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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked.
- Frank Bryce's opening chapter has a few moments:
- The Reveal that he
*had* seen Tom Riddle, Jr., aka Lord Voldemort before he became the snake dude, before the Riddles were killed. And Frank was arrested for the crime, though fortunately the police defied Police Are Useless and let him go because there was no evidence connecting him to the deaths, especially the cause. Tom Jr. didn't see Frank as a threat, but if he had, Frank could have easily joined the dead bodies. It gets worse when *Half-Blood Prince* reveals that Tom framed his uncle Morfin Gaunt and brainwashed him into confessing to the murders; the Wizarding World had thought they had caught the culprit, but didn't bother telling the understandably concerned Muggle authorities.
- The scene when Frank goes up to the Riddle House on seeing the lights on and knowing that it must be squatters. He doesn't call the police, feeling cynical about his arrest, and decides to confront what he thinks are harmless miscreants at most, like the teens that run their bikes over the lawn. He goes Oh, Crap! on listening to two men talking casually about how they murdered a woman named Bertha Jorkins and plan to capture a child named Harry Potter. It doubles as a Heartwarming Moment that Frank then decides to go to the police because this Harry Potter person needs to be protected. Then Nagini busts Frank before he can even leave, and he's forced to enter the room with Lord Voldemort, who quickly kills him.
- Voldemort doesn't even
*remember* Frank as the groundskeeper from all those decades ago. He's in a But for Me, It Was Tuesday moment and condescendingly addresses him as "Muggle". Frank tries to bluff and say his wife is waiting for him. Voldemort tells him he knows Frank has no wife, but admires his bravery and decides to "face him" as Frank defiantly suggests. Frank, a seasoned war veteran who went through hell once, *screams* on seeing Voldemort's form and gets killed mid-scream. Then his disappearance is noted in the papers, but no one finds his body. Dumbledore is the only one who checks up on him while Harry remembers him from his dream.
- In the film, as Voldemort kills Frank, the camera cuts back to Frank's cottage where the forgotten kettle, still on the lit stove, is seen boiling over, its whistling in sync with Frank's terrible dying scream.
- It's treated as a throwaway gag, but in order for the Quidditch World Cup to be held, it was necessary to inflict amnesia and varying amounts of Mind Control on dozens of people who weren't doing anything nastier than visiting/living in an out-of-the-way bit of the moors.
- The whole scene in the book where the Death Eaters first reveal themselves at the Quidditch World Cup. Even though they don't cause any lasting harm, it's made abundantly clear that they're essentially a
*lynch mob* with magical powers. The scene of them humiliating the Roberts family is the first of many future atrocities committed by Voldemort's followers against Muggles, and a chilling prelude. We have four powerless people, including two children, completely at the mercy of a group of racists who can do anything to them, and relish in their misery.
- They magically levitate the family of Muggles and rotate the wife such that her underwear is exposed. It just gets worse when the Trio runs into Malfoy, who smugly informs the Muggle-born Hermione that they're targeting Muggles. From that point on, it was impossible to ignore the real-world subtext of this series.
**Malfoy:**
Granger, they're after
*Muggles*
. D'you want to be showing off your knickers in midair? Because if you do, hang around... they're moving this way, and it would give us all a laugh.
**Harry:**
Hermione's a witch!
**Malfoy:**
Have it your own way, Potter. If you think they can't spot a Mudblood
, stay where you are.
- And let's be honest: Malfoy's "knickers" line is about fifty times more unsettling if you're over the age of thirteen. To someone who's old enough to know about the concept of sexual harassment, Malfoy comes off like he's not-so-subtly suggesting that Hermione might be raped.
- Which is certainly a disturbing-enough implication on its own, but the fact that Hermione is a
*fourteen-year-old girl* just adds so much more Squick to the scene.
- Oh, and it gets worse. These particular Death Eaters likely aren't strangers to Malfoy. The fathers of his two lackeys were probably there. Hell,
*his own dad* was there, as Voldemort later says that Lucius's antics at the World Cup were entertaining.
- While it's massively cut-down in the film than in the book, the Death Eater riot at the Quidditch World Cup has quite a bit of terrifying imagery. In the film, for starters, you can see the silhouettes of them marching amongst the burning tents, wearing tall pointed caps and masks and overall looking
*very* similar to Klansmen.
- The Unforgivable Curses. They are so-called and net a lifetime sentence in Azkaban for very good reasons, especially when used on a fellow wizard/muggle:
- The Imperius Curse. Imagine being forced to do things like mutilate yourself and kill others with it. It puts you in a blissful state where you feel removed from any concept of consequence or responsibility. In other words, not only will you do whatever the caster wants, you will be happy while you do it.
- The Cruciatus Curse, which is painful enough that two of its victims were rendered insane for life! Harry even described it as feeling like his head was split open and his insides were lit on fire!
- And, last but not least,
*Avada Kedavra* AKA the Killing Curse. Lily and James sacrificed themselves to this to protect a baby Harry, and Harry sees it hit Cedric and later Dumbledore with his own eyes. The utter horror of the Killing Curse is just too mind-boggling to think, especially for Muggles. Imagine: It is a spell that is cast specifically to *kill*. It's like shooting with a pistol, except that pistol kills because it inflicts messy biological damages, which may not always happen with fatality (though as the word says: "When you shoot, you shoot to kill"). The primary characteristic of the Killing Curse (and why it is so handy to Dark Wizards) is that *it leaves no biological damage*. Once you are hit by the green flash (which you will hear coming as a gush of wind), you just drop dead, your internal organs being as the same before, except that they immediately stop functioning. Not even wizards know why exactly it happens; imagine having to explain it to Muggles who have absolutely no idea why their neighbors suddenly have their life-force ripped from them as if the beings above stripped them of their right to live.
- The Killing Curse is such an atrocity that later books note that the damage on one's soul it inflicts is a reliable way to create Horcruxes. This spell is such an abomination that not even the caster is safe from its effects.
- During the demonstration of the Imperius Curse, "Moody" initially plays off the Imperius Curse as a playful spell by doing humorous gestures with the spider to the laughter of the students. Then "Moody" suddenly points out all the things he could force the spider to do... including jump out a window, drown herself or (in the book) launch herself down one of the student's throats. The laughter stops when the students realize why the Imperius Curse is considered unforgivable.
- The scene where "Moody" tortures the spider is one of the most disturbing scenes in the series when put into context. Crouch Jr. was convicted as one of the Death Eaters who tortured Neville's parents into insanity, and now he is performing the same thing on a spider in front of their son Neville just to torment him, under the guise of being a concerned teacher preparing the class for life, causing him to stare at the scene in horror with wide open eyes and his knuckles white from gripping the desk. Hermione even begs for the "Moody" to stop torturing it, which leads into... ||
*AVADA KEDAVRA!*||. It's creepy and disturbing enough as it is, but is it possible to come to this scene with context without having nightmares?
- In the movie, it's even worse, as we see the spider twist and screech in pain, and while Neville obviously feels sick in witnessing it, but Hermione just screams at "Moody" to stop because it's bothering him, and it's clear that she can't take it anymore either.
- When Moody asks Hermione what the final Unforgivable Curse is, this is one of the few times in the series where she is hesitant to actually give an answer and she never does. She knows full well what it is, and is on the verge of tears knowing exactly what Moody was going to do to the spider.
- Harry's reaction to
*Avada Kedavra* is only slightly better. He instantly remembers he sometimes saw its green flash when he tried to concentrate on that fateful night and is almost as shocked as Neville. Only difference? *Avada* lasts for only a second. *Cruciatus* is prolonged.
- The only time the effects of the curse are described in detail is in the opening of
*Goblet of Fire* when Voldemort's human family are described as having looks of abject terror on their faces as if they had been frightened to death.
- And then a bit of Fridge Horror kicks in; these are the "Unforgivable" Curses, right? So why is the professor so okay with a casual demonstration of them in full view of a bunch of students...? Of course, it's later revealed that the "professor" was a veteran Death Eater in disguise for almost the entire school year. Spiders be damned, Crouch didn't
*care* what he was casting.
- The second task of the Triwizard Tournament in the Black Lake in the film adaptation. The merpeople's design and their shockingly aggressive attitude when the Berserk Button is pressed; and the unexpected appearance of Viktor Krum's transfigured shark head.
- And the Grindylows which, despite the fact that they were only seen from a distance or below, were extremely territorial...
- Rita Skeeter. She does her own bugging. It's a creepy thought that an unscrupulous character can crawl through any crack and crevice and spy on others in the form of a beetle.
- Out of all the Nightmare Fuel in the
*Harry Potter* series, one of the most unnerving has to be in "The Madness of Mr. Crouch". You have a possessed man, dragging himself through the forest and foaming at the mouth; talking to a tree one moment, then desperately clutching at Harry's robes the next, issuing a warning and saying his son's death was all his fault. All the while, Harry can do virtually nothing to help the situation, Viktor is useless, and Crouch Sr. mysteriously disappears.
- "I'M YOUR SON! I'M YOUR SON!" Crouch Jr. screaming and begging incite pure feelings of terror in that moment.
- And then there's Crouch Sr.'s response. "You are no son of mine! I Have No Son!"
- The third trial in the tournament is frightening in both the book and movie. It's a giant, magic-infused maze full of dangerous creatures and tests, designed to push the competitors to their physical and mental limits.
- In the book, Harry faces down Boggarts, Acromantulas, and Hagrid's blast-ended skrewts, and witnesses Cedric being unexpectedly tortured by an Imperius-ed Krum. And of course, after Cedric and Harry decide to both take the cup, they're whisked to the graveyard where Cedric is murdered by Wormtail.
- The movie gives the whole scene an incredibly dark and surreal vibe as the maze itself attacks the competitors. And when it's not doing that, you're still practically alone, wondering around an endless maze that seems to cover
*the entire grounds*, knowing that time is against you and yet trying to keep a cool head... but how long can you, by yourself? Fleur is nearly in tears and when she's attacked by Krum, the maze seems to be trying to *eat* her, though Harry thankfully marks her spot for help. Then Krum almost attacks Harry and the viewer can see the creepy effect of the Imperius curse on his eyes. Cedric and Harry brawling as they each try to reach the cup first is very disturbing as well, culminating in Cedric nearly being pulled under by the maze.
- The Erklings in the video game version are creepy as hell. They are known to lure children away from their parents to eat them. Oh, and they also sing this eerie melody.
- The fate of Bertha Jorkins: She's captured by Wormtail and brought to Voldemort, who then proceeds to torture her for information about the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, even managing to break through the Memory Charm that Crouch Sr. placed on her. Note that he doesn't specifically mention the Cruciatus Curse; he only says "with a little persuasion," so there's no telling
*what* methods he used to get all he needed out of her. When he's done with Bertha, her mind and body are both damaged beyond the repair of even magic and utterly useless if he tried to possess her. And so, as he describes it to the Death Eaters, he 'disposes' of her, like a bit of rubbish, then uses her death to make Nagini into a Horcrux.
- The entire graveyard scene, really, which is complete with mutilation, dead bodies, and torture.
- "It looked as though Wormtail had flipped over a rock and revealed something ugly, slimy, and blind. Only worse, a hundred times worse. [...] A crouched human child, only Harry had never seen anything that looked less like a child. It was hairless and scaly-looking, a dark, raw, reddish black. Its arms and legs were thin and feeble and its face—no child alive had ever had a face like that—flat and snakelike, with gleaming red eyes."
- Three words: "
*Kill the spare*". Cedric Diggory, a 17-year-old Hogwarts student who participates in a tournament that can finally raise his house's prestige with a successful Quidditch career, a caring father, and a loving girlfriend, with a compassion towards his fellow compatriot on the tournament even if it reduces his prestige and goes out his way to help him, *killed because he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time*. From this point onward, it begs no question of why Harry acts paranoid all the time and desperately wants no one to associate with him; he's afraid that Cedric's fate is going to befall them. Though, it also speaks an awesome moment for his friends and Ron and Hermione in particular, who stubbornly always follow him no matter how dangerous being in that position is.
