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Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Mysterons evoke the same feeling of Nothing Is Scarier as their original depiction in the show. If anything, this new iteration of the Mysterons is even more terrifying than the original series. In the puppet show, the Mysterons at least provided either a direct or cryptic warning as to what their intentions were. Here, the Mysterons offer no such courtesy and always seek the most destructive route possible in their war of nerves. As such, Spectrum is kept on their toes and any incident, no matter how small, must be investigated. - At of the 2nd episode of Instrument of Destruction Black kills business man by driving him to the scrapyard and trapping him to be crushed in the car crusher and he is the first person to be killed by Black with Mysteron replica of him cancelling all plans and he never seen again after the episode. - The Mysteron-infected robotic bugs in "Swarm". They can eat through metal and nearly kill Destiny by eating her jet. They also have the ability to breed meaning that one getting aboard the Skybase leads to hundreds of them being born within minutes. But the most horrifying thing is what they do to poor Lieutenant Green. They wrap her in a cocoon and probe her mind for information on the Skybase so they can figure out a way to crash it. Scarlet manages to stop them but the sight of him being attacked by a swarm of the insects is also terrifying. - The RAT (Remote Aquisition's Technology) from "Rat Trap". It's a robotic probe that was created to study in hostile environments on Mars but was taken over by the Mysterons. Throughout the episode, the RAT proves to be quite the Implacable Man, being immune to the heroes' weapons and nearly killing Captain Blue with its diamond-tipped saw. - The Mysteron Replicant of Lieutenant Green's father Commander Lewis invokes a lot of this in "The Homecoming": - When Dr. Gold attempts to draw blood from him to make sure he isn't a replicate, Lewis wakes up and hypnotizes the doctor into using the syringe on himself and then using his own blood sample to fake the test results. Seeing the old doctor futilely struggle against the Mysteron's control is truly unnerving. - His "sparring" session with Captain Scarlet very quickly escalates to him trying to kill Scarlet. Where it not for Green showing up at that moment, who knows what would have happened. - His plan to rig an antimatter reactor to blow, leaving nothing but a smoking hole from California to Texas and taking 8 million people with it. - Just picture all this from Green's perspective. She gets her father back after all these years only to discover he is now a Mysteron and is planning to murder her, her friends and all of humanity. It's both horrifying and heartbreaking. - Towards the end of the episode, the replicant taunts Serena, by telling her just how her father died. Like his comrades, he died inside a faulty cryo chamber, screaming for help. Talk about needlessly cruel and thought-provoking. - Then, in what doubles as a massive tearjerker, just before Scarlet saves the day, Commander Lewis manages to break free of the Mysteron's control. Knowing that he will not remain free for long, Lewis pleads with his daughter to kill him, both to stop the creature from controlling him and end his suffering. - A town in the episode A Storm at the End of the World is massacred (including children) by a mysterioned soldier in a tank. - In A Trap for a Rhino the Mackenzie's killed brutally with Mrs. Mackenzie being burnt alive offscreen by the Mysterons and Harmony's cadet Johnson' has coffee poisoned by Mystrons which kills him. - Touch of Reaper Has a disease called the razer virus that kills a doctor and his assistant named Dayna and Micahel while they were trying to make a cure they kill some people offscreen by the Mysterons with disease and with Dyna kills her TV reporter boyfriend with a kiss and When King is captured his body limps over with no irises the Mysterons reveal what they are planning soon as it finishes King disappears he attempts to kill the President of the United States with his touch he manages to infect Scarlet but Scarlet is able to defeat with him falling out of the sky to his death	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GerryAndersonsNewCaptainScarlet
GG!Underfell / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes It's an Underfell interpretation, it's bound to get dark at numerous points. - The "gameplay" starts out normally until the human first interacts with Flowey, causing the screen to briefly glitch out before the Flowey seen suddenly appears extremely battered and miserable and the song "Your Best Friend" plays in an ominously slowed down and low pitched tune. Flowey hesitantly tells the human that it's "kill or be killed" in the Underground and claims that he'll have to kill them, only for him to crack under the pressure and reveal his true colors as a flower who is scared to death due to how long he's been living in a murderous Underground. - All of the hostile monsters the human faces, described by Flowey as "malicious" in episode 4, are colored blood red in battle until certain ACTs are fulfilled. - Toriel's appearance. In the overworld, her eyes are yellow, her sleeves are dirty, and her robes are tattered. And her dialogue portrait is enough to give little kids nightmares. She pretends to be friendly to the human and glares threateningly at Flowey the moment she sees him. Then as soon as she leaves, Flowey tells the human that Toriel that she murders everything she sees and loves killing humans. - Inside Toriel's house, there is blood and dust everywhere, as well as some broken furniture. - Toriel kept the remains of a human she killed in a bedroom and never bothered to clean it up, so when the human and Flowey walked in, they saw blood everywhere, decaying organs assorted on a table, and a human skeleton with its flesh still rotting off. - When the human confronts Toriel, her eyes are completely pitch black. - During the fight, not only does Toriel have more aggressive attacks, but as the human keeps sparing her, her confusion slowly changes to anger and her attacks briefly become more aggressive until she becomes reluctant to fight. - This AU's interpretation of Sans. Unlike most other interpretations of Underfell, this Sans is much more serious about killing you than his brother. The only reason that you're not immediately dead is because Papyrus has certain standards for killing.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GGUnderfell
Ghostbusters: Afterlife / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The mine that serves as Gozer's temple was closed and abandoned after the workers started committing suicide by jumping down the mine shaft. It later becomes apparent why this happened: the miners were under the sway of Gozer and offering themselves as human sacrifices. Offering themselves, or else hired from outside the cult and then pushed into the shaft by Shandor's minions once they'd outlived their immediate usefulness. Probably just before they were due to be paid, too. The death pit into which these miners and cultists presumably threw themselves: periodically, the spirits become restless and come bubbling up from the pit like a horrifying lava flow made of malevolence and grasping arms. The girders for the apartment building where the dimensional cross-rip happened in New York were forged out of metal taken from the mine. Not only did Shandor design and build 550 Central Park West, but the very beams that make up the structure were literally infused with paranormal energy. That's some obsessive devotion. The spirits in the mine being released. While it isn't as frightening as the "opening the containment unit" scene in the original movie, it still manages to be unnerving. Those workers who died in Shandor's mine? We get to see one of them in the diner, in zombie form. Unlike the cab driver in the original movie, you can actually see shifting tendons and grinding bones as he turns his head. We finally get to see Ivo Shandor himself — in a glass coffin in Gozer's temple, looking exactly as he did in life. When Gozer awakens, Shandor slowly turns his head and opens his cloudy, undead eyes to look at Podcast. Then, he gets up, breaking out of his coffin as if he were just getting out of bed in the morning. As soon as Gozer is revived, the first thing it does is rip Shandor in half. That's how a Sumerian deity thanks its loyal servants — or, at least, those with the arrogance to consider themselves to be its equal. Gozer itself is more frightening than in its previous appearance. Its body is revealed to be a transparent exoskeleton, though which we can see the swirling pink energy that makes up its core. That in itself wouldn't be very scary, except Gozer's eyes are now pitch black. Possession by one of the Terrordogs is played for all the horror it's worth, especially once it happens to Callie. Callie looking at the childhood photos of her in the garage when she hears a loud growling noise. She turns to face it and there's a pair of red eyes illuminating in the dark before the Terrordog promptly jumps out and possesses her. The kids come home to find their mother sitting in an easy chair, completely motionless — not yet realizing that she's been possessed. The possessed Callie beginning to stroke Podcast's hair and asking him if he is the Keymaster. Phoebe and Podcast are Squicked out by this and pull him away from her. The second time Zuul possesses someone, it's teenager Lucky. Vinz Clortho was still possessing Grooberson. Grooberson's possession, while injected with some humor, is also frightening, with the gigantic hellhound chasing him out of Wal-Mart and into his car, where it sits on the hood and leers at him through the broken windshield. Egon's death. His body might not have been mangled by the spirit that ultimately killed him, since everyone thought he suffered a heart attack, but he died alone and friendless in the middle of nowhere. Phoebe tells Ray that Egon had died within the week, but given no one in town liked him, and avoided him and his house like the plague, it's entirely possible that she's just assuming he died recently. There's no telling how long Egon's dead body sat in that chair. Probably not too long. He crashed his truck in a cornfield, which was bound to be noticed. Plus, a body would likely decompose more quickly in the heat of an Oklahoma summer, so Egon was probably found quickly. The "last week" statement was probably fairly accurate. Plus, given he crashed his truck, there probably would have been an autopsy, since he was found sitting in his home after crashing his vehicle. They likely assumed he'd had an accident, an old man, limped home, and collapsed of a heart attack from the shock and stress. The Marshmallow Men may be this for some viewers. The cute Anthropomorphic Foodgleefully destroying themselves and each other, including preparing themselves to be eaten, can be quite disturbing. They also prove to be a significant threat in the crucial final battle against Gozer when they sabotage Ecto-1's electrical systems. In The Stinger, Winston returns ECTO-1 to the Firehouse, now sitting abandoned and empty — except for the Containment Unit still sitting in the basement, red light flashing, indicating that it's starting to fail...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostbustersAfterlife
Genius: The Transgression / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The very concept of Geniuses when you start thinking about it. Remember, these aren't just crazy scientists doing strange experiments. These are people with a supernatural form of insanity literally allowing them to bend the laws of physics themselves so that the devices they create will work according to how they perceive the universe. This game basically took the Mad Scientist trope and developed it into something that could have come out of Lovecraft. Even in-universe, this is so disturbing that Mages perceive Geniuses as outright Humanoid Abominations, because this defies even their perception of reality. - The game really plays up how horrifying becoming Inspired can be to people who were real, actual, legitimate scientists. Sure, you now have the ability to create marvellous inventions no regular human could ever hope to build... but it comes at the cost of losing your ability to do actual science, because you are now so insane you can't even perceive the world according to its real laws. Not only that, but you cannot even share what you can now do with normal people: if you try to explain to them how your creations work, or how to build more of them, it will sound to them like a stream nonsensical Techno Babble coming from an insane person, and actually letting them touch, manipulate or study the gadgets will result in your creations either falling apart, developing some terrible flaw in its design or turning into monsters and go on homicidal rampages. Is it any wonder that Genii belonging to the Neid Catalyst end up bitter and hateful toward anyone calling them mad? - The very concept of Havoc. Any time a regular mortal touches or tries to examine a Wonder a bit too closely, and the Genius is unable to counter the effect with his will, the Wonder is at risk of either turning into a rampaging homicidal monster, turning into a pile of junk or developing a design flaw. That last one might not seem so bad... until you check the sample Faults in the book, and realize said design flaws might include things like causing madness to its user or becoming radioactive. - Just for fun, let's take a look at the various Catalysts and see how horrifying they can be: - Grimms had their Breakthrough in rage and vengeance, frequently born in violence or personal offenses. Twisted by their wrath, they are prone towards having a Hair-Trigger Temper and succumbing to Unstoppable Rage, frequently becoming ruthless Vigilante Men who use their inventions to hunt down criminals or berserkers who go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. And they specialize in building Death Rays, Laser Blades, and other weapons meant to maim and kill, if not outright obliterate, you. - Hoffnungs get their Breakthrough in hope and ambition. Visionaries and narcissistic all, they wish to change and improve the world, very often by conquering and ruling it. It doesn't matter how genuine their desire to make things better is— deep down, every single one of them is an egomaniac convinced that he is right, even if his method to improve humanity involves removing free will or replacing everyone with robots. Oh, and they specialize in transforming the world according to their will: they can build devices to turn people they dislike into inanimate substance, disturb the world's economy by turning lead into gold, warp your perception of things with illusions or shapeshift their minions into dangerous monsters. - Klagens get their Breakthrough in sorrow and regret. The Inspired's Only Sane Men, they tend to see tragedies coming and desperately try to prevent them... and because they look just as mad as their peers, nobody ever believe them, forcing them to relive new tragedies all the time; most of them are consumed by depression because of it. Their powerset doesn't seem that horrifying, since they specialize in healing and repairing... except that also includes building cybernetic and biological implants. The ones who get desperate enough might end up trying so hard to save people they will end up filling their patients with prothesis— which, given Wonders trigger Havoc, is essentially turning these people into walking time bombs. - Neids get their Breakthrough in jealousy and envy. Paranoid and filled with resentment, they are obssessed with proving themselves as brillant and gaining respect... which is somewhat problematic when they look insane to everyone. And do not try to call them mad, because that usually tends to really piss them off. Because they have such a hard time showing their point of view to others, they specialize in control, which they use to force people to see it; they can hijack any of your electronic devices for their own purpose, manipulate objects with their mind, literally take over your mind, or even just brainwash you to their whim. - Staunens get their Breakthrough in curiosity and awe; they are obssessed with studying and trying to understand the unknown... including things that really should be left alone (which in the World of Darkness means a lot of things). They will try to study the local Eldritch Abomination, frequently with little regard for the consequences. Oh, and they specialize in building censors of scanners of every kind, including devices to collect data from any computer. There's almost nothing you can do to prevent them from watching you. - Clockstoppers, or Hollow Men, are seemingly regular humans who lack the spark of creativity all people have, leaving them with a burning hatred not only for Geniuses and Wonders, but also for every form of technology. Among their large set of powers designed specifically to kill Geniuses, they have the ability to stop technology from working. O.K. you're thinking, but some of them see clothes and language as technology, reducing everyone in the area of their influence to cavemen who communicate in grunts (think about what happens to Commander Riker in that de-evolution episode of ' Star Trek: The Next Generation.) - It's much worse than that. At higher levels, they pretty much treat anything man-made as technology. Animals forget their domestication in their presence and grow feral. Buildings made from advanced metal or concrete becomes as easy to break as wood or common metal. Irrigation no longer works, and plants can no longer be seeded. A sufficiently powerful Clockstopper pretty much has the potential to become a Walking Wasteland on par with Prometheans. And unlike the Created, they actively try to reach human society and take away human technology, because they genuinely believe this is the right thing to do. - Unmada, AKA Geniuses who lost control over their madness and now believe they are genuine scientists. They are nigh on impossible for Mages to tell apart from Abyssals - they alter the area around them so the physics they believe in is true. (The Creator of Genius has stated they are not Abyssals, but a Mage wouldn't know that.) The bad part is if they end up in a hospital and their physics makes the equipment go wrong or ambulances pass their place of residence and stop. - And let's not forget Unmada Manes. See, an Unmada's reality-warping is mostly carried out by creatures made of Mania generated by the Unmada field. The higher the Genius's Inspiration, the more intelligent and numerous the Manes, and the Manes need to keep the Genius crazy if they want to stay alive. They will do anything to make sure he stays that way. - An Insane Genius looks like a Mage, and An Insane Mage looks like a Genius. If one takes the wrong training, they can go mad from having the exact opposite philosophy to the one they're meant to have. - An Obligation 0 Genius sees everything and everyone in a Measuring the Marigolds way, for example: "I just want to peel your face off, while keeping you alive using this machine, so I can see how your muscles work." Chances are they'd only keep you alive until the experiment was over, and then turn the machine off because they needed the electricity for something else. - Wonders will either be destroyed or become Orphans when the Genius who created or owned them dies. In other words, whenever a Genius gets killed, or even just dies from old age, all of his inventions will either explode or turn into rampaging uncontrollable monsters. Now, this is pretty scary of its own, but you must also add the implication that, in the New World of Darkness, the large majority of mortals, including Hunters, are poorly informed on the supernatural and how it works, so they are very unlikely to know about such a crucial information. It's probably all too easy for a Hunter Cell to find and fight a mad Genius, kill him, and then only realize that by offing him, they just unleashed all his mutated Wonders on the world... - Being a Beholden. Not only can you become one just by being exposed to mad science, but this essentially turns you into a Genius' personal Yes-Man, unable to have a point of view of your own. Your entire existence depends entirely on your master, and you can only keep a purpose by helping him with his creations. One really disturbing text in the book describes a Beholden trying to murder her Genius in an effort to get her life back, only for the Genius to coldly remind her she can never go back nor forward, because she will be nothing without him, before having another of his Beholden kill her and dispose of the body. - The Thule Society might seem pretty cheesy as antagonists thanks to Those Wacky Nazis and Stupid Jetpack Hitler being in full effect with them... until you find out how they regain Mania. Then you probably won't be laughing anymore. - It gets worse when you take in account the Fridge Horror of what Mania actually is; based on what Geniuses believe, that thing is raw idea and creativity made into energy. The Thule Society regains Mania this way because they are constantly finding new more creative ways to torture people. - Manes survive by feeding on Mania. This isn't that bad as long as they can access to it easily by living in a Bardos, draining it from a Genius or just harvest it from a recently created idea, but if none of these options is available, they can get it by draining people's intelligence, permanently decrease their mental abilities in the process. And all they have to do for that is to touch you. - Some Manes and Bardos have resulted in truly horrifying places and creatures: - DeRo, or "Devolved Robots", are insane, degenerate little Mole Men creatures born from all the old fears of underground horrors humanity used to have. They live in underground warrens or old, abandoned buildings, but emerge at night to go terrify people. Sadistic, vile and untrustworthy, they delight in torment, cruel tricks, and rape. They also have a special hatred for electricity, and will smash any electrical device they can get their hands on, most likely harming people in the process. - Tsoska is the Bardos where all the fascist and dystopian ideologies went after being discredited. This has resulted in an amalgam of all dictatorial regimes in a single place, where everyone is under opression and a counterespionage police is everywhere watching the population. Basically, think of all the worst aspects of facism, communism and corrupt governments merged into a single place. Puts all the other Bardos into perspective when you consider Tsoska is considered one of the safer and more pleasant Bardos to visit, so long as your papers are in order. - Ubermenschen are Manes born from the death of Nazi ideology after the fall of the Third Reich. They are identical to humans, except they follow the nazi way of life to the letter. They are incredibly beautiful and healthy, because they make sure the weakest and least healthy of their children don't survive long enough to reach adulthood. Worse, they have Inspired among their ranks, enough to have their own Program, the above-mentioned Thule Society. And they fully intend to one day come back and invade the surface... - The Yetinsyn, or Phantom Slaver Yetis, are an insane race of bodiless ape-men who take a physical form by infecting and taking over human bodies, causing a disturbing transformation where the host loses all his hair and turns albino. From there, they usually seek human females to breed with so they can breed with them, giving birth to fully-embodied Yeti infants. Of course, thanks to Havoc, this rarely ever works, and ninety-percent of the time this just results in the death of both the mother and the infant; even female humans who don't trigger Havoc only reduce the mortality rate to 50%. Meanwhile, the host continue to transform, with his blood being gradually replaced with hair until the human body splits open, revealing a monstrous and fully-material man-ape. And these creatures wish nothing to breed and spread so they can take over the human race, reducing them to Breeding Slaves. - Larvae in general. To put it plainly, these are Wonders who are Powered by a Forsaken Child. This first started when some Geniuses found out they could use the corpses of the dead to fuel their Wonders, but as time went on, they realized anything arcquired through amoral means would work, and got "creative", using things such as the heart of an orphan, a severed head, human sacrifices... as long as they had to do something horrible to do it, they can use it as a power source for their creations, allowing them to maintain it without spending Mania. What's worse is that the "doing something horrible to obtain it" is the core element of a Larva - if you somehow found a non-horrible way to get the same substance, it would be worthless. The power behind a Larva is the willingness to break all the laws and rules of civilized society in order to get it. - The 2nd edition has a fellowship called "The Masters of Spite", you know how some geniuses want revenge on the people who wronged them, these guys are the ones who lift this to an art form, they spend their lives figuring out how to get revenge in the most horrible way they can think of. - 2nd edition gives us Santa Claus, yes you heard right. He's the most powerful Mane that ever lived and while he means well he's completely unaware of the danger he poses to Geniuses and the world. For starters if he finds a Genius in his workshop he'll probably try to make them stay and make up for all the harm they've done as most Geniuses usually have done something to get on his naughty list. The problem with that is that (and one of the reasons geniuses go to the workshop in the first place) is that the place is flooded with Mania, which means that any Genius that stays to long will become Illuminated and Santa won't listen to reason and release them early, the second problem is the presents he delivers cause Havoc, the Peerage and Lemuria have a joint foundation dedicated to preventing Santa's deliveries by lethal force if necessary, not that it keeps him down longer than until next christmas.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GeniusTheTransgression
Ghost Recon Wildlands / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Those who play Rainbow Six Siege know that Caveira is considered in-universe nightmare fuel. Those who haven't get one hell of an introduction in the crossover "Operation: Archangel." Caveira has gone MIA in Bolivia and the Ghosts are tasked with helping Rainbow track her down. Every time you visit a location she's been, there's dozens of dead Sicarios left in her wake. Sicario: The Devil came! The Devil came and it killed them! - When you finally do catch up to her, she's performing her signature interrogation on an unlucky hombre. The sight alone is enough to unnerve Nomad. - At the end of the crossover, when Caviera's brother reveals that he can't actually share his intel about El Sueno until after he clears it with his own superior officers, Bowman, unwilling to wait that long, subtly threatens to have him reditioned to a CIA black site for interrogation, infuriating Caviera and upsetting Team Rainbow. Even Nomad, who by this point has done a number of unsavory things in the name of the mission, is visibly unnerved by it, and quickly assures Team Rainbow that it was a bluff.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostReconWildlands
Ghost Rider / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## The comic: - In the 1970s series, one multi-issue arc featured a Faux Affably Evil villain named Freakmaster, who liked to take normal people and turn them into freaks. He rebuilt a severely injured woman as a motorcycle-riding cyborg, gave real Psychic Powers to a stage magician but didn't teach him how to control them, and turned an underling who had failed once too often into a helpless "human pincushion". - Skinbender has an ability to transform anything she touches, which leads to lot of Body Horror. - The first issue of the All-New Ghost Rider has Robbie surrendering to what he thinks are the police...only to be shot a dozen times. His dead body is left beside a flaming car and then gets set on fire, too, completely consuming his flesh, until all that's left is bone. And then he wakes up screaming. - In the following issue, Mr. Hyde punishes a subordinate for a relatively small failure by tearing his eye out before giving it to his new second in-command as a warning...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostRider
Ghost Rider (2007) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The scene where Blackheart shows up in Johnny's loft: Roxanne: Jesus! Blackheart: Not even close. (Roxanne turns to see Mack — Johnny's pit crew leader and best friend — standing frozen in place. His skin turns blue, his eyes sink back in their sockets, and his lifeless body collapses to the ground, revealing Blackheart.)	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostRider2007
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes He's scraping at the door! SCRAPING AT THE DOOOOR! - Ghost Rider has been turned into a complete psychopath. His movements, rather than being methodical and stern like you'd expect, are erratic and generally unhinged. He doesn't speak much, either. He just laughs. - His general appearance, for that matter. Unlike the white, pristine skull-heads seen in the first movie and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., this version of the character is charred completely black. He looks nightmarish. - Every time Johnny transforms into him. Of particular notice is the scene where Johnny tries and fails to keep from turning into him while riding in a tunnel. - Blackout's corpse-like appearance and his ability to dissolve people/things just by touching them. - Ghost Rider giving someone Pendence Stare is both this and awesome. "Hungry."	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance
Getter Robo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. What? You thought that just because it's the father of most combining Mecha stories means Getter doesn't have Bring Me My Brown Pants moments? In fact it's often considered more of a horror story than a Shonen Manga. - Several aspects of the Getter Rays are like this, as are many of the enemies. - Getter Emperor is nightmare fuel of the highest caliber! Everything mentioned above does not begin to describe the sheer scale of this Mechanical Abomination! In fact, Getter Emperor cannot be fully described or measured! To elaborate, this is the final form of the Getter machines and is less of a robot and more a force of nature. The three Getter ships it comprises generate shockwaves heard across galaxies when they combine. These ships are able to destroy whole planets with a single attack! The Emperor himself is unstoppable, able to conquer any force that stands in his way. With this power, humanity would continue to grow and spread across galaxies and the Emperor would grow stronger and stronger. Loved by humanity and hated by the rest of the universe, Getter Emperor is overall Lovecraftian in nature and is evolution incarnate! - We finally get to witness the scale and horror of it all in Getter Arc episode 10, as Musashi describes the weapons the Getter Fleet possesses, and the whole conflict, with very unsettling glee. All while casually committing genocide with a smile. Not even death phases him, thanks to a mass factory dedicated to making more Musashis when one dies. - Just to give you an idea on how horrifying the non-Getter Emperor ships are, the standard motherships are equipped with a weapon called "The Black Death" which when fired, will wipe out a planet in mere minutes by rotting it from the inside out. - Saint Dragon. Just....Saint Dragon◊. Culmination of Getter Robo G/Getter Dragon spending almost two decades buried underground and evolving thanks to having absorbed insane amounts of Getter Rays, it's appearance is downright unsettling and alien even when compared to Getter Emperor, which has a mechanical design more in line with other Getter machines. In the future timeline that Ryoma witnesses, it's so gigantic that only it's head is poking out of the ground and causing powerful lightning storms that obliterate any Getter machine trying to approach it or escape from the nightmarish hellscape that is the Getter Rays-irradiated Earth, Saint Dragon's domain. - The Andromeda Flow country, a group of Incredibly technologically advanced humanoid insects from the far future, determined to wipe out Getter Robo & humanity before they become too powerful. To this end, they utilize technology ranging from giant biotechnological insectoids made up of smaller biomechanical bugs, parasitic insect queens, gas weapons, cybernetics that can bring back the dead, and a means for time travel thanks to the Zone, a means of creating a large, controlled wormhole. - The nightmarish Bad Future seen in the New Getter Robo episode "Hell's Upheaval", adapted from a similar scene in the Shin Getter Robo manga, is just as scary when animated. Just the basic concept of this timeline is scary enough before we start talking about the messed-up shit that Ryoma sees there: in short, whilst the oni have been defeated, the Getter Rays have corrupted humanity to the last and driven every last man, woman and child utterly mad. Every last human has been physically fused into its own Getter Robo, and these Getter Robos now wage an endless war against each other, slaughtering and cannibalizing one another with the intent of fighting only one Getter-Man remains to inherit the blasted, broken remnants of the Earth. - One of the first things that Ryoma sees after arriving in this hellish timeline is two Getter-Mans brawling viciously. It ends when the winner literally tears the loser in half, sending blood spewing everywhere. - Then it turns out the winning Getter-Man is a corrupted Benkei, who attacks Ryoma to rip him apart and cannibalize him in turn. - After knocking Benkei out and realizing who he is, Ryoma leaves his Getter Robo and attempts to help Benkei out of the cockpit, only for Benkei to bite him savagely in the shoulder and demand to know what Ryoma is doing. Which is when Ryoma sees that Benkei's body below the waist trails off into a hideous mess of raw meat overgrown with cybernetic components. Benkai gurgles madly about being unable to live without his Getter, blood spewing from his mangled lower body, then dies. - Ryoma gets to watch several other Getter-Mans fighting and cannibalizing each other, and stumbles across the partial, cyberized remains of Michiru Saotome impaled on a spike. - Ryoma's conversation about the hell-world with the insane Professor Saotome, who is little more than a vaguely human-shaped mass of cybernetics with his head impaled on one end of it. - A broken Getter-Man cockpit with a crying, eerily human-looking cyborg baby in it. - Seeking to fight whatever turned the world into this hellscape, Ryoma flies up into a massive thunderstorm, where he finds himself amongst a crowd of Getter-Mans, who fly blindly towards their destination even as lightning bolts cut them out of the sky. The one exception suddenly attacks Ryoma, forcing him to cut it in half... which leads to Hayato's armless upper torso splashing onto Ryoma's cockpit in a great shower of blood, ranting about how he will be the last Getter-Man before he slides off of the cockpit window and plummets to his death. - The monster behind the storm; an enormous Getter Robo with a spiky, demonic-looking head. Even as Ryoma approaches it, he realizes his cockpit is coming alive around him and trying to fuse into his body. And when he punches the thing... it turns into a giant, monstrous version of Ryoma's face and starts laughing at him. Is it any wonder that upon returning to the present, Ryoma tries to quit the Getter Robo team?	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GetterRobo
Ghosts of Evangelion / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages, so all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned! Asuka's attempted suicide.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostsOfEvangelion
Ghosts of the Future / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Yo Vennie Erin, she was just 14 When her sister built a very strange machine It was designed to fight blue blurs, unseen When the machine didnt work, her sister just quit But then Vennie took a look inside of it There was a red eye's flash, a metal claw in range Her intestines got all rearranged!	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostsOfTheFuture
Ghost Song / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Adam telling you to halt, showing that he can sense you even though you cannot see him. Anytime you encounter another member of the Gambler's crew. Whatever you find couldn't be described as "human" anymore.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostSong
Ghostbusters II / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "...Before we go any further, I think we should get our Proton Packs."Just like its predecessor, the Ghostbusters sequel isn't without its share of scares. WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked. - The very opening. The Columbia Pictures logo is followed by an instant of silent darkness. Then, with a solemn orchestral jolt, appears the legend " 5 YEARS LATER". As the score creeps ominously, a crack in the pavement is shown, in close-up, to discharge a small, pink, gelatinous puddle. This weird-looking stuff, seeping to the surface of a quiet street, must surely be up to some serious mischief. And then, the wheels of Oscar's carriage roll right through it, followed by the unsuspecting Dana... - In the Manhattan Museum of Art restoration lab, Dr Janosz Poha supervises installation of the none-too-cheery painting of Vigo the Carpathian. Following conversation with Dana, he happily backs towards the towering portrait. Behind him, the area of canvas which holds Vigo's brow bulges, stretching the face into a surreal affectation of animacy. - Ray's descent into the old Pneumatic Transit tunnel. Having drilled through the street to reach an air shaft of unknown depth, Peter and Egon send Ray down on a winch. Lowered into the lonely depths, his uncertain voice echoes into a walkie-talkie. He then descends through the tiled roof of the experimental subway. Bleached by dim, unearthly pink light, he looks down. Ray: We're breaking through... see some light. I'm in some kind of a chamber...there's tile work... SLIME! Peter: What? Ray: IT'S A RIVER OF SLIME! - His fear and awe well and truly sell the enormity of the discovery. The river of faintly glowing pink slime is awesome and fearsome in its otherworldly might. note : The script and novelization mention distant echoes of citywide voices whose anger fed its flow. And then, curious about its dangling visitor, it starts to sprout amorphous appendages... - The first time Vigo appears is pretty fucking terrifying. Janosz is working on the painting, and when his brush touches Vigo's eye, he gets zapped. Then a giant-ass head replaces the painting, with the river of slime beneath it. Vigo says, "On a mountain of skulls in the Castle of Pain, I sat on a throne of blood. What was will be; what is will be no more." Then he demands a child...to be possessed by him. The capper is when some kind of energy travels from the painting's eyes to Janosz's, and he's suddenly calm and apparently looking forward to doing some kidnapping. - Vigo's death. As Egon describes, the man lived to be 105 and died of unnatural causes; his people led a rebellion and had him poisoned, shot, stabbed, hung, stretched, disemboweled, and drawn and quartered. And his severed head still lived long enough to utter his last words. Ray: "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back." - The darkroom scene. Ray and Egon are in a claustrophobic room lit with red light (naturally), peering intensely at photographs of the possessed painting of Vigo, which suddenly all catch on fire at once after the doors silently seal shut without their knowledge. Not for the pyrophobic and/or claustrophobic. - Before all of that, their magnification of the photographs result in ever more hellish distortions of the paintings until it is just a closeup of Vigo in his demonic aspect, an enormous, severed horned head with red eyes and a mouth open in a silent scream of command, continuously dripping slime into a river flowing down an endless dark hallway of empty passages leading into infinity. That's some H. R. Giger shit right there. All the while Ray is ominously recalling his experience being dangled over the river of slime beneath the city, right before the pictures catch fire. - Made worse once you realize that Ghostbusters II is much more of a kid's film than the first movie (no one smokes except for Ray and even then he's only seen chewing on the end of an unlit pipe or cigar or holding one (he never has a cigarette); less swearing, far less sexual themes) and they still felt the need to include a scene where two of our main characters nearly die by being burned alive. The utter terror in Ray and Egon's voices as they start to panic and scream for Winston while banging on the door before resolving to run into the bathroom (though Ray questions what good that'll do)... What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? - The "Everything Goes to Hell" scene like from the first film, featuring an array of ghouls a lot more intimidating than anything else seen in the series, including a spider-like thing with four arms and fangs that chases a bunch of people out of a movie theater, the stoats of a fur coat coming back to life as a snarling four-headed rabid creature that scurries down the sidewalk, an enormous monster reaching over the Washington Square Arch and looming over a crowd of screaming people; and the RMS Titanic finally "arriving" to New York (made a bit funny thanks to Cheech Marin saying "Well... better late than never"). All the while, Glenn Frey's creepy-sounding song "Flip City" plays in the background. - The phone calls NYPD get during the scene. They're more-or-less supposed to be funny, but imagine what those callers just experienced: - "Was this a big dinosaur or a little dinosaur? Oh, just the skeleton, huh, well, which way was it heading?" - "Wait a second, what was chasing you in the park? was chasing you?" The park bench - The arrival of the RMS Titanic is a pretty haunting image (no pun intended). An endless line of ghoulish, zombie-looking spirits seemingly emerging from a gaping dark hole◊ (supposedly where the iceberg struck) note : In reality, the momentum of the ship's speed upon collision with the iceberg loosened bulkhead plate rivets creating fissures on the submerged decks along the starboard (right) side. Also, the ship in Ghostbusters II looks to be intact even though it infamously split in two across its length during the sinking. Though it's possible the two halves could've reconnected "supernaturally". at the starboard bow (forward section). They don't seem happy to have finally arrived in New York, just somber and exhausted, like any tired traveler. - Janosz Poha may be a Funny Foreigner, but he has his scary moments after becoming Vigo's puppet. - The mood slime is both Nightmare Fuel and Nausea Fuel. The way it drips and moves can cause some sense of revulsion, and the fact that it's the physical incarnation of human negativity can make it create all kinds of horror, like raising all sort of spectral creatures and bringing life to all sorts of inanimate objects such as fur coats, bathtubs, or dinosaur skeletons. Not to mention the fact that Ray, Egon, and Winston almost drown in it. And when they get out of it, they are, as Winston puts it, ready to kill each other for absolutely no reason. The slime doesn't just conjure spirits; it makes people Brainwashed and Crazy. It's worse enough that just a small amount of this stuff caused Oscar's carriage to drive like crazy in the opening scene; what would happen if ALL of that gunk crept up to the surface? - The exploration of the dark, abandoned subway tunnel. Ray and Egon are doing echo voices, but don't get any response. Then Winston says "Hello" but gets no echo, only a demonic voice bellowing After that, they see a bunch of decapitated heads on spikes. It comes right the fuck out of nowhere, and stops almost as quickly as it began. "WIIIIIIIINNNSTOOOOOOONNN!!" - It's believed that the voice is Vigo himself, and the decapitated heads are people he condemned during his reign. - The painting of Vigo with his ominous Kubrick Stare with special attention towards Dana. He makes a quick and perverted leer towards her in a blink-and-you'll-miss scene, and Dana is rightly horrified... considering his ulterior motive. - Every scene where Vigo and the slime attempt to disturb Dana and Oscar. It's the Zuul stalk all over again. - In the very first scene of the film, Oscar's carriage moves itself towards the street, but thankfully it's stopped in time. - Later, Dana tries to bathe Oscar, and the bathtub comes alive and tries to attack them. From the tap, the flow of water is suddenly replaced by a stream of pink Mood Slime, which pools in the tub, to form a three foot amorphous appendage. With no features but a grasping mouth, this growling beast lunges for mother and son, briefly bringing the tub to life along with it. - Oscar standing on the ledge of Peter's apartment building, looking down at a couple hundred foot drop, is frightening to anyone, not just mothers. - The reason Vigo is interested in Dana and Oscar: He wants to come back to life through the boy and restart his reign of terror, with Dana as his mother. - Vigo possessing Ray. Ray turns around with Vigo's demonic head placed on his body, mocking the other Ghostbusters. Thankfully, it's followed by the rest of the Ghostbusters blasting him with either proton streams or positive mood slime. - The ghost jogger seems like a bit of a random inclusion at first, but then you dig a little and find a disturbing Real Life parallel. There was a case of a jogger being assaulted and raped in Central Park on April 19, 1989, just two months before the film was released. The victim survived, thankfully, but who's to say this poor soul wasn't someone who experienced something similar and wasn't as fortunate? - Vigo's eventual emergence from the painting. Before the suddenly empty canvas materializes an initially blurred apparition of the towering, sadistic tyrant. His calm, echoing steps, aloof scowl, telekinetic shifting of two large and heavy crates to reach Oscar, paralysis of the Ghostbusters, and bestial, thunderous voice announce the return to corporeality of a brutal, sadistic, Master of Black Magic. Egon: Uh-oh... - When forced back into the painting, Vigo's face twists inward toward the nose in a surreal contortion before reforming as a snarling, corpse-like version of itself. With horns. - There is a bit of Real Life nightmare fuel and Fridge Horror at the same time, on Venkman's show, listen to the way the woman is describing her experience with the "alien"; it's possible she was date-raped, which might explain her instability. note : More likely explanation is that she consensually cheated on her husband and created the delusion to cope with her guilt.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostbustersII
Ghost Hunt / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Stories about ghosts and things that go bump in the night are rife with material for Nightmare Fuel. Spoilers below. - Particularly the "Blood-stained Labyrinth" case. - The first episode of the seventh file. A bloody bathtub and then "I don't want to die". - Hell, the...thing. It can't even be classified as human anymore. It rises out of the bathtub to grin at Mai and Masako in the dark of a room that looks like a cross between a morgue and an operating room. - If we look into it a bit more, the character was probably based on a mix of Elizabeth Báthory and the Buddhist concept of "hungry ghosts". To stay...alive (or whatever it is), they have to feed on corpses. Constantly. Without being sated. The Other Wiki can tell you something about them. - Mai's vision of being taken by the spirits, and awakes before her throat is slit to drain her blood for the aforementioned monster. Most of her visions are insubstantial in some way, and she knows they're not real. Not this one. She even tells the others how she felt the knife against her neck. - It's actually even worse because, based on what she says later, she didn't wake up before her throat was slit, that was just where the episode ended. - Urado is especially terrifying because he's not an innocent or normal person whose undead state twisted them. He was a mass murdering Serial Killer who likely killed hundreds, bathed in their blood, and kept their bones as trophies. Then when he died, he just kept doing it. Urado was already a monster, he's just made that himself one literally as well as figuratively. - The worst part is, it's unkillable. You can't exorcise Urado because he's not a ghost anymore. Naru flat says Urado has basically become a demon or monster. Nothing the heroes can throw at it can do more than stun it for a short time and even Naru seems afraid of the monster Urado has become. Worse yet, even if he was a ghost, his sheer evil and the fact he was already a mass murderer in life means exorcising Urado would've been a massive task to begin with. Naru also implies Urado and his minions have become so powerful they can even warp time and space to teleport people to their murder room. In the end, what does it take to finally put an end to Urado? They had to burn the entire mansion down to finally banish him. - The resolution of "Silent Christmas" counts, as well. It's bad enough that the spirit is a dead child, but then you learn that he died because he climbed all the way up the church, with no way to get down or call for help, in the rain and snow. The best outcome would be if he had died of hypothermia that same night. - The penultimate arc in the manga, "Forgotten Children". Your friends keep disappearing one after another, but the children's malicious spirits immediately replace them so you can't even notice, much less remember them, and then you treat the ghosts like they were there since the beginnings. And that's after you've seen your friend being taken away right under your nose. And the whole situation makes it clear that anyone can be a victim. If that doesn't creep the hell outta you, it's still enough nightmare fuel to induce hellish paranoia. - The possessed family members in The Cursed House arc. Two children and an adult who are possessed have black, soulless eyes, while another adult is running around on all fours and growling like an animal. It's one of the most intense hauntings in the show. - The penultimate episode ends with all the main characters in one room as the lights go out. They hear sounds coming from all around them, then see hands pounding against the window as the opening theme for the series starts up to positively terrifying effect. They're being assailed by an army of drowned corpses. shudder - Naru being possessed. This isn't the first time one of the group has gotten possessed - voluntarily or otherwise - but in this case Lin makes it clear that Naru isn't just in danger but extremely dangerous too. The way he frames it its because of his combat abilities but come the last episode and we know exactly what he means. Naru's psychic abilities are worlds above anyone else's and that in the hands of a God that thinks people have to worship it? Makes you not want to think about what would've happened if Naru had actually woken up...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostHunt
Ghost Stories / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In the episode"Beat The Reaper", the antagonist Vinnie Falco gets led straight to Hell's doorstep when trying to escape prison. - When "Zach" tricks Vinnie by leading him to Hell and revealing himself to being the Grim Reaper, he moves forward to claim Vinnie and he looks as if he is actually moving towards the audience, upping the creep factor. - When Vinnie's dead body is discovered by his lawyer, he has a glove stretched over his face, making it look as though he committed suicide via suffocation. - The sounds of people's screaming from being tortured in Hell. As Vinnie finds out himself. - When "Zach" and Vinnie get closer to freedom, a bright orange red light, the ominous flames glowing brighter and people's screaming in the distance gets louder. Revealing to actually be hell. - Zach's payback to Vinnie is all the more terrifying complete with Scare Chord a as he reveals his true form: Vinnie: Wait...I get it now! This is payback, isn't it? There's no way out of here! The lights, sound effects, getting me lost! This is all a creepshow you cooked up to pay me back for what I did to you. Zach: You're not lost, Vinnie, and I have no grudge with you. Believe me when I tell you that. Vinnie: Okay, I admit it, I took off on you when we robbed that place. And I left you there when the cops showed up. But I was scared, Zach! I didn't mean for them to kill you, I swear! On my mother's eyes, I swear—! Zach: You can tell Zach yourself. He's waiting for you just around that corner. (evil laughter) Vinnie: What are you talking about? Zach: (bursting into evil laughter) Vinnie: Who are you? Zach: Don't you know? (evil laughter) Vinnie: LIAR!!! Zach: (bursts into flames; morphs into his true form as the Grim reaper). Vinnie: No....	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostStories
Ghost Adventures Season One To Season Eight / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Main Page index here 101 — Bobby Mackey's Music World 101 — Evidence - Physical Harm:\|\| Zak receives three scratches on his back after he begins to provoke near the underground well\|\| - Apparition: A dark figure is captured on camera in the basement, and also appears to be wearing a cowboy hat - EVP: Humming, Crying, "Precious... no" - Moving Object: Nick claims that during a bathroom break, a trash can was thrown against the wall opposite of him. - Apparition: After Zak received his scratches, two orbs appear, one behind him in another room, and one shooting out of his back 102 — Houghton Mansion 102 — Evidence - Apparition: \|\|A dark figure is seen dashing past a door, setting off motion detectors set near the area\|\| - Apparition: \|\|A mist-like figure is captured on an infrared photograph, the camera also recorded a sudden temperature drop when it was in the picture\|\| - EVP: Girl's voice, footsteps, door slamming, "Ran for help" - EMF Fluctuation: As the girl's voice is heard, the EMF detector spikes 103 — Moundsville State Penitentiary 103 — Evidence - Apparition: During the daytime interviews, an eyewitness shows the group a shadow figure she captured on film - EMF Fluctuation: At the north hall, Zak orders a spirit to put their head against the fence, leading to EMF spikes up to forty milligauss - EVP: Scratching, cell door slamming, laughing, "I'll Kill You" (twice), "Look...I've Gone Away", "Look Up...I'll Kill You" - Apparition: Aaron takes a photo of Nick in front of the Sugar Shack, capturing a small orange anomoly with glowing eyes behind Nick - Apparition: An orb appears after Zak and Aaron leave Nick alone in the Sugar Shack 104 — Riddle House 104 — Evidence - Moving Object: A 2x4 is knocked off its place on the stairs - Moving Object: A flagpole in the funeral parlor is knocked down. Evidenced by its position as leaning against the wall opposite of the room they are in - Moving Object: \|\|a birdcage is knocked off a stand in full view of the camera, sending Aaron running out of the attic\|\| - Moving Object: Not acknowledged by the team, but as Zak focuses his camera on a coatrack, the coats are swinging around - Moving Object: A kettlepot is heard falling in the kitchen - EVP: Child's voice in the toy room 105 — Sloss Furnaces 105 — Evidence - Physical Harm: Aaron is punched in the eye by an unseen force in the tunnels - Apparition: A mist is seen vanishing behind a rail - Apparition: A small light anomoly forms in the distance from Zak's location behind a fence - Apparition: Zak claims to have seen a full body apparition wearing worker's clothes walking past a rail - Apparition: A camera, when editing footage to get rid of any grainy images, captures a partial manifestation of a person in the tunnel, raising what appears to be its arm up to its chin. - EVP: "I Hate Zak", pipes rattling 106 — Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital 106 — Evidence - EVP: "Hello", "Help Me" girl singing, door creaking, "Die" - Apparitions: A ball of light flies towards Zak's arm, at the same time, Zak's camera captures a shadow come out of his shadow and grab his arm. - EMF Fluctuation: After Zak is grabbed, Nick gets EMF spikes in the area he was grabbed - Apparition: An orb is seen behind Nick, moving up his back and disappearing next to his head - Physical Harm: After the orb vanishes, Nick has a red handprint on his cheek - Other Phenomenon: While Nick was in the morgue, Zak and Aaron were trying to find him, and for no reason, the doors would lock and unlock in the area. 107 — Edinburgh Vaults 107 — Evidence - Apparition: An orb is seen coming out of Mr. Boot's room - EMF Fluctuation: After the orb appeared, the EMF begins spiking around 20 milligauss - Physical Contact: After the orb appeared, Zak feels an ice cold on the back of his head - EVP: Scratching, dragging, female voice, knocking, dog whining, child's voice - Moving Object: \|\|A teddy bear moves on its own when left alone in the White Room\|\| 108 — Old Idaho State Penitentiary 108 — Evidence - Other Phenomenon: A cloud like formation appears over the prison, which looks like a pair of eyes are watching over them. - EVP: screams, laughter, "Hey...Say What?", cell door slamming, knocking, "Not My Life", "I'm Okay" - Apparition: A black figure appears in the shower and levitates a bottle Aaron had in his pocket - Apparition: A dark mist is captured in a photo holding Zak's arm in death row - Apparition: Using an ITC, Zak captures a dark humanoid figure in death row, which appears to have a distorted neck and shoulder, as if it was hung 201 — Preston Castle - The episode where Zak seemingly gets possessed at Preston Castle. He goes to investigate where he thinks the murderer-ghost is, then suddenly freezes and starts babbling about "we shouldn't go down there," and "I don't feel so good," while the cameramen look at each other in confusion. Then he suddenly wanders off in the opposite direction and the next thing you know, his buddies have found him sitting in the middle of some random room with his eyes glowing. Granted, the ghost in question seemed to be that of the victim and trying to protect Zak and the crew, but the image of him sitting serenely with eyes glowing like something out of a horror movie, seemingly focused on something nobody else can see, while he smiles this almost demonic smile and tells his buddies that he's perfectly fine... - He even states things like, "Come into my room" and it seems like the spirit in Zak's body is laughing at points. 201 — Evidence - EVP: female voices, screaming, "I Don't Know," "Talk," "Get Outta Here," knocking, "Come On, You Can Do It," Cooking noises, "Hey," "Never Again," - Apparition: A mist is captured on film moving down the hall, during its travel, it makes a motion sensor alarm - Apparition: A mist is seen behind Nick after knocking is heard - Apparition: An orb flies into Nick's head in the basement - Physical Harm: Aaron receives three scratch marks on the back of his leg in the basement - Possession: Zak shows signs of possession while in the basement, which lead him to take refuge in a room that supposedly the spirit of Anna Corbin wants flowers in - Apparition: While in his possessed state, an orb flies into the back of Zak's head 202 — Castillo de San Marcos 202 — Evidence - Apparition: During the walkthrough, an eyewitness shows Zak a picture of what appears to be a man in 16th century clothing - EVP: growls, breathing, screaming, footsteps - Physical Contact: Zak claims to feel a cold breeze come through him in the hidden dungeon - Word Database: PRAY, REMOTE, DELAYED, MUST, NOT, TURN, CAMERA, UPSTAIRS - Apparition: A camera on the roof captures a figure that looks like it is lighting a lantern, what also appears is a flashing by the fuses of the cannons 203 — La Purisima Mission 203 — Evidence - EVP: baby crying, disembodied voices, "Come Here," "(Spanish words) Vicinte," battle cries, barking, "Lay Down," "Sit Up," "Do You Belong Here," knocking, flute music - Apparition: A ball of light floats by the church altar - Apparition: Using the thermal camera, what appears to be a spanish soldier is caught in the field - Moving Object: The team walked into Father Payeres' bedroom and were shocked to find the bed all scrambled up, despite Zak making the bed before the lockdown - Other Phenomena: After playing Chumash music in the weaving room, the temperature had drops from 70 degrees to 40 degrees 204 — Magnolia Lane Plantation 204 — Evidence - Apparition: During a voodoo ritual, a picture is taken and a woman's face is seen manifesting out of a trinity flame - EVP: Knocking, thumping, footsteps, "Go Back," "Hello," shouting, eerie music, tapping, "Hey," "Aaron" - Apparition: A ball of light is briefly seen in the basement while they are sitting in the shackles - Apparition: In the secret attic of the main house, a green ball of light is seen in front of a window - Other Phenomena: A cabin that is locked turns its lights on and off in response to some of Zak's questions while on the way to a different cabin. A guard of the plantation tells them it is a lulu, which is a creole term for ghost. 205 — Birdcage Theater 205 — Evidence - EVP: voices, cards shuffling, breathing, banging, tapping, footsteps, "Someone's Here," "No," "No, Keep Talking," "Come Here" - Physical Contact: Aaron claims to have been grabbed twice - Apparition: A partial manifestation is captured by the craps table - Apparition: Confirmed in the Best Evidence episode that by the hearse, a mist is seen moving away from it after Aaron is grabbed 206 — Eastern State Penitentiary 206 — Evidence - EVP: "Hungry," "I Knew God, God," "Hi," door opening, scratching, footsteps, "Nick," "Nick," screaming - Apparition: While taking pictures of the prison through the Infrared Camera, Zak captures a mist leaving a glowing door 207 — Moon River Brewing Co. - There's also Nick's possible demonic possession at the Moon River Brewing Co. in Savannah, GA. The look on his face freaked Zak out and made him jump back, and when Nick looked up at Aaron's camera a moment later... Well, let's just say that another person described the expression as not fear, but intent to kill. Nick doesn't remember much of the possession, just that he heard a voice telling him to kill Zak and Aaron. 207 — Evidence - EVP: Dragging, Laughing, "Don't Do That," "I Don't Wanna," "It's The God," footsteps, screaming, "They Got _____," "I Know" - Word Database: WATER, GENDER, SISTER, REMOVE, STEP, YELL - Apparition: An orb appears the same time footsteps are heard - Physical Harm: In the basement, Zak and Nick get immense pressure on their heads - Apparition: After the pressure goes away from Nick's head, a ball of light is seen flying into his head - Possession: Nick is apparently possessed by a dark entity, growing detached from Zak and Aaron. Zak also claims to feel a bad energy coming off of Nick at the same time. - Apparition: A large shadow emerges from Nick and darts to the left of him 208 — Ancient Ram Inn 208 — Evidence - Physical Contact: During a ritual to summon the Succubus, Zak feels a tingling in between his legs - EVP: growling, knocking, chanting, slamming of doors, "I Don't Like You," "It's Coming," "I Hate You," "Don't Tempt Me," "_____, Where Are You," laughing, breathing, breathing, "Get Out Of Here," "I'm Special" - Apparition: Aaron captures a shadow figure running across the hall on his camera 301 — Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - During the Live Episode on the night before Halloween, Silent Hill fans may be disturbed by one of the gang's devices emitting static when a ghost talked. 301 — Evidence - EVP (Digital Recorder): "Harm," "Never," "Who Are You," screaming, "Fuck You," moaning, banging, childs voice, "Get Out", Disembodied Male Voice, Door Slamming, Disembodied Conversation, "Why Don't You Leave?", "It Worked", "I Did", "Walk", "Hey There", "Zak", "I Don't Want It", "You Wanna Fight Me", Knocking, groaning, "Be Quiet", "No", "We Did", "Eight", "Nick", "I Hate Zak", "Zak and Nick, Get Out", Grunting "Go", "Get Out", "Fuck", Breathing, "Get Up", "I'm Okay" - Apparition: Zak captures two orbs on photo near Nick - EMF Fluctuation: Zak asks a spirit to touch his hand, the result is large EMF spikes from the same hand - EVP (Spirit Box): "Who Are You", "No", "Hello", "No Way", "I Dont Want It", "What Are You Doing", "Yes They Were", "I Can", "Sixteen", "I Heard You", "Just One", "Sorry", "Seven", In ..... Room", "Hello", "Hello", "Just Eight", "Mommy", "No", "Yes", "No", "Who's this", Disembodied Voices (The static stopped and the voices are heard), "only You', "You Bet", "I Talk", "All of Us", "I Don't Know", "Fuck You", "You Suck", "Harm", "I Am", "Thank You", "Help Me", "Nobody", "No Idea", "Nothing", "I Don't Have To", "No", "You Got It", "Never" - Physical Contact: One of the guests gets her hair brushed in the seclusion cells - Physical Harm: In the medical ward, Aaron receives a pain similar to what doctors did to patients in the area - Apparition: Using the webcam feature, viewers reported four separate orbs flying around the Civil War wing - EMF Fluctuation: The Parabot detects energy by it, causing a large alarm to go off - Equipment Malfunction: Robert Bess, the creator of the Parabot, states that after he left when the Parabot was set up, there were no scratches or broken lights in it, but when he returns, the panels are scratched up and some of the lights are broken - Apparition: With the webcam feature, an orb is captured in the Medical Center hallway - Physical Harm/Apparition: Robert Bess is pushed into a door by an entity, at the same time, Zak took a picture and captured a large orb next to him - Apparition: Zak captures a picture of an orb that appears to be shaped like a skull 302 — Pennhurst State School & Hospital - The team leader Zak Bagans was hit by a coat-rack near the door at Pennhurst State School. They reviewed the footage onscreen to make sure it hadn't just tipped over, and saw that the original position was on the other side of the wall. 302 — Evidence - EVP: Vomiting, Footsteps, "Go Away," breathing, "Hello," "What Are You Doing," bangs, female voices, screams, hissing, door opening, "Get out"; "Sweet"; "Help me"; "The girl did" - Moving Object: During the interviews, a desk is moved inside a building while Zak and the team were outside - Moving Object: A rock is thrown at Zak in the tunnels - Apparition: A mist is seen moving towards Zak - Moving Object: A coat rack is moved from the opposite side of a wall and hits Zak in the chest - Word Database: HIT 303 — Poveglia Island - The "incident" on Poveglia Island was a million times worse - at Preston, it was just a spirit possession. On Poveglia, it was a demonic possession—out of nowhere, Zak started screaming and cursing at the other investigators, who are also his friends. He hurled himself at the walls, and the look on his face... Not only did they leave out most of the footage because they were so uncomfortable watching it, they stopped an investigation for the first time to perform a cleansing ritual. Although there have been later catches of EVPs in English, Poveglia has been closed for centuries, so the odds of someone dying who speaks English on the island are pretty unlikely. 303 — Evidence - Other Phenomena: Before the lockdown, Zak notices a formation over the island that looks like their camera's x - Apparition: An orb is seen moving down a wall - Apparition: An orb shoots into Aaron's neck - Physical Contact: After the orb flies into Aaron, he fells drained - Apparition: An orb flies in front of the EMF Detector, causing a 22.2 spike - Possession: Zak is apparently possessed by a dark entity, he described it as a red filter over his eyes - EVP: rustling, footsteps, voices, moaning, "Let's Fight," "Vieni qui, io sono qui (Italian for Come Here, I'm Here)," bangs, screaming, "Hey," "Bye Bye" - Moving Object: In the plague fields after rustling is heard, the infrared light is knocked off its stand by an unseen force - Apparition: After they leave the plague fields, a mist is captured walking through the brush - Apparition: A dark mist is seen manifesting towards the roof and disappearing 304 — Ohio State Reformatory 304 — Evidence - EVP: "I'll Chew You," "Ya Got More Than Me," footsteps, cell door slamming, breathing, "Run Sarah," growling, "Sorry Sarah, Sorry," "Hang" - Apparition: Nick captures an orb leaving a cell, then going back in, as if it was reaching out - Apparition: A mist is seen walking behind Zak on the upper levels of a cell block - Equipment Malfunction: During the days walkthrough, everybody's audio equipment is shot down, it also happens to Zak immediately when they enter the cellblock for the investigation - Word Database" DRAG, PASS, FLY 305 — Remington Arms Factory 305 — Evidence - EVP: bangs, screaming, crying, talking, yelling, gunshots, growling, footsteps, "Me," "Not so hard," "yes," "I like it," There's something," "Energy," "Help" - Apparition: A bright flash of light is captured in a hallway - Apparition: A manifestation of a leg is captured in a room where guards have seen a shadow figure - Physical Contact: Aaron feels a spirit move past him in a hallway 306 — Old Washoe Club & Chollar Mine - Before the show began airing, Zak, Nick, and Aaron did an investigation at the Washoe Club. They were called back (Season 3) because EVPs caught more recently mention them by name, including one spirit saying very clearly "hate Nick." And during the investigation, another EVP of "I hate Nick" was captured. It's the personalized message that makes it particularly disturbing. - Nick seems to be referred to the most often by EVP catches. Some just say his name, but there have been a few at places other than Washoe that say they hate him. 306 — Evidence - Washoe Club (After their first investigation in 2004) - EVP: "Nick Groff," "Hate Nick," "Zak, Look Out," "Nick, Zak, Coming, They're Scaring Me" - Chollar Mine - EVP: "Help," Mining noises - Word Database: FRANK, STAIR, FELL THROUGH - Washoe Club - EVP: banging, footsteps, disembodied voices, "It Was Me," "We're Not Scared of Them," "Better Not," "Yeah," "Never," "Nick, Go Home," "I Hate Nick," "It's Only Me," "Groff," Demonic Voice - EVP (Spirit Box): "Help," "Listen," "Trouble" - Apparition: An orb shoots out of Nick's neck - Apparition: A mist is seen walking towards a staircase in the downstairs bar 307 — Linda Vista Community Hospital 307 — Evidence - EVP: Humming, Male Voice, "Maybe," banging, female singing, "Stop It," "Nick," "Ready or not, Here I Come," whispering, moaning, knocking, breathing, "Thank You," "Don't Leave Me" - Apparition: A strobing orb is seen moving around the main hallway - Apparition: A tall mist figure is seen moving past a chair that is said to move by itself - Equipment Malfunction: At the same time Nick sees an entity and runs, both his camera, and Aaron's camera freeze - Word Database: YEAH YOU DID, LEAVE, DEAD 308 — Execution Rocks Lighthouse 308 — Evidence - Word Database: REMOTE, CAMERA, DRINK, MERCURY - EVP: Voice, banging, whimpering 309 — Prospect Place 309 — Evidence - EVP: Girl's voice, banging, hissing, footsteps, "Come Here, Some More," "Get Out," laughter - Apparition: After Zak asks a spirit to close the door, the camera captures an orb move towards the door - Apparition: An orb shoots out of Nick's neck - Apparition: An orb moves around Nick and disappears in his hand - Moving Object: A rock is thrown at Zak in the barn - Moving Object: A light set up in the barn starts moving around as if something was walking around on the platform it was set on 310 — Wolfe Manor - A brief clip (not by Zak) of the man-baby in Clovis Wolfe Manor was really, really, creepy. - Even creepier is a demonic voice in the crawlspace telling Zak, word for word, "Die" and "Want your energy" 310 — Evidence - EVP: Laughter, crying, moaning, "Nick, Heard His Name," "It Wasn't Me Zak," "Get Out," breathing, "No," "Die," "Want Your Energy," "Stay," "Zak" - Physical Contact: As Zak comes out of the crawlspace, he feels something touching his neck - Apparition: Using the new Ultraviolet camera, Nick captures a purple humanoid figure in the basement 401 — Gettysburg 401 — Evidence - Soldiers National Museum - EVP: "You're Wonderful, Thank You," "Watch Your Back With Them," "Pass All the Morgans," "Betcha Won't Untie Me," footsteps, "Kill The Girl," "I Never Killed Again," banging, "I Want The Bowl Of Money" - Jennie Wade House - Word Database: TEEN, PASS, PROPERTY, HELPFUL, DRINK, WATER - EVP: "I'm Pregnant," tapping, "Don't Think That's Gonna Happen" - Physical Contact: Zak gets his butt grabbed in the basement - Apparition: After Zak's but was grabbed, an orb flies towards Nick - Engine House - EVP: We'll Beat Him Up", gunshots, "The Big One?", "No Don't Sweat It", "Confederate" - Apparition: A figure is captured on the thermal camera marching with a gun, going into the "Ready, Aim, Fire" position towards the team 402 — Rolling Hills Asylum 402 — Evidence - EVP: "Heard she got out of jail this morning, get up early," squeaking, footsteps, screaming, "Open Up A Little," "I'm Here," "Get Out," "Get The Fuck Out Of Here," "We Can... Do It... ,More" "I Don't Want To," "I'm Not Scared," "I Just Slapped You Bitches," "I Can't," "Damn You," "Help," "I Claim Everything Here... Okay," "You Come Back... Nick," "Let Him In There" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Lets Brawl," "Certainly," "Kill Zak," "Nick," "Nicks Gotta Voice," "Listen... To Me... Kill People" - Moving Object: A wheelchair is seen after the squeaking is heard, leading Zak to say that something was moving the wheelchair - Apparition: Using a digital still camera, Zak captures two large figures in some of the pictures looking at them - Moving Object: Aaron captures on camera a heavy steel door slamming on its own - Apparition: Dave Schrader claims to have seen a face above Nick's shoulder, but was not captured because of the infrared lighting interfering with Aaron's camera - Apparition: Using a laser grid, Zak captures an energy form moving around - Other Phenomena: A scream is heard and immediately after, the candles around Nick began to flicker 403 — Return to Bobby Mackey's - It was revealed that after their live event at Bobby Mackey's a year ago, the demonic spirits followed them home, this caused Aaron's marriage to break up. 403 — Evidence - Other Phenomena: After their investigation in 2009, demonic entities followed them home, one of which caused Aaron's marriage to break up - EVP: Violin music, Chimes, "I'm Gonna Kill Zak," "Come To Me," "I'Ma Kill Your Wife," "Take The Knife," "Hate...You," "I Can't Go Back In There," "Don't Fuck It Up," crashing, "Its Going Down With The Bishop," "Fuck You," humming, "That's Because It's The Devil," "Get Down If You Want Cocksucker," growling, "Gonna Hurt Him," "Gonna Kill Zak," "Don't Trust The Light" - Apparition: On several occasions, Zak states that he keeps seeing red eyes watching them - Apparition: An orb is captured flying directly into Aaron's face - EVP (Spirit Box): "Seven," "Zachary," "Afraid Of Heights," "Bad Day," "Bishop Long," "Black" - Word Database: SCOTT, ENEMY, SPIRITS, BAD MEMORIES, I KILLED PEARL BRYAN - Apparition: An orb is captured shooting towards Nick's back - Possession: Zak appears to be manipulated by an entity during a cleansing ritual, leading Nick to grab Boshop Long's book - Possession: At the end of the episode, Zak stated after his cleansing, Aaron began showing signs of aggression towards Bishop Long 404 — Waverly Hills Sanitarium 404 — Evidence - EVP: "Give Me A Break," whistling, stepping, "Remember Me," "That Would Be Evil," "I Forgot To Make Him Smile," "Keep On Dragging From The Bad Drugs We Took," "Gonna Get Zak," "Yer Not Gonna Make It," "I'll Keep Him," "2010," "Nurse, Come Here, Make My Bed Nurse," "He Cant Stop You," "Good Luck Tonight," moaning, "So What," banging, "You Got Messed Up Heartbeats" - EMF Fluctuation: Using the new REM Pod, Zak documented intelligent activity in room 502, where a nurse hung herself, when the REM Pod went on and off in response to some of Zak's requests - Apparition: Aaron claims to have seen a doppleganger of Nick while walking around - Physical Contact: Aaron claims to have felt an energy push him out of a room - Apparition: Using a full spectrum camera, Zak captures two black figures moving around in a hallway 405 — Stanley Hotel 405 — Evidence - EVP: "You Better Start Talking," "Somebody's Coming," "Hey, Come On," "They're Up Late," "Pass The Key," "That Was A Shadow," "Don't Trust _______," "I'll Be Right There," "That's Okay," "Right Here" - Apparition: After Nick captures an EVP, a mist is seen moving towards him over the bed - Apparition: In the carriage house, a light flashes across the screen and disappears by the unused mattresses - Apparition: In the carriage house, a mist moves past Zak, Nick, and Bill Chappel - Apparition: Using Bil's technology, a picture is captured and resembles a bent knee or a shoulder 406 — Hill View Manor 406 — Evidence - EVP: "I'm Jim," "Get Out Of This Room," "Get That Guy," "Blue," "Did She?" "Hurt Your Back," banging, "Yeah It Is," scratching, pipes rattling - EVP (Spirit Box): "Hi Zak," "Maybe," "Hockey," "Pittsburgh," "I Can't," "Go Check," "Do The Math," "I Plan On Fixin' Them," "Split," "I Got A Question," "Let Us Hear," "Alicia" - Apparition: A light is captured and sets off motion sensors in the area - Word Database: SUFFER, IN A JAIL, HURRY, RUN, HAPPIER, NICK, EAST, HIGHWAY, EAST, PAIN, HIGHWAY, SAARI 407 — Vulture Mine 407 — Evidence - EVP: Crashing, "What's That?" screaming, banging, footsteps, crying, "Get Out," "Leave," "I Want Your Money," "Take The Gold," laughing, "Hey Bowling Ball, Looking At You," piano playing - EVP (Spirit Box): "Yes," "Yes" - Apparition: As Zak closes a door in a building, an orb shoots out of the room and up to the roof - Word Database: TIED, RUNNING, JUDGE, CABLE, PRAY - Moving Object: A rock is thrown through a window, hitting Aaron in the leg - Other Phenomena: A seismic sensor is set up and goes off as footsteps are heard in the same room after the team leaves - Apparition: A light shoots towards Zak's prop gun - EMF Fluctuation: The EMF Detector goes off at the height of a child, at the same time, the EM Pods also go off as soon as they try to leave 408 — USS Hornet 408 — Evidence - EVP: Banging, "Get Out," "God," footsteps, "It's Cold," "Get Up" - Apparition: While in the main center of the ship, a light anomole manifests outside the camera's field of light - EVP (Spirit Box): "I Did," "Stephen," "Yeah," "Run," "We're Coming," "I'll Get You," "That's Right," "I'm Sorry," "Nick," "Help," "Almost," "I Was Hurt" - Physical Contact: During the spirit box session, Aaron's shirt was lifted off of his shoulder, immediately after, a voice says "That's Right" - Apparition: Zak sets off an alarm in order to try to create activity, seven minutes after this, in Broadway, a light comes flying down the hallway, in a tornado-like fashion - Apparition: 24 Minutes after Zak's alarm, a mist figure is seen in the Galley reaching for a pot - Apparition: After exiting the infirmary, an orb shoots out of Zak's head - Apparition: Also after exiting the infirmary, when Zak looked to talk to someone, an orb flew out of his head and swirled around to his chin 409 — La Palazza Mansion - During the investigation, they brought a woman who looked like the former resident of the house (who the ghosts/demons seemed to like watching shower while making lewd comments), wrapoed a towel around her to appear naked to lure out these comments for recording. What they got instead was a demonic sounding voice screaming "KILL HER!" 409 — Evidence - EVP: hissing, banging, "Attic," "Let's Kick Them Out," Dragging, Singing, "This Way," "You Broke In Here," "Kill Her," snarling, "Not That Way," whispering - Equipment Malfunction: Before the lockdown, both monitors they use for a base nerve center were completely drained of power, what makes it even scarier, the batteries they used were fully charged car batteries - Apparition: An orb appears and moves down Nick's back 410 — Fort Chaffee 410 — Evidence - EVP: Music, Work Sounds, "It's Getting Hot In Here," "Its Not The Cops," "Watch Your Back," banging, "Come And Get Me," "If You Believe That Shit," "Get On The Bed," "Coffee, Cafe," "Get Out," "It's Hot In This Building, I'm Here To Fuck You" - Apparition: In the OB/GYN building, a light flies into Zak's chest - Physical Contact: After the orb flies into Zak's chest, he comments that he feels a cold pressure on his chest 411 — Amargosa Opera House & Hotel 411 — Evidence - EVP: Screaming, Banging, "Do We Have To?" "All The Lights Are Off," creaking, moaning, "Behind You," "It Was Fun," "I Seek Help," "Dammit," door slamming, "Need Some Help," thudding, "No One Cares!" - Apparition: Using the thermal camera, they capture a red figure in the doorframe leaving a room, on further review, it shows a distinct nose, chin and lips - Physical Contact: Zak becomes numb in a same place in the hotel that one of the employees stated that she got numb while making the bed - Other Phenomena: Room 19 mysteriously became locked and they checked both doors, and both were locked, when they came out, the main room 19 door was open - Possession: Zak started getting a feeling of discomfort, dizziness, and nausea, and he believes that something was inside him, also, when he coughs, he and Nick notice it is not the same as he usually coughs 412 — Old Fort Erie 412 — Evidence - Word Database: UP...UP, unexplained syllabics coming out of the device, HIT, WAR, YELL, I'M HERE HIT, HORRIBLE, KILLED FOR IT - EVP: "He's Up There," "Kill 'Em," voices, "Battle Ditch," "What Happened?" "Let Them Eat," footsteps, "I Am" - Apparition: Using Daryl as a trigger object, the team captures a shadow figure in the kitchen 413 — Villisca Axe Murder House - While reviewing a very disturbing EVP, the team caught footage of a door - a wide open door - slamming shut on its own, immediately after some footsteps sounded. 413 — Evidence - EVP: "Where Is She?", "I Killed Six Kids?", creaking, footsteps, "They're Around Upstairs," "We're Gonna Keep Them In The Dark," laughing, "Cause They Don't Step In Heaven Yet," "You're Gonna Give Up Blood!" "Herman's Gonna Get You," "It's A Gathering Place" - EVP (Spirit Box): "No," "Lena," "Wanna Play?" "Paul," "Everyone's Fine," "Andy," - Moving Object: Using a motion activated camera, it captures footsteps moving towards a door, and slamming it shut - Apparition: Using the motion activated camera, it captures a black mist following Nick out of a bedroom 414 — Kell's Irish Pub - A photo that was taken by Zak of a stairway shows a weird, child-sized figure sitting on the stairs with a weird squooshed head. It's believed to be the ghost of a little girl said to haunt the place. An EVP saying "Looking for my child..." seconds after seems to confirm this. Nonetheless, the look of it is reminiscent of the infamous "Man Baby" at the Wolfe Manor. 414 — Evidence - EVP: "Get Off That Thing," yelling, scratching, "Looking For My Child," "Get Me Outta Here," shuffling, footsteps, "They Have A Bomb That'll Hurt You," "Get Us Hazzard," "Do Something Quicker," "Stop It" - Apparition: Using a digital still camera, a form of a disfigured child is seen sitting on top of the stairs 415 — Pico House Hotel 415 — Evidence - EVP: footsteps, "Anything Bad?" "Don't Tell Anyone," "They Don't Know Nothing," "I Wanna Tell 'Em About It But I Know Nothing That Happened" - Apparition: Nick recalls during the day's walkthrough that they captured a shadow moving in a room behind Zak on the second floor - Apparition: Using the digital still camera, a figure is caught in two photos, the first photo shows it blocking out a part of a window, the second shows it standing in front of the window, with a near-humanoid shape 416 — Goldfield - They catch an EVP saying "You're fuckin' in my house." You'd think its spine-shivering ability would be dulled by the fact that it requires censoring, but the menace is all in the last three words - the voice gets low, gravelly and distorted at the end, the sound of either static or the voice being something demonic. - And, for that matter, at one point the PX device, which allows spirits to manipulate energy to vocalize words audible to our ears, go absolutely nuts. The PX is a new device, but it's similar enough to other devices they've used that when it emits a long ear-piercing shriek of feedback, you know it's not supposed to be doing that. - Almost every message the PX gives them is pretty nightmarish... - The censorship makes things worse for some people: Some other episodes aired unclear EVP profanity uncensored, but this was clear enough that the censorship team was effectively admitting "something is cursing. Therefore, something is there". 416 — Evidence - EVP (After their first visit): "Thank You But We've Done It" - Moving Object: A rock is thrown up the stairs at Nick - EVP: Footsteps, banging, snarling, "They're Back, What Do You Want?" "That's Correct!!!" "I Want To Talk To Zak," Unexplained voices, metallic throwing, "Help Me," "Enter," "Sit," "You're Fucking In My House?" "Yeah I Would," "Elizabeth," "Let's Get Zak," crashing. - Physical Contact: After Nick walks by room 109, he feels nauseated and feels a cold breeze run through him - Word Database: HI, WILL KILL, ENTER, SIT, FEMALE, HIDE, VIDEO - Equipment Malfunction: The PX Device starts emitting squeaks and beeps whenever it tries to make words. Zak states it is paranormal because of the possibility of a powerful entity causing it to get their attention - Apparition: Zak captures what appears to be a dark shadow moving towards Mark Constantino - Moving Object: After the group hears a crash, they come to a room with broken glass all over the floor - Physical Harm: Towards the end of the investigation, everybody starts getting pains in their stomachs and feel nauseated 417 — Bonnie Springs Ranch 417 — Evidence - Physical Contact: During the middle of the day, Zak and their interview feel a cold breeze blow by them in the Opera House - EVP: Unexplained Noise, "Come Here," "Let Me Just Help You," Drum Beating, Footsteps - Physical Contact: After a guest asks if the spirit if they are angry, everyone feels a static feeling - Apparition: A static Night vision camera captures a dark mist run through a door behind the guests in the opera house 418 — Salem Witch House & The Lyceum Restaraunt - During the investigation of the Witch House, the PX device that lets ghosts select words to say repeatedly started saying "apple apple apple apple apple apple apple" when the witch and warlock were performing their ritual, to the point where they had to turn it off to keep it from interfering. 418 — Evidence - Witch House - EVP: voice, "Don't Go In There" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Robert", "Christian Day", "Which One", "Hanged", "Bridget", "Bishop", "Witch", ""I Did" or "I Didn't"" - Word Database: HOLIDAY, APPLE - Lyceum Restaraunt - EVP: "Mary," "You Come Back" - Apparition: A mist is captured on a photo from the infrared camera in the mirror 419 — Jerome Grand Hotel 419 — Evidence - EVP: "I Just," "I Just Wanna Listen And Help," door slamming - Physical Contact: Zak feels a spirit rush past him, and using new technology, detects a change in ambient temperature around him - Apparition: Using the thermal imaging camera, Zak captures a mist up in the attic as it diappears into thin air 420 — Yorktown Hospital 420 — Evidence - EVP: "You Wanna Play?" moaning, "It Must Be Told, And I'll Tell Them You Did It," "It' Sick," "Don't Go In The Bathroom," thudding, "Okay," "Get In There," "The Killer Is Coming, Get To The Hallway" - Apparition: Using the digital still camera, Zak captures a figure with defined arms and legs in a hallway next to them - Word Database: SOUL, LOUD, SUFFER, LISTEN, THINK, JESUS, METAL, HURRY, HIDE - Apparition: An orb flies into Zak's back in the bathroom - Equipment Malfunction: As soon as Nick reaches a room at the end of the hallway, the thermal camera is drained of energy and dies 421 — Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - In the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum episode, they had a conversation with a ghost who gave us a few hints to his identity. Apparently, his name was Noah, got caught cheating in the corner, was sent into a cave, attacked, strangled by his throat and was left alive. Now remember the ghost is still in the museum. 421 — Evidence - EVP: laughter, "Singing In The Rain" - EMF Fluctuation: After the laugh is heard, the REM Pods light up on the staircase where an apparition is seen - EMF Fluctuation: After Zak sets up Sands Poker Chips on a table and walks away, the EMF Detector goes off - Word Database: NOAH, PLAY, CORNER, TIED, CONTRACT, CAVE, DIG, THROAT, LASH, ALIVE - Physical Contact: Aaron feels a spirit rush him in the scream maze - Apparition: Using the digital still, Nick captures a translucent figure standing behind the staircase where an apparition is commonly seen 422 — Sacramento Tunnels 422 — Evidence - Sacramento Tunnels - EVP: Banging, Unexplained Voice, "Stop Talking With Me," "Where Did You Go," footsteps, "Gotta Get Me All The Cash" - Apparition: Using the full spectrum camera, Zak captures a black mass moving behind a pillar - Apparition: An orb appears and disappears into Aaron's back - EVP (Spirit Box): "Aaron", "Help", "Fuck You", "Laura" - Apparition: While using the spirit box, a camera captures a mist coming out of the device and shooting upwards - Eagle Theater - Word Database: POSSIBLY - Moving Object: Zak captures the rocking chair moving back and forth on its own - Old California Supreme Court - EVP: Unexplained voice, banging 423 — Hales Bar Marina & Dam 423 — Evidence - EVP: crashing, footsteps, "Yer Fucked," chanting, "You're All Gonna' Die," "Leave before..." Unexplained Children/Female Voices, "Come On, Come On, Okay," "Tell Your _________" - Physical Contact: Aaron feels something grab him in the catwalk above the area where a whirlpool forms - Apparition: After Aaron is grabbed, Zak captures a figure on the thermal camera walking away from Aaron 424 — Kentucky Slave House 424 — Evidence - Moving Object: During the days interview, the camera caught a door closing on its own during an interview - EMF Fluctuation: Nick's EMF Detector goes off while he is sitting in the closet - EVP: "It's A Phone Ringing," footsteps "Give Us A Chance," "I'm Standing On Wood," "On Wood," "Turn Around" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Ask Him," "How Are You?" "What Do You Want?" "Murder" - EMF Fluctuation: The REM Pod goes off in a room where a resident committed suicide - Apparition: A mist is seen moving away from Nick and Zak during the spirit box session - Word Database: BEWARE, WOLF, KILL, BONE, PASTOR, CLOSE 425 — Tooele Hospital 425 — Evidence - EVP: Footsteps, Door Shutting, "Zak Bagans," Dark Voice, Child's Voice, Vulgar Voice, Door Slamming, Growling, Scratching, Female Scream - EVP (Spirit Box): "You're Talking To Me" - Physical Contact: Aaron feels a negative energy when he is standing in the hallway by himself - Other Phenomena: Using the Jacobs Ladder, when Zak and Aaron provoke, the energy at the top points at them, respectively depending on who is provoking at the time - Physical Harm: Zak is pushed into the wall by an unseen entity - Apparition: The team did not acknowledge this, but before Zak gets pushed into the wall, a mist is seen moving to the left while the Jacobs Ladder was staying at the top - Apparition: A thermal camera set up at the end of a hall captures a weird energy form that has its own heat signature - Apparition: A mist forms and follows Aaron into a room - Moving Object: A ball set up in the hallway moves on its own down the hallway 426 — Loretta Lynn's Plantation House 426 — Evidence - Other Phenomena: Zak notes that the PX is trying to make out words because the stars on the bottom of the PX screen are showing up as if it is saying something - Word Database: MUST, KILL, SIXTY, DIG, GROUND, TWO, LOT, MANIFEST, SAVE, TWO, MOAN, SEEN, BROWN - EVP: "Get Your House Back," "I Hear Them, I Hear Them Coming," footsteps, "I Need To Go Down The Stairs," "Possibly In Trouble," "Gonna Cut Ya," "Ya Can't Touch Them" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Loretta," "Lynn," "I Was Hurt," Vulgar Voice 501 — Ashmore Estates 501 — Evidence - EVP (Spirit Box): "Nick," "Adam," "Uh Huh," "Ha Ha Ha," Unexplained male voice, Female scream, "Yup," "One," "Hey Zak," "That's Right," "Upper" - EVP: "Turn Around," banging, footsteps, "I'll Cut You," "Don't You Dare Grab Him," knocking, "Stop Playin," "Don't Bring That Shit Down Here!" "Yer Gonna Pay" - Possession: Zak starts to grow detached from the group, and when he starts talking, he mentions that he was seeing images of the estates when it was in operation - Physical Contact: Nick feels something come down on him when he climbs down a ladder - Physical Harm: An unseen force scratches Nick's hand - Physical Contact: Zak claims his leg was grabbed during an battery draining experiment, with the data concluding that the spirits of Ashmore prefer human energy than the artificial energy of a battery - Apparition: Using the full spectrum camera, Zak captures a dark shadow where a meteorologist was thrown to the ground and had his shoulder broken 502 — Mizpah Hotel - Everything that happened in the basement during Aaron's solo investigation, but the door of the out-of-order elevator opening and closing on its own was especially creepy. 502 — Evidence - Castle House - EVP: "Help," "I Know Who You Are" - Mizpah Hotel - EVP: Unexplained Female Voice, "Dammit, What The Heck," banging, "We Got Work To Do," Moaning, Unexplained Voice, knocking, Unexplained Scream, Unexplained feedback, female voice - EVP (Spirit Box): "Hey You," "I'm Evil" - Other Phenomena: An elevator that does not function (prior to its reopening to the public) opens and closes in full view of Aaron's camera. Aaron also goes in and asks to open the door so he can leave, with the door opening on command - Moving Object: Wood set up by Zak was knocked over twice, one of the times being caught on camera - Apparition: The camera in the basement (by where the elevator is) captures a dark figure dash across the floor towards a cabinet 503 — Old Town San Diego 503 — Evidence - Casa De Estudillo - EVP: Footsteps, "I See A Man," "I Want You To Pray" - Apparition: An orb shoots out of Nick's back - Word Database: DIGGING, GRASS, MANDY, CENTRAL, ROSE, VASE - Cosmopolitan Hotel - Apparition: A light is seen peeking out of a closet, then goes back in - EVP: Female Singing, male voice, banging, "Pray, Help Him", "Bandin" 504 — Winchester Mystery House 504 — Evidence - From Winchester Mystery House Only - Apparition: During the day, Zak took a picture and a blue orb is seen in front of Nick - EVP: laughter, thumping, "Nick" - EMF Fluctuation: Before Zak ends the lockdown, the EMF detector goes off in extremely high levels. - From Bobby Mackey's to Winchester Mystery House - EVP: "I Hate Nick," "Hey You," "Enter," "Aaron....Kill," "He Told Me," "Aaron, You're An Ass" - Physical Contact: The experiment possibly allowed a spirit to travel to the house from Bobby Mackey's, causing Aaron to feel a cold breeze when the VLF was having interference - Possession: Aaron's demeanor shifts abruptly, causing Aaron to seem more vicious towards Bobby Mackey's spirits and the others in the house - From the Washoe Club to Winchester Mystery House - Equipment Malfunction: Mark and Debby's connection to the experiment was lost and lasted for 2 hours - From Bobby Mackey's Only - EVP: Voices, growling - Possession: Melissa, an investigator from Tri-State Paranormal, started having signs of oppression and aggression during the investigation, and was exorcised by Bishop Long the next day - From the Washoe Club Only 505 — Lizzie Borden House - Besides the historical context, they all but say that the apparent reason Lizzie killed her dad was that he sexually abused her, and even though they beep a word out of "respect for the dead" it's pretty clear from context what they're talking about. Even outside of the context of the historical murders that's pretty disturbing. There's also the fact that Lizzie's dad at one point yells "DIRTY WHORE!" when they're asking about her. 505 — Evidence - EMF Fluctuation: the EM pod goes off in response to some of Zak's questions - EVP: shuffling, "I'll Take You To Heaven," hissing, "Keep On Killing," footsteps, "Keep Em Coming," "They're All Together," "Thank You Zak," "Tell' Em About The Girl," "Dirty Whore," "Go Ahead And Cry" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Abby," Abby," "Borden," "Maybe," "Lizzie" - Moving Object: A dresser drawer opened on its own - Equipment Malfunction: Zaks camera starts getting fuzzy images after pointing it towards the drawer that opened - Other Phenomena: A flashlight turns on by itself during a spirit box session - Physical Contact: Liz states she feels an angry presence entering the room during the seance - Possession: The angry feeling starts to take control of Zak and Nick, and ironically Zak has a hatchet in his hand 506 — Letchworth Village - Its dark and demented history. That is all. - The episode can be a Wham Episode for people who believe in ghosts, and is quite paranoia-inducing for ghost-hunters (and most other people, actually). The idea that ghosts can attach onto people and follow them home? Scary... - There's also the witnesses saying they felt "addicted" to the place, and the fact that the crew agreed the two witnesses felt very off. Combine all of the above with the former nurse's testimony as to what went on in there, and you have a very sad but also utterly terrifying location. 506 — Evidence - Physical Contact: The crew feels that some type of energy is leading them into different parts of the building. - EVP: "Shut Up You Prick", Screaming, Knocking, "Pray Your God", "Yer Taunting Me", "Then Come Get Me", "Then Talk", siren "Attack", "Please Help", male voice, "This Way" - Apparition: A large shadow figure is seen moving behind a window - Physical Contact: Nick feels something push him out of a room 507 — Return to Virginia City - During Zak's spirit box session with Rosie/Lynette note : the room is haunted by a girl named Rosie, but the spirit claims to be called Lynette, and she managed to give correct answers to Zak's other questions, Zak asks her if she committed suicide in the bathtub, and suddenly screams "WATER!" 507 — Evidence - St. Mary's Art Center - EVP (previous ghost hunt): footsteps and singing - EMF Fluctuation: After Zak claims to have seen a mist, the EMF detector spikes at 0.6 milligauss - Apparition: The camera captures a light that bends around a chair. The apparition is credible because it goes through the chair - EVP: "They're Iron Strips" - Silver Queen Hotel - Apparition: Billy spots an orb fly from the door to the bathroom - EMF Fluctuation: Zak receives spikes whenever he moves the EMF Detector near the flowers, where the orb manifested - Apparition: After Zak moves the flowers onto the bed, Billy captures an orb move towards the bed - EVP (Spirit Box): "Lynette," "Virginia," "Eleven," "Water!" - EVP: crying - Miner's Cabin - EVP: bootsteps - EMF Fluctuation: As the bootsteps are heard, the REM Pod goes off 508 — Rocky Point Manor 508 — Evidence - Perryville Battlefield - EVP: Cannons and gunshots - Apparition: A transparent purple mass is seen on the the thermal camera near the corn fields on the edge of the battlefield site - Rocky Point Manor - EVP: Unexplained female singing - Word Database: CLOSE, NICK, DISTRESSED, STOMACH, ENEMY, LETTER, CENTURY 509 — Rose Hall 509 — Evidence - Cinammon Hill Plantation House (Johnny Cash's Jamaica Home) - EMF Fluctuation: The EMF Detector goes off near Johnny Cash's most precious possessions, namely, his shoes and his alligator trophy - EVP: Unexplained noises, "I Do" - Rose Hall Great House - EVP: "Yeah," "Oh My Goodness," female voice, footsteps 510 — Old Charleston Jail 510 — Evidence - Battery Carriage House Inn - EVP: "Take Their Water Away" - Old Charleston Jail - EVP (Spirit Box): "the Devil," "yeah?" - EVP: knocking, crashing, "you make me mad," unexplained prisoner yelling, banging, "let me out," "I wanna go," footsteps, "get off him!" - Physical Contact: When Zak was holding the spirit box against his side, a spirit says "yeah" and Zak reacts by having a huge jolt of energy within him - Possession: Aaron begins feeling nauseated and sick while at the same time, Zak and Nick's cameras start to die 601 — Shanghai Tunnels 601 — Evidence - EVP (Spirit Box): "where are you?" "he's mine," "he fell," "alone," "can't believe you," "what do I do?" "let's get naked," "I was wasted," "I was beaten," "it was someone" - EVP: unexplained door rattling, unexplained footsteps, unexplained door creaking - Apparition: A mist is captured moving near the shadow detecting device - Apparition: A mist moves above the door that rattled - Apparition: A purple form is seen on the thermal camera moving towards the room that Aaron is sitting in 602 — Peabody-Whitehead Mansion 602 — Evidence - Tivoli Building - EVP: footsteps, "Get Back There" - Peabody-Whitehead Mansion - EVP: "waitress," "tell on me," stand by" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Pete," "yourself," "no," "watch it," "she was raped," "it was_," "it is violent here," "street," "found it," "he's scared," "Brendan!" - Apparition: A ball of light flies into Zak's head - Apparition: Using a digital still camera, Zak captures a weird energy form in the alley from outside a basement window 603 — Copper Queen Hotel & The Oliver House 603 — Evidence - The Oliver House - EVP: Laughter, chain rattling - EVP (Spirit Box): "Zak," "yes," unexplained scream, "I'm Angry" - Physical Contact: Zak feels something touch the back of his head - Copper Queen Hotel - EVP: "put the rope down," knocking, footsteps, "no one's here," "he's coming over there" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Billy," "he's hurt" - Moving Object: The shower curtains move on their own when Nick is in the bathroom 604 — National Hotel 604 — Evidence - Stonehouse Brewery - EVP (Spirit Box): "Fall," "Lost," "五十 (Wǔshí, Chinese for 50, however the owner believes that the spirit said 六, Liù, or 6)" - EVP: rocks moving, noises - Apparition: A faint purple form is seen on the thermal camera while it is stationary in the tunnels - National Hotel - EMF Fluctuation: The REM Pod Teddy Bear goes off while Zak and Nick are at the bungalows looking for a spirit that committed suicide - EVP: "light goes on," "twenty-two," noises, unexplained female voice, "it's coming" 605 — Return to Linda Vista Hospital 605 — Evidence - Apparition: A small orb is captured on the Thermal Camera moving in the hallway - EVP: "Can You Help Anybody," gurney wheels - EVP (Spirit Box): unexplained female voice, "nurse," "help yourself," "Marge?" "hi," Chad," "Linda Vista," "a demon," "why are you talking," "I do!" - Word Database: HELP, HIDE, HELP - Physical Harm: It is shown after the lockdown, Chad received three scratch marks on his hand in the mental ward - Apparition: Two figures are caught in one photo, one mist that blocks out Nick's figure in the photo, and a small, skeleton figure sitting in the electrical pod that was designed for the lockdown 606 — The Galka Family - The fact that during the investigation, they caught EV Ps other than that of their own deceased daughter Melissa Galka 606 — Evidence - EVP (Gary Galka's Recorder): "hello," "Daddy," "love you" - EVP: "hello," "yeah...he's my friend," faint whistling or singing, "they're gone," "check the ______" - Equipment Malfunction: A few times during the investigation, the camera in Melissa's room would lose connection to the nerve center in the garage - EVP (Spirit Box): "okay," "what up," "who's that?" "8," "12," "10," "friends," "yeah," "hi dad," "miss you all" 607 — Riviera Hotel & Casino 607 — Evidence - EMF Fluctuation: As Bruce plays the piano in Frank Sinatra's suite, the REM Pod goes off - EVP (Spirit Box): "Riviera," "did it," unexplained dark voice, "I'm dead" - EVP: "Raindrop," noises, knocking - Apparition: A white mist flies towards Zak in Frank Sinatra's bedroom - Physical Harm: One of Vince Neil's entourage members complained of her back burning and later, is seen to have red marks all over her back - Apparition: Another orb is seen in a room on the ninth floor - Physical Harm: Vince Neil receives pains in his body similar to a heart attack, to make it worse, Vince started throwing up in a nearby trashcan because of the pain 701 — Central Unit Prison 701 — Evidence - Texas Prison Museum - EVP: "I Was Shocked," "Yeah" - Central Unit Prison - EVP: Banging - Physical Harm: Nick feels like something is pushing hard on his chest, while also making him feel like he is not himself - Apparition: A black shadow is seen moving behind Zak in a room - Apparition: A ball of light flies into Nick's head - EVP (Spirit Box): "water?" "in here," "he was hurt," "got me" - Apparition: Using the full spectrum camera, Aaron captures a figure in a photo - Apparition: A light flies across the roof and disappears into Zak's head - Apparition: Using the thermal camera, Zak captures a weird thermal form that he described as being a psychadelic show - Word Database: GOODBYE - Moving Object: The camera in the main room moves on its own twice 702 — Excalibur Nightclub 702 — Evidence - Bachelors Grove Cemetery - Apparition: Several times, the team captures a large glowing light from within the woods around the cemetery - EVP: "_____ is coming," "I see it...light" - Apparition: Using the full spectrum camera, Zak captures what appears to be a feathery energy form near the tombstones - Excalibur Nightclub - Physical Contact: Throughout the investigation, Zak felt like his energy was drained and Nick was off balance 703 — Point Sur Lighthouse 703 — Evidence - EVP: "Careful," whispering, crying, singing, "I'm Sick" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Michael," "Admiral," "sad" - Apparition: A figure is caught walking along a path that is not there 704 — The Palmer House - Before the investigation, a spirit box session with Dave Schrader captures a spirit mimicking Zak's voice perfectly, complete with a creepy laugh. 704 — Evidence - EVP (Spirit Box): "I'm following her," "no," "they're coming to get you," "Zak," "Bagans," laughter, "Aaron," "a spirit," "Goodwin," "make sure they go" - Physical Harm: Zak feels like an energy tazered him while doing a spirit box session - EVP: shock, dragging, glass clinking - Apparition: A ball of light is seen flying around in the basement - Apparition: During the Spirit Box session, there's a figure CLEARLY standing in the doorway (Missed Evidence not acknowledged in the Episode but noticed after-the-fact by viewers)! - Moving Object: When the orb disappears, the wire it flew by starts to shake around - Physical Harm: Zak feels a force pinch him in the side - Moving Object: A broom is moved and thrown down by a force in the basement 705 — Black Moon Manor 705 — Evidence - EVP (Spirit Box): "there are some," "yes," "I am," "did," "evil," "a demon," "yes," "it's green" - EVP: "No One's Up There," unexplained footsteps, unexplained talking, unexplained female voice, unexplained thrown object? - EMF Fluctuation: After the "A Demon" EVP is heard, the Mel Meter spikes at 66.6 - Apparition: A black mass is seen walking up the stairs towards Zak 706 — Sedamsville Rectory - The rectory was the home of a Pedophile Priest who abused boys inside the house itself, and later it was used by an illegal dodfighting ring. Even minus any actual ghost sightings you can understand why the building's energy is fucked up. - The scene from the Sedamsville Rectory episode, where it appears that they caught a picture of a demon's head floating above Billy's arm. - This episode reveals that they actually refuse to go back inside Bobby Mackey's again, Nick having even sworn to his wife that he wouldn't. What they've experienced there is enough to scare them all enough to never go in there again. And they wanted to pay their respects to the deceased Carl Lawson, who was possessed by demonic spirits while he worked there, who died months before this investigation. - Worse, they also say that there are already people catching EV Ps with Carl's voice. Even in death, he can't escape Bobby Mackey's. 706 — Evidence - Pre-exorcism - EVP: growling, footsteps, laughing, unexplained voice - Possession: Tim shows aggression and anger towards the pastor during the exorcism - Post-exorcism - EVP: shuffling, "Christian" - Equipment Malfunction: One of the X Cameras lose its signal to base camp - Physical Contact: Zak and Billy feel a cold area when on the second floor - Apparition: Using the full spectrum camera, Zak captures a face hovering above Billy's arm, a resemblance of a demonic imp can be seen as there are visible horns 707 — Cripple Creek 707 — Evidence - Piotrowski House - Apparition: Upon pulling up tp the house for the investigation, a camera captures a white mist fly out of the porch of the house next to the family - EVP: knocking - Word Database: MADISON, SPIRITS, UNDERGROUND, DRAIN THE WELL, undetermined syllabics, HELL, GHOSTS READY, PAIN - Apparition: Two orbs fly around Dan's head while in the basement. One of them sets off a nearby REM Pod - Colorado Grande Hotel and Casino - EVP: banging, moaning - Apparition: Using Bill Chappel's new technology, they capture a child figure and also capture it waving to them after Bill asks it to wave to Billy - Old Jail Museum - No Feelings or Evidence was captured in this location 708 — Brookdale Lodge 708 — Evidence - EVP: scratching, singing, "I don't want that to even happen," banging, whistling - Apparition: A fgure is caught standing and watching Nick on the thermal camera while in the Brook Room - Apparition: An orb is seen shooting towards Nick - Other Phenomena: Gracie, Zak's dog, began looking around at an empty area as if something was there trying to get her attention 709 — Tor House - The Tor House experiment, which ended with a manifestation of a demonic figure in the ink. 709 — Evidence - Apparition: While Billy was using the thermal camera, Zak went into the Hawk Tower and a figure is seen following him into the area - EVP (Spirit Box): "Welcome to ______," "what is that?" "ghost" - Apparition: An orb is seen moving next to Zak - Other Phenomena: Zak uses a puddle of ink in order to lure Robinson Jeffer's ghost into the room he is in, after a couple of minutes, a figure of a demon is made in the ink 710 — Union Station 710 — Evidence - Apparition: Using the thermal camera, Zak and Aaron capture an apparition walking among the people in the terminal. The reason they caught on to the apparition is because it did not reflect heat on the floor like the people in the area - Apparition: An orb is captured flying into Zak's head - EVP: "Spirits" - Physical Contact: Tim felt a breeze of air next to him in the train exhibit 711 — Crazy Town 711 — Evidence - EVP: "Water, Drink the Water," unexplained woman voice, unexplained voice, footsteps, banging, "Momma," unexplained child screaming - Word Database: STORY, MOMMY, PLAY - Apparition: A mist appears by Nick - Apparition: A shadow is seen moving behind Zak - Possession: After the shadow moves by Zak, he is overcome by aggression and tries to punch Nick - Apparition: Two orbs are captured mirroring each other and vanishing into each other - Apparition: A light is seen moving slowly across a corridor - Apparition: The Thermal camera captured the same orb, but it was not obscured by pillars 712 — Wyoming Frontier Prison 712 — Evidence - Wyoming Frontier Prison - EVP: "Help Me," thudding, moises, "Yup" - Moving Object: The Camera in the shower rooms was knocked over while it was still recording - Apparition: A light is seen at the end of the cafeteria - Apparition: Two balls of light are seen moving near Aaron - Physical Harm: Nick feels something hit his head in the cells - Apparition: After Nick is hit in the head, An orb moves away from Nick - Apparition: Another orb is seen moving towards Nick after he is hit on the head - Dean/Summer Home - EVP: "Levitate," unexplained noise - Apparition: A ghost cat is seen moving in the living room. This is seen twice, and the cat that the owner has appears a grayish color on film while the ghost cat is a dark color 713 — Sailor's Snug Harbor 713 — Evidence - Matron's House - EVP: footsteps, banging, laughter, whispering, "Nothing Would Work" - Apparition: A ball of light is seen near Zak while reviewing their EV Ps - Church on Temple Row - EVP: rustling, yelling, voices - EVP (Spirit Box): " I Can't," "Go In," "1-D" - Music Hall - Apparition: A ball of light is seen above some seats in a picture - EVP: noises and voices - Apparition: A dark shadow is captured moving across the main entrance of the building - EVP (Spirit Box): "Peter," "A Razor" 714 — New Orleans 714 — Evidence - May Baily's Place - Apparition: A ball of light flies in front of Zak, causing his EMF Detector to goes off - Apparition: Another ball of light is seen moving by Zak's hand - EVP (Spirit Box): "Gun," unexplained voice, "Katrina," "I'm Dead" - Bloody Mary's Home - EVP: Hissing, dishes moving, "get out or we'll kill you," "you can't stop me," "Nick is fucked, Aaron is fucked" - Physical Contact: Nick feels a dark presence chasing him after he heard the hiss - Moving Object: After Nick gets to the room Aaron is in, an unseen force throws books at Nick - EVP (Spirit Box): "you'll be sorry," "can we talk?" "they're coming," "the basement," please go" - Apparition: A ball of light moves towards Aaron's digital recorder - Mystere Mansion, The Haunted Mortuary - EVP: Unexplained female voice - Apparition: Two figures are caught on the full spectrum camera, the first looking like a full body without a face, and the second a face floating above the body as if it was peeled off 715 — Market Street Cinema 715 — Evidence - EVP: coughing, wheezing, "white car," "nope," "never," "drugs," "heart attack," unexplained raspy voice, "get out," "don't throw me out," "get out" - EVP (Spirit Box): "Gary," "who's that," "bingo," "James," - Apparition: An orb is seen moving towards Debby in the basement - Apparition: A ball of light is seen moving between posts in the building - Word Database: RUN - Apparition: The Full Spectrum camera captures a figure of a woman's face in the basement 716 — Goldfield Hotel: Redemption 716 — Evidence - Word Database: NICK, POSSIBLE, TREE, FOLIAGE, ENOUGH, THINK, FOE, NIGHT, LOVING, WORDS, FOLIAGE, PINE, TIN, PLACATE, LISTEN, SOMEONE - EVP: "placate," unexplained talking, footsteps, "let me have it," unexplained man yelling, banging, unexplained female cry, "I threw the brick had to don't worry I love ____," "give him the gun" - Moving Object: The foliage in room 109 is captured moving a little in view of the camera while Zak and Virginia were talking - Apparition: An orb is seen disappearing into the digital recorder in room 109, it is later seen coming out of the recorder after an EVP is captured - Moving Object: A rock is captured on film flying at Zak at high speed, hitting him on his foot - Possession: Zak was overcome with anger and tried to break Aaron's camera after the rock was thrown at him - EMF Fluctuation: The REM Pod Teddy Bear alarms in room 109 on the second day of their investigation 717 — Glen Tavern Inn - The graphic pictures of the beheaded woman that was murdered in the inn. They show you the full, bloodied body sans a head. Then as a Jump Scare, they have a graphic of the headless body standing close to the screen. <shudders> 717 — Evidence - Word Database: BEFORE, SPELL, SOIL, FRIENDLY, CARDS, GOODBYE, ORACLE, BLOW, GENTLE, THIGH, RIGHT, GIRL - Apparition: Two orbs drop down on Billy during his solo investigation two days before the investigation - Physical Contact: Billy feels a muscle spasm while the Ovilus is saying words, after he feels it, the word THIGH is said - EVP: rattling, childs voice, "I Was Shot," footsteps, tapping, "Sleep In Here" - Physical Contact: Monica claims her right arm is being grabbed and pulled, while at the same time, Zak notices his left arm has goosebumps - EVP (Spirit Box): "Ingrid," "I Can Help," "Majita," "Como Esta?" "Patrick," "Henry," "Marsha," "Yeah, I'm Here," "Be Gone," - Apparition: An orb and a shadow are caught moving around in room 307 - Apparition: An orb shoots out of Zak's arm during the spirit box session - Possession: An energy overcomes Zak and leads him to walk up to the third floor without Nick or Aaron - Apparition: An orb travels towards Nick and splits into two behind him 718 — King's Tavern - The possessions of Billy and Nick were incredibly frightening, and different than the usual loud freakouts that the others have had. They both start walking with a shuffling, lackadaisical gait, don't respond to much outside stimuli, and have strange, utterly calm facial expressions. Nick started babbling and staring into the mirror with an odd, curious expression, while Billy began having an extremely dangerous heart issue... and it just got weirder from there. 718 — Evidence - EVP (Spirit Box): "Andy," "Madeline," "Help," "We'll Get Ya," baby's voice, "Yeah," "Let Us Go" - Apparition: An orb shoots out of the Spirit Box when Zak is near the camera - Moving Object: A sheet set up to block light from the streets was torn off one of the windows - Apparition: An orb is seen moving around the room the same time the sheet is torn off of its position - EVP: Banging, "I Can Say, Say Your Names," laugher, female voice - Apparition: A cylindrical light is seen moving towards the banging noise in the basement - Apparition: A mist is seen flying by the X Camera in the room where the sheet was torn down after Zak and Nick leave the room - Possession: Nick is affected by an entity to the point that he is stuck in an unreceptive state in the building - Apparition: A mist is seen moving from the rocking chair to a different chair on the third floor - Word Database: TRAVEL, OUTSIDE - Physical Contact: Aaron gets his back grabbed on the third floor - Apparition: A ball of light shoots out of Billy's head on the third floor - Possession: Billy is affected by a similar energy to Nick's possession, only Billy's was more serious, as it caused a serious heart problem - Other Phenomena: Zak states that as they left the location, there was a house in a fiery blaze, thousands of crows were watching them leave and would not let them go down the road they were on, Nick's phone had random words in a text message mentioning bothersome spirits and Madeline, a tornado belt struck Natchez two days after, and looking at a satellite radar of the tornado belt, it is shaped like a dagger, with the tip pointing towards Natchez 801 — Pioneer Saloon 801 — Evidence - Pioneer Saloon - Apparition: A rod shaped light is captured moving near where Paul Coski was murdered. A second light is seen trailing directly behind it, as if it was chasing it away - EMF Fluctuation: The EMF Detector starts going off when Zak and Aaron are away from the table where Paul was found murdered - EVP (Spirit Box): "whisky," "Ruby," "yeah," "two," screaming, "I think so," "he's here," "nine" - Equipment Malfunction: After the "whiskey" voice is heard on the spirit box, the spirit box starts to friz out and the batteries in it get drained - Apparition: A ball of light is seen moving near the roof by the poker table - Belle Mine - EVP: high pitched sounds, shouting 802 — Black Swan Inn 802 — Evidence - EVP: Noises, footsteps, banging - EVP (Spirit Box): "Madison," "Which One?" "Eight," "Bossier" - Equipment Malfunction: When the "Madison" voice is heard, the monitor on the right freezes and loses its sweeping for the time the voice is said. - EMF Fluctuation: During the time Joeann, the Inn's owner, was trying to contact her deceased mother, the EMF Detector would spike up to 1.5 - Apparition: While Aaron was in the milking barn, the thermal camera captured a figure watching him through the window - Apparition: A mist is seen moving in an arc-like trajectory in the office 803 — Tuolumne General Hospital 803 — Evidence - EVP: Doors opening, Talking, loud crashes, Footsteps, "please don't help...me..." - Physical Harm: When Zak is conducting a spirit box session with Ed during the day, he feels sharp pains in right side of his head. When he takes a break, he feels the pain has lifted and he then becomes very emotional about thinking that his pain could have been from a patient who died from a head injury. - EVP (Spirit Box): "Jacob," "help...patient," "now get out," "George," - \|\|Apparition: When Zak, Nick and Aaron were driving to the hospital, Billy and Jay captured an unexplained figure that maps out a head, arms, hands and shoulders on the Kinect cam. It looks as though that the figure is doing operation on a dummy near the bed, with its right arm moving very quickly near the IV bag stand.\|\| - Equipment Malfunction: The digital recorders that Zak and Nick had in the operating room were drained of battery power while asking questions - Physical Harm: In the operation room, Nick starts to feel sick, and at the same time Aaron starts to feel dizzy. - \|\|Apparition/Physical Harm: The figure captured before appears at the bed beside Nick. The camera captures the spirit apparently punching Nick in his stomach, causing him immense pain.\|\| - Apparition: An orb leaves the ceiling and shoots into Nick's neck - Physical Contact: Moments after the orb flies into Nick, he feels drained of energy, and feels symptoms similar to after he was punched in the operating room - Apparition: A ball of light shoots from the right side of the bed into the spirit box Zak is holding. - EMF Fluctuation: The EMF Detector on the dummy starts to light up. - Moving Object: The monitor for the Kinect cam is pushed backwards with force, at the same time, the EM Device starts to flash. - Possession: Aaron claimed that when he was in the mental room in the basement, it felt as though that he was the mental patient acting of what they would have done back then 804 — Missouri State Penitentiary 804 — Evidence - Physical Contact: During the interviews, Zak and Aaron start having very uncomfortable feelings in certain locations. - Physical Harm: Zak starts having a sad feeling, moments later he feels very sharp pains in his stomach as if someone was stabbing or twisting it. - EVP: banging, Loud noises, "I ain't breathing," Footsteps, unexplained male voice, "stop," "stop fucking with me," "demon," Growling - EVP (Spirit Box): "sorry" - Word Database: REVEREND, INFORMATION, JESUS, CHANGE, BIBLE, DEMON, NOW, LOST, TRAP, TWIST, MEN, APART, NICK - Apparition: A white dot is seen on the second floor, then manifests into a spinning rectangular shaped anomaly in A Block 805 — Yost Theater & Ritz Hotel 805 — Evidence - Willela Howe-Waffle House - EMF Flucuation: The EMF Detector starts going off on the second floor near the entrance to the attic. - EVP (Spirit Box): "it's haunting," "in trouble," "abortion" - Apparition: An anomaly appears coming out of the wall and up into the attic with the guys, and coincidently, another spirit comes through the spirit box. - Possession: Zak starts feeling sick when we feels that he needs to go in the patient's room and not leave. - EVP:: Glass hitting - Apparition: A bright ball of light manifests in direct command from Zak that moves quickly away from him. - Yost Theater - EVP: "hey...can you hear me," creaking - Apparition: A shadow appears in the shape of a cloaky mist, passes by a doorway where Art was. - Physical Harm: Zak feels as if something is pinching or stabbing his arm in the basement. Seconds later he looses all feeling in his arm. - Ritz Hotel - EVP: construction noises - EVP (Spirit Box): "Haunting" 806 — Haunted Victorian Mansion 806 — Evidence - EVP: noises, banging, "go to sleep" - Physical Contact: While up on the 3rd floor, Aaron feels something touch his shoulder. - Physical Contact: Aaron and Zak see a mist like form that goes into Aaron's face, however it wasn't captured on camera. - Apparition: The 3rd floor X camera captures a ball of light that moves above the mirror and disappears into the room that Zak and Aaron are in front of. - Apparition: A white mist forms and moves to Zak's right side, when he and Edwin are doing a Spirit Box session. - EVP (Spirit Box): "he's here," "David," "hi," "no," "not sure," "Lillian" 807 — The Exorcist House 807 — Evidence - Equipment Malfunction: While the crew was discussing whether or not to use the Ouija Board on the site where the exorcism took place, the thermal camera gets shut off without explanation - EVP (Spirit Box): "he needs help," "ouija board," "trouble," "Devil," "Diablo," "come in demon" - Physical Contact: Zak feels a dark energy surround him while sitting on the bed - Other Phenomena: Using Bill Chappel's new technology, they receive increases in humidity and temperature while sitting in the room - Equipment Malfunction: The mapping software was affected by an energy, causing Aaron's body map to vanish from the screen while everything else remains - Physical Contact: Both Aaron and Bill feel a static charge after Aaron begins to provoke the entities in the house - Apparition: As Zak was provoking an entity, a blue ball appears behind him in the mapping software, as soon as Zak uses religious terminoligy, the ball shoots into his chest, all while he feels a cold draft on his back - EVP: loud bangs 808 — Alcatraz 808 — Evidence - EVP: banging, screaming, "come back" - Word Database: FIRE, THRESHOLD, DOCTOR, OPENING, MIST, TOUCH - Appartion: As Zak is looking for the source of a loud bang, the camera picks up a fast-moving anomoly moving away from an area past Zak - EVP (Spirit Box): "get naked," "he's here," "dear God" - Physical Contact: As Zak looks through a slit in the wall in the infirmary, he sees red eyes approaching and watching him on the other side of the slit - Apparition: A mist ball is seen moving down the hall and to a room after the Ovilus says MIST - Physical Contact: Billy begins getting a weird feeling in cell 14, at the same time, Jay feels discomfort in cell 13 - Apparition: Jay captures a light ball traveling towards Billy's arm - Apparition: Billy and Jay begin seeing weird lights with no explanation. Jay captures some of these lights on photo, and after experiencing this, Jay tells Billy that after, he saw two red eyes approaching them 809 — Mustang Ranch 809 — Evidence - Mark/Debby EVP from earlier investigation: "Your Tits" - Word Database: AFFAIR, MAIN, SPOT, MULTIPLE, HOW, CLEANSING, BURN, NOW - Appartion: While walking down a hallway, Zak captures an anomoly in the shape of a foot moving out of the way for him as he walks past it. - Moving Object: While Mark and Debby were in a room, the X-Camera captures the Do-Not-Disturb sign on the door moving on its own, a report that was told to them that happened one week before they arrived - EVP (Spirit Box): "Ghosts," "yes," "yeah," "Paul," "shirt," "seven," "wait," "madame" - EVP: banging 810 — Thornhaven Manor 810 — Evidence - EVP: Noises, Footsteps, Door Slam, Fidgeting Noises, Knock, Dragging Sound, Thrown or Falling Object - Word Database: CLEANSING, REVEREND, FLOWER, BEACH, QUESTIONS, HERE, ACTION, HIDE SPIRITS - Other Phenomena: The Ovilus, which has a sensor for detecting changes in temperature, begins flashing on the chair with dolls on it - EVP (Spirit Box): "Lizzie," "Emily" - Physical Harm: Zak feels a shocking sensation travel up his leg. - Apparition: A ball of light is seen moving away from Zak - Other Phenomena: The vibration device in a room starts going off when nobody is in the house, later, the camera focused on it starts going in and out of focus, and finally that camera shuts off. At the same time while the focus is going in and out, something can be heard clicking the buttons on the camera - EMF Fluctuation: The REM Teddy Bear begins lighting up on the first floor when Zak and the others leave the house. - Equipment Malfunction: Twice, when walking up the stairs to the top floor, Zak's walkie talkie starts emitting extremely loud noises for no reason. - Apparition: After Zak goes back down the stairs, the X camera in a room near the staircase captures a shadow figure moving from right to left quickly. - Apparition: One of the full spectrum camera shots captures a weird mist near a doorway 811 — Battle of Perryville: Field Hospitals - Just the thought of having to be in a field hospital in the mid-1800s with no anasthesia, your arm/leg has been blown to bits, you're laid out on a wooden slab (or in this case, the door) and the surgeon is reaching for a particularly nasty saw... This was the horror that awaited all soldiers throughout the world in this time period. Makes you glad we live in the 21st-century. <shudders> - Daniel Mcllwayne was apparently an actual soldier in that battlefield. Think on that. This man's ghost spent all this time wandering the place he died, and since he couldn't remember which side he fought for, he is likely in a dreamy And I Must Scream state. 811 — Evidence - John Dye House - EVP (Spirit Box): "I'm sorry for," "yes," "Daniel," "Mc Ilwayne," "Don't know" - Physical Contact: All of the reenactors that were used for the first part of the lockdown felt emotionally affected by the energy caused by the reenactment, during this time is when the spirit box captured voices - HP Bottom House - EVP: noises, banging, footsteps, "come to mommy" - Moving object: The PX device was split in half and thrown to the ground with force by an unknown entity	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostAdventuresSeasonOneToSeasonEight
Ghostwatch / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "O.K. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Ghostwatch * totally fooled me and scared me half to death."* — Points of View correspondent, 1992 - In the cosily formal style of a live documentary, the Michael Parkinson introduces a house on quiet Foxhill Drive - site of a traumatising haunting. Parkinson: No creaking gates, no Gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet, the past ten months, this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity. - There follows footage, from Susie and Kim's bedroom, of unaccountably thrown objects. - A viewer phones in to report having noticed, by the bedroom curtains, a faded, transparent figure. - Pam Earlys recount of unaccountable pounding from the walls; a mysterious rotten cabbage stench, and obscene graffiti in Susies exercise book. - With the studio lights dimmed, Dr Pascoe plays the recording of Susie's speech in a garbled, supernaturally deep voice. Throughout, the darkened background frames an unknown silhouette. - To Sarah Greene, Kim shows the boarded up door beneath the stairs, where, she says, lives Pipes. Sarah: Kim, how do you know he lives down there? Kim: 'Cause I saw him through the crack. He was there. He was staring at me... I drew a picture. - We then see Kim's picture of an adult figure with a graphically empty eye socket. - Pam reveals why she had the cupboard boarded up - searching inside, she found the door mysteriously forced shut, with Susie and Kim unable to hear her. - Dr Pascoe's photograph of the scars which briefly raked Susie's face. - An anonymous caller reports her glass coffee table, in response to a light touch from her husband, to have exploded, hospitalising him and splashing the wall with blood. - Sarah Greene suddenly reports, from the houses walls, the sound of numerous cats - whose discordant wailing we also soon hear. - At Susie's bedside. Pam pulls back the quilt - revealing an entranced Susie, once more covered in scratches. - A caller reports of Foxhill's habitation by mass-murdering baby farmer Mother Seddons. - Amidst microphone disturbance and a frenzy of poltergeist banging, a framed picture flies off the wall. Meanwhile, a wide-eyed Susie, huddled behind an armchair, speaks in a blood-chillingly deep voice. Susie: What big eyes you have... what big haaaaands you haaaaaaave... - At another chorus of feline yowls, Mike opens the glory hole - in which we briefly see an unknown bald man - and is thrown to the floor, the side of his head viciously cut. - An anonymous caller reveals the corpse of previous Foxhill Drive resident Raymond Tunstall to have had its face eaten by his trapped cats. - Dr Pascoe realises the studio's current footage of the house not to be live - something has compelled the screen to show footage from earlier. - With a cacophony of unearthly screeching and groaning, live transmission resumes, revealing the house to have been plunged into total darkness. With Mike taken to hospital, only Sarah and Susie are still in the house. Inside, by torchlight, Chris and Sarah follow, to the glory hole, Susie's calls for help. From the inside blasts an unearthly wind. Sarah steps in - and the door slams shut. - Throughout the wind-blasted studio, light bulbs explode, and the crew flee. In the near-total darkness, Parkinson finds a working camera.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghostwatch
Ghost in the Shell (2017) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The robot geishas, starting from Uncanny Valley, and then going on to transform into something out of Five Nights at Freddy's in a blink of an eye. - As in every other iteration of the franchise, the concept of Ghost Hacking, that someone's memories or personality could be rewritten, and the damage that can do to their sense of self, not to mention being programmed to do things against their will, such as killing others. One character is Driven to Suicide, and it's unclear if it is due to his realization that everything he knows about himself is a lie, or if the suicide was simply another bit of reprogramming done to him in order for Kuze to cover his tracks. - On that note, the blase way that the Section 9 personnel react to Cummings killing himself, looking on the act with something that might be described as jaded curiosity more than actual concern.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostInTheShell2017
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The episode "Jungle Cruise". A Serial Killer who skins his victims alive and leaves them in great pain to die a while after it? Check. Showing the victims in all the gory detail? Check. Showing a video of the killer beginning to skin his victims alive, including a scream which consisted of pure blood-chilling agony? Check. This particular episode was gruesome enough to get an extra Content Warning on [adult swim] (and some light editing, mostly muting out "shit" and "dickhead" note : which AS these days can get away with, as seen in some of their comedy shows, most notably Rick and Morty and digitally darkening the scene of the first murder so the viewer can't see the female victim's breasts). On Canada's YTV, the episode was initially banned due to brutal content, though the episode did eventually air with a similar warning to [adult swim]'s stating that the episode's violence is beyond what YTV usually allows. - The scene which best exemplifies the episode is when Togusa is watching the video of the woman about to be skinned alive, and just as we hear the bloodcurdling scream, he runs outside nearly throwing up. Nothing Is Scarier indeed. - The killer also plugs into his victim's brains to make them see through his eyes. He makes them watch themselves being skinned alive. - Somewhere it had been admitted that this episode was a homage to the film Strange Days, and rightfully so, only what happens here is a touch more horrific. - Aside from the detail of the murders, the antagonist himself is a criminally insane Sociopathic Soldier conducting a one-man campgaign of terror remeniscent of Apocalypse Now against an innocent populace. He seems eerily cognisant of the depths of his own insanity, and seems positively elated at the prospect of his own death. Marco: Yeah, that's it! I want to be skinned with my own blade.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex
Ghosts (UK) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In series 4's "Speak as ye choose", Mary finally tells the other ghosts the details about the witch trial. The audience doesn't hear the full story, but by the end of it the other ghosts are completely traumatized. The show has never been one to shy away from horror, so the sheer fact that the audience isn't even told what happened speaks of just how terrible Mary's trial and execution was. The most that's shown is immediately beforehand, when her neighbours are gleefully conspiring to pin the blame for the village's crops dying on her while she's happily out walking and completely unaware that her fate's been sealed. Thomas: I'll be having nightmares about that. Robin: You didn't see it live.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostsUK
Ghost Adventures Special Episodes / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Main page index here Nightmare Fuel page for all the Ghost Adventures specials throughout the shows inception in 2008, including the original documentary film from 2004. S01 — The Beginning - The documentary filmed prior to the series can be terrifying when watching it after several episodes of the show beforehand - you become used to seeing the guys as confident and able to work through their fears. But at the Goldfield Hotel, a spirit throws a brick in full view of the camera and their flashlights, and they run - correction, they haul ass, even getting separated and lost in the basement in the process. Hearing their frightened voices as they call to each other, trying to find one another is absolutely terrifying. Zak and Nick (Aaron wasn't on this investigation) actually jumped out of a second story fire escape, abandoning the lockdown. - Footage from their first investigation of the Silver Queen Hotel. When the team hears knocking on the door, a white hand manifests right next to it. S01 — Evidence - Silver Queen Hotel - Apparition: The owner shows a picture of a blue ectoplasm sitting in the bar - \|\|Apparition: A faint mist forms in front of the door and knocks three times\|\| - Old Washoe Club - Apparition: Aaron takes several pictures and captures several transparent orbs on camera - Physical Contact: Aaron feels a cold breeze but Zak doesn't feel it, to make it more credible, Zak was sweating and Aaron received the chill - Apparition: Zak and Aaron claim to have seen a light at the end of a corridor - \|\|Apparition: A full bodied apparition is seen following Nick as he left the room, also dimming a light from outside while following him\|\| - Physical Contact: When looking for Nick, Zak begins getting chills while Aaron starts sweating - Virginia City Cemetery - Apparition: Zak, Nick, and Aaron capture what appears to be a bright orb flying around - Apparition: Aaron takes a picture that shows a clearly defined wispy orange anomaly floating above a bush - Sounds: Crying - Physical Contact: Zak feels an invisible force pulls him backwards to a tomb - Yellow Jacket Miner's Cabin - Physical Contact: When they enter the cabin, Zak notes the energy in there feels alot darker than before - EVP: \|\|"Is It The Devil"\|\|, "Who Are You" - Sounds: A combination of a yell, a breath, and a scraping sound - Goldfield Hotel - EVP: "No", "Nick", Unexplained Female Voice - \|\|Possession: Virginia, the caretaker of the hotel, did a seance with Zak and Nick, and Zak believes she was partially possessed by the spirit of a man named Bobby\|\| - Sounds: Clattering, Footsteps, Metallic Sounds, Thudding - Apparition: Zak takes a picture of what appears to be a large orb behind the doorframe - Apparition: The camera captures what appears to be orbs flying behind Zak in a different room - Apparition: Nick's camera captures an orb traveling down Zak's arm, Zak also states when this happened, he felt a very welcoming presence - \|\|Apparition: Nick captures a dark humanoid figure at the end of a hallway to the left, Zak films as Nick rewinds the footage\|\| - Physical Contact: Nick claims while in the basement, he feels like he is walking through deep water - \|\|Moving Object: A brick is lifted up by an invisible force and tossed, also, a bean focused on by Zak's camera falls where the brick was, and finally, a plank of wood is thrown the direction opposite of the brick\|\| S02 — Bobby Mackeys Online Ghost Hunt - Online material involved them going back to Bobby Mackey's and getting a recording of a spirit mimicking Zak's voice perfectly. - The same material had one of the guests witness a dark, amber eyed entity stare at her and Zak from across the basement. S03 — Valentine's Day Special S03 — Evidence - Sounds: Door Slamming, Female Cry, Tapping, - Apparition: Zak sees a ghostly dress swaying near Jerusha's bedroom, but it wasn't captured on film - Other Phenomena: Zak documents a ten degree temperature drop going back and forth with EMF Spikes - Physical Contact: Zak feels ice cold hands on his hands, but also senses a loving presence - EVP: "They Look Strong", "Zak's Here", ""Got Yer Things Here", "Behind You", Female Cry", "Male Voice, "What You Want", Female Voice, Male Voice", "Let Me Just Tell You Something" - \|\|Apparition: In Jerusha's bedroom, using the full spectrum camera, a mist forms and has a distinct head, torso, and what appears to be a flowing dress\|\| - \|\|Word Database: GENTLE, LAY, TICKLE, AFFAIR\|\| - Physical Contact: Aaron feels a loving energy move up his legs - Physical Contact: Zak feels a loving energy lean against his knees - Physical Contact: Zak feels something tap his leg twice and also felt his belt creak S04 — Hellfire Caves S04 — Evidence - EVP: Unexplained growl, "Hell Fire", unexplained crying, "I'll Get Ya", "Careful", "Aaron", Unexplained rocks hitting walls - Apparition: After the "Hell Fire" EVP was recorded, a white mist appears and travels up a corridor - Apparition: A light anomoly flies behind Aaron in the inner temple - Apparition: During a series of pictures, a large white mist appears and disappears - Physical Contact: While in the inner temple, Aaron feels something pull his robe back towards the temple - Moving Object: A lantern in the inner temple shakes as Zak enters the area - Apparition: Using the full spectrum camera, Zak captures a figure standing at the end of a corridor S05 — Fort Horsted S05 — Evidence - EVP: Unexplained screams, Disembodied voices, "They're Coming", "They're Not Doing This", "Hey Carl", "We Can Play", "Me", "Back Here", Unexplained booms/explosions - EMF Fluctuation: The EMF goes off as Aaron and Carl have a spirit box session - Apparition: Carl sees a dark shadow move behind Zak - Apparition: A light anomoly forms as Aaron and Carl have their EVP session S06 — Transylvania S06 — Evidence - Hoia-Baciu Forest - EVP: Drumming, Chanting, subsonic sounds - Physical Contact: Billy and Zak feel energies pass by them on their way to the center of the forest - Possession: As Zak walks from the center of the forest towards the trees, he feels an energy take over him, causing him terror and anxiety. His EMF Detector also starts to spike in high numbers while this happens - Equipment Malfunction: The Thermal Camera starts to go haywire when filming in the forest - Apparition: A ball of light is captured on camera, in both nightvision, and regular vision. Zak and Billy also notes that the light gets bigger and also changes colors - Targoviste Castle - EVP: footsteps, breathing - Apparition: A ball of light is captured on camera and is seen moving around a corner where footsteps are heard - Apparition: As Aaron crouches down with Nick, a ball of light is seen shooting from the camera towards Aaron - EVP (Spirit Box): "Hello," "Hello" - Word Database: AARON, FLOWERS, VLAD - Hunedoara Castle - EVP: door opening, laughter, footsteps, noises, "lesiti de aicea (Romanian: get out of here)," foreign male voice, "sa va bat (Romanian: to beat you)," screaming - Other Phenomena: Zak and Aaron hear a female voice calling for them inside the castle - Apparition: At the same time everyone sees a flashing light, a strobing light orb is captured on camera - Possession: Aaron receives a large arm cramp, and at the same time, Nick notes that he is not acting like himself due to screaming at him, after the cramp goes away, Aaron states that he felt like something was trying to give him a heart attack - EVP (Spirit Box): "Am Vorbit (Romanian: I Spoke)" - Physical Contact: After Nick blows out the last candle in the Knight's room, everybody begins feeling signs of dread - Appartion: A purple anomoly is captured walking from the church to the Knight's Room S07 — Netherworld: Paris Catacombs S07 — Evidence - Other Phenomena: Out of the three cameras Zak set up, he finds out that 2 of them have been stolen by either a person, or by something dwelling deep in the catacombs - EVP: laughing, footsteps - Apparition: A misty figure is seen moving around on the camera that was not stolen S08 — Celtic Demons S08 — Evidence - Leap Castle - EVP: whispering, tapping, noises, screaming - Physical Contact: Billy feels something touch him in the lower areas of the castle - Apparition: A mist is seen diving towards the camera near the death chute - Montpelier Hill Hellfire Club - EVP: voices, pebbles and glass shards moving - Physical Contact: For the entire duration of this investigation, Zak and Aaron felt a constant flow of intense negative energy. And as Zak attempted to enter the sacrificial room, Aaron felt the need to stop him from doing so. - Apparition: The full spectrum camera caught a ball of light coming out of the ground - Physical Harm: Aaron felt a claw grabbed and pulled his ear back towards the room he was just in where pebbles and glass shards were moved. Aaron then became emotional and he explained that it felt like the devil himself touched his ear. - Montpelier Hill Massy Woods - Montpelier Hill Stewarts House - EVP: Footsteps, noises - EVP (Spirit Box): Cat meowing, "Satan" - Loftus Hall - Possession: After the lights get turned off, Zak feels an energy overcome him and he begins shouting. He later claims that he began seeing images of something happening to the owner of the property - EVP: Banging, noises, voices, "Don't Help Me" - Apparition: A light is seen flying out of the wall where the body of a young boy was found - EVP (Spirit Box): Crying or "Help Me" - Apparition: an X camera captures two balls of light going up and down the stairs - Moving Object: Zak captures a door beginning to close on him, and stops as it stops from closing - Apparition: A mist is captured on Zak's camera moving behind a door - Apparition: the SLS camera captures a figure standing on Aaron's head - Physical Contact: As soon as the figure gets off of Aaron's head, he proceeds to leave the building and vomit, and notes a lack of energy. S09 — Deadwood: City of Ghosts S09 — Evidence - The Bullock Hotel - Wild Bill's Trading Post - Fairmont Hotel - Adams House S10 — Route 666 S10 — Evidence - De Soto Hotel - Concordia Cemetery - Goatman's Bridge S11 — Hauntings of Vicksburg: Mc Raven Mansion S11 — Evidence S12 — Hauntings of Vicksburg: Demons and Dolls S12 — Evidence - Haunted Hair Salon - Yesterday's Children Doll Museum S13 — Hauntings of Vicksburg: Spirits Under Siege S13 — Evidence - Abandoned Elks Lodge - Kuhn Memorial State Hospital S14 — Hauntings of Vicksburg: Champion Hill Battlefield S14 — Evidence S15 — Museum of Madness (Part 1) S15 — Evidence S16 — Annabelle's Curse (Part 2) S16 — Evidence S17 — Demon House S17 — Evidence S18 — Graveyard of the Pacific: Astoria Underground S18 — Evidence S19 — Graveyard of the Pacific: Norblad Hostel S19 — Evidence S20 — Graveyard of the Pacific: Commander's House S20 — Evidence S21 — Graveyard of the Pacific: Cape Disappointment S21 — Evidence S22 — Haunted Museum: LIVE S22 — Evidence S23 — Curse of the River Bend: Mc Pike Mansion S23 — Evidence S24 — Curse of the River Bend: Mineral Springs Hotel S24 — Evidence S25 — Serial Killer Spirits: H.H. Holmes Murder House S25 — Evidence S26 — Serial Killer Spirits: John Gacy Prison S26 — Evidence S27 — Serial Killer Spirits: Axe Killer Jail S27 — Evidence S28 — Serial Killer Spirits: Ted Bundy Ritual House S28 — Evidence S29 — Curse of the Harrisville Farm House S29 — Evidence S30 — Horror at Joe Exotic Zoo S30 — Evidence S31 — Ghost Adventures: Cecil Hotel S31 — Evidence S32 — Ghost Adventures: Goldfield Hotel - The team has invited psychic Chris Fleming on their investigation. He begins channeling a spirit, and there's a visible shift in his body language - this is almost certainly the spirit who communicated before, specifically the EVP during a prior investigation of "you're fucking in my house." The spirit communicates his anger about the team being there, because them being there invites more to come and visit and disturb him. And every word that comes out of Fleming's mouth is a glutteral growl, building in intensity. When Fleming has enough and demands the spirit vacate his body, though... It gets worse. Expelled, the spirit's hostility jumps to Aaron, who lashes out and tosses Billy to the ground and has to be pulled off of Billy by Zak and Jay. Even as the team takes a break to collect themselves, the hostility is still jumping around, attaching itself briefly to Zak, outside the hotel and down at the nerve center in the truck. S32 — Evidence	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostAdventuresSpecialEpisodes
Ghost Trick / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - The "4 Minutes Before Death" scene where the Justice Minister dies of a heart attack was probably supposed to be funny in its cartoonishness. If you've ever actually seen someone have a heart attack, it's... not. - Even if you haven't seen someone have a heart attack, it's not funny. - To elaborate, a list of all the deaths in the game up to that point: rendered unconscious by the shock of a point-blank shotgun wound, then, still unconscious, killed by a subsequent two-story fall; Instant Death Bullet; Instant Death Bullet sniping; Instant Death Bullet shot from an otherwise rather amusing Rube Goldberg machine; crushed by a giant plastic chicken; rendered unconscious in a car crash note : Those last two may be better off reversed.; rendered unconscious in an electric chair explosion, then succumbed to injuries shortly afterward in the moratorium; man spasms around in horrible pain, screaming, reaching for the medicine that would save his life and launching it across the room in his spasmodic state, even knocking his water pitcher that would at least buy him some time off the table, spends his last few moments in utter hopelessness, and just keels over, betrayed by his own body. - And of course, fail to alter the past and you'll have to rewatch the whole scene. Believe us, it doesn't get any easier to watch. - Even though Sissel alters fate repeatedly throughout the course of this game, the victims remember everything about it in full detail, even if it takes them a while to do so. This is why Sissel is so desperate about saving the final victim immediately, so that they don't have to experience this pain. - In the sequence detailing Missile's second death, mysterious waves emanate nearby underground. Seeing as they were seen coming from your dead body at the beginning of the game and Ray stated that only some people get to use ghost tricks, well... let's just say it was was very relieving to find out it was just a meteorite... - The Manipulator, real name Yomiel. Imagine you're going for a pleasant walk in the park, when suddenly, you black out. When you come to, there's a dead body in front of you and a smoking gun in your hand. Then, you're wanted for murdering this person, even though you know you've never seen them in your life. Only to then see video evidence that you did, in fact, kill this person. It may or may not be made worse if you know that you did it because a non-corporeal being was using you as a meat puppet, and there was nothing you could do about it. - The first appearance of Yomiel. Cabenela shoots him, his corpse goes rolling back on the stepstool cart...and then the cart comes rolling back and he slowly stands up again. The fact that he's wearing what Sissel believes to be his own face makes it even scarier. - The first few scenes where Yomiel is walking around among the living are pretty creepy on their own. He takes a bullet to the chest but simply gets back up unharmed and kills Cabanela with his own gun, rises off an autopsy table in a limp, back-arched fashion, and simply stands smugly while a massive explosion happens around him. His inhuman capabilities can really mess with a player's mind the first time they see him (leaving you to wonder how are you going to stop this man). - In the same scene, if you get noticed by Yomiel, he stops time and looks right at you, telling you that there's nothing you can do to stop him. It does not help that, because of the way the scene plays out, it looks like Yomiel is staring right at the player. The scene shows Yomiel's view of the ghost world Sissel : Wh-What's going on?! (I've never seen the Ghost World like this!) Yomiel : So you're here, are you? Sissel : ! (He senses my presence! ) Yomiel enters the land or the living, a spotlight shining down on him Yomiel : I noticed you. You think you could stop me, do you? Sissel : Yomiel : I don't know why you're wearing my face but you might as well give up now. I control everything! Cabenela : Damn it! ( Readies his gun ) Yomiel : Everything! Including the life of the inspector in white! He swivels the desk lamp to knock the gun out of Cabenela s hands Sissel : W-Wait! Don't shoot! Yomiel shoots Cabenela, Fade to White - Yomiel sabotaged Kamila's surprise for her mother's birthday so that it killed her. It's possible Kamila hasn't figured out what happened, being very young and out of sight when it happened, but Jowd definitely did, and he does not know about the sabotage part. Jowd genuinely believes his daughter accidentally killed her own mother. - Possessed Kamilla. It's worse if you know that the original plan was for her to shoot her own father. - Chapter 17 has the characters trapped in a sinking submarine with no way out. As Yomiel puts it, "The only thing left to do is wait for water pressure to crush the sub." - Just how close Commander Sith came to winning at the end; despite everything you've done to get this far, it looks like the game will end with most of the main characters dead and the ghosts trapped at the bottom of the ocean forever. If Lynne didnt have an "Eureka!" Moment with the pocket watch transceiver, Sith would have won. - In the ending, it's revealed in the first timeline, Sissel refused to help Lynne. As a result, everyone died and we get to see it. After spending the entire game getting to know the characters through Sissel, watching him just go away and everyone else suffering because of his decision is both sad and frightening. - It can get worse when you consider Missile-Prime struggled for ages trying to work out how his ghost powers could save those around him and failing every time. Seeing people he loved die not just once but over and over and being unable to figure out how to make it go away.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostTrick
Ghost Adventures Season Seventeen To Season Twenty Four / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Main Page index here 1701 — Idaho State Reform School 1701 — Evidence 1702 — Westerfeld House 1702 — Evidence 1703 — Crisis in Oakdale 1703 — Evidence 1704 — Tintic Mining District 1704 — Evidence 1705 — Terror in Fontana 1705 — Evidence 1706 — Riverside Plane Graveyard 1706 — Evidence 1801 — Gates of Hell House 1801 — Evidence 1802 — Palomino Club 1802 — Evidence 1803 — Lutes Casino 1803 — Evidence 1804 — Melrose Hotel 1804 — Evidence 1805 — Binion's Hotel & Casino 1805 — Evidence 1806 — The Woodbury: Home of American Horror Story 1806 — Evidence 1807 — Crescent Hotel 1807 — Evidence 1808 — St. Ignatius Hospital 1808 — Evidence 1809 — Mount Wilson Ranch 1809 — Evidence 1810 — Panic in Amarillo 1810 — Evidence 1811 — Union Hotel 1811 — Evidence 1812 — Idaho State Tuberculosis Hospital 1812 — Evidence 1813 — A Haunting in Scottsdale 1813 — Evidence 1901 — Albion Castle 1901 — Evidence 1902 — Cerro Gordo Ghost Town 1902 — Evidence 1903 — Pasadena Ritual House 1903 — Evidence 1904 — Horror in Biggs 1904 — Evidence 1905 — Franklin Castle 1905 — Evidence 1906 — Union Brewery of Death 1906 — Evidence 1907 — Nightmare in Antelope 1907 — Evidence 1908 — Goodwin Home Invasion 1908 — Evidence 1909 — Haunted Hollow Forest 1909 — Evidence 1910 — The Chinatown Poltergeist 1910 — Evidence 1911 — Beneath the Bonanza 1911 — Evidence 1912 — Industrial District of the Damned 1912 — Evidence 1913 — London Bridge 1913 — Evidence 1914 — The Graber Farm Entity 1914 — Evidence 1915 — Bloodshed in the Bordello 1915 — Evidence 2001 — Ghost Train of Ely 2001 — Evidence 2002 — El Rancho Hotel 2002 — Evidence 2003 — Painted Lady Brothel 2003 — Evidence 2004 — The Comedy Store 2004 — Evidence 2005 — House of Brujeria 2005 — Evidence 2006 — Curse of Ranch Island 2006 — Evidence 2007 — Disturbed in Wickenburg 2007 — Evidence 2008 — The Joshua Tree Inn 2008 — Evidence 2009 — Mayhem in Millville 2009 — Evidence 2010 — Benson Grist Mill 2010 — Evidence 2011 — Lost Souls of the Berkeley 2011 — Evidence 2101 — The Great Saltair Curse 2101 — Evidence 2102 — Terror at the Toy Shop 2102 — Evidence 2103 — Haunting in the Hills 2103 — Evidence 2104 — Territorial Enterprise 2104 — Evidence 2105 — Emergency in Elk Grove 2105 — Evidence 2106 — Carbon County Chaos 2106 — Evidence 2201 — Montecito Mansion of Mystery 2201 — Evidence 2202 — Mountain Oaks Mayhem 2203 — Pacific Grove Nightmare 2203 — Evidence 2204 — Whitmore Mansion 2204 — Evidence 2205 — Panic on Pine Street 2205 — Evidence 2206 — LA Police Station Invasion 2206 — Evidence 2207 — Petrified in Pahrump 2207 — Evidence 2208 — Steinbeck House Haunting 2208 — Evidence	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostAdventuresSeasonSeventeenToSeasonTwentyFour
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Puppeteer seizing control of Togusa's body in Solid State Society and \|\|forcing him to deliver his own daughter to it. The fact that he came this close to shooting himself to save her makes it even worse.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplexSolidStateSociety
Ghostwriter / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Nightmare Fuel subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned. - Gooey Gus the Slime Monster, a purple monster with a melted face and a horrifyingly creepy voice. At one point, it appears to talk to the viewers! He is the most remembered example of this on the show, to the point where him and the story featuring him is a commonly repressed memory for many who were traumatized by this as children. - Appropriately enough, the doll was designed by Tom Savini. - The high pitched screaming of the girls sure as hell didn't help either. - Rob and Double-T's daughter Lisa trapped in underground tunnels. And Rob lost his Ghostwriter team pen so he can only convey messages with the stones found in the tunnel. - The arc with the toxic waste. Gabby was the youngest member of the team at the time and seeing her so listless... - Alex gets the code name wrong while infiltrating a team of thieves in the first story arc. This results in a chase inside a warehouse. If any of the team members got caught ... - And before that, Gabby having her backpack stolen after Alex ditches her on their walk to school; it's quite lucky all the thief was interested in was the backpack because if he had wanted to, he could have really hurt her. - The first episode, where the characters don't understand what Ghostwriter is or how he works, attempting to answer him by speaking, the visuals of him writing more and more desperately combined with the music can make him seem quite spooky. - The London arc, when Jamal is nabbed by the crooks. Let me repeat that; he is captured by crooks who are planning on kidnapping a toddler to blackmail his mother while in a foreign country. It's a shiver-worthy sequence of events. - The kidnapping plot. The toddler of the mother (a well-known author) gets kidnapped at one of her book readings in Brooklyn by a mook whose leaders are operating from a foreign country (UK) across the Atlantic. And the mook is only stopped at the last minute on his way out; who knows what they would've done with the child? - A trilogy of books featuring the team at a summer camp got pretty dark pretty fast with the first book featuring art projects made by the kids being massacred, the second book having various sabotages occur on a bike trip (including someone having their brakes cut and only being able to stop by crashing) and the third book opening with Hector having gone missing during a game of capture the flag and being Alone with the Psycho, who constantly demands to know where "it" is, with Hector being obviously terrified throughout the whole ordeal. - One of the books features a scam involving fake bills being forced on the elderly in Hector's neighborhood and the crook of the mystery kidnapping Hector and abandoning him in a warehouse. Yes; Ghostwriter got a message to the rest of the team and the new girl based on a contest winner found and untied him but if they hadn't... - The book "Blackout!" is pretty freaky; some bank robbers inflict a Big Blackout on the city and not only is the team split up but Gabby and Tina end up in a hostage situation halfway across the city from anyone else. - Word of God eventually revealed Ghostwriter's ultimate identity in 2010 — he was an escaped slave (possibly even Jamal's ancestor Ezra) who had taught himself to read and was teaching other slaves to read, up until slave catchers learned of what he was doing, and they and their dogs killed him. Somehow, his ghost ended up inside a book for 125 years until Jamal freed him in the pilot. note : And again for a number of years after he time traveled to 1933 - And what are some of the first words he writes? Asking if "the children" are all right; said children were likely killed by the dogs as well.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghostwriter
Giant Monsters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The fact that Jeff gets not just attacked, but outright eaten alive three times, first by the Sarcosuchus, then Megarachne note : Though for better or worse its now understood as a kind of scorpion relative and looks the part, then finally the Giant Squid. - The Megarachne scenes deserve special mention, especially since this was back when it was thought to be a giant tarantula rather then the sea scorpion. The first is a nightmare sequence where Jeff is paralysed by megarachne before being spat on and digested alive. His voice doesn't help. Second may be even worse, as he's swarmed by a whole group of them. Even if your're not afraid of spiders by any means, you will be horrified. - The Sarcosuchus appears at night at one point, with its eye glowing.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GiantMonsters
Cradle Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes This kind of thing is to be expected, since Cradle is essentially a Death World, but a few instances really stand out. - The concept of Remnants, being that when you die, all of the spiritual energy in your body coalesces into a "living" entity that almost always starts out with just basic animal intelligence. The stronger the person, the stronger the Remnant, so if you manage to kill someone but be exhausted afterwards there's a good chance their Remnant will finish you off. Oh, and if they last long enough they can gain a measure of their old intelligence and individuality back. - Being labelled as Unsouled in the Sacred Valley, you aren't even considered a person, you are forbidden from learning any Path, forbidden from ever marrying, and literally anyone can kill you and the worst punishment they would suffer is a hit to their Honor. Not because of what they did to you but because they lowered themselves to attack something so weak. What's worse is that it's all wrong; Unsouled have nothing wrong with them except a lack of an apparent affinity towards a Path. The Sacred Valley is filled with what the outside world considers to be backwards rubes who don't even practice proper Paths and all the pain and torment that an Unsouled suffers is out of the Sacred Valley's ignorance of this truth. - Goldsigns: some of them are super cool Mark of the Supernatural, like Lindon's burning black and red eyes, or something benign like Mercy's permanent gloves, but some can hideously maim someone so that, even if they advance, there's a good chance they'll never look normal again, like Jai Long who is stuck with a Nightmare Face that he is forced to cover with scripted bandages. - Dreadbeasts, spawn of the Dreadgods that exist only to kill non-Dreadbeasts. They are one of the few natural holders of Hunger Madra and when they kill you nothing remains. To put this in context; normally when you die, you leave a Remnant, when a Dreadbeast kills you, that's it, nothing left. Northstrider has incorporated this into his own Path, called The Path of the Hungry Deep. As of Wintersteel he is now training Lindon who has managed to incorporate this into his Path of the Twin-Stars with the Consume technique. - The Dreadgods, beings so vast and powerful they appear to be part of the landscape and no living creature of any advancement level on Cradle can kill them, including Monarchs. Oh, and one is heading right for the Sacred Valley. - Blood Shadows, parasites spawned from the Bleeding Phoenix that bore into your spirit and attach themselves to your core. They cannot be removed and feed on blood, wherever it can be found. Best case scenario is that you are able to tame them into a weapon that fights on your side but you're still forced to feed them Blood Madra to keep them under control. Worst case scenario they hollow out your soul and take over your body completely. For example: Mu Enkai was a Lowgold that found a Blood Shadow and used it to take over an entire town, even over the Highgolds that were there, before Lindon put him down. Yerin was infected with a Blood Shadow when she was a child, when the Sword Sage found her it had murdered and fed on her entire village, including her family. - Monarchs, beings of unimaginable power that can literally hear their own name spoken thousands of miles away and kill someone from that same distance. They rule over Cradle as its supreme leaders, but even they are nothing before The Vroshir and The Abidan: beings of immense power, that move through the Iterations acting as agents of Order. This, of course, does not prevent them from wiping entire worlds out of existence if Chaos grows too strong there. They will at least try to save the populace of that world, but to them A Million is a Statistic, while The Vroshir are Abidan-level entities that thrive on Chaos and serve The Mad King. - What happened to Ziel: An enemy Sage cut his core apart and stitched it back together wrong, on purpose. This would be like breaking someone's arms, legs, and ribs then forcing them to heal wrong. He is basically crippled as a Sacred Artist, and every waking moment is pain, with almost no hope of ever getting better. The strength he has when we meet him just goes to show how far he was tossed down. Lindon states that if it'd happened to someone weaker, they would have been dead. - The death of Akura Harmony. Trapped in a Pocket Dimension that is slowly falling apart. Sure he deserved it for the death of Renfei and his treatment of Lindon, but then Northstrider arrives and dashes the last of his hopes with a single word: No. - In Cradle, even the trees can kill you if they're old enough or have been exposed to enough aura. The Monarch Emriss Silentborn started out as one such tree - lucky for Cradle she is one of the more benevolent Monarchs. - The Madra Engine, a Divine Treasure that is made with a hundred pure madra Remnants. What makes this Nightmare Fuel, is that the only way to reliably harvest pure madra Remnants is from human children. The Madra engine needs 100 to function. - The Suppression Field inside of Sacred Valley. No matter who or what you are it drains you down to a Jade at most and can leave you open to be murdered by the the Sacred Valley natives. - The Dreadgods and all of their destruction can be laid directly at the feet of the Monarchs. If they didn't try to hold on to their power over Cradle and ascended as they were supposed to, the artificial Hunger Madra would fade away. They all know this, and take oaths to prevent it from getting out. - For a brief moment it looked as if The Mad King was going to wipe Cradle from existence, and all that anyone from the lowest Foundation to the highest Monarch could do was weep and wait for the end. - The Silent King. Everything about him is shrouded in layers of mystery. - Early on, some of his servants are completely unable to see a dead man, even when they're standing on him. When the Silent King wants you to be peaceful, you will not see anything that could disrupt that peace. - He needs your permission to gain control of you. But he can trap you in a dream without you even realising it, and keep you there for years while only a second passes in the outside world - It becomes aware of Lindon and threatens everyone he cares about by name. Lindon gives them all defensive constructs to defeat the mind-control technique... so the Silent King just controls everyone around them and sends endless waves of slaves at them.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghostwater
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The original Destro's fate is pretty horrific. The French essentially heated two halves of a metal mask until they were red-hot, then jammed them onto McCullen's face, complete with the audible sizzling of burning flesh. - The Nanomites Cyanide Pill, which (very graphically) eats away the afflicted Neo-Viper's body in under half a minute, rapidly stripping away his skin to reveal the muscle and then the bone beneath, until he just dissolves into greyish dust filling the remains of his suit. - Similarly, Destro's transformation. Aside from some pretty horrid-looking facial burns, we're treated to the sight of metal visibly growing out through the burned flesh until it covers the entirety of his head. - The Eiffel Tower collapsing. - The flashback showing Rex attacking his own sister in her sleep and injecting her with brain-washing nannies.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra
G.I. Joe: The Movie / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "I was once a man. A man!" - G.I. Joe: The Movie reveals that all of Cobra is an Ancient Conspiracy serving reptilian Precursors straight out of the Cthulhu Mythos, who wants to wipe out human civilization altogether. This puts a somewhat different spin on their generic Take Over the World villainy. - The Body Horror that's done to Cobra Commander by his non-human superiors when he fails them. Asshole Victim? Big time. Still, the way it's depicted is pure High Octane Nightmare Fuel. He doesn't just slowly lose his humanity, he loses his mind as well. - The flashback to his original deformity also qualifies. - Everything about Cobra-La is freaky. Golobulus, Pythona and her break-in to the Terror Drome, Nemesis Enforcer. Then there's Golobulus' plan to mutate all of humanity, especially the Imagine Spot of what would happen if it succeeds.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GIJoeTheMovie
G.I. Joe: Retaliation / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The prison that Snake-Eyes who is actually Storm Shadow in disguise is shipped off to. The warden is a Psychopathic Manchild, the prison itself is so far underground that it is technically international ground, making it immune to any nation's rules, and the method of containment is keeping them in semi-suspended animation, essentially putting them in a state of And I Must Scream. Even though the only other prisoners are Cobra Commander and Destro, nobody really deserves that kind of punishment. Warden James: They are completely aware of what's around them, it's just that...it's just that they're trapped inside themselves.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GIJoeRetaliation
Ghostopolis / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages, so all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned! Despite the book being about ghosts, this is mostly averted. However, from the moment Frank's boss and his team show up, to Vaugner's death, the book compensates by taking the trope up to eleven.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghostopolis
Gilligan's Island / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Radioactive Gilligan- just as creepy in context. - In the episode "The Little Dictator" Gilligan has a nightmare that he is a president but turns out he is a puppet dictator, literally, in his nightmare he is a marionette on strings and the exiled president is playing with Gilligan as if he was a real puppet and laughs evily. - In the episode "And Then There Were None" when Gilligan had a nightmare he was Mr. Hyde, he looked more terrifying each time Ginger mentioned food. - At the end of "Physical Fatness" the photo-negative footage of Gilligan was pretty creepy. (It makes the page image.) - More than one viewer felt that the "'V' for Vitamins" episode where Gilligan has a dream about "Jack and The Beanstalk" where he's Jack and Skipper's the giant, Alan Hale was genuinely frightening as the giant. Especially the scene near the end of his dream where Skipper captures Gilligan while trying to steal his goose and pleaded for the giant to let him go. - "Ghost a Go-Go" uses the Bedsheet Ghost trope (albeit it's a man pretending to be a ghost) and while the episode mostly keeps it from being Nightmare Retardant, it doesn't quite reach this trope. There is, however, one scene in the episode where Gilligan is woken up by the "ghost", opens the blinds, and sees the guy standing right outside his window staring at him. - Any time the headhunters show up. Even though theyre usually defeated in rather comedic ways (always by scaring them away), the fact that a tribe of natives who react to any outsiders by ritualistically lopping off their heads exist in (relatively) modern day is pretty scary. - "The Hunter" was the darkest episode of the series. The hunter comes to the island hoping to find some game animals and seems friendly at first, but upon finding there aren't any suitable, he settles for Hunting the Most Dangerous Game as a new challenge. After Gilligan runs for more than twelve hours he hides in a tree disguise, hoping to survive long enough for the hunt's time limit to elapse...and the hunter just happens to choose that tree for target practice. Of course, in the end Gilligan wins the game and the hunter is sent to the mental hospital but it's still a pretty dark episode! - "The Pigeon" For anyone who has arachnophobia a giant spider inside the cave where the pigeon had landed into is a giant black morning spider it's bite is very venomous that it would kill a human in one bite! Gilligan is justifiably scared of it but they have to try to save the pigeon, of course, the pigeon saves the crew in the end and the spider had ran away into the jungle saving the crew from it. But it still could be in the jungle somewhere waiting for it's next victim! If you have arachnophobia then stay away from this episode! - "Meet the Meteor" A radioactive meteorite touches down on the island, and the Professor notices that the trees near the impact zone are undergoing Rapid Aging thanks to exposure to it. By the end of the episode, the asteroid is struck by lightning and destroyed. While it has a much happier ending, the storyline shares a fair few elements with HPL's The Colour Out of Space.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GilligansIsland
The Locked Tomb / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes That scene with Cytherea's body: That walk! That shuffling, disconcerting, slithering walk! The body flung its arms before it for momentum, the legs stiff-thighed and lock-kneed, right-side arm moving in time with right-side leg, ridiculous, appalling. Those fixed dead fingers caught a skeletal arm wrapped in gold foil, amethysts studded like so many eyes between the knucklebones, and it clattered to the ground, and Cytherea tripped over itwithout the head losing its tracking focus on you, those unblinking eyes adhered to yoursand the body splayed and juddered on the ground. Then the corpse began moving inchworm-fashion, pushed forward by the action of the legs, the forearms banging on the tiles, thrusting the blessed bones of some fallen faithful out the way as though unnoticed. It was as though a magnet were stuck in the meat, a magnet that craved some polar force within you.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GideonTheNinth
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Brigitte is on the run from a male werewolf and we don't even find out who he is, Word of God confirms that it's not \|\|Jason\|\| from the first movie, meaning this is just some random werewolf following her around intending to mate with her. Which, if you think about it, is more terrifying than if it actually were Jason - this means that werewolves are everywhere. - " Rocky runs, Rocky plays, Rocky misses the good old days". - During a stop at the Gas Station in the second movie, the radio plays the song Make Me Do Anything You Want by A Foot In Cold Water. The song itself isn't scary, but it gives a dark forshadowing of \|\|Ghost's plan.\|\| - The male werewolf walking into Ghost's house, slowly making his way to a trembling yet otherwise stationary Brigitte (hidden scissors ready) is extremely tense, the shots framed in such a way that make it appear this is really happening. The stellar costume helps sell it. - \|\|Ghost's grand plan; to use Brigitte to kill people she doesn't like.\|\| - Ghost's Leitmotif. Turned up to eleven at the end. - When the inevitible happens and \|\|Ghost lets Wolf!Brigitte out to kill her "enemies" and Brigitte kills her too, though it may be Laser-Guided Karma considering...\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GingerSnaps2Unleashed
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Akakabuto and his minions with their ghastly visage and brutal slaughterings of humans are meant to scare the living daylights out of the viewers. For instance, in one flashback scene a group of lumberjacks are attacked, and we see how one of the men visibly panicked tries to crawl away from the bear towards the fourth wall, only to have the bear notice him and pounce him. Given the context of being a kids show, demonic bears killing people while eerie music plays is what one would objectively call Nightmare Fuel. - And this is only in regards to the bear killings in the show — in the manga Akakabuto's kills are even more violent and shown in more explicit detail. The very first time we see Akakabuto he brutally claws a man's head clean off while his skiing partner reacts in horror, before proceeding to eat the man's body. - In episode 3 which is one of the darkest episodes, due to it's exceptionally violent scenes. A bear thought to be Akakabuto attacks 2 men who hid in a cabin from it by smashing through the wall behind them, and mauls both of them. The bloody corpses are seen later when investigated by the hunters which is bone-chilling, especially if you fear blood. The fact that everything takes place during night adds to the tone. - Gohei cuts his leg and feeds it to Riki to give him more strength. Even the dog is horrified by his owners decision. - In the manga there's a scene where, while Gohei & Riki are still trapped in the wilderness, Gohei contemplates eating Riki in order to stay alive. After briefly wrestling with the morality of such an act, Gohei is so overcome by the desire to survive that he shoots Riki in the head to go through with his plan. The reader is then treated to a haunting shot of Riki's corpse and punctured head, gushing blood on the ground as Gohei prepares to eat him. Thank goodness the whole scene is actually just at Catapult Nightmare that Daisuke is having, but dream or not it's no wonder this was one of the parts of the manga that was too violent to be shown in the anime. - The fact that, if Oliver hadn't showed up to help her, Cross could have gotten raped by Rokusuke and Bess. - Every bit of danger Cross is in for most of the Akakabuto arc, including the aforementioned attempted rape, takes on a more unsettling light once it's revealed \|\|she was pregnant with her and Ben's pups the entire time\|\|. - The whole Harpoon Bear's backstory. Its really like a horror movie or a nightmare when a bear somehow mysteriously ends up on a ship and kills the entire crew. - The whole Final Battle: There's a lot of blood and dead dogs everywhere. - Akatora's Heroic Sacrifice when he take Akakabuto's only eye. It's even more brutal in the manga, but the anime version isn't very soft too. In Korean dub, his painfully scream is even worse! - Akakabuto's appearance after receiving a lot of wounds on his body, and when his eyes are glowing when they shouldn't be, is very creepy! Also, when he is thought to have died from Gohee's bullet, happy music plays and Gohee hugs Gin and Riki as thanks for their good work, until... Akakabuto rises up like a devil and gives the fatal wounds to Riki! Gin uses the attack he learned from his father and ends up cutting off the bear's head very brutally.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GingaNagareboshiGin
Ghoulies / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The poster and the television ad featuring the ghoulie in the toilet was reportedly this to small children back in the day, and filmmakers got many angry letters from parents because of it. - While the puppetry and slime-effects are terribly cheesy by post-80s horror standards, the scenes of the party-goers' corpses writhing their way across the floor still hold up very well. For all that the performers' vocal acting leaves a lot to be desired, their miming is quite impressive. - Jonathan trying to entrance Rebecca during sex is the equivalent of him drugging her so as to have his way with her. In other words, it's rape. It looked pretty creepy even then and looks even worse now.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghoulies
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The game has a disturbing sequence very reminiscent of the infamous "Davis Family" scene in Modern Warfare 3 where a random citizen in London is filming and happens to witness an attack on the city that results in many people dying.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostReconFutureSoldier
Girl Genius / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Mad scientists rule the world. Horrifyingly. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. ## The Comic proper: ### Act 1: ### Act 2: - The fate of Hraggel's Point, as described by two of Gil's agents who had horrifying front row seats: Woger: Hraggel's Point. The whole town's been waspedand we were there. [...] We were supposed to sniff out [Herr Drumblebekk's] storehouses and trace his buyers. We tracked him to the second basement of a roadside inn. There was a hidden door in the floor, and when he went to open it it opened from the other side. I don't think he was expecting revenants. Yes, and these weren't just nice people mind-controlled by the Other... these were old style shamblers. They had masters. It was an invasion. Quiet. In the dead of night. They came up all over townthrough basements and tunnels. Once the town was infected they left the same way. Then everyone went back to sleep, like nothing had ever happened. It was really creepy. - Queen Albia is just plain freaky. Gil states that it's "literally unthinkable" for her subjects to disobey her, implying that she uses some kinda Mind Control or Hive Mind to control her people. The latter seems ruled out, but her absolute power over an (arguably) dying country is bizarre even in this universe as she's been alive for millenia as an immortal monarch. Her sparking out is also surprising. Judging by Voltaire's statements about her, you would assume she's relatively grounded and sane with control over her sparkiness. This isn't the case however. Whereas Voltaire and Klaus have very refined control of their "madness place", Albia gets almost completely consumed by it just as easily as a relatively green Agatha. Furthermore, she seems to want to make Agatha a permanent additional to her "garden" and seems to mean it literally, implying that she's been capturing and enslaving sparks for a very, very long time and forcing them to work for her. She also uses the Royal "We" when she speaks, but she is so insane that it makes you wonder if she doesn't literally have Multiple Personalities. - When Tarvek starts figuring out who (or what) Higgs actually is, Higgs - who has been generally unflappable the whole time we've known him - laughs. And it's creepy as hell. Then again, \|\|it's made less creepy once it's revealed Higgs is the jager spy master for the Heterodynes and firmly on Agatha's side\|\|. - Sparks alone are scary enough— people with a dubious grasp on sanity with the ability to warp the laws of reality via Science would be worrying to anyone. But when the simple-minded Doctor Dim has his intellect restored by a curious Eldritch Abomination, we find out just why Klaus cored the brain of Doctor Dimitri Vapnoople. He's not just your ordinary fulminating madboy with delusions of grandeur, he's a dangerous Social Darwinist Beastmaster with the ability to command eldritch monsters, and to top that all off, he's also a Combat Pragmatist. When Dr. Dim was first introduced, the Fate Worse than Death that Klaus had imposed upon him had seemed disproportionate, but after seeing him return to form within minutes of having his mind restored, it may be that Klaus didn't go far enough. - Albia's flashback to the deaths of her fellow queens, and more specifically who was responsible for it: Lucrezia. But she's clearly been through the wringer - she's much older looking, and has had several body parts replaced, including an eye and quite possibly her legs. - Albia reveals that the Other is not happy about having lost her connection with Agatha, and has now launched a full on invasion of Europa in a vengeful fury. - The way Albia reveals this is by summoning everyone to her chambers. When Gil is first to approach, Agatha is nervous. One of her friends offhandedly mentions that the reason can't be that bad only for Gil's respectful and polite introduction to be cut off by Albia roaring 'Silence!' Everyone hearing that then comments that the situation is bad. - It's very easy to write off Othar Trygvassen (Gentleman Adventurer) as a humorously unkillable comic relief character, but every now and again he reminds us that his mission is to kill every spark in the world. Upon his return in Act 2 Volume 8, after Tarvek shows a surprising (to Othar) amount of basic decency, he showers him with praise, then rather creepily reminds him that all the girls that fell victim to the Sturmvorous Summoning Engines were Sparks, and thus fated to die anyway, but Tarvek would be one of the last he'd go after. - For that matter, Tarvek reminding everyone just how many girls met their deaths at the Summoning Engines, enough to alter the demographics of a whole generation to where female sparks are seen as rare in that age range. - Othar's goofball act? It is in fact an act. When the situation is serious enough, he drops it. In the novels, seeing this is enough to unnerve the Baron. - Agatha decides to sabotage the "cursed waters" that Dr. Monahan and Clank!Lucrezia are bathing in and they start to melt. - The Song Keeper, the corrupted Great Cetacean mentioned by the Deepspeaker. To call it a Kaiju is severely understating it, it literally has an entire army of kaiju within it. - It turns out even that is understating just how terrifying this entity is. It's not only large enough to hold several kaiju inside of it, it has strong enough sight to not only see a relatively tiny aircraft in the sky, but it can launch flying creatures from the pupils of its eyes. - Imagine you're Neena from this page: Agatha has just caught you on the outside of a blimp several kilometers in the air after a spear has cut your lifeline; the mother of all kaiju, The Song Keeper, is bearing down on you with all of their monsters in tow; then, just to add a fart on the proverbial crap sandwich, Lucrezia, who had just been preoccupied with a fight and is absolutely gigantic, suddenly appears to grab Agatha (and you by extension). Is it any wonder poor Neena freezes?? ## Supplementary material: - The Bad Future from Othar's Twitter adventures. - The prologue of Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess has Andronicus Valois as it's POV character during the war with the Heterodynes, and it sheds light on how terrifying Mad Scientists like the Old Heterodynes must have been for "normal" non-Sparky people to go up against. Coalition armies had to pick up the dead bodies of their fallen comrades and take them elsewhere, because they "had learned the hard way that you didnt allow The Heterodyne to collect your dead." (The implicaiton being that the Heterodyne would use the dead bodies to, for lack of a better term, reuse.)	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GirlGenius
