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Goosebumps (2015) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Stine:** *[narrating for Zach to type]*
"Stine's ingenious plan worked to perfection. The funhouse was terrifying, not so much for Stine as it was for the others, but it offered refuge from the real terrors that lurked outside."
**Slappy:** *[after he turns the lights off and appears in a mirror]*
You
*wish*
!
*[disappears]* **Stine:** Slappy's found us! Quick! Hide! **Slappy:** *[reappears]*
But Papa, you left without saying goodbye!
*[switches to another mirror]*
Are you trying to hide from me? That's like hiding from yourself!
*[switches again]*
I was your best friend, and you turned your back on me!
*[switches again]*
You locked me up! Imprisoned me in the pages
of a book
!
*[appearing in every mirror at once]*
You stuck me on a shelf! For
*years*
, and
*years*
! The key was right there!
*[in a Juxtaposed Halves Shot with Stine] And you never used it!* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Goosebumps2015 |
Goosebumps HorrorLand / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Arc 1 (books 1-12) contains examples of:
-
*Revenge Of The Living Dummy* has a scene where Slappy sneaks up on the protagonist and pushes her down the stairs. Only it turns out it was actually her cousin Ethan, who did so for the purpose of a prank. Could've killed his own cousin... for a prank.
- In
*Creep From The Deep*, the rotting forms of the zombie pirates are described in great, gory detail.
- In
*Monster Blood For Breakfast*, the protagonist ends up accidentally eating a glob of Monster Blood, but instead of growing gigantic, he starts growing more and more muscular. Until he's a misshapen, vaguely human mass of muscles.
-
*Who's Your Mummy?*. The plot of the story is kicked off when the protagonists' grandmother sends them to stay with their uncle, because she's growing old, tired, and weak. And when they get there, it turns out their uncle never picked them up, and they've been abducted by a complete stranger.
- Judging by the cover, the book looks like a story about the protagonists dealing with an evil, awakened mummy. The story does have a mummy, more than one, in fact. The villain keeps dozens of them moaning and writhing in their sarcophagi so he can eat their internal organs to stay immortal. And when all is said and done, the mummies get their wish to finally die in peace.
- In
*Say Cheese and Die Screaming!*, a girl's arm is twisted and broken until *bone* shows through her skin. In the audiobook adaptation of this story, this scene is especially disturbing. As the narrator reads, the screams and cries of a young girl are audible in the background. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoosebumpsHorrorLand |
Going Another Way / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Considering the source material, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there's lot of Nightmare Fuel to be encountered.
## Nightmare Fuel in Going another Way:
- The Angels of course are Nightmare Fuel in themselves, with being monsters out of nowhere for normal people. However, some of them do stick out.
- Sahaquiel is said to have enough destructive power that his suicide run would destroy half of Honshu. Just think about it...
- Iruel acts like an infection. It can infect any kind of techology. Wonderful Paranoia Fuel...
- Witnessing Liliel's digestion is nasty when considering what exactly she eats.
- Arael is totally Ax-Crazy and it's really disturbing to read the thoughts of a complete psychopath.
- Armisael's calm serene demanor is downright creepy. Even when he talks about absorbing Shinji and Rei into himself, it doesn't change.
- Shinji watched his mother dissolved at age three not because of any kind of plan, but because of pure coincidence, because his sitter got sick that day. A simple coincidence traumatized a child.
- Shinji describing the phantom injuries he suffered in battle against Shamshel. To him it felt very real.
- The area in which Rei's apartment is situated is described in more detail. Just reading the nighborhood Rei lives in makes you wonder why nothing bad ever happened to Rei - though perhaps security did exist for her.
- Additionally, the description of Rei's apartment is vomit-inducing. What animation managed to hide is described in
*loving* detail.
- Shinji's ||visions of the post Third Impact world are disturbing because they do nothing but describe what's seen at the end of
*End of Evangelion*||.
- Rei does have a dream about being naked in class. Nothing unusual up to that point. Then she suddenly stands naked in front of Gendo, who says she will be replaced. Now it's not so funny anymore, isn't it? To make it worse, that was Rei's very first dream.
- The aftermath of Gaghiel's attack was only glossed over in canon. Here we are confronted with how much death and injury it caused.
- What was done to Mayumi. Poor girl is in constant pain without special drugs and she has no idea what exactly had been put into her. Once it becomes clear ||that SEELE used her as incubator to test the growth of an artificial S-engine and the damn thing is removed from her||, it's shocking she'd had that thing inside her the entire time.
- Worse, this implies ||that for the S of the mass-produced Evangelions, SEELE used more victims||.
- Leliel's destruction. It's so horrible that Maya has to vomit.
- The suicide of Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu ||(or at least her body)|| is described from Asuka's perspective - an Asuka who had been five years old when it happened. Her perspective makes it worse than it already is.
- The batlle of Tokyo-3 has serval "highlights", but the worst are without doubt the flamethrower troops advancing through the railway tunnel to storm the geofront. It's described in sickening detail how they burn the defenders to death with their flames and show no mercy. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoingAnotherWay |
Go! Princess Pretty Cure / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Close's appearance in the opening, be it the first one or the second one.
- When Twilight fights the Cures in Episode 18, she straight up burned them with her flames. While it is already disturbing on its own, what tops this scene is that blue flames are much hotter than normal red ones. It doesn't help that when Cure Mermaid gets attacked, her scream sounds like she is dying.
- Towa's backstory, if you think about it again. Doubles as a Tear Jerker as well.
- Imagine a situation where you are alone, longing for your dream to come true, then approached and offered help by someone you don't even know. Keep in mind that you're still at your innocent age where you could trust
*anyone* who offers you help. Then, you enter the dark forest where the person originated from, and then had your memories about your family and kingdom erased.
- Even worse is that you're the symbol of hope for your citizens, which is why they fall into despair when you disappeared without a trace. What tops that is that your disappearance is the main reason of the kingdom's fall, thus making you
*indirectly responsible for the fall of your own kingdom*, and trapping *your own parents and people* in despair.
- What Towa felt after being purified don't make all of her predicament detailed above better either. And keep in mind that the brainwashing goes on around
*near a decade*, which took basically more than a half of her childhood. Which makes all the guilt and stress she felt all more understandable.
- Dyspear using Break Them by Talking to drive Princess Towa into despair in episode 22.
- Lock's One-Winged Angel form was pretty terrifying to say the least.
- Close's new look when he returns in Episode 31, turning an already-scary design even more nightmarish with red eyes and a more menacing Slasher Smile.
- The drawing of Haruka, as a Devil trying to take Minami (depicted as an angel) away (It Makes Sense in Context). Never before has a heroine been portrayed so horrendously.
- What happens when the normally bubbly and plucky Cure Flora/Haruka gets Dull Eyes of Unhappiness that come with her shocked reaction in Episode 38 right after Kanata tells her to stop chasing her dreams. She just looks so...lifeless.
- Shut's One-Winged Angel form, and the transitions that lead up to it. He first starts to develop more feline characteristics like a tail, slit eyes, long claws, a larger mouth with larger fangs and more animalistic behavior. And then he goes full One-Winged Angel into a giant cat that is definitely not a Cute Kitten. It also doesn't help that his angry meowing (or... whatever...) sounds like he's in constant pain.
- Reportedly, the sheer intensity of the violence in this seasons fight scenes were nightmare fuel for the target audience, which was a factor in its lower viewership ratings. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoPrincessPrettyCure |
Gossip City / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- When Heiji found out that Kaori's husband and mother-in-law left her during an earthquake, he made a scary expression and became rather irate and later on, Kanta makes the same expression as well. The eyes aren't the usual Vyond style.
- The ghost sequence in this episode is quite creepy. Haruhi who supposedly hanged herself after her sister slept with her fiancée, spoke from her coffin, proclaiming that she would never forgive them, freaking the two out. Then we see a shot of her, but she is faceless as the camera closes up on her face, then she develops red eyes. Haruhi's sister and ex-fiancée were so scared that they passed out. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GossipCity |
GoldenEye / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
For the James Bond Nightmare Fuel index, see here.
- Xenia Onatopp qualifies for a number of instances across the film; as stunning as Famke Janssen is, Xenia's actions easily make her more than a little terrifying;
- The murder of the technicians in the Severnaya bunker, but particularly Xenia's...
*moaning* while she's shooting. Even the ruthless General Ourumov, who has no problem expending hundreds of infantrymen in the name of carrying out Trevelyan's dirty work, looks disturbed by her behavior.
- The final fight Bond has with Xenia can hardly be called that, as she easily overpowers Bond, and then puts him between her legs to kill him... and begins creepily grunting and making the creepiest faces
*ever*. Bond only wins by using her gun to kill the helicopter pilot, causing her to be strangled as the plane crashes.
- Xenia's two sex scenes of the film, where her victim's reactions are entirely at contrast with hers, could count as this; The first, a womanising Admiral, dies crying with pain between her thighs - the novelisation goes one step further and specifies he can
*tell his ribs are breaking* as he dies. The second is the sauna bench scene with Bond, and his expression is borderline *terrified* as he realises what her killing technique entails, while she grunts and writhes with pleasure. Bonus points go to the fact that Xenia appears to be curling her toes while she squeezes Bond; Is Famke Janssen putting genuine thought into her role, or actually enjoying it? After this, she even mocks his attempts to free himself - essentially shrugging off his trying to wind her by mocking him and then tries to drain the life from him during another kiss; when she finally breaks *something* - enough to scare Bond some more - her response is to hold him against her and *laugh*.
- Following the detonation of the first satellite and the incoming Russian Air Force responding to the distress call; we're treated to close-ups of the pilots seemingly being electrocuted and screaming with terror as their jets go out of control, quickly followed by Natalya's harrowing near-death experience in the bunker, capped off with the satellite frame nearly crushing her to death.
- One of the pilots is shown beating on the canopy from the inside of his plane as it crashes into the satellite dish. Fridge Horror ensues when you think about all the electronic components in a modern flight helmet; the poor guy's
*brain* is probably being electrocuted.
- While the film's depiction of the effects of an EMP blast is ridiculously over-the-top, it does lead to some Fridge Horror when you remember that Trevelyan's plan was to use the second GoldenEye satellite on London. The level of carnage that would have been caused by every single electrical device in the UK's capital city exploding like a bomb, all at the same time, hardly even bears thinking about.
note : (And *that's* assuming that the two MiGs we saw exploding in mid-air did so because the EMP caused the missiles they were carrying to detonate. If a GoldenEye blast can additionally explode anything with a combustion engine, the end level of destruction would probably be not too far removed from a nuclear strike on the city)
- The frightening speed at which the treacherous General Ourumov pulls off a Boom, Headshot! on both Mishkin and his guard when his cover has just been blown. Both men are dead in a fraction of a
*second*.
- Just Ourumov in general. He may be answering to Trevelyan, but he more than holds up by himself as a formidable adversary to Bond, with Russia's entire military at his disposal as he sees fit to use them. It's the power he enjoys even as he has betrayed his own country that makes him so frightening.
- At the end of the movie, the second Alec hits the ground after he falls from the antenna, there is a Jump Scare when the movie cuts to Boris screaming like a lunatic at the camera.
- Though for some, due to Boris's entertainingly hammy character his scream could qualify as a humorous Villainous Breakdown
- Let's talk about Trevelyan's near immortality, and his actual death-scene. Despite being played by Sean Bean, who is legally obligated to die in every film, Trevelyan takes a damn long time to actually kick the bucket. First he gets shot in the head, which was a faked death but we don't know that until he appears again in a graveyard like a ghoul, appearing amidst tombstones and fog to haunt Bond for his apparent failure. That alone is creepy enough. But then in the finale during his fight with Bond on the satellite rig, he tumbles to what appears to be another death, landing with a crash on the ground and visibly breaking his leg (bonus points for being gross about it too), but he's STILL not dead. He only dies when the satellite rig collapses and flattens him, but even then you can see a thin needle-like spire entering his chest first. To sum up: he not only fell and broke his bones, he then got stabbed in the chest mere seconds before being crushed under tons and tons of burning steel and iron. And with Trevelyan's track record so far, let's just assume he survived even THAT.
- At one point during the credits, a woman's mouth opens and a gun comes out and fires several shots. It's a disturbing image already, even more so if you consider the likely sexual symbolism behind it.
- After surviving Severnaya, Natalya makes contact with Boris, who tells her to meet her in a church. Several creepy angled shots and movements give a very claustrophobic shot of Natalya worried she's followed, eventually causing her to run right into Boris...and Xenia. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoldenEye |
Gotham City Garage / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Darkseid Is....In a world, where Bad just Went to Worse...
- A world-scale cataclysm has brought human civilization down and turned the planet into a barren wasteland. The only standing city is virtually a walled prison ruled by a tyrant who puts chips in everyone's brains to eradicate their free will. Whoever steps out of line is dealt with swiftly and efficiently by enforcing soldiers and robots. All of which is led by Luthor's top dog, The Batman!
- Whatever Lex Luthor did to Kara, it was "monstrous" enough to let James Gordon override his mind-controlling device and act.
- Big Barda's life back on Apokolips is easy to describe: she was hit and tortured until she collapsed. Then Granny lifted her up and it began again.
- The Canyons of Clay. Clayface merged with the land and he doesn't suffer trespassers. When the group rides in the ravine, dozens of tendrils, hands, jaws and eyeless heads sprout from walls and ground and start chasing after them, howling "This valley is not for your kind, Skinwalkers".
- Lex Luthor's comment when he first met Harley Quinn which later encouraged her to become the Cloud Cuckoolander to reject Luthor's regime: "I apologize for the spectacle, but I've got a very full schedule today. Battles to win, furnaces to feed."
- Darkseid in this verse manifests in an Omega symbol made up of souls screaming in torment only repeating "Darkseid Is". Luthor is terrified of it, refers to it as his boss, and is reduced to tears at its presence. Catwoman who was nearby at the time recoiled in fear of Darkseid's presence and the thought of Him coming to Earth was enough for Catwoman to immediately plan to commit suicide to prevent that from happening. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GothamCityGarage |
Gotham / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
All it takes is one bad day...There's so much Nightmare Fuel in this series, we'll have to divide it into several pages.<!—index—> Season One Season Two Season Three Season Four Season Five<!—/index—> | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gotham |
Golgo 13 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The sheer level of skill, cunning and intelligence Golgo displays deserves a mention. Not only does Golgo have all of the proper abilities required to be an assassin, he excels at them. In addition to his physical prowess and lightning-quick agility he has proved time and time again to have a genius level intellect in the methods and strategies he uses to go after his targets. He knows how to avoid and minimize risk, plan his targets moves well in advance and always does his research to find a way to achieve his goals. You want to hide behind half a foot of bulletproof glass? Golgo will focus all of his shots on a single point the size of a pinhead to drill through it and nail you with a killshot. You want to step inside a secure panic room with steel walls? He'll find a way to draw you out into the open where you won't even see him coming. You want to hide in some sort of maximum security prison surrounded by guards? He'll either find a way to get inside or shoot you through a tiny opening that only appears for a split second on any given day of the week. Duke Togo isn't a dangerous man because he can hit a target at an impossible range or because he can take on an army and win. He's dangerous because he has a cold emotional detachment that would make a Terminator jealous and can keep a cool head even in the most dire situations. He isn't just strong, he's smart... logical... and never lets his guard down. Most of his victims never even see him coming until he has a lock on them... and some don't see him coming at all.
Speaking of Gold & Silver they deserve a spot here as well. While they may not be quite as deadly or depraved as Snake both are shown to be similarly unhinged and dangerous in combat. Dressed in matching attire with prosthetics made from their namesakes the duo are challenging opponents that come close to finishing off a heavily injured Duke Togo before he can reach Leonard Dawson himself. Gold manages to grab ahold of Golgo's bullet wound and very nearly tears his stomach open with his golden gauntlet before getting his head smashed in and then filled full of lead. With his partner dead Silver is then shown crying Tears of Blood while preparing to ambush Golgo, which he does in one final desperate charge as his mask cracks apart to reveal his horrifically burned face. Thinking quickly, Golgo shoves a grenade in his mouth and blows his entire head clean off his body as his remains are enveloped in flames, putting an end to the demented duo once and for all. They may not have gotten as much screentime as Snake but the nightmarish pair are sure to leave a lasting impression in many viewers minds long after their demise.
Their backstory is just as nightmarish as you'd expect from such a twisted pair and perfectly explains how they turned out the way they did:
Dr. Z. A mafia boss willing to kill civilians and children is one thing. Now imagine said boss living in a seaside mansion guarded by the best gunmen in Sicily, and no man alive can ever claim to have seen the doctor. While it is revealed that Dr. Z is actually the gorgeous Ms. Fanservice Cindy, let the horror sink in that a beautiful young woman had ordered the massacre of countless innocents in the name of business. And that's not all, because Cindy's no innocent girl herself while pretending to not be Dr. Z; she has a habit of having the men she's slept with killed after she's done with them.
Queen Bee
Lieutenant Benning. Good Lord, where to begin? It's like the writers decided to read the entire Sociopathic Soldier page and condense it all into one character! Benning may have ultimately proved to be small fry compared to some of the guys Golgo has faced over the years, but he makes up for it in sheer depravity and ruthlessness. Called in by a corrupt general to kill Queen Bee by any means necessary Benning leads a band of soldiers on a raid of her home village, killing many noncombatants in the process. But even with the atrocities he commits onscreen it's implied to be nothing compared to what he got up to during the war...
While nowhere near as psychotically violent as Benning is, Thomas Waltham also is pretty creepy by himself. Not only did he have Robert Hardy's mistress murdered, he also raped their 10-year old daughter.
The Manga and 2009 Anime
Ross MacDonald and Ingmar Pettensen, Golgo's targets in "The Brutes' Banquet" live up to the title. Enthusiasts of human blood sport, they once led an army of mercenaries to massacre an entire village of innocent people. Then they fed the last survivor, a little girl, to pirannas just to see how long she'd last.
Volume 5 of the Viz release regales us with various tortures Golgo's faced. Some of the more horrifying ones include him being attacked by tsete flies, attacked by a giant eagle in the desert (under the midday heat and with nothing but pants on and his fists to fight with), and being made to listen to music at deafening volumes after three days of continual whipping.
"The Serizawa Family Murders" is pure Nightmare Fuel from start to finish. A multiple unsolved homicide? Check. A decades-old case involving a family of assassins? Check. Golgo's sinister shadow hanging behind it all? Double check.
"15-34" has Golgo's target be of all things, a rogue AI system codenamed "Jesus". Unfortunately, this particular AI system hacks into the FBI database and comes to the conclusion that Humans Are Bastards. Thusly it tries to hack into the US defense grid to activate the entire US nuclear arsenal to cause an apocalypse.
"Hydra" has an enhanced form of heroin that permanently damages peoples' minds. The Professor Guinea Pig who invented it (and hides her true self under a male nom de plume) suffers from a host of induced mental disorders and ends the arc crawling on the ground babbling about how she cut off her own head but another one grew in its place. Golgo's been contracted to assassinate her, but at this point it comes off as more of a Mercy Kill.
"Garimpeiro" (episode 21 of the anime) opens with a violent gang raiding a small isolated Brazilian village and going full Rape, Pillage, and Burn on the inhabitants. After most of the residents are dead the thugs then make off with several of the village women, leaving the entire place in ruins. A lone man then returns from fishing to find his family either dead or kidnapped and his home gone. It's soon revealed that the captured women were raped and killed and the man himself was fatally wounded trying to avenged them. Driven mad by the trauma and the pain of his injuries the man presents Golgo with some diamonds he stole with a crazed expression before finally expiring after begging him to take the job. Golgo ultimately decides to do it and brings the culprits to justice, but its a small comfort when considering that he wasn't able to actually save anyone from the village.
In the manga, a few of Golgo's clients are children. God knows what kind of people they'll grow up to be... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Golgo13 |
Gone with the Wind / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The amputation. Remember, no pain killers, no sterile instruments, no antibiotics.
- The birth of Melanie's son. After barely surviving an extremely painful, difficult birth, Melanie and her newborn are put in the back of a rickety wagon that is driven through a burning city where law and order have broken down, and even after they escape Atlanta they are on the road for at least two days and nights.
- The entire sequence of Scarlett's return in Tara. She took consolation in going home and being reunited with her mother, only to find her mother dead. The scene where she screams at her mother's corpse is dreadful. Her father is no help either, because he's mad with grief over the death of his wife.
- The yankee soldier's murder. Think about how his face must have been after the shot. Wow. Think about all the blood on the floor and then having to drag out into the garden to bury him. Nice job to do.
- There's actually a brief shot of his blood-covered face. It's not very graphic, but it isn't pleasant, either.
- What he was doing before getting killed is pretty awful. You are alone at home and a creepy guy jumps out with your mother's jewelry and it's implied that he's going to rape you. Creepy.
- During the scene where a dazed Scarlett is wandering through the ruins of Atlanta, the camera pulls back to reveal hundreds of dead and wounded soldiers lying on the ground (also qualifies as Tear Jerker fuel).
-
*Bonnie's death*. Mammy tells Mellie that the house has basically gone insane—Rhett shot Bonnie's pony in a rage and may have tried to shoot himself, he and Scarlett have been screaming *terrible things* to each other in their arguments, and both are blaming the other for letting Bonnie die. And the sight of her corpse exposed for days because her father doesn't want to bury her must be pretty unpleasant.
- Scarlett finally cracking after Beau has been born, having tried to bottle up her terror and anxiety all day. She ends up sobbing for her mother in Rhett's arms.
- Rhett raping Scarlett can be in equal parts rage inducing and terrifying to modern viewers. What's even worse is that Scarlett
*likes* it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoneWithTheWind |
Goldfinger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
For the James Bond Nightmare Fuel index, see here.
## The film
*"You expect me to talk?" *
"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to
**die**!"
- After being thrown into Bonita's bathtub in the opening scene, Capungo tries to grab Bond's PPK, but Bond manages to counter this by tossing a plugged-in lamp in the bathtub, which barbecues him to death.
- The fate of poor Jill Masterson, killed by Oddjob and left painted in gold for Bond to see. This is what you get for messing with Goldfinger's schemes.
- Tilly Masterson's death. While Oddjob's hat doesn't decapitate her, it surely looks like it did.
- The now iconic, often duplicated, often parodied scene in which Bond is strapped to a table and almost cut in half vertically by an industrial laser with seemingly no hope of escape. By the time Bond convinces Goldfinger to stop the laser, it has almost reached his crotch.
- Goldfinger's plan? Murdering a whole army with a Deadly Gas and blowing Fort Knox up with a nuclear bomb. With no regards for how many lives it will destroy in the process, nor for the economic crisis it will cause.
- Having explained his plan to his backers, Goldfinger locks them in a room and has them murdered via posion gas. What makes it more disturbing is that it's reminiscent of the Nazis' methods.
- Oddjob kills Mr. Solo and leaves his body in the car. The car is then dropped in a junkyard grinder.
- The atomic bomb is defused mere
*seconds* before Bond is blown to pieces. And Bond isn't the one to defuse it! He can only stare helplessly at the inner workings of the device before a trained agent from out of frame shows up to defuse the bomb.
- Oddjob's death as well. He is fried to death when Bond applies a live electrical cable to some steel bars as Oddjob is retrieving his metal-lined hat from the bars. "He blew a fuse,"
*indeed*.
## The novel
- Tilly detailing how poor Jill slowly
*suffocated to death* in a Miami hospital, after being completely painted gold, with the staff utterly powerless to do anything.
- The moment when Goldfinger reveals his plan to fatally gas the entire town, as well as the description of the aftermath. ||Granted, it was fake and a ploy by Leiter, but still!||
- Bond practically trying to pressure his body into dying as the circular saw gets nearer and nearer his groin.
- Billy Ring, one of the gangsters, has his
*entire lower lip* cut off, leaving him looking like a ventroquilist's dummy. And when he talks, his mouth moves like one. Brrr. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Goldfinger |
Gotham Season Five / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Season 5
- ||Mummer|| pops up in Gordon's police station, coming and going without being seen, leaving behind only a disturbing message. ||She and Jeremiah are still out there...and they can get to Gordon
*any time they want.*||
- The "dark zone", a section of Gotham where the power was never restored, leaving it reduced to a
*Mad Max*-level hellhole of warring gangs.
- Exploring a basement in a seemingly abandoned building, Bullock finds evidence of murder - watches, gold teeth, burnt bones, wedding rings
*still on the fingers* - literally everywhere. And then Mother, in her creepy doll mask, jumps him from out of the darkness.
- Ivy has turned a park into a Garden of Evil, with corpses wrapped up in vines that are slowly devouring them.
- The plant from Ivy that Bruce gives to Selina seems to have cured her of her paralysis but from what Ivy mentioned before and the last shot of Selina eyes the cost might be too great.
- The Dark Zone continues to be the most nightmarish section of Gotham. The first thing Bruce and Selena encounter is a panicked old man running for his life. They consider helping him, but then they notice that
*he's got a bomb taped to him.* Then he explodes right in front of them, scattering *nails* everywhere. If they hadn't taken shelter behind a car, they'd most likely be dead or horribly maimed.
- Then they meet the people responsible — the
*Gotham* version of the Mutants, a gang of utter psychopaths who kill people for fun and like to carve the word "kill" into their victims' flesh over and over.
- Once they reach Jeremiah's territory, Bruce and Selena meet Ecco again, and she's fully transformed into
*Gotham's* version of Harley Quinn. We see what this kind of character would be without Harley's trademark charm and zaniness: a terrifying, fanatical lunatic. The "initiation" she puts hopeful Jeremiah followers through is ||a game of Russian Roulette that only half of them survive. And that includes *her*: she apparently still has a bullet rattling around somewhere in her skull.||
- Selina's Sanity Slippage as she becomes more and more obsessed with finding Jeremiah and getting revenge.
- The Paranoia Fuel ignites with the climax to this episode. First someone shoots down the Wayne Enterprises chopper with a rocket launcher, and now ||someone bombs Haven, completely destroying it.|| None of the usual suspects had either the means or opportunity to pull it off; Penguin admitted he'd have no reason to deny it if he had. Someone unknown, and very well-equipped, is operating in Gotham, and they are targeting Jim Gordon's faction.
- More than likely they're also the same heavily-armed force we see assaulting Gordon's position in the future prologue of "Year Zero." But who, exactly, are they? Well, let's see: what member of Batman's Rogues Gallery has the backstory that would justify that level of private military power, and more importantly, hasn't shown up yet but definitely will before the end of the season? ||
**Bane**.||
- The aftermath of the Haven attack. Jim eventually reports that 311 people died, 49 were injured, and at least 2 dozen are still unaccounted for.
- ||Selina repeatedly stabbing Jeremiah as revenge for shooting and crippling her to hurt Bruce is bad enough. What's worse is that he begins to taunt her as she does it before she finally shuts him up for good. Even seeing his body, the audience knows his "death" is unlikely to last longer than an episode or so because of the trailers.||
- ||Riddler
*throwing the wheelchair lady out her own window.*||
- Near the end of the episode, Gordon demonstrates how scary he can be when he's at the end of his rope. Zsasz gloats that Gotham will never be the city that Gordon wants it to be, that it will always belong to criminals and killers like him. Gordon immediately tells Harvey to give Zsasz his gun, so they can finally have it out in an old-fashioned shootout. Both Harvey and Zsasz are profoundly disturbed when it becomes clear that Jim's not joking. Zsasz actually backs down.
- Riddler gets put through the wringer this episode:
- A family of hillbillies straps him into a makeshift electric chair and plans to slowly torture him to death.
- He finds out that he's being controlled via a chip embedded in his brain.
- Strange operating on him to fix said chip
*by opening up his skull while he's fully conscious*.
- The way Ed's eyes roll back into his skull whenever said chip activates looks
*incredibly* creepy.
- Walker and Eduardo make it clear they intend to simply kill anyone in Gotham they consider a criminal, and to hell with any innocent people who get in their way.
- Selina taking the fingers off a couple of goons who attack her. Penguin looks thoroughly freaked out by the sight of them.
- This is reversed when Penguin executes Magpie when she tries to steal from him again, and also not so subtly threatens Selina with the same if she crosses him.
- Jeremiah's chemical weapons, which cause the victims to suffocate to death while their faces turn purple and bloated.
- Jeremiah's latest insane scheme? Kidnap random people, have them surgically altered to look like Thomas and Martha Wayne and get Jervis to hypnotize them into truly believing they are Bruce's parents (and Alfred accepting it all). Then murder them in front of Bruce to let him feel that pain all over again.
- The C-plot features Bruce and Alfred trying to rescue a man who's been abducted into the sewers by another man who's been mutated and driven insane by Jeremiah's chemicals. Cue a vicious attack in dark, cramped tunnels, straight out of a horror movie.
- Jane Cartwright/Doe is made of nightmare fuel, being able to take on anyone's appearance with just a touch, with no way of knowing she's done it until she attacks.
- We're treated to a graphic scene of Jane rearranging the bones in her hand to escape her handcuffs, complete with icky sound effects.
- Some of Gordon's hallucinations while hovering near death are downright disturbing, including the jury of people who died at Haven, the wake being held for him by all his enemies, and the part where he's being electrocuted.
- His hallucination of Lee holding a baby, heavily implied to be the child they lost when Lee miscarried; she ends up
*dropping* the baby onto the concrete floor with a cold expression. Even knowing it's a hallucination, it's enough to make viewers flinch.
- The Riddler's Motive Rant where he not only demonstrates how sociopathic he's become - claiming he felt not a thing for the men and woman he fought beside to keep Gotham safe, and that he only saved it to take it himself - but with a few well-chosen barbs about how Gordon will only ever see Penguin as Fish's umbrella boy, reawakens Penguin's darker side as well. After the two have demonstrated how genuinely heroic they can be in the same episode, it's a frightening reminder of how dangerous the two actually are.
- In addition, just as in seasons 2 and 4, the Riddler discourses at length to a mirror - but this time, there's no other personality answering him, indicating the good Ed personality has finally been dispelled for good.
- Nyssa's behavior towards Barbara's baby during the episode. Nyssa tells Barbara that after Gotham has been wiped out, she's going to kill her and take her baby to raise her as an al Ghul.
- If you're a Gotham criminal, this episode marks the beginning of your worst nightmare. Some mysterious
*thing* is terrorizing Gotham street gangs, moving like a shadow just out of view. When it finally makes itself known, it goes straight for the throat, taking out Riddler and Penguin, Gotham's two most powerful crime bosses, like they were nothing at all - terrifying them into complacency afterwards - and then curbstomping the monstrous Jeremiah with very little effort. Even those who know this is just a man in a costume are still too afraid to confront him. He's less a man as he is a *presence* throughout the episode, bringing a reckoning to Gotham's underworld. Criminals beware. *The Dark Knight has come.*
- Then there's Jeremiah's new look, though it's also awesome. Not only does he have his signature permanent rictus grin, but his eyes are sunken and bloodshot, and his complexion is cracked and leathery.
- The sheer terror Bullock displays when he gets roped into Jeremiah's plot. Jeremiah is an Evil Genius who seemingly has the whole town wired. Bullock's afraid to even speak his name out loud. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GothamSeasonFive |
Gotham Season Four / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Everything** about ||Jeremiah||.
- The creepy ||posthumous|| messages that Jerome leaves for Jim to discover and lure him away from the GCPD? ||It was Jeremiah in disguise the whole time. It's horrifying to see "Jerome's" demeanor subtly melt away as he
*peels off his fake damaged skin*, revealing the pale white face and red lips of Jim's true enemy, now in a much calmer but somehow even freakier persona. Then he has Ecco set off the energy generator and escape, revealing it to be a bomb, and it destroys the place, sending Jim to an Uncertain Doom.|| **||Jeremiah||:**||Jerome|| is dead. Long live me. *Long live me.*
- As they are working on the energy generators, Jeremiah reveals to Bruce that he was ||infected by the laughing gas|| and now he can't stop seeing his brother everywhere. When Bruce tries to show him that ||Jerome is still dead||, the grave is empty, and Jeremiah loses his mind at this, eventually believing
*Bruce* to be Jerome wearing a mask (Bruce's face in particular). Then he holds Bruce at gunpoint, threatening to put "his brother" back in ||his grave|| and attacking him with both a gun and pocket knife he found on ||Jerome's body||. As it turns out, ||**this is all an act.** Jeremiah knows exactly what he's doing, and is making fools of everyone in the entire city - Bruce, the GCPD, the other villains, Jerome's followers, even Jerome himself in a way (who's still dead) by planning to tear down and rebuild Gotham in his own way.||
- So Jeremiah seems pretty normal, right? His face has already returned to its natural color after ||the gas incident||. Except... ||NOT! After calmly and emotionlessly shooting a Jerome follower claiming that Jerome was victorious, he pulls out a cloth and wipes the blood off his face and out of his eye - except his normal skin color (revealed to just be makeup) comes off with it, revealing the white underneath. This happens at the same time as The Reveal to Jim that "Jerome" on the videos was Jeremiah the whole time.||
- ||Jeremiah goes from cackling maniacally like his brother to dead silent in a heartbeat when the aforementioned follower claims that Jerome is victorious before shooting him. The way he can shift his personality on a dime is beyond unnerving.||
- Possibly the most terrifying reveal of all, and made arguably scarier in its ambiguity: ||Jeremiah claims that the toxin did
**nothing** to him apart from some "mild cosmetic effects". Bruce doesn't believe him, saying that it did affect him because now he wants to tear down Gotham like his brother but in a "sane" way, but if Bruce is wrong, and Jeremiah is being genuinely truthful... then it means that he was Evil All Along before we ever met him and the Greater-Scope Villain to his brother, Playing Both Sides from his very introduction.|| And now he plans to surpass every single goal that Jerome ever had for Gotham with flying colors. **||Jeremiah||:**He might as well have sprayed me with *water*.
- The Reveal that Bruce unknowingly helped Jeremiah create ||some of the most dangerous bombs in existence out of energy generators, one of which destroys his own shelter which Jim was lured into||.
**||Jeremiah||:**||Jim Gordon|| is dead.
- The video of Jerome being strangled is uncomfortably long, until it reveals that he was... strangling... himself? ||Turns out he was just using another set of hands to play tricks on Jim's mind. Oh, and it was Jeremiah all along on both screens, so the video is even scarier now that it symbolically represents the idea that he has removed his brother from power and become the new face of terror in the city. Jerome's dead.
**Long live the Joker.**||
- ||Jeremiah and Ecco (the latter in a Harley Quinn-esque jester outfit)|| breaking into Wayne enterprises, shooting two guards and planning to plant all the energy generators stored within all over the city to
**bring the whole thing down.** Jerome who??? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GothamSeasonFour |
Gotham Season Two / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Jim's terrifying Alone with the Psycho scene in Ed's apartment. He slowly realizes that the nerdy scientist he thought was his friend is actually the mastermind behind the utter hell he just went through...only for Ed to reveal that he knew Gordon was onto him and proceeds to try and kill him. All while the Riddler's creepy-as-hell theme plays in the background. **Jim:** I know it was you, Ed. **Ed:** ( *framed in shadow and red light while laughing*) Guess what? I knew that you knew that I knew. ( *electrocutes him*) | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GothamSeasonTwo |
Got Milk? / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
For a set of commercials that are promoting the importance of milk (and in often hilarious ways), some commercials can get a bit dark and creepy at times.
This infamous Got Milk Commercial where a mother tries to tell her kids to drink their milk, but the kids refused to drink their milk and they stated that their neighbor Mr. Miller never drank any milk. We then zoom in on Mr. Miller and he tries to lift his wheelbarrow, until both of his arms come off. This causes the kids to scream in terror and quickly drink their milks.
Another commercial involves an old lady trying to give her cats some milk, but she ends up running out of milk and tries to feed her cats powdered milk instead. But the cats weren't satisfied and they ended up cornering the old lady to the point where they locked the doors and the commercial ends with the old lady having a massive Oh, Crap! look on her face as the cats turn off the lights.
This commercial where a Magician performs at a retirement home and they are celebrating the birthday of an old man. The Magician performs most of his tricks until he does a magic trick where he pours a jug of milk into his hat and makes the milk disappear. This then angers the elderly folks as they start cornering the magician, with an elderly lady telling them to lock the door as they walk menacingly towards the magician.
The La Llorona commercial where La Llorona herself sneaks inside a house during the night and is constantly wailing over a sleeping couple. But then, there's a bit of Nightmare Retardant towards the end when it turns out that La Llorona just wanted some milk, but finds out that the milk carton is empty and wails even more. What makes this commercial a bit disturbing was the dark atmosphere and the appearance of La Llorona herself.
This commercial has the Pillsbury Doughboy assist a family with making chocolate chip cookies... and helping himself to their milk offscreen. They respond by stuffing him into the oven. Burns start to form on his body and he screams in agony when his hat catches fire. Disproportionate Retribution, much? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GotMilk |
Gotham Season One / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Season 1
- The POV shot of the killer pointing his gun at Bruce's face after killing his parents.
- The entire scene really. It's one of the most brutal depictions of the Waynes' murder. And it isn't just Bruce who's traumatized, Selina visibly recoils in the shadows as each of the gunshots go off.
- Foregone Conclusion though it may be that Bruce survives, the gunman was clearly considering whether or not to put a couple in Bruce's head. To reiterate: He was about to
*shoot a little boy* and there wasn't a soul around who could do anything to stop him. (Selina was up on the fire escape and, agile as she is, she probably can't outrun a bullet, so she likely would not have been much help.) It's scenes like this that show just what kind of place Gotham really is.
- The scene where Oswald kills a fisherman by slashing his throat and eating his sandwich. Brings back some memories of Danny DeVito's portrayal.
- Selina Kyle advises a young boy to "go for the eyes" if he gets into a fight. When she gets her claws into someone's eyes, there are none left.
- Oswald brutally kills one Jerkass college-age preppy and kidnaps the other one to raise a $10,000 ransom. Only the kidnapped preppy's mother refuses to believe the kidnapping is real and won't even listen to Oswald negotiate down. That terrified look on the victim's beaten face when Oswald affably chides him for "being a scamp..."
- The kidnappers. They seem like decent, overly nice people and they never really drop that demeanor. It's just incredibly unsettling especially since a number of real life serial killers act just like that when luring their victims.
- The man Gordon throws down the Bottomless Pit. His screams don't stop, they just...fade out.
- The way each Asshole Victim is killed off: by being strapped to a helium balloon and carried into the sky while screaming and flailing. Assuming they weren't hit by airplanes first or dropped if the rope loosened enough, the lack of air and increasing cold eventually
*freezes them to death.* Oh, and the balloon pops and sends the bodies plummeting back downwards (in one case, onto an old woman who was just taking her dog out for a walk).
- The worker at the restaurant who was killed by Cobblepot, simply for having the same shoe size.
- Penguin just gets even scarier in this episode in the final scene when he hires a group of robbers to rob money from his restaurant, only to kill them by feeding them poisoned cannoli and taking it back. Yeah, "Don't fuck with Penguin" is putting it lightly. Penguin's boyish smirks as he watches them eat is even more disturbing.
- The signature go-to move for assassin Gladwell is to stab his victims through their eyes with a custom-made pop-up blade.
- Fish's "final audition" for her new singer/secret weapon is really disturbing. She can't decide between the two candidates, so she takes the girls to an alley and forces them to fight each other, giving the job to the last one standing. All while she watches with cold satisfaction, like a Roman Emperor watching a bloodsport.
- Also, in retrospect, a creepy bit of foreshadowing for "Masks".
- The titular drug is an early form of Venom, ie the stuff that will create Bane. This version gives super strength by pulling the calcium out of people's bones, so that after a few hours they crumble into bags of flesh.
- Which makes the scene where the inventor spreads the drug free of charge to everyone he sees on a busy street with the implication of hundreds having taken the drug even more horrifying as there is no cure.
- What we do see happening to the woman who literally falls to pieces in front of Gordon and Bullock... /shudder
- The horrifying part is how they die; Dissolving your bones won't kill you but it will make it hard for your organs to function without something supporting them, like your heart and lungs. The victims don't die because they no longer have bones; they die because
*they suffocate to death*.
- In the episode, Bruce talks with a woman who's self-described as 'middle management' in Wayne Enterprises, and lets her know that he's found 'irregularities' in the company's accounts in relation to Arkham. At the end of the episode, the woman is seen spying on Gordon and Bullock, and it's heavily implied that she is complicit in not just the Viper scandal, but whatever's going on with Arkham and the murder of Bruce's parents. The lady has no problems covering up WellZyn's dealings in pharmaceutical weaponry. Who knows what will happen to Bruce if he asks too many questions?
- Nygma. If you look closely you can see he gives Bullock a Death Glare when he tells him to stop it with the riddles. Then there's his behavior around Miss Kringle, it comes off as obsessive stalking. What's worse Nygma doesn't understand he's doing anything wrong, he thinks it's normal flirting. He has all the makings of someone who's just gonna
*snap*. It's only a matter of time.
- As of "Under the Knife", time has run out, and Nygma's fugue-state stabbing of Miss Kringle's abusive boyfriend makes even the Penguin's Psycho Knife Nut moments look rational. At least Cobblepot knows when to
*stop*.
- While Bruce is asleep on the couch, Selina Kyle walks right in, has a look around, grabs something and then leaves without anybody being the wiser. Sure, Selina isn't all that bad, but just imagine somebody breaking into your house like that, while your children are asleep, without you ever knowing?
- Especially since this Episode was about A Serial Killer going after the kids of Gotham's richest, I.E. Bruce.
- The hypnotherapist has been hypnotizing her patients into becoming killers modeled after a Gotham City urban legend because she thought that the city's rich needed to be scared into submission by having their children murdered.
- The killings themselves. The abductions and the sight of the strung-up bodies are very creepy.
- Anytime Oswald and his mother are on screen together is ridiculously creepy, especially the bathtub scene. It doesn't help that Word of God said they were deliberately going for a Norma and Norman Bates vibe with them.
- Victor Zsasz being able to just walk into a police station filled with cops, call out to Gordon like if he were an old friend and order everyone to leave as to show how far the mob's power stretches and how fearsome his reputation is.
- The fact that Sionis' employees see nothing wrong with watching potential colleagues fight
*to the death* on a live feed, or that they're all walking around with various bruises and broken bones (and in one man's case, a *missing thumb*) like it's a normal thing.
- Harvey Dent's confrontation with billionaire Dick Lovecraft. One comment from Lovecraft, and Harvey pretty much snaps, grabbing Lovecraft and warning him not to threaten him or he'll 'rip him open.'
- Even in his non-violent moments, Harvey comes across as a little...off. He's overzealous, fanatical and his obsession with charging Dick Lovecraft is reminiscent of Captain Ahab's obsession with Moby Dick.
- He only shows up for the one scene, but Selina's fence, Clyde, is one creepy guy. Plus, he's willing to sell out Selina just to make a buck.
- Ivy's reintroduction, in which the Creepy Child factor is substantially elevated, to the point where Selina - who's older, has been on the streets longer, and mouths off to both cops and criminals - is disturbed by her.
- The circumstances surrounding Lovecraft's murder. In the previous episode, he's introduced as someone who could very well be at the heart of the conspiracy surrounding the Waynes' murder. Here, he's very clearly a pawn and he knows it, scared out of his mind and aware that he's going to die for whatever he knows. It makes you wonder just how far and how deep the corruption in Gotham goes that a man like Lovecraft - described as one of the richest men in town who owns
*half* of the city - is just a pawn and loose end to be dealt with.
- There are several possibilities to who really runs Gotham, if Lovecraft isn't working for Falcone or Maroni - The League of Assassins, Black Glove, or the Court of Owls. Whichever one, the assassins sent to kill him seem to enjoy their work despite their professionalism.
- The leader of the Assassins claims to not want to kill Bruce because he wasn't on the contract. But the gardener she killed wasn't on the contract either. There had to be an easier way to get into the manor, or even an easier way to fake a car accident. Either that gardener did something to earn a contract, or they need Bruce for something in the future. ||Turns out to be the latter as the Court of Owls has plans for Bruce.||
- Inmate Jack Gruber, or The Electrocutioner. His appearance
*alone* during the interrogation is unsettling enough with his Dissonant Serenity. While his rap sheet alone note : rape and murder is enough to unnerve most, his reveal as the Villain of the Week turns him into a full-on threat.
- And his
*method* for experimenting with the inmates at Arkham? Electroshock therapy. And how he does it? By jamming needles into the frontal lobes of the inmate and shocking them to the point where they can't even speak. And with each inmate, *his methods improve*.
- And he manages to
*escape Arkham* due to his most successful experiment. And he manages to gloat about his victory in the form of a letter directed specifically to Gordon.
- Dorothy Duncan. At the age of sixteen, she poisoned five kids with poison candy claiming it was for homework. And we don't even know that she was an inmate of Arkham Asylum until
*the last ten minutes of the show*. Once Arkham re-opened, she posed as a member of Arkham's staff. She was thought to be the Vill In Of The Week until it was revealed that she was also given electroshock therapy by Gruber.
- Falcone's Tranquil Fury upon learning the truth about Liza, before
*slowly* choking the life out of her. He gets so many Affably Evil moments that it comes as quite a shock.
- At one point during her strangulation, you can actually hear
*the bones in her neck* crack...
- Fish being tortured by having a plastic bag put over her head.
- The episode begins with Gerald and Johnathan Crane attacking an innocent man in his own home. The moment the man enters the room, you can see Gerald's shadow in the background, waiting for the kill.
- Jerome is
*incredibly* unsettling once his true nature is revealed. Considering who he might end up becoming, it's only appropriate.
- He's "merely" unsettling before the reveal. The way he talks matter-of-factly to Gordon about his own mother sleeping around was a huge red flag.
- The moment his tears turn to laughter is so smooth, yet so sudden... The mask just
*drops*.
- Just the mere fact that he does a near spot-on impression of Jack Nicholson's Joker is creepy enough. With Heath Ledger's laugh as inspiration for his own.
- Fish Mooney calling the captors' bluff by convincing her fellow hostages to deny the captors the next victim for body parts... by
**killing** the victim before the captors could take him away for harvesting.
- As if Zsasz needed to be any more horrifying than he already was, it turns out Butch is still alive, except that he's... changed. Unless it's some kind of ruse, it seems Victor has tortured and broke him into complete subservience and willingness to follow even the most humiliating orders.
- The
*incredibly* disturbing scene where Fish Mooney pulls her eye out with a spoon and stomps on it with her foot. It's one of the most gruesome scenes in the show, to date!
- The implication that a simple red hood can give anyone in Gotham the impulse to commit crimes... and that we might not have met its true owner yet.
- Alfred getting stabbed by his old friend Reggie, although more heartbreaking than nightmarish. It's still scary that in Gotham's world, your friends can turn on you like that.
- Then we find out that Reggie is on the payroll of the Board of Wayne Enterprises. He was sent to see how much Bruce dug up,
**and** stab Alfred. It's clear they aren't taking any chances: they want Bruce - *a twelve-year old boy* - out of the picture.