- Even worse: It was Harry who suggested that they take the cup together.
- When Nagini speaks in the film adaption, it sounds way too human. Thirteen years and several films later, we find out that there may have been a good reason for this.
- Lord Voldemort's return. It's not just the fact that he's done something incredibly dark to return. And not just the fact he had Wormtail kill a seventeen-year-old boy whom he saw as spare weight. It's because of what this MEANS.
*Avada Kedavra* doesn't have just ONE survivor. It has TWO. One of which is THE MOST evil and vile wizard of the past century, a monster who started a war because he wanted to rule over everything. Seeing it in the film and reading it in the book doesn't change ANYTHING about what it means. And imagine Harry seeing him not in another person's body, not as a child, but what was most likely him as he looked at the height of his power, the same monster that killed his parents.
- The books were rereleased with illustrations by Jim Kay, and the pages leading up to Voldemort's return just
*ooze* with Nightmare Fuel, with him rising out of the cauldron depicting him as a gaunt, almost wraithlike horror, and the next chapter where he summons the Death Eaters? Two pages are *dominated* by Voldemort's hellish red eyes . **staring right at you**
- Voldemort's resurrection scene is much more nightmarish in the film than in the book. The Riddle gravestone is a statue of a skeletal Angel of Death which Wormtail animates to trap Harry with its scythe rather than tying the boy to a plain gravestone. Instead of just a bit of dust, a femur bone is levitated from Tom Riddle Sr.'s grave and ignites as it falls into the potion, and a few drops of Harry's blood is dripped off the knife with which Wormtail cut him and not more collected into a vial.
- The film version is probably Ralph Fiennes's best performance as Voldemort. He speaks calmly and gently, even when talking about how he's going to kill Harry to prove his strength. Even his request to not wear contacts works because seeing his natural blue eyes makes you remember he Was Once a Man but not anymore...
- The film version of Harry returning to the stadium with Cedric's body is both this and a Tear Jerker; everyone initially believes that this means Harry and Cedric were victorious and starts celebrating, the crowd cheering, Professor Flitwick starting the band and everything. Then Fleur gets a better look at the state the two are in and
*screams* the minute she realizes what really happened...
- Fake!Moody reverting into Crouch Jr. and clawing at his own eye... because another eye is trying to grow in the place of the magical eye Moody had to replace his lost one. And Fridge Horror sets in that at one time, he had to go through the reverse process: turning a perfectly-functional eye into an empty socket.
- Also, this eye itself is a little scary because it's electric blue, it can move independently from the other eye, and it can
*see inside Moody's head and through solid objects*.
- For some more of the Fridge Horror, there is the fact that Polyjuice Potion only lasts an hour per dose. In other words, Crouch Jr. would have almost certainly kept swapping between his disguise and real self each morning and night, since he wouldnt be able to drink the potion while sleeping.
- Moody was locked in his trunk for the better part of a year. Anyone who fears And I Must Scream will shudder at that thought.
- Along with the reminder that the right potion is enough to allow the user to impersonate any human and that could be anyone, not only a group of schoolchildren who wish to play heroes but also murderous cultists working as undercover agents.
- Crouch Jr.'s sheer uncanny ability to impersonate a trusted authority figure for months on end, and to play on Harry's desire for a parental figure, is also chilling. His bout of Evil Gloating, when he reveals his actual intentions just before his real identity is exposed, is quite the jarring whiplash for both Harry and the audience.
- Crouch Sr. and Frank Bryce were actually the first true deaths in the series (after Quirrell, and Harry passed out before that guy fully expired). Both minor characters, so they're sort of skated over, but upon re-reads, it's really the first warning sign that the stakes are about to get really high.
- And then his corpse is transformed into a bone and buried so it can never be found. And all this was done by his own
*son*.
- The final fate of Barty Crouch Jr. Thanks to Cornelius Fudge being too spineless to even feel able to face an already neutralized criminal without backup, he brings a Dementor with him and according to McGonagall, it
*immediately* swoops down on Crouch Jr. and he suffers the Dementor's Kiss, reducing him to an Empty Shell. Even *Harry*, who has *just* been rescued from being killed by Crouch, feels a chill when he hears what happened...
- The fact that Harry knows many of the Death Eaters present at the Graveyard, four of them are the fathers of his classmates(and in the case of three of them, bullies) whilst another is an executioner. Harry also learns that one of his OWN TEACHERS was a Death Eater, it really brings you a sense of paranoia that must have been present during the first war, where many of Voldemorts followers remained anonymous and werent caught. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire |
Hayao Miyazaki / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Hayao Miyazaki is one of the greatest anime film directors of this generation. That being said it doesn't mean that his works won't frighten you.
Spoilers for several films below.
Films with their own page:
Other:
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*The Castle of Cagliostro* has several very frightening scenes. For anyone afraid of corpses, it's a bad movie. The protagonists end up in a dungeon filled with centuries worth of unwanted guests and they even take a nap there. Bonus points for later featuring a scene in which some characters swim through the canal inside the dungeon. Obviously, the floor of the canal is also made out of dead people.
- Special mention goes out to the villain's death. The guy gets crushed between clock hands with a sickening
*snap* kind of sound.
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*Howl's Moving Castle*:
- The Witch of the Waste, her blob things, and what happens to her in the room of lights.
- Forget the room of lights, what's even worse is when Howl ||makes his contract with Calcifer|| in the flashback, which puts into perspective
*exactly* what those lights are, expands the ideas of what they can do almost infinitely, and worse, tells you that they are out there somewhere and not created or under the control of any magic user. Complete with unintelligible Ironic Nursery Rhyme.
- Howl's gradual transformation into a bird-monster, with it being harder, slower, and more painful to change back every time.
- The dream Sophie had where she discovered Howl in said form and he says, "Go away." Enough to send chills up anyone's spines, especially if you recognize Christian Bale's Batman voice during the dream.
- That moment when Sophie thinks that Howl is dead and the ring helps her to find him. Miyazaki always has great visual representations for magic, but
*liquid darkness* is probably the most awesome (and one of the scarier) things that happen in anime.
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*Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea*:
- The scene where Ponyo tells her father she wants to go back to Sousuke. When you think about it later, you realize that Fujimoto is basically
*forcibly sedating his daughter to the point of knocking her out.* Her sisters look a bit freaked out themselves.
- Fujimoto's minions. They're very unsettling with the distorted mumbling and the freaky eyes. And fact that they rush and submerge a five-year-old?
- Ponyo's chicken leg transformation.
- There's something unsettling about the scene where Sousuke finds his mom's abandoned car. While the rest of the film was very fantastic and whimsical, (just moments before you had a five-year-old and his best-fish-friend sailing an enlarged, candle-powered toy boat) but all of a sudden Sousuke seems genuinely frightened and vulnerable, just like a real kid. The suddenness and realism of this scene, with Sousuke tearfully crying for his mom, is oddly disturbing, tapping into the fear of a kid being alone and a parent knowing their kid is alone. It's made worse moments later when ||Ponyo starts to change back into a fish.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HayaoMiyazaki |
Headless Halloween / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Brandon discovering his own corpse at the bottom of Raven's Ravine. The Halloween party Brandon goes to, where he is at one point forced to bob for apples in a tub filled with living cockroaches, and has to eat one in order to stop playing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeadlessHalloween |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Even in Muggle territory, you are never safe from the wrath of the Dementors.
WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked.
Montague's experience after Fred and George stuffed him into a Vanishing Cabinet. He spent weeks in a pitch-black limbo, hearing snatches of conversation from either end, taunting him. Eventually, he managed to apparate himself out, an experience which almost caused his death.
Made worse by the fact that it turns out that the aforementioned Vanishing Cabinet is the same one used the following year by Malfoy to create a passageway into Hogwarts for some of Voldemort's top Death Eaters.
Not to mention how casual everyone is about it. Sure, Montague must be a grade-A douche to join the Inquisitorial Squad, but trapping him in limbo for weeks just for trying to dock you some house points? That's kind of messed up.
And where he wound up after apparating? A toilet. Not just a bathroom, not just a bathroom stall, crammed inside of the toilet itself. Claustrophobic doesn't begin to describe it.
Harry being forced to carve his own hand open with Umbridge's blood quill. This is straight-up child abuse and physical torture on a fifteen-year-old teenager who already has enough problems without her rubbing salt in the wound. In the film, at least, we have this line that summarizes just how monstrous and horrible Umbridge really is.
Umbridge: That's right. Because you know, deep down, that youdeserve to be punished. Don't you, Mr. Potter?
The scene where Umbridge attempts to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry. This is the Wizarding version of Cold-Blooded Torture at its worst, only previously described as having been used by Death Eaters and Barty Crouch Sr.'s team of interrogators, and she's about to use it on a fifteen-year-old boy. The Cruciatus Curse is capable of causing insanity and considered so horrible that its use is punishable by a life sentence in Azkaban. And when Hermione tries to make her stop since it's illegal, Dolores has this to say:
Umbridge: What Cornelius doesn't know won't hurt him.
The top of it? It was she who sent Dementors after Harry. Worse still, this was only possible because of the Ministry hiring and weaponizing Dementors in the first place. Umbridge's actions reflect badly on her, but they're a more damning indictment of the entire wizarding government at the time.
And then there's what Hermione does to her. Harry thought she was leading her to Grawp, but instead she was willingly leading her to the centaurs, hoping they'd deal with her. By the time Dumbledore rescues her, she has no visible wounds but is temporarily catatonic and terrified of hoofbeats from whatever she endured. It's even worse if you're familiar with Classical Mythology. While the Potterverse's wise centaurs are a far cry from their savage mythical inspirations, the image of centaurs dragging a woman into the wilderness still evokes (intentionally or not) the legends of what such creatures infamously did to human women they captured in raids.
There's also the fact that Harry noted that the path Hermione chose leads directly to Aragog's nest. Good thing that the centaurs find them first.
The Marauders bullying Snape is pretty unsettling. He's frozen in place, choked with soap, and hung upside down in front of the entire school. Although we don't know if it actually happened, James threatens to remove his underwear and expose him. It's heavily implied that this sort of thing was a regular occurrence for him, and that he's so unpopular that nobody, other than Lily, comes to defend him, with many cheering James' bullying on. Snape, in turn, defends himself with a spell that is seemingly a prototype for the very dangerous Sectumsempra. The fact that the scene ends with Snape lashing out at the one person who came to his defense and she in response then uses the same insult of "Snivellus" against him only adds to the sense of how this was his "worst memory".
The Department of Mysteries has a few moments:
The vat full of brains, and the Time Room. Made even worse by the fact that the heroes saw it in the middle of the night, when it was unoccupied.
The room with the dais. An enormous rectangular room with a sunken pit twenty feet below in the center, with stone steps leading down to it and an old, crumbling archway in the middle. The fact that the veil of this dais is fluttering with no one being there to move it is frightening enough; when you learn that it is actually the gateway to death and that the veil's fluttering is caused by souls of the dead who are waiting on the other side.
Especially creepy considering it's an amphitheater. Which was probably used for public executions in the distant past!
The Death Eater whose head—just his head—is regressed to a baby.
The Love Room. Out of all the many horrors, the contents of this room is the one that they feel they need to keep behind a permanently locked door.
Hell, the Department of Mysteries itself. A top-secret government agency that only those with the highest security clearance are allowed in, inside which all of the creepiest and most dangerous magic is studied. Where have we seen this before?
