay, with Ramsay getting uncomfortably close to Theon and *smelling him.* Even though his identity was an open secret... for some viewers that are close followers of the books, the speaking of Ramsay's *name* in this episode counts as this.
- The box that is sent to the Greyjoys, containing Theon's "favorite toy", looks like it's made from a Greyjoy breastplate, most likely Theon's own. The message that accompanies the box threatens to wipe all the Ironborn out if they don't leave the North, and promises to send more pieces of Theon if they don't withdraw immediately.
- Arya once again demonstrating further slippage into Cute and Psycho territory, in the sheer cold and calculated manner with which she plays an innocent girl before brutally murdering the Frey Soldier who claimed responsibility for desecrating Robb's body. As well as the reveal that the knife she used was one she stole from the Hound, without him even knowing it. Suffice to say, even the Hound looks scared of her at this point. For extra creepiness points, the music that plays while Arya contemplates both her first adult kill and the Braavosi coin she used to distract her victim with is none other than Jaqen H'ghar's theme.
## Season 4
- The title sequence finally features the seat of House Bolton on its clockwork map, arguably the most Nightmare Fuel-inducing location since Harrenhal. The Dreadfort is jarringly gritty brown with fading paint, scratch marks and dried blood stains, is enclosed by spiked battlements and towers shaped like meat tenderizers, and its centerpiece displays what looks like a dried piece of flayed skin with the Bolton sigil painted on it, being stretched over a miniature torture rack by the rotating gears of the castle. The sequence is made worse by how the camera then immediately shifts to the west of the Dreadfort to show the burnt out husk of Winterfell.
- Sandor and Arya's visit to the tavern. A group of Gregor's men are there and are helping themselves to food and drink, uncaring that this is the innkeeper's livelihood. Worse, they've gotten hold of the innkeeper's daughter and are groping the terrified girl, with the strong implication they plan on doing more than that. When her father begs them to let her go, Polliver simply tells him "Shut your mouth and pour us more ale, and we may not take her with us when we're done with her." Polliver also suggests that Sandor trade them Arya for some chickens and makes it
*very* clear what they'd do with her; he also makes it clear he and his men have going round the countryside robbing helpless civilians and raping women for some time. During the subsequent fight at the inn, Sandor kills one of the men by *repeatedly slamming his head onto his own knife* (through the eye specifically) and the guy doesn't die straight away either. Even though he's hardly sympathetic, it's still not a good way to go.
- Arya killing Polliver. Rather than the rushed, passionate act from the book, here she's very calm and deliberate, even sadistically drawing it out, making it clear that something snapped in her at the Red Wedding. The Psychotic Smirk she gives riding the white pony,
*willingly*, with Sandor and the Dissonant Serenity as their horses approach the war-torn wasteland shows her descent into madness as well.
- Oberyn remembering what happened to his niece and nephew and his beloved sister Elia; she was raped and killed by Gregor Clegane. And all this horrible information related very quietly but not at all calmly; Tyrion looks honestly scared, as if he expects Oberyn to suddenly lash out and slit his throat. While hardly the
*most* gruesome death in the entire lore, it nearly does take the fucking biscuit. She was apparently *split in half with his broadsword.* Before having her head *crushed* by the Mountain. Her children, the crown prince and princess had equally grisly deaths, enough so that battle-hardened soldiers of the rebellion couldn't look under the Lannister cloaks they'd been wrapped in without losing the contents of their stomachs...
- The Thenns and their eating habits.
- The Meereenese get wind of Dany approaching their city, the largest of the slaver cities, and kindly decide to "point her" to the city by way of over a hundred crucified slave children on every mile marker between her and Meereen. The state of the bodies clearly signify that their deaths were not quick... The first girl sacrificed also visibly resembles Dany, making this even more of a slight towards her personally.
- When Daenerys tries to calm Drogon, who is squabbling with his siblings over some meat, he whirls around and snarls at her. Dany is visibly frightened, and with good reason. The dragons are getting bigger and more dangerous by the day, and now the only person who could control them is having trouble with it...
- The forging of the titualar "Two Swords." Accomplished by melting down the Stark family sword, Ice, and reforging it into two separate swords. Not only is this Tywin Lannister's final victory over the Starks, but Ice is a ''Valyrian steel sword." Melting it down makes it. . . just steel. Some of the sting is taken out by Tywin later commenting that only a few smiths are able to work with Valyrian steel, indicating that both swords may retain their unique properties, but if the smith wasn't as skilled as he claimed, or just rolled bad dice that day. . .
- Ramsay goes hunting. Damn.
- The fact that his "girlfriend" seems to enjoy it just as much as he does. One has to wonder if she is just as much of a psycho as Ramsay is, or if Ramsay conditioned her to be that way.
- Ramsay is a blunt instrument. He can break people down, but he can't rebuild them in his own image. Lady M appears to be just naturally share his inclinations. One wonders how long she's going to last before he gets bored, regardless.
- Though we thankfully get a Gory Discretion Shot with a closeup of Theon, the look on Theon's face as he watches her get torn apart by Ramsay's dogs and the horrid wheezing sounds that the girl makes as she dies are truly the stuff of nightmares.
- Theon Greyjoy's face when he is told that Robb Stark is dead.
- The
*utterly* broken and trembling wreck Ramsay has transformed Theon into is simply horrifying, with his complete inability to do **anything** to defy his master, or even draw blood from Ramsay while shaving him with a razor while Ramsay was taunting him over the death of Robb. Even Roose is shocked by what his bastard has done.
- Ramsay's greeting of his new step-mother, Walda. He's perfectly polite to her and calls her 'mother', but do we honestly believe his pleasure is genuine? Walda will need to watch her back...
- Melisandre having the non-believers of the Lord of Light at Dragonstone burned at the stake. One of them is the
*brother* of Stannis' wife Selyse, who is possessed by mad zealotry as her brother pleads with her and then screams along with the others in agony.
- How about their dinner afterwards, where Selyse begins to talk about how 'sinful' Shireen Baratheon is
*on the heels of her telling Stannis that a new sacrifice is needed for the Lord of Light?* Stannis actually stops chewing and just stares as he realizes that his wife is honestly thinking of *burning their little girl to death*.
- Worse yet, the moment Stannis forbids this she immediately suggests in a dangerously casual way that Melisandre go and see her... No wonder even Melisandre was looking creeped out by the end of that scene.
- It gets worse. Remember in Season 3, when Melisandre performed a ritual to burn three leeches in place of the 'usurpers' standing in the way of Stannis' claim to the Iron Throne? As of Season 4,
*two* of those three kings are dead: Robb Stark and Joffrey Baratheon. Aside from Daenerys' dragons, it's starting to look like the only active supernatural power in this world is a god that demands sacrifice by fire. Which makes you wonder exactly how 'benevolent' the Lord of Light really is...
- "There's only one hell, Princess... the one we live in now". Chilling because of Melisandre's usual Dissonant Serenity but also because, knowing how Westeros is, it's not far from truth.
- For as much of a little shit as he was, Joffrey's death by poisoning was still a rough way to go, even if it was deserved. Even
*Tywin* looks horrified at what he's witnessing, and shields Tommen from seeing it. To wit, the suffocation is only the half of it. It's immediately followed by violent vomiting, seizures, and bleeding from every orifice, before he ultimately drowns in his own fluids. Je *sus*.
- Depending on how you look at it, Joffrey's face looks like a wight's, since the blue of his eyes show off more.
- As horrible as all this looks on screen, it's even worse in the book; Joffrey - who here is
*younger* than the TV version - is so desperate to breathe that he *claws his throat open.*
- When Joffrey's body is lying in state, the painted 'eyes' covering his real ones look unsettling, especially if one's imagining what's underneath.
- Cersei's utterly insane fury at Tyrion is rather unnerving in itself. Throughout all four seasons she has rarely risen above an unpleasant Big Bad Wannabe with delusions of talent and intelligence, but as she watches her son die in her arms and is led to believe Tyrion is responsible she completely
*snaps* and starts shrieking for him to be arrested like a madwoman, literally *spitting with impotent rage*, her homicidal expression letting the audience know she is going to fucking **end** Tyrion if it's the last thing she does. **Cersei**
: ... He did this... He poisoned my son. Your King... Take him. Take him!
*Take him!* **TAKE HIM!**
- For book-readers... between that and the utterly cruel and unnecessary decision to feed the extra food to the dogs instead of King's Landing's poor makes it clear that the halfway sympathetic Cersei of the previous seasons is gone, and the monster of AFFC is here.
- Even worse, when Pycelle questions her decision she threatens to have
*him* fed to the dogs if any of the extra food is given to the poor.
- The whole "reenactment" of the War of the Five Kings during Joffrey's wedding. Watching five dwarfs essentially humiliate themselves before the crowd and trivializing all the death and destruction that the war had brought into a
*comedy* for Joffrey's own sick enjoyment is quite unnerving. Made even worse by the fact that amongst the audience are people like Sansa, Loras, Brienne (and possibly even Joffrey's *own wife*, depending on how much she really liked Renly), who have to watch this very disrespectful mockery of their loved ones and their deaths.
- The band Sigur Rós's rendition of "The Rains of Castamere" which appropriately plays during the credits following Joffrey's death. Unlike The National's version which has a sense of pride and upbeat factor, Sigur Rós's is simply somber, hollow, and very gloomy, sounding exactly given the circumstances like wake/funeral music what with percussion and pipe organ. There's also these creepy wheezing sounds periodically playing in the background which sound like screaming at times fitting Joffrey's manner of death by choking.
- Sansa being met by Littlefinger on that ship. See page quote for why this might not be a step forwards for her.
- Jaime raping his own sister by Joffrey's dead body. She repeatedly keeps telling him "it's wrong" through sobs, but he doesn't give a toss, and is nearly emotionless as he remorselessly plows her in a frenzy of pent-up aggression and sexual frustration. On what is supposed to be sacred ground, no less.
- Somehow the fact that Jaime was tenderly holding her and stroking her hair just seconds earlier makes it even worse.
- And the way he tells everyone to leave the sept before he speaks to Cersei. Did he have rape on his mind right from the beginning?
- Joffrey's body with the eye-stones on his eyes. The camera lingers on it at the creepiest possible angle.
- The northern village being attacked by Wildlings. One little boy's parents are both killed, his father by an arrow shot by Ygritte and his mother killed by Styr's ax. He only lets the boy go to warn Castle Black, but not before telling him he's going to eat his mother and father.
- The farmer's morbid description of life in the Riverlands now that the Freys are in charge. Unlike the Tullys, the Freys aren't interested in the plight of the common folk, so bandits and thieves run rampant across the lands. He can't go south, because that's Lannister territory, and he can't go north, because it's now ruled by the Boltons who aren't much better than the Freys and is plagued by constant raids from the Greyjoys and Wildlings. The Hound figures that the farmer and his daughter won't even survive the winter. That scene just spells out how much of a Crapsack World the Seven Kingdoms are for the common folk.
- Cersei's downward spiral continues when she furiously demands Jaime
*murder* Tyrion as "vengeance" for Joffrey's death, and her even more furious reaction when he refuses.
- Edd's dark quip about the fate of Craster's daughters now that the Night's Watch mutineers have taken them for their own;
- Aww looks like Jon Snow has made another friend at the wall... Wait, what is Locke doing at the wall?! This cannot bode well for Jon. And great, he is accompanying him north of the wall.
- The mutineers at Craster's Keep have turned it into their personal rape-camp and Karl is drinking from Jeor Mormont's skull. Then Craster's wives convince them to sacrifice his last baby to the White Walkers. They do, and again, the White Walkers take the baby... only this time, we
*see* what happens next. The White Walker takes the baby far north to a glowing green-blue mountain and an altar made of ice, where he leaves it... and the GREAT OTHER (or at the very least a White Walker "king") appears to turn it into a new White Walker. And yes, whatever this creature is, it looks **even more horrifying than the White Walkers**. Confirmed by HBO that the figure at the end is in fact "The Night's King." Start panicking.
- There is something vaguely unsettling about White Walkers wearing armor, and having an ice fortress (it's implied that the huge citadel we see is in THE LAND OF ALWAYS WINTER, the Eldritch Location unmapped region of the North where the White Walkers are said to come from,) and a
*court*. In all the other series and works, the White Walkers seem to be completely savage and barbarian, even though they have power over ice and the dead. Now we see that they're really more like the Uruk-Hai under Sauron at best, or The Fair Folk at worst (Martin had made a comparison with the Siddhe before, but only NOW do we see what he truly means.) Prior to that, the White Walkers were The Dreaded and The Horde, but nothing that could compare to say, Sauron or Jadis. Now we know that they have a leadership, that they can turn humans into White Walkers (It was just a theory before). And you are left with the horrible feeling that not even Daenerys and her Dragons will be enough to cut it.
- Which means because of Craster, there are 99 more White Walkers.
- Considering how long Craster has been sacrificing his sons, plenty of the younger ones might have been picked up by their own brothers/uncles.
- When the Night King picks the baby up, the boy grins for a moment. Given how he was raised, a complete stranger picking him up and supporting him when he cries might be the closest thing that baby has ever had to affection.
- And then just to make it worse, these same mutineers capture Bran and his group. The mutineers are especially pleased to see Meera... Especially considering the fact that Karl notes how her hair reminds him of his mother...
- Making all this even better? Apparently the original cut of the scene was
*even worse*, but then the director and editors decided that even for this show, they'd gone too far. Exactly what that would entail is probably best left to the imagination.
- What is really troubling about it is Craster's daughter/wives immediately say "give him to the Gods" for his last son. Considering what they have undergone first under Craster and then under the Mutineers, as far as they are concerned, "the Gods" are a way better deal, since unlike Karl who's willing to kill the child, the White Walkers merely make it one of them. That's right: the
*White Walkers* have treated them better than any fellow man.
- Fridge Horror invites this trope for the conversation between Olenna and Margaery. Margaery
*didn't know* about Olenna's plan to poison Joffrey. Watch that episode again and notice she's by his side the entire time as Joffrey takes his fatal drink. If he had offered Margaery a sip, or if she had taken one of her own, that could have been Margaery collapsing to the ground with blood running from her mouth and eyes. And Olenna would have been forced to watch knowing it was her fault.
- Well, if it serves as a Nightmare Retardant, it doesn't seem like Margaery drinks at all (likely something her grandmother taught her, since getting drunk is stupid, and that's men's department where Tyrell women are concerned, especially since Cersei's not too subtle about her own drinking habits), and Joffrey is not exactly to type to offer a drink to anyone, unless Margaery asked for it. Also, Olenna put the poison on Joffrey's cup only (during Joffrey's pigeon-pie cutting, likely right before Tyrion took the cup), and Joffrey started gasping and dying on spot after drinking just a little while Margaery has her back to him and he's mocking Tyrion. The timing didn't give any great chance to endanger Margaery. Also, Olenna's two seats away. She can easily call Margaery on spot, make a sarcastic comment, which would buy time for Joffrey to start gasping, and not look suspicious.
- During that hilarious/adorable scene where Maergery meets Tommen and his cat, Tommen reveals that Joffrey threatened to skin the cat alive and mix his innards up into Tommen's food for shits and giggles.
- Some of Margaery's lines towards Tommen get a little... creepy as well, such as her "our little secret" line and the whole attempted seduction thing. Especially when one considers she is pretty much a grown woman when he is at least 12 or 13. When she directed this toward Joffrey it was at least aimed at someone a) of age and b) wholly deserving of any and all emotional manipulation. Here she is basically sexually grooming an under-age boy who clearly has no idea what she is doing.
- Moreover, remember Olenna's story about seducing her future husband by sneaking into his chambers and fucking him to the point where he couldn't walk? Until she realized how non-sexually inclined he was, Margaery's gameplan was to have sex with a 12 year old boy in order to manipulate him out of Cersei's control... That there is a whole bag full of wrong and creepy, though overlapping with Deliberate Values Dissonance, as "coming of age" celebrations
*were* around the age of puberty back then.
- Daenerys's sentencing of the slave masters of Meereen. Yes, they weren't nice people by any means; yes, Pay Evil unto Evil... but Daenerys is getting more and more ruthless in her pursuit of justice, and it's clear that Ser Barristan is starting to get worried about her state of mind. Plus, it's going to do absolutely
*nothing* for her reputation across the rest of Essos.
- And, hey... Who can guarantee that all those people she killed also ordered the execution of the children? She may have filled the quota with people who were
*against* it. This is later proven to be true for at least one of the masters in The Laws of Gods and Men, when the son of said master comes to Daenerys to beg for his father's and the other masters' corpses be taken down from their posts and be given a proper burial. Imagining how the man (and any others who objected to the children's crucifixion but were overruled like him) had to suffer the same fate as those that truly WERE guilty is truly mortifying to think about.
- And all of this is compounded by the final image of the scene — Dany standing alone with the screams of the crucified men filtering up to her balcony beneath a giant Targaryen banner. Ser Barristan's fears are justified... she really is her father's daughter.
- Cersei sinks ever deeper into hateful madness, exacerbated by heavy drinking. She is no longer content with having Tyrion killed — she wants Sansa's head as well, and she couldn't care less that Sansa is the last possible person who could've committed the deed. She might've had all the reasons to desire it, but it's just not
**her**, and everyone admits that, but Cersei just doesn't give a shit.
- Lysa's insanity and obsession with Petyr start off hilarious... but get terrifying when she begins to suspect he has affection for Sansa. Her kind demeanor changes to pure rage and envy so quickly one realizes Sansa is still a
*long* way from being safe. Lysa telling the audience she's responsible for Jon Arryn's death doesn't help much.
- All the battles, all the deaths, all the massacres,
*every single event* that has happened in The Series is because of one man, who's responsible for just about everything that has happened when he had Jon Arryn poisoned by his own wife. His name? Littlefinger.
- Littlefinger is a sinister and confident mastermind who isn't afraid of anything. He is clearly unsettled by Lysa's obsession with him.
- Not the worst fuel in the episode, but the look on Sansa's face when she learns that she's again about to face
*yet another* unwanted arranged marriage.
- Karl attempting to rape Meera.
- Bran warging into Hodor and using him to kill Locke is essentially a Mind Rape. Of course, it was justified given the circumstances, but
*damned* if the Stark children aren't getting darker and darker.
- The look on Hodor's face when warged by Bran is unsettling given that Hodor is otherwise possibly the gentlest character in the series. Which means that that expression of pure hatred and rage is actually Bran's.
- Locke's corpse is not a pretty sight either — his neck is ripped wide open, with his spinal cord protruding from the gash. Hodor is clearly traumatized by the sight of it. When Jon and the others see it, even they are quite shocked, wondering what the hell could have done that.
- The Iron Bank of Braavos. When Tyrion first learnt of the tremendous amount the kingdom owned it, he was worried, but still spoke of it as just another institution, powerful and ruthless, sure, but nevertheless just another strong player to consider. The way Tywin (who clearly knows much better) speaks of it... the Bank comes across as either the (not so) secret rulers of the world or, worse, an inexorable force of nature if not something beyond nature and comprehension.
- Which makes Davos and Stannis's decision to enter into business with them even more foreboding. Westeros is pretty much a wreck at this point; if the
**Lannisters** can't pay their debts, how and where on earth is Stannis going to get the money to pay back *his* loan?
- The Lannisters squandered their wealth to fund their wars and were dependent on their gold that is now gone. If Stannis were to win his claim to the Iron Throne, he could certainly arrange a repayment plan from the collective tax income of the all of the Seven Kingdoms, gathered from the High Lords as war reparations. It might take decades, but the Iron Bank is in no hurry as long as the income is steady.
- Or, the Lannisters were incapable of repaying with
*the kingdom*'s money but simply unwilling to repay from *their own* and their vassals' coffers. Stannis could force them to, essentially subcontracting to the Iron Bank as a debt collecting agent or repo man. Stannis the Repo Mannis!
- Jojen's vision of when the end of their story comes. He just curiously stares at his hand,
*which is on fire.*
- Karl was complete scum and deserved to die, there is no denying that. That doesn't make his death by sword-through-the-mouth any less unsettling, though.
- While Craster's keep being burned to the ground was awesome there's some Fridge Horror when you realize what Mance Rayder said last season "The signal to attack will be the largest bonfire the North has ever seen".
- In the opening credits map, The Iron Bank finally has a place. The name of that place is the city of Braavos, guarded by a monstrous statue of the Titan. The way the statue moves and takes place is just... wrong.
- Also creepy and cool is the way a coin rolls down a large aqueduct and into the bank.
From the books : The aqueduct is "The Sweetwater River" which supplies drinking water to the city, but the visual motif of water flowing like coin into the bank and the aqueduct connecting to the bank itself makes the Iron Bank scary. They are as essential as water.
- The histories and lore videos showed that the Iron Bank and the Faceless Men are the de-facto rulers of the city. If a noble fails to pay their due to the bank, they pay another noble to dispose of them. But if a regular merchant fails to do the same, they send the Faceless Men to send them down the rivers. Braavos is pretty much a gangster ruled city.
- Reek's bath scene... sweet R'hllor, Reek's bath scene. After proving his loyalty to Ramsay when some "nasty creatures" (Yara and her Ironborn) come to take Reek away from his
*beloved master* (save Theon from his unspeakably evil captor) Reek is rewarded with a nice warm bath Ramsay made for him. After making him strip naked and get in the bath Ramsay begins to lovingly scrub his beloved pet with a sponge. As one can imagine in this description, the underlying Ho Yay of Ramsay's sadistic cruelty towards Theon over the past season is now flat out explicit and has reached pure Brain Bleach levels. The most horrifying part of the scene however is how utterly broken Theon has become to Ramsay's will, and has regressed to a frightened child in his terrified yet fanatical devotion to his tormentor, to the point where he violently and viciously resists Yara's attempt to save him and even wholeheartedly tells Ramsay how much he loves him, thus showing how Ramsay's Cold-Blooded Torture and Mind Rape skills are now on par with those of Room 101 in *Nineteen Eighty-Four*.
- Ramsay's question "Do you love me, Reek?" and Theon's answer are especially reminiscent of the quote "He loved Big Brother" from the aforementioned book.
- The way Ramsay speaks about Yara and her men in front of Theon - "creatures in the night" and "very bad men" is the most chilling evidence of how much he has broken Theon - he's talking to him like some twisted version of a father/older brother who tucks his son/sibling in and tells him there are no monsters under the bed. The once proud young man is now a terrified child who believes in boogeymen and mistakes his own sister for one of them. Also given Theon's upbringing, he's never received gentle treatment in his childhood. He told as much to Ramsay, and thus Ramsay's mock display of approval and care is, on top of everything, a cruel mockery of the childhood Theon wanted but never had.
- When Theon takes his shirt off and we finally see all the lacerations on his body from being viciously tortured. We see him being tortured and we see him in harrowing condition but this is where we finally see just how substantial the damage to his body is. Though thankfully we don't get to see...THAT scar. Granted, the twisted grin that appears on Ramsay's face when he notices it, isn't much of an improvement.
- Bonus psychological torture: If you look closely, the room is in fact Ramsay's bedroom. He is invoking Bathe Him And Bring Him To Me on Theon.
- Ramsay slaughtering most of the Ironborn under Yara's command while half naked and forcing her to flee and leave her brother for dead. Said Ironborn are described as being the best killers on the Iron Islands, proving exactly how dangerous Ramsay is. If Ramsay isn't shaping up to take the cake for being worse than Joffrey, it's because he already has at this point. Not to mention he walks in the room already bloody and scratched up, with the most Ax-Crazy Slasher Smile possible on his face.
- Proud Theon Greyjoy, heir to the Iron Islands, is now reduced to sleeping in a cage in the kennel.
- As... stunning as Dinklage's performance is in the final scene of the episode, Tyrion's sheer unrestrained rage at his father, his sister, Shae, and the ungrateful rabble of Kings Landing is terrifying to behold, especially when he roars at the court how much he wishes he had let Stannis kill them all in Season 2 and how much he wishes he could kill them all now, not to mention rubbing Joffrey's death in Cersei's face in the most brutal way possible. In this moment the snarky, witty, yet charming and kindhearted Anti-Hero of the past three and a half seasons dies, and the man who takes his place is more terrifying for a few moments than even the White Walkers. In the same scene, his complete heartbreak and tone of defeat when he says, "Shae... please, don't..."
- The Mountain clearly living up to his reputation when introduced by casually killing off prisoners of Kings Landing, even the ones who were begging for their lives. Blood Knight to a frightening degree.
- More so when he looks at Cersei and asks her whom he's fighting. He does not smirk, he does not say the words with an ounce of duty in his voice, not annoyance or anticipation. He asks like he wonders what's for dinner or something really mundane. Then Cersei asks if it matters. And the Mountain just shakes his head. This guy has only two modes of emotion: Murderous fury and even worse: a half-bored interest in killing.
- Robin's completely casual conversation about "making people fly" — he implies Lysa doesn't just do it to criminals, but anyone she happens to dislike, and proudly says when he grows up he'll do the same.
- Littlefinger coldly shoving Lysa Arryn out of the Moon Door to her death hundreds of feet below, all while Sansa is watching.
- Mellisandre and Selyse's scene has the revelation that Mellisandre is very intent on taking Shireen to the wall with them, for some purpose even Selyse (who aside from despising her for being sinful/heretical/deformed/alive is insistent on not taking her with them) instantly accepts. Now what possible reason would a witch obsessed with using the blood of kings to fuel her magic have to take a princess with her? And what possible thing could make Selyse (who has already been shown to be willing to have her own brother burnt at the stake) happy to take her despised child with her? Poor Shireen just can't catch a break.
- Oberyn's mention of Cersei's vicious Groin Attack on an infant Tyrion, and how she wouldn't stop trying to twist his penis off until Jaime forced her to stop. The woman's clearly been cruel since childhood. In addition, all the vicious rumors about baby Tyrion's appearance could count, showing how truly despised he was simply for being born with dwarfism.
- The death of Oberyn at the hands of the Mountain was easily the most nightmarishly violent and brutal death shown in the ENTIRE series...and yes, that's including Ser Hugh, Talissa, and all those guys gutted and bisected by the Clegane Brothers. After a furious yet brutal fight which he easily won due to his skills and swiftness, Oberyn gets far too cocky and enraged over Gregor's continued silence, so he stands a
*little* too close to his seemingly dying body... only for Gregor to grab his leg, pull him down on top of him, and smash his face in, knocking out most of his teeth with a single punch. He then wrenches himself *on top* of Oberyn and shoves his thumbs into his eye sockets (here◊ is a helpful GIF that illustrates the horror quite nicely). Then, as he literally begins to crush Oberyn's skull, he roars in triumph about how he killed the children of his sister and then raped and murdered her, punctuating this by exploding his skull with a sickening crunch. We see and hear all of this, including the aftermath with Oberyn's brain spilled out onto the floor.◊
- Oh yeah, and during the part where Oberyn has the Mountain's thumbs wrenching into his eye sockets, the poor guy is actually
*shrieking* in agony. Good luck sleeping after watching that.
- Ellaria's screams are heartwrenching, and only add to the horror.
- Perhaps what makes this even worse is the sheer Oh, Crap! reaction the audience experiences, which then turns into pure Squick when you realise that, after the Mountain punches Oberyn in the face with his mailed fist, you're given a loving shot of the latter's teeth scattering across the ground.
- Here's the full scene. You may really want to rush off here
*immediately* afterwards.
- Some added Fridge Horror? When Gregor got on top of Oberyn, quite literally mounting him, he could well have been consciously re-enacting his rape of Elia for the sheer sake of it. Seeing it happen to the dashing badass Oberyn was horrifying enough, but the reminder he did exactly this and MUCH worse to Elia, whom had been so lovingly described by Oberyn as the kindest and most gentle person imaginable, is just nightmarish.
- Cersei's reaction to that scene. She could be given pause due how brutal it is. An Oh, Crap! wouldn't be unwarranted either, seeing how Oberyn's death and Gregor's confession will anger Dorne and might have doomed one of her two surviving children. But instead, she's smiling smugly, because now she gets to see Tyrion die. She's become so cruel and so shortsighted that she's endangering her own daughter in order to kill her brother.
- Jaime and Tyrion's reactions are no better. Jaime looks like he's about to throw up, and the look on Tyrion's face is pure, sheer hopelessness personified.
- Come the season 5 finale, her actions have indeed cost her daughter's life.
- As if all of the above hasn't fully illustrated how nasty the whole scene is, consider this; Ellaria's horrified reaction was the photo for this page at one point.
- More understated but still terrifying on a Fridge Horror level is Roose Bolton's little speech to Ramsay at how vast the North is, and how much power Roose now wields since the Ironborn are being driven from his new domain... said power he is now willing to bequeath Ramsay as his true son and heir for taking Moat Cailin for him. While all other sadists and scumbags are either dying horribly (Joffrey, Rorge and Biter, Polliver) or will soon be dying horribly (the Mountain) and even the Lannisters as a whole are losing their grip on power. Ramsay Bolton, arguably the most depraved and cruel of all of them, is now in line to inherit half of Westeros.
- Though it's far more understated than the gore-fests described above, the Stark girls are an equally big source of horror in this episode.
- Sansa calmly throwing her lot in with the man who has made his creepy advances towards her quite clear and murdered her aunt, because there is
*literally no better option available to her* is awful to watch.
- And Arya? When she's told that Lysa Arryn is dead, and her last hope of her being reunited with her family is gone, she breaks down into hysterical giggles that sound utterly insane. It's a chilling reminder of how damaged she is, and how close she is to losing her mind completely.
- The Thenns' warg, both when warging and when not; as creepy as Orell looked when he was warging, at least he looked fairly normal the rest of the time. That fish-eyed stare, yeesh... the close-up shot didn't help, either.
- The "Scythe", tearing apart Wall and man alike with thunderous force, pretty much reducing the Wildling climbers to a fine red mist. All that remains are their hands, embedded in the Wall, still holding their climbing axes...
- The idea that there is probably
*more than one* Scythe dotted along the wall as part of the defenses and that the entire Wall could be littered with the remains of frozen, half-severed Wildling hands from centuries past.
- The unanswered question of just
*what* the Scythe was originally built to prevent from scaling the Wall? Wildlings, Giants, or White Walkers?
- The giant lifting up the gate and charging to where Grenn and his five men were waiting. It's easy to understand why one of them was so terrified.
- The barrel that exploded atop the wall, killing several people, and causing one to let go of the rope holding up one of the archers over the edge of the wall.
## Season 5
- The title sequence has a subtle change: Winterfell now carries the sigil of House Bolton. This could be considered unsettling.
- The flashback of little Cersei's visit to Maggy the Frog. There's a decidedly eerie air to the whole scene, Cersei shows she already has rather psycopathic tendencies - and then Maggy proceeds to creep the girl out by drinking her blood, and telling her that her children will have golden crowns and golden shrouds, implying they'll all be crowned and all die because of it. And then she laughs at Cersei's confusion and fear.
- White Rat's murder; he was getting what little emotional comfort he could from paying a prostitute to sing him a lullaby - implying no woman would want to get near him without being paid - and then, at this vulnerable moment, he's attacked and brutally killed.
- Mance Rayder's death. He's sentenced to be burned by Stannis, and even after calmly accepting his fate, he starts to panic as the flames begin to engulf the pyre. Thankfully, Jon puts an arrow in his chest before he actually catches on fire.
- Daenerys going down to visit Viserion and Rhaegal. The dragons aren't exactly happy to see their mother again. After them snapping and roaring at Dany, she is unable to calm them and is forced to run out of the chamber.
- After Mossador is executed, all the slaves immediately begin hissing at Dany before starting to pelt the former slave masters with stones, then direct the stones towards her. A riot breaks out and Dany is forced to flee back to the pyramid while heavily guarded. Fortunately, it doesn't turn out as badly as the riot that Joffrey caused.
- Ellaria's idea of vengeance on the Lannisters: cutting Myrcella into little bits and sending them to King's Landing.
- Why can't Tyrion just go outside for a walk? How many dwarves are there in the world? What's Cersei going to do, have them all killed until one of them is Tyrion? ... Yes. That's exactly what she's going to do, starting with an unfortunate dwarf who just happened to look a little bit like Tyrion. And then Qyburn continues to rack up his creepy points by asking to keep the head for his "studies."
- Gilly remembering what happened to two of her sisters who had greyscale; Craster quarantined them from the rest of the group, but the people in the long house could still hear them. "They didn't sound like themselves any more." Eventually, when the scale covered them, Craster dragged them out into the woods on ropes like animals. And all this is said to poor Shireen, who is none too happy to learn what might have happened to her. Gilly doesn't answer when Shireen asks what happened to the sisters in the woods, but it's not too hard to imagine.
- The flayed corpses of Lord and Lady Cerwyn being displayed at Winterfell and Ramsay's casual explanation for it. Apparently Reek's horrified expression has become his default face, but apart from that he looks more or less unfazed by the gory scene, as if this was a perfectly normal sight for him nowadays.
- Just as you thought she couldn't do any worse than Joffrey, Sansa gets betrothed to
**Ramsay Bolton**, a man who so far caused a new elaborate entry on this very subpage with nearly every appearance he ever had on the show. The Reaction Shot of his equally sadistic lover does not help the matter. You never wished so hard for Littlefinger to know what the hell he was doing when he contrived this arrangement for Sansa, the girl he supposedly loves. Somehow, his assurances that she'll be able [to control him are not reassuring at all, especially if one remembers how Ramsay treated his previous bride and how, in the books, he treats the one he receives there instead of Sansa.
- Qyburn being completely unperturbed by Gregor thrashing around on the table, in a moment reminiscent of
*Audition*.
- The Red Priestess in Volantis seems a bit eerie on her own already. And then she gives Tyrion that long, haunting Meaningful Look...
- Cersei authorizes the Sparrows to take up arms and re-brand themselves a the Faith Militant, turning them more into a cult of Knight Templars. It's stated in the very same scene that the Faith were banned from carrying weapons in the past. Their subsequent rampage through King's Landing gives the audience an idea why that might have been.
- The raid on Littlefinger's brothel, the Faith Militant seize whores and patrons alike mid coitus and dole out some rather nasty beatings. Bonus points for when Olyvar spots a group of Sparrows about to stab two men to death for having homosexual sex, and realizes just how much trouble he's in if they find out about his own sexuality. No wonder he runs for it.
- Not only that, but the seven-pointed star-shaped scars on their foreheads during the riot scene only cranks ups the Nightmare Fuel, really enforcing the idea of the Sparrows as a dangerous cult. We even get a close-up look at the "procedure" when we see Lancel Lannister getting a star carved into his head à la Inglourious Basterds. The closest thing to anesthetic is a leather belt between his teeth as the knife cuts into his forehead, and yet he sits up quite calmly afterwards, no doubt accepting the pain as righteous and punishment for his sins.
*Brrrr.*
- The way Cersei exacts her revenge on Margaery for her earlier humiliation in the previous episode. First, she sends Lord Tyrell on a mission to Braavos to collect from the Iron Bank, guarded by her 'most trusted' knight. It's all but outright stated that Mace will meet an 'unfortunate accident' during his trip. Then she outs Loras, who is then arrested by the Faith Militant for being a homosexual. She takes Margaery's family from her, and also deprives Highgarden of its Lord and male heir, in one fell swoop. It's more than clear that she will stop at
*nothing* to hurt Margaery, no matter the damage she causes to King's Landing and the few alliances her family has left.
- Our introduction to the Sand Snakes. They've got a man buried in the sand up to his head with scorpions crawling all over him. Obara explains that he came to her trying to sell information about Jaime Lannister, to which she and her sisters apparently did this to him to ensure he was telling the truth about Jaime being in Dorne. Once Ellaria arrives and enlists the girls in her plot to start a war with the Lannisters through Myrcella, Obara callously thrusts a spear into the poor bastard's head. While it could be argued that the man had to die for overhearing their conversation, it's still pretty cold to terrorize and murder a guy who was going to help you either way.
- "You know nothing, Jon Snow." The look on Jon's face really sells the horror of hearing those words again.
- Though it is mostly a heartwarming moment, Stannis's story about Shireen contracting greyscale as a baby — and the fact that everyone actually told him to give up on her and send her to the ruins of Old Valyria to live out her short life with the Stone Men — is a rather surprising and effective case of adult fear. Luckily, Stannis had the resources and sheer determination to save his daughter's life.
- The guerrilla warfare that The Sons of the Harpy take part in against Dany's forces. It's a terrifying display as they are able to use the crowded, labyrinthine streets of Meereen to get the drop on The Unsullied (who aren't used to combatting enemies in such environments). They swarm pairs of Unsullied, grabbing them and holding them down to be stabbed to death before they are able to do any significant damage to their numbers.
- The fact that they are apparently members of Meereen's now downtrodden aristocracy makes it even more twisted when scenes of The Sons of the Harpy's ruthless mass killings of The Unsullied are juxtaposed with Hizdahr zo Loraq diplomatically arguing for their rights. If this is how monstrous the ruling class was before Daenerys arrived, it seems Daenerys made a huge mistake by letting them remain within the city.
- Watching two heroes like Grey Worm and Barristan Selmy get slashed up and taken down by these hordes of thugs is as scary as it is tragic.
- Early in the episode, when Daenerys has all the leaders of Meereen's noble families brought to the dragon dungeon. The Unsullied then start prodding the men forward into the dark, closer to the sounds of snarling monsters. As Dany coldly terrorizes them, she has one of the weakest men shoved ahead of the others. He ends up face to face with the dragons, who proceed to burn him alive and rip him to shreds as they eat him. And this is all happening
*right* in front of the chained and trapped nobles.
- Daenerys's ruthlessness is always disquieting, but in this scene in particular, it's a sight to behold.
- Ramsay and Myranda's twisted relationship, now complicated by the arrival of Sansa.
- Myranda bites the hell out of Ramsay's lip, stating she won't bore him. Cue the violent, psycho sex.
- When Myranda brings Sansa to the kennel. She claims she wants to show Sansa something that will help her remember her past. That it's a surprise. Plenty about this is creepy. First of all there's Myranda in full-on Stepford Smiler mode while clearly wanting to hurt and kill Sansa for posing a threat to her. Then there's the nightmarish kennel, completely dark and filled with the sound of dogs barking and thrashing against their cages. And of course, there's the surprise at the very end of the kennel that Myranda wanted to show Sansa, telling her "You won't believe it when you see it." Of course, it is Reek, a shell of the man Sansa once knew as Theon Greyjoy.
**Theon:** You shouldn't be here.
- Theon himself can attest to how scary the combination of sadness and rage on Sansa's face is when she sees him again.
- There's Ramsay Gaslighting Reek after making him confess to having seen Sansa earlier, making him think he's going to be punished by losing another finger to his master's knife. Only for Ramsay to pat him on the hand and forgive him.
- With the exceptionally long shot of Reek's terrified face right near Ramsay's crotch and the already strong No Yay vibes, it can look
*very much* like Ramsay's about to force him to do a handjob/blowjob.
- Ramsay deliberately introducing Sansa to the new Reek/Theon and needling her over how he's the closest thing to family she has left. Clearly he's not going to let his inability to flay her prevent him from torturing her any way he can. The repeat of Sansa's helplessness under Joffrey's torment just makes it worse.
- Ramsay's reaction to Walda's pregnancy. Even after Roose reassured him (pretty nightmarish in itself, see below), you can't help but fear for that baby...
- We learn the story of Ramsay's conception. Roose hanged Ramsay's mother's husband for marrying without his permission and raped Ramsay's mother under the corpse. When Ramsay's mother showed up at the Dreadfort with her newborn son, Roose almost had her whipped and Ramsay drowned. And now we know where Ramsay's Ax-Crazy tendencies probably come from.
- Roose's complete and utter Lack of Empathy for the smallfolk - and human life in general.
- The fact that any of this was able to convince Ramsay to be a loyal son to Roose lets you know just how fucked up the people we're dealing with truly are.
- The bloody stone men, people so severely afflicted with greyscale that it covers their entire bodies and turns them insane. People really told Stannis to send Shireen to
*them*?! And even if they believed the disease terminal note : indeed, it's not known *what* exactly out of all the treatments did it, and it's possible that it took *all* of them to cure her, there's something called palliative care...
- For good measure, the spread of the greyscale is so severe that they can actually be mistaken for statues provided they hold still - leading to a deeply unsettling Meaningful Background Event when one of them slowly gets to his feet and drops into the water. For extra Fridge Horror, take a good look at some of the long shots of Valyria, and notice those curious shapes on top of the archways - many of them pretty similar to the first stone man that was introduced. How many of those shapes are just broken masonry, and how many of them are dormant stone men? Just how many stone men live here, and what do they live
*on* apart from desperate travelers?
- Tyrion falling into the water while tied up is distressing enough. Then a stone man grabs his ankle. The screen fades to darkness as Tyrion, struggling to get free, is pulled down deeper into the darkness. It takes such an agonizingly long time staying on the black screen that some viewers were afraid that would be this week's cliffhanger. Luckily, we discover that he was saved by Jorah.
- The ending cliffhanger, with Jorah being infected by one of the stone men. To make matters worse, immediately after the episode cuts to the credits, the music consists of slammed lower piano keys similar to a horror film with swelling crescendos of the strings to let the horror really sink in.
- "The Doom of Valyria", a devastating cataclysmic event that reduced what was once the greatest city known to mankind to ruins.
- While it's touched on some in the show, it's expanded on more in
*The World of Ice & Fire* book. The border between the Valyrian peninsula and Essos consisted of a line of volcanoes called the "Fourteen Flames" and Valyria, the greatest civilization in history, came to ruin when the mages' spells that helped keep the volcanoes from erupting were broken due to several being assassinated and all that built-up pressure led to all fourteen volcanoes erupting *at once*. Imagine the Krakatoa eruption, the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, and the the destruction of Pompeii from Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD combined, and then multiply that by a hundred. The geological devastation tore the entire peninsula apart, with massive earthquakes creating tidal waves hundreds of feet high that reached as far as the continent of Sothoryos, the hot ash and lava even killing and choking out dragons, hundreds of thousands people dying - *all within the span of a single day*. All that remains of the once-proud nation are a chain of broken islands and a few ruins of old structures, still covered in toxic volcanic ash clouds and the Fourteen Flames themselves are still spewing out little eruptions *400 years later*. "Doom" is an understatement.
- Jon angrily telling an uncooperative Tormund that unless the wildlings and the Night's Watch work together against their common enemy, the noncombatants amongst his people will be left at the mercy of the White Walkers, who will kill them all and use their corpses to swell their undead legions further.
**Tormund**: The day I ask my people to fight with the crows is the day my people cut my guts from my belly and make me eat them! **Jon**: And how many of your people can't fight? The women, the children, the old, the sick, what happens to them? You're condemning them to death - worse than death - all because you're too proud to make peace?!
- The slaver captain giving the order to cut Tyrion's throat. Then demanding that his cock be cut off to be sold for its "magic powers." Even though they ultimately don't go through with it, it lets you know that Dany's anti-slavery campaign is truly just. Plus, Tyrion begins audibly panicking, which is rather unsettling when you consider what a smooth talker he usually is.
- There is a real world equivalent: African albinos. They are murdered fairly frequently because their body parts are thought to be magical.
- The Hall of Faces. A roomful of Facial Horror.
- The fact that Littlefinger can pit so many huge players against each other with effectively one conversation
note : namely, getting Cersei to offer him to title him Warden of the North in return for his bringing the Knights of the Vale down on whoever wins the Roose Bolton vs. Stannis Baratheon throwdown so easily is as terrifying as ever.
- Brother Lancel is quite scary as well. This was a girlish Butt-Monkey who Tyrion made his bitch, Cersei sucker-punched and Robert sent on a Snipe Hunt. Now he's a scary Church Militant who gives Littlefinger a Death Glare. Baelish holds his nerve but he's clearly scared at seeing people he can't really manipulate with money, whores and bribes. After all, there's not much you can do against someone who walked out of the richest family in Westeros to become a warrior monk.
- Myranda telling Sansa about all the women Ramsay "got bored with" in complete Dissonant Serenity as she washes the latter in a bath tub. Very dark. Thankfully, Sansa is able to turn this into an awesome moment by telling Myranda in no uncertain terms that she is Sansa
*Stark*, that Winterfell is *her* home, and Myranda will *not* touch her.
- Sansa's rape at the hands of Ramsay Bolton. And Theon being Forced to Watch. Even worse when you consider that Theon's presence was his "punishment" for Sansa not taking his arm to be given away.
- The wedding. Clear proof that there really is no such thing as a "normal wedding" in Westeros after all. Also, the look on Ramsay's face after Sansa says her vows is terrifying; a Slasher Smile couldn't even begin to compete. Add to that the fact that Theon is wearing the SAME outfit that Robb wore at the Red Wedding.
- Stannis, under the guidance of Melisandre, finally decides to sacrifice his daughter and only heir Shireen to the lord of light. What makes this scene even more harrowing is that all the while, Shireen is screaming for her parents and then in agony as the flames consume her. (And then they just cut off...) Her mother is powerless to save her and Stannis is commited to the act.
- While he has a cold and resolute expression as she burning and screaming, in contrast to his men who are openly horrified and/or ashamed, Stannis appears
*extremely* uncomfortable during the whole process, at least as much as this notorious deadpan can appear to *be* uncomfortable. For instance, when he first enters Shireen's tent, she asks him "are you not cold?" This, along with his noticeably slurred speech as he rambles to his daughter, affirms that he is clearly rather drunk, to numb the immense guilt of the action he is about to undertake. This is a man who is known to stay away from the drink under almost any circumstance, a habit he breaks just to make it bearable. And when he's staring at Shireen's burning body? That's not a face of indifference - it's a man's mind warring with itself, wondering whether it was the right thing to do for the good of the realm.
- Melisandre's perfectly placid smile as Shireen screams and burns. If it wasn't clear before, it's clear now: individual people mean nothing to her unless they're contributing to her god in
*any* way.
- Shireen's screams are nightmare-inducing, especially for any parents who may be watching.
- Stannis orders the hanging of his army's sentries for failing to detect Ramsay and his 20 men sneaking into the camps and destroying the army's supplies, regardless of why they failed to detect them. This is eerily similar to something that Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane did in the books.
- Arya finds Meryn Trant in Braavos and follows him and his men to a brothel. She sees Trant examining various prostitutes, only to reject them for being too old. We learn what he means when the madame brings in a little girl who can't be any older than thirteen or so and Trant accepts; even his men are disturbed. What's
*worse*, Trant tells the madam that he wants a new girl for each night he spends in the city... Implying that he either wants virgins to break in, or that they'll be in no suitable condition to repeat said activities the following day.
- The random creep who, when Arya is pitching her wares, asks: "how much for your little clam?"
**shudders**
- The Sons of the Harpy suddenly popping up everywhere in Daznak's pit, perfectly accompanied by the most haunting example of Ominous Latin Chanting the show has used so far.
- When The Sons of the Harpy reveal themselves, they don't just start killing Unsullied and Second Sons. They go after whoever is close to them and not wearing a mask, stabbing to death everyone from freedmen to their own fellow aristocrats.
- Just when you think he's going to have a massive effect on Dany's queenship in Meereen, possibly even being the orchestrator of the ensuing Sons of the Harpy coup, Hizdahr zo Loraq is unceremoniously stabbed to death by the terrorists just as he tries to lead his future queen to an escape route.
- Daario does not react to the attack on Hizdahr until after it has happened. In fact, he apparently just stands by and watches as the Sons of the Harpy attack from behind. While some have thought he was just shocked that Hizdahr wasn't the one behind the attack, it's more likely Daario just let him die to Murder the Hypotenuse. If so, it looks like his threats weren't just for intimidation.
- It's hard to tell at first, but Drogon is pretty damn indiscriminate when he's breathing fire at people. There are Unsullied and Meereenese civilians getting burned to death just for being near the Sons of the Harpy that are endangering his mother. It lets you know that good and bad people alike are going to inevitably be caught in the (literal) crossfire of whatever future war Dany and her dragons will take part in.