- Oswald - and the audience - seeing the full effect of Zsasz' brainwashing when he wants to make a toast with Butch to Fish Mooney, only for Butch to turn around and dismissively say that Fish 'got what she deserved.' It's frightening to see and hear such a thing from someone who was so loyal to Fish Mooney that he
*killed his childhood friend* because he got in her way.
- The scene where Dr. Dulmacher (A.K.A. the Dollmaker) shows Fish an example of his twisted experiments. He surgically removed every part of his manager's body and and stitched on replacement parts, which previously belonged to OTHER VICTIMS. As a result, he turned into a disturbing, Frankenstein-like monstrosity. That scene was made worse since the manager was played by Jeffrey Combs, who played Dr. Vannacutt in House on Haunted Hill (1999), as well as Herbert West in Re-Animator. Very unsettling to see him on the other side of the operating table.
- The revelation about what happened to Loeb's wife. Their daughter murdered her because she thought it was her turn to sing and not her mother's. The way it was revealed, with the necklace of dead birds, was spooky.
- When Penguin offers a single train ticket to Arizona to the elderly couple working for Loeb, the wife beats and strangles her husband to death. Penguin then reveals that he lied about having a ticket and just wanted to save a shotgun shell before shooting her.
- The serial killer in this episode (nicknamed 'The Ogre' among the GCPD), who abducts women for weeks or months at a time, keeps them hostage in his loft until they do something he doesn't approve of, and then he slaughters them and dumps their bodies. His last victim was murdered because she overcooked his lamb dinner.
- What makes the Ogre so terrifying is that if he gets even a
*hint* that a GCPD officer is investigating him, he targets their loved ones in the same way. As a result, only a handful of senior detectives know of his existence, the press and the rest of Gotham kept ignorant. That's right: in a city overrun with violence and mob bosses and corruption, it's this guy that *nobody* in law enforcement will go after.
- Then there's the fact that Commissioner Loeb made sure that Gordon would get the cold case, knowing he would go after the Ogre with his usual gung-ho attitude and probably get Lee killed as a result. Loeb is willing to let an innocent woman be abducted, tortured and
*killed* just to teach Gordon a lesson.
- Selina killing Reggie when he threatens to tell his employers that Bruce is on to them.
- Hell, the fact that Bruce himself was this close to doing it himself, only stopping at the last moment.
- The Ogre's interactions with Barbara. He contacts her so he can kill her, but once he realizes that she's no longer with Gordon and sees just how bitter and lost she is, he begins to...beguile her into his way of thinking. He shows her his dungeon at the end of the episode, and the last shot is of them turning to each other and smiling.
- Edward killing Miss Kringle's abusive boyfriend. He was already on his way to a breakdown, and as he stares at the body, he alternates between muttering 'Oh dear' in horror at what he's done and
*giggling*.
- The fact he does so beneath some elevated train tracks, as a passing train throws down sparks that illuminate the scene like lightning-flashes, make it all the more surreal. It's like we're looking into Nygma's own reeling brain, neurons short-circuiting erratically from what he's just done and is still doing.
- After comforting his terrified mother after Maroni snaps at her and revealed her son's true nature to her, Penguin receives a glass bouquet of roses from Maroni meant for his mother. He tells the deliveryman to give Maroni his graphic death threat before dropping the bouquet onto the floor and shattering it. Penguin slams the door, but decides to tell Maroni himself, opens it, snatches up a glass shard from the broken bouquet and stabs the deliveryman in the neck.
- Oswald deciding to jump-start a gang war by having his goons kill Maroni....except he sabotaged the weapons they hid the bar where the hit was suppose to take place. And to top it all off, they were Falcone's goons. What follows it some of the bloodiest carnage ever seen in Gotham.
- Edward finally developing his dark side. He chops up Officer Dougherty's body limb by limb, and successfully disposes of it without anyone knowing the wiser. He even gets a hold of his
*skull* (through the eye sockets no less!) and taunts it, right before stuffing it into a bag and *smashing it to pieces with a hammer*.
- The Ogre killing Barbara's parents with a knife. Also counts as a Tearjerker.
- After Barbara's parents are killed, she appears to have completely mentally
*snapped.*
- Either that, or she's drugged out of her mind after drinking what the Ogre claimed was water, and she
**will** snap when it wears off and she realizes her own doped-up suggestion got her parents killed.
- The Alone with the Psycho scene between Barbara and Leslie. The scene is creepy even before Barbara goes Ax-Crazy!
-
*After* she goes crazy, Leslie rushes to the restroom to hide, and Barbara manages to break a patch through the door with a fireplace poker. During her following struggle with Leslie, Barbara even manages to smack her around a few times, nearly killing her before Leslie gets the upper hand and knocks her out.
- The Reveal that Barbara killed her own parents and not the Ogre as originally believed. She had bought into the Ogre's mindset well before Gordon and Bullock showed up to rescue her.
- Edward's Villainous Breakdown after Kringle grows suspicious of Dougherty's disappearance. He madly begins talking to himself while the voices of those who badmouthed or disrespected him begin booming in his head. At the end, he shoots an insane, twisted gaze right at the camera.
- Kringle seems a lot more interested in Edward when she thought that he was involved in Dougherty's disappearance.
- Penguin's breakdown is just as terrifying, if not more. He's spent a great portion of the finale cowering in fear and begging for forgiveness, and after Fish kills Maroni, he disappears before showing back with a
*machine gun*, mowing down Fish's soldiers before headshotting the last one surviving with a dropped pistol he found right after. He's finally snapped and ready to kill Fish once and all. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GothamSeasonOne |
Good Time / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The dye pack scene. It's hard to even tell if the dye pack sound effect is diegetic or just part of the soundtrack until the driver asks "What's that sound?" and then all hell breaks loose. The scene is mostly just a red frame obscuring any action, but just through sound design it conveys the chaos and terror of the moment, especially for Nicky.
- Dash's fate. ||The moment Ray pours a massive dose of LSD onto his face, it's a countdown until we see just how badly Dash reacts to the psychedelic overdose. Upon waking, he can do nothing but scream and yelp incoherently in terror. It's entirely likely he will never recover from the trauma.||
- Ray's last scene, where ||he falls from the balcony screaming. We don't see the results, only hear a spectator's reaction||. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoodTime |
Granbelm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Oh boy, where to start?
- At first, Anna looks like a typical haughty antagonist. Once you start digging into her past, and woo boy, is it a bad time. Despite everything she does, Anna was always considered a weak mage by her family, and then they adopted a more talented mage into the family. Worst of all, the power Anna thought she had was a lie. Shingetsu bolstered Anna's power as a kid, meaning Anna never was talented in the first place. By the time this gets out, Anna doesn't even care about the Granbelm anymore; she just wants to hurt Shingetsu as much as she can, in a twisted attempt for validation.
- Before Anna's big fight with Shingetsu after stealing her family's Power Stone, her little sister finds her and begs her to make up with Shingetsu. Anna, with a calm, pleasant look on her face, tells her sister that nothing matters except seeing Shingetsu suffer for what she did to her.
- Her face game throughout her mental breakdown is right up there with
*Higurashi* with how contorted and horrifying she looks.
- Suisho reveals her true colors, and you wish she didn't. She's a manipulative sociopath that plays mind games with her victims until they break. Anna gets this treatment when Suisho leaves her side and then goes after Kuon.
- By the way, both girls end up erased from history and everyone's memories, save for those participating in the Granbelm. The Magiaconatus is blamed for it, but considering that it was Suisho that broke these girls first before they were defeated in battle...
- Kuon being manipulated by Suisho in a... very sexual manner.
- The big twist: Mangetsu was a doll all along, created by Magiaconatus to be a companion/helper to Shingetsu. Neither girls take the news well.
- Immediately after finding out the truth, Mangetsu returns home, only for her family to meet her at the door and... ask who she is. Her other friends don't know who she is, strangers pass her by, and most of her contacts disappear from her phone. It takes time for Mangetsu to even accept who she is, let alone her inevitable demise once Shingetsu makes her wish come true...
- On the flip side, Shingetsu is traumatized enough that she considers giving up on her lifelong crusade just to potentially save Mangetsu from fading away. She never meant to create an artificial being solely meant to stay by her side, let alone Magiaconatus reacting to her wish, and feels horrible that she cursed Mangetsu to simply fade away from existence.
- Episode 10 has Suisho giving one hell of a Breaking Speech to Shingetsu about the true nature of Granbelm and Magiaconatus. For starters, she twists and snaps the limbs and neck of Shingetsu's doll, each with a Sickening "Crunch!". As if that isnt creepy enough, Suisho starts showing off her terrifying, inhuman nature as she dumps revelation after revelation onto a horrified Shingetsu; Suishou is depicted as a pitch black shadow with a Slasher Smile, while her spine contorts unnaturally in a complete arc.
- For a thing that supposedly is just a "thing", Magiaconatus seems to have a mind of its own, and is fixated on Shingetsu becoming the Princeps Mage, by any means necessary. Worse, all of the horrible things that have happened in her life, the Granbelm tournament itself, and Mangetsu's creation, were all Magiaconatus' machinations, designed to test Shingetsu's resolve and determination. She turned into a powerhouse, but at what cost?
- Suishou's reaction to killing Mangetsu.
- The ending to the anime, where Shingetsu fulfills her wish, but at the cost of her mortality and existence in the world. While she was able to wipe magic off the face of the earth, Shingetsu will be spending the rest of eternity wandering the world, with no one to really befriend or talk to. Shingetsu seems to accept it, though.
- There is also the fact that Shingetsu hints that she didn't
*entirely* wish magic away, as suggested by the sudden appearance of possibly-Mangetsu as a new transfer student. Shingetsu may or may have fallen prey to the exact kind of mistake-making that she was warned not to follow by people like Mangetsu, and someday, humans may find a way to bring back magic and start the cycle of violence and abuse all over again. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Granbelm |
Goomzilla / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*insert Vietnam flashbacks here*
Even an adorable plush video can have frightening moments.
**Beware of unmarked spoilers!**
Bowser and the Koopas' Staff
- This was our first glimpse of Bowser's descent into Bad Boss territory, as he had no qualms in making his own minions disappear with his magic hand wand. Even Peach was quite horrified when she witnesses what he did to Koopa.
- The Underwhere. Home to Master Hand & Crazy Hand, this pure black world is where those unfortunate to die or touch the aforementioned wand are sent. The Hands themselves are a different beast altogether. Bowser's earlier shenanigans were somewhat laughable and lighthearted, but these two stand out from Goomzilla's previous three videos as the first Knight of Cerebus. This begs the question: if the Hands succeed in eating their victims, do they go into another place after death, or are they gone for good? Given the video description confirming their success in eating a poor defenseless Goomba, this makes it all the easier to feel sorry for the little guy.
Bowser Needs Minions!
- "Bowser Needs Minions!" was a funny episode...that ends on a Last Note Nightmare with the room getting dark and Bowser and his new minions laughing.
Mario's Quest
- You thought Bowser was a nightmare in Bowser and the Koopas' Staff? Wait until you see him
*here*. Bowser's Evil Plan this time is to use a star-powered generator to turn *everyone* in the Mushroom Kingdom into stone so that he and Peach can be the only two people alive, with nobody to interfere with their "relationship." Prior, he just wanted to kidnap her, fight back against those who wrong him, or generally just wreak havoc. Even his more worrying actions in Bowser and the Koopas' Staff were regrettable and forgivable to a degree. This was the first time in Goomzilla history where Bowser was *even more* of a Knight of Cerebus than the Hands. Oh, but don't worry, it gets even better.
- Bowser's deep voice that Goomzilla gives him. The first time Bowser receives a voice, and this is what he does with it.
- Bowser ordering Goomfrey to
*beat Peach with a bat* is scarily reminiscent of an abusive relationship.
- Bowser first found the generator in a broken state. To fix it, he has one of his Goombas whip an innkeeper Toad into telling him how to fix it. He even laughs when he witnesses this.
- Bowser's Near-Villain Victory especially deserves an honorable mention.
*Everyone* in the Mushroom Kingdom has been turned to stone and it seemed like Peach had no one to turn to for help. Had it not been for Yoshi's sacrifice, Bowser would have *won*. Not helping was his apathetic reaction to his own minions getting petrified as well. If there was even more of a sign that Bowser is now a monster to his own people, this is it.
- There's also a Bottomless Pit that exists in the Goomzilla universe. Though useful in getting rid of the generator once and for all, and characters falling into it is mostly Played for Laughs, it's best not to think about how it would feel to fall forever.
Luigi's Quest
- Peach is surprisingly efficient when she's hypnotized to be loyal to Bowser, while simultaneously possessing Mario's power transferred from the Diode. This "New Peach" develops an unquenchable thirst for power, forcing Kamek to promise her that Mario will get his comeuppance if she has a little patience. Then, once Mario has been squeezed dry, the first thing she does when Luigi intervenes is attack him. Luigi's fight with her was a losing battle, and the only reason Luigi won was because her feelings for Mario managed to break through to her. It's unclear how she would have finished Luigi if he didn't scream Mario's name, but if her almost chokehold-like high ground as he screams to her was anything to go by, it wouldn't have been pretty. And even though the villains need Luigi alive in order for her to absorb his power as well, he still would be too weak to save her mind and Yoshi has already been depowered, leaving Mario at the mercy of his brainwashed girlfriend, also too weak to fight back or escape whatever fate she had in store for him.
- The true villain of the movie, Solus. Seeing the entire world as selfish, this hooded figure was first believed by the more trusting viewers to be a true friend to Luigi who wanted to help him save his captured friends, but they couldn't have been more wrong. All he wanted was power, which he first uses to get his revenge on Bowser after his neglect ten years ago. With Bowser (narrowly) killed in the lava pit, Solus also has the gall to rub his death in the nothing-but-loyal Koopa's face. But Solus doesn't stop there. He plans to make Luigi (i.e. the person who helped him get to where he was) his next victim. Luigi can't break through to him like he did with Peach since Solus never considered Luigi a true friend, and when Koopa volunteers to help Luigi fight Solus, no punches were pulled on him either. His first form was defeated relatively easily to his own surprise, but Solus had one more form to take down—a giant ghostly head—which almost comes out of nowhere. Unfortunately, none of Luigi or Koopa's attacks had any effects on Solus, and Solus' own attacks were
*brutal*. If Captain Toad hadn't stepped in, Luigi and Koopa most likely would have been *killed*, and Solus would have walked away with Mario's power. From there, who knows what he would have done with them? Plus, it *is* a bit too lucky that the speck of Mario's power would just fly back to Mario after Solus' defeat. When you think about it, this is all Bowser's fault. If he hadn't neglected Solus, none of this would have happened.
- Solus falling into a pit of lava and burning off his flesh is surprisingly dark for a Goomzilla video.
- For all the bad things Kamek has done, he doesn't deserve getting weakened by the Diode and abandoned. Thankfully, he gets back on his feet by the end of Peach's Quest.
Yoshi and the Lost Egg
- Yoshi's FaceHeel Turn was very unexpected. It felt like it came out of nowhere, and was downright Out of Character. And unlike Peach, no hypnosis was required for this turn. Yoshi did it on his own accord.
- When Yoshi goes alone to Bowser's Castle, he has the option to face Bowser. This proves to be a big mistake, since Yoshi didn't bring eggs or anything to fight back, and was also severely outnumbered. Furious that Yoshi would trespass on his property, he orders the poor little dinosaur caged. His fate from there is unclear, but knowing Bowser, most Mario fans wouldn't put it past him to straight-up kill trespassers.
- In the outtakes, there's an exchange between two Goombas that perhaps Bowser's next plan is to give all the Yoshis rabies when they see the caged Yoshi freaking out—and that one of those two Goombas has rabies too. It's supposed to be a joke, but rabies is a territory you don't expect Goomzilla to enter.
Mario's Unexpected Transformation
- Mario gets turned back to normal JUST before Luigi enters the scene. What would have happened if Luigi didn't recognize Mario as a Goomba?
Peach's Quest
- Mimi's transformation into a spider is just as terrifying in Peach's Quest as it was from her home game, neck snapping and all. It provides the page image, and Goomzilla posted a video explaining how he did it, so sweet dreams.
- After Tripliss reveals his true colors, he sets Toad Town on fire, intending to spread as much havoc as he can just because.
Luigi's Spooky Ghost Spooky Quest
- For an April Fool's Day video, the trailer for Luigi's Spooky Ghost Spooky Quest indeed looks spooky. After getting licked by Stanley, Luigi becomes Ghost Luigi, an inconsistent mix-and-match of which parts of him are allowed to be visible or transparent. Though initially shocked by his spectral form, he soon warms up to it when he uses it to scare people to steal their food, and generally cause mischief, somewhat similar to his actions in Luigi the Prankster. Getting too close to him also runs the risk of becoming a ghost as well, as poor Yoshi learns the hard way. He doesn't seem to mind, however, making you wonder how Yoshi is going to make use of
*his* spectral form as well. Oh, and the trailer is narrated by the same deep voice Goomzilla used for Bowser. Except now it sounds deeper and more sinister here, potentially giving Jigsaw a run for his money. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Goomzilla |
Goodnight Punpun / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** *"It's all fine now."*
- The sex scene in chapter 36 is... rather
*disturbing* to look at. What the characters are saying doesn't do much to lighten it up, either.
- What Punpun looks like when he snaps in volume 9. He becomes this black mass with too many eyes, and tends to spout lots of nihilistic quotes whenever he's depicted like this.
- It gets worse in volume 11, after he kills Aiko's mother, when the latter tried to stab Aiko, and in volume 12, when he beats someone up for criticizing Sachi's manga (among other things), and later tries to kill Aiko, and then himself, in absolute grief over his murder.
- And then we get this frame◊ as Punpun beats up the guy in volume 12.
- For readers who are still coming of age, the extent to which characters fail at life whether in academics, employment, or generally may constitute an existential form of Nightmare Fuel. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoodnightPunpun |
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/GoodbyeStrangersAndTheFearfulFrontier |
Good Omens (2019) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Duke Hastur, while bumbling a lot of the time, can be genuinely terrifying. Unlike Crowley, he's perfectly willing to hurt people permanently for petty reasons, like when he burns the Satanic convent down just to send the message that the Order is dissolved.
- Special mention to the telemarketer scammers, where he terrifies the woman who set him free over the phone (addressing her
*by name*, despite the fact that she hadn't introduced herself, and noting that he really should thank her and alllll her friends) before emerging as a swarm of maggots from her electronics and *mouth* that fills the entire office and reduces the workers to bare skeletons.
- War's Establishing Character Moment: walking into a peace agreement between three opposing factions, subtly sparking off discord, and walking out as everyone attending kills each other.
- All the Horsemen, bar Death, fit this, each being a personification of evil. Death is only partially this because he is part of the natural order and not man-made. He is just doing his job, no more and no less. That doesn't make him any less terrifying.
- Even the absurdity of the situation can't keep Crowley yelling at and then removing a defective plant from being quite chilling, with David Tennant seeming to slip back into Kilgrave mode.
- Adam briefly going full-on Reality Warper, including
*taking away his friends' mouths* and contorting their faces into smiles while they're still clearly terrified of what he's doing. The scene where Pepper until now fiery and unshakable starts voicelessly crying while desperately pointing to her erased mouth is particularly harrowing.
- It's subtle, but any moment where Gabriel's pleasant-if-smug veneer drops and the power-hungry shark that lies beneath shines through. Major props to Jon Hamm.
- Ligur's death by holy water. Okay, Hastur's shrieking adds an edge of Black Comedy, but
*melting into oblivion* — fully conscious throughout the process! — does *not* look like a nice way to go. No wonder Aziraphale was so terrified of this fate befalling his friend.
- The M25 being consumed by hellfire is genuinely scary, as unlike in the book we get to see it from the perspective of a young couple who are trapped in their car by the traffic jam- the man gets out to take a leak, only to start chanting "Hail the Beast, devourer of worlds", a chant which is taken up by everyone else in the thousands of cars trapped on the motorway as it erupts into hellfire beneath them. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoodOmens2019 |
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*"Wei Ying, for cultivating an evil path you would eventually have to pay the price."*
—
**Lan Wangji**
While Xianxia is essentially a High Fantasy genre,
*Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi* still holds some rather dark and disturbing elements, and that even with evil spirits or monsters lurking about, sometimes the Humans Are the Real Monsters. **All spoilers are unmarked.**
# Main Story
- While Wei Wuxian doesn't go into the details of how he died in the
*donghua* adaptation, the first episode shows a flashback of him struggling to push away dark spirits that have skeletal shapes and are swarming him until he eventually absorbs them.
- The Burial Mounds earned its name for a reason. Once the site of a great battle, the place is now a mass graveyard, with many having died with resentment. The area thus became infected with resentful energy, with countless ghosts haunting the place and killing anyone who dared to trespass their grounds. Wei Wuxian may have closely avoided death when he was thrown there, but he wasn't exactly lucky as he spent
*months* being tortured inside and out, before he finally learned to manipulate the resentful energy in the place.
- In the
*donghua*, Wen Zhuliu demonstrates his core-melting abilities on a cultivator who speaks out against Wen Chao, and the process is not pretty. The person starts spasming in pain, clutching his chest, and then the core in his chest dims and shatters. The cultivator then lets out one last scream of pain before collapsing and others checking to confirm that his core is now gone.
- It's a nightmare for anyone having to watch their home not only be invaded, but also razed to the ground with barely anything left. The worst part is that the Wens gathered all the casualties in one spot, creating an entire mountain of corpses.
- The manner in which Wei Wuxian killed the Wens is grotesque, to put lightly. He alters their protection talismans so it would attract resentful energy instead. This, plus a few notes from Chenqing, is all that's needed to cause havoc with his fierce corpses, and any Supervisory Office he targets becomes the site of what's nothing short of a massacre. And each corpse that's found died in a different manner — either from burning, drowning, suicide, or from sheer fright... And then there's the slow and painful torture (including but not limited to autocannibalism) he puts Wen Chao through. Even if the man deserved to die, one wouldn't be blamed for thinking that what happened to him was still more brutal than necessary.
- The Wen survivors are rounded up and placed into what is basically a concentration camp, with the Jin Clan dishing out torture to innocent children and the elderly with no remorse. All they see are the evil Wens, and don't care if they're venting their frustrations out on a group of people who don't deserve that hatred. As Wei Wuxian remarks on later, it almost seems like the Wen Clan was never eradicated based on the way the Jin Clan had now taken their spot as the ruler of the cultivation world.
- The Hundred Holes Curse is exactly what it implies — it creates numerous holes in the victim's body (including the inside( and the holes slowly enlarge, giving them not just a horrifying appearance but also lots of pain and damage to the body. The way this curse harms the unlucky victim will definitely make anyone get shivers, whether or not they have trypophobia. Even Wei Wuxian, who's no stranger to inflicting cruel torture, finds the curse's effects to be absolutely disgusting.
*At first, the victim of the curse would feel nothing. At most, they'd think that their pores had become rougher. However, soon later, the holes would become the size of sesame seeds. The longer it went on, the larger and greater in number the holes would be. It'd proceed until their entire body was covered in holes of all sizes, almost like a grotesque human sieve. On top of that, after the surface of the skin was covered in holes, the curse would begin to extend toward the internal organs. It could either be a ceaseless stomachache, or the rotting of all the organs!*
- Although Wen Qing and Wen Ning go to the Jin Clan peacefully, Wen Qing is given anything but a peaceful death as she's burned alive while her brother is forced to watch.
- What's most likely Wei Wuxian's worst fear of all comes to life — watching his martial sister die in front of his eyes. And it happens in gruesome fashion in the novel, with a sword running through her throat as she pushes her brother figure out of the way. This is enough for an enraged Wei Wuxian to use the Yin Tiger Tally to kill thousands of cultivators present at the Nightless Imperial Capital.
- The fates of the Wen remnants that Wei Wuxian rescued. During the First Siege, they were all slaughtered (save for one), and their corpses were tossed into the blood pool in the Demon-Slaughtering Cave. It isn't as brutal or gory as the other examples, but what makes this horrifying as it showed the cruelty of the other cultivation clans, despite their claims to fight in the name of justice and righteousness.
- Xue Yang prefers to slice people's tongue's out of their mouths and poison them with corpse powder. Just hearing the people gurgle in pain but not able to speak anymore makes the act more terrifying especially when Xiao Xingchen's sword couldn't tell the difference between a living person who has corpse poisoning from actual fierce corpses.
- The simple fact that A-Qing watched Xue Yang brutally murder people but couldn't say a word unless she wanted him to find her and kill her as well.
- A-Qing's screams of terror when Xue Yang managed to find her and called her by her name. She began scrambling backwards out of fright and yelled for help that she knew would never come.
- Nie Mingjue's
*qi* deviation in the Empathy flashback is terrifying to watch unfold, with him almost turning monstrous as he went on a violent rampage while killing several people he mistook for Jin Guangyao before suffering a painful death. Not even his brother was left unscathed.
- It's revealed Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang hired prostitutes to gang-rape a sick Jin Guangshan at his death bed before killing off most of the the prostitutes themselves (who were oblivious to what they were being hired to do beforehand) just so they can be silenced. As much of an Asshole Victim as Jin Guangshan is, dying this way is
*not* a pleasant way to go — and there wasn't even any blood or gore involved in his death. The *donghua* even shows a glimpse of a frail and frightened Jin Guangshan tied to his bed before it happens, and it's unsettling to see.
- When Wen Ning tells Lan Wangji more details about how Wei Wuxian sacrificed his golden core for Jiang Cheng, he reveals that the process isn't painless, and anesthetics were useless. More accurately, they can't be administered, because the donor must be awake and have all senses intact while the golden core is being extracted for the transplant to even at least 50% of success. It's very easy to liken it to a real life organ transplant, but with the added bonus of being awake to see
*and* feel it the entire time.
- Jin Guangyao dies by getting his neck snapped by Nie Mingjue's corpse while he undergoes Sanity Slippage, and the sound of his bones breaking can even be heard. One can't blame the traumatised Jin Ling for covering his eyes and ears when this happens.
# Extras
- The "Villainous Friends" extra reveals the kind of horrifying activities Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang did during the Time Skip behind the scenes, such as capturing an entire clan (with plans to kill them, including the children) just because its leader spoke against Jin Guangshan and then leaving the leader to die in a cage of vicious fierce corpses. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi |
Grand Theft Auto / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Beyond the controversy surrounding this franchise, the
*Grand Theft Auto* games are full of violence. And unlike other franchises, the violence of *GTA* tends to show us some *very realistic* horrors of the drug world such as torture, corruption and Mob Wars. The list is so large that Rockstar Games would make *H. P. Lovecraft* facepalm in comparison.
# Games with their own pages.
# General
- The player character himself. To explain, you're living in a city full of bad guys, from corrupt bankers and executives, to mob bosses and serial killers, and you're the one plotting to kill anyone, under the commands, or for personal grudge, leaving the world with spreaded carcasses and bloody dirty pools.
- The gore detail isn't what you could get away with. Even in 2D Universe games, running over and flattening people under your vehicle leaves a nasty blood pool behind. But especially in
*V*, where gory details have been improved alot, many even veteran players were horrified by a torture scene that is *not Played for Laughs*.
# Game-specific
- In
*Grand Theft Auto 2*:
- One of the missions for the Russian Mafia require the player to deliver a bus full of Hare Krishnas to a hot dog factory, where they are
*ground alive and turned into hot dogs*. Then the player is tasked with delivering a van full of hot dogs made out of human meat to a Diner. This is quite possibly the most messed up mission in the whole *GTA* franchise!
- It gets worse; the PC version of the game has the player take a bus full of
*innocent pedestrians* to the meat factory.
- And it really doesn't help that you're forced to watch them get turned into meat, all while listening to their cries and screams of pain as they are ground alive. Some even try to escape, but the russians shoot them dead before they can even make a move.
- If you have an Electrogun, you could have possibly turning criminals, mob-bosses, and even
*pedestrians* into *Dem Bones*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAuto |
Gosick / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Whilst the series had touched on somewhat dark subject matter before, Episode 19's flashbacks are still quite remarkably disturbing both for what they show and what they imply.
- The fortune-tellers. The looks on their faces are absolutely terrifying.
- The sudden closeup on the Fake Avril's face in Episode 4 is downright creepy.
- Episode 24 when Kujo is knocked out and dreaming that his whole lower half is missing! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gosick |
Gorillaz / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
For several decades, Western Animation has portrayed cartoon bands as wild and wacky, with names like The Banana Splits, Josie and the Pussycats and the Neptunes traveling around the world and solving mysteries, imprinting on popular culture the idea that an animated band would be a family-friendly affair. That all ended with Gorillaz. Instead of talking animal sidekicks and hilarious chase sequences, they gave us zombies, kidnappings, severe head injuries, demonic shenanigans, preteen superweapons, haunted landfills, undead apes, vehicular homicide, giant whales, Dickensian stepfathers, violent foodfights, DIY taxidermy and painkillers.
## Album examples:
-
*Gorillaz*
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*G-Sides*
- "Hip Albatross". Just...
*"Hip Albatross".* Trippy, dream-like acoustic guitars and flutey keyboard notes beneath grungy audio clips of dialogue and zombie sounds from *Dawn* and *Day of the Dead*, layered over with the spaced-out echoes of 2D singing. The final stretch of the song after the crescendo is just instrumental, as if humanity had finally been extinguished by the rampaging hordes of the undead. *I was born a zombie* *From Mercury* *I just sleep...*
- "Faust". Creepy, hauntingly melodic synthesizers like someone descending deeper and deeper into an old castle. The icing on the creepy cake are the vocals of Noodle and 2D reciting a haiku in Japanese and English respectively.
-
*Demon Days*
- "Feel Good Inc." is a rich, stylish song with a vivid nonconformist message, but its video creeps into Fridge Horror territory the more you think about it. How long have the people been trapped in the tower? Apparently long enough to facilitate military helicopters circling the building so no one will escape. And then there's 2D's helpless, troubled demeanor, which falls somewhere between eerie and heartbreaking. Not to mention Murdoc's persistent gyrating.
- Also, the way 2D turns around, jerkily twisting his body around until his head is on completely backwards before he finally turns it too.
- On the subject of that song, the laughter in the background occasionally sounds Laughing Mad.
- "El Mañana", its music video consists entirely of two helicopters shooting at Noodle's floating island while
*she's on it*! Then the video ends with the island falling down into a gorge with Noodle inside, screaming; and then one of the helicopters drop a bomb at it...
- "DARE"'s music video can be kind of unsettling, what with Shawn Ryder's head being the only thing shown and the unfaded copies of Noodle. Also, that
**VOICE!**
- "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head." The freakishly emotionless Vincent Price-esque narration, the ominously droning Background Music, The twisted storybook-style music video/animation... But without question, the crown jewel of everything spooky this song brings to the table is the last bit of narration.
"And then came a sound. Distant at first, it grew into castrophany so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams. There was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken. There was only fire. And then... nothing."
- And one last thing. The intro for
*Demon Days*. Oh god.
"YOU ARE NOW ENTERING... THE HARMONIC REALM..."
- Kids With Guns. If not for the semi-cryptic lyrics about youth violence, then for its dreadfully heavy bass and the way it devolves into chaos towards the end.
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*Plastic Beach*
- The inside◊ of Cyborg Noodle. It's even scarier in her ident for Plastic Beach.
- Seeing Robo!Noodle all hooked up by wires in
*Plastic Beach* was unnerving as well, but it's less unnerving than the art on the CD sleeve depicting her in the same situation... hunched over with a dark grin.
- Also in
*Plastic Beach*, for your enjoyment, Sarcasmo.
- A giant heap of trash in the middle of the ocean? Yeah, the writers weren't making that up. And the real one is the size of Texas.
- "Pirate Jet", the closing track on (most editions of)
*Plastic Beach*, with its creepy-yet-catchy chord progression played on jangly synthesizers while 2D sings about how we're wasting so much water.
*It's all good news now, because we left the taps running for a hundred years...*
- Or it could even be about using up so much oil and how the Earth is doomed because of it.
- The "Superfast Jellyfish" video is terrifying. The jellyfish are way too happy for things that have just been microwaved and are in the process of being eaten. Their movements are creepy as well; somehow the flopping is reminiscent of hanging victims.
- The expressions and dancing of the only human to star in the clip grow steadily more bizarre and creepy as the video goes on. It looks like he's enjoying his breakfast a little too much...
- There's the upbeat, prideful tone of the lyrics... Which also happens to be about disastrous overfishing and polluting the sea until nothing's left alive.
*The sea is radioactive...*
*The sea.. has gone silent.*
- Several moments in the "On Melancholy Hill" video fall under this ||Robo!||Noodle puking up a (still alive) octopus frightens even those in canon (namely 2D) and, while the manatee-napping bit is more of a Tear Jerker than anything else, the way that Boogieman is sort of... massaging the poor thing can definitely give you the jibblies.
- The song itself is not at all scary — except for the ending. By the end of the song, you've been fully immersed in the ambiance of the song's feel-good nature, then an ominous bell appears out of nowhere and completely shatters that immersion in the most eerie and chilling way imaginable.
- When we first see Noodle in the video, she immediately grabs a gun and starts firing on the planes attacking the ship she's on. The look on what we can see of her face tells is that clearly either El Manana, or whatever happened since, have utterly broken her childish innocence.
- This ad for the album. What the hell is 2D looking at?
note : Knowing him, probably nothing.
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*The Fall*
- The album cover can be this, even if only a little. It shows a dark room filled with silhouettes of equipment and a very anxious-looking 2D with huge, white eyes, like something bad just happened. It's difficult to look at it for long without feeling at least slightly unnerved.
- The closing track "Seattle Yodel" is a Last Note Nightmare for the entire album. It's a simple 40-second track of nothing but the sample of a yodeling pickle toy being repeated over and over, each time more echoed than the last.
*All on a silent background.*
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*Humanz*
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*The Now Now*
- Though the album itself is much more sad than scary, the music video for "Tranz" is downright eerie. The high-beams shining from 2D's eyes in the chorus and his uncharacteristically angry expression at times are unsettling enough, but around two minutes in the video takes a sudden left turn into Deranged Animation, first distorting the images of the band and then with claymation versions of 2D appearing in the background. In contrast to the version that's singing, the claymation 2Ds look like they're going through hell, with green bubbling from one's nose, Gumby-like flailing, and one
*emerging from another's mouth and flying right into another*. The video ends with him collapsing bonelessly to the floor.
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*Song Machine*
- The music video for Désolé, which features the band (sans Murdoc) having a lovely boat trip around a scenic lake... while titanic Eldritch Abominations loom motionless over the horizon, a strange figure in a robe watches them from afar, and Murdoc convulses in the fetal position while alone in the studio. Nobody in the boat notices any of this.
- 2-D's eyes turning into the Pac-Man characters in "Pac-Man".
- Noodle briefly sporting anime eyes in the same video also looks weird.
- "Strange Timez" is an immensely haunting track as aside from the off-kilter and quietly frantic instrumental, the lyrics detail the world at large during the year of 2020 as it was written, alluding to all sorts of current-day turmoil from the COVID-19 Pandemic, to political corruption in Belarus, to climate change. What makes it worse is the delivery; rather than hyperbolizing these as sensationalized terrors, 2D merely drones these assessments as matter-of-factly as possible, establishing that in the grand scheme of the world, these are "merely" "strange times" that we must live through before things can get better, a concept that's interpretable as either reassuring or
*even more terrifying*.
- The music video for "Aries," which ends with, after various shots of 2-D and Murdoc enjoying a motorcycle ride, Murdoc taking out a syringe filled with an unknown liquid clearly intending to use it on 2-D, while 2-D drives on, unaware.
- The video for "The Lost Chord" has the band unexpectedly return to the abandoned Plastic Beach, and right from the beginning, it's a surreal experience. Murdoc finds himself wearing the Boogeyman's mask, Russel briefly turns back to giant size (with Noodle emerging from his mouth), and 2D
*barfs up a small sperm whale*. A quick glance around the island reveals features such as the skeletons of Daley (the singer from "Doncamatic") and one of the airplane pilots from the cancelled "Rhinestone Eyes" video, Noodle's old cat mask, the abandoned pirate ship, Big Rick Black's Record Shack, and the submarine Murdoc used to escape the island, with none other than a dormant *Cyborg Noodle* inside. And then a giant sea monster (portrayed by featured artist Leee John) emerges from the ocean and blows the whole island up with Eye Beams, causing the submarine with Cyborg Noodle to sink to the bottom of the ocean. The four band members barely escape the sinking lighthouse through the portal that brought them there in the first place, and Murdoc nearly gets *left behind,* only managing to escape because 2-D opens a portal back there to come and grab him.
## Other Songs:
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*Film Music*: A *very* experimental song that can be best described as a violent Frankenstein's monster of a track that cuts between Lo-Fi, synthesized western music and jarring, grungy electronic noise music.
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*Don Quixote's Christmas Bonanza*: Arguably the most obscure Gorillaz song out there, this oddly-titled single is a trudging, plodding, jingling track with no other vocals but 2D's ghostly wails of "happy radio." It feels like you're trudging through a cold winter night on the way back from the tavern. That's really the only way to describe it.
- The song itself was rushed for a Christmas release after being commissioned by KROQ radio for the lewdly-titled compilation album, "Swallow My Eggnog." As of the end of 2022, the song has never been publicly discussed by either Hewlett or Albarn. It's a song that just
*exists.*
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*Exhumation*: The a capella version of *Left Hand Suzuki Method* with the song itself playing in the background, muffled. Its chunky quality, combined with the song's morbid title, makes it feel like the track was never meant to be found at all.
## Kong Studios:
## Rise of the Ogre:
- Murdoc's father, Sebastian Jacob Niccals (or Jacob Sebastian Nicclas depending on who's asking), was an absolute bastard "whose collection of dubious vices would put Bill Sikes to shame" that based his life around avoiding work, using poor Murdoc as his weapon of choice in his unending quest for a cheap buck. The worst way in which he did this, which incidentally inspired Murdoc to found Gorillaz in the first place, was when he forced the poor kid into a Pinocchio costume and make him sing "I've Got No Strings" in front of his drinking buddies at the pub for a talent contest. The prize?
*Two pounds fifty and the chance for further humiliation in the bi-annual county finals and on national television.* Looking back, Murdoc remarks that if eBay existed back then, his father would have sold him there *more than once.*
- Worst of all, Murdoc mentions that when he was 9, he was raped by a lunch lady.
*A grown woman* *had sex with an underage Murdoc.* Murdoc's childhood was pretty terrible in general, but this has to be the most horrifying and disgusting part of it.
- The explanation of how Russel got those milky white eyes and became the host of Del, the ghost who appears in the videos of "Clint Eastwood" and "Rock the House". His friends, including Del, were all shot by gangsters and their spirits got sucked into his body. Perhaps worst of all was him noticing that one of the gangbangers wore a black hood with no visible face. Russel also mentions that he had a paranormal experience prior to the shooting. He was possessed by a very large demon and went on a rampage in school. He was then exorcised but was put into a coma and didn't come out of it until four years later. He didn't believe any of it until he saw the picture of the "Russel wuz here!" graffiti written in blood on the school walls in
*his handwriting.*
- The utter disaster that was the concert in Mexico. Some of the highlights included a kid getting crushed by one of the inflatable gorillas from the "Rock the House" video, someone throwing a horse lung onto the stage and an exchange of insults between a biker and one of Siegfried and Roy's tigers.
- One particular gem is a photograph of Russel posing with a fan on the streets of Hollywood with the faint, translucent image of
*Death* hovering over the entire image. Not helping matters is the blank, traumatized stare in Russel's eyes. Even Murdoc is unnerved.
- Not long after, Russel is faced with the Grim Reaper himself, describing the feeling of the encounter as like "a blowtorch inches away from [his] face." He also notices that Death's cloak is just a shroud of
*countless fluttering crows.* After hearing the deafening sound of what he described as a mix between thousands of screaming babies and a tree being uprooted, he is forced to say goodbye to Del - whom Death was looking for this whole time. Without the spirits in his head, Russell becomes a shell of his former self until he is taken into care by Ike Turner (of all people.)
- During his stint in Hollywood, Russel tries to get his mojo back by trying to make an album titled "The Seventh Heaven Hip Hop and Harmony Album." It didn't work.
**Russel Hobbs:** It all went bad. Evil. It just ended up with a life of its own. And there was a sickly gloop coming out of the speakers. I could tell the album had gone sour. You could hear people laughing in the background. It sounded like some wonky David Koresh tape. All panpipes and meditation chants, but it was like the sound was trying to...lull you into a dream-like state, so it could eat your soul. Really spooky. Like a children's nursery rhyme from some horror movie.
- The incident that ended the cancelled Gorillaz movie and almost ended the
*band itself.* During a particularly hellish period of script-writing and brainstorming in a hotel, 2D takes the term "elevator pitch" too literally and uses it to create a particularly stupid movie plot that proves to be the final straw for Murdoc's psyche, prompting him to actually *strangle* the poor singer. If it wasn't for Russell dropping his fist straight on his head, Murdoc would have *successfully MURDERED 2D.*
- Murdoc even confesses to committing
**murder** on the set of El Mañana without the slightest hint of remorse. The band had a particularly creepy stalker by the name of "Wee Jimmy Manson" that tried to hijack Gorillaz and turn it into a hippie cult centered around him and his wonky music. Murdoc nips this little issue in the bud once and for all by *locking Manson in the windmill island prop as it crashes and burns.* Murdoc's excuse for revealing this sordid deed is that *he's a cartoon and can do whatever. He. Wants to.*
- The song he forces 2-D to write about it, titled rather appropriately "Murdoc Is God," is just as terrifying, being over two-and-a-half minutes of heavy metal with 2-D chanting "Murdoc is god," "Johnny is dead," and "Murdoc is king" on an eerie loop.
*Urgh.*
- After getting the book
*Pseudomonarchia Daemonum* (a book that *actually* exists!), Murdoc has a few drinks too many while performing one of his many demon-summoning rituals and inadvertently summons a black-skinned demon child that has haunted the band ever since.
## Uncategorized:
- There's plenty of it, but the Cyborg is basically a nightmare fuel manufacturing plant. Her creepy, frigid demeanor, combined with the lovely incident where we see her
**without her face,** make her wholly terrifying.
- The fact that this is a world in which Murdoc Niccals not only has yet to be safely locked away from society, but was in fact forced to care for a coma patient, was allowed to keep joint custody of a small child, and is now "legally entitled to experiment on monkeys" should be Nightmare Fuel enough.
- Murdoc drugging 2D during his radio show was exceptionally horrifying.
- His general treatment of 2D, especially during Phase 3.
- Not to mention the bit when Murdoc is screaming about "the fog."
- Though probably Played for Laughs, 2D screaming "HE'S KEEPING ME PRISONER!" during Pirate Radio 4 (found on the Gorillaz website) is actually fairly unsettling once you look past the hamminess of it. He just sounded really, really desperate.
- The entirety of the
*Rockit* video gives of an extremely creepy vibe. It includes 2D staring directly into the camera with glowing white eyes and talking zombie heads popping out of every direction, to name a few.
- And the statue of Pazuzu.
- Not to mention the hidden frame of the zombie face that flashes 19 seconds in. If you can't see it, just look towards the end of the video...
- 2-D's black eyes, the result of an 8-ball fracture. One who begins to listen/watch the Gorillaz may wonder why they look like that, and soon shudder at the reason for it — although despite his creepy appearance, in terms of personality he's harmless and kind of adorable in his own, stupid way. Murdoc, on the other hand...
- How did 2-D get those eyes? Blame Murdoc. He ran over him, damaging his right eye and putting him in a coma. As part of his community service, Murdoc had to take care of him. Then one day, Murdoc was doing car tricks to impress some girls while the still catatonic 2-D was in the passenger seat. Murdoc crashed the car and 2-D flew out the wind screen, landing face first on to a curb, damaging his other eye and waking him up from his coma.
- The video for "DoYaThing" has a segment in which 2D
*casually scoops human ears out of a jar to put on his toast.* Where on earth did he get those from? Are those real human ears from flesh and blood?
- It's possible that the point of the video was that we don't know what's real and what's in 2D's head, so hopefully we can write off those ears as bacon or something.
- While on the subject of "DoYaThing", the part where we look into Murdoc's room is very spooky. All you see is darkness while you hear cries of animals and something that sounds like human sobbing. Does anyone even want to know what's going on in there?
- Near the beginning of the video, 2D goes into the bathroom... why are there bloody hand-prints on the wall?◊
- In the
*The Now Now* era "Free Murdoc" campaign, based around the idea that Murdoc has been sent to jail for something he didn't do and is trying to escape/clear his name, fans used Facebook messenger or Skype to chat with a Murdoc chatbot, moving the plot along. Most of the chats end with silly tasks such as coaxing another inmate to reveal his tattoo of a map, etc... until the August 31, 2018 chat, which ends with Murdoc being trapped in the sewers as the sewage level rises, and apparently *dying*, all the while begging the fan to find a way out. Even for fans who don't particularly like the character, it's harrowing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gorillaz |
Grand Theft Auto IV / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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It has been more than a decade since its release. 2008's
*Grand Theft Auto IV* marked the new beginning of the GTA series. However, this reboot also meant a Darker and Edgier start, showing some very realistic horrors about the criminal underworld. That, and some mysteries some players have reported.
- The Statue of Happiness. On the outside, it just looks like the game's version of the Statue of Liberty with a rather creepy grin. On the inside, however,
*there is a massive, chained,* **beating heart in the middle of it.** *What the* **hell?**
- All the Urban Legends that point to Ratman. To clarify, Ratman is presumably a half-human, half-rat creature that roams at night in subway stations and can attack the player. Of course, it has turned out to be fake, but still.
- Exploring abandoned subway places can be quite unsettling, especially at night. You are probably used to the sound of cars and people talking in the city. In such abandoned areas, like the one you explore during "Three Leaf Clover", you hear absolutely nothing, just an eerie silence. At that time remember the urban legend of Ratman, and although you know it's fake, surely you would not explore that area without your AK-47 fully loaded with the possibility of meeting a monster. Nothing Is Scarier.
- In general, the underground subway tunnels you can explore in Algonquin. Very similar to the empty apartments you can find around the city with an added dose of Nothing Is Scarier. Near the intersecting tracks at the mid point of the city, there is a large camp of tramps taking shelter in what appears to be a large site of waste. And on top of that, the sound of a train arriving or hitting into you, leading to instant death.
- Some players have reported a helicopter watching over them during free ream. While it could be a glitch, the mere fact that some government agency (probably U.L. Paper) is stalking you is unsettling.
- U.L. Paper itself is this. It's a government black ops organization dedicated to the fight against terrorism. Although their causes are necessary to protect the country, the fact that they dismantle Elizabeta Torres (
*a local drug lord*) without problems and blackmail criminals who are too good to make them disappear, it's possible that we are before one of the most Machiavellian and powerful organizations in the game. For this organization, criminals are just mere pawns, and they will decide when to get rid of them or not.
- Niko's backstory is very horrific. He talks about how he went into a church and saw fifty dead children with their hands chopped off and their throats slit.
- We never saw flashbacks, but it is very clear that he witnessed extremely awful things such as child murder, mutilation, torture, rape, and having witnessed the murder of his own comrades.