When the Death Eaters emerge from the darkness in the Hall of Prophecy. You know it's coming, but something about seeing/reading about six teens in a darkened room surrounded by eerily glowing white crystal balls (which they must NOT touch, unless they wish to go insane), and then seeing the glistening masks of the Death Eaters emerging on all sides... sends shivers.
Bellatrix Lestrange, in particular, is creepy. She shows up with a mad cackle and an almost jovial air to her maddened self. Then Harry says Voldemort's name and her mood abruptly shifts, her eyes bugging out, and she bellows, "You filthy half-blood!" And the book in particular has the additional factor that we've already seen the aftereffects of what she did to Neville's parents.
A few seconds later, as they run to escape, Dolohov apparates next to Harry and his smoky face hovers right next to Harry's own face as Harry tries to escape, keeping pace with him...
The Battle of the Department of Mysteries speaks volumes, considering how it involves a group of four 15-year-olds and two 14-year-olds fighting for their lives against the Death Eaters, and the various injuries they get are horrific by itself, but the most horror has to be what Hermione experiences. She is struck by a mysterious purple spell conjured by Dolohov, which causes her to faint and immediately crumple, showing all signs of someone being killed. Harry is actually very, very scared in his narration that she is really going to die, although it fortunately does not happen. After the battle, it is noted that Hermione has to experience a lengthy recuperation process that involves drinking a lot of potions for several weeks. Oh, didn't we mention that Dolohov is muted at that time due to Hermione silencing him? Nonverbal spells are not as powerful as verbal, which brings up a Fridge Horror of what would happen if he was not muted at that time. It is quite possible that a verbal version of this spell is what Dolohov uses to kill Lupin in Deathly Hallows. Rowling never elaborates the nature of this spell, unlike other high-end curses like the Unforgivable Curses or Sectumsempra or even Fiendfyre. What we know is that it can be negated but not deflected completely and that it inflicts some sort of internal damage as from the outside the people hit by this spell is peaceful-looking. It sounds an awful lot like a Theme Park Version of the Killing Curse, which is not much better.
Even worse, Harry himself is also struck by this unknown spell, though in his case, it's weakened by his Shield Charm. Harry describes the experience as "a streak across his face with a blunt knife". And even in his case, it is enough to knock Harry off his feet. Dolohov also tries to attack Sirius with this spell, but he is taken out by Harry before he can do so.
The brains in the Department of Mysteries do... something to Ron, at first he's so disoriented that he doesn't seem to mind, but even in that state he quickly notes that it is not pleasant. Whatever it is that happened to him, he needed potions to forget it all, and he still carries physical (and probably psychological) scars. He and Hermione are the only ones after the battle who needed a prolonged stay in the infirmary.
Boggarts, generally all bark and no bite except for Parvati's mutant jack-in-the-box (a significantly less terrifying mummy in the book), are given a Wham Moment when Mrs. Weasley, trying to get rid of one, is forced to see the dead bodies of her family (and Harry, in a darkly heartwarming moment).
Even worse is how the Boggart cycles through various dead relatives when Molly is attempting to use Riddikulus on it. That's right; she's so traumatized by seeing her family dead that she can't even beat the Boggart, and it keeps traumatizing her even more. Harry also gets a Jump Scare when he sees the dead "Ron," before remembering that it's a Boggart, and is then unnerved at the sight of his own dead body.
The possession scene at the end of the film. Daniel Radcliffe completely sells the idea that poor Harry is being ruthlessly mind raped by Voldemort. Not to mention Harry's snake-like writhing just screams out that something thoroughly inhuman is trying to possess his mind and body.
Harry/Voldemort:You've lost, old man.
There's something about Harry's blank-eyed stare as he lies still and slightly twitching that's horribly unnerving too.
One of Harry's hallucinations during the possession is of him looking into the Mirror of Erised and seeing Voldemort's face in his reflection.
"Look at me."
Hagrid attacking the Aurors after they gang up on Fang and McGonagall. Sure it's Beware the Nice Ones, but this scene also shows just how dangerous someone who is 11'6" and weighs probably around 1000 pounds can be when you piss them off. Add in that because of his giant blood, he is immune to the Stunning Spell.
The photograph of the original Order of the Phoenix. As Harry lampshades, so many in that photo are doomed and are unaware of their fates.
And just think about how some of those old Order members died. Some were murdered along with their entire families, some (like Ron's uncles) were outnumbered, and others were blown to bits.
Harry's dream where he sees Arthur being attacked by Nagini, with the description of his ribs shattering beneath the attack. If Harry hadn't been quick, it may have been hours before Arthur was found. This scene is especially disturbing because the narration makes it sound like Harry himself is the snake with an uncontrollable urge to bite the man. It's also disorienting because it comes right after Harry was having an already-odd dream about Cho, and it's not immediately clear what's going on.
Legilimency. The idea of someone intruding in your mind is pretty creepy and in the case of Harry all too likely to happen.
In the video game adaptation, for the levels set in Sirius' house, if you pass by the curtain-hidden portrait of Sirius' mother, she will suddenly shriek at the top of her painted lungs "FREAKS!", "TRAI-TOOORS!", and the like. The first time (or few times) you pass by her, you willjump.
And when you hear her suddenly screaming at the top of her lungs the presence of half-breeds, Mudbloods, blood traitors, freaks and so on after someone makes too much noise in the books (tripping on something, running down the stairs, ring the doorbell), it's quite scary 'cause you don't expect that.
The scene near the beginning, where Dementors suddenly appear and choke Harry can be unnerving to some. Even Harry was shocked that these creatures actually can attack you someplace that isn't the Magical World.
The aftermath of the Dementor attack in the book leaves Dudley so traumatized that he can't even stand up on his own. While Dudley has always been a jerk, no one deserves to deal with a Dementor. After everyone is (mostly) okay, Harry finally wonders what exactly Dudley could've felt that was that terrible. What's worse is when Word of God reveals what the Dementors forced Dudley to see: himself as the bully he was until that point.
When Harry and the Weasleys are visiting Mr. Weasley at St. Mungo's Hospital, they come across the long-term ward for patients suffering from permanent spell damage. One of the patients is a woman whose entire head is covered in fur; she can only communicate by barking. It's implied that her condition is either the result of a failed attempt to become an Animagus or a botched batch of Polyjuice Potion. Neville's parents also live there, still alive but tortured into insanity by Death Eaters, suffering from brain damage so severe that they can't recognize their own son.
A defiance by the director/studio actually turns into another case of this: The scream Daniel Radcliffe lets out during Sirius' death scene is muted in the film. It looks like an extremely convincing job of miming but research on the making of the scene reveals that Dan did do a real scream in the take, but the filmmakers deemed it too agonizing and made the decision to cut the audio. This was a PG-13 movie in a series that had already dipped into some disturbing material (the entire ending of The Goblet of Fire, anyone?). What must that scream have sounded like? Brrrr. Doubles as Tear Jerker as it's been stated that Daniel's scream was so gut-wrenching made Emma Watson (Hermione), Bonnie Wright (Ginny) and Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix) cry. That said, it speaks volumes about Daniels skill as an actor that he could make other actors cry. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix |
Hazbin Hotel / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Warning: Spoilers Off applies to this page. Proceed at your own risk.
"Stay tuned..."
Considering Hazbin Hotel is literally set in Hell, there's gotta be moments that are pretty scary. There's a reason why Vivenne put a NOT FOR KIDS disclaimer on the titles of her Hazbin Hotel videos.
The trailer has a number of scenes with imagery that firmly establishes that the characters are demons and the setting definitely takes place in Hell. While many of these scenes certainly qualify as scary, some of the really creepy ones are those with Alastor in them. Among these is one particular noteworthy Freeze-Frame Bonus, as pictured, which stands out as being the definition of absolutely pure nightmare fuel.
Alastor, pictured here, was a serial killer in life and never loses that wide, toothy grin on his face.
The reason Alastor smiles all the time; he sees smiling as a show of power and dominance, and sees anyone who lets other emotions show as weak, no matter how objectively strong they might be. It just drives home how much of a sadistic monster he really is, and calls into question his motives for backing the Happy Hotel all the more.
The fact that demons can apparently only ever be killed by an Exorcist (the creepy Angels) or a weapon that said angels left behind after the exterminations must mean that all the demons we see getting brutalized, like the guy who stole Angel's drugs and suddenly got crushed by a random boulder, and the Egg Boi who had a bomb shoved into him and thrown into his boss's face, are still alive despite how much damage has been done to them. Imagine how far torture must be able to go in Hell, if the person being tortured can't die from the experience...
Word of God also says that destroyed souls turn into essence that is generally absorbed by the ground. Whether this is required to keep Hell's very existence from literally crumbling to nothingness or if every soul decomposed and absorbed just makes Hell more of itself is currently unknown.
While we only see a glimpse of them, we do get a look at the beings enacting the annual genocide in hell. They are silvery-skinned angels very appropriately called Exorcists with horns, notched halos and still holographic faces that sometimes glitch.
Said holographic faces wouldn't look out of place on your standard bloodthirsty killer, but nope, these are supposed to be angels and it's clear they enjoy what they do.
We see the aftermath of one of these exterminations at the start of the pilot, with corpses being strewn across the ground, a demon yanking angel weapons out of a corpse before other demons start to chow down, and a clock tower counting down the days until the next yearly extermination...
The aforementioned corpse is that of a boutique owner, and as her body is devoured by the other demons, we see her business partner cross her name off of the store sign with a wicked smile on her face. Yikes.
You even hear a barely audible scream effect when her neck suddenly snaps. It's as if the animators themselves realized how horrifying what they just drew was.
The way Alastor looks at Charlie when she starts singing "Inside of Every Demon is a Rainbow." His smile stays, but his eyes narrow in a predatory way, and his shadow moves without him, leering forward as Alastor cocks his head in interest.
Even worse, there's a poster behind him warning people about the dangers of his alias, "the Radio Demon" with "BEWARE!!!!!!" and "Do not fuck with him!" scrawled on it.
There's also the fact that the poster and his shadow show a much more monstrous form than his already frightening appearance, which seems to indicate that what we see is only some kind of glamor or disguise.
Charlie is by no means the scariest demon in the gallery, but seeing her shift from her happy-go-lucky normal face to a red-eyed, horned monstrosity on a whim can get pretty creepy.
The various images of Alastor that are shown as Vaggie recounts to Angel Dust Alastor's past feats. Made worse by the deliberately jerky, limited animation making it look like articulated paper dolls.
At the end of the pilot, Alastor defeats Sir Pentious by summoning an enormous tentacled monstrosity that ensnares his blimp. When the blimp explodes, Alastor has the mother of all Slasher Smiles, and this is only a mere glimpse of his powers. Who knows what he could be capable of next time?!
The "Addict" music video is a thousand different kinds of ghastly, except the horror comes from the music video showing just how much damage sexual abuse can do to a person. On top of that, it reveals that Angel's Bad Boss Valentino uses his authority over Angel to systematically manipulate and force him into a very one-sided, abusive relationship.
For starters, we see him forcefully kissing Angel while in his limo. One scene later and Angel is having a complete breakdown in his room, violently throwing things before curling up into the fetal position on the floor and crying. Notice that the front of his tuxedo is open...
At the very end of the video, there's a brief flash in Angel's mirror showing Valentino bending Angel over from behind, holding his hips, and Angel is very obviously not enjoying what's happening. If you have a keen eye, you might notice what appears to be fuzzy handcuffs around Angel's wrist, and it will start to dawn on you.
With that in mind, the sinister, perverted look on Val's face as he watches Angel at the beginning of the video is especially disturbing.
In the limousine, just before Valentino forces Angel to kiss him, we see the two girls who were sitting with him during the latter's show making out and one of them looks somewhat uncomfortable with it - since Valentino is so abusive to Angel, one of his biggest earners, it's not a stretch to imagine he's just as bad with all his other employees as well.