- Jon Snow is lured out by the hope of news of his uncle Benjen, only for Alliser Thorne to stab him with each of the other brothers present taking their stab too, even Ollie, saying "For the Watch" in front of a cross marked "Traitor". Jon falls and blanks out in a pool of rapidly growing blood as the episode ends.
- The abuse the young girls suffer as the hands of Ser Meryn Trant is as tearjerking as it is unsettling not just for obvious reasons but it also shows how disturbingly low the Dirty Coward is willing to stoop so as to feel powerful due to being such a wimpy, ineffective, weak, stupid, incompetent, pathetic fighter without his armour and big fookin' sword.
- Everything about Arya's killing of Ser Meryn. The way she hardly flinches when he punches her, the way she's cowering on the floor doing her best Sadako Yamamura impression and of course all the gore and Eye Scream when she actually does the deed. He had it coming of course, but it was still just as disturbing as it was satisfying.
- When she slits his throat, the shot is framed almost exactly the same way as Catelyn's death.
- Arya Stark repeatedly peels off faces from the poisoned man until she finds her own. And then she turns blind. Equal parts weird and disturbing.
- The Reveal about the true nature of the Faceless Men is even more disturbing. Neither "Jaqen H'Ghar", nor "the Waif" exist - those characters were just masks, and there's no way to tell who they really are, or even if there's such a thing as "they". And Arya is training to become one of them!]]
- Jaime watches helplessly as his second child dies in his arms after being poisoned.
- Gregor's back, and what little you can see of him through his armour isn't looking so great.
- To elaborate... Well, take a look for yourself.◊ All we see of his flesh are behind the eye sockets of his helmet - noticeably, a Kingsguard helmet that has been molded and buckled uncomfortably over his face (perhaps to keep the whole mess together). Heavily bloodshot, cold eyes embedded in extremely bruised and bloodless flesh. When Qyburn tells Cersei that "Ser Robert Strong", as he's now known, has taken a vow of silence, you can't help but imagine why.
- The aftermath of The Battle of Winterfell where Stannis' army is completely massacred by the Boltons. We're treated to the sight of Ramsay killing off stragglers, followed by a bird's eye view of all the dead troops while unsettling music plays.
- Myranda describing Ramsay's plan for Sansa is unpleasant, to say the least. It makes Myranda's death all the more satisfying.
## Season 6
- Melisandre, this stunningly gorgeous woman who's been the object of worship by men in her run, disrobes, removes her necklace and transforms into an ancient crone, hunchbacked with stringy white hair, revealing she's centuries old and this is the
*real* body that's lain with so many men.
- Daenerys captured as a slave by a Dothraki horde, trying to keep her composure as members of the Khalasar (who don't know who she is, or that she understands Dothraki) talk about how they're going to rape her after she's presented to their Khal.
- Trystane's death by spear through face. Yep, even worse than the last time this highly specific method of fatality occurred! He's not as bad off as his dearly departed uncle, but there's precious little of anything recognizable left of his face after! Made all the more disturbing by his young age, and having done nothing to deserve his fate.
- A lowborn man who flashed Cersei during her walk of shame gets his comeuppance... When Ser Robert Strong gives him the magic trick of making his head disappear against a wall, what with all the gore and little pieces of brains and chips of bone flying apart and sticking to the stone.
- And to add further fuel to the nightmares, keep in mind that when he was alive he needed two hands to pull off the same trick on Oberyn. Now he only needed one and he didn't even look as if it took much energy from him. This is pretty much Wun Wun killing the crossbowman in term of brute strength and ease.
- Ramsay is now Warden of the North. He now has nobody left to hold him back or reign him in, he is finally in complete control of his house. Let that sink in.
- Walda and her newborn son are fed to his hounds by Ramsay. Though we are spared this horrible sight (as the camera focuses on Ramsay the whole time), we do hear very briefly,
*her agonized cry as she has her throat torn out, followed by the sound of rending flesh as she and her child are being devoured*. Brrrr...
- Before that, just the simple
*look* that Ramsay gives Maester Wolkan when he dares contradict him about letting his stepmother rest.
- Euron Greyjoy's eerie calmness right before he murders Balon.
- More Fridge Horror than anything, but imagine being Jon Snow right now; his last memories are of being betrayed by his brothers for doing what he thought to be right and getting several knives to the gut for his trouble, and now he's lying on a table naked and gasping for breath. It's gotta suck to be him right now, and it's only gonna suck worse when he reveals himself to his brothers.
- If what happened to ||Lord Beric Dondarrion is any indication, its possible that Jon may have lost a bit of his own soul as well after being brought back to life. Thankfully, the following episode reveals he retained his humanity.||
- Jon's sudden, sharp gasp might be an auditory Jump Scare for some viewers.
- Rickon has returned... And now he is Ramsay's hostage in Winterfell. Be very afraid for him. Especially since Smalljon Umber implies that Harald Karstark is a pedophile.
- Shaggydog's fate isn't just this, but because all the Stark children seems to share the fates of their dire wolves, Rickon may soon follow.
- Just before they are brought back in, Smalljon Umber tells Ramsay he has a present for him. Ramsay asks if it is a girl and adds that he has a preference for redheads....
- With Jon Snow announcing his departure, the Night's Watch is entirely
**SCREWED** six ways from Sunday. Let's count those ways:
- The Lord Commander, who's arguably their best fighter has had it with them and is leaving.
- The new Lord Commander has very little leadership experience and may not have the full support of his peers either.
- The remaining officers who had the leadership experience to guide the new Lord Commander were traitors who have just been hanged.
- The wildling horde that have been let through the Wall are only loyal to the former Lord Commander, and could potentially kill them all at his command.
- There are only about forty brothers left manning Castle Black against tens of thousands of wights and R'hllor knows how many White Walkers.
- Given that the Lord Commander will likely take his Valaryian steel sword with him, they also have
*NO* means to kill said White Walkers (with the last of the dragonglass being lost at Hardhome).
- All things considered, the most the Night's Watch can hope for is a quick death and that their corpses are too mutilated to rise again.
- And even if he stays they are screwed, the Boltons are willing to attack the Wall to get him but they sure won't stay when the White Walkers shows up.
- Once again, Melisandre inquires a recently-resurrected man as to the nature of the afterlife and what he knows about it. And once again, it turns out that Jon Snow knowing nothing is actually quite literal. Melisandre, and the audience, now has confirmation as to the nature of death in the universe of the show, and it means that every single faith is wrong, including the Lord of Light's. Death is a void, a true cessation of existence.
- The pink letter.
*All of it*. Written by Ramsay destined to Jon Snow who has reunited with his sister Sansa. Ramsay declares he will force Jon to watch as he butchers all the wildlings that he saved, and have Sansa gangraped by his soldiers just before Ramsay pulls out his eyes and feed them to his bitches. It's so horrible that Jon can't even bring himself to finish reading.
- Adding to that, there's a refrain that comes up a lot in the letter: "Come and see." It's a sentence fragment that is known in the west for one reason: in the Christian Bible, it signals the beginning of the apocalypse.
**Johnny Cash**: And I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
- Osha's death. It's preceded by her being washed and dressed accordingly and brought before Ramsay, the implication being clear. She plays along and tries to pull a knife while trying to distract him. She attempts to stab him, but he is faster and pulls out a knife and plunges it into her throat, and she bleeds to death on the floor as Ramsay nonchalantly peels some fruits in the background. Even worse, the knife he's peeling his apple with was the
*exact same one* he stabbed her with not ten seconds ago!
- The worst aspect is that Ramsay knew
*precisely* what she was capable of when inviting her in, having tortured it out of Theon. He went into that scene with his eyes wide open and played her like a fiddle For the Evulz, deliberately giving her a Hope Spot only to snatch it away.
- Doubles as a tearjerker in that Osha's sacrifice is futile. Rickon will die anyway. On top of that, no-one will even remember her. Most of the people in Winterfell who knew her, and what she did for the Starks, are dead.
- Daenerys burning the Great Khals alive with a small, contented smile on her face. Sure, it's a definite case of Kick The Son Of A Bitch (since they threatened to gang-rape her), but it's still disturbing.
- Bran has many distorted visions while greenseeing, including catching our first glimpses of King Aerys II Targaryen,
*The Mad King himself*, during his final moment when he ordered King's Landing to be burned to the ground and being killed by Ser Jaime.
- Also Fridge Horror strikes when one takes a closer look at the wildfire snippets of the vision, which show what appears to be the wildfire barrels stored under King's Landing detonating in a chain reaction. We know the Mad King was foiled from ordering this by Jaime, and we also know that the barrels are still there (and only some of which were used to decimate Stannis's fleet in Season 2), which strongly suggests that something or someone might ignite them in the future, which would wipe out King's Landing and the half million people who live there.
- After Arya refuses to fulfill the contract and reclaims her sword and identity, the Waif returns to J'aqen and is given the order to kill her. J'aqen tells the Waif not to let Arya suffer a cruel death, but her cruel smirk as she leaves shows she has no intention of doing that.
- Likewise, Arya. She knows the Faceless Men will come for her, and hides herself in the dark, holding Needle and waiting for someone to show up.
- Arya rests against the parapet of a bridge to take a look at the Titan of Braavos without anyone else in sight and doesn't notice an old lady approaching behind. The old lady gets Arya's attention and suddenly slashes her across the stomach, grabs her and stabs her several times in the gut while twisting the knife for good measure, before finally unmasking to reveal a very smug Waif. Arya barely manages to escape by jumping into the canal below.
- In the aftermath, Arya wanders around the streets of Braavos, soaking wet and dripping blood while clutching her stomach. She's in very desperate need of medical attention, but she can't trust anybody because anybody and everybody could be the Waif or another Faceless Man in disguise waiting for the right chance to finish her off. Fridge Horror and Paranoia Fuel to the max.
- As Sandor is cutting wood by himself, we can hear the sounds of screams in the distance. As if we needed a reminder why Sandor was by himself and angry, we're then shown the butchered remains of the smallfolk who refused to part with what little they owned to the Brotherhood Without Banners. The Septon himself was hanged from the building they were constructing.
- Further fuelling the nightmare is the thought that the Brotherhood, once calling themselves the protectors of the common folk of the Riverlands, are now nothing more than robbers and fanatics. Between Lannisters, Freys, Starks and the Brotherhood, the people of this area just can't ever feel safe.
- Thankfully, the next episode shows that these men were actually traitors to the Brotherhood, who themselves are still more or less okay guys.
- The cold, matter-of-fact way Sandor snatches up the ax lets you know that the next episode will be practically dripping with gore.
- The Mountain shows off some of his new strength as Robert Strong, casually tossing a sparrow aside who tried to attack him, and then, with barely any effort, ripping his head off,
*with his bare hands*.
- If you look closely near his eyes, you see his skin moving and understand that he's grinning. He still likes killing.
- Jaime threatening to kill Edmure's newborn son shows that for all his Character Development, he's still the same guy who pushed Bran out of the window.
- Whatever exactly the Waif did to Lady Crane, it sure looks horrifying.
- Although the audience mercifully don't get to see the actual act itself, Arya kills the Waif and cuts her face clean off. Part of her test it might've been, but it still comes uncomfortably close to the "hobbies" of the Boltons. She may not be "No One", but you have to wonder how much is left of the sweet, innocent girl we once knew, and how far she might go in the name of revenge...
- An minor example, but it's disturbing how such nice and kind-hearted woman like Lady Crane is a little unstable. She reveals she got experienced in healing because she is a Yandere who would date all sorts of bad men, stab them if they turned out to be unfaithful and then patch up their wounds in regret. When Arya asks what happened to Bianca, Crane implies that she disfigured Bianca for attempting to have her killed, effectively ending her career as an actress.
- The music at the start already tips you off that something is very wrong in a subtle way: heavily depending on piano, an instrument not usually heard on this soundtrack.
- Cersei has Pycelle brutally stabbed to death and blows up the Sept of Baelor while the High Sparrow, her uncle Kevan, cousin Lancel, Mace, Margaery, and Loras are inside. The resulting explosion levels several city blocks. Cersei then waterboards Septa Unella with wine before sentencing her to unspecified tortures at the hands of the undead Gregor. While Cersei does take measures to keep Tommen safe, she is completely unconcerned when he kills himself, anyways. While it's said Littlefinger would burn the kingdom to be king of the ash, it's Cersei who actually went through with it and succeeded. It's clear that Cersei has completely lost her mind, and at the end of the episode, she is the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Seven Save Us from the Queen.
- Pycelle's death was especially nightmarish. Qyburn standing in the shadows looking like Hannibal Lecter doesn't help much. It's pulled straight from the books (except for who orders it), and is shown in all its gory, Troubling Unchildlike Behavior glory. Remember the time Arya went to town on a couple of Frey soldiers with a knife? Think that times about twenty.
- In case you had any doubts about how hot wildfire is, you can clearly see the High Sparrow's flesh
*boil off his bones when the flames hit him*. Bruh...
- Special note to Lancel's death because he was the only person who saw what was coming and realized what it meant. Too wounded to do anything else, he had to crawl to try and save dozens of lives before it was too late. The sheer terror that surely went through his mind in his final minutes is numbing.
- When Gregor appears in Unella's cell, he removes his helmet and while his face is framed in shadow, we get a few glimpses of it
*being absolutely rotten*. Take a good close look and sleep well.◊
- The last scream Unella lets out when the door shuts.
**Oh, dear God...** And you don't know what's going on behind that door. Given that *GoT*'s not shy about showing every kind of violence imaginable (take how Pycelle dies moments before, for instance) and they're *not* showing you this, it's all the more horrifying that, given Ser Gregor's proclivities in life, the implications of what's going to happen in that cell is that **Unella is going to be raped and tortured by a zombie until she dies**. At least if Gregor were still alive, he probably would have ended up killing her once he got bored.
- It gets worse still if you believe Qyburn actually figure how to bring back the dead, Cersei is petty and insane enough to return Unella back to life until she finally get bored all for the sake of revenge.
- For those still uncertain about what's happening well, a Freeze-Frame Bonus shows that that rotten face of his is
*smiling*
and there's a *reason* he's taking off his armor
- Someone was unlucky enough to get crushed by a giant bell.
- During Tommen's suicide, you can hear the sound of things burning, along with faint screaming of men and women in the distance. With how much wood there is, who knows when King's Landing will stop burning...
- Tommen's suicide is even more unsettling in just how
*calm* he is about the whole affair. There's no turmoil, no tears, we don't even get to see his face. All he does is stare out the window for a few moments before taking off his crown, placing it offscreen, and then climbing up on the window's ledge and falling forward. The sad piano piece that accompanies the whole scene from the opening up to the suicide also sells the tone of just how *hopelessly* broken this poor boy is. He just wanted to be a good king...
- The pies. The
*infamous* Frey pies. The only change from the book is that *Arya* is the one serving them to Walder Frey himself, right before she slits his throat. Best Served Cold indeed.
- The fact that Arya either somehow stole a face from the House of Black and White, or callously killed a servant girl and took
*her* face, just to get close to Walder Frey so that she could put a knife in him.
- Arya's face as she watches Walder Frey choke on his own blood can only be described as
*ecstatic*, which is even more unsettling than her serenity at killing Meryn Trant.
- There's potentially worse: Arya may have taken her name back, but nothing says some part of her isn't still No One. She might be killing for personal reasons that follow Westerosi ideas of justice and revenge, but
*any death still serves the Many Faced*. Arya is basically using the tools of the Faceless to act kind of like the Stranger rather than the Warrior: a Westerosi take and twist on the Many Faced.
- Although it happened more than 20 years ago, Lyanna Stark's death is one. She's slowly and painfully dying of postpartum bleeding. When Ned finally reaches her, she's so weakened that her speech is broken. Her bed is a pool of her own blood, and it ain't pretty.
- From Ned's perspective, this is 100% Nightmare Fuel, since his little sister dying of childbirth was the least thing he was expecting, after having fought a war to rescue her. Also promising her to protect her son is pure adult fear, given that the kid is Rhaegar Targaryen's last surviving child and hiding him would be treason against the new king, who was not only Rhaegar's number one enemy, but also
**Ned's best friend**. " *I wish you good fortune in the wars to come*" indeed.
- One can only imagine if he had his father's looks and not his mother's...
- Jon obliterating the hopeful attitude of the Northerners following Ramsay's demise by pointing out the much bigger threat on the horizon.
**Jon**
: The war is not over, and I promise you, friend, the true enemy won't wait out the storm. He
*brings* the storm
.
## Season 7
- Our first shot of the White Walkers in this season shows one of the worst fandom fears regarding them:
**Undead Giants**.
- While it still qualifies as a Moment of Awesome for Arya, this moment counts due to her engineering the
*destruction of a Great House by herself*: she summons the Freys to the Twins while disguised as Walder and has the handmaidens serve poisoned wine to everyone, which the girls had no idea of would happen. She leaves a warning to them saying that House Stark still remembers and winter has arrived for them. We can't stress how much we don't want to get on her bad side.
- The exact process of what Arya did is as follows: she posed as a servant girl to get close enough to a lord to kill them, stole their face to pose as them, then called a feast of their house together to covertly poison and kill them all. Arya committed a massacre as bad as the Red Wedding or Green Trial, but she did it alone, with far fewer resources, and no one knows she was behind it. Even without her face-stealing Arya has total anonymity to go anywhere and do anything, and has proven she can be utterly ruthless in pursuit of a victim.
note : In a later scene implied to be placed a few days later, a clearly freaked out Jaime lampshaded that they still didn't know who killed the Freys. Without a doubt Arya Stark has become one of the most dangerous serial killers in Westeros. *No one* is safe from her. The girl who five seasons ago swore she would kill Cersei is now perfectly capable of doing it.
- The whole scene makes clear why the Faceless Men are so dreaded. They're a whole organization of assassins that can pose as anyone, meaning that, even if their target knew they're coming for them, they can't trust anyone as every person they met can be a Faceless Man.
- Imagine seeing this from the perspective of one of the Frey children. Your father, quite unusually, calls for a feast, wines and dines every single one of his male children, then rises up to proclaim words of pride and gratitude to you, who never get to hear those from him (as old Walder is well known to). Then he begins talking eerily and then it hits you: he has poisoned you and all of your siblings. Anyone who knows the stories of parents murdering their entire families AND the Jonestown mass murder/suicide might have trouble sleeping after this.
- After Sam's storyline of the episode keeps playing up how dull his new life is, we get an out of nowhere Jump Scare as Jorah Mormont, now with greyscale covering his entire arm at least, suddenly reaches through the bars of his cell and almost infects Sam just to get word of whether Daenerys has arrived yet.
- Remember that farmer and his little girl who invited Arya and Sandor in their home for dinner back in Season 4? When Sandor came back to the house together with the Brotherhood Without Banners, he saw their corpses on side of the room, post-decayed.
- Even worse? It's implied that they only died because Sandor stole their last bit of money, figuring that the winter would kill them before they starved to death. Turns out he was wrong, and they did start to starve before the father decided to commit a murder-suicide to spare his daughter the agonizing death of starvation.
- Thoros asks Sandor to look into the fire and tell him what he sees. At first, Sandor thinks this is stupid, then he sees a vision of the army of the dead marching toward where The Wall meets the sea.
- You know how this gets worse? Among the Castles of the Night Watch name-dropped during Jon's court discussions prior to this scene is
*Eastwatch-by-the-Sea*, i.e. the easternmost Castle of the Wall facing the Bay of Seals. Tormund and the Wildlings were just recently assigned by Jon to man that Castle. This Is Gonna Suck doesn't even begin to describe it. And it has graduated to canon come the Season finale, when the undead Viserion through the Night King's command brings it down.
- Brandon Stark has taken several levels in creepy since last season. Lying motionless and dead-eyed in the back of the sled, speaking in a voice that doesn't sound like his, talking about things he shouldn't know about...Edd is quite appropriately creeped out.
- Cersei's behaviour at the start of the episode. It's only hinted at, but it's obvious that she's starting to lose her mind. She's deadset on destroying all her remaining 'enemies' (even though winter has come) and believes that she will win this war and create a dynasty. She is half-way mad with grief and paranoia, refusing to see how fragile her queendom is, and all Jaime can do is watch helplessly.
- We finally get a full, brightly lit shot of Jorah's grayscale, which covers his left arm and both sides of his torso on that side.
*It's not a pretty sight!*
- The diagnosis isn't pretty either, at least ten years before death at most four months before he loses his mind, everything in between is him walking as a crazy leper.
- Sam trying to cure Jorah's grayscale is this, despite doubling as a Hope Spot. Firstly, we're aware that this treatment is forbidden, which means that Sam is risking both being expelled from the Maesters and contracting grayscale himself. Then there's the treatment itself, which involves Sam piercing the scaly crust with a knife and cutting the topmost layer of skin free. Complete with a perfectly lovely intimately close view of greenish pus welling from the initial cut. Add in the horrific crunchy, squelchy noise of Sam sawing and scraping away the first hunk of scales, Jorah's muffled whimpers and squalls of pain, and the sight of the raw, red flesh beneath, and it's just that perfect mixture of scary and disgusting. And if
*that* weren't enough, the smash cut to the stew that's exactly the same color and texture as the greyscale pus is truly the Squicky coup de grace.
- When Sam mentions that one maester was able to use this technique successfully twice, the archmaester is quick to rebut his optimism with the information that the same maester died of, you guessed it, greyscale. Seeing the messy procedure produce spurts of pus, it's likely this is how he was infected.
- From what we see in his shirtless scene, Jorah's greyscale infection reaches below his belt. Implications... unpleasant.
- There is just something oddly creepy in Qyburn talking about a Dragon crossbow and saying how it could bring an edge to their fight against Dany. Considering dragons have been dead for a long time and the trio of dragons are Made of Iron, the overall creepiness of Qyburn stating this crossbow would
*kill* the dragons based on scientific facts regarding their weakspots is unsettling.
- Ellaria, Tyene, and Yara are all taken alive by Euron and his men. Given that the Ironborn are known for raping and pillaging, and given that they might be taken back as Euron's "gift" to Cersei, they almost certainly would have been better off with a quick death than whatever horrors await them in the near future.
- Euron going Ax-Crazy on Yara's fleet. This is bad enough, as the man was clearly nuts to begin with, but even his men seem to have succumbed to the same frenzy — we see them doing things like ripping out the teeth and tongues of their dying opponents, slicing off ears of the wounded as trophies and even smashing faces in with spiked knuckle dusters.
- In actuality, the ripping out of the tongues of their opponents is to force the living crew to turn and serve them instead, the tongue being removed is so they may not speak out against it and mutiny. This goes with the name of Euron's ship,
*Silence*. They are taking the able living crew to replace those lost during the battle.
- The appearance of
*Silence* is just as terrifying as one would imagine in the books. The creaking sound, the black sails, the thunderstorm behind the ominous silhouette. True to its name, Euron's flagship appeared completely out of nowhere and in total *silence*, the Pirate Lord likely conjured said squall with his black magic to hide their approach. Not to mention that none of the crew members have tongues.
- The corpses of Obara and Nymeria Sand being displayed on the prow. While they were not at all pleasant people and did, in many ways, bring their demises upon themselves, the way their bodies were presented (Obara being impaled on a spike while Nym being hanged by her own whip) is chilling, which tells you that you should never mess with Euron Greyjoy. Even Theon is disturbed by the sight of it.
- Just the way Euron's voice bellows when goading Theon to stand up to him, all while having his axe head pressed to Yara's throat. And cackling sadistically when his nephew inevitably breaks. It's
*blood-curdlingly* evil.
- And if you pay attention, you can hear snarling whilst watching people being mutilated. After his stay with Ramsay Bolton, is it any wonder he panicked?
- Even worse when you pay particular attention to Theon. Prior to Euron getting his attention with holding Yara hostage, he was holding his own fine. But once he finally pauses, he takes in the slaughter around him committed by
*Silence's* crew. At first, Theon just stares on in wide-eyed horror. Then, he starts to twitch as a horrifyingly familiar theme comes crawling back in. In that one moment, Theon becomes Reek once again.
- The episode's title aptly refers to Queen Cersei Lannister's brand of justice towards those that wrong her. And in this case Ellaria Sand for murdering her daughter Myrcella. She thinks about all kinds of punishment she wants to deliver to her victims and tells how she dreamed about the ways she would make her victims pay, maybe having Ser Gregor smashing their heads, but that would have been too merciful. She opts to poison Ellaria's daughter with the same poison she used to kill Myrcella, while forcing Ellaria to watch as she dies in front of her. Cersei tells Ellaria that Ellaria will be forced to live and watch her daughter decompose in front of her.
**Cersei:** Your daughter will die here in this cell. You'll be here watching when she does. You'll be here the rest of your days. If you refuse to eat, we'll force food down your throat. You will live to watch your daughter rot, to watch that beautiful face collapse to bone and dust. All the while contemplating the choices you've made. *(as she turns to leave)* Make sure the guards change the torches every few hours. I don't want her to miss a thing.
- Cersei caressing Tyene's face in an oddly gentle way and calling her a "perfect Dornish beauty", while casually musing that she thought of having Ser Gregor crush her skull like a duck egg. While Ellaria is forced to watch helplessly, knowing that a horrible fate is in store for her daughter—and that it's her own fault her daughter is there in the first place. This scene is the epitome of adult fear.
- As Cersei leaves, Ellaria and Tyene desperately run toward each other, but are held back by their chains, which are bolted to the walls, leaving them unable to even hold each other in Tyene's final hours. Given Cersei's penchant for sadism, she almost certainly ordered the chains to be made exactly that way.
- The look on Ellaria's face when she sees The Mountain for the first time since Season 4. Given the fact that Oberyn was brutally killed by him right before her eyes, it is quite obvious that she is
*terrified* of the sight of him.
- Melisandre's Shut Up, Kirk! to Varys as she leaves for Volantis, noting that she's already foreseen that she will die back in Westeros (likely at Arya's hands, given her cryptic "We will meet again" back in Season 3), and Varys will, too.
- Ever since he became the Three-Eyed Raven, Bran still pulls the Creepy Child vibes despite coming back to Winterfell. When Sansa hugs him and talks to him, there's no emotion in him and still speaks in a cryptic monotone voice. Then, he tells his sister that he can see things, including her horrific wedding night with Ramsay. Understandably, Sansa is freaked out with that and walks away from him, realizing that her little brother is a completely different person.
- The charging Dothraki back up Robert's statement from all the way in Season 1: "Only a fool would meet the Dothraki in an open field." The first the Lannister army hears of them is the sound of their horses' hooves, and then the jubilant screaming starts...
- That and the Dothraki are basically "the other" for any child in the Seven Kingdoms: unknowable, foreign conquerors who have destroyed kingdoms in Essos and who have enslaved, murdered, and crushed their opponents. Now imagine you're one of those men grown to a Lannister/Tarly bannerman, and you see
*thousands* of these men charging towards you. Not only that, but you know these particular men don't play by your rules, so far as you know them. The sheer fear of the unknown, the fact that they have tactics you only heard about second-hand, and seeing them in the flesh after many stories creates a blank because nothing in your training has prepared you for it.
- Despite being a epic battle scene, the Lannister/Tarly-Dothraki battle quickly shows how War Is Hell, this time a bit literally, given that a dragon participates in the struggle. Daenerys roasts several Lannister soldiers alive with even some being reduced to
*dust* in seconds. And those were the ones that were *lucky* since we are treated to a shot of several others slowly burning to death in front of a very disturbed Tyrion.
- Drogon's entrance and the start of the battle is absolutely horrifying from the perspective of everyone fighting on the Lannister/Tarly side. The Dothraki army arrives first, and Jaime has confidence in his army's capability to receive them by forming a spear/shield wall. Then Drogon descends (accompanied by a haunting rendition of the Targaryen theme), resulting in a massive ''oh crap'' from everyone who's about to be on the wrong side. Note that for just about everyone on the Lannister/Tarly side, this is the first time they're seeing a live, mature dragon. Before they can even process what has appeared before them, Drogon burns a path through the unfortunate Lannister shield/spear wall, rendering their defense against the Dothraki horde moot and causing all hell to break loose.
- It gets even worse for the Tarly side. They were ancient bannermen of the Gardener Kings... who were wiped out on The Field of Fire, when Aegon unleashed all three of his dragons for the first and only time in his conquest. Imagine that for a moment: your family has passed down stories for ages of the terror of the Field of Fire... and suddenly you are facing the sequel... with Dothraki added to the mix.
- The scream of Bronn's horse when a Dothraki cuts one of its legs off.
- The Oner following Bronn is a particularly nightmarish sequence, as he frantically tries to escape the huge Dothraki who's gunning for him. He zigzags across a field of burning wagons and burning bodies, dodging enemies and the occasional panicked flaming ally. Punctuated by Drogon sailing out of the smoke above him like a demon flying out of Hell.
- Also, of note, notice the music once Daenerys said "Dracrys" it isn't battle or heroic music, it's closer to
*a horror theme*.
- This episode also illustrates the unbelievably hot temperature of dragon fire. A crematorium typically burns a body at temperatures of 14001800 degrees Fahrenheit, and it takes 13 hours to reduce the body to ash. For Drogon's fiery breath to reduce a human to ash in seconds, we're talking temperatures similar to that of a nuclear explosion or the surface of the sun.
- In retrospect, seeing the effects of dragon-fire and comparing the results to the massive wildfire explosion of the Season 6 finale affirms two things: 1) neither of them is in any way preferable to the other; 2) there's a reason the mad Targaryens (King Aerys II, Dany's father among them) took to wildfire in the first place: they cause equally horrific results!
- When Jaime tries to ride down Daenerys, Drogon places himself in front of his mother and we get a lovely shot of the hellish glow of his fire welling up in the back of his throat. Jaime comes to the realisation that this is the last thing he's going to see before either being immolated, or cooked alive in his armour and had it not been for Bronn, he would have gone out like Aerys wanted him and everyone else to die.
- Whilst it can't compete with the intensity of the battlefield scenes, the painting of the Night King and his White Walkers is its own kind of creepy. The worst part are the blue eyes painted into them; they're so bright that they
*glow* in the torchlight. It almost makes them look like they're *watching you*.
- Littlefinger's actual situation in Winterfell is both Nightmare Fuel and Paranoia Fuel. After talking with Bran he notices that the boy probably knows of his betrayal against Ned Stark and after observing Arya's martial skills he knows that Arya was around when he discussed the war against her brother Robb Stark with Tywin Lannister and now is very capable of killing him. One wonders what will happen to Littlefinger when he discovers that Arya now has the Faceless One's abilities to steal a face from anyone and pose as them.
- In yet another testament to his power, the Night King turns his head to look at the murder of crows that Bran is warging through to spy on the undead army marching towards Eastwatch, which sends the crows scattering. The subtle cracking sound of his icy skin as he jarringly fixes his gaze is what really clinches it.
- From his ability to touch Bran while he was in his vision form, it's quite clear that the Night King can defy reason even in a fantasy setting. It's more than likely that Bran had the crows scatter to prevent the Night King from repeating that same incident.
- The deaths of Randyll and Dickon Tarly. Both men refused to bend the knee to Daenerys following the attack, and both are brought before the surviving army and burned alive by Drogon. This manages to unnerve even Tyrion, who vouched for Daenerys showing mercy to Dickon.
- This is especially disturbing considering that her father was extremely fond of burning his enemies alive...
**Tyrion:**
Your grace, if you start beheading entire families—
**Daenerys:** I'm not beheading them. **Tyrion:**
(
*Turns to Drogon*
) Your grace!
**Daenerys:**
(
*Simply stares at Tyrion before turning to the Dothraki and gesturing them to get out of the way.*
)
- Arya's disturbingly calm manner as she advocates that Sansa have Glover and Royce beheaded for advocating that
*she* lead them instead of Jon.
- The shot of Littlefinger watching Arya running away with the letter from the shadows, smirking. He's been struggling to have any manipulative influence on Sansa, but now Arya's here — someone completely unfamiliar with "playing the game" or dealing with Littlefinger. He's found the ideal pawn.
- The look on Daenerys'face as Drogon burns the Tarly's to death. The sadistic insanity of the Targaryens is clearly taking hold of her.
- Jaime returns to King's Landing to report back to Cersei on what happened. His shell-shocked description of the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield not only make being on the wrong side of Daenerys' army sound nightmarical, but really drives home why Jaime believes the Lannisters are completely and utterly screwed.
**Jaime**
: I just saw the Dothraki fight. They'll beat any mercenary army. They'll beat
*any*
army I've ever seen. Killing our men wasn't war for them, it was
*sport*
. Her dragon burned a thousand wagons; Qyburn's scorpion fired bolts bigger than
*you*
, they couldn't stop it and she has
*three of them*
! This isn't a war we can win
.
- Jaime's face when Cersei makes it plain, despite his insistence there is no way they can win, she intends to fight to the death rather than surrender to Daenerys...and she expects the same from him and the entirety of the Lannister military forces is one of horror as he realises that Cersei is so far gone to her insanity she would sacrifice the lives of thousands of her sworn soldiers (including his own) without a second thought, rather than give up her power.
- Tied into this is a brief moment at the beginning of the episode where Jaime notes he needs to report back to Cersei on the disastrous outcome of the battle. Bronn gives him a look and bluntly tells him
*"May as well jump back in that river"*. The look on Jaime's face afterwards clearly indicates that he thinks Bronn has a point and that even his relationship as Cersei's brother/lover might not protect him from her wrath for being the bearer of bad news.
- The way Drogon crawls towards Jon, especially the perspective it is filmed in. It makes the viewer feel absolutely
*tiny*.
- The fact that Jon and Co have to go and face the Army of the Dead is this in spades. They are going into the most dangerous part of Westeros with only a handful of people just so that they can bring proof that the White Walkers exist. That is if they can
*successfully* capture one and not die in the process. It's just a few against hundreds of thousands of Wights and several White Walkers. And as we seen the confrontation between the dead and the living in past seasons, it's very terrifying and *dangerous*. Not only that, Jon is King and if anything happens to him, it will send Winterfell into chaos and that's not including the part where he might be turned into an undead and added into the dead armies' numbers.
- The polar bear wight is terrifying enough on its own, but battling it in a blinding snow storm is even worse.
- Even the beginning of the encounter is the stuff of nightmares: even through the blizzard, you see that the bear is HUGE (Tormund's comment of "That's a big fucker" makes it clear that he hasn't encountered one of that size before), and it is bolting right for them. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
- One of the demonstrated surefire ways to kill a wight is to set it on fire. This makes for an extreme Oh, Crap! moment when the wight bear continues on after being set aflame, paralyzing Sandor with fright and causing another casualty for the group before Jorah can finish it with an obsidian knife.
- Imagine being trapped on top of a rock in the middle of a horde of wights with their masters looming over you. The only thing standing between you and them is a lake that will soon be frozen solid again and let them through. Not only that, the temperature is also freezing, at any moment, a member of your group could die of hypothermia, brought back to life by the Night King and attack you if you fail to notice in time.
- Arya's distrust of Sansa reaches its extreme when she threatens to kill Sansa and steal her face in retaliation for Sansa being intimidated into writing a letter to Robb urging him to surrender back in Season One, when she was a mere child.
- When Sansa's sneakily looking through Arya's things,
*she discovers the preserved faces that Arya's hoarded from her victims.*
- Arya's confronting Sansa in the final Winterfell scene of the episode is just one giant dose of high-octane Nightmare Fuel. As a panicking, disgusted Sansa confronts Arya about the preserved human faces she found under her bed, Arya tells her (abstractly) about how she trained as Faceless Man, and now can steal the appearances of others by using their faces as masks. She does this in a casual, almost
*bored* tone of voice. Then she grabs the dagger that Bran gave her and advances on her sister as, in the same nonchalant tone, she muses absently on what it'd be like to take Sansa's face. Then she flips the dagger around, gives it to Sansa, and leaves without a word. Arya's Creepy Child credentials just went through the damn roof...
- Just the fact that Arya could contemplate doing something to her own sister implies that she's not just a Broken Bird traumatized by her experiences — she could be seriously insane. Now imagine someone like that walking around inside the face of, not an evil old villain like Walder Frey, but one of the heroes of this story, giving orders on their behalf...
- Not only is Night's King able to kill a dragon with one throw of an ice spear, the episode's final scene has him revive the slain Viserion as a wight.
- Even more terrifying is that so far Valyrian steel and Dragonglass were the only thing to not explode or die at the attack of a White Walker, dragons don't even count.
- The manner that Viserion dies is very horrifying. The Night King hits him in his fire gland causing a explosion and we see massive fountains of gore and blood raining from the wound as he falls from the skies.
## Season 8
- When Qyburn informs Cersei that the Wall has fallen and the White Walkers are marching towards the Seven Kingdoms, her reaction to this is "Good." As seen in the Season 7 finale, Cersei is willing to let the Army of the Dead consume the entire North and the only thing that worries her is the Golden Company not bringing their elephants.
- When Tormund, Beric, and Edd meet each other in Last Hearth, House Umber's stronghold, there are no survivors and the whole castle is covered with snow. The worst part? 11-year-old Lord Ned Umber's corpse is pinned on the wall with the White Walker's spiral symbol made of severed human limbs on it which Beric deduces as a message from the Night King himself. Then Ned's corpse bursts out in a Jump Scare before Beric kills him again with his flaming sword which also engulfed the spiral symbol. To think that the Night King left this kind of message shows he's indeed the biggest threat of all of Westeros.
- What makes the scene scarier is that you can actually see the corpse of Ned Umber's eyes open and glow blue and bright over Beric and Tormund's shoulder, building suspense right until the corpse screeches at them.
- The keening screech the undead Ned lets loose is truly a sound from the maw of Hell itself. Beric, Tormund and Edd all look horrified at the very sound of it.
- It's not the usual scraping, desiccated, Nazgul-like shriek heard from long-decayed wights, either (while that's terrifying enough, you
*know* no living thing would ever let out a sound like that). It's a scream you'd hear from a terrified but living child, only it lasts for far too long.
- A bit of Fridge Horror, but when Beric and Tormund enter Last Hearth's courtyard, while there is bloodstained snow all around them, there are no bodies, raising the strong possibility that after the White Walkers massacred the castle's garrison, the Night King raised them as wights to join the Army of the Dead's ranks.
- We only get a brief glimpse of what's beneath his helmet, but Gregor Clegane looks even worse; his skin has turned a cyanotic blue-grey and his eyes are now completely blood-red. Whatever Qyburn did to reanimate him has clearly run its course, and he's literally just a walking corpse.
- The Dothraki, despite being the most numerous force on the side of the living, are utterly curb stomped in under a minute. We hear the brief battle but do not see exactly what goes down, only the aftermath of a handful of Dothraki running straight back to Winterfell with many of them missing their horses.
- The sheer speed at which the light from their flaming
*arakhs* just disappear in the distance. The faces of everyone seeing it makes it clear... they are doomed.
- As they charge, you can hear the war cries from the Dothraki, which give way to unholy screams of terror, and the shrieking of the undead.
- While much of the Dothraki are killed offscreen, briefly one unfortunate rider can be seen running headfirst into a wight giant. The look of terror on his face is extremely fitting.
- Right after the Dothraki are annihilated, the Unsullied brace themselves, pointing their spears forward into the inky darkness, with the inhuman gurgling and screeching of tens of thousands of wights growing closer and
*closer*. And when they do appear, they overwhelm the front lines of the Unsullied with what can only be called a *tsunami* of undead corpses. The sheer swiftness and force with which they strike is nightmare fuel at its finest.
- The Unsullied do what they can to hold the line and stay in formation, but the wight tsunami does what a literal wave would do, with the wights simply climbing on top of each other and on top of the living men below them. Those on the front lines were not so much trampled but
*drowned* by the sheer volume of wights pouring over them.
- The sheer scale of the Army of the Dead in general. Hundreds of thousands of zombified people surging forward in a tidal wave of necrotic flesh that overwhelm their enemies with sheer numbers, with no fear, no restraint, and no mercy. As the Living are pulling back inside Winterfell we get to see a panning shot of them as the Unsullied fight desperately to hold them back. The camera goes from the orderly spear lines of the Unsullied to an
*ocean* of dead, making it seem less like an army and more like a *force of nature.*
- Unlike most (if not all) of the previous battles on the show, the majority of the battle is shot in low light or even pitch blackness with only a few torches guiding the way. It really does give the impression that the White Walkers are about ready to jump out and get you... and more than once they do.
- The view from Winterfell's battlements during most of the battle is utterly hellish, with fire and smoke all around, and the screams of the living mixed with the horrific screeches of the dead. All the bloodied living troops struggle to keep themselves alive amidst an unending stream of attacks from the wights, some of whom were once their friends and allies. Jaime, Brienne, Pod, and Sam, to name a few characters we know and love, are swarmed and nearly
*buried* under attacking wights at some point or another.
- Arya, badly injured, hides under a table in the wight-infested Winterfell library. A drop of blood gets their attention — nowhere is safe for even the stealthiest living person.
- When this single drop of blood falls, the dead don't just turn in Arya's general direction — their heads
*snap* to look at the table. Within seconds, one of them is right next to the table with a weapon drawn. While she does manage to escape, she draws attention to herself, and the next twenty seconds of footage is devoted to Arya *running for her life* as they pursue her.
- Almost all of the wights are dead, the Night King has shown himself, and Jon sees his back. The Kings meet face-to-face, and the undead lord raises his hands — every single dead body around Winterfell stands right back up. Even the long-dead Stark lords in the crypts. Where Sansa, Tyrion, Varys, Missandei, Gilly, and all the civilians are staying for their safety.
- The Fridge Horror kicks in as well: if the Night King was not stopped, the dead Stark lords (perhaps even Lyanna, established to be among them) would have been complicit in endangering the life of their own descendant Sansa.
- The scene itself is also horrifying, as you're treated to a horrific amount of panic and screaming as the women and children in the crypts are helplessly butchered by the wights.
- Dany and Drogon stay on the ground for just a
*second* too long and the wights swarm over Drogon like ants crawling over an intruder. Drogon tries to shake them, forcing him to fly off and accidentally dropping Daenerys on the ground. Some wights that fell off from Drogon rise up and rush towards Dany. Fortunately, Jorah saves her in the nick of time.
- Lyanna Mormont's death counts as a smaller one of these, mostly due to the fact that she's a child. To elaborate, a giant breaks through the gates of Winterfell and almost smacks Lyanna to the side, who is picked up soon after. What the viewer then gets to see is the sights and sounds of a child slowly being crushed to death, with bone-crunching and all.
- It gets even worse. Her corpse is among those shown being reanimated by the Night King.
- The way the giant holds her up to its face to revel in the pain of her death almost implies the wights, and their masters, are capable of sadism.
- Dolorous Edd gets his worst nightmare handed to him when he's stabbed to death trying to save Sam... and turned into a wight by the Night King.
- Daenerys bathes the Night King in a torrent of fire from Drogon and it does
*absolutely nothing*. The Night King emerges from the flames completely unscathed with a smug smirk on his face, about the *only* time he has ever shown an expression other than his usual scowl, and his posture as he stares Daenerys down seems to wordlessly scream *"Is that the best you can do?!"*. The look of horror on Daenerys's face only adds to the terror of the moment.
- Also after shrugging off the fire attack, the Night King's first response is to grab one of his spears and fling it at Drogon; he avoids sharing Viserion's fate by inches. Given how much more powerful Viserion became after he was killed and reanimated, the Fridge Horror of what the Night King could have done with a second undead dragon at his disposal, particularly one of Drogon's size, strength and ferocity, is terrifying.
- Jon, Dany, and the dragons getting separated and lost in the fog might not be as outright horrifying as other examples this episode, but it is incredibly tense and terrifying in its own right. Rhaegal can't even see enough to stop himself from skimming the trees. Drogon coming out of nowhere and crashing into them is sure to get at least a scream out of some viewers, because he could have been mistaken for Viserion coming to pick them off.
- Undead Viserion is an absolute nightmare. His fire breath lasts much longer than it should, almost as if it could go on forever. After Rhaegal tears half his face off, it's constantly spewing out of his wounds. Adding to that, he seems to be Made of Iron even by wight standards, as he takes a lot of punishment from the green dragon, and it didn't even seem to slow him down.
- When Jon and Rhaegal attack the Night King and Viserion as the latter shoots blue flames all over the tops of Winterfell, there's a shot of these soldiers looking up to see these absolutely massive dark dragons battling it out in a smoky night sky. As if death, fire, zombies, and destruction on the ground wasn't enough, there are monster fights in the sky.
- When the two dragons lock talons and grapple in mid air, and Jon comes perilously close to getting his head bitten off as Viserion spots him and attack, giving Jon a horrific closeup of his mutilated features as the undead dragon's jaw slam shut inches from Jon's face repeatedly, while the Night King pulls an ice javelin out and tries to line up a killing shot against Rhaegal. The only thing that saves them is Daenerys on Drogon crashing into the combatants and sending the Night King falling to earth.
- And there's the hide-and-seek that he plays with Jon Snow, who is forced to desperately dive behind walls and corpses and out of the way of Viserion's blue flames, with no way of getting away or retaliating. And although he's saved in the nick of time, Jon is brought face-to-face with the rotting, mutilated, undead dragon that's opening its mangled mouth in front of him and spewing flames through open wounds in its neck...
- There's a moment in the episode where the people in the crypt hear somebody thumping on the door to the entrance. There are screams to let them in, followed by the sound of weapons being drawn, conflict... And then it falls silent. You'd think this was the point where the White Walkers break into the crypt, but they don't — it's a moment solely to unnerve and distract the viewer.
- The fact of how close the Army of the Dead came to victory. Had it not been for a last ditch effort from Arya, the Night King would have achieved his goal of eliminating the Three Eyed Raven for good (he was reaching for his sword for the killing blow when Arya struck, and had he reacted a bit faster, the Night King could have easily snapped Arya's neck or tossed her aside for his lieutenants to deal with), the Walkers would have gained thousands more wights for their cause and then turned south. Cersei's regime would have collapsed before their assault in days, and there's no telling what would happen if they crossed the sea to Essos...
- A bit of Fridge Horror here, but the fact remains with all those who died defending Winterfell, there is literally nothing the survivors have left to stop Cersei's mercenary army from wiping them out except Daenerys's two dragons. Two dragons might sound like plenty, but Qyburn's anti-dragon ballista is
*very* prominently featured in the opening credits...
- The sheer scale of the losses the defenders of Winterfell have taken is made clear when the Night King raises the dead, and huge numbers of the fallen rise up to attack their former allies and friends. Once dawn breaks, the amount of bodies form huge mounds across the battlefield. Testament to the number of lives stolen by the Night King's campaign.
- The rendition of the White Walker theme used in the episode, with the use of droning brass, gives the already haunting theme an even more nightmarish feel. At times sounding almost similar to the
*Terminator* score, it emphasizes the feeling of dread from the near unstoppable Army of the Dead.
- The very title of the episode has
*very* ominous implications for the surviving Stark children...
- Overlaps with Tearjerker — the number of corpses piled up on the funeral pyres, including many familiar faces and the anguish of those still living. There's no better reminder of the sheer scale of death and horror that everyone has had to go through.
- It is outright
*horrific* to see Rhaegal thrashing and screaming all the way down to the sea after getting shot down by a hail of ballista fire from Euron's warships. His death might be even worse than Viserion's due to being pierced by several spears rather than just one precise hit with one of them *impaling him right through the neck* and *blood flowing out of it like a fountain* — it seems tailored by the creators to make sure to the audience that he isn't surviving this one.
- The "bring it on" look on Euron's face as Drogon bears down upon his ship, calmly aiming straight at her. This man is unhinged enough to face a goddamned dragon and be
*delighted* at the prospect.
- And if Dany hadn't moved out of the way and Drogon hadn't ducked, Drogon would've faced the same fate as Rhaegal and Dany would be
*dead*.