- In one of his dates with Kate he also mentions how Roman's mother was raped and murdered and that he lied and told Roman she died in a house fire. Just the fact that there are some things that Niko won't even tell his own cousin tells you how truly fucked up the war was for him.
- This also grades as Real Life Nightmare Fuel: Niko fought in the Yugoslav Wars.
*Nothing* is exaggerated, because based on testimony from war veterans and victims, this is exactly the kind of things that happened in that war.
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*Niko himself*. During the events of the game, Niko has a well-deserved reputation as someone who can and will break your arm if you make him angry or he will do everything possible to go for you and kill you if his bosses order him. Not matter if his target has at his disposal dozens of henchmen, he will kill them all and he will find his target, almost as if he's supernatural! He is also a Genius Bruiser, knows military self-defence and is an expert in survival and weapons. He's essentially GTA's version of Guts, and considering all that was said before, he's even more dangerous than the psychopath **Trevor Philips.**
- Seeing a firefight from the opposing side can be quite a Mook Horror Show. Imagine: you're member of a faction and suddenly a man with exceptional accuracy killed all your comrades. You are running away from the man who, not more than a few minutes ago, just wiped out your faction, so the guy goes after your friends, blows their heads off, and then finally goes after you. The mission "Holland Nights" perfectly portrays this, so Clarence's fear is more than justified.
- There is something really disturbing about the dark atmosphere of the game. In contrast to the bright colors of the next game, there's a bleak, eerie noirish atmosphere, even in the daytime. Of course, this only makes it more disturbing to explore the abandoned places of the city.
- In the game files, several unused death sound files are found, and they are ominous sounding versions of the main theme.
- Exploring abandoned apartments and buildings can be quite unnerving, especially at night.
- The building across the street from the Bohan safehouse have to be one of the creepier places in Liberty City. It may be the weird writing on the walls, or the distinct lack of human life in there, since pretty much every other apartment in the game has people hanging around in the halls. It's odd you can even enter the building in the first place when there's seemingly no purpose for it. Whatever the reason, the deeper you explore into the building, the more you feel like you'd be safer with your high-grade weapons out. Even though the building is completely vacant, you may find yourself fearing that something is in there and that your military-grade arsenal won't protect you this time. That's right, this building is the physical embodiment of Empty Room Psych.
- There are a few other locations like this. The tall + shaped apartment block near where Elizabeta lives is many floors of empty corridors, and eventually the stairs are blocked off, although there is another way up from this point, however. Once you reach a certain floor you will be running for the roof, which luckily you can escape onto.
- Dwayne's apartment is a very a disturbing place to explore. Here we can find strange symbols, a graffiti saying "Welcome to Hell", writings of the previous GTA protagonists,
note : The message is basically signaling the birth of the HD era (GTA 4 and onwards) and how the 3D era protagonists are no longer returning and rooms stained with blood. What the hell happened?!
- The abandoned Sprunk Factory; a moan is heard occasionally when you fire your gun that gave rise to rumors of the place being inhabited by a ghost. It's been chalked up to either homeless people in and around the factory or the bouncer at the nearby Honkers, but that doesn't change that the place is just plain spooky (especially at night) due to a heavy dose of Nothing Is Scarier.
- Mikhail Faustin is a generally frightening invididual during his Ax-Crazy moments. During his first appearance, he kills his own underling just to prove a point to Niko.
**Faustin**: So... Niko Bellic. You think it's okay to kill my people?
**Faustin**: *shoots his underling* *I agree.*
- "Hostile Negotiation" in general. Niko's cousin is kidnapped and presumably tortured, and Niko goes in pure rage during the rescue. Imagine if your cousin gets kidnapped and had to fight all the way through without help. It is probably one of the darkest moments in the game. Also doubles with Tear Jerker.
- The very
*moment* Niko sees the picture of Roman bound and at gunpoint in Dimitri's message... he immediately *loses it*.
- If Niko calls Dimitri after receiving his text, he threatens Dimitri with what is probably one of the most intense pieces of dialogue in the game:
- During the mission "Taking In the Trash", one of the Pegorino soldiers you're working with tells a story about Ray Boccino's temper that's downright chilling. Despite the fact that he's one of the only people in the city Niko meets who keeps to his word, this is one man you
*really* don't want to get on the wrong side of. **Niko**: He has a temper? **Luca**
: Are you fuckin' kidding me? The manager of one of his waste depots was holding out on profits a couple a years back. Ray fed him to a dump truck
. There was this point where the sound of his screams stopped, and all you could hear was his bones crushin', then the pop of his skull goin'. I nearly lost my lunch.
- In "Flatline", Jimmy Pegorino has learned that one of his bodyguards is an informant for the FIB and tells Niko to kill him. The target is in the hospital under police protection after a heart attack (that he suffered when Jimmy confronted him about his betrayal), and Niko must disguise himself as a nurse to get in his room, at which point you can either dispatch him with a bullet to the head or disconnect his life support. If you choose the latter, you can hear him panicking as he asphyxiates to death as you walk away.
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**Deal ending**. If you pick this ending, Dimitri betrays you again, Roman gets killed at his own wedding and Niko goes into a Heroic BSoD, clearly distressed at his cousin's death. Thankfully, Dimitri gets his comeuppance, but it's still a very horrific way to end the storyline.
- Eddie Low, despite being easily killed (as he's going up against a former soldier now "problem solver") was an absolutely horrifying, demented person, such as when he has Niko take him to a place to drop off what is not so subtly implied to be the head of one of his victims, or when he decides he wants to hear some Algonquin screams tonight now that he's heard enough Alderney screams. Even the calm and stoic Niko is clearly disturbed by this man.
- The peak of the fear is reached when he's losing his temper just before he attacks Niko.
**Eddie:** *Not COOL!?* You say Eddie's not cool? I don't fit in with the "In-Crowd?" Well Mrs. Smith, Eddie's taken your star son, your prized little quarterback, and FUCKED HIM IN THE ASS, and then tied him up, strangled him into knots, and your daughter? Your pretty little daughter Mrs. Abrahams? Eddie's ripped out her intestines just to see if he could feel anything, and you know what? He couldn't...h-he couldn't...
**Eddie:** Oh I just did, a little jogger down by the water. But you know what handsome? I've got a hunger tonight that can't be sated. COME HERE!
- And then there is Jeff. At first it's pretty funny. Jeff's a man who thinks his wife is having an affair. Seems legit, until you actually follow her to her destination. Turns out, she just wants to talk to this guy about her husband, who wants to install a tracking chip at the base of her skull which may paralyze her. 'Course, the guy is only half listening and does want an affair. So, you take a picture, he rants and raves, job done and a couple of hundred dollars. Then Jeff calls you again. He's murdered her. Stabbed her "fifty fucking times" and is so crazed he nearly shoots her corpse. Then reveals that she and him have a son. It's hard not to feel like you had a hand in murdering this truly innocent woman.
- A glitch may cause Kate to call Niko after the Revenge ending, where she's shot to death. To make matters worse, she shows up as Unknown Caller instead of Kate when she calls you, which means that the shock you get when you answer that call is ten times stronger.
- And what does she call you about? A date. One last date. If you accept it will go by normally, as if she had never died, but afterwards, she will never call you again, as she presumably finds peace within the afterlife and moves on.
- You could also think about it in another way. What if Niko imagined the whole thing? Perhaps his mental state has been so shattered after the ending, that he is literally hallucinating his dead girlfriend. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoIV |
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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- Several things make Toni Cipriani Nightmare Fuel incarnate. This is evident in the mission "Dead Meat", where he kills Giovanni Casa with an axe, dismembers him, and takes over his remains to Casa's own butcher shop to be sold (pictured above). Hell, the clerk working for his butcher shop thought Toni's "special sausage meat delivery" was legitimate even though he's not fully aware that the latter murdered the poor schmuck earlier without even thinking twice!
**Clerk:**
Special sausage meat delivery? No one told me about this. Woah! Which zoo did we knock-off this time? (Beat
) There's loads of meat back here! Mmmmmm, tasty! Okay, I'll take them. It's a good thing Casa ain't here. If he finds out about this, he'll go crazy!
- Donald Love is
*made* of this.
- At first he seems like your run-of-the-mill mission giver, a corrupt businessman running for mayor. Then you see a half-eaten torso on his dining table, and later in the game Love instructs you to bring the corpses of his former mentor Avery Carrington, and reporter Ned Burner to his hangar for some "company" during his flight.
- Oh, and he arranges for the destruction of a fully inhabited residential area (with innocent bystanders included), just so he can rebuild the whole area for profit.
- Cruising around some parts of Shoreside Vale after completing the game is this. You're surrounded by heavily armed thugs that can come at you anytime, from any direction, and
*will* kill you without any provocation.
- Seeing Giovanni Casa in a diaper is funny, but it becomes apparent that the prostitutes he hired are a bit scared of him, and he starts chasing after them. What was he planning on doing, exactly? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories |
Gorgoroth / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Practically everything about Gaahl. Coming out of the closet didn't make him appear any less so.
Most people are enthusiastic when given an interview. What about Gaahl? Cold indifference. He treats it like it's just another day. The best example of this is when he was interviewed in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.
Interviewer: What would you say is the biggest influence in Gorgoroth's music?
And going even further back than that, the band's initial vocalist, Hat, sounded positively inhuman in his parrot-esque screeching, Seriously, listen to Pentagram and Antichrist and you'll see.
And all that is made all the more eerie by the mystery surrounding the man, as his whereabouts following his departure are completely unknown. Only contradictory rumours about what happened to him remain.
There's something rather eerie about the fact that lyrics remain unknown after all these years. It almost comes off as more disturbing than what most Death Metal bands tend to come up with lyrically. As if that wasn't creepy enough, they are so defensive about their lyrics that they will take out DMCA requests against people who try to translate their lyrics. As if their music is a part of some strange form of magick.
To say that the band's concerts are terrifying would be an insult to the word terrifying. Nowhere is this more apparent than their controversial Krakow concert in 2004, which featured nude mock crucifixions, pyrotechnics and, worst of all, impaled sheep heads alongside eighty liters of sheep blood. It was so unbelievably hellish that the police had to get involved, they were dropped from the company tour's roster, and they had their contract with Nuclear Blast Records terminated because their performance made their employees that uncomfortable.Jesus...
The simple fact that allegedly, the band came into existence when Infernus made a deal with the devil, makes Gorgoroth more eerie... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gorgoroth |
Grave Encounters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Girl shown on the right.
- The last 30 minutes manage to be quite effective, while sometimes being also a bit derivative, showing Lance finally losing it and finding Dr. Friedkin's operating room where he did occult rituals.
- Matt. He's the first to disappear, when the crew find him later on, he's a babbling lunatic, and we
*never find out what happened to him*. Not long after they find him, he gains enough sense to jump down an elevator shaft.
- Houston's separation from the group - Nothing Is Scarier up to eleven, as he wanders through the hospital in pitch darkness for a solid two minutes, then he's promptly murdered by an invisible presence that lifts him into the air and throws him down the hallway. This is recorded for the audience by one of Matt's wall-mounted cameras, showing the viewer that the entity really is invisible for real, and not just for Houston.
- Lance's lobotomy was a Real Method: Transorbital lobotomy, Invented with a Icepick, grapefruit, a rubber mallet and a cadaver as a cheap method that could be done without painkillers due to asylums' often low budgets.
- And of course, him having gone through one at the end, complete with the finished Apocalyptic Log.
- Lance finding photos of the Grave Encounters team being experimented on in the final five minutes of the movie.
- In fact, Lance's entire descent into insanity after Sasha's disappearance, from blaming the audience for his predicament,
*eating a rat*, and then just screeching in the tunnel.
- The sheer mindbreaking reality warping the Hospital is capable of. The hospital itself is an unfathomable predator and like the foolish mice they were, none of the team realized that they've unwittingly entered the cat/Hospital's tummy until it was too late. Their food rots like its been there for weeks instead of hours, the sun never rises, and the doors just loop back into the building. Time means nothing there. And it seems to do it
*willingly* considering how much it loves fucking with the team by making them think they found an exit. In other words, the second the team decided to stay the night at the place, they were fucked.
- The implications of the Hospital's true nature are equally as unnerving. Its implied by some occult books Lance finds in the operating room that the head doctor may have created the place through experimentation with black magic.
- Some of the early hauntings, which are only seen by the viewers, since the crew never has a chance to review them, such as the wheelchair moving on it's own behind T.C when he's talking on the phone, the upstairs window opening on it's own, and a
*massive* amount of ghost orbs showing up in the photo Lance takes in the hallway where the ghost made Sasha's hair move. The viewer knows that the hospital is the real deal before the crew does...
- The horde of ghostly black arms that reach out of the walls and ceiling and attack the team in one scene. Eek. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GraveEncounters |
Grand Theft Auto Online / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
GTA Online itself can be this on Free Mode. There is no one to trust and most players just shoot on sight once they see you, out of protection or pure entertainment, and they may spend hours of their time killing you over and over and over until you run away or quit. Just imagine if there were 30 clones of Trevor scattered around San Andreas doing God-knows-what. That's exactly how scary it is.
Seeing a red blip on the map coming towards you at high speed can be this. Extra points if they suddenly vanish from the map because they used Lester's hide blip ability and even more extra points if the blip has the shape of a tank or a jet.
The GTA Online protagonist themself is this, because unlike the three playable characters of the campaign, they play the archetype of the typical GTA (villain)hero dead straight (just think of them as the successor to III's Claude). Arguably, they are the deadliest, most Ax-Crazy protagonists in the entirety of GTA history, showing zero remorse for committing wanton murder, having access to military-tier tools of destruction — including a fucking Kill Sat — that not even the singleplayer protagonists can lay their hands on, and generally being an absolute nightmare for law enforcement to deal with once they decide to wreak some havoc for shits and giggles. They never utter a single word under any circumstance, something which other characters note and sometimes mock during interactions, and nothing seems to make them lose their cool or even display emotion; the only times they show glee on their faces is when you're talking about money or killing things. It says a lot that the GTA Online protagonist manages to unsettle Trevor of all people when meeting him for the first time.
Trevor: WHY AREN'T YOU FUCKING SCARED OF ME!?
Grand Theft Auto Online features The Professionals, an immensely powerful crime network that operates in San Andreas. In contrast with the other gangs, they are a conglomerate of professional criminals with military training.
The Slasher game mode for GTA Online. You have only a flashlight, the whole place is dark and someone is out there, hunting you with a shotgun. You better hide alright.
Not only that, but it brings a new ambient score to the game that sounds like something straight out of Manhunt.
Slasher IV is the worst. You can't see anything and you're totally reliant on your flashlight only. See that light coming down the tunnel? Is it coming from a partner...or the slasher?
The whole idea behind the Gunrunning update in GTA Online. You purchase a former military bunker from Agent 14 and convert it into an arms factory that manufactures military grade weapons, then sell them off to unknown buyers. Agent 14 strongly implies they are very shady people, as one would expect buyers of illegally manufactured weapons would be. And YOU are putting arms and ammunition in their hands.
One of the resupply missions for your bunker is straight up this. The moment you start it, the whole session's weather gets stormy incredibly fast and you're tasked with driving all the way to Fort Zancudo to get your supplies. As you get there, you will see this enormous crashed UFO emitting the same noises as the one that keeps flying above the base in Singleplayer, surrounded by multiple dead soldiers, scientists and military vehicles, with nothing else but the the alien egg itself right among all the chaos. As the player collects it, aliens begin to spawn all around you and, while they don't attack you, they certainly scare the hell out of you and make you want to get away from that place as fast as possible, because you possibly just pissed off a whole extraterrestrial race.
If you have completed the resupply mission and black out at your nightclub. There is a minute chance you can find yourself up on Mt Chiliad stripped of your clothing with a tattoo of the UFO symbol found throughout Blaine County plastered on your back. As you turn around however, you find a UFO floating right behind you in broad daylight. Any attempt to approach it and it flies away at an insane speed. Seems whatever extraterrestrial race that owns the UFO's is far from finished with your character yet.
The song that plays as you approach the crash site is incredibly eerie as well.
When Avon betrays you in The Doomsday Heist and you have to deal with the fact that you just helped an insane billionaire essentially take control of the government with a sociopathic companion AI that wants to commit genocide on the human race. The sense of urgency to continue playing the Heist just to save the planet is real.
Immediately after betraying you, Avon unleashes his army on you. When you hear Lester mention "cyborg clone warriors", you'd think he was joking, but then you end up seeing for yourself that he isn't wrong at all.
The presence of Juggernauts that can go invisible during the "Rescue Agent 14" setup. Yes, fucking Juggernauts that can go invisible armed with mini-guns!
Besides those two ways, there's only two other known ways of surviving the orbital blast, and that's hiding in the back of your MOC or your Avenger. Both of them will be immediatelly destroyed upon direct impact, but instead of dying, you'll just spawn outside of their fiery wrecks.
Whenever you enter the Facility's Heist planning room, you get this really ominous drone. It is probably the sound of the Heist planning computer screen turning itself on, but you can't help but feel like what you're about to do will certainly lead to... Doomsday.
During the Diamond Casino Heist, nearing seemingly innocuous areas of the map will produce sound effects such as a slow heartbeat, unintelligible whispering and a man screaming in pain.
Even worse? Examining these areas closely will lead to the discovery of various clues as to what happened: a message reading "Can you find me?", a severed hand, a bloodstained machete, a bloody handprint and a van with bloody trashbags and machetes inside.
If you attempt to approach one of the UFOs with a flying vehicle, an EMP burst is heard as your vehicle eventually malfunctions while you plummet to your death (unless if you're lucky when using a helicopter as long it doesn't blow up when crash landing). And no, not even your precious Deluxo or Oppressor Mk. II will save you from that.
On top of that, when approaching, all radio stations (including Self Radio and Music Player) will start to suffer from interference coming from the said flying saucers.
Remember the Juggernauts from the Doomsday Heist? Well, they make a return in the Criminal Enterprises update as part of ULP's final mission, "Cleanup". As you explore Avon Hertz's silo in complete darkness, with the only light sources being the flare and the flashlight attatchment of your gun, you'll suddenly start hearing breathing noises, which turn out to be from the Juggernauts. While they're thankfully immobile when you search for power fuses and only activate when you start hacking the servers, their breathing noises and their sudden appearance in the dark is startling, along with the fear that they could activate at any second. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoOnline |
Granny / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"My, Granny,
what big teeth you have..."
"All the better to eat you with, my dear..."
*Granny* may be another low-quality indie Survival Horror game, but it has plenty of things that can send chills down your spine as much as a professional horror game does. Some people will admit that *Granny* is scarier than *Five Nights at Freddy's*.
- Granny herself is this. She is a Humanoid Abomination resembling a zombie who enjoys abducting lost people, locking them up in her house for a few days (and doing whatever to keep them within there), and then finally killing them in a cruelly twisted fashion and eating their remains. She hears every sound you make and leaves Bear Traps in your path, keeping you on your tippy toes. You can always try to kill her, but she'll get up back again.
- The fact that you're in a creepy Alleged House does not help, along with the haunting ambience music.
- When you've used up all of your days, then it's Game Over and you get one of these four unpleasant endings revealing what Granny ultimately does to you:
- You are thrown into the basement by Granny, knocked out, wake up later panting, and suddenly meet Granny lunging at you (pictured above), implied to be eating you
*alive*. The older version is more intense with deranged music courtesy of *Insidious*.
- You wake up in the backyard and find out you are strapped to a guillotine with Granny besides you. After staring at you, she pulls the lever and releases the blade.
- You find yourself stuck in the garage and face a car in front of you with Granny operating. She waves goodbye to you, goes back in reverse, then drives straight towards you and CRASH! You can hear her Evil Laugh when the "Game Over" message pops up.
- You are held captive by Granny in the attic, standing just near the unstable flooring. After a few turns and looks, she slaps and pushes you through the flooring, dropping your head into a bear trap.
- While Granny's rats and crow aren't that scary, her Giant Spider should. Unlike the other pets, which only stun you and alert Granny, the spider can knock you out, adding in more Paranoia Fuel. Its grotesque brown recluse/huntsman spider look, skinny legs, and red eyes are not pretty, though its previous tarantula look happens to be adorable.
- Around the house, you can find signs of Granny's
*previous captive*. Blood splatters abound and a few Bloody Handprints hint their struggle with Granny, for starters. Messages ("HELP", "Leave this house", "FIVE DAYS", and 5 tally marks) from them are left, the first two being written in blood. And their final note, also written in blood:
This is my fifth day in this house. She chases me wherever I go. I'm quite injured and my body hurts. The only thing I remember before I woke up in this house is that I was driving when my car suddenly broke down. I went out to see what the problem when someone suddenly hit me in the head. I have managed to open a pair of locks on the front door but that's all. Why does she do this? I hope no one will experience the same thing as I do. If I do not survive and if someone find this message I have noticed that she sometimes hide things inside fruits.
- The large puddle of blood in the Creepy Basement can be inferred to be where the victim laid. The skeleton in the secret room can also be inferred to be their remains.
- As an Easter Egg, the ghost of Slendrina's Mother can be found chained to the wall in front of a book pedestal, which can look freaky.
- If you don't find the game to be nightmare-inducing, then try and turn on the appropriately-titled Nightmare option. The house looks like it has been flooded with gallons and liters of blood, the ambience amps up the horror, Granny takes on a rotten zombie appearance, and the bear traps look organic for once, screech, and are implied to be
*alive*. "Psycho" Strings play when Granny is chasing you and you are thrown in a Scare Chord when she hits you. Disturbing. *Granny: Chapter Two* doesn't double down on the nightmare fuel also:
- In fact, the game doubles
*up*! You can double the trouble by adding in another enemy: Grandpa. Fortunately, Grandpa cannot hear well (only responding to certain noises), but he is much stronger than Granny.
- Granny and Grandpa keep an Iron Maiden in the house, with its threatening spikes. While you can knockout Granny and Grandpa back, they'll serve you back in a Game Over painfully.
- The Sewer Monster, an octopus-like Animalistic Abomination. With strangely only three tentacles, a lamprey-like mouth, and a big Cyclops eye in the middle, it resembles a Lovecraftian monster. Wade into the sewer unluckily and it will be happy to eat you. Granny and Grandpa may also feed you to the Sewer Monster if you waste your 5 days.
- The Child of Slendrina, an Enfant Terrible Humanoid Abomination whose body uncannily resembles that of a spider and likes to eat meat, especially
**YOU**. If you use your 5 days, Granny and Grandpa may serve you to the Child.
- Notice the electrical sparks blocking the front door? Well, Granny and Grandpa can trap you inside the door's cage and electrocute you to death. Not pretty. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Granny |
Grave Encounters 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The sequel wasn't quite so well received as its predecessor, but if nothing else it revealed that the hospital is sentient and enjoys having people to torture.
- To top it off, it specifically released one person to spread the word and lure people back to ensure there would be more victims. And if he refuses? Well, he'll just be brought right back so he can enjoy the place for himself.
- Everything about the guard at the hospital. Literally his first appearance is him charging at them out of nowhere. Later on, the group discovers him strapped into a chair, receiving shock therapy, when they try to free him, he's electrocuted and catches fire.
- Alex and Jennifer witnessing Friedkin sacrificing a baby while hiding in a storage room. Quickly followed by a Ghost!Nurse ripping the doors open and attacking them.
- After losing two of their friends, the rest of the group actually manages to escape, run back to their hotel, and get themselves all ready to go home. They get in the elevator to go down to the lobby. The doors then open, revealing that they're back in the tunnels under the hospital all while the elevator music distorts into silence. It's also a Mind Screw: Were they in the hospital the whole time and just being presented with an illusion of freedom? Or worse, did they actually get away but then get called back? It may well be the latter, since the threat of this is what gets Alex to cooperate at the end. The inclusion of CCTV footage from the hotel's own cameras also suggests they really
*did* go back there, because Alex hadn't filmed that part himself.
- There's also the cleaning lady in the hotel that stops what she's doing and just
*stares* at them as the elevator door closes.
- "The Tall Man". He's a truly horrifying sight to behold: a tall, gangly, twisted thing that crawls through a window and charges relentlessly.
- About 20 minutes in, as Alex is doing his episode, the computer somehow gets taken over by a spirit as it starts printing the call sheet for him. His face even distorts like the patients in the first film as it glitches!
- The fact that, in the end, Alex is more than willing to beat Jennifer to death to escape the hospital.
- Lance, now identified as Sean Rogerson. 9 years of being stuck in the hospital have reduced him to a psychotic wreck that feeds on rats to survive. He falls victim to the spirits' tricks and misleads the group, and the one person who didn't trust him is killed at his hands.
- The little ghost girl the group encounters. She's sitting on the bed, giggling innocently and brushing her hair, asking the group to play. Moments later, she's a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl chasing after them, in case you forgot the ghosts are doing this For the Evulz. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GraveEncounters2 |
Gravity Falls: Lost Legends / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Stanbel is *literally* a Mabel with Stan's face and gray hair, and was announcing that s/he was single... truly someone that exists to give you nightmares. (Don't think too hard about whether s/he sounds like Stan or Mabel... or both.) **Stanbel:** *HEYYY!* Stanbel is single and ready to mingle! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GravityFallsLostLegends |
Gravity / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This is what happens when pieces of space debris hit your face at Mach 20.
note :
In reality, his head would have exploded
, so be grateful that
*this*
is what we got instead.
- The entire premise. It portrays the cruel and heartless nature of space. Especially since it could actually happen...this movie practically
*runs* on Nightmare Fuel.
- The catastrophe that kicks off the events of the film is called the Kessler Syndrome . It postulates that the density of objects (Satellites, Space Stations and other debris) in low Earth orbit could increase to the point where a major collision between objects could result in a chain reaction that creates a cloud of shrapnel that would pulverize anything unfortunate enough to get in its way, thus creating even more debris. Even worse, that's not made up at all, it's a real phenomenon that can occur with the right conditions.
*This might even happen within the next 100 years.* note : The defunct Envisat spacecraft is one of the largest pieces of space debris in orbit, and it orbits at an altitude where the debris environment is the greatest. Every year at least 2 tracked objects pass within 200 meters of it and that number is likely to increase. If Envisat were to collide with a large object, it could very well trigger a Kessler Syndrome-like event.
- The first scenes of Ryan being flung into deep space and spinning out of control, filmed from
*her* perspective (and her heavy, gasping breaths). Same with most of the intense scenes filmed from her perspective.
- Just the sheer level of horror that the opening disaster provides, with Ryan tumbling away from the aftermath. The situation is so hopeless that it truly feels like Ryan is about to die, and we stay with her the whole time as the terror of realizing she has no chance of rescue comes over her. Some fans even speculate that her rescue and the whole movie is a survival fantasy that plays out in her head as she drifts away to her death.
- People with extreme fears of heights, kenophobes, and/or agoraphobes, in general, will be very freaked out, to say the least.
-
*Especially* this. The film manages to capture the true sense of scale that comes from being in orbit, made much more visceral in 3D. It makes the threats that the protagonists face much more harrowing.
- The fact that Kowalski has a while before he succumbs to hypoxia or hypothermia to think about the fact that if only he hadn't burned up all that fuel trying to set the spacewalk record, he wouldn't be dying in space and would be able to help Ryan pull through.
- The death of Shariff, who had debris go
*right through his head* and is seen with a Fatal Family Photo floating over his corpse. Brr.
- The dead crew of the
*Explorer*. Their reveal is the film's only Jump Scare, but goddamn is it a massive one.
- "
*Explorer*, this is Kowalski, confirm visual contact with debris." And the shuttle can't make any motion to evade with the arm extended and the presence of the Hubble. They have to watch it come in and pray. It's not enough.
- It's easy to miss, but as the debris approaches someone can be heard reporting "Meteorological reports no-go for re-entry." Meaning that even if everyone had been on board the shuttle, even they hadn't been attached to Hubble, even if they'd been ordered to abort as soon as NASA discovered the Russian missile strike, they
*still* wouldn't have been able to return to Earth due to bad weather. They really were doomed from the moment that first satellite exploded.
- The fire that goes off in the station. If Stone hadn't escaped, it would've spelled out a number of horrible ways to go: Depleting the oxygen out until she couldn't breathe, ripping a hole in the station that would've sucked out her or the O2, or simply burning her alive. Not to mention how close she came to being struck by that rogue gas canister or how she banged her head and nearly blacked out.
- Unleaded fuel: in reality, there wouldn't be any convenient space stations within reach. You'd just orbit helplessly until you died. (This actually makes real-life space explorers
*more* awesome, because they know that.)
- At the end, when Ryan is gasping for air when the capsule is filling up with water. Then when she is sinking down due to the weight of the spacesuit. She must have humongous lungs!
- She probably does. As astronauts are trained underwater in order to simulate zero-gravity situations.
- The quiet sequences where Ryan is alone in space give a very scary Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere vibe. Nothing Is Scarier also applies since you get the idea something, anything could happen. Finally, being in a damaged shuttle or escape pod that is seemingly damaged heavily invokes... a state of inescapable limbo.
- Stone losing the race to untangle the parachute before the second wave of debris reaches her. Especially when we can see the first shards fly past in the background out of her field of vision, with the music subtly building.
- And what does Stone say in response to the incoming debris?
- The aversion of Space Is Noisy; it's pretty terrifying to see the Hubble and various stations shredded to dangerous pieces noiselessly as Stone and Kowalski are in the midst of it.
- The radio in the Soyuz craft picking up an unknown voice on Earth is almost more excruciating than dead silence; imagine drifting in a dead spacecraft hearing a person on the radio and not even being able to pass on a farewell message. The voice can't understand Ryan, doesn't know who she is, and wouldn't be able to do anything about it anyway if they did.
- The cold pre-recorded Chinese voice on the Tiangong's PA. It sounds eerily calm despite the alarms and rumbling from the falling station. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gravity |
Gravity Falls: Journal 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Yeah, this is what happens when you deal with
*Bill.* *I am used to hearing the Muse's voice in the head on occasion. But now suddenly I hear whispers. The murmuring voices of beasts. The echoing howls of lost souls. This is not right at all. It is almost as though my Muse is contacting others. Ghouls from another world. The more I listen, the more I am convinced it's NOT my imagination. My head throbs. My right eye burns. I heard my Muse say something...* **"The door is open"....**
Just like its parent show, this book is equal parts hilarious and horrifying. Well, this page is where we describe the horrifying...
The opening "notice" on the very first page before Ford's writing's is quite creepy, despite how brief it is.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
The Parks Department of the state of Oregon was on a routine moose-tagging mission when we located this item, a strange dust-covered book, lying in the center of a mossy clearing. Quick perusal reveals paranoid ramblings, demonic sketches, descriptions of nonsensical creatures, and uncrackable ciphers.
We believed this to be either a prank by high schoolers or the ramblings of a local fraud. But since discovering this book, a number of our troopers have had headaches and disturbing nightmares. We have logged it in our records and are now putting it up for purchase at our annual Confiscated Items Sale/Bake-Off.
Please take this cursed thing off our hands.
## Ford's findings
note : This is before Ford's inter-dimensional travels
- Ever wonder where all those zombies in "Scary-oke" come from? The mudslide shown in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" washed all the lumberjacks' graves down to the land where the Mystery Shack was later built. When he learns of this, Ford is understandably shocked and horrified that he's living and working above a
*mass grave*.
- After Fiddleford creates the Memory Gun, he does some rather... questionable things, such as starting the Society of the Blind Eye behind Ford's back when he gives a younger Blind Ivan a card after talking to him and mind wiping the lumberjacks who Ford hired to build the Bunker. But worst of all, it's heavily implied that he
**mind wiped Ford**. ||The special edition Journal 3 confirms the implication. Fiddleford had been using the memory gun on Ford to get away with using construction workers to build the portal. He then wiped the workers' minds to further protect the secret.||
- The Shapeshifter grew malevolent all on its own, and its first attempt at stealing the journal involved impersonating Fiddleford, who had been rendered "nearly mute" due to his anxiety, after tying him up in a closet. Ford himself even says that if the creature ever escaped, it'd be too horrifying to for him to imagine. He also mentions ripping out the pages on the Bunker and the Shapeshifter to "sleep better at night".
- There are also some lovely messages on the page, as well.
**DO NOT LET OUT!** **Extremely unpredictable!** **It's too powerful!** **It CAN TRANSFORM!**
**IT'S PLAYING TRICKS ON ME!**
- Just the thought of poor F getting tied up and scared shitless as he's stuffed into a cabinet in order to be impersonated by the Shapeshifter just so he can get his hands on Ford's journal easily cranks the Paranoia Fuel up to eleven!
- Both the Soothsquitos and the Hand-witch attempted to warn Ford about Bill, only for him to dismiss them.
- The Soothsquitos message spells out, "Batch out for Will." While this has a more comedic tone to it because of the misplaced letters, reading it while knowing what ultimately happens, Ford dismissing it as "total nonsense" can make one cringe in discomfort.
- In almost stark contrast, the Hand-witch's warning on the "Palm Reader" page, is
*much* more dire. It begins when both Ford and Fiddleford go to a carnival to unwind from their research and Ford decides to check out the palm reader tent just to see if she'll be stumped because of his extra finger. But once he enters the tent she immediately calls him his childhood nickname, "sixer," which is what Stan used to call him. Naturally, this creeps Ford out since he has no idea how she could've known this. It only gets worse when she brings out some tarot cards and when she sees what they say, she shrieks and looks at Ford with sympathy before telling him:
Someone very close to you is deceiving you. You have chosen the wrong allies. You will live two lives and both of them too short... unless you change now.
- At which point, she gives him a ring, telling him that if it's blue, "you may pull through." But if it's black, "you can't turn back."
- And sure enough, much later after an argument between Ford and Fiddleford in which Ford tells him, "We will do the test
note : on the portal tomorrow night at eight 'o' clock sharp. Be there or get left behind. The choice is yours." At that moment, he feels the ring in his pocket... and it's black. Things only get worse when he claims that "superstition is for the weak" and tosses the ring into the lake. And it all goes downhill after this.
- The blood on Bill Cipher's page? It came from Ford's
*eye* as a result of the times he'd allowed Bill to possess him.
- The pages immediately after the portal schematics are... unsettling, to say the least. One of them is pictured above. Frankly, it's a relief when Dipper takes over.
- To elaborate, the author's impressive sketches become a lot darker and more crude, and the infamous blood stains from the pages around Bill's description are revealed to be from the author's irritated eye bleeding onto the journal.
- There's a particularly creepy instance of Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick on the Truck Stop page. For context, Ford's desperately trying to keep himself awake to keep Bill Cipher from interfering with his mind and body like he has been. As such, he's gone to the aforementioned truck stop to get some industrial-strength coffee to attempt to keep himself awake when another customer comes up to him and offers him some suggestions:
Pinch yourself.
Pinch someone else. They'll punch you awake.
Put peanut butter in your face and let a dog ride shotgun. (He'll lick you awake.)
Put peppers in your eyes.
Just give up, Sixer.
- As soon as Ford hears this, he rears back and accidentally knocks a plate of bacon to the floor. This attracts the attention of everyone in the diner and Ford isn't sure if it was the sunrise coming through the window, but it looked like all of their eyes were
*glowing yellow* just like what anyone who's currently possessed by Bill looks like! Needless to say, Ford gets the hell out of there and runs towards home as fast as his weak legs can carry him. This is where Ford's paranoia reaches it's height as he comes to realize that "he has eyes everywhere" and "they are watching my every move." **GET OUT OF MY MIND, CIPHER!**
- A lot of Fords breakdown in general is rather disturbing to read, especially compared to the idealism (and arrogance) the previous entries shown. No wonder he was such a wreck when Stan arrived.
## Dipper's entries
note : During season 1 and the first half of season 2, with occasional entries from Mabel and Soos
- After the sock opera, Mabel found a note Bill had written while possessing Dipper. He planned to
*kill Dipper's body* after destroying the journals and make it look like a *suicide*, leaving Dipper trapped as a mindscape ghost forever. *Note to self: Possessing people is hilarious! To think of all the sensations I've been missing out onburning, stabbing, drowning. It's like a buffet tray of fun! Once I destroy that journal, I'll enjoy giving this body its grand finaleby throwing it off the water tower! Best of all, people will just think Pine Tree lost his mind and his mental form will wander in the mindscape forever. * **Want to join him, Shooting Star?**
## Ford's entries
note : After Ford returns during the second half of season 2, with the occasional entry from Dipper and Mabel
- It's revealed that the series takes Never Shall The Selves Meet to an extreme, only with parallel universes instead of time travel. Touching a counterpart of one's self from an alternate universe causes
*that entire universe to fizz out of existence*.
- The fact that Ford never mentions anything about what happened to Stan after he left with Journal 1 in the "Better World" dimension, only caring that he did what he asked him to do. Some fan theories assume the worst, believing Stan
*committed suicide* after hiding the book. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GravityFallsJournal3 |
Gotham Season Three / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Season 3
- Fish's powered underling who, with a touch, ages a man from his twenties to old age, causing him to drop dead on the spot.
- Despite ||her|| being a villain, it is still horrifying when he kills ||Ethel Peabody||. From the look on Selina's face, you can tell she's going to have nightmares in-universe.
- He does it at the end to Ivy, turning her from a teenager to her 20s.
- Barbara's grin and manical laughter as she beats a would-be gang leader down in her bar would do the Joker proud. She even starts it out by fake-crying before breaking into laughter, much like Jerome did in Season One.
- Penguin rallying an angry mob, which beats two of Fish's minions to death. And perhaps what's worse, is that Penguin is now seen as some kind of hero by the people of Gotham.
- Kathryn, the Court of Owls spokeswoman, and her total coldness. She shows no fear of Bruce, removing her mask almost immediately so he can see her face and her hard eyes. The way she effortlessly threatens the lives of Bruce and his loved ones shows
*just how much power* she and the Court has. By the end, she has forced Bruce to give up his quest for the truth, without even breaking a sweat.
- This show has managed to make The Mad Hatter, perhaps Batman's most ridiculous foe, absolutely
*terrifying*. The way he calmly hypnotizes people and plants subliminal messages for later use... Like making it so that a man will obey his every order instantly, including murdering his wife and committing suicide. He later uses those same abilities on Gordon... and just about convinces him to walk off a roof. And in his case, ||*not even breaking out of the trance cancels the impulse*||.
- It doesn't help that his eyes sometime appear to be
*completely black.*
- Also, the one time it backfires on him: at his show he hypnotizes Barbara into believing she loves him, but then he tells her he doesn't love her back. The only reason Barbara didn't kill him on the spot was Tabitha getting to her just as she was about to slit his throat...
- Alice's strange powers. She's Typhoid Mary, able to kill (or worse) with just a drop of blood. And she apparently had these powers
*before* being dragged to Indian Hill.
- Penguin is running for mayor. He's a great politician, able to turn the people to his side. And convince them to beat people (or at least Indian Hill escapees) to death. Not to mention he's ax crazy and perfectly willing to murder anyone who gets in his way. Seriously, this guy running Gotham, from a legitimate position?
*That's* scary.
- It gets worse. The guy he wants to have help him run is none other than Edward Nygma, ||who he gets released from Arkham.|| Remember, this is the guy who convinced Penguin to take up crime again after Galavan killed his mom. And sent him packing when he was turned into a normal human being. If anyone is worse than Penguin, it's Ed.
- Subject 514A, one of Hugo Strange's experiments: he has no memory of his past before Indian Hill, he somehow knows how to box well enough to surprise Alfred (doing so with quick, unnatural reflexes), can't feel any pain, has multiple scars from Strange's experiments and a burn from
*putting his arm on the fire* out of curiosity, and looks just like Gotham's richest boy, Bruce Wayne. ||And now he wants to impersonate him.||
- ||Ultimately subverted, as it's later shown in the next episode that 514A simply wanted to know what it felt like to live without having people who see him as a freak.||
- The shot of ||Alice's dead and impaled body, suspended in the air||. You will never look at a certain scene from
*Alice in Wonderland* the same way again.
- And before that, it's not-so-subtly implied that Jervis Tetch used to torture his sister by planting his own incestuous thoughts in her head. When he does get his hands on her, he forces her to wear a dress just like the character from
*Alice in Wonderland* and, moments before ||her death||, insists that it can just be the two of them together again, forever... ||Poor Alice never manages to escape from the nightmare that is her brother, never gets to have a normal life||. The tears that begin to fall from her eyes, her utter raw *terror* towards her brother, makes the scene even more horrifying.
- Tetch very nearly manages to convince Gordon to kill himself, twice this episode. The first time, Gordon has a horrified look on his face as his own hand moves the gun to his own head.
- Barnes being ||infected by Alice's blood||. Even he realizes the horror of what just happened.
- Bruce's clone being recruited by the Court of Owls.
- Tetch's
**serious** sanity slippage at the end of the episode: ||he's taken a girl, put her in a blonde wig and a blue dress a la Alice in Wonderland, and is talking to her as if she's *his dead sister*, right before *slitting her throat*. Oh, and he writes James Gordon's name *in the girl's blood*.||
- The vacant smiles on the faces of the hypnotized bride and groom which stay even when ||they jump off a bridge into traffic on Tetch's ccommand, just to screw with Jim.||
- Jervis Tetch forces Sadistic Choice after sadistic choice upon Gordon, ||ALL of which end up with someone either critically wounded or dead||. The final choice involves Jim choosing between Lee and Valerie. ||Jim tells Tetch to kill Lee. Tetch then shoots Valerie.||
- More so, ||the way Jim ultimately chooses. No sincerity, nor emotion expressed in the way he says it. Just a quick, cold "Kill Lee"||.
- Jervis steals his dead sister's body from the morgue to drain out all her blood. When he first reunites with her, he plants a kiss on her cheek. Nightmare Fuel in that he sexually abused her for years.
- Barnes Drunk on the Dark Side - he's now Batman without his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule, and he now has voices repeating "Guilty", not to mention him seeing hellish faces of assorted "guilty" people.
- His first murder is horrifying, attacking a criminal and using his bare strength to
*remove his head clean off his shoulders*, before he literally tears him limb from limb. Even Bullock is speechless when he and Jim first see the crime scene.
- Isabella making herself look like Kristen Kringle, as well as putting Ed's hand around her neck to push him past his fears, seems unnervingly intense, especially considering they just met a few days ago. One wonders if Isabella might be a bit of a Death Seeker, or whether she might become a Yandere down the line.
- It's disturbing to contrast Oswald's love for Ed with his love for his mother. While his love for his mother was arguably one of his few redeeming qualities, his love for Nygma is so twisted that he'll murder a woman out of jealousy, thinking it'll bring the two of them together.
- Isabella's face. ||It's horrifically maimed by the train that took her life. It's very graphic, even by Gotham's standards.||
- The reveal that ||Mario Calvi is infected by the Tetch Virus. And the trigger? Fearing that Lee might still love Gordon. Which, of course, is true.||
- The scene where Ed is torturing Butch and Tabitha. So close to the midseason finale, one wouldn't have been terribly surprised if Ed had really managed to kill one of them off.
- Mario's increasing descent into insanity. ||By the end of the episode, the Tetch virus has completely taken over, including him Hulking Out, leading him to come within a hair of killing Lee. Good thing Gordon showed up when he did... Or not, considering that at the episode's end, he made Lee a
*very* early widow. Couldn't he have non-fatally shot Mario?||
- ||Probably not, considering Mario was standing behind Lee, and Gordon needed to shoot Mario without hitting Lee. The majority of Mario's non-fatal areas weren't in Gordon's line of sight (and he's not Deadshot, so he can't bounce his projectiles) and with Mario's increased strength/resilience from hulking out, Mario still could have killed Lee if he were shot non-fatally (like in the shoulder). With only a split-second to react, Gordon's lucky he got there in time at all.||
- ||Plus, everything in Gordon's training as both a soldier and a cop agrees: shooting "non-fatally" is not a realistic option. If you have to fire to save a life, you
*absolutely must* put the attacker down.||
- Also the scene where ||Mario crushes a scientist's head open with a sickening pop.|| It doesn't help that the audience gets to see the gorey aftermath.
- Jerome's actions have inspired an entire movement of lunatics, who see him as a Dark Messiah teaching them how to be The Unfettered. And they're working to bring him Back from the Dead.
- Oswald discovering ||his father's|| rotting corpse in Tarquin's office. Led to believe that Tarquin was the one that dug up the body, he ||violently bludgeons the guy to death with a golf trophy,
*on his birthday*||.
- A subtler one than the others: Barnes's bloodthirsty smile and declaration that Alice's blood has set him free to act on his true desires. He all but guarantees that when he gets out of Arkham ("and I
*will* get out!" he promises), he'll be Gordon's judge, jury, and executioner.
- Jerome's Facial Horror. First, Dwight cuts it off and then wears it over his own face like a mask. Then we get a
*lovely* view of Jerome's corpse (and later resurrected self) with a pit of bloody flesh left over for a face. Then finally, Jerome *staples his own face back on*, leaving him with a horrifying, stitched-together appearance. It is clearly a reference to *Death of the Family* when Joker went around wearing his own rotting face as a removable mask, but it honestly brings to mind Scarecrow's reconstructed face in *Batman: Arkham Knight*, or possibly Frankenstein's monster.
- Jerome's cult, as always. Their maniacal zeal and chants of "We are Jerome!" just adds to it, almost giving them a
*Fight Club* vibe (think, "His name is Robert Paulson!"). Their mad hyena laughter makes one wonder if Joker will later get his inspiration for Joker Venom from them.
- And then there's the reveal that there's
*more* of them in Gotham, hiding under a veneer of badly concealed sanity. Which makes it more terrifying when Jerome broadcasts his resurrection and tells them to 'do what they will' - murder, stealing, *worse* - before blowing up the power plant (with Dwight tied to the dynamite), and plunging Gotham into literal darkness.
- Lee's total coldness in this episode. While she's understandably still grieving her husband's death, her anger and blame toward Gordon show a darker side, especially since she
*knew* Mario was dangerous to her and yet still treats Gordon's shooting of him as cold-blooded murder rather than his protection of her. Her abrupt injection of a perp with truth serum and total apathy with regards to Jerome threatening her life also hints that Lee is changing, and not in ways for the better.
- ||Ed is willing to kill Oswald first by
*melting him in acid*, and then, when that falls through, shooting him (non-fatally) and dumping him in the river to drown. Sweet dreams.||
- The next episode reveals that ||only Ed and his cronies know Oswald is "dead", so he's even deprived of a proper funeral and the city mourning its mayor.||
- The Circus of Fear that Jerome sets up, with his followers turning all the games into means of torturing villains.
- For that matter, the neo-Maniax terrorizing the city. The GCPD station is quickly overrun with trying to take them all down.
- Bruce beating Jerome so hard that
*his face sags off*, causing him to bleed through the cuts. With how pale and deformed his face becomes, combined with his grotesque, bloody smile, Jerome looks eerily like you-know-who for a brief second.
- Later, when Jerome attempts to attack Bruce with a mirror shard, Jim intervenes and punches his face
**clean off!**
- The fact that, several weeks later, the GCPD is
*still* finding corpses from the night of Jerome's riots.