What makes Valentino all the more terrifying is that people like him exist in real life, so he can cut a little close to home for victims of abuse similar to the one that Valentino puts Angel through.
Dirty Healings
This is the first time we are formally introduced to Valentino, one of the overlords of Hell and Angel Dust's pimp. His first action is to sadistically force Angel Dust into prostituting himself to earn the money he was meant to earn during a porn shoot.
More concerningly, Angel Dust, who earlier just easily decimated a crew of thugs with a barrage of firepower, appears to be physically shaken, and even frightened by Valentino's presence. Prior to this encounter, Angel has always behaved with a smug and condescending demeanor. But in front of Valentino, he wouldn't dare say anything that might get him on his boss's bad side, and complies without resistance. This comes to show how great a threat Valentino could be later in the series.
A Day in the After Life
The entire comic pretty much goes out of its way to demonstrate just how terrifying Alastor is. As he takes his leisurely stroll throughout the city, almost every demon either cowers or outright flees in terror at the sight of him.
A downplayed example, but at one point, Alastor happens to stop by an electronics store and cast a disinterested look at the televisions in the display window. Some of them happen to be showing Vox on the screen...when suddenly, in a burst of static, they switch to a larger version of Vox, who takes up all the screens combined as he flashes a Slasher Smile...and it's implied that he can see Alastor. Big Brother Is Watching, it seems...
Also worth noting? Alastor shrugs off the incident with some snark at the TVs, but as he walks away, the Radio Demon curses to himself under his breath while muttering trash talk about his rival Overlord. Given that we've seen Alastor unruffled by just about everything so far, what kind of power does Vox have that gets under his skin? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HazbinHotel |
Harry Potter / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Harry Potter:**
I'm scared, professor.
**Professor Lupin:**
Well, I'd consider you a fool if you
*weren't*
.
*Harry Potter*... it's just a series of children's books about a boy going to wizard school, right? Totally kid-friendly, right? It's late, but give it a read anyway...
Spoilers abound. You have been warned.
## Franchise entries with their own pages<!—index—><!—/index—>
- "The Warlock's Hairy Heart". A wizard decides he's above the weakness of love and performs some sort of Dark magic to prevent him from ever loving anyone. When he hears his servants laughing at him for being single, he tries to woo a woman to be his Trophy Wife, but she refuses to marry him unless he shows her that he has a heart. During a feast at his castle, he takes her down to the dungeon to show her where he keeps his ACTUAL, STILL BEATING HEART encased in a crystal casket—which, thanks to lack of love, is now twisted and hairy beyond recognition. The witch understandably freaks out and begs him to put the heart back in, so he cuts open his chest and does so, and she then embraces him. Time for a Happy Ending with the wizard saved by The Power of Love, right? Wrong. The warlock's heart is so unused to feeling love that it has deteriorated to an animalistic state, driving the wizard to find a true heart. He does this by
*cutting out the witch's heart and trying to magic out his own*. The dinner guests then find him downstairs, *one heart in each hand, with him licking and stroking the witch's heart*. When he can't magically remove his own hairy heart from his chest, he vows never to be mastered by his own heart, hacks it out with a knife, and bleeds to death. In the liner notes, Dumbledore even notes that many parents won't tell it to their children "until they're of an age where they won't have nightmares."
- Beatrix Bloxam, who rewrote a sanitized version of Beedle's stories called
*The Toadstool Tales*, remembers accidentally overhearing the story as a child and being so traumatized that she started sleepwalking and didn't leave her bed for a week.
## Pottermore stories
- From the story of the founding of the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
## Video games
- In the soundtrack is a theme called "Dark Hogwarts" which makes certain scenes really unnerving. Also themes called "Quirrell Stage 1-3" are pretty intense and used in the final battle.
- In the PC version of
*Philosopher's Stone*, Quirrell grabs his head and literally rotates it 180 degrees on his neck so Voldemort can see Harry face-to-face, while making a nasty gurgle.
- Filch in general. It doesn't help that he can and will chase you in the Forbidden section of the library. Prefects in the PlayStation version count as well, and they can use
*Locomortor Mortis* to tie you in place.
- When you have finished PS1
*Philosopher's Stone*, you can have a final look of your wizard card collection. When you exit, the screen goes dark and you hear a creepy, evil laugh which heavily implies that Voldemort will return.
- Aragog the Acrumantula in the
*Chamber of Secrets*-games is a nightmare even if you don't have arachnophobia. Doesn't help that, unlike in the book and movie, he is a boss fight.
- In a game full of chests to be unlocked and Beans and Cards to be collected, Peeves finds himself right at home as a Chest Monster to stop quite a few collectors dead in their tracks. His very first appearance is a Jump Scare. And there's no way of knowing which chests he'll jump out of
## Other/Unsorted
- Ezkridis was an insane Dark Wizard and the creator of the island and fortress that would later become Azkaban Prison. He would lure Muggle sailors there and perform horrific Dark magic experiments on them and/or torture and kill them just for fun. When the Ministry finally found the place (the charms concealing lifted at some point after his death), they entered the fortress and found, among the horrors there, Dementors.
- Given no In-Universe origin has been given yet for the Dementors' existence and no one apparently knows it either, it is possible that the Dementors were created by Ezkridis himself, perhaps intentionally or they were born as a side-effect of the Dark magic (said to be of the worst kinds) in use there, all the despair and misery his victims endured there or a combination of both. If true, this makes Ezkridis responsible for the creation of dark creatures (considered among the foulest, if not THE foulest, creatures in the Wizarding World and resemble classic depictions of The Grim Reaper to boot) who feed on misery and despair and if given the chance, can and will consume life.
- Oh, and according to the Ministry officials who found them there, the Dementors were apparently the least frightening thing in the fortress. Which begs the question: What the hell could be scarier than the aforementioned despair-feeding, soul-consuming monstrosities? Perhaps it's best we don't know.
- Raczidian's fate: According to legend, this Dark Wizard tried to conjure a Patronus. For the first time in history, it was revealed what happens when a competent but unworthy wizard or witch attempts the spell: Maggots shot out of Raczidian's wand and quickly devoured him as they engulfed his body. Yikes! However, this may not be true as Dolores Umbridge, a witch who many would consider unworthy or not pure enough of heart, was able to conjure a Patronus without consequence. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HarryPotter |
Head over Heels / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Like most Lezhin comics, this one does hold back when it comes to horror and considering the premise of this comic.
*Run*
- Suh Woohyun's Nightmare Face in Chapter 2 after he tells Joon-Hyuk to only be concerned about himself.
- Ha Yan's flashbacks of her father. He's not even drawn as a human, more like a distorted tall black figure that is stoic against her pleas and begging.
- Ha Yan's nightmare face.
- In Chapter 16, Ha Yan kidnaps a student and tortures him by spilling alcohol on his face and recording him crying. Granted, he's an Asshole Victim and a Straw Misogynist, but it's extremely disturbing to watch.
- Mr. Kim having to deal with falsely being accused as a rapist by Ha Yan in Chapter 27.
- In Chapter 29, Yerim and Jinhee from Soojin's perspective appear as Eldritch Abominations. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeadOverHeels |
Hayate the Combat Butler / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Even for such a wacky show like
*Hayate the Combat Butler*, the series does have its share of terrifying moments.
<<|Nightmare Fuel|>>
- The car chase scene in the beginning. Hayate gets hit by the burglars' car. He comes back up well but he's bleeding and
*smiling happily*.
- Ginka Saginomiya, Isumi's great-grandmother: To maintain her youthful appearance because her true form reveals that of an elderly woman, she has to suck people's blood to the point that they badly need a blood transfusion or else they'll die. When she asks Hayate to let her suck his blood so she can regain her youthful appearance, he happily agrees, much to Isumi's horror. Hayate comes back to the mansion and Nagi questions what happened to him. He responds that he donated some blood.
- The Tiger's Den for Butlers episode: Hayate gets stabbed by a poison arrow, and is soon afterwards given the explanation that if he walks 100 steps, he will automatically die after walking the 100th step. Try passing the butler test to redeem yourself worthy of your master/mistress's butler if you can only walk 99 steps with the step after the 99th one killing you.
- Isumi loses her powers, and Hayate goes to visit her when Nagi mentions she is "unwell". When he visits her and meets her family, her mom explain that she's the strongest member of the family and the only way she can regain them is if she sucks on the blood of a butler who has been unlucky all his life, strong but has an effeminate appearance, and has a name starting with the character "Ha" to the point that he's going to die quickly (basically Hayate).
- The beginning of Episode 10 of Season 3. Hayate gets stabbed by the Kurotsubaki and sports the blank eyes like he was actually going to die. He comes back alive and well without any visible wound nor damage to his clothes. However, he acts entirely different from his normal self. The same episode reveals that when a person gets stabbed by the Kurotsubaki, the victim's soul is swapped with the soul trapped in the sword and vice versa.
- Hayate's childhood as a whole. Think about it, since the age of 8, you have to work repeatedly to pay off your deadbeat parents' ever-expanding debt, meaning that you have to frequently skip school, thus missing necessary education. Sometimes, the parents take away those earning you've just earned and waste it off on needless spends. Must put a huge strain on you for all of this.
- Beginning around chapter 488, the entire Hakuo Academy take a trip to New Zealand. Whilst it would be normally a vacation, it's actually a survival trip where the students are sent to a hotel called "Prison", and many are quitting the trip due to how hellish it is.
- In chapter 489, Ruka implies that should Hayate's debt be paid off, his life will be over. Whether that's just simply a comment that eventually holds no weight in the next chapter, it could very well imply that someone will kill him should that happen. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HayateTheCombatButler |
Hear Me Roar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
When you cross Game of Thrones, known for being a medieval Crapsack World with
*The Lord of the Rings*, it goes without saying that Nightmare Fuel abounds.
- Let's start with Tyrion's trip to Minas Morgul, which he's sent to by his father to see what political advantages Sauron might be able to offer. Right off the back, he and his party get the sense that things aren't right with the city: its streets are illuminated with a corpse-white light and there looks to be a strange vapor rising into the air around them. Inside, the city gives off an aura of unnaturalness, as if a place like Minas Morgul shouldn't exist. Even
*Gregor Clegane*, the most psychotic Ax-Crazy knight in all of the land, is scared of the city.
- And later on, it's shown that Tyrion was forcefully given one of the Seven Dwarven Rings alongside a hallucination in which he's shown the horrible reality of his first marriage and the role his father and brother played in it. Driven insane, he goes along with Sauron's plan to force a wedge between the Westerlands and Gondor, sending a message that will all but trigger war, and kills all other trained ravens at Minas Tirith's rookery, making it almost impossible to overtake.
- Sandor Clegane gets his own personal Nightmare Fuel in the form of the balrog of Moria. Sandor has an intense fear of fire thanks to his brother burning his face as a child, to the point that he can't even stand to hold a lit torch. When Durin's Bane reveals itself, it's as if his worst fear has been given life in the most terrible of ways: a monstrous creature thirty feet tall made of shadow and flame. Sandor, one of the hardest killers in his world, is so terrified of the balrog that he actually wets himself.
- Qyburn's unfettered mad science experiments that he conducts when Saruman takes him into his employ are downright freaky in their results. One of the things he did was replace the blood of some orcs with a brew of their draught to make them immune to pain and has them drink another to send them into a berserk fury. It almost makes you feel sorry for those orcs.
- The Witch King is flat-out
*terrifying* here. Essentially, everything that made him such a terrible enemy in canon is cranked up to eleven and moreover, those traits are shown first hand rather than someone else relating them. His very presence is enough to make even Tywin Lannister quail in fear and his skill with a blade is such that Jaime, one of the greatest swordsmen in history, is no match for him.