- There's also the near demonic grin that crosses Euron's face as he turns his ballista's sights onto Daenerys's fleet and decides to have some fun. This is immediately followed by Tyrion and the rest of the crew on Daenerys' flagship desperately diving for cover as the ship is torn apart in a hail of ballista fire.
- Euron may be a buffoonish nut job most of the time, but his tendency to turn up when least expected, inflict horrific casualties and get away practically without consequence is extremely unsettling.
- Qyburn's new, improved ballistas have done what only the
*Night King* himself could do, and there's *dozens* of them on the walls and towers of King's Landing and aboard Euron's warships. Cersei's Mad Scientist has made her a bigger threat to Daenerys than even the most powerful supernatural creature in the show.
- There's a dark psychological horror to the grip that Cersei has on Jaime. This woman sent a mercenary to shoot him and his little brother, and yet in the end, in the face of Brienne, whom he loves, he decides to go back to his sister/lover with whom he has the most toxic relationship imaginable.
- The expressions on Cersei's face as she listens to Tyrion's demands. It is true that she cares about her unborn child... but she's so utterly filled with paranoia, hatred, and desire to hold on to her throne that she would rather slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocents. She'd been going downhill for a long time, but to see yet another example of just how monstrous she has become is
*very* disturbing to behold. The Night King might have been an eldritch monster seeking to exterminate all mankind and raise them as his undead puppets, but he at least was merely serving the purpose the Children of the Forest instilled in him when they created him. Cersei manages to top him by being a far more human villain, in that her motives are simply her own corrupt desire to hold onto power she has no right to.
- The Mountain's murder of Missandei. To think that she came so far and survived the Long Night only to be murdered by the Mad Queen's zombie henchman...
- It's thankfully out of focus, but in the background you can make out the blood pouring out from Missandei's neck and head.
- Missandei's last word is "Dracarys." Not only is it a Call-Back to when Dany used the command on Drogon to free Missandei and the Unsullied at Astapor, it heavily implies that she is telling Dany, "It's okay, I understand... go ham. Burn the place down."
- If the look of rage on Daenerys' face is any indication,
*she will.*
- It doubles as a Tear Jerker of course, but frickin' Grey Worm looks away at the moment of her death. GREY WORM, who one episode ago was battling the undead one-on-one, who faced down slavers and crossed a sea to a new world, can't watch her die. As he has openly admitted, life without Missandei is his one and only real fear...
-
**Dany,** especially after she sees Rhaegal get shot down. She flies Drogon at maximum speed directly at Euron's ship, **screaming her lungs out**. When she is forced to retreat, we see her practically spitting with loathing as she flies Drogon and herself to safety. After seeing Missandei die, quite possibly the most terrifying look we have ever witnessed forms on her face. She may finally have well and truly snapped, and after everything that she has lost, who can blame her? Cersei is about to find out just what makes Daenerys Stormborn the daughter of the Mad King.
- Made worse by the fact that Dany is already in a dark place, paranoid about what would happen to her if the truth about Jon Snow's parentage would leak out. And Sansa breaking her promise to Jon to tell Tyrion, implying that Jon would be a better ruler, does not bode well for
*anybody*.
- Varys's death by dragonflame serves as this. In the middle of the night, he is led out to the beach. He is told he is to die. And from the shadows, less a mortal thing and more a floating maw of fangs, appears Drogon. A moment passes. Then two. And then you see the maw open... and then there's nothing but flame. The fact that Varys doesn't scream or make any sound at all makes it even worse.
- For extra fuel? Drogon looks like he's smiling right before he flambes Varys.
- The burning of King's Landing will go down as one of the most horrifying moments in
*Game of Thrones* many horrifying moments:
- Upon seeing Drogon, Cersei's remaining forces put down their swords and surrender, and the bell is rung... but Daenerys decides to torch the city
*anyway*, killing both soldiers and civilians by the thousands. The buildup is terrifying, with her perched on the rooftops with Drogon, and suddenly as she finally hears the bells, her breathing gets heavier and heavier and her eyes get wider as if the bell itself was what finally made her decide enough was enough, or perhaps the fact that Cersei had the opportunity to ring it long, long ago but didn't until the city's defenses were defeated. In this moment, after the losses she suffered, the betrayals, the realization she may never win the people's love, and looking at the Red Keep as the symbol of all that has been taken from her family and what she's suffered as a result, Dany breaks and decides to make it personal — burning the city and its people to the ground.
- The Dothraki, Unsullied and even the Northmen slaughtering the civilians and Lannister soldiers who just surrendered. While some of the Lannister soldiers did fight back, the entire battle is completely one-sided. Even the civilians are caught in the line of fire and one of the Northmen attempted to rape a woman until Jon himself has to stop and kill him in self-defense.
- The Death Glare Grey Worm gives Jon for trying to prevent Daenerys's forces from starting a massacre is full of Foreshadowing for this trope.
- The carnage from Arya's point of view is a nightmare to behold, and even Arya herself is scared out of her mind just as much as she was when being overrun by wights. At some point, the explosions and crumbling buildings end up knocking her out, and there's a shot of her lying unconscious on the ground, covered in dust and
*blood pouring down her face and onto her neck.* Sure, she wakes up, but one could be forgiven for briefly assuming her to be dead. She spends the rest of the episode running in terror with blood all over her. No killing the Big Bad this time.
- Let that sink in — Dany inadvertently came closer to killing Arya Stark than even The Night King himself or his wight army did.
- Arya's entire perspective on the event is similar to walking into a warzone where she has to dodge from dragon fire and falling debris. She's also very disturbed on seeing some of the civilians suffering from third-degree burns. While many viewers think that Dany burning her enemies with her dragons is awesome, Arya's perspective shows that War Is Hell not something to be glorified.
- Seeing the look of horror and disbelief on Cersei's face is this. This is the same woman who smiled and sipped wine while the Sept of Baelor and a good chunk of King's Landing was incinerated by wildfire and dispassionately ordered that the corpse of her last living child (who had committed suicide because she was busy having fun torturing a defeated enemy instead of consoling him) be cremated shortly afterwards. Even
*she* can't take in what Daenerys is doing.
- Ser Gregor betrays Cersei and Qyburn the second he sees Sandor, crushing Qyburn's head and moving in to finish his brother off for good. During the fight, his helmet and eventually his armor come off, revealing his skin to be gray and decaying, riddled with necrotic black veins and he simply shrugs off stab wound after stab wound, even one to the head, as if he were Mr. X from
*Resident Evil 2 (Remake)*. He very nearly ends up crushing Sandor's head and eyes like he did with Oberyn. Sandor has to finish him off by diving with him through a crumbling wall into the fiery inferno.
- Even before that, when Cersei demands Gregor defend her, Gregor turns to face her with a baleful look that clearly shows off that his eyes have deteriorated to the point they are now blood red.
- The scene of Arya walking through the destroyed city in the aftermath and all the bodies that have been burnt are almost completely gone. A very unsettling reminder of how deadly and effective dragon fire is, not to mention the wildfire explosions occurring throughout the city.
- The fact that you don't even see Daenerys again after she resolves to burn King's Landing to the ground is very creepy. You don't see a person on Drogon's back anymore, just a massive dragon destroying the city and killing people. It's as if Dany has degenerated into a bloodthirsty beast or apotheosised into some kind of evil goddess of destruction.
- Tyrion, Jon and Davos walk around the remain of King's Landing. The entire scene is a straight Scenery Gorn and you can definitely see the burnt corpses. In addition, a survivor of the massacre walks past Tyrion in a state of confusion. Even though he's out of the camera's focus, you can see how horribly burned he is.
- The Lannister soldiers being executed by Grey Worm, claiming they need to be defeated. When Davos asks how they could possibly be defeated more as disarmed stragglers on their knees, Grey Worm clarifies that they are still breathing, showing how no longer will he or Dany accept any surrender and only accept death for everyone who they deem their enemies even down to the lowest grunt.
- Daenerys's New Era Speech shows how far she got into the deep end of the abyss where she will not stop fighting until all those who opposed her are dead and she will force everybody in the entire world to bow before her. It definitely shows that the Targaryen pride and her willingness to use fear made her into a megalomaniac bent on taking over the world.
- When she claims she wants to 'liberate' the world, one of her first mentions is "from Winterfell to Dorne". Winterfell was definitely the place she was going to start with, because Sansa and the Northern lords have shown their disapproval of her upcoming reign. And even if we assume that Jon doesn't speak Valyrian, he must have heard the word Winterfell in her speech and realized that his sister will be the first to burn when Daenerys begins her conquest.
- Even more unnerving is the claim that she had 'liberated' the men, women and children of King's Landing by burning most them alive, and promising to do the same to Winterfell and other places in Westeros and Essos and beyond.
- The nightmarish icing on top of all this? The entire scene is an extended homage to the famous Nazi propaganda film
*Triumph of the Will*, with the rhythmic thumping of Unsullied spears evoking the sound of goose-stepping Nazi marchers. Emilia Clarke herself has stated that she based her performance on that scene on Adolf Hitler himself along with various other dictators.
- The picture of the throne room, ruined and without a roof, with snow falling in... especially when you remember Dany's vision in the House of the Dead way back in Season 2 showing this exact image.
- During Jon's conversation with Tyrion after Dany imprisons him for treason, Tyrion notes that, as evil as Tywin and Cersei were, the number of people they killed wouldn't reach half of Dany's body count after she literally burned King's Landing to the ground. This moment gives us what is perhaps the most chilling realization in the entire series: Dany, a heroine we have been cheering on for the last eight seasons, has perhaps killed more innocent people in one day than pretty much all other characters combined have in their lifetimes (except for perhaps the Army of the Dead, but they are a nightmare category of their own). Think of all the most despicable people on this show: Joffrey, Tywin, Cersei, Gregor Clegane, Roose Bolton, Ramsay Bolton, Walder Frey, the Ironborn (to some extent), the Thenns... As monstrous as all these people were, as horrific as their deeds were, as much as they deserved to die, and as much as we cheered when they died... none of them killed anywhere near as many innocent people as Dany did. In some ways, the death toll really is a Song Of Ice And Fire... because the biggest mass murderers are the Night King (Ice) and Daenerys Targaryen (Fire).
**Tyrion**
: My father
was an evil man. My sister
was an evil woman. Pile up all the bodies of all the people they ever killed; there still won't be as many as our beautiful Queen slaughtered in a
*single day!*
- As Jon walks towards the Red Keep to confront Daenerys, a huge avalanche of dust, ash and debris begins to tumble down in front of him. Only it's not really an avalanche; It's Drogon, rising from his slumber to face the intruder. The horror is threefold: first is that something that massive and lethal could hide in plain sight. The second is that Dany burned enough of the city for the ashes to utterly cover such a monster in less than an hour. The third is the apocalyptic imagery of an unstoppable behemoth emerging from the ruins as though it belonged there; that the utter death and devastation are the dragon's natural habitat, and such annihilation is what it exists for.
- In her final scene, Daenerys is terrifying in just how far she has gone off the rails: Emilia Clarke perfectly captures the beatific serenity of a zealot completely convinced of the righteousness of her cause. When Jon first enters the throne room to confront her, she is contently reminiscing about her childhood thoughts on what the Iron Throne would look like, utterly unconcerned with the devastation she wrought on the rest of the throne room. When Jon angrily lambasts her about her orders to arbitrarily kill all Lannister prisoners and the destruction unleashed on King's Landing, Daenerys is unrepentant, putting all the blame on Cersei for refusing to take Dany's mercy when it was offered and for thinking holding the city hostage would make Daenerys back down. When Jon all but begs Daenerys to show mercy to Tyrion and the people of King's Landing, she flatly refuses to hear of it, insisting that anyone she views as loyal to the old world has to die for the world that is needed to be born, breaking Jon's heart by going full Tautological Templar in insisting that the world she will bring about is good because she alone knows what that means. All the while, she earnestly smiles at a tearful Jon in a manner that shows she genuinely believes what she has done to King's Landing and what she intends to do to the world is the right thing to do. It's both saddening and terrifying to see how the sweet, kind-hearted young woman who sought to free those in chains and enslaved has now become a monster willing to drown the entire world in oceans of blood to remake it into an image more pleasing to her.
- The Ironic Echo of "They don't get to choose". Jon ruefully says it to Tyrion when Tyrion brings up Sansa telling Jon's secret to prevent Dany from being queen and push Jon onto the throne instead. Later, Dany speaks it to Jon regarding
*anyone* who disagrees with her idea of what is right. That line being thrown back at him by someone who hadn't heard it first is what finally shows Jon that Dany is resolved to more massacre to build her new world, regardless of what she needs to do, and he needs to spare the world more destruction before she can torch a second city. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GameOfThrones |
Gankutsuou / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
For an alternate take on *The Count of Monte Cristo*, *Gankutsuou* has a few moments of pure Nightmare Fuel.
Spoilers below.
- The execution scene in the first episode. Doesn't help we can see the doomed man's tears soaking through his hood. The crowd shouting "KILL! KILL! KILL!" is also distressing, as their outrage at an unrepentant murderer being released wasn't enough to stop their bloodlust.
- At the end of episode 15, the Count sends Albert back to Earth and then he cries, knowing what he had done to Albert. But when they show close-ups of his face, only half of it is sad, the other half is the evil Gankutsuou smile. Now that by itself is creepy, but when the Gankutsuou side takes over, the cries immediately transform into the freakiest evil laugh ever heard. Joji Nakata provides a knock-out performance and the animation supports the moment brilliantly.
- Andrea Cavalcanti at first seems like an effortlessly charming Bishōnen but is eventually revealed to be outright deranged to the point of ||seducing his mother and almost raping (or does he really?) his half sister and stabbing his father.||
- Baron Danglars' Death by Materialism moment, when the Count traps him on a spaceship that is dead in the water. At first he reacts appropriately, trying to escape... until he notices the gold bars. He disrobes, embraces the gold, and wastes away making no attempt to save himself. It's hard to tell if the Count's idea or Danglars' reaction is scarier.
- When ||Vilefort begins to go insane from the toxin Andrea injected him with.|| We get to see it, from his perspective, as his grip on reality comes totally undone, and the once normal classical music that was playing from his stereo becomes a nightmarish wail. The worst part? The scene cuts off before his descent is complete, leaving the rest to the viewers' imagination.
- The aftermath isn't pretty either. ||As Fernand enacts his coup and bombards Paris, Villefort is wandering aimlessly through the streets, still acting a Hanging Judge, pointing at people and raving for them to be arrested until one of the bombs seemingly blows him away.||
- From what little we see of the Chateau d'If, the punishments are horrific beyond imagination. ||Our only example, the Count, was used as part of the Wetware CPU for its defense systems. The agony was such he actually would have died purely from the pain alone had the same system not been forcibly keeping him alive. Prisoners were only allowed into their cells to sleep for a bit before being hooked right back up, over and over until they finally expire.||
- Everything that involves Gankutsuou, especially the Nightmares people have of him. Its a being so unfathomably evil that even those in power have uncharacteristically altruistically tried to erase it from existence and history despite the undeniable power it offers.
- From Albert's point of view, the whole series was a never ending nightmare. ||Your mentor and substitute father stalking you and trying to kill you. Your dad turning out to be a parvenu and an opportunistic betrayer and murderer, then bombarding the entire city as par of a coup before trying to kill you along with your mom, then trying to kill a young girl whose father he already murdered (on top of selling her as a slave). All of this happens in, at best,
*a few days to a week!*||
- Andrea at one point attacks Haydee with a crazy look on his face and looked like he was gonna try to rape her but the Count shows up and he stops.
- The chaos in Paris after ||Albert's father starts a coup. They leave Parliament more or less unharmed but the same cannot be said of the civilians. In addition to the already terrifying-from-a-civilians-perspective Longsword Mecha, other mechanical monstrosities are seen prowling the streets, killing any who resist (and even some who don't)||
- As mentioned above, after ||Franz's death||, Albert has a dream that ends in him killing ||Franz|| himself. But ||unlike in real life where he was stabbed|| in the dream he doesn't just die; his entire body turns in a mass of blood, as does everything around him and Albert, all the while cursing Albert. Talk about a bad dream.
- The end of episode 19 where Andrea ||assaults Eugenie pinning her to the ground with the intent to rape, ripping her clothes off violently|| all the while laughing maniacally about how he will "ruin her". It's very distressing to watch. ||He thankfully reveals next episode to Albert while taunting him that he didn't go all the way, simply blackmailing her into marrying him without running away. Unless he was lying, albeit Eugéne seemed unharmed and non-scarred during the episode.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gankutsuou |
Gangs of New York / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The knife-throwing act. Yikes. Keep in mind, this was against a woman Bill once impregnated and considered an apprentice.
- In the film's beginning battle, one poor guy had his cheek ripped apart by another guy forcefully tearing his mouth open.
- The Irish Draft Riots are shown to be terrifying for all involved. Having to worry about an angry mob coming to tear down your house and possibly kill your family, the lack of sufficient police, and if you're black or rich, you better get the hell off the street or you'll end up lynched, beaten to death, or both. The rioters even beat up other poor passerby they believed had valuables.
- There's one scene where John Schermerhorn sends the women of the house upstairs to hide and plans to hold the mob off with two pistols.
*Highly* unlikely that ended well for any of them. (The real Schermerhorn died in 1851.)
- The shot of the dead black man being stabbed and then hung from the lamp post. Then the scene cuts to a period etching of the exact same scene with the only difference that it's a tree. Then we see another etching of the corpse of another black man being burned while he's hanging. Then it cuts to Jimmy Spoils being surrounded the mob.
- The soldiers opening fire on the mob and are moments seen
*wading* in blood.
- Bill (especially his propensity for violence and random brutality) is walking nightmare fuel incarnate. The fact that he's so powerful within New York to the point that he's the undisputed crime lord everyone answers to makes it even worse. Daniel-Day Lewis will haunt your dreams. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GangsOfNewYork |
Full Metal Daemon Muramasa / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**All spoilers below are unmarked. Proceed with caution.**
Hey, wanna play William Tell? I'll be William, and you the apple.
- The story wastes no time in showing the levels of cruelty and depravity of the Rokuhara with the prologue showing a village being razed by an army of musha with the villagers being helpless to do anything about it. Men, women or children, none are spared. And this after they gave the villagers as Hope Spot by promising to spare them if they handed over a wanted man, only to then use Exact Words as an excuse to raid the place. It is all crowned by the villagers cursing their fate and the idea of justice. Of course, all of this pales in comparison to what comes next...
- ...as a bizarre song starts sounding across the massacre followed by people going mad and attack each other like wild animals. Allies turn on allies, friends and family likewise. Everything descends into a cruel bloodbath with no one left standing. Those protected from the song inside their tsurugi can only watch with horror at the unfolding spectacle. This is the power of Ginseigo and what its wielder intends to do to the rest of the world.
- In the
*Hero* route this madness returns as Ginseigo flies over the country and spreads her song, happy families just going about their day one moment are left tearing each other apart just seconds later. And no one ever realized what was happening until the very end.
- Ryobu Suzukawa's "lesson" is one the reader isn't likely to forget soon.
- Kageaki's past. Imagine your younger sister, healthy and happy one day only to suddenly fall ill from a barely understood disease the next. Left in a vegetative state and prone to random seizures, seizures Kageaki constantly have to wrestle with to keep her uncontrollable trashing from breaking her already fragile body, a body that is slowly wasting away. And the seizures are getting worse. And even though hope is on the horizon, the cranky elder refuses to let them grasp it simply from it being a foreigner. The sense of hopelessness of Kageaki's situation permeates the whole flashback section of the novel.
- Masamune, for someone who is a self proclaimed hero, his love for using Body Horror as a weapon in unsettling to say the least. Be it using bones and flesh as projectiles, ribs as giant cages, intestines as makeshift lasso, or whatever the hell that... thing... he turned Ichijo into was. His determination to see his convictions through to the end know no limit, body or soul. Hope you've got a strong stomach for whenever this guy is around.
- Doshin's idea of of an amusing Noh play in the
*Hero* route is as revolting as it is depraved. After what seemed like a heartfelt tribute to Sakurako's father he then reveals that the mask he had been using and just gifted to her was actually made from her fathers skull. Oh, and that cup she just drank from? Made from the skull of her brother. Oh, and then he proceeds to rape her on stage for all to watch while the young prince, who is just about twelve by the way, can only watch as his subjects refuse to obey his orders.
- The fate of Konatsu in the
*Nemesis* route. Imagine your typical anime school girl Tsundere Implied Love Interest. Now cripple and rape them as well as tearing away their sole anchor of hope and watch as the character archetype that is unusually meant to be endearing is transformed into a vengeful beast who solely exists for her hatred. The before and after comparison is startling to say the least.
- As Kageaki finally locates his sister in
*Nemesis*, he finds that she and Ginseigo have been reduced to little more than a pile of slag. However, the pile of silver then cracks open revealing one of Hikaru's eye, still somehow alive inside that twisted and mangled heap of molten metal and looking straight at him. And I Must Scream fuel at its finest.
- Kanae's eyes as revealed in the
*Nemesis* route. Deep red, almost insectoid eyes that are made of of several dozen eyes crammed into her eye sockets which gives her super human perception and the ability to freeze time. Mix this with someone who is far from sane and you get a very disturbing combo.
- Chachamaru's transformation into her armored form is far from as clean or pretty as those of regular tsurugi. For her, metallic parts burst out from underneath her skin, tearing flesh and spilling blood as her body twists and contorts to allow for the transformation. The Sickening "Crunch!" is just the disgusting topping to the whole situation. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FullMetalDaemonMuramasa |
Futret / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- In addition to the frequent, disturbing-looking album art and bizarre music style; Futret has released such gems as
*Nerves*, which features a vocal track from *Blackest Eyes* by Porcupine Tree.
- The lyrics to
*Upward Infection*—which seem to be describing something along the lines of a Mad Doctor—can be unsettling.
- The song
*Cupcakes* is already quite disturbing, being all about what an insane Yandere lover would say to you before plunging you to your death. But if you're part of the fandom it is directed to, what is the most scary is not the song itself, but rather, what it represents. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Futret |
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# As this is a Nightmare Fuel page, spoilers
*will* be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned! *Admit it... you wanted to let me in.*
You know this game is scary as hell when its Nightmare Fuel page was created after
**one preview**. After *Five Nights at Freddy's 4* held the title for being the scariest game in the series, *Sister Location* may have usurped the crown. With new gameplay elements and situations that change constantly and a dark story that goes as far as to **break** the franchise's own rules, *Sister Location* provides a new wave of terror that not even veterans of the series are prepared for.
- The first teaser of Baby is pretty freaky. She's mostly obscured due to the lighting, but she resembles the Toy animatronics (except for the leather-like texture upon closer inspection) and appears to be some sort of monstrous hybrid between Toy Bonnie, the Puppet, and Balloon Boy (or JJ).
- A fan asked Scott on Steam which animatronic he himself considers the scariest. His answer: He's only ever had nightmares about two animatronics. One was Bonnie's FNaF 1 incarnation. The other one?
"I can't talk about her yet, but, she scares me. A lot."
- With Update 2 in Five Nights at Freddy's World, it's finally confirmed that Baby is the animatronic Scott is referring to, as hinted with what the Sad Desk Guy said at the end:
"I've made something terrible. Her name is Baby. It's too late to deactivate her. I'm sorry."
- Scott mentioned that the game will have
*voice acting*, and he won't be the only actor this time. If you heard the voices in Update 2 and the end speech given by Baby (possibly), you can tell how much the game is going to ramp up in the horror department.
- On May 16th, Scott posted a clearer image of Baby herself in the first teaser. She, as speculated, looks like a clown, but also has traits of a
*jester* and a *child* with pig tails. The quote below (which is heard previously in Update 2 of FNaF World) doesn't help.
- Someone color-corrected the image◊, and if you look closely at it, there is something reflecting on Baby's nose. It eerily looks similar to
*Springtrap*.
- Even worse, the animatronic looks very similar to one of the children in
*FNaF 4*'s minigames. It might be possible that the game will finally explain on what happened to those kids.
- Said animatronic also has hands that look similar to the ones on Springtrap. Remember that in
*FNaF 3*, the Phone Guy mentions there were springlock failures at a *sister location*. It's possible that the new animatronics in this game are all springlock suits and it'll explain what happened at said place, and possibly what happened to the "previous employees" that was mentioned very briefly in 2.
- The trailer is unnerving (par for the course), but this time, it seems that this game is shaping up to be
*even scarier* than *4*. The trailer implies that the game takes place *underground*, in what may or may not be a . The game also offers an atmosphere that's possibly even darker than **factory** *4*, and new mechanics it's implied that the player can crawl through a vent. Not to mention that all four of the animatronics shown are extremely creepy, especially Baby. And the jumpscare at the end
**JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!**
- Baby (possibly) (it's actually Bidybab) whispers throughout the trailer "Don't hold it against us" and finishes it off with "You don't know what we've been through." The pain in that voice combined with the creepy whispering tone makes one shudder to think what their existence must be like.
- Near the end of the trailer where it shows the last scene with Baby with the other animatronics, you can hear a
*siren*. This could give some hints on where exactly the new location takes place.
-
*Deep below ground, where memories sleep.* Overall, these hints seem to give the
odd implication that the game takes place *underground, possibly in a * as referenced in the song Join Us For A Bite: weve been found down deep underground, what have I done to deserve this damnation?. Which would raise probably the scariest question: Why? **bomb shelter,** *Why* would these animatronics be trapped and calmly performing in such a place? And how did you end up there with them?
- There's just something unsettling about Ballora in the trailer. She never once opens her eyes
does this mean she's capable of tracking the player down without the use of her eyes and if so, how?
- The setting itself is rather intimidating. Unlike the previous games, which features settings that looked like actual places and restaurants, the
*Sister Location* setting is dark and creepy with the various background elements strewn about (e.g., the hanging puppet in the monitor room). The Elevator might also raise some hairs, especially if you have claustrophobia. In short, this location gives off the feel of an Umbrella Corporation lab, but with killer robots instead of zombies.
- Take a good look at Baby's endoskeleton, which is visible while her face plates are open at the end of the trailer. Looks very similar to Nightmare Mangle's extra endoskeleton head, doesn't it? And look at Ballora/Minireena/the ballerina animatronic's endoskeleton's teeth, again visible while her face plates are opening. They look awfully sharp and wavy, just like the Nightmares' teeth. So here's where the nightmare fuel kicks in: Why do official animatronics and the Nightmare animatronics share the same extremely creepy and odd endoskeleton designs?! What is wrong with these things?!
- It isn't easy to spot, but as the stage zooms closer and there is enough lighting behind what is presumed to be Baby, you can see a series of pinlike structures in her arms and legs. Not only is Baby a clown and an animatronic child, but she also beckons forth thoughts of what is commonly believed to be a voodoo doll of sorts, if this is anything to go by.
- And you know the scariest part of this trailer? It's titled "Sister Location Trailer
". There's another trailer coming. **1**
- Unfortunately, Scott announced that trailer 2 was cancelled because he felt it would give away a lot of stuff in the game.
- On June 17th, we got a new teaser showing... this thing◊. It's apparently a brand new animatronic that wasn't teased in the trailer, and it looks to be even in a worse state than
*Mangle* with **tubes** and running all over the place. The message on the image this time is **wires** *there's a little of me in every body*. Apparently with the copyright leaks and the quote, it's possible that this new animatronic teased here is Ennard.
- In the source code for the website, there's another secret. This image◊ lays the whole thing out, and it appears to be a schedule of sorts for the animatronics, and the names for them seemed to be abbreviated. For example, ANM01BBY is Baby, ANM02BAL is Ballora (possibly the ballerina animatronic), and ANM03FTF and ANM04FTF is Funtime Freddy and Foxy (they both share the same letters). This may not sound too scary, but at the end, there's another animatronic name that is named ANM05OOS, which according the image mentioned above, its short for
*Out Of Service*. This means that the animatronic in the teaser image above is **discontinued**, and if you know the other characters in the series that met a very similar fate, it's no surprise that it's still capable of going after you.
- Take a look at this thing's eye. It doesn't look animatronic or otherwise mechanical. It looks HUMAN. It also looks like it's just floating in the socket
- Not to mention that it looks RED
- And if you look closely at the left side of its head, you can just make out
*the other eye* tangled in the wires.
- Here's the brightened image.◊
**Good fucking God.**
- Scott uploaded another new teaser on June 19th, this time existing only in the website's source code. It contains references to something called "Chica's Party World" and suggests the animatronics were built by a company called
**Afton Robotics**. Afton presumably as in "William Afton" as in *The Purple Guy*.
- It also mentions a private birthday party being scheduled for "50L" (presumed to mean "five or less") children
- As of 7/9/2016, there's another new teaser, showing a number of animatronics looking at the viewer, with the caption, "Don't hold it against us". Raise the contrast and brightness, and you'll see that these are animatronics the size of those toy figures in the trailer's control room, because there's Baby◊ leaning out from behind a curtain behind them
- On 7/21/2016, another teaser◊ came up. It, at first, consists of a
device thing, with the rather chilling message: "Get back on your stage.
*NOW.*" Upon brightening◊ the teaser, you then see four different Ballora-like animatronics behind the device.
- Look closely, and you'll see two bright spots on top of the device, hovering there like the eyes we see in one ending of the FNAFWorld game. But they're not eyes they're antennae. Brighten the image, and one presumes those four are Minireenas the last name in the leaked list. Looks like there will be two "companions" for you in that air vent
- The Steam page icon does not feature Baby like you would think but instead Funtime Freddy, staring directly forward with his cold robotic eyes, as if analyzing the person in front of him. Baby may be the biggest threat in this game, but now that he's finally physically back in the picture,
**you'll never be ready for Freddy.**
- Also what springs to mind is one of the images given on that Steam page, showing Funtime Freddy leering out of the shadows. Standard sort of picture, right? Except this has no camera feed filter on top of it, so Funtime Freddy is right in front of the protagonist. This has sort of happened before, as in
*2* and *4* but in *4*, you were instantly killed, and in *2*, you could fend them off somewhat easily (if you were fast enough). Both also only attacked you in one spot, and as long as you could keep them at bay, you were fine. Now? They're right in front of you no matter where you are, with no camera to safely view them with and no methods to defend yourself apart from running away. You are *never* safe here.
- And what could be the chances of running away from one animatronic
and straight into another?
- The worst part comes in when you look above Freddy. Two animatronic eyes, leering out of the darkness. Fridge Horror sets in when you realize how
*big* the animatronic is. It's about a head taller then Freddy, who, if we're going by his usual size in the other games, is about as tall as a door frame. Even worse, even if you brighten the image, *you can't make out any other details of this giant.* Closer inspection shows two spotlights similar to those seen in the Primary Control Module. Nothing Is Scarier, indeed.
- Just picture going in blind and HEARING THIS voice play out of nowhere. It will creep out anybody, especially since this will be the first time the Five Nights at Freddy's series has had voice acting from anyone but Scott. This may or may not be Ballora's voice actress.
- This voice may imply something terrifying. Especially as the series went on, the animatronics were implied to have some level of sentience, but these
do these lines mean that Baby and her crew are
*fully* sentient?
- As of 8/16/2016, all previous teaser information was removed from the website and source code at ScottGames.com, replaced by a message: "Cancelled Due To Leaks". Brightening the image reveals that it's actually the in-universe grand opening of Circus Baby that was cancelled due to gas leaks except that the story hidden in the shadows indicates that something happened during the testing phases for the restaurant. Something that was quickly followed by the removal of large pieces of equipment from the facility.
- Which brings to mind one huge question: When does the game take place in relation to this image before, during, or
*after*?
- Scott's 8/27/2016 update (the announcement of the game's release date) came with a surprise in his site's source code, which one Reddit user found within minutes of the update: The game's full map. It reveals that all of the maintenance equipment you're supposed to be taking care sits on the other side of a room full of animatronics. The animatronics won't be in the rooms with you; instead, you have to go through their rooms.
- Brighten the image, and we see two rooms that are invisible on the normal map, sitting above and below the animatronic's show room. Remember, the only "invisible rooms" that we know of up to this point are safe-rooms designed for changing into and out of spring-lock suits
and for employees to die in should they set them off. And there are TWO of them
- Of course, there could be another explanation. In the third game's pre-release map, the ventilation system was hidden until you brightened the image. Of course, if that holds true here, then these are areas the animatronics can use to hide and attack you
- On Sept 24th, there was an unexpected update to the teaser◊ where Ennard completely vanished. To make matters worse, brightening up the image reveals
**nothing**. It makes you wonder if *something else* is going to take its place or it'll be like that until the game is released
especially after what occurred the last time something vanished from a FNAF teaser image.
- Come Oct 4th, and the release date is
*gone*. Although there is a tiny bit of pixels◊, it meant nothing. While this is subverted at Scott did this to troll the community by delaying the game and release a separate "mature" version of the game (which is a reskin of Sit 'N Survive), it's a bit spooky since many assume that given to the former update something would replace Ennard.
- Here's a little added Paranoia Fuel for you about the teaser's mask vanishing way before the game released. When does the same mask vanish in the game? Night 5. The Night when Ennard has already been formed and is just waiting to put their plan into motion and scoop the protagonist to wear their skin. Does that mean that Ennard escaped the site?? Where are they now?
- We thought it was over◊, but Scott has now confirmed an upcoming Custom Night which may very well feature every single animatronic in the game.
*All at once.*
- Let this sink in.
*Custom Night has returned.* And it's very likely that it will contain a Harder Than Hard mode, in a game that already has a difficult Night 4 note : though to be fair, it was patched to make it easier. Be. Very. Afraid.
- Not just one mode. You can take your pick and face down a whole new gang of animatronics that have their own ways of attacking.
- The fact that this teaser image shows that Funtime Freddy's Bonnie hand doll moves via
*slithering* or dragging itself on the ground is immensely creepy.
- Another thing to keep you awake from the Custom Night update: the ending cutscenes.
*All of them*. It starts off as normal, with your character walking down the street being greeted by his neighbors. But as you complete more Custom Night modes, the cutscene changes as *his skin starts to rot.* It's even nightmare fuel in-universe, as all the neighbors are disturbed by this change and start hiding from him out of fear. In the final cutscene, while traversing down the sidewalk, hunched over like a zombie, your character all of a sudden stops and heaves for a moment, before raising his head up as if screaming while his *chest shakes and convulses*. He then snaps forward and *spits out Ennard* before crumpling in a heap, seemingly dead. And for those willing to wait a moment, an echo of Baby's voice from the Private Room plays. Then, the player character rises up, no longer hunched over like a corpse, his eyes glowing silver. **Baby:** You won't die.
- Put yourself in Mike's position. The last thing you remember is a mechanical appendage lunging into your body and ripping your guts out likely excruciating pain beyond description and after dying, you wake up back in your own body to find it completely rotted and decayed beyond recognition.
- Worse still. The quote is "You Won't Die." Not "You'll come back." Odds are, the character was there and aware the whole time, as the body was puppeted and rotted. But a combination metal endoskeleton could easily overpower any attempts to control the skin.
- Funtime Freddy's voice in Custom Night is outright
*psychotic.* It sounds like he's gone absolutely insane and is fully ready to murder you. He even seems to drop his Affably Evil nature in favor of outright threatening you.
- Funtime Foxy's smile when he/she/yes jumpscares you. It just looks so
*delighted* to kill you.
- The final Custom Night (GF Challenge) cutscene implies that Purple Guy sent his son to find something and to repair "her" (likely his daughter) on the old restaurant. The dialogue mentions that "they" (likely the ghosts from
*3*) were there, that the ghosts couldn't tell him and his son apart, and that "I should be dead, but I'm not", before Springtrap jumps from the ruins of Fazbear's Fright. Contrary to what had long been believed, an *innocent* person was horrifically crushed to death and trapped inside Springtrap while the serial killer got away completely free. This also means the Purple Guy knowingly sent *his own son* to die in his place. This also means that the children killed innocent security guards for years hunting their killer for nothing, ending up getting *the wrong guy.* This theory would turn out to be false.
- In regards to the children moving on after Springtrap allegedly died, it's possible they didn't actually
*need* the killer to die in order to move on; they just needed to *believe* he'd died. It's possible that Afton deliberately used his son as a pawn in order to trick the children into moving on to the afterlife, thereby getting rid of the only people left who knew of his crimes. That just leaves the question: how long a game has Afton been playing?
- Adding to this, if you brighten up the cutscene background, you realize the entire place is in ruins◊; more specifically, everything is charred. Not only did Springtrap survive the fire, but he's also (probably) undamaged, and
*he's still out there.*
- This old fanfilm of Purple Man is an even
*worse* case, since it shows Purple Man alive and well, as Springtrap escapes Fazbear's Fright.
- Since Scott had confirmed that parts of MatPat's final
*FNaF* theory were true, do you know what's the worst part? *William* was Springtrap after all. Michael is still stuck in his horrible Artificial Zombie state, and Springtrap **survived the fire**, further proving that the children's souls murdering him turned out to be anything but justice. And for all we know, he might be coming to find Michael himself.
- Scottgames.com went dark again. I repeat, Scottgames.com went dark again. Here We Go Again!.
- If that's not enough to give you chills, the website for
*Five Nights at Freddy's World* went dark as well
- Scottgames and
*FNAFWorld* have lines hidden in the source code that, when pieced together, lead to a very disturbing conversation. The conversation is the rest of the Funtime Animatronics ejecting Baby from Ennard, foreshadowing *Pizzeria Simulator*.
- On June 26, 2017, the scottgames.com site has changed◊, and there's nothing but static. Almost as if Scott is trying to hide something within. Why does this not bode well? June 26 is the in-universe date the children went missing.
- With the removal of the static, visitors to the site now see a rainbow-trailing Fredbear or Freddy, seeming to act out part of the "GIVE CAKE" minigame from the second game.
- The image has changed once again to the 8-bit Fredbear/Freddy now juggling pizzas in the air. Also, the Scott Games logo is now glowing orange.
- Now the 8-Bit Fredbear/Freddy is holding a pizza while the words "Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator coming soon!" is shown.
- Then the image is now changed to 8-Bit Fredbear/Freddy serving pizzas to kids.
- Meanwhile, on fnafworld.com, there's this thing.◊ Just a pair of eyes, glowing green. From how it looks, it could easily be a withered Baby. And, by the way,
*there's * **nothing** else on the page except that image. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation |
FTL: Kestrel Adventures / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
At the end of episode 21, ||It looks like General Key is going to be turned into a robot slave by SAI-1. This seems to involve having your eye torn out, being mind raped, and having your body possessed by a hive mind. Not nice.|| **Tiedrich:** "||Welcome to Simon's inner circle.||" | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FTLKestrelAdventures |
Garfield / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The horrifying Halloween-themed arc◊ in 1989 depicted Garfield waking up in an abandoned house to learn he's in an alternate reality where he no longer exists. Unable to cope with being alone, he screams out "I don't want to be alone!", and the next thing he knows he's back in his own time again. Some fans speculated that this meant Garfield was *really* in an abandoned house and slowly starving to death, and imagining future strips in a never-ending state of denial. Jim Davis himself has said that this is false; he had wanted to write a Halloween strip that was actually scary, and decided on what he felt was what people feared the most: true loneliness. The nightmare was so chilling *Garfield was actually happy to wake up*! *"An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today..."*
- One of the scariest things in this series was the exterior of the house; that panel is a masterpiece of utterly-terrifying desolation. Compared to other haunted houses in all types of media,
*this* would be the one that the Ghostbusters would avoid completely. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Garfield |
Funny Pets / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Oh yes, this show is capable of it, such as when the gang is out for a drive one day. Crescent spots something strange about the rainbow on the horizon. It causes him to stop the car on the train tracks which leads to his friends barely avoiding a train crash. And the rainbow in question? It turns out to be an enormous, bloodshot eye pulsating with a heartbeat! This leads to Crescent pulling out his own eyes. Of course, the final reveal of the episode is more strange than scary. Somehow Crescent winds up standing on the eye and it's revealed to belong to a rainbow god who takes off into the sky. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FunnyPets |
Garfield Specials / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Garfield's Halloween Adventure quickly turns from a comedy to a creepy ghost story set in an abandoned mansion told by a creepy old man, ||which turns out to be true.|| Making it worse is how the old man is animated more eerily-realistic than any other human in the special.
The old man mysteriously disappears when Garfield looks away for a moment to look at the clock in the mansion. ||He stole the only boat leading to the island, leaving Odie and Garfield stranded just as the clock strikes midnight and the pirate ghosts arrive...||
The clock strikes midnight, then everything goes completely quiet. Garfield thinks the old man's story was just made up. ||Then a ghostly light appears in the fog over the water...||
The terrifying shot of the ghosts chasing Garfield and Odie down the pier, essentially forcing them to jump into the water to get away—only Garfield can't swim.
Even the part at the end of "Scaredy Cat" qualifies, what with the gradual build-up, the singer's tone of voice (and Last Verse Slowdown), and The Reveal, at which ||Garfield and Odie both scream like little girls.|| During this time, each and every time, the music speeds up.
Also of note, when Garfield tries to prove how brave he is by revealing all of the neighborhood children behind their masks/in their costumes, ||the first ghost has werewolf feet underneath, the goblin masked trick-or-treater is an actual goblin and the second ghost has nothing underneath its "costume", and unlike the two ghosts, who were left confused by the boys getting scared, the goblin actually tries to grab Garfield and Odie as they run away!||
The Mind Screw ending, where Garfield and Odie arrive home safely, having found their candy, and Garfield settles down to watch some TV before bed ||only to see the old man from the island somehow hosting an all-night pirate movie marathon.|| At this point, Garfield gives up and goes to bed.
"Unreal Estate," an episode of the TV show, which is just a compressed version of Halloween Adventure, featuring Jon, Odie, and Garfield moving to a creepy mountain house where the stories of hauntings are Real After All.
Garfield in the Rough, with the killer panther. What's scary about this foe is that the panther has a more realistic look to demonstrate how dangerous it is. ||Doesn't stop Garfield from attacking it when it threatens his family, though.||
Before the panther loses consciousness from the tranquilizer dart, it raises its claw towards Garfield, ready to tear his belly open, and as it faints, it reaches out and touches him. The tabby cat is shown to be really scared, and it's clear to him that he has no chance to defeat the panther due to the great size difference between them. Good thing the rangers intervened just in time or Garfield would have been killed. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GarfieldSpecials |
Gargoyles / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Somehow, the censors thought this was less horrific than a dagger in his sleep (Shakespeare) or being killed in action some mundane way (Historical).
This show is one of Disney's darker efforts, so it comes as NO shock that there would be some frightening moments.
WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked.
The Viking leader Hakon really got the ball rolling in terms of horror fuel. After taking over Castle Wyvern, he proceeds to destroy most of the gargoyle clan, while they are petrified.
"Deadly Force": Broadway becomes absolutely terrifying after he becomes traumatized from accidentally shooting Elisa. Who knew the guy who'd one day voicePatrick Star could use practically the same voice and still be scary?
Broadway:[tackles and grabs a mugger armed with a high-tech gun]What's this!? A new kind of gun? A NEW WAY TO KILL PEOPLE!?[crushes gun with his bare hands]WHERE DID YOU GET THIS!? WHO GAVE IT TO YOU!?
The doctor's matter-of-fact description of exactly what the bullet did to Elisa is also nightmare-inducing.
The Hotel Cabal episode, which ends with Mace Malone frantically trying to find an exit to the sealed maze of traps, all of which are designed to drive the prisoner insane. Word of God is he eventually died of dehydration.
Demona happily destroying human statues in "City of Stone", especially when she only destroys the arms of one. This event shows that she is both completely serious about wiping out mankind and takes pleasure in murder.
In the same episodes, King Duncan's demise. He attempts to strike down his cousin Macbeth, who reveals a strange orb given to him by the Weird Sisters. As soon as Duncan's sword shatters it, he is engulfed in magical energy, and otherworldly light erupts from his eyes and mouth, torching him from the inside, accompanied by an anguished shriek. Finally, we see his flaming corpse, eyes and tongue burned out of his head, fall out of frame as it tumbles down a cliff. Just... YEESH.
The Xanatos Goon Squad in "Monsters" being dragged down in their submarine to a watery grave by some very angry plesiosaurs.
Jackal in "The Green" fantasizing about smashing stone gargoyles by day. Frightening enough as it is, but then he whips out a chisel and carves Goliath's face to look like his.
His entire killing spree in "Grief." How bad is it? He starts small; a tree withers away, a couple of machines are turned to scrap metal, and a pair of crocodiles are reduced to skeletons. The last thing we see him do? He lays waste to an entire thriving city!
In an inhuman display of depravity, he not only spares the Emir to witness the devastation firsthand, he also plans to resurrect his son after the earth has become nothing but a barren wasteland.
On the subject of "Grief," there's Anubis's simple, straightforward, even mundane remark on the subject of death: "Death is always pointless. That is the point." Death comes to all, it's a constant, and a rule of the universe - it simply IS. Think about it a little too much, it starts to terrify you - if death is pointless, what's the point of life, as well? It always ends in the same way, after all.
If you think of it this way, Anubis was describing the pointlessness of death as what gives life meaning. A life that never ends has no point to it. (Observe how unhappy and amoral many of the immortal characters are.) Life is only precious if it can end.
The whole concept of Thailog, once you think about it. He has Goliath's strength, wordly knowledge, and combat skill coupled with Xanatos's manipulative genius and Sevarius's scientific knowledge, but without a trace of any kind of morality.
The werefox, to say nothing of Fox's transformation, especially when she's reaching out to Xanatos and screaming before the beast takes over. The werefox is ravenous, murderous, and retains glimmers of Fox's intelligence, and nearly kills Xanatos and Elisa.
"Leader of the Pack," which first introduces Coyote, was often skipped in syndication, probably because of the scene in which Bronx knocks Coyote to the deck and mauls his head. It was only allowed in the first place due to Coyote being a machine, but it's still rather brutal, and a first-time viewer would probably still assume that Xanatos was the guy in the armor.
Mind you, his face post-mauling—half human, half robotic skull with a giant glaring eye—is still pretty much Nightmare Fuel on its own.
And then he returns in "Upgrade". And the same half-mauled robotic head ends up being crushed by Goliath. Just in case you forgot how dangerous the leader of the Manhattan Clan is when really angry.
The gang's fates in "Future Tense." Broadway gets blinded in a fight before being shot dead while Bluestone, Bronx, Claw, Angela, Brooklyn, and Demona are all vaporized on-screen. Xanatos also kills his own son with a smile on his face.
Lexington's mentality when he turns out to be the villain behind it all. His reaction to Goliath's return was seemingly lukewarm in contrast to Brooklyn's anger and Broadway's benevolence. Upon exposing his megalomaniacal goals, it's revealed that his hatred of Goliath's forty-year departure and the resulting aftermath had driven him completely insane. Fortunately it turned out not to be real.
Even though the previous two points eventually turned out to be an illusion crafted by Puck, this still serves as a huge point for Nightmare Fuel regarding the trickster. He mercilessly tormented Goliath almost to the point of madness and comes dangerously close to reaching his goal (which wasn't driving Goliath insane, granted, but still). The whole ordeal still leaves Goliath quite shaken. Turns out Puck can be an incredibly dangerous adversary when he wants to be, and all of Oberon's Children used to be whole lot worse a millenia ago. Seems like there is a very good reason for Oberon's non-interference-rule after all.
Easy to overlook is the fact that "Xanatos'" armies are, along with upgraded Steel Clan drones, comprised of patrols and shock troops made of cyborg duplicates of Talon and Thailog, two of Xanatos' fiercest enemies. Thailog is stated to have died in the Clone Wars, and whatever happened to Talon at Sevarius' bidding must have been horrific for an eyeless Broadway to be deemed "the lucky one." Regardless of who is really responsible, whatever mind orchestrated the fates of these ferocious warriors is truly depraved.