- Nygma becoming a full on
*Serial Killer*, murdering Gotham's most intelligent elites in the hopes of finding a mind as equally brilliant as his. The episode opens with him taking care of his sixth victim, the chair of the chemistry department; when the professor gets his riddle wrong, Ed proceeds to lock him in the room and **blow the place up**.
- Later in the episode, he crashes the GCPD graduation and ||gasses
*everyone* in the room, officers, graduates, and all||. It's later revealed that ||it was merely knockout gas and that everyone actually survived||, but the scene was downright chilling nonetheless.
- He also ties Harvey to a chair and threatens to drop him down a stairwell. Even when Lucius wins their agreement, the ropes holding him up still snap and Ed only cackles and says "oops" before making his clean escape.
- Ed's hallucination of Oswald can be a bit unsettling to look at, as it's clearly supposed to be Penguin's
*drowned corpse*, with it's waterlogged appearance and blue-tinged lips.
- The ending reveals that ||Penguin managed to survive getting shot by Ed, and is now under the care of Ivy Pepper. Gone are his strong romantic feelings and buddy-buddy relationship with Ed; now, the Penguin's out for blood, and he wants his revenge...||
- So clone!Bruce, still nursing a soft spot for Selina, goes to her in her darkened apartment and winds up confiding his secret in her. When she calls him out on knowing about the Court's evil plans and only trying to save her instead of saving everyone (which real!Bruce would have done), he gets noticeably more unhinged, before pushing her out of a window mid-sentence. Worse yet, her wide-open eyes and contorted bodily position make it clear that she
*did not* survive the fall. It honestly brings to mind a domestic abuse situation, combined with Alone with the Psycho.
- ||Jim Gordon|| has been infected with the Alice Tetch Virus. ||The Badass Normal protector of all that is right and good in Gotham City|| is now a monster, and there's no known cure. Only Plot Armor can save ||him|| now.
- ||Jim Gordon|| under the effects of the Tetch virus. Throughout the entire episode ||he|| tries to keep the virus from infecting him, but begins to succumb, killing ||Fish||, almost ||killing Jervis when Barbara, Butch and Tabitha corner them in a warehouse, putting the whole of Gotham in danger|| and ||attacks Bullock||. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GothamSeasonThree |
Grabbed by the Ghoulies / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Some of the enemies, particularly Jessie & Clyde (two separate beings
*sewn together into one enemy*).
- Looking at some scenes in the house leads to some pretty disturbing mental images of what might have happened shortly before Cooper got there. Of note is a side hallway in the Infirmary area, which is mostly obstructed by a cabinet and is filled with overturned hospital beds and ultimately dead-ends at a hastily boarded-up door ...
- Those poor other kids trapped by the Baron! If you don't rescue them from their Bound and Gagged situations (which are already pretty gruesome, with them being stuffed in freezers, strung up by their ankles,
*set on top of a bed of hot coals,* and **served for dinner,** among other things) before the 13-minute timer in the final challenge is up, they'll be trapped in the house FOREVER!
- Close examination of Zombie Pirates reveals that they are missing large chunks of flesh and muscle, as well as the right half of their mouths, permanently exposing their rotting teeth and gums. The holes in their skin appear to be dark and rotting around the edges... granted they're obviously
*supposed* to be decomposing since they're dead, but still, for an E-rated game, they're pretty darn hideous.
- The first corridor features the stuffed and mounted heads of Banjo AND Kazooie. They look really wrong here, not to mention how they got stuffed and mounted in the first place. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrabbedByTheGhoulies |
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Grand Theft Auto III | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories | Grand Theft Auto IV | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost And Damned | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony | Grand Theft Auto V
When
*Grand Theft Auto IV* is already a Darker and Edgier installment of the *Grand Theft Auto* franchise, *The Lost And Damned* expansion pack picks the most- *damned* of the darkness.
- The Losts' ending. As if the Deal and Revenge endings in the main game is not Tear Jerker enough, this expansion defined the meaning of a Downer Ending as the clubhouse is burned with many of Johnny's friends ended up dead. Given on the main page, it's not surprising.
- As depressing as the ending is, it's even more horrifying when you are aware of the Lost's eventual fate in the sequel with the whole gang getting wiped out (including Terry and Clay) and Johnny's brutal death by a very unhinged Trevor Phillips.
- Jim's Cold-Blooded Torture at the hands of Ray Boccino - mainly involving his face and a blowtorch. It's worse when you finds out his fate in the vanilla game.
- Billy Grey. An Ax-Crazy Caligula whose instability constantly puts everyone around him on edge, friend and foe alike.
- During the prison break in "Off Route", Johnny encounters a prisoner trussed up Hannibal Lecter-style who releases himself from his restraints. And then immediately pounces on a cop and
. Research into his character reveals that he is a Serial Killer who breaks into people's homes and eats them, and was to be transferred to maximum security after disemboweling and devouring an orderly. And Johnny breaks him out of prison. He's still out there, free to kill anyone he chooses. **eats him alive** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned |
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Grand Theft Auto III | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories | Grand Theft Auto IV | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony | Grand Theft Auto V
As if the atmosphere wasn't scary enough....
- If you think about it, the atmosphere in Apartment 3C is pretty eerie, especially its bathroom which contains an obvious reference to
*Scarface (1983)*. What's scary is that the game lets you enter the building for no apparent reason. And once you do enter and see the aftermath, you'd half-expect a maniac to enter and murder you. But nothing happens.
- The final phone call with Sonny.
- Tommy Vercetti himself is generally frightening when he's mad. Also keep in mind why he was nicknamed "The Harwood Butcher''. The penultimate mission "Cap The Collector" makes it clear when he's killing Sonny's goons trying to tax his businesses...
**Tommy:** YOU TELL SONNY, "STAY AWAY!" VICE CITY IS *MINE* NOW! NOT *HIS*!
- Unlike future
*GTA* protagonists such as CJ, Niko, and Franklin, Tommy is generally just a remorseless sociopath that will kill anyone in his way without the slightest of emotion. It's safe to say he doesn't take Lance Vance's betrayal very well.
- Mr. Black, aka the payphone mission guy. When Tommy receives a call from him, it's "Get to the payphone in (location)," then CLICK, nothing else. That alone is creepy, but it doesn't help that all of his missions include killing someone often for unknown reasons or getting a suitcase with unknown contents.
- The Ax-Crazy guy (referred to in-game as "The Psycho") who wanted to kill Love Fist. First he shoots a security guard at a signing, claiming that Love Fist ruined his life. Then he plants a bomb in their limo, hoping to kill them. The message he leaves is particularly jarring:
**Psycho:** Love Fist. Your time polluting the airwaves is over. I gave you the chance to be friends. Now, I'm giving you the chance to die. Try to slow down and your limousine will explode, along with your BIG, HAIRY ARSES! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoViceCity |
Granblue Fantasy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Azazel's Fate Episode is a rare instance wherein a normal NPC nearly dies at the hands of the playable character. In it, the Fallen Angel attacks a Human accompanied by his Draph servant... just because Azazel mistook it for demon slavery. Considering his story in *Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul*, he has reasons. But here, he almost killed an innocent man. Poor Draph then calls Azazel out, complaining about the unfortunate incident:
**Male Draph**: I've been running my butt off looking 'fer work, and when I finally get a job, you beat up my boss...
- What makes this scene jarring is the Draph's sudden change of personality upon thinking that Azazel just had a rough day, followed by saying "All right, all right, Let's jus' forget this whole thing ever happened." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GranblueFantasy |
Green Eggs and Ham (2019) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Here
- Snerz's collection of animals are chained to a wall for all their lives, with their heads peeking out through small windows so that they look like living trophies. They don't seem to have any means of escape.
## Car
- The celebrating inventors are so enthralled in their partying that they claim not to hear Guy screaming. Had the Chickeraffe actually been as terrifying as the news claimed, Guy would have lived his last day.
- Guy's Imagine Spot where he is assaulted by floating green eggs and ham, complete with superimposed human lips singing at him. It's a style shift with unsettling imagery and music, all to indicate just how close to heat stroke Guy was. The little Evil Laugh the narrator gives when he tells Guy that he's going insane doesn't help either.
## Fox
## Dark
- The idea of being trapped in a landfill is horrific, especially after Sam and Guy assumed there was a working motel to spend the night in just over the hill.
- It gets even worse when Sam opens what he thinks is an exit chute, only to find that it is a dump for toxic waste that floods the entire gulley and starts to melt every support structure.
- Sam positions himself under the kiddy ride he is working on. If Guy hadn't noticed the cinder blocks supporting the ride crumbling in time Sam would have been crushed.
**Narrator**: Guy knew that thing a-ma bob wouldn't bob, Sam wasn't cut out for this sort of a job... and if that thing falls -he'll go kur-splooit! **Guy-Am-I**: Step aside and let a master do it.
## Rain
- Guy and E.B. seemingly find a nest of chickeraffes, but it turns out they're giroosters, the violent cousins of chickeraffes. What follows is a fight for their very survival. It's made worse by E.B. clarifying that they don't
*eat* people, technically, but chew them up and blow bubbles with their remains like chewing gum. It's meant as a joke, but the mental image this can conjure up (and the fact that this very nearly *does* happen to E.B.) is pretty horrifying.
## Goat
- The Goat is both extremely aggressive and very difficult to stop. Plus his appearance is really unsettling with his unfocused, horizontal pupils.
- He manages to terrify SAM-I-AM! Whether if it's because he genuinely cares for Mr. Jenkins at that point or if he knows he's being replaced as Snerz's animal poacher, his terror of the Goat proves how dangerous he is.
## Anywhere
- As Snerz grabs onto the heroes' hot-air balloon, he doesn't realize his dangling legs are ever so closer to a
*moving, unprotected wind turbine*. Had Michellee and E.B. not used their friendship bracelets to incapacitate him to the top of the airport, Snerz would've *died* right then and there, possibly taking the four protagonists and Mr. Jenkins with him. He is *that* committed to adding the Chickaraffe to his collection.
## Goldenguy
- The Zookian investigator threatens to cut off E.B.'s face with a chainsaw to remove her "little girl disguise" while laughing maniacally.
## On Her Dookess' Secret Service
## The Mom Who Loved Me
- The episode's climax includes the two nations of Yookia and Zookia shooting weapons of mass destruction at one another and getting very close to wiping off each other from the surface of the world. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreenEggsAndHam2019 |
Green Hell / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The dreaded Black Caiman. Believe it or not, it's not even the
*most* dangerous enemy in this game.
A game about surviving in the harsh, forbidden, and desolate jungle where Everything Is Trying to Kill You wouldn't even be complete without it's fair share of Nightmare Fuel.
- Unlike most survival games, you don't just have to worry about food, water, and physical health. You also have to keep your sanity meter in check, which can decrease if you eat disgusting foods or suffer traumatic events. If this sanity meter reaches 50% or lower, then you'll start to hear demented whispers insulting and demotivating you. If the sanity meter reaches zero, then the screen will turn a dark, reddish hue, and you'll be attacked by imaginary enemies.
- If you're carrying arrows in your pack, get attacked by a hallucinatory archer, and check your inventory again, you might notice that one or more of your arrows is missing. This implies that at least some of these imaginary attacks are less Your Mind Makes It Real, and more a case of
*crazed self-harm*.
- You're not actually alone in the jungle, but instead share it with extremely hostile and territorial natives who wear skull body paint. Once they see you, they'll attack you without hesitation. You can sense their presence by hearing their ritual chanting, which can be rather creepy in a normally quiet jungle.
- You can actually
*cannibalize the tribal warriors* in this game. Doing so will also cost you a huge amount of sanity points.
- The jaguar and puma can appear completely out of nowhere and attack you without provocation. If you hear their growls, be prepared to have your bow-and-arrow ready, or run.
- Black caimans are more slow and bumbling than the aggressive mammals (at least on land) and give you plenty of time to run away, but they are still equally as dangerous and will kill you in one snap.
- Many of the Body Horror moments in the game count, such as worms burrowing into your skin.
- Jake's Nightmare Sequences upon drinking ayahuasca the last two times in Story Mode are frightening enough, but what happens during the Bad Ending is downright terrifying. If Jake doesn't find the cure, or if he finds the cure yet hesitates if it was worth it or not, then the door in the hospital room will lead him out into the Yabahuaca village to tribesmen just...standing there, still as a statue and perpetually facing him, gradually multiplying as Jake frantically searches for Mia in the crowd. After that, we are then treated to a scene of Jake falling into water and drowning, and that's the ending. Thankfully the game allows you to go back to your save point and fix things and get the good ending (or in this case, Bittersweet Ending), but
*sheesh*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreenHell |
Grand Theft Auto III / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Grand Theft Auto III | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories | Grand Theft Auto IV | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony | Grand Theft Auto V
Given the dark tone and Crapsack World nature of the game, especially compared to later
*Grand Theft Auto* games, there are many things within Liberty City that can send chill down to your spine.
- The
*very atmosphere* of the game. Similarly to *Grand Theft Auto IV*, the game has a bleak, eerie atmosphere, even in the daytime.
- Similarly to
*Grand Theft Auto: Vice City*, blowing someone's head off is very graphic.
- Some designs of the characters can be somewhat creepy, especially with their dated models.
- The final mission for King Courtney (
*Kingdom Come*) is Nightmare Fuel dialed way past eleven. In this mission, King Courtney betrays you and allies with Catalina, making you fall into a trap with deranged drug-addicts who run to you and explode because they have bombs. If you played the game as a youngster, it's safe to say that you were not the only one who felt highly disturbed with this mission. Even worse, you can take this mission after Catalina's been killed, and you will *still* get ambushed by his goons because it was meant to be done before the final mission. Thankfully, if you've brought an explosion-proof vehicle, it is no longer terrifying as they can't just pull you out of the car.
- After you've killed Salvatore Leone, fighting against the soldiers of the Leone Family can be quite scary. Unlike other gangsters, these tough guys are armed not only with handguns, but also with shotguns. Even if you're in a vehicle, they'll immediately recognize you and open fire. Two solid shots will end your drive in a deadly explosion, unless you are in a Rhino tank or have unlocked special vehicles that are immune to gunfire. Additionally, if you're on foot, their shotgun blasts will likely knock you down and prevent you from moving while they close the distance and fire again.
- If you thought the Leone Family was bad, then you haven't seen the army that comes after you when you have the highest wanted level. When you see military trucks and Rhino tanks chasing you instead of LCPD patrol cars, SWAT vans and unmarked FBI cruisers, you
**know** the authorities aren't fucking around anymore. Trying to survive a six-star wanted level out in the open is suicidal. If you are not in a Rhino tank or a vehicle that is immune to collision damage, odds are that other Rhino tanks will nuke your vehicle on contact. If you're on foot, the infantry armed with M16s, which can kill you within a second due to their shot-grouping and blistering rate of fire, will swarm you. M16s have enough DPS to shred any vehicle vulnerable to bullets in seconds. It's to the point that the military from *Vice City* and onwards have been nerfed to either use an MP5, or reduce the rate of fire from their M4/M16 if they are carrying it ( *San Andreas*, *Vice City Stories*, and *V*).
- The piano track that plays inside Salvatore's mansion plays constantly, even after his death. There's a reason why visiting the house after "Sayonara Salvatore" can be rather creepy, especially when doing "Gang-car Round Up" mission for King Courtney, where going to the mansion's parking lot is one of the few ways to obtain the Mafia Sentinel safely.
- One of the most standout examples is a group of four hobos in the hidden tunnel beneath Saint Mark's district in Portland Island. They stand in circle surrounding a Hidden Package, and just stand there doing nothing. What's even scarier is that they drop
**molotovs** upon death. Some players also claim that they never respawn again after you kill them and/or take the hidden package. Just what the heck are they? Some kind of a cult? Nothing Is Scarier, indeed. More info : According to Word of God — they're members of a Dummied Out gang, specifically anarchists. The kicker? It was rumored that they would've given you missions such as and **destroying a schoolbus full of children** , which would have been offensive following after the 9/11 Attacks. These rumors were debunked, described as "Funny but not true." **kamikazeing a Dodo into Donald Love's building**
- Marty Chonks, the near-bankrupt, Ax-Crazy owner of the Bitch'n' Dog Food factory in Trenton, kills people if they get on the wrong side of him; being the owner of a processing company, you can guess what he does to discard his evidence. That includes his banker whom he accuses of stealing funds from him, two thieves he hired to commit insurance fraud in the fear they could snitch out to him, and even
**his wife** for her heavy spending, cheating on him, and for her life insurance. Bonus points for the fact his toothbrush-style mustache makes it fairly obvious to whom he resembles. Thankfully, the guy Mrs. Chonks was seeing, a loan shark named Carl, introduces the business end of his shotgun to Marty after Claude takes him to the facility.
- The ending of the game has protagonist Claude finally killing Catalina. Afterwards, Claude and Maria walk together as they cross over to the other side of the Cochrane Dam. Maria can be heard talking until the screen cuts to black and a shot is fired. The game doesn't really explain what happens and whether Claude killed Maria or simply shot at a random direction to shut her up it's all up to the player's own conclusion. Even when Rockstar themselves are asked about Maria's fate, they don't provide a concrete answer. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoIII |
Green Lantern / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The Green Lantern verse is filled with a variety of awful monstrosities and creatures related to the history of the Lantern Corps and even members of the Lantern Corps itself
- The various Eldritch Abomination alien entities that are the embodiment of the emotions of their domain and are fueled by the emotions of every sentient being in the universe. They're also not passive or strictly benevolent. Just one, Parallax the Embodiment of Fear, possessed Hal Jordan and nearly destroyed reality itself throughout time after spending eons driving civilizations insane with fear as well as scaring the
*Spectre* of all beings. Another, The Butcher the Embodiment of Rage, is actually dangerous enough to be the Spectre's mortal enemy. Even the *good* ones like the Embodiments of Compassion and Hope have a tendency to Mind Rape people to feel the emotion of their domain while the Embodiment of Love becomes a horrible monster in response to the flawed sense of love of its hosts.
- Good ol' Alan Moore created the prison planet Ysmault, and populated it with Eldritch Abominations who prophecized the end times of the Corps.
- The classic Alan Moore story
*Tygers* which turns part of the Lantern mythos into a Cosmic Horror Story. Millions of years ago, the universe was ruled by the monstrous Empire of Tears, controlled by eldritch abominations of immense power. Eventually, the Guardians arose and destroyed the Empire, but were unable to destroy the spirits of the beings, and resorted to imprisoning them on the tomb world Ysmault, where Abin Sur finds them eons later while looking for a lost spaceship. Though powerless, the Empire's minds are still as intact and twisted as ever and try to corrupt Abin Sur with all manner of extravagant promises in return for freedom... all except one, Qull of the Five Inversions. He offers Sur three questions, with no strings attached. Sur's first question is to find the lost ship, which ends up correct with no strings, so he decides to ask the remaining two. He first asks about his own death, and then about the prophesied future Blackest Night. Qull answers both truthfully... because telling Sur the truth, that his ring will fail him at the worst moment, leads directly to his canonical death. Because he took to using a spaceship to conserve his ring's power, he didn't notice the yellow radiation in Earth's orbit, which he might have checked for had he relied only on his ring. By the time he realizes this, it's too late.
**Narrator**: And he heard them laughing. All the way down.
-
*Tygers* also features the first mention of the Blackest Night, and the exact circumstances of the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps. Sometime in the future, the enemies of the Corps will join forces in one massive assault, including the Weaponers of Qward, Ranx The Sentient City, and the Children of the White Lobe. Together, they will free the Empire Of Tears and join them in the utter destruction of the Green Lanterns, and slaughter them to the last man, with the last to fall being Mogo The Living Planet, destroyed by Ranx and Sodam Yat, a Daxamite hailed as the ultimate Green Lantern, torn to shreds by the White Lobe.
- Half the crap drawn by Ethan Van Sciver.
*Especially* his version of Parallax-possessed heroes.
- The entire Sinestro Corps, in a literal sense since they get their power from
*instilling fear.*
- The whole concept of the Sinestro Corpsman Kryb, especially for parents. Her method of instilling fear? She kills parents and steals their infant children for herself. She's a parent-murdering, infant-stealing alien with a hollow back with dozens of possibly screaming little babies and toddlers inside? Yeah, that sounds like something straight outta the original Grimm stories. And there's more. Her hollow, cage-like back has nipples in it, with which she feeds the kidnapped babies. And it is implied that the babies are somehow brainwashed into thinking her as their real mother. And that they will eventually become child-terrorists Children of the White Lobe, prophesied to bring down the Green Lantern Corps.
- Even worse, she genuinely loves the children in question. Truly and sincerely, with all her heart. To the point that a Star Sapphire can use her love as a tether to track the children in question. High Octane Nightmare Fuel should simply
*not be crossed* with woobiedom!
- For all you germophobes out there, theres Despotellis the sentient virus. The mere idea of a sentient virus as a member of the Sinestro Corps can give one the chills. It's bad enough a virus is wiping people out, but knowing it is not only alive but armed with a power ring is just messed up. Triply so since the only reason for that particular Sinestro to exist is in direct response to the existence of Green Lantern Leezle Pon, a superintelligent smallpox virus, first mentioned off-handedly by Tomar Re way back when. And to make it worse, Depotellis also has some Paranoia Fuel factor going on for it as well, since Sinestro mentions having used Despotellis as a spy and assassin in the past, because his size makes him practically perfect for the job. ||As seen with Kyles mom, he can strike at you anywhere and anytime...and for all you know, he could be inside you RIGHT NOW||.
**Lyssa Drak**: *And Despotellis, the most terrifying of them all, transforms entire planets into rotting graveyards*.
- Every single aspect of the Cyborg Superman is Nightmare Fuel, save perhaps his slightly silly name. He's immortal. He destroyed a metropolis ||which subsequently opened Hal Jordan to Parallax's influence||. He bears the twisted visage of one of Earth's greatest heroes, cowed a monster like Mongul, and proved to be a challenge to Darkseid. When Geoff Johns got a hold of him, ||he took over the Manhunters, developed mind-altering nanobots, used Green Lanterns as living power sources for his machines, and was given multiple power rings by Sinestro.|| Oh, and he wants to annihilate all life. The only thing more terrifying than facing the Cyborg Superman is actually being the Cyborg Superman.
- Theres also Bedovian. For starters, Bedovian is pretty creepy in general. Hes a cold, practically emotionless alien crustacean creature who never speaks and that lives inside a
*fear lodge* (for context, a fear lodge is a horrifying shell that makes whoever is inside it to face their worst fears, doubts and insecurities), which alone should tell you that theres something abnormal about Bedovian. Bedovian is centuries old, almost entirely self-sustaining, and has the patience to wait for literally hundreds of years in search of his prey. Then, theres also what he was doing before he joined the Sinestro Corps. His backstory shows how he catches prey: ||He waits for something or someone to come close to his shell, he opens it up, then he drags the prey inside before they have time to react. But thats not the scary part. The scary part is that we dont see exactly ''what'' Bedovian does to his prey (besides eating them, obviously), but its clearly shown that whatever it is, its slow, horrifying and atrocious. Plus, this *lovely* bit of narration accompanying the scene leaves plenty to the imagination||:
- On a side note, like Despotellis, Bedovian also has some Paranoia Fuel factor to him. The Sinestro Corps made him their Cold Sniper for a reason. Like Superman, Bedovian also has telescopic vision that can reach across stars and planets. In fact, Bedovian can see up to several space sectors away. When you combine this with his excellent ability as a sniper, that basically means that he can watch you or kill you from literally LIGHT YEARS AWAY.
- Romat-Ru, A prolific serial killer. He killed thousands of
*children*.
- This cover◊. Hal Jordan, the Greatest Green Lantern, has gone insane. His home is destroyed, along with almost everyone he ever knew in his civilian life. He has now turned this grief against the Guardians of the Green Lantern Corps and wants to kill them. Along the way, he fights and kills other Green Lanterns. Ones he knew and fought with. By the time he reaches Oa, his slaughter of his comrades is an afterthought - he just wants "more power to fix things". Though it wasn't executed well, Hal's plan to do so is even more terrifying than you could think.
- The Third Army - ||Starting with one monstrous abomination created from the Guardians' own flesh after they absorbed the power of The First Lantern, they are designed to withstand anything a Green Lantern ring can throw at them. Oh, and rather than kill you, they instead forcibly turn you into one of them. With simple physical contact, they infect you and turn you into one of them, with the only unaltered part of your body being your eyes, all linked to the minds of the Guardians and each other. Oh and
*you'll be aware of what's happening when they do so.* Essentially a biological variant of the Anti-Life. Hideous, emotionless monsters designed by the Guardians to replace the Green Lantern Corps and thus are able to withstand everything a Green Lantern ring can throw at them *and* effortlessly break through any barriers they throw up.||
- From
*Green Lantern* #43: Black Hand. An insane, nihilistic necrophiliac who's been ||given control of an army of undead. Superpowered undead.|| Listen to his introduction in the issue: "My name is William Hand. Although I live, my heart is filled with death. And I am happy."
- Black Hand is made even creepier as you consider why he's such a nutjob. In
*Green Lantern*: *Secret Origins*, Atrocitus hunts down the then-teenaged William Hand because he's destined to be the instrument of the *Blackest Night*. And in the aforementioned issue, Hand admits that he's been "different" for as long as he can remember. The implication is that Hand was cursed from birth to be ||Nekron's tether into the universe,|| and never really had a chance to be anything more than what he is.
- Black Hand returns (again) for his Villains Month issue and once more causes a (so far local and non-Black Lantern) Zombie Apocalypse. This is Nightmare Fuel enough, but when he runs into policemen who keep mowing down his zombies, he ||
*reanimates dead viruses inside one of the cops*, quickly killing and reanimating him from the inside||. Yikes. As if that's not enough, at the end he ||rips off his own hand and replaces it with that of (zombie) Martin Jordan, just so he can kill Hal with his father's hand when they next meet||.
- Larfleeze aka Agent Orange, the
*only* member of the Orange Lantern Corps. The reason for that is because he kills and eats anyone drawn to the orange light (or something new) turning them into mindless avatars for him to control, which in turn help him to find and eat more people. Since they're not real, they can't be hurt in any way and feeding on other lantern powers makes them (and Larfleeze) stronger. Oh, and he's also an insane immortal who just ||chopped off Hal Jordan's arm because he had a blue ring||. Thankfully, the next issue revealed that ||Larfleeze only hallucinated chopping Hal's arm off. The blue ring did that to him to buy Hal time.|| The fact he's hilarious in how greedy he is arguably makes him even more disturbing
- Some always found the Indigo Lantern Tribe creepy.
*Green Lantern* #59 makes that interpretation canon. The Indigo power rings seek out people with no compassion in their hearts and forces them to feel it by flushing out all of their "bad" feelings. The Indigo Tribe is a cult of former villains that have gone through emotional lobotomies. And they eventually want to spread their "compassion" to everyone. It's since implied that this isn't necessarily the case, just that most of the members need to atone. ||Ray Palmer was recruited without being a monster, though he and the current host of the Compassion Proselyte|| are the only exceptions to this rule seen so far. Indigo-1 doesn't deny that she and the rest of the Corps were just like Black Hand in their former lives.
- This example is more of an example of Nightmare Fuel In Hindsight, if theres such a thing. At the time when Emerald Twilight was written, Parallax as a giant yellow space bug cosmic entity hadnt been conceptualized yet. He would be introduced later in the mythos as a living, walking retcon to explain why Hal was acting the way he was after Coast City got destroyed and why Green Lanterns were weak to the color yellow. Now, if you read all the stories about Parallax being revealed as the true mastermind behind Emerald Twilight, then go back and read Emerald Twilight a second time, it gets much creepier and you start to notice some odds things about Hal, his behavior and the behavior of his constructs. By interpreting it differently, you could easily see it as Parallax deliberately manipulating Hal by psychologically tormenting him, by talking to him in the form of his own constructs and taking advantage of his doubts, guilt and insecurities to mold him into an ideal puppet host. It gets even worse with the Narrator. At times, the Narrator almost sounds like hes whispering to Jordan to slowly push him over the edge...and on top of that, his speech boxes are YELLOW. Of course, this was obviously not intentional, because as weve said, Parallax hadnt been fully conceptualized yet. Still, knowing what we know today,...How much of what happened in Emerald Twilight was Hal deliberately torturing and hurting himself out of guilt and self-blame and how much of it was Parallax slowly driving him insane and torturing him by manifesting itself via Hals energy constructs? Well never really know for sure. But one things for certain: when you go back and read it a second time, you can practically see Parallax breaking Jordan and driving him to the edge of madness...and taking immense pleasure while doing it too.
- After becoming a Star Sapphire, Yrra Cynril (aka "Fatality") fell in love with her archnemesis John Stewart and the two had a brief sexual relationship. However, when the Star Sapphire ring is later removed from her, Yrra reverts to her previous hatred of Stewart and states that
*she* never loved him — her *ring* did. That revelation immediately turns the entire Star Sapphire Corps (already heavily steeped in Brainwashing for the Greater Good by their methods of "reforming" criminals) into pure, high-octane nightmare fuel. This basically means that any given Sapphire is probably trapped in their own body as their rings compel them to do things they don't want, like having sex with someone they *utterly despise*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreenLantern |
Grand Theft Auto V / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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Los Santos is a big, big place. With the graphic improvement, Lovecraftian places, Ax-Crazy people, brutal scenes, violent criminals, malignant cults and corrupt agencies, it's quite clear that Rockstar Games were trying to go for something Bloodier and Gorier with
*Grand Theft Auto V*.
- In Friend Request, Michael, at the behest of Lester, plants a device into a prototype LifeInvader phone and is told to call it when the founder, Jay Norris, demonstrates it. The kicker? The device was an explosive. He's right out in front of the public, he holds the ringing phone up to his ear, then BOOM! His head asplodes. Even Michael is audibly shocked.
- Really, the idea of Lester getting mad at someone at all. While the people he targets in Assassination missions are far from undeserving, they had no idea that they had attracted the ire of a dumpy little man who is suddenly sending assassins after them. He's like if Anonymous had access to a crew of hardcore criminals to kill anyone that displeased them. This is further compounded in the multiplayer; you can call Lester in at any time to put a bounty on other players, for
*any reason* at all at *any time*.
- Speaking of bounties, they can happen out of nowhere. Just jacked a parked car and drove off? You'll get a threat from the car's owner demanding you're going to be dead 30 seconds later. Not even subduing the owner of a car will stop the text from happening. However, if you're in passive mode, this won't happen and you can still rob cars.
-
**Everything** about Trevor. For starters, he's an extremely deranged maniac who commits all sorts of horrific crimes for no reason other than for the fun of it and utterly revels in his villainy. While he mostly balances that out with Black Comedy, even that doesn't stop him from being Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant extraordinaire. When he goes berserk though, it's an absolutely horrifying sight to behold both from the player's perspective as well as the perspective of his victims. To put it mildly, he's GTA's own version of Vaas Montenegro.
- His first mission "Mr. Philips", has him stomp the side of Johnny Klebitz's face in during an argument, leaving a bloody red pulp on the side of the road. After that, Trevor proceeds to mow down the rest of Klebitz's faction of the Lost MC with little to no resistance! Imagine you are one of the Lost and you just got word Johnny K along with Terry and Clay are
*dead* thanks to that local eccentric meth dealer who's been known to throw temper tantrums out of the blue. As you prepare yourself for combat, you see said dealer whip out a shotgun and lay waste to your entire gang almost as if he's supernatural. **Trevor:** *"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU SPEAKING TO?! WHO?! WHO?! I'M TALKIN' TO YOU, HUH?! YOU FUCK! NEXT TIME, DON'T GET IN MY FUCKIN' FACE! I JUST SAW A FUCKIN' GHOST AND I GOTTA HEAR YOUR CRAP?! GET UP! * **GET UP!!** FUCK YOU, THEN!"
- The scene also showcases how frighteningly unpredictable Trevor can be. He goes from somewhat calm and snarky to quietly propositioning Johnny, then loudly demanding he drop his pants, then comforting a heartbroken Johnny... right before choke-slamming him, smashing a bottle over his head, and stomping on his head
*repeatedly* until he wound up getting a piece of brain stuck to his shoe.
- One of the Gold Medal requirements for this mission is to kill every last one of them. Just imagine this again from their viewpoint: you are running away from the lunatic who, not more than a few minutes ago, just wiped out your faction, but he hasn't had his fill yet, so the guy goes after your friends, blows their heads off, and then finally goes after
*you*.
- When that opening cutscene is over, before getting into the truck, turn around and take a close look at Johnny's corpse with your phone camera or in first-person view. The really graphic bits of Trevor's attack were left mostly offscreen, but a close look at the corpse reveals that Trevor literally stomped Johnny's head in until his
*brains* were showing. This also means that when Trevor taunts Terry and Clay later by speaking to a piece of Johnny's brain on his boot, that's not just a piece of gore, that really *is* part of his brain!
- The mission "Dead Man Walking". Aside from waking up in a morgue with corpses, whilst you'll probably never know of its existence unless you let it happen out of curiosity or find it on YouTube, but if you let the morgue doctors who somehow can't tell that you are not dead be long enough without waking up, they will actually start an AUTOPSY on you whilst YOU ARE STILL ALIVE. It's not just any autopsy either; they CUT YOUR RIBCAGE OPEN WITH A HACKSAW whilst you see your blood squirting out and hear the bones being cut out just as it fades to the mission failed screen. As a side note, if you do continue like normal and wake up, one of the doctors will begin panicking about you 'reanimating'. Someone's definitely watched too much zombie movies.
- If you get the aforementioned mission failed screen, instead of it playing the sound effect we're used to hearing, it just pops up and plays a much more bone-chilling sound effect.
- The Cold-Blooded Torture scene in "By the Book" is
**seriously** disturbing and realistically gruesome, even for the standards of the game. You're given four gruesome ways to coerce your target: hit him with a large wrench (one of the points of impact is at the *private parts*), waterboarding, shock therapy and pulling his tooth using pliers.
- Worst part?
**You can't skip it** * : Unless you know who the target is already and shoot him early, but even then, you still have to go through two of the four torture segments first before you get that option, so if you're queasy and uncomfortable with torture scenes, much less interactive torture scenes, you are shit out of luck if you want to beat this game. The only consolation is that instead of killing the guy as Steve ordered, Trevor drives him to the airport and kindly advises him to get out of Los Santos forever.
- Even this moment is horrifying, if only for the revelation that although Trevor enthusiastically participated in the brutality, he knew from the start the guy would tell them everything, and it was all totally pointless.
- To put in light just how horrifying this part of the game is: some
*GTA* fans, who are known to be completely unflinching towards the worst blood and gore that the series has had to offer, CRINGE at this scene. Most of it has to do with the fact that the horror of the violence is completely played straight, with no form of glorification in the slightest.
- The worst part is that the victim seems to be an innocent man, and after the mission is done, it doesn't seem like he'll see his family again. And before the poor guy was tortured by the FIB, he was being tortured by the IAA.
- Just in case you weren't feeling bad enough for the poor guy, Mr. K can possibly whimper "I'm alive. I'm alive!" after being waterboarded if you pulled one of his teeth first.
*He truly believed he was going to die in that warehouse!*
- It's almost a wonder how much worse this sequence would've been if "Stuck in the Middle with You" was playing in the background.
- Also horrifying is the fact the torture doesn't work
*in the slightest*, with Trevor even pointing this out yet still going through with it anyway for no good reason other than just because, showing how utterly demented he really is as said before.
- The worst part is, if you wait before the fourth and final torture session, the guy will tell you the information
*and youll still have to torture him anyway.*
- The scene where Trevor murders Debra. The actual murder isn't shown, but Trevor is covered in blood and the apartment windows are smeared with it. Whatever he did, it was
*messy.* **Trevor**: **You people are not very FUCKING NICE.**
- They have a no holds barred, rather graphic and disturbing torture scene, that you are forced to act out, but THIS is what gets a discretion shot?? What in the world did Trevor do? (A news report on the radio later says that man was found shot in the head and a woman stabbed to death. Considering just how much blood was on Trevor and the fact Floyd is cowardly enough not to hurt anyone, you can only imagine just how long Trevor's attack was. )
- Trevor's method of taking over The Vanilla Unicorn — Leon, the previous manager, ends up killed in one of few instances where Trevor's acts are deliberately not shown.
- In the mission
*Meltdown*, Michael has to fight off Merryweather, who are threatening to kill his family. All because Devin Weston simply had a grudge in Michael for indirectly causing Molly's death .
- The worst part may be that one of the Merryweather mercenaries gets to Tracy's room and holds her at gunpoint while using her as a Human Shield, if you take too long lining up the shot the merc executes her in front of her parents, and due to her struggling to get free another possible outcome is for Michael to accidentally kill his own daughter instead.
- The death of Molly Schultz. While being chased by Michael at an airport, she runs in front of a jet engine's turbine and is sucked in... and what's left of her could be cleaned up with a mop. The fact that one of her hands somehow made it through intact and is just lying in the chunky red goo makes it even worse.]] Even Michael is clearly horrified and nauseated at what he just saw.
- Did we mention it was completely
*unnecessary*? The reason Michael was chasing Molly, was because she had stolen the only hard copy of the movie Michael had produced so it wouldn't be put out. Of course, being 2013, there's plenty of digital copies, but Solomon Richards, the director and the only one who knew of them at the time, didn't see fit to remind anyone.
- Trevor discovering the corpse of Brad.
- To go into specifics, it's not the corpse of Brad itself that is the terrifying part of this scene, it's the fact that Trevor, already unhinged at this point just discovered that Michael, one of his best friends, was responsible for the death of his other best friend, and now because of discovering this, any semblance of a deep friendship between them is destroyed. Not only is Trevor horrified at finding out that he was right all along, but he is utterly
*enraged*. **Trevor**: As if I didn't know... **Brad.** **Trevor**: Oh, and how was that, huh? With Brad in the can and me in the ground? Or...or...or-or *both of us in the coffin?*
- Brad's corpse is pretty frightening, though. Nine years of decomposition in a cold environment will result in quite the Nightmare Face.
- During "Fresh Meat", any time an enemy gets knocked into a meat grinder.
- Or in one case, a tub of acid.
- If the player doesn't save Michael in time or they're just a sadist, and they're switched to him, they'll be "treated," to a scene of Michael actually begging for the Triads to turn off the meat grinder about 5 seconds before being slowly ripped apart, audible screams and all. You can even hear him scream
*over the muted Game Over screen.*
- Worse yet? You can't avoid watching this if you let the time limit run out. When the game figures you're too late, it automatically forces you to switch to Michael just so you can watch him get ripped to pieces, and
*there is no way to switch back to Franklin once it happens*. Chill out, Rockstar.
- One question comes to mind after finishing the mission, what happens to the corpses after they're ground up by machinery? Are they going to sold? consumed? or buried?
- During the family therapy session, Michael tells Amanda, right in front of their children and in no uncertain terms, that if she were to report him to the police, he would kill her. The look on his face and tone of his voice are as terrifying as anything Trevor's ever done. The only thing that keeps this from being one of the scariest moments in the game is the fact that the catharsis of
*finally* airing their grievances with each-other instead of dancing the passive-aggressive tango causes Micheal to realize something's gone wrong with their relationship and decide to work harder to make it better. **Amanda:** I should have had you locked up years ago, you stupid shit. **Michael:** Do it! Do it. *I'll put you in the fucking ground with the rest of them.*
- During Predator, bigfoot shows up as you're using thermal scopes to snipe. When you focus on him, he disappears. However, if you're not familiar with GA mythology, it just looks like a person was standing there until you looked at him, and then he disappeared when you began watching him.
- Andreas Sanchez getting shot in the face by Steve Haines, "treating" us to a quick view of the big bloody exit wound in the back of his head. It's quick, but
*damn* is it messy and detailed, compared to the neat little holes that usually result from headshot in-game.
- One of the possible deaths for a Gunman is getting pinned by a crashing cop car in the Paleto Heist, and suffocating to death in his bomb suit. Goes to show how, even with the best protection money can buy, Anyone Can Die... and die horribly.
-
**Ending B**. It is probably one of the hardest Player Punches in the entire GTA series, right up there with both versions of "Mr. and Mrs. Bellic".
- The fact that most of the story revolves around Michael only for him to die gruesomely in this ending
**jarring**.
- The whole mission is pure Nightmare Fuel. In this mission, Franklin crosses the Moral Event Horizon with Michael's murder.
- Franklin himself during the plot of the mission. He seems so ruthless and unsympathetic, probably bordering on Out-of-Character Moment.
- Michael's perspective. He leaves no stone unturned in making you feel guilty as shit for double-crossing him after he just salvaged his family life and looked out for Franklin as if he was family, too; even if you change your mind and try to save him, he lets himself drop to his death.
- The image of Michael a bloody, dead mess on the pavement is a pretty horrific way to end the story.
- Worse? Devin Weston gets away with it.
- Ending A is no better: at one point, Trevor burns to death screaming in agony.
**Trevor**
: MICHAEL!!
AH, FUCK! I THOUGHT I WAS WITH ONE JUDAS!!
*I'M SURROUNDED BY THEM!!!*
YOU...FAKE...MOTHER...FUCKERS!! YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?! FUCKIN' COME GET ME!! YOU WANNA KILL ME?! TAKE A FUCKING
*SHOT!!*
- How the whole Kill Trevor ending turns out is pretty unnerving, especially the fact that after Franklin or Michael kills Trevor, Michael goes on a rant in which he aggressively tries to justify what they did. It's been noted that his behavior and mannerisms in this instance are very similar, if not identical, to the way Trevor acted throughout the entire game.
**Michael**
: You always liked gasoline, Trevor!
**Franklin**
: Man, that was your best fucking friend!
**Michael**
: Fuck you... you know what, tough guy? It's... it's time you grew the fuck up. I mean, I admit, I'm a bad piece of work, but that guy? That
*piece of shit?*
No boundaries! No sense of when to back off! No
**nothing!** Twenty-four seven insanity
, day in, day out,
*all the time!*
Never regretted nothin', cared for nothin'... Well, fuck him! I mean... there's gotta be a limit, kid. You know, a point where assholes like us say enough is
*e-fucking-nough!* ...Human stew...
that's my limit. I know that now.
- Worse, Haines gets exactly what he wants in this ending, much like Devin in Ending B.
- Devin's death in Ending C. He deserved it, but the fact that Trevor beat him up so hard can make it scary. And then, Michael, Franklin and Trevor throw his car into the ocean, which later
*explodes*.
- The worst part of the two Bad Endings is the fact that it
*relies* on the player being wise to the way GTA stories usually play out. Most veterans of the series are used to Bittersweet or even straight up *Downer* endings. GTA isn't usually a series that offers you a choice between two people and then lets you save both, so the idea that Ending C — itself a Meta Twist — is a Golden Ending instead of leading to a scenario would never cross the minds of someone who didn't know.
- Trevor's "Grass Roots" mission, especially if you're afraid of clowns. The background music doesn't help either.
- Michael's "Grass Roots" mission as well. Just imagine that there are aliens everywhere, and they want to abduct you.
- A minor one, but if Michael or Trevor take damage during these sequences, they will still have some health missing when they return to reality.
- Trevor's is especially terrifying when you remember it's heavily implied he was molested by a clown.
- The Altruist Cult. They are a malevolent group who, according to Ron, take people Trevor brings to them and "just want them for dinner".
- One of the characters that you can take to the cult is Packie from the fourth game.
- And after you deliver four people to the cult, the cult decides to turn on Trevor. Big mistake for the cultists, but it's still pretty chilling to see their ritual, which was undoubtedly one of the last things all those victims you delivered saw.
- One of the random encounters has their members trying to
*kidnap a young lady*. Thankfully, she can be saved.
- The way Peter Dreyfuss tortured, killed and mutilated Lenora Johnson in 1975 was utterly horrifying, even by GTA standards. The only satisfaction is that you will have the option to track down and kill Dreyfuss.
- The Oop North characters of Nigel and Mrs. Thornhill in the "Vinewood Souvenirs" strand of missions (done by Trevor, to make matters worse), spend their holiday in Los Santos stalking celebrities, including stealing several "memorabilia" from them (including Kerry McIntosh's dog's collar, Tyler Dixon's swimming shorts, Willy of Love Fist's golden tooth and Mark Fostenburg's golf clubs). With the exception of Kerry, you are also given the option to kill the celebrities, and this is usually required to get a gold medal for the mission.
- Their final two missions involve kidnapping Al Di Napoli after a wild goose chase. Once that's done, the British friends leave Trevor to deal with the celebrity, who is put into the trunk of their car. One possible outcome (including the one needed for the golden achievement) is by leaving the rental car left on a train track while a freight train is coming at a high speed. Even though it's optional, it's still frightening to think of, especially when the closer you get to the train tracks, Di Napoli begs you to pull over in exchange for a large sum of three thousand (or, thirty thousand) dollars.
- Regardless of which you choose, it's still implied that Nigel and Thornhill are still in Los Santos after they cut ties with Trevor, continuing to stalk celebrities... unsettling indeed.
- Grove Street. In
*Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas*, it was the safest place for the player in Los Santos, being the site of your first hideout and completely free of Ballas control. In this game, it's the complete opposite. It's a dismal and grungy ghetto crawling with Gangbangers who are *not* Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters. Every single one of them is armed and liable to open fire at the slightest provocation (up to and including the crime of simply not being one of them). Just like a real life ghetto, this is not a place you want to go to alone, if at *all*.
- Heck anytime you have to fight the Ballas in missions is heart pounding. The two missions "The Long Stretch" and "Hood Safari" are basically escape or die missions.
- Even FIGHTING with the Ballas (or any gang in general) can be quite terrifying. What could be just a simple fistfight with some Gangbangers could turn into a
*shootout.* Bonus points if you don't even have a weapon yet and all you can really do is *get the hell out of there.* Just goes to show how dangerous it is to go around looking for trouble in places like these.
- If you try to go too far out into the ocean, your vehicle's engine will just stop out of nowhere and it will sink. Now you're stranded in open water, far, far away from land... and a red dot just appeared on your mini-map...
- Same if you're in an airplane and fly too far out into the ocean. You can either (a) slowly fall into the ocean in the cockpit of a plane with dead engines, or (b) jump out and free-fall into the ocean. Either way, you'll be stranded in open waters, miles from land and have to fear Jaws...
- With the sharks in the game, they often don't immediately attack you. Instead, they tend to stalk and circle around you before going in for the insta-kill, which leaves your character being violently shaken in the jaws of the shark and letting out a gurgling scream. As the "WASTED" screen pops up, your character remains frozen in an expression of terror, sinking into the depths in a cloud of blood.
- What's worse is that unlike cougars which you can easily fend of with your overpowered minigun or auto shotgun the only thing you have underwater as a weapon is the knife and fighting a shark with a knife more often than not has the same result as in real life.
- Exploring the ocean can be very unsettling, especially if you suffer from thalassophobia. The deeper you go, the less light there is, and massive underwater cliffs and spires appear practically out of nowhere constantly. The submarine has no radio (unless you're playing the Xbox One, Playstation 4 or PC versions), so you're stuck listening to either the eerie ambient music, the droning of the submersible's engines, or various strange undersea noises.