- The other Nazgul are no slouches in this regard either. Case in point, Euron, who was also brought to Middle-Earth with the Lannisters, bungled up a mission for Sauron quite handily. Needless to say, the Dark Lord isn't pleased, and he's brought before one of the Nine to answer for his failure. At first, it looks like Euron is in for a session of physical torture, given that the room they're in has a nice selection of instruments of pain. He's not nearly so lucky. The Nazgul proceeds to put him through a mental torment of truly horrific proportions: he causes Euron's skin to fall off before conjuring up a sandstorm to flay him alive. All the agony of torture without so much as a needle prick. The Crow's Eye, perhaps the most ruthless and cruel pirate in Westeros, is reduced to a sobbing wreck in mere moments by the ordeal. The scene serves to show exactly why the Nazgul are so feared throughout Middle-Earth.
- You know the song,
*Rains of Castamere*, which was essentially a song based on Tywin destroying a rival house with extreme prejudice? Well, Denethor gets treated to a version of it, courtesy of Sauron himself when he's looking through the Palantir, sung by a low chorus to the image of Minas Tirith being razed to the ground. The scariest part? Sauron is actually *singing along with the chorus*. Imagine a voice so terrible that men are driven out of their wits from terror and now imagine that voice singing about destroying Gondor so utterly that only ash would remain. It's a wonder Denethor didn't go insane from the experience.
- Yet, to remind everyone of another reason of how Sauron is so insidious and malevolent, Joffrey's sent a dream of Robert and Sansa, goading him to chase the Ring. In the middle of the night, he abandons Casterly with Sandor, in a mad dash for the words the vision gave him.
*"Baggins. Shire."* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HearMeRoar |
Heartbound / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The way the text suddenly glitches and rewrites itself. It's as if some otherworldly force is forcibly changing people's words.
- The voice from the book/Shadow Lore. It constantly taunts Lore and his failure to save Baron, and it seems to be trying to control Lore in order to escape its prison.
- The Barghest, a strange, purple monster that attacks Lore and seems to have hurt/taken Baron. ||Quickly becomes a tearjerker after you defeat it and discover it was Baron all along.||
- Lore confronting ||his mother. She's a monstrous silhouette with a huge mouth. Worse is how her abusive words are rewritten into kinder-sounding ones, almost like she's verbally gas-lighting Lore.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Heartbound |
Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- In General
- The Bjögens' goal is to poison the entire planet, making it devoid of life. Just the thought of seeing your planet become an uninhabitable wasteland is scary in itself.
- Though, at first, the Megabyögens aren't played any differently from the normal Monster of the Week, Latte begins to become sick once they appear.
-
**King Byogyen**. For most of the show, he's an Orcus on His Throne who does mostly *nothing*, but is sometimes doing creepy faces. Whe he starts acting however...
- 1) As seen bellow he kills Guiwaru in a creepy way.
- 2) He reveals that he was planning to sacrifice his generals to become more powerful more quickly right afterward.
- 3) He tells Daruizen that he's going to absorb him too, which will cause his death and
*that he can die willingly or not*. This causes Daruizen to run away.
- 4) After absorbing (read :
*killing*) Daruizen, he tries to psychologically break Cure Grace by telling her than Daruizen died because of her.
- 5) Temporarily poisons Earth successfully.
- 6) He fuses with Earth while sporting a Slasher Smile.
- 7) Every scenes he has after becoming Neo King Byogyen involve him making a Nightmare Face.
- Episode 1
- Early on, we see a brief state of the Healing Garden after the Bjö gens' invasion. Many of the inhabitants are lying
*face down* all over the place, suggesting they were stricken down by disease.
- Episode 10
- The girls are on a field trip to an art museum, and Princess Latte and Co decide to follow them all the way over. The villains are also conveniently there too. Yes, villains - all three of them attack simultaneously this time at different locations, which initially causes the girls to split up. Up to this point, there has only been one Megabjogen at a time - now we get three of them. And as they progressively infect things, they become much stronger. The three girls end up splitting up temporarily and are all overwhelmed until they decide to take things one at a time. Even though the episode ends with a minor victory (one of the three monsters gets taken out), it's still showing that the series is getting quite serious - and terrifying - fast.
- Episode 11
- The last scene features the Megapathogerm's seed from earlier in the episode infecting a coypu
note : basically a beaver with a rat-like tail (also known as a nutria) by using its creepy-crawly legs to force itself through the coypu's mouth from behind. The "Psycho" Strings that play during the lead-up and intensifying during the act does not help matters. We then get a close up of the coypu, who seems to be dying rather realistically as the seed glows and germinates from within its stomach. Fade to Black and cue the cheery ending theme! The next episode's trailer essentially confirms that it became a new Pathogerm general.
- Episode 21
- A relatively minor example, but Asumi's Really Was Born Yesterday antics get a bit less funny when she wanders into the street and is nearly hit by a car.
- Episode 23
- A puppy named Pochitto almost falls victim to the Megabyo's attack right in front of the cures, much to their horror until it's rescued by Cure Earth.
- Episode 27
- Daruizen forcefully shoving a Mega Part into Cure Grace's body as she collapses on the ground in pain, all while he laughs sadistically.
- Episode 28
- The Reveal that Daruizen was actually the "sickness" inside of Nodoka. Considering she got struck by a Mega-Byogen as a really young child, it's very unsettling to know most of her life was ruined because of it.
- Episode 31
- Upon transforming herself, Shindoine attempts to infect a little boy she encounters. However, his dad covers him and gets hit and infected while his son is forced to watch the whole thing.
- Episode 41
- As much as he deserved it for trying to become the new Big Bad, Guaiwaru's death by being absorbed into King Byo-gen's body must have been horrifying for him.
- Episode 45
- There's something unsettling about Queen Teatine stating that "she's prepared to purify humans when necessary", stating that although she has faith that humans can change the future, there might be a moment where the Healing Garden might actually go on an outright war with humans if things go south. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HealinGoodPrettyCure |
Heated Storm Yields a Wild Horse's Heart / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Chinese Amazons; a ruthless society of warrior-women willing to track opponents to the ends of the earth to demand restitution by blood, with the ability to selectively induce Laser-Guided Amnesia, and an unfathomable code of honor. It's no wonder that everybody in the Tendo Dojo is scared of Shampoo when she first arrives. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeatedStormYieldsAWildHorsesHeart |
Heaven Officials Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**All spoilers are unmarked.**
## Ghost Bridegroom Arc
- The forest of upside down corpses...
- The troublesome young man who was leading the hunt for the Ghost Bridegroom gets his skull torn out of his head from the back.
- Xuan Ji's self mutilation of her legs, purposefully breaking them in hopes it would get General Pei's attention. Even as a ghost, she still moves terrifyingly fast with the stumps thumping on the ground loudly.
- Woe onto those who dare hurt Xie Lian in any way when Hua Cheng is around.
## Ban Yue Arc
## Xian Le Flashback Arc
- As Hong Hong er cries in the shrine, he yells that he wishes to kill everyone in this world, including himself, and how his life has been nothing but agony. While Feng Xin and Mu Qing believe Hong Hong er is too young and just isn't aware that life is cruel to everyone, Xie Lian notices, "hidden inside this tiny body was something explosive; something that nurtured his rage and roar."
- The Yong'an refugees camp outside the palace as they ask for a doctor. Yet when they don't receive help four hours later, a father carrying his child on his back decides to try and scale the wall. However, once the guards notice, they cut the rope and he falls to his death, crushing his child as well. When the refugees stare on in shock, the man's wife rushes to the doors and bashes her head against it until she dies as well.
- Lang Ying quickly scaling the wall and killing the soldier who cut the rope with his bare hands.
- Xie Lian despite knowing he had killed many mortals before, even likening them to ants, he isolates himself from the party the Xie Lian soldiers were having as he tries to control the tremors in his hand.
- A Yong'an girl essentially kamikaze's herself to lure Xie Lian in and then allows the flower demons to make their move. The demons chase Xie Lian to "taint" him, with one even yelling how their roots were hard.
- Xie Lian removing the mask of the mysterious white-masked man and finding his face staring back at him.
- Xie Lian tries to stop the Human Face Disease from spreading, and attempts it by chopping off the leg of a man. While he knew they'd have to wait to see if this was an actual cure, later on, the man's other leg starts growing faces on it. Many people growing desperate even went to the extreme of burning and cutting themselves just to be free of the faces for even a moment, leading many to die quietly. Despite all of his efforts, the spread of the disease continued. And those faces are actually the spirits of Yong'an who died in the drought — so instead, they were convinced to possess the people of Xie Lian's kingdom to survive.
- White Mask makes an appearance in what could have been his true form at the bottom of the Xian Le palace, so Xie Lian jumps down from the top of the palace steps. However, despite every other time where he had enough energy and martial skills to land safely, this was the first time "he was no longer a legend" and broke his leg after he lands.
## Ghost Fetus Arc
- As Xie Lian hears a merchant screaming for someone to help his wife, Xie Lian draws Fang Xin, drives it towards the woman's stomach and it starts to writhe and move. After the ghost fetus runs off, it turns out it entered the woman's body in a dream and ate her baby.
- In his dream, Xie Lian wakes up on a bed and when he looks down it's covered in a large pool of blood. As he investigates the rest of the room, he realizes that the mother was probably one of his worshippers in the past and had miscarried. Thus the fetus spirit looks like shriveled flesh.
Rather than say it was a fetus, it was nore like a deformed little monster. Its skin was blanched white like it was brushed with a layer of poweder, its eyes were abnormally big, shining a peculiar light, and on top of its head were a few yellowing strands. (...) Then a long, dark red tongue like that of a snake slithered out of its mouth like it was making provocations.
- Xie Lian's initial plan for capturing the ghost fetus? Opening his mouth to allow it to enter his body and then swallow his sword so it will impale the spirit while it's in his stomach. An effective idea? Probably. Possibly incredibly painful for Xie Lian? Most definitely.
## Venerable of Empty Words Arc
- The Venerable of Empty Words curses anyone it possesses to be met with a terrible outcome from whatever it says. From misfortune to losing someone close to them. It's no wonder Shi Wudu did everything he could to ascend and take his brother along with him as soon as he could.
- Shi Qingxuan is found passed out after Xie Lian calls down Ling Wen and Shi Wudu. When Shi Wudu goes to his brother to shake up Shi Qingxuan wakes up, but then screams in terror when he sees his brother and begs Xie Lian and Ming Yi to keep Shi Wudu away from him.
## Black Water Arc
- As Xie Lian and the others investigate He Xuan's manor, they come across a skeleton that was chained to the wall. When Shi Qingxuan gets close, it jumps out as if to grab them, but they're pulled away in time. However, the truly terrifying thing that Xie Lian realizes later, was that the skeleton was the original Ming Yi whom He Xuan had captured and tortured for years to learn everything about him. And the reason it jumped out at Shi Qingxuan was because he mentioned the "Earth Master", which lead to Ming Yi's corpse trying to warn them. Not even Heavenly Officials are exempt of cruel deaths like this and can be killed in similar ways to mortals, if the person they're up against is strong enough.
- Xie Lian hypothesizes that the distress signal he had seen when investigating Ghost City was the real Ming Yi who had escaped, but was likely recaptured and finally killed by He Xuan.
- All of the events that lead to Shi Wudu's gory death. He realizes that although He Xuan isn't giving him or Shi Qingxuan a third option, he decides to choke Shi Qingxuan which then leads He Xuan to tear his arms off. But Shi Wudu has to have the last laugh as he goads that he had won since He Xuan's family members could never be brought back while he and his brother were able to live for 800 years. He Xuan gets so furious he grabs Shi Wudu and tears his head off, leaving a shocked Shi Qingxuan to witness it all before he mentally starts to shut down.
## Brocade Immortal Arc
- The creation of the brocade is a terrifying story on its own, with the girl tricking the boy whom she gifted the brocade to cutting off all of his limbs and eventually his head. Also, anyone wearing it will can be controlled by the owner of the brocade.