Gladiator / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "Tell me what you've been doing, busy little bee, or I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood." — Commodus - "They say no." - The scene where Maximus finds his wife and son crucified is both Nightmare Fuel and a Tear Jerker, not unlike the scene where Commodus smothers his father to death. - The scene where the female gladiator is sliced in half by an out-of-control chariot's spiked wheel. Brutal and graphic. - The undefeated gladiator Tigris' helmet, which is designed to look like Hercules wearing the Nemean Lion's hide, with the helmet being the lion's head and the visor Hercules' face. When he's defeated, blood seeps out of the mask's mouth. - Commodus. He kills his father, lusts after his sister, orders Maximus and his family murdered, taunts Maximus about it later, threatens to kill his own nephew to force his sister to marry and have sex with him and later challenges Maximus to a Duel to the Death but wounds him beforehand so that he'll have the upper hand. He looks increasingly evil and vampiric as the film progresses. Ridley Scott said that he tried to use Commodus's make-up to create the impression that he's slowly turning to stone as he becomes more and more evil. - The scene when Commodus watches Lucius sleep. You worry for a second that he's going to smother him to death. - Commodus at times seems like an outright Cool Uncle, not unlike Scar. But even then, you can see his villainy. When Lucilla asks a servant "Where is Lucius?" and the servant answers "With the Emperor m'lady", you can see the terror on Lucilla's face. She's relieved when she finds the two of them together with Commodus just telling Lucius stories about the Egyptians. Then he launches into possibly one of the most terrifying monologues in cinema history. What makes it scarier is that he's threatening his sister whilst pretending to tell his nephew a bedtime story. - How about his death? Being slowly overpowered by your opponent until he manages to slowly shove a dagger into your throat, probably leaving you to die slowly as blood fills your lungs. Entirely deserved and satisfying nevertheless. - Lucilla's life. As she says to Maximus "You don't know what it's like to not be able to sleep knowing that your son is heir to the throne, to be afraid to mourn your father for fear of your brother." - The scene when a snake is put in one of the senators' bed can be very unsettling if you have ophidiophobia.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gladiator
Glass (2019) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Dear lord, the flashback to the carnival ride that was cut from Unbreakable! When Elijah was a kid, he carried a load of large stuffed animal prizes and boarded a metal spinning ride that jerks the rider back and forth. Placing the animals on either side of him serves as a safety cushion... up until he sees his mother desperately screaming for the ride to stop, and he begins to realize the toys are falling off. Once he's sitting on the ride, completely barebones, he is jerked around helplessly, with his injuries compounding grotesquely. The shocking murder of Daryl the orderly via Slashed Throat with a piece of glass. It's an incredibly sudden and chilling moment that Mr. Glass isn't as much of a Non-Action Big Bad as his physical fragility might lead us to believe. His fake plan that he reveals to the Horde? Use his pedigree to commit another act of terror by blowing up the first three floors of Osaka Tower on the day of its grand opening. As if derailing trains wasn't enough. What happens when Joseph tells the Beast that Kevin's father died on the same train that helped the Overseer discover his Nigh-Invulnerability, and the Beast walks towards Mr. Glass in utter rage? He doesn't panic: instead, he admits that he didn't want him to know that yet, but then gleefully rejoices with the absolute Contrived Coincidence that allowed the Overseer and the Horde to become reality. The idea that he never feels threatened by a cannibalistic being, instead celebrating his extra victory gained from the Eastrail 177 crash, conveys just who Mr. Glass has become after so many years of searching for a purpose. When the Beast gets outside Raven Hill Memorial, he flips a car with understandably terrified security over without much visible strain outside his normal snarl. And the camera tilts while inside the car. When the Overseer and the Beast grapple with each other, colliding a Raven Hill Memorial van, two female workers who were caught by the Beast and shoved inside that vehicle are screaming every time the Beast or the Overseer is shoved onto the van's doors from the outside. And the Overseer even punches dents through the van. Several of the other personalities of the Horde appear and they have become more unified which means Dennis, Patricia, and Hedwig have managed to convince other personalities that the Beast, a cannibal psychopath with superpowers, is a good thing! They are a group that have killed superpowered beings for 10,000 years. All because they think that their differences pose a threat to all of mankind. And they really serve their credentials well, when they end up drowning the Overseer by using his weakness of water against him. The brutality of that slow and simple act cannot be underestimated, with the Overseer's struggles to keep his breath being a highlight.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Glass2019
Ghost Whisperer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The opening credits alone manage to give some the shudders. Bloody Mary, there was an awfully chilling scene where a girl is walking through a dark hallway trying to avoid every reflective surface which Bloody Mary may appear from, she thought she was safe when she got to the lift, only to see Bloody Mary right behind her from an adjacent mirror as the lift door slowly closes. An episode featured a ghost with a breathing mask in a morgue. If you attempt to talk to it, it rasps unintelligibly at you and then has an epileptic fit while bleeding from the eyes. Which are taped shut. Another ghost called Sally Stitch used a terminally ill girl in a hospital to send chain mail that killed people. The bad part was that there's a doll with stitched-shut eyes and mouth that is a cutesy representation of the real Sally Stitch, a Victorian woman who had her eyes and mouth sewn shut for gossiping. That faceless child... It had a completely blank face, no mouth, no nose, no eyes, no brows... Completely empty, except for the two golf ball-shaped indents where the eyes should be. And it giggled. The season 1 villain, The Dark Man, who was collecting souls afraid of going into the afterlife for some unknown nefarious purpose, which was not concluded until the last season. From "Free Fall", they discover that the passengers and crew of a plane have died, and that it is about to crash in or near Grandview. Melinda tries to warn everyone at the last second, but is drowned out by the shriek of jet engines as the plane flies low overhead. Once the plane is out of view, there is a brief deafening silence, then the violent explosion of sound as the plane crashes nearby. The Tattooed Man, one of the more violent, aggressive spirits. The marching army of polio children in handmade animal masks from the series finale. Jamie Bamber's thoroughly convincing performance as a zombie in "The Walk In". Kudos to the makeup department. "Old Sins Cast Long Shadows". Specifically, the main antagonist of the episode, Madame Greta, who tricks dying children into coming to her house so she could sacrifice their spirits to the Shadows. She also threatens Melinda that she always knows where her son is. Shane Carson, the main villain of "No Safe Place", is a rare yet effective example of a human being more terrifying than a ghost. At first we are led to believe that Shane is being haunted by his Colleen Finn who stalked him while she was alive. We later learn that it was actually Shane who stalked Colleen and this was what led to her death; when she thought he was trying to break into her apartment, she accidentally fell down a stairwell and broke her neck. This also causes her to have an unsettling neck twitch as a ghost. Shane did worse than stalk Colleen. He isolated her from friends and family by essentially making it too much trouble for her to be supported — spreading lies about her, hacking their bank accounts, invading their privacy in other ways etc. When Shane sets his sights on Melinda, she gets a taste of this treatment when he makes it look like her friend Delia lied on her son's application to get him into a private school. At one point, Colleen is trying to scare Shane at his office only for him to laugh off her attempts. Normally, a ghost failing to scare a human would be an impressive moment, but given what we know about Shane and Colleen, it only drives home just how twisted Shane is and how even as a ghost Colleen is still helpless against him. It is especially disturbing when Colleen talks about how he drove her last boyfriend away from her and then Shane's computer shows pictures of Melinda, revealing that he is now choosing to stalk her. After exposing him for a stalker and helping Colleen get closure with the detective who was in love with her, it seems all is well. Then Shane shows up in the basement of the antique store. At that moment Jim calls Melinda to inform her that Shane is dead from an overdose — the man killed himself just to stalk Melinda forever and if not for the dark spirits taking him away, she would never have been free from him.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostWhisperer
Glitchtale / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In Megalomaniac, Chara literally takes over Frisk's body and reduces them to a spectator for a while. From Frisk's point, we can see Chara dancing around Sans and utterly outclassing him, someone who nearly pushed Frisk into a reset. Should Frisk have not somehow separated from Chara, the series would have ended then and there. They then make a comeback in *Determination, where they pretty much jump Frisk and throw them into the DT Extractor and we get to see how painful that process is. Then, after the determination is extracted and Sans and Flowey try to stop them from reaching it, they cut off their own arm and win the fight that way. That's right, they won. The stark difference between Gaster's original demeanor and what he became after falling into the CORE. The sheer loneliness seems to have made him Go Mad from the Isolation and turn a bitter, sociopathic abomination who Would Hurt a Child, as shown in "Yet Darker." Compare this to the genial, jokey, and self-sacrificing Gaster that we see in "Your Best Friend." His appearance in "Yet Darker" was a bit unnerving already, but with the new sounds in the compilation, he's almost horror movie material. The dark figure that appears to Mrs. Grey at the end of "My Sunshine" after she vows revenge on the monsters. It's the first appearance of Betty, and the resemblance to Season 1's hate-filled Chara left a lot of fans anxious for the main cast. Betty manages to top Chara as a Big Bad in the episode "Dust". Shortly after her Evil All Along reveal, she straight-up murders Sans, and it's not a clean shot, by any means... the weapon used is a spear made of magic, which penetrates him and leaves visible blood on it, and goes straight through his soul. Akumu then goes a step farther and devours his soul onscreen, which is Betty's modus operandi. Her MO is also creating hallucinations, or rather, twisted versions of someone's fears. And she's already used this ability to pull off a Shape Shifter Guilt Trip, and an excellent disguise, to the point where she even fooled Sans, who's perceptive enough to notice changes in the timeline from a linear standpoint. From the same episode, Jessica being tortured by Betty off-screen at the very end, when she refuses to hand over the hate to Betty. Betty impersonates the child of Integrity... and then jumpscares Mrs. Grey (and the audience), resembling Chara in the process. Gaster doesn't mess around in "Do Or Die". He has a new special attack, "Duality", which forms a pair of giant hands, and he uses it in tandem with his signature Gaster Blaster. Sounds awesome (and it is), but that thing has gotten a huge upgrade, and it makes it look like Gaster has somehow managed to take control of an otherworldly Eldritch Abomination. Since the events of Dust, as well, Gaster is much more serious and effective, particularly in his fighting. He offers nothing in the way of comic relief or even a reprieve from the brutality of the fight. If he weren't attacking the Big Bad, it'd be hard to cheer for him. On a separate note, the attack Duality gets scarier for the audience when Betty actually steals control of it. The fight becomes extremely one-sided and brutal as a result, with Betty beating Gaster down so badly that he has a flashback to when he fell in the Core. Cam, one of the children learning magic at Toriel's school, goes to help their sister when the school comes under attack. They beat up the little pink minion thing and go to take their sister away, only for a new pink thing to be revealed to have been hiding under the table, stabbing Cam in the back and taking their soul for Betty. Right in front of their little sister, might I add. Love, Part 1 Akumu drinks the HATE essence. While it empowers Betty, it has severely detrimental effects on her, and is urging her to abandon her mission and do...something. Given the source of the HATE, there are very dark implications for what will happen when the HATE consumes Betty, which it just might considering how powerful it is. To underscore how bad HATE is, the initial revival of Betty is genuinely unsettling. To start, her expression is devoid of any emotion and looks completely alien on the normally expressive villainess weve come to know. In addition, the music shifting from heroic guitar to soft piano and the slightly warping camera add to the overall feeling that something is wrong here. Cami released some deleted scenes on her Twitch live stream involving Betty and Hate having an argument (confirming that Hate is sentient). Betty talks to Kumu about potentially "losing her body" but being able to gain another one if need be to try again - meaning that if her body is destroyed, the last trace of Amber may be gone for good. Hate then manifests out of her soul in the form of an even-creepier Black Kumu with an eel-like physique and mentions that the Magician (Agate) who performed the spell to bring Amber back as Betty didn't care about the host she used. Hate is showing amusement over what happened to Amber. Betty snaps back that she controls her body and not Hate (whose eyes turn red) and that it got cast out easily by Asriel and Chara despite being the most powerful negative emotion, but Kumu decided to give Hate a body to share with Betty. She then smiles at the idea that she still has a physical form. The scene was presumably deleted to preserve the Nothing Is Scarier nature of a voiceless Hate and to keep Amber's nature a secret. The secret of Glitchtale is revealed in "Love": it is Camilla's version of Hard Mode Undertale, a Hard Mode that includes events such as fighting Gaster, and Frisk just reset every time things went bad. And it is revealed that, as Chara explained, Frisk threw all their HATE onto them. And Akumu and Betty have taken in the HATE sample that Grey had... Love, Part 2 Gaster watching the AMD's past footage (37 days ago) of the Barrier breaking - and he sees Hate (as a shapeless blob) leaping through the woods after which it flies into and past the camera. That thing was always sentient, alive and kicking. When Gaster realizes that Jessica kept it contained all this time without telling anyone (which could have saved Sans and Alphys), he crushes a pen to bits in his hand out of sheer Tranquil Fury and seems ready to destroy her... until the fight goes out of him and he just wishes that he never met her. Thank goodness for Papyrus and his gift for fixing things. Nightmare Flowey. Goddamned Nightmare Flowey. He is the Nightmares of Asriel's mind, and his inner demons, and he already acts in a creepy demeanor, and cranks it up to eleven in creepiness factor by willfully changing his body, in a throwback to some of Flowey's creepier moments in the game. In their climactic battle, Betty pounds the crap out of Frisk without using a single drop of Hate... and then Asriel joins in when Frisk is about to go down... and Betty steals his soul using a little trick involving Kumu and another scythe. Frisk is beyond enraged and vows to kill her no matter the cost, instantly jumping to LV 19 out of sheer fury, even opening their eyes for the first time and showing them to be a great example of Red Eyes, Take Warning. They turn Betty's Curb-Stomp Battle right back at her and start literally cutting her to pieces, although Hate allows her to regenerate. Hate also appears to be growing her limbs back very slowly in comparison with how she normally regenerates. Is Frisk's magic sword preventing her from regenerating fully, or is Hate purposely drawing out the regeneration For the Evulz to make its pawn feel pain? Now getting truly desperate, Betty gets an idea and calls out to Frisk in a false-cheery voice, asking if she can get help. She produces a near-empty soul from Kumu's mouth... a monster soul... and fills it with Hate, causing the appearance of a nightmarishly possessed Sans, who immediately starts owning the fight with Frisk and who even attacks Papyrus. Betty sees Gaster, Toriel, and Asgore arriving and decides to use more of Hate to create a barrier to stop them from interfering - she stops just short of it covering her eyes completely. She was that close to suffering another Villain Override from something even worse than her. Once Sans breaks free of Hate's control, she and Kumu are weakened and immediately book it - not just because Sans has rejoined the team against them, but because if Betty is too weak, Hate will regain full control over her. The Stinger shows a visibly uncomfortable Frisk realizing that they are running out of time to stop Betty, Kumu, and Hate before they inevitably hit LV 20 - something they've not yet done, and which the audience can only hope doesn't happen. An astute observer can also see that HATE is already inside Frisk even if just a small amount you can see it just before Frisk creates that huge Explosion. Which Means HATE Could have 3 Pawns under it's full control if things go bad Frisk, Betty and Akumu and Asriel Then there's the Glitchtale Season 2 prequel comic, of which it depicts when the Barrier is broken, and Akumu and Betty finally wake up. They at first seem genuinely innocent. They don't know about their past, and it seems as though they may get to live their own life peacefully. They meet Kumu, and they look happy and ready to go on an adventure to find a new life. Then comes the presumable spirit of Agate Lightvale corrupting her into fulfilling her mission, and we get that all to classic Slasher Smile. Cami confirmed that Frisk's death will erase the whole timeline. Betty is unknowingly pulling a Suicide Attack by trying to kill Frisk, as their death will effectively erase her from existence too, however Cami says that she wouldn't care even if she knew. My Promise The trailer for episode 5 - "My Promise". For once, there is not even a hint of a smile on Betty's face. She stares ahead unblinkingly, as though her last little bits of sanity are draining away. Then it changes to a scene where she looks furious, grabbing Asriel's soul (which is already fast becoming tainted by HATE) and beginning to crack it just by squeezing. The episode opens on Betty frustrated with Hate's corruption of the souls. Then we learn the bombshell: Betty: I never got used to be split in two anyways. This leads to the two performing a perverted Fusion Dance involving Betty being impaled, leading to a creepy nightmare face that's a mix of Betty and Kumu's appearances. This moment also takes away the humanizing moments between Betty and Kumu for caring for each other, as it shows that they only did that out of self preservation since they are each other. Game Over: Part 1 Gaster's Sanity Slippage throughout the episode, growing desperate trying to save Sans through any means necessary. He gets some very creepy smiles in as the sleep deprivation hits him even more. It only gets worse when Papyrus tries to leave with Jessica. Betty's Slasher Smile at the end of the episode, which is not only very detailed, but well animated too. During her fight with Mettaton, he blasts her in the face and when it cuts to her we see it's starting to FALL OFF, and there's a pink Akumu construct underneath (With by the way, TEETH). Even worse, when Mettaton fires the stage lights in an attempt to kill her, searing off her skin, she starts walking through it and theres a brief shot of her form underneath her Amber appearance being pure pink as well as her hair growing longer to resemble Agate before returning to normal. It's all but stated THAT'S Betty's true form. The Kaiju Betty created by fusing all those Mooks... Just... IT'S A GODDAMN KAIJU!!!. The buildup of the child's warning is a "nice" touch from Cami too. The ending is pretty ominous too. There's a reason why these episode is called "Game Over". Betty pulls yet another Slasher Smile as shown above (noticing a pattern, here?), this one arguably even worse than when her face was falling apart earlier, with her "human" skin coming apart around her mouth to reveal her shark teeth. HATE The damage that Toriel inflicts on Asgore while under Betty's hallucination is nothing short of staggeringly, horrifyingly brutal. It's to such a degree that even Betty herself is visibly stunned, although still visibly pleased with the results. Betty even admits that she truly didn't expect Toriel to fire at Asgore like that, all she was hoping for was for Toriel to injure him enough for Betty to get back on her feet and regain the advantage... instead, Toriel clearly shot with the intent to kill. The trailer shows Betty's inhuman eye widening to a ridiculous degree, although whether in excitement or in terror is yet to be determined. It turns out to be in terror... of the Skeleton Trio. Asriel's body has turned pure pitch black and his eyes now glow red while a malevolent aura surrounds him. That's not Asriel anymore - HATE has finally formed its own evil shell around him. While all this time the heroes have been focusing on killing Betty, something far worse than her has been growing stronger and stronger through her and Asriel's actions. Adding to that, if HATE becomes powerful enough that it no longer needs to wait for Betty's victory, it will consume her too.Word of God is that Betty is actually far more terrified of losing to HATE than she is of dying to the heroes, as HATE consuming her entirely will kill her yet leave her body behind for it to inhabit as its own, and what HATE will do (as well as the power it will gain) when puppeteering her lifeless corpse is far worse than anything she'd dare to carry out. Appropriately, Chara seems far more terrified of HATE than Betty, dodging the latter's attacks with a look of grim focus on his face - however he seems to falter in horror upon seeing Asriel get taken over. Watching him shatter into dust the first time was heartbreaking enough. \|\|Watching Sans melt before finally dying to protect his family is something worse.\|\| The Tranquil Fury that flows through Gaster after Sans' soul finally shatters is something to behold. He unleashes his greatest attack of them all - Polychromatism. The problem is that he inadvertently draws upon energy from Papyrus' soul to use it, and he nearly ends up killing his own son through using his life force to tear Betty apart with sheer, unstoppable, terrifying RAGE. It's also one of the most brutally awesome and enjoyable moments we've ever seen, given that thankfully Papyrus survives the whole ordeal. Betty does not. Gaster's face starts off completely calm, even expressionless until he suddenlyROARS IN RAGE and summons forth all his energy to conjure up the biggest Gaster Blaster ever seen, complete with two enormous hands. He grabs Betty with one giant hand and bellows, "YOU WON'T ESCAPE THIS TIME!" He then twists his hands with such venomous force that the giant hands grasping Betty copy him, bringing the pink terror pain beyond anything imaginable. There is no Gory Discretion Shot for even a single second. Betty gets torn in half on screen. Her howl of agony just seals the deal. Gaster finishes brutalizing the creature by hitting her with every single beam he is capable of and then some. This is where one can truly see the rage on his face. After everything she did to his family, after all the suffering she caused the world, he absolutely loathes this thing, and he wants her to die many times more painfully than anyone and everyone she killed combined. It's a good thing Gaster is one of the heroes in this season... The beams eradicate most of Bête Noire's remaining body, and we get a lovely view of her disintegration as she screeches her lungs out in unholy terror. She EASILY manages to rival the shriek that Marx Soul lets out upon his destruction. Gaster wanted her to feel unrivaled fear (her very own trait which she constantly uses and abuses, mind) for her final moments, and he got it. He most definitely got it. Papyrus has to shout for Gaster to stop because he's nearly killing the former and doesn't realize it. Her final moments inside her head are spent lamenting on her demise and the fact that she was the only thing holding back HATE from the rest of the world. Before all goes black for the Black Beast, she says this... HATEmore than picks up the slack for Betty in giving us nightmares. The first thing we see is Ronan being ran through by one of HATE's attacks, the attack then appears to reanimate and manuver Ronan's corpse. Revealed to still be alive recieving Mind Rape from HATE. Ronan finds himself trapped in a HATE-filled room with his late wife, who tries to convince him to stay by her side... by melting the skin of her arm to the bone. Then, when Ronan still decides to leave, she gets a hell of aNightmare Face before attacking him The above mentioned bestial appearance, HATE has bestial mannerisims and combat style too, fighting with claws and teeth and roaring like an animal, the way he lunges from the wall. Brrr. The Stinger: After the credits roll and everything is fine and well we cut to Gaster standing in a dark bathroom in the middle of what seems to be a panic attack. As he looks up to the mirror, it starts to crack over his face, and a dark, glitching figure graps his shoulders... a dark figure that looks like adeformed Gaster, with a Slasher Smile and crying what could either be blood or HATE.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Glitchtale
Glee / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Vocal Adrenaline egging Rachel is a Tear Jerker since she finds out Jesse lured her to the parking lot for this reason and they mock her for being vegan. What is Nightmare Fuel is that when she recounts it to the Glee Club, she said she could hear baby chicks giving little "cheeps" while it was happening. The episode "Furt", where we already know that Karofsky is gay and has feelings for Kurt, but the way he stands really close and does a glary/smile thing, along with winking. It looks a little perverse and Kurt is left feeling a little violated. Brittany's throwaway lines sound an awful lot like she was raped, including being visited by aliens. Santana mentions having been roofied in "Previously Unreleased Christmas". Santana being outed after some girl overheard her argument with Finn in the hallway—where he tells her to come out the closet—and the girl told her uncle, who is running against Sue for the Congress seat and targeted Santana's lesbianism in a smear ad against Sue. For many a closeted teenager, being outed is bad enough, but for it to happen on TELEVISION in front of millions makes it nightmare fuel. Not just that, but look at and listen to Finn in that scene. You can tell he really enjoyed making her squirm. Regardless of how you feel about the whole sequence, there's something genuinely disturbing about the way Finn put the screws to Santana. He was actually trying to be mean, because anyone hearing Santana call him fat won't care, won't believe it, and think she's a bitch - it doesn't in any way reflect badly on him. And if he didn't know that it was a terrible thing to do in the circumstances then he's really stupid. To think that one of your glee club friends would want to hurt you in such a fashion (and then come up with some shit about wanting her to be herself) is also terrifying. Santana actually liked the club, thought it was the best part of her day and where her only real friends were, so it was probably a little harmful to her mental state to consider that maybe they don't like her at all. That last sentence only replace Santana with Rachel and consider that Santana did that exact same thing to Rachel. Even then outing her was over and above unreasonable of Finn. EVERYTHING about Karofsky's storyline in On My Way. Hey, being outed not bad enough for you? How about your homophobic classmates spamming the Internet with hate-speech about you until you hang yourself? And even that wasn't good enough for them- they wrote on his Facebook wall- "Better luck next time"!!! And just in case you could sleep, have Karofsky's dad finding his near-dead body and screaming in anguish. And even while in recovery, his mom thinks that he's mentally ill for being gay and his best friend Azimio cuts contact. The effects of Bulimia on Marley. She spends her first five episodes looking warm and bright and cheerful, but once Kitty gets in her head and makes her start vomiting all her meals up she gets less energetic, more pale, and more frail. It all comes to a climax during the Gangnam Style performance: the music starts to cut out near the end, the camera is at weird angles, parts of the song speed up or slow down, and at the end Marley is so malnourished that she collapses onstage. The worst part is the insight to the skewed priorities she's developed, and how such a simple line can become really disturbing. Marley: I'm so hungry. But at least I fit into my dress. For added points, when they lose Sectionals due to Marley fainting, Tina promptly blames her for them losing. "Feud": It's supposed to be played for laughs, and is never mentioned again, but Sue putting 30 credit cards and a house loan in Blaine's name, singlehandedly ruining his parents' credit, simply because he wouldn't join the Cheerios is quite disturbing. "Shooting Star". A gun goes off at the school. Most of the club is holed up in the choir room, but Brittany is stuck alone in a washroom and Tina is outside the school and can't contact anyone. Marley tries to text her mom, but Millie can't answer because her phone is too far away and she can't risk grabbing it - and Marley starts assuming the worst. The eerie silence during that scene just makes the whole thing worse. If you weren't spending that entire scene on the edge of your seat, wondering when the shooter would burst through the choir room door, gun in hand, then congratulations, you have Nerves of Steel. The metronome going the whole time gave the atmosphere a whole new level of scary. Kurt getting gay bashed in "Bash". Sue has a Room Full of Crazy dedicated to all the people she hates. A large portion of it is dedicated to the New Directions and Will personally. This would be funny, but we see the words "Missing" in a couple of places. We knew Sue hated the Glee Club, but she also might be more than a little unhinged. This also includes a life size doll of Al Roker, which seems plain ol' crazy and weird until you remember that back in "I Do", not only do Quinn and Santana know about him, but Quinn starts the conversation by outright naming him as maybe the only nice guy in the world. It's disturbing to think what that doll may have been used for before or since. It might be considered irrelevant now due to Cory Monteith's death, but really try to look at Kurt's season 1 actions towards Finn through Finn's eyes. Way back in Preggers, Finn thought that Kurt was asking him out and politely declined. (quote "Thanks, but I already have a date to the prom. I'm flattered you asked, though, I know dances are important to gay teens.") To which Kurt said he wasn't gay. (remember, this is the fourth episode ever.) Subsequently, Kurt sings a love song while looking intently at Finn the whole time, plots to break up his relationship with the girl they both think is pregnant with his child, and works to ruin his opinion of Rachel, who Finn genuinely does have a connection with. It rapidly becomes an open secret in the whole Glee club not only that Kurt's crushing on Finn, but that it's so one-sided Clingy Jealous Girl Quinn doesn't even bother giving Kurt a single verbal warning. Finn finds out that his Mom is dating Kurt's dad when she tells him they're all moving in together (he knew she was dating someone, but not Kurt's dad), but not until after Kurt asks his opinion on interior decorating, for what Finn doesn't yet know will be their shared bedroom. Go back and watch that 'breaking the news' scene again objectively; Kurt really looks like he's just waiting for Finn to carry him over the threshold. Kurt has been known to go to some fairly extreme lengths, especially back in season 1. (Remember Rachel's 'Sandy in the final scene of Grease makeover'?) Finn's 'faggy' reaction to Kurt's full-on interior design mockup is a very bad word choice, and Kurt's right to be angry at Finn. But no one ever seems to consider that not only does Finn has a genuine right to be upset at the situation in general - everyone (even Rachel, the Official Love Interest who's already run afoul of Kurt's schemes to turn Finn his way,) acts like Finn's honest concern for his personal space (maybe even safety) from the guy who's rampantly crushing on him (and long ago stopped bothering to hide it) is simply Homophobia and loudly condemns him for it. It takes Kurt's dad to give his son a lecture about boundaries, kindly telling him that his hitting on Finn was extremely creepy, for Kurt to get the message. In "Child Star", Sue goes into one of the trademark rampages that ends with her slapping a random student for no reason. Throughout the show, there are a disturbing number of implications that Santana is bulimic. Made worse by the show passing them off as jokes and the episode dealing with Sue making the Cheerios basically live off of super unhealthy shakes that seem to actively encourage eating disorders. In season 4, where Marley Rose is bullied into developing an eating disorder (no thanks to Kitty). "I'm so hungry, but at least I fit into my dress." And yes, it's every bit as disturbing as it sounds. The in-universe explanation for the entirety of the seasons 4-5 new kids (aside from Kitty) being Put on a Bus? That Sue basically tortured them all until they were forced to transfer schools, only sparing Kitty because she was needed for the Cheerios. Keep in mind that several of those kids were known to be poor, which would undoubtedly make it difficult to just make a transfer, and Marley's mother even worked at the school. In "Mattress", When Will finds out that Terri is not pregnant is very scary. From his constant glaring, quiet voice, to even throwing the pregnancy pad you wonder if Will is actually going to hurt Terri.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Glee
Ghost Story / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes I took two slow steps towards the video game console, staring at its screen. I didn't pay attention to the animated spaceship or the asteroids or the giant, disembodied skull flying around. I didn't care about the flickers of static that washed across the screen as I got closer, something inside its computer reacting to my presence. No. I paid attention to the glass screen and to the reflection of the store that shone dimly upon it. I identified my outline on it, long and thin. I could see the vague outlines of the store as more shadowy shapes - aisles and end caps, the counter and the door. And the Thing standing just inside the door . It was huge. I mean, it was taller and broader than the door was. It was more or less humanoid. The proportions were wrong. The shoulders too wide, the legs crooked and too thick. It was covered in fur or scales or some scabrous, fungal amalgamation of both . And its eyes were empty, angled pits of dim violent light . I felt my hands begin to shake. Tremble. Actually, they became absolutely spastic. The paper bag around my hands made a steady rattling sound . There was a creature from another world standing behind me. I could feel it, no more than seven or eight feet away from me, every bit as real as Stan the stoned cashier, to every sense but my sight. It took a real effort to move my head enough to cast a single, hurried glance over my shoulder. Nothing. Stan was shoveling various bills into a bag. The store was otherwise empty. The door hadn't opened since I had come through it. There was a bell on it. It would have rung had it opened. I looked back at the reflection of the store in the video game console in front of me. The Thing was two feet closer . And it was smiling .	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostStory
Glowfic / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Jokers Father and Stepfathers. - Interestingly, many things that are considered Nightmare Fuel for other people are considered enjoyable by Jokers. - Joker biological fathers are controling and violent, which goes terribly with Jokers. This group also frequently experiences rape while working as a street prostitute. - Jokers with stepfathers experience the above and are raped by the stepfather since childhood. - Stevens, the template of younger-sibling of Jokers. Have to endure what the Jokers go through, often with the Joker protecting them to some degree. They can be rescued, however without outside difference they can be corrupted and become Nightmare Fuel. - A template attractor for Jokers is being raped, which itself is horrible, but in Sue's case we get to see first hand, while Aegis is there and vulnerable. - Path being captured and tortured and touched, forcing Kas and Petaal to separate. - Downside. That is an afterlife where people can be tortured as punishment (or just for the hell of it) by people with People Puppet powers and the entire thing is controlled by an absent and distant entity, but actually run by bitter judges that can read your entire history. - Even better we get to see the worst of it through the eyes of Shell. Who had a particularly bad time of it even by Downside standards, being kidnapped, shut in a box, and tortured for something around 25 years, resulting in near-total memory loss, and then wandering aimlessly for another 50 or so (with more intermittent torture) before running into Strat, and then getting a door to Milliways. - The Land of the Dead. Downside at least has a failed attempt at fairness, everyone is punished in this. - The entire world of Materia. Makes Glass want to throw up just by looking at it. - Sarion had to go through one of Bells' worst fears (having her mind constantly read) to save her world. She ended up mostly catatonic before the peal found her. - Etty is kidnapped and raped every night, expecting to potentially end up with her mind destroyed. - Butterfly and Andi have to fight a race of parasitic aliens that literally get inside your head and control you, better yet? Their father is among the victims \|\|until they manage to release him\|\|. - Mark's entire childhood. Go Mad from the Isolation plus Electric Torture plus Mark being terrified of his creator to the point of panic attack. It might be why he acts like he does. Might also just be the fact that he's a JokerSherlock though. - Harley accidentally ending up in Gift, subjected to an attempt at Brainwashing for the Greater Good, used as a Living Battery, and isolated from almost everyone (which is particularly bad for a Joker) and finally teleporting into the Sun just to get away from Chelsa and staying there for five years before the peal finally shows to to rescue him. All because the Theory of Narrative Causality demanded he experience a minimum amount of suffering. - Old and New Kystle: - The mage source of powers are the halfblood, people with one Fae parent that have vast magic and always end up insane. - The mage society is basically run by a selfish medieval nobility with magical powers and without concepts of consent. They regularly went through conquests using their magical advantage over non-magical folk. - Said mages, always more thirsty for power, decided it was a good idea to summon it from other dimensions, resulting in Kystle being invaded, nearly two billion killed and about 20 thousand survivors evacuated to another dimension. - The two situations when Vernaia and Path are touched. - In Gemini, the precog predicted massive eruption forces a good part of the west united states to need evacuation, Conduit and Flicker are part of the effors saving millions, still, they go into the middle of the disaster zone saving people amidst the chaos fire, but watch many die as well. - Angband is pure nightmare fuel - you are not only tortured and raped, and not only does this happen in time dilation, but there are hallucinations of being rescued that melt into being back in Angband and contain fake versions of people you know doing horrible things. When people are actually rescued, they don't believe it. And then there's the memory modification. - All Eru Iluvatars are pure nightmare fuel. They have created a possibly infinity of worlds that are designed to be as tragic and painful for its inhabitants as possible. All of the living creatures have everything stacked against them. The scariest thing is that Eru does this purely to get entertainment. - The Elf ban on homosexuality is merely to ensure that there are doomed romances to keep Eru entertained, since that way is more self-sustaining than just declaring couples star-crossed. - The Arda furthest in the timeline is full of completely and utterly traumatized people. The Maitimo that was reembodied was so broken that he begged to be erased from existence. - There is an instance of an evil Maitimo and an evil Feanor. That makes the peal and associates wonder if there is an evil Bell. - What evil Maitimo puts \|\|Findekáno\|\| through basically amounts to torture and oath-based brainwashing \|\|not to mention the murder of Findekáno's family\|\|. - As utterly horrifying Angband was for Maitimo, it was arguably worse for Beka. Who displays as a typical victim of systematic abuse, being completely unfazed by the idea of being tortured, raped and mind altered daily. - All instances of Rebecca have a template attraction of being victims of sexual abuse, having no support system or option for justice. They also become pregnant from rape and are forcibly separated from their beloved child. This is made even more horrifying by the fact that in their settings the Rebeccas are just another statistic. Luckier than most in fact, due to their template attraction with Maglors. - The planet of Amenta is a fucking nightmare to be a member of the Red Caste. - Calado Peka is violently assaulted by jealous purples and grays when her relationship with Macalaure becomes public. Maitimo does nothing to punish the perpetrators afterward so Macalaure is driven to kill one of them. - The huge dementor attacking Jenny and the girls. - Vampire Charles Reed, Tamara's lover and father of her child, quite deliberately by starting with gaslighting her and eventually kidnapping their son and turning him into a vampire. - In Room of Requirement, it's revealed that the Demon Cam that \|\|holed Valinor\|\| worst memory was the exact moment after the fact where he was despairing over the notion that someone might come have come up with a better solution seconds too late.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Glowfic
Go Ask Alice / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The narrator's hallucinations after she is unwittingly dosed with LSD a second time are skin-crawlingly detailed: she believes she is trapped in a coffin and being consumed by worms. Even after she is put into a mental hospital and the effects of the drugs lessen, she goes on believing she can feel worms and maggots inside her vagina, devouring her from the inside. When a fly gets into her room, she has a fit of screaming hysterics, fearing that it will lay its eggs on her. - Her physical injuries are also described and they're quite horrific enough, even without the hallucinations: she scraped off the ends of her fingers trying to claw through a closet door and tore out patches of her own hair and skin while trying to get rid of invisible maggots. She compares the ends of her fingers under a healing lamp to "hamburger cooking".	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoAskAlice
Goblins / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes 6. A large mouth forms on the shield and shouts the wielder's deepest secrets for 1d6 rounds. 17. The last individual to verbally speak to the wielder is turned to stone. This effect takes place no matter where the target individual is. 31. No matter where he is, the 4th oldest dragon in the realm suddenly loses his wings as well as any ability to fly or teleport in any way. The dragon and wielder instantly know the following information: The wings (and any ability to fly/teleport he may have had) will all return if the dragon directly kills the wielder; if the wielder is killed by someone/something other than the dragon, he's not getting his wings, etc back; the dragon doesn't automatically know where the wielder is, but he knows who he is. 32. If the wielder dies, so does the striker. (Reversible.) 37. Any and all dead humanoids within five miles of the shield rise as zombies. The nature of these zombies is up to the DM . 42. The wielder suddenly becomes aware of the true, complete and all encompassing meaning of the universe. However, after one round, he completely forgets it and knows only that he used to possess and understand this knowledge. 57. From this moment on, the wielder will permanently lose one hit point from his total, any time he prays to any god or deity. 71. Everything that the wielder is wearing, carrying and wielding (except the Shield of Wonder) disappears forever. 72. The last creature that the wielder killed returns to life and appears in front of the wielder (with all of his belongings that he had at the time of death returned to him). 83. The striker must succeed a will save or he floats away into the air like a bubble caught in the wind. He will float higher and higher for 10 minutes, at which point the effect fades and he plummets to the ground far below. 86. A fully grown Tyrannosaurus rex is summoned next to the wielder. Roll a percentile die to determine whether the dinosaur really likes the wielder and hates the striker, or vice versa. 88. The entire realm of existence is ripped from time itself. Time no longer applies to the universe in which the characters live. Without time, physics cannot function. Cause and effect no longer exists. The entire universe becomes 'frozen' as existence hovers far outside the pull of time. All movement ceases. Planets no longer revolve. Thought is no longer possible and indeed, consciousness is no more. Life is for not. If time existed, the universe could be frozen forever. But no. Without time, there can be no past or future. Therefore, the universe never has existed, nor will it ever exist. It simply isn't. Gone. Erased completely never to be... \|\|Oh wait. There it goes again. Okay, it's up and running normally again. Well, since time stopped, no one in existence knows what just happened and so it seems as though the shield didn't do anything.\|\| 100. The Shield of Wonder clones itself.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Goblins
Smile PreCure! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Episode 13; THESE FRIGGIN'◊ FACES!!!!!◊ - Episode 32; seeing all of the Cures smiling with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness is pretty unsettling. The dissonant music doesn't help. - That was actually a scene lifted from Yes! Pretty Cure 5; fitting, as Joker is an Expy of Kawarino, the one who brought that scene with the similar 'Nightmare Mask'. However, Joker gives a more nightmarish continuation and conclusion: while Nozomi brought her friends back to their senses with mere words, Miyuki is forced to fight an Akanbe in a losing battle alone while her friends just watch with the same expression, and every attempt of her calling out for them to wake up just fell to deaf ears. That's like you're in a nightmare and none of your screams of help do good to get you out of it, even if helpers and friends are nearby. Good thing Miyuki is a Plucky Girl and her refusal to stand down eventually broke the spell. - When Wolfrun gets EXTREMELY mad, he sure does makes a ferocious appearance. Sporting sharper fangs and claws, along with red glowing blood-lusted eyes. - In Episode 40, the fact he was threatened that he was going to kill Cure Happy after beating down Cure Sunny made it even more unsettling. Episode 44 shows that he REALLY wanted Happy dead. - In Episode 42, Majorina kidnaps two of Cure March's siblings and using them as human shields while she brutally beats down their older sister. After March getting her Heroic Second Wind, Majorina goes full revenge mode and outright fires an energy beam at her remaining siblings, which seemingly kills them. March's face of horror and shriek of terror combined with Majorina's sadistic laugh over her loss made the entire scene really dark. Thankfully, all of the Midorikawa siblings were saved by the other Smile Cures. - Many consider Joker to be this himself. Especially some of his expressions. - The faces Cure Happy◊ and Cure Peace◊ make during the battle against him in Episode 22 don't make things any more pleasant either. - In episode 40, he summons Wolfrun and starts to berate him for failures, his back to him the whole while. Wolfrun gets angry and defensive...until Joker finally turns around to reveal a mouth full of fangs and glowing red eyes far wider than he's ever made them before. And then he makes this expression twice more in the next two episodes. Meep. - When he threatens Majorina specifically, he makes the skull of an animal emerge from her cauldron, and the shape of it makes it seem like it's Wolfrun's. Yikes. Though he turns out to be alive 2 episodes later. - Episode 43; while Joker breaks Reika by talking and mentions her two selves—Cure Beauty vs Reika, he shows her a giant mirror. Beauty looks into it, seeing her reflection...and Joker briefly takes control of it, so now her reflection has his creepy Slasher Smile and wide eyes. And talks in his voice. - Episode 46 has his Villainous Breakdown when the Cures defeat his Psycho Rangers and reappear to take him on. The faces he pulls, his voice warping somewhat as he goes insane, as well as the animation, are just freaky. Then as if that weren't bad enough, he turns into the ink used to collect Bad Energy, making him an inky monster in the vague shape of a human, with only his grinning mouth to be seen.◊ - Episode 47 has Emperor Pierrot summoning hordes of monstrosities with red glowing eyes. After splashing his paint on the Cure's book, the all Cure's fell unconscious. As we see within their minds, they are within a realm of despair and they sink deeper into darkness. Yeah.....for a light-hearted season, it can get really dark.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GlitterForce
Ghost Talker's Daydream / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Being that Ghost Talker's Daydream is a series dealing with the investigation and exorcism of lingering spirits - be they suicide victims, or murder victims - it's to be expected that there'd be more than a few unsettling moments. While others are, well... you get the idea. That said, on with the highlights. From Chapter 2 - There's Misaki's whip, Kinui, when it feeds. Not only is it unsettling to look at, but the sound effect used for it gives the impression of flesh being dissolved and torn apart. And to think she wears it under her clothes... - Ghosts, in general, count for Kadotake. Think about it: From Chapter 4 - In one of the more mundane examples, a Serial Killer targeted women on their way home at night, by pretending to offer them a ride. One victim took him up on it, since he seemed like such a nice guy, 'til he drove her to a secluded area where he raped and beat her, before completely stripping her. After which, he bound her arms and legs and duct taped her mouth shut, before putting her in the trunk of his car. From there, he took her into the countryside, dragged her deep into the woods, and dumped her while he went back to his car to get a shovel and starts digging. All of which is shown from her perspective, right up to the moment he dragged her over to the grave he'd dug for her, dropped her in, and began to bury her alive. From chapter 9 - The double suicide at the beginning, between Mitsuru's younger sister-in-law and her friend. Mitsuru and Ai find their bodies mere moments after they had each received a text from "Yuo", encouraging them to commit suicide as well. - The necromancy session in which Nia mocks Fujiwara for stealing the panties off her corpse so he could masturbate with them. Then calls him pathetic, since he was jacking off with her underwear, while their father was getting the real thing, and shows him the proof by letting him see all the hickies on her neck, her breasts, and her thighs. - Once the session is over and they bring Ai inside so she can rest, Detective Gada takes Fujiwara out behind his family's shrine and beats him for ruining it. Gada's tone and expression are completely devoid of anger. He's that detached from the pain he was inflicting on him. - The dream sequence at the end of the chapter, which shows Fujiwara lounging on the steps of the shrine. The pair of guardian statues transform into his dead sister-in-law and her friend, then run up to him on all fours and give him fellatio. Which is pretty bizarre in itself. The nightmare fuel kicks in when they bite his penis off, which pulls out his colon, then they begin to eat him alive. Fujiwara snaps awake and thinks it's over until he sees Hijiri's spirit lying in bed next to him, which prompts him to cut himself to snap out of it. - Finally, there's the last two panels that close out the chapter: Fujiwara's got dozens of photos of Misaki on the ceiling of his bedroom. If his sister-in-law's accusations are true, and the dream sequence is any indication of his frame of mind, Fujiwara's got some serious mental and emotional issues. From Chapter 18 - The beginning of the "Ghost Dog" story, which closes out Vol.8. Imagine walking down your hallway at night, then being frozen with fear, 'cuz you can tell you're Being Watched. Then it attacks and bites your arm which feels so real, that it startles you awake making you think it was All Just a Dream... until you realize that IT WASN'T. - This becomes Kouichi's living hell, because he and his boss, Shyouda, killed Ms. Kuraki's guard dog, Meri so they could scam her out of her property. Yet Meri continues to guard her from beyond the grave and exacts vengeance by possessing Kouichi and strangling Shyouda with the same rope Shyouda had given him to tie around Meri's neck. Then Meri finishes what he started with Kouichi...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostTalkersDaydream
Gloomverse / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Panel 4. - Lemon kid's face here and \|\|when summoned by the Dark Overlord\|\|. - The things the lemon kids say in general, such as eating human flesh. - Cake Girl's plan and its consequences. \|\|She tortures Seaweed, makes Petunia crack her wand, and intended to sever Wallis. While the heroes escape with their lives, we are treated to her body after she was severed from her magic, completely devoid of color, while she's in a coma she likely won't ever wake from.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gloomverse