- Then there's 'crush depth.' diving too deep with the submersible will cause it to visibly compact under the water pressure. What's worse is some of the nuclear waste pickups require you to dive dangerously close, or into that depth.
- For added horror, try crashing a plane in the ocean with the invincibility cheat turned on. But if you get down deep enough (as in, at the point where your boat or plane stalls and sinks into the ocean), not even invincibility will save you - you
*will* die. While it's most likely due to technical limitations, it really sells just how terrifyingly ''deep'' the ocean really is. The guy who crashed the plane with invincibility on just above? It got so dark and deep he was legitimately *terrified* and bailed from the plane to get back to shore.
- On a related note... diving deep in the dark ocean is scary enough. Diving around looking for nuclear waste and stumbling on a dead body lying on the ocean floor? Ten times worse! And then, if you research enough, you learn that there are EIGHT dead bodies lying on the ocean floor, the work of the now-deceased Infinity Killer who hid the bodies in a secret place... and YOU just stumbled on that place! Nuclear waste or not, you will never want to explore the GTA ocean ever again. You could also find a sunken UFO deep underwater, as well as sunken ships and airplanes, skeletons in their own right.
- And the enhanced version of the game on current-gen consoles and PC allows you to experience all of this in first-person view. Go into first-person, turn off the minimap for maximum immersion, and go for a nice swim.
- The enhanced version of the game also adds hammerhead sharks, dolphins, orcas, and rare humpback whales. They're all harmless, even the hammerheads, but can still startle you. Hammerheads like to swim in schools, and even if they won't attack you, the sight of a bunch of sharks swimming around can still be unsettling. Due to their size, dolphins can be easy to mistake for the deadly San Andreas white sharks. Orcas make loud, high-pitched calls, and between that and their speed and size, they can make you jump out of your skin. And even though the humpback whales are rare and harmless, their sheer size is quite intimidating, especially if you're not in a sub.
- The sewers, accessible by going through the subway, are also creepy because they seem to stretch on forever with no exits. Even though there are almost no people there (save for a few engineers along the section near the Union Depository), you do get the feeling something will come round the corner at any minute.
- The abandoned mine located south-east of Fort Zancudo, which wouldn't be out of place in a horror game. Once you go in deep enough, it becomes almost pitch black. Even if you activate a weapon-mounted flashlight, you wouldn't dare turn around out of fear and paranoia that something may be following you, just WAITING for you to turn around so it can jumpscare you.
- In Story Mode, it's actually possible to find a DEAD BODY in there.
- Remember the cougars in
*Red Dead Redemption*? They're back, waiting for you should you choose to head into the countryside. They're not as tough to kill as the ones in *Red Dead*, and they'll run away from you if you're in a vehicle or if you aim your gun at them, but the sound of their yowling is still enough to send a chill down your spine. Oh, and while the *Red Dead* cougars would usually take two hits to kill you at full health, these cougars can do it in just one.
- Their killing animation has also changed from a comically unrealistic looking scratch to a much more realistic pounce then bite into your torso/neck.
- Worse is - you are virtually guaranteed to find them when playing the hunting minigame, and you can't use invincibility in missions, so if you can't run away fast enough (or climb on top of something) you will get killed. It's the inevitability of them spotting you and chasing you faster than you can run away that is particularly scary.
- If you've taken a taxi to the hunting area, sometimes your taxi driver can be attacked by a cougar.
- To a lesser extent, you can also get attacked by dogs. It usually happens if you attack their owner, but sometimes it's just triggered by going too close. Larger dogs, such as Rottweilers, can potentially pin you to the ground and instantly kill you like cougars can. There are sometimes police dogs too.
- Elk can occasionally run in front of cars, which is quite a surprise if you see it happening well away from the hunting area where you'd normally find them.
- Michael and Trevor also have have lines consisting of sarcasm (for the former) and dark humour (for the latter) when they hit an animal.
- Go to Mount Gordo between 23:00 and 00:00 and you'll see Jolene Cranley-Evans. The catch?
*She's been dead since 1978*.
- It gets worse. When you approach her, she disappears and leaves a message in blood. The message? Jock. As in Jock Cranley. You know, one of the candidates in the campaign for governor? One of the websites in the game implies that Jock murdered his wife.
- You can go to a little site down Mount Gordo with a few camping tents and possibly a van. You can see Jolene's ghost here too, and if you turn up your volume you'll hear creepy whispers, as well as echo-y voice clips of Jolene begging for mercy or screaming as she falls.
- One of the more hidden places in
*Grand Theft Auto V* is a tire reef. Based off the real-life Osborne Reef, which was a failed attempt at creating a reef using 2 million tires, the sight of it is as creepy as the reef it's based on.
- The ocean floor is absolutely filled with shipwrecks and plane crashes, including the remains of a nuclear submarine and even an entire cargo ship. The only thing more disturbing than seeing these mangled hulks through the hazy waters is the implication that nobody even bothered to dredge or salvage these wrecks despite being so close to the surface.
- One of the wrecks found beneath the waves is an intact German tank from the Second World War. Was it a spoil of war or were the Nazis planning to invade Los Santos in the GTA universe?
- The IAA has a deadly neurotoxin that they plan to unleash on the population of a metropolitan area in a staged terrorist attack. Their motivation? Wanting to increase their funding. Yes, they're willing to murder huge numbers of people just to get more money from the government. Though the possibility that this was just a lie made up by the FIB dampens it up a bit.
- Go into first person and throw yourself off a building. It's strangely realistic and cringe-inducing.
- Same with the bridges going over the water. You'd think the water would give you a soft landing. Nope; you die.
- In TV, there's an ad for a show called "Dude Eat Dog". It's... uncomfortable to watch, to say the least, even if played for Black Comedy.
- Some of the missions with the Epsilon Program, since it involves interacting with members who sound Brainwashed and Crazy, and have a Dark Reprise of the Epsilon Program from their website.
- Fridge Horror comes into play when one of the members is Marnie from
*IV* whom Niko helped to leave Liberty City in the hopes of kicking her drug habit, only to end up being sucked into a cult.
- While Michael may have just been playing along, the fact that his dialogue pretty much dissolves into their catchphrase during their quests can be quite unnerving. Is our Villain Protagonist hero just faking it, or is he
*really* becoming brainwashed?
- However, in GTA Online, we get what is quite possibly the most shocking Reveal in GTA history: if a player dies, they respawn in a Fluffy Cloud Heaven - and then
*Cris Fromage* shows up, mocking those who considered him a fraud. In other words, *the Epsilon Program was right!* And if that wasn't bad enough, the portrayal of Cris as the defacto ruler of GTA's heaven doesn't bode too well for those still on Earth. Of course, this can be entirely defused if one considers it a way to Hand Wave a respawn system, or even the player hallucinating as they're taken to the hospital.
- While the peyote sessions are funny for the most part, some of them can take on a more sinister edge from the interior monologue. Of note is when Trevor becomes a tiger shark, going from his usual persona to darkly serene and sinister.
- The UFO that flies over Fort Zancudo and the sounds it makes. Dear
*god*, the sounds it makes!
- The two other UFO's you can find have
*the FIB logo* on them. Just think about that.
- Maybe it's just Haines doing a publicity stunt.
- Every once or so often, you'll see a police cruiser chasing a car with 2-4 criminals in it. Usually, they'll drive away and be gone for good, but there are also times where both sides exit their vehicles and
*shoot at each other.* While it may be a little annoying at times, it's also quite disturbing to see just how chaotic the streets of Los Santos are.
- The song "Garbage" by Tyler, The Creator, who made the song just for the game. It's a surprisingly unsettling song about a drug dealer who ends up going on a killing spree.
- The show
*Kung Fu Rainbow Lazer Force*, a evangelical Christian parody of *Power Rangers* has a scene where the team encounters a teenage couple who they claim have "unnatural desires". When the team proceeds to mock the asthmatic boyfriend in the relationship, they discover the boy has a picture of theArt/Venus De Milo on his phone, which the team considers "amputee pornography", and end up killing him (with a heavy amount of Gorn too to save the girlfriend. It doesn't stop the girlfriend from having a mental breakdown and end up meeting the exact same fate as her lover. To think of it, it crosses the border of Squick and can come off as unsettling, even for the fact that the show is a parody of extreme conservative values.
- Later in the show, Louisa, Sebastian Kayden's Mexican house maid, ends up getting killed the exact same way, although this time, it is accidentally done in a fit of rage from Sebastian seeing barely-clad cheerleaders. It still can't be excused from being utterly disgusting, however.
- One of the shows on CNT, advertised in in-game billboards and television advertisements, is Serious Cougar, a reality dating show about the sex lives between young men and elderly women. Its just as uncomfortable as it looks and as it sounds.
- One in-game website advertises the POW Cleanse diet, which entails losing weight by taking on the lifestyle of a person held hostage in a third-world country.
- One radio ad is for the Extreme Paleo fad diet, which involves stalking and hunting your food like a caveman. And like our prehistoric ancestors, one of the meal options is your fellow man.
- Accept the Chaos, an in-game internet site of an atheist (more like Nay-Theist) movement. One of the pictures in the site is "Click to Play God" and it involves a whole family graphically and literally torn apart by a speeding car. It's probably the only instance Death of a Child is graphically depicted in the whole GTA game. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoV |
Gremlins (1984) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Talk about a "sunburn"...This is the other PG-rated Spielberg production from 1984 that inspired the PG-13 rating, the one that doesnt involve hearts being ripped out. But
*Gremlins* is a surprisingly frightening and gruesome affair in its own right.
- For starters, there's Stripe, the most sociopathic of the Gremlins, especially in the climax when he goes Ax-Crazy trying to kill Billy and Gizmo with a chainsaw initially showing completely white eyes, which make it look even creepier than its usual red-eyed look. Even as a Mogwai, he had a sinister look about him, not to mention how he gets the dog hung up with Christmas lights while playing dumb and smirking at his accomplishment- he did it while still in his infantile stage, thus was evil from the very beginning and the transformation that would amplify his maliciousness that was already there- rather than the transformation bringing up the aggressive traits. Then there's his Family-Unfriendly Death, when he essentially decomposes at an alarming speed and then pulls a Jump Scare one last time with his skeleton. Even pre-pupa, Stripe constantly wears a sadistic grin on his face, when planning to hurt you or orchestrating horrible things, and got much worse when he metamorphosed into his Gremlin form, leading his children killing almost an entire town's populace in inventively cruel ways, causing anarchy over the town and killing his kin for cheating at cards. When he wasn't letting them all watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- Gremlin birth. 1) Mogwai -> mogwai. Gizmo-screaming as puffballs explode from his back and form into additional, but malign versions of himself that willingly cause harm onto others and actively manipulate others into reaching their matured state- aware of the chaos they'll cause. 2) Pupa -> gremlin. The fluffy Gremlins encase themselves into grotesque, Xenomorph like cocoons as they start cracking open while Gizmo hides in the motorcycle helmet as they emit creepy smoke. 3) Gremlin-> gremlin- red-eyed big-eared, scaly, demonic looking monsters with matured, but murderously insane personalities that use their gremlin technical know-how to cause untold destruction by causing car collisions, driving a car into a couple, etc. A surprisingly dark reproduction cycle from what was seemingly an odd looking yet harmless creature.
- "And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus." This is the climax of the speech Kate gives explaining why she doesn't believe in Santa and/or hates Christmas: when she was a little girl, her father disappeared without a trace on Christmas night. They never saw him until days later, when the house started to stink. It turned out he had wanted to surprise his little girl by playing Santa Claus, to the extent of trying to come down the chimney for her... instead, he slipped and broke his neck and got wedged in the chimney. And Kate was there when the fire department hauled his decaying body out of the chimney.
- What's worse is that it has nothing to do with the supernatural Gremlin element and cases like that in real life, have happened over the years- with accidental deaths and families wondering where they were until it's revealed to them that they were already long dead.
- The scene where Billy's mom is in Billy's room with the hatched pupae. Silence....then the turntable starts playing "Do You Hear What I Hear?" from downstairs. For Christmas music, it's quite terrifying (as it is to Lynn, who believes she's home alone and that record players don't just turn themselves on). She then is in a fight of her life as she desperately tries to whittle the now monstrous Gremlins down, but she's almost killed by Stripes and his brethren when Billy comes to save his mother. The Mother microwaving one until it explodes and killing another with a blender, then talk about badass she stabs a third one to death with a carving knife. The reason these gremlin deaths fall under this category is because they are extremely graphic and they happen on-screen--it doesn't cut away from the gore.
- The Cat Scare where she slashes at something moving inside Billy's stocking, sighing in relief that it turns out to be a wind-up toy robot... then immediately discovers those two red lights in the tree behind her aren't Christmas decorations.
- In the original draft of the script, Billy's Mother was going to be killed by the Gremlins... and Billy wouldve come home just in time to see
*her severed head roll down the stairs*.
- The fact that we still have no idea what happened to many of the people in Kingston Falls; indeed, it's quite possible many of them
*died*.
- The Gremlins themselves are pure nightmare fuel once they mature from their fuzzy, infantile forms. To start, they look like they stepped right out of a nightmare, with mouths packed with needle teeth, long arms with long fingers and long claws, and wrapped in scaly armor—more resembling big-eared demons from hell that became too violent than the alien experiments and intended creations as pets they're described as. While their aversion to bright light may come across as a Weaksauce Weakness, it also means they gravitate towards dark areas, and they're only about two and a half feet tall. Think about all the times you enter areas that are dimly lit or pitch black, or even just as dim as the areas shown in the films. Now think about all the places in those areas a two and a half foot demonic goblin could be hiding, ready to spring...
- And they're not even safe
*from each other.* The Gremlins will off their own kind for cheating, being annoying, or just because it'll be funny.
- In the final film, the gremlins are pretty much Laughably Evil. In the original draft, they were going to be
*far worse*, being utterly violent, ferocious monstrosities that could *eat* people.
- Billy and Kate accidentally catch the attention of a theater auditorium packed with gremlins while trying to sneakily rig the building to explode with them inside. We're treated to the striking and terrifying image of dozens of the vicious little bastards cast in shadow as they quickly gather against the theater screen and start clawing their way through it.
- Even as Mogwai, the Gremlins are just as creepy with the Mogwai's more expressive vaguely human-like features like large disproportionate eyes when acting or doing horrible things unlike Gizmo, give them an eerily wrong feeling to them long before they become Gremlins.
- ''Mega Madness'', which plays when the previously comedic bar scene with the Gremlins gets intense. In context, it's dance training music, especially with one of the Gremlins dancing in 80s dancing gear. However, the energetic song itself has a darker meaning to its actually disturbing lyrics in the overall context of the bar scene- being giving into insanity and chaotic impulses- especially in the extended edition, which is accompanied by warped laughing, the guitar solo that distorts into distorted synths, getting more intense with the repetition of Mega- fitting the seemingly fun, but truly violent nature of the Gremlins.
- The heart-stoppingly terrifying scene of Stripe jumping into the pool while being pursued by Billy. Easily the best example of "Oh shit" in the entire movie.
- The ending to the film is largely wistful and touching, with Gizmo's theme softly playing as he taken back home, though as Rand's narration comes in warning the viewers to heed of Gremlins, the music gradually becomes more ominous, with a abrupt jump cut to the credits as the chaotic Gremlins Rag starts to blast in.
**Rand:** Well, that's the story. So if your air conditioner goes on the fritz, or your washing machine blows up, or your video recorder conks out; before you call the repairman, turn on all the lights, check all the closets and cupboards, look under all the beds, 'cause you never can tell —there just might be a *gremlin in your house*... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gremlins1984 |
Ghost of Tsushima / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*"Your people are tired. Hungry. Cold. Open the gate and save them!"*
- Just the many times you will come across victims of Mongol carnage scattered throughout the land. Some brought down with arrows, others hung from trees, and others are left as charred corpses. At some Mongol camps, you will even find impaled heads or dismembered feet.
- The opening of the game where Khotun Khan burns and decapitates Lord Adachi. It's both his Establishing Character Moment as a No-Nonsense Nemesis and Combat Pragmatist, but how
*brutal* the man can be when dispatching his foes. And unfortunately for the players, Lord Adachi's death is not going to be the last one.
- When Khotun Khan captures Castle Shimura (pictured above), he forces Ryuzo to set a peasant, tied to a stake, on fire to get the defense forces to open the castle gates and surrender. Hearing the peasant's screams as he's set on fire is quite harrowing, and it doesn't help that Ryuzo breaks down shortly afterwards.
- Takas grisly death at the hands of the Khan. Khotun doesn't slice his head off, he
*tears it straight off* since the blade didn't go all the way through.
- During The Tale of Lady Masako, one of the first tasks is to locate a monk, Sogen, who had involvement in the slaying of Clan Adachi. When Sogen defiantly tries to justify his actions, Masako wastes no time in slaughtering Sogen, which even becomes something of a Gory Discretion Shot since all thats seen is Sogens blood flying in Masakos face.
- Yuna having a panic attack as she approaches the Mamushi brothers' farmstead. You already have an idea they are bad with the dismembered bodies on pike in the front yard, but seeing the usually collected Yuna hyperventilating at the mere thought of going there is frightening.
- Speaking of the Mamushis, while it is satisfying to hunt the bastards down and take their heads without being seen, it also counts as a Mook Horror Show, especially when Jin and Yuna leave their heads on a burning pike as a warning. The game even throws in a few "Psycho" Strings when the Mongols find the display and flee in terror.
- The sight of the Mongols dying in droves from the wolfsbane poison, convulsing, screaming, and coughing blood, is pretty horrible. Walking through the yard strewn with corpses and utterly silent afterwards...
- Similarly, when Shimura sees first hand Jins exploits as the Ghost during the castle raid — where he poisons two guards then beheads the Mongol war chief, screaming at the remaining Mongols to run like dogs while he keeps the head in his hand. Unlike his defeat of Temuge in Yarikawa, where the scene is showed as inspiring, here it shows how scary Jin's anger is.
- Jin coming to the realization that the Mongols had recreated his poison and used it on the peasants of the now-destroyed village of Kin. This is followed by Jin getting struck with a poisoned arrow, and his desperate attempts to escape, only to vomit blood and collapse, not helped by the intense music throughout the scene.
- During "The Guardian of Tsushima", Jin and Norio discover that Norio's brother Enjo, the guardian, is actually alive at Cedar Temple. What makes this nightmare fuel is the state they find Enjo in. His limbs have been severed, and he had been brutally tortured into giving information to the Mongols. It ultimately crosses into Tear Jerker territory when Norio has to put his brother out of his misery afterwards.
- The subsequent mission, "This Threefold World", shows just how frightening Norio is when he is angry. Already devastated over Enjo's death, he is determined to avenge his brother and kill his murderer, a Mongol general, and stops at nothing to make sure he carries out his vengeance. In his rage, Norio goes to the Mongol camp where the general is stationed and
*burns it to the ground*, including the general. It's enough to frighten the other monks and shock Jin himself.
- Two of the Mythic Tales stand out for how unnerving they are.
- The Curse of Uchitsune has Jin track down the whereabouts of a supposedly demon-slaying longbow while being warned to stay away by a man wearing a tengu mask. When Jin does find the bow, he's promptly knocked unconscious and forced to duel the "tengu." Players will notice how the arena is encircled by a swarm of crows, the world is tinted red and Jin is covered in blood when he begins the duel. When you defeat the "tengu" Jin clocks out again, and when he wakes up, everything appears to have returned to normal. Whether it was Jin hallucinating due to the incense burning where he found the longbow or a legitimate supernatural force is up in the air.
- The Spirit of Yarikawas Vengeance. Supposedly one of the lingering phantoms during the Yarikawa Rebellion still wanders the area, heeding requests for vengeance left behind by the townsfolk. While in pursuit of the supposed spirit, Jin always arrives to find its handiwork. While it is established that the spirit is indeed human, when Jin confronts them after learning that someone has put a hit on him, they look like a traditional Japanese ghost woman. You'd be forgiven if you thought you were dueling an actual ghost and not a flesh-and-blood human.
- "Hidden in Snow", one of the side quests of Act 3. After observing how jumpy and nervous the men of Sago Mill are acting, Jin investigates the village and realizes that something sinister has taken place through numerous clues: namely, women's clothing all torn up, dead bodies hidden in a store house, and coffins with blood stains. He then discovers what ultimately happened to the women of the town: they were given away to the Mongols by most of the men in exchange for being left alone, and the men who tried to stand up for them were killed. It's truly a horrific fate that the women were forced to endure, and it's enough to anger Jin to the point of killing the dye master, who had been the mastermind of the sinister scheme.
- Imagine you're one of the Mongols, stationed at some random camp. All the Samurai were wiped out at Komoda Beach and everyone who might still oppose you is either scattered or being captured, enslaved, and/or tortured to death. Then you start hearing stories that one of the Samurai has returned from the dead as a vengeful spirit to drive the Mongols off of Tsushima. You and your buddies laugh it off... Until you find out this "spirit" is slipping into Mongol camps in the dead of night, slaughtering everyone inside to the last man. And this "Ghost", as he comes to be called, gets better and better at doing it, getting into the most heavily defended camps and forts without anyone ever knowing he was there, and even ambushing patrols in broad daylight, with frightened survivors of his attacks becoming more and more frequent. There's no way one man is doing all
*that*, you tell yourself. Surely he'll never come to your camp, you tell yourself. Then one night, your buddies begin turning up dead all over the camp. Or they start attacking each other in a blind rage. Or they literally puke their guts out right in front of you. And then you see him. A figure that looks like a snarling demon clad in black, cutting down the last of your friends who didn't run and were brave enough to try and fight. And then he sees you. He is the Ghost, and you can either Run or Die.
- Oh, and by the way, if you do run? Historically speaking, your chances at being shown mercy by your commanders, if you ever show your face to them again, are next to zero. The historical punishment for any Mongol who fled from battle was death.
- And even if you get away with your life, let it sink in that you, a proud warrior of the most powerful empire in the world, just ran away from the field of battle.
*Nobody* is going to let you or your fellows live it down. *Legends*
- The otherworldly realm where the Ghosts battle supernatural forces in. Eldritch Location doesn't even
*begin* to describe it.
- Iyo, the Big Bad. For most of the game, you only hear her disembodied voice recalling how she was killed by the ancient leaders of Tsushima, and this hatred and anger is what fuel her desire for revenge. When you move onto her raid "The Tale of Iyo", you actually get a good look at her for the first time. First, she appears as a pale, humanoid ghost with black eyes. But her giant form is truly terrifying, resembling a giant spider with hollow black eyes, all while located in an equally Eldritch Location that you must fight your way through.
- Her backstory is equally scary. Once a powerful priestess, Iyo had been buried alive by the ancient rulers of Tsushima while
*pregnant*, in the hopes of abating monsoons that were threatening the island. Her anguish and hatred have turned her into a monster who seeks to destroy all of Tsushima, regardless of the innocent who had nothing to do with her sacrifice. *Iki Island*
- Ankhsar Khatun, full-stop. Everything about her, from her use of psychological terror as a weapon to the poison she force-feeds to her victims, makes her an even more terrifying villain than Khotun Khan. Compared to Khotun's use of brute force in trying to subjugate the people of Tsushima, the Eagle uses Jin's own traumatic past on Iki against him. And since he was forced to drink her poison, Jin is now forced to hear her voice in his mind whenever he suffers a hallucination.
- After Jin is forced to drink the brew, he wakes up to see that Yuna has come to rescue him. For a moment, it seems like a Hope Spot, but at the same time, something feels
*off* about Yuna. Sure enough, it turns out that it wasn't Yuna that Jin was talking to, but the Eagle herself, which he realizes after having a vision of his father at the bottom of a pit of dead bodies.
- Jin's first hallucination, where he's running through a dark gorge, tormented by the voice of his father's disapproval of his softer personality and taunted by the Eagle, who constantly reminds him of his failure to save his father. All the while, he can see the shadows of his father on the walls of the gorge, and at one point, he sees hanged corpses of raiders hanging above him as he tries to run. It's truly a Mind Screw that shows just how dangerous the Eagle is.
- Many of Jin's hallucinations are straight up uncanny, and can be triggered by even the most innocuous items scattered about, from straw hats to flowers on graves. Not helped by the fact that his hallucinations are often tinged an unsettling purplish colour. This colour is reminiscent of the wisteria petals that feature heavily in Jin's flashbacks of his father's death, which is the greatest regret that he's forced to confront.
- The war horns that the shamans sound in the expansion. Unlike the war horns of the main story, these ones almost sound like someone
*screaming*, which can really send a chill down one's spine.
- The Tale of Black Hand Riku is
*rife* with this. First, we learn that Riku's favoured method of killing was to butcher his victims and save pieces of them to feed to his pet monkey. Upon witnessing Riku murder a boatload of children by throwing them overboard and skinning their samurai protector alive, feeding the peelings to his monkey as well, his crew finally had enough, and mutinied against Riku, poisoning, blinding and impaling him. Even so, Riku refused to die, and he set the ship ablaze to kill most of his crew before escaping to hide his armour somewhere on the island. Now, it's rumoured that his spirit still haunts the shores of Iki. At his last known location, Jin find the seas around the cove glowing note : due to bioluminescence, but Jin is unaware of the reason which lends to the growing creepy atmosphere as he follows the waters into the darkness of the nearby caves, watched by chittering monkeys all the way. Exploring the pitch-black interior by lighting torches against the oppressive darkness, He finds the dead bodies of raiders strung up from the ceiling, alongside the bones and skeletons of previous victims, making it clear that *something* is in the caves with him. Soon, ||Jin is confronted in a pool of the same glowing water by Riku himself, still very much alive and deadly with a sword, despite the loss of his sight. The ensuing duel between him and Jin feels especially otherworldly, as if you're fighting an actual vengeful spirit and not a flesh-and-blood being thanks to the creepy atmosphere built up over Jin's exploration, but the reality that Jin is trapped in the darkness with a Serial Killer who is an excellent swordsman unimpeded by blindness is hardly any better||. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GhostOfTsushima |
Ghostbusters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Despite being comedy at its heart, there are still plenty of genuinely frightening moments in the Ghostbusters franchise that can make it a legitimate horror franchise as it is about, well, busting ghosts. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ghostbusters |
Great Mazinger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Hardias, General of the Evil Spirits Host (one of the seven squads of the Mykene Army) is a giant skeleton, wearing tattered rags, with his skull turn upside down, holding scythe with his right hand as his left hand has been replaced by a bearded head. It is downright creepy.
- The scenes where Psycho Veia was putting a curse on Tetsuya to kill him slowly. Tetsuya was twisting in pain, clutching his chest as the Evil Spirit Warbeast was completely safe as she killed him slowly, stabbing a giant Great Mazinger doll into a cave barely lit up by candles emitted a ghastly greenish light as a creepy music echoed in the background.
- Marquis Yanus has two faces: a human-looking one she uses to blend among humans and her true face, located on the "back" of her head. When she wants to switch to her true face, her neck turns one-hundred-degrees and her locks part sideways, revealing a demoniac face underneath it (She seems a demon or a Hanya). It is so nightmarish like it sounds. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreatMazinger |
Batman (Grant Morrison) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Grant Morrison may have a reputation for giving superheroes happy endings regardless of how much sense it makes, but with Batman they went in a very different direction.
*"You can never prepare for the unexpected, the well-timed punchline. The Wild Card."*
## Batman & Son
- The very first issue opens up with the Joker boasting about having killed the Batman (actually an impersonator) in front of some children, while Gordon has succumbed to some Joker venom.
- Damian establishes that he's not screwing around when he shows Tim his new trophy◊.
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*The Clown at Midnight* tells the story of how the Joker survived getting shot in the face, but the trauma caused him to go from Monster Clown into something even more psychotic. The artwork is also pretty freaky.
- Bat-Bane. A Batman impersonator that was force-fed venom and Hugo Strange's monster serum in an attempt to trigger Batman's greatest fear. Street walkers are offered up to him, which they all rightfully consider a death sentence.
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*Batman 666*. Damien has become the new Batman and has to deal with an even more hellish Gotham City, where his arch-nemesis is a Batman impersonator who claims to be the Anti-Christ.
- We get our first look at Professor Pyg. He's crucified upside down with a nail in his mouth.
## The Black Glove
## Batman R.I.P.
- The Joker's skeletal new look; a smile so forced it's tearing his face, coupled with unfeeling David-Bowie eyes. When he's recruited for the Black Glove, he's fantasizing about killing Batman's allies and leaving them with smiles as ghastly as his own. He even goes far enough to SLICE HIS OWN TONGUE IN HALF WITH A STRAIGHT RAZOR. Which he does, of course, with that giant grin on his face.
- The Final Crisis tie-in opens up with a montage of all the Batman-related events leading up to the present, then the first part ends with the revelation that Batman has been captured and is having his memories scanned. Part two has "Alfred" hypnotise Bruce into a scenario where his parents never died and he lived a fairly uneventful life. Then a young trapeze artist tries to avenge his parents' murder and is kidnapped by a grinning madman. Bruce later stumbles into the cave beneath Wayne Manor and finds a skeleton wearing circus clothes.
## Batman & Robin
- Professor Pyg. A surgeon that's completely bonkers and likes grafting plastic faces onto his victims. He also has a scaffolding covered in nails and barbed wire that he occasionally hangs upside down from.
- Flamingo EATING FACES WHILE HIS VICTIMS ARE ALIVE.
- The first attempt to resurrect Batman (which later turns out to be a defective clone). He goes on a rampage trying to kill everyone while babbling incoherently. We get a glimpse of his memories, which are a jumble of the real Batman's adventures.
## The Return of Bruce Wayne
- The Hyper-Adapter. A tentacled monstrosity that follows Bruce through time. Worse? There's the implication it might have been a form or extension of
*BARBATOS*.
## Batman Inc.
- Bruce tells Damian a vision he had of a dystopic future where the Boy Wonder has become the third-generation Batman. Bat-Damian has to deal with the citizens going violently insane from some unknown plague. He forms a quarantine in Arkham Asylum, but it's revealed that the baby he just rescued was a carrier, causing everyone there to go insane as well.
- There's also the fact that Simon Hurt is back again and serving the president of the United States. When Gotham is targeted for a nuclear strike, Hurt can be seen grinning wickedly from the sidelines, the ultimate victor.
- The Heretic's face: the head of a baby in the body of an adult. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrantMorrisonsBatman |
Grey Goo (2015) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- From the trailer, we have a single drop of Grey Goo being touched by an unwitting Beta commando whom the Goo then proceeds to gobble up in less than three seconds flat, complete with an expression of horror on the Beta as he's being disassembled at the molecular level, forming yet more Goo, that then proceeds to eat the bullets the other Beta shoot at it.
- The Beta believe all life in the universe have a story to tell, a song. This includes the Goo, and it's not technically life or organic. Yet, it still has a "song." The only thing that doesn't? The Silence.
- ||The Silence. It. Scares. The. Goo.||
- Maybe the rest of the examples on this page aren't clear enough: The Shroud/Silence is effectively a parasite on a galaxy-wide scale, relentlessly draining it. It has no other intrest or intent, no care for anything than propogation and consumption. It is also the only thing capable of switching between energy and mass at a whim. They have mastered gravity. They appear to be made out of dark matter. They eat galaxies. Galactus and others may be bad, but usually it's only just one of them instead of an entire race hellbent on a Type 6 . And it's not likely they'll stop there, either. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreyGoo2015 |
Gravity Rush 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
One quest takes place at the college (and features ||Newt and Echo||). It involves Kat investigating a group of girls trying to communicate with a demon. While nothing comes of it and everything is resolved, at the end of the quest, some sort of presence sneaks up behind Kat. She turns around to find...nothing. This is never brought up again. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GravityRush2 |
GreedFall / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The malichor itself. Rots your skin, turns your eyes white and all sufferers are in constant pain. The reason you venture out in the first place is to find a cure, because there is no known remedy for it.
- All the creatures you meet on the island tend to be monstrous hybrids that take the worst parts of their constituents. The Vaileg are bears that
*hunt in packs.* The Dosentats are giant bats with human bodies. The Dantrif are *land-sharks*. These are terrible things to find in the forests.
- The Nadaig. Take your pick. Whether it's the cephalopodic Glendemen, the uncomfortably jiggly Vedemen, the deer-skulled Frasamen, all of them are equally horrid.
- The Ghost Camp. Just being tortured as a part of the daily regiment, and speaking out against it will force all your peers to beat you to death. If you refuse, then you're the next in line for the beating.
- Cera's torture at the hands of the Bridge Alliance. The way the commander is visibly shaking with rage at the fact that her victim refuses to speak. She gives her a speech about how escape is futile and stomps on her neck for good measure. What really highlights the monstrousness of this behaviour is that they cordially speak to you when you come across their camp, as though they hadn't just been mercilessly beating another human just moments prior. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreedFall |
Green Lantern: The Animated Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Just be happy she isn't made of flesh and blood!
- Red Lanterns are In-Verse Nightmare Fuel considering their rather blatant body count and reputation as bloodthirsty maniacs and monsters. They're first shown outright killing Green Lanterns, torturing enemies, and have destroyed countless planets, killing billions, in the name of vengeance against the Guardians for killing off their entire quadrant of space with the Manhunters. They're actually shown blowing up a planet and a Green Lantern dies trying to hold off the explosion until his loved ones can get to safety. Not everyone survived the explosion, setting the Darker and Edgier tone of the series. Worse is their plan was to get to Oa and kill the Guardians and eventually slaughter all 3600 sectors of space under their watch. The number of loss lives would be incalculable.
- Atrocitus himself is pretty much a nightmare strictly because of how he's a deconstruction of the Roaring Rampage of Revenge. He's been driven so insane for revenge after the Guardians' Manhunters destroyed his world he goes about doing the same to many other worlds with a fleet of Planet Destroyer Warheads just to get revenge on the Guardians. He even instigates wars on various worlds like he did with Razer's to create new possible recruits for his Corps and if that doesn't work he'll personally kill the loved ones of those he views as promising recruits.
- In "Reckoning" Atrocitus rips Aya's limbs off and dangles her from her neck in front of the interceptor crew. He then gets ready to chuck her body into the Red Lantern Battery to kill her off. The fact she has realistic veins and arteries dangling out from her torn limbs only makes it worse.
- The Spider Guild's Prison is a particularly nasty Hellhole Prison considering the prisoners of the Spider Guild's prison are forced to relive their worst memories before being eaten by them.
- "Prisoner of Sinestro" plays out as
*The Thing from Another World* in space, and the entire crew is creepy while possessed. Special points go to Razer's borderline sexually harassing Aya, and Hal's Slasher Smile.
- Sinestro's plan for driving the creature out of its host body. He sets the
*Interceptor* to decompress, depriving the ship of oxygen. The crew members who aren't possessed will be able to protect themselves with their rings' force shields. ||Razer ends up being the one possessed, and he *nearly suffocates*. We're treated to several seconds of him gasping for breath and even passing out for a few seconds.||
- To add a third point to that episode, Sinestro's Breaking Speech to the dying mindjumper, ||revealing that he broke the seal when he broke out and leaving it to die, his truly creepy exploitation of Loophole Abuse (he didn't kill him, he just didn't save him), and his utterly calm lie to the crew that he must have suffocated, and how convenient it is that he died.|| He may remain a good guy throughout the entire episode, but it's made very clear that when he becomes a villain, he will be
*terrifying*.
- The Anti-Monitor is pretty terrifying in-verse considering its reputation as a virtually unstoppable being infamous for converting entire galaxies into antimatter to be consumed for its insatiable hunger. Think Galactus as an Omnicidal Maniac up to eleven. The moment it gained sentience it devoured nearly the entire antimatter universe, killing trillions upon trillions of lives, devouring millions of galaxies and planets, eating all of its stars, and leaving only one planet left to exist in the universe that was slowly dying out. If left unstopped, it would have devoured the universe of the main cast as well.
- ||Aya survived her brush with death by downloading into a disabled Manhunter. While it
*is* good to see her alive, the mangled Manhunter/Aya form she comes back in is quite disturbing. She then shuts down her emotions and absorbs the entire power supply of the *Interceptor* before using it to kill the Anti-Monitor... then hooks up to his systems and become what appears to be the new *Big Bad*.||
- It was hard to watch Kilowog, Hal, and Razer ||nearly kill each other from the effect of the Orange Lanterns.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries |
Gremlins / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Nightmare Fuel for the
*Gremlins* franchise.
- The Game Boy Advance adaptation of the first film, "Gremlins: Stripe VS Gizmo", allows players to play as either Stripe or Gizmo. The game softens the horror aspect of the film by having the Gremlins primary goal to be just stealing Christmas presents; however in Stripe's side of the game you go around throwing cupcakes to convert Mogwai into Gremlins, and after the final boss battle with Gizmo
*you do the same to him*. **Gizmo is force-fed and turned into a Gremlin**. Even the games ending crawl *congratulates* the player for turning sweet lovable Gizmo into a nasty Gremlin. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gremlins |
Gretel and Hansel (2020) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**All spoilers will be unmarked, per wiki policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The Witch that cures the baby that would grow up to be the child in the pink cap, is cloaked and masked and drawing out a black smoky substance with spindly fingers.
- Children descending into a hole in the forest floor while the child in the pink cap watches.
- Gretel and Hansel being chased out of a seemingly abandoned house, only to be attacked by an emaciated man.
- The cloaked figures off in the distance. Its made even creepier when its implied that only Gretel can see them.
- Holda appearing out of nowhere when Hansel lets himself into her home.
- The dreams Gretel has, if they were even dreams at all:
- She narrowly misses the images of children in a full length mirror.
- Later she finds her way to a white cellar with bodies covered with a white sheet while voices are whispering Dont look at me.
- Hansel finding a tree with childrens shoes hanging from the branches.
- Gretel watching Holda take buckets of human parts and use her magic to turn them into delicious food.
- Holda pulling masses of hair out of her mouth.
- Gretel watching Holdas memories and learning the truth of the child in the pink cap.
- Holda being burnt alive and finished off by decapitation.
- Gretel starting to come into her own as a witch. With her fingers turning black as Holdas did, its unclear what her fate will be. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GretelAndHansel2020 |
Greg Veder Vs The World / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- On the very first night of being a hero, while finishing his fight against four Merchant goons, ||Greg gets shot and loses the remaining hp. If it weren't for his Healing Factor he got from taking the Power Bar before the fight, he would have died right then and there.||
- On a sidenote, imagine being in Ricardo's shoes (one of the four Merchants) as shown in the interlude. While on a night out with his three pals they come across a guy dressed like Jason Voorhees who just doesn't stay down. Machete goes through his shoulder. Knives go into his body. The guy screams but keeps on going. They hit him again and again, yet he takes punches almost as if they are nothing, even comparing him to a Terminator. ||Then finally, when all of his pals are down, he manages to take out a gun and shoot the guy straight in the chest. For a moment it seems that the guy is dead. Then he gets back up. Few moments later, the bat goes down.|| Mook Horror Show at it's finest.
- Bakuda's attack. ||One of the first places to be attacked is the restaurant where Greg and Emma are having a date.||
- After recovering ||and realizing that his mother is probably dead due to the bombs,|| his grief is almost stripped away from him due to the Gamer's mind. He has to fight it off so it doesn't negate it.
- Greg's Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the ABB. No one is safe. Not even Stormtiger and Purity who confuse him for Oni Lee. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GregVederVsTheWorld |
Grim Fandango / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The concept of being "sprouted", which involves shooting a dead soul with a special bullet that causes flowers to bloom out of their bones and consume them. The event itself is disturbing enough, with the victim usually writhing in pain and terror until weakening and falling silent, but the ambiguity of it is far, far worse. Death within death guarantees pretty much no chance of ever being allowed to move on to the Ninth Underworld (unless said deathception just brings you to another level of the Afterlife), implied to be stuck forever with no mouth with which to scream...
According to some commentaries in the remastered edition, a definitive answer on what happens to victims of sprouting was never thought of, but Tim Schafer says it may result in reincarnation. While not horrible as a Cessation of Existence, it's still a punishment because, instead of being able to move on, you are pulled back and forced to live another existence.
At the start of Year 2, Manny fancies he sees Meche standing on the terrace of the casino, facing away from him, accusing him of abandoning her. Then she turns around, delivering a Jump Scare as she turns out to be a skull-headed raven sitting on the telescope.
Right at the beginning of Year 3, you receive an emergency message warning you that assassins have just boarded your ship. Immediately after this, you travel downstairs, only to find the hallways littered with piles of flowers. What's worse is that you actually spoke to one of your crew members only a matter of seconds beforehand, who couldn't have been more than fifteen.
How Chepito met his end: stranded at sea due to faulty equipment, without food, water or shelter from the sun, being one of the last two survivors, he was killed in his sleep by a fellow sailor.
"What you haven't seen... you haven't seen the Meadow." With the implications of the above examples in mind, just imagine how many bodies it must have taken to fill that entire field...
Near the end of the game, Manny is shot by Hector. It's unnerving enough watching the normally suave and collected Manny stagger about in agony until he collapses on a hillside, but the casual way Hector informs him that he's out of fast-acting bullets because Bowlsley ran off with them, so his misery will last at least an hour, and then walks away chuckling is just downright chilling. Then you get to watch Manny writhing on the ground while you search his inventory to find something you can use to help him. The pained groans that punctuate his usual dialogue are just the icing on the cake.
Granted, he really deserved it, but Hector's death is pretty gruesome. You can try to shoot him through the greenhouse's glass window, but he's too quick. So you simply use the sprouting gun to shoot the tank that provides his greenhouse with water, while he's in said greenhouse... in other words, in a sense, you basically boil him in gaseous acid. And what little we see of his remains isn't pretty.
The monsters under the sea are terrifying, and the giant octopus Domino uses to gather lost souls to work in the coral mines isn't much better.
The Land of the Living. Everything appears to have been made from magazine cutouts, the people all have eerily disproportioned bodies and faces, and the music is nothing but a sad, muffled piano tune that lasts ten seconds before switching to endless record player silence. Fortunately, you only have to see it once, and you don't have to spend much time there. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrimFandango |
Gremlins 2: The New Batch / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Mohawk is no better than Stripe. He's much more wicked and fiendish, and his looks are even more reptilian, threatening and menacing than those of the other gremlins. Gee, even as a Mogwai he looks insanely creepy!!! The way he tortures Gizmo and laughs sinisterly about it is just plain frightening. And there's also his Giant Spider mutant form... Imagine how arachnophobes must have felt at that scene. Made all the more fitting that the song playing during said transformation sequence is Slayer's "Angel of Death."
Funny you mention he's no better then Stripe. According to Word of God, Mohawk IS Stripe. Reincarnated into a new body.
Mohawk:(even harsher than Stripe was in 1)GIZMO CA-CA!
Take the already dangerous and ubiquitous power of electricity and give it (semi-)intelligence and self-control. Oh yeah, and make it evil. Probably one of the most terrifying gremlins, when you think about it.
Watch the scene with the lightning gremlin and the fire hose. Then try to take a shower without scrubbing your back furiously.
There's also the winged one that has immunity to sunlight, making it a Bat Out of Hell and it could probably respawn other gremlins with solar immunity, ||thankfully it was turned to stone.||
The Game Over screen for the Amiga version of the game based on the second movie, set at night with a somber version of Gizmo's Theme playing over it. There is also something unnerving about the giant gremlin statue in place of the Statue of Liberty holding a giant stick of dynamite that looks like it could explode at any moment, though it never does. Not to mention, with it being set at night, there's the implication that the gremlins are wreaking havoc in the streets or have already killed all the people. See it here. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gremlins2TheNewBatch |
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"
*Who are they? Where did they come from? Did they marry him too...?*" *Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics* was, unsurprisingly, based on the folktales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The episodes were more faithful to their printed sources than Disney films were, censoring none of the cruelty and very little of the violence and sex, which was strange for a program on Nick Jr.! Appropriately for the title, subtle instances of Grimmification were also common. As such, these episodes were sometimes even scarier than the Disney films:
- The titular character in "Mother Holle" magically dumps a dark, sticky substance and a live snake onto the lazy stepsister, who is ridiculed by the family cockerel upon returning home.
- The protagonist of "The Six Swans", Elise, is sentenced to be burnt at the stake for allegedly eating her infant son, the prince. She cannot reveal her origins and reasons, nor defend herself at all, since if she breaks her vows of silence and secrecy her brothers will be stuck forever as swans. The brothers rescue her and bring her still alive son back, but not before she nearly meets her fiery death. And then the evil witch who framed her accidentally catches fire from the pyre while trying to escape, and runs around screaming with her whole body ablaze before she finally collapses and dies.
- A really creepy demon bargains with the protagonist of "Bearskin."
- "The Marriage of Mr. Fox" was already inappropriate for children, being centered around Mr. Fox's suspicions of his wife's infidelity. Not only was this theme retained entirely in the cartoon adaptation, but Mr. Fox was accompanied by an equally vulpine imp that only he could see and referred to as a "demon" throughout the episode. At the episode's end, when Mr. Fox questions the fox-thing's identity, it replies, "I'm the
*real* you!" If anything, the cartoon is less family-friendly than the original version.
- The witch in "Hansel and Gretel" is evil enough to evoke video-game boss battles, gradually becoming less and less human until she transforms into a skeletal, bipedal, sword-wielding goat-woman with bat wings. That won't be easily seen in any other version of the story, along with the magic bird that leads the children to the witch's house in the first place.
- The confrontation with the fiendish creature at the end of "Puss in Boots" is rather unsettling, involving a lit fireplace and monstrous shape-shifting in a manner evoking small glimpses of Hell.
- Villains' tendency to be casually cruel to the protagonists and supporting characters is widespread throughout the series, particularly in "The Bremen Town Musicians," with its scenes of inhumane treatment of animals.
- "Spirit in the Bottle" opens with a little demon alone in the dark, trapped in a bottle, shouting for help. Then there's a segue into the protagonist and his father entering a forest to chop wood, which seems innocuous until the young boy wanders off, releases the trapped demon, tricks his way out of being eaten, and gets a magic cloth as a reward for freeing the spirit. The cloth turns metal into silver. From there, the story takes a drastic turn from the original, becoming An Aesop about realistic expectations and handling money carefully. The boy's father's dying wish is for him to throw away the magic cloth, which he refuses to do but does by accident. When he runs to the tree where he found the spirit to beg another cloth from him, he falls into a hole. Then there's a scene of another young boy and his father entering the woods...and the episode ends with the
**protagonist** trapped in the bottle, screaming for help. In the English dub, the music is quite suspenseful, but the original Japanese version's music is very light and happier that it doesnt seem to be fitting, making the scene come off as more terrifying.
- One of the scarier episodes was a cartoon to go with the poem The Duel. It was just unbelievably creepy, the narrator softly reciting how the cat and dog killed each other while the clock ticked in the background.
- Another terrifying tale has got to be "Bluebeard". When The Bluebeard leaves his mansion and Josephine, his
*extremely* naïve new bride, is given the keys to all of the doors, she ends up going to the forbidden door and finds... all of Bluebeard's previous wives that he murdered, their bodies pretty much mounted on the wall. One of the wives is rotting, with Jump Scare close-ups of their degrading boney arm, hand, and face. Not only that, but all the white roses change red, the petals fall, and all the fallen petals change into a flood of blood, ala *The Shining*. And of course when Bluebeard finds out, he coldly states that he has to kill her and chases her throughout the mansion, even when it catches on fire.