- The cultivators chasing Xie Lian into an inn and ordering food. On closer inspection when they try to point out how strange some of the meat looks, the servants try to brush off their concerns. While they don't eat the food, they soon find out it was human flesh.
## Mt. Tong'lu
- As Xie Lian and Hua Cheng mingle around the demons, they start suspecting Xie Lian is not who he says he is and a demon takes out a talisman to prove it. When the other demons back away and ask if he was cultivator in disguise, he scoffs and replies he killed a group of cultivators down the road not too long ago and took all of their items.
- The many ghosts arrive at Mt. Tong'lu in hopes of becoming a Calamity ghost, many even killing off their own to get stronger.
- Ling Wen and a mysterious figure pass through, scaring some of the ghosts to the point they try to leave and beg for mercy when Xie Lian and the others comes across them.
- Pei Ming notes how reliable Ruo Ye is as a spiritual weapon and wishes he had one like it. Xie Lian internally notes that if Pei Ming found out how Ruo Ye was really created, he wouldn't want it as a spiritual weapon.
- Yin Yu gets so angered and frustrated with Quan Yizhen that he yells at the other to go kill himself. Due to the other wearing the brocade, he nearly does a he puts a sword to his throat but is stopped by Jun Wu who broke the bones in his arms before knocking him out.
## First Fall
- Xie Lian starts hallucinating the White-Clothed Calamity's mask over his face and that his clothes are white funerary clothes.
- Xie Lian is lured by the White-Clothed Calamity to a decrepit Crown Prince of Xianle temple. A hundred people are then lured inside, where the White-Clothed Calamity reveals to all of them that a) they have been infected with the Human Face Disease, and that b) the Human Face Disease can only be cured by spilling blood. And Xie Lian can't be killed by fatal strikes. It doesn't take long before everyone starts stabbing Xie Lian. The book's narration quickly reverts to repetions of "it hurts it hurts" and "why can't I die?!". And Hua Cheng is Forced to Watch. Xie Lian can barely walk afterwards and on the way home has a hard time looking at his reflection.
- ...and because Hua Cheng becomes a wrath-level ghost there and burns everyone to death, it ends up being All for Nothing.
- Building off the above, the creation of Ruo Ye. After Xie Lian commits a theft to feed his family and drives Feng Xin off, he wakes up the next morning to find his parents have hanged himself with the white band of cloth which had bound him to the altar in the temple. He attempts to join them, but the cloth has come to life and become a spiritual weapon.
- To see
*Xie Lian*, who throughout the story has been a kind, gentle person, lose his faith in humanity and begin acting as the White-Clothed Calamity, is *very* disturbing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeavenOfficialsBlessingTianGuanCiFu |
Heavy Metal / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Oh, don't mind him; he's just the desecrated remains of a very untimely deceased soldier, possessed by the sum of all evil in the universe, and bent on tearing you apart limb from limb. Not scary at all.
Befitting its status as arguably one of the few animated horror movies (outside Japan, at least),
*Heavy Metal* has its share of scary moments, with two segments in particular standing out:
- "B-17", which features two chapters, each of them horrifying from beginning to end:
- During a night bombing raid, one particularly unlucky B-17 bomber is shot to pieces by both enemy fighters and AAA flak. All its crew are killed but the pilot and co-pilot, each more messily than the last. And the true nightmare fuel is that
*a lot of bomber crewmen died that way in real life.*
- As if flying what amounts to a tomb with wings isn't bad enough, the plane encounters the Loc-Nar and promptly develops
*a zombie plague*, during which undead crewmen slaughter the co-pilot and attack the last survivor, the pilot. Frightened out of his wits, he bails out of his zombie-filled aircraft and parachutes down - only to find additional zombies there, waiting to feast on his flesh, as seen in the page image.
- The Loc-Nar's speeches introducing and concluding the segment, which explain that not only is every war that ever was and will be the direct result of its evil and chaotic influence, but in this case, it sentenced a bunch of airmen to a Fate Worse than Death just to mess with
*one* poor little pilot.
- The whole short is definite proof that horror can be just as effective in animation as in live-action.
- "Harry Canyon" has the titular taxi driver mugged by one of his customers at gunpoint. Harry simply pressed a red button next to the accelerator with his foot and
*painfully disintegrates* the man with a hidden death ray. He then casually throws the gun in his glove compartment, which holds several weapons (including a hand grenade) already. This is not the first time this was tried on him and it certainly won't be the last. **Harry Canyon**: Stupid asshole. Nobody touches Harry Canyon unless I want 'em to.
- The NYPD has become so corrupt in the future that they charge money for different degrees of investigation.
- "Captain Sternn", where a trial-witness named Hanover Fiste gets increasingly angry whenever the prosecutor asks him questions because of the Loc-Nar's influence, eventually turning into an Incredible Hulk-like thing and chasing after the titular defendant, destroying anything that stands in his way.
- Under the Loc-Nar's influence, Hanover blurts out some of Sternn's other heinous acts, which include selling dope as a nun and even child prostitution.
- When he's finally cornered, Sternn makes good on his bribe of five-thousand Zuleks, shrinking Hanover back to normal...and then throws him into space.
**Hanover:** Hangin's too good for him! *Burning's* too good for him! He should be torn into itty-bitty pieces and *BURIED ALIVE!* **Sternn:** Hanover, take it easy... **Hanover:** I'LL KILL HIM!! **KILL!!!**
- Who could forget the expressions on the little girl's face whenever they cut to her while the Loc-Nar is talking to her. Those faces are sheer terror. It almost looks painful to watch.
- The Loc Nar is also unsettling. Its voice can give you shivers, as does the things it says.
- Also, Loc Nar slowly floats near the girl's widely spread legs while she's backed to the wall.
- After being harassed by green-skinned thugs, Taarna swings her mug in their friend's face. When they decide to fight her instead, she decapitates them effortlessly before casually wiping the green blood off her sword. All in the middle of a busy tavern. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeavyMetal |
Heat / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Hanna's stepdaughter's attempted suicide, where he finds her lying in a bathtub in a pool of bloodied water with her wrists and legs cut. Hanna's reaction is not a Large Ham made by Al Pacino but that of a parent in a state of genuine panic: blaming himself and telling her to keep staying alive while he is covering her wounds.
The reveal that Waingro isn't just an unhinged thief but an actual Serial Killer of underaged prostitutes. The movie shows him toying with his latest victim before making his intent perfectly clear. Hanna finding her with her face bashed in, and trying to restrain her mother from seeing her body also qualifies as this and a tearjerker. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Heat |
Heathers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- "Meant to Be Yours." Mood-Swinger meets Yandere meets Ax-Crazy meets Villain Love Song.
*Well watch the smoke pour out the doors.* *Bring marshmallows,* *Well make smores!* *We can smile and cuddle while the fire roars! * note : 'Fire' referring to their burning school after he fulfils his **plans to blow it up, killing all their fellow students.**
- "Yo Girl."
*Veronica's running on, running on fumes now,* *Veronica's totally fried!* *Veronica's gotta be trippin' on shrooms now,* *thinkin' that she can hide!* *Veronica's done for, there's no doubt now,* *notify next of kin!* *Veronica's trying to keep him out now.* *Too late!* **He got in.**
- Even before that: "Guess who's right down the block? Guess who's climbing the stairs? Guess who's picking your lock? Time's up!
*Go say your prayers!*"
- The ghosts taunting Veronica over Martha's Bungled Suicide.
- The ghosts in general are creepy, as they spend all their time onstage mocking Veronica about how shes truly a Heather by indirectly murdering the three of them. The line I knew you would come far makes it so much worse.
- In the proshoot, the lighting adds to it by frequently bathing the ghosts in an eerie green light, and, during "Yo Girl" in particular, cutting the other lights so all that's left to light the stage is that green.
- The ending of "Our Love is God." Veronica sings J.D.'s philosophy right along with him during the song... and after he kills Kurt and Ram. However, during the ending, even as she sings her love for him, she's clearly
*terrified*.
- All of "Our Love Is God" is creepy, even before you know what's going to happen. The first time you listen, it sounds like a sweet, quiet love song up until it gets to the phone call, and the music underscoring sounds suddenly ominous when Kurt and Ram are talking. Then J.D shoots Ram, and sings serenely as he shoots Kurt, and continues to sing softly to a shocked Veronica "I worship you. I'd trade my life for yours." The music gets louder and louder and more dissonant by the last note. Now, try listening to it again...
*Incredibly creepy*. **J.D.**
I worship you.
I'd trade my life for yours.
We'll make them disappear,
we'll plant our garden here!
*(he approaches her)* Our love is God
.
Our love is God.
Our love is God.
*(louder)*
OUR LOVE IS GOD.
*(pulling her into his arms)*
OUR LOVE IS GOD...
**Veronica:** *(shouting in horror)*
OUR LOVE IS GOD!
**J.D.:**
OUR LOVE IS GOD!
**Veronica:** *OUR LOVE IS GOD!* **Both:** **OUR LOVE IS GOD!** *(We get one last look at Veronica's panic-stricken face as he holds her tightly. Smash to blackout.)*
- For JD, "our love is god" is a Madness Mantra. For Veronica, it comes off as a darkly subverted
*Survival Mantra*—as if she's thinking "if I agree, he won't kill me too".
- "Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)" is equally this and pure bad-assery. The knowledge that this girl is
*intending* to kill herself and her murderous boyfriend just sends chills down your spine. *CHEEK TO CHEEK IN HELL, WITH A DEAD GIRL WALKING!*
- "Meant to Be Yours" is creepy as hell in general, but there's something especially chilling about the way J.D. says to Veronica (who's barricaded herself in her closet), "Don't make me come in there!
*I'm gonna count to three*!"
- Not to mention the way he switches from almost singing a lullaby to roaring
**"VERONICA!!"** when she refuses to open the door.
J.D.:
**VERONICA!** *Open the- open the door, please.* *Veronica, OPEN THE DOOR!* *Veronica, can we not fight anymore, please?* *Can we not fight any more??* *Veronica, sure you're scared- I've been there!* *I can set you free!* *Veronica, DON'T MAKE ME COME IN THERE!* **I'M GONNA COUNT TO THREE!!!**
- Although it's never really explored, the backdrop for the song is a parent's nightmare. Your daughter's insane ex-boyfriend has broken into her room, initially planning to kill her for leaving him. Then it takes a dark turn where he's proposing that she join him in a plot to kill their entire class because he believes she'll return to him if their classmates are dead. If you weren't at home or if she hadn't faked her own death, your daughter would either be dead or she would be taken away by him and spend the rest of her life forced to love him until she dies.
- Equally unsettling is the song switching back and forth between JD crazily ranting about how hes going to blow up the school and planting a faked note in the rubble blaming it on society to pleading Veronica to open the door, please and finish what weve begun in lullaby that somehow makes those lines creepier. If taken out of context, lines like sure, youre scared, Ive been there, I can set you free and Veronica, can we not fight anymore, please? sound like theyre from a song where shes in the wrong and JD is the faithful boyfriend trying to reassure her.
- Really, the song is a perfect representation of an utterly toxic, abusive relationship where JD ranges from quiet and pleading to furious and ranting as he tries to get her to come out or even respond to him. Even if he wasn't a murderous psychopath, anyone would be right to be afraid of him.
- "Shine A Light (Reprise)", considering it's Heather McNamara attempting to kill herself after being publicly humiliated in front of the entire school, while imagining Heather Duke and their classmates telling her that she deserves to die alone.
- Outside of all the obvious ones, there is that one guy during the opening number, "Beautiful"...it's meant to be Black Comedy, but it's still really creepy...
- From the new songs added to the musical, 'You're Welcome' is absolutely horrifying. In contrast to them goofily serenading her about their "blue balls" in "Blue", in here they corner her in the middle of a cow pasture and talk about how hot she is. Veronica fearfully notes she mustn't "break their stare" or "yell or beg" or they might do it.