For the remaining humans to be left destitute and subjugated, one can only imagine what happened to the ones that spoke out publicly against the rise of Xanatos (which almost certainly included Peter, Diane and Beth Maza.)
The Goliath Chronicles episode "Genesis Undone" stands out as rather horrifying. The deterioration of the Manhattan Clan's clones is unsettling to say the least. We then get to watch as they all (including Thailog) writhe in agony before turning to stone, at night.
In "Shadows of the Past", Goliath is plagued with visions of his fallen comrades. They appear in the form of stone apparitions with empty eye sockets and cold, vengeful expressions.
At the end of the five-part pilot, Goliath takes one look at the mess in which Demona seemed to perish, lifts Xanatos by his collar, suspends him over the edge of the building, and tells him, "She wanted me to destroy humanity. I THINK I'LL START WITH YOU!!!" Oh, yeah, he's pissed.
In "The Green", Hyena uses her morph ball attack in a very similar way Samus did in Metroid. Think about all the human parts that must have been removed from her body to make sure the transformation wouldn't kill her.
Think about how she and her brother willingly volunteered for that.
In "The Price", Goliath punches out the robotic Macbeth's GUTS after believing he had destroyed Hudson (and he only learnt that he was dealing with a robot Macbeth after delivering the blow).
Matt Bluestone in the episode "Revelations". Matt was once part of the FBI, but was let go due to his belief in conspiracy theories such as The Illuminati, who actually exist and were responsible for Matt losing his job with the FBI. During once of his investigations, he finds that Mace Malone is still alive thanks to the Society. Matt is offered membership if he can pass a loyalty test, the test being to bring them a gargoyle to the Hotel Cabal. Mace then goes on to reveal Elisa's secret and how she has been hiding the gargoyles from humanity. Hurt that Elisa would keep a secret from him, especially since it is related to his passion, he forces Elisa to let him drive her car near the end of a shift. He then starts driving erratically and almost runs the car off of a cliff, saying that only the gargoyles can save them. If the guardrails on the cliffside had been any weaker, Matt could have killed Elisa and himself since The Clan were not following her that night. If anyone else had been in the car or if Elisa had decided to not tell her secret, Matt could have lost his job at the police force and become an Un-person thanks to The Illuminati.
At the start of "Mark of the Panther", Goliath, Angela and Elisa discover the rotting corpse of a skinned panther. While we don't see the body, Angela's horrified reaction tells you all you need to know.
In "The Gathering", Petros Xanatos fires at Oberon with a harpoon gun....whose tip was made of iron. It impales him through the center of his chest, and weakens Oberon to the point he looks much frailer — his blue skin dims to grey, he loses his hair and his head becomes pointier. Combine that with his fury at being impaled with iron...
Also, him going giant size and whaling away at Xanatos' tower. Not to mention him putting the entire city to sleep; Word of God subverted No Endor Holocaust and stated that yes, people died because they fell asleep while driving and other hazardous activities. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gargoyles |
Furry Fight Chronicles / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Furry Fight Chronicles* is a Professional Wrestling comic with lots of action and comedy, but it also has a few darker moments and gratuitous violence that is decidedly *not* kayfabe all the time. Between scenes showing a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and life even outside of the ring being full of worrisome consequence, this comic shows that sports can hit just as hard as real life, in more ways than one. **WARNING:** All spoilers for the series are unmarked.
## Act 1: A Rough Start
Fight 1: Fenny VS Roora
- The Brawler Lock between Fenny and Roora can be scary because both put a Game Face on and Fenny has the scariest one of the two, looking like a snarling feral animal.
- Fenny enduring a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Roora. The sheer pain on the artic vixen's face is palpable, especially since Roora uses low blows. This makes her victory all the sweeter.
- Roora giving Fenny a wedgie can count as this as Fenny looks humiliated as she's wounded by the move.
- Fenny's manager calling out the referee for not interfering when Roora pulls an illegal move by pulling on Fenny's tail and then being powerless from defending her Combagal.
- The scene can hit to those who participate in combat sports as fighters, managers, or trainers can watch the indignity of an opponent committing a foul and get away with it because the referee didn't notice.
Chapter 2: Get Ready
- During the scene where Muko quits her job, a robot maid mashes a customer in the head.
- It hits harder because a worker at the soapland tells Muko that the owner let Cookie stay there two years ago as favor, but Cookie stayed longer than expected. It makes one wonder how badly Cookie is doing if she's that desperate to stay there for so long.
- Muko hiring Cookie without reading the bad reviews she had. Likewise, Cookie hiring Muko despite her client having no training, no knowledge of Combagals, and entering the sport for perverted reasons. For Muko, it shows that she's putting her trust in someone unreliable. For Cookie, it shows how desperate she is to have someone hire her.
- Cookie greedily throwing herself at a coin and calling it a lucky sign after musing about not screwing up with Muko makes one wonder what did Cookie do to put her in such poverty and bad reputation in the furry fighting community and it makes one worry for Muko's safety with her involvement with her.
- Roora entering Pervert Revenge Mode when Muko breaks into the shower rooms to talk to her and Fenny. While Fenny answers Muko's question, Roora growls at Muko to Get Out! and gives her and the security guard who are staring at her naked body a Megaton Kick that sends them flying and crashing against a wall.
Chapter 3: Hard Working Dreamer
- Saniko, Muko's older sister, shows a bit of worry when she realizes that Muko quit her job at Cafe Carrots in the previous chapter to become a Combagal in a rushed decision. It gets worse because the chapter implies that their mother is dead so Saniko has to take care of Muko, who has been shown to be very immature.
- Muko's maid co-workers have a good reason to hold a grudge against her as Muko's perverted antics made her unpopular with them. Despite the comic's Animesque theme, the maids treat Muko's perverted antics with the same disgust as a male person doing it to them and take great delight getting revenge on Muko by trying to make her lose The Bet against them.
- The chapter introduces Harry, who will become Muko's first fan. Whey is he on this page? He was fired from his job after working there from years. His family left him. And he can't find another job with the current economy. The situation has him Driven to Suicide with him going to Cafe Carrots for one last meal. He even has an Imagine Spot of his suicide complete with an Art Shift fish being hanged by a rope! He doesn't go through it due to Muko showing him kindness in the worst day of his life.
- Kalita and her gang showing up to rob the cafe.
Chapter 4: The World Is Your Ring
- The chapter introduces Kalita and the Roda Kira Gang who run a Protection Racket by making it clear that they will take the money from Cafe Carrots or there will be problems.
- One of Kalita's men, an anteater, flirts with one of the maids by sticking out his long tongue at her. Even though Kalita puts a stop to it, the maid is left in tears.
- Cookie protecting the cash register with her body when Kalita's hyena henchman was going to break it with a bat. Since Cookie's squirrel body is so small, she was probably going to be hospitalized or killed by the blow.
- Cookie being on the verge of tears as she pleads not to have the money taken away from her. It makes one wonder how desperate is she to revive her career if she's willing to get hurt like that.
- Muko attempts one of her perverted antics with Kalita, mainly tripping and grabbing her breasts. Predictably, Kalita gives her a Megaton Punch that sends Muko flying and she lands on a table that breaks in half.
- Muko asking the maids for some compensation, mainly panties. While she's interrupted by Kalita and the scene is Played for Laughs , the fact that the maids were in tears show that they consider a perverted Muko a greater threat than the Roda Kira Gang.
Chapter 5: Roda Kira's Killer Star Kalita
- Kalita's underlings promote her by boasting about her being a One-Woman Army and how she's one of the three leaders of the Roda Kira Gang. Now compare that with Muko who decided to become a Combagal on a whim and is fighting Kalita mainly out of attraction for her? It's not a good match for Muko.
- Knowing that there are two other leaders in the Roda Kira Gang committing crimes that are as bad or worse than Kalita.
- Muko's fight with Kalita is a Hopeless Boss Fight as Kalita gives her a Curb-Stomp Battle that borders on No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that leaves her unconscious.
- Muko letting her pervert side get the best of her as she's more focused on opening Kalita's zipper than fighting her, causing Kalita to enter an Unstoppable Rage and making the beating worse.
- Muko revealing that she has a Weaksauce Weakness in the sense that she gets limp limbs the longer she gets exposed to hot women. Which happens as she's fighting Kalita.
- Muko having this weakness is a nightmare for Cookie as most of her future rivals are probably as attractive as Kalita and they will be stronger than her, meaning that Muko will get worse beatings in the ring if she does not control her lust.
- Kalita decides to not take the money because she developed a Villain Respect for Muko after she stood up for her despite the odds? Her underlings ask her what will Gantus think? It is implied that he's her boss? Considering what Kalita did to Muko and how she destroyed the cafe, knowing there's someone stronger than her is a bit scary, especially since Kalita is defying them.
- Cookie being forced to pay the money of The Bet since Muko's attempts to protect Cafe Carrots destroyed the place. Furthermore, it's implied that the damages are more than the 2,000 Moni Cookie won and is forced to return so she's in greater debt than before.
Chapter 6: The Smiling Nighthawk
- Nyarai is sexually assaulted by a hippo customer. Fortunately, she is capable of defending herself and she does as soon as her manager gives her permission.
- The way Nyarai disposes of the hippo once she's given permission. She flashes a Cheshire Cat Grin and throws a swift kick, the next page shows the hippo's deformed face as he is literally kicked out of the nightclub and forced to apologize to Nyarai.
- The hippo's face after getting kicked. His eyes are bulging out, his cheek is swelling from where he was kicked, and his facial body fluids (blood, sweat, tears, and saliva) are blown away from the impact.
- Earlier, the hippo customer asked Nyarai if she was a Wild and then proceeded to make insulting questions and comments about her intelligence. Nyarai is forced to control her anger until the hippo goes too far by trying to grope her.
- The fact that racism exists and that it's so bad they make stereotypes out of the victims. It is implied from Nyarai's subdued anger that she had to deal with this all of her life and yet it still hurts.
- Shun being revealed as the manager of the Cyclone Crushers, including Nyarai. And that he has a plan to make her a star, but they will need Cookie to do so.
- The fact that Nyarai has a manager despite already being Cookie's client is a sad thing because the first five chapters presented Muko and Cookie and how they form their Combagal manager bond. Knowing that Nyarai plans to succeed by using Cookie as stepping stone can leave someone feeling very worried for her after seeing how much she grew to care about Muko in a single day.
Chapter 7: The Good and The Bad
- Cookie What the Hell, Hero? speech to Muko, specifically the part of the painkillers, mainly due to Truth in Television part about painkiller addiction destroying the body of athletes by turning them into drug addicts.
- The flashback scene between Cookie and Nyarai, mainly because it shows their client and manager relationship. Unlike Muko, who is an amateur who respects Cookie, Nyarai is an arrogant professional who looks down on her.
Chapter 8: Crossed Wires
- Harry revealing that there is an article in the Internet about Muko, more specifically about her fight with Kalita at Cafe Carrots, but it's only filled with mean comments. Mellow's reaction is one of horror upon finding out what happened to his friend/crush and the ramifications of the event.
- Mellow's horror upon finding out that Muko's manager is Cookie. He tries to warn her something about her but Muko hangs up on him. It makes the reader wonder what did Cookie do to be that hated.
- Muko and Saniko's argument at the end of the chapter.
- Saniko enters the room and finds her younger sister with her face covered in bandages. It's her first time seeing Muko since her fight with Kalita so her shock and horror is genuine.
- Saniko believes that furry fighting is just a phase. She recalls a moment where Muko entered competitive eating and lost. Muko entered into a mild depression and locked herself into her room, binge eating until she turned into a fat blob. Saniko was forced to take care of Muko until she returned to normal.
- Saniko's outburst as she breaks a base and calls out Muko for going out pursuing random hobbies while she's busy overworking to sustain both of them.
- Muko telling Saniko that she's not their mother with a very uncharacteristic coldness.
Chapter 9: Are You Even A Woman?
- The fact that Skully, one of the Cyclone Crushers working for Shun Gonfano, was one of Cookie's clients. Since she works for Shun, who has some sort of evil plan involving Cookie, one has to wonder what did Cookie do for Skully to serve a man who's willing to sabotage her former manager.
- A flashback scene shows that two workers at Monyan were about to be raped until Skully saves them. While the rapists didn't do anything due to Skully stopping them on time, the terror in their faces is still evident.
- Muko shows a bit of Body Horror by undergoing Lustful Melt when she goes to a strip club. A waitress who finds her melted body actually runs away screaming.
Chapter 10: Shady Business
- Cookie convinces Dinedon to let Team Deliverance win the Masato championship by bribing him. Bribing someone to win at sports is a serious offense that can break your career. Cookie is not only at risk of staining her reputation further but she's also endangering the reputations of Muko and Nyarai with her gamble.
- Cookie revealing that she got the loan money from a Loan Shark complete with Imagine Spot of her being eaten by a shark. If she does not succeed with her comeback, her life is as good as forfeit,
- Dinedon mentions that even if Team Deliverance wins the Masato Championship, it won't erase Cookie's mistakes from two years ago. He then goes on to mention Trilamity Day, which puts everyone in a somber mood.
- The fact that even Nyarai, who was acting smugly in the background, frowns a bit, shows how badly that day was in the history of furry fighting.
- Cookie reading the article of Muko on Nyarai's phone. It's filled with libel that insults both Muko and Cookie as it details how poorly Muko performed against Kalita.
- The next page has Nyarai giving Cookie an expression that borders on Cheshire Cat Grin and Slasher Smile as if she were a predator moments away from eating her prey. She looks like she's planning on hurting Cookie the moment she's alone with her.
Chapter 11: Ding! Ding! Debut!
- The chapter begins with Rinko, a rabbit Combagal defeating her opponent with a moonsault. As she celebrates her victory, her opponent is crying in the background. A reminder that not everyone who enters into a sport will win regardless of how hard they try.
- Tanka Talon giving a Curb-Stomp Battle to Snuggly that leaves her crying in tears. For a scarier note, she's an underling of Scalitor, the biggest Heel of the series.
- Muko being nervous rather than excited when she comes out the smoke and prepares to enter the ring. It's a strong contrast to her usual self. She only calms down when she notices Mellow and Harry at the audience when she calms down
- During a brief moment, Muko notices some fans with signs that have hateful messages written about Cookie. She doesn't get to read them because she's busy seeing Mellow and Harry. That being said, it shows how Hated by All Cookie is by this point of the story.
Chapter 12: Selling
Chapter 13: Judging
- Shun Gonfano arrives to the match and shows a recording of Cookie bribing Dinedon. This worsens Cookie's reputation as she gets angry and judgmental looks from the entire audience.
- Shun bringing the Cyclone Crushers as his bodyguards. This shocks Cookie who calls them her girls. While Chapter 9 had Tasha refer to Skully as one of Cookie's Combagals, the realization that ALL of Cookie's Combagals are part of the Cyclone Crushers is disheartening.
- Cookie acknowledging Shun as an old enemy and him going all the way to humiliate her cements him as her Arch-Enemy by this chapter, which means that Cookie will have to face all of her previous Combagals in the future regardless of the outcome.
- Nyarai confirming her loyalty to Shun by betraying Team Deliverance. She then convinces Peki to join her by pointing out how Shun is the only one who gives Wilds a chance.
Chapter 14: Unfolding
- Muko snapping from her lust trance and realizing that Nyarai is her enemy. She tries to call Nyarai her friend, only for Nyarai to pounce on the bunny and slam her head on the ground.
- Nyarai being a Hopeless Boss Fight just like Kalita but up to eleven as she tortures Muko physically and emotionally while Kalita only focused on knocking Muko out. This time around Muko is clearly suffering as she is so hurt by the betrayal that she cannot be aroused so she is forced to take it as the serious matter that it truly is.
- Muko asks Nyarai why she betrayed them in tears, only for Nyarai to insult her for believing in Cookie, telling her that the squirrel is a "dream killer" and insulting her for believing in Cookie.
- A moment happens initially when Nyarai was starting to beat up Muko. Realizing that Muko could not take the initial assault, Cookie had Muko grab the ropes so that Nyarai would be rule-bound to let her go. Unfortunately, as soon as the fight resumes, the cheetah just crosses the distance and punches Muko in the gut when she speaks about Cookie's dream.
- Nyarai slamming Muko's head on the floor hard and so many times until she bleeds, causing Muko to cry and call for her mom.
- Cookie trying to reason with Nyarai, at which point Nyarai gladly points out she was The Mole who spied on her and she even recorded the meeting to incriminate Cookie. The poor squirrel is left in tears by the revelation.
- Why is Nyarai so loyal to Shun? He did a favor to her involving a piece of her past and that got her Undying Loyalty to him. It shows that Nyarai has a Dark and Troubled Past if she resorted to Shun Gonfano, which Cookie points out is akin to a Deal with the Devil just to get out of trouble.
- Why did Nyarai join Cookie just to betray her? Well, she did it out of Revenge for the "life she took". This causes Cookie to think of Freydar with a haunted look on her face.
- Nyarai choking Muko with her legs as she mentions Freydar makes one think that she plans on breaking Muko's neck with them considering how strong Nyarai's legs are.
- Nyarai's betrayal becomes a scarier thought when you recall that she threatened to leave Cookie's agency unless she found her a worthy partner. However, it's clear that Nyarai was clearly intending to betray Cookie regardless of whether she fulfilled her promise or not.
- Cookie calling out the referee for not stopping Nyarai from brutalizing Muko. The referee yells at her in response. Cookie realizes that Shun bribed him. It's a horrible thought knowing your Arch-Enemy is willing to go that far to hurt you, especially when Nyarai could probably end the fight when she wanted.
- Besides Harry and Mellow, Shira went to Muko's debut and she cries at the brutality.
- Cookie having a breakdown as with Muko's defeat and Nyarai's betrayal, she's ruined. She's only conforted when Adelgund tags in and decides to fight Nyarai on her own.
Chapter 15: Cracking
- Adelgund takes out Nyarai with a knee to the face. Nyarai gets a broken nose and she is forced to stumble out of the ring, tagging Peki in before passing out from blood loss.
- Dinedon shows signs of being a Bad Boss by forcing Peki to take a FaceHeel Turn on account of Fantastic Racism making people wary of Wilds and he is wary of Peki being a Wild herself would drive customers away. So he wants Adelgund to defeat her as a Heel to make the audience feel safe despite her protests.
- Adelgund, who is implied to be Peki's lover as well as her Combagal partner shows signs of being an abusive romantic partner.
- She takes the decision of making Peki do the FaceHeel Turn against her protests.
- An angry Peki is forced to face Adelgund to lose against her while the crowd jeers at her for "proving Wilds are the same" and other stereotypes.
- Adelgund dismissing Peki's injuries from a match, telling her to suck it.
- It's a clear example of All Take and No Give as Peki listened to Adelgund's insecurities and gave her advice while Adelgund didn't even help her or bother to listen to her concerns.
Chapter 16: Breaking
- Peki reveals the last straw. She caught Adelgund being pleasured by the stripper, which she then made into the latest member of the Exe-Cutie-Ves. She then asks her if that is what it takes to become one of her personal assistants.
- Adelgund attempts to defend herself by pointing out that the stripper came onto her, which infuriates Peki as she angrily recalls Adelgund enjoying herself and then gives her a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown fueled by years of betrayal.
- Adelgund crossing the Moral Event Horizon by breaking Peki's arm, becoming a Broken Pedestal to the audience and reaching a Hated by All status with her actions.
- Adelgund attacking the referee when he attempts to reprimand her for breaking Peki's leg.
- When Nyarai wakes up and asks Peki to tag her in, Adelgund steps on Peki's leg, pointing out that she's not a team player with tears in her eyes. It's clear that, while inexcusable, Adelgund is acting more out of broken heart and no longer cares about the match.
- Peki crawling all the way from the center of the mat to the corner, finally tagging Nyarai in as she endures the assault of her former partner and lover.
Chapter 17: Unleashing
- Peki being taken to the hospital, screaming all the time as she has a broken arm and two broken legs.
- Adelgund tanking a kick from Nyarai and then grabs her by the earrings to give her a knee to the face, elbows her to the mat, and performs a Spine Breaker hold, threatening to break the cheetah's spine if she doesn't give up.
- Nyarai's facial expressions despite her dilemma, changing from playful, to crying, to bored in a matter of panels as she challenges Adelgund to break her spine.
- Nyarai snapping her own spine to the horror of everybody present.
- Adelgund has a My God, What Have I Done? moment the second she thinks she crippled or killed Nyarai.
- Jowdie and a few of the Cyclone Crushers cry in horror when they think their friend just got her spine snapped.
- Nyarai reveals that she is fine due to being a Contortionist with Abnormal Limb Rotation Range as she sets her spine straight, twists herself vertically like a pretzel, and then contorts her arms and legs around her head just to prove that submission holds are useless against her.
- Leg-Jet Burst. All of it.
- First of all, Nyara reveals that she has either a Signature Move or a Finishing Move that has her surrounded by a fiery Battle Aura as she unveils faster and stronger kicks.
- Her first kick. It's so fast, it disappears. And then her foot reappears close to Adelgund's terrified face. Once it connects, there is a brief flash of fire that comes from Nyarai's foot and a small explosion on Adel's face as she is pushed away from the impact of the kick.
- The way Nyarai is drawn. She is a bit Off-Model as if she looks more like a demon than a feline. It reflects her sadism and the hellish nature of her technique.
- The following kicks after the first one. Knowing that it's impossible to dodge Nyarai's kicks, Adelgund guards with her arms, but that's what Nyarai wants. So she delivers dozens of kicks to Adelgund's arms, burning the sleeves of her arms, then the arms themselves to the point of leaving them paralyzed.
- How are the kicks described? They are like firecrackers! You can't see Nyarai's legs and feet fly because of how fast her kicks move, but, just like a firecracker, you know it's a bad idea to let yourself get hit by one.
- Nyarai warming up for her finishing blow. At one point steam is coming out of her body, at another she looks like she's contorting her body into something bigger, and when she's preparing to attack, Nyarai's face is distorted by an Art Shift to reflect her bloodlust.
- The last two pages of the chapter. Nyarai jumps on the air with one leg folded and charged with energy ready to deliver the finishing blow to Adelgund, who cannot block or defend. Then, Nyarai has a demonic face as the energy is released and she is propelled foot-first into Adelgund's face, finishing her off with an explosive kick that breaks her jaw.
- Adelgund's face after taking the full force of Nyarai's kick reminds everyone of the hippo of Chapter 6. They both had the same expression when Nyarai kicked them in the face, but the hippo had the good fortune of Nyarai holding back on him either out of professional obligation or because he wasn't worth it. In Adelgund's case, since Nyarai is in the ring, is facing a champion, and she lost the faith of the fans, she pretty much has permission to go all out and she does so by breaking Adelgund's jaw and knocking her out.
Chapter 18: Falling
- The first page is Adelgund's unconscious body being sent flying into the air and then lifelessly falling into the mat while Nyarai gracefully lands on her feet. Then, Nyarai's foot stomps on her face, which further injures Adel's jaw... so that the cheetah can pose for her victory.
- Nyarai being crowned champion means that anybody who wants to get the belt will have to fight her. Considering Adelgund was undefeated and yet she still held back, what does that say about Nyarai, who is stronger but prefers to go all out on others?
- The Exe-Cutie-Ves crying over the defeated body of Adelgund, who's in critical condition with white eyes and a broken jaw.
- It is revealed that there was someone else besides Nyarai who betrayed Cookie by leaking information to Shun Gonfano. That someone was Dinedon, who gave the information as soon as Shun gave him a bigger pay than Cookie did.
- Just how much of a Bad Boss Dinedon is. Despite everything Adelgund and Peki did, Adelgund especially, he did not hesitate to put them in a match where they will lose just so that he could get the money for himself.
- Muko keeping the collar Adelgund gave her when they became partners as a Tragic Keepsake and looking at it, clearly traumatized by her own powerlessness at being unable to save her from Nyarai.
- Cookie talking about Freydar with Muko. While she didn't kill her, Cookie overworked her, leading to a Career-Ending Injury involving painkillers that will make her blind if she fights again.
- As Cookie talks about Freydar, some Cyclone Crushers appear on the background, all of them sporting a Death Glare as if blaming Cookie for what she did to Freydar.
- Muko's trauma is so great that she gives this Wham Line that shocks Cookie to the core.
**Muko**:"I quit"
Chapter 19: Despite Everything
- The chapter begins with a brief Time Skip as Cookie still is stuck in the Despair Event Horizon three days after Nyarai's betrayal and Muko quitting. She only snaps out of it when Saniko visits.
- Saniko revealing that Muko is suffering a Heroic BSoD and that she hasn't got out of her room for days, so she wants Cookie to talk to her as she's her last resort.
- Cookie initially refusing to talk to Muko out of guilt and only doing so when Saniko threatens to call the cops on her for having Muko fight Kalita and then Nyarai despite her lack of experience.
- Cookie sharing her story of her first time hitting the Despair Event Horizon two years before the series began.
- As it turns out, Shun didn't steal the Cyclone Crushers and they didn't left Cookie. She sold them out. Cookie assumed they were going to leave her since they were mad at her for what happened to Freydar so she sold them out.
- Cookie not getting any job despite all the money she had. She resorted to Drowning My Sorrows so much that she briefly became The Alcoholic to the point of ripping out her hair and parts of her eyebrows.
- A drunk Cookie entering Club Nighthawk and making a fool of herself in front of Shun and her former Combagals, who reproach her, now seeing her as a Broken Pedestal for selling them out.
- While Muko deciding to become a Combagal is good news, her making Nyarai her first rival is a scary thought as Nyarai is a champion and above pro-level according to Cookie. And that's not taking into account all the enemies that Muko may face once Muko succeeds on her goal.
- Cookie acknowledging that not only will Muko make an enemy of Shun Gonfano, who is a Villain with Good Publicity to furry fighting but she will be hated for being associated with Cookie.
- Kalita returning and revealing she's a Loan Shark who's collecting the 20,000 Moni Cookie loaned a few chapters ago. While the volume has a Bittersweet Ending for Muko and Cookie, it's clear the two of them have lots of bad luck coming their way in the future.
Chapter 20: Killer Overture
- The character sheets show the character motivations, more specifically those who will appear on Part 3 and play an important role on it. What are the motivations of Nyarai, Shun, and the Cyclone Crushers? Cookie's resignation.
- There's something scary that, despite being one of the most powerful agencies in the setting, these characters are so death set in destroying Cookie despite the fact that she all but destroyed her reputation and despite all of the horrible stuff they did to her in Part 2.
- Snuggly returns and has A Day in the Limelight but her opponent is Sleepy, who was her former singing partner in the Doable Dolls.
- Sleepy becoming a Combagal to fight Snuggly for breaking up The Doable Dolls shows how much of a grudge Sleepy has against her former idol for breaking their partnership to pursue furry fighting.
- Sleepy exploiting Snuggly's love of bones to land the first blow is not just pragmatism, is also a bit treacherous when she knows how Snuggly would react because they were friends.
- Watching Sleepy and Snuggly fight brutally and learning that they fought for 20 minutes can be disheartening as it can remind how friendships can fall apart once people drift in interests.
- Knowing that Snuggly is not even one of the strongest Combagals when compared to the likes of Tanka Talon, Peki, Adelgund, and Nyarai, and yet she's still capable of fighting 20 minutes makes one worry for Muko as she's clearly not on that level yet.
Chapter 21: The Streak
- As it turns out Cookie still has one week to pay off her debt. However, Kalita shows Cookie a loan paper with Cookie's forged signature, meaning she has to pay right now.
- Why is Cookie called Misfortune Cookie? Because she resorted to gambling to pay off her debts but she's been on a two-year long losing streak. Not only that, everybody who works with her is affected by her bad luck so Cookie is treated as The Jinx by everybody.
- Kalita threatens Cookie with a bat.
- Muko facing Kalita again. Despite taking the fight seriously this time, Muko still ends up losing, being sent flying into a bathtub and then melting at the sight of two beautiful ladies.
- Handsome Zebra Guy recalling Saniko and Kalita, each of them sporting a Death Glare when asking for Cookie's whereabouts.
Chapter 22: The Grit
- Finding out that Muko melted can be a bit troubling when one remembers she did so when Kalita was planning on bludgeoning her with a bat, choke her with it, or drown her in a bathtub. If Muko can't control her hormones, how will she survive in a match, much less a real fight where there are no rules?
- Muko acknowledging her Fatal Flaw and how it will hamper her dream of being a Combagal, with her looking close to giving up again is very similar to someone realizing that they have an addiction.
- Muko is implied to have some sort of PTSD as she's shown to bear grudges against those who wronged or she thinks wronged her. It's kind of scary knowing that Muko can be The Resenter despite her bubbly personality.
- There's a flashback that shows a naked woman that could be Muko's first love. However, next to her, the following panel is pure static. What could be so horrible that Muko would want to repress a memory, especially when she's willing to remember Nyarai and Kalita despite both of them beating her up to the point of bleeding.
Chapter 23: The Rumbling
- Kalita gives Muko an Elemental Punch One-Hit Kill that's way more scarier than it sounds.
- Muko imagines herself on a field and gets struck with lightning, complete with an X-Ray of her body. Then Kalita's fist slightly dislocates her jaw. Finally, Muko is flung headfirst into the wall, breaking the tiles and falling unconscious.
- Kalita reveals that she quit the Roda Kira Gang for doing shakedowns. Considering that in Chapter 5 she was willing to fight a superior named Gantus for not getting the money at Cafe Carrots, one has to wonder what happened after she returned.
- Cookie reveals the identities of the Tendonchi Champions: Skully and Bolouma, her former Combagals and current Cyclone Crushers.
- The scary thing about Skully and Bolouma is that they are undefeated champions for a year and they also do shoot fighting like Nyarai, meaning that they are willing to hurt their opponent for real.
- Cookie telling Kalita that not even she has a chance against those two shows how dangerous the Tendonchi Champions are upon seeing what Kalita did.
Chapter 24: The Clearing
- Kalita's threats in the chapter, making it clear that if Muko and Cookie don't pay her in a week, she will beat them up for real.
- Cookie attempts to try to test Kalita's temper by asking if she's afraid of the Tendonchi Champions. Kalita gives her a warning to pay complete with a Death Glare to hammer the point.
- Kalita's threat to Muko's challenge for a rematch is that she will crush her dreams beneath the wheels of reality, indicating that she will hurt her far worse than their previous fights.
- Just how dangerous are Skully and Bolouma? Kalita believes that, with Muko being dead weight, she won't be able to win as beating one of them will be hard, but two will be impossible.
- While it's part of an inspiring moment, Cookie mentions that after Muko defeats Nyarai and the Cyclone Crushers, she will have to fight other Combagals stronger than them until she reaches Donkizari. Knowing that there will be some Heel Combagals stronger and meaner than the Cyclone Crushers can be a scary thought considering how much Muko is struggling with trying to beat the likes of Kalita and Nyarai.
- Muko and Cookie try to join a gym so that Muko can get physical conditioning and martial arts training. However, every time they try to join, they get rejected. They are shoved out in the first gym, told to Get Out! in the second one, and then denied again with no explanation. It causes Cookie to reach a Rage-Breaking Point until the third gym owner tells them that he's banning them because of a Spotter article on Muko.
- The Spotter article on Muko is more
*personal* than the first one, to the point Muko gets a Thousand-Yard Stare upon reading it and Cookie is horrified as she realizes how badly it will hurt her image.
- Miho, the stripper who seduced Adelgund, works as a reporter for Spotter and has done research on Muko's perverted antics on the first chapters and prior to the events of the comic in a poorly time Laser-Guided Karma after Muko underwent Character Development to surpass her perverted tendencies.
- The implication that Shun is willing to destroy Cookie by ruining Muko's life, even if it means violating her privacy.
- Miho reveals that eighteen months before the events of the chapter, Muko had a Teacher/Student Romance when she was seventeen years old. The teacher is the same naked woman who appeared in the flashback of the previous chapter.
- Muko's teacher using Muko as The Scapegoat at the end of the chapter, blaming the entire affair on her and making her look as a sex offender.
Chapter 25: The Taste of Pancakes
- Muko disappearing at the beginning of the chapter can be this to Cookie. Her client is barely an adult, emotionally vulnerable, and alone in a red light district. To make matters worse, Cookie is a squirrel incapable of defending herself or Muko and she currently has Mukos phone on her hands, so shes unable to contact her.
- Bill Bunburger can be a bit of Real Life nightmare fuel for anybody who is unemployed, especially at a later age. Formerly an employee of the month and a good father, Bill has developed many physical and mental health problems. Hes overweight, hes a chain-smoker, hes a conspiracy theorist, and a neglectful father.
- The worst part is that the series takes place in 1997 and Bill earned his award on 1993, meaning that something so horrible happened to Bill that it broke him completely in the span of four years.
- Bill grabbing Saniko by the wrist. While it was mainly to warn her about his suspicions about them being spied, the sudden action still shocked her.
Chapter 26: Daylight
- Kalita meets her former subordinates and gives them a Death Glare despite them having a broken arm and an injured eye.
- The way they back away from her implies that Kalita injured them and that shes willing to do worse to them if they get on her bad side.
- The end of the chapter shows Harry reading comments in the Spotter. All of them are hate comments towards Muko thanks to the article destroying her reputation.
- Harry's apartment is a bit creepy since it's filled with Muko posters and shirts that makes it look like a Stalker Shrine rather than a room from a dedicated fan.
- His blank expression with shadows as he keeps reading the hate comments paints a sinister picture at the end of the chapter.
Chapter 27: Playtime Is Over
- The chapter starts with a flashback stating that the events of the flashback take place at the same time as the events of the Masato championship. While Muko is pumping herself up and Cookie is trying to keep things in peace, Nyarai is eerily calm as she checks her phone. It is implied that she was talking with Shun about how the fight was going to be before her inevitable betrayal.
- Why did Debbie quit the Roda Kira Gang? She crashed her bike while racing Gantus for the right to remain the leader. She was
*not* wearing a helmet and needed months to recuperate.
- According to Kalita, the Roda Kira Gang are on newspapers because of the shakedowns and other criminal activities that Kalita disapproves. This makes one have one scary question about Gantus. If the Roda Kira Gang was unnoticed under Debbie's leadership, what did Gantus made them do to make them get into the headlines?
- Upon mentioning Leyline, Debbie makes a joke about him sniffing glue. It stops being funny when Kalita answers that he is but she suspects that Gantus is giving him something worse to earn his loyalty.
- Kalita flips a table to fight Debbie after she refuses to join back the Roda Kira Gang and tells her that she quit the biker lifestyle to start a family, insulting Kalita in the process by refusing to grow up. Kalita is shocked when she sees that Debbie is pregnant and nearly hit her unborn baby with a chair while an hysterical Debbie calls her out because her fighting days are over.
- Finding out that Debbie is pregnant and then seeing that she ordered a fancy wine despite her condition. Drinking while pregnant is not a good thing to do as it can be harmful for the baby's development.
- The introduction of Gantus shows why Kalita was afraid of facing him without Debbie's help. He's one of the largest characters in the comic and easily one of the most evil. He's a large dog with a creepy smile, large hands, black fur, and biker outfit. He also plans on having a beautification project by having the Roda Kira Gang beat up homeless people and burning their shelter.
- The formerly idealistic Roda Kira Gang being willing to assault defenseless people
*and* enjoy it shows how much of a corrupting influence Gantus truly is.
- Geffan and Banske, the subordinates of Kalita are among the members, looking to be the most happy with the carnage.
- Kalita, who admitted that she couldn't beat Gantus alone, is now going to fight him, too angry at his actions to just stand there and watch.
Chapter 28: The World's Biggest Asshole
- As much as they deserved it, the beating that Kalita gives Geffan and Banske is terrifying due to the Tranquil Fury Kalita shows and her precise use of the bat.
- For Geffan, he was about to hit a raccoon out of sadism. Then Kalita takes his bat, gives him an empty and disappointed stare, asks him a question, and then busts his arm with the bat.
- Banske has it worse. Kalita kicks him to the ground and then busts his leg with the bat. The pain causes him to slap his hands on his face, accidentally cutting himself with his claws.
- For a bit regarding Kalita, the raccoon she rescued met her as a child. He recalls her on a snowy night with a Death Glare and calls her a "runaway" he met years ago. What kind of Dark and Troubled Past did Kalita have that she ran away from home and chose to become an orphan.
- The scene with Leyline is scary because it shows how much drugs affect a person. He was the second founder of the Roda Kira Gang and an equal to Kalita. When he shows up, he has empty eyes, is described as being "high as fuck" by Kalita, and he's the sex toy of Gantus.
- Gantus groping Leyline for a couple of pages. It's not flirtatious or romantic, but something wrong as Leyline is drugged and not in control. Kalita is very disgusted and angry at what Gantus is doing to her former founder.
- Gantus blocking Kalita's Elemental Punch with a single finger and then labeling her as a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond despite her strength. One has to wonder how strong Gantus
*truly* is to make that assessment.
- Kalita tries to attack Gantus a second time. However, Gantus bothers to counter...by barking so loud that he blasts Kalita away from him. She even has an Imagine Spot of Gantus being large enough to eat her when he does the bark.
- Gantus gives a Hannibal Lecture to Kalita telling her that she's never fought an opponent equal to her and that she's a bully, leading the rest of the gang to laugh at her. Kalita, feeling helpless can't help but run away from Gantus and her former gang. It's a scary reminder that, for all her strength, Kalita is still a high school girl.
Chapter 29: Nightshine
- Granted, he gets rejected, but an attractive man asking a couple of young girls to work at his establishment turns creepy when one remembers that Tendonchi specializes in
*pink shops* during the night.
- When Kalita leads Muko and Cookie into the casino, the rabbit that witnessed the fight between Muko and Kalita is following them and he has a Spotter magazine.
- While it's framed in a comical fashion, Cookie's predicament can be scary. Kalita took a
*second* loan on her name for another 20,000 Moni she intends to bet. Cookie is naturally outraged, stating that Kalita can't do that, until Kalita says a policy stating she can make loans on Cookie's name.
- Kalita betting 19,995 Moni and losing them to Cookie in a roulette spin. What makes this so scary is that a Loan Shark is not affected by gambling as they find ways to make their clients pay them. For a client like Cookie, regardless of whether there is a bad luck curse or not, that's most of their money being gambled with a 50% chance of losing it.
- Cookie losing the second bet, meaning that her bet is doubled. She's so depressed that she's willing to take a drink, despite that being one of the factors that ruined her career two years ago.
- Kalita confronting a cat lady who stole chips at an alley and demanding her money. When confronted with evidence of her crime, the cat shows an Ax-Crazy side, showing a scarred eye, an evil expression, and a sharp knife. Fortunately, Kalita lays her out in a single blow.
- When an angry Muko attempts to fight Kalita, she faints. This worries Cookie, who believes that she's having brain damage from her fight with Nyarai (complete with a memory of Nyarai banging Muko's head on the mat until she bleeds) a while ago. While Muko was only hungry, it raises the possibility of her health if Cookie is scared for a fight that took place three weeks ago.
- The Stinger shows that Shun only did the horrible things he did to Cookie and Muko because he made a deal with a Combagal who agreed to work as a trainer if Shun prevented Cookie from returning to furry fighting. After hearing about Cookie's return, the Combagal decides to return to furry fighting. That Combagal is Freydar...and she's ready to destroy Cookie.
- Her slow appearance in the final pages. She starts as a large shade behind Shun, accusing him of betraying her. When Shun tries to reassure her, she punches a hole in a glass wall. After that she leaves and the audience is shown a large, angry dog ready to take revenge on the squirrel who destroyed her career.
- Brief one for Shun, but him glaring back at Freydar despite her being close to the World's Strongest Woman without a hint of fear shows his true mettle as a criminal. It makes one wonder what would happen if they got on his bad side.
Chapter 30: Facades
- The flashback sets up implications that border on realistic fears.
- Freydar just starting her career three years ago means that by the end of the year she will become one of the greatest Combagals in history and then have that taken away by Cookie's mistakes. It can show how many things can happen in a year and how much a person can change because of a certain event.
- Cookie coldly rejecting Ida despite her having nothing but a few belongings and her furry fighting dreams. She rejects her because she's useless to her due to her quills hurting possible rivals. Seeing Cookie break dreams and only care about results can be harrowing, especially for those who had managers who cared exclusively about profit.
- Ida is an attractive female. However, her face is covered in bandages and she has stitches on her neck. It is implied that she injured herself with her own quills while using them as sewing needles.
- Granted, it's played as Amusing Injuries more than anything, but Cookie tackles Ida after the latter pushes her Berserk Button too many times. Poor Cookie ends with her face covered in large quills the size of her arms. She's even bleeding as she removes them. It's easy to see why she forbid Ida from being a Combagal after seeing the damage those quills can do
*by accident* and imagine what she would have done in a real fight.
Chapter 31: Challenges
- Brida is mostly a funny character. However, her appearance is creepy due to being a Perpetual Smiler in most pages, having Femme Fatalons for fingernails, and one over-the-top Wild Take after another every time she changes expression.
- The last half of the arcade challenge by Stonk is this. After getting the paintball ammunition from balls in a crane game, the Combagals shoot each other to reduce the numbers. However, besides each other, the losers from the previous round will show up dressed as zombies to "kill" the other players indiscriminately.
- Freydar interrupting the Tendonchi Challenges and making a challenge on live television to Cookie. If she loses, they can skip the Tendonchi Challenges to fight Bolouma and Skully after her. But if she beats Muko and Kalita, they have to leave town for good.
- The sheer Morton's Fork forced on Cookie, Muko, and Kalita by Freydar. Muko and Kalita are on their late teens and have no furry fight training other than fighting experience in brawls (more so in the case of Kalita). Suddenly, they are challenged by one of the strongest Combagals of their time in a fight more befitting for a Final Boss than a Starter Villain with high stakes on the line. That's not counting that she's recovering from a Career-Ending Injury after a hiatus, meaning that their reputation will take a hit if they win by crippling her. That's not counting that they will have to fight two champions
*after* Freydar.
- Golgadoo standing up to one of the two characters with the distinction of being the World's Strongest Woman becomes this when Freydar lifts him by the neck and throws him to the crowd.
- Freydar revealing that she still has her Career-Ending Injury but continued training anyway, making her stronger than she was two years ago. While this is a scary thought as she was considered the only person who could beat Donkizari, there is still the issue that Freydar can
*still* get blinded with a blow to the head.
- The tense staring between Shun and Freydar. She didn't hesitate to attack him two chapters ago and she's riled up. Shun only made it because he made a compelling argument.
- Freydar's new terms for The Bet don't make it any better. Rather than fighting her, Muko and Kalita will fight two Cyclone Crushers personally trained by her with the intention of beating them.
- The possibility that Freydar's students may be
*stronger* than Bolouma and Skully. Freydar proved to be a Badass Teacher who made the Cyclone Crushers a team of elite Combagals with some of them being champions.
- The chance of Nyarai being one of Freydar's choices. She already showed a willingness to be The Mole to get revenge for Freydar, a desire to get revenge for her, and voiced her desire to train with her back on Chapter 6. Considering what she did to Adelgund, it's a scary thought that she's among Freydar's possible choices.
- How does Freydar cement herself as The Dreaded in the comic? The reactions of the cast after seeing the video are either stress, trauma, or fear.
- Muko is visually afraid and doesn't hesitate on voicing it. She only calms down until after Cookie decides not to take it.
- Ida is tense despite this being the
*second* time watching the video. One can't imagine how she must have felt the first time.
- Kalita declares that she isn't scared and wants to fight Freydar or her Combagals. However, her reaction face is one of anger and determination.
- Cookie looks haunted, made more evident when her former self as Fortune Cookie materializes behind her and tries to get her to drink.
Chapter 32: The Great Daikarin
- Snuggly's Morton's Fork when she performs on stage alone. It's nightmarish because, regardless of which of them happened, the next entry below was going to happen.
- On one side, Snuggly decided to sing by herself to make up for Sleepy's absence. However, the audience actually complained because Sleepy was not there, acting as if Sleepy's performance amounted to nothing unless her partner was there with her.
- On the other side, Paipu decided to be her partner so that Snuggly wouldn't sing alone. The problem was that Paipu was a muscular man and he was decided to sing while wearing Sleepy's dress. Naturally, they got zero applause from the public.
- Snuggly's breakdown after reaching her Rage-Breaking Point as she swears at Paipu and the audience. The way her face distorts as she yells obscenities at her former mentor makes her look more like a
*rabid* animal than a domestic one.
- Paipu snatching Snuggly's microphone and crushing it between his fingers in a display of Tranquil Fury as he lectures her for swearing at him while keeping it on. While it is clear that Paipu was protecting Snuggly, his ability to take her microphone before she could even react shows he's not to be angered.
- The public turning against Snuggly after hearing her tirade against them. Snuggly has an expression of
*emptiness* as she takes away her ribbon and stomps on it. While Snuggly is happy with the new image she made for herself, Cookie and some people theorize that Snuggly "went bonkers" because of the trauma of that night.
Chapter 33: The Smell Of Popcorn
- The number of things Mellow has to do to enter Club Nighthawk. He has to take multiple jobs and sell his beloved Combagal collection to earn enough money to see Nyarai. And this is just for
*one* single visit.
- Nyarai giving Mellow a Cheshire Cat Grin after recognizing him as one of Muko's fans. Mellow mentally thinks that he feels that death is staring at him.
- Even after Mellow strokes her ego by complimenting her, Nyarai makes it clear that she is not swayed.
- Jowdie reveals that the perverted hippo in Chapter 6 was not the only customer who got kicked in the face by Nyarai. Unlike him, the other customers were
*bullied* by her, meaning that she assaulted them out of sadism.
- Nyarai's annoyed face when Jowdie joins in implies that she was going to kick Mellow in the face with little provocation.
- In a more realistic way, despite Nyarai and Peki being the heroes of the Masato match, the Fantastic Racism against Wilds still lingers on, showing how something as complex as hatred can't be washed away.
- Nyarai revealing to Mellow that there is a second Spotter article about Muko. Considering how the first one incriminated her as a sex offender, it is a worrying thought.
- How does Nyarai convince Mellow to read the article after getting distracted by Jowdie? She yells at him with such fury that she turns into a giant flaming face.
- The third Spotter article is about Kalita, but it tarnishes Muko by treating her as an accomplice in her crimes and Cookie by treating her as a crime boss hiring criminals.
- Mellow's distress at seeing Muko's reputation be further tarnished. He already saw the Matroshka article offscreen and was devastated. Then he saw another article further damaging it.
- Nyarai resuming her bullying session on Mellow after noticing he's upset.
- The foot smelling session due to the stress-building.
- Jowdie convinces Nyarai to not bully Mellow by talking about a rumor about cat paw pads. She notices that paw pads smell like popcorn and wonders if Nyarai's paws smell the same. To find the answer, she suggests Mellow smell Nyarai's feet. This makes Nyarai grin in anticipation as she points at her feet and orders Mellow to beg for a smelling session, even silently threatening with a glare if he doesn't comply despite not wanting to smell.
- Nyarai and Jowdie giving sadistic smiles when Mellow asks Nyarai to let him smell her feet. Nyarai looks vindicated at finally having a chance to humiliate the wiener dog and Jowdie is enjoying herself, showing that being the Nice Girl of the Cyclone Crushers doesn't mean she doesn't have a naughty side.
- The foot smelling session can be this as Mellow's nose gets close to Nyarai's paw pad. The last time Nyarai used her feet, she kicked Adelgund hard enough to give her a concussion and break her jaw. The first time Nyarai used her feet, she temporarily reassembled a hippo's face for groping her. And that's not counting all the clients she had after the Masato match that she kicked For the Evulz before Mellow came along.
- Mellow resolving to date Nyarai. While he earned her friendship, he's in enemy territory. One mistake, and Nyarai will do more to him than a kick to the face.