Goblin Slayer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Goblin Slayer already sets the tone by introducing its titular character in the wake of violence and blood. However, the events leading up to this introduction has sent both manga and light novel fans reeling from the sheer Gorn and Nausea Fuel involved, and never forgets to remind just how an inhuman race of sadists and rapists with a vehement hatred for humanity can inflict terror on the helpless. ## In General: - Every other goblin attack results in cute, pretty women being stripped, naked and completely helpless because they are being raped and tortured, sometimes killed. The victims are relatively nice looking but there's absolutely nothing titillating or arousing about this. When it happens right at the beginning of the first volume it's a dead-ringer that it's just going downhill from there. And expect this to be the norm; you'll see it a lot. - The goblins themselves are just pure nightmare fuel. If you think that they are going to be like your typical Standard Fantasy Setting goblin, you are dead wrong. These things might not be strong alone, but they often come in massive numbers, have literally no motivation to do anything other than Rape, Pillage, and Burn, can evolve and change tactics very quickly to make sure something that works against them once won't later on, and personality-wise they are just so venal that you'll actually just wish for them to go extinct already. Even worse, goblin quests are only worth a few dimes of pay so no veteran adventurer will take them, and people often assume they are weak because lone goblins can be taken care of even by children. The result? Unsuspecting rookies who underestimate goblins accept those quests only to get annihilated. Mind you, even steel-rank adventurer brigades are outright overwhelmed, raped and killed by these monstrosities. - Visually the goblins are just gratingly ugly, possibly worse than standard goblins just to emphasize how evil they are. It's especially jarring when you compare them to just about any other character or creature in the manga. They have very detailed and uncanny features as opposed to the standard seinen manga artstyle anything else has — it's almost like they aren't supposed to be here in the first place. Biologically they also aren't anywhere near pleasant, since they are often described to have this absolutely awful and repulsive odor and like to use their spit and feces to make poison for their daggers. All of these which are signs that these things aren't anything good to begin with. - The reproduction process of a goblin. They are exclusively male, so they'll take whatever women they can come across and rape them, which will result in goblin children no matter whatever the mother's race is. She will give birth to a new goblin in a span of three days and more will come after a week. If you're in that pitiful state, you only have an estimated 2 weeks of lifespan left. It can come across as incredibly disturbing even if you're into that type of stuff. - Still thinking about sparing goblin children because they look innocent enough? Please don't. Chapter 13/Episode 12 shows what happens when one spares goblin children: One female adventurer made the mistake of sparing a goblin kid and got bashed to death by said kid for her trouble. The next few pages then detail how said goblin survived in situations where others of his kind would die, to the point that he tricked and (seemingly) killed a rather high-level adventurer and took his axe. This goblin grows to become the Goblin Lord, the mastermind behind the attack on the farm in previous chapters. There's a reason Goblin Slayer never spares any goblins he meets, especially the Goblin Lord when he's begging in front of Priestess, because without his knowledge, the defenders would have been outmaneuvered and slaughtered. - GOBLIN SLAYER himself. After all, he is to the goblins what goblins are to humans. He has executed hundreds of goblins in his adventurer career and does so with emotionless, cold, lethal prejudice. And he has no plans of stopping anytime soon. His hyper-fixation on goblins, his almost emotionless nature, and loner tendencies have people say he's a complicated individual at best which is a drastic Understatement. ## Volume 1 - Goblins get creative when they decide to be vindictive little bastards. In the first chapter alone, we have: - The newbie Warrior being ripped to pieces when his sword is caught on the cave ceiling due to it being too long to effectively use in such tight quarters. One goblin triumphantly hoists a severed arm up in its hands (and in the anime we get to see it being cut off, complete with the Warrior's scream of agony). When the Priestess finally sees what was left of him, she immediately throws up. - Fighter being beaten and then gang-raped while she screams to no avail, her wails echoing throughout the cavern as Priestess can only watch helplessly, finally escaping while whispering "I'm so sorry" over and over. - The female mage being stabbed and molested while dying of poison made from the goblins' urine, feces, and poison herbs. Her ordeal is so horrible that she has to ask Goblin Slayer to just kill her. He obliges. - Thanks to Goblin Slayer's intervention, the girls held prisoner within the nest are finally freed. The central focus is on Fighter however, freshly stripped nude and sporting glazed-over eyes. A discarded plaything, limp as a ragdoll, all the while looking... moist. She's clearly suffered a Heroic BSoD that she's not coming back from. - The entire scene about the goblin children in general. Never mind connecting the dots behind their existence, Goblin Slayer just slowly approaches them, eyes blazing behind his visor with cold-blooded intent. Priestess, sensing his bloodlust, can only muster a feeble defense for the babies. He just casually refutes her, raising his club without hesitation... and it cuts to him muttering his goblin count, armor and club soaked in blood. - Think of it this way: Mere seconds were the factor separating Priestess from suffering like her female companions. Even months afterwards under Goblin Slayer's guidance, she has never forgotten. - What's worse is what Priestess says in the aftermath, "this is a common occurrence". What happened to the Greenhorn Party is not a one-off incident created by three fool-hardy beginners coming together. It happens a lot. - Then there was what happened to the all-female team of Adventurers who got caught in the Elven Fortress. - The Light Novel goes into details stating that the leader of the group died last, after watching the goblins burn the Wizard at the stake, shoot the Ranger to death with her own bow, and then stuff the entrails into the mouth of the Monk that tried to bite her own tongue in a suicide attempt. They then spent three days and nights violating the Knight while torturing her and then mangling her body to the extent she could hardly have been seen as human, before tossing her into the river so the villagers knew what happened. - The manga shows the goblins in the process of violating the Knight, who is dead at this point, and the others suffering the above-mentioned fates. The next and last time they are shown, they are just listless corpses that quickly disappear behind roaring flames, wiping away the evidence as if nothing happened in the first place. - Alternatively in the manga version, Noble Knight doesn't look any worse than any other girl that was captured and raped by goblins but are still alive, and she had no injuries that looked particularly fatal, so a manga reader might assume that she is still alive. The only actual confirmation of her death is the experienced Goblin Slayer assuming that too much time has passed for there to be a survivor. If one truly thought she is still alive at this point, it does give the bleak implication that Goblin Slayer may have accidentally burned alive a broken and traumatized woman, and never realized it since, as stated above, the roaring flames wiped away all the evidence. - Chapter 6 of the manga adds yet another to the list of goblin cruelty: In an old fortress a horde appropriated as a nest, there is one room designated to be the goblin's waste heap. Within the refuse, excrement, and other unmentionables is a captured elf strapped to a wall, completely exposed. Precisely half her whole body, down the very symmetrical line, is scarred and welted, with the other half left alone purely just for kicks. - Chapter 12 establishes that goblins have the capacity to use Human Shields. Captured, battered, hardly-breathing women (and children in the Light Novel), bleeding from various cuts and bruises, tied to wooden boards in uncomfortable and humiliating positions with their limbs contorting at odd angles. Some of the victims appear distressingly young. And the horde attacking Cow Girl's farm possess enough girls to form an entire row. - The Goblin Lord notes that these women are merely the expendable ones, the ones that no longer have use. Besides whatever in the hell that could possibly mean, there are still many more back at its nest for their continued purpose as breeding machines. - The Goblin Lord leading the Farm Siege carries an unusually beautiful battleaxe. His backstory in Chapter 13 explains how he got it. A warrior stormed his nest, hacking goblins left and right. The Lord disappeared into the back, only to face the warrior while holding a naked woman hostage with a flamberge. Before the adventurer could act, the goblin tossed her into his arms, and proceeded to skewer both of them with the sword, sporting a most malicious, gleeful, ear-to-ear grin as he did so. The battleaxe was a trophy to that terrible moment. - This takes on a sadder tone as it is implied the warrior attacked the nest because he was trying to save her in the first place. Both of them seemingly died in that goblin pit in complete despair. Year One however reveals the Barbarian clearly survived, albeit with a scar, which gives just a little bit of hope for the woman as well. - When the Goblin Lord catches sight of Priestess, he's delighted, because he wanted to hear some screams. He then expresses an intention to eat her organs and rape her to death. When she casts her Protection spell, he changes his mind and decides to torture her in various ways while using her in the way goblins tend to. When he tries his I Surrender, Suckers, we learn he's done this many times before to other female warriors. ## Volume 2 - We meet the Sword Maiden. She's described as a very beautiful and powerful woman, a former Gold-ranked Adventurer revered for taking down an Evil God and saving the world. However, there are scars lining her body, and she hides her eyes behind a black cloth because they were burned blind. What fearsome creature did this to her? Goblins. Everything they normally did to any other woman, they did to her when she was a fresh rookie and left her terrified of them, in spite of being one of the strongest people in the world. - Chapter 22 has the Labyrinth quest run afoul the moment Goblin Slayer failed to take the Goblin Champion by surprise. He's consequently hit with so much force his body flies across the room, crashes into a coffin, and shatters the solid stone just as easily as his bones. Because of this, Priestess loses focus on her Protection miracle, causing all hell to break loose - Lizard Priest, Dwarf Shaman, and High Elf Archer are easily overwhelmed under a sea of goblins, who proceed to tear off High Elf Archer's clothes as she struggles in vain. Worst of all, Priestess is left alone with the Champion in a disturbingly familiar Call-Back to the first chapter, right down to the poor girl pissing herself again... except there's no one to save her this time. The monster proceeds to rip her shoulder out with its teeth. - This moment is adapted in episode 7 of the anime, and Priestess's scream of pain is chilling, and echoes through the scene for a good few minutes. - The manga version is still incredibly nightmarish as well, carrying over into Chapter 22. Priestess practically goes limp from shock, her eyes are dull, and she has blood, snot, and tears trailing down her face, heavily averting Beauty Is Never Tarnished. She's so out of it that when the Champion takes a further bite out of her shoulder, all she can do is quietly grunt in agony. - All of this is made even more horrifying when you remember that Priestess is only 15 when this happens. She's still . just a child - As incredible as it is to see Goblin Slayer force himself up and literally rise out of the grave in Chapter 23, the manga saw fit to give us a clear view of his hand as he pulls out a stamina potion. Fingers should not bend that way. - The Goblin Slayer himself ascends into something all too terrifying. For being broken, battered, smashed and nearly gored, he still rips out a Goblin Champion's eye with his bare, shattered hand, and in the midst of tearing its throat apart with an improvised garrote of hair that was even cutting his own hands. It's at this point that he rises from being an obsessed Anti-Hero to almost seeming like an Ax-Crazy, Goblin-goring Animated Armor that treads the line of being Ambiguously Human (though it's really just being a raw Determinator). Thankfully, this is enough to cause the Goblins to flee and leave his party be, which lets him cool down - and pass out from his near-mortal injures. ## Volume 5 - The party find the stakeout point where Noble Fencer's party had set up camp, which was weeks after they were no longer heard from again. While their likelihood of survival is obvious to everyone, it doesn't stop the actual discovery of a half-elf's rotted, torn corpse from being as nauseating as it is tragic. - Goblin Slayer studies a corpse, and is shocked to find it's the same goblin he shot down with the loosened arrowhead back at the town square. The wound that should have been difficult to heal naturally has been restored back to full function; something up there with the rest of the goblin horde is capable of healing magic. ## Year one Volume 1 - The first chapter of the Gaiden Manga shows just how Goblin Slayer's village was destroyed while he was forced to hide. Not only were the men killed first, but the women were stripped and raped while screaming for help, including the younger ones, while he was forced to hide and listen as it happened to his sister. Then, when he comes out after the majority had left, he finds that corpses everywhere (including those of Cow Girl's parents), some missing pieces of their body while hanged with their eyes wide in terror, before nearly being killed until he was saved by a passing Rhea. - Near the end of Chapter 7 of the GS Gaiden: Year 1 manga, a party whom Goblin Slayer had temporarily worked with went to explore a mine to hunt blobs (as the monk mentioned that doing so would earn them a good portion of money). What gives this a spot in the Nightmare Fuel category isn't the blobs or goblins, for once. Instead, it's a gigantic worm creature known as a "Rock Eater" that not only looks terrifying enough just for one page, but has also devoured one of the party members in a gruesome manner - only her face (with her left eye... well, punctured) and leg can be seen peeking from its maw. - The Rock Eater is back! (Year 1 chapter 12) This time making its flashy entrance by devouring a scout's upper half, and then reappearing for real to scare the god-knows-how-many adventurers enlisted to hunt it down shitless. Thankfully, we know that Heavy Swordsman, Spearman, Witch, and Female Knight survive the events. - Year 1 Chapter 13 averts the typical "blobs melting clothes" hentai-humour in a very terrifying way by HAVING A BLOB MELT AN ADVENTURER'S FACE ALIVE WHILE HE SCREAMS IN ANGUISH FOR HELP. Even worse, when a paladin casts a Miracle Light spell, it's revealed that there are a lot of blobs residing on the ceiling above them. - In the same chapter, we see Goblin Slayer defeating the goblins he lured in at ease. For the moment it looks awesome....until one of them shoots him in the back of the head with a slingshot, leaving a stinger ending for those who haven't read the original manga or novel itself and making them wonder what's gonna happen to the village next... - Year 1 Chapter 14 is rather close to being GS's darkest hour. While it was thankfully revealed that he wasn't knocked out cold because of his helmet, he went after the goblin (who had ran out of the fenced village) due to his "Must Kill Goblin" mindset. The result? He didn't realize it was luring him for a surprise attack from several other goblins who hadn't entered. He was then constantly beaten up by the few goblins until he was presumably out cold. While it isn't exactly a nightmare fuel, the very thought that Goblin Slayer was taken down that easily can be an extremely unpleasant thought... - Year 1 Chapter 27 reveals the existence of a threat that fans of Warhammer would be familiar with, the Skaven. This means that the existence of the people of Goblin Slayer is just one ambitious ratman away from being extinguished, with the saving grace being that if they're anything like the original, then they would be too busy backstabbing each other.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoblinSlayer
Gift From The Princess Who Brought Sleep / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Margarita's inner monologues. From her sociopathic detachment as she describes her plans to poison children and describing the deaths of those she's already killed, to her state of disconnect and confusion when trying to recall basic facts from her childhood, to her final deranged entries where she simply repeats over and over "I am the Sleep Princess". - The character of \|\|the fourth member of Pere Noel: Fourth Shadow, Mayrana Blossom\|\|. She and Julia are the co-founders of Pere Noel, and \|\|Mayrana\|\| is obsessed with Julia, to the point where she \|\|had Seventh Magician use the Venom Sword to make her look almost exactly like Julia and act as Julia's decoy.\|\| There's an illustration of her \|\|maniacally gesturing at the writing all over her walls\|\|, taken from a very tense moment in the novel when Elluka and Gumillia confront \|\|Mayrana\|\| in her own home, upon which she reveals that the Room Full of Crazy is the result of her writing runes all over the house in order to specifically seal Elluka's Magic Music powers. A battle results in which \|\|Mayrana\|\| demonstrates terrifying use of fire magic, and very nearly defeats Elluka and Gumillia. - And how she is defeated in the battle just makes it even worse. Gumillia forces her outside, into a bed of greeonian plateau roses (which are the same plant from which the Gift poison is derived), and uses plant magic in order to \|\|make the roses rip her body apart with their thorns to the point where she resembles the foliage surrounding her.\|\| Dear Held, Gumillia can be horrifying. - After Margarita's suicide, where the audience learns that \|\|it was all a lie, Margarita's entire existence. She's been dead since infancy and the girl that we've all been watching this whole time was a doll (well, Eve Moonlit to be precise,) pulling an illusion on everyone it came in contact with. And it wasn't the first time that we, as well as the other characters, were tricked like this.\|\| - \|\|Mikulia died while giving birth to her son, prompting Eve to take over. Platonic too, though the audience doesn't learn what happened to the real girl. It was all Eve\|\|. Paranoia Fuel indeed. - The illustration of the reveal scene, with \|\|Elluka's hands on the doll's neck as it placidly smiles up at her, while an illusion of Eve's face laughs maniacally\|\|. - From the novel's bonus story, there's something disturbing about having a casual conversation with a man who's holding up a severed head. Granted, he needed the head so Seventh Magician could make his face look like the right one, but still.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GiftFromThePrincessWhoBroughtSleep
God Loves, Man Kills / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Stryker in general. He's not an immortal Social Darwinist like Apocalypse, just an ordinary person whipping up hate, but his being so realistic is what makes him scary. - The flashback to how Stryker came to hate mutants. His wife gave birth after a car accident, and one look at her caused Stryker to see the infant boy as a monster, and he killed him with a knife. When she asked about what happened to their child, he broke her neck. When he learned about mutants, he realized his son was a mutant and felt his wife birthing one was a message from God that mutants were the work of the devil, and that he was chosen to lead the fight in exterminating mutants. - The brutal murder of Mark and Jill and their hanged corpses on the school swing are frighteningly similar to the lynchings of blacks that were carried out in the century after the Civil War, especially as Mark and Jill are themselves black. Incidentally, in 1981, the year before God Loves, Man Kills was published, a 19-year-old black man named Michael Donald was murdered by two KKK members in Alabama. - The brainwashing of Xavier with nightmarish visions of the X-Men crucifying him. - After one of the failed attempts, we learn that he has been subjected to the attempts for the past fifteen hours. - When the captured Purifiers refuse to talk, Wolverine debuts what would be one of his signature moves. Putting his fist under the guy's face, he pops the rightmost claw, then his left. "Wanna go for three?" - When the guy still won't talk, Magneto volunteers. The man snaps "I'm not afraid of you, mutie!" and we get a close-up panel of Magneto, mostly in shadow, giving him a chilling expression that cries out "oh?" - Cut to a panel of Magneto using his powers to create a torture rack that stretches the man out, complete with circled manacles on each finger and toe. The narration indicates Magneto had to do this for a while before the Purifier talked...and then he did it to the other three.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodLovesManKills
God Eater / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The God Eater series is set in a World Half Empty where humanity is fighting a futile struggle against a never-ending threat, so of course it has its fair share of Nightmare Fuel. Warning: All spoilers below are unmarked, as per Nightmare Fuel policy! ## Background Setting - Before we go into detail, keep in mind the first game starts on 2071 AD, when the first Aragami appears in 2050 AD. Yes, merely twenty years the Earth turns into a wasteland as it's known in the main game. - And before the first God Arc makes it into combat (thus the first God Eaters), Aragamis already run through the Earth for six years. Imagine the absolute horror that humankind faced in the blank period: facing an enemy that cannot be stopped in any way. It isn't some kind of Zombie Apocalypse we saw in the media: as bad and numerous as zombies, at least they can be killed by anyone who armed proper; against Aragami? Not a chance. - Imagine how bad the world has become when circuses (beastmasters), seasonal flowers and even dogs become rare sights, as Resurrection revealed. - Oracle Cells. As of Rage Burst, it's still not clear what, or when, created the these cells (and subsequently Aragamis), be it human's creation, or the Earth's answer to human beings' acts. And they eat up everything they come in contact with, including radiation, so not only humans are in danger, so is every other living thing on Earth......though ironically, since some of the Aragamis manage to adapt photosynthesis to compensate the loss of plants, the world is not doomed immediately. For now. - The only thing that can counter or eliminate Oracle Cells are, obviously, other Oracle Cells, thus the creation of Bias Factor, and subsequently God Arcs and God Eaters. The problem is, to use the God Arcs they need to inject Oracle Cells into their body, with only their bracelet to contain them from running wild with your body. If you lose that by any means (mostly in combat), Body Horror WILL ensue on your body and, as shown in Rage Burst, must be executed to prevent them becoming another Aragami. Lindow was a bit more fortunate than others, but he still undergoes quite a bit of shapeshifting for life. - God Arcs, on the other hand, aren't something that can be picked up on the fly to fight the Aragami. Each God Arc is basically tailor-made for the single God Eater, so if someone like the main character in Burst picks up someone else's God Arc, chances are that the Oracle Cells inside that God Arc will devour that person instead; the aforementioned bracelet won't help in any way. - The fact that humanity is fighting a losing battle against the Aragami is Nightmare Fuel alone. Humankind can barely live in the fortresses built by Fenrir, which are under constant attack from all kinds of Aragami. But the fortress walls will (eventually) fall, leading to waves of Aragami rushing into the complex; or by an even greater stroke of misfortune, they'll sneak into the fort and wreck havoc. People live in fear that they may be killed at any moment, any time; and while human resources are limited, the Aragamis just keep coming without number and without end. - And why humans are still doomed even they finally have God Eaters to deal with the threat? Because the Aragami threat is literally endless: When they are killed, their Oracle cells inside disperse into the air or into the earth, and later they reborn somewhere else, sometimes adapted to tactics or attacks that killed them before. That means for any aragami, Death Is Not Permanent, and they simply get stronger. - In case it wasn't apparent already, becoming a God Eater is a very dangerous job; one mistake and your life is over. But while Fenrir can test any possible candidate for the potential to become a God Eater, it doesn't mean everyone can become one: not only can a person die from the test, it's revealed in side materials that there are age limits; once it's reached then they must retire from frontline combat. As shown in the Episode 1 from the Anime, when things turn sour at that time, chances are that few God Eaters have to face a large horde that they can't handle... And if a Bolivian Army Ending ensues, the whole complex (and everyone inside) is as good as gone. - And it's later revealed that not all of the humans live in the forts; Outer Ghettoes, as they are known, are for those who arent rich, affluent or useful enough, and they certainly don't receive as much love from the Fenrir. Imagine how miserable their lives must be......And Episode 10 of the Anime really shows. With the lack of resources unlike those under the administration of Fernir, it's a total Scavenger World in the wilderness where a small fever can potentially become a terminal illness. And that's not accounting the threat of roaming Aragami threat which can be anywhere; problem is, Fernir usually doesn't give a damn about wanderers in the outside world so, in case you're facing an upcoming Aragami attack without a fortunate appearance of God Eaters, you are as good as dead. - Even with all that in mind, with humans being humans, they still do stupid things even when facing the coming storm ahead. For instance (according to side materials), just a month after the Aegis event (between the first game's ending and Burst), there was a terrorist attack inside the Far East Branch. Let me repeat: facing Aragami outside the fortress walls, there was a terrorist attack inside the wall. And that's not accounting for someone like Rachel whose actions mean absolutely zero good for an already-bleak world... - And if the scientists are correct, there is the Devouring Apocalypse, which will inevitably come and consume all things on Earth until the planet is a lifeless barren rock. No one is sure what happen afterwards, but one thing is certain: humanity will go extinct afterwards. There is no way of stopping it, only delaying it. The players may have stopped Shio and Julius from becoming the Singularity to trigger the Apocalypse, but with the introduction of the Red Rain, a natural mechanism meant to create new Singularities, no one can say for certain when the danger of the next Apocalypse will come to pass, and if anyone will be able to delay it from happening. This is Johannes von Schicksal's motivation for starting his Ark Project because, as he perceived, this is the only way to save humanity from total extinction. It really puts into perspective just how hopeless things are when the only way to save humanity is to sacrifice the Earth to the Aragami. - As if the condition in the first two entries are not bad enough, God Eater 3 reveals the situation has turned out for the much worse. To name a few: - Almost all of the world are covered by Ashlands by the time the game starts, which contains different kind of Oracle Cells altogether that makes the area not safe even for Adaptive God Eaters. In fact, it is so dangerous that humans are now forced to live in underground ports. - The new type of God Eaters are not treated like heroes like their predecessors, instead they are treated as slaves with no value outside combat with little to no freedom because how close they are to Aragami and due to the resource scarcity. With few exceptions like Hilda's crew, they treat the AGEs as slightly better than expendable garbage, with many of them being forced to live in cells with inhumane condition. - The conversion process to AGE. Not only you are basically being forcibly taken captive, but the conversion process involves artificially inducing Ashblight corruption to the candidate's body before administering the bias factor. We get to see this happening to the protagonist in the opening (including how the veins in their arms turned purple from the corruption as they writhe in pain), who was only a child. After the process is completed, while the protagonists of previous games proceed to stand tall as they firmly grip their new God Arc, the protagonist is left on their knees on the floor as they struggle to adjust to the changes their body just underwent. - The new type of threat, Ash Aragami, are pretty much invulnerable with no known measure to combat against it because they are able to Devour and corrupt those with Oracle Cells. The Hounds (protagonist's crew) are pretty much the first ones who manage to win against them, and even then, it is only possible the first time around because Phym is there to assist them. - Think the terrorist attack aforementioned is bad enough? The game introduces the existence of extremist AGE movement around halfway through the game, which basically existed in the first place because of how horrible the treatment against AGEs are. This makes them sympathetic to some degree, but later in the game the situation has gotten so bad to the point it escalates into all-out war against Gleipnir, with some of them becoming what basically amounts to suicide bombers by triggering artificial Ash Storms using special device installed in their armlet in desperation to protect their loved ones. If anything, humanity is just as responsible for their destruction as the Aragami. - The worst part of it, probably, is how at this point humanity has descended so low that many of them are basically willing to do anything to reclaim whatever is left of humanity, or make the best of it for their own ends. The official stance of Gleipnir is that they see existence of AGEs as being Necessarily Evil, but sometimes you can't help but to wonder if the inhumane treatment is actually necessary. And that is not getting to the downright amoral experiments conducted by Ports such as Baran... ## Aragami-related - As mentioned above, Aragamis are completely impervious to anything without an Oracle Cell. Not only that, they're able to slowly yet surely evolve, adapt to different terrain and sometimes, become God Eater themselves. This can be seen on-screen in the Anime: Zygotes slowly evolve down the Sariel line, and even one of them can give a hard time to individuals. Also, if the Promotion Video is any indication, 2065 (5 years before the main series) doesn't have anything bigger than a Kongou, then we look at the game...... - While some of the Aragami looks like animals we know (the Kongou line is monkeys/gorillas, the Vajra line is tigers, etc.), some of the Aragami look absolutely outlandish and bizarre. The Quadriga line, for example, looks like amalgams of elephants, bulls and most importantly, TANKS AND MISSILES. How can you beat something like that? - Then we have Deusphages, Aragamis that are difficult to hunt and should be avoided at all costs because of the threat they pose. Susano'o in particular deserves a special mention, because it's believed to specifically hunt down God Eaters. - As if normal Aragamis don't look (and become even more) terrifying, the new "Sensing" species in 2 takes them up to eleven: Marduk may a mere Palette Swap to Garm, but it already has the capability to push all surrounding Aragami into rage, Nyx-Alpha is impervious to all melee attacks, and so on. These guys are rare, but even one of them leading a horde is the last thing Fenrir wants to see. The Return of the Defense Unit DLC shows how bad can things become when hordes of these thing lead the attack against Fenrir. - Then inside the Helix Tree, a new type of Aragami "God-Fusion" appears, and they're even stranger than others because they fuse God Arcs directly onto their bodies. It's like with Susano'o; their outlook turns them from living abominations into something that comes straight out from Terminator movies. - In-game, the Ouroboros line is probably one of the easiest bosses in the game, despite its reputation of being a mountain-sized Aragami; but in the Episode 3 of the Anime, we finally have a glimpse of it: "mountain-sized" is an understatement. Given that a normal Large-sized Aragami needs a whole team to be properly defeated, God only knows how Fenrir handles one of these...... - The Dyaus Pita looks quite creepy with its realistic human face. And its chilling Evil Laugh in the anime makes it seem as if Aragami are just enjoying bloodlust for no specific reason at all. And in its introduction in episode 5, it delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle not only to some Vajra that were attacking the heroes and some civilians, but also the heroes themselves. Even series protagonist Lenka is completely powerless, and near the end of the episode, the most he can do his barely carry away Alisa for a short distance before he succumbs to the wounds, and utters "God" as if to ask for a divine intervention. Made more chilling by the somewhat serene song being played as Dyaus Pita kills Vajra and people left and right. - Equally as terrifying, if not more so, is the Prithvi Mata, basically an ice variant of the Vajra with a more feminine looking face. What really makes this Aragami so unsettling is that it looks like its jaw is broken and hanging open. - The anime depicts a very gruesome scene in an Episode 11 flashback with Soma's birth. It also shows the progression of an oracle cell infection in a person, then quickly goes full tilt on the gore. The doctors try to deliver Soma via c-section but the moment the scalpel touches Aisha, the operation room explodes into gore. Similar to a previous scene in the anime, oracle cell colonies react to harm. The gruesome implication however, is that Aisha's infection had progressed enough that the oracle cells in her body perceived even her uninfected portions as a part of itself. In the aftermath, Aisha is reduced to a messy pile of oracle cell flesh because merely being cut accelerated the infection within her, turning her into a proto-Aragami that's basically a loose collection of cells. - As revealed in Code Vein, \|\|Even vampiric monstrosities like The Lost don't stand a chance against Aragami, as some of the revenants that managed to get past the mist that keeps the Aragami at bay are slaughtered like animals. It's even creepier since the Aragami that slaughters them is the above mentioned Dyaus Pita.\|\| - The Dromi from the third game. It already looks like the eldritch bastard child of a Deviljho and Ukonvasara, but let's take it a step further by giving it some of the most potent ice powers in the series, an unrestrained bloodlust and arguably the most terrifying Devour Attack in the form of the T-Rex chase scene, except there's no vehicle to save you. Get hit, and what was already a horrifying situation takes a turn for the worse as now it has access to a hailstorm, ice shockwaves and an icicle machine gun! It is easily one of the hardest foes in the series to the point where horror stories of its carnage are well-known across the God Eater community. Unlike Crimson Orochi however, this absolute monster is mandatory! - It also has a lovely little quirk that was foreshadowed a while before its debut: It exclusively hunts and eats AGEs! Yeah, the absolute powerhouses that make up the strongest God Eaters in the current age are its prey. - Even its boss theme sounds less like a showdown against a powerful foe and more like a struggle to survive against an archosaurian abomination hellbent on destroying everything you hold dear and reduce you to nothing but a memory and Oracle Cell dust.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodEater
Godannar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Mira's death in the Action Prologue at the hands of the Mimetic Beasts is not only sad, but also disturbing. - Anna falling to her demise when she is about to be evacuated. - Goh's Unstoppable Rage following his wife's assumed demise in Gakazono High's attack caught some off-guard. - Goh gets brutally injured by 16's spikes in "Shizuru's Comeback". - In "A Girl from the Sky", the Mimetic Beast destroys the shuttle and attacks Cosmo Base, both leading to the deaths of Lou's uncle and father. Later on, Cosmo Base undergoes a collision course for Earth. - Shizuru's death at the hands of the Mimetic Beasts at the end of "Those Who Have Departed". - Anyone who is infected by the Insania Virus can cause them to go insane with rage, become mutated and eventually die: - Max's influence cause him to go insane to the point that he grabs Mira, destroys Dannar Base and eventually getting mutated.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Godannar
God of War / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Considering the series is about one man carving a path of carnage and death throughout the world of Greek Mythology, there's nightmares aplenty. Especially caused by the man in question. - How about we start with Kratos himself? That this single petulant, Psychopathic Man Child is willing to essentially destroy reality itself purely in a fit of pique is bad enough. The cruelties he inflicts on the at least decently-innocent and monsters alike are the stuff of nightmares. Worst of all? You have to play as him. - Even worse is that Kratos himself is shown to be horrified and disturbed by the atrocities he commits, and when the dust settles he can only mutter What Have I Become? in horror over the depths his pursuit of vengeance have brought him. - You'd think that running around as pretty much gaming's ultimate badass, who stumbles upon Moments of Awesome with every step, and hacked his way out of hell three times, would excuse one from this. You'd be dead wrong. Ares decides to Mind Rape Kratos by having him fall to the same church where he slaughtered his family, with them still alive in it, and pale(r) copies of Kratos emerging from holes in the ground to do them in. Fighting against these true monsters as they seem to spawn endlessly, your family screaming in terror, the numbers overwhelming you as the church begins to break apart in the void. At the end, when after you have defended them to your last, your chained blades are ripped from your body, and used to kill them anyway. - And if you lose in this fight, Kratos laments his failure before presumably being torn apart by his copies. - The hydra's roar in the first game. Jesus Christ. - In the first God Of War, in order to proceed, Kratos must "escort" a trapped, live, apparently innocent soldier to a room, where he is sacrificed to open a door, which is bad enough, in and of itself. - The worst part is he's begging for his life the whole time and his pleas get more and more frantic and desperate the further you progress. When you finally reach the chamber, he's crying out for the gods to save him only to be burned alive shortly afterwards. Curiously, the preceding scene seems to imply that even Kratos isn't happy about having to do this. - For bonus horror, the soldier in question is voiced by none other than Rob Paulsen. That's right, Pinky/Yakko/Raphael/Carl Wheezer/Max is begging you for mercy while you (probably a late teen or twenty-something at the time of the game's release) kill your own childhood. - For those unwilling to murder said soldier, the scene is changed in the PAL version, replacing the trapped Athenian with a zombie soldier. Although this variation gives Kratos a truly creepy smile when he realizes what he has to do. - The Colossus of Rhodes in the second game. Zeus steals Kratos' godly powers and imbues it into the great Colossus, animating the gigantic statue and seemingly gives it a monstrous intellect, enough to make it zero in on Kratos and chase him across the whole island. Its incredibly disturbing to see the blank, frozen face of the Colossus peer in through the windows of the buildings as it searches for you. This is especially bad if you happen to have a fear of statues. Its even worse the times it breaks its blank facial expression and screams. Imagine a Weeping Angel that is a 100 feet high. - Clotho, the Fate who spins the threads of life, from God Of War II is creepy. For one thing, her lair is dark and ominous, as opposed to the rest of the Temple of the Fates, which is bright and majestic. Plus, her lair is strewn about with threads in a way that is reminiscent of cobwebs. As for Clotho herself, she's a silkworm monster so massive she even makes Jabba the Hutt look like Calista Flockhart. Her skin is a sickly dark gray and zombie-like, covered with disturbingly lesion or blister-like growths. To top it all off, she has multiple breasts and spindly little arms sticking out of her body. And last but not least, there's that little speech she makes when you first see her: "It is through my threads that all life is born. You must not tamper with destiny, Kratos. You will destroy everything!" Kratos may not be afraid of anything, but we're not so lucky. - Ghost Of Sparta give us Scylla: Let's see: a giant part-shark part-squid part-narwhal part-crab monster which lurks in the water and has a penchant for sneak attacks and will chase Kratos even in an active volcano to kill him. The part where you fall into the water and the first thing you see is this giant monster rushing towards you with gaping maws open is quite scary. - Hades. Both the character in God of War 3 and the place itself in the first game: navigate through platforms made of flesh, bones and blood. - Alecto's sea monster form. There is nothing more frightening than seeing a monster in the pitch black of the ocean swimming towards you with its mouth ready to devour you. - Aegaeon the Hecatonchires in Ascension is having a pretty tough time. Bound in rock, hollowed out to make a prison dedicated to torture, and slowly infested/disfigured one tiny bit at a time, he's probably rethinking his decision to break his blood oath about now. - Hell, most of the bosses in Ascension, which could easily be renamed "Body Horror Parade". Castor and Pollux are reimagined as Siamese twin mutants, instead of zombies the Furies use parasitical arthropods that hideously mutate their victims, the Furies themselves. It's like someone decided to remake The Thing (1982) in classical Greece. - Actually, Pollux is made to look like \|\|Kuato\|\|. The game's achievement for killing him is called \|\|"QUAID!!!"\|\| - Many of the deaths in God of War III are the bloodiest: - The beatdown of Poseidon is given from HIS perspective, so through most of it you're treated to a close-up of the page picture: Kratos's psychotically furious expression as he pummels the Ocean God to a bloody pulp before gouging out his eyes, snapping his neck and tossing his lifeless body from Olympus. - Following directly on from the above, taking his terrified, beautiful young widow and forcing her to hold open a door by means of two nearby giant cogwheels: which then pull her in and gorily crush her between them. Made even worse by the fact she hadn't done anything to deserve being so thoroughly desecrated. - Kratos ripping off Helios' head with his bare hands... * shudders* . Oh, and if that wasn't enough, Helios' head is promptly used as a macabre lantern by Kratos. One that screams in pain whenever you use it, meaning that Helios is at least somewhat alive and cognizant. - Kratos using the Nemean Cestus to literally beat Hercules' face in until it bursts. - Hermes dies from the shock of getting both of his legs cut off specifically so that Kratos could take his boots. The worst part how after Kratos cuts off the first leg, he starts slowly marching toward Hermes, who's desperately trying to crawl from him and begging the Spartan to leave him alone. - The fight with Cronos is filled to the brim with Gorn. Cronos makes the grave mistake of swallowing Kratos alive. Which gives Kratos the opportunity to cut his stomach open with the Blade of Olympus. That part just leaves Cronos in horrible pain. Kratos busts open the giant stone in the titans belly button and it gets jettisoned into Cronoss chin. Worse, he cant get it out because of the chains attached to it and his wrists. This still doesn't kill him. Kratos stabs him in the forehead with the Blade of Olympus. * That* finally kills him, though he spends several seconds staggering around, screaming in agony and desperately trying to pull the stone spike from his chin before he finally topples over dead. - Cronos' body provides plenty of gore as well - his chains have been attached for so long that they've carved deep, bloody furrows into the flesh of his wrists from the friction of them rubbing against them, and his body is covered in blisters stuffed with walking corpses and fleshless Cyclopses. - Zeus' death. Kratos tosses the Blades of Exile aside in favour savagely beating Zeus to death, to the point where the screen is completely stained in his blood. And even then Kratos is still beating him how ever long the player wants. - As horrible as the Gods are, each one is a Cosmic Keystone. Every time a god dies, something horrible happens. Poseidon? The ocean levels rise to flood the world except for the highest mountaintops. Hades? The dead wander the world aimlessly. Helios? The sun is blocked by perpetual storm clouds. Hermes? A plague of biting insects bursts from his evaporating body and infects everyone with disease. Hera? All plant life in the world withers. Zeus? The whole world falls into complete chaos. And Kratos giveth roughly no shits. - You know the horrible brutality Kratos inflicts on his enemies? The horrible part is that almost all of them deserved it, especially the bosses. If they aren't horrendously threatening, rampaging, mindless monsters, they are cruel, petty gods or arrogant "heroes". The worst part of the world of God Of War isn't what Kratos turned it into, its that everyone he killed along the way absolutely refused to accept any responsibility for what happened. Ares, Zeus, The Fates, the Furies, all of them are just as responsible as Kratos. - The games show just what kind of world would realistically exist under the Greek Gods of Olympus. It is a world where no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your destiny through any normal means (\|\|though Kratos did it by killing those who controlled his destiny\|\|); giant monsters are constantly shown throughout the land slaughtering enough bystanding folk; and human beings are completely under the dominion of sociopathic and divine beings who see them as little more than ants. - A few of the songs on the soundtrack fit the bill, like Battle in the Bog with its oppressive horns and ominous whispers, or the Jaws-like Rage of Sparta, which plays when Kratos has an Olympian at his (non-existent) mercy and is about to kill them in horrendous, agonizing fashion. - In the third game, when \|\|Hephaestus tries to kill you\|\| by slamming his glowing hot chisel down on you, fail the quick-time event and see what happens. \|\|He gleefully grinds you to a pulp to save his creation Pandora from being part of, an averagely, semi-collateral damage.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodOfWar
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero has incredible amounts of Nightmare Fuel for a series that's retrospectively known for softness and light. One doesn't even need to invoke Fridge Horror, though that adds considerably to the picture. - Any story with the synthoids in it. There's Body Horror when they melt, but the mere fact that they are used to impersonate Joes and their family members is much worse. Imagine being beaten and nearly killed by the wonderful man you love? Or your school-age daughter? - Cobra has access to mind control technology, and use it liberally. In other words, they practice industrialized Mind Rape. In one episode, they nearly forced the family members of six Joes to kill them. - And in another episode, they forced a captured pacifist scientist to build a weapon of mass destruction for them. He resisted fiercely until the treatment was complete; afterward, he worked equally diligently to complete it. When Cobra Commander congratulated him on his work, he said nothing, but stared emptily into the camera with silent tears running down his cheeks. - In the aptly-titled "Nightmare Assault", Cobra used remote Mind Control to give the Joes debilitating nightmares and hallucinations. Imagine a Psycho Psychologist who can sit a continent away, read your subconscious mind and slowly drive you mad with your own worst fears... The base descended into borderline outright insanity through sleep deprivation and mental fatigue. - Lowlight's own nightmare about the junkyard rats is much scarier than anything the villain devises, the moreso in that it enacts an actual childhood trauma. Mainframe's dream that he's turning into an android is nasty too, albeit very brief. Then there's Hawk's nightmare where all his friends' vehicles blow up and they don't parachute out. Hawk parachutes out... then finds that he's falling into the mouth of a cobra the size of a building. - Perhaps even more horrifying is the fact that Lowlight finds Cobra's induced nightmares easier to deal with than what he goes through every night. By all accounts, he's had nightmares every night since he was a child, and the nightmare he received from Cobra was the first one he ever had that had a good ending. How terrible must his nightmares be that a life-or-death battle against gigantic fire-breathing cobras is far more manageable? - And besides high-tech mind control, there's still plenty of old-fashioned Cold-Blooded Torture. Torture with electric shocks? Threatening the lives of loved ones? Gaslighting? Torturing an arachnophobic girl with spiders? All depicted onscreen. Possibly not quite as horrible as some of the more fantastic things, but given more weight by the fact that these things can actually happen in real life. - Cobra also perform experiments on humans. Some are turned into Super Soldiers and some... are turned into other things. - There's the fate of the workers in the Cobra mechanical sea serpent in one episode. They are supervised by robots and AI, who run them like machinery. Any slowing of pace is punished with cattle prods, and workers may rest only at irregular intervals when the computer commands it. Nothing is said about eating. The implication is that this is a death camp, where workers are simply used up and replaced. When the Joes arrive, the inmates are rather traumatized, obviously. - And let's not forget the reeducation facility at Springfield, which is basically the Village on steroids. - It isn't brought up very often, but Destro is a worshiper of the Great Old Ones, who leads an ancient evil cult that meets at his castle at every winter solstice to offer up human sacrifices to monsters sleeping deep beneath its dungeons. No, really, this isn't made up. We even get to see it when the chanting cultists slowly lower a victim into the pit wherein the beasts dwell... - It gets worse; in one of the last episodes, "Sins of Our Fathers", Cobra Commander turns one of them loose, offering human sacrifices to its glory and promising it worship if it will only help him by destroying Serpentor. The gigantic creature agrees and goes storming onto Cobra Island, nearly completing its side of the bargain before a horrified Destro pulls an Enemy Mine with the Joes to force it back into slumber. - In "Glamour Girls", the Joes have to stop an older woman who's using a machine to steal the faces of pretty girls to restore her lost youth. As if that wasn't creepy enough, after the Joes destroy the machine, the old woman covers her face with her hands and starts wailing "My face! My face!" We never find out exactly what happens to her face, and the final shot is a bird's eye view of the Joes consoling the model for almost getting her face stolen while the woman is kneeling in alone, sobbing, and covering her face—or whatever's left of it. And Lifeline isn't sure he'll be able to help the old woman, because "there's not a lot to work with"... - There's also the scene in the Faked Rip Van Winkle episode "There's No Place Like Springfield", where Shipwreck's friends and family turn out to be Synthoids trying to pump him for information, and his neighbors start to melt in front of his eyes. - "Bazooka Saw a Sea Serpent" was another one. A giant robotic sea monster with flat-yellow glowing eyes that eats ships and turns their mass into more girth, so it keeps getting larger. The appearance was scary enough, but then you see that the humans "eaten" by the monster get turned into slaves that are worked so hard that they collapse in a dead sleep in the brief moments that ever-vigilant shock-prod tentacles let them have a "coffee break". And then an attempt to stop the thing fails and it turns from a Cobra-controlled monster into an uncontrolled monster, some laser-eyed Godzilla serpent that wants to eat EVERYTHING, just a blind malicious hunger in the shape of a giant robotic snake. - An unintentional version is at the end of "Once Upon a Joe" with the orphan character Jenny looking almost dead when Shipwreck is ending his story. - The Bio-Annihilator from "In The Presence Of Mine Enemies"; a Mindbender experiment Gone Horribly Wrong, it's almost something out of an H. P. Lovecraft story. An enormous mass of squamous scaly flesh, dominated by a single huge reptilian maw full of More Teeth than the Osmond Family. It has multiple writhing tentacles, some of which end in smaller heads, and secretes Hollywood Acid from its skin. Thanks to the episode's use of B.A.Ts instead of human mooks, we get to watch it not only burn through walls in pursuit of Slipstream and Raven as it chases them around, but gruesomely devour the B.A.Ts in a guilt-free Mook Horror Show. It's so horrific that Slipstream decides it's better to blow up the island, potentially killing himself, than to risk it getting free. - Part of the original 1983 miniseries, aptly titled "The Worms of Death", involves G.I.Joe and Cobra being attacked by horrible giant underwater worms that scream and wail as they try to eat the humans on both sides, forcing an Enemy Mine so they can escape. Watch it here. - The two-part episode "Worlds Without End", in which some of the Joes are transported to an alternate dimension where Cobra has conquered the world. \|\|The characters end up stumbling over the skeletal remains of the Joes of that world, including their own counterparts.\|\| - Upon arriving on the alternate Earth, Steeler is bitten by a strange pink bug that makes him seriously ill. His resulting delirium, especially once he and the other Joes learn what happened to their counterparts, is hard to watch ("We're all dead and we've gone to the devil!"). - The episode "The Funhouse," while exploring a cobra base, two of the Joes are surrounded by pink balloons with with Cobra Commander's face... Dusty pops one of the balloons before Airtight could stop him. The balloon is filled with a powerful hallucinogen that makes Dusty think his friend is Cobra Commander... whose mask and gloves fall off to reveal a nest of snakes underneath. Dusty screams in terror and attacks his friend, but mercifully Dusty is given a quick KO punch. - The infamous slow, horrific, physical and degradation of Cobra Commander into a giant, mindless serpent in The Movie, which doubles as the [Trope Name] for Was Once a Man. Even the Joes feel pity for Cobra Commander as they watch his slow descent into mindless beasthood. - Then there's the fact that this show was in a Shared Universe with The Transformers and Inhumanoids note : and Jem.. So their Earth was having to deal with the onslaught of a massive terrorist organization already (who later revealed themselves as the front for an ancient civilization), then along come the giant robots from outer space and the horrific creatures from beneath the Earth.... all of whom want to conquer the planet and destroy or enslave us in the process. It's a miracle their Earth managed to survive to the 21st century.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GIJoeARealAmericanHero
Ginger Snaps / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. ## In General: - The werewolf howls: They do not sound much like a natural wolf howl, more like a low long drone. - In this movie there is the idea that once you turn into a werewolf, there's no going back. - Doubled by the fact that the generally accepted remedy for lycanthrophy, wolfsbane (although they use "monkshood" which is of the same genus) isn't a cure, it's a retardant that slows down the transformation, but ultimately doesn't stop it. ## Ginger Snaps: You know, were almost not even related anymore - The Beast in Bailey Downs encounter, just how fast it runs and how strong it is. Just imagine running through the dark woods, with that thing running in howling after you and it's fast enough to catch up to you. - Sam's death. Basically he was torn up a little bit, and was being kept alive by the werewolf Ginger, but was bleeding heavily. Ginger stops her attack when Brigitte shows up and she begins to give in to her developing wolf side and drink up some of Sam's blood. When Brigitte vomits it out and comes to her senses, the Ginger-Wolf bites Sam's neck, killing him. - Ginger's transformation scene. You don't see the whole thing, but God... what you do see looks painful. It certainly doesn't help that at the beginning of it, it almost looks like Ginger's having a seizure as blood pours out of her mouth. - The moment when Brigitte sees that Ginger is starting to grow a tail. - Jason urinates blood in the boy's bathroom & understandably screams as he sees his own blood.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GingerSnaps
Glitter / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Billie hearing someone entering her and Dice's house, assuming it's Dice, only to turn around and see that it's Timothy, who corners Billie, threatening to hurt her of Dice doesn't pay the $100 000 debt to him.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Glitter
Gods and Warriors / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Akastos : you're wrong about the Earthshaker, Flea, He didn't wake. That was the merest twitch of His tail in His sleep. When the Earthshaker wakes, mountains crack apart and spew rivers of fire, and the Sea attacks the land When the Earth-shaker wakes, you'll know it.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodsAndWarriors
Give Yourself Goosebumps / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes It's a Goosebumps book, what do you expect? The deaths are often gruesome, though the bad endings that don't cause immediate death often involve slavery, being trapped in a horrific environment, paralysis, or worse... even a realistic and mundane death like being trapped in a refrigerator and suffocating.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GiveYourselfGoosebumps
Gintama / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes You're very lucky this was a gag series, otherwise they wouldn't have survived. Despite Gintama being a comedy manga and anime series, the genre doesn't stop it having some nightmarish moments, especially in serious arcs and certain antagonists who have no comedic traits and are serious threats: Beware of unmarked spoilers. - Utsuro in general is without a doubt one of the most terrifying villains in the entire series of Gintama. Of all the darker villains, Utsuro is the one person who could make the entire series go dark and serious. And that's the truth since he's played deadly serious and has no comedic traits on him whatsoever. When it comes to nightmare fuel in Gintama, He's the pure embodiment of it. - Chapter 13 shows Gintoki having a nightmare related to his past: while carrying a wounded comrade on a mountain of corpses, the corpses speak to him that he can't protect anyone. The nightmare ends with the one he was carrying turning out to be a skeleton, who screams that he can't protect anyone. - Nizo's gradual possession by the Benizakura until he gets fully consumed, turning him into a monstrous mix of man and machine, something that could be even pulled from AKIRA. - In the Fuyo Arc, the workers send the maid robots to destruction by being smashed, only for Number 502 to appear. He then orders the maid robots to subject the workers to being crushed the very same way the robots were. - In the Shinsengumi Rebellion arc, Itou thinks that he survived the train explosion without any injuries, but then he looks up and discovers his arm is missing and screams. - In the Flames on Yoshiwara arc, Kagura's descent into an Unstoppable Rage against Abuto is simply unnerving. The sweet but brash main heroine we know is suddenly reduced to delivering a brutal beatdown on Abuto with a constant Slasher Smile on her face, due to her Yato blood. And all because Abuto beat down poor Shinpachi almost to death. - Jiraiya revealing his burned off face to Tsukuyo and Gintoki. He even plans to disfigure Tsukuyo to make her similar to him, not by burning her face off, but by flaying off the skin of her face. - Chapter 527: Having just become Shogun, Nobunobu begins to exercise his power to kill whoever he likes, such as ordering two innocent hostesses killed for reminding him Shigeshige enjoyed their cabaret club. When Otae calls him out on his actions, he has restrained by his guards and then pulls out a sword to slowly cut through Tae's throat with a freakish smile on his face. - Chapter 531: When the Shinsengumi and the Joui Alliance are traveling on the sea to the island where Kondo, Matsudaira and Katsura are being prisoners, they spot a ship that is filled with dead people, when suddenly they get ambushed by the Naraku. - Chapter 539's flashback shows Sasaki seeing the gruesome remains of his murdered family (his wife and newborn child) and bodyguards, with Nobume standing on top of their corpses. It's revealed that the Naraku were the ones to murder them, all in revenge for Sasaki acting against them, and Nobume was traumatised enough from failing to save his family that she was willing to let him kill her. - Hankei's able to infect people with nanomachines, which allows him to control them like puppets. Said nanomachines can spread from the infected to others as well, just like zombies. With these abilities, he takes over the Kaientai's ships and crew. The way he (seemingly) controls Mutsu and takes over Nobunobu is horrifying. - In Chapter 583, we are given false hopes that Umibouzu might have managed to defeat Utsuro... until he regenerates from the arm that Umibouzu cut off moments before in the fight. He reveals his survival by appearing behind him with a freaky smile before grabbing the sword stuck in Umibouzu's chest and ripping it through his body and his remaining arm, cutting it off. - Kamui's descent into madness during his fight with the Yorozuya is just plain horrifying. His eyes become wide and unfocused, and he gets a creepy smile on his face, just like Kagura did during her fight with Abuto. - Chapter 602 treats us to the lovely image of the members of the Tendoshu having been chopped into pieces by Utsuro, found by the Altana Liberation Army and currently stored in tanks of liquid. And because of Utsuro's immortal blood, they're all technically alive. - Chapter 630 shows how Enshou has gone off the deep end with his revenge as he is willing to blow up Earth while their men are still on it and he's killing his own men who wanted to stop him from doing so. - Chapter 660: After Gintoki manages to blind Utsuro, the latter delivers the following phrase: "Am I really that scary?" while opening his eyes.... without his eyeballs and then killing nearly ALL his attackers without problems. Then he gets near Yamazaki and without hesitation brutally cuts his throat and almost kills him.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gintama