- The final phase of the song takes the cake. Nothing stops Kurt and Ram from attempting to rape Veronica, not even her knocking them into the mud to get away from them, and they end the song arguing who gets to be "lovin' her well" first. Even worse is that they
*hijack* the song from Veronica mid-verse after she's seemingly gotten the upper hand. Outside of some of JD's songs, there are no instances in the theatrical production where the music becomes *quite* as aggressive and viciously intense as the end of "You're Welcome."
- The moment Heather Chandler vows to destroy Veronica can get downright BRUTAL - the proshoot has her slamming Veronicas head to the railing and screaming in her face.
- And, despite Veronica getting in the awesome moment of her telling off Chandler, Heather still turns the table around with eleven words: I know who Im eating lunch with on Monday. Do you? And everyone at the party, most of whom had been celebrating her earlier turn their backs and say nothing, emphasizing that the mythic bitch still rules the school.
- During the scene transition after "I Say No," the cast is doing the Westerberg cheer ("Hey, yo, Westerberg!"). As the students proceed across the stage, Martha ends up getting stared down by JD, and for a moment, you genuinely wonder if he's going to lash out at her, especially given her earlier intent to go through his locker. Especially knowing that both characters are basically at a point of "nothing left to lose," with Martha's illusions about Ram shattered and Veronica being the one to do it, while Veronica also has broken things off for good with JD.
- The promotional posters for the series are rather creepy and make notable use of the Uncanny Valley, depicting the characters with unnaturally blue-tinted skin and eating dangerous-looking "sweets": a Slurpee◊ dripping with red syrup, a lollipop with a razor blade inside, a popsicle with a knife for a handle, and a cupcake with prescription pills for sprinkles◊.
- Episode 2: Heather McNamaras suicide and everything leading to it.
- After Heather Duke makes it public that Heather M. had been faking her sexuality and had been sleeping with a teacher and she ends her friendship with Heather D., everyone ostracizes her for it, beginning with newly popular Betty Finn. Then, shes called to the office about the affair and constantly told to shut up when she tries to explain her side. Then she finds out from said teacher that she wasnt the only student, but shes still to blame somehow. That night, her parents come to speak to her and see if shes okay but everytime she speaks, they chide her for interrupting them and they leave without Heather putting in any input or speaking her mind to her parents. The next day, Heather D. invites her to their mourning party, but Betty invites her to one up Heather D. and no one still wants to associate with her. As shes about to leave Bettys party, Heather Chandler returns and everything looks as if itll be okay, with Heather C. claiming to be there for everyone who needs someone. Then Heather gets promptly shut down and torn apart for trying to sit with Betty Finn and being a traitor by Heather C. and skates away, crying in the bathroom. In there, she drops her compact mirror and it shatters, giving her the idea to slit her wrists with a shard and it cuts away to Heather bleeding out on the roller rink floor to Wilson Phillipss Hold On. As she leaves the rink and asks Betty and her friends for help, they scold her for being selfish and not noticing that Bettys upset and she apologizes as she smears blood messily on the railing and skates home woozily, dying of blood loss between her parents who smile and speak casually and dont notice their daughters blood seeping into the couch.
- The ending of the show (also arguably doubling as a Tear Jerker). Veronica and JD being stuck in an eternal hell, unable to speak to anybody ever again, including each other. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Heathers |
Harvest Town / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- On the 5th day on the first year's Spring, monsters escape from the Ancient Mine when it opens. No wonder John asked us to stay at home at night. Sweet dreams!
- ||The fact that Mr. Morris, Mrs. Hanks, Mrs. Cole, and Mrs. Lopez vanished in an earthquake in cave doubles as a Tear Jerker. Are they still sane out there of not?|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HarvestTown |
Hatred / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Consider
*Hatred*'s premise: You are an Omnicidal Maniac with a death wish who wants to kill as many people as he can. No reasons or justification. And it doesn't get any lighter from there. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The trailers both pull this off with our protagonist, the Antagonist, giving off chilling monologues on how he hates humanity as a whole and wants to kill and die violently. The black and white color scheme, along with the rather muddy graphics don't help matters at all.
- The way the violence is carried out is done in such a disturbing way that even thick-skinned gamers feel uncomfortable looking at the game.
- To elaborate, the finishing moves Not Important pulls off on his victims are visceral as all hell that makes
*Manhunt* looks like child's play. His knife finishers stand out substantially, as he simply pins someone to the ground and stabs them in the chest repeatedly. It brings that one scene in the 2009 Halloween II to mind.
- The trailer's narration sounds too similar to the
*modus operandi* of real mass shooters. No wonder certain people are unamused.
- The Antagonist's entire rampage counts as this in a big way. With recent massacres involving lone shooters making lots of headlines, the thought of someone going full bore psycho on an entire population with as many guns as they can carry, with nothing one can do to stop it, is pretty much nightmare incarnate.
- And now with the release of the DLC,
*Survival*, this relation with real life has become even more eerie, as after the Antagonist blew up the nuclear plant and reduced the city into ruins, killing himself in progress, other misanthropes have taken inspiration from his killing spree and are now pulling their own murder-suicide rampages. You know, kinda like how Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold or Elliot Rodger have inspired other disgruntled youths to make their own murder-suicide killing sprees...
- Any time we see a helpless victim
*beg* for the Antagonist to spare them is as horrifying as much as it is heartbreaking.
- The ambient music that plays throughout the levels and the menu screens are chilling to listen to. It really sets the mood as to how bleak and helpless the world you rampage through in the game really is.
- Looking past the hokey dialogue, the ending of the game is this for some considering you nuke the whole town, leaving nothing but rubble and a mushroom cloud to end the game on.
- The credits where we are given a montage of people getting killed by the Antagonist to some very disturbing scream rock music.
- One has to wonder how fucked up was the Antagonist's life was that drove him to be the Omnicidal Maniac he is.
- There's also the possibility that he had no Freudian Excuse to speak of, and needed nothing to drive him on the path of violence, which is even worse.
- Either way, both interpretations are equally terrifying. Either he's a psychopath, or a sociopath, or just a sadist. Or he could even be any two of those or all three.
- The lack of Acceptable Targets adds to the nightmare fuel, this isn't some crapsack city where everyone is horribly corrupt and deserving of a bullet between the eyes like Grand Theft Auto or Postal, but innocent civilians and law enforcement who are trying in vain to escape or stop the massacre. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hatred |
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Don't let the upbeat music and the colorful visuals fool you into thinking these games are entirely lighthearted, because
*Project Diva* can and does have its fair share of scary moments.
Go to the Vocaloid page for tropes related to the songs specifically.
- The music video of
*Sadistic.Music Factory* in F. The song itself could be pretty scary if one takes into account the lyrics (which are about being trapped in a factory and forced to make music for a mechanical tyrant for the rest of one's life) and the frightening robotic monotones, but combine all that with the Chance Time ending...
-
*The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku*, which has the song become garbled, as well as there being interference and odd glitches in Miku's movements, constantly. According to Word of God, Miku is being deleted while attempting to complete the song. The end of the song is when she finally crashes due to it. By the end of the song, Miku has resorted to desperately *banging her fists against the screen* as if she's begging for her user to cancel the uninstallation. And at the end, she says a cheery goodbye before just...freezing up with a sad smile on her face as her voice speaks eerily in the background.
- Pinky Swear from
*F 2nd* is a subtly off-kilter song with an equally off-kilter video. Its creepiness is mostly due to the weirdness of the visuals and implications of the lyrics until ||the end of the video implies that Miku has not only cut off her pinky finger as promised in the lyrics but has incorporated it into the bento she's shown making for her crush.||
- The Mikudayo head/costume is either hilarious or this, depending on taste.
- The entire video for
*Kagerou Daze* wherein Miku stumbles onto the site of an accident and repeatedly gets killed or injured trying to avoid the domino effect of everything that goes on, all because she tried to save a cat from getting hit by a truck. And when she finally manages to save the cat and survive long enough to make it to her concert, the cat knocks over a ladder, causing the set to collapse and crush her.
- The video of NegaPosi*Continues may definitely startle people the first time they see it as the game Miku is playing appears happy and normal at first, but when repeated continues occur, the game seems to be slowly corrupting, as the music slows and the colors become inverted, with Miku herself appearing to glitch, especially in a certain section that can come unexpected as static shows and Miku's head moves completely erratically.
- The MV for "Ashes to Ashes" is one of the eeriest in the series, with KAITO mournfully singing about the cost of immortality over a landscape that can best be described as a hellish, steampunk version of Dracula's castle. The second half, however, is when things really get creepy: KAITO enters a room with a sinister-looking display featuring balljointed puppets of the other Cryptons and begins to dance with them. Then we cut back to the throne room and see KAITO
*going into cardiac arrest*, falling out of his throne and writhing on the ground while the dance seemingly echoes in his head before his heart finally gives out and he slumps to the ground. It's even creepier in *Future Tone*, thanks to the graphical upgrade.
- "LOL-Lots of Laugh" in
*Mirai DX* features a figure in a giant rabbit costume. The way it just suddenly appears in a deep close-up and just stares at the player for several seconds is just jarring. Arcade's version of the PV adds a comical "boing" effect to the bunny's reveal, but somehow makes it look *creepier* than in *mirai DX*.
- Also in
*Mirai DX*, the PV for "Matryoshka" features some creepy parts such as X-ray photos showing blood spreading through a person's lungs and wrists, a moment where a butterfly's wing is being cut off with a pair of scissors, and black-and-white pictures of the Nendoroid characters, each sporting a Slasher Smile, splattered with paint that makes it look like they are covered in blood. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HatsuneMikuProjectDiva |
Helix / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Also Nausea Fuel: The way NARVIK-B is transmitted via Orifice Invasion can cause some Squick. But nothing tops the scene where the other infected vomit into a cup and ||feed it to Peter.||
- There's something unsettling about Ilaria's board meetings. The very cold, businesslike manner in which they discuss wiping out the human race...brrr...
- When Anne takes Peter down to the Abbey's cellar, she shows him ||what is basically a Baby Factory People Farm. Women have been strapped into hammocks with feedings tubes shoved down their throats. Their teeth, vocal cords, and any other "unnecessary" parts have been removed. And once they give birth they are promptly killed. In essence, Michael turned human beings into
*veal*.||
- The effects of the nerve gas used in "Plan B." That poor monkey... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Helix |
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
With a name like
*Hellblade*, players already know this game's going to be a hell of a wild ride. And now with the game's release, we get a *very* up-close-and-personal look at our character and her trials. And considering it's a game that has a mental health adviser listed first in the opening credits, you know it's gonna be pretty crazy to put it lightly. **Unmarked spoilers below!**
## General Gameplay
- A warning for players: if you ever pick up this game and want more ambiance, be sure to play it with headphones on. Why? So that the voices in Senua's mind can be
*up close and personal* with you. Even worse is that, at times, the voices are directed at *you*. The game uses 3D audio designed for headphones, and it sounds like the voices are right behind you whispering in your ear.
- The message that appears early on in the game, after the Dark Rot starts to take form (pictured). It states that the rot will continue to grow every time Senua dies or otherwise fails, and all progress will be lost if the rot reaches her head. Thankfully, you can die as many times as you like and the rot won't reach her head until the end of the story. The Dark Rot and the implied warning that comes with it is meant to spark paranoia and put you, the player, in Senua's position.
## Characters
- The character designs for Senua's enemies are nothing short of terrifying. Although they appear humanoid, their movements and sounds they make are nothing even
*close* to human.
- The Shadow is, perhaps, the most horrifying thing about the entire game. Whatever it is, it keeps following you, and it will not stop until Senua is dead. Regardless of where you are in the game, the voices in Senua's head make it clear that
*it is hunting her*. And by the end of the game, we learn that The Shadow is, in fact, Senua's memory of her own father.