- Besides Nyarai, Mellow also has to deal with Jowdie, who has a devious side despite being a Nice Girl most of the time. And that's not counting Shun Gonfano and the rest of the Cyclone Crushers too.
Chapter 34: Star
- As it turns out, Kalita's parents are indeed dead. Some students at her junior high school cruelly note that they were drug addicts and died via overdose.
- These circumstances give very dark implications to the kind of lifestyle Kalita had based on her running away from home, being an orphan, and reacting negatively to the students speaking about her parents and later to Debbie speaking about family.
- The school brawl Kalita had with Debbie and Leyline counts as this. The three of them are students...and yet they beat each other so badly that they have internal and external injuries.
- Kalita has it worse as Debbie and Leyline ganged up on her and she's spitting up blood even if she gave as much as she took and is still willing to fight.
- We see how the Spotter works and it's disturbing. As it turns out, the raccoon Kalita saved didn't betray her and even vouched for her. This didn't stop Mr. Dings from editing the footage to make it look like Kalita was the aggressor.
- It becomes scarier when one realizes that they probably did the same with Muko and Matroshka or with other countless videos for the sake of ratings.
- Harry channeling Lil' Slugger by confronting Miho in a dark alley dressed in street clothes, roller skates, and wielding a baseball bat.
- Harry revealing that he's suffering Sanity Slippage since Miho's first video as he spent an unspecified amount of time defending Muko from haters. Thanks to the second video, he decided to go after the "root of evil" to stop the rumors.
- The chapter ends with Harry rushing at Miho with his bat raised. Miho covers herself with her arms. And then blood splashes.
Chapter 35: Killer
- Kalita hitting Sleepy from behind with a chair counts as this because of how sudden it was, especially because it came after she and Snuggly reconciled with each other.
- Muko's
*Groper Muko* persona has her grope Snuggly after pinning her down. The facial expression she makes is very convincing as the crowd is more sure about the Spotter article. It's all an act for her Heel persona, but it's still a chilling performance.
- Snuggly and Sleepy's position in the match. They're exhausted from fighting each other at full strength and suddenly a pair of new foe attacks them after they made peace with each other. Snuggly and Sleepy can't help but call each other's name in worry and concern every time Muko or Kalita is dominating them.
- Their reactions of betrayal upon finding out that Daikarin is the new trainer of Team Star Killer. It's implied from their reaction that they came to terms with Paipu's actions in their backstory. Finding out that their trainer left them for the team who beat them through backstabbing can be scary and saddening.
Chapter 36: A Place Of Your Own
- Kalita's friend had a bandage on her eye before being adopted. It makes one wonder what happened to a little girl to receive an injury like that.
- Daikarin reveals to Muko that Freydar fell into a coma the day before Trilamity Day. It makes one wonder how gruesome her last fight was to be put in such condition.
- Muko gets a random headache after learning a bit more about Trilamity Day. What makes this scarier is that Ida points out that it's not the first time Muko's got a sudden headache.
Chapter 37: High Bump!
- Cookie's plan involving the Redoable Dolls sounds like a win-win on first sight. The Redoable Dolls make up in their fight, then Team Star Killer beats them as their Heel debut, then they are trained by Daikarin to defeat Freydar's team and the Tendonchi Champions, and then they lose to the Redoable Dolls to have them make their comeback. It sounds good on paper, right? No. As pointed out by Ida, Cookie's plan involves them winning their two fights. If they lose either one, not only will Team Star Killer be screwed, but also the Redoable Dolls.
- Kalita admitting to herself that she has no idea what she'll do with her life six months after getting the Tendonchi Belt. It's scary yet relatable how even being a celebrity by becoming a champion Combagal can still make someone feel unfulfilled.
- The following day, Kalita discovers that her college application was denied. And she finds Shun Gonfano talking to Fidah, one of the young orphans she cares about, with the knowledge that he may have an evil plan in store for her. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FurryFightChronicles |
GeGeGe no Kitarō / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Episode 12 starts off with people being arrested by Tanuki-possessed police because they are being suspected of being anti-Tanuki. After going through it all and Kitaro and Mana defeating the nightmarish Yokai Beast, the Shadowy Figure seems to curse Mana. Then at the very end of the episode, the figure watches Mana walk to class while reciting a terrifying poem as flashbacks of a woman seemingly being murdered appear.
A hollow vessel, a hollow vessel. Fill it with bone or fill it with blood. Better yet, fill it with rotting meat. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GeGeGeNoKitaro |
Gears of War / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Berserkers. 7 foot 3 inch-tall armour-plated monstrosities that makes a high-pitched scream as it charges; it's totally blind so it has to sniff you out. And sometimes you have to lure it towards you by shooting it, and watching the bullets bounce off, only for it to shriek towards you once more, and then diving just out of the way so she (yes, she) smashes a door down or something. Then you have to run past her through a tiny gap, while she flails wildly in all directions.
You think the normal Berserkers are bad, wait until you see the Lambent Berserker in Gears of War 3. Picture it: you just saved Anya and Sam from being overrun by Lambent Locusts. As you make your way back to the fort, you see a rather large Lambent stalk appear in front of you. Then, it pops out screaming and instantly killing the COG in front of it before tossing the jeep in your direction. Surely the Hammer of Dawn can kill this thing right? So you make your way back inside the fort and watch it get nuked via satellite, only to find out that it survived. And is very pissed off.
Oh, and the way you're introduced to them? One of your random AI partners completely loses his shit, says "Screw This, I'm Outta Here" and runs into a convenient hallway, only to get pounced upon by the Berserker and get torn to pieces. All that remains of him when you go into the hallway is a bloody mass of leftover flesh and bones. The scene in question is effective enough that it's one of the rare occasions on which the spilling of way more blood than could possibly fit in a human body is not in any waynarmful.
The Ultimate Edition makes use of the shadows to show us exactly what's happening. You see every detail of the Berserker tearing apart every inch of the soldier's body.
The doomed soldier's screams will haunt your nightmares for one simple reason, he barely gets any. One shout when the Berserker finds him, a good deal of muffled screams as it tears him limb from limb, one final cry as it rips his head off and then nothing as it hurls said head back on screen. The whole horrifying affair lasts roughly six seconds. If that thing can reduce a Space Marine in Power Armor to paste in six seconds imagine what it could do to you.
Even while playing as one in the Beast multiplayer mode, you still can't help but consider the opposing side's perspective as you completely annihilate every Stranded and COG soldier. Oh, and you can break through barricades with complete ease. Bad news for any human in your path.
The Kryll. Swarms of small, flying carnivores that can only be found at night, or at the command of General RAAM. They're essentially the aerial equivalent of piranhas with a nocturnal hunting cycle. When the sun goes down, the Kryll appear, and they're feared for a very good reason - if you so much as stick a toe out into any space that isn't illuminated, these monsters descend from the skies to tear you to shreds. There's nothing you can do except stay in the light to avoid being eviscerated.
Gears of War 2
Gears 2 has the New Hope Outpost. It can be jarring, to say the least, to be playing Gears of War and suddenly walk right into something out of Resident Evil. The old, decaying research facility is creepy enough, but then you reach the basement, and there are things in giant stasis tubes, and when you throw a lever to access the facility's computer, it trips some sort of failsafe on the tubes, and they start waking up.
Niles: "I would begin exiting the facility if I were you."
The Riftworm. A monolithic monster that has been lying dormant beneath the earth undetected for perhaps centuries, and once its awakened leads the Locust's charge to destroy Jacinto by sinking entire cities as it devours the earth beneath them. As if the Corpsers weren't bad enough, now there's a creature that can do ten times the work in less than half the time, spelling certain doom for the thousands of survivors still seeking refuge in what little remains of human civilization.
And then there's Delta Squad being swallowed alive by said Riftworm, forced to cut their way out the creature as anyone unfortunate enough to be alive within its bowels are mercilessly ripped to shreds by the parasites residing within.
The final boss of Gears of War 2: a Brumak that gets overdosed on Imulsion, and when it mutates its head violently deforms, with a second head bursting from its mouth, which is followed by the creature going berserk and growing tentacles from its body.
It doubles as a Tear Jerker, but imagine being in Dom's place for a second. His entire family is dead, and the only part of it that could still be alive is his wife, the only woman in his life he's ever loved up to that point. She is missing, possibly dead, and he's been on a crusade to find her, or at least her fate, for years. And then in 2, he finds out that the Locust have taken prisoners, which they never do, and via Tai, he finds out why. None of this points to a happy ending, but he keeps up hope despite that. And then he finds her. His wife has been lobotomized, malnourished, and tortured into insanity, and she's been like this for years. The damage is clearly irreparable, and Dom has to Mercy Kill her. Dom is broken after this. Despair Event Horizon doesn't even begin to describe what happens to him.
Raam's Shadow. Right before a child is about to evacuate Ilima City on an APC full of civilians, Tai gives him encouraging words to help him survive the days to come. A cute, hopeful moment that is brutally cut short. Not thirty seconds later he and you are forced to watch as that APC and everyone in it is pulled underground by a Corpser, spelling certain death for said child.
When you see the deep, bloody gashes all across his back, and the hooks embedded into his skin, one can only imagine the living hell Tai must've endured under his torture and the desperation he felt to end his own anguish.
According to the comic that follows him during his capture, they tortured him so thoroughly that his soul felt the need to escape from his body. Since his religion considers a body with no soul to be little more than a useless pile of meat, well... there's no point in keeping a useless pile of meat alive, is there?
From the moment you release him from his cell, you can hear Tai quivering and breathing heavily, especially when he eyes the Gnasher you gave him...It's pretty goddamn terrifying seeing how a Made of IronProud Warrior Race Guy got reduced to an empty husk that's completely lost the will to live.
What Baird says immediately afterwards really doesn't help. Additional Fridge Horror when you realize that could have happened to Baird, if you didn't get to him in time. Then consider the sheer number of the cages you can find in the docks. How many people have the Locust already done this to?
Baird: I told you, they're breaking people! I could hear 'em screaming from the docks!
When we see what happens to people captured by the Locust in the long run later on in the same game, it's somewhere between this and a Tearjerker; Dom finally finds his wife Maria, who has been held captive by the Horde for several years rather than just a few hours. She's emaciated to the point of looking like a living skeleton and her entire body is covered with scars. That she can't recognize anyone she knew during her life on the surface or even really react to the world around her is partly due to a sort of lobotomy that she received during final processing in the Nexus, but it seems like it might have been an inadvertent act of mercy by that point. Recognizing that there's no real chance of recovery, Dom performs a Mercy Kill to end what's left of her life.
Gears of War 3
The first time you meet Lambent Humans in Gears of War 3. Marcus and Anya are in the sewers under the town of Mercy, and they spot a woman huddling in a corner, crying for some reason. They get closer, and Marcus asks if the woman's okay, and every viewer knows damn well what's about to happen, but somehow it's still chilling. Marcus reaches out to touch her, and the woman whips around to face him, and in that instant we see that not only is her flesh practically liquefying, but that horrible lambent light is shining out of her mouth and the gaping holes where her eyes should be. And she screams as she rushes at you. Anya shouts that the woman isn't human anymore and that Marcus should just open fire, but most players won't need any encouragement to gun that thing down.
The entire lead-up to that moment is more and more unnerving. Marcus, Dom and Company are clueless about what's going on, but to most every viewer, the signs of the Zombie Apocalypse will be all too clear: the seemingly abandoned town, the crazed survivor shouting about some kind of disease, the locked doors with giant red X's painted on them, and the fact that those doors are barricaded from the outside.
The Lambent Humans shows up again with the same creepy suspense and tension in Aftermath. Especially unnerving when you hear them whisper die!.
The scene in Mercy where they are trying to break though the church. The battlehardened gears have no reaction, but viewers might be unnerved.
Also in Mercy, the scene where they kill two Stranded.
Leviathans, and not just the Lambent ones either. Imagine the shark from Jaws, but three times bigger with massive teeth. Leviathans also have pretty creepy eyes, either the pure blue Vampyroteuthiseyes◊, or the Lambent Leviathan's Glowing Eyes of Doom.
One word: Char. An entire city completely razed by the Hammer of Dawn, with the ashen remains of thousands of slaughtered civilians frozen in the moments when the beams flash-fried their bodies, many still running, crying or huddling in fear with their loved ones. It's an especially haunting reminder of how truly vicious the war is, and that it was not the Locust but the Coalition that condemned them to their fates in a horrific Shoot the Dog moment.
Even worse, some of said victims are clearly children, with at least a couple seemingly being carried away by their families in a desperate attempt to escape the Hammer of Dawn.
In Anvil Gate, after reaching Anya and Sam but crashing the truck, there's a moment where we see a Locust soldier execute a downed gear. By ripping off his arm and beating him with it. We even get the pleasure of seeing this up close and personal.
The Berserkers are back, and they're worse than ever now that they're going Lambent. One of them casually shrugs off a goddamn Hammer of Dawn strike and leaps over Anvil Gate's walls, forcing you to engage in a close-range gun battle against an enemy who can ignore bullets with ease and pulverize tanks at a blow. If all that wasn't enough, her heart is visibly exposed and flapping about in her open ribcage, which you have to constantly shoot.
Gears of War 4
Gears 4 introduces windflares, a new form of deadly weather. The opening non-prologue cutscene of the game makes for an appropriately-startling introduction to this phenomenon; Kaite blasts a recon drone, Del remarks that there's surprisingly no alarm, only for a low, air-raid-style siren to start blaring in the nearby COG outpost... and then your squadmates notice the massive wall of shredding wind and rabid lightning rolling in from the left, consuming the forest in its path and heading for the COG base... and you.
The Swarm. Seriously, this◊ is NOT the face of mercy. Know what it is the face of? A baby. That thing just hatched from its pod and it already wants to tear your head off.
Making this all the more horrifying is that they repopulate by kidnapping humans and putting them in pods that turn them to their ranks.
On top of all this there's the horrifying truth behind their origin: they're not a new species. They're The Locust reborn and modified from when the device from Gears of War 3 supposedly killed them.
It is implied that there are dozens of sites where Locust bodies were buried. Given how large the one at the dam is, the insinuation is that there could be hundreds of thousands of Swarm out there.
What happened to Reyna when she is pinned into the hive mind. Her skin is turning grey and her eyes are deformed, and the only way to end it is to cut her free.
Fort Reval is very much part horror movie, given that it is an abandoned castle, you constantly get jump scared, and then you finally meet the Swarm. Not to mention, it is night, and the rain and thunder does not help with the tension.
Gears 5
The nightmares Kait has in Gears 5 are downright apocalyptic, and while the Locust and Swarm were bad, in her nightmares, they look demonic. Oh, and then there is Kait's personality change. Kait becomes stubborn, mistrusting of her comrades, and increasingly violent. And the necklace she got from her mom that was her grandmother is a Locust symbol, which along with Myyrah having a clear flashback, gives the strong message MYRRAH was Kait's grandmother. And the final scene of the trailer has Kait holding Del at gunpoint demanding to know what JD told him, regarding his belief Kait could become an enemy.
The Flock, an aerial swarm of leech-like creatures that are the new Kryll. Except not only can they reside in any location regardless of the time of day, but they're incredibly hardy as a group and eat people alive by viscerally tearing them limb from limbnote : as shown with a MOST unfortunate Gear much more violently than the razor-blade esque Kryll. Even worse, they can possess technology- which turns Baird's DeeBees into robotic, zombie-like "Rejects" wherever the Flock appears, some of which killed more people than the Swarm personally managed.
You get to briefly control the Swarm not too far into the campaign - via Kait, who is being contained inside of a Snatcher. While she's freaking the hell out amidst the player slaughtering Swarm and Outsider alike, culminating in losing her control over a Warden and turning her uncle Oscar's head into a bloody pulp and a rare Gory Discretion Shot.
Remember the Berserkers? Well, you get to meet the Matriarch, the original Berserker. And it still not only kills in one solid hit, but is upwards to twice the size and has projectile attacks. Naturally you have to deal with her in a facility filled to the brim with the damnable Sires once more.
Speaking of the facility, the revelation that the Hive Mind of the Locust / Swarm effectively means that to some degree, Myrrah still lives in Kait's subconscious - and, when she opts to sever herself from it, the whole thing has the capability to reanimate her mother just to harness a Queen of some sort for their continued genocidal conquest.
Myrrah's taunts to Kait as she travels through Mount Kedar. The visions get more intense and blood soaked, culminating in Kait bowing before an illusion of the deceased Locust Queen. Kait proceeds to try to stab the illusion (in the exact same place Marcus stabbed the real Myrrah, no less), but Myrrah laughs it off. Carolyn Seymour's terrifying voice work really nails it.
By the end of the campaign, Jinn has become so utterly broken by the war against the Swarm that she's willing to subject Kait to a horrific Fate Worse than Death just for the possibility of humanity gaining some advantage over them.
The Swarm invasion of New Ephyra in the final Act, enough said. Imagine being a standard Gear trooper and being thrown alongside others in the COG military forces against the Swarm, and they just keep on coming no matter how many bullets you fire in their direction.
In the Hivebuster DLC, Pahanu Island tells you everything you need that this island is not safe for Humans, Locusts or the Swarm. When one of the first things you see in the early game, is the skull of a giant unknown mamallian carnivore, being killed by ''something bigger'', than you know why this island was uninhabited for centuries. Than after being ambushed by the Swarm and being picked up by a King Raven, you see the Swarm themselves is trying to escape from something worse. All of this culminates with the encounter of the Wakaatu, THE apex predator on a island filled with apex predators; the most dangerous piece of avian to ever grace the Gears of War universe.
Gameplay-related
Several of the weapon executions are pretty brutal but the Lancer and Scorcher executions take the cake. To wit,
Lancer: The downed player is kicked over onto their back, then the chainsaw bayonet of the Lancer is thrust onto the downed player's chest at an angle and activated, resulting in blood and small chunks of flesh being thrown into the executioner's face.
Scorcher: The player can jab the Scorcher's nozzle into a downed enemy and shoot fire into their body, which causes flames to erupt from their eyes and mouth. If this isn't enough, there's also screams of pain from the victim as well.
Honestly, both the COG and Locust characters scream horribly when being hit from an incendiary weapon on their own. And if they die to one? All they can do is let out a long, painful shriek that sounds like theyre in pure agony while they writhe on the ground at your feet. All that metallic armor must conduct heat like crazy...
Gears 4's introduction of the Enforcer results in an execution in which the attacker chokes out the downed player with the gun as they writhe and try to escape, ending as the attacker *rips the downed player's head off*.
Thought those were bad? You should get a look of the Tri-Shot execution from 4. The wielder presses the gatling guns barrels into the victims head, then activates the barrels so that it spins the victims entire body and grinds it into paste where they lay. The execution is pretty much a mechanized version of an alligators deathroll. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GearsOfWar |
Geist: The Sin-Eaters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Meet the Kerberoi.
- The mere presence of a Sin-Eater reinforces the surrounding ghosts whether they like it or not, effectively allowing them to manifest more easily; a Sin-Eater can single-handedly plague an area with ghost activity and apparitions just by
*being* here. Which can become pretty bad if said ghosts are vengeful or malevolent...
- The Hunter supplement
*Mortal Remains* reveals Slashers are terrified by Sin-Eaters for this very reason; they don't expect their victims to come back for revenge, which is exactly what can happen when a Sin-Eater shows up and allows the pissed off ghosts of all the people they killed to come back as super-powered immaterial beings - to say nothing to the Sin-Eaters themselves having Resurrective Immortality. You read that right; the Bound are in-universe nightmare fuel for *serial killers*.
- The Wretched are sin-eaters that have become Meat Puppets for their geists, surrendering control to their geists some or all of the time. Some are blessedly unaware of what their bodies are doing, like La Diabla Blanca, whose geist merely possesses her in her sleep. Others are not so lucky, and must watch from inside their own heads, unable to do anything as their geist wears them like a skin suit.
- Good news: you can come back from death if you're ever killed! Bad news: someone else has to die in your place, and you get to experience how they die just as you come back to life. And yes, you are aware that it's your fault, and yes, the experience can drive you mad. Even if it doesn't screw you up, a bit more of your control over the geist crumbles every time... and your
*potential* control withers.
- You also have to take in account what this means for a Sin-Eater's enemies. Sure, for the Sin-Eater, dying too many times is a bad thing because it gradually makes him lose his control over his Geist... but that doesn't make it a good news for his opponents. A Bound who runs out of Synergy and becomes a Wretched won't actually become Deader than Dead, he will
*keep coming back* while growing more and more insane, meaning he is unlikely to stop fighting. His opponents just *can't hope* to actually kill him, just delay him for around a night. And *someone dies each time he comes back*.
- 2E changes this around, as it
*is* now actually possible to kill a Sin-Eater for good with the right weaknesses or by having one run out of Synergy. Of course, this is little consolation, as there is no way to know how much Synergy they have left, and they can now raise it back up, meaning they no longer have any restriction for how long they will stay sane. As for the weakness, it isn't like Silver for Werewolves, sunlight for Vampires, or Cold Iron for Faeries, where you can just find a common Kryptonite Factor and use it against all of them; no: each individual Sin-Eater has completely different weaknesses. Meaning even if you're lucky once and manage to kill one, you'll find out the same trick doesn't work on the next you meet.
- Some of the powers granted to Sin-Eaters by the various Keys and Manifestations are truly horrifying:
- The Stigmata Key grants power over blood and ghosts. It makes its user bleed, it makes a sin-eater's enemies bleed, it makes
*the walls* bleed... oh, and it can be used to command ghosts, who can in turn possess people.
- When combined with the Caul, it can also be used to
*detach your arm* and control it remotely. Or similarly control a pool of your own blood remotely and see through it. Or spawn an Homunculus from your very blood, essentially making a blood golem. Sweet dreams.
- The Phantasmal Caul lets a sin-eater literally become someone's worst nightmare made flesh. Given the image that accompanies this power in the core book, it's not surprising that merely looking upon a sin-eater using this power is a good way to go insane.
- Phantamsal Marionette allows the user to form a plasm-copy of their Geist's body and plant their mind inside of it. Higher uses allow the user to increase the power of this body, making it a more effective method of reverse-possession - the player also gains bonuses to their Intimidation skill, and considering what a Geist can look like...well, it's quite disturbing to think of.
- The Tear-Stained Rage allows you to
*fill your opponent's lungs with water*, drowning them on the spot.
- The Pyre-Flame Rage allows you to set people on ghostly fire. At lower levels, the flames are purely psychosomatic, meaning they don't truly harm (though they still are painful), but at higher levels, they become quite real and often burn the victim entirely to ash.
- 2E raises it to a whole new level. Among others, the Caul has been made into full-blown Lovecraftian Superpower and can now be used to turn you into basically John Carpenter's the Thing, allowing you to grow fangs, claws or additional limbs, reshape the skin of your body into wings, or devour someone to gain the ability to shapeshift into him.
- Most Ceremonies practiced by Sin-Eaters are used to help ghosts, communicate with them and move to the afterlife. Then, you got "Quicken the Dead", which allows you to trap them in corpses and make them obey you, essentially creating yourself a personal group of zombies.
- In general, Ceremonies can have pretty fucked up effects when in the wrong hands.
*Book of the Dead*'s opening fiction features a Yandere Sin-Eater who kills his ex in the Underworld, slays her Geist, then tries to forcefully bind her ghost to an Anchor he created so he can bring her back on Earth, have her possess a mortal woman and keep her forever close to him.
- Fetters are mementos that are powered by ghosts trapped within them. They are still quite conscious, but live only as tools for sin-eaters that want to make use of their numina. Sometimes it's a fitting punishment (like the movie camera holding a Snuff Film maker, the rifle holding a mass kidnapper, the spray can holding a ghost who never got the message about Disproportionate Retribution...), but many Sin-Eaters don't care about whether the ghost deserves it.
- Abmortals are humans who found a way to gain immortality, usually through truly horrifying means, such as killing children or sucking life from other people. The sample Abmortal provided by the book is a soulless exorcist who keeps himself living by
*eating ghosts*, and actively makes sure people spending enough time around him will die so he can eat them. But worse than that is, they are even harder to kill than any playable supernatural in the game: aside from a very specific Achilles' Heel unique to each of them, they just cannot die, period. You could cut them to pieces, burn them and reduce their remains to dust, and they would still eventually regenerate.
- Kerberoi are ancient death spirits that govern the Dead Dominions, enforcing the Blue-and-Orange Morality of the Old Laws. They're usually very powerful, very old, and very unforgiving of anyone who breaks the laws in their Realm. They also usually have no resemblance to any living thing, and often have a peculiar agenda of their own.
- In the
*Imperial Mysteries* supplement for Mage: The Awakening it's mentioned that Archmages usually avoid the Underworld because while they can defeat lesser Kerberoi, the ones who rule the deepest parts of the Underworld are *at least* as powerful as they are. That implies that being equal to transhuman gods who can alter reality any way they want limited only by the difficulty in acquiring the Quintessence that powers Imperial Spells is the *minimum* power wielded by the Death Lords.
- The Underworld itself. Best-described as an Eldritch Location version of Catacombs, this never-ending, underground-like world is where ghosts go when they lose all their Anchors, yet are unable to go to rest due to still having Unfinished Business. Unlike in the physical world however, this place actually allows them to evolve and grow in power, meaning ghosts and shades in this place will be much more powerful and intelligent, and all the more dangerous if they are malevolent or insane. Other inhabitants include Geists who still have yet to find a host and Kerberoi, some places are just plain bizarre, enough to cause a Sin-Eater to lose his mind if she isn't careful, and have strange, undesirable side effects. Oh, and if you spend too many night inside and then get killed, don't count on your Geist to bring you back; you will be stuck here until someone else comes to rescue you.
-
*Book of the Dead* reveals more details about the Underworld; among other things, it turns out ghosts inside it are subjects to a form of "gravity" that drags them deeper as they grow in age. Meaning as you get deeper in this place, ghost get older, more insane, more powerful and more dangerous, while the area itself becomes more and more bizarre. Keep in mind that the Autochtonous Depths (the highest level after the Avernian Gates themselves, which are in *our* world) cover ghosts who are roughly a century years old or less. The ones below are even older than that, and there are at least two more levels confirmed (the Lower Mysteries and the Dead Dominions).
- 2E makes it
*worse*; the Underworld now *actively parasitizes* the ghosts stuck in there, to the point where Dead Dominions actively themed after *Hell* still have immigrant spectres-after all, the Kerberoi aren't draining your Essence simply by you *living* there.
- The Dead Dominions also are separated from each others by all kind of supernatural rivers. Some of them are harmless enough, but others include such nice sights as a river of blood, or a
*swarm of scorpions*.
- Avernian Gates, which basically are portals to the Underworld. Now the idea of portals that could open at any moment to lure you into the realm of the dead or unleash insane centuries-old ghosts is pretty scary in itself, but then
*Book of the Dead* provides us with a few sample famous Gates, which show us how truly dangerous these places can be:
- The Grand Rosetau, an Avernian Gate in the pyramid of Giza, can only be properly opened by performing a full-fledged mummification ceremony on a freshly dead corpse and burning the resulting mummy's heart. This also has the unfortunate side effect of reanimating said mummy as a
*very* aggressive zombie who will attack you on the spot.
- Another has the ability to attract Death Seekers to then warp them into vicious, ravenous shades who then wander around next to it. Unfortunately, that Gate happens to be in the Aokigahara Forest, a place famous in Japan as a spot regularly used for suicides.
- The Hagia Sophia has one hidden below it, where lay many treasures and powerful artifacts; unfortunately, it also happens to be the lair of a gigantic, arachnid monster, who uses all these treasures as baits to lure Sin-Eaters to it so it can devour their Geists.
- 2E gives us the Reapers (no relation to the Archetype of the same name in 1E), ghosts who support the Status Quo of the Underworld under the misguided belief it works. In their natural state, they are just regular ghosts with no special ability for their kind... until they put on their Death Masks, which make them go One-Winged Angel and turn them into nightmarish beings on part with the Kerberoi. They have the ability to capture ghosts and forcefully drag them to the Underworld- and when
*that* doesn't work out, they can assemble to drag *entire city blocks*, living and dead alike, into the Underworld. Civilizations have disappeared because they decided it was the best way to handle a troublesome ghost situation. And since they look like regular ghosts without their mask, they could be any ghost you ever met. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GeistTheSinEaters |
Gender Confusion / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
NOTE: Though Tropers/Phoenixyfriend is the one that has posted most of the edits, all were taken, word for word, from actual readers in a small survey. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GenderConfusion |
Ge.ne.sis (2009) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- At around the halfway point of the game, Gelyan turns on the group. His personally changes quite abruptly, and his eyes even turn red. Even when Neraine and Sisily are forced to work with him again to take out some bandits and Reciful, it's difficult not to feel concerned about the dude's real motives.
- And then, there's the ending of Wings of Genesis, thanks to Gelyan once again going through the HeelFace Revolving Door and summoning the Heart of Time, an out-of-place realistic heart compared to the more whimsical designs of the game's cast. Even Reciful is thwarted by Gelyan, and the game ends with the Heart of Time unleashing a shockwave upon the group, and... that's it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GeNeSis2009 |
Gallifrey / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Nightmare Fuel heard in
*Gallifrey*.
- The various ways of time travel that the main political factions are capable of, all of which offer new and exciting ways to erase someone from time.
- Narvin being trapped on alternate Gallifrey and having ||all his remaining lives|| sucked out of him. Meaning he'll never ||be able to regenerate again||.
- The things that happen to scared newbie Castellan Wynter are more horrifying than most of the rest of Who
*combined*. In the interest of keeping the shock as severe as it's meant to be, we're not even spoiling it on this wiki.
- Colin Baker as the Lord Burner, an alternate-timeline version of the Doctor who got forcibly rehabilitated instead of getting a Trial.
- Leela losing ||her eyesight||, and being fully convinced at first that she'll simply get over it after a few minutes, like she did in the
*Doctor Who* TV series once.
- Rassilon later returns from the grave. He is, as you can imagine,
*totally batshit insane.* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gallifrey |
Genesis (Band) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This progressive rock band is often thought of as rather light and cheerful no matter what era, but these moments indicate otherwise.
Trespass
- "White Mountain" is about a wolf named Fang who seeks to take control of his pack by killing its leader. After stealing the packs crown and sceptre, the pack realises what he's up to and go to kill him. The pack leader's declaration that Fang must die is accompanied by
*very* loud bass kicks from the drums, adding a very dark tone to what had mostly been a by the books prog rock song with its acoustic guitar and keyboards. *Fang, son of Great Fang *
The traitor we seek
The Laws of the Brethren say this:
That only the King sees the crown of the gods
And he, the usurper,
Must
**DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!**
- "The Knife", about a soon-to-be dictator rallying his followers.
*I'll give you the names of those you must kill* *All must die with their children* *Carry their heads to the palace of old* *Hang them high, let the blood flow* *Now, in this ugly world* *Break all the chains around us* *Now, the crusade has begun* *Give us a land fit for heroes, * **NOW!**
- The remastered edition for the 2007
*Tour Edition* of *Turn It On Again: The Hits* manages to be even worse, with Gabriel's voice now distorted in a way that sounds as though he's talking through a megaphone as he says the following: *Some of you are going to die... martyrs, of course, to the freedom that I shall pro* **viiiiiiide**!
- The ending: "We have
" **woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnn!!!**
- There's a part where Peter Gabriel begins chanting "We are only wanting freedom" which begins progressively creepier as more voices join in, giving a Voice of the Legion effect to it. Towards the end of this, we hear an officer giving a command to his men:
"Okay, men, fire over their heads!"
*[A child is heard screaming]*
Nursery Cryme
Foxtrot
- Peter Gabriel's the Watcher Of The Skies◊ outfit has an overlord-esque appearance fitting of an alien observing a long-abandoned Earth.
- "Apocalypse in 9/8" from "Supper's Ready", especially after the whimsically surreal "Willow Farm", is rather intense with lyrics regarding an apocalypse. Peter Gabriel even had a Guard of Magog◊ outfit for that part.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- "And I'm hovering like a fly, waiting for the windshield on the freeway..."
- Don't forget
*the epic dissonance* of "The Waiting Room"!
- The Lamia, who lustfully drew Rael into a rosewater pond and started to feed on his blood before dying, turning the surrounding environment sour.
- "The Colony of Slippermen" has the aforementioned Slippermen, which Peter Gabriel had a grotesque costume for◊. The plot also progresses with Rael being castrated by Doktor Dyper to avoid being turned into one of the Slippermen.
A Trick of the Tail
- The twisting, loud, deathly melodies at the end of
*Entangled*, played on mellotron and a warbly synthesizer, particularly as the song's lyrics concern a patient's discussions of mental illness with a psychiatrist, definitely count on their own.
...And Then There Were Three...
- "Snowbound", a song about hiding a dead body in a snowman, certainly qualifies for this trope. A method of "waste management" that would have done Tony Soprano proud.
Genesis (Album)
Invisible Touch
- The "Land of Confusion" music video is pretty creepy, with its puppet versions of celebrities (made by the folks behind
*Spitting Image*) and Genesis themselves ( *ESPECIALLY* the Phil Collins puppet, who looks like a squashed tomato). The video is "highlighted" by a mouth in Madonna's belly singing.
- "Domino" is a pretty bleak song about global disasters, especially with the middle of the track.
*"Blood on the windows *
Millions of ordinary people are there
They gaze at the scenery
They act as if it is perfectly clear
Take a look at the mountains
Take a look at the beautiful river of blood
The liquid surrounds me
I fight to rise from this river of hell
I stare 'round the balcony
Children are swimming and playing with boats
Their features are changing
Their bodies dissolve, and I am alone"
We Can't Dance
- "Driving the Last Spike", not least because everything the song describes actually happened to numerous railroad labourers. It'll be particularly frightening for individuals with claustrophobia.
Others
- "The Day the Light Went Out", the B-Side to "Many, Too Many", also available in
*Genesis: 1976-1982*. See also: The End of the World as We Know It. *When they went to bed that night no one would have believed *
That in the morning, light would not be there
The dark hung heavy on the air like the grip of a jealous man
No place was there known to have been spared
Then panic took control of minds and fear hit everyone
The day the light went out of the daytime sky.
- The subject of wrongful imprisonment in "Inside and Out". It is strongly implied that the man's actions were consensual, but that the parents of the girl he made out with have it in for him. The song states that the event took place in August '53, and that he has been out (as of 1977) for 20 years, meaning that he spent four years in prison and then was let out, likely due to insufficient evidence. Several summers pass where he tries to explain his story differently (most likely modifying his story to get a lesser sentence) and he eventually gets out, but the judge tells him that he's 'paid for his lies'. Then, 'with that behind you, you can't plan ahead' - he's been found (technically) innocent, but nobody will hire him. It's still however implied that they can imprison him again, regardless of his claims of innocence, if more 'evidence' turns up, and this time they definitely won't let him go. The effect symbolises the way the man is still paying for the crime he did not commit. It also highlights how sadistic some authority figures can be.
- Steve Hackett has an instrumental track on his debut solo album,
*Voyage Of The Acolyte*, sandwiched in between two gentle pieces, called "A Tower Struck Down". It is an aggressive, increasingly chaotic and dissonant piece with persistant, distorted electric guitars and analog synths, ||a sound effects Jump Scare in the middle||, and ||the sound of a Hitler rally of "Sieg Heil"s at the end||. Sweet dreams, kiddies. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GenesisBand |
Gabriel Knight / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The part where Gabriel is talking to poor Crash in a church pew before he suddenly proceeds to asphyxiate and die right in front of the player... It's not made any better by having to search his corpse and copy down the tattoo on his chest.
- On the second last day of the game, Gabriel is suddenly assaulted by face-tearing mummies - which he has no weapons against. This is followed not too long after by the part where Wolfgang reaches into his own chest and rips out his own heart.
- At one point, Gabriel finds himself in the park, where he comes across a fortune teller that he spoke to earlier in the game and inadvertently scared off when she read his palm. When he talks to her, she suddenly becomes possessed by Tetelo, who warns him to stay away from Malia Gedde or pay with his life.
- When in the voodoo cabal's headquarters, everything is very clean and orderly, like any other building. Then there's Dr. John's room: turns out, he's super deep into bathing in blood.
- Gabriel's nightmare in the third game. A first person shot of someone drinking blood falling from a crucifix while a creepy voice asks them if they want to live forever. Gabriel is naturally freaked out when he wakes up.
- For a bonus (if likely unintentional) bit of nightmare fuel, Gabriel's nightmare bears a striking resemblance to one of the nightmares John Haigh claimed to have suffered as a child.
- The remake of the first game adds several levels of creepiness to the segment where the player has to get the tracking device and beacons from Mosely's office on Day 6. After getting there, Gabriel finds a dead crow lying next to a bloody tire iron, and Gabriel speculates that it was killed as a warning, like the dead chicken left at St. George's Books at the start of the day. Then, after breaking into Mosely's office, finding the tracker and beacons triggers a cutscene. As Gabriel stands up, he sees that all the officers in the next room are standing in front of the one-way mirror, their eyes rolled back into their heads and yet somehow looking directly at him. Naturally, Gabriel books it, but as he leaves on his motorcycle, he notices that the jump-roping triplets in front of the precinct are watching him, too, one of them even petting the dead crow. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GabrielKnight |
Galaxy Quest / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
According to Laliari, he takes some of the Thermian females for his own purposes...
Also, the sheer murderous glee on Sarris's face as he kills the crew on the bridge after sneaking aboard the Protector.
A few Ugly Cute mook creatures ripping one of their ranks to shreds, which is almost immediately followed by a native beast being the victim of a teleportation gone horribly wrong, turning inside out and then exploding. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GalaxyQuest |
Game of Thrones (Telltale) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Episode 1: "Iron From Ice"
- The beginning of the game starts innocently enough, until it turns downright deadly. ||Turns out, you're at the Twins during the Red Wedding, and your player character (Gared) is the only one that catches on to what's about to happen. You can warn your lord or save your friend, and the former will get said friend killed. Then there's a sequence of running through the burning, ambushed camp, fighting off Frey soldiers as they kill Forrester men. Then you have to leave your lord to die. Roll opening song.||
- Ramsay Snow's introduction is ||flaying a man alive. And you don't just glimpse and hear it, you see the man's skinless body afterwards.||
- The Sudden Downer Ending is enough to make anyone jump. ||Your third player character, Ethan (who is probably no older than fourteen) is suddenly stabbed fatally through the neck by Ramsay. As Ethan bleeds out on his mother's lap, his twin sister screaming and crying, Ramsay takes Ryon, Ethan's younger brother, hostage and leaves. The last scene of the first episode is Ethan's dead face.||
- There's a quick blink (or the hearing equivalent) and you'll miss it moment. Ramsay asks Talia if she would like to go hunting with him. If you've read the books or seen the show, you know exactly what that's referring to.
- You, as Ethan Forrester, can potentially create a Nightmare Fuel moment yourself, if you choose to punish a thief by ||either cutting off three of his fingers, or asking Royland to do it in your stead. Either way, you have to
*watch*.||
- Mira being called before Cersei. Those who know Cersei from the TV series are used to her arrogance, stupidity and pettiness making her more than a little pathetic when she's dealing with someone like Tyrion, Margaery or her father, and even Sansa is too valuable to her to be simply discarded. In the game, you meet her as an utterly defenseless handmaiden with much less political protection, and the same traits that make Cersei a joke to other major players make her more dangerous to someone she can kill on a whim. Even though Cersei has no power to actually follow through on her extremely unsubtle threats to House Forrester, being Mira trying to tell her exactly what she wants to hear is a very different experience to watching her equals outmanoeuvre her on TV, and can be quite nerve-wracking even with Tyrion undermining her every other sentence.
Episode 2: "The Lost Lords"
- At the beginning of Episode 2, ||the player suddenly takes control of Rodrik—who had supposedly died "on-screen"—who is being hauled in a corpse carriage, surrounded by bloody, mangles corpses, feeding crows, flies, and the body of Rodrik's father. Also counts as Nausea Fuel.||
- Mira is ||suddenly attacked by a knight named Damien, who tries to stab her to death as she screams and tries to flee. When you succeed, you're treated a nice shot of Mira staring at the bloodied knife, her face spattered in blood. And if you fail in the quick-time events, Mira will be stabbed. It's kind of creepy how she just goes still and then limp.||
- ||Even creepier is how he at first pretends to be an ally of Mira, then suddenly pulls a dagger out on her. This only reinforces the paranoia that anyone at King's Landing could be an enemy.||
- ||The good news? You have the option to run for your life once you succeed in evading him.||
- The brave variant of Talia's song at the end is rather chilling and contains some quite gruesome lyrics, such as 'urge cannibals to break their fast on Wardens of the North' and 'Eastern mages empty the veins, Of beasts across the sea. Paint Slaver's Bay in crimson rains, To bring Ethan back to me.' Which kind of illustrates the poor girl's mental state.
- We find out in the ending of Episode 2 that the Forresters traditionally bury their dead with ironwood seeds, so a tree would grow from their corpse. Now stop for a moment, and think about the size of the Forresters' ironwood grove... Granted, probably not every single one of those trees is sitting on a grave, but the effect is still overwhelming.
- The ending of the Episode 3 preview, in which Asher, Beskha, and Malcolm are approaching a cave, and Asher pauses to hear something. Cue Hell Is That Noise.
- Given the sound and time frame of the story, it's probably ||Drogon.||
- And now that Telltale has released teaser images for Episode 3...you now know how bad it is going to get from this point on.◊
- Now that Episode 3 has been released, ||the dragon is indeed Drogon, although Asher doesn't learn the dragon's name until near the end of the episode.||
Episode 3: "The Sword in the Darkness"
- Margaery Tyrell is the picture of composure, intelligence, and courtesy. When that mask drops and we see what she looks like when she's angry? She's more terrifying than
*Cersei.* What's worse? She's mad at **you.**
- It is, however, mitigated if you speak with Tyrion in her presence. She is far less hostile because of your honesty.
- Whilst more than capable in a fight, Gared is generally a quite friendly guy, ||if you let him be,|| which can make it very jarring if the player chooses to take extreme revenge on ||Britt||, which involves jamming a sword through his gut and frantically twisting it repeatedly through as many organs as possible. Asshole Victim though he was, if the option is chosen it's the most graphic death of the game so far. 'Make Him Suffer' indeed.
- Finn's expression when he sees the fight really says it all.
Episode 4: "Sons of Winter"
Episode 5: "A Nest of Vipers"
- Quite a few in the trailer for Episode 5. The two that stick out the most, however, involve ||Ramsay having Rodrik being held by his men in the woods while brandishing a knife, considering what Ramsay likes to do with said sort of knife,|| and The Stinger before the logo: in the snowy land beyond the Wall, a familiar cracking sound, almost like a language, can be heard in the distance, while shambling forms are littered among the trees, heading towards the camera. Seems the White Walkers have come to say hello to Gared and friends.
- Now that Episode 5 has been released, ||the first example is subverted, as while Rodrik is still held by two men in the woods while Ramsay approaches with a knife, Ramsay then orders the soldiers to let Rodrik go to see if Rodrik will try to kill him with the knife. Ramsay still delivers nightmare fuel, however, as he graphically
*flays Arthur alive* before finally disemboweling him. The second example is played straight, except the approaching figures turn out to be wights. The problem with wights being that, unless you use fire, *they will not die*.||
- Ramsay putting his hand on Rodrik's shoulder pretending to have polite conversation is enough to pucker any sphincter considering what Ramsay can do on a moment's notice with his free hand.
- Yet another level of nightmare fuel. Ramsay's whole scene is basically to say that the Boltons are going to stay out of the upcoming civil war. It takes a special kind of twisted to make Ramsay Snow the bearer of good news.
- The attack on Gared and his companions' camp ||by wights shows just how terrifying those monsters are when you don't have the advantage of dragonglass or Valyrian steel. No matter what Gared and his friends do to them- run them through, hack off limbs or even heads- they just keep attacking. Even when at Sylvi's urging Gared grabs a burning branch to destroy them, only he, Sylvi and Cotter are left alive, and with more wights emerging from the treeline, all they can do against such a foe is run for their lives.||
- ||And poor Finn. While he was always a Jerkass and a brash bully, it is definitely hard to see Finn get skewered alive by a wight, and then helplessly begging you to save his life. Worse, you have no choice but to abandon him for a split second to save Cotter, but as soon as you come back to check on him, you will find that he is already long dead and limp.||
- There is a somewhat hidden death scene for ||Mira|| that most players will likely miss. When she is summoned by ||Cersei to talk in Tyrion's former chambers||, if she chooses to remain silent/refuses to speak for three times in a row, ||Cersei|| will get frustrated on you wasting her time, and ||order Lucan to summarily execute Mira on the spot, slashing her upper body diagonally before running her though with his sword||. Watching such excessive brutality used on ||an unarmed and defenseless handmaiden|| is just nightmarish and shows just how insane and cruel ||Cersei|| really is.
Episode 6: "The Ice Dragon"
- Have you been confrontational to Ludd throughout the Season? Well good for you! He will now make Ryon foist either of his murdered elder brother's
*severed head on a pike* before the Battle of Ironrath.
- When nearing the entrance to the North Grove, Gared, Cotter and Sylvi hear a rustling in the bushes and go to investigate. Gared finds a tree with enormous claw marks across it, and nearby the freshly killed, gutted corpse of a deer. Not good signs. ||Then he hears a growl come from his right, and turns to see an enormous polar bear watching him with bared teeth. They lock eyes for a moment before the bear roars and begins attacking, with the group only escaping with their lives thanks to luck and some thin ice. Fortunately, the bear later joins their side.||
- Mira's possible ||execution is both tearjerking and terrifying. You slowly walk towards the bloodied chopping block as a headless cadaver is dragged away, listening to the jeers of the crowd as you climb up to the podium. You say your final words and kneel, leaning over the block and staring into the faces of your friends and foes, some of whom look at you with horror and sadness, others with smug satisfaction. Then the executioner raises his sword and brings it down on your neck, with the last shot being Mira's head getting sliced cleanly off.||
- The way you get there is bad enough: ||you get an excellent look at the hideous black cells and the terror they engender in both you and some other poor woman due to be executed, then get given a Scarpia Ultimatum by someone who makes no secret of how miserable your life will be even if you accept||.
- Though it's probably one of the most satisfying kills in the game, the way ||Rodrik beheads Gryff|| is nothing short of brutal. If the player chooses to ||follow Ludd, Rodrik will behead the former with a swift but clean swipe.|| In ||Gryff's case, Rodrik drives his sword right into Gryff's neck, sinks it in a bit further slowly before finally completing the beheading. If one looks carefully, they will notice that Rodrik only partially severs Gryff's neck while literally
*ripping the rest off with his bare hands*||.
- At the very final recap we get Ramsay, Margaery, Jon, Daenerys and Cersei's recounting of the events. Ramsay's is perhaps the most nightmarish but then he would be! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GameOfThronesTelltale |
Gentleman Bastard / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The
*Gentleman Bastard* series by Scott Lynch begins as a fairly amusing story about a fictional city's first group of con men. Then the tortures begin...
Spoilers below.
- The tortures: a gang member has a bag of broken glass forced over his head and ground into his face and eyes. The main character is drowned (temporarily) in a barrel of horse urine. And when the heroes capture a villain responsible for the deaths of several friends, they play a game called "Scream in Pain 'til You Answer My Fucking Questions," which involves cutting off all of the villain's fingers with a red-hot knife. Once he's answered the questions, they cut out his tongue.
- Nazca. It really says something when it's considered a
*relief* that she was killed before being pickled in horse urine, rather than having drowned in it. And all to send a message to her father.