God Eater / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The God Eater series is set in a World Half Empty where humanity is fighting a futile struggle against a never-ending threat, so of course it has its fair share of Nightmare Fuel. Warning: All spoilers below are unmarked, as per Nightmare Fuel policy! ## Background Setting - Before we go into detail, keep in mind the first game starts on 2071 AD, when the first Aragami appears in 2050 AD. Yes, merely twenty years the Earth turns into a wasteland as it's known in the main game. - And before the first God Arc makes it into combat (thus the first God Eaters), Aragamis already run through the Earth for six years. Imagine the absolute horror that humankind faced in the blank period: facing an enemy that cannot be stopped in any way. It isn't some kind of Zombie Apocalypse we saw in the media: as bad and numerous as zombies, at least they can be killed by anyone who armed proper; against Aragami? Not a chance. - Imagine how bad the world has become when circuses (beastmasters), seasonal flowers and even dogs become rare sights, as Resurrection revealed. - Oracle Cells. As of Rage Burst, it's still not clear what, or when, created the these cells (and subsequently Aragamis), be it human's creation, or the Earth's answer to human beings' acts. And they eat up everything they come in contact with, including radiation, so not only humans are in danger, so is every other living thing on Earth......though ironically, since some of the Aragamis manage to adapt photosynthesis to compensate the loss of plants, the world is not doomed immediately. For now. - The only thing that can counter or eliminate Oracle Cells are, obviously, other Oracle Cells, thus the creation of Bias Factor, and subsequently God Arcs and God Eaters. The problem is, to use the God Arcs they need to inject Oracle Cells into their body, with only their bracelet to contain them from running wild with your body. If you lose that by any means (mostly in combat), Body Horror WILL ensue on your body and, as shown in Rage Burst, must be executed to prevent them becoming another Aragami. Lindow was a bit more fortunate than others, but he still undergoes quite a bit of shapeshifting for life. - God Arcs, on the other hand, aren't something that can be picked up on the fly to fight the Aragami. Each God Arc is basically tailor-made for the single God Eater, so if someone like the main character in Burst picks up someone else's God Arc, chances are that the Oracle Cells inside that God Arc will devour that person instead; the aforementioned bracelet won't help in any way. - The fact that humanity is fighting a losing battle against the Aragami is Nightmare Fuel alone. Humankind can barely live in the fortresses built by Fenrir, which are under constant attack from all kinds of Aragami. But the fortress walls will (eventually) fall, leading to waves of Aragami rushing into the complex; or by an even greater stroke of misfortune, they'll sneak into the fort and wreck havoc. People live in fear that they may be killed at any moment, any time; and while human resources are limited, the Aragamis just keep coming without number and without end. - And why humans are still doomed even they finally have God Eaters to deal with the threat? Because the Aragami threat is literally endless: When they are killed, their Oracle cells inside disperse into the air or into the earth, and later they reborn somewhere else, sometimes adapted to tactics or attacks that killed them before. That means for any aragami, Death Is Not Permanent, and they simply get stronger. - In case it wasn't apparent already, becoming a God Eater is a very dangerous job; one mistake and your life is over. But while Fenrir can test any possible candidate for the potential to become a God Eater, it doesn't mean everyone can become one: not only can a person die from the test, it's revealed in side materials that there are age limits; once it's reached then they must retire from frontline combat. As shown in the Episode 1 from the Anime, when things turn sour at that time, chances are that few God Eaters have to face a large horde that they can't handle... And if a Bolivian Army Ending ensues, the whole complex (and everyone inside) is as good as gone. - And it's later revealed that not all of the humans live in the forts; Outer Ghettoes, as they are known, are for those who arent rich, affluent or useful enough, and they certainly don't receive as much love from the Fenrir. Imagine how miserable their lives must be......And Episode 10 of the Anime really shows. With the lack of resources unlike those under the administration of Fernir, it's a total Scavenger World in the wilderness where a small fever can potentially become a terminal illness. And that's not accounting the threat of roaming Aragami threat which can be anywhere; problem is, Fernir usually doesn't give a damn about wanderers in the outside world so, in case you're facing an upcoming Aragami attack without a fortunate appearance of God Eaters, you are as good as dead. - Even with all that in mind, with humans being humans, they still do stupid things even when facing the coming storm ahead. For instance (according to side materials), just a month after the Aegis event (between the first game's ending and Burst), there was a terrorist attack inside the Far East Branch. Let me repeat: facing Aragami outside the fortress walls, there was a terrorist attack inside the wall. And that's not accounting for someone like Rachel whose actions mean absolutely zero good for an already-bleak world... - And if the scientists are correct, there is the Devouring Apocalypse, which will inevitably come and consume all things on Earth until the planet is a lifeless barren rock. No one is sure what happen afterwards, but one thing is certain: humanity will go extinct afterwards. There is no way of stopping it, only delaying it. The players may have stopped Shio and Julius from becoming the Singularity to trigger the Apocalypse, but with the introduction of the Red Rain, a natural mechanism meant to create new Singularities, no one can say for certain when the danger of the next Apocalypse will come to pass, and if anyone will be able to delay it from happening. This is Johannes von Schicksal's motivation for starting his Ark Project because, as he perceived, this is the only way to save humanity from total extinction. It really puts into perspective just how hopeless things are when the only way to save humanity is to sacrifice the Earth to the Aragami. - As if the condition in the first two entries are not bad enough, God Eater 3 reveals the situation has turned out for the much worse. To name a few: - Almost all of the world are covered by Ashlands by the time the game starts, which contains different kind of Oracle Cells altogether that makes the area not safe even for Adaptive God Eaters. In fact, it is so dangerous that humans are now forced to live in underground ports. - The new type of God Eaters are not treated like heroes like their predecessors, instead they are treated as slaves with no value outside combat with little to no freedom because how close they are to Aragami and due to the resource scarcity. With few exceptions like Hilda's crew, they treat the AGEs as slightly better than expendable garbage, with many of them being forced to live in cells with inhumane condition. - The conversion process to AGE. Not only you are basically being forcibly taken captive, but the conversion process involves artificially inducing Ashblight corruption to the candidate's body before administering the bias factor. We get to see this happening to the protagonist in the opening (including how the veins in their arms turned purple from the corruption as they writhe in pain), who was only a child. After the process is completed, while the protagonists of previous games proceed to stand tall as they firmly grip their new God Arc, the protagonist is left on their knees on the floor as they struggle to adjust to the changes their body just underwent. - The new type of threat, Ash Aragami, are pretty much invulnerable with no known measure to combat against it because they are able to Devour and corrupt those with Oracle Cells. The Hounds (protagonist's crew) are pretty much the first ones who manage to win against them, and even then, it is only possible the first time around because Phym is there to assist them. - Think the terrorist attack aforementioned is bad enough? The game introduces the existence of extremist AGE movement around halfway through the game, which basically existed in the first place because of how horrible the treatment against AGEs are. This makes them sympathetic to some degree, but later in the game the situation has gotten so bad to the point it escalates into all-out war against Gleipnir, with some of them becoming what basically amounts to suicide bombers by triggering artificial Ash Storms using special device installed in their armlet in desperation to protect their loved ones. If anything, humanity is just as responsible for their destruction as the Aragami. - The worst part of it, probably, is how at this point humanity has descended so low that many of them are basically willing to do anything to reclaim whatever is left of humanity, or make the best of it for their own ends. The official stance of Gleipnir is that they see existence of AGEs as being Necessarily Evil, but sometimes you can't help but to wonder if the inhumane treatment is actually necessary. And that is not getting to the downright amoral experiments conducted by Ports such as Baran... ## Aragami-related - As mentioned above, Aragamis are completely impervious to anything without an Oracle Cell. Not only that, they're able to slowly yet surely evolve, adapt to different terrain and sometimes, become God Eater themselves. This can be seen on-screen in the Anime: Zygotes slowly evolve down the Sariel line, and even one of them can give a hard time to individuals. Also, if the Promotion Video is any indication, 2065 (5 years before the main series) doesn't have anything bigger than a Kongou, then we look at the game...... - While some of the Aragami looks like animals we know (the Kongou line is monkeys/gorillas, the Vajra line is tigers, etc.), some of the Aragami look absolutely outlandish and bizarre. The Quadriga line, for example, looks like amalgams of elephants, bulls and most importantly, TANKS AND MISSILES. How can you beat something like that? - Then we have Deusphages, Aragamis that are difficult to hunt and should be avoided at all costs because of the threat they pose. Susano'o in particular deserves a special mention, because it's believed to specifically hunt down God Eaters. - As if normal Aragamis don't look (and become even more) terrifying, the new "Sensing" species in 2 takes them up to eleven: Marduk may a mere Palette Swap to Garm, but it already has the capability to push all surrounding Aragami into rage, Nyx-Alpha is impervious to all melee attacks, and so on. These guys are rare, but even one of them leading a horde is the last thing Fenrir wants to see. The Return of the Defense Unit DLC shows how bad can things become when hordes of these thing lead the attack against Fenrir. - Then inside the Helix Tree, a new type of Aragami "God-Fusion" appears, and they're even stranger than others because they fuse God Arcs directly onto their bodies. It's like with Susano'o; their outlook turns them from living abominations into something that comes straight out from Terminator movies. - In-game, the Ouroboros line is probably one of the easiest bosses in the game, despite its reputation of being a mountain-sized Aragami; but in the Episode 3 of the Anime, we finally have a glimpse of it: "mountain-sized" is an understatement. Given that a normal Large-sized Aragami needs a whole team to be properly defeated, God only knows how Fenrir handles one of these...... - The Dyaus Pita looks quite creepy with its realistic human face. And its chilling Evil Laugh in the anime makes it seem as if Aragami are just enjoying bloodlust for no specific reason at all. And in its introduction in episode 5, it delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle not only to some Vajra that were attacking the heroes and some civilians, but also the heroes themselves. Even series protagonist Lenka is completely powerless, and near the end of the episode, the most he can do his barely carry away Alisa for a short distance before he succumbs to the wounds, and utters "God" as if to ask for a divine intervention. Made more chilling by the somewhat serene song being played as Dyaus Pita kills Vajra and people left and right. - Equally as terrifying, if not more so, is the Prithvi Mata, basically an ice variant of the Vajra with a more feminine looking face. What really makes this Aragami so unsettling is that it looks like its jaw is broken and hanging open. - The anime depicts a very gruesome scene in an Episode 11 flashback with Soma's birth. It also shows the progression of an oracle cell infection in a person, then quickly goes full tilt on the gore. The doctors try to deliver Soma via c-section but the moment the scalpel touches Aisha, the operation room explodes into gore. Similar to a previous scene in the anime, oracle cell colonies react to harm. The gruesome implication however, is that Aisha's infection had progressed enough that the oracle cells in her body perceived even her uninfected portions as a part of itself. In the aftermath, Aisha is reduced to a messy pile of oracle cell flesh because merely being cut accelerated the infection within her, turning her into a proto-Aragami that's basically a loose collection of cells. - As revealed in Code Vein, \|\|Even vampiric monstrosities like The Lost don't stand a chance against Aragami, as some of the revenants that managed to get past the mist that keeps the Aragami at bay are slaughtered like animals. It's even creepier since the Aragami that slaughters them is the above mentioned Dyaus Pita.\|\| - The Dromi from the third game. It already looks like the eldritch bastard child of a Deviljho and Ukonvasara, but let's take it a step further by giving it some of the most potent ice powers in the series, an unrestrained bloodlust and arguably the most terrifying Devour Attack in the form of the T-Rex chase scene, except there's no vehicle to save you. Get hit, and what was already a horrifying situation takes a turn for the worse as now it has access to a hailstorm, ice shockwaves and an icicle machine gun! It is easily one of the hardest foes in the series to the point where horror stories of its carnage are well-known across the God Eater community. Unlike Crimson Orochi however, this absolute monster is mandatory! - It also has a lovely little quirk that was foreshadowed a while before its debut: It exclusively hunts and eats AGEs! Yeah, the absolute powerhouses that make up the strongest God Eaters in the current age are its prey. - Even its boss theme sounds less like a showdown against a powerful foe and more like a struggle to survive against an archosaurian abomination hellbent on destroying everything you hold dear and reduce you to nothing but a memory and Oracle Cell dust.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodEaterBurst
Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Yeah, listening to GY!BE in the middle of the night or while trying to sleep is usually a bad idea. F♯ A♯ ∞, which is an album ruminating about the apocalypse. The first track of the album, "The Dead Flag Blues" has the following monologue spoken in a sombre monotone, which, whether it is a Dying Dream, drug-induced hallucination, or an actual Apocalyptic Log, is oppressingly dire: The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death [...] The buildings tumbled in on themselves Mothers clutching babies Picked through the rubble And pulled out their hair The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze... That drone underneath said monologue is creepy in and of itself. The monologue is from a screenplay that Efrim Menuck was writing at the time. The second song, "East Hastings," was used extensively in the movie 28 Days Later, whose director claimed that he had the song in mind when making it. The end of the track, "Drugs in Tokyo / Black Helicopter," is particularly unsettling. "Providence" gives some horrific unsettling vibes, in particular the incredibly surreal and haunting nursery rhyme at the beginning of "Kicking Horse on Brokenhill" and the transition between "String Loop Manufactured During Downpour", which consists of a creepy repeating line sampled from the musical Godspell as captioned above. And if you have the original 1997 vinyl version, the album ends with a locked groove (hence the title "F♯ A♯ ∞"). One of the variations of the album's cover (pictured above) is a definition of Nothing Is Scarier, as it features a black and white photograph of a blurred road sign standing still ominously (it's also used as the cover for the 1998 CD release). Lift Your Skinny Fists is the band's brightest album as a whole, but the track "Static" deserves to be here. To hear a woman babbling on about seeing the face of God and dying over a beautiful, somber violin solo creates a Soundtrack Dissonance that is quite disturbing. And then there's the second half of the track, "World Police and Friendly Fire / The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now," whose eeriness can't be easily described in words. "Sleep" is mostly more on the Tear Jerker side, but "Monheim" ends with a Last Note Nightmare of dissonant guitar feedback before some more dissonant chords are played and the chaos subsides a bit. The opening to "Antennas to Heaven" may qualify for some with the jaunty Lyrical Dissonance of "Baby-O", particularly given how much it comes out of nowhere, and how quickly everything goes back to normal afterwards. Any time the guitarists start playing with screwdrivers, this trope is sure to ensue. "George Bush Cut Up While Talking" consists of a strange buzz-like noise, a high-pitched voice reciting "It is a predominant question: Why am I here, and what can I do to make it better? How can I do what is right?" on a loop, and George Bush giving a speech, cut up into random excerpts punctuated by quick, short bursts of applause that sound like static. The combination is terrifying. It also doesn't help that Bush's speech was cut up to resemble things like "I am against tolerance." and something about "promoting emergency". And it happens to be part of the inspiration for SCP1981. "Mladic" is named after war criminal Ratko Mladić, and suffice it to say it has a suitably imposing build-up. Though by the time the song proper starts, most listeners will likely feel more like rocking out than cowering in a corner.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor
Godzilla / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "GOD HELP US ALL." With aliens that can pose as human beings, kaiju that stand taller than many of our modern buildings, the possible threat of enormous, heavily-armed robots destroying the home you love and plots to steal science experiments for profit (and world conquest) and various other horrible things, it's no wonder the Godzillaverse is a Crapsack World. And add planet-killing space hydras to that list and....yeah, it's kinda nightmare-inducing. ## Sub-pages<!—index—><!—/index—> - The GMK incarnation of Godzilla. He's essentially a giant zombie version of the original Godzilla controlled by the vengeful spirits of forgotten soldiers who died in WWII. White souless eyes, a permanent scowl on his face, wants to wipe out all of Japan (and possibly humanity in general), and even ends up \|\|killing three gods (IE: Baragon, Mothra, and Ghidorah)\|\| that were sent to save the world from him. - And, at the end of the film \|\|his disembodied heart is still beating at the bottom of the ocean.\|\| In other words, \|\|you can't even kill him, meaning he'll soon regenerate and come back to wreak havoc once again.\|\| - While his design is often mocked for being "chubby," it's actually apparent that Godzilla's gut was deliberately designed to be swollen, in order to give him the appearance of a distended corpse. - SpaceGodzilla's fate: After he is defeated by Godzilla, he gets trapped in the form of tiny crystal particles, floating in space for all eternity. - There's a scene in Godzilla vs. Hedorah where Hedorah is flying overhead emitting a cloud of sulfuric acid. The innocent bystanders below are shown collapsing and then their flesh melting off of their faces. - Speaking of that scene, Riichiro Manabe's score during it. Say what you want about his composing ability, but when it comes to producing horrific cues for this and other films such as Crest Of The Wolf, the Bloodthirsty trilogy, and Jigoku he's actually pretty good. - Hedorah tries to drown Godzilla in sludge. Godzilla's struggles to get out make it all the more unnerving. - One scene in the movie has a character hallucinating that everyone at a dance club has a creepy fish head. It's one of the most disturbing Big Lipped Alligator Moments in any film. - Heck, Hedorah himself/itself certainly counts. He's got one of the most Lovecraftian designs in the franchise, thanks to him being amorphous and able to assume whatever any of his previous forms he wants at will, along with those huge, always-staring blood-red eyes with a suspicious resemblance to... well, you know what. Him revealing his towering final form from the shadows is quite chilling, and the bastard clearly enjoys his job. While most of his roars, taken from the Ultra kaiju Kemular sound like a guy taking a dump, there's one in particular which he utters only in his final form, which sounds like a chilling, high-pitched deranged laughter. - King Ghidorah, even with his Badass Decay, falls under this. Try to imagine a three-headed dragon that travels from planet to planet essentially wiping out all life from it. Oh, and that he's often under the control (or at least a willing servant) of various alien races that want nothing more to take over the planet. Don't think it can get worse? Well, take in the fact that he ENJOYS his job. - The Heisei incarnation's origin is rather terrifying. It pretty much starts out as three cute genetically-engineered pets that are left alone to fend for themselves on an island near Japan. Then the island is hit by a nuclear bomb (the same one that created the original Godzilla) that causes said three pets to fuse with one another into a single giant dragon. - Many people think that King Ghidorah's high-pitched roar is Narm...but listen more carefully, and you'll notice it sounds like psychotic giggling. - The GMK incarnation of Ghidorah seems to be horribly weak at first, until you realise that's just because he's a juvenile and hasn't grown back all of his heads yet. Oh, did we mention all of his heads? Well, that's because he happens to be the Yamato No Orochi. No wonder his soul was purified prior to the events of the film. - Ghidorah gets his own pretty awesome invocation of nightmare fuel in IDW's Half Century War miniseries by James Stokoe; After Space-Godzilla and other in-continuity monsters are taken down, Ghidorah and Gigan are shown in silhouette at the end of the fourth issue en route to Earth. The fifth is entirely devoted to the human lead and Godzilla taking them down, suggesting those two are the very worst the universe can throw at Earth. - Ghidorah returns in the Legendary continuity with an unforgettable blood curdling scream. Badass decayed? Not anymore! He manhandles Godzilla during much of the movie and despite being \|\|apparently killed, he returns in Godzilla vs. Kong as part of Mechagodzilla, giving Godzilla one of the most brutal curb stompings of the entire franchise.\|\| - Gigan. Sure, he's not the scariest-looking Kaiju out there (at least his Showa incarnation isn't). But, take into consideration that he's the first monster to make Godzilla bleed. Oh, and there's the little fact that he absolutely loves causing mayhem and destruction and prefers to hack his opponents with either his scythe-arms or his buzzsaw-belly rather than use his optic blasts. Not to mention, his Final Wars incarnations are terrifying and what nightmares are made of. With his trademark buzzsaw belly, his cycloptic visor seeming glow a menacing and evil red and scythe-like blades for hands, his first version is bad enough but his Modified form ups the ante with FOUR CHAINSAWS replacing the blades, a sharper and serrated head spike and a slightly-more-deliberate slasher smile, not to mention his sadism and evilness are much bigger than those of his Showa incarnations. With the sadistic joy and glee he takes in causing as much death and mayhem as he can, making his enemies slowly suffer via hacking and shredding them to bits with his buzzsaw, blades, and chainsaws, it is no surprise that Gigan is considered one of Godzilla's most evil, cruel, and sadistic opponents... - Biollante, Anti-Villain and Dark Is Not Evil applying her second form is still really scary to look at. In spite of being the monster to root for it's disturbing when she pierces Godzilla's hand with a vine and then easily fits his whole head into her mouth and snarling. Less than five minutes of footage and no one forgets that monster. - One of the scariest (and saddest) aspects of Biollante is her Roseform's cry. \|\|It sounds like a human girl wailing in fear. Erika knows what she's become, and she's scared.\|\| - Then there's the fact her mouth in her second form looks like a crocodile head and has MULTIPLE ROWS OF TEETH even on the roof of her mouth and on her tongue. Not surprising seeing as the person who came up with her was a dentist. - Biollante is one of the few monsters that is truly immortal. In the end she \|\|transforms into her particle form and floats into space\|\|. What makes this especially terrifying and quite tragic is the fact she is aware that she is a human soul trapped in a monster's body. Imagine willingly exiling yourself from your own home because you are aware that you could potentially be a danger to others, even if you're one of the most docile Kaiju in existence. - Even worse? It's heavily implied later on in the Heisei era that Biollante's spores being in outer space created the far more sadistic Spacegodzilla. - Monster X. It's pretty much the only opponent to hold the big G up (apart from Caesar, Anguirus and Rodan teaming up) and its roar/Evil Laugh is scary as hell. And guess what? \|\|It's Kaiser Ghidorah, and he's even worse.\|\| - The Godzillaverse itself qualifies! Imagine living in a Crapsack World choke-full of Kaiju, aka humongous, near-indestructible and VERY pissed-off monsters who gleefully screw the square-cube law (aka something so big should not exist, yet it does). They include mutants, ancient deities and alien planet-destroyers. At any moment at least some may attack your city and raze it to the ground, potentially millions of people could die, there is no time to rebuild because probably they have already spread death and destruction somewhere else, humanity can't do anything to stop them. The kicker? The most heroic of them (Godzilla himself) is a dinosaur mutated into a walking nuclear holocaust, and he is one of the most destructive. Sure, he's more of a Chaotic Neutral Anti-Hero, but he still, seemingly to some people, gives not a shit about mankind ~ though it depends on the incarnation, as unlike the increasingly heroic Showa version, the Heisei and (most) Millenium ones may leave others alone if not threatened, but still maintain their status as destructive forces both of and beyond nature. Yeah. In all brutal honesty, it's something straight out a Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror Story. - For some, Godzilla's iconic roar has a hell of a lot of scare potential. No living thing should ever be able to produce that kind of eerie, high-pitched wail. It makes him sound less like a roaring dinosaur and more like some kind of ethereal demon—which actually makes sense, when you consider that a life-form that big isn't scientifically possible in Real Life. - This is intentional. Toho Studios couldn't find a suitable animal-like roar that would fit a creature Godzilla's size. So, composer Akira Ifukube created the trademark roar by running a leather glove over a double bass. It's changed slightly over the years, but the general "SKREEEOOOOONK" aspect has pretty much stayed the same. - Godzilla: The Half-Century War invokes this with Godzilla's first appearance. There isn't even an attempt at onomatopoeia; just jagged, broken sound waves in a speech bubble. You know what it sounds like. - In the Dark Horse Comics series of Godzilla, G-Fans were given plenty of scary moments. What really stuck out was the arc when Godzilla got poisoned and started to bleed from his mouth and his eyes. It doesn't really help when he's acting like a rabid animal... a giant rabid animal that breathes fire. - The fate of anyone who gives their soul to Gekido-Jin. Let's just say you'll never know peace. - The first Dark Horse Comics Godzilla comic. All of it. The creepy atmosphere, Godzilla's design and that worm-''thing'' that was sleeping in the slab that summoned Godzilla in the first place. - Burtannus. Although she is not what you'd call scary, she has her moments. The first is when she is attacking a village in Brazil and she kills someone with her lightning. You can actually see the guy's skeleton! Also, her first appearance in the comic when Burton Helzer and Kino come across her young. - Bagorah. Just Bagorah. From his design, his method of attack and his insatiable appetite for flesh. He even tries to make a meal out of Godzilla. - Mechagodzilla's first appearance was pretty frightening as well. One of the first monsters he goes after is Godzilla's longtime sidekick, Anguirus. At first, it just looks like the Godzilla we all know and love has snapped and is on a destructive rampage. Anguirus tries to stop him, only to get the stuffing beaten out of him. Then "Godzilla" reaches down, grabs Anguirus' jaws and breaks them. He more or less breaks his lower jaw in half. What makes this even more disturbing is that, at this point, Anguirus has no idea this isn't the real Godzilla, his friend doing this to him. - Anguirus knew that it wasn't Godzilla, that's why he attacked it. - The ending of the ongoing IDW Godzilla comic issue 11 which has \|\|Godzilla going up against Space-Godzilla and Monster X who, up to this point of the comic, have proven to be some of the most powerful monsters so far\|\|. - Issue 12 gives us a multitude of Nightmare Fuel. The remaining Monster Kill Crew trying not to drown while Mecha-Godzilla is being flooded in the midst of a two-on-one monster fight, Monster X giving Godzilla one brutal smack down, even getting him to bleed and finally \|\|transforming into Keizer Ghidorah\|\| which even makes Godzilla have an Oh, Crap! moment. - Issue 13, the fight between Godzilla and Keizer Ghidorah. - Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters has a ton of this. The first issue has Godzilla \|\|kill two kids just by rising up from the ground \|\|. And it gets worse. We are then introduced to the evil psychic twins who manage to gain control over Rodan and Battra and hope to take control of Godzilla later on in the series, lots of unsettling apocalyptic imagery and the undeniably brutal monster fights. But the creepiest and scariest moment comes in issue 5 where there is an exodus of people evacuating Los Angeles due to Godzilla's attack and, while a fight breaks out on the road, Godzilla shows up and outright vaporizes everyone on the road except for a little girl who ends up traumatized. In fact, the aftermath looks just like a nuclear bomb hit the area. Then there's the animal deaths which precede a monster showing up. - In Rebirth of Mothra, we are given Desghidorah who looks less like an Expy of King Ghidorah and more like a three-headed gothic dragon who can split the ground open and unleash flames from it. In its sequel we have Dagarla who can basically create a waterspout and he releases poisonous starfish... THINGS. Then we have its own take on King Ghidorah who has his Eldritch Abomination status beefed up to eleven as a soul-eating monster who can regenerate from a single surviving piece of himself. Also, his first target when he arrives on Earth are kids who he puts into a dome to save for a snack. Not only that, how he teleports them is disturbing, especially when he rips the daughter of the main character's parents right out of her father's arms. - In Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, just before \|\|Zilla\|\| makes landfall, we briefly see his eyes in a tidal wave with someone surfing in it. Chris Mowry and Matt Frank have officially made \|\|Zilla\|\| scary. Well, maybe not scary but unnerving. Once on land, he tries to eat the main character. - Issue 3. Manda destroying the USS Goldenstein while \|\|Gezora\|\| finishes off the rest, the appearance of the \|\|Devonians and Cryog\|\| and a juvenile Destoroyah infiltrating a convention and killing people. Then there's the ending which has \|\|Godzilla arriving on Malibu beach with a giant scar in his chest before he collapses\|\|. Prior to this, Godzilla was dragged under the water by some unknown Kaiju. - The next issue reveals the creature who majorly wounded Godzilla was \|\|Destoroyah\|\|. - The latest arc has so far started off with \|\|the return of Minette and Mallorie as well as an introduction to a mass-produced line of MechaGodzillas, one of which manages to nearly kill Anguirus\|\|. - As if that wasn't enough, \|\|an entire army of them is deployed against Godzilla\|\|. - How \|\|Mecha-King Ghidorah was established in this universe\|\|. Basically, the Cryog found \|\|King Ghidorah\|\| and used Gigan to \|\|lop off his middle head and replace it with a robotic one and, considering the other two heads' reactions, it was rather painful\|\|. - The fate of Minette and Mallorie. \|\|Basically, they end up seemingly lobotomized\|\|. - \|\|The Trilopods\|\|. - The miniseries Cataclysm finally introduces Kamacarus into the IDW comics with their Final Wars design but a slight tweak to their mouths. They are terrifying as they viciously hunt down and pick off a group of human scavengers. - In fact, the entire story of Cataclysm is terrifying. It's set several years after an unknown event caused multiple Kaiju to attack cities all over the world before disappearing for some reason, leaving human civilization in utter shambles and the Kaiju being seen as nothing more than ancient gods whose wrath was justifiable punishment towards mankind or scary stories told around the campfire... only for them to come back. - More out of universe but ever wondered how they created the silk spray for Mothra larva and Kumonga? Molten styrofoam. And they would spray this non stop at people in big, if thick, heavy suits. - Many of the ways Godzilla defeats his enemies are pretty gruesome. A few examples include biting down on the neck of his opponent until it kills him (Godzilla Raids Again), blowing off the head of his opponent with his atomic beam (Godzilla vs King Ghidorah), ripping off the arms of his foe and uses his arms to taunt him after that (Godzilla vs The Sea Monster), and causing his opponent's head to explode after getting swallowed whole (Godzilla 2000). - A minor one, but the reveal of the \|\|Space Hunter Nebula M's true forms\|\| are very unsettling. Katsaridaphobia, anyone? - Speaking of \|\|aliens, when you think about it, there have been at least ten movies in the Godzilla franchise with some kind of extraterrestrial life form or race trying to take over the Earth.\|\| It really makes you wonder how many hostile alien life forms are waiting to attack.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Godzilla
Godzilla (2014) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The M.U.T.O. Research website contains some spooky things to discover: SCANNING....USER LOCATION ACQUIRED. [ALERT] THE UNIDENTIFIED NATURAL PHENOMENON IS APPROACHING YOUR AREA. PLEASE PREPARE ACCORDINGLY - Typing "RUN" or "ESCAPE" gets you the message: PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR EVACUATION ROUTES AND SURVIVAL PROCEDURES. - Typing "SERIZAWA" brings up: WELCOME BACK, DR. SERIZAWA. YOUR LAST SESSION WAS TERMINATED UNEXPECTEDLY. RECOVERY MODE HAS BACKED UP YOUR DRAFT IN PROGRESS: - Typing in "NUCLEAR BOMB" or "ZONE FIGHTER" will get this: SCANNING FOR NEAREST M.U.T.O INSTALLATION TO "TOKYO, JP". 35.6895N, 139.6917E. PLEASE DO NOT DISCONNECT...SHOWING TOP RESULT MATCHING YOUR REQUEST: Q-ZONE PERIMETER-SECURE FACILITY. [NETWORK MESSAGE] M.U.T.O SEC ALERT: YOU DO NOT HAVE THE NECESSARY CLEARANCE LEVEL TO VIEW THIS FOLDER. - The next one is even scarier. Type in "ATOMIC BOMB" and: (1) ATOMIC FACILITY IN YOUR AREA. STATUS: ACTIVE. LAUNCHING PROFILE OF ACTIVE OPERATIONS: ERROR: YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO VIEW THIS CONTENT. IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE CONTACT MONARCH-DIGITAL SECURITY DIVISION. - Typing in "DOOR TO HELL" (the real life place that is featured in one of the promotional screenshots for this film) gets you this cryptic message: GAS RESERVES HOLDING. FIRE LAYER OBSCURING MEMBRANE LAYER AND FUELING INCUBATION. - Related to the above, typing "SINKHOLE" will bring up the following: (ZXO.ESSUSJSX) IDENT REDACTED.... (EMBRYO) /COM -X - Typing in "STORM" or similar inputs get you this: PLEASE BE ADVISED: SEVERE WEATHER ALERT ISSUED FOR THE NORTHEASTERN PACIFIC SEABOARD, WITH POSSIBLE ELECTROMAGNETIC DISRUPTION. NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. - Typing in "GODZILLA", "HEDORAH", "RODAN", "KING KONG", "KING GHIDORAH", "GIGAN", "MECHAGODZILLA", "BIOLLANTE", "OODAKO", "EBIRAH", "DESTOROYAH", "MOTHRA", "MATANGO", "DOGORA", "SANDA", "GAIRA", "GOROSAURUS", "GABARA", "MEGALON", "ANGUIRUS", "MEGAGUIRUS", "VARAN", "SHOCKIRUS", "KIRYU", "MANDA", "ZILLA", "MINILLA" or just about any other Kaiju related to the Godzilla or Toho franchise gets you this: SYSTEM CANNOT CONFIRM OR DENY THE EXISTENCE OF THIS LIFEFORM. - Finally, typing in "MONARCH" leads to this: LAUNCHING 'MONARCH' ARCHIVES ... SYSTEM COMMAND OVERRIDE: YOU LACK THE SECURITY CLEARANCE TO ACCESS THIS CLASSIFIED DATA. MONARCH HAS FLAGGED THIS USER PROFILE FOR POSSIBLE DIGITAL INCURSION. PROCEED WITH CAUTION. - Typing in "CHONGQING" leads to this: ABSEIL TEAM DESCENDED INTO SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBERS. INITIAL READINGS SUGGEST ANOTHER DEAD END. FULL REPORT PENDING. - Typing in "OXYGEN DESTROYER" leads to this: 3181811XX 9XX0 SERIZAWA (SXAQ11-XC) - Typing in either "SIMA MARTEL" or "SIMA HUMBOLDT" will get this: DUAL SIGNATURES DETECTED. DENSE JUNGLE ENVIRON PRECLUDES GROUND PERIMETER. AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE RECOMMENDED. NO-FLY ORDER SUBMITTED TO MONARCH FOR APPROVAL. - Typing in "DEVIL" yields this: HAZMAT CREW DISPATCHED TO MOJAVE SITE (14.333.21) - Typing UNIVERSAL MINING will get you this message: OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION RECORDS OF THE MINE COLLAPSE ARE CLASSIFIED. ALL WESTERN UNIVERSAL PAPERWORK HAS BEE SEQUESTERED. NO PUBLIC STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED - CASUALTY will get you this message: THIS COMMAND IS IN VIOLATION OF PRIVACY POLICY GJ115-54. M.U.T.O SEC HAS NOTICED THIS COMMAND.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Godzilla2014
Godzilla MMD / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Now, bow down and pray to the golden demise. - In the second film, we get a real look on how Godzilla Earth took over the entire planet. Despite humanity's best efforts, they are no match against the power of the King of the Monsters. - Godzilla Earth's progeny, the Servum take part in the action when they swoop in and aid the kaiju. If it was a real-life situation, the humans that are being scooped up and ripped apart by the creatures would have been very bloody. - We see the POV of the pilot of one of the aircraft which slowly falls to the ground below after being hit by Earth's electromagnetic pulse. - Godzilla Earth also displays the spine lasers Shin Godzilla has except the former's has that ramped up to eleven. Once they are fired, the lasers will somehow track down their targets and will not stop until they are all dead. - Everything about King Ghidorah in the trailer for it. - King Ghidorah and Godzilla Earth facing off, with Ghidorah looming twice the height of the Monster King (making him over 600 meters tall) and emitting an UNEARTHLY SCREAM. - Like in the anime, Godzilla Earth couldn't even put a bruise on the golden terror and as shown in the trailer, he is mostly on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle. - And somehow, King Ghidorah is able to enlarge his wings till he is able to wrap them around the entire planet Earth.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaMMD
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Film - The post credits scene reveals the name Metphies whispered to Haruo of the creature that destroyed his people's civilization and is supposedly so much worse than Godzilla that the mere fact he's fighting Godzilla instead is reason enough not to be afraid. \|\|GHIDORAH.\|\| - He makes his debut in the third film, and he is a literal Planet Eater. He's an extradimensional Eldritch Abomination taking the form of three serpentine astral projections emerging from three portals in the sky, and his three necks stretch twenty kilometers long. Novel - Rodan returns. This time, a swarm of these flying Kaiju make Rome into their personal feeding ground. - In the future, Godzilla Earth rules the entire Earth with no other Kaiju present other than his offspring. The terrifying part is that in the past, there was Destroyah and Gorath who's implied to be Kaiser Ghidorah. We now learned that Godzilla Earth decimated Gorath with a Spiral Ray and it's implied that Godzilla Earth killed Destroyah. How powerful is this Godzilla? - The United Earth was preparing to begin Operation Great Wall, the same plan Godzilla easily demolished. We have a very clear idea how hard it was to lure Godzilla to the trap as the forces assigned to that task had to deal with an entire species of Griffon, Giant Condor, Giant Rats, Kumonga, Kamacuras, Meganula and a Rodan. It's big sign that more Kaiju are taking over the planet and foreshadowing Godzilla's eventual rule. - China also had it just as bad as Africa as there are swarms of Meganula, Rodan and a Gorosaurus. - Humans did the impossible and managed to imprisoned Godzilla.....for a year. Unknown to everyone, Godzilla doesn't just feed on nuclear energy, he could also feed on magma as well. Having absorbed enough, Godzilla finally escaped and he is not happy.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle
Godzilla Neo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Wishing you had a Big News Paper - The Yog story. Essentially it combined the most Lovecraftian Toho films and turned it into an actual Lovecraft Horror arc. We had Yog, an Eldritch Abomination who took over a squid to become Gezora. Later the island of Selga became a nesting place of mushroom zombies. Our heroes managed to escape before the island sank into the ocean but they will be scarred for life on what they had just seen. - Kumonga's Lair is nightmare to anybody who has fear of Arachnophobia. What's worse, if the Kaijuologist was correct, she's already given birth. - The world will be overran by Dragmas, the same creatures that killed Zilla Jr and every other mutation in the Bad Future. Thankfully, it isn't bad as it's implied there's resistance from more powerful Kaiju such as Fire Rodan. - The description of Ghost Godzilla's origin. The way he was able to regenerate his cells, muscles and organs is chilling. - Good news: It's back. Bad news: its return involved incorporating the Godzillas of the Monsterverse and Shin Godzilla, the latter looking even worse than he did in his own film, with more tiny, vestigial arms coming out of his main ones; more vestigial toes poking out of its feet; more eyes on its face; and its origin in this universe being a botched attempt by the US government to create monsters of their own to control. - And now, the Neo has a possible Bad Future: one ruled by Godzilla Earth, which horrified Salno and Miki.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaNeo
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Just because Godzilla: King of the Monsters is an Actionised Sequel, doesn't mean that its predecessors' horror elements have been stripped away. Trailers - The five-minute trailer with the full awakening of Ghidorah... and it's every bit as nightmarish as you could possibly imagine. Madison's mom is the one who awakens Ghidorah, smashing apart his icy prison with explosives. Then a massive, glowing crack appears in the ice, out of which emerges a spiked tail, rattling like a rattlesnake's, followed by a head... and another head... and then one more... - The middle head is downright terrifying in how intelligent and intentional its actions are compared to the other two. It actively stalks humans and will stop at nothing to torment and spite them. It even displays an absolutely wicked Slasher Smile whenever it is about to attack other monsters or do something terrible to the human cast. - The left head, although not as bad as the the middle head, blends a psychotic appetite for cruelty and destruction with a childlike sense of inquisitiveness. It delights at vaporizing humans with gravity beams while curiously licking the ground to taste their ashes. Like a toddler pulling the legs off of bugs or burning them with magnifying glasses, the left head is basically playing and the humans are his toys. - And the right head, while the least sadistic, shows surprising combat pragmatism in battle, even using a power generator as an Improvised Weapon of sorts. He may be the middle head's loyal sidekick, but he might arguably be even smarter. - In general, the terrifying thing about this Ghidorah is how intelligent he is overall. This Ghidorah isn't a pawn of invaders, he isn't a brute, he's the mastermind. He's the most powerful Titan on the planet, dangerous enough to destroy civilization by himself, and commands all the other Titans...and he's both actively malevolent and smart. - To further amp up Ghidorah's Satanic Archetype, one of the shots in the latest trailer has him perched atop Rodan's volcano, wreathed in flames while a crucifix is seen looming ominously in the foreground - almost as if the Kaiju is asking humanity where their God is now, or to declare themselves it. - The same trailer also shows a battered Mothra, her wings charred and tattered, charging Ghidorah head-on and taking three gravity beams to the face. Given her track record, it's unclear if she survived it... - In one TV spot, a panicked Mark Russell asks, "How many of these things are there?" To which Serizawa responds, "Seventeen, and counting." And a screen later shows a map of the world, with dozens of red dots on each continent... - Monarch knows how tall Ghidorah is, standing at a massive 521 feet tall (or 158.801 meters), but his wingspan? Monarch is still working on finding the wingtips to figure that out. Just how big is this Dragon? - The last shot of him in the trailer shows just how much Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan have their work cut out for them when they take him on. In higher quality versions of the videos, his eyes ominously glow from out of the darkness...all six of them. - It's stated in viral marketing that Ghidorah can create cataclysmic thunderstorms just by flying and in the first trailer we get to see said storm... - In the Comic-Con Sneak Peek, you can hear what sounds like Ghidorah's scream around the 0:30 mark. It does not sound friendly. - Hell, it's basically a retouched version of his creepy, giggling Showa roar! This powerful, malevolent creature of death and devastation sounds like he's laughing maniacally. - It's briefly heard in the second trailer as Godzilla and Ghidorah charge at each other, and it's a more threatening remix of the Showa roar, with a bit of the Heisei screech thrown in. - Rodan's shadow is shown as he flies over a city... which crumbles behind him. - What makes it all the scarier is that Rodan usually has to fly at high speed to do that much damage in the older movies. Here, he's taking a leisurely glide, and utterly laying a whole town to waste (or at least ripping off most every roof). - The brief shot we get of an utterly destroyed Washington D.C it really shows just how humanity is on the brink of extinction, not to mention that Rodan is flying next Ghidorah's storm almost as if guarding him, possibly implying they will team up. - There is a brief shot of Ghidorah looking through a window at Madison and it seems pretty clear he's looking for her. The way his eye narrows as soon as she's in his sights makes it seem like he's smiling maliciously at her. A cataclysmic, world-ending monster, a living natural disaster, is specifically out to get . Yikes. In the movie though he was after the Orca. you - One fan on Tumblr pointed out that across both the teaser and first trailer, Ghidorah seems awfully interested in Madison. He could kill her instantly without even noticing, yet seems to be going out of his way to hunt down and torment a defenseless little girl. - To really emphazie this the Monarch Viral marketing shows that Godzilla has been keeping tabs on Ghidorah. It says a lot when the Kajiu that took on two MUTOs and basically demolished them is concerned about the possibility of one Kaiju being unleashed. - The Viral site for the film shows Monarch has several outposts all around the world, but only those related to the movie's kaiju stars (minus Godzilla, who's being tracked) are currently visible. We don't know what could be lurking on those other places. And given the Tohoverse has a rich menagerie of monstrosities... - To make matters worse, two are located in the Middle East, one under Egypt and one under Israel. Whose to say that in this world the ancient Egyptian pantheon and the God of the Abrahamic religions weren't inspired by some sort of kaiju? And if so, given how eclectic the Egyptian gods are and how utterly indescribable God is said to be, just how horrifying were these monstrosities? - Egyptian myth offers three possibilities to what these monstruosities were: Apep the World Encircler, the God of Chaos and Destruction, a giant snake with the explicit goal of throwing the world into anarchy and a magical gaze that overwhelms Ra, the chief god (it's someone else who has to take care of Apep for Ra); Set, the God of Storms, Violence, and Desert, in the form of something only known as "Set Animal", he was in some myths the one to defeat Apep but also a bringer of chaos and destruction through his anger at Osiris and Horus; and the Eye of Ra, representing the destructive power of the sun's heat through which she wards off Apep, but also Sekhmet, the protagonist of the Myth of Destruction of Humanity, in which she was sent to destroy the wicked part of humanity and in a single day not only did her job but also killed so many innocents humans were on the verge of extinction, and could only be stopped by being tricked into getting drunk via drinking a literal sea of blood-red beer. - Several of those sites are in the middle of inhabited areas of North America, Europe and Russia, the UK, and the Middle East. If the female MUTO almost left Las Vegas in ruins just by passing through to find her mate, imagine what any of those monsters could do without having any other goals in mind, and just lashing out at the strange new cities, sights and sounds before them, and how many lives would be lost. - The cave painting of Rodan is noted to have human blood in its pigment. Dr. Chen posits two possibilities behind this. The first is that it's the blood of warriors who died fighting Rodan and done as a tribute to them. The other? That it's the blood of people who were sacrificed to Rodan to make sure he stays benevolent. - The second trailer shows numerous monsters rising from their apparent slumber and it becomes horrifically clear that while Ghidorah might be the worst threat hes also not the only one. - In the first trailer, it was very hard to gauge Rodan's size due to all the aerial shots. Here, we see him emerging from the volcano from a human perspective, and it looks as if some sort of massive demon is clawing its way out of the mountain! - We finally get to see the three-headed evil space dragon in all his glory and he is terrifying to say the least. - Mixed with some Tearjerker the opening of the second trailer with Madison trying to contact help only to hear others frantically asking for help themselves and screaming in terror. It gets to be to much for the poor kid and she tries to shut it out by closing her ears. - The second trailer has the representatives of MONARCH, including Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, try to argue with Governmental representatives that the threat created by the Titans requires them to determine which of them humanity can rely on. One representative jokes that this indicates that MONARCH expects humanity to treat Godzilla as a pet. Serizawa is quick to correct them that it's the other way around- that humanity would be Godzilla's pet. Essentially, our very survival depends on gaining the favor of a massively powerful entity far older than anything else on the planet, and who unlike Kong regards humans with indifference at best. - Trailer #2 has two quick shots of other Titans awakening: the first in a sandy/desert area with enormous arachnid/arthropod legs erupting from the ground; and the second in a forest area just outside a town with a gigantic hill of rock, earth, and trees moving forward and rising up with hints of spikes poking through. ALL of them are getting up now, and the world isn't big enough for humanity AND multiple Titans... - A brief clip is shown of a fighter jet desperately trying to out-speed Rodan, who is slowly gaining on it with his talons outstretched like a massive bird of prey. - The second trailer shows a brief clip of a monster with volcanic-looking black-and-glowing red flesh, walking through a city and setting everything around it on fire. The worst part? It appears to be Godzilla himself. - It's not just burning everything, however. Whatever this monster is, it's causing nearby metal structures to instantly melt from its presence alone. - If it really is Godzilla, remember what happened the first time he went into Burning mode... - Confirmed, as of this toy reveal. What it means for Godzilla's ultimate fate remains to be seen... - The closeup shot of Godzilla's face where he slowly turns around and gives the most terrifying Death Glare imaginable. The fact that his face appears to have been heavily mauled and is missing chunks of flesh doesn't help. - Rodan stands out as the Token Evil Teammate out of him, Godzilla, and Mothra. While the latter two are downright protective of humans, or so indifferent that harming them doesnt even cross his mind, Rodan shows he has no problem taking out any humans that get in his way. He's literally the first monster to bow to Ghidorah as the new King of the Titans, and actively fights at his side against Godzilla and Mothra in the final battle. - The final trailer has a moment of Godzilla and Ghidorah's fight where Ghidorah bites at Godzilla with one head, then proceeds to slam his other two heads into his opponent at lightning speed. Godzilla's got his work cut out for him. - Also in the final trailer, Rodan's flight results in a boy being pulled away by the powerful wind as a soldier and the boys mother futilely try to save him. Thousands of people are inevitably gonna die? Well, kids are part of that statistic. Thankfully, this doesn't happen in the movie itself, as the boy is never shown being torn away by the winds and is later shown on board the evacuation Osprey when it just barely makes it onto the Argo. Movie	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Take a look. That is the monster that even the Devil would not touch. Let's see what happens when we insert the writer of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero and Psycho-Pass into Godzilla... Beware of unmarked spoilers below! Film - If any of you thought that ShinGoji was bad, well imagine if the plan to freeze him (do note his last form was his infant stage) didn't work and he remained to evolve without interference. The end result was AnimeGoji. Several of the powers he could have gained in his next evolutions are added to this new version of our titular Kaiju. - Regeneration, flight and multiplication: The Servum, the plants, and the Godzilla Filius are all offshoots of Godzilla. - Self-energy production and limitless nuclear fusions: Minus the nuclear part but given what he was capable of here, its an understatement. - A small universe within his body: More like an entire ecosystem taking over the planet. - A God: The ending.....presumably. - Godzilla can make Tranquil Fury more frightening than it's even possible to. After the humans defeat Godzilla Fillius, suddenly, a massive Earthquake occurs, then the real Godzilla explodes a mountain he was in. But he doesn't make a sound. He sees the fleeting humans and proceed to annihilate them by using a power breath and a tail whip that can destroy his surroundings. For a monster who was dormant for 20,000 years, that is truly a frightening display of Tranquil Fury. Novel - The prologue details a monster apocalypse. The novel perfectly details that event and how truly devastating a world of monsters could affect the entire world. - The first Kaiju reported was Kamacuras. In this universe, it was Kamacuras who destroyed the World Trade Center. - Operation: Hedorah was a plan used by the human military to release a bio-weapon the operation was named after to destroy Anguirus and Rodan. Godzilla has his self-regeneration to survive Hedorah's corrosive attacks but Anguirus and Rodan didn't had that which meant the two latter Kaiju either died quickly or they suffered slow and painful deaths. - It gets even worse when the military lost control of Hedorah who would rampaged across Beijing and Tianjin. Think about the amount of human deaths and also the devastation to the local wife life and ecosystem rendering it to probably a lifeless wasteland. Oops! - Dagahra is a walking plague. Even if the humans do defeat the Kaiju, they had to content to its huge swarms of Barem which has poisoned Australia's waters. - Godzilla finally makes his appearance. His first debut is that not only he destroyed Los Angeles and San Francisco but also wiping out three Kaiju at once. - He was so much of a threat that the US government fired 150 nuclear warheads at him in hopes he would be killed. Godzilla walked out of that unharmed. - Its not good to be a Siberian or those that lived there as they fell prey to Megaguirus and a flock of Rodan. - The novel managed to make Zilla of all monsters the stuff of nightmares. Long story short, the worst case scenario involving the creature's ability to asexually reproduce occurs and Paris is taken over by the creatures. Juveniles would attack citizens from the ground while adults would ambush any military helicopters or planes by attacking them from the buildings above. The only saving grace was that Zilla and its numerous offspring had low durability compared to other Kaiju and could easily be dispatched by conventional weaponry.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters
Ghost Song / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Adam telling you to halt, showing that he can sense you even though you cannot see him. Anytime you encounter another member of the Gambler's crew. Whatever you find couldn't be described as "human" anymore.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostSongAJourneyOfHope
Godzilla: Singular Point / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Unmarked spoilers below! ## Previews - Godzilla himself. Everything about him is designed to just scream terrifying. He even now has a spine-chilling Slasher Smile, the first we have seen since Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!. - Whatever the reason is, all the kaiju seem to have a red mist associated with them; Godzilla in particular gets a couple particularly nightmarish shots at the beginning and end of the first trailer, the first one showing him lighting up the mist with his charging atomic breath and the second showing the mist clearing to show his face, which takes a more classic approach with beady eyes on a twisted face. ## The Anime - After a fairly cool fight between Jet Jaguar and Rodan, Rodan starts to fly away... only to die in midair and fall to the ground. At first it seems like he just perished from his injuries... then another dead Rodan washes up on shore. Then another one is found, then another, until eight in total are discovered. The final shot of episode 2? A swarm of Rodans erupting from the red tides, seemingly forming out of them, and filling the air. - In episode 4, the episode ends with a group of soldiers patrolling in case of a Rodan attack find an overturned van. The owners of the van are found nearby hiding in the nearby forest, but attempt to quite the soldier coming to help them as an unseen creature moves around the bush. Suddenly the pair runs to the road as the soldier turns, seeing Anguirus walk up to him and begin staring him down, cutting as we hear rifle shots quick get cut off. - Anguirus in general manages to be both cute and terrifying, with the scene of episode 6 of his revival strongly falling under the "terrifying" side. - Salunga takes all of the terrifying features of baboon and mandrill faces and gives creepy white eyes to them as well. This combined with many of its scenes, such as rising out of the red mist in a hunched-over position, creates a terrifying monster. - Episode 8 sees the return of Kumonga, revamped from a mere giant spider to an army of spider-crabs with drill arms. Kumonga's design has become much more sinister-looking, and the worst part is he now can regenerate. The injured crabs piece themselves together with slimy symbiotic tentacles resembling Hedorah—at one point Hedorah itself is visible, glaring at the protagonists before reconstructing Kumonga's body. - Episode 9 continues this and turns them into an army Jet Jaguar is barely holding off, mixed with a single individual with giant scythes instead of drills that can go toe to toe with Jet Jaguar. The rising tension of the scene alone makes them terrifying until Jet Jaguar is pinned against an army of them inside a burning building. To amp up their horror they're even the first monster to show their dead victims onscreen, them being dried husks wrapped up in their lair. - The closing shot of episode 9 is one in and of itself, as Yun and co. manage to get away from the spider-creatures by boat, and catch sight of the so-called Catastrophe starting to take place, as the red dust begins to form into a shape appearing like a more like a mushroom cloud, or as one commenter described it an "Interdimensional orbital strike". - The final few minutes of episode 10 sees Godzilla Ultima use its atomic breath for the first time. It's awesome, especially the charging up now coming with its own midair halo, but there's one particular shot - the fiery blue glow building in Godzilla's jaws from the viewpoint of what looks to be the tank crews on the ground. It's like the Death Star blocking out the sun just before it fires for the first time in Rogue One - the moment before a truly terrifying weapon is unleashed from the perspective of its first victims. - In episode 12, we find that not only did Salunga shrug off being iron maidened again...but he broke out quicker this time. We're treated to the sight of him slowly marching with dozens of crystalized spears impaling him from all angles, but not even seeming to notice or acknowledge they exist. Only one weapon has proven capable of halting him so far, and it's slowly losing its ability to do so. - The finale of episode 12. Just...holy shit. The entire scene just feels like the end times are coming closer and closer, with giant silkworm moths resembling Mothra fluttering around. And appearently, flying yellow moths symbolize oncoming warfare.. And the song that plays in the background? It is called "Alapu Upala" and apparently according to some users, the song is about the coming of end times, brought upon by Shiva. And as we enter the gigantic red cloud with winds accelerating, we finally hear Godzilla roar. The finale is coming to a close, and Godzilla is the beginning. - All of the new incarnations of various Toho Kaiju are this. Rather than being ancient animals or the results of accidents/mutation, these Kaiju are extra dimensional entities that have intruded into our reality. Examinations of Rodan reveal a biology almost completely alien to anything humanity knows, Anguirus literally can see the future, and every last one of them is made of matter that simply defies all physics. And Godzilla? Hes so damn powerful, HE LITERALLY WARPS THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE BY MERELY EXISTING. Its not hard to make a case that this could be the most horrifying incarnation of Godzilla yet.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaSingularPoint
God of War (PS4) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Mimir's predicament before he was found by Kratos and Atreus is a terrifying one and possibly hints of how cruel Odin can be. To elaborate, Kratos and Atreus finds Mimir bound to a tree — not tied or chained to it — but his body is fused with the tree, with only his head having any semblance of movement. He's been there for more than a hundred years. He's also missing an eye, and from what he reveals, Odin came there and tortured him in various ways every day for the past one hundred and nine years. It makes you wonder what horrors Mimir had to endure at Odin's hands that the idea of having his head chopped from his body with the uncertainty of being brought back from the dead is better. As Mimir himself puts it: Mimir: (referring to his bound state)This... this isn't living. - In one random dialogue Mimir reveals that he used to go by a different name: Robin Goodfellow, aka Puck. According to him he used to cause unspecified mischief against humans with some friends in a distant land, and got away with it as long as he kept the forest lords amused. And then one day they weren't amused. The Fair Folk are confirmed to exist, and they may be as dangerous as the Aesir.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodOfWarPS4
Girls' Frontline / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As one of the earlier examples of a Mobile Phone Game with a high emphasis on story-based elements, Girls' Frontline puts out all the stops into giving the impression that there's nowhere to go but down in warfare. - The story gets increasingly dark as you progress further. At the intro, M4A1 and the AR squad are being pursued by the Sangvis Ferri. Other T-doll teams stay behind to buy time for M4A1 to get to safety, and they are slowly overwhelmed. And that's just the very beginning of the tutorial. - The Parapluie, a Sangvis Ferri creation designed to directly subvert Griffon dolls' AI. ST AR-15 is infected with it, causing things to really go to hell. The Arctic event implies that they are carried by inactive equipment lying around in the field. - The Elder Brain itself arrives in search of M4A1 in the end of Zone 07. It uses something even worse than the umbrella virus to stun every single doll in the area except for M4A1, and then Mind Rapes M4. - The entirety of chapter 10. This is where the military appears for the first time. Their extreme firepower and general indifference and cruelty makes this chapter one of the darkest parts of the entire story, and chapter 10 marks a major turning point of the story. - The sheer firepower of the military that was implied until now is finally shown in the true might of the elite KCCO infantry forces. Their squad combat capability stats range between 650k~970k, while even fully leveled up and trained player squads are somewhere around 40k. They can tear through huge amounts of Sangvis Ferri dolls and mechs without a scratch. They are so strong that one can only wonder what it would be like if they had to fight something like this, until... - ...the military finally betrays the G&K, and attacks the AR team. The Carcano sisters are seemingly killed off, RO635 is killed by a headshot from the back, and M4 SOPMOD II goes missing. Sangvis Ferri retreats but not before releasing a stronger parapluie virus, causing vast majority of Griffon dolls and Military dolls nearby to go rampant from the parapluie virus, randomly attacking everything in sight. The situation is so bad that Helian orders an emergency retreat and evacuation to all Griffin Commanders and their non-infected T-Dolls. - The soundtrack is by far one of the darkest themes in the entire game, and along with the KCCO's one-sided massacre of the Sangvis Ferri, almost verges upon nightmare fuel itself. - At the third part of the Continuum Turbulence event, you finally get to see the effect of the Collapse Fluid up close. This is the first time you'll have to fight against the ELID Infectees, flesh-and-blood KCCO military personnel who are turned into zombies after M4A1 detonates the Collapse Fluid during the Singularity event. It's also implied that they're technically still alive, only with their skin silicified and their higher brain functions eroded, until they are left as nothing more than shambling husks. - The sheer magnitude of how badly Griffin is outclassed by KCCO in Polarized Light - your forces last only ten minutes against them in a fight so brutal that Curb-Stomp Battle does not even begin to describe how badly things go. Hell, this isn't just the story over exaggerating KCCO, later maps have 300k CE death squads! - The Reveal of what, exactly, is hidden within the Sub Base from the Butterfly Incident - the Stars and Pikes, a NSU Super Weapon. They're essentially Shoggoths, and are so powerful that nuking them is the best plan that can be used. If KCCO get's their hands on them, there's nothing stopping the NSU from ruling the world. - The sheer insanity of Paradeus and its aims are insane - in his quest to bring back his sister and create a being who can interface with the Precursor ruins, William is willing to cause Collapse Fluid disasters and committing horrific experiments as easily as breathing. There's also the implication that he friend his own mother in Nemrhan. And the rest of his organization is fully onboard with this, because Utopia Justifies the Means. - M4 SOPMOD II is a Tactical Doll that has an interest in collecting Sangvis Ferri parts and takes sadistic glee in reducing SF Dolls to scrap. She is also able to graft those same parts to her body with seemingly no compatibility issues, and (in the Healing Chapter anime) can make a miniature version of herself and a Transforming Mecha that can tank shots from a Jupiter Cannon. Consider yourself lucky that she has a sense of empathy, doesn't have an interest in biology, and is firmly on your side, as well as Anti-Rain's. If those traits were absent and/or she went haywire, she would've been a terrifying adversary that could replace damaged limbs whenever needed, build deadly devices from spare parts on the fly, and apply that same bloodlust and desire for additional parts on G&K Dolls and even humans. - The 'Banzai Run' or 'Hell Run' tactic in the Arctic event. For context, the "Operation Hypothermia" / "Arctic Warfare" event has 'red envelopes' that can be uncovered by fighting Jupiter cannons. Charging headlong into a fully-powered one will tear apart even a fully upgraded squad in mere seconds, so the recommended tactic is to first shut off the power by capturing the node it's on (which is done by capturing the nodes surrounding it), or just bring out a fully upgraded Taunt Fairy and let the Drone unit soak up the rocket barrage while you tear through them effortlessly. - Shattered Connexion is your standard event with your usual dark narrative with interesting lore- WAIT IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN WITH A RAILGUN!? The sheer sight of these things caused many player's jaws to drop in fear, and as shown in gameplay, they are not complete slouches. At least you get a railgun train of your own to make up for it until it gets destroyed during the events of Polarizing Light, but yours only has the railgun section and is significantly weaker than KCCO's ones.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GirlsFrontline
Godzilla: The Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Most entries are listed in their respective episode's production order due to having been aired Out of Order. - Out of all the weird and gnarly monsters our heroes deal with, including freaking aliens, Cameron Winter stands out from the rest of the heroes' adversaries. While HEAT aren't strangers to antagonistic humans, none of them are as personal and vengeful as Winter himself: A cool-headed and seemingly friendly businessman who in reality is a calculating and cold-hearted sociopath, willing to risk innocent lives, the military, and even Godzilla—the sole defender of Earth—all for the sake of profit and petty revenge. Unlike the merely impatient lead researchers of the Nanotech Creature's creators, the well-meaning yet horrifically misguided Alexandra Springer, the careless Tobias Wilson, and the similarly greedy yet standard-villainy Milo Sanders, Winter exceeds his human peers in vileness while lacking any redeeming or humorous qualities, making him shining proof that the worst monsters can be humans. The worst part? Despite having his Evil Plans continuously foiled by HEAT, Winter escapes justice by placing the accusations against the three hunters he hired to kill Godzilla, claiming they attacked out of their own accord with his stolen mechs. Speaking of mechs, not only does he sell them to the military, he gets hired to design technology for them. Regardless of the blows, Winter gets what he wanted: Money. - The Tachyon aliens in the episodes "Leviathan" and the 3-part "Monster Wars." Not only can they control your mind, but if they transplant their consciousnesses into you, you'll slowly end up physically mutating into one of them. When they're forced out of you at that point, they pretty much put you into a debilitating coma. - Let's not forget their "guard dogs" which are basically mutated hybrids of aliens and dinosaurs, complete with long prehensile tongues that are strong enough to pull people. Their introduction shows them kidnapping the scientists exploring the titular alien ship from within the shadows while their victims scream for help. - But none of that compares to their greatest weapon: the first Godzilla transformed into a reanimated cyborg, essentially creating a Godzilla version of the Frankenstein Monster. And unlike the other mutations, Cyborg-Zilla is completely and irreversibly under the aliens' total control. Even its roar doesn't sound natural. - The theory that the show in the same universe as Extreme Ghostbusters and Men in Black: The Series is this — New York is seemingly the epicenter for not only giant kaiju (attacking or otherwise), but also ghosts and various other supernatural menaces (stretching back to the 1980s) as well as aliens, and that through sheer luck, we've managed to somehow survive it all, and even create our own countermeasures. (That said, it's highly likely New Yorkers have become rather jaded to all this stuff after a point.) ## 2. "New Family Pt.2" - The mutant squids are scary monsters to start off the show, since their first appearance makes them look like mysterious tentacles coming out of the oil spill. The worst part? The squids are running away from an even bigger mutation called Crustaceous Rex, a vaguely dinosaur-shaped, tentacle-covered crustacean with a face only a mother can love. ## 3. "Talkin' Trash" - The Nanotech Creature is a colony of singled-celled organisms controlled by Nanomachines, designed to clean up waste by eating petroleum. In its introduction, the colony escapes its container and tries to consume one of the assistants before creator Felix Hoenikker re-contains the colony with a specialized vacuum. Things are about to go smoothly at that point, right? Sadly, no. Thanks to Hoenikker's impatient employer, the Nanotech Creature is released before being properly tested, eating anything it can find, petroleum or not. The best part? This thing is the show's answer to Hedorah, thanks to being a garbage-eating Blob Monster that tries to kill Godzilla by smothering him. ## 8. "What Dreams May Come" - The Crackler, a physical projection of a soft-spoken man's repressed tension going on a rampage with the intent on attacking all of the man's stressors. Its design is pretty distinct from other mutations, appearing as some kind of Big Creepy Crawly, except it's an Energy Being rather than a living organism. Then there's its "laugh"... if you can call it that. ## 18. "An Early Frost" - The Chameleon is a mutation that looks like Godzilla, sounds like Godzilla, and moves like Godzilla, but it is not Godzilla. In fact, it only looks like Godzilla from the neck down (if it has one) because its head and face look nothing like his or any known animal's at that, looking like a three-clawed hand that opens up like a flower. Then there is its resistance against Godzilla's power breath and near invisibility via its Chameleon Camouflage, which is put to great use against the Army. Imagine a massive Body Horror monster that can blend with its environment so well, you won't know where it is until it's too late. - As for why the Chameleon looks and sounds like the Big G, it's because Winter specifically created it to frame Godzilla by mimicking his appearance and attacking people, so Winter can make himself look like a hero for creating the same creature designed to kill Godzilla. ## 19. "What a Long, Strange Trip Its Been" ## 20. "Web Site" ## 22. "Juggernaut" - The Techno-Sentient is a blob-like organism that grew bigger and bigger with every machine it devoured, starting from a child's toy car to a hot dog cart to construction equipment to military grade hardware. And it's not a mindless beast either. It knew that if it had control of the military equipment and launch an unprovoked attack on Baghdad, it could start a third World War that would result in it devouring more technology and destroy everything except machines. The only way HEAT could destroy it was Godzilla constantly smacking the launch scaffolding the Techno-Sentinent had absorbed to where it was also warped around the nuclear missile with no escape, and Randy reprogramming the flight path at the last second so that it detonated out in space. ## 23. "Shafted" - Pictured above is the Silver Hydra, a colony of silver microorganisms that "freeze" their prey with liquid silver. Who are the first victims after waking up? Kids. Scratch that; the kids aren't the first victims, as the heroes discover much older victims dating back from the 1940s. The worst part is we don't know what happened to them after Godzilla takes down the Silver Hydra, or why it's freezing people in the first place. ## 24. "Trust No One" - The DNA Mimic. Picture a puddle of liquid DNA that can replicate any living thing it comes in contact with. Then there's the weapon that was used to kill it, nitric acid, or at least scramble its structure: A solvent capable of melting any living thing right down to its molecular structure. The stakes get higher when the DNA Mimic takes the form of Godzilla, putting Nick in a dire event where he has to tell which is which. It was a miracle he fired the solvent at the DNA Mimic, but imagine the horror when Nick fired at the real Godzilla... The whole episode is essentially a PG-rated take on The Thing (1982), and while it lacks the gory transformations that film is famous for, the episode retains the Paranoia Fuel by not only having the heroes accusing each other of being the titular creature, but also the idea of the DNA Mimic replacing all life on Earth with itself should it escape. ## 30. "Freak Show" ## 32. "Where is Thy Sting?" - Randy's fever dream, where after he got stung by a scorpion, he has a dream about the smugglers where they are attack by a Giant Scorpion with a skull face and scorpion-like people attacking the smugglers as Randy watches on in horror. ## 36. "Future Shock" - HEAT (sans Craven) accidentally travel to an alternate future where monsters known as D.R.A.G.M.A.s have destroyed the militaries of Earth and basically overrun the world. When Nick hesitantly asks what happened to Godzilla, Future Craven can only sadly point to a memorial, stating that although he fought to the last, the monsters finally overcame him. It's chilling to think of monsters able to kill even Godzilla himself. - Wanna know the scariest part about them? They have a very infamous Toho counterpart. Its name? DESTOROYAH. - If Godzilla dies then what happened to the other mutations? The answer comes from Major Hicks who revealed that he release them from Monster Island and every single one of them were annihilated by the D.R.A.G.M.A.s. C-Rex, King Cobra, Giant Bat, Shrewester. They're ALL gone. - Let's not forget that the man-made creations like the Lizard Slayer and Ts-eh-Go should be around when the apocalypse happens. Even they fell before the D.R.A.G.M.A.s.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaTheSeries
Gold Digger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes For a World of Badass filled with badassery, magic, comedy, and more cheesecake and beefcake than you'll find at a Golden Corral, there's a lot of scary stuff going on. - Dreadwing, for example. He's a rapist, a murderer, happily exploits everyone around him, and has committed so many atrocities overall that the entirety of Jade hates him, along with a sizeable-chunk of Earth-based heroes. - The UMBRA. It wants to basically EAT reality. It creates alternate worlds by siphoning off the main one to weaken it, EATS these realities and, sparing only a few from the realities it consumes, lying to them and saying it can save their worlds if they help him devour the main one. - One-shot villain Snuggy. She's an amazon breeder (and as such extremely sexy), a powerful mage, an easily tricked nincompoop, and extremely silly, but she's also more dangerous than you might think. Not wanting to go through nine months of being pregnant, she discovered a spell that allows her to give birth instantly once impregnated. This spell does this by sacrificing nine months of the father's lifespan. There's a glitch in this spell, however, that sometimes results in nine centuries being taken instead, instantly reducing her lovers to bone dust. Since being exiled, she's taken up kidnapping, turning local fauna (including an Abyssalisk and a Wabbit, two of the most dangerous animals on Jade) into handsome, anthropomorphic young men which she then brainwashes to provide her with an endless array of children. And she has a literal army of children, all of whom have inherited her natural talent for magic. Her stupidity and lack of ambition are the only things keeping her from being a deadly threat to every handsome dude in the realm. - Someone has been designing hyper-elaborate deathtraps disguised as ancient ruins that make anything Jigsaw has ever come up with look like the old Mousetrap board game. And said designer is escalating, turning entire pocket dimensions into death traps. (One realm was essentially a giant shopping mall where high end fashion items were available at dollar store prices. Everything that shopaholic Brittany bought started turning into bombs.) It's later implied that the designer is making these traps specifically to kill the Diggers sisters... - While investigating old ruins, to discover where lost superpowerful evils had disappeared to, Gina and two rivals are trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine by the pacifistic entity guarding the temple, where they experience nothing but success over and over again, all their dreams coming true... with no effort whatsoever. Gina escapes, thankfully. She then encounters two of the missing warlords, one of them a Kerrigan expy the other a Guardian expy, the two of them having given up on escaping the temple, having grown bored with the constant success the guardian offered them. While watching TV, the two casually talk about their horrific atrocities, mistaking Gina to be an evil warlord as well, one of them forming a television out of the souls he's devoured. They accidentally tune into Gina's memories of how she escaped the guardian's Eternal Success fantasies, and come to the conclusion that the journey is what matters for them as well, each gaining a horrific Slasher Smile. Both try to escape with Gina, who manages to ditch them. But there's still Gina's two other rivals for them to use. Two of the deadliest, most powerful warlords in history, are motivated to do things again... - FRICKEN ABYSSALISKS. Imagine Yiazmat from Final Fantasy XII times a billion. These things scare the crap out of Dreadwing, and the presence of just ONE on the battlefield is enough to cause a Mass "Oh, Crap!" in an army of powerful warriors and mages. - Credit to Fred where it's due. In the most recent issue as of this writing, he's managed to combine Star Wars (a society of Taun Taun-like creatures), My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (they're freakin' adorable), and The Thing (1982) in a frightening way. One of the Taun Tauns, named Pewdy Pink, is a baker (which is apparently unusual in their society). Her cakes are actually parasitic organisms that are alive, absorbing heat energy from their victims and in some cases taking their shape. (One of them wears the face of a scientist who came before. For a while, it seems he's become one of the creatures.) Britanny, the Big Girl of the group, accidentally swallows some of the cake parasite, which rapidly absorbs her body heat, body fat, magic, and muscle strength, forcing its way out of her and becoming a clone of Britanny with a lamprey mouth. If it wasn't for the Weaksauce Weakness of the creatures (cold, even the cold of a snowball barrage), Cake!Britanny would have killed Britanny and Kylie... - The scariest part? Pewdy is still out there. - Madrid was this for Gina for a while after getting herself transformed: A near-perfect copy of Gina, but with none of her scruples, and boundless ambition and avarice. The first time Gina encountered her, after her escape and(unknown to Gina)HeelFace Turn, Gina was literally horrified. To see her, and nearly forced one of her own friends to kill her. Ironically, it was only after Madrid showed that she had the means to have killed Gina at any time, and hadn't even tried, that Gina realized her turn was genuine. - Feast. She's an interdimensional ogre capable of devouring End Game level entities (basically people so strong they've ascended to beyond godhood levels of power). Spellvis and Natasha, having recently absorbed End Game level power, couldn't see her, but they could sense her, her very presence making them too afraid to use their power for fear of being noticed. When Spellvis used his Male Siren voice to save himself from Mikra and Nadeshko's finisher, he accidentally enthralled Feast, who fell in love and began to extend her tendrils into his DNA, yanking him into her world... - Gordjira. If you ever thought that a fusion of Alf and Godzilla wouldn't be scary, then you have BADLY underestimated Fred Perry. It is so infamous that the hyper-confident Mikra and Nadesko are terrified of it. It drove an entire race of catlike helpers to extinction by devouring them. It also wants to devour Britanny because she has a similar scent to its favorite food. It is FASTER than Britanny and almost as agile, and its intelligent, too, capable of advanced strategic thinking. And on top of everything else, its damn near invincible, requiring a massive amount of ordnance to make it give up and flee. It had never been bested, only driven off. - Its second appearance also gives us this nasty little detail - It is actively hateful and malicious. It started tracking Penny through the trace scent of Britanny on her from a hug she gave her. It eventually figured out that Britanny wasn't there, but kept attacking anyway, reasoning that Penny was probably Britanny's friend and killing her would hurt the werecheetah.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoldDigger
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Godzilla has often been called a walking nuclear reactor. Here, the reactor has gone critical. If he implodes, he turns Japan into an uninhabitable ghost town. If he EXPLODES, he destroys the entire planet. Not to mention the side-effects on Godzilla himself, who has just about gone Ax-Crazy from the pain he's in. The red on his face and body does not help. - When Godzilla begins melting down at the end of the final battle, his skin literally begins to melt. A close-up shot near the climax of the final battle shows off one of Toho's first uses of CGI, a pretty convincing example of it at that... and it's of Godzilla's flesh starting to drip off his skull! - Destoroyah. To quote James Rolfe, "He looks like the goddamn devil!" It doesn't help that his juvenile forms look like a cross between a Xenomorph, a crab, and a scorpion, or that he's able to use the same horrific ability as the Oxygen Destroyer. - Then you get into his origin. He's a pre-Cambrian life form awoken and mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer (see above, also where he got his name), the only weapon to ever permanently kill a Godzilla. Essentially, Destoroyah is the living embodiment of everything Dr. Serizawa feared about his creation. - Destoroyah's arrival in his Perfect Form is just as shiver-inducing as it is awesome; after being blasted into an oil refinery by Junior earlier on, Destoroyah, who had absorbed Junior's DNA after biting him in the chest, manages to evolve to a state where he gains an internal skeleton, allowing him to take on his iconic bipedal stance. Just as Junior and Godzilla finally reunite, a wave of energy erupts from the refinery, causing it to be blown completely apart. As the flames rage and the dust clears, Destoroyah stands tall, his wings outstretched, in a low angle shot that fully shows off his demonic appearance. - Even his roars are terrifying. With the high-pitched shrieks and wailing, he sounds as absolutely demonic as he looks, as heard here. - Worse still is Destoroyah's fan-made roar made by Lilium Music. Listen to it... if you dare. - The entire sequence where the juvenile Destoroyah attacks Yukari is this. The poor girl is cornered in her car by the creature, which attacks and damages the vehicle in a mad frenzy to get to her. This jams the car doors, leaving her unable to get out. She barely avoids being maimed, blasted, and having her face eaten off multiple times, and if not for the timely arrival of G-Force, she would have most certainly been killed. - The fact that Destoroyah is awakened by the Oxygen Destroyer meant Serizawa's fears had came true. To the point he strips several fish to the bone in the aquarium scene. - Also that Destoroyah is the living embodiment of the only weapon to ever permanently kill Godzilla. No last minute radiation, no magic, no nothing, that Godzilla was dead. And now that weapon is a giant monster. Imagine if the Tsar Bomba gained physical form and started walking around. - Destoroyah's Cold-Blooded Torture of Junior, which mainly involves using a Nested Mouth like appendage to drill holes in him. - The Indian version of the movie, retitled "Last Godzilla", basically turns the film into a goddamned creepypasta. The movie is re-edited, sometimes rescored, Destoroyah is randomly given a new, even more terrifying roar, and to top it off, Junior's resurrection is cut out entirely. The ending freeze frames on a sobbing Miki and slaps up a gritty, in-your-face (and in English) "THE END".	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaVsDestoroyah
Carnage in New York / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The party that Carnage crashes and holds hostage. He kills them horribly (one method was throwing a statue through a man) and almost randomly, and we get the POVs of various party-goers, sharing in their terror and helplessness. - The dreams Spidey has in Goblin's Revenge, and the actual results of the Hate Plague.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoblinsRevenge
Goin' KABOOM! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Katie's curse definitely count. An innocent looking girl who can Hulk Out whenever she gets miffed for the tiniest reasons is definitely scary, especially when it's the result of a Hereditary Curse that applies only to females born into her family.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoinKABOOM
Godzilla vs. Kong / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Thanks to Camazotz's actions in the graphic novel Kingdom Kong, Skull Island is permanently enveloped in a Perpetual Storm made from the island's own storm barrier and a leftover superstorm of Ghidorah — by the movie's start, it's wiped out all the humans on the island sans Monarch and Jia, every beast big enough to compromise the bio-dome is implicitly gone, and it's likely (outright confirmed in the novelization) that all the remaining plant life and any remaining fauna is condemned to die and fade away slowly amidst the new conditions note : The island's trees visibly haven't died off yet, even though it's been one to three years since the storm settled over the island. Now let's backtrack to Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). If Ghidorah hadn't been stopped, then what's happened to Skull Island in this movie could've been the fate of every landmass on Earth, even without the other Titans speeding up the destruction. - Godzilla going on a rampage is the worst-case scenario for humanity. The King of the Monsters has travelled all over the world leaving ruin in his wake. Now that the MUTOs and King Ghidorah are gone, there's literally no other Titan that can ever challenge him. Godzilla's rampage in civilian areas (that clearly have not been evacuated) in general is terrifying, a deliberate reminder despite being generally considered a hero for the most part, this Godzilla is a walking natural disaster when provoked just like his villainous (or at the very least antagonistic) Japanese counterparts. - How utterly unstoppable Godzilla is against the US Navy battle group escorting Kong. In real life, that'd be enough firepower to end a conflict just by threatening to show up. Here, frigates, Aegis cruisers, an Iowa-class battleship and F-35 fighters all fall in terrifyingly quick succession while missiles, depth charges and battleship main gun rounds all bounce off him. Only quick thinking on Lind and Andrews' part get him to back off by making him think they weren't a threat any more. The truly terrifying thing is that all that was an afterthought for Godzilla - he was trying to get Kong, and they were just in the way; after Kong briefly gets the upper hand, in his mind, Kong must be incapacitated, or even killed, and it doesn't matter how many humans are slain for him to achieve his goal. It's no wonder Mark is so scared of Godzilla going rogue. - In their first battle, Godzilla drags Kong underwater, threatening to drown him, and Kong's frantic struggles for breath can drive home a major case of thalassophobia for those with a fear of drowning. It takes depth charges detonated all around for Godzilla to release his grasp. - Even Kong gets his own share of nightmarish moments, notably in the aircraft carrier fight where he flings jet fighters at Godzilla as weaponswith people still inside of them, though fortunately the pilots manage to bail out before their planes impact Godzilla's body. - It's revealed that APEX has been genetically-altering and cloning Titans to use as test subjects for Mechagodzilla. Since humans now have such immeasurable power...what other unnatural monstrosities could arise from such technology? - Ren Serizawa is this in spades. The estranged son of Dr. Serizawa, Monarch's own Godzilla expert, he's joined APEX in protest of his father's ideals, and is responsible for the creation of Mechagodzilla: as he believes that all the Titans must be either destroyed or put in chains as mankind deserves to reign the planet uncontested, in a dark juxtaposition of his father's rhetoric of mutual symbiosis with the Titans. - There's something inherently distressing about how Ren is so obsessed with killing someone his father sacrificed his own life to save. Whether it's due to him blaming Godzilla for his father's demise is never fully explained. - The sheer sadistic glee he gets at demonstrating Mechagodzilla's power. Even for a Skullcrawler it's a little too much: he uses Mecha G's arms to pull the struggling, shrieking Skullcrawler apart as he slowly roasts it alive with Mecha G's atomic breath, all the while ecstatic like a child with a new toy, or pulling off the legs of a bug. - The death of the Skullcrawler in general. It effortlessly gets hoisted up and has its arms pulled tight on opposite ends. The subsequent atomic breath, instead of blasting inside and incinerating the organs like before, proceeds to go a step further by blasting through its mouth's roof until it comes out through the brain. Not done yet, Mechagodzilla proceeds to lower his head while still using the breath, effectively very slowly sawing and pulling the corpse in half. It immediately cuts to the protagonists who saw this first-hand jumping into a nearby bunker, in where the windows are immediately splashed with the Skullcrawler's blood and organs. All this carnage happens in just a minute. The kicker? You realize that these tests are nothing more than rehearsals for the real target, Godzilla himself. Imagine him suffering that same fate. Yikes. - When Ren first sees Ghidorah's skull, he refers to it as love at first sight. Given how Ghidorah's consciousness still exists inside its remains, who is to say that Ghidorah did not influence Ren's actions while he was piloting Mechagodzilla? - Walter Simmons himself is a terrifyingly reality-grounded brand of Nightmare Fuel, being an ordinary-seeming man who exhibits the telltale signs of narcissistic and antisocial personality disorder whilst having no apparent Freudian Excuse: he positively thrives off of manipulating other people like pieces on a chessboard, has absolutely no empathy for nor remorse over the millions of people whom he intentionally endangers, he knows how to superficially fake compassion as a manipulation tactic (with the dead look in his eyes when manipulating Nathan Lind giving away that it's all an act), and he has no apparent meaningful emotional connections to anyone, not even his own daughter. The truly scary thing? There are people just like Walter Simmons in real life, and just like Simmons' rather unassuming appearance, they could be anyone, anywhere, and they can blend in a crowd. We can only take comfort in knowing that not all of them are in major positions of power through which they can change the world for the worse like Simmons. - You thought Skull Island was bad? Well, it was just a small sample of the nasty things the Hollow Earth has in store, such as Hellhawks, (basically the Leafwings but far more bloodthirsty), the Warbats, which are giant cobra-like serpents with hoods big enough to use as wings, and the Skullcrawlers return as well: as big as Ramarak and colored an ominous red (And even then, one such giant Hollow Earth Skullcrawler stands no chance against Mechagodzilla). And this is just what we see on a short trip on one specific path, given how massive the Hollow Earth is, there's no telling what else is living there. - Narm Charm aside, Godzilla giving a Slasher Smile and what sounds like a low, evil cackle as he singes Kong in the back with his Atomic Breath can be a bit unnerving, especially in light of how this is easily the most expression any Godzilla has shown on screen due in part to the emphasis and lack of ambiguity that makes Godzilla look just a bit sadistic. - Godzilla's entire Beam Spam is a horrifying moment. Kong is forced to run to avoid getting burned, and from the look on his face we can see he's actually afraid. - Godzilla holds back on Kong for most of the film, merely trying to drive him away so he can track down Ghidorah's signal. But after Kong presses his Berserk Button one too many times and manages to trounce him during the first act of the fight in Hong Kong, Godzilla goes absolutely feral: he knocks Kong's axe away, gets down on all fours and lunges and snaps at him with an almost crocodilian ferocity like never before. He utterly throws Kong around like a rag doll and for one brief moment looks like he's about to finish him off...then simply roars in his face and departs, almost as if to say, "If I wanted it, you'd be dead already." - What makes Godzilla on all fours all the more terrifying is that when you initially look at him, you would think it would be physically impossible. The bear-like ferocity (the Godzilla in the Monsterverse is partly designed after Grizzly bears) and crocodilian speed puts that to rest almost immediately. - Scarier than that is that ultimately, for a bit, Godzilla's absolutely savage Curb-Stomp Battle in the final round on Kong actually does briefly the giant ape as the sheer physical trauma that Godzilla caused makes Kong go into cardiac arrest, which would have ended him had he not been resuscitated at the last moment by the detonation of the hovercraft's antigravity core to give him a jolt to restart his heart. Even if Godzilla didn't go in for the kill himself, his sheer strength nearly does Kong in anyways. It's KILL the damage, even unintentionally, that Big G can do when sufficiently pissed the fuck off. absolutely frightening - For that matter, all Kong can do the entire time is run. It looked like he might have actually had Godzilla on the ropes, until Godzilla bit, threw him off and dislocated his shoulder. From then on all Kong could do was run, Godzilla's relentless assault not even giving him enough time to get on his feet before leaping onto the ape, clawing up his chest and pinning him under foot. Kong stayed defiant and punched Godzilla in the wound left by the axe, which just made him angrier and prompting him to bring his giant foot down a second time. - Godzilla's atomic breath is powerful enough to punch a hole all the way to the Hollow Earth if he powers it up enough. This video estimates that such a feat would require a force at least 1800 times that of the Tsar Bomba (a 58 megaton nuclear bomb - the largest ever detonated). Imagine what it could have done to Kong if Godzilla wasn't as merciful... - And the fact that even with such power, Mechagodzilla's atomic breath is still far stronger. It manages to leave a nasty burn on Godzilla's nigh-impenetrable hide, which is all the more frightening given that not even a point-blank nuke could hurt him. note : Though to be fair to Godzilla, he wasn't exactly in the best condition since he was fresh off from his fight with Kong where he also used the atomic breath multiple times against him. - In Wikizilla's Kaiju Profile video on Mechagodzilla, it is revealed through a Japanese theater program that Mechagodzilla's Proton Scream note : The official name for his beam attack comes in at a whopping 758 petajoules of energy, and that's the lower calculation! This is mainly because of the wonky way the equations for the beam's energy level are written, without any exponents; note : '4.10 x 1080 Joules (12 to the 16th power)' formatting the second equation correctly comes out to 758 petajoules, but the first equation equals out as being around 100 billion times the mass energy equivalent of the entire observable universe. For some comparisons, the Tsar Bomba's energy yield was a mere 210 petajoules, while the third explosion during the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 is estimated to have been in the range of 840 petajoules. That's right, Mechagodzilla's Proton Scream is so powerful that it utterly dwarfs any other weapon humans have created, and isn't far off from ranking among the strongest energy releases the Earth has ever produced! - Mechagodzilla FINALLY returns to his villainous roots in this film, and what's worse is that the mecha is possessed by the dreaded GHIDORAH. He is an unstoppable engine of mass destruction armed with plasma arm-cannons, a semi-autonomous drill tail disturbingly reminiscent of that of Shin Godzilla, and a red atomic breath far more powerful than Godzilla's own. His design is also quite disturbing, with a skull-like face reminiscent of the Terminator, glowing red eyes, and long, gangly arms that make him look uncannily human-like. Most unsettling, however, is the fact that his cockpit was fashioned out of Ghidorah's skull; and at times, Mechagodzilla makes some eerily Ghidorah-like sounds, giving a sinister implication of whose mind is really in command when Mechagodzilla goes rogue... - Mechagodzilla's awakening is pretty disturbing, with him motionless in the APEX hangar, and then suddenly, he short-circuits a bit, and to everyone's horror, he slowly begins to move on his own as Ghidorah's brain takes control...and he slowly sneaks behind the APEX command centre, where the organization's leader, Simmons, fails to notice until it's too late. Ren Serizawa is also electrocuted to death in the Ghidorah skull cockpit, as the camera zeroes in on Mechagodzilla's eyes flickering blue and red, signifying the return of who else... - Ren's death is even worse in the novelization: rather than being electrocuted, Ghidorah's consciousness essentially devours his consciousness. - Crossing into tearjerker territory, but Ren's last thought before his mind is devoured by Ghidorah's consciousness is a vision of his father, who he refers to as Daddy. - One especially harrowing scene is Mecha G pinning Godzilla down to the ground after throwing him around: and for the first time ever in the series, Godzilla is visibly afraid. He helplessly gazes up at the machine with Mechagodzilla's visage reflected in his eye, and then Mechagodzilla grabs his head, pries his jaws open, and seems fully prepared to finish Godzilla off with his very own Kiss of Death... - The worst part is how utterly sadistic he is. He has every bit the ounce of strength needed to finish Godzilla quickly, but instead, he takes his time beating him senseless and taking him apart, clearly relishing in his newfound dominance compared to before. While it does, like last time, result in his demise due to Godzilla still being alive to help Kong kill him, it makes you wonder; if the least intelligent of Ghidorah's heads was capable of this kind of sadism, how bad would Godzilla have had it if it was Ni, or worse, Ichi, who was in control? - Given Ghidorah's decentralized nervous system that can recreate the minds and personalities of lost and severed heads...what if this indeed is Ichi's mind, remembering everything Godzilla did to him? - Or perhaps just as bad: what if Kevin was in fact the most evil of the three heads, only being restrained by Ichi's dominance, and now that he has free reins to his own body he can finally run rampant with nobody to hold him back? - Mechagodzilla once again starts to brutalize Godzilla even if he's teamed up with Kong. Kong spots his axe in the rubble and uses it on the Mecha, from that moment onward it seems like Kong is starting to gain the upper hand. After landing one sweep blow that floors Mechagodzilla, Kong, raises his weapon for another attack, but Mechagodzilla instantly interrupts him with a rapid swipe of his tail and punts him into a building. His tail arcs behind himself and launches the tip of it but Kong grabs it in time... only for it to start rotating like a drill and it slowly starts to inch closer and closer to Kong's cheek as he has a panicked expression glued on his face. The next shot after is another close up of Mechagodzilla's face, with a disturbing gaze of murderous intent as his eyes are vividly glowing. What's even more frightening is that it's Kevin displaying his level of sadism lurking inside of the literal killing machine, the last time he was this vicious was when he excitedly started to bite into Godzilla's neck via slurping the radiation out of him like a kaiju vampire. - Consider everything from Ghidorah's perspective: Having been reawakened from your icy tomb after centuries of slumber, you reengage your hated enemy, and come close to destroying him forever, only for in your hubris suffering a definitive, and humiliating, defeat. Then you are resurrected, but not by your own doing, not with your own mind and not in your own form - by creatures so small they barely register as ants to you, for the purpose of using you as a puppet to fight their meaningless battles and, to top it off, in a form that mimics the very thing that destroyed you. No one deserves a Fate Worse than Death more than Ghidorah, but seeing all that, it's understandable why he's even more bloodthirsty than usual. - On that topic, there's the fact it immediately goes for Simmons when Ghidorah takes over. Given it's been previously established Ghidorah was smart enough to recognise and go after individual humans (Madison in the last film), it's very possible it knows Simmons is the one responsible for its new form - and given all that's mentioned above, it isn't happy about that. The novelisation confirms this line of thinking, having it focus on the "one that believed they controlled it" immediately after its new consciousness comes into being. - One frightening factor: both time Godzilla's drawn to attack, Mechagodzilla's eye is flickering active in the exact same way with the same sound, completely independent of Apex. The second time it's after Ren has powered down Mechagodzilla and is just talking to Walter...It's very possible Ghidorah was already awake and just biding his time, waiting for Mechagodzilla to be completed. - Mechagodzilla's entrance into Hong Kong. He blasts his way out of Apex's facility which sends chunks of rock into buildings. Once he actually emerges he promptly blasts rows of buildings to dust simply because he can. - Made worse is when he lets loose the Proton Scream on the ground below, you hear people screaming. And it seems Mecha G is specifically aiming for them. - After laying waste to Hong Kong, Mechagodzilla jerks its head towards Godzilla, before emitting three deep, reverberating tones. An Evil Laugh? Or is Mecha-G directly calling out Godzilla by name, one syllable at a time? Either way, both scenarios bring up a multitude of implications that are downright chilling to comprehend. - Something about this shot is much worse. Mechagodzilla is not staring at Godzilla. He's staring at YOU! - One more frightening aspect is that Ghidorah's had his body completely incinerated and all that remains of him is a skull and some neurons... and he's still not dead and able to become a threat again. It gives the feeling that Godzilla didn't go to such extreme overkill last time just because he was angry, but because nothing less than complete obliteration can kill King Ghidorah period. - One Fridge Logic raised by fans was why Ghidorah's severed middle head was still alive and needed Godzilla "smoking the dragon blunt" to destroy him for good, but the head recovered from Isla del Mara seemed dead. Given this movie, it becomes that Ghidorah's remaining head was not completely dead — it was just unconscious or at most undead all along, and with enough energy, Ghidorah's consciousness comes back from the dead, even after the severed head has been further reduced to just an upper skull. - And at the end of the movie, Mechagodzilla is destroyed by the combined efforts of Godzilla and Kong: but Ghidorah's skull, in APEX's hangar and not in the machine, is very much still alive and intact. Could it possibly hint at a potential return, especially given his extreme regenerative capacity? - The novel further supports the notion that Mechagodzilla is just as capable of taking command and ordering the Titans as Ghidorah, and had he killed Kong and Godzilla, he would've resumed exactly where King Ghidorah left off... only this time, with both Godzilla and Kong dead there would be absolutely nothing capable of stopping him again. - While some have complained about Mechagodzilla's design being somewhat lacking in this film, one thing we can all agree on is that this version definitely feels more robotic than previous versions did. The way it slowly starts up, the artificial, mechanised sounds it makes when it moves, even how it's 'voice' sounds so unnatural and machine-like. Despite Ghidorah's skull controlling it, it's clear this thing is truly soulless. A heartless killing-machine built to do only one thing, and designed to do it very well. - In the novelization, both Mark Russell and head honcho Director Guillerman respond to Mechagodzilla's mass-murdering emergence and the realization that Apex was responsible for Godzilla's rampage all along by wondering aloud whether they should be rooting for Godzilla or Mechagodzilla (this comes after Mechagodzilla has not only confirmed with its mere existence that Mark and Guillerman were right to suspect Apex of being the bad guys, but also after the Mecha has established it's far worse and much more like Ghidorah than Godzilla has ever been by blasting several city blocks for no other reason than because it could). How scary is that; knowing that the organization in charge of monitoring the Kaiju and helping mankind to effectively balance the fate of the world is being run by these two dunderheads? - For bonus points, this film establishes that Mark's Break the Haughty in Godzilla: King of the Monsters didn't last and that he didn't really internalize much of anything from the previous film, so it seems unlikely that he's going to learn anything following the events of this film either going forward.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaVsKong
GoAnimate / 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! Many "Grounded" videos are littered with Narm and Nightmare Retardant, but even that doesn't stop some from crossing the line into something legitimately unsettling. ## Across most videos (with particular examples included): - "Scary Voice" (alternative name, "Damien"), as the title suggests, is a really deep voice that can be very effective when used correctly. - In many videos, when a parent gets angry, the entire scene has a red tint that can feel scary for many people. - Five words: "GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!" In some videos, a parent will yell their child's name at least five times, followed by the aforementioned line. Combine that with the hellish flames above the red background, and the parent often saying it in the "Scary Voice" setting, and it makes it a pretty scary — albeit very brief — scene. Sometimes it functions as a Jump Scare, making it worse. - The use of scary images (including Jeff the Killer, the Viacom, Screen Gems and VID [now VIDgital] logos) can be this for those who fear them proper. - Some depictions of Boris the Teeth Guy can get somewhat uncomfortable to watch for a number of reasons, among them being transforming into a Humanoid Abomination, and just the way the character is depicted treating everyone around him regardless if they are a troublemaker or not. Not to mention how loud he is. - There's the One-Winged Angel form of Boris the Teeth Guy in "Boris the Teeth Guy Gives Caillou A PUNISHMENT DAY", which can be watched here. Also, the final part of the video has Boris the Teeth Guy kill Caillou by using an eye-shot Death Ray, causing Caillou to expand, cry in the "Jennifer" voice, and then explode, sending High-Pressure Blood flying across the room. What was most likely supposed to be a Bloody Hilarious moment is instead rather disturbing. - There are some videos that depict a troublemaker (or a bad user) being executed for their crimes by the entire populace of their city. The whole ordeal is completely disturbing to watch as literally everyone (no, seriously, no one is usually shown defending them) is celebrating the impending (and eventual) death of a person, which is just downright demented, especially if A) the person being executed is a kid B) a fictional character you like who normally wouldn't hurt a fly is shown among the crowd wishing death on someone or C) the crimes committed by the troublemaker don't warrant them being executed in the slightest, if not all three. Combined with the fact that even the character's parents and families are often shown celebrating their death along with everyone else as well and the executed character's tombstones usually read "B.I.H (Character)" (meaning "Burn in Hell"), these videos almost make you want to question the sanity of the users who make these types of videos. - Pretty much the entire point of a Punishment Day is for the troublemaker to go through multiple forms of torture and abuse back-to-back to truly make them suffer for whatever misdeeds they've committed. That said, a lot the punishments dished out can get extremely brutal, with some Squick being thrown in for good measure. The punishments the troublemaker must face include taking extremely hot/cold showers, being assaulted, being forced to do disgusting things, or even having their genitals cut off. - The Error videos. Most of the time, their attempts at being scary come off as Nightmare Retardant, but they can be quite effective in certain cases, especially with the use of things like eye-straining red tint, EAS sounds, and unnerving images. - While you could make a case for all of the "(Character) Steals a Car/Gets Grounded" videos as they invariably end with the main character (sometimes intentionally) running somebody over with the car they stole, some videos show the injured character in the hospital. This wouldn't be so bad (and more Narmy) if it weren't for the fact that some users represent the character's injuries with photos of actual damaged body parts in their videos. - Although they're always meant to be satirical and thus funny, any video made by NotSmirks can count as this. The very Gonk-ish looking characters, weird gibberish, extremely loud music and jumpscares are aspects that may unnerve some people. - You want an example? We have Respecting of the Opinion, one of the trippiest GoAnimate/Vyond videos in existence. - A similar user, NotZick, cranks up the Gonk-ish character designs and weird gibberish to even bigger heights, and a number of their videos easily become creepy as a result. - This sound effect. Not only does it come out of nowhere, but it's mainly used whenever a character gets beaten up, such as Fred giving concussions. - Most big updates (the change from Flash Player to HTML5, the shutdown of GoAnimate for Schools and the shutdown of the Legacy Video Maker, as recent examples) are often shown as an end of the world scenario. While sometimes the video's main characters manage to get to a portal to another version of GoAnimate/Vyond, videos like this can often result in a Downer Ending. - One example is The End of Vyond, which has parts of the world blipping out of existence and Caillou and Boris getting killed by a meteor. - Another example is Ariel & the Legacy Videomaker Shutdown. Ariel, her family and her friends hide in a basement as the video gradually becomes more glitchy. The video then starts devolving into static, ending with Ariel and the rest of her world presumably being completely destroyed. ## Specific examples: "First punishment: Watching all videos listed here." "Wah! I won't sleep tonight." "Second punishment: A really cold shower. Get in the shower now!" "It's so cold it's so cold it's so cold wawawawawawawa!" "Last punishment: Go to your room and browse this website for the rest of your natural born life! " "Wa-AAAAAAAAAAH-ah!"	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoAnimate
Golden Films / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes If you really think about it, this studio glosses over a lot of dark events in their movies. - Aladdin has Haseem's death. He suffers a Cape Snag and gets stabbed by his own sword, dying a painful Family-Unfriendly Death. - Not to mention the fact that he scalped and murdered a woman as part of a disguise to trick Aladdin. - Their take on Anastasia. Unlike Don Bluth's version, they blatantly state that Anastasia's family was killed. Anastasia is almost killed, but she ends up with amnesia. The last half of the movie focuses on her living a new life with Alexander and even having a son together. When she finally regains her memories, it's at the very end and she never fully addresses the fact that her family was killed in front of her. It also leads to one of the biggest Karma Houdinis in film with Rasputin getting away with usurping and killing most of the Romanovs and taking over Russia. - In their second Beauty and the Beast movie, the Beast refused to help a group of starving townsfolk and let them walk away empty-handed. This led to a majority of them, including the three comic-relief ghosts, dying because of his cold and selfish nature. In order for them to pass on, they have to help the man that killed them, thus causing them to develop a dark form of Stockholm Syndrome. - During the volcano eruption in The Legend of Atlantis, there's a shot where one of the panicking civilians trips and is crushed by a falling column. - In Princess Castle, the titular castle is filled with living furniture, probably to bank off of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. However, all the food in the castle is also sentient as well. After we see this, there's a scene where the kids throw a living peanut butter jar into a crocodile's mouth to shatter and gum it up so they can escape. He's never seen again after the furniture turns back into humans. - Some examples come to mind from Sleeping Beauty: - The entire sequence of Felicity pricking her finger. She doesn't immediately succumb to the spell, staying awake just long enough to beg for anyone to help her as she loses consciousness, right before pleading with Primrose to forgive her for disobeying her orders. When the old woman than reveals herself as Odelia, her evil cackling is distinctive enough that Felicity's parents realize right away what's most likely happened and fear for their daughter's well being. It's then Odelia points out what kind of future Felicity will endure when she awakens, pointing out Primrose's "100 years" addition means Felicity will outlive everyone's she ever cared about, while her parents will slowly age and die knowing how utterly alone Felicity will be. - Primrose spends every ounce of magic she has to freeze the kingdom in time so Felicity won't lose her loved ones, and vice versa. But this takes so much out of her, she lies down beside Felicity and her body slowly shrinks until she's become an actual primrose. She then spends the next century trapped in her rose form, unable to move or do anything but communicate magically until the right prince comes along. And when he finally does, \|\|Primrose ends up committing suicide via Heroic Sacrifice begging Prince Richard to throw her flower form at Odelia in order to use her last bit of power to freeze Odelia long enough for Richard to awaken Felicity.\|\| - Odelia grows so desperate to stop further princes from reaching the castle, she creates a bottomless pit that opens whenever someone gets close enough to the forest of thorns. And we actually see some poor unsuspecting prince and his horse fall inside, and if he didn't spend eternity falling he was most likely crushed to death when the pit closed. - Thumbelina has the implication of a lot of people drowning if Thumbelina doesn't get to the Meadow of Tulips. This gets worse when \|\|Mona\|\| keeps manipulating Thumbelina, disregarding both her welfare and her people's lifes at the same time. \|\|She is selling Thumbelina to Mr. Mole, damning her to live unhappily ever after\|\|.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoldenFilms
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - After the first werewolf attack, Ginger and Brigitte return to the safety of their bed, but they can still hear the fighting from outside. One of the men is heard screaming " God help us, God help us." - Brigitte's hallucination sequence was pretty unsettling. - Just the setting in general: an isolated, rugged wilderness in the dead of winter, crawling with ravenous werewolves. - The Paranoia Fuel in knowing the beasts are always patrolling the dense forest surrounding Fort Bailey, hidden by snowy foliage. Watching, waiting...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GingerSnapsBackTheBeginning