- That severed head of Dillion that Senua is carrying in a burlap sack with her? It is breathing.
- The gods themselves. These aren't sanitized—these are the ones straight from Nordic lore and viewed through Senua's mind, and they are
*horrifying*.
- Surtr, God of Fire. A towering hulk of a man with a head made from burning wickerwork, and wielding a sword his own size, he looks quite reminiscent of the Pyramid Head from
*Silent Hill 2*.
- Valravn, God of Illusion. His typical depiction is that of a raven. In the game, however, he's a horrifying hybrid of man and raven, complete with a malformed raven skull for a head. And when you first see him, he's standing in a dead field, just staring at Senua. Then your vision is briefly obscured, and he outright
*vanishes*, replaced instead by an effigy. Nothing Is Scarier than an enemy you can't locate.
- Garmr, guardian of Hel. Despite the normal depiction of a wolf or dog, the game takes it up to eleven and instead portrays Garmr as a half-rotted boar corpse, a result of Senua having no idea what a wolf is and filling in the blank with her people's knowledge. Even worse is that it is able to summon darkness and, in turn, Senua's worst memories.
- Hela, ruler of the underworld. The game does an excellent job building up this particular character, seeing as she's the whole reason Senua's going through this whole ordeal. And she appears not even halfway through the game, appearing from the shadows ahead as a
*massive* figure. And her appearance is nothing short of terrifying — while one side of her is completely pale and peppered with runes, the other half is dark and gives the appearance of a charred corpse that is still smoldering with embers.
- Senua herself can look rather distressing, with her face almost constantly pulled into a grimace and a wide manic look to her eyes combining to make Senua appear on the edge of losing herself totally to her illness.
## Story
- Everywhere Senua goes, sooner or later there will be corpses. Some are hanging from trees, others float in the water, yet more are lying and leaning against walls and rocks. The final Surtr area has wooden cages literally filled with burned corpses. Hela's castle is littered in skeletons and hanging cages with corpses inside.
- How Dillion died: he was strung up with his back mutilated, exposed to the sun. That's not fiction (possibly, as there is still debate among scholars as to whether it was a real practice or invented for stories). It's the "Blood Eagle". A human sacrifice to Odin, which was purportedly done to the chieftains of conquered villages.
- To pass through Surtr's gates, Senua must find a sacrificial altar. When she focuses on it, she is blasted by visions before being thrown into a burning version of the area she was just in. Senua must find her way through this inferno to the gate, while all around her she is dogged by the sounds of people
*screaming as they are burned alive.* If she doesn't make it to the gate in time, she suffers the same fate.
- The Trials of Odin are all quite nightmarish considering Senua is defenseless without her sword, but standouts include:
- The chase at the end of the plague level. Senua must find runes to unlock the door before time runs out, all while pursued by a great flaming ball of...SOMETHING.
- Those...pulsating things wandering in the darkness bring to mind something out of
*Silent Hill*.
- The "sea of corpses" that Senua finds herself in after claiming Gramr is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: an ocean of blood and pus in which giant corpses writhe in agony while Senua is forced to fight off hordes of attackers.
- Trying to make your way through Hela's castle, while avoiding her guard dog, Garmr, is one of the most intense sequences in the entire game. Senua must run between safe zones of light to avoid her pursuer. Every time she enters the darkness, the screen is lit up by flashes of horrifying visions, while the sound of Garmr coming up behind you grows louder by the second. You'll be so intent on running for safety that you don't dare look back, until Senua
*does,* and catches a glimpse of the beast *right behind her.*
- Then you finally get to fight it, and find it can cover your screen with those same visions unless you either focus or hit it with a heavy attack.
- Shortly before the final battle against Hela, the game reveals what the short nightmarish glimps were that Garmr showed Senua whenever she was in darkness: it's of her mother literally burning to death at the stake.
- Everything that Senua's father did.
*Everything*. To just name some examples: he murdered her mother by burning her alive for disobeying him, he trapped Senua in a well for almost 15 years, he did obscure rituals aimed at "banishing darkness" that apparently were painful and horrible, he abused and gaslighted her, he infested her with the idea that she is cursed and can't ever be happy unless he heals her by praying and he rallied the clansmen against her when she tried to interact with other people. And, perhaps worst, he led the invading Northmen to his village and let them slaughter everyone in exchange for sparing him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellbladeSenuasSacrifice |
Hatoful Boyfriend / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Dating pigeons is nothing but suffering and madness.
*Hatoful Boyfriend*, the "pigeon dating game"? Nightmare Fuel? Yup.
Coo...
**all spoilers are unmarked below.**
- Pretty much anything involving Dr. Shuu takes a syringe of Nightmare Fuel and injects it in the worst places possible, then takes meticulous notes on your agonized writhing.
- There are rumors that students in his infirmary frequently vanish, never to be seen again— and yakitori is inevitably on the menu the next week, and shiny new quill pens show up in the school store. You find plenty of evidence that these rumors are true, but no authorities ever investigate because the entire school is run by the Hawk Party specifically for Shuu's "research".
- If you are actually on the doctor's romance route, you accidentally condemn Yuuya to this fate, and in gratitude the doctor sends Hiyoko a lovely Christmas dinner months later. It's not until months later that Hiyoko discovers that the meal was actually Yuuya's cooked remains, after which Shuu describes in loving detail how he plans to dissect her, preserve her head as a gesture of affection, and examine your insides most...
*intimately*.
- There's little of the "Bad Boys Love" route that doesn't fall under this trope, and most of what
*does* falls under a much more depressing category. The humorous bits that would be perfectly at-home in the normal routes actually come off as being *completely* out of place at this point.
- Going into more detail, the BBL route starts with the heroine's death, then lovingly sandwiches layers of this trope with breaking every cutie in the game, and the player as well. Mostly courtesy of Shuu. Highlights include Ryouta crossing the Despair Event Horizon and consenting to being modified by Shuu into a bioweapon for use against the rest of humanity when they attempt to slaughter everybirdy left in the school, a graphic (described) flashback to the heroine's death by suffocation via The Virus that Ryouta is now a host for, an even more heartbreaking flashback to the previous host of said virus, Nageki, being Driven to Suicide and setting himself on fire so that nothing will remain of himself to spread the virus (which fails), Kazuaki aka Hitori flipping out and trying to vivisect Ryouta, untrained, to remove Nageki's transplanted organs and bring what's left of Nageki back with him, and the horrifying, bloody, sickle-clawed robot Labor-9 lurching after Ryouta and the other birds until they short-circuit it with a taser, only to be informed that Labor-9 was actually a cyborg with the heroine's missing brain and they just murdered the heroine
*again*.
- Failing to complete a romance route or begin the "Bad Boys Love" route gets humanity condemned to extinction, with the heroine being surprised and murdered in her own home, followed by a Game Over screen with a surprisingly creepy pigeon-Grim-Reaper. And this presumably happens in the post-game after finishing Nageki's route, since the Hawk Party cannot see you wooing a ghost.
- The Game Over screen when you get killed at your home. It looks like something out of
*Yume Nikki*.
- The manga and supplementary material talk about how in 2070 the Sumatra Flu swept the world and reduced the human population to 30%. The remaining humans then tried to exterminate the birds which were spreading the disease to them, but this backfired and humans and birds warred for thirty years. At the end of it the human population had been reduced to 4.6% of what it was in 2070, and humans were forced to live in the wilderness and not allowed to self-govern. Seventy years later there are still skirmishes between birds and humans, savage enough that the Hawk Party wants to just eliminate them all.
- Anghel perceives an alternate, fantastical reality where everybirdie is more human-shaped and it's like a fantasy RPG, complete with more dramatic names for everything. Okay. The thing is, though, that this reality still reflects the "real" one, and in some disturbing ways. Narcolepsy-sensei assisted another bird to suicide, though the bird didn't
*really* want to die, and stole his identity. So what does Anghel see when he looks at him? This◊.
- The reason behind his alternate perceptions is scary too. Poor bird secretes hallucinogenic pheromones, but he lacks immunity towards them. There is a hint that those pheromones also act as some sort of airborne neurotransmitter, meaning that he not only is biologically trapped into his hallucinated world, but also he can bring people into it.. and can get info from them to fill the gaps in his worldbuilding.
- Holiday Star has some.
- The King is a comical figure in the third story... but there are flashes, when he gets especially upset, when he seems to be sprouting a second head. In the fourth story the comedy is lost, as he becomes truly nightmarish. His "Increased" form shown in the image above is a bloody quail corpse with many long, branching, serpentine heads flowing up out of it. If the heroine gets too reckless fighting him, her kick gets her foot stuck in his chest and she is absorbed into his twisted hivemind. There's also his backstory.
- The moment when The King talks to Yuuya about how all he does is break eggs is horrifying enough
*before* they add the sound of crunching eggs in the background.
- The 4th chapter in general. If you make all the right choices, it's horrifying enough. Make a wrong one at any point?
*Forget about sleeping that night,* and good luck at ever taking the phrase "Happily Ever After" pleasantly ever again. It even makes a *freaking picture book* terrifying.
- Remember Kazuaki's Freak Out in BBL?
*He gets worse*: When you find him in Holiday Star, not only is he the only character who's not wearing a cute costume- *he has no eyes*. And then he explains that *he ate them.*
- For the most part, the manga is pure silliness with little moments of creepy here and there, like the aforementioned backstory to the setting. Then you get to Chapter 12, which is about Nageki and Hitori in the orphanage. ...The same orphanage that was mentioned in BBL, the one which was visited by human extremists who slaughtered everyone but those two, and this led to the discovery that Nageki was harboring a virus lethal to humans. This chapter is all sweet silliness except for Nageki's illness making him steadily weaker, but in the background behind the panels there are splatters, getting darker and more extensive the farther you get, until the last page, which is partially obscured by blood.
- The manga "Focus on the Hawks" has mention of "eewoowoo", something Ryuuji tells a young Shuu they will try on a large frog. Later it appears to be one of the few things Shuu shows any interest in. When Tohri demands to know what "eewoowoo" means, well...◊
- The 4koma included in the
*Collector's Edition* of the game is, for the most part, entertaining hijinks with the characters. Aw, look! Nanaki's out sleeping in the sun, dreaming about some.... abstract-looking thing! Expect people familiar with Holiday Star will notice that *it's The King's Eldritch Abomination form.* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HatofulBoyfriend |
Hellboy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Beware of unmarked spoilers below!**
- The Conqueror Worm is a gigantic caterpillar-like Eldritch Abomination that does nothing except eat, and grow, and eat, and grow some more. If Hellboy and Roger hadn't stopped it, it would have continued doing this until it has eaten everything on the planet.
- The Crooked Man's face is extremely unsettling◊.
- From the same story, we get a witch that can take off her skin and turn into a raccoon, the deformed descendants of the colonists who disappeared from Roanoke and the general creepiness of the setting in the Appalachian Mountains.
- The art style is extremely unsettling as well - the witches are nearly as unsettling as the Crooked Man. God help you if you read it at night.
- The climax of the story follows Hellboy, Tom, and the priest holding out in a church against a
*massive* gathering of witches, and the crooked man himself. Aside from the aforementioned horror of the witches and the crooked man, the mere idea of being surrounded on all sides with no protection but the providence of God, who in the Hellboy universe is not nearly as powerful as His faith would have you believe. *Shudders*.
- Hecate's long ascension to become patron Goddess of Witches. To date, her forms include a woman with a snake's lower body, an iron-maiden with glowing blue eyes,a strange robotic hybrid of the first two forms and a desiccated corpse barely clinging on to consciousness (when last we saw her, in her conversation with Grey). She is also the ultimate source of vampirism in the Hellboy-