- Plagues are a very real danger in Camorr and happen often enough that quarantine measures are an almost regular occurrence. One district is named Catchfire, due to it having been cleansed with fire on more than one occasion to destroy particularly virulent epidemics. One such disease that frequently blights Camorr is called the Black Whisper. It's highly contagious and any person older than twelve that catches it is doomed to a miserable death, leaving behind scores of orphans.
- Oh, but the fun doesn't end there! You see, now that these children have no guardians to look after them, once the quarantine gets lifted, slavers flock to the place, ready to snatch up any poor kid they come across. Even though slavery is illegal in Camorr, the city watch couldn't care less and are more likely to sell the children themselves for some extra drinking money. If the child manages to evade the slavers, they now have to find a way to sustain themselves. Needless to say, that's a
*very* tall order and most of them end up either starving to death or getting executed for criminal activity.
- Wraithstone, which "Gentles" the mind of anyone who inhales the smoke, nulling out practically all conscious thought and leaving a docile creature without any survival instinct- they won't even eat or shit without being prodded and coerced to. In the first book, the Grey King plans to do this to every single noble of Camorr at once, as revenge. Even the children. Locke and company risk their lives, despite not being initially involved in that portion of the plot, to save their worst enemies from such a cruel fate.
- In the second book, Locke meets a man whose family adopted a Gentled kitten. Locke is appalled, asking why the hell anyone would do that, and later finds out that the kitten came from a litter that was Gentled because some noblewoman's children wanted to torture them because they were
*bored*.
- During the attack on the
*Poison Orchid*, Locke and a few others are assigned to repel boarding parties. They're helped out by some horrific sea-monstrosity that sucks the blood out of some poor bastard through his pores. After that, the boarding party does its best to get the fuck out of the water.
- All marine life on this world is nightmarish, from a 50-ft monster which trails vessels to a creature that telepathically tries to convince sailors to throw themselves overboard. In-universe, the sea is so feared that even a mile-long swim in the outer harbour of Tal Verrar is regarded as near suicide.
- Stiletto Wasps, who are the size of small birds and whose stingers are the size of a grown man's middle finger. Anyone with a fear of bees will cringe when reading about these creatures. They are considered so dangerous and invasive that possession of a hive or even a queen wasp is punishable by death in every part of the civilized world.
- We get a good look at just why people fear these little horrors. Requin managed to come into possession of a small hive of Stiletto Wasps and placed a gambler who incurred heavy debt to the Sinspire inside a cage where he has to fight against no less than
*120* wasps in order to pay it off. To make things even worse, the wasps are released via numerous holding pens with a clockwork mechanism that opens up their cages at random. Sometimes it will open just one, other times it will open two at once, or three and so on. The poor man manages to kill eight until four wasps are released against him. They quickly swarm him and their stings cause him to hemorrhage blood and foam at the mouth before collapsing into a twitching heap. Even then, they don't stop attacking him.
- Most of the powerful people in Locke's world are not the types you want to cross, as they will get their revenge, but Requin takes it to another level. After an attempt on his life that backfired and harmed someone else, Requin went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that started with him killing random people and cutting all the skin on the left side of their bodies off, and finished with him taking the man who attempted to kill him, chaining him into a frame, filling the left side of the frame with cement, and leaving the man to die horribly.
- Oh no, it's much worse than that because the man wasn't left to die, he was
*deliberately kept alive* just so he could continue to suffer even as half his body rotted inside the concrete and he begged for death.
- The last man who started a fight and drew blood in the Sinspire was tied down and had his kneecaps cut out and replaced with
*fire-ants*.
- What they do to red-headed girls in Jerem, which is so
*wrong* that even the Thiefmaker- who in Sabetha's own words would "suck a diseased rat's cock for a few coppers," and has no problem murdering pre-teens if he thinks they've screwed him- went out of his way and spent his own coin on hair-dye for her just to keep her safe from this fate. Jeremites pay large sums for red-headed girls so that they can use them in a sick ritual. The girl is circumcised and then raped continuously to death by anyone who will pay the price. People with "rotted cocks" who want them cured will take a turn, deviants who want to sleep with a red-head, and all other sorts of lowlifes will rape the girl until she dies from the trauma they inflict. Apparently it's considered good luck to "be the one riding her when she dies." And the shrivelled cherry on this maggot-ridden cake is that they don't care how old the girl is. Even Sabetha, who is a dangerous thief and con artist, fears this fate so much that she's anxiously awaiting the day her hair goes grey, so she can stop dyeing it to hide her true hair colour.
- The other reason the Thiefmaker kills any of his orphans that he thinks have crossed him is that, unless they have an incredible level of skill like Locke and can be unloaded to another gang, they're essentially worthless to anyone except slavers. Chains mentions that while the Thiefmaker isn't anywhere close to an altruistic person, he wouldn't sell any of his children to slavers "for all the coin in Camorr" and regards killing them as the far more merciful option. The scary thing is that Chains
*agrees* with that sentiment. One can only imagine what the life of a slave must be like to warrant such an aversion in a man like the Thiefmaker.
- Jerem itself seems to be a particularly nasty place, even by the low standards of places like Camorr and Karthain. Slavery is clearly practiced there and nobody, from the Theifmaker to Capa Barsavi, has anything good to say about it. Makes you wonder just what else Jerem does that earns it such a dismal reputation.
- The human chess in the second book. Basically, when pieces are taken, a penalty is placed on the piece in question - which can be and often is anything short of actual death, from being brutally beaten to being pelted with rotten fruit. Worse, the spectators are never there for the game, they're there to see the penalties- and occasionally the people who inflict the penalties go too far and kill someone by mistake, and nobody cares.
- The entire city-state of Karthain. It has a ruling government, but it's really ruled by the Bondsmagi, who have magically altered all the citizens as they saw fit. And none of them think that there's anything wrong with that.
- The Ghostwind Isles. Nobody knows how many there are, and there are only nine at the most that people have set foot on and come back from. There are and were three settlements in total on the Isles: Montierre, Port Prodigal, and Hope-of-Silver. Montierre was destroyed in a war, Port Prodigal is alive and thriving, but Hope-of-Silver... it
*was* thriving, until one day every single person in the settlement went missing. No trace of them was found- the only conclusion was that *something* came and took them all. There were only a few people ever found- sailors, who'd set off in a hurry, and had ended up lashing themselves to the highest point of their ship to escape whatever came for them... and it didn't work, because all of them were found dead, having killed themselves to get away from whatever the fuck it was.
- The Magician's Guild, including the story of why no one messes with them, which coincidentally is why there is no longer an emperor running most of the world: The Guild proclaimed that they would no longer bow to any authority, and anyone who wanted to hire them would have to pay absurd amounts of money, so much so that divine intervention is expected to be more likely to happen than for someone to hire a mage. The emperor decided that he didn't want that, and sent his army. End result, six mages, out of hundreds, dead, and an entire army laid to waste. And then, the mages summoned destruction on a level previously unimagined by man, destroying everything and everyone in the entire imperial capital... except for the throne, which sits empty and intact even centuries later, as a monument to the guild's power. This act led to the empire breaking apart, and centuries of war, famine, and chaos. And the guild gives exactly zero fucks about any of that. The mages are considered the most dangerous people in the world, and if the Falconer mage is any indication of what the average mage is like, then they've not changed one iota since the day they had murdered an entire city of innocent bystanders just to prove they could.
- ||Then came
*Republic of Thieves*, which explains that the Bondsmagi believed that the Eldren drew the attention of something that at best made them run away, and at worst wiped them all out. And all things considered, they might not be wrong. Apparently the guild itself was founded to limit the use of magic worldwide so that they don't attract the same attention.||
- ||What the Falconer does after he realizes that he can still control dreamsteel, and uses it to get his hands and voice back. First he uses the dreamsteel to kill Eganis, the man Patience left to care for him, by using dreamsteel to crush his head to a bloody pulp. Then he takes control of an enormous murder of crows, and-||
||Eyes, nose, cheeks, lipsthere is no time to be merciful. The ball of sorcery-maddened crows pecks and claws at anything soft, anything vulnerable. Patience barely has time to scream before she is blind and on her back, flailing as more crows pour out of the sky like a black cloud given flesh.||
||She remembers her sorcery, and half manages a spell. A dozen birds flash into cinders, but a dozen more take their place, seeking neck and forehead, wrists and fingers. The Falconer presses Patience down to the pavement, the writhing flock a pure extension of his will, a crushing dark hand. Grinning madly, he channels a thought-sending to her, hurling his sigil against her shattered mental defenses, and then:||
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**Is this weakness, Mother?**||
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**You never understood my talents.**||
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**The truth is, they never made me weak.**||
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**THE TRUTH IS THAT THEY GAVE ME WINGS.**||
||The beaks and claws of the carrion birds are driven by human intelligence; in moments they have opened Patiences wrists, pulped her hands, peeled the skin from her neck, torn out her eyes and tongue. She is helpless long before she dies.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GentlemanBastard |
Gerald's Game / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## From the book:
- Of course, it's a King novel. The description of the Space Cowboy in the corner, and the way Jessie's never quite sure if he's there or not, is particularly terrifying. Especially if you're the type of person who is disoriented when you wake up.
- The way she escapes from the cuffs at the end. She
*flays the skin off her hand*, using her own blood to grease the cuffs enough to slide her hand free. Holy mother of God.
- The long buildup to Jessie being sexually molested by her father on the day of the eclipse is horribly, horribly uncomfortable to read. Then there's the act itself, and young Jessie's dawning confusion and fear as she tries to make sense of what's happening. The whole scene, and the moment afterwards in which her father manipulates her into keeping the ordeal a secret is pure terror.
## From the movie:
- The whole premise of the movie: A woman handcuffed to a bed, with no way of escape and nobody to come rescue her. Utterly horrifying, and that's
*before* the added twists that only Stephen King could have come up with:
- The whole reason the character is in this mess is because she agreed to take part in a bit of foreplay with her husband that soon turned out to be some sort of twisted rape fantasy on his part. And then, just when she starts to lay into him, he drops dead of a heart attack.
- Imagine finding out that your spouse, with whom you've been married for years, is secretly harboring some deeply disturbing fetishes, and that they've managed to keep it a secret from you all your life.
- Then comes the dog...
- The worst part about the dog is that it's ultimately just trying to survive.
- And then there's the goddamn Moonlight Man. As if slowly starving to death while handcuffed to a bed in the same room as an increasingly desperate and hungry dog wasn't enough, there's apparently some sort of freakish monster hiding in the shadows. For much of the movie, it's unclear if he's the Grim Reaper, some other evil entity, or simply the result of Jessie losing her mind, which only makes his presence even more unnerving.
- Only at the end of the movie do we find out what his deal is, and
*boy friggin' howdy*, it does not disappoint. As it turns out, he's real, but he's not some supernatural monster waiting to take her soul. He's a deformed, necrophiliac, patricidal serial killer who snuck into the house while Jessie was sleeping. Lovely.
- And of course, the infamous escape sequence described above is recreated in all its graphic, nauseating glory.
- Just the certain facts Jessie seems to know while she and hallucination Jessie discuss the escape plan which leaves Hallucination Gerald disturbed by how she knows so much about that. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GeraldsGame |
Get Out (2017) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Dean's rant about deer — after Rose strikes a deer with her car, damaging her vehicle and rattling Chris, he could be forgiven for being frustrated with the very real problem of wildlife encroaching into the suburbs, but all the words that come out of his mouth are pure Does This Remind You of Anything? for the rhetoric around ethnic cleansing. (There's too many of them, they're overrunning us, the only good deer is a dead deer, if he had his way he'd kill them all...) Since taken superficially Dean and Missy are borderline Hippie Parents, it's an incredibly disturbing display of his own blind spot. Or not.
- Later on, when the Armitage family turns on Chris, Dean asks him about his purpose in life. He just stares into the fireplace — the flames reflecting off his glasses — whilst delivering a creepy spiel about the purpose of fire.
**Dean:** Fire. It's a reflection of our own mortality: we're born, we breathe, and we die. Even the sun will die someday. But we are divine. We are the gods trapped in cocoons. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GetOut2017 |
Freddi Fish / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
A Dummied Out cutscene shows Freddi Fish imagine that she's *feeding Luther to Eddie the eel*. **Luther:** Whatcha thinkin' about, Freddi? **Freddi:** Oh, nothing, Luther.
- That scene was thankfully
*not used by default* in the final game, but *still*.
- Pay attention to Eddie's mouth; he's not clean about it. You can actually see
*chunks of Luther* in there (though it's thankfully nothing too descriptive).
- Honestly, Eddie in general was pretty creepy, especially with his electricity that let you just barely see his bones. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FreddiFish |
Gaunt's Ghosts / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING: Per wiki policy, Spoilers Off applies to Nightmare Fuel pages. All spoilers will be unmarked!**
## Ghostmaker
- In
*Ghostmaker*, Larkin stumbles across an apartment building ransacked by Chaos forces. He discovers a wall with children's dolls nailed on it, only to find upon closer inspection that *not all of them are dolls*.
## Necropolis
-
*Necropolis* has this in the form of how Ferrozoica went about its siege against Vervunhive. Vervunhive is bigger but Ferrozoica's army is more militarized. How do they do that? By forcing every single corrupted man, woman, and *child* to fight, "enhancing" them with cybernetics hidden behind masks. Larkin pulls off a Zoican soldier's mask during a battle. He starts screaming and stabbed the crap out of the abomination with his knife. But the kicker isn't that the face underneath is monstrous or hideously mutated or anything - Larkin's horrified because underneath is a *completely normal person* who's been brainwashed into one of Heritor Asphodel's mindless slaves.
- It's implied that Sondar's sensory-deprivation chamber contained something no-longer-entirely-human, by the time he was executed. Details are not given and that's probably just as well.
## Honour Guard
-
*Honour Guard* has one battle scene about halfway through the book where an Imperial tank is hit by an enemy shell. It doesn't hit anything and doesn't cause the tank to explode (aside from blowing off the commander's arm and liquefying the loader). That's not the horrifying part. The horrifying part is that the shell hits the water-jacket around the tank's ammunition. The ammo doesn't explode, but the force of the impact knocks heat conductors loose. They still have current flowing through them, as the water from the punctured jacket starts flooding the tank. We're treated to a lovely description of the commander and a crew member being simultaneously drowned, boiled, and electrocuted all at once.
## The Guns of Tanith
- The concept of
*windwaste* in *Guns of Tanith*: the planet that the Imperial Guard are fighting on is covered in acidic pollution clouds from the planet's industry. Warplane pilots opted to just cut their chute/balloon when they are shot down instead of suffering slow, burning death as they float into the cloud...
## Straight Silver
-
*Straight Silver* has a chilling description of the hells of trench warfare. This includes such delights as corpses buried in the sides of the trenches sliding out, half-rotten, any time the nearby rivers flood, a hellish melee within a trench resulting in every inch of the the place being literally carpeted in the dead, and a literal wave of screeching, clawing, biting vermin boiling out of a trench's underlying tunnels and crashing into a party of Ghosts. One unfortunate Ghost is bowled over and buried beneath the living wave...understandably, he's traumatized and wailing when his friends manage to pull him up. Some got in his mouth.
- The cavalry are mind-linked to their mounts so they can steer while handling their rifles with both hands. This backfires horribly when Chaos-corrupted enemies simply aim for the mounts, in violation of traditional rules of warfare.
"A counter-strike of gas shells and nail grenades broke their sturdy advance and left them dead and dying. Hussars, individually untouched, lay twitching and screaming in the foggy dark, sharing through the mind-links the death-throes of their wounded mounts. Alliance troopers advancing through the area started to mercy kill the birds, and then found themselves, in tearful desperation, mercy killing the hussars too. They could not bear the screams."
## His Last Command
- In
*His Last Command*, Gaunt investigates reports of sickness spreading in an Imperial Guard camp and uncovers a scheme by the mess-hall cooks to sell fresh food-stocks on the black market while filling in the shortfall with corpses from the morgue. Worse, this is revealed to be standard practice during food shortages on the regiment's homeworld.
- Also in
*His Last Command*, the giant monsters attacking the Imperials every night are revealed to be humans who have been surgically altered by the Archenemy and sent back to prey on their former comrades in arms. One monster has Imperial Guard dogtags imbedded in the flesh of its throat.
## The Armour of Contempt
- In
*Traitor General* and *The Armour of Contempt* we get an extended look at the Chaos-ruled world of Gereon, where all the crops are blighted (or worse, mutated), the sky is a leprous yellow-brown, and everything is slowly dying. The only "unspoiled" place are the Marshes of Untill, and only because the lifeforms there are so poisonous (a moth can kill you just by landing on you) that even the forces of Chaos have trouble invading it. And we haven't mentioned how the Chaos overlords are actually running the planet yet, or the fate of most of the world's population. Glyfs (energy-beings of the Warp that can cause insanity just by looking at them) stalk the streets by night, wire-wolves (nigh-indestructible things of metal and living lightning) hang from poles waiting for an alarm call, and the enslaved populace can only move about after having a biological 'microchip' in the form of a Chaos maggot implanted in their flesh called an imago. A daemon-possessed tank that stalks the Ghosts like a lion rounds out the list.
-
*Armour of Contempt* has several chapters devoted to describing in almost pornographic detail the horrors of being a Guardsman in a planetary invasion. Between the human wave tactics so thick that the dead are pushed along by their comrades, incapable of falling, and going face-to-face with a daemon that tosses around tanks like they're children's toys. The viewpoint character goes from Wide-Eyed Idealist to Shell-Shocked Veteran in less than a week.
## Only In Death
- In
*Only In Death*... Soric. When Hark finds him, his eyes have been sewn shut, he's laying in a pile of his own waste, and, oh yes, he's visibly rotting. While still alive. Hark frees him from this existence.
- There was a rumor floating around the regiment in
*Only in Death* that a recon team had discovered a ravine somewhere on Jago (the planet they were on at the time) that was filled with ancient skulls, all with the tops sawn off. Age of skulls and reason for mass trepanation, unknown. This unsettled even the Ghosts, who were extremely hardened by this time.
- Hinzerhaus, the fortress the Ghosts are ordered to hold in
*Only In Death*. First there's the subtle things: the hints that beings not-quite-human built it in centuries past, the way the lights inside pulse almost as though the building was respiring, how echoes are thrown around so you can hear footsteps coming towards you even if you're alone on a floor. Then, the soldiers start hallucinating: the best cases only have dead teammates talk to them, while the worst begin obsessing over the darkest fears, such as a lady in a black dress with a wound for a face, or a bony daemon-serpent lurking in the basement. This is, remember, taking place in an isolated citadel in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by a vicious duststorm that cuts visibility and scrambles comm traffic. And on that note, there are the repeated "echo" transmissions: "Are we the last ones left alive? Are we? Someone, anyone, please? Are we? Is there anybody out there? Are we the last ones left alive?" Exquisite. And this is without mentioning the fate of Soric. The *layout* of the place is also pretty unsettling. It's bad when the Ghosts realize that none of their maps of the place match up, either with the actual structure or with each other. Then you get Blood Pact literally coming out of the walls, killing a couple of Ghosts, and then vanishing again when pursued.
## Warmaster
- Of all people that could be affected by power of Chaos in
*The Warmaster*, *Mkoll* ends up going apeshit because of it. Just goes to show that nobody is safe in *Warhammer 40,000*. He gets better.
## Anarch
-
*Everything* about the Woe Machines in *Anarch* is utterly terrifying. A daemonic/mechanical collection of flying warp-infused blades that carves apart everything in its path, and can warp space and time to make it almost impossible to escape. Imagine being stuck in total darkness, wading through thigh-deep pools of blood while the creature slowly closes in on you. To make matters worse, the Woe Machines had secretly replaced Gol Kolea's *children.*
- The woe machines are doubly nightmarish because
*the machines themselves believed they were Gol Kolea's children.* They are part human, part machine, part daemon, and the human part doesn't know about the others... We even follow Dalin's POV in several novels where he's just a regular Guardsman doing his job, making friends, getting a crush - and then in *Anarch* he gets 30 seconds of *realising what he really is* before transforming into a woe machine and killing the man he thought of as his father.
## Double Eagle
- Pers Espere, one of the fighter pilots in the spin-off novel
*Double Eagle*, receives severe injuries during aircombat. The paragraph describing is short, but the reader gets the wonderful details about the left side of his face pincushioned by shattered glass and his right hand melted down by lasfire and glued to the control stick. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GauntsGhosts |
Fox Demon Cultivation Manual / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The people carrying the bridal sedan are described as "skinless and faceless". Song Ci is horrified to discover that description is literal: their faces have been
*ripped off*.
- Song Ci sees a woman trying to get into his room. Later he finds a man who's been skinned alive, and next to the body is the woman's dress.
- Rong Sang helps Rong Bai leave for a few days. He comes back to find his father has murdered her and left her body on display.
- Zhu Qin tries to make Zhu Han tell him what she discussed with their father. She refuses, so he threatens to rape her unless she tells him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/FoxDemonCultivationManual |
Gemini Home Entertainment / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Gemini Home Entertainment is presented via VHS tapes dating back from the The '80s and The '90s. The grain of the retro aesthetic quickly turns innocent-looking instruction tapes, documentaries and company videos into an unnerving trip, where every glitch and sound quickly puts you on edge.
Unlike ＬＯＣＡＬ５８, where several tapes show the horror happening in real time, here the horror already happened. As soon as "World's Weirdest Animals" begins, we're thrusted into a world who knows exactly what is happening and is somehow still functioning.
"World's Weirdest Animals," the very first episode, is our first glimpse into this altered world. It presents the viewer with several animals like the Greater Prairie Chicken or the Burrowing Owl, both of which can be found in rural Minnesota. Then, we're introduced to something found everywhere across North America called a "Woodcrawler": a large creature capable of hunting prey silently, nesting in houses and turning the residents of said-houses into "Fake People."
Our first vision of what a Woodcrawler looks like is brief, but memorable: while the cameraman films the inside of the nest via the window, two giant arachnid-like legs come through the room's opened door in complete silence.
The concept of "Fake people" is pretty unnerving as well. While they look like human beings, these humanoids act oddly, standing still or trying to mimic a person speaking... except here, they don't produce any sounds when they speak. They are still capable of movement, as one of them spots the cameraman and chases him before the video cuts out.
"Storm Safety Tips," an instructional tape on how to prepare for storms, takes an entirely new meaning when you realize we're not talking about violent meteorological events, but rather a herd of... something.
After one of those storms passes, the cameraman exits his bunker and to look at a nearby field for any lights. Suddenly, a light appears. Followed by a second one. Then a third. Then dozens.
"The Deep Blue." The video insists that nothing can live in the Marianas Trench... but then what's that?
Not to mention the prospect of "the Demisia Tunnel," a pit at the bottom of the Marianas Trench extending even deeper into the earth, with the video helpfully pointing out that no one knows how deep it goes. And to make things even better, future videos like Advanced Mining Vehicle give some terrifying prospects of what it might be connecting to...
"Artificial Computer Learning" is a demonstration of an advanced deep-learning AI technology, which is meant to create a short children's storybook that grows more coherent over multiple test iterations. Or at least, it's supposed to - instead, the opposite occurs, as the entries slowly descend into Word-Salad Horror, ending on this disturbing note:
"Games For Kids," a seemingly innocent videotape made by Optica! Video meant to give kids a list of fun games to play if they're bored. Each segment starts with a text explaining the game with figures, then it cuts to a strangely eerie liminal-places-esque photo of the inside of a house, demonstrating the game, and when it ends, a gaggle of kids yell "Yay!" in celebration, and the conditions for winning are listed. Then the final game, "Feed The Woods". The music suddenly cuts out and the videotape tells you that to play this game, you must go outside with your friends after dark when all your parents are asleep, go deep into the forest until you can't see the lights anymore, and then... start screaming. Then it cuts to several scenes where the camera is pointing at an empty place, and suddenly an arrow points at something before a crying face with a droning sound appears, indicating that it was the wrong decision. One of the scenes ends on the camera suddenly dropping. Then it cuts to the final prey. A police car is seen in the distance against a sunset backdrop as an arrow points at it, the same sad face showing up again. Then, suddenly, a text appears. "The game ends when the forest is fed". The same gaggle of kids yell "Yaaay!", only this time it is distorted, as the police car gets pulled into the ground by something. Then it cuts to a view of Planet Earth, and the arrow points at it. "Found You!" appears, and the joyous celebratory sounds of the kids are distorted until they sound like screams, before cutting off.
Two interesting things to note. The fact that these real-life games are evocative of predators hunting down prey, and the fact that during the Tag segment, the words ""It" Wins!" linger on the screen after the other text has faded away, adding to the vibe of humans being hunted down by alien creatures.
It is never explained whether the "Feed The Woods" segment is from the point-of-view of the kids playing it, thus the sad faces marking certain places as dangerous due to the alien creatures being close, or if it is from the point-of-view of the alien creatures, and the sad faces indicate that in every scene, a kid gets caught.
Whatever happened to Mary Dean in "Christmas Eve Party" and her subsequent attack on Moonlight Acres is harrowing, with her becoming some sort of extremely aggressive tentacled thing, which we are given a blurred photo of near the end of the video, which looks unlike any of the entities we've seen so far in the series.
"Home Invasion Help" barely lasts thirty seconds before the Paranoia Fuel hits. As one commenter on YouTube put it, it's not a self-defense guide, it's a tutorial. And the "invaders" it's speaking to aren't human in the slightest.
And all of that is before we cut to a first-person view, recording the aftermath of one such "home invasion." Red tendrils of roots are everywhere, some of which are contorted into vague humanoid shapes, one of which is sitting in a rocking chair. The camera zooms in on it...and its eye slowly turns to look at the camera. Then the shadow of a Woodcrawler appears, and the camera-man runs. He doesn't get far.
"Crusader Probe Mission" features a space probe sent to the outer reaches of the solar system. For the first half of the mission it seems relatively fine, showing normal pictures of Jupiter and Saturn and their moons (even though Chiron a moon listed is not a real moon of Saturn), then things take a turn when it gets to Neptune where the planet is just gone. Then it approaches something called The First Cluster, showing various moons deformed or fused together, then it arrives at Iris proper, where the moons turn fleshy and are given anatomy names. Then the probe suddenly gets pulled in by the Iris where it starts to record the immense red biomass inside of the planet, including breathing canals and what looks like egg sacs. It then enters its "conscious mind" and we are shown a few shots of earth, including one looking in on a human from what is implied to be a Woodcrawler and a shot of a siren blaring. The probe loses connection for some time until it suddenly goes back online and is on a direct course back to Earth. Now either the Iris ejected it somehow or worse, it is still in the Iris and it is the Iris that is headed for Earth.
"Shifting Tendons," which depicts the late stages of Deep Root Disease and all the grisly effects it entails. A set of diagrams shows the roots spreading throughout the body, before twisting it out of shape and into a Nature's Mockery. This is followed by a video of an infected Barry Johnson, now a twisted mass of diseased red flesh with a dislocated jaw and multiple bony sprouts growing from large open holes... who is still conscious. And worse still, something is said to be inside, but the video ends before we can see it emerge.
The interior of Barry Johnson is discovered to be occupied.
"Old Bones." Marketed as Excerpts from The Journal of Glenn A. Arthur, the video starts with an unknown scientist talking about deep root disease and an apparent mutation it's gone through or so it seems.
-unnatural. What's happening to the tissue is not only entirely unlike what is typical for the disease, it's completely counter to it. Instead of attacking foreign tissue, it welcomes it. The bones don't decay, Organs blindly fuse, Bulbs fester and (unintelligible, possibly "swell"), Tissue refuses to die. It is hyper-Metastatic. It is, at this point, most analogous to a tumor. I would not speculate on the states of the minds within.
The video then cuts to the previously mentioned Excerpts, as they describe in discordant details the meetings that Glenn had with mysterious entities that claimed to be angels sent by god. They showed him a vision of them hitting the earth from space, and forming the first Nature's Mockery, arms stretched towards the sky "Like a child's" and then the visitors strike a covenant with Glenn, which didn't end well as we know.
The Footage then cuts to two scenes. The first is labeled as "MAY 1941. DEAL IS SEALED." As various black and white recordings of the camp are shown as well as the Natures Mockery that grows within. And then the next scene is labeled as MAY 1946. DEAL IS BROKEN. As it shows more footage of the camp, as a group of hunters go to kill a bear to bring as a sacrifice instead, as a warped church bell ringing can be heard in the background which leads to:
The scene changing extremely jarringly to show a diagram of a human body while alarms blare in the background and warning symbols flash on the screen. The body then decays similar to how weve seen them morph due to deep root disease taking over, until the diagram zooms into the brain to reveal it perfectly untouched and working. It then shows two parts of the brain lighting up with activity, and the poems from Artificial Computer Learning appearing, except some lines have been chillingly altered.
The video then ends with more black and white footage of a house, and as the camera goes to a window, a horrid mass of flesh is visible as a human head, decayed and deformed can be seen silently mouthing and yelling in obvious agony before sliding away off screen into the darkness | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GeminiHomeEntertainment |
Gantz / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
And things are just going to keep on getting worse for Nishi...
- Sure, the whole story can be seen as this, but shit
**really** hits the fan in the Osaka arc. From the outbreak of the demons to the sick freaks that make up the Osaka team, it's hard not to be afraid.
- The Italy arc — The fact that hundreds of Gantz teams are getting killed from the demonic statue aliens really dials up the nightmarish scenarios seen in this arc.
- Which leads to how the Dinosaur Arc kicked off in the first place. Shion Izumi and starts shooting up the crowd in Chapter 123. All just to return to the game. Definitely a Trauma Button for those who suffered from urban violence.
- Apart from facing "fairly normal" horrific monsters time to time, there is the ||Nurahiyon boss, Nightmare incarnate that starts as an old man that becomes an utter monster in the battlefield||. Also, don't forget ||the upcoming apocalypse... in a week||. The apocalypse does not disappoint in this department (see below).
- The king of all nightmarish arcs, though, is the Catastrophe arc. As if the humans weren't in a bad enough shape already...
- And just when you think it couldn't get any worse,
**IT DOES.** ||The virus affecting Gantz causes him to create pixelated monsters that explode when they die.|| Read chapter 342 at your own risk.
- Chapter 347 is nothing but pure Nightmare Fuel. If a light spore touches a person, body parts and faces will literally burst from the said person's head and become
**AN ABOMINATION.** Yeesh...
- One of the most horrifying elements is what the giants do with the humans they capture, with atrocities ranging from recreationally hunting them
*with their kids* and feeding human giblets to their pets, to processing them in a mass-slaughter factory and casually snacking on them **live** (which fittingly triggers and justifies Sakurai's transformation From Nobody to Nightmare).
- The giant aliens have a tool that can "upload" a human's visual data from someone's mind and use it to track the person in question. Already Paranoia Fuel on its own, it's described in a deadpan tone by the aliens as not government or police equipment, but a
*children's toy*. Let that sink in for a moment.
- The brief shot in the anime Title Sequence of Kei
note : who became a Gantz "team member" after committing suicide holding a Gantz gun to her own head. *While smiling*.
- The Oni Arc features a scene with a shapeshifting alien that enters the ear of a Red Shirt while transformed into a fly, it then moves to inside his torso and turns into a
*elephant*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gantz |
Ghost (1990) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The movie is a supernatural romance comedy drama thriller and it really takes the opportunity to ramp up the "supernatural" and "thriller" aspects. Given the movie's title is , this wouldn't be all that unexpected. **Ghost** **WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked.
- The title card in the opening credits is a goddamn Jump Scare with an ominous score. Nice, Jerry Zucker, very nice.
- Any time one of the deceased sees their own body upon death. Sam in particular is so horrified that he looks ready to throw up if he could.
- Sam phasing through a hospital orderly (unintentionally) and showing us a Gross-Up Close-Up of the man's
*blood and brains* as he moves through Sam. Sam's face really says it all, realizing he's completely invisible and truly has no physical form anymore.
- Sam's double-dream where he "wakes up" from his "nightmare." He wants some comfort from Molly, so he pulls out the blankets to find the statue of an angel from earlier in the film. The statue then moves a little, as if it's staring at Sam, who screams of fright. The angel's forlorn-looking face doesn't help either. (In an earlier script, it was Molly as a skeleton.) And then Sam wakes up, and the angel statue falls from its rope and shatters on the pavement, which is very ominous.
- The latter turns out to be symbolic, as it foreshadows that Sam's "angel" Molly is in danger.
- Any time any ghost phases through a wall or any other solid object, it makes a sickening rip-like sound as they move about.
- The expression on Willie's face watching Molly undress. It's pretty obvious what he has in mind and you can see the moment that Sam becomes thoroughly repulsed and terrified as he realizes it too and that he has to do something to stop him, prompting him to frighten the cat so that it'll attack him.
- The Subway Ghost spends his afterlife aimlessly wandering around the subway station, endlessly sitting in a train as well as endlessly longing for a cigarette (which he is no longer capable of smoking because he doesn't have a body).
- The sad, scary state of the Subway Ghost's existence is really brought home by the end of the sequence he's in: He's initially lucid enough to teach Sam how to move physical objects, but when Sam starts asking about how he died, he gets paranoid, seemingly not remembering who Sam is anymore, and runs and jumps onto the train tracks in a panic, never to be seen again...which was probably how he died in the first place. Even worse, whatever mental illness the poor man had in life is still affecting him as a ghost. If he did commit suicide, it means he killed himself to try and get rid of the torment in his mind - and
*it didn't work*.
- Sam's torment of both Willie and Carl before they are killed. Evil as they are, their panic and fear at being attacked by an unseen force is so convincing that it's unsettling.
- When Sam chases Willie into the bathroom and turns on the hot water to steam up the mirror, he writes "
**BOO**".
- Carl sitting alone in his empty workplace fussing over the closed account, unaware that Sam is in the room and mocking him with death at every opportunity. The enormous levels of stress on Carl's face is bad enough, but his panic becomes all the more raw when he sees his keyboard type out a single word on his screen: "
*MURDERER*."
- And how does Sam follow that one up when Carl
*screams* at whoever is doing it? " *SAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAMSAM......*"
- The dark, hooded figures that drag Willie and Carl's souls to Hell. The horrific, guttural cries they make (created by slowing down recordings of babies crying) are chilling.
- Just to set the stage a little, imagine you just died. You get up, and you realize you were crushed between two vehicles. As you're trying to process this, you hear someone call out "You're dead, Willie." You turn around and see the very man you yourself have murdered. Then suddenly, dark figures appear out of the shadows in mobs, grab you, and literally drag you away, leaving you with nothing but the most horrifying of implications. "Karmic Retribution" at its most terrifying, folks. Of course, a good person will never have to worry about this.
- With her ability, Oda Mae likely got to hear, but not see, Carl's screaming as he was whisked off to Hell.
- Carl threatening to kill Molly once he understands that Sam is tormenting him. Until this point, he hadn't tried to physically harm Molly. Now he's prepared to threaten her life if his demands are not met, wielding a knife and even trying to set the apartment aflame when he becomes unhinged. Even Sam, a
*ghost*, cannot challenge the otherwise defenseless man as he *knows* that Carl will follow through on it.
- The thoroughly terrified look on Carl's face as he watches the stove dial turn off, apparently on its own.
*That's* the moment where you can see him fully understand that Sam is present and he completely snaps from then on.
- Despite the Black Comedy moment of a neighbor refusing to let them in, the sight of Oda Mae and her sisters desperately trying to find somewhere to hide before Willie and Carl catch them is truly nail-biting. Especially since they get inside not two seconds before they come upstairs. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghost1990 |
Ghost Adventures Season Nine To Season Sixteen / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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901 — Sharon Tate Ghost/Oman House
901 — Evidence
- Pre Investigation:
- Physical Harm: Nick states multiple times that he feels the energy of the house twisting his stomach around, even during the drive up to the house
- Moving Object: David Oman's Beetlejuice figurine on the aquarium is caught falling down by itself on commands to the spirits from Zak
- Investigation:
- EVP: Banging, footsteps/dragging sounds, door slamming, knocking, banging, talking/singing
- Physical Contact: Due to the energy in the house, Zak feels unnerved and refuses to go downstairs
- Apparition: A ball of light is seen near Zak's legs leaving the room
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Hey Nick," "Hey," "I Did"
- Physical Contact: Zak feels something jump on him, causing him to panic
- Physical Harm: Nick gets burned in the stomach area by an unknown entity, and multiple times he feels pain in the area
- Apparition: A spinning anomaly is seen moving above a door and vanishing
- Moving Object: David Oman's Black Skeleton figurine on the aquarium is knocked over by an unseen force, triggering the vibe pod
- Apparition: Two balls of light disappear into Nick's head in the basement bedroom
- Apparition: As Zak goes to Nick, a ball of light is seen moving in front of the mirror
- Apparition: After Zak changes the camera angle for the basement bedroom, it captures a light anomaly moving around, while also capturing static interference on the camera's audio
902 — Myrtles Plantation
902 — Evidence
- EVP: door slamming, sounds, moaning/pained voices. rattling
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Behind You," "Yeah," "Winter"
- Equipment Malfunction: As the door is rattling in the parlor, the X Camera stops recording due to being tampered with
- Apparition: At the same time as the door rattling and the X Camera turning off, the Thermal camera in the parlor captures a cold mass moving away from the door
- Moving Object: Nick set up a ball on the stairs, and as Nick turns away, the ball is knocked off of the stairs with force, hitting the camera
903 — George Washington Ghost/Morris Jumel Mansion
903 — Evidence
- Morris-Jumel Mansion
- EVP: female voice, singing, rumbling
- EVP (Spirit Box): "It Was Me"
- Apparition: Three figures manifest next to Billy on the portable Kinect camera, with two of the figures appearing to be climbing on and around him
- Katie's Bar
- EVP: knocking, falling object
- Moving Object: The bag covering the exit sign in the basement was ripped off with force
- Apparition: after the bag was torn off, an orb is seen flying past the bar in the basement
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Exit"
904 — Bannack Ghost Town
904 — Evidence
- Outside
- Word Database: SIX, MEN, APART
- Saloon
- General Store
- Schoolhouse
- EVP: Tapping
- EMF Fluctuation: The REM Pod goes off 27 times in a row as if a spirit was tapping on it
- Mining House
- Apparition: An orb is seen moving towards Billy and Jay
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Momma"
- Crying Baby House
- Apparition: After Billy charges up the antique phone, Billy sees multiple lights around him, with them being captured on camera
- Hotel Meade
- Apparition: during the day, Zak captures a dark mist figure with a defined face
- Moving Object: A drawer in the antique stove moves outwards, with fresh dust appearing under the drawer
- EVP: footsteps, banging, male voice
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Help, Hurt"
- Apparition: A ball of light is seen at the same time a banging is heard
905 — Fear Factory
905 — Evidence
- Equipment Malfunction: When Jay was giving Billy the headphones to listen to some unexplained noises, the X Camera near his Boom Mic in the catacombs exhibit goes out
- EVP: moaning, banging, noises, "It's Coming," dark voice, "Billy," laughter
- EVP (Spirit Box): female voices, "I Did It"
- Apparition: As Chris is reading from the Satanic Bible, a bright light vanishes into his head
906 — Heritage Junction
906 — Evidence
- Newhall Ranch House
- EVP: Noises, footsteps, crying, female voice, pipe dragging, "Betty, Stop," movement
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Tonight," "Please," "Aaron," "It's Him"
- Physical Contact: As Zak goes up the stairs to the storage area, he feels something trying to push him backwards down the stairs. Billy experienced the same thing prior to Zak's arrival
- Saugus Train Station
- EVP: noises
- Apparition: A ball of light appears and vanishes into Aaron's head
907 — Fort MacArthur Museum/Battle of Los Angeles
907 — Evidence
- EVP: noise, dragging sounds, banging, male voices
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Jason," "Lisa," "Pain," "Quiero"
- Apparition: A light is seen moving up and through a wall
- Apparition: The Full Spectrum camera captures a figure in what appears to be military gear standing in a tunnel
908 — St. James Hotel
908 — Evidence
- Moving Object: Before the official investigation, the team captures the chandelier moving around on the second floor with no explanation
- Apparition: In the poker room, the Kinect camera captures a figure standing on top of the table
- EVP: noises, creaking, footsteps, laughing, voices
- Apparition: Another figure is captured on the Kinect camera, and intelligently raises its hand after being asked to do so
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Thank You," "I'm Dead," "Smoke"
909 — Fox Hollow Farm
909 — Evidence
- EVP: banging, knocking
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Help," "I'm Dead," "I Don't Know," "Herb Did It," "I'm Here," "In The Middle," "Found It," "Here," "Gettin' Cold/Close"
- Apparition: A light anomaly appears and vanishes into the spirit box
- Apparition: A light appears in the apartment for guests the same time knocking is heard
910 — Haunted Savannah
910 — Evidence
- Gribble House
- No evidence or feelings were captured in this location
- Sorrel Weed House
- Physical Contact: Zak and Aaron feel a strange energy when they approach the upstairs slave quarters
- EVP: "Hello," footsteps, noises, mans voice, "Basement"
- Possession: Zak feels his whole body paralyze, and also feels that his thoughts have been manipulated by an entity
- Physical Harm: Aaron felt as if something stabbed him under his ribs
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Hang," "Rape," "Get Him," "I Can't"
- Equipment Malfunction: Something kept causing the thermal camera to shut off when pointed towards the slave quarters upstairs
- Apparition: The thermal camera captures a mist behind Aaron on the stairs while it was turning off
- Apparition: A mist figure is seen moving behind Zak
911 — Whaley House
911 — Evidence
- Equipment Malfunction: Using one of Bill Chappell's new pieces of technology, the laser used for it begins receiving interference, as a sign of a spirit trying to communicate
- EVP: noises, voices, thumping, "no power"
- Other Phenomena: During their interviews, a security man stated that the alarms in the house will go off for no reason, and at 1:00 AM, the alarms go off even while disabled
- Physical Contact: Zak feels nails going down his back while sitting in the theater
- Apparition: Zak snaps a photo as he is feeling this and captures the apparition of the hand, which appears to have long nails
912 — Overland Hotel and Saloon
912 — Evidence
- Million Dollar Courthouse
- Apparition: A ball of light is seen moving through the main hallway towards the front door
- EVP: footsteps
- Overland Hotel and Saloon
- EVP: male voice, "I'm Back," "I Need Medicine," noises, banging
- Possession: Something takes control of Nick, causing him to leave his camera on the ground and have him lay on the floor of the saloon
- EVP (Spirit Box): "_______________ Died"
- Apparition: A ball of light disappears into Nick's neck
- Physical Harm: A force hits Zak and causes him to fall backwards
913 — Old Licking County Jail
913 — Evidence
- Misty's House
- EVP: "Hey Misty"
- Apparition: A ball of light shoots into Misty's head
- Old Licking County Jail
- EVP: Noises, loud slam, "Kingdom Come," deep man's voice
- Equipment Malfunction: The matron's quarters x camera dies three times in quick succession with replaced batteries
- Apparition: a heat signature is captured on the thermal imaging camera manifesting
1001 — RMS Queen Mary
1001 — Evidence
- EVP: door opening, "What Anger," "Oh, I fucking hate them," "not," "my daddy," laughing, "wait for Debby," footsteps, banging
- Apparition: During a séance to get Peter James' spirit to come out, a ball of light flies into his old jacket
- Apparition: Using a structured light camera, Zak captures a childlike figure down near the pool moving around
- Apparition: As Zak is moving an X camera, a ball of light flies into him
- Apparition: A light flies into Debby's head as she is recording EV Ps
- Other Phenomena: Using a new piece of equipment, Billy gets a response about "5", and when he questions it, he gets a response of "fifth gate". After this, he asks what fifth gate is, and receives "your soldier" as a response
- Apparition: Using a laser grid camera, Zak captures a light anomaly moving around in it
- Apparition: While exploring the catwalks, Zak moves a camera so its facing the door, and immediately captures a full body shadow walking past the door
- Physical Contact: Nick feels something push him away from a gate that crushed a man to death
1002 — Lemp Mansion
1002 — Evidence
- Lemp Brewery
- EVP: noises, loud bang, thrown object, door slamming, man's voice, "Why"
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Who Died?" "Help Me"
- Lemp Mansion
- Apparition: A ball of light is captured flying over one of Zak's devices
- EVP: "Help," mans voice
- Apparition: Aaron captures a ball of light leaving the bedroom
1003 — Zozo Demon
1003 — Evidence
- EVP: footsteps, noises, knocks, banging, "You're Cold," voices, "I did not do it _______"
- Physical Contact: While sitting near the Ouija Board, Nick feels something come through him
- Ouija Board: ZOZO x20, YES, NO, NICK G, GOODBYE, KILL, GOODBYE
- Possession: Darren's wife begins to get affected by Zozo's influence and leaves the house, she comes back in later after Zozo told her to go back in, and notices her belt is undone, and leaves again and wanders around the city, causing Zak, Nick, and Darren to go look for her.
- Other Phenomenon: The microphone near the Ouija board gets weird interference, and at the same time, all the dogs in the house's vicinity start howling.
1004 — Island of Dolls
- This episode can be considered scary or nauseating for anybody that has a fear of dolls, especially an island full of damaged dolls, or for people with arachnophobia.
1004 — Evidence
- Physical Harm: While Zak is picking up Harold the Cursed Doll from a theater, he notices he has three bruises on his left arm about the size of baby hands, and realizes that the owner of the doll says that the left arm on Harold is about to break off.
- EVP: Cans moving, screaming, footsteps, "I don't like her, stupid"
- Other Phenomena: upon pulling up to the island in the trajinera, everybody hears weird noises, and upon investigation, when they returned near the trajinera, a fire sparked itself in the fire pit
- Other Phenomena: As Zak tries to bring Harold out of the bag, an energy rushes him and Aaron, causing two cats near the island to scream and also causing one of the dolls to start laughing at them.
- Apparition: Using the Structured Light Camera, Zak captures a black mass leaving Don Julian's hut, at the same time, Billy sees a light in the hut
- EVP (Spirit Box): Don Julian's voice, as confirmed by a friend of Don Julian
- Apparition: Leaving a light grid at Don Julian's hut, a light is captured moving the lights around as footsteps are heard
- Physical Contact: Zak feels an icy hand move down his back
- Apparition: As Harold the Doll is laying with the other dolls in the main hut, heat is registered under him as if he was a living being.
1005 — Bell Witch Cave
1005 — Evidence
- Drewry Bell House
- EVP: Footsteps, Loud banging
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Indians," "Careful," unexplained male voices
- Apparition: A ball of light flies into the spirit box as "Indians" is heard
- Physical Contact: Zak, Aaron, and Jay feel the house pulse with energy as they begin closing up
- Bell Witch Cave
- EVP: "Listen to me," "Here I Come," voices, rock throwing, pig grunts
- Apparition: After the infrasound is activated, three bands of light are seen in the central cave
- Apparition: A dark shadow is seen moving around before vanishing
- Other Phenomena: One of the light poles brighten as the pig grunt is heard
- EMF Fluctuation: All of the light poles begin lighting up due to the presence of a large energy
- Apparition: A blue mass is seen surrounding Aaron's head, and upon examination, a figure with horns appears to the left above his head. Aaron later claims to see this same figure standing upon a hill near the cave.
- Physical Contact: Everybody feels an intense energy begin to emanate from the cave
- Physical Harm: Billy gets sharp pains in his back as he begins closing his light pole experiment
- Apparition: Zak captures an orb just as the "Here I Come" voice is captured
1006 — Sallie House
1006 — Evidence
- Physical Harm: Jay is scratched on his arm by an unseen entity
- Physical Harm: Tony Pickman, a former tenant, start to feel a burning sensation on his neck, and begins developing a welt in the spot. At the same time, a psychic the GAC invited in nearly faints as this is happening
- Other Phenomena: Using the paranormal puck the night before the investigation with Tony Pickman, Billy captures the following. "Think up huge dead," and "Scratch Satan pain kept spirits"
- Equipment Malfunction: The SLS camera freezes up as knocks are heard at the top of the stairs
- Physical Contact: Zak feels an overwhelming energy at the top of the stairs
- EVP: noises, knocking
- Moving Object: A teddy bear set up in the bedroom begins moving around.