- The adaptation of The Worn Out Dancing Shoes has the very creepy scene where it is revealed that everyone within the strange world the princesses secretly go to and dance in are actually monsters and demons in disguise.
- Plus when the princesses are put under a hypnotic spell, the way they look makes them outright creepy and evil.
- "The Crystal Ball" start in a very horror-style, with the ugly witch performing an unholy ritual where she grabs a young princess trapped in her castle through the glass, bites into her neck, drains her of her life force and leaves her a rotting corpse. The princess does recover almost immediately afterwards, but this happens
*every single night*...
- The adaptation of "Godfather Death" starts out plainly enough with Death being portrayed as looking like an affable man wearing a dark cloak, but when the protagonist ends up upsetting him, he transforms into a nasty goblin-like creature who drags the protagonist into a Hell-like world and threatens to kill him should he ever defy him again. And then it ends up with Godfather Death killing the protagonist by putting out his life candle. This was even banned from America. Even worse was that this was the last episode.
- "The Coat of Many Colors" opens with the terrified Princess Aleia being chased by her insane father through his dark castle, the king wide-eyed and laughing as he insists that his daughter must marry him. Aleia finally escapes by making her father fall against a table in the dining hall, but in falling he accidentally drops the torch he was carrying and a massive fire starts. The king is last seen madly exclaiming "My beautiful bride! You will always be mine!" as his castle is consumed by flames, while Aleia flees sobbing into a thunderstorm, leaving her father to his Uncertain Doom. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics |
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- As early as the second episode, Greene sets himself up as a credible threat by transforming Sams grandfather into a green pearl,
*pulling his jaw wide open, and swallowing the old man whole*.
- Later in the episode, he makes it clear to Elle that now that shes seen what he can do, he is never going to let her leave his employ. Keep in mind that Elle isnt much older than 10 year old Sam.
- Meng Po may seem like a sweet old innkeeper, but years of isolation have driven her to extreme measures to keep her customers around
namely brewing a tea that steals memories and contains them in a swirling cloud above her inn. And she is willing to have her customers tied up so she can force feed it to them too.
- The Jiangshi. To be clear, the first thing they do is hop onscreen and
*impale an unwary bandit with their claw, causing the bandit to turn into one of their number*.
- Claw viciously kills the ship's captain and casually takes his hat from his corpse.
- Mr. Greene does NOT care in the least that the Gremlins murdered all of his men and just casually hires them as a replacement. First killing a lot of them with a light spell before killing another group in the middle of his conversation with their leader.
- The Goddess Nuwa would have easily taken care of the Gremlin problem if she wasn't horribly poisoned by the Gremlins and Mr. Greene. She looks like she is in terrible pain and her veines turn black. Greene outright tells her bluntly that she will die if she does not surrender and receives the antidote.
- Episode 8 is full of this. Mr. Greene devours a living Mogwai to obtain immortality and we get to see the horrified reactions of his victim as well as the children and Gizmo. Then the Gremlins cut off his right hand and in pure Body Horror Claw uses the Clay Knife of Creation to horribly shrivel his left hand away into nothing. Mr. Greene is so horrified that he faints from shock. Then Claw uses the same knife to turn all the other Mogwai but Gizmo into Gremlins and it is made very clear that she just spared him to completely break him.
- Episode 9 has its moments. As if Claw developing an obsessive possession over Gizmo wasn't bad enough, she uses the Clay Knife to make herself grow to the size of a two story building.
- Episode 10 has pretty gruesome endings for the villains. Greene kills Claw by opening a portal to Tahiti...in the middle of broad daylight. And Greene dies when the kids trick him into turning himself into a cockroach with the Clay Knife...which promptly falls on him and cuts him in half.
- At the end of the episode, it's revealed that Noggin is still alive and still a Gremlin thanks to the ring he wears that makes him immune to magic. And what's the first thing he does when he escapes onto a boat? Eat some chickens alive. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GremlinsSecretsOfTheMogwai |
Green Lantern: First Flight / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
No one said being a Green Lantern would be easyCompared to traditional
*Justice League* fare, the film is a notably darker take on the Green Lantern Mythos, featuring massive amounts of on-screen death.
- The manner of deaths and injuries presented in the film are pretty disturbing including neck snapping, perforation and incineration from laser beams, incineration in a wormhole, massive numbers of people falling to their death, multiple impalement, mangled hands, asphyxiation, being sliced in half, and explosive decompression.
- Hal having to place his ring into the Green Lantern Main Battery is described and shown as especially painful. Sinestro quips that the last recruit who did so literally fried his antennae off.
- Kanjar Ro's henchman getting sucked into space by a hole smaller than his waist, screaming all the way.
-
**Sinestro**. He's presented as being Alonzo Harris from *Training Day* with a Green Lantern Ring and is depicted as a consummate and disturbingly callous sociopath who will gladly charm his way into the Guardian's graces as their most decorated Lantern while undermining them and gleefully killing any fellow Green Lantern in his path. Especially ones that he's come to know for years. Even worse, is that unlike the main verse, Green Lantern Rings do not have the "no kill" restriction which Sinestro milks for all its worth. He gets even worse when he gets the Yellow Lantern Ring and brutally murders his former Lantern allies with casual ease.
- He's also one of the biggest Hero Killer perpetrators in DC Films as he managed to kill thousands of Green Lanterns by destroying their power source and leaving them to die in space, during a fight, or just falling to their deaths. The sky literally rains the rings of dead Lanterns when Sinestro is finished.
- Sinestro's torture of a criminal's girlfriend is disturbing since he's basically forcing her to overdose on a G-Rated Drug called a "moonball" to get her to confess the criminal's whereabouts. A real-life comparison would be intentionally injecting someone with heroin until they overdose, and it's presented as especially painful here.
- Sinestro using his Lantern Ring to connect synapses in his collaborator's brain to resurrect him and find the location of the Yellow Element. The person in question can still feel being dead, is frozen from the inside due to being in cold storage, and has to casually hear how Sinestro betrayed and killed him before using his corpse to get more information.
- Boudikka's Faux Affably Evil shift is incredibly shocking since she goes from an affable—if too sympathetic—ally to Hal to trying to kill Kilowog under Sinestro's order and suffocate Hal to death with a Slasher Smile on her face.
- The high-pitched scream the Yellow Weapon makes when being fired is shocking whenever it goes off.
- The Weaponers of Qward, though neutral, are pretty creepy Spider Humanoids with uncomfortable raspy voices. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreenLanternFirstFlight |
Gretel and Hansel / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Here is Mommy!
- Gretel's Slasher Smile if you kill Hansel.
- In the first game, there is a puzzle involving putting the needles of a clock in the right spot. Doing it gives you a key to the parent's bedroom. However, this whole puzzle is a big Red Herring because attempting to unlock the bedroom's door will trigger the game's most horrifying death. First, Gretel's mother breaks through the door with an axe while laughing, then she continuously hit Gretel with the axe while blood splatters everywere. Made even more creepy by the fact that the mother seems to be
*enjoying* killing Gretel.
- The face stealers, especially since the situation seems to be very much an And I Must Scream situation, it's satisfying to save Rufus, when you save Emma, she dies, because that's how it was originally supposed to be.
- The tree creature's dinner party in the second game. The twisted music, the dead girl still stuck in her chair, guests sprouting branches from their faces and the tree creature serving human flesh. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GretelAndHansel |
Grojband / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
DO NOT make her mad. You
*really* don't want to.
- In "Myme Disease", the town of Peaceville end up killing a man who was thought to be a statue.
- The very fact that Peaceville has a maximum security prison....for preschoolers.
- In "Kon-Fusion", Trina is disappointed that Grojband fusing with the Newmans didn't kill them.
- In "The Bandidate", Grojband protests against the corrupt mayor Trina, and the town stands up to their 'super-cute' leader. At one point, a lady holds up a rope implying they wanted
*to hang her*...fourtunately, she gets pelted with garbage.
- "Hologroj" : Thanks to confusion from the holograms and Mina's philosophy book, Trina slowly loses her sanity and thinks nothing is real. She turns to the fact that at least Nick Mallory can't be fake, but is once again tricked into thinking even he, too, does not exist. The last we see of her in this episode is her 'diary' sequence, and after this, we never find out what happened to Trina - or at least her grasp of reality.
- Not even Grojband's presumed deaths net them much fame - the episode ends with Peaceville believing they're
*actually dead* and that the real Grojband is just a cover band.
- In "Dueling Buttons", Corey loses his cool after seeing Trina become famous just because of a video game. If he didn't compose himself,
*Corey* would have ended up somewhere in "Angry Diary Mode" territory.
- Another instance is Corey's monologue in "Girl Fest".
- One episode ends with the entire city destroyed by a flood. We can only assume thousands of people died even worse,
*Trina* (of all people) seen drifting in the water, discovers the evil brainwashing device that caused the flood in the first place.
- The Time Travel Episode, has Trina smash the time machine controls, while the gang was mid-teleporting. With complete intent to "Get rid of my dorky brother and his stupid friends once and for all", though while all it did was send them a year into the future, it could have easily sent them to the void for all eternity sure, Trina is evil. But this is really low- even for her.
- Trina was so obsessed with Nick Mallory that she was ||willing to
*let Grojband, Mina and everyone else on Earth die* by the meteor just so that they could be together.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Grojband |
Grim Dawn / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Unmarked spoilers below!**
- Just about everything centered around the Cult of Ch'thon and the Void, From their rituals which involve bleeding people dry for their blood and from what you can see around their camps it tends to involve stringing people up and cutting them in various spots and disemboweling them, or just plain cutting a man in half. Then you have the creatures that these rituals bring forth, one such creature was summoned and proceeded to devour an entire village worth of people.
- The quest "The Origin of the Slith". The notes left behind by the scientist Oswald Hargate detail how he took his wife, Helen, and daughter, Ellena, to live on the island so he could further his Aether research. Hargate began experimenting with mutating swamp adders and eventually fusing them with local Grobles, but the hybrids created were malformed. While Helen and Ellena were away, Hargate paid mercenaries to capture travelers and bring them to the island, and then attempted to fuse them with the snakes. Helen returned and witnessed Hargate's horrifying experimentation, and she objected, leading Hargate to kill her. The hybridized travelers eventually died due to having an incomplete digestive system, so Hargate notes that he ought to try the experiment on a younger subject. That is where the notes end. The kicker? The level boss, fought in a cell in Hargate's basement, is Ellena, the First Slith - Hargate's hybridized daughter.
- The notes left by a mother who is trapped in the snowy mountains with dwindling food supplies. As the hunger drove them mad, they lost all sense of humanity and began killing and eating other survivors in their camp. Eventually, the surviving mother and her daughter don't even bother to cook the flesh anymore. As they become more bestial and feral, they start hunting other humans in the wild when all the people in the camp were eaten. The little girl is
*only nine years old*. By the time the player stumbles upon the mother and her daughter, they've become mindless, ravenous Wendigos.
- The Aetherial occupied Malmouth takes the horrors of Port Valbury and cranks the dial up to eleven. The Aetherial Vanguard takes the Body Horror of Aether Corruption to new heights with their
*basic* soldiers being hulking monstrosities with whip like tentacle growths, the exploding Scamps who are heavily implied to be *the corpses of children*, and groaning, bloating horrors that disgorge flesh worms when killed. And that's just the Aetherial front; the *human* element does an excellent job showing just how despairing and hopeless the situation is for Malmouth's survivors. Almost immediately upon entering the city, you come across a worn, haggard resistance on their last legs, a deranged Crazy Survivalist whose kidnapped two kids and may attack you no matter how calming and reasonable you try to be, and a devastated woman who is forced to leave her husband behind because he's too heavily wounded to be sent through your Rift.
- The last level of the expansion "Ashes of Malmouth" is this combined with the Nausea Fuel. It's like
*Crate Entertainment* asked Hiromu Arakawa to decorate the place and she used Envy's skin for wallpaper. The sound of moaning in the background only make it more unsettling. And of course, it's conceptually horrifying as well, since it's essentially an enormous underground fortress made entirely of *living* human bodies melded together into construction material and "machinery" of sorts that the Shaper of Flesh felt was needed to keep his operations running. Including the giant womb (made with living women) for providing more bodies. Both Theodin Marcell and the Aetherial spirit possessing him were uniquely *sick*.
- After you kill monsters, their 3D models will slowly disappear. Sometimes, they'll be twitching while dissolving in nothingness, making the whole thing disturbing to watch.
- You can sometime find loot inside hidden walls. And some other times, it's not a chest you find, but a corpse, meaning that some people walled themselves willingly to escape the Grim Dawn. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrimDawn |
Grey's Anatomy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
Some of the injuries sufferedparticularly those of the periodic disaster episodesare truly horrifying. Then, there is the Season Six and Eight Finales, where all hell breaks loose.
- Burn patients in general. Burns are always horrifically painful, and even if they survive they will bear massive scarring that requires multiple surgeries to fix.
- Any entry involving Lexie is extra nightmarish when you remember she has a photographic memory and
*will never forget what she just saw*.
- The entire bomb arc in "Its The End Of The Word/...As We Know It". A patient with a bomb in his chest shuts down the entire OR wing as the bomb squad tries to figure out what to do. And then when they
*do* get the bomb out, it blows up anyway, vaporizing the officers and injuring Meredith. Oh, and Bailey's husband is being operated on right next door because he was in a car accident and Derek refuses to evacuate.
- In "Let the Truth Sting", Alex sticks a needle behind a kid's eye to drain some spinal fluid that was leaking into his brain, shot in all its horrific squicky glory..
- In "Crash Into Me", the scene leading up to Nick Hanscomb's blown artery, while Lexie is in the room. You know it's coming from minute one, but the tension is no less unbearable.
- Meredith and Derek run a clinical trial to treat brain tumors in the last four episodes of the season. The treatment involves injecting live virus into the tumor to shrink it. Unfortunately, this tends to kill the patient...not that that stops people from volunteering. Brain tumors are
*just that horrific* a way to die.
- In "Freedom" a boyfriend-girlfriend pair of trial patients reassure each other that at least their deaths will be quick and painless. The girl mentions that one of the woman in their support group died in screaming agony...and later notes that they are the last of their support group,
*the others are all dead*.
- The trial is ultimately a success...despite the
*92% death rate*
- In "Freedom" a young man gets stuck in cement. Its bad enough it took
*three hours* to extract him, but once he gets to the hospital the doctors are genuinely worried about his survival, and spend several minutes running down every possible way this could kill him and trying to figure out how to save him.
- In "These Ties That Bind", a man get stuck in a garbage truck and crushed. The result is a legitimate
*human pretzel* with his femur impaling his chest. Dr. Hunt, no stranger to the myriad of ways a human can be mangled, admits he has never seen anything like it.
- Fortunately the patient is unconscious...until they put his leg from his chest, at which point he comes to and starts
*screaming* . Oh, and its Sadie's first day!
- The idea of George getting dragged under a bus down the road. That, and the fear Callie was put in:
*she* is the only one who knows what to look for but is horrified at having to.
- Merediths horrified reaction upon discovering that John Doe is George is this mixed with a Tear Jerker. Imagine being a doctor, and realizing that the guy youre treating, who is barely recognizable due to a horrible accident, was actually your coworker the entire time.
**Meredith:** ( *as John Doe traces in her hand*) O
O
seven? Double-O
Seven
( *John Doe holds her hand, and she gasps*) OH, GOD! Oh, God!
- It's relatively subdued, but the wordless Dying Dream that Izzie and George share at the end of
*Now or Never.* They're both dying at the same time, and meet up on their way out. Izzie enters the elevator wearing her prom dress. She looks apprehensive about something, but doesn't seem to know what. Then the elevator doors open, and George is standing there, dressed in a military uniform, with a stoic look on his face. Izzie gives him a confused smile, because she wasn't expecting him. But her smile quickly drops, and George gives her a meaningful look. In what seems to be her final moment, Izzie realizes what's happening, and the dream - and her consciousness - end with her visibly terrified. The impact of this is mitigated when Izzie is revived in the next episode, but it's still one Hell of a way to end a season.
- "State of Love and Trust": Bailey is operating on a patient and she wakes up. The poor woman was scared to death and freaking out any time Bailey went near her, and you could tell it affected her too.
- In "Shinny Happy People", a young woman is apparently schizophrenic and
*tried to claw out her own eyes*. If Alex hadn't gone to bat for her, she would have would in up Psych permanently. As it turns out, she had a tiny hole in her inner ear, and could hear everything in her own body.
- The "Dark Was the Night/ Suddenly" two-parter is one of the most unrelentingly bleak episodes
*ever*, without even the heroism of the hospital shooting.
- Henry is taken to surgery after he starts coughing up blood. Then it turns out his tumor has destroyed his pulmonary artery and he can't be saved.
- Callie's patient suffers massive heart damage from a loose screw that starts
*ripping her heart apart*.
- Sent to another hospital to pick up a baby, the ambulance carrying Alex and Meredith breaks down on a blind curve and is hit. Said crash leaves multiple victims scattered across the road, one of whom dies on the spot.
- In the most horrific case of Promoted to Parent possible, Lily watches grandmother die in the road, her mother die in the ER, then watches her father code multiple times. Just hours after becoming an adult, she signs the papers to remove her father from life support before informing her younger siblings.
*I'm not a child, not anymore. I turned 18 four hours ago. Today is my birthday. And I've watched you torture my dad for the past six. So I'm the head of the family now, and it's my job. If you take him off the machines and he lives, then he lives. But if you don't...then at least we let him go in peace*
- Being Kepner trying to assist in surgery when you have Cristina monotonously reciting the details of a fatal surgery over and over. Morbid? How about when it's at the request of the dead patient's widow, who is leading the surgery? It's chilling, especially with how blasé Teddy is about hearing it.
- "The Girl With No Name''': The Patient of the Week is an eighteen year old girl who was kidnapped twelve years ago. First Meredith notices deep cuff marks on her wrists and ankles. Then Teddy notes that she has seen her sort of injuries before...in Iraq, on torture victims.
- The girl, Holly, is so inured to the horrors she experienced she relates everything in a monotone that makes everything worse.
- Cristina's description of her, Meredith, Derek, Mark and Arizona's time in the woods especially the part about the animals fighting over Lexie's corpse.
*shudder*
- After the plane crash when the doctors are all at Boise and need to be taken to Seattle it's explicitly stated that whilst a ground transfer would be best for Meredith, Cristina, and Derek (and Lexie), because of Mark and Arizona's conditions they need to be airlifted. Imagine being Callie on the receiving end of that news, especially with Sofia.
- Callie's shutdown reaction when Karev bursts into the OR to announce that her seemingly fit wife just crashed and is well on her way to clinical death. And she couldn't move because she was stitching the nerves in Derek's hand. Basically Callie in S09E02 goes through BSODs more than one person should be able to handle without nightmares.
- "Readiness Is All"
- Trying to treat a man impaled on rebar, April sends for maintenance to bring an angle grinder. Owen and Ben notice just in time to stop them using it, noting they're about to use a spark-generating tool in a room full of oxygen. Meredith compares the situation to the bomb episode. Even with an evacuated OR and careful work, it is still a dangerous job that starts a small fire.
- In "Only Mama Knows", the doctors treat an eleven year old girl with a massive tumor. It being a tumor is good news- they initially thought she was
*pregnant*. **Alex:** Okay. Okay. Whew. She's not pregnant. It's not a baby. **Stephanie:** Oh thank God, that was getting dark.
- In "One Flight Down", a plane crashes in downtown Seattle, giving Meredith flashbacks to her own crash at the end of Season 8. She leaves the ER searching for Arizona, and finds her in a supply closet. The two of them wind up sitting there reassuring each other that "We are okay".
- Derek's And I Must Scream moment, when he's fully aware of the doctors' clumsy attempts to save him but unable to correct their mistakes — he all but flat-out says that he could have saved himself if he was somehow his own doctor. Given that he actually
*does* die and it's not one of the show's classic fake-outs or Disney Deaths, it's pretty chilling, particularly when you add in the whole wife and two — that is, three — kids thing.
- "The Sound of Silence"
- The sheer fact that Meredith is able to shrug off the attack as "small stuff" in therapy. Meredith has had appendicitis, narrowly escaped a bomb blast, drowned, watched her husband shot and then offered to die during the shooting, been in an ambulance crash, survived a plane crash, and nearly died in childbirth. Not to mention the fact that her mother, step-mother, sister, and husband have all died.
- Cristina describing the death of her father to Hunt, her trying to hold his chest closed to slow the bleeding and she
**felt** the moment he died when his heart stopped and she was only nine when it happened.
- The woman that fell in razor wire. if that's not bad enough she woke up in the trauma room, by god her screams and the way she fruitlessly to escape only to injure herself more, and her screams by god, I can sometimes hear them.
- The final two episodes of Season 13, True Colors and Ring of Fire. A patient is admitted to the hospital along with his girlfriend. At first, since they have no information on either of them, the doctors and interns assume they're a couple who got into a bad accident. But it's later revealed that the woman was nearly raped by the male patient, and she intentionally crashed the car to save herself. Worst of all, Stephanie Edwards is taking the male patient to another part of the hospital, having been tricked. When news gets out, the guy threatens her and takes her as a hostage. It only gets worse from there. A young girl, Erin, who had wandered around the hospital, winds up on the floor they're in, unknowingly becoming the rapist's hostage. At one point, the guy attempts to set the sprinklers off by starting a fire so he can escape. Stephanie sprays a flammable liquid on him...and sets the guy on fire. The first part ends with the guy screaming in agony, running into the gas tanks in a lab, and basically making the entire floor explode. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreysAnatomy |
The Fruit of Grisaia / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Those aren't vegetables, Amane...This visual novel may mostly be a slice of life comedy, but there are some truly horrifying moments as well.
- Amane's backstory. Holy shit,
|| She and her friends get stranded in the forest after their bus crashes into a ravine. They run out of food and soon resort to eating the dog they had with them after it dies. Two of them then die later on with one of them dying from sepsis and the other commits suicide. Afterwards, Kazuki tells Amane they need to leave, Amane asks why, and Kazuki shows her. The other survivors had become derranged animals, with the two oldest ones, Amane and Kazuki's senpai and their teacher, rutting like beasts while surrounded by the dismembered body parts of the dead students, which they'd partially eaten. To make matters worse, the other survivors had fallen too, and attempt to catch Amane and Kazuki as they flee. As Kazuki notes, they were no longer human and had become "ghouls". And then there is the aftermath: Bar her family, everyone else thought Amane survived by eating the others, completely ignorant to the truth. Amane suffered heavy persecution over this to the point she was given the cruel nickname "Cockroach" and the herd mentality-driven vitriol affected her family as well, all while Amane continued to have nightmares about the incident.|| **AMANE'S BACKSTORY!**
- Also doubles as
*major* Squick, the girl who ||died from sepsis|| had apparently been picking the maggots out of her head and out of desperate hunger! **eating them**
- Michiru's bad ending. ||Michiru is leaving the academy for 2 weeks to stay at a hospital for tests. The entirety of the dialogue preceding the choice boxes is very foreboding and you either pick a "Go ahead and take care" option or a "On second thought, don't go, stay." option. Players picking on the foreboding subtext will be inclined to pick the latter option...which makes the Wham Line Chizuru delivers afterwards all the more impacting: Michiru tried to kill herself and has suffered permanent brain damage as a result. It shows in how she has empty eyes through the rest of the scene, barely speaks a word, everyone is unsettlingly accomodating of the situation and she hallucinates that a plastic bag is her deceased cat Meowmell and the route just ends there without rolling the credits. To make it even more heartbreaking, there's only a small hint that she's still aware of the fact she loves Yuuji.||
- Makina's bad ending. ||Yuuji kills her Mother, but dies in front of Makina. Makina keeps Yuuji's corpse in a garbage bag while pregnant with his child and also taking his place in Ichigaya.
.|| **WOW**
- On the subject of Makina, her backstory is nothing to scoof at either. ||She was kidnapped by some criminals trying to ransom her for money. Her father tried to go in and save her, but he didn't have enough money and was shot and left to die while Makina's mother was watching an opera with another guy. Makina was left there, tied up, alone, for weeks, with no one coming to help her while she had to watch her father's corpse bloating and decomposing. It's a wonder the kid manages to stay as cheerful as she is in the main story. And then there is what she is put through in her route: The bakery she was working in was set on fire, her sister was victim of a car bomb incident and she is eventually shot by some assassins and taken to hospital...and the first thing her mother tries to do is take her off life-support to have her organs donated to her sister Sarina so she can inherit the Irisu Main Branch presidency. All a result of how messed up the Irisu family is.||
- Yumiko's breakdown in her backstory and everything leading up to that moment. ||After finding out her father was only acting loving to her because his son died and he needed a heir and overhearing the one person she could speak to saying she was only pretending to be her friend to hear the sordid details of Yumiko's home life, said friend ends up being the first victing of "School Killer" Yumiko's box-cutter before the latter goes on a Laughing Mad rampage.||
- Sachi's dutifulness is less impressive/comedic after her backstory is revealed. ||She ran away from home on her birthday after snapping at her parents for neglecting her over work and then being loving again on her birthday. They run after her and as they cross the street to get her...they get run over by a truck before her eyes. Keep in mind Sachi was in her early 10s when this happened. She kept blaming herself for it and thinking that if she were a good girl, none of that would have happened. So her dutifulness and obedience was a defense mechanism to prevent her from facing such a loss ever again. But it gets extreme to the point that, to fulfill a classmate's request to get rid of an upcoming test, Sachi set the school on fire, eliminating any possibility of that test being taken.||
- Sachi's bad ending. ||When visiting her mother in the hospital, Sachi realizes she needs to move on from her past and her guilt regarding her parents and then leaves to convey this to Yuuji. She spots Yuuji across the same street where her parents were run over and happily runs to him...and unceremoniously gets killed in the same fashion her parents did. This gets an extra punch as the choice that triggers this is one that at first, makes perfect sense as the right one, making the aforementioned moment come completely out of the left field.||
- While an undeniably awesome moment, the Death Glare Yuuji gives ||Kiyoka when holding her at gunpoint|| is downright chilling.
- Michiru's backstory. ||She suffered constant mental abuse from the tutors her father hired because Michiru had learning issues but her father always blamed the tutors, who tormented Michiru as petty revenge. It started with a single woman who spread the word to the other tutors and it got worse to the point Michiru's self-esteem was shattered by the time it was over. Then we get to the self-harm tendencies she displays, especially when the Heart Donor girl's personality starts clashing with hers.||
- Following the above, she gets a Hope Spot in bonding with the unnamed girl (Named Nozomi in the Magical Idol Michiru spinoff) from her backstory that she befriended after stopping the girl from commiting suicide. ||The girl ends up abused by her boyfriend and his friends and tries committing suicide again and Michiru is unable to stop her this time. The anime makes it worse by showing the girl visibly beaten up and with her clothes torn before she jumps off the roof.||
- ||Meowmel's death.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrisaiaNoKajitsu |
Griffin Ranger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Spoilers are unmarked below. Proceed with caution!*
The books, especially the second, are chock full of Nightmare Fuel. The
*civilized* griffins fight smaller opponents by closing to melee range and then promptly reducing them to Ludicrous Gibs. The *uncivilized* ones...look for yourself.
The ultimate Nightmare Fuel, however, comes from Whitehead's captives, prisoners in a human lab.
- The griffins there are first artificially brought to heat and forced to
*gang rape* one another. The eggs that come with those almost random pairings are not always compatible: A small forest griffin is forced to try to lay a white-headed griffin's egg - imagine a human woman trying to give birth to a bowling ball. It tears her apart inside and she dies an excruciating, slow death, with all the other captives having to listen to her final screams.
- The eggs are taken away.
note : And used as incubators for the griffin death plague.
- Once Harrell joins the captives, Winter White-Tail - whose cheerful visage forms the page picture - happily chirps this to him when he asked how she got there:
**Winter**
(continues cheerfully describing just how she butchered the adult greenies and ate them alive
, one piece at a time).
- Even Harrell, one of the biggest badasses in the story and no stranger to shredding greenies, is revolted by that happy little soliloquy and the other captives make a point to tell him to
*never get her started again.*
- Then the captives start to disappear, and it doesn't take long for the remaining ones to suspect they're being euthanized. The truth, however, is far worse - they're being used as test subjects for the bioengineered griffin plague. If they don't die of that version of the plague, it's tested again and again until they *do* die of it.
-
. He may have been raised as a Tyke Bomb but his death is a horrifying, drawn out affair because the poor griffin selected for the task is himself only a young subadult from a small clan, and he's forced to drive his comparatively puny talons slowly into skull and throat until he finally inflicts a mortal wound...with the poor puppy screaming all the while. **Tamis' death**
- And it could have been
*even worse*. Winter proposed dealing with him the same way she deals with any smaller opponent. The only thing that saved him *that* fate was that she couldn't reach him.
- After a few of the captives are rescued, the way they talk about their experiences...the shame, being convinced that no-one of the opposite sex would ever want them, the deep depression and the horror of it...is frighteningly similar to Real Life rape survivors. Having her Dark Secret revealed to her own father just about tears Aera apart, and by the end of the story she is still unable to admit to her mother Vaniss what happened.
- In-Universe, the greenies' ultimate Nightmare Fuel is the Newland griffins getting hold of the same Deflector Shield that the Northern Continent griffins possess. Why? Take a good look at the page picture. Winter White-Tail is a Newland griffin. Now imagine her
*immune to firearms...* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GriffinRanger |
Grossology / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Yes, the show is about lots ofgross things, so you can expect it to come into this territory.
Queen for a Day: The very idea of giant, mutated termites might freak out viewers with insectiphobia.
The Slim Slime Man: It starts out with a nice scenery of people in the park. Nothing wrong here. But then we go down to the sewers where Slim is seen bitterly scraping slime but then, said slime comes alive and attacks poor screaming Slim as the scene cuts to the opening.
Go Fish: This episode's Monster of the Week is a group of mutated Hagfish (otherwise known as slime eels). Let's begin the education:
First, let's take a biology lesson: Hagfish are slimy scavenger eels with no eyesight, no sense of hearing but a good sense of smell and one huge gaping mouth full of sharp teeth. Sounds wrong enough already? Now imagine if they were mutated to grow even bigger (WAY bigger) than your average eel in real life and are out to eat ANYTHING that gets in their way. You get this episode's monster.
These things are also capable of roaring and it is not a good sound to hear.
When our duo encounter these things, they try to disguise themselves by camouflaging their scents with more rotten food and sludge. Sure, it was a good plan except, said Nasalflage actually attracted them even more. Oh, and to make matters worse, the rotten food jammed their Goop Shooters, forcing our heroes to run while screaming in terror all the while.
Reaching the episode's climax, the Archer duo manage to corner the Hagfish at the pier and give them an all out slime attack and it looks like victory, but then the slime doesn't work and the horrid eels look even madder then ever. ||But it gets better when we realize that these monsters are no match for the power of kittens!||
Its Gotta Be The Shoes: the episode's villain's lengths to stay famous, which includes giving everyone a painful foot disease. Also borders on Paranoia Fuel.
Not to mention his high powered basketball and what it would do in real life.
The cold opening is no slouch either. We see Lab Rat and Hermes on a night stroll when suddenly, a giant robotic owl comes out of nowhere and nearly captures Hermes. This event managed to scare Lab-Rat into staying in the bathroom for a majority of the episode. ||Fortunately, he gets better by the end.||
Yack Attack: The idea of getting poisoned by the water you drink. It affected almost everybody including the Queen of Squeam herself!
Kid Rot: Chester's situation is this. He only wanted to make the world a better place, only to get his rotting touch power and it seems that he can't control his other personality. It doesn't help that the episode has an ambiguous ending.
Abby: Poor Chester.
Ty: Poor Chester? Kid Rot is on the loose. Poor us.
The Insider: Lance's plan involved Brainwashing Ty from the inside out. To clarify, he shrinks himself down to microscopic size and begins to mess with his body and Ty is powerless to stop him.
While trying to save her brother, Abby is nearly killed multiple times due to white blood cells confusing her for a virus.
All Together Now: One of the worst possible situations the Grossologists have faced. Besides the fact they were bombarded with halitosis giving horseflies, acne and garbage water which is somewhat scary. No, what's really scary is the fact these deeds are what got the bureau of Grossology ||temporarily|| closed down leaving the agents without their gear to fight three dangerous, disgusting villains on their own.
Heck, the fact that Lance managed to hack the Gag Lab despite being fired shows to them that he is still a threat.
Oldie But a Goodie: Abby's situation. After getting covered in some strange pus, she starts to age at a quick rate and nearly becomes an old lady near the episode's climax.
Survival of the Grossest: What happens when toxic waste meets horseflies that reproduces at a crazy rate? You get giant mutant houseflies causing destruction wherever they go.
School's Grossed Out For Summer: A procologist (a scientist who studies human digestion) transforms the whole school into an enviroment, which is rather reminescent of a human's own digestive tract.
Vein Drain: the fact the episode revolves around leeches.
Silent But Deadly: Far-Ty was also pretty creepy, especially since the brainwashing on Ty worked so well; him helping take Abby hostage and her desperation to get her little brother back doesn't help matters.
The King of Rottingham Forest: Kid Rot's back and crazier than ever!
The scene where he summons a huge wave of rot to destroy a forest and the summer camp full of kids.
Lights Out: On an effort to catch Darko Crevase via car chase, the GRS-1 is bombarded by bat guano causing the Archer siblings to nearly crash.
Heck, Darko can also come off as this with his ability to control bats and his obsession with darkness.
A New Leaf: Giant.. Man-Eating.. Plants!
You Heave, You Leave: The prop stomach filled with real acid.
Sinister Romance: You thought Insectiva was bad, you haven't met her arachnid-loving sister: Arachnidia!
Said sibling rivalry involves summoning giant legions of insects and arachnids to terrorize the city.
Vertigo a Go Go: The idea of getting brainwashed via vertigo causing nanobots can bring up some scary thoughts...
Not to mention Abby is fully aware of what Lance is forcing her to do, up to and including attacking her little brother. It doesn't help that during their fight, she's actively begging him to fight back since that's their only chance of stopping Lance.
Mold Monster: Roger almost dies from black mold exposure. Even worse is that you can actually see him become paler and more ragged-looking as the episode progresses.
Pinkeye's Revenge: Abby being replaced by the rat-clone was kinda disturbing, especially since her captor was an adult male- plus it's clear that she's powerless to escape for a good while. Plus the rat-clone itself waspretty creepy. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Grossology |
Groundhog Day / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Phil:**
It's the same things your whole life. "Clean up your room!", "Stand up straight!", "Pick up your feet!", "Take it like a man!", "Be nice to your sister!", "Don't mix beer and wine, ever!". Oh yeah "Don't drive on the railroad tracks!"
**Gus:** Uh, Phil... Th-that's one I happen to agree with... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GroundhogDay |
Grounded / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# All spoilers in this section are unmarked. You Have Been Warned.
It's big. It's mean. And only one of you is getting out of its lair.Despite this games cheerful aesthetic, and campy movie origins, the one thing this game doesnt
**Shrink** away from is TERROR.
- The bugs. Every last one of them. Due to your vastly reduced size, even the normally tiny bugs like mites and gnats are now half your size, and most are happily willing to bite your face off. Special mention goes to the stinkbugs who are absolutely
*giant* compared to the player, and can deal hefty damage with their gas attacks, unless you have a gas mask
which can only be made with stinkbug parts
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*The spiders.* There is a *very* good reason this game comes with an arachnophobia mode. Aptly, these guys fit into the Demonic Spiders category, as they are typically fast as hell and can two shot or even one shot an unwary unarmored player. These suckers have their own fight music too!
- The Haze. The weedkilling gas has mutated a strand of cordyceps, which has infected countless insects and plants, making them into mutated monstrosities, adding new attacks, and a truck ton of health. Special mention goes to the mutated ladybug, whose Gentle Giant nature is now utterly gone, and can chuck explosive spore chunks at you.
- Finding the notes in the haze lab however reveal the situation is much much worse than otherwise thought. The reason the haze is covered with the weed killer? Dr Tully had the place drenched in said weed killer to keep the infection at bay. While this did work,it only did so because the weed killer
*keeps the infection placated.* If you decide to go through the effort of plugging up the weed killer canister, you clear out the haze entirely
and allow the infection to spread to random pockets of the map, infecting the creatures there too
but if you dont plug up the weed killer, the haze will remain as a permanent obstacle to deal with
Tough decision huh?
- Factional Raids. If youve managed to properly piss off a certain faction of bugs (Be they ants, bees, termites, or the
*entirety of the Infected bugs *) There is a chance that theyll eventually take the fight to you directly and try to destroy your hard built base. The only warning you get (roughly 5 seconds before the raid starts) is a war horn and **the eager roaring of the insects getting ready to tear your base to shreds.**
- Living near the insect factions home turf, or killing them are the two ways you can increase the factions hatred of you, which comes with some rather chilling notifications. (With the final notification signaling that you can be raided by that faction)
[Faction] are aware of your presence
- Late in the game, you discover that a side effect of the shrinking process is a term called raisining, which, as you progress, is revealed to be the body dehydrating rapidly and unable to replace it's lost fluids, much like how a grape is dried to become a raisin. The human variant includes the loss of useable digits and limbs (though they're not outright
*lost*), hair, and skin, among other things. The teens uncover various photos of Wendell's own raisining progression, and when they *do* find him, his case is so bad that he's resorted to being a disembodied head in a jar...which hardly even *looks* like a head, just a raisin-shaped bag of flesh with Wendell's glasses.
- It's pointed out that the cause of raisining is two factors; excessive use of the SPAC.R, and
*age* of all things. The teens managed to escape the effects of raisining (for now) due to being only shrunk once, and their young bodies being able to counteract the initial effects. An adult like Wendell though? Not so much.
- The sheer vileness of Director Schmector's SPAC.R experimentation. He uses
*minors* as test subjects to counteract the effects of raisining, and has them killed when he no longer has use for them. It's heavily implied that several adolescent teens have been killed by his callousness (and if their backgrounds align with the player characters, *ripped away from their families*) prior to the events of the game, all just for his grand ambitions of fame and war profiteering. He gets some long-overdue Laser-Guided Karma in the Golden Ending, but the deaths his actions have caused remain. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Grounded |
Greyjoy Alla Breve / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This is A Song of Ice and Fire. If you thought this would be anything but nightmarish, no matter how happy it might or might not end, you haven't been paying attention...
- ||What horrors Joffrey enacted on those poor villagers. Who knows how many more would have died like that if Lancel hadn't sent scouts ahead to warn them in time.||
- Ramsay Bolton. With flamethrowers and guns. Even scarier,
*he has a raging man-crush on the SI*.
- Bran's vision of what will happen to his family if the Others manage to win. ||Extra points for Theon becoming the clockwork, dark version of a cyborg.||
- ||Euron Greyjoy is actually aware of the heavily modified timeline, and he knows his nephew is responsible for it. His goal? Using Theon to gain the power of rewinding the timeline
*again* and shape the world as he desires. Even worse, Theon is on his way to meet Daenerys Targaryen, who's hosting Euron.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GreyjoyAllaBreve |
Going Postal / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The One Month Prologue, and the death of John Dearheart.
- The fates of the four previous postmasters:
- Mr Mutable falls five stories 'smack, sir,
*smack* on to the marble' head first, and splashes,
- Mr Sideburn drops through the ghost of a staircase and falls down five flights of stairs, breaking just about every bone in his body in the process,
- Mr Ignavia dies from a heart attack that, we later learn, was caused by walking through a
*human* ghost and seeing everything inside them as he did it,
- And as for poor Dark Clerk Whobblebury, who fell onto the "Bloody Stupid" Johnson-designed Sorting Engine...
* 'His head was all over the wall!' *
- Mr Gryle is walking Nightmare Fuel. The wild banshee is
*not* Played for Laughs and unnerves even Gilt's dedicated Igor, who has worked with werewolves and vampires before.
- The clacksmen's tendency to think they can fly, and learn otherwise.
- In-Universe, even, at least in the Sky 1 movie. After Pump tells him that "When banks lose money, it is not the banker who starves," Moist has a nightmare about the guy whose money he swindled hanging himself. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GoingPostal |
Gritty Reboots / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Ooo is slowly becoming a lifeless Death World as The Magic Goes Away, and we get to see all the delightful imagery that comes with it—such as the rotting corpses of Lady Rainicorn and Lumpy Space Princess.
An easily missed detail, but there's a missing person poster with ||Betty|| on it at one point.
Finn decapitating Lemongrab. Though given Lemongrab's reputation, this also counts as a Take That, Scrappy! moment.
Princess Bubblegum is slowly dying, and occasionally coughs up candy "blood" from her mouth. Additionally, when she wonders if there's someone who can help them, we get a Jump Scare of the Ice King.
Marceline is trapped in a block of ice, and it's implied that the Ice King himself did that to her (something he's evidently racked with guilt over).
In the end, it's implied that Finn and Jake will have to detonate the Mushroom Bomb again. This will restore Ooo...at the cost of everyone's lives, including Finn and Jake's.
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Quite possibly their darkest work yet: It's all done in one shot, panning through a house with various dark call backs to the original books, including a man choking to death on a cookie, a man drinking milk until he vomits and a man sobbing hysterically while cutting out chunks of his own hair with scissors. Then it passes multiple creepy drawings of mice on the wall before showing a man screaming at the titular mouse that he can't give it any more things...and the horrifically creepy Mouse is sitting there with a huge knife in its hands...
Man: WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME!? Mouse: Your life.
Calvin's imagination is going completely out of control. It knows Calvin's growing up and it's ticked the heck off, trying everything it can to force Calvin back into it. Soon enough, it does the one thing it knows Calvin will react to: kidnap Hobbes.
The montage of Calvin and Susie's Journey to the Center of the Mind has such lovely imagery as Calvin being chased by hoards of his old snowfiends and Susie nearly falling off of a building. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrittyReboots |
Guardian Fairy Michel / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Illusion Fairy, Pensy, almost tricks Kim into stepping off of a cliff. Later, Salome uses it to trick her into almost destroying Honeybee, using an illusion of her dead father to get her to comply.
- In episode 7, Salome urges the fire fairy, Flamie, to set a forest on fire to lure the Phoenix out of hiding. She cackles gleefully as it burns down, not caring what happens so long as she can capture the Phoenix.
- Several fairy monsters are able to cause disasters, such as a water fairy who creates a huge tidal wave. It takes all of Michel and Kim's effort to hold it back.
- In episode 10, Salome kidnaps a young girl named Anna to capture the Winter fairy, Queen. When Queen nearly destroys their ship to get Anna back, Salome decides to let her go... by
*ejecting her from the ship*, then turning Queen into a monster. Only Kim's intervention saves Anna.
- Episode 12 has a young boy named Boris trying to climb a huge tower with his bare hands to prove he's not scared. He
*is* scared, and Kim has to save him from falling off of the tower.
- The Monster of Light and Darkness, a living, goopy shadow creature that captures Salome and Michel. Its Light form is a stoic birdlike creature that attacks with blinding light.
- The dark Pharaoh Lucifer in episode 23, who gives the heroes the hardest fight of the entire series.
- The final Fairy Monster, ||a mega-upgraded Biam||. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardianFairyMichel |
Grimm Tales / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING: Per wiki policy, Spoilers Off applies to Moments pages.**
- What happened with Morgan and Eric's child. Their newborn son, the child they wanted for who knows how long, is dying just after being born. And even with all their magic, the two Fae are powerless to do anything but watch. Sure, it worked out in the end, but to any parent, especially to one who has gone through the death of a newborn, the story is absolutely chilling.
- The true form of the jorogumo. After her human disguise is broken, we are met with something from an arachnophobes worst nightmare. Horrific mashup of giant spider and human woman? Check. Extra Eyes and More Teeth than the Osmond Family? Check. Sadistic thrill in playing with her prey before killing them? Double check.
- The fate of the girl that Izanami took as a vessel. We don't actually get to see her die, but we do see some of the aftermath: Three massive scars across her torso, and Izanami explaining that before she was able to take her corpse as a vessel, she first had to
*stitch the pieces back together*. Most of them, anyway.
- And given what she says about the vessels wearing out, it's likely not the first time she's done something like this.
- The oni's death at the hands of the Yuki-onna Rin. After being tied to the ground with thorn-covered vines digging into his skin, a giant icicle punches through his chest. The oni spends his last moments clutching at the gore soaked spike before dying from his injuries. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrimmTales |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The final adventure for the Guardians proves to be their darkest; a deeply unsettling backstory for one of their members is unraveled and at the helm of it is one of the most
*sickening* villains in all of the MCU. The galaxy may still be under their protection, but there's still dark places full of horrors.
## Film
- The movie begins with a cage full of adorable baby raccoons. Then, ominous music plays as the High Evolutionary walks towards the cage. The camera cuts to one baby raccoon, and from his point of view, we see the High Evolutionarys giant hand slowly reach for him while the music intensifies.
- While the rest of the Guardians fight Adam at the start of the film, Peter and Mantis try to use a Medpak on Rocket after he is hit hard by one of Adam's attacks, only for it to supposedly go haywire and almost kills him. It is later revealed that there is a fail safe attached to Rocket's heart in case anyone decides to mess with his enhancements. As discussed, he is at risk of dying either way and half of the film focuses on shutting down the kill switch to give him proper treatment while he is already in critical condition. As for the one responsible for making Rocket the way he is...
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**The High Evolutionary**. One of the scariest and most horrifying villains the MCU has ever presented, he's an uncompromising, manipulative and downright *cruel* Mad Scientist who strives to create the perfect world. And there is *nothing* he won't do to achieve it. Chukwudi Iwuji delivers a very sinister performance and it doesn't help that the practical effect of his face being stapled onto his head is disturbing to look at, since it's just a little too smooth and glossy to be actual human skin. And that's because it isn't actually skin. All in all, he's basically the MCU equivalent of Fabius Bile.
- The Orgoscope is a nauseating-looking planet made of living tissue, with its surface composed of living flesh covered in giant hairs. The fact that a corporation which manufactures kill-switches preventing individuals from receiving medical help is seemingly a legitimate business in the cosmic setting of the MCU is also itself a disturbing thought, although the commercial that Mantis and Drax see in the lobby imply that this nefarious design choice is not known to the general public.
- Everything about the High Evolutionary's deranged research into creating the perfect society qualifies as some of the most horrific content in the MCU so far:
- The monsters mutated from the animals the High Evolutionary and his team of scientists abducted. It's not only creepily reminiscent of human trafficking, it's also a very dark look into the more nefarious and uncompromising side of science and research, since—setting aside the sci-fi trappings of his experiments—the sight of wounded and exploited animals in filthy cages is a disturbingly realistic visual.