Gone / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Gone, following in the tradition of the books that Michael Grant co-wrote with his wife, are filled with Nightmare Fuel. Unmarked spoilers follow. Gone - The first time we see Lana in GONE, she's in the passenger seat of a truck being driven by her Grandpa Luke. Then her grandpa disappears, leaving her and her dog trapped in a truck out of control. What happens next is grisly in its own right, and Michael Grant's description of the next few minutes for Lana is enough to haunt the reader for a long time. She gets turned into a damn ragdoll in that truck, and at the end of it all not only is her body graphically twisted, but her right arm is horrifically broken, which the author graciously describes in great detail, mentioning how her arm has broken bones nearly poking through the flesh. - Most of Drake's dialogue towards Astrid. He's talking about killing her (which is scary enough considering it's Drake) but it sounds like he's planning something else... - Bette's death arguably qualifies. She is hit over the head by Orc after she is caught using the power and, while the intent seemed to be to merely intimidate her, she dies of complications shortly afterwards. - In chapter nineteen San, Quinn and Brooke are sent out to go through the houses in Perdido Beach and make sure that the stoves are switched off, the porch lights are switched on. They then enter a house with a strong smell of decomposition inside. And then they see a baby's pacifier just inside the front door... - Interestingly enough, the scariest part of book 1 was descriptions of Mary purging. It was just so graphic and realistic. Hunger - In the very first chapter of the book. E.Z. getting eaten alive by the Zekes. The descriptions were very graphic and horrifying, as were the tragic reactions of Sam, Edilio and Albert. - There's also the descriptions of Brittney getting buried alive in Hunger. It'll make you claustrophobic on the spot. - Drake beating Sam almost completely to death with his Combat Tentacles in Hunger. - There's no specific moment, but the descriptions of anyone that the Gaiaphage Mind Rapes are pretty scary. A particular shout-out goes to Lana and her Heroic BSoD. Lies - Early in the book Panda, one of Cain's few remaining followers, commits suicide by getting a car rolling and steering it off a cliff. The starving kids at Coates Academy then cook and eat his corpse in order to survive. - The realisation that Brittney doesn't seem quite right after having mysteriously come back from the dead. Plague - Dekka is half eaten alive by bugs which burst from her stomach...She is then fully-conscious as Sam literally burns her flesh to kill the bugs, with Lana healing her horrific injuries so she can't pass out/die. She actually begs Sam to kill her. - The titular plague which makes characters hack their lungs up. The disease is often fatal and spreads at an alarming rate. What's more is that, unlike injuries, Lana can't cure disease so there is little that can be done to help characters who catch it. Fear - Poor, poor Diana in FEAR had to give birth in a hot, dark mine. - And she was being slave-driven by Drake, Brittney and Penny before hand. Just before she goes into a agonizing and undignified labor, Penny makes her believe that her baby is bursting out of her stomach...And that it's a giant bug with Caine's face which is eating her. According to Penny, she didn't just see it, she truly felt it. - After she gives birth, Penny makes her believe she is pregnant with 1000 rats which chew through her womb. - Mary and Francis's fate in FEAR...They are so horribly deformed that the people who found them thought they were road-kill. And yet, they're still alive, and remain in the hospital for months until they finally, mercifully die. - Cigar's treatment at the hands of Penny, which leads to him spiraling into insanity, horribly mutilating himself, and as a consequence experiencing a Cruel and Unusual Death, thanks to the infamous Zekes. Turns out that leaving someone with an extremely sadistic Master of Illusion isn't really good for them. Light - Diana spends a considerable amount of the start of the book grappling with the reality that her infant daughter has been possessed by an alien that sees her as nothing more than a slave and that would happily kill her if she stopped being useful to it. She clearly wants to believe that there is something good in Gaia but the longer they spend together the clearer it is that Gaia is totally irredeemable and will need to be killed. - The descriptions of Astrid biting off Drake's nose and gouging out his eyes is pretty graphic in LIGHT. - In Light, every scene with Gaia, \|\|who possessed Diana's baby girl,\|\| using her powers to murder helpless children, and \|\|killing Brianna.\|\| - The adults' reactions to the kids in "Light". \|\|They see the way the kids have been living and just what has been going on, and they're horrified. Many of them are initially calling for every kid in the FAYZ to be killed, thinking that they're all evil and beyond saving.\|\| - Gaea's Rapid Aging to an adult form requires enormous amounts of food, which she usually gets by killing and eating small animals...until she sees a young man leaning a ladder against the FAYZ to get a better look inside. She briefly collapses it, just long enough for him to fall in, and attacks him. She doesn't kill him outright, though - she instead tears off one of his arms, cauterizes the wound, cooks the arm, and eats it. Afterward, she forces him to follow her, Drake, and Diana around so that he can feed her more later. Unsurprisingly, he goes mad in a matter of days, and eventually comes to see her as a deity. Monster - The basic premise of the Sequel Series is that the object that carried the Gaiaphage to Earth is one of eight, and the other seven are fast on their way. - The first person to be exposed to one of the Anomalous Space Objects (AS Os) is a little Scottish boy who accidentally eats a small fragment. He promptly mutates into a nightmarish mockery of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, devouring everything in his path and growing as long as two hundred feet. He rampages for days on end, killing and eating nineteen people and countless animals before the Royal Navy is forced to kill him. - Drake is revealed to still be alive, living by himself in the Mojave Desert. He has spent his time there becoming a full-blown Serial Killer, preying on people visiting or passing through the area. By the time of Monster, he has murdered eighteen people, partially flaying them before dragging them into the sunlight to bake to death. - Vincent Vu, aka Abaddon, is a fifteen-year-old boy with severe, undiagnosed schizophrenia, causing persistent delusions that he is the biblical Abaddon the Destroyer. When he accompanies his mom on a research trip to retrieve an ASO from the ocean floor, he sneaks a bite of some of it. This turns him into a starfish-shaped Lovecraftian nightmare 140 feet across, equipped with deadly poisonous stingers and regenerative powers so potent that he can safely break off and control pieces of himself. Vu's transformation alone kills most of the people on the ship with him, but the survivors have it even worse; Abaddon's pieces slowly tear some of them apart for hours, while others get bodyjacked by other pieces and turned into gruesomely deformed and mutated People Puppets. Villain - Dillon Poe. His morph doesn't make him any more physically dangerous, but it grants him an extremely powerful Compelling Voice. It works over absolutely any live medium, so people hearing him through speakers or even on a livestream are just as vulnerable as someone next to him. He can and does control thousands of people at once, who are fully aware of what's happening and unable to stop themselves. - Drake has a torture cave where he takes some of his victims. There, he crucifies them to the wall with railroad spikes and tortures them for weeks on end, giving them just enough water to keep them alive and occasionally feeding them animal feces. He claims that the longest someone lasted was thirty-four days. - Malik's powers. After Shade gave him an ASO injection to heal him from the burns Napalm gave him, he initially thinks he's healed. Turns out that he's actually in morph, and his real body is just as badly injured as it used to be, so if he ever changes back he'll die within minutes. This means that he can never have a moment's peace from the Dark Watchers. On top of that, his only power is an area-of-effect Agony Beam that causes literally maddening pain. It's not even combat-applicable, since mutants in morph are immune. When he figures all this out, he understandably breaks down. When he tries to de-morph, though, he changes back to his burned body, described as charcoal flesh and exposed bones. Hero	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gone
Gone Girl / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes David Fincher's no stranger to Nightmare Fuel-laden stories, but if there ever was an occasion where simply saying "the whole movie" could qualify, it's Gone Girl. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - The media and their treatment of the "Amazing Amy" case, probably one of the most damning portrayals of media since Network. The way some of Nick's actions are used by them as solid proof he killed Amy, despite being simply shell-shocked reactions anyone could have, and the flip-flop at the end when they believe Desi kidnapped Amy, is creepy as hell. - How the film deconstructs Double Standards skewed in the favor of women by presenting them through Nick's POV and how Amy herself knows and takes advantage of them. (Nick himself is far from being a saint, but still.) - Amy, aka the Demoness of Disproportionate Retribution. Especially regarding her fake rape accusation to an ex-boyfriend; for a slight, she fucked up his life forever. - The box-cutter scene, the end result of which is depicted in the page image. But let's not leave out how it builds up — even as the scene focuses on Amy and Desi having sex, the music creates a lurking dread in its distant pulsing that drains the eroticism of the moment, making it feel less like lovemaking and more like two animals in the wild — a manipulative predator and her unwitting prey. Then, as the sex intensifies, the music builds — and when Amy actually does the deed, the pulsing reaches its loudest and angriest as the scene starts to quickly Fade In and out of each shot, leaving you terrified to see what happens next. - The fact that Amy ends the film with barely a chink to her armor. - The scene where after Desi leaves his house, Amy then ties a rope around her ankle, dunks the front of her lingerie in red wine, then crawls towards where she knows there's a camera and begins to scream and presses herself against the glass. The way Rosamund Pike contorts her body, the music and the entire visual is incredibly unsettling — you know it's an act, but Amy still looks like she's not pretending. - All of Amy's attempts to frame Desi after he's taken her in are nothing short of the very worst forms of determination. For one, Amy has already framed an ex-boyfriend for rape before the plot began, but it gets worse considering the lengths she goes to in order to frame another man to create the public idea that she was kidnapped and abused in his house; Not only did she act like Desi's prisoner in the above-mentioned camera footage, she would later forcefully insert a wine bottle (thankfully with a Discretion Shot, but you can INSIDE OF HERSELF tell what she is doing) to further the idea of Desi raping her once she was brought to a hospital to treat her "injuries". - Even if you know that Amy is a complete psychopath who lied about most of the events of the diary, Rosamund Pike plays her as such a kindly, doe-eyed innocent in flashbacks that you still find yourself feeling sorry for her and taking her side. It's pretty nightmarish having a fictional character so thoroughly get in the audience's head that a lot of the arguments and controversy surrounding the book and the movie are all based on people forgetting that Amy's worldview is supposed to be wrong. - He's not in it for very long, but there's something really creepy about Desi. Especially the scene where Amy isn't acting like the perfect houseguest he wants, so he confiscates her things, then when she moves to stand up, he looms over her and says robotically, "I'm not going to force myself on you." ...his face and tone really do not add any sincerity to what he says.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoneGirl
Goodbellas / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In a fanfic when the mafia are defending their home from even worse villains, nightmare fuel is to be expected. Spoilers are unmarked, so this page isn't for the faint-hearted. - "The Mancunian Candidate" has the massacre Blake inflicts on the White Fang. Granted, she was avenging her father's death, but imagine being on the receiving end of a female version of The Punisher. - "1989" mentions an incident involving Nora and an illegally sourced grenade launcher against a group of violent weed growers, which causes Yang (the firebug of the group) to heave at that. - "Business As Usual" contains a line about a Noodle Incident during a bikie war that came too close to the Vale in the previous year. The incident ended with Ren giving Yang a biker's corpse to dispose of ... once said biker had a big weight lifted off his shoulders. - "The Goon Show Incident" has two standout moments of this. - The first shows the game plan from Roman and his group; they plan to gentrify the west end of town and impoverish the southern end, then set up a crime trade and run when the authorities start sniffing around. - The second of these shows Yang and Nora getting raped by Adam and Neon respectively, while the rest of team FNKI stand guard. Even , who'd butchered the whole of the White Fang at twenty, was horrified at what happened. Blake - "Untouchable" features this twice, combined with Moment of Awesome on both counts. Ruby and Ren respectively avenge Yang and Nora, by giving Adam Taurus and team FNKI some of the worst deaths put to paper. - First, Ren and his crew manage to kidnap team FNKI and place them within Yang's painting booth - which has conveniently been covered with plastic matting a la Dexter. Ren then proceeds to hoist Neon (who'd raped Nora while the others guarded the van) onto a hook, shoved a crowbar up her womanhood and "stirred it like his coffee". After complaining in a Tyrian-esque manner about Neon being a candiless pinata, Ren then proceeds to bash Neon brutally with that crowbar, before removing her from the hook. What happens next manages to disgust his own men; Ren sheathes his penis in sandpaper ... and rapes her hard enough to cause her to bleed to death. The rest of the cops merely got burned and bashed in with hammers, before all four of them were dumped in their lockers at Atlas Station with cacti shoved up their backsides. - And second, Ruby shoots Adam's nuts off deep within a nature reserve, blinds him with a pair of knives, and duct-tapes his mouth, eyes and limbs together. Bundling him into his own van, Ruby finds a circular bandsaw within, and drives the van towards a barrel of unused oil within a quarry's blasting pit. She proceeds to saw him in half vertically, arse first, until she reaches his neck. Then, she chops his head off, places his halves upside down within the barrel, then floats his head on top. After taking a Polaroid, Ruby shoots a flare gun at the barrel and burns his remains. - "Enter The Pigs" shows a newly-graduated Velvet discovering the corpses of team FNKI, then getting called to the remains of Adam. She doesn't take either of these well. And to give an idea of how hard the deaths of the former rock the station, Port becomes The Alcoholic over the following month, Sun (who saw it second) was disgusted when he saw the scene (despite seeing several victims of the bikie wars), and even Penny (who's the forensic examiner) is unnerved. - "Lines Drawn" features the attempted rape of Neo by Roman, which only gets stopped when Neo gives Roman Ruby's address and passes it off as Blake's. The Manchild behaviour Roman indulges in is disturbing, to put it mildly. - "Watts The Fool Believes" has a minor freakout from Pyrrha when she sees just how prepared Watts was to burn the Vytal restaurant down. Much to her surprise, the car contained a small package of civilian-grade C4, complete with blasting caps and wires, along with a jerry can of petrol and a bunch of firestarters and cherry bombs. Blake had the foresight to send Ruby to spy on a funeral, Pyrrha shakily rationalised as she drove to the dealership. Thank Christ This stuff would've blown a massive hole in our income and driven Blake insane. - "Roman Invasion" shows just how scary meth addicts can be, in the form of Tyrian Callows. He fails to stop the car and break in as ordered by Emerald, then shoots wildly at the house and drives off cackling without Emerald. Of course, Neo gave Roman and co. the neighbouring address (believing that burgling Ruby was a bad move), and ended up shooting Qrow instead. Little wonder Emerald decided to stab him in the back. - "Fall Of The Roman Empire" has three moments. Emerald gets abducted and burnt on a pyre by Ren and Cardin, Mercury gets bashed to death and skewered with his leg braces by Russel and Dove, while Ruby guns Roman down and leaves his body within a shack that's minutes away from exploding. - It's brief, but "... Must Come To Their Ends" mentions the state Oscar was found in; his head had been severed and jammed halfway up his backside. - Ciel's ordeal in "Bunny Hopping" certainly gets in. Bound and gagged within the boot of a car, which gets driven in a high-speed chase from the southern edge of Sydney to the northern edge of Botany Bay and set to blow up. It's quite a relief when the cops get her out of there within half a minute of the explosion.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Goodbellas
Godzilla (1954) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "SKREEEEEEEOOOOOOOOONK!!!" To reiterate again: This is one of the darkest Godzilla films ever made in the franchise's overall chronology, and the first film of the franchise. This not like the campier, more heroic movies later on in the series—this is a horror film, and a very dark reminder of the day that Hiroshima was hit by the bomb. - Who knew a rubber glove being rubbed on a bass can produce THE roar!?! - Special Effects Failure aside, the film has it on level of nightmare fuel: - The opening sequence alone makes you shiver with Hell Is That Noise with Godzilla's iconic roar. The fact that John Williams used it as inspiration to make the creepy opening titles to the very first Jurassic Park movie says a lot about its foreboding factor. - The destruction of the fishing boats in the opening scenes. - The Typhoon scene. It takes place at night while a typhoon occurs. Then suddenly you hear footsteps and a sudden earthquake starts to make your house collapse. Then you see several rows of houses crushed from above. Even worse in the Americanization where the roar was added, adding the paranoia. The wide-angle shot of the island being hammered by the storm, throwing gigantic waves up against the houses looks magnificently horrifying, and the low-lighting conditions only emphasize just how terrible the events of that night were. - Godzilla's first appearance. - Serizawa's experiment he shows Emiko. - Godzilla's first and second raids on Tokyo. Millions of people die from getting crushed, burned to death or radiation poisoning, which was very painful for many Japanese audiences to watch at the time. - The mother comforting her children during Godzilla's rampage, saying that they'll be with their father again soon. This small scene is one of the reasons why this movie is treated and considered a horror film, there is no filter and sugarcoating to just how horrifying and dire things are with a giant monster around destroying and killing everything in sight. - The aftermath of Tokyo's destruction with nothing but dead silence, burnt houses, destroyed buildings, houses and lamp posts. - The haunting climax. - It's not the giant monster that's the scary part. No, what's terrifying about the film is the aftermath of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo which looks like the city was hit by an atomic bomb. - If that's not enough, you see people in the hospital either dead or dying. You also see a little girl crying over her mother's death. - A quiet, understated moment of heart-crushing power in the aftermath of Godzilla's attack: A doctor passes a Geiger counter over a little girl. The counter goes berserk. - The Oxygen Destroyer is one of the most terrifying weapons in fiction. Sure, it's just a bomb - but it's a bomb that subjects victims to a horrible death via disintegration. - And is how the original Godzilla is ultimately killed, after being exposed to the bomb, he leaps out of the water to give a terrifying roar, even more-so than his usual roar, in his death throes before sinking back into the water and dissolving into a skeleton - and then, nothing. - Serizawa, the creator of the device, makes it clear that his device could transform Tokyo into a cemetery if it were used on land. He is absolutely terrified of the idea that it might be used as a weapon or that using it will lead to an arms race. When he finally agrees to use it to stop Godzilla, he burns all his research notes and kills himself, all just to make sure it can never be replicated. - It gets worse, as the Oxygen Destroyer ends up creating Destoroyah. - The analogies to weapon of mass destruction, the eerie music associated with it and its horrific effects makes it even more nightmarish than Godzilla himself in the movie. - Godzilla himself is rather terrifying. This isn't some random confused animal in the wrong place at the wrong time. No, he knows exactly where he is. Oh, and he's pissed at humanity and wants to kill everyone. Yes, even you. Worse yet, there's almost nothing you can do to stop him. Something that's big, radioactive, and angry is not something to be taken lightly. - The choir scene. It's haunting and surreal and grief-stricken, like you really are looking at the end of the world. - The assertion in the ending that it's entirely possible that Godzilla is not the only one of his kind and there could easily be multiple. An assertion that was right. While in the Showa Era, Godzilla eventually became heroic, that doesn't change just how horrifying a concept that this horrifying creature that leveled a city and caused all this havoc was not a unique creature...and now the only means of killing it is dead with its creator. - Akira Ifukube's score is very eerie, even on its own. - The main theme is pretty darn terrifying. It just builds and builds the same mofit over and over, sounding like a natural disaster coming closer and closer. - "Horror in The Water Tank" and Oxygen Destroyer are really unnerving tracks, with the latter having a dismal feeling of dread. Both feel like they belong to a more traditional horror movie than a Kaiju movie. - Re-scored versions, without the pops and degradation that accompany old audio tracks, show how well the composition communicates the despair that accompanies Godzilla's rampage.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Godzilla1954
Goodbye Strangers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The bestiary of Goodbye Strangers holds some interesting creatures. Some are harmless, some are not. But the bestiary holds some disturbing creatures under its sway. - Being in close proximity to the Boguldromi slows the perceived flow of time. Those who stray too close will find themselves in a state where they experience a single minute as several hundred years. - The page image depicts the lume, a stranger that is always accompanied by what appears to be a disembodied head. It seeks out people who are in physical peril (e.g. a car crash) to suffocate them by pushing it's hand down the person's throat. Occasionally, the lume generates another severed head that looks exactly like the killed person's.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoodbyeStrangers
Godzilla (1998) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The opening. It starts out with a map of the French Polynesia region, along with some peaceful shots of beaches and the sea accompanied by the soft tunes of La Marseillaise. Then the film's title enters with an ominous hum we get a glimpse of a sign for a nuclear testing site. The music then transitions into Godzilla's theme as we see a colony of iguanas and other reptiles skulking about the testing site, watching on as the crew tear down the island's natural ecology. Then the bomb goes off, creating an epic mushroom cloud that goes on for miles while the reptiles can only look on in wonder before closing in on an iguana egg that managed to avoid the decimation. - The Godzilla species. Giant carnivores that can reproduce asexually, lay eggs that fill the entirety of Madison Square Garden within days, and can appear and disappear within the blink of an eye, and without a sound. - Consider the ecological implications, and you realize that this is a potential doomsday scenario as the Godzilla species reproduces so rapidly that they'd probably eat the rest of Earth's life into extinction within just a couple of generations. The unmade sequel's script actually addresses this, specifically that not all Godzillas live to adulthood. By the time the surviving Godzilla is found in the Australian Outback, it has reproduced, though there are only about 20 Godzillas there. The rest died of natural causes, such as being killed by predators. - Godzilla pulling all three fishing trawlers underwater in the middle of the night by their nets. The crews work frantically to free their ships, only to be forced to abandon ship in a panic, all the while being completely unaware of what's lurking below them. They are quite fortunate to survive their ordeal. - Godzilla's arrival in New York City. Even before his rampage begins, the first thing he encounters is a harmless old man fishing along the docks when a massive, undefinable mass barrels towards him, forcing him to flee for his life as the dock beneath him shatters. Even worse, we don't even know if he survived his ordeal or not. - Godzilla completely plowed his way through the center of the MetLife building in Midtown Manhattan. One just has to wonder how it could possibly still be standing after that kind of damage. - Imagine being any one of those helicopter pilots when Godzilla plucks them out of the sky. Bear in mind that he bites into two of them as they try to flee. - The Baby 'Zillas are rather terrifying. There are just so damn many of them, and they all hunt down, kill, and devour Philippe's men. And given that they're expies of the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, there is one point that makes things worse: In Jurassic Park, the protagonists had to deal with only 3-4 Velociraptors; in this film, the heroes have to contend with a whole nest of Baby 'Zillas. - In Madison Square Garden, the heroes make great efforts to pen all the baby 'Zillas in. Too bad they forgot the Godzilla-sized hole from the subway that they came in through. An important oversight for creatures that have an instinct to burrow. - When Godzilla sees all his babies are dead. He's so enraged that he goes after the four main characters (who are actually responsible for the air strike), where he relentlessly chases after them.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Godzilla1998
God of War Ragnarök / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Brok: (Upon seeing Kratos deal with a Wulver) Welp, that'll haunt my dreams! The sheer rage in Freya's voice during the opening sequence is unnerving. Took a Level in Badass is putting it mildly — the way Kratos and Atreus talk about Freya, she's become an Implacable Woman. Even after managing to knock her away and ride through the protection stave, Freya screaming "KRATOS!!!" at the top of her lungs, echoing through the air, is a testament to the sheer level of hatred she has. A far cry from the Actual Pacifist that she used to be. And going by what Kratos and Atreus say both during and after the encounter, this is far from the only time she's attacked them in the three years since Baldur's death. When Atreus tries to leave Jötunheim and go back to Sindri's house, he accidentally goes back to his old home in the wildwoods of Midgard instead, which, without the circle of protection, has been infested by Hel-Walkers. When Atreus tries to go to the right home this time, a hel-walker suddenly thrusts a sword through the door and another attacks Atreus through the ceiling. Even if he managed to beat them on his own, the scene still shows that even relatively weaker enemies would still be terrifying to encounter for mortals, who without Kratos' and Atreus' divine abilities, would have an ever tougher time surviving in a freezing world infested by the undead. During Atreus journeys to Muspelheim to complete the Mask, he is accompanied by Thor, who seems terse but willing to work with him at Odin's behest...until he suddenly traps Atreus's neck with Mjolnir while the later is precariously close to a lava pit and makes it very clear that the only reason the boy's skull has not been reduced to chunky salsa is because he is still useful to the All-Father's plans. A bit later, Atreus convinces Thor to go enjoy the Trials Of Surtr, which the God Of Thunder accepts. This gives him a bit of time to investigate Surtr's shrine, with Thor seemingly none the wiser as he clears the Brutal Bonus Level by himself, leaving behind mountains of corpses. That is, until they are called back by Odin... After Atreus's first outing in Asgard, Kratos questions Freya about finding the Norns. Tyr overhears the conversation and approaches slowly, silhouetted by the house's skylight. His shape is pretty easy to recognize even in the dark, but seeing nothing but his glowing golden eyes surrounded by complete blackness is still pretty unnerving. Especially when you remember that this "Tyr" is Odin. Heimdall's death at Kratos' hands is fairly tame by the standards of what he's done to other gods, but is a quite harrowing experience when compared to the more restrained way he killed Magni and Baldur before, getting close to how Kratos used to preform over-the-top executions of his enemies before. Kratos is visibly simmering with anger throughout their fight because of his opponent's smug taunting nature as well as Heimdall's fated murder of Atreus, holding himself back mainly because he wants to Screw Destiny and go against the prophecy of him killing Heimdall, no matter how tempting he makes that prospect. Kratos' anger visibly increases when his attempts to spare Heimdall only cements the smug god's animosity towards him, making it clear that he will kill Atreus painfully for Kratos' attempted mercy on him, refusing to back down even after Kratos blows his right arm off. Finally, after further fighting, Kratos reaches his Rage-Breaking Point, violently beats Heimdall to the ground, covering him in his own blood, and then starts strangling him slowly to death, the camera lingering on Heimdall's bloodied and darkened face as the light slowly leaves his eyes. Heimdall's last words are to call Kratos a 'monster' as he passes away looking into Kratos' eyes, recalling how Thor got him to back down from antagonising him by letting him read his mind to see what would happen if he pushed his luck. As violent and bloody as Heimdall's death is, his last words imply that Kratos wanted to do much worse to him (as he did with the Greek pantheon) and was barely holding himself back from that. The camera angle hovering close to Kratos' head and Heimdall's lack of visible pupils give another aspect to the scene — without a direct line of sight, it almost looks like Heimdall is looking at you, the player, his powers letting him see into your head and see how much enjoyment and satisfaction you're gaining from his demise. In that regard, his last words are as equally directed at the player as much as Kratos, calling them out for wanting him dead so badly, and underlying that no matter how deserving, every death has long-lasting consequences in the norse saga. Something that a fellow Youtuber pointed out: Heimdall's eyes allow him to see people's memories. It's very possible that, in his last moments, Heimdall got a good look at some of Kratos's blood-riddled past, including his one-man massacre of the gods. Gives new perspective to Heimdall's last word to Kratos. The Raven Tree. A location in Nifilhiem that houses the souls of every spectral raven Kratos has destroyed throughout this game and the last one, already half-populated by his prior efforts, and the ravens speaking to him in a Voice of the Legion that sounds like a chorus of children rhyming in unison. Though unsettling, they're still beneficial to the heroes and reward them for every group of ravens destroyed, speaking of their enslavement under Odin's command by the Raven Keeper, his most devoted disciple. The real horror however, comes when they finally reveal what they used to be. They sound like children because they are. The ravens are the souls of children, hanged painfully by the neck until death by their fanatical parents in Odin's name, so their souls could be pulled from the afterlife and made to tell him the secrets of what lay beyond, before being re-fashioned into ghostly spies to serve him. Even Mimir and Freya, who are no strangers to Odin's cruelty, are shaken upon hearing this. Kratos himself, an aggressively stoic figure even after he's learned to open up more, for once can barely emote properly not from keeping his emotions controlled, but by being too shocked to fully process this revelation. Having killed one child by accident and hating himself for it for years afterwards, and fearful for Atreus' well-being throughout both games, he can barely comprehend the mindset that would have lead the parents of these poor souls to knowingly murder them out of fanatical devotion to a mad god, who had ordered this just to sate his curiosity of what lies beyond the veil of death without actually crossing it himself. Calliope's death was mercifully quick, done in an instant — these children were hanged, and they — at least a hundred of these ravens over both games — make it clear that their demise was a drawn-out affair for each one of them. Needless to say, the player will become as equally driven as Kratos to find and destroy every last Raven after learning this, but even then, their suffering is not finished. Kratos and Mimir's conversation after finally killing the Raven Keeper implied that the transformed nature of the Ravens' existence might have resulted in them being Barred from the Afterlife, meaning all Kratos' party can do for them is free them from their spectral shackles and kill their long-time tormentors, yet still unable to truly grant them a peaceful existence after what was inflicted upon them. The death of Odin. The man spent centuries on a tireless, destructive quest to find answers, specifically the answer to a question that's probably haunted him his whole life: What comes after he dies? What comes next? In this quest he ruined the lives of his loved ones, his family, and pretty much everyone he crossed paths with. As he lays bloody and beaten, he's still obsessed with the need to know, and swears that he will never stop. Atreus, unwilling to kill him but still determined to stop him, traps his soul in a marble. After Freya refuses to destroy the marble, saying it will not make her whole... Sindri snatches it out of Atreus' hand, and before anyone can even think to raise an objection, he smashes the marble, rendering the All-Father well and truly Deader than Dead. He had earned that fate, but the sheer abruptness of it is a shock, especially when Sindri glares down at what remains of Odin: Sindri, voice tight with rage:That's what comes next. On that note, the end result of Sindri's mental breakdown after Brok is rendered Deader than Dead. By the end of the game, he's completely transformed into a terrifying mirror of Kratos's old self. He's stopped caring about being clean and now has blood and grime all over his body, just like Kratos's ash-infused skin. He becomes inconsolably bitter towards his former friends, rejecting any and all attempts at reaching out to him and making it very clear that he now hates all of them equally, seeing them only as allies of convenience because in his eyes that's how they all saw him, little more than a tool to be used and discarded. And discard them he does both during and after the war finally ends. He spitefully goes against their orders against killing innocents just because it will give him even the slightest bit of pleasure knowing he's destroying what Odin has created. Finally when all is said and done, he cruelly snatches Odin's Soul Jar out of Atreus's hands and destroys it with his hammer, turning to everyone present in a manner that looks like he's about to kill them all before vanishing. And they do nothing in response because they know that everything he just did and what he could have done then and there is justified in comparison to their past mistakes, especially when those mistakes are what made him this way in the first place. They all must now live with the fact that their actions not only cost them a friend, but turned them into a monster of revenge. The Rift. All throughout the series, everything has been firmly rooted in and solely dealt with preexisting mythologies. Then in comes the Rift, a tear in the very fabric of reality itself. It calls to people, seemingly contains infinite knowledge, and can (possibly) seriously injure those who try to peer into it unprepared, even gods. And it's not just a random occurrence as the existence of the Mask shows that there is, or was, some form of intelligence connected to it, either from an ancient civilization who discovered it prior to Odin or whatever is on the other side of the Rift. In all, while God of War is set in a fairly standard world of gods and myths, the Rift implies something far worse. Arguably everything about Garm. (pictured above) Let's see: A gargantuan-sized wolf with soulless eyes, blood-soaked fur, can tear holes through dimensions, and able to eat abstract concepts (such as a now nonexistent fifth season and term once to describe being so hungry you aren't hungry anymore). The fact that he has no soul meant that no matter how many times he's defeated within Helheim, he'll just keep coming back. He forces Kratos and Atreus to run for their lives in an intense chase sequence featuring him bursting through the structures theyre running in after father and son think they've taken care of the issue, making the two godly heroes feel like rats chased by a cat. Worse yet, it shows it's not dead by hitting Kratos with its now unfastened chain - the only thing that was still slowing him down. Both sides of the conflict see its rampage as a fuck-up of colossal proportions for everyone, on Atreus' part, just to convey the sheer terror this thing generates, thus giving a very good reason for his imprisonment in Helheim. It's a very good thing that loyal Fenrir's soul ended up occupying this otherwise empty husk of a beast. After the reveal of "Tyr" actually being Odin in disguise during the main story, we later find a prison in Nifilheim where Odin keeps the actual people he impersonates as. While the real Tyr is thankfully still alive, the rest of the imprisoned were not so lucky; a dwarf, a Midgardian, and a pair of Elves are shown to have died in their cells from their attempts to escape or simply survive the cold, harsh conditions. If one looks closely at the scene where Atreus escapes back to the treehouse before he gets attacked by Thor, it shows that Ingrid blocked Thor's strike just before he got sent back. Which may mean that if it wasn't for Ingrid Atreus might have died and would have been sent back to his father as a corpse. Most of Kratos'enemy executions in this game are, while still fairly brutal, quick and efficient affairs compared to the gratuitous overkill common in the original trilogy. Even the more extreme kills normally don't go beyond Kratos picking a mook up and quickly ripping them in half horizontally. This makes the few exceptions all the more startling. When executing a wulver Kratos will beat it down before grabbing it by the snout and forcibly tearing its mouth open breaking its jaws, and then keeps ripping its mouth further apart, tearing off the wulver's entire chest along with its bottom jaw, exposing its organs and ribcage. Worst of all, this is the kill that manages to horrify and intimidate the otherwise nigh-unflappable Brok, should he happen to behold it during the group's journey through Vanaheim. While tame compared to the original series, they are noticeably more brutal than in the last game, especially since hes now more commonly performing them on living monsters or more recognizably human enemies. The majority of Einherjar kills involve bisection, and those are the more pleasant ones. It subtly adds to Kratoss fear that hes slipping into his old ways. In one conversation, Kratos casually lists the methods that were used to make children into Spartans - and it's nothing short of monstrous. Abuse, parental abandonment, and constant threats of death all wrapped up into a The Social Darwinist mentality. In some ways, Kratos is more like Thor than he realizes - made into a monster, yes... and brainwashed into revering the very people responsible for making monsters while blaming the gods instead.note : Of course, it turns out that said gods ended up turning regular human souls into monsters, sooo... While also rather impressive, Atreus proves to be just as terrifying as Kratos when using his Spartan Rage, if not moreso - Kratos "merely" lets out all of his strenth to break foes with his bare hands, but Atreus taps into his Jotnar shapeshifting to maul enemies as a wolf or bear. His two favored executions in wolf form? Knocking an enemy on its back and ripping their head off with a powerful bite, or clamping his jaws around the enemy's waist and thrashing them against the ground until the repeated impacts rip them in half, the latter being a legitimate kill tactic real wolves can use on smaller prey. And unlike Kratos, Atreus does these executions automatically, ignoring the victim's stun bar completely. As a bear... we only see "Bjorn" fight three times in-game, once as a boss against Kratos, once during the final QTE against the vakyries Hrist and Mist, and a final, fully-controllable moment against several Einherjar during Ragnarok itself. But these battles all give us some insights into how Atreus fights - sledgehammer paw blows, savage bites, using his bulk in relentless bull-rush charges, and he executes Mist by following his father's example and removing her wings, literally chewing them off at the shoulder joints, even as Kratos himself goes for the (comparatively) kinder Neck Snap on Hrist. It's worse than that, if one looks closely at Mist's death, it's visible that Atreus is actually ripping her in half horizontally with nothing but his teeth and claws. Like Father, Like Son indeed.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodOfWarRagnarok
Goodbye My Princess / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Cheng Yin and Cheng Ji wake up in the middle of the night. It's too dark to see, so Cheng Ji throws a burning stick... and finds their camp is surrounded by Danchi. They try to fight them off, but before long they're both too injured to fight, and the Danchi approach with drawn weapons. - The events leading to King Tömür's death. One minute everyone's celebrating Cheng Yin and Xiao Feng's mariage. The next the combined armies of Li and Shuobo attack. Then Cheng Yin rides out to meet them... and takes control of the army, revealing that he was involved in the plan all along. King Tömür offers his life in exchange for his surviving subjects. Xiao Feng escapes the tent where she was tied up... just in time to see her husband behead her grandfather.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoodbyeMyPrincess
GoodFellas / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy." As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - Tommy DeVito is Nightmare Fuel incarnate. - Even worse: Martin Scorsese had to tone down some things Tommy did in real life... - If that wasn't enough, Henry Hill himself said that the only thing different about Tommy in the film was his physical appearance (in real life, Tommy DeSimone, the real mobster Tommy was based on, was tall, well-built and had a moustache); everything else was spot-on. The fact that Tommy's craziness wasn't exaggerated at all is blood-curdling. - Tommy's execution is pretty horrifying, especially as he realizes what's about to happen a fraction of a second before the bullet goes through his head. Also, they specifically shot him in the head, just so his mother couldn't give him an open-casket funeral. Tommy might have deserved what he got, but his mother didn't do anything wrong. - The scene where Jimmy starts thinking about whacking Morrie and all the other accomplices in the Lufthansa heist. He just sits there smoking but then the music goes up and you know he's up to no good. - Robert De Niro's eyes in that scene. They just say, with such incredible subtlety, "Time to go on a killing spree." - The way Henry gets beaten by his father with a belt as a teenager is brutally realistic. It's early on in the film, and highly disturbing. - After everything, after all the horrible things he's been a part of, all Hill really cares about is the loss of his gangster status. He doesn't care that he's been partially responsible for the murder and ruining the lives of countless innocent people, all he ever gave a fuck about was himself. At least Tommy's sociopathy was out on the surface. - This was intentional. Martin Scorsese got complaints at the previews and he said that the audience should be angry, that people should question the mentality and values of the culture that makes being a "schnook" such a bad thing. - One of the scariest things about the movie is how casually the mobsters treat murdering their own. One of the best examples is how, rather than simply pay everyone for their roles in the Lufthansa heist, Jimmy would rather just murder all of the people he hangs out with and considers friends and even Henry notes he doesn't particularly care as long as Jimmy doesn't kill him, too. Even later, it's shown that one of Tommy's murderers is Tuddy. - One of the things that really drives home the casual brutality of mobster mentality is in the famous "How am I funny?" scene. After Henry realizes Tommy is just messing with him, and everyone laughs it off, the bar owner comes up to talk to Tommy about an outstanding bill he has. Tommy gets pissed and smashes a bottle over the poor guy's head, and all the other mobsters don't just act like assaulting someone for basically no reason is no big deal, it's funny to them, even though just moments ago they were honestly afraid Tommy was going to possibly murder Henry for no reason other than accidentally offending him. Also, who's to say Tommy wasn't serious, and just changed his mind when Henry called him out? - Even scarier - this was based on something that really happened to Joe Pesci in real life. - The Peek-a-Boo Corpse reveals of the Lufthansa heist perps' bodies (especially Frankie Carbone in the meat locker), all set to the instrumental break in Eric Clapton's "Layla". Henry Hill: I knew Jimmy. He had the cash. It was his. He kicked some money upstairs to Paulie, but that was it. It made him sick to turn money over to the guys who stole it. He'd rather whack them. What did I care? I wasn't asking for anything. And Jimmy was making nice money through my Pittsburgh connections. Still, months after the robbery they were finding bodies all over. When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff that it took two days to thaw him out for the autopsy. - Two scenes with Jimmy in particular are meant to chill the audience by showing what a casual monster Jimmy really is. The first scene is when Jimmy asks Henry, "Think Morrie tells his wife everything?" and Henry narrates that Jimmy by just asking the question, has revealed beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's going to kill Morrie. The second scene is towards the very end of the film after Henry and Karen have been busted, and it's very subtle because it doesn't involve any revealing narration: Jimmy asks Karen what kinds of questions the police have been asking Henry. Just by the nature of the question, the tone of his voice, and the look on his face, it's meant to clue in the audience that Jimmy is thinking the exact same thoughts about Henry at that moment, as when he decided to kill Morrie. - During the party where Morrie is set to be whacked, Henry is internally trying to think about how to convince Jimmy not to kill Morrie. After the whole gang has such a good time with Morrie, Jimmy tells Henry their plan to kill him is cancelled, relieving Henry. Later that night, Tommy fatally stabs him in the back of the neck with an ice pick because he wouldn't shut up. To further show how much of a monster Jimmy is, Carbone is involved in the murder and is later killed himself. It legitimately doesnt matter how good you are to Jimmy Conway or how loyal you are to the crew. The second Jimmy thinks you are in the way of him making more money, you will die. - A small one during the iconic introduction scene. As Henry quickly lists off the big names that he was aware of, he blows by a man named Pete the Killer. Just imagine for a moment how many people you need to whack for your freaking mob epithet to be "The Killer". Even his one line is implying that he just got done with a job, as if that's all he does.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Goodfellas
Goodluck Charlie / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Even for a Disney Channel sitcom, it does have it moments of nightmare-inducing moments. - One stinger for an episode has Charlie's toy horse talk to Gabe in a threatening manner, telling him to watch his back. The horse then immediately goes back to singing his "Happy Horse" song that he was programmed to do, while Gabe just watches, scared. Horse: Watch your back, kid. (Gabe slowly turns to face the horse, clearly unnerved.) Horse: (voice box) "I'm a happy, happy horse..." (Gabe slowly turns away) - One episode has the kids accidentally bring home the wrong baby and lose Charlie! For all they knew, Charlie was in grave danger and could have possibly been kidnapped. - PJ threatening to punch Gabe in the episode where Toby is born can be this. - Charlie getting separated from Teddy in Sun Show part 1 is nothing short of scary especially since this isn't the first time she had lost her. - Amy's allergic reactions to pulmaria is quite unnerving. - Teddy getting knocked unconscious while surfing does not help. - To top it off, PJ and Gabe also suffer a near- helicopter crash! The pilot briefly loses consciousness and the helicopter falls from the sky! Luckily, Gabe prays for that they will live. And they do. But, think about what would have happened if the pilot never woke up in time...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoodluckCharlie
Godzilla: New Era / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Millennian in general. A borderline Eldritch Abomination capable of absorbing lifeforms and making Body Horror abominations like The Thing (1982). They see humanity and all life on Earth as nothing but raw DNA to experiment with. - Any time a human character is caught in a room with a Millennian. Several characters get mutilated in some form or another, with even children being targeted and terrorized. - The waking nightmare flashback Commander Aso has of being a young Self-Defense Force Private caught up in the midst of the 1954 Godzilla attack. From the horrific kaiju only seen in smoke and fires to shroud it, to driving through a deluge of irradiated bodies raining down from a burning building; he was put through hell as just a young man barely out of being a teenager. - The birth of Orga. Millennian finally succeeds in assimilating Godzilla's DNA and believes it is about to become the Ultimate Lifeform...only for the DNA to practically rampage through its genetic code, which as Millennian is a Hive Mind, is the same thing as its mind. What had up until now been a completely stoic, logically minded entity suddenly begins to panic and scream in agony as it falls apart physically and mentally until it finally devolves into a horrific mash up of Godzilla and a human with a second, human-like head coming out of its shoulder and only able to scream 'TAKE THE GIRL!' in a distorted voice as it desperately tries to claim Io in an attempt to stabilize itself.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaNewEra
Good Omens / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "Crowley...we will win this war, but even if we lose, at least as far as you are concerned, it will make no difference at all. For as long as there is one demon left in Hell, Crowley, you will wish you had been created mortal. Mortals can hope for death, or for redemption. You can hope for nothing. All you can hope for is the mercy of Hell." .... Crowley turned off the radio and bit his lower lip. Beneath the ash and soot that flaked his face, he looked very tired, and very pale, and very scared.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoodOmens
Goosebumps / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "Who are you calling dummy, For a horror book series, how do you not expect Nightmare Fuel to come a-creeping? This is considered one of the scariest children's book series around for a dummy?!" very good reason. As a Nightmare Fuel subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned. ## The books — in general: ## Individual books:<!—index—><!—/index—> ## Spinoff media: Even when he's not alive, Slappy still manages to be scary as hell! - The opening to the show deserves a mention. It's somewhat minimalist, but its imagery, like the man in black (presumably R. L. Stine himself) with a briefcase's files being scattered by the wind and the "G" slithering around and making the billboard's face twist and making the dog's eyes glow, has stuck with many people for a long time. Not to mention the incredibly sinister but awesome song. - The television adaption of The Haunted Mask REALLY hammers home the horror of the book. When Carly Beth first sees the mask, we briefly see its eyes and when the store owner slams the door in anger, all the other masks turn in surprise. - The scene where Carly Beth and Sabrina realize the mask is attached to her face. There's no awkward monster suits, no Special Effects Failure. Just a twelve-year-old girl realizing something is very wrong with her body and no idea why. - When they can't find the bottom to the mask, Carly Beth suggests cutting it off.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Goosebumps
Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes All spoilers on this page are left unmarked. You Have Been Warned. Just because Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D is aimed at all-ages doesn't mean it avoids Nightmare Fuel. It is still a crossover between Shin Godzilla and Rebuild of Evangelion after all. - The ride has a big one: Shin King Ghidorah. He's as powerful as ever, and moves bonelessly through the air, swimming about and shrieking with joy as he destroys everything around him. - From what we've seen, he's not exactly that big of a horror as Godzilla is, but the way he appears is akin to a demon coming out of the sky. Not to mention, he's still very much imposing, given his larger build. And, keep in mind, he's built up to be a bigger threat to the EVAs than Godzilla. Clearly, this won't end well... - In the same viewing, Shin Godzilla proves himself to be a powerful opponent against the EVAs. He barely has to do much of anything aside from the odd tail-whack and such before he brings out the big guns; not even Asuka's typical Leeroy Jenkins tactics faze him. Thankfully, though, due to the age rating his way of dealing with his foes is FAR less bloody. One shudders to think what would have happened to the pilot trio otherwise...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GodzillaVsEvangelionTheReal4D
GoldenEye (1997) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Per wiki policy, all spoilers below are unmarked. Proceed at your own risk! You Have Been Warned. - In the Facility stage, if you destroy the gas barrels or shoot the bottling room tanks and then stick around, you can see the fumes slowly turn into an ominous green mist. If you have the invincibility cheat turned on (so that the gas doesn't kill you), you can watch as the mist turns so bright and thick that the room turns into Silent Hill. - The Game Over/death music, as well as the theme that subsequently plays during the cutscene of Bond dying; the latter could possibly count as a Jump Scare (for instance, if one has their television set's volume set to a very high level) as it also plays upon turning the game on. - When Bond is captured at the end of the second Surface stage, a Scare Chord plays that would be right at home in a horror movie. - Surface II itself. The music is ominous, the stage is quite dark with a blood-red sky (which gives it a resemblance to Hell), and the guards wear full face masks that look creepy in the low light. - Baron Samedi is back...and so is his Evil Laugh (now given a haunting echo). - One of your primary objectives in the Egyptian stage is to "Defeat Baron Samedi?" note : Note the question mark. We didn't put that, that's how it actually reads in the game. Once you do defeat him (for the third time), the mission ends with a cutscene showing Bond confidently walking out of the temple... followed by Samedi running far behind him. It then fades to black before fading into a final shot of Samedi laughing. How is he doing this when he should be lying lifeless somewhere...because you defeated him? - On Silo, when you play on a higher difficulty you get a countdown for when the entire launch facility is set to explode. When you're down to thirty seconds, the music becomes much faster and more intense, and the game is essentially telling you to get out fast before you're incinerated with the rest of the works. - The Statue mission is arguably one of the scariest stages in the game. The sky is dark and overcast, the music is deep and dreadful, and the level is filled with discarded and broken-down statues, monuments and sculptures, dedicated to Soviet history and Communism. It borders dangerously on Surreal Horror. This is to say nothing of Janus arriving with his henchmen all dressed in black, which looks eerily like a funeral procession. It doesn't help that this level is one that newer players can get lost in thanks to the layout being rather confusing. - The Streets mission is no better, ESPECIALLY if you forgo the Tank for more speed. Much like Statue, Streets' stage is dark and dreary and easy for new players to get lost in, but unlike Statue (and also unlike any stage save for the higher difficulties of Silo), this one has a time limit to it, which can dial up the stress and strain on the player to a considerable degree, and there aren't any bright objects that are around to either act as landmarks or illuminate enemies through the fog, which can cause the normally brightly-colored mooks to blend in with the background until it's too late. Worse, this is the only level in the game where you encounter enemies with ROCKET LAUNCHERS, who can be a nasty surprise if they send (often multiple) rockets your way from seemingly nowhere, with the very loud sounds of the rockets being launched as the only warning to get out of the way before you get blown up. - The final showdown with Xenia in the Jungle mission: You're making your way through the ambient scenery (in the only stage in the game with no Background Music playing) when intense, dramatic music starts playing out of nowhere with Xenia running directly towards you armed with an RCP-90 and a grenade launcher. - There's no shortage of creepy music in the game, but the music for Bunker II is especially ominous and dreading, reminding you that you are a prisoner deep within enemy territory and that the slightest misstep will be the end of you before you can escape. - Especially if youre familiar with how the Soviet Union treated enemies of the state. Just look up the Cheká or the Great Purge for examples. Actually, dont. - You get a few not-so-subtle hints as to what becomes of prisoners there. Namely, several walls are pockmarked with numerous bullet holes and discolored from old, hastily-cleaned bloodstains, including the ones in both holding cells. - Sometimes a mook rapidly pops up out of nowhere and it can catch you off-guard. Also, a guard you might've missed or didn't see will start shooting you from behind when it's almost dead silent. - Those damn drone guns: rapid-fire mini-guns set to fire at you within a certain range that you may or may not see coming. They can also be pretty hard to take down from a distance. - Just the fact that there are no maps, no checkpoints, and no ways to replenish health during a mission makes any twists during each level Nightmare Fuel. The aforementioned Statue is particularly bad for a first-time player as there are no obvious indicators of where to go, you're constantly being hounded by Russian soldiers with automatic weapons, and when Janus turns out, you're surrounded by mooks with automatic shotguns. It makes for a tense experience, to say the least. - Most death animations are slightly comical due to being somewhat exaggerated, but killing a mook with a throat, gut, or groin shot sometimes results in an uncomfortably long and unpleasant animation making it clear that the poor mook is dying in utter agony. You can't even give them a Mercy Kill, either. - As far as music goes, "Cradle" is . The very fast paced and intense nature of the song, the synth riff that sounds like the type of music that you'd heard if the world was seconds away from ending, the underlying piano riff, and the fact that it repeats so often during the mission truly hammers in its urgent nature. And then near the end of the mission, there's a jarring Jump Scare in the form of an abrupt switch to "Cradle X", which can only properly be described as the musical equivalent of swallowing an ice cube too fast. If "Cradle" wasn't already giving you anxiety, "Cradle X" certainly will. stressful	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoldenEye1997
Goosebumps: The Game / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The intro shows that two movers are moving "Mr. Shivers" contents into the back of their moving van from his old home. After the job's done, they drive off to deliver Shivers' items. They chat for a while about how surreal the stuff the original homeowner's stuff is and the several scary stories they've heard when suddenly a loud thud is heard in the back of the van. When the two movers open the trunk to find the source of such a frightening noise, they find Slappy; hunched over in a corner with his eyes closed. One of the movers tells the other one that it's just a ventriloquist dummy and is relieved. Until... [Slappy suddenly bolts up; eyes widened in terrifying anger]"Who you calling dummy, Dummy?" Fifi barking and growling ferociously at you while up very close to the screen is sure to shock you on the first playthrough. The Dead House from Welcome to Dead House replaces the protagonist's home when they first arrive. And it's spot-on to how it looks on the book cover. It towers over you with blueish-gray worn-down walls, dead trees, broken windows, cracks, moss growing around the eerie house, and two gargoyles peering at you from the balcony. The inside is even worse; dust particles flying everywhere, an eerie aura that fits this haunted abode, and disturbingly twisted rooms such as the Hallway of Infinity. Everything looks broken down, worn out, or old, and the atmosphere is almost completely dark. When you go into the dining room of the house, you meet face to face with a wrinkly old crone who claims to be your "Aunt Dahlia". She tries to lure you into a false sense of security and offers you a strange, purple liquid in a glass. If you do accept the drink, your vision becomes blurry and you start to age so fast that you turn into dust; thankfully in a Gory Discretion Shot with the screen turning black, but still rather horrifying. And during all of this, "Aunt Dahlia" is laughing. However, there is a chance to fool Dahlia into drinking her own liquid by making her fall asleep and pouring the drink into her glass that you found in the kitchen's refrigerator. She will then wake up and take a sip of her drink, and then suddenly her body starts dissolving. She rapidly ages and then dies; with her body dissolving into dust. Unlike our death, this one is completely shown. While the deaths of the game aren't shown - with the screen turning black before anything happens, the said deaths are still rather vividly and disturbingly explained: Dr. Brewer's Clone lunges at you and uses his vine arms to strangle you to the point of withering away. The Anihilator 3000 shoots at you, implicitly disintegrating your eyeballs. The Beast From The East slices your arms off. The Mannequins that are alive wrap their entire body around your own and squeeze every inch of life out of you. The Monster Blood pulls you down and engulfs you. Implicitly leeching your body. Officer Murphy beats the everlasting crap out of you and you lose the ability to feel anything. The "taffy" pulls your face to the bin and sucks out every ounce of blood in your body.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoosebumpsTheGame

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