- Apparition: A ball of light is seen leaving a room that Aaron heard laughing come from
- Other Phenomena: A tesla radio created by Billy starts behaving weirdly in the basement where a former tenant reportedly did animal sacrifices.
- Other Phenomena: The paranormal puck reads off "relax sir," "relax Satan building," and "Monica Paula attic energy."
1007 — Nopeming Sanatorium
1007 — Evidence
- Apparition: As Billy's flashlight dies while in a cremation tunnel, he creates a strobe effect trying to keep the light on, and as he is doing this, a shadow figure is captured during a light flash
- Apparition: Using the SLS camera, Zak captures a figure in a doorway.
- Apparition: At the moment Billy and Zak begin to feel uneasy, an orb shoots out of Billy's neck
- EVP (Spirit Box): "Help"
- Physical Contact: As "Help" is heard, Billy feels something tap his elbows
- Apparition: An orb is seen moving away from a stage area in the building
- Equipment Malfunction: After the orb is seen, the camera that captured it blacks out
- Other Phenomena: Weird noises are heard coming out of the ultrasonic listening device
- EVP: door slamming, noises, "Hello," "I Told Him"
- Apparition: A light is seen appearing and disappearing
1008 — Apache Junction
1008 — Evidence
- Moving Object: Zak and Aaron hear something get thrown and discover a safety pin that was on a table is now on the floor near them.
- Appariton: Jay spots a trench coated apparition walk by nerve center, and the same figure is captured walking into the bordello on the thermal camera.
- EVP: Noises, footsteps, growling
- Physical Contact: Zak feels a static energy, and also picks up a foul odor at the same time
- EVP (Spirit Box): "I'm Vic," "Yeah," "Make It Go," "I Was Hurt," "Yes"
- EMF Fluctuation: The REM Pods all went off in response to Zak's questions
- Equipment Malfunction: As Zak is working with the REM Pods, the camera shuts off
1009 — Return to Tombstone
1009 — Evidence
- Birdcage Theater
- Apparition: While intending to capture video, Zak captures 4 rapid stills of a light anomaly flying over Ashley and Patricia in the stage area
- Equipment Malfunction: Using old saloon music as a trigger object, it cuts out without any explanation
- Physical Contact: Patricia begins to feel uneasy while in an upper room of the theater
- Physical Contact: Patricia's hair is captured on camera being tossed onto her other shoulder, with two cameras pointing out how she did not do it herself
- Apparition: The full spectrum camera captures a dark apparition moving by the dice table
- EVP: footsteps, "I'm Trying To Hear"
- Apparition: An orb is seen as an EVP is captured
- Big Nose Kate's Saloon
- Apparition: a figure is mapped on the SLS camera near where the Swamper is said to reside
- Equipment Malfunction: The SLS camera shuts off as Zak approaches the Swamper's room
- EVP: noises, footsteps
1010 — Demons in Seattle
1010 — Evidence
- Physical Contact: Zak feels an intense energy radiate off of Keith's Girlfriend
1011 — Texas Horror Hotel
1011 — Evidence
- EVP: Noises, banging, footsteps
- Other Phenomena: Bill Chappel's magnetic microphone device begins to intelligently respond to Billy and Jay's questions.
- Physical Harm: Tanisha suddenly feels like she is pushed forward. Shortly after, Jay feels like he loses his balance in that same exact spot.
- Physical Contact: Zak feels a sudden rush of ice cold energy pass through him as he begins to taunt the alleged serial killer William. At the same time the EMF meter reads 66.6 degrees.
- Physical Contact: Jay feels a large energy force shoot through his body.
- Apparition: The kinect cam picks up a child like figure.
- Physical Contact: Aaron hears a voice behind him.
- Other Phenomena: Aaron places a chair in a doorway and begins to walk around and when comes back, he bumps into the chair and the chair doesn't move, as if something is holding it back. As this happens, Zak notices a handprint manifest on the chair and then disappear shortly thereafter.
- Apparition: Two orbs can be seen coming up the stairs at the same time with one seemingly going into one of the rooms.
- Physical Contact: Aaron begins to feel his energy drain during the spirit box session.
- EVP (Spirit Box): "I'm on it", "play", "William", "help", "John", "we contact", "YOU"
1101 — Edinburgh Manor
1101 — Evidence
1102 — Old Montana State Prison
1102 — Evidence
1103 — Manresa Castle
1103 — Evidence
1104 — Old Lincoln County Hospital
1104 — Evidence
1105 — Haunted Harvey House
1105 — Evidence
1106 — Los Coches Adobe
1106 — Evidence
- Two figures manifest next to a doorway and one leans away from Zack's hand when he reaches out. Suddenly, the left one
*loses its head and stops moving completely*. You'd think after that, it would quickly vanish, but it just *stays there, unmoving* for a moment before FINALLY vanishing.
1107 — Grand Canyon Caverns
1107 — Evidence
1108 — Haunted Hollywood
1108 — Evidence
1109 — Oddfellows Asylum
1109 — Evidence
1110 — Clown Motel and Goldfield High School
- This episode is one big example of this if you are afraid of clowns (Coulrophobia).
1110 — Evidence
- Moving Object: When Zak is in the clown motel, ||a life-sized clown doll across the room
*moves.* Its hand falls off its lap.|| Zak freaks the hell out and calls another teammate to come over. They tested to see if the clown would move after someone bumped it or walked too close (which couldn't have happened anyway since Zak was too far), and the clown is solid as a rock. ||The only way to replicate the clown's hand moving was by picking it up or pushing it off its lap.||
1111 — Lava Hot Springs Inn
1111 — Evidence
1201 — Black Dahlia House
1201 — Evidence
1202 — Secret Scientology Lab
1202 — Evidence
1203 — Bracken Fern Manor & Tudor House
1203 — Evidence
1204 — Return to the Riviera
1204 — Evidence
1205 — Chinese Town of Locke
1205 — Evidence
1206 — Star of India
1206 — Evidence
1207 — Leslie's Family Tree
1207 — Evidence
1208 — Hell Hole Prison
1208 — Evidence
1209 — The Domes
1209 — Evidence
1210 — Nevada State Prison
1210 — Evidence
1211 — Return To Winchester Mystery House
1211 — Evidence
1212 — Stardust Ranch
1212 — Evidence
1213 — The Haunted Museum
1213 — Evidence
1301 — Colorado Gold Mine
1301 — Evidence
1302 — Mackay Mansion
1302 — Evidence
1303 — Palace Saloon
1303 — Evidence
1304 — Reseda House of Evil
1304 — Evidence
1305 — Dorothea Puente Murder House
1305 — Evidence
1306 — Hotel Metlen
1306 — Evidence
1307 — St. Anne's Retreat
1307 — Evidence
1308 — Twin Bridges Orphanage
1308 — Evidence
1309 — Dumas Brothel
1309 — Evidence
1310 — Zalud House
1310 — Evidence
1311 — Dakota's Sanatorium of Death
1311 — Evidence
1401 — Stone Lion Inn
1401 — Evidence
1402 — Freak Show Murder House
1402 — Evidence
1403 — Samaritan Cult House
1403 — Evidence
1404 — Double Eagle Restaurant
1404 — Evidence
1405 — Silent Movie Theater
1405 — Evidence
1406 — Exorcism in Erie
1406 — Evidence
1407 — Skinwalker Canyon
1407 — Evidence
1408 — Upper Fruitland Curse
1408 — Evidence
1409 — Witches in Magna
1409 — Evidence
1410 — The Viper Room
1410 — Evidence
1411 — Asylum 49
1411 — Evidence
1501 — Golden Ghost Town
1501 — Evidence
1502 — Ogden Possession
- This episode features one of, if not
*the*, most chilling cases of attempted possession in the entire series.
1502 — Evidence
1503 — Albion Normal School
1503 — Evidence
1504 — Museum of the Mountain West
1504 — Evidence
1505 — Pythian Castle
1505 — Evidence
1506 — The Titanic Museum
1506 — Evidence
1507 — Wolf Creek Inn
1507 — Evidence
1508 — Eureka Mining Town
1508 — Evidence
1509 — Sin City Exorcism
1509 — Evidence
1510 — Phelps Dodge Hospital
1510 — Evidence
1511 — The Slaughter House
1511 — Evidence
1601 — Ripley's Believe It or Not
1601 — Evidence
1602 — The Alley of Darkness
1602 — Evidence
1603 — Kennedy Mine
1603 — Evidence
1604 — Old Gila County Jail and Courthouse
1604 — Evidence
1605 — Hotel Leger
1605 — Evidence
1606 — Enchanted Forest
- "Would you die for me?" That disturbing clip.
- The decorations are quite unsettling, with cartoon animal heads, and a slide with a huge witch head.
1606 — Evidence
1607 — The Washoe Club: Final Chapter
1607 — Evidence
1608 — Lewis Flats School
1608 — Evidence
1609 — Kay's Hollow
1609 — Evidence | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostAdventuresSeasonNineToSeasonSixteen |
Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
What the series lacks in Gross Out, it makes up for in general creepiness.
- The cutesy "Squishy" ||turns around to reveal a
*very* off-putting face|| in the Cold Open of "Pie Fight!/Honest Abe Has a Close Shave", while addressing how he's considered "'too cute' for the Garbage Pail Show".
- The monsters in "The House That Dripped Crud". They turn out to be somewhat friendly, but they're still kind of freaky-looking.
- Mother Goose and the king's horses in "A Rhyme in Time" are absolutely hideous. They look like something Basil Wolverton drew. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GarbagePailKidsCartoon |
Ghost Adventures / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This trope naturally applies to a show attempting to record evidence of paranormal activity for haunted houses. And although
*Ghost Adventures* is sometimes overshadowed by other ghost-hunting shows, it captures a lot more solid evidence that is both amazing and disturbing. Spoilers unmarked
Special Episodes
Season 1 to Season 8
Season 9 to Season 16
Season 17 to Current Season | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostAdventures |
Gate / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Imagine a Gate to another world opens suddenly, and then, without warning or provocation, an army of fantastic monsters come spilling out of it. You, an unarmed civilian, find yourself facing down this formidable force and capture could mean being made into a Sex Slave if you're female, or a one-way trip to the mines as a slave if you're male. The attackers also indiscriminately kill people left and right, ultimately murdering at
*least* several hundred Japanese civilians.
- Imagine a Gate opens to another world and you send a considerable army across and learn days later they were not only in retreat but
**wiped out** by an unknown force. At that point, you'd wonder just what the hell the people on the other side of the Gate have that you don't. And just to make things worse, they *come after you*. You amass the biggest army you can muster, numbering in the hundreds of thousands... and they get *slaughtered* before they can even get close to the enemy camp, all with weaponry far beyond your understanding that renders your battle tactics *worthless*.
- Something that drives this home is the reaction of the Elban troops after the first wave of the allied forces are wiped out by an artillery barrage: king Dulan, a veteran of many battles, and his men, many veterans themselves, are silent in horror as they surveil the scene, then a knight
*pukes* and Dulan starts shouting, trying and failing to understand what has just happened.
- Later in the battle, Dulan has found a way to go and fight them: sneak to the enemy in the night, with the new moon meaning there will be little light for them to be detected and slaughtered at distance. They do that... And then, suddenly, the sky is lit orange by
*something* falling from the sky. Dulan has barely the time to realize the enemy can see in the dark and ordering a desperate charge to at least *try* and bring the fight to the enemy before the slaughter resumes... And then his charge against the enemy positions is stopped by barbed wire disabling his horse, and the troopers that came to his rescue are casually killed through their armor and shields by machine guns, that he hadn't seen yet. No wonder that, when the mortar shells start falling, he's Laughing Mad...
- Bit of Fridge Horror here, but when Itami selected prisoners to be taken back to Alnus, he selected the female prisoners. We, the audience, are aware that it's to keep them from being raped by their captors. However, the female prisoners likely weren't immediately aware of that fact. They'd just seen their forces cut down by an overwhelmingly superior force, and now were being requested as prisoners by the leader of that force. Since rape and pillage seem to be standard practices in the world beyond the Gate, what must have been going through their heads before they reached Alnus and learned the truth?
- The fire dragon attacks the elf village. A village inhabited by men, women, and children, and the fire dragon roasts the place indiscriminately as it searches for a snack.
- This is because fire dragons get a taste for human and demi-human flesh after the first time they've had it. Its mere presence forces the JSDF to evacuate whole villages of people out of the region. Even then, the dragon finds them and descends on the rear of the convoy, burning and devouring scores of still-living victims. It's later revealed that the dragon killed 130 people in this attack, all of them dying gruesome and horrific deaths.
- The Ancient Fire Dragon makes a grand entrance by consuming a lesser dragon in Episode 3. By lesser, we mean one big enough for people to ride on.
- Piña witnessing the firepower of the JSDF's 4th Combat Team, who make short work out of 600 armed brigands. The speed of how fast these people can kill things bring out the Hopeless War perspective of the whole scenario.
- Any time that her having difficulty negotiating with the Japanese is played for comedy is funny... until you realize that while the audience knows that no, the Japanese won't rape, pillage, and murder their way across the empire,
*Piña doesn't know that.* She has no choice (due to limited diplomatic experience with groups that aren't part of the empire) but to assume that as the stronger country, the Japanese would do *exactly* what the Empire would do in her scenario. Every scene where she tries to apologize to Itami for her soldiers beating him up? That's a scene where she's *desperately trying to avoid the death of her nation,* and the foreign soldiers with so much power are *laughing at her.* Which, scarily enough, is precisely what she witnessed, and was **proud of** her own ambassadors doing when the Empire had a "debate" with an ambassador from a vassal country while she was growing up.
- The worst-case scenario had Italica fall to the bandits and them having their way with Piña and Countess Myui. The latter is
*11 years old*.
- The speed and casualness of Rory's slaughter with her laughing the whole time.
- The Hakone Shoot-out at the hot springs. Everyone's there just trying to have a good time, only to wake up in the middle of the night to find it converted into a gory graveyard (thanks to Rory).
- While we're on Hakone, seriously think about it. You got special forces ||from three different countries|| trying to abduct you. If that's not enough to incite Paranoia Fuel, what will?
- The Akusho district, the slums of the Imperial capital. The slave market is open to the public, the butcher has some mystery meat with hands sticking out of it, drug use seems to be rampant, and so is prostitution. Oh, and criminal bosses work here with assassins not afraid to cut up their victims and leave them lying in the streets, be it men, women, or children. A Crapsack World packed into a part of a capital city.
- The Special Region experiencing an earthquake for the first time. To them, it was considered the end of the world.
- Zorzal's red-ass beatdown at the hands of Kuribayashi. He was asking for it, but still.
- Crosses over with Tear Jerker, but the way that Yao describes how easy it was to do what she did to Tuka... she starts with a Slasher Smile as she talks about how easy it was for Itami to be manipulated, but the more she explains about exactly what the Fire Dragon did to her village, she starts breaking down, never losing the smile as she cries. She's just so
*broken* and all of a sudden, we get to see how far she's willing to go in the name of saving her people...
- Some of the dark elves go off the deep end and
*willingly* get eaten by the dragon.
- Itami's own dark past involving his parents and seeing the similarities between Tuka and his own clinically insane mother.
- The fates of captured apostles are not pretty at all.
- Zorzal taking the throne.
- Youji, Yao, and Rory facing a horde female Plague Zombies. Don't let the "normal" look fool you...
- Any romance among JSDF personnel and Special Area citizens, be it humans or non-humans, may abruptly end when JSDF fulfills their objectives, if JSDF personnel take leave or rotate out, or if the Gate disappears.
- Imagine the fear of thousands of JSDF personnel if the Gate suddenly disappeared. Only Hardy knows why the gate exists and how long it will last.
- Imagine the fates of the ALC (Alnus Living Comunity), aka, Alnus Town, founded by 30 some odd refugees from Coda Village, elderly, wounded, and children, should the Gate close suddenly and unexpectedly. Their livelihood, and that of the denizens of Clan Formal, who were hired there, predominantly rely on trade goods coming through the Gate. What are they going to do when the gate closes?
- What would happens to any offspring among Earthlings and Special Region's Residents. Would they get acknowledged by one of the two societies? Or none?
- Imagine being an immortal and all the perks that go with it, when suddenly something much bigger than you manages to eat you whole. The thing's stomach is stronger than your hands so you have no way of getting out. You'll just have to wait until the thing poops you out. Just ask Rory.
- Piña is apparently enslaved by Zorzal at the end of episode 21, and the Imperial army is marching on the Jade Palace, vastly outnumbering the Rose Order Knights who defend it.
- Episode 22 makes it worse! Not only does Zorzal enslave Piña, he has her thrown into Tyuule's slave quarters, "dressed" as a slave, with "her sentence" being decided, and the Imperial army numbering in the thousands is forced to fight, lest the Oprichnina go to their homes and burn them down, with the soldier's families still inside! And the Oprichnina are cheering for it!
- Mixed with Paranoia Fuel in Episode 24 for Zorzal. Since his ego couldn't bear the thought that
*anyone* is better than him, not even Rory, an apostle, and challenged Itami directly, Itami put him in his place. In the novel, he grabbed a goblet out of Tyuule's hand, put it in Zorzal's, and called out the callsign of the sniper team observing the confrontation, giving them the command to shoot the goblet in Zorzal's hand. In Episode 24, the sniper team acts on their own when Zorzal tries to attack Itami, with a sniper bullet hitting the floor next to him. In both cases, Itami tells Zorzal outright that if he didn't let Piña go, and promise to stop sending assassins after Lelei, the next bullet would go in his head. To say that Zorzal did not take it well is a serious understatement; just one part of his breakdown is the mere thought of an instantaneous death he can't see coming as he starts imagining gunshots in his retreat, screaming at sounds that aren't even happening.
- The light novel has an astronomer of the Special Region realize that the Gate is
*altering the orbits of planets in their solar system.* Does something like that happen on the other side too?
- Hardy implies that it is in Volume 7.
- Volume 7 displays what happens when the gate is open too long: an extra-dimensional "fog of death" called "the Apocrypha" descends on the Special Region, killing everything it touches, including microbes, and bending space-time. Hardy strongly implies that this would ultimately spread to Earth as well once the Special Region dies.
- Volume 8. Leilei participates in a "Gate Opening" experiment to try and open a gate of her own. The results culminate in Itami and every single member of the Japanese staff supervising the experiment freaking out completely and pleading her to close her gate immediately while putting the entire building under lockdown and ordering its destruction if communication remains broken for 24-hours, all to the complete confusion of the Special Region inhabitants present. The reason? Judging from Itami´s description after returning from a quick trip through her gate, she accidentally opened a straight path to a
*Xenomorph* nest!
- Volume 8. Zorzal outlines to Tyuule exactly why the JSDF absolutely
*cannot lose* the fight with him. Not only does he break his word regarding the treatment of captured enemy citizens, he leaves evidence of his wrongdoing in places where it can easily be found by his victims, hoping to enrage them so he can have the pleasure of beating them down, but should that fail to have the desired effect, *that's when he gets nasty.*
- The Arachnids. Hardy eventually reveals that keeping the Gate open allows "interdimensional parasites" to enter Alnus. That alone is terrifying, but it gets worse. To keep the invaders from overrunning both worlds, Lelei
*shuts the Gate.* Think about the implications of that: Alnus, and by extension Japan, had revolutionized the economy and brought the single most powerful military force in the Special Area to the ground. Now, a modern force of soldiers is trapped with equipment that might as well be useless. Napoleon said it best, "An army marches on its stomach." Now, that army has no way to feed. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gate |
General and I / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The death of the Queen of Jin. Consort Zhang makes sure no one else is nearby before visiting her late at night. She reveals how she always hated her, taunts her about killing her children, then smothers her with a pillow. The queen's terror and Consort Zhang's laughter makes it even worse. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GeneralAndI |
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Again just like
**his** other works, there is a Nightmare Fuel section.
- Ledo's description of what happens to Alliance members who can no longer serve as soldiers—they're "retired" in the
*Blade Runner* sense. Made especially unnerving in how he tells this to a gravely ill boy and his sister as if it's completely normal, which it is in his world. The Alliance is looking worse with each episode...however, to be fair, Chamber mentions in the first episode that no known Earth-like planets exist, or at least have been found by the Galactic Alliance despite having spread out quite far in the galaxy. Which probably means that resources may be scarce. On top of that, they're fighting what seems to be a losing war against the Hideauze, despite their advanced technology compared to those living on Earth. So Ledo was just using Brutal Honesty, since that's all he's known in his short life, and to him, keeping someone like Bevel alive would mean less resources going towards someone who could fight against the Hideauze.
- Looking at the shots of the destroyed colonies during the battle scenes in Episode 1, major Fridge Horror sets in when you see some huge holes punctured in their glass domes. The air supply was probably all sucked out into space, along with many people. Remember when Ranka was almost sucked into space in
*Macross Frontier*? Imagine that happening to perhaps *thousands of people* all at once.
- Imagine Chamber's attack in Episode 2 from the Pirates' side. Beams of light come from the sky and destroy your entire fleet. Then, all of a sudden, the guys in front of you suddenly turn into puffs of ash, and you
*still* have **no** idea wha--
- Episode 5, while Played for Laughs. Ledo's encounters with the gay bar employees can come across as a bit disturbing. Not only do they chase him down after he's given a very clear indication that he wants them to leave him alone. They're actions in pursuing him end up not only damaging a ladder and endangering a teenager, but nearly getting themselves killed in the process as well.
- Episode 9. Ledo enters the Hideauze nest and spies a "nursery" filled with babies. Despite how they look somewhat like human embryos, he proceeds to burn them
*alive*, and we hear them scream. Then Ledo finally has to ask what's *really* going on here, and with only token reluctance, Chamber shows him an archive news clip detailing The Reveal... **Hideauze are biomechanically evolved humans fighting over access to space with the humans who decided to leave the rapidly freezing Earth.** A baby Hideauze then swims up to Ledo and just acts like a curious child. Chamber then proceeds to take initiative and crush it in his bare hands without Ledo's command, and Ledo proceeds to scream in existential anguish. Cut to ChouCho's calming ED.
- Immediately before the actual reveal, Chamber's "reluctance" is because the information just scanned is listed classified at the highest level of the GA. That would only be possible is that the GA leadership
*knows exactly what the Hideauze are.* The entire war is being fought by their conscript soldiers who don't have the knowledge that their leaders do - that the Hideauze are of human descent.
- Episode 12. In Striker's Earth-based Alliance cult, "unfit" Earthlings are disposed of much like back in space; dumped over the side of the ship.
*And it's treated as a holy religious ceremony in honor of their "god" Striker.* Ledo's also treated to a boy being dumped who looks strangely happy about his ritualistic murder. When he reminds Ledo of Bevel and his brother, he finally decides to take action against his former masters.
- The revelation that pilots can merge their nervous systems with their mechas for maximum performance. Ledo's cry, "Just go and eat me!" raises some more Fridge Horror: is that what happened to Kugel? Taking things further,
*is that what happens to* all *GA mecha pilots?* And taking things ''even'' further, is the GA government *actually run by AI?* (which might make sense given that the Alliance's alphabet appears to be a very artificial looking set of blocks, almost like binary representation of something...) Gen reminds us that you don't need to kill them all to leave some major Fridge Horror.
- In part two of the OVA
*Meguru Kouro, Haruka*, Reema's backstory is further explored. She's actually a spy from an unnamed land based country, and originally wanted to have Ledo go back with her to further develop a mecha her country discovered after her initial plans to recruit Kugel failed. In one scene she mentions that her country has been at war for centuries, suggesting that not all things went well for everyone on Earth. When a navy from her country attacks the boats containing her and two of her comrades, they are using ships that are on par with what Gargantia's fleet is using, suggesting that they lost the capabilities to use the advanced technology that was left behind on Earth after the Continental Union and the Evolvers took their war into space. And it unfortunately hints at the fact that humans are still actively killing each other on Earth. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet |
GaoGaiGar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Moment pages are Spoilers Off by default, so all spoilers are unmarked. Proceed with caution. You Have Been Warned.
Nightmare Fuel in
*GaoGaiGar*.
- Lord Pasder, leader of the Machine Kings and their Zonder minions, the entity known to the Gutsy Geoid Guard as "Extra Intelligence-01", is a nightmarish Mechanical Abomination that looks like a cross between a giant mechanical heart and a
*human face*, with red, bulbous eyes and a grimacing mouth. The way his whole body constantly squirms and pulsates, combined with his deep and menacing voice, makes him come off as truly freaky and unsettling.
- Speaking of the Machine Kings, let's talk about Penchinon. The other Machine Kings have relatively human forms, with the most cybernetic-looking being Polonaise, whose head looks like a cross between a steam train and a mechanical caterpillar. All of them can also assume a perfectly normal looking human form. Then there's Penchinon, whose default form is basically a tugboat with a single mechanical eye, legs, and pincer-clawed hands. His "human" form, on the other hand, looks like a Monster Clown wearing an old-timey sailor suit, with his right eye missing and covered by a patch emblazoned with an anchor symbol, a too-wide red-lipped toothy grin, and a staring mad yellow eye contrasting a half-purple, half-white face. It says a lot about Penchinon's state of mind that
*this* is his idea of A Form You Are Comfortable With.
- What truly makes Penchinon terrifying is his laugh. A high-pitched, reverberating "BREEEEEE!" in the Japanese, and an instant, staccato cackle in the English.
- Episode 20 has an infamous scene where the vice-principal of Mamoru's school opens a door in the toilet and finds Penchinon in there, sitting on the toilet and laughing at him. Why is he there?
*Because he felt like being creepy*.
- In episode 3, the government decides to [send a full assault squad and helicopter to "retrieve" little Mamoru, after the kid transformed and purified another monster. They have at least five guys yank the kid, thrashing and crying for his parents, off of his feet. All while saying that they didn't want to hurt him.]
- Also the previews for episode 31. A satellite drifting quietly in space, a close-up of a small rock beside it... spooky music? And then BOOM! FULL-SCREEN PASDER, complete with his Evil Laugh and Pagliaccio DEVOURING HIM WHOLE. And just to top it all off? Episode 31's title: Farewell, GGG.
- Episode 16: A university festival vanishes into a fireball, with little warning, leaving nothing but a massive crater. What would give small children nightmares is the way the attack is presented - it's very reminiscent of Sarah Connor's dream sequence in
*Terminator 2: Judgment Day* and unlike any other so far, we see the injured and the scale of the disaster, implying that people actually *died* this time.
- Guy's BRUTAL Beatdown of the Zonuda. Sure, it seems awesome, but when you hear Guy's anguished and enraged screams as he destroys the beast that contains Mikoto by ripping it apart, even after GaoGaiGar starts falling apart, you can't help but shiver. He doesn't even resort to using any of his special attacks, just roaring in rage and tearing it limb from limb. And when it comes to the core... he just rips it out, no Hell and Heaven nor Goldion Hammer.
- FINAL invokes this by the boatload, but special mention has to be given to episode 2 :
- Mamoru (actually a replicant, but the color scheme and Mamoru using his powers makes it EXTREMELY hard to tell) goes and manipulates or outright kills everyone in his way to acquire Q-Parts, with blatant disregard for life or decency, pulling at heartstrings and gas-lighting his friends with lines such as "Believe me! The whole universe is in danger! Why won't you understand?", "If you won't listen to reason, you leave me no choice!", "I'm not wrong, YOU are!", while refusing to actually give any explanation, to stall for time before pulling a sucker punch. The whole thing would leave most people feeling downright nauseous.
- And then it is revealed that Mamoru's replicant has been twisted into THAT by Palparepa's Mind Control.
- The fight between "Mamoru" in GaoGaiGar (based on a deathly white Galeon, which immediately raises a lot of questions) versus Guy in GaoFighGar. Some of the expressions Mamoru wears are downright inhumane, and Guy himself is reduced to barking orders for the Goldion Hammer (even Goldymarg is very much nonplussed at the idea of being used against Mamoru), and to finish, Berserker Tears as he finally resolves to go beyond the Godzilla Threshold and use Hell and Heaven, after seeing Mamoru destroy ChoRyuJin. That Mamoru might have been a replicant, but what Guy did in that fight was 100% on him and he was clearly NOT okay at all with having had to go that far.
- Not to say anything of the damage to the city both super mechanoids are fighting in, which Guy lampshades as Mamoru winds up a Rocket Punch.
- FINAL episode 5 :
- We get an absolutely horrifying flashback of Renais going through Cold-Blooded Torture to coerce her into loyalty to BioNet. Her backstory as a whole is this too, what with being abducted and having her mother killed.
- Just as the good guys have a Hope Spot after freeing J and J-Ark, Palus Abel reveals what the Sol Masters have in store: the replicants of GGG super mechanoids, brainwashed and uttering the Madness Mantra of "Destroy. Destroy. Destroy.", and for good measure a Brainwashed and Crazy Guy piloting replica-GaoFighGar, who also follows the Madness Mantra before going in full Screaming Warrior mode, prepped to use the Goldion Hammer. Not only is the Oh, Crap! factor utterly horrifying, but this is nothing compared to Guy's face while under the Mind Control, and the anguished scream of Mikoto. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GaoGaiGar |
Generator Rex / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Remember Kids, messing with Nanomachines can lead to this!As lighthearted and action-packed as the show is, the series revolves around any living creature on Earth turning into monsters at random due to being infected by a global contamination of nanomachines. In
*Generator Rex*, everyone is a ticking time bomb. You, your family, that cute Cheerful Child down the street, your pets, the squirrels in your backyard, your plants... Anyone, at any give time, for no apparent reason, can turn into a horrific monster and possibly go on a rampage, possibly forcing the authorities to put them down permanently or rely on a reckless teenager and hope he doesn't find you're incurable. The only reason humanity in the show hasn't lost their minds out of fear is probably Too Bleak, Stopped Caring.
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**Already** *Generator Rex* has demonstrated this, *in the first episode*, to list off, The Evos when they're not particularly dormant, the henchmen to Van Kleiss, and Van Kleiss, especially when ||Van Kleiss dies, and then he resurrects himself, *graphically*||, it's already quite frightening, and it's barely out. There's also visible death shown on the show besides Van Kleiss as it's revealed he slaughtered a whole army of Providence agents sent to rescue Rex.
- Almost all of the E.V.O.s seen so far are heavy on freaky design and some are straight up Body Horror. And a good number of those E.V.O.s look like Eldritch Abominations (see: Weaver's fate in "Frostbite"). The transformations into becoming an E.V.O. are not pleasant in the slightest.
- Providence, the organization made to deal with E.V.O.s, isn't very pleasant either. They have a strict "Cure, Contain, or Kill" policy and before Rex it was just the latter two, mostly the Kill one. The Kill option extends to nuking entire cities off the map and they don't treat their own staff highly since they have a strict We Have Reserves policy that makes any Providence mook expendable and they're shown to die in droves.
- Before they found Rex, Providence just gathered all the EVOs up and let Dr. Holiday's former boss put them through a disintegrator.
*ALL* EVOs got this treatment, so more than a few former humans probably died there. Some of them might have been children.
- Providence even has an EVO jail known as a the Bug Jar, which is actually the entire city of Kiev, Ukraine after a large concentration of unstable nanites funneled into the city, turning the majority of its inhabitants into mindless EVO beasts.
- The Big Bad, Van Kleiss. He's vampiric in his nature and appearance, which may not necessarily be frightening, serves to make him more unnerving than he already was. He's rather creepy in his own right given his powers, giant mechanical hand with needle fingers, voice, and personality. And the scene where Van Kleiss fed off of Rex by stabbing into his abdomen was painful to watch. He gets worse over the series and eventually gains the power to create E.V.O.s at will by touching anyone other than Rex.
- Van Kleiss' relationship and intense focus on Rex becomes even creepier when you realize he's also the one who killed his parents and constantly goads him with promises to reveal more about his past in exchange for allegiance. To kill an amnesiac boy's parents is awful, but to manipulate said boy with promises of information about family he killed personally makes Van Kleiss' actions towards Rex even more sickening in hindsight.
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**Breach**. Everything about her from her creepy pale-skinned mismatch four-armed appearance to her unstable mental state just makes her a case of walking Surreal Horror. Any Providence mook sees her as The Dreaded and tremble in fear of this Monster Girl. Not to mention she can liberally make portals anywhere and to places across the planet or other dimensions. Including a horrible personal dimension where she keeps things like Evos and people like toys, and she wants to collect Rex!
- In the episode "Breach" (which is a nice
*Silent Hill* type of episode) there is a Creepy Child, E.V.O., that Rex meets, she ends up turning into a huge blob monster out to kill Rex. The much more subtle horror was to look how devoted that girl was to Breach's 'world'. The girl was either damaged from the start or Breach broke her mind to what it was when we saw her.
- Everything Breach said in that episode should also qualify, especially "I give nothing... Never. I
*take*." What's really creepy is the fact that this the same voice for sweet and kind Starfire from *Teen Titans*.
- The bunny suit in Breach's schoolhouse.
- This song in particular sounds a lot like the background music used when Van Kleiss introduces himself and when he twists his head in a way that was not meant to be.
- Rex's nanite overload in "Frostbite" is also pretty horrible... metal tumors
*that move* start bursting at random from all over his body, notably his face.
- Weaver's transformation into an Evo due to being exposed to a silo of activated nanites is pretty horrifying especially when it shows tentacles sprouting from his back and his body contorting into a giant cancerous mess.
- One episode has a Providence agent being eaten alive by E.V.O-mutated fish. No Gory Discretion Shot, either; No punches are pulled in telling you that man is fish-food.
- One episode is about how the new military/government branch after the big bang met our hero. During the episode, the group goes up against a giant machine/mecha, one that utterly destroys half of the high-tech, monster-killing machines they brought with them and the men manning them. Turns out, after finally hurting the thing, that the mecha was controlled by none other than our Hero. The really bad part? He's a kid that unfortunately has suffered repeated cases of amnesia and has no idea when the next memory loss will happen. Now combine that with the previous. Try watching the show now without looking at Rex like a ticking time bomb.
- Rex's amnesia is pretty terrifying. His brain can reboot at any time without warning. Imagine waking up one morning and having no idea who you are, or who any of your family are. Your whole life just gone. It's a frightening thought.
- Even worse: he isn't always the same person. At least one of his previous reboots was a real jerkass.
- In "Plague", the nanites are causing nearly every living creature to sleep due to nano-mutated virus, staying asleep while E.V.O.s remain unaffected. According to Holiday, people would eventually die of thirst and accidents are happening all over the world which only Rex can apparently stop.
- Van Kleiss' fate when he is sent back in time. After being sent back to ancient Egypt by Breach, Van Kleiss spent the better part of 4,000 years inside of a small container, completely aware, unable to move and occasionally leaving to fix his machine, and praying that Breach, who'd been trapped as some swirling energy mass, didn't catch him because then he'd be erased from existence. That's a pretty horrible fate. It's even shown later that the experience left Van Kleiss ultimately deranged and helpless. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GeneratorRex |
Ghost Beach / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Harrison Sadler's fate. He's sealed in a cave with three ghost children who killed multiple dogs to protect their secret, and have every reason to hate him. He'd be lucky if they just decide to kill him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostBeach |
Genshin Impact / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Just because the world of
*Genshin Impact* is sunshine and rainbows compared to its sister game *Honkai Impact 3rd* doesn't mean it's squeaky clean fun for the whole family either.
- Scaramouche finally appears in the main story as of the 2.1 update, and good
*lord* does he make for an intimidating foe. His Soft-Spoken Sadist tendencies are in full force now, and its blatantly clear that his cheerful, carefree facade at the beginning of Unreconciled Stars has been completely shed by this point.
- The trailer for 2.5 reveals something to be wrong with Ei. A shot of the Plane of Euthymia, an inner world with herself as its sole occupant, ominously empty, and she states in an alarmingly pained voice that she's leaving everything in Miko's hands. Yae herself tells the Traveler that she's entrusting her god to them, and asks them to bring her back. Even during the Vision Hunt Decree, she rarely wavers from her tone of aloof amusement, but here she sounds like she's barely keeping it together. It also debuts a new boss in Ei's likeness, except where Ei relied more on raw martial prowess augmented by her Electro powers, this boss opts to show off those Electro powers on a far grander scale. The last shot of the trailer shows two Eis in a standoff, one wielding Musou Isshin, and the other Engulfing Lightning. Ei might have been convinced to do away with the Vision Hunt Decree, but Inazuma's Archon problems are far from over. One way or another, her decisions as Archon are about to come back to bite her, big time.
- The teaser for the Teyvat Chapter Interlude is (no pun intended) chilling.
- It opens with Pierro playing chess using the two acquired Gnoses while monologuing about a war where every pawn will not be spared, and Checkmate is not when the game ends, seemingly implying that the Tsarista is planning to go further than overthrowing Celestia. Later, The rest of the Harbingers (except Scaramouche, who became AWOL after acquiring the Electro gnosis) are gathered for Signoras funeral after her loss in Inazuma, most of them (minus Childe) debuting for the first time on screen. First is Columbina, who is seen singing Signoras theme, smiling serenely as she rests her head on the fallen Harbingers casket. Throughout each of the introductions, the Harbingers (barring possibly Arlecchino) appear to care not for their fallen comrade and are more occupied with mocking each other. Pierro appears to quell their bickering, and as the rest of the Harbingers stand around Signoras casket, Pierro declares that they will seize authority from Celestia in the name of the Tsarista. With 4 nations to go, and Scaramouche seemingly stealing the Electro gnosis for himself, it appears that Signoras death will cause the Fatui to double, it not triple their efforts to acquiring the rest of the gnoses, which could entail more needless deaths and chaos.
- the Teaser doesnt end here. Columbina (innocently or mockingly) comments that Dottore looks exceptionally young today, with Dottore furiously replying that he does
*not* consider that a compliment. Columbina then asks where Dottores prime section is, and his reply is that he is busy doing an experiment in blasphemy. The dialogue about 'Prime' Dottore is overlaid over footage of him smiling smugly as he stares at a giant tree burning, before it cuts to Collei, a former subject of the Fatuis schemes, waking up from a nightmare in fright. It appears that, in a bid to gain the Dendro Archons gnosis and maybe get revenge on Sumeru Academy for rejecting his idea of a super-enhanced human, Dottore is willing to burn down what looks to be *the entirety of Sumeru* just to do that. *And Collei possibly had a vision of that future without knowing*.
- The trailer for 3.1 has Dottore smiling smugly at the camera while a crowd of seemingly brainwashed Sumeru citizens approach the camera and overwhelm the viewer, then the next scene has one of the game's most graphic scenes yet: Nahida (who is currently possessing Katheryne) running away in wide eyed fear as some members of the Corps of Thirty pounce onto her. The Traveler tries to reach out to her but alas, they are too late to stop Katheryne from being speared in the back. As Nahida struggles through the pain, the sound of Scaramouche's laughter can be heard, heralding his reappearance, this time plugged into a giant robot and menacingly talking about how "your era is coming to an end."
- The Character Teaser for Nahida.
- It starts out blissful and serene with the girl herself happily narrating about her people celebrating her birthday during the Sabszeruz Festival and ends with her being inside on a flower carriage (with the second dream even featuring the Traveler (Aether) being among the guests). However, her third dream becomes nightmarish, as the screen starts to flicker gray, the landscape is lifeless white and the sky is of menacing red, and her identical narration now has a tinge of sadness and despair as she is forcibly dragged away by the Akademiya Sages and the "flower carriage" she is placed onto is actually her prison inside the Sanctuary of Surasthana.
- Put yourself in Nahida's shoes for a moment. Waking up disoriented and afraid in a dead wasteland, she's suddenly approached by strange men who drag her away by force, with seemingly no pomp or ceremony as she is led past Sumeru's grieving citizens and promptly thrown into what would be her prison for life. Her introduction to Sumeru, rather than the joyous welcome whose honeymoon period wore off quickly that it was previously described as, is depicted here more like a
*kidnapping*, with the scene where she is pulled along by the Sage accompanied by the sound of rattling chains. *This was her birthday.* **These are the first memories she's ever made.**
- Klee may be an adorable and energetic little girl, but she's capable of engineering
*very* powerful bombs. It's probably unsettling to live in the same city with someone who makes explosives for fun, even if that person is a sweet kid who doesn't mean harm and is still learning what consequences are.
- There's one book that explains how Hilichurls are able to weaponize Pyro Slimes: by dunking them in water until nearly drowning and cannot light themselves anymore, stuffing them into pouches to use for later, and then slamming them against the ground to create a spark and re-ignite them.
- The Stone Forest right off the coast of Liyue isn't a natural rock formation - it's a seal that Rex Lapis set up to trap an ancient god at the bottom of the ocean. And after the Traveler defeats Childe, he uses a number of Seals of Permission to break the seal releasing this god, who takes on the form of a colossal water hydra.
- Wuwang Hill, an abandoned settlement not far from Qingce Village that's shrouded in fog and filled with dilapidated houses, collapsed signboards, and decaying wells. And if you decide to read a log book about Wuwang Hill, you'll find out why it became so derelict: most of the young people had been sacrificed to a Sea Monster, leaving behind only the elderly who eventually died of natural causes. Hey, remember those creepy blue orbs floating around the woods nearby?
- The Chinese version of Hu Tao's hilichurl song is derived from a children's song about rabbits. The original song has additional lyrics stating that the fifth rabbit/hilichurl is not coming back, and a common interpretation is that it was killed and used as an ingredient in the medicine for the first one's illness. Fittingly macabre for Hu Tao.
- Dragonspine's Wyrmrest Valley is full of skeletal remains that belonged to Durin, a dragon that was defeated by Dvalin eons ago. The sheer scale of these bone structures give an unsettling sense of just how big Durin was, apparently dwarfing even Dvalin himself. Furthermore, there's a cave in the center of the valley which contains his
*still* beating heart. One must wonder if Durin is really, truly dead or simply laying in wait.
- Entering the cave is a spooky experience in its own right. The deeper you go in, the more the music fades out until it's eventually replaced by a low heartbeat, while the ground turns into a carpet of gooey-looking...
*stuff* that squishes when you walk on it. And the way your cold meter goes down as you get closer to the heart has some pretty interesting implications in a game where everything poofs into dust.
- Childe's backstory. He used to be a normal thirteen year-old before he ran away from home, fell through a crack in the earth, and wound up in the Abyss where he spent three months fighting for his life, despite how he was actually gone for just three days in the real world. After that, he began showing violent, antisocial tendencies to the point where his father dragged him to the Fatui in the hopes they could discipline him, but he was so skilled at fighting that Childe eventually ended up being promoted to the rank of Harbinger. All he did was weaponize his childhood trauma for the sake of becoming a living killing machine.
- One possible route of Sayu's Hangout Event takes an unexpectedly dark turn. The event starts with Sayu revealing that she had actually received an order from the Shuumatsuban to assassinate the Traveler. If they choose to investigate this, they discover the Yashiro Commission member, Ogara's daughter has been kidnapped by a band of Kairagi, who threatened to kill her unless Ogara had one of his ninja kill the Traveler. Ogara assigned the job to Sayu, assuming she'd drag her feet on it as usual, and is understandably horrified when it looks like she actually did it. When Ogara meets with the Kairagi to report the Traveler's "death", they refuse to give his daughter back, and attempt to further blackmail him into having various members of the Tenryou Commission assassinated as well.
- Encountering a Withering Zone in Sumeru is quite the terrifying experience. The colors on the screen suddenly go dull, the music turns
*incredibly* creepy, and the decay starts to creep into your body, weakening your defenses. And if you stay too long in the zone without cleansing the decay, *your entire party dies on the spot.*
- The Forbidden Knowledge seems like something out of a Cosmic Horror Story. The origin of the Withering, the Eleazar disease, and the corruption within the Irminsul tree, its precise nature may be impossible for anyone to know. Emerging in times and places where the Abyss comes in contact with Teyvat, its nature is so fundamentally alien and antithetical to existance as we know it that it is effectively a Brown Note for the world itself. Reality seems to break down upon exposure to it, causing things like Withering zones to appear. That's all bad enough in and of itself, but when you put together the information you've learned since coming to Sumeru you realize that it's actually infected the Irminsul itself!
- One of the medium ranked bounty targets for Liyue involves taking out a Rock Shieldwall Mitachurl, however the reason behind it is downright disturbing: The person who put a bounty on once encountered a hilichurl carrying a Geo shield (who is merely observing him) and he was told by his parents that hilichurls are dangerous creatures that attack humans. Now, as a grown-up, he saw the same hilichurl, who is now a mitachurl, resting with the same shield. But again, rather than attack, the mitachurl simply picked up his shield and left. Despite this, the man
*still put a bounty on a mitachurl* for simply existing. A sad indicator that his prejudice finally took root on his mindset, all because his parents told him so.
- Wanderer's character stories reveal that prior to becoming a Harbinger, he was tasked with long explorations into the Abyss. While it was less than a century on the surface, it's unclear how long he
*actually* spent in the Abyss because of how time moves differently there. Because his unique nature meant he didn't require food or rest, he would continue exploring and fighting until something managed to damage him too badly to continue. Once Dottore repaired him, he would immediately be sent back until the next time something nearly killed him, this cycle repeating many times until he finally came back with results that earned him a place among the Harbingers. Signora's comment about him being ranked 6th because of his endurance was quite accurate, since his main use to the Fatui was his ability to survive both the depths of the Abyss and Dottore's experiments.
## Prologue: The Outlander Who Caught the Wind
- The terrifying amount of power the Unknown God has and the absolute ease with which she delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to both twins fighting her simultaneously. The battle ends with her covering both siblings in her energy cubes and forcibly transporting them through space, ripping them away from each other. Worse still, we know nothing about her - not her name, her position, why she is out to punish humanity, how she intends to do so, etc. If you thought the likes of Herrscher of the Void or even "God Kiana"
note : The final boss of *HI3*'s predecessor *Guns Girl Z*. weren't terrifying enough, then this mysterious character will.
- Dvalin, the Anemo dragon and one of the Four Winds, went crazy due to The Corruption magic being performed on him to in order to stoke his resentment towards humanity, and as a result he becomes known as Stormterror by most of Teyvat during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. You get introduced to him when he nearly rips the entire city of Mondstadt apart with his wind storms, and the arduous ordeal of stopping him and bringing him back to his senses spans throughout the entire three-part
*Prologue.* We're in for a very long and dangerous journey, folks.
- The Eleven Fatui Harbingers. The first one Traveler encounters is La Signora, and despite being a mortal having been given power by the Tsaritsa, she seems to have no trouble whatsoever with giving Venti (Barbatos,
*A GOD*) the Curb-Stomp Battle of a lifetime, ending with her incapacitating him while Elite Mooks pin the Traveler down and knock them out too. This is her introductory scene, and it comes soon after the heroes managed to free Dvalin. La Signora isn't even top brass among Fatui ranks; she's just *one* of the Eleven.
## I: Farewell, Archaic Lord
- Childes One-Winged Angel form. After he finds out that the Exuvia didnt have Rex Lapis gnosis, he goes absolutely ballistic and unleashes the full power of his Vision
*and* Delusion, turning into a one eyed monster with a Voice of the Legion who can dual wield Hydro and Electro. Even before we meet his One-Winged Angel form, The Reveal of Childe's personality as a Psychopathic Manchild Blood Knight when the Traveler meets him in the Golden House can be pretty terrifying after how he was so amicable to the Traveler.
- The Tsaritsa herself, the currently unseen Cryo Archon who wants control over all the other Archons' territories, starting with Venti's Mondstadt. She's the one who empowered the eleven Fatui Harbingers and gave us La Signora, Tartaglia, Scaramouche, and all the other Fatuu we haven't been introduced to yet, but judging by the looks of it they're going to be every little bit as crazy and bloodthirsty too.