- Even as he cradles young Rocket on his lap and speaks to him in a gentle fatherly tone, the sinister intent behind every single action he does and word he says makes it clear that he is
*nobody's* father. Perhaps the creepiest moment is when he describes to Rocket what his mission is; to create what is already there, flawed as it may be, and make it into something perfect for his utopia. He does this as he grabs Rocket's head with far too much force (to the point Rocket is genuinely distressed) and gives the terrified young kit an utterly deranged wide-eyed glare.
- The High Evolutionary casually blows up Counter-Earth, an inhabited planet with its own culture and intelligent inhabitants, just because they didn't fit his exacting standards of total obedience. The worst part is the implication that this is just one of many worlds he's destroyed in his quest for "perfection", making him a perpetrator of genocide on a truly vast scale.
- Before the destruction of Counter-Earth commences, when Peter finds out what the High Evolutionary plans to do and has done before to every one of his creations, a horrified Peter gives him a response of Flat "What". This is the moment Peter recognises how big a monstrous threat he truly is.
- This is also a "utopia" that Quill points out as having drug dealers, homeless people, and violence in the streets, who he could easily help without a second thought. The High Evolutionary's reaction? To shrug it off, wipe out billions of lives, and start again. Never even considering that he made a mistake, that he could aid them, or just
*leave them alone*. Theyre not deserving of assistance to him because he considers them a failed experiment.
- This gets worse with the final act's reveal that his ship is full of alien children in cages, whom he intends to raise as the population for his next planet.
- We see High Evolutionary bring a child Rocket to witness him forcibly evolve a turtle before it roars at him and pounds on the glass trying to attack him, then High Evolutionary immediately has it incinerated in front of him. He's later told that, besides his brain being dissected, his friends are to meet the same fate, spurring him to escape.
- Peter hilariously calls the High Evolutionary,
*"You Skeletor with RoboCop's Face!"* over the intercom... A Brick Joke Played for Horror later on when it is revealed that just like Alex Murphy ||his face *is* actually just a rubbery fake skin stretched across a bare skull.||
- Crosses over heavily with Tearjerker, but the High Evolutionary's meltdown over Rocket's superior intelligence. Young Rocket is suddenly awoken in the middle of the night by a frantic High Evolutionary, who needs him to come with him for reasons he doesn't explain. Not only is he clearly erratic and panicking, but since Rocket is only a child and still drowsy, he can't make sense of it and for a moment it seems like something is
*seriously wrong* and the High Evolutionary needs his help to fix it. Instead, poor Rocket is abruptly subjected to a harsh interrogation about how he was so easily able to figure out the evolution chamber's flaw, almost as if he's *blaming* him for it. At first, the High Evolutionary puts on a front of fatherly patience, but once Rocket stumbles a second too long for his liking, the mask slips as though it's laced with soap and the true monster underneath makes itself known to the terrified and confused Rocket. All the more disturbing, the whole scenario plays out exactly like an abusive father waking his child in the middle of the night and finding any excuse to antagonize them.
- Peter and Groot exacting revenge on Theel, the scientist responsible for Rocket's suffering. The humane thing was to simply shoot him and end the quivering bastard's life quickly. Nope. Peter lunges him and Theel out of the High Evolutionary's ship's window, with Peter fully expecting Groot will jump with him and cushion his fall. Theel only screams and cries at his inevitable demise; we see his body not only hit the ground hard, but Peter dragging his lifeless body through the ground at high speed until they crash into a pond, with all that is left is the Scientist's mangled corpse. Peter made damn sure the man paid for what he did to Rocket in blood. Good Is Not Soft, and it can and
*will* make an effort to make you suffer when you least expect it — a lesson Theel most certainly learned the hard way.
- From the first movie onward, Peter has been the Guardian least likely to kill and constantly discourages his teammates from doing so, typically only resorting to lethal force in the heat of battle or to stop the Big Bad from killing innocents. This is a rare instance of Peter
*wanting* to kill someone, which just goes to show how personally he took what Orgocorp did to Rocket. And unlike Ego or Thanos, Theel is no position to stop him.
- This can also come across as Unnervingly Heartwarming since both Peter and Groot clearly love Rocket as family and anyone who dares come close to killing him will learn that the hard way.
- Rocket's attack on the High Evolutionary. It begins right after probably the biggest Tearjerker in the film, and from there it becomes an unmitigated nightmare as the young and traumatized raccoon unleashes all his built-up rage. The use of practical effects lend heavily to the nightmarish gore the film has and this scene is no exception.
- The thought of someone as innocent as Rocket is in the flashbacks being driven to such bloodlust in a matter of
*seconds* may be unnerving, but a *more* than justified retribution to having the death of his First Love Lylla insulted in *mocking laughter* by the mad scientist.
- Teefs' reaction to Rocket's unbridled rage towards his creator is that of pure horror. Despite how monstrous The High Evolutionary is, he sees Rocket's descent into animalistic scratching and screeching to be more upsetting than Lylla's death, and he begs his friend to stop his actions.
- Floor's screams of panic for her friends to flee with her afterwards is essentially that of an innocent child's when caught in the crossfires of a mass shooting. The incoherent terror of her desperate pleas for survival will haunt you
*long* after the credits roll:
- While he deserved every second of it, it's still somewhat unnerving to see the High Evolutionary's reaction to all this. He's taken completely by surprise, the gun knocked from his hand and knocked to the floor with no means to defend himself as Rocket unabashedly and unapologetically
**mauls** him. The High Evolutionary is even shown trying *desperately* to keep the young animal off him, even trying to throw him off, but he's either too weak or Rocket is **too damn angry** to let go. His screams - while satisfying - are quite palpable and the editing to this scene makes it gory and nightmarish *without even showing the full extent of it.* If one looks at the High Evolutionary's body slumped to the ground, you can see his foot *twitching*, likely from severed nerves or the sheer agony he's in. He outright says he made the mistake of letting his guard down once. Only once. *And it cost him his whole face.* No wonder he went mad and developed his gravity powers. Had he been even remotely sympathetic, it likely would have been one of the most difficult scenes to sit through.
- Most detail is avoided, though a single shot clearly shows his
*lips being torn off*.
- Rocket sees the guards managed to kill Floor and Teefs before he shot them dead and can only ponder the implications of what he's doing for a moment before he escapes. He's also likely only an
*adolescent* by this time and has to strike out on his own, and such sympathy as his friends showed him is going to be hard to come by in the rest of space.
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Upon realizing that the combined might of the Guardians of the Galaxy and Knowhere itself has a legitimate chance of dismantling his corporation, the High Evolutionary unleashes a loctus-like swarm of the Praetorian Guard crafted by his empire of cruelty and pain; **"RELEASE THE HELLSPAWN!!!!"** *The Hellspawn.* Tumor swollen, assymetrical, malshaped brutes comprised of his *countless* failures to literally nail incompatible body parts together with painful and rusty staples, the wretches can barely even stand, much less walk properly, dragged down by bloated heads and swollen limbs their all too small bodies were never meant to support. All are clearly driven mad with agony by the process that deformed them, obeying the High Evolutionary's commands out of fear of further torture. One would *almost* pity them were they not a muscular tsunami of thousands of claws, fangs, wings and *tentacles* that can rip through steel and concrete like so much rice paper, and would have literally torn Knowhere apart were it not for the Ravagers, Kraglin and remaining Guardians defending the Dead-God's Head. Biomechanical Body Horror made manifest, scuttling and chittering from the darkest nightmares of H. P. Lovecraft, David Cronenberg and H. R. Giger, The Hellspawn make Thanos' fanged army of Outriders seem outright *cuddly* in comparison.
- After the High Evolutionary slaughters his own henchmen after they turn on him, he slowly walks through the wreckage to find Rocket and make his creation pay for his defiance. With his dark silhouette contrasting with the bright flames burning all around him, he looks less like a man and more like a shadowy demon roaming the depths of Hell. It's as awesome as it is chilling.
- The High Evolutionary's true face.
**MOTHER OF GOD.** It's no wonder he wears a mask based off his original appearance, because this man barely has a face left to speak of. Rocket didn't just scratch him, *he tore off his entire face right down to the bone*. Theres barely any skin left at all, just raw red meat flayed right down to the skull in some places. His entire face is basically one big open wound. No wonder why the High Evolutionary has such a vendetta against him — he looks even worse than the Red Skull!
- Peter nearly dying in space after he fails to make it off the High Evolutionarys ship before Cosmos powers give out. While it nearly happened before in the first film when trying to save Gamora, here his face realistically bloats
*on-screen* like an actual corpse and it seems like he's truly dead until Adam flies in to save him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3 |
Grimm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"Lonelyhearts" is pretty much an hour of Fridge Horror if you're a woman.
Spinnetods and everything about them. The fact that they vomit acid into their victims' digestive tracts, then suck their liquified organs out through their stomachs, and the fact that it's completely instinctual, and they have no control over their murders.
In "Last Grim Standing", the returning fighters in the Wesen Fight Club are fed the losers.
In "Organ Grinder", the detectives uncover a Geier criminal operation that kidnaps homeless kids off the streets, drains their blood, cuts out their organs while they're still alive, dumps their bodies into a burning pit, and then sells the organs to other Wesen as herbal remedies. Worse yet, the criminal ring picks out their targets through their front as a pro-bono clinic for the impoverished.
The fates of those the Ogre targets in "Game Ogre". The DA who tried him has her tongue cut out and placed on her scales, and the judge who sentenced him has his gavel shoved down his throat.
In the backstory, he apparently kidnapped a family and tortured them for two days because the father stole from him.
The Ogre's Curb-Stomp Battle against Nick. He smashes his way into Nick's house and just throws him around like a rag doll. Guns, knives and Good Old Fisticuffs are all complete No Sells, and Nick being a Grimm doesn't phase him at all. If not for Juliette and a pot of boiling water, the Ogre would've literally beaten Nick to death.
Both Nick and Juliette's reactions to someone that dangerous following Nick home. Nick is horrified that his Grimm stuff put Juliette in danger (it all still would have happened if Nick wasn't a Grimm, but who's thinking clearly in that state?) while Juliette is clearly suffering flashbacks as she goes to clean up the debris.
Monroe's reaction to Nick being hospitalised. He's clearly bemused on the phone ("You're where?") and looks utterly shocked to see the state of him in the hospital. He's obviously used to thinking of Nick as Nigh-Invulnerable and rattled to see him so hurt.
In "Island of Dreams", Sgt. Wu eats a witch cookie and falls victim to severe Facial Horror, with a mess of open sores in his face. Even more terrifying is one of his hallucinations, where he saw everyone's faces melting in great detail.
The Murciélago. AUGH. A bat-like creature with blood-red eyes whose high-pitched screams cause bleeding from all orifices, and the lovely little side effect of causing your eyeballs to explode. Behold◊! (Warning: Don't open this link at night in a dark room. Really.)
Larry the Wildermann clawing at the drug pump attached to his spine enough to tear the flesh open, leaving a gaping, bloody hole in the back of his neck.
Season Two:
The victims of the Mauvais Dentes, a menacing sabertoothed-tiger-man who can be best described as a bit of a messy eater.
The Coyotl have a ritualistic practice of every male in the pack (most of which are probably related to the girl in question) raping their female members on the full moon following the girl's 17th birthday.
The fate of Adalind's cat, if you're a cat owner or generally a pet lover. Not made any better by Rosalie and Monroe's nonchalant response.
Hell, think of what the cat went through - put into a shelter (as an adult, so possibly it had a happy life before being abandoned), then adopted just for the reason of being drugged into becoming a weapon, then ending up (possibly) under the wheels of a car. Could cross over into tearjerker territory as well.
Or you can look at the cat from Rosalees perspective in that scene. You know this hyper aggressive cat is possessed by a poison that can seriously mess with people. You walk in expecting to be safe, but see that this crazy thing is strong enough to break through the carrier. Stop thinking fluffy kitty and start thinking more along the lines of deadly wild animal, or live grenade.
Also strong or hyped up on magical mojo to cling to the ceiling. Given the sorts of Zaubertrank that Hexenbiest seem to use, it's likely that the cat was dead for all intents and purposes long before that scene.
And imagine what the results would be if they did that to a dog. It would be even worse. Just think about it.
The first Seelengut's fate in "The Good Shepherd" - ||dropped into a wood chipper... and all they find of him is his leg, because the metal hip he had jammed up the machine||.
In "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau" Nick watches an old film reel of Nazi propaganda and sees Hitler transform into a Schakal. The effect was chilling. It is Hitler, and the man himself was pretty darn horrifying, but it's worsened by that fact that Schakale are known for kidnapping and eating babies.
JulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJuliette. After Renard had to ||kiss Juliette|| to break her out of a spell after drinking a potion to make himself "pure of heart", he is now starting to become obsessed with her. Episode previews even show him sneaking into her house to watch her sleep. Creepy as hell.
It doesn't help that Juliette seems to be suffering from some of it herself as she ||sees Nick as Renard when she goes to kiss him.||
Just imagine what that poor foster-family went through in "The Bottle Imp"! They watched a seemingly sweet and innocent little girl suddenly become a flesh-hungry monster who bit the father's arm open (and a wound like that is going to need serious stitches!) but if they ever try to explain as much no one will ever believe them!
Or for that matter, the girl's family. At the tender age of 9, the girl attacks and almost kills her own mother and then a couple of strangers. While she shows concern for the mother, she shows very little concern about the others. Imagine seeing your own daughter turn into a raving unrepentant murderer. If not for Nick and the Löwen prison guard, there's really not a lot of ways for that story to end.
It's slightly unnerving to see Nick walk into a prison and spot angry Wesen lots of them mixed in with the general prison population.
After finding a pit of half-decomposed corpses underneath the house of a Wendigo, said Wendigo attacks, causing Nick to trip and end up in the pit of corpses. He fumbles in the dark, trying to find his flashlight while accidentally grabbing rotten body parts.
La Llorona's demon face. Her undead children may also◊ count, and so might the fact that we never really find out anything about her (she doesn't seem to be Wesen)...
Juliette's hallucinations in "Natural Born Wesen" and "Mr. Sandman" after taking the potion.
Even more horrifying, Renard's hallucination of ||Juliette in his bed.|| It's the first time we've seen him absolutely terrified.
The Woged state of Frau Pech - think Hexenbiest-level gruesomeness up to eleven.
The Jinnamuru Xunte, a lovely little Wesen that blinds you by spraying a parasite into your eyes, feeds off your tears, then leaves you to die. It preys off those who are emotionally vulnerable, picking up victims at group grief-therapy sessions. Its victims may not die from the attack—but those parasites grow fast (especially in the dark; now consider that covering the eyes is often part of a normal medical treatment for severe irritation) And as if the eye thing wasn't bad enough, just seeing that tongue of his lapping at the women's faces, and that one shot where it looks like its coming at the viewer.
Oh, and once the parasites it sprays into its victims eyes are done growing? They EAT THEIR WAY OUT OF THE EYES. That scene is one of the most disturbing and frightening things of this show (or any other TV show, for that matter).
Then there's the potion used to kill the parasites which involves removing the Jinnamuru Xunte's eye while its in its wesen form. Oh, and it has to be alive when the eye is taken out so if you've been infected with its parasites and the Xunte dies before you can take its eye, you've pretty much screwed.
And the worst part? The poor bastards don't even have a choice when it comes to feeding; if Jinnamuru Xuntes don't regularly drink tears, they suffer withdrawal effects in the form of severe headaches. So really, this creature's entire existence is nightmarish.
The Volcanalis. For starters, it is not a Wesen, but a demon that lives in mountains and fries from the inside out whoever takes its "property" - their mere presence is enough to bring water to a rapid boil - usually accompanied by the mountains they inhabit EXPLODING soon afterwards - this happened to Mt. Vesuvius. In order to immobilize and kill one to save Portland, Nick, Renard and Monroe have to freeze it with liquid nitrogen, and shattering it.
But the worst part about it? Even when it was shattered, it was still alive for a few seconds.
The Wesen skin/fur "tanning" trailer that our heroes find in "Endangered" and the thought of what goes on in there.
The Musai. They find artists or those with artistic capabilities and make them fall madly in love with them via a pheromone-filled kiss. And the madly part? Not a figure of speech. Those under their spell literally go crazy and end up killing the Musai's former lovers, getting locked up in an institution, committing suicide, or a combination of the three. In fact according to one of the Grimm journals it was a Musai that made Van Gogh cut off his ear. And from what we see of one they don't appear to feel too guilty about it.
The Cracher-Mortal. One day, you're going around minding your business and then some guy walks up to you and just spits in your face. Before you can even complain about the sheer nastiness of the ordeal, you're under his spell and more likely to wake up in a morgue or something. If you do wake up, that is.
To make it even worse the process is explicitly described as being excruciatingly painful.
Season Three:
||Nick|| as a zombie. He's deathly pale, has bloodshot eyes, may or may not have tears of blood and if he sees you, he might BEAT YOU TO DEATH.
The effects of the mushroom a Bauerschwein chef was using to poison Blutbaden. It painfully bloats their stomach and compels them to climb up into a tree just in time for their stomach to explode.
The process of "cutting" a female naiad, which involves forcing her into a woge, and then using a knife to cut the webbing between their toes and fingers, forcing them to be Brought Down to Normal. The connotations in the episode "One Night Stand" also bring up images of Rape as Drama.
Adalind rubbing magical gore on her pregnant stomach without a single shred of remorse. It's worse that the gore takes shapes such as a skull and a spider before being absorbed into her body. Not knowing what exactly it's doing to her child makes it even worse.
Things get worse for Adalind, her baby is able to manifest its Hexenbiest powers while still in her womb, and the baby is able to move in Adalind like its about to burst out of her.
Gregorek, the Gelumcaedus, who starts out as a simple thief... but progresses to murder by throwing a guy around the room before biting his arm off with such force that there is blood spatter on the ceiling. It gets worse from there - he rips off a guy's leg and attempts to do the same to Nick, who is thankfully able to stop him.
The fate of Renko, who tried to kill a Koschie... talk about Body Horror.
He's found in a hotel bathtub, absolutely covered with gruesome boils and inflamed skin due to radiation poisoning. And he isn't dead yet.
The image of ||Adalind's baby pushing against her womb.|| Her screams of pain WILL HAUNT YOU.
There's also the quick flash of ||the baby's face turning into a wide-mouthed skull||... Still thinking getting your powers back was a good idea, Adalind?
Same episode, the monster of the week tracks down anyone he deems to be a "great warrior" (so cops and military) fights them to the death, and if he thinks they "are worthy" he scalps them, tans said scalp, and sews it into a coat made of human scalps for him to wear.
The Aswang in 'Mommy Dearest'. ||a Wesen who feeds on unborn children with a long, spiky, drugged tongue.||
Sgt. Wu ||sees the villainous Aswang un-woge into the victim's mother-in-law after dying. The last shot of the episode, after he's checked himself into a mental institution, is a P.O.V. Shot of Wu hallucinating that an Aswang is attacking him, complete with Wu screaming bloody murder.||
Sebastien being ||tortured by Victor and his cronies, complete with water boarding and beatings. He looks like a side of beef after they're finished with him, plus it's more than likely that he'll be killed by either Victor (if they don't find Meisner, Adalind and the baby) or the Resistance (for betraying them).||
||Viktor shot and killed him.||
The fact that Ancient Egyptians used to torture and murder slaves until they found an Anubis, then forced it to Woge so that they could be mummified with it. Good god.
Oh, Adalind's ||cute little baby girl||, complete with glowing eyes...glowing eyes?!
We find out why witches can have resurrection powers but (usually) refuse to even for the most powerful of kings - most resurrected are demonically possessed, who then proceed to ruin their reputation through some combination of caligula-style life choices and serial killing. Jack the Ripper in particular boasts that his killing spree through London wasn't the first time, using an unfortunate resurrected person's body to do the deed. How many serial killers were simply ordinary people who died and were resurrected by their rash Hexenbeist lovers?
Theresa "Trubel" Rubel's life prior to meeting Nick. Nick had a rough time adjusting to being a Grimm at first, but found his footing thanks to Monroe and the contents of Aunt Marie's trailer. Trubel spent years of her life being attacked by Wesen who saw she was a Grimm, and she didn't have anyone to tell her why ordinary-looking people kept turning into homicidal monsters.
To add another level to this, Nick also had years of a normal, stable upbringing to work with while Truble's powers developed early, her family was murdered when she was young and she was put into the foster system and assumed crazy.
Season Four:
Gedatchnis Esser. An octopus-like Wesen that can use the four arms on its head to steal all your memories and leave you suffering dementia. Basically, it's a Wesen race of Human-sized Cthulhu.
This is also true for when they try to put their tentacles into a Grimm's head - instantaneous Mind Rape as the memories of all the Wesen said Grimm killed are permanently locked in their minds, repeating over and over again.
The wounds they inflict on their victims, essentially puncture wounds in THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD. Because mind-raping them was NOT enough?!
Anyone who's ever played Dungeons & Dragons will recognize this creature immediately: it's a Mind Flayer.
When Monroe is taken by the Wesenrein, Rosalee stays with Juliette for safety. Poor Rosalee starts to freak out, until ||Juliette turns into a Hexenbiest and rips out Rosalee's throat!|| At that point, you've probably realized it's just a nightmare, but it's still so...eeuuuggh.
In "Death Do Us Part", it's rumored that the ghost of a brutally murdered husband lurks in the house where he died waiting to kill people the same way he was. ||He's not the ghost, he's the killer, and it's implied that there actually is a ghost... His WIFE (who he accidentally murdered after finding her with her lover).|| The episode isn't shy about showing us the results of the people he kills either. GoodGOD.
The Excandesco. One of the Grimm book's entries on them named one the culprit for burning down Rome in Nero's reign, and we see the one in "Trial By Fire" boil the water and ignite the phosphorous in the guy who hired him before setting the car ablaze. They are basically the Wesen equivalent of the Volcanalis, and they apparently inspired the legends of the phoenix.
The Leporum Venator from "Bad Luck" ||a type of Wesen known for hunting Willahara (rabbit Wesen) for their feet, which is used as a fertility charm - a rather horrific take on the "lucky rabbit's foot", especially after you see that the Willahara the foot was taken from is a seventeen year old kid. Bonus points for his mother finding his bleeding body after his foot was chopped off and screaming for help...||
In "You Don't Know Jack," ||Juliette forcing Nick to turn his gun on Monroe. To see exactly how far she has fallen since she switched sides is disturbing, to say the least.||
Season Five:
In "The Grimm Identity," when Chavez is in ||her organization's headquarters, she goes to peek through one of the cell doors and almost feral screeching can be heard from the other side. And there are many more cells just like it.||
The kids in the episode "Lost Boys" are highly disturbing. They're a group of feral Wesen kids who don't even realize their wesen, and they've been kidnapping an untold number of women to be their "Mother" for who knows how long. They refuse to even try to hear reason unless it plays to their stunted world view and they've been killing the women who they consider to be "Bad" mothers. You will both pity and fear them in near equal measure.
||Eve's|| brutal interrogation method in "Star-Crossed": she makes the eyes, mouth and ears disappear, creating sensory deprivation.
"Skin Deep" has a Wesen who drugs models and then vogues into a hideous insectoid face that leans in and suck out their vital energies. The next day, a woman finds herself aging from 27 to 75 in just seconds and dying of the shock.
The Wesen is sucking the energies that he sells to a doctor to use for a rejuvenating skin cream for big business. However, the doctor ignores the advice not to use it himself, becoming more addicted so that by the end of the episode, his face has become a distorted visage more horrific than most Wesen. He ends up killing the Wesen, boasting about being "69 years young!" as his face contorts further and he drops dead on the spot.
The scene in the season 5 finale where ||Diana slowly kills Rachel by suffocating her in her own bed sheets, with Rachel begging her to stop the whole time|| is particularly chilling. Adalind's horrified expression when she sees it is just the icing on the cake.
At the episode's end, the cops stop him from killing the boy but then find the baby has a blanket covered with bears. They listen to the parents having a furious argument above and Hank and Nick both find themselves wondering if they just made things worse.
||Meisner haunting Sean to make him feel responsible for mercy killing him.||
As funny as the rest of "Blind Love" is, Wu's sudden obsession with the one staff member is a nightmare from her perspective. A person she's never met is suddenly and aggressively saying that because he loves her they're meant to be and if she doesn't reciprocate he'll kill himself in front of her.
What happens to those who are sacrificed to the Jubokko tree in "Tree People". After being pulled inside its trunk by massive vines, their faces are engraved into the bark, frozen in their final moment of agony. The tree's victims are not easy to sympathize with, but it's nonetheless unsettling to look at.
Anything about the Zerstorer, an extremely powerful creature from another world who is implied to the the devil himself. Even Diana is scared of this guy. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Grimm |
Grimms Notes / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This may be an Action RPG for mobile phones revolving around fairy tales, but damn if it doesn't have it's share of creepy moments. Beware of unmarked spoilers!
- The Downer Ending of the first chapter: Just when it seems like all is over and the party is ready to go for new adventures, Ex falls victim of a Demonic Possession and starts stabbing every one of his friends to death with a knife (Fortunately for Reina and Shane, they manage to run away). What doesn't help is Ex does all of this with a very calm expression on his face, while also laughing maniacally.
- A lot of the monsters' designs are downright
*scary*. It's a pity you can't fully appreciate their full sprites in action on the offline app. Examples include the Ghost Puppet, what with his giant grin on his face *and* stomach. His glowing eyes may also remind you to the Shadowlurker.
- Shadow Hagoromo Tennyo's face is drawn in such a realistic way that borders into Uncanny Valley, especially compared to the otherwise anime-style artworks that are prominent in the game. There's also her Global attack, where she summons a horde of screaming ghosts that fill up the whole screen.
- No thanks to Baron, Luisa is turned into a Chaos Teller... Look at the picture above. The poor girl has become a six-winged humanoid Mechanical Abomination, with visible Tears of Blood on her face. Her legs are amputated and her arms are now big ass claws. And she's also unable to speak anymore, only moan in pain. All of this, witnessed by her brother, who's devastated.
- There's also that little creature that looks like a winged egg with human arms and a incredibly disturbing Slasher Smile under the cracked part. While the only thing it does is summon Mega Villains with it's clarinet and follow Chaos Hecate around, the creature surely makes that up by being one hell of a terryfing tiny Eldritch Abomination.
- A Story Teller/Chaos Teller mix sounds like an awesome idea, right? Think again and say hello to Chaos Andersen! Unlike most Story Tellers' Imagines who fly around their master and get the chibi treatment, Andersen's Imagines are
*nothing* like that. For starters, he has four of his creations protruding from his back; Gerda, Kai (who look like zombies), a Tin Soldier and a black-colored Fir Tree resting over him, further damaging Andersen's body and slowing him down... As for the guy himself, well, he goes through a Body Horror transformation that turned his skin rocky and grey, with claws growing from his fingers *larger than his head*. During cutscenes, it's made very clear Deus Andersen is suffering in constant pain in this form. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrimmsNotes |
Grizzly Man / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- A movie about a man and his girlfriend who got eaten by a bear is bad enough. Then there's Herzog's reaction to the Apocalyptic Log...
- And it's not just that they were eaten by a bear. The audio itself is six minutes long, during which Treadwell
*is alive and conscious* while being mauled. The attack was neither quick nor painless - he was literally Eaten Alive. In pieces. Treadwell's girlfriend tried to fight the bear off but failed, powerless to stop the bear from dragging Treadwell into the woods, and left alone by herself before the bear came back for her. Here's The Other Wiki's description of what was *left* of them ( **NSFW/NSFL**): ||"The mangled remains of Treadwell and Huguenard were discovered quickly upon investigation. Treadwell's disfigured head, partial spine, and right forearm and hand, with his wrist watch still on, were recovered a short distance from the camp. Huguenard's partial remains were found next to the torn and collapsed tents, partially buried in a mound of twigs and dirt."|| It's the most horrific sort of death imaginable.
- Amie Huguenard's death will be terrifying when left to the imagination. She had a phobia of bears and may have been so traumatised and guilt ridden for failing to rescue Timothy that she couldn't defend herself or escape from the bear when it came back.
- What's particularly scary about Herzog's reaction to the audio is the very quiet way he says, "Can you turn it off," when he's finally had enough. There's something artificial about his calm that seems to indicate he's trying very hard not to freak out.
*Werner Herzog is freaked out.* Eventually you see tears coming from his eyes and his hands trembling from the tape.
- Some of Treadwell's rants can be a bit disturbing at times. Some rants that come to mind are the ones involving poachers and a particular instance where he's in his tent and starts yelling for various deities (God, Allah, and some Hindu gods) to send rain and end a drought that's afflicting the animals he loves so much. While it's not always the
*content* that's disturbing, his general demeanor can be unsettling; at some points he appears to be emotionally unstable (exhibiting wild mood swings) and extremely paranoid (his ex-girlfriend claims he was bi-polar and refused to take his medication). Can double as a Tear Jerker when you think about how badly he needed help and never got it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrizzlyMan |
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
If something from the series is here and made you behave yourself as a kid, the series did its job.
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
## In general
- This series is pretty infamous for its horrible fates for children, even
*death*. Sometimes, by their own parents.
- The parents don't seem to notice their child is missing.
- Whenever Uncle Grizzly's head shapeshifts.
- Also, if you pause at the times he begins to transform, you'll get an incredibly disturbing image. For example, at the end of "The Barbour of Civil" when you pause just before and after Grizzly transforms into a giant tongue, you'll see him with pale skin, a big nose, big teeth, a long mouth and bloodshot bug eyes.
- A majority of the closeups, especially the eyes.
- Sometimes there are instances where close-ups are done on an
*entirely different* and *creepier* model of Uncle Grizzly◊, like at the end of episodes such as "Dr. Moribundus" and "Mr. Peeler's Butterflies".
## Specifics in the books and cartoon | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
At first glance,
*Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2* is presented as a quirky comedy filled adventure (akin to the first movie). But the second that Ego reveals his true intentions with one line that will change everything, Vol. 2 could easily qualify as one of the darkest in the MCU. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 |
Groove Coaster / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Groove Coaster* is perhaps one of the most visually appealing games on the arcade Rhythm Game market. While not having the psychological horror of the Alien Invasion in the parent *Space Invaders* games, it has the potential for some great audiovisual scares.
- "Spring to mind". It's ambient cacaphony reminiscent of
*Yume Nikki*, with a completely invisible track and a background that's just a dark gray gradient.
- The aptly-titled "Marry me, Nightmare", a Haunted House-themed track with skull imagery, including a wireframe skull laughing at you at one point, and freaky Interface Screws and Jump Scares everywhere such as suddenly showing up on a track on the opposite side of the screen. On top of that, it has one of the hardest charts in the game. And the track constantly flips between different time signatures, giving off the musical equivalent of Uncanny Valley.
- The album jacket for "Got hive of Ra" (also used on the
*Everything Get Groove* album), featuring a butterfly with holes in its wings, can induce feelings of trypophobia.
- The unintelligible "singing" in some of Shohei Tsuchiya's songs, particularly his slower ones like "Sleep" and "KANNANSHINKU" (you may also recognize it from
*Dariusburst* ports) can sound pretty alien and eerie.
- Just
*what* is happening in the lyrics to "It's a pit world"? Apparently, the narrator's heart has stopped, their brain has turned green either due to or resulting in "too much thinking", and they live in a garbage dump with foreign matter clogging their heart and brain.
- "Your Best Nightmare", as befitting of the boss fight it originated from, has a few examples:
- Clearing any difficulty below Extra/Master results in a Laughing Mad wall of text, much like in
*Undertale* itself when you lose to Flowey.
- The SOUL attack segments each end with the player hitting a note over an ACT button, causing a dialogue box that reads "You called for help..." to appear, followed by the game fading back to the main body of the track without showing the SOUL providing healing like in the original game. While this can be chalked up to Compressed Adaptation and a need to keep the track around 2 minutes, it looks as if the SOULs can't or won't help this time around! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrooveCoaster |
Gradius / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Usually the Bacterian Emperor either looks like a Brain, a Giant Eye (Zelos), a skinless head (Gofer), a three headed humanoid (Doom), or a face surrounded by smaller faces (Bacterion).
There is also the two facts that :
A. The Bacterians are pieces of Bacterion who is an cell.
B. The Homeworld of the Bacterians is Bacterion himself.
What's really scary is that every time the Bacterian Emperor gets defeated, the cells composing the Bacterian Empire increase in numbers, making a new and stronger Empire. This gives rise to the theory that the Bacterian Emperors intentionally leave themselves defenseless so that they can spread across the universe.
The overseas versions of Life Force (NES) only has a static shot of the Konami logo against a solid back background while the ending theme plays. It's rather eerie, particularly if you're playing alone at night. In contrast, Salamander (its Japan-region counterpart) has a proper credit roll.
The ending of Nemesis 3. David recovers the capsule containing a 3-year-old James Burton, revives him, and sends him safely back to Gradius. All is well as he time warps out...only to be attacked in the middle of time warp by Venom, who's Not Quite Dead and whose portrait is staring right at the player. Venom declares, in menacing red text, that he'll finish the job. If you failed to get the shield device from earlier in the game, David notes that he can't use his ship's built-in shield in warp (in comparison, if you did get the shield item, he's able to use it to return safely to his own time), and drops out of warp in hopes of defending himself from the attack. The last shot is of Venom's portrait on a black screen as he laughs at you. What happens to David is not explicitly stated, only that he's declared MIA, leaving the gruesome details up to the player's imagination.
"Year: G6809 - Event: David Burton sets out in Vixen fighter to repel Bacterion. Not yet returned." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Gradius |
Grave Peril / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Mickey Mallone's condition and the barbed-wire curse. "Hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts..." along with high pitched giggling.
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*Everything* about the Nightmare was scary!
Murphy just sat there, staring ahead. Another low breath rattled out, not quite making a sound-but I recognized the effort she was making for what it was.
Murphy was screaming. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GravePeril |
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Grand Theft Auto III | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories | Grand Theft Auto IV | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad Of Gay Tony | Grand Theft Auto V
- In the mission "High Dive", Yusuf asks Luis to go scope out a meeting with two other Arabs, Tahir and Ahmed, at the Rotterdam Tower. When Luis goes up to meet the two, Luis finds out that he just walked into a sting operation meant to get Yusuf arrested and allow Tahir and Achmed to take over his business. During all of this, Luis (in a rare moment of rage) ends up
*throwing Tahir off the fucking building!*; he then spends the rest of the mission blasting away at NOOSE officers and Annihilators while chasing Achmed up the tower, ending with Luis scaring Achmed after being given a parachute, causing the dude to fall down to death as well.
- Ray Bulgarin himself is an Ax-Crazy psychopath. Despite being charming at first, he is ultimately one of the most ruthless antagonists in the entire GTA IV trilogy. In addition to what he did to Niko in the main game, he also shoots
*his own sister* for speaking up to him, has The Cook decapitated and arranges for Luis to be killed in a shootout. The latter two happened because they were involved with his diamonds that they didn't even know were his.
- Once Luis escapes the rooftop shootout at the end of "In The Crosshairs", Ray Bulgarin
*completely loses it*. His phone call to Luis has him shouting death threats at Luis, utterly livid:
**Ray, to Luis:** You are dead! Dead, *dead*, **dead**, , **dead** ! **DEAD** **YOU UNDERSTAND?!** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony |
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
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**Spoilers Off applies to Moments pages. Proceed at your own risk.**
"A monster the size of 20 ships, full of hunger and rage!"
Think this will be a cute Lighter and Softer Disney-esque retelling of Pinocchio? No way. Not. even. close.
- We see the death of Geppetto's first son when a group of planes returning to their military base drop some bombs off into a populated town's church just to lighten their load. Even worse is the buildup to the scene, after Gepetto is done with his part of the crucifix for the day he and Carlo get ready to leave but Carlo leaves the "perfect" pinecone behind and tries to go back for it; then Geppetto sees the planes in the distance and immediately realizes what's coming and tries to get his son to return to his side in vain before a bomb hits the church killing Carlo.
- The Wood Sprite and her sister are Creepy Good figures, but they're still
*creepy*, what with their Angelic Abomination appearance, emotionless masks that seem to hide their real faces and otherworldly voices bordering on Voice of the Legion akin to Satan's from The Mysterious Stranger scene from *The Adventures of Mark Twain*. Geppetto is *startled* when the Wood Sprite appears to him towards the end after Pinocchio's Heroic Sacrifice. There's a reason why the angels of the Bible needed to say "Be not afraid" when showing up...
- The part where Geppetto drunkenly creates Pinocchio is somewhat unsettling, with him felling the tree out of rage that God will not give Carlo back to him and carving his effigy in a manic fit. Some have even compared it to "Frankenstein", almost as though Geppetto were viscerally piecing together a corpse.
- When Pinocchio first comes to life, he looks like a
*Ju-on* ghost as he rearranges his limbs in a horrifying way. Although Pinocchio is being playful throughout this scene and ultimately means no harm to anyone, Geppetto is justifiably horrified at this.
- Imagine what it must've been like for the church-goers to see Pinocchio at their church. Here's this human approximation of wood that moves uncannily all by itself, and when it lies about being a human too, its nose starts to grow in a spidery fashion. There's also something visceral about Pinocchio's first lie being that he too is a human "made of flesh and meaty bits". Coupled with the church-goers' viewpoint that Pinocchio is an abomination, it makes it feel uncomfortable, even coming from an innocent character like him.
- In this adaptation, Pleasure Island is replaced with a fascist youth training camp, where the children are indoctrinated with fascist ideology and trained to mercilessly kill their enemies almost as some sort of perverse game. The most horrifying part being when after Candlewick and Pinocchio insist they tied in a competition, the Podestà, Candlewick's abusive father, demands that Candlewick shoot and kill Pinocchio with a real gun in order for him to "claim his glory". It's worth noting that youth camps like this actually existed.
- The scene where Count Volpe tries to burn Pinocchio alive after Pinocchio humiliated him.
- The poor wooden boy looks like how women did when they were burned at the stake (tied to a cross, surrounded by fire), as well as how unhinged Volpe has become.
**Count Vulpe:**
Is our contract worth nothing? I'll do my part, and you, you will burn! Burn bright! Like a star!
- Spazzatura then tries to stop him from burning Pinocchio, only for him and Volpe to fall off the cliff. We then see the man hit a rock violently onscreen, accompanied by a Sickening "Crunch!" while Spazzatura thankfully falls into the ocean.
- The Dogfish is introduced by the Sea Captain as some sort of Animalistic Abomination that resides at the bottom of the sea, emerging only every decade or so and swallowing everything in its path, with everyone avoiding sea travel while it is at large. When we finally see it, it lives up to its reputation, looking much more grotesque than any of its previous incarnations, resembling a Sea Monster from a Here There Be Dragons map, with many rows of gigantic teeth. Its inside also looks extremely disgusting with gastric acid dripping from everywhere. It's also just as cruel and relentless as its Disney counterpart Monstro, chasing Pinocchio, Geppetto and Spazzatura after they escape through its blowhole. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio |
Guild Wars 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The mere concept of the Elder Dragons. They're not so much the last boss of a video game that you can simply fight — they're more like natural disasters. Even discounting their immense size, power of flight and absurd durability, they have the ability to corrupt everything in their vicinity from the land to the people. Each Elder Dragon has the power and inclination to wipe out the races of Tyria, and there are at least six of them. Their armies of minions are a serious threat in their own right, and only become stronger as the dragons consume more of the world. Worst of all, most people don't even see them as a serious threat, some even believing them to be myths. There are three organisations dedicated to taking them down — the Vigil, Durmand Priory, and the Order of Whispers — but they bicker constantly and encourage the main races to choose between them rather than working together. If nothing changes, there may not be a Tyria anymore...
The initial worst of the Elder Dragons is the Big Bad of the base game: Zhaitan, the Elder Dragon of Death and Shadow. A colossal Eldritch Abomination seemingly made of rotting bone and sinew, with glowing green eyes and a host of smaller dragon heads coming out of his mouth, Zhaitan is perhaps the most horrible thing you will see in Tyria. Its power is on a whole other level as well — it caused global devastation by raising the ruined Kingdom of Orr from the depths of the ocean, which resulted in widespread tsunamis. Worse yet, as its domains are shadow and death, it was then able to use its power to corrupt those killed in the disaster and turn them into its minions - the Risen - who then proceeded to attack the city of Lion's Arch with all the power of a massive undead fleet. In the end, it took the combined power of the three anti-dragon orders, Destiny's Edge, and an airship with a giant anti-dragon cannon to bring it down for good. And even after his death, his minions are still a threat.
Zhaitan's minions themselves are rather unpleasant. The Risen are rotting, reanimated corpses similar to zombies that claw at you with their bare hands. Some of them carry foul plagues, and will detonate in an explosion of gore and pus if you approach them. All of them can run, and even swim (well, float, like drowned corpses). And of course, if you die fighting them, your flesh will putrefy and you become one of them.
There are undead Krait amongst the Risen too. If you thought Krait were nasty when they were alive, wait until you see them under Zhaitan's influence.
There are creatures called Abominations made from multiple corpses of who knows what. The result is a hulking monstrosity that rivals a giant in size, with exposed bones, spikes sticking every which way and hollowed out stomachs. The only thing worse than seeing an Abomination is being flattened under two tonnes of mouldering flesh and bone.
Perhaps the worst of Zhaitan's minions are the Eyes and Mouth. The Eyes are giant, red, disembodied eyes carried by skeletal cadavers; and the Mouth is a hulking humanoid who has no lower jaw, two severed arms gripping the metal collar it wears, and a huge mouth in its stomach. The worst thing about them is that they make Zhaitan more powerful: the Eyes scout out magical items, and the Mouth devours them to transfer their energy to Zhaitan. And to top it all off, the Eyes are made from the royals of the nation of Orr, which was where Zhaitan initially rose - and some of them are still conscious, but unable to do anything but serve Zhaitan's wishes.
Jormag, the Elder Dragon of Ice and Persuasion, is described as a living blizzard. Their awakening caused earthquakes and floods. Their icy powers alone can cause untold devastation, and were enough to cause proud warrior races such as the Norn and the Kodan to flee their homelands. Not only that, they are also a Manipulative Bastard: they have a fanatical cult of Norn called the Sons of Svanir who they recruit by offering power in return for servitude. These cultists lie, murder, and steal, and eventually turn into Icebrood, murder machines entirely made of ice.
The first Elder Dragon, Primordus, is not known as the Destroyer for nothing. His sphere of influence is fire, and his awakening shook the earth to its core, forcing subterranean races such as the Skritt and Asura from their homes and into competition with the other races. He is the only dragon that doesn't normally corrupt living things; his minions, the Destroyers, are made from stone and lava and shaped like living creatures, such as crabs, trolls and harpies. All he and his minions care about is burning down the entire world.
Kralkatorrik is the Elder Dragon of Crystal and Mind, once mistaken for a mountain until his awakening. He turns all he touches to crystal, which may sound beautiful, but is in fact horrific. The area affected by him is called the Dragonbrand, which looks like a radioactive wasteland, devoid of life and glowing sickly purple. It is populated by his servants, the Branded, twisted creatures taken over by the corruptive power of Kralkatorrik, with crystalline forms and expressions of agony on their faces.
Fleshreavers return from the original game. Flying demons that are born as skeletons, their parents help them grow by ripping apart living creatures and melding their flesh onto the juvenile Fleshreaver. After reaching adulthood, Fleshreavers continue to grow by killing and assimilating anything and anyone they find.
Quaggans are one of the friendliest and most peaceful races in the game, and they look like happy dolphin people. Then they get angry. When this happens, they mutate into what look like piranhas on steroids and they will stop at nothing until they've beaten the crap out of whoever pissed them off to begin with, regardless of whether their victims are Charr or Icebrood.
Events
He may be a Laughably EvilLarge Ham, but Mad King Thorn has his fair share of this as well. He started killing as a child, left his brother to be eaten by a Giant Spider so he could take the throne after assassinating his father, and murdered seven of his eight wives - one in particular he put into a coffin filled with rats, which he then dumped into the sea - simply because he thought it was funny. His subjects were able to overthrow him and seal him in a part of the Underworld, but a cult called the Lunatic Court is trying to break those seals so he can turn Kryta into a twisted hellscape permanently, rather than only on Halloween. Oh, and an offhand quote implies that he eats people and/or souls.
His son Edrick seems to have inherited the trait of incredible violence beneath a comical exterior. He may look like a tryhard reject from a heavy metal band and be repelled by candy corn of all things, but in life, he killed his favorite stepmother by nailing her hands to a drake, apparently leaving her to be torn apart and eaten by the beast. (Thorn's dialog implies this happened during a PARTY, and while Edrick struggles to remember it - even seeming a bit horrified when confronted with the truth - the fact that he did this for no apparent reason, to someone he actually cared about, is unsettling.) He also regularly burned hundreds of his father's subjects for entertainment...and kept the guards from stopping him, or warning anyone, by biting off their tongues.
The death of Belinda Delaqua. Shortly after your first meeting with her, you return to give her new intel only to find her bloodily disemboweled and impaled on a Toxic League vine. All as a grisly warning from Scarlet.
Heart of Thorns
In Heart of Thorns, ||Faolain|| is supposedly killed by a minion of Mordremoth... only to show up in the next part of the story, brainwashed and turned into some sort of rampaging dragon-beast. What really makes this example scary is that ||her|| face is completely unchanged, and ||she|| still talks with a normal voice while relentlessly chasing you down.
In the final chapter of the story, ||Faolain|| taunts you as you race to save your friends from Mordremoth. Particularly chilling is when she claims there is no ||Faolain, no Caithe, and no Trahearne||. There is only MORDREMOTH.
Again in Heart of Thorns, the revelation that ||the whole Maguuma Jungle is, essentially, Mordremoth.||
Canach: ||It's everything! The entire time we were traversing the jungle, we were afoot on its back. Like fleas on a hound.||
The Mordrem in general, and the Blighting Trees they're using to convert Sylvari, living or dead, into a servant of the jungle dragon. And if you're still alive, but not a Sylvari? Get ready for some even worse Body Horror. ||Mordremoth kidnaps people and implants them with a seed from the Blighting Tree...and a Plant Person clone of them grows from the inside out.||
Generally, your race doesn't make much of a difference to the story after you complete the level 30 series of quests to choose an order to join. Except for ||Sylvari in Heart of Thorns. Mordremoth talks to you!||
||Mordremoth: I am the reason you exist. I am the purpose you serve. Obey me!||
When playing as a Sylvari character, at one point you are able to see ||a delusion of a wraith-like Mordremoth head materializing right in front of your eyes trying to convince you to join it||. Your character completely ignores it, probably to cover the fact that ||they're having trouble keeping control||, but to you, as the player... Terrifying.
In the final battle against ||Mordremoth, it's scary to realize really how close the Sylvari Commander had been to giving into Mordremoth's influence. If Canach or Caithe hadn't been there to force them out of Mordremoth's control using the rift, the Commander would have succumbed to Mordremoth's presence due to being so close to him since they could no longer resist. Sylvari players could actually see Mordremoth as an Ally and other party members could see said Sylvari players as enemies & actually attack them really says how close you were to falling under Mordremoth's horrid grasp. If the Commander's mind had really given in, who knows what would happen after that.||
The fate of ||Trahearne.|| Severe body horror.
Living Story Season 3
In Bloodstone Fen, there's the ground zero point of ||the bloodstone explosion. Of note are the shadows of the people who were standing around the altar, forever scorched into the wall in positions that indicate they didn't even have time to try and shield themselves.|| For all the good it would have done if they had.
In Living World Season 3 Episode 2 it has been revealed that ||Primordus, and the other Elder Dragons, gained the powers of the domains of Zhaitan and Mordremoth.|| What does this mean? It means that ||every time we kill an Elder Dragon, the remaining Elder Dragons get even stronger.||
Sometime during Living World Season 3, if you happen to encounter a Ley-Line Anomaly running about Tyria, some creepy stuff starts to happen. Picture this: you're among others, minding your own business when you suddenly see a strange anomaly appear out of the corner of your eye. It disappears after a second and you ask everyone around you about the very strange occurrence...only for them to tell you that they have no idea what you're talking about. You insist that you had seen it, but your peers merely shrug and attribute it to a possible bug. You decide to brush it off, but from then on, the anomaly starts appearing to you more and more, yet no one seems to be able to see it, but you. It's almost like you're growing crazy, doesn't it? But you're sure it's there, you can't be hallucinating it right? That's the whole mystery of the /sad Anomaly (a name given to the anomaly by the community), a strange untargetable leyline anomaly that only appears in a player's clientside, meaning that they're the only one able to see it. This occurrence freaked a lot of people out when it first appeared and later was tied to the stealth achievement: Burden of Choice, which has a terrifying tale to tell itself.
In the Burden of Choice Achievement, after encountering the /sad Anomaly many times, the Commander goes to visit the Durmand Priory, unsettled and looking for a way to stop the visions of the anomaly. They are directed by Tranton to collect special pieces of Bloodstone slivers to put in an artifact called a Shadowstone. The Commander has the two unappetizing choices between giving the Shadowstone to the Consortium and using 'Krait Oil' to suppress the visions or to use the artifact on themselves to stop the visions. Nothing particularly happens if you hand over the Shadowstone to the Consortium, but if you happen to use the Shadowstone on yourself, the Commander will momentarily spazz out while the whole room is shocked with ley energy, but now you're rid of the visions...right? Turns out if you use the artifact on yourself, occasionally while jumping through a rift, the Commander will suddenly split from their physical bodies and become an anomaly fellow player can attack; which is fairly freaky. The result of the choices are still a mystery and it hasn't been brought up again since, but one can only imagine what is result using bloodstone or Krait Oil to cure the erratic visions will have in the future?
The theory behind why the Commander is seeing the anomaly is quite horrifying. The theory is that due to the high amounts of exposure to Bloodstone in Bloodstone Fen and the robotic behavior of collecting (craving?) bloodstones (players do this since it's a currency to buy items), the Commander is starting to get crazed by the Bloodstone they've encountered first hand. Of course, they haven't been directly exposed, but they are definitely starting to affect them. Although everything seems completely normal from the Commander's point of view, the very fact that they might be losing their sanity is a scary thought; the best part being that they don't even know it.
In the Living Story Episode Flashpoint, we get to see a glimpse of Primordus himself. ||Even if we only see the upper half of Primordus' head, we still get a good sense of how horrifyingly massive Primordus is in comparison to our character, making even the Mouth of Mordremoth look tiny in comparison. And unlike when we meet Zhaitan and Mordremoth, we're alone together with Taimi when we meet Primordus. If not for Taimi's device and Balthazar's hounds, who knows what Primordus could done to the player character and Taimi if he actually noticed us.||
Path of Fire
In a tragic and agonizing fight against ||Balthazar, the Commander is killed|| and they appear as a ||lost spirit, having forgotten who they were due to the trauma of their death, only that they had died||. Not only is that a scary thought, if they don't ||find out who they were and what their purpose had been, they would remain a lost spirit forever||, wandering aimlessly through a desolate zone forever.
If you pay attention as ||Balthazar kills your character with a fireball to the face, you'll notice that the screen doesn't immediately turn black, but instead your point of view gets knocked back by the blast while darkness and blood closes in on your vision||. This meant that ||your character was still alive after the last devastating blow. They were only alive for a few more seconds, but that meant they got the full experience of getting blasted in the face by the God of Fire and War. Or, they could be so close to the brink of death that they no longer felt pain; that they only felt it hit before burning to death in the blazing inferno||. Either way it's terrifying to think that ||you'd still be alive after a supposed killing blow.||
In Living Story Season 4, you have to ||buy an urn of your own ashes|| to craft the Dauntless Commander backpiece, implying that ||yes, Balthazar did fry enough to you that coming back to life meant rebuilding parts of your own body, if not all of it.|| Shudder-inducing.
If that wasn't scary enough, ||even though the Commander managed to climb back to the world of the living, if they had failed to kill the Eater of Souls, they wouldn't even produce a spirit||. Their soul would be ||destroyed and they wouldn't even get a chance to experience an afterlife at all, which also means they would never be able to rest in death||. Their whole being would just ||simply cease to exist||.
Fighting the ||Eater of Souls|| is a scary prospect in itself, mainly because it's a creature that sucks up lost spirits and consumes them, ||destroying their souls||. The Commander ||decides to fight it anyway, despite what could happen if they fail||. They succeed and manage to ||return to the world of the living...but isn't the power of the Eater of Souls, other dead people? What even is it?||
The Crazed Doppelganger event in Elon Riverlands. Imagine if you will, you riding out there in that zone on a mount of your choice, minding your own business. Then suddenly, without warning, an ominous message flashes across your screen saying "Something is coming for you..." on a red background and notifying you that waypoints has been disabled, complete with haunting music playing afterward. Approximately one minute or less later, you notice that a giant clone of your character (named 'Legendary <Character Name>') is running over toward you at high speed. Despite your attempt to escape, the Doppelganger's speed is too much for your mount and it knocks you off the mount, initiating combat with you. If you're unlucky enough that there's nobody nearby you when this happens, the doppelganger will likely kill you. It's possible that you're fortunate enough to be nearby a waypoint where players from across the map can teleport in to fight the doppelganger, but if you're not? Good luck surviving it.
At the end of the Path of Fire expansion we finally get to see ||Kralkatorrik. At least we see part of him; the Elder Dragon is absolutely colossal, so huge that all you can see is his castle-sized head and neck protruding from a massive cloud. According to descriptions, he's supposed to be a thousand feet tall and after you prevent Balthazar from destroying him (and the world with it) he not only absorbs the god's released power, but he becomes very angry. Right at the very end of the expansion, the earth starts to quake and a massive sandstorm builds up as the dragon sweeps across the desert again, turning everything beneath him to crystal...||
In case we haven't made this clear yet, ||how obscenely titanic is Kralkatorrik? Well, just study this image◊ comparing Kralkatorrik's head to his champion, the Shatterer. That's right, the giant crystal dragon that takes an entire army of players with heavy artillery to bring down that you fight in the Blazeridge Steppes could be swallowed by its master with a single gulp!||
Living World Season 4
Palawa Joko. In the first game, he was clearly past his glory days and occupied more of a comic relief role. Now? He rules almost all of Elona. His subjects are reanimated after death to serve him and are essentially brainwashed, although there are several cases of those who defied him being aware of this and unable to fight it; failures are tossed into a massive series of underground caverns with no way to die and achieve rest. When players reach Vabbi, they're confronted with a kingdom whose populace have been Conditioned to Accept Horror; fed endless propaganda, they worship Joko as a god and look FORWARD to becoming his undead slaves. And for an extra helping of creepiness, he has a living harem - some are there willingly, but others were either abducted, sold, or sacrificed by their families or villages to spare his wrath. Finally, there's what he did to the Last Spearmarshal, ||Princess Tahlkora. As one of the few who could disprove his claims of having slain Abaddon, he removed her eyes and tongue to prevent her from reading or preaching the words of Kormir. Then he had her tortured and executed with the intent of raising her as an Awakened, only to find that she retained her will... so he took away all but the smallest amount of power needed to keep her in that state before abandoning her corpse in a far corner of the desert. She can't be put out of her misery, and, until the player comes along, is only capable of communicating with the minds of animals. She's been in that state for over 200 years.||
||Koss|| reveals further creepiness with the Awakened. They're compelled to obey Palawa Joko's commands. This puts the Vabbian propaganda glorifying awakening in a different light. He wants people to desire awakening, so that his grip and control over them is strengthened.
And then there's what happens when he gets hold of modern Tyrian tech via ||the Inquest. Specifically because he knows it will hurt the Commander, he has the Awakened Inquest agents seal Taimi up in Scruffy 2.0 and set it to begin cutting off her oxygen and attack the Commander, setting up a boss battle in which Taimi is audibly having a breakdown, apologizing and begging for her life as she suffocates — and if you can't defeat Scruffy, it's implied she dies.||
The implications of his future plans for ||Tyria. He's using the Awakened Inquest to experiment with bugs. Scarab Plague Round Two?||
The trailer for the Living Story episode "A Bug in the System" got this reaction from a fair amount of fans, mostly due to its use of sudden glitch effects and a warped version of 'Fear Not This Night'. And upon release, we got confirmation of something a lot of people (both in and out of story) rightly feared: ||Joko now has access to the Scarab Plague (potentially even one that the Inquest have ENHANCED)||.
The final battle against ||Commander Lonai|| has the Commander and Braham ||jumping through unstable portals in pursuit||. Each area change is accompanied by ||a completely alien splash screen and ??? for the area text|| before landing in familiar but dangerous situations (||Lonai|| Awakening the dead in Divinity's Reach, the caldera of Mount Maelstrom with a very pissed off Megadestroyer, deep in Frostgorge Sound with a Claw of Jormag bearing down on them). The final leg goes one further, with the ||area text displaying ERROR: SIGNAL LOST|| and the destination being best described as ||nowhere||.
"Long Live the Lich" is chock-full of examples of Joko sadistically torturing people for no other reason than that it amuses him. A statue that can be found in the bottom of the ship in the first instance describes how he forced his personal sculptor to eat his wife's liver. Later, you find a widower being tormented by a projection of Joko that entertains the idea of slicing off and Awakening bits of the man's flesh, one piece at a time, and covering him in extra mouths to hear more screaming. Then the player enters Gandara, the Moon Fortress, and discovers ||a massive torture chamber full of copies of their own corpse. The fact that the bodies are under a glamour doesn't really make it much better, because the implication is that Joko slowly, brutally killed innocent villagers just so he could see the Commander die over and over. Not only is there a chair with some wine and cheese beside it, but one of the torture devices appears to be a Judas cradle.||
The revelation of what Kralkatorrik is up to in "A Star to Guide Us". Thought you were done with impending omnicide after stopping Joko and his plague? Well, now you're dealing with an Elder Dragon poised to ||eat the fabric of reality||. When it comes to Apocalypse How scenarios, you've jumped out of the frying pan and into the Sun.
After all the time you've spent bonding with Aurene, ||her multiple premonitions of being gruesomely killed if she goes against Kralkatorrik as she currently is|| are both heartbreaking and horrifying.
In All or Nothing ||you fight Kralkatorrik and the battle seems to actually be going well. And then he specifically starts targeting the Commander and Aurene, collectively using Zhaitan's, Mordremoth's, and Balthazar's magics to wipe out and crystallize the entire area you were just fighting in, likely killing or branding dozens of allies fighting with you. Despite that, it seems like you still have a chance and manage to get up close and gouge out one of Kralk's eyes, knocking him out and seemingly killing him. It all seems over and and the Commander and Aurene try to get close to Kralkatorrik's body to confirm that he is dead... and he raises his head up suddenly, opening his mouth and blasting you and Aurene as everything fades into black. He kills Aurene and would have killed you if she didn't block his attack's path. It seems like her vision was true - there was no true way to win against Kralkatorrik and she was doomed to die no matter what. You almost lose Aurene, and Kralkatorrik leaves the battle alive. The fact that you came so close, almost lost what pretty much was your child that you raised since birth only for her to be nearly horribly murdered by what was pretty much her grandfather and nothing you did prevented that sells how horrifyingly depressing the ending of this episode this.|| ||If it wasn't for Aurene becoming immortal thanks to Palawa Joko's magic, everything you did throughout the entire game would've been FOR NOTHING. No one else could have stopped Kralkatorrik, and he would've devoured the Mists, damning reality itself. Tyria and all of existence would've been destroyed forever.||
||Due to her immortality, Aurene was left in an And I Must Scream state, as the Branded crystals left her immobile and unable to heal herself.||
Episode 1: Whispers in the Dark
The very fact that Jormag is talking to you. Imagine the whole shindig that happened in Heart of Thorns when playing as a Sylvari, but worse. The voices are fairly consistent, tending to speak right after completing certain events and tasks. Unlike Mordremoth, whose dialogue was mainly just oppressive and mean, trying to force control on the Sylvari player, Jormag sounds benevolent, kind, and gentle, if not a bit creepy. Most if not all of their dialogue is akin to sweet talk. The whispers don't knock you down or jazz up your vision like Mordremoth did. If anything, Jormag is trying to comfort you and let you know that they're there for you. As if this isn't enough, during the quest step, The Invitation, Jormag actually uses the Commander's friends to belittle them. It wouldn't be hard to reject these voices at first, but imagine the malicious whispers of your friends chipping away at you, making you feel tired, unnerved, and alone, while the only thing who offered you any comfort was Jormag themself. What Jormag is doing is psychologically manipulating and warping your perspective until you join them willingly, rather than be forced like the other dragons. Jormag, Dragon of Ice and Persuasion is a fitting title indeed.
Judging by the last dialogue shared between the Commander and Braham, the whispers have already taken a toll on the Commander. Their delayed and rather uncertain response to Braham's question about not joining Jormag seems to imply that the Commander was actually considering Jormag's offer, even if only in passing thought, and had to remind themselves which side they were on.
The Boneskinner. While many enjoyed the Boneskinner's design and found it 'cute', it still stands that the creature is pretty fearsome. It hunts people and gathers them up to eat them, luring them with a similar method to the one Jormag employs, mimicking voices. Don't be surprised to hear a cry for help somewhere to find an empty camp, only for the Champion level Boneskinner to show up.
There's a hidden achievement for transforming into a Boneskinner (using a tonic) called 'Sweet Surrender'. The dialogue seems unsettling, at the very least. Foreshadowing? Who knows. For now.
You have accepted Jormag's strength and transformed into one of Jormag's minions. The flesh of mortals is yours to devour.
You can find a Norn Vigil member surrounded by the dead bodies of his allies, holding a dagger and talking about how he "doesn't want to do it". There's also an achievement that involves bringing several food items to a stranded and starving Kodan, the last of which is Boneskinner flesh, and said Kodan describes it as tasting sweet (even worse, the log dropped by the Boneskinner implies it may have been one of his missing companions).
There is an additional hidden achievement called 'Give in', which you can get by sleeping in Bjora's Marches. The description of the achievement describes how tired the Commander is, how their trials are endless, that what they should do is just sleep. Rest. The scary thing about it is that Jormag uses this same lie to win over the people at the keep, promising them warmth and sleep, only for them to perish out there in the cold. The whispers even 'lament' on the fact that the Commander is tired during the story. This hidden achievement seems to imply that the Commander actually fell for this lie, even if just for a moment.
Jormag speaking through the corpse of the Fraenir is frighteningly detailed. The whole time the body is being moved around, you can see broken bones hanging at wrong angles - particularly the Fraenir's dislocated jaw, which Jormag repeatedly forces into a smile while trying to coax you...
The ambient map of Bjora Marches is terrifying. If you wear headphones, you can hear whispers in the background, and you're not the only one Jormag is whispering to. You can cross paths with Vigil soldiers being led off to let themselves die in the snow, Kodan talking to empty air, and one memorably disturbing instance where you find a Kodan logger standing in the middle of a ring of bodies. If you try to talk to him, you get hit with his hallucinations and see them as trees. He murdered all his companions and has no idea.
Like any other part of the story, you can replay this map and episode for achievements. However, when you talk to other characters, they're vaguely aware that they've already been through this and are even more confused and afraid of what's going on. It's not just a gameplay mechanic that events can be repeated in Bjora Marches the same way it is everywhere else — Jormag is messing with your minds, and every time a character begins to remember they've already been through this, they forget immediately after.
Episode 2: Shadow in the Ice
The offering to Wolverine Event. The other two events (Eagle and Ox) are pretty straightforward and require you to do a relatively simple task. Wolverine is the same way, but it involves having to navigated through twisted woods, stalked by Champion-leveled Boneskinners with Toxic Frost shrooms dotting your path. Have fun quietly sneaking past the danger just to give Wolverine an offering.
Bangar's drive for power and ruthlessness is fully showcased when he shoots an arrow which pierces the Commander's heart, fatally wounding them in order to stop the Commander from stopping him from claiming he defeated Drakkar. He seemed fully ready to deal the final blow if Braham had not gone enraged and transformed into Wolf to protect his friend. Bangar is not a Charr to be underestimated.
Episode 3: No Quarter
Smodur goes off the deep end in this episode, with standing orders to set a firing squad on traitors rather than take them prisoner. It's one of the first things the Commander gets to see when they touch down in Drizzlewood. He's fervently pushing for a bum-rush into enemy territory with no regard for strategy or safety, and doesn't even flinch at fire-bombing the Dominion's non-combat personnel in the name of winning the war. He ends up killing Cinder Steeltemper in the middle of a negotiation with Ryland, which turns him against the United Legions for good. It's a far cry from how reasonable Smodur's been in Tyria's past.
Episode 5: Champions
Braham ||slowly being subsumed by Primordus' personality. While it's clear by his actions that he's trying to stay in control, seeing him reduced from his usual combat banter to a simple enraged "Kill. Ice." is disturbing.||
Ryland's ||breakdown after Jormag is defeated. Unable to accept that he's lost and stand down, he repeatedly throws himself against Rytlock, Crecia, and the Commander's weapons, even though he's so exhausted that merely attacking depletes his stamina... but what really gets through to him, more than all their pleas and threats, is Crecia saying she should've killed him when she gave birth to him to spare the world. He throws himself at her in a maddened rage, only to be stabbed and killed by Rytlock, who holds Ryland and apologizes in a broken voice to his corpse.||
Act I / Seitung Provence:
End of Dragons starts off on a strong (and terrifying) note with the Old Friends story step: Gorrik's old friend Ankka has lied to him and taken him as a hostage of the Aetherblades. On your frantic fight through the Aetherblade fleet, Aurene begins attacking the ships to help you out... but Ankka was prepared for that. Against the commands of her captain, she attacks Aurene with a device that extracts Aurene's magic as the dragon screams in pain and falls out of the sky.
Act II / New Kaineng City:
Mai Trin's entire situation. Imagine having a murderous lunatic like ||Scarlet Briar|| not only in your head at all times, but potentially able to influence your actions because you weren't properly trained in the magic that binds you together. It's presented as being just as exhausting and frightening for her as fighting off Mordremoth's control was for a Sylvari Commander.
The way Soo-Won ||writhes in agony after Ankka uses the extractor on her|| is hard to look at.
Act III / Echovald Wilds:
The Arborstone instance gives everyone their first glimpses of what The Void can do.
A corpse just lazily floating in the air with no way to get it down.
A group of several people who were quite literally scared to death.
A corpse that's missing all his internal organs with no sign of an incision on his body, just the empty space.
The entire Echovald Unmade achievement. The Void has begun corrupting Echovald Forest and the people inside it, and two of the incidents needed for this achievement strike a terrifying chord:
A doctor has been called to take a look at a village girl by her frantic father. Her father says that his daughter asked to sleep in her parents' room - and said something was in hers - but he didn't let her. Now she's possessed by an eerie, terrifying power, and continues to speak in a toneless voice about how tomorrow isn't coming, and the end of the world approaches.
A tengu has to be restrained because she's tearing out her own feathers. Her daughter pleads with her to calm down, but she can't stop screaming about what she's seen and begs those around her to kill her.
The Shadow versions of dragon minions that the Void's presence creates are shudder-inducing, especially the champion variants lurking under one of the villages. The fact that even benevolent minions like the saltspray dragons can be killed and converted makes it worse.
Ankka. Ankka. So mentally damaged by the Thaumanova incident and the time she spent in the Mists, it's clear at this point that something is horribly, terribly wrong with her; she really thinks that the best thing for the world would be to have everything destroyed by entropy, and in her dying throes, she says all she ever wanted was a little stimulation.
Act IV:
The Kaineng Unmade achievement is just as bad as the Echovald one:
An entire room full of Xunlai Jade employees is massacred by something that came out of a portal. One of the survivors is so traumatized that she's barely coherent and one of the guards throws up when talking to you makes him remember the condition the bodies were in.
A woman is trapped in her home in pitch-black darkness. As her husband outside tries to encourage her, she screams in panic that something's hunting her.
There's a corrupted jade servitor that randomly spouts nonsensical comments about the end of the world. The disembodied voices around it add their own unsettling commentary.
Act V / Dragon's End:
Soo-Won is begging you to kill her throughout the entirety of her boss fight in the Dragon's End map. She knows she can't hold back the Void forever — it's causing her to fight you right now, even with her trying her best to stop — and she knows, also, how dangerous she could be if the Void fully overtook her and sent her on a rampage. Failing to defeat her in time results in her sacrificing part of herself to contain the Void, with the implication that - eventually - there won't be anything left to sacrifice.
The Void variations of the dragon minions are creepy. The Void versions of the Elder Dragons themselves are downright terrifying, especially Zhaitan and Mordremoth. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuildWars2 |
Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Rocket's origin story, which shows him helplessly flailing and trying to escape. He is then bound to a chair and essentially has a history of military training
*burned into his brain*. The procedure affects him so badly that his own mother and siblings do not recognise him and consider him something different.
- Peter almost being Thrown Out the Airlock
*twice*, the first time by accident and the second time on purpose.
- From Groot's short, ||Ronan gutting Groot's planet after wiping out all the specimens but him- burning them all with Death from Above||.
- "Knowhere to Run" introduces a brain parasite that causes its victims to relieve guilty memories, and experience the pain they inflicted on others. Gamora in particular relieves memories so painful, that Star-Lord has to beg Korath to make it stop.
- Groot's fungus infection has transformed him into a gigantic monster who went on an uncontrollable rampage. The Guardians fear that the villagers will resort to Kill It with Fire methods, even if it means killing Groot.
- There is a species with telekinetic powers. Their coming of age ritual strips their children of emotions at 11 in order to control their powers better. The Guardians are horrified.
- Mantis' Death during which she wore the helmet thinking that she would have powers however it Reduces her to ashes
- Everything involving Korvac, an AI who will turn organic life into mindless extensions of himself that even J'Son fears him. Jerkass Dad is bad enough, but Peter is just
*horrified* seeing his father become taken over by Korvac.
- Doctor Minerva torturing Rocket in "Gotta Get Outta This Place" to get him to become a "good rodent". Even the other Guardians are convinced she broke him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2015 |
Guardians of the Galaxy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Wolverine's ravenously psychotic great-great-great granddaughter from volume 1, Rancor, is a walking repository for these moments. If her Ax-Crazy behavior wasn't enough to unsettle (she scalps her own cousin—non-lethally—just to remind him who's in charge) her constant,
*horrifying* smiles will. Some of the best artwork in the 90s series was of Rancor and her various nightmare expressions.
- The opening of issue 7 in Volume 2, beginning with the original Guardians fighting the Badoon invasion of Earth, only for them to randomly start dying, due to time itself falling apart at the seams.
- The Eldritch Abomination the team are attacked by on a mission to a Dyson Sphere. Only it's not an Eldritch Abomination. It's the sphere's population, who were the ground zero for a Negative Space Wedgie that fused them into one big screaming mass, which devours everything it touches. And nothing the team has can kill them.
- Moondragon getting "impregnated" by an Eldritch Abomination, as well as how it got into her, by forcing its way down her throat. The only consolation is that we don't hear the noises, which the rest of the Guardians assuredly do.
- What ||a just revived Thanos does to the Chuch's homeworld. He razes it to the ground and kills every living thing on its in the space of a few hours, all while in a blinding rage.||
- Groot◊, possessed by the gone-rogue Venom symbiote. Later, Rocket◊. And
*then*, Drax◊.
- The final fate of the universe in Infinity Wars. Gamora takes a page of her father's playbook by making half the universe's population dissapear. But while Thanos was merciful enough to simply just have them vanish form existence without pain or any kind of suffering, Gamora took the insanity to sadistic, and incredibly terrifying levels by having every single individual in the universe fuse with another to form a new being. And yeah, at some point it is implied that the two old beings are still conscious inside the new merged being, making it a horrifying case of Silent Scream. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy |
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Nightmare Fuel page, all spoilers are unmarked as per wiki policy. You Have Been Warned!** **Peter Quill:** There's a little pee coming out of me right now.
- Ronan the Accuser is introduced bathing in some sort of blue liquid. We find out what it is when Ronan cracks a Nova Corpsman's head open like a watermelon (off-screen)... yeah, that's Xandarian blood, which drains into an ornamental pool deep enough for Ronan to fully submerge in. That's a lot of dead Xandarians he bathes in.
- Eson the Searcher, one of the Godzilla-sized Celestials, wiping out all life on a planet with a single stroke of his scepter.
- Imagine being Peter. His mother dies, and the second he runs away from the hospital, he gets abducted by aliens and all he can do is scream for his recently-deceased mother. Then the Ravagers raise him but also semi-jokingly threaten to eat him because they'd never tasted a Terran before. Even if Yondu never
*actually* meant it due to coming to decide Peter was better off with than his murderous father, it still scarred Peter a fair amount.
- Imagine being Peter's granddad; the same night his daughter dies of a brain tumor, his grandson, whom he told to stay just outside the hospital room, disappears without a trace.
- Carina's disintegration when touching the orb, pictured above. The Collector's previous servant starts banging frantically on the glass of her cage when she realizes what Carina is going to do, but it's too late to stop her. The poor girl's screaming
. **does not help**
- The cybernetic implants in Rocket's back◊ are rather hard to look at. Quill can't help but show some sympathy.
- Later, when Rocket is drunkenly ranting about the experiments, it's revealed that the scientists took him apart and put him together multiple times. And he might well have been lucid during all this (or, worse, became self-aware sometime in the process. How'd you like your first coherent thought to be "Please let me die"?).
- Nebula's rapid healing after being shot by Drax's bazooka, with bones audibly and visibly snapping back into place.
- When Ronan starts blasting through the Nova Corps' defensive net, we see the commander of the squadron, Saal getting slowly
*crushed* to death. Even Rocket winces at that.
- The effects of touching the Infinity Stone with one's bare hands are nothing short of horrifying. Your entire body begins to burn from the inside out. Your eyes melt as your skin crumbles and flakes off before the power eventually consumes you and vaporizes your body in a massive explosion. The last thing you hear is your own agonized shrieking. Unless you're Peter Quill or Ronan. Or Thanos.
- For someone who spent the entire movie being a fairly nice if somewhat selfish guy, Peter Quill wielding it is terrifying.◊
- Even though there's few things more satisfying than watching Ronan getting his comeuppance, the gasp of utterly horrified agony on his face as he's hit by the stone's power is terrifying.
- Thanos. He only appears in person once, but that one scene makes him enormously creepy.
**Thanos:** The only matter I do not take seriously, *boy*, is you. Your politics *bore* me. Your demeanor is that of a pouty child. And, apparently, you alienated my favorite daughter, Gamora. *[Nebula scowls]* I shall honor our agreement, Kree, *if* you bring me the Orb. Return to me again empty-handed... and I will **bathe** the starways in your blood.
- If Gamora's floating, dying body after the attack by her sister in space wasn't scary enough, then it is when Quill goes out to save her and ends up slowly dying as well. His skin quickly freezes up and his eyes get all bloodshot. Space Is Cold, indeed.
- Groot taking on the inmate who harasses Peter by shoving two of his "fingers" up his nose and presumably continuing to grow them into his sinuses, if not piercing towards his brain. He then unceremoniously rips them out. Owwww. As they walk away, he can be heard crying in pain on the floor as blood splashes from his nose.
- Gamora's reception in the Kyln, surrounded by hostile inmates who wanted her dead because of her association with Ronan and Thanos. When they catch her later, a
*guard* tells them to go to the showers because it'll be easier to clean the blood. As Rocket said, all the guards care about is preventing escape attempts. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 |
Gundam Build Fighters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
While
*Gundam Build Fighters* is Lighter and Softer compared to most other Gundam series, this series is not without some scary moments.
- If you look closely at the second opening title sequence for Gundam Build Fighters, we see Chairman Mashita and his aide Baker standing in a room filled with Mobile Suits from various Gundam series, and they obviously look quite sinister-looking (One of them is the Master Gundam, no less!). THEN we get a close-up look of the Chairman and the Mobile Suit behind him stops at Gundam Exia with its red optics glowing, and cue the Chairman making a maniacal grin. It's really unsettling.
- In Episode 14, we see Chairman Mashita's aide Baker essentially hires a mobile suit equivalent of a hired gun (Mr C.) to eliminate Sei and Reiji's Star Build Strike Gundam and he would stop at nothing to hinder their way and prevent them from reaching the finals. And Sei and Reiji were nearly eliminated from the competition due to Mr C.'s intervention, he was clearly celebrating in his private chambers.
- That's not mentioning he unleashes a 1/48 Mega Size Zaku II to target Star Build Strike Gundam in Episode 12. Because of the sheer scale size difference, it's like trying to face an enemy that has a Machine Gun putting out a battleship's main gun battery sized shells. A single
*glancing* shot was enough to destroy the Gundam-X Maoh's shield.
- It has been revealed in Episode 15 that there is a
*mafia* that is more than willing to kill off any player pilot's mobile suit for a price.
- If that's not enough, the Embody System in Episode 20 is a mixture of the Berserker System and Psycomet Mu-szell. Making the system at full output not only Mind Rape her, but also cause her to keep destroying Fenice even through Fellini had conceded from the battle. When Aila Jyrkiainen's Qubeley Papillon reveals its glowing Tron Lines, you know you are terribly, horribly screwed as an opponent.
- Worse is that just using it in general causes pain and numbness. That's why Aila acts so emotionless when in the suit.
- Now take all that, and imagine being a homeless orphan who has to go through that day after day just to have a roof over your head or food to eat.
*That* was Aila's life until the World Tournament.
- Take one look at Exia Dark Matter, and ask yourself whether you will be afraid when this Mobile Suit appear in Gunpla battle. Hint: IT'S RED AND BLACK, AND LOOKS DAMN EVIL.
- And it shows how cruel it can be in Episode 24 by immediately attack the Build Strike before it has a chance to even react, and later when the field is changed and hunting down the Build Strike in a narrow corridor.
- How Yuuki got the Embody System on him in the first place. Unlike Aila he was by no means tricked into donning it, but it was
*forced* on him by Nine Barthes and the PPSE staff by simply physically overpowering him. Just seeing a nice person like Yuuki being helpless, and forced to become the complete antithesis of his beliefs is just horrifying. Also there is the disturbing implication that Mashita used this very same system to make the second Meijin so ruthless.
- And the fun with the Embody System doesn't end there. Early in the series we are told that the second Kawaguchi had fallen ill requiring Yuuki to take the title and in the beginning of Episode 23 we get to see what kind of state he is in. It's heavily implied that he had been forced to use the Embody System just like Yuuki and it is also implied that that is the end result when using it for too long. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GundamBuildFighters |
Gundam: Reconguista in G / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The show is about a bunch of naive and/or power-hungry fools pushing the solar system into an apocalyptic war, and it wouldn't work if they didn't make the war bit scary. Some specific examples:
- The G-Self Perfect Pack's photon torpedo launcher, which may be the terrifying weapon in the show. It is a cloud of drifting, sparkling antimatter particles that simply erase anything they touch. The only time we see it fire, Bellri literally dissolves an entire Wuxia squadron. And Bellri wasn't even using the system at full power specifically to avoid killing the pilots! It disturbs Bellri so much he never uses it again after the first time.
- The movies upped the ante. With just the single press of a button, Bellri turns the whole battlefield into matter disintegrating minefield with the proverbial mines being completely invisible. You have no idea they are there until you run into one and of course, by then it is too late. And this time they do not discriminate where they hit with pilots being confused and terrified as their mobile suits just vanish from under them before they themselves soon follow. Everyone watching this, friend and foe alike, are utterly dumbstruck with Bellri himself who unlike his TV series counterpart was utterly horrified by the whole thing, hearing the screams of the dead even after it was over. It is to the point that he tried to get rid of the Perfect Pack out of fear what it was capable of.
- Barara's rampage with the Yggdrasil in episode 24. It is a colossal mobile armor that attacks by sprouting root like beams that home in on enemies from all directions. While simple, the attack closes off all routes of escape, meaning you WILL die if you're in its effective range.
- The concept of the Kuntala. While it is never spelled out to us, the clear implication is they are descendants of a class of people who were born to be eaten for food during a time where food was incredibly scarce. Even more so, it is implied that the practice is still carried out in other parts of the world.
- The Gundam G-Lucifer deserves a special mention. Even though it looks like what would normally be a traditional final boss mech from any other Gundam series, it is part of the Megafauna's crew. So normally it should be a target for any of its enemies. But in every battle it's been in, almose everyone, especially the G-IT Lab (who built the thing), avoids directly engaging with it in battle. The reason for this is because it is an another mobile suit built using Hermes blueprints that boasts incredibly high performance, and is equipped with 3 funnels capable of clearing out entire fleets of enemies with ease. But this isn't the scariest thing about it. According to Tomino himself, The unit is equipped with a fully functional Moonlight Butterfly System, the same type used in Turn A Gundam, on a smaller scale and with all the necessary requirements to use it. Considering the main usage of said weapon is to turn anything in its radius into sand via nanomachines, and the ones seen in Turn A could reach all the way to Jupiter, it is pretty obvious why nobody wants to get close to it; it is an almost guaranteed death sentence for them and possibly the entire fleet. Essentially, while it doesn't do much, it is the strongest mobile suit involved in the war, and nobody, ESPECIALLY the Labs (who know about all its capabilities), wants it pointed towards them.
- In the Blu-Ray release, we actually get to see Raraiya use the Moonlight Butterfly. It disables a Towasangan battleship at range with little to no effort. Imagine that used on an entire army. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GundamReconguistaInG |
Gundam Build Divers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"Episode 1
*This is a program for beginners?*"
- Even from the start of the first episode, we were treated to Do-ji, a player who hunts beginners for points. Magee's words imply that he has done so many times undetected before Riku and Yukki's first Dive.
Episode 2
- The introduction of Mass-Divers, players who "Break-Decals" to strengthen their Gunplas. The Gunpla in question emits a purplish aura, and results in Sarah feeling sick from it.
- The fact that Ogre has no hesitation to attack any player, including Riku, who never intended to pick a fight with him and is basically defending himself from another crazed player. Ogre almost tries to attack the 00 Diver in its defenseless state before Sarah interferes.
Episode 3
- More information regarding the Mass-Divers: Because of their usage of "Break-Decals", GBN started to experience glitches and errors. One of them was already shown in episode 1 from a defeated Leo NPD suddenly rising and attacking Yukki's GM III Beam Master before Riku destroy it for real.
- Adding another fear to it is that users of this systems are beginners and low-tiers of GBN. This is, unfortunately, Truth in Television, though that also works in the favor of the heroes when they eventually prove cheats can't cover up all of a player's flaws and are easy to overwhelm once spotted.
- Three Mass-Divers try to steal the credits that Riku, Yukki and Kyoya had developed from their fights. The effects of using Break Decals are once again shown when the Devil Gundam (See also that series' NF page) appears in a level which Walter Gundam previously in without the players even moving to its own spot. Said Gundam bursts out from the digital sky like a broken mirror, not unlike the Choju of
*Ultraman Ace*.
- One of the Mass-Divers try to log out but a glitch from the Break-Decal kicks in when he can't and all of them get destroyed in a very gruesome manner. Yeah, given that it's a game they're not
*dead* but experiencing death by one of the Gundam franchise's most terrifying monsters can't have been pleasant.
- The female Mass-Diver piloting a D Jegan [ECOAS] gets munched alive by a Gundam Head. Even Kyoya questions the game system if Devil Gundam proves to be a suitable opponent for beginners. Even worse is that the Devil Gundam is not a straight-build, like the Leo NPD (note the blue paint job), insinuating that the monstrous "ver. GBD" was created
*on purpose* for non-raid missions. The fact that it's already reached its One-Winged Angel state also implies that the builders managed to replicate *the DG Cells*, causing it to evolve behind their backs.
Episode 5
- In The Stinger, the hooded man is confirmed to be the distributors of Break Decal and was just handing over a stronger version to a single customer. His words imply that he is well aware of how the programs affected the GBN system but enjoys it anyway.
Episode 6
- A literal nightmare for Koichi in this episode: he dreams of the day when his former teammates abandon him after GPD was replaced by GBN and Koichi smashes the Galbady in his hand to the ground. This is partly Truth in Television when
*you* are the only person left in a group of hobbyists while others have move on.
- While still oblivious to the characters, to the audience, the hooded man that distributes Break Decals is revealed to be ||one of Koichi's former friend, Tsukasa||.
Episode 7
- Although this is a show targeted at children, Galbaldy Rabake's IBO styled Hammer Pliers are equally as brutal as the Gusion Rebake Full City's Scissor Shield. Koichi's opponent is lucky that this takes place in a VR world.
Episode 8
- When ||Stea|| activates the Break-Decal, we get to see what that "stronger" Break Decal can do as it breaks Beargguy Park over its knee, causing rides to go haywire, putting its riders in jeopardy (even if it
*is* a VR world)
- Even though it's supposed to be Played for Laughs, when Riku, Yuki, Sarah, and Momo all go into "stalker mode" in an attempt to convince Ayame to try on a Beargguy costume (while repeating Bear, bear over and over) is rather unnerving. Ayame's reaction (including scream) doesn't help.
Episode 9
- And the nightmares keep coming! This time, it's ||Do-ji|| who uses the Break-Decal, but not of his own volition it seems. This one causes tornadoes to form, multiple tails sprout from its back and grants
*regeneration*. *And it moves on its own*. This is no longer just a bug-breaking system, we've reached *DG CELL LEVEL THREAT*.
- Speaking of Mass-Divers, a single one was revealed to have fought against Rommel's team in The Stinger off-screen, having ravaged through all of 7th Panzer Division's ace pilots, including a Rick-Dias and a Buster Gundam.
Episode 10
- This is probably the darkest episode of the series so far and,
*boy* does it hit you with the Nightmare Fuel! A member of Rommel's team infiltrates Tsukasa's base, but is exposed and allows his team to deal with him by *shooting him in the face!* We have left the *Gundam Build* universe and returned to the classic Gundam universe here!
Episode 12
- Tsukasa's final gambit goes into overdrive here as his Final Break Decal on his Big Zam goes beyond just affecting an area as it spreads to
*all areas*, all of them amplified by other Mass-Divers. He was ready to inflict a Universal Metaphysical Annihilation by effectively *deleting the game*.
Episode 20
- This episode hits hard with ||Sarah after she was revealed to be the new bug of GBN after the Break-Decal incident. First, the GBN Guard Frame tries to approach her had not for the game creator appeared and second the administration labelled her as a public enemy. Its not only Sarah who will be affected, the Build Divers are also in for a nasty moment||.
Episode 24
- Victory befalls on Build Divers and they prepare to return to the log in tower to transfer Sarah. So everything is going to be all right, isn't it? No. The final trace of Sarah's bug brings the Raid Battle's boss 9 minutes early from its intended competition and serves as the final villain to save Sarah. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GundamBuildDivers |
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The flashback to the events leading up to Kim Shin's death. Kim Shin and his army return from war to find Kim Shin is now considered a criminal and a group of soldiers are waiting to arrest him. Then they start shooting at both Kim Shin's army and the civilians standing around. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardianTheLonelyAndGreatGod |
Gunnerkrigg Court / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
From *Chapter 35: Parley And Smitty Are In This One*:
- Robot being cut right through and Shadow 2 being torn away from the ground by Coyote's Tooth. They turn out to be perfectly fine, though Shadow 2 is disoriented, but considering it's
*Coyote's Tooth* that did it, the scene in question is definitely an example. Also, all the time the sword is *laughing*. Swords shouldn't laugh... **Parley:** Oh god, I - I dropped it... **Smitty:** It's OK, it's OK, Pearl. **Shadow 2:** Urghh... I... don't feel so... good... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GunnerkriggCourt |
Grrl Power / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Maxima gets pretty scary towards the end of the press conference, especially towards the pink haired reporter who is really only doing her job. Particularly when said reporter asks why Maxima went full power for the demonstration, prompting Maxima to laugh at the notion that she'd gone full power there.
Ariana's "what if" scenarios that feature what she thinks is going on after Max's show include a bandaged man speaking in Arabic saying (according to the provided translation) "Dead, am I?" Recall that Max once said the only super who could ever match her is dead and get the shivers...
And Maxima does not fight fairly, as highlighted twice during her fight against Vehemence. First, she coordinated with Peggy to shoot out his left eye, then took advantage of Halo's distraction to blast off his arm, threatening to do it to his head if he didn't surrender.
Deus's theory about super-intelligence is nothing short of paranoia-inducing, as he lays out the simple fact that a god-like intelligence would certainly be smart enough to conceal its own existence from the world at large, and the only reason anyone would even know it existed was if it wanted people to know. His expansion on the topic isn't much more comforting: he theorizes that, just as physical super-abilities come with Required Secondary Powers that prevent superpowered individuals from simply destroying their own bodies every time they use their abilities, super-intelligence must also come with super-wisdom or super-benevolence...but he acknowledges that what constitutes "benevolence" is subjective and relative, and possibly incomprehensible to those of non-super intelligence. Even creepier is the unspoken implication that he just might be talking about himself. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GrrlPower |
Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- When Shendu destroys the Book of Ages as a last petty jab to foil Jade's victory over him, the laws of physics quickly start breaking down as space, time, and reality itself starts dying. The fact that Jade's page still exists also means that she's the only one unaffected as her reality starts tearing itself apart at the seams, helplessly watching as existence starts unraveling, giving her a front row seat to
*wonderful* sights like her family and friends gaining and losing mass, color, and body parts at random. She then desperately bites onto her thumb and uses her own blood to try and use the last page to fix things.
- Later, it's implied that the Cavalcade of Horrors and/or their master not only know of the old world before the remnants were mixed into the W.I.T.C.H. one, but may be
*from* the chaotic mess that the destruction of the Book made.
- The Cavalcade and their master in general, really, not the least being how they apparently empowered Tarakudo to Physical God levels.
- When Jade first lays eyes on Phobos, she notes that, at first glance, he looks the most "normal" out of his court, before getting a look into his eyes and seeing nothing but an all-consuming void, giving her the impression that something is just
*wrong* about him.
- Wearing an Oni mask for an extended period has negative side effects upon removal, to say nothing of the other side effects, or what happens when the General takes full control.
- Tarakudo is basically a Physical God on the level of a Heart-user when he enters his full-bodied form, and if the Calvalcade's master didn't still need her, he would have killed Nimue and her apprentices.
- Tharquin has repeatedly tortured and killed shapeshifters, and does the same to Jade despite them supposedly being allies, ending up dead at Jade's hands when her friends and family track them down.
- Rhogular is an unrepentant rapist, and even
*mocks* Lady Ishol's husband about what he did to his wife. No one is shedding any tears when Caleb kills him.
- Phobos wasn't exactly a paragon of mental stability
*before*, but after Wong's betrayal, he starts to become a full-blown example of The Caligula, Hearing Voices and becoming paranoid, losing what little sanity he already had.
- The Samurai Khan's greater intelligence is rather unnerving, Cornelia in particular is rather disturbed by how
*human* they act when they seem to *cheer*.
- Jade, if she tricks someone into consuming her blood, can manipulate
*their* blood.
- A flashback shows that one of the Faithful present at Phobos's birth was so freaked out by him being born a boy that he tried to kill the infant in front of the Queen.
- Phobos, after taking the Heart of Meridian, is an insane Physical God who can reshape reality. He turns the Whisperers into humanoid monsters (each with a copy of his face) and unleashes them on the Guard, quickly puts the Guardians on the ropes,
*drags a meteor out of space* and drops it on the capital, and finally stops time so that he can kill Uncle.
- Caleb being fully corrupted by the Sword of Thanatos by overusing it. He proceeds to go on a rampage, slaughtering everyone he comes across regardless of which side they're on, and doesn't even recognize his father or Blunk when they try to stop him.
- A bit of Fridge Horror — during a flashback to a time when Uncle is comforting a young Jackie over his parents' deaths, he tells Jackie that it's okay to cry, because the only people who don't cry are monsters who can no longer feel anything. And then at Uncle's funeral, it's specifically noted that Jade isn't crying.
- The Cavalcade of Horrors and their Master are shown overseeing all the latest developments alongside Tarakudo, and
*laughing* about what's to come. Even Tarakudo is disturbed by this.
- The White Death is a horrifying example of The Plague that swept Meridian around two centuries ago, and when the cause is discovered to be a white insect infecting crops, these crops are burned despite the widespread famine this causes. Thankfully, this succeeds in stopping the plague.
- Nerissa's Start of Darkness chapter shows the act that led to the Oracle taking the Heart from her. She went to the world Creznac and launched a Decapitation Strike on its countless ever-battling warlords, killing most of them and their armies, killing thousands to try and forcibly bring about peace. And she sees nothing wrong with what she did. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters |
Guards! Guards! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The idea of having ||a Dragon as a ruler|| is so absurd and terrifying as a metaphor for the absolute power of monarchy that all Sam Vimes could do is go Laughing Mad.
Even more disturbing is seeing the people of Ankh-Morpork slowly adjust to live under these circumstances, up to ||accepting the necessity of Human Sacrifice. Vivat Draco!||
||The last moments of the Brethren.|| All of a sudden, ||Death|| joins the conversation and nobody notices until it's too late.
Brothers, repeated Brother Watchtower, trying to re-assert himself, we are all here, arent we?
There was a worried chorus of agreement.
Of course we are.
Whats the matter?
Yes!
||Yes.||
Yes.
Making the above worse is the build-up, with the rats fleeing and the sound of ||the Dragon|| suddenly approaching. The ensuing damage is so bad that when ||Brother Fingers|| returns to the headquarters his friends have been melted, and hes so traumatized that merely being asking if he wants a snack toasted makes him freak out and run into the Shades.
Its important to note the context: The snack in question is called a 'figgin'. The oaths taken by the Brethren, including Brother Fingers, state that betraying the Order will result in, among other things, having one's figgin removed and roasted on a spike (and yes, the oath was referring to the pastry, not that any of the brothers besides the leader knew that). Given that, it's no wonder he runs away: He thinks he's about to be tortured.
The Dragon's first appearance has it briefly appear on the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Its first victim is an unfortunate thief who mistakes the noise for a mugging victim, jumps out behind the wall and is burned to ashes before he can even finish saying "OH SHIT".
Wonse suffers a major Villainous Breakdown and Sanity Slippage over the course of the story, to the point where he tries to summon another dragon in a mad attempt to redo his plans. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/GuardsGuards |
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