## Chapter I, Act IV: We Will be Reunited
- The "We Will be Reunited" Archon Quest kicks off with the Traveler going out to investigate the Treasure Hoarders' activities around some ruins connected to the Abyss Order. All part and parcel, nothing you haven't seen before, you could do this in your sleep. Then you enter the ruins. It's empty besides a handful of Hilichurls, even though Hoarders from two different countries set up camp down there, and the architecture slowly becomes more hostile the deeper you traverse. Then you reach the final room to find an Anemo Archon statue suspended upside down from the ceiling while a dead (yes, dead — Paimon confirms this) Treasure Hoarder kneels frozen before it.
- The Treasure Hoarder's reveal is extra upsetting by how he's posed, kneeling in front of the Defiled Statue as if praying, clawed hands drooping in front of his turned-down face. Makes you wonder what the hell even happened before you got there.
- Look closely at the stone spikes around the room and you'll see wet red spatters on them — it seems like the poor guy was lucky he at least died in one piece.
- The Reveal that, most likely due to the God's actions, the Traveler's sibling seems to have succumbed to some sort of corruption and is now the
*leader* of the Abyss Order.
- The Internal Reveal comes at the end of an extremely creepy quest chain and is paired with a reveal about Khaen'riah that is pure Nightmare Fuel in its own right.
## II: Omnipresence Over Mortals
- Inazuma's Archon Quest reveals a new fact about Visions: they aren't just a magic trinket rewarded for one's ambitions, they are literally ambitions physically manifested as a source of power. They're so integral to Vision Bearers that, when they lose them, their memories and sense of self start to decay to the point of becoming into a completely different person altogether. You get to witness the end result in grueling detail when you talk to citizens who were targeted by the Vision Hunt Decree, and it's telling that one of the Traveler's dialogue options afterwords is calling it a fate worse than death.
- Then there's the Traveler confronting the Shogun herself when she notices that the Traveler doesn't have a Vision, before declaring that "[they] will be inlaid upon this statue". Considering that the Traveler doesn't have a Vision she can confiscate, it's very likely that Baal intended to implant their entire corpse into the statue.
- Raiden Shogun's Hopeless Boss Fight, period. For the first time in the story, YOU are on the receiving end of an Archon's full power, and the game does everything it can to make you feel helpless by giving Raiden bottomless HP, massive damage output, rapid fire attacks, full Electro resistance, and the ability to flash step across the arena just so she can beat your ass even harder. And right when you think you might stand an inkling of a chance?
Everyone's skills and bursts are now useless unless you took the Traveler in with you. Have fun. **"The Vision Hunt Decree is in force."**
- The Plane of Euthymia where her Curbstomp Battle takes place helps set the tone, too; apparently Ei's innermost sanctum is a black void with a deep red moon looming in the sky. It feels like the quintessential illustration of how desolate and isolated Inazuma became under her rule.
- The Traveler, currently on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the Fatui for supplying Sangonomiya rebels with Delusions that killed their friend Teppei, had confronted Scaramouche in the Delusion factory. However, the purple mist isn't his own magic - it's
**Orobashi's**, and the Traveler gets incapacitated by the Tatarigami's influence because of their own rage. Scaramouche would've likely killed them on the spot if Yae didn't show up just in time.
- After defeating Signora in a duel where the loser is executed by the Raiden Shogun, we get a firsthand look at the
*Musou no Hitotachi* in action and well... let's just say Signora learns the hard way why pissing off an Archon isn't a good idea. To wit, after a single strike, Signora gets hacked up by several slashes before a pillar of lightning descends and literally reduces her to ash, leaving nothing but her crown and a crackling, blackened spot where Signora stood two seconds ago. She definitely deserved her fate, but *Jesus Christ*...
- For Signora, the Raiden Shogun slowly walking towards her the moment she loses is this. She doesn't spare a single word, walking past the Traveler without even looking at them and completely ignoring Signora's attempts to talk her way out as Ei gets ready to kill her. She lets the Traveler go, but the Aside Glance she gives them is anything
*but* reassuring.
- After Signora is defeated, Raiden honors the Traveler's victory over her by allowing them to leave her palace alive, but you don't get to run out to enjoy the spoils like every other time you won a boss battle. Instead, you slowly walk through the palace grounds while a thunderstorm boils around you, thunderbolts striking inches away as your vision grows blurry from the crushing migraine caused by unbridled Electro energy. The only thing stopping Raiden from vapourizing you is formality.
- And sure enough, once the pair reach the entrance to the palace courtyard the Shogun immediately lunges from a portal to attack, treating us to a
*lovely* Jump Scare of her as a giant physical manifestation of hatred and Killing Intent. Had Kazuha not activated his friend's Vision in time, Traveler and Paimon would've been the next victim of *Musou no Hitotachi*.
## Interlude Chapter II: Perilous Trail
- The Chasm's Bed featured in this Archon Quest is one of the most terrifying places in the game. An Eldritch Location par excellence, the space seems to be actively malicious despite having no obviously apparent sentience. It traps people, reads its victims' minds, messes up their sense of time, hunger, and fatigue, warps space and time to lure them further in with mirages of their desires, brings their fears to life to further ensnare them, and eventually, causes them to succumb to the darkness entirely, turning them into faceless lost souls that are shadows of their former selves. It took a herculean effort from Xiao and the rest of the group just to escape, and even then it took Zhongli's direct intervention to ensure that no one gets left behind.
- The cutscene showing the group's escape sequence using the Fantastic Compass further shows just how terrifying the Chasm's Bed really is, as they're met with fierce opposition from red wraith-like ghosts (implied to be the lost souls of past victims) who attack the Traveler's party directly and swarm them all over. Despite the party's best efforts to fend them off, they're soon greeted by the space's true form: a red-and-black cloud of darkness that wouldn't be out of place in a Cosmic Horror Story, that threatens to engulf them entirely and forcing Xiao to use up all of his power just to escape its clutches. It's by that point that the Chasm's Bed has caught on to the group's attempt to escape and is done playing mind games, doing everything in its power to launch a retaliatory assault on the party to ensure they never get out alive.
## III: Truth Amongst the Pages of Purana
- During the Sabzeruz Festival, The Traveler experiences a sense of Deja Vu, and surmises that they're in a Time Loop. It's not until they encounter a girl named Nahida that they discover that they're in a dream, unwittingly partaking in an experiment where the Sages in the Akademiya are harvesting the dreams of everyone during the Festival. The process makes everyone forget that they already had the Festival, so they wake up thinking it just started, not knowing that the day has been repeating over and over.
- To make matters worse, as the day keeps repeating, there are signs of fatigue on the Traveler and Paimon, meaning the experiment is taking its toll on them. But Dunyazard, who was frail to begin with, has it the worst. Soon, she starts to feel more robotic, her responses have no emotion, and her cheerful demeanor is long gone. This is a sign that her consciousness is fading, and the system is replacing her with a puppet so that those inside the dream won't notice anything out of the ordinary.
- When the Traveler first meets Nahida, she is looking after Dunyazard, the real one's consciousness, who is laying down on a bed. As the quest goes on, her condition gets worse and worse. Just as they have reached an answer regarding the repeating festival, Dunyazard is gone. Nahida sadly informs them that the experiment has taken its toll on Dunyazard, whose consciousness has faded, and the system booted her out. In a state of grief and anger, they go to the place where a group of kidnappers where waiting for Dunyazard, and proceeds to vent their anger on them.
- The Traveler and Paimon hatch a plan to figure out the loops true nature, so they decide to go to Sumeru City's border. The Traveler tells Paimon to stay behind so that if anything happens, Paimon will be there to see. Paimon reluctantly agrees, and the Traveler sets off. Except they never come back. Paimon saw them fade away after leaving Sumeru City and spent
*two days* waiting and waiting at that wall to keep her promise to be on the look out. And that's not all. The Traveler didn't fade away into nothing. The Traveler left the "space" where everyone was having the shared Sabzeruz Festival dream and ended up in an empty desert where dream spaces were in a loop of appearing and disappearing as they were being harvested, and where "Dream Puppets" end up walking around aimlessly when they have no hosted dreams to be in. The Traveler sounds so *terrified out of their mind* in their message to their future self as they describe the hellish realm they ended up in, and when they discover what the loop's true nature is, they get omniously interrupted by the reset.
- It turns out that the denizens of Sumeru aren't just immune to dreaming due to a divine gift, as the players were first told.
- The Akasha system - which has been linked directly to everyone's brains - has been
*stealing their dreams* for untold decades so that the Sages can harvest the brain power involved. Worse, the plot involves the Sages trapping the entire city in an endless dream - erasing memories, altering consciousnesses, etc - so that they can harvest their consciousness all the time and pull off some manner of unknown goal despite this as noted above actively harming the populace, which they can do relatively easily because the Akasha, if misused, allows them to alter the thoughts of anyone connected to it. The whole thing is heavily dystopian, and it only avoids resulting in casualties because Kusanali / Nahida didn't approve of the plan and went out of her way to sneak into the system and get it shut down. And even then the Sages get away with it entirely, with only setback being that the Akasha system couldn't handle another attack like that for "a while."
- Even Nahida herself isn't completely immune to the spooky nature of Akasha's power. It turns out that, if she wanted to, she could take over the consciousness of anyone who happens to be connected to the Akasha system a la Agent Smith. She just prefers to possess Katheryne, rather than one of her own subjects.
- The uncanny atmosphere that permeates throughout Act II, until Traveler recovers their memories. You, the player, can clearly see that something is wrong, what with the events of Sabzeruz Festival repeating themselves over and over, the world itself occasionally flickering into sepia tones, and disembodied voice talking about some sort of experiment inbetween the loops, but Traveler can only feel the sense of deja vu that is growing stronger and stronger with each loop. They finally realise that something is wrong when Farris, the Knight of Flowers, asks them to guess which of the five boxes of candies has the sunsettia flavor, and the options are:
Number four.
Number four.
Number four.
Number four.
Number four.
- When the Traveler and Nahida go to meet the Akademiya researcher in the middle of the night to retrieve the documents related to the Sabzeruz Festival samsara, they are instead met with a crowd of people clapping and cheering for them some unknown reason. Then Il Dottore, the Second of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers, reveals himself for the first time in-game, to inform our heroes that their contact was found out and is currently being held prisoner. He then smiles smugly as he sics the crowd which he had brainwashed earlier onto the three of them, causing them to reach out in a zombie-like fashion all the while smiling creepily. He explains that they all believe the Traveler has just saved the world, which is why all of them are so eager to express their appreciation. With the Traveler being surrounded by these adoring fans, all of whom are coming closer by the second, it really looks like the crowd is going to trample you to death before they realize what they're doing. The Traveler is forced to flee without Nahida as she stays to undo the brainwashing, while Dottore casually strolls up to her and leans in with amusement.
- Afterwards, the Traveler and Nahida manage to rendezvous again at the Pardis Dhyai, they meet Haypasia, who is brimming with joy as she claims that she managed to "make contact with the divine". However, what she shows is neither the consciousness of the established old gods of Sumeru, but Scaramouche's memories as he in the process of transforming into a god. Haypasia, who had seemed normal until this moment, suddenly shows signs of fanaticism as she shouts in joy about feeling his will, then expresses the fact that she has a "filthy, mortal heart" with great disgust and contempt.
- While fleeing from the Corp of Thirty members, Nahida (in Katheryne's body), to the Traveler's horror, is stabbed in front of them, and the Traveler can only manage to touch her finger before being transported into Nahida's own body as she facilitates the switching of their bodies. They wake up to find themselves trapped in a circular enclosure. Suddenly, Scaramouche's eyes flash onto the screen with the words "I SEE YOU" (written in Sumeru's script) as they are made aware of the Balledeer observing them from an unknown location. He gives another of his signature Kubrick Stare as the camera zooms in before the Traveler finally returns to their body.
## Interlude Chapter III: Inversion of Genesis
## Chapter III, Act VI: Caribert
- The Traveler meets a man named Eide, a survivor of Khaenri'ah that has been living in isolation with his hilichurl son for an unknown period of time. The man is very clearly barely hanging on by a thread, prone to giggling and rambling to himself. It's little surprise, considering what he reveals about the destruction of his homeland — the gods placed
*two* types of curses on the people, depending on their exact heritage. People with heritage tying them to the nations of the Seven were struck with the Curse of the Wilderness, slowly turning them into monsters such as hilichurls. The Heavenly Principles considered this to be the *lesser* of the two curses, while the worst was reserved for those with pureblood. These people, such as Eide and Dain, were cursed with Immortality but also suffered from Erosion, losing portions of their memories and fated to slowly lose themselves with the passage of time. Eide married a woman from Mondstadt, so was forced to watch his wife and child turn into monsters while he faced an eternity without them.
- Caribert looks like a normal hilichurl, save for his blue scarf. He remained in a coma while his father searched for some method to restore his mind to normal, living in constant fear of discovery. At one point, Caribert wanders off alone and while searching for him, the Traveler and Eide encounter a group that had just eliminated some hilichurls. While Caribert ends up being safe, for a short time Eide believes that his son has been killed because of his monstrous form.
- The Traveler and Eide follow a pack of hilichurls into a strange domain, where they encounter a godlike entity that identifies itself as "a Sinner". It is very clearly associated with the Abyss, and directly speaks to the Traveler while revealing that it can see their destiny and will be waiting for them in the future. Eide, meanwhile, is struck with religious fanaticism and devotes himself to serving this entity. This is the incident that will lead to the formation of the Abyss Order.
- After his mind is restored, Caribert ignores his father's warning and looks at himself in the mirror. What he saw isn't revealed, but he's soon discovered on a cliff emitting Abyssal energies and talking about being unable to endure what he knows. Caribert takes off his mask, causing a shockwave of abyssal energy that knocks the Traveler unconscious. After they wake up, Eide — or rather, Chlothar — rambles nonsensically and won't give a straight answer about what happened.
- Chlothar reveals that he knows who the Traveler actually is, remembering them from Khaenri'ah. The Traveler becomes overwhelmed and grabs the broken mirror, seeing their sibling's face reflected back at them. The entire quest has been the Abyss Twin's memories, relived to reveal the event that would led to them founding the Abyss Order along with Chlothar.
- After awakening from the dream, the Traveler and Dain dig up the nearby field. There, they discover a pair of skeletons that they theorize may have been Chlothar and his wife. The strange mushrooms he was growing to use in Caribert's medicine were the result of growing mushrooms in
*a field tainted by his wife's cursed body.*
- Zhongli's Quest where you enter the grave of the Goddess of Salt. As you progress deeper into the underground city, you start to see countless people petrified in salt after receiving the full brunt of the energy released when Havria was murdered. Several of them were running for their lives whereas others had been cowering or praying for mercy, and meanwhile Zhongli's explaining how Havria wasn't even that powerful when she was assassinated.
- Nahidas first quest has her encountering Moseis, the host of a collective dream where citizens of Sumeru can reunite with their loved ones who passed away. Moseis is frighteningly good at manipulating people, making the people hes trapped in his dream turn on their Archon because Nahida wants them to stop dreaming and come back to the real world.
- How did Nahida convince her people that Moseis is tricking them? By pointing at Ilmans daughter and logically pointing out theres no way Moseis could have put the device that allows the dreamers to share a collective dream in her. Meaning the little girl standing next to Ilman isnt his real daughter. Which makes Ilman realize that his real daughter is still in the real world, likely panicking because her father isnt waking up after bringing her to a location outside the city and theyre likely to be attacked by dangerous monsters soon. Ilman understandably freaks out and demands he be released from the collective dream, which leads to the others realizing they too have other loved ones in the real world who need them or would miss them if they stayed.
- Moseis loses control of the dream because of the panic, causing every one of the dream constructs the dreamers have created to transform into monsters and attack them. This includes Emira, to Moseis despair. The Traveler and Nahida have to fight off the dream constructs turned monster, who still speak but their words are garbled and trying to understand whats wrong. Seeing this, Moseis collapses and resigns himself to his fate of disappearing into the void forever, giving up on life after seeing his beloved Emira turn into a monster.
- Nahida's second quest begins simply enough, with us trying to find wayward elemental spirits and help them find their way home. "Home" in this case is the Apep, the Dendro Sovereign, which only seems markedly strange at first... and then we
*meet* it.
- Apep turns out to be a
*mountain-sized* serpentine Planimal dragon with a deep voice — and it *hates* us, having ruthlessly and tirelessly pursued a Rage Against the Heavens ever since the Celestia first descended upon Teyvat, and stating in no uncertain terms that it's going to lay waste to the Seven Nations the gods founded as soon as its illness has passed. Said illness is the lingering remnants of *the forbidden knowledge*, making it even more wrathful than it already was.
- Even after Nahida and the Traveler purge the forbidden knowledge from it, Apep's only shift in tone is that it understands that destroying humanity wouldn't make dealing with the Celestia any easier, and it plans to enact its Rage Against the Heavens as soon as it's done healing up and basically tells Nahida to piss off. Unlike some of the previous dragons encountered in the game, you really get the impression that the only reason human life exists in Sumeru is because Apep
*permits it*, and could revoke that permission whenever it wants.
- Think letting the ancient dragon die of forbidden knowledge would've been better for Sumeru? If only. As the original Dendro Sovereign, Apep is the holder of an incalculable amount of Dendro energy, and if it ever died, that energy would be released into the world all at once. The result would be an impossibly dense rainforest spontaneously erupting over all of Sumeru, with trees so massive that the sun wouldn't reach the land below and the air being lethally oversaturated with oxygen. If Apep kicked the bucket, the entire nation would become incapable of sustaining life as a consequence.
## Liyue
- The story of Huachu, an NPC from Liyue, is intense for a minor quest that's unrelated to the main storyline. Her father didn't approve of her relationship with Jianqiu because he was poor, so her response was to
**fake her own death**. The bulletin board at Feiyun Slope reveals that there is definitely a "young female" found at the bottom of the well where she supposedly took her own life. This means Huachu and Jianqiu either somehow obtained an actual corpse or were very, **very** good at creating a fake body... one that can rot and contaminate the entire water supply of a well as if it were really a dead body.
## Inazuma
- Similarly to Dragonspine's Durin, Inazuma has Orobashi no Mikoto, a serpent creature that came from the Dark Sea and became the god of Watatsumi Island. Orobashi declared war on Narakumi Island but was defeated by the Raiden Shogun at Yashiori Island, where its remains became the Serpent's Head. However, its lingering hatred manifested into the Tatarigami, a malevolent energy that is basically the equivalent of the Malice from
*The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*. The people of Inazuma created wards to suppress the Tatarigami, but those wards were destroyed by fanatical worshippers of Orobashi from the Sangonomiya resistance, causing the island to be trapped in a perpetual thunderstorm and resulting in the deaths of countless civilians from fatal Tatarigami infections.
- The Fate of Higi Village. One by one the villagers succumbed to the Tatarigami plague and died, and it's mentioned in some leftover Shogunate notes that the army was planning to slaughter the entire village for housing suspected deserters and refugees. Then, for reasons unknown (and possibly due to Sanity Slippage), the village chief Washizu began sacrificing remaining villagers, random passersby, and Shogunate soldiers to the serpent god Orobashi by luring them to a specific shrine, before he recorded each of their deaths in a detailed list. By the time the Traveler visits the village, it's already a Ghost Town save for some rogue infected Rōnin squatting around. And to make matters worse, the final entry in the list describes
**the Traveler**, who managed to kill Washizu before he could murder them first.
## Enkanomiya
- Orobaxi may have turned out to be a benevolent deity for Watatsumi, and a victim for whatever game Celestia is playing, but the Great Serpent is not exactly wholly good either. Enkanomiya's experimental records detail a set of experiments on living Bathysmal Vishaps. Trying to comprehend their physiology is understandable, but one set of experiments involved transplanting Orobaxi's coral directly into the bodies of Bathysmal Vishaps. Earlier attempts failed because the Vishaps, despite their adaptability, rejected the transplants; their physiology as residents of the "Light Realm" is
*fundamentally incompatible* with the power of Celestia's gods. One can only imagine what it took for them to successfully create the ones sealed beneath the Dainishi Mikochi that sport the Bloodbranch Coral. (At the very least, Orobashi was careful enough to make sure no vishaps outright died to the experiments, although that doesn't discount the possibility of the vishaps suffering.)
- The Sunchildren regime before Orobashi's arrival in Enkanomiya is disturbing. Children were selected by nobles to act as a puppet and figurehead, and when they were old enough to understand the manipulation of the nobles, they would be killed off. The method of killing is brutal: the child would be burned alive, incinerated by the Dainichi Mikoshi. Death by burning is particularly painful and slow. The people of Enkanomiya, despite the children's suffering, hated them and called their ignorance the greatest sin of all.
## The Chasm
- The Chasm's inner region is a massive underground area, much like Enkanomiya. But while Enkanomiya is littered with largely-intact ancient ruins and has an artificial day-night cycle, the Chasm's underground is a sealed mine that's dark and oozing with corruption, requiring a special torch to explore. Going deeper down the Chasm leads you into a sprawling network of enormous caverns, claustrophobic passageways, and sheer drops, dotted by several nameless ruins that are almost devoid of life, including an entire city suspended
*upside-down* over a cave bathed in corrupting ooze. The soundtracks don't help either; while Enkanomiya's music is epic and gives a sense of wonder and tragedy of an ancient civilization in its final days before being evacuated, the Chasm's music is eerie, foreboding, and gives a feel of "what the *hell* is going on here?"
- Exploring the Chasm's underground mining area without entering its deeper levels leads you to a large underground cavern where the Ruin Serpent resides. On the northwestern end of this cavern is a long tunnel littered with gears that leads back to the
*mines' main entrance tunnel*. Realizing the close proximity of this populated area to the lair of a massive, tunnel-boring *war machine* would certainly make one raise more than a few additional concerns about the safety of everyone who continues to toil away in the underground mines.
- The Chasm's Bounty is easily one of the more unnerving World Quests. At first, it starts off pretty innocuous, with the Traveler and Paimon tasked with finding a missing miner named Qi Ding. Upon finding him, he asks the two to find the doll he bought for his daughter Qi Nan. And that's when things start to take a more sinister turn. While searching for the doll, they meet a little girl claiming to be Qi Ding's daughter Qi Nan. She helps them find the doll and they bring it back to Qi Ding. They also tell him about how they found his daughter Qi Nan... only for Qi Ding to point out that Qi Nan is all grown up and working at the Ministry of Civil Affairs. At which point "Qi Nan", who somehow followed the Traveler out of the Chasm and was eavesdropping on their conversation, promptly runs off. In other words, someone or ''something'' was lurking in the Chasm impersonating Qi Ding's daughter...
**and you just helped set it free.**
## Sumeru
- The Withering is this in spades, a form of sickness or "tumor" that infected the forest which made them wither and die. It is extremely creepy to stumble upon one in the open world thanks to the sheer contrast between the forest and a Withering Zone: one moment you're exploring a green, lush forest, and the next fog suddenly obscures your vision, the plants and grass around you turns sickly brown, and somewhere in the area is a giant scarlet flower - the tumor of the withering. Not helping matters is the disquieting music that plays in a Withering Zone, and that having the decay gauge completely fill up will result in a Total Party Kill.
- If you thought a normal Withering Zone is bad enough, then Old Vanarana is much, much worse.
- On the western side of the rainforest was the old home of the Aranara - and the reason they moved to the current Vanarana in a dream is because
**the entire section of the forest has completely withered away**. To put this in perspective, Old Vanarana has its own Statue of the Seven, and *the whole area is counted as a Withering Zone*. Stumbling upon the place when you're exploring is pure Nightmare Fuel not only because of the sheer scale of the devastation, but also because if you try to explore the place, **you'll get the warning of going out of bounds despite it clearly being a finished area**. It's as if both the Traveler and Paimon knew that Old Vanarana is a Death World, so they stayed as far away from the place as possible. Indeed, you can only explore the place by doing the Aranyaka World Quest and having Arama accompany you.
- And it
*still* gets even worse when you actually explore the place. The decay gauge in the whole area starts at **four** - the highest in the game - and continues to fill up on its own if you stay away from the safe patches. As you go deeper and deeper, you'll start encountering Rifthounds and Ruin Machines, making exploration and combat extremely dangerous. And in the deepest part of the area, deep beneath the ground and behind an ancient seal, lies the Land of Grounded Dreams - the very place where Marana's Avatar was sealed hundreds of years ago. Here, the miasma and death is so prevalent that *even the water and air has turned black*, and it is here that you will fight the physical embodiment of the Withering itself.
- The Boss Battle of the
*Shadows Amidst Snowstorms* is revealed to be the Fell Flower, a mutated Whopperflower that learned how to impersonate a human. After it's defeated, Albedo speculates that it may have created through Durins corrupted blood seeping into the leylines underneath Dragonspine.
- Albedos Big Damn Heroes moment in the Version 2.3 Shadows Amidst Snowstorms event, where he sneaks up from behind and
*stabs his Evil Doppelgänger in the back.* Its one of the most graphic scenes ever shown onscreen in Genshin. And then he turns into a giant Whopperflower.
- For an event themed around a summer vacation, "Summertime Odyssey" has a surprisingly nightmarish reveal near the end. The main reason for the wondrous mirages that Traveler and co. got to explore over the course of the event? It's because of the Fatui doing trial runs on a device that alters the state of people's brains and is modeled after an Archon with control over illusions. Except the device started malfunctioning and severely affecting everyone in the vicinity, and while Traveler and their party, all being strong-willed individuals, only experienced the effects in form of stable mirages, those with weaker minds as in, all of the Fatui soldiers (including the one scientist in charge of the project) present on the islands went delirious. To make matters worse, the Fatui soldiers in question were junior soldiers who all signed a waiver of claims against the Mad Scientist who created the device, and due to their own technological incompetence they not only failed to fix the malfunction, but ruined the device entirely. Add to that the fact that Golden Apple Archipelago is all but cut off from the outside world... It's a good thing Traveler and the others happened to be on the islands at that exact timeframe.
- During the TCG event quest Culminate! Chatter of Joyous Dreams, the gang are hiding while Kirara delivers her last delivery to a suspicious group of people they suspect to be related to the Card Snatcher, whose leader is acting hostile towards her as soon as she asks about the contents of the box, and after she presses more, the leader decides to
*kill her* in the middle of nowhere just so she wont be a witness to them. And as it turns out, he was willing to do that over a bunch of card backs! Granted, the card backs had a secret message on them that wouldve exposed their plans, but the secret message had a convoluted way of being revealed, so even if somebody took the card backs, they would have to experience a chain of coincidences just to reveal the message. In essence, if Kirara had delivered the card backs without meeting the Traveler and becoming suspicious over who the Card Snatcher is, she wouldve been killed in the desert with none the wiser, capable or not.
- The Prologue centers on the beginning of Vennessa's rebellion against the Lawrence clan, and demonstrates just how terrible things has become during Barbatos' absence.
- The Ludi Harpastum under the Lawrence clan was not a joyful festival for the people, but debauchery reserved solely for the nobility. Venti learns from the crowd that the tradition of the champion choosing a maiden to throw the harpastum at the conclusion of the festival has been corrupted. He sees a sobbing girl at the top of the tower, and learns that Barca Lawrence intends to rape the girl after the festival concludes. The crowd notes this is the 5th time this has happened.
- Barca has Vennessa and her entire clan sent out to face Ursa the Drake, as revenge for her standing up to him. Lord Lawrence forces the people to watch the massacre, ordering his troops to shoot anyone that tries to escape. If not for divine intervention, the clan would have been sacrificed as part of Lawrence's deal with the monster.
- The main story begins with a glimpse of Haeresys, an underground fighting arena run by the Fatui. The arena has several levels of balconies looking down on the pit, with shapes that appear to be well-dressed people enjoying watching what are likely kidnapped/trafficked people being forced to fight for their lives. A decoration featuring what seems to be a human skull hangs from a chandelier. The latest victim, #139, lies in a pool of his own blood with a monster of some kind looming over him.
- The entire meeting between Dottore and Diluc is a tense affair, with Kaeya finally saying exactly what is actually being discussed. It isn't a meeting to see about recruiting foreign members for the Fatui, it's a human trafficking operation leveraging Mondstadt's debt. Kaeya compares the whole thing to a blood tax, using their children as payment for Dottore slaying Ursa the Drake.
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- Zooming in your character will normally make them transparent, or completely hidden from view if up-close, but if you angle your camera movements right, the active character's face will display a sudden Nightmare Face with void-black eyes, and a mouth locked in a perpetual scream. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GenshinImpact |
Ghostbusters (2016) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Erin's recount of her first supernatural encounter at age 8. The ghost of the old woman who was her neighbor basically haunted her for a year by just standing at the foot of her bed....staring at her night after night. It resulted in years of therapy and bullying from the other kids at school. In the commentary track, Paul Feig says a flashback of this was filmed, but they felt it was too horrific, especially when Erin telling it was already scary enough. Perhaps the worst part is that we never get any more information about it than this.
- The ghost of Aldrige's daughter. She just casually floats up the stairs of her place of death in the mansion towards the heroes, with this eerily calm Slasher Smile the entire time. Due to her being somewhat of a Lizzie Borden Expy when she was alive, it's not a shocker.
- The opening sequence at the Aldridge house is pretty frightening, enough that it's genuinely a surprise that ||the tour guide turns out not to have been killed outright. Although he did soil himself.||
- In the climax, ||Rowan's One-Winged Angel transformation into a massive version of the cute ghost from the team logo|| is one of the few legitimately creepy scenes from the film.
- ||Rowan's apocalyptic My Death Is Just the Beginning plan|| is most disturbing. It is in the form of a comic, literally illustrated in the pages of Erin's book with the vivid, maniacal anger and bitter hatred of a neglected and abused child. ||It even shows his planned suicide—and his return as a Kaiju-sized ghostly entity, first rampaging through New York City as it burns, then forcing all of the city to bow before him (as he no doubt kills hundreds of thousands with the collateral damage that he will do).||
- In fact, the whole plan to become a ghost and gain said power is pretty horrific in itself—involving deliberately and willingly electrocuting yourself to death, with the sequence itself only a slightly more PG version of
*The Green Mile*'s infamous death-by-electrocution.
- The appearance of the ghost Patty encounters in the subway tunnel rather implies that
*his* electrocution wasn't PG at all.
- Rowan's description of what would happen ||after destroying the barrier between the world of the living and the dead is also horrifying. He first states that the spirits of the dead will come back to pester the living, which doesn't sound so bad...until he reveals that his definition of "pestering" involves parents being "pestered" in half again and again, while their children are "pestered" limb from limb and then forced to burn down their homes||. An interesting understanding of the word, definitely.
- The sequence in the theatre with the mannequin seems like something inspired by
*Silent Hill*.
- Done in-universe by Patty in the theatre when she comes across the mannequin room. She calls it a "room full of nightmares." Earlier, she comments that if the twins from
*The Shining* appear, she's leaving.
- As pictured, the parade balloon ghosts. They look very creepy with the way their cheerful expressions morph into their own nightmarish Game Face as they charge, and are certainly dangerous, as one almost succeeds in defeating three of the Ghostbusters. ||Fittingly, it's Mr. Stay Puft.|| The worst part? With the exception of the latter, they're
*ALL* faithfully based on real parade balloons used in the early 20th Century Thanksgiving parades. So once upon a time, people had to witness those giant, unintentionally creepy, Gonk-y terrors floating around the city above their heads. *Brrr*.
- ||Ghost!Rowan's in Kevin's body|| mentions "I should have worked out more when I was alive." Just... (shudder)
- He says this after beating two police officers unconscious (and possibly killing one of them). If he'd been physically able while alive,
*he would have done such things on a regular basis.*
- Mayhem, once he bursts out of the mannequin, is a pretty scary-looking ghost.
- The mirrors in Rowan's hidden lab, full of trapped ghosts pressing their palms against the other side of the glass, are pretty ominous ... not least, because you
*know* they're sure to bust out before long.
- The Extended Cut has some disturbing side effects of ||Rowan possessing Abby. Slime oozes out of her nose and ears, then she throws up more slime. Up until she starts puking, Abby is completely aware of what's happening, and she's
*terrified*.||
- The scene leading up to that is suitably creepy. Abby hears a knock at the door and goes to answer it, yelling at her teammates for having "lost their keys". Opening the door, she finds nothing but a slight breeze and a faint green glow. Abby, who isn't easy to frighten, is creeped out enough to double-bolt the door and lock herself in the bathroom. Not that it does her any good...
- The reveal in The Stinger that ||Zuul is out there, presumably along with Vinz Clortho and Gozer, and everything that just happened was probably a giant beacon for the latter. And the ladies have
*no idea* what they're going up against now.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghostbusters2016 |
Ghostbusters (1984) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Are you
*sure* you ain't 'fraid of no ghost? *Ghostbusters* is a supernatural comedy at its core, but it very much qualifies as a horror film as well. **WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked.
- The library scene isn't exactly the scariest scene in the movie, but it can really catch you off-guard if you haven't seen it before. It's big reason enough why Peter, Ray and Egon take off running from the library screaming.
**Ray:**
Get her!
*(library ghost suddenly roars and morphs into a larger ghost self with a Nightmare Face)*
- The scene right before Peter goes to Dana's apartment when the scary building is shown. The ominous music makes the scene even more creepy. The "Spook Central" building is scarier in broad daylight!
- Dana arrives home to find her television to have been somehow switched on. In the daylit kitchen, newly bought eggs fly from their box and start to fry on the unheated counter. At a low growl from inside the fridge, Dana slowly opens its door - which reveals, instead of the fridge's interior, a void of ethereal yellow fire, in which we briefly see some kind of temple -
*and then, the screen is filled with a horned, leathery, bestial head*. **Zuul:** **ZUUL!!**
- Zuul and Vinz Clortho: Hellish, frightening, demonic dogs with glowing red eyes. Don't say they didn't traumatize kids of The '80s and for generations after.
- The shots of the tower statues crumbling to life and Zuul's red eyes illuminating beneath the rock. The thunder and lightning crashing along with the instrumental music doesn't help.
- Dana being taken captive by Zuul. It starts with her arriving home before her date with Peter, having a brief phone conversation with her mom, and relaxing in a chair. Then she hears something and looks to see a light under her kitchen door and
*something* moving against the door's surface. Right before she can take any kind of action, three demonic arms rip out of her chair and hold her down as the door opens to Zuul, who immediately flashes its glowing red eyes and large fangs in a horrendous growl at her. The chair then zooms towards the door with a screaming Dana. Once Dana's in the kitchen with Zuul, the door slams shut. Scary stuff.
- The shot of lights coming through Dana's kitchen door was inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind. "If Spielberg can do those lights, I can do those lights, and we'll do them in kind of a different way," says Ivan Reitman. Also, Harold Ramis says this scene when the arms come out of the chair to grab Dana is the scariest one for kids.
- Dana under Zuul's influence. It's rather sexy at first
note : Dana wears a loose-fitting, shiny red dress and heavy makeup, speaks in a sensual voice, and writhes seductively on her bed in very obvious attempts at seducing Peter, but then she becomes frustrated with Peter and speaks in a demonic voice, starts hovering above the bed, and makes beastly growling noises.
- The shot of Vinz Clortho on Louis' bed in the dark. Though the moment is a little funny due to an oblivious Louis tossing the guest's coats onto the creature's head.
- Louis is chased out of his own party by Clortho and ends up cornered by the monster in Central Park. Once it possesses Louis, Clortho searches for Zuul, and when a cabbie makes a remark, Clortho growls and flashes an intense, intimidating red-eyed glare.
- Hell, just how Vinz Clortho catches Louis to begin with. He chases Louis relentlessly for
*blocks* seemingly into Central Park, and when Louis finally finds a restaurant full of people he can appeal to for help, they can't even hear his pleas, and it's implied from camera shots that they can't even see Vinz Clortho at all. So Louis is dragged down screaming in terror and violently possessed right in front of a brightly lit, glass-walled building full of people, and all they do is raise their heads briefly and then go right back to chatting and eating dinner.
- Ray and Winston's talk about the apocalypse.
**Winston:**
Do you remember something in The Bible
about the last days, when the dead would rise from the grave?
**Ray:**
I remember Revelations 7:12
note :
it's actually 6:12. "And I looked as he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became as black as sack cloth, and the moon became as blood."
**Winston:**
"And the seas boiled and the skies fell."
**Ray:**
Judgment Day.
**Winston:**
Judgment Day.
**Ray:**
Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.
**Winston:**
"Myth?" Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is 'cause the dead
*have*
been rising from the grave?
*[Ray looks very disquieted]*
- "How about a little music?" Ray, despite being an atheist or an agnostic, is disturbed by that enough to want to change the subject immediately.
- The entire "Shut Down the Grid" scene is pretty creepy, especially the shot of the Manhattan skyline flooding with tendrils of paranormal energy. With the build-up it gets, we know nothing good can come from that pretty pink light show. Mick Smiley's foreboding "Magic" playing on the soundtrack doesn't help.
- The moment the hardhat worker pulls the lever to shut down the grid, we get a flashing red lightbulb with a loud alarm going off, followed by a horrid sound of huge rumbling from behind a brick wall. The wall is blown apart brick by brick, revealing a blinding light from behind that encompasses every spook, specter, phantasm, and whatever unimaginable horrors the Ghostbusters ever subdued.
- The zombie cab driver.
- The raspy-voiced, wailing spirit that flies out of a subway stairwell is also a little creepy.
- Egon's descriptions of Ivo Shandor, the architect of Dana's apartment building who designed it to have secret passages leading to the roof, which served as an altar for his ominous Gozer cult. Shandor is said to be a Misanthrope Supreme following World War I and believed that Humans Are Bastards is a good enough reason for Gozer to destroy Earth. Egon also mentions that Shandor was a doctor who performed a lot of "unnecessary surgery."
- Zuul and Clortho are electrocuted by psychic energy and transform from Dana and Louis's human bodies into their own demonic dog forms when summoning Gozer.
- Gozer◊ itself is kind of freaky. Deep red, bloodshot eyes on a pale white, skeletal face and that evil, high, shrill voice.
- The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man's creepiness is ramped up when it's angry. And the Oh, Crap! face when it sees the Ghostbusters crossing their streams.
- Elmer Bernstein's incredible score by itself can be very unsettling and intensely eerie at moments. It augments the terror of any horrific scene. Awesome Music nonetheless, though.
- That friggin' stringy Scare Chord that pops up when Dana first sees Zuul in her refrigerator or when Stay Puft manifests.
- And during the Containment Grid Jailbreak scene when the released spirits destroy Dana's apartment.
- Also at the end, providing a last-second Last Note Nightmare. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghostbusters1984 |
Ghostbusters: The Video Game / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**"I WILL CRUSH YOUR WORLD UNDER THE WEIGHT OF MY CITIES. I WILL SMOTHER YOUR CREATION UNDER MY OWN."**
- The juvenile section of the library full of the ghosts of children. Even Ray is unnerved as you make your way around the room.
- Also, after one fight with a heap of Book Bats and a few Paper Constructs, after the fight is over, you hear a disembodied voice scream out "
**NO! NOT MY BOOKS!**"
- And before that, when you get separated from other busters, you see the Librarian Ghost come out of a painting, screaming, "
**QUIET!**"
- The Collector is one of the most intimidating bosses in the entire game and Ivo Shandor's right hand ghost for a very good reason. Imagine a giant mass of books circling in a tornado with a sinister metal mask protecting the glowing green eye of said beast with the ability to shoot spikes at people on ground. To make matters worse, he's also That One Boss.
- The Realistic version of the collector is particularly frightening, being a humanoid golem that towers over all the Ghostbusters and has incredibly powerful attacks.
- The Spider Witch, a beautiful seductress who would leave her victims hanging from the ceiling, drained of blood. And that was before she became a ghost.
- Particularly, the scene where she appears in an elevator with you, right out of nowhere. Egon sums it up perfectly. Well, that was terrifying.
- And later, while exploring the darkened hallways on the Sedgewicks 12th floor, you and Egon open a door only to catch a brief glimpse of her true form, complete with a Scare Chord. She then vanishes when your light turns on again.
- As you track the Spider Witch, you see an echo of one of her past kills as the floor turns into a demonic spider's nest. When the sequence ends, we hear the man die, the Spider Witch having assumed her demonic form. It's so bad that
*Egon* is briefly speechless, and actually sounds afraid.
- Upon entering the Spider Witch's lair, human bones are seen littered all over the floor, which are implied to have once been victims of the Spider Witch herself.
- The echoes of ghosts walking through the Hotel Sedgewick, who disappear completely when you try to look at them straight on. Thankfully, they are completely harmless... Unless you're playing the stylistic version, where the echoes can turn purple with glowing red eyes and actually attack you.
- All the Cursed Artifacts you can collect throughout the game come with ghost stories. Some are goofy, such as a pair of bell bottom jeans that walk all by themselves. Others are creepier, such as a demonic painting of the founder of the Sedgewick Hotel, or a breathing stone head kept in a plastic bag.
- One such is a calendar of 1950's pinup girls dressed as vegetables. It's backstory is utterly ridiculous, speaking of a doomsday cult that cursed the calendars to constantly rotate the pages in order to conceal a secret message inside, just for them to sell too poorly to be a problem. Embarrassed, for being so pedantic over nothing, the cult murdered everyone who bought it just to be on the safe side.
- The comics actually give an explanation of the big secret and it is a
*doozy* ||if the pages are aligned a certain way, it gives the location of Satan himself, who **does exist** in the Ghostbusters universe.||
- Shandor's One-Winged Angel form in both versions. Shown above is the realistic one, a giant fiery demon that gives us a glimpse of what a Destructor Form
*should* be like. In the stylistic one, Shandor's physical form is simply that of a robed humanoid individual, but he shows off enough reality warping to show off why he's considered "The Architect."
- One of the bosses is a Slor. Worse: it's a
*Juvenile* Slor. Given how nasty the juvenile is, suddenly the summoning of a *Giant* Slor as a Gozer form during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants takes on a whole new level. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostbustersTheVideoGame |
Ghost Camp / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
-
*Ghost Camp* is one of the most distressing and legitimately terrifying of the original books for a few good reasons. Even Troy Steele, the blogger behind Blogger Beware, mentioned that it's the "closest a Goosebumps book has come to being scary."
- Some of the pranks the campers pull include
*extreme bodily harm*. One camper stabs himself in the neck with a fork and another has his foot impaled to the ground with a tent spike. Another extreme "joke" is Alex seeing an apparently dead girl floating at the bottom of the lake and trying to save her. The moment he gets her to shore she just spits water in his face and says she could hold her breath for a long time. Of course, Alex later learns he was right. She *was* dead. But the most terrifying prank is when a girl apparently gets her head *knocked off* by a stray soccer ball. What makes it even scarier? When Alex says to Harry, "I saw it, too."
- Harry and Alex are the only characters in this book
*who aren't dead*. Everyone at Camp Spirit Moon besides them are ghosts, but even they don't know how or why they died. All Lucy says is that the fog rolled in one night when everyone was at the campfire, and when it departed, they were all dead. We're never given a reason as to why it happened or how the fog killed them, it just did.
- Lucy and the others have no idea how long any of them have been dead, and are unable to leave the camp or it's said they'll disappear and become part of the fog. How did they come to gain this information? How many people tried to leave the camp? Does that mean the fog is made up of lost souls stuck in perpetual torment?
- Elvis possessing Alex at the end, and we're never told if he
*ever left* Alex's body or if he's still inside Alex. And imagine what that must mean for Harry, since it's likely no one will believe that his own brother is being controlled by a *dead kid*.
- Just the cover itself is eerie and unsettling. A group of invisible campers save for their clothes walking in front of camp, while a lone human girl stares with a look of sheer terror and lightning flashes across the dark sky. And given the context of the story, it's entirely possible this is just a peek at some other poor victim whose story we will never know. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostCamp |
Ghost in the Shell / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- If you're a muggle, then life will suck
*hard* for you. To elaborate, when Motoko is questioned after saving the lives of boys who were pretty much treated like slaves during a mission to get Section 9 approved as an organization, her response is that the products the workers were making are worth more than the lives of the workers. Think of that for a moment...
- The possibility of getting your brain hacked, or losing your existence by getting your "Ghost" cloned by someone else.
- The setting in general, really. Humans Are Bastards is in full effect in the world, as humans are pretty much emotionally cold, withdrawn, apathetic, lacking in compassion, and even mechanical, and when the Tachikomas being more human-like emotionally and even morally, it could even verge on Humans Are the Real Monsters. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostInTheShell |
Gex / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Come Closer, Little Lizard!
- Rez and his respective stages, both of which add a dark atmosphere to the usually cartoony game. They're a dystopian nightmare, with the floors and walls of the levels appear to be made out of metal and flesh. The idea of Rez abducting innocent people to be mascots for his network is unnerving, too.
- Rez himself is a horrifying cyborg lizard made of a twisted mess of mechanical parts and exposed organic bits who's missing the entire lower half of his body and has a huge mouth full of abnormally long needle-like teeth. He's like if someone fused a T-Rex and a great white shark and added a ton of H.R. Giger-style biomechanics, all in a delightfully uncanny presentation.
- The messages seen on the walls in No Weddings And A Funeral and the secret level Mazed And Confused makes the whole thing feel even more like a totalitarian nightmare. You know you're stepping into something morbid when the first thing you see in the latter level is a giant scrolling banner reading "WELCOME TO REZOPOLIS... PLEASE DIE CAREFULLY..." And this is one of the
*tamer* messages.
- Rez's voice alone is pretty unsettling, particularly in the second game where you get to hear him frequently taunt you offscreen, usually before boss channel encounters. It's inhumanly deep and metallic sounding, with a ridiculous amount of reverb.
- The life-loss fanfare from Enter The Gecko might make you jump the first time you hear it, but the game over music is an Up to Eleven horror remix, to really let you know you messed up. Deep Cover Gecko shares a fanfare for losing a life and getting a game over, but fortunately it's more comical than scary.
- The living taxidermy bear statues that can be found prowling around the mansion in the Mystery TV level in Deep Cover Gecko. They're massive, towering over Gex by a large margin, they slowly lumber around with their arms raised above their heads, looking very much like zombies, and their faces are permanently etched into a snarl, complete with bloodshot eyes.
- One commercial for Enter the Gecko parodied the movie
*Scream* and had Gex calling up a woman and questioning her about her TV. He goes into increasing detail until it's obvious he's in the house with her. He doesn't do anything, but the supposedly heroic gecko gives off some really uncomfortable stalker vibes.
- The secret, unfinished boss of Planet X in the first game - a slowly walking, poorly digitized man made out of liquid Rez. It's completely unlike the other flashier and goofier bosses and generally seems incomplete, like it doesn't really belong anywhere in the game.
- Some of the Scream TV levels of Enter the Gecko have faces lurching of the walls, biting at Gex, and making an inhuman moaning noise that can be heard across the room. In a level full of horror spoofs, these stand out as legitimately creepy.
- Similar faces appear in Deep Cover Gecko's Tut TV level. However, these faces actually have human features, causing them to fall squarely into the Uncanny Valley.
- Mooshoo Pork looks threatening on the TV image, but when you face him, the only thought going through your brain is "RUN". The thought of a half pig, half cow hybrid Mad Scientist chasing you around his lab, guffawing all the way, is downright terrifying, and the graphical limitations somehow make him look even more jarring.
- The level based around the Titanic in the second game. If you're not hugging the bottom, then you're in a deep, dark void of open water. The surface isn't much better, with the only real feature being a small ice berg that's easy to miss. The scary music absolutely doesn't help. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gex |
Genzo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Genzo's puppets turning into amorphous masses of flesh and innards, and in the first case, with Tatsumaru's rotting, worm-infested face giggling at the Evil Uncle. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Genzo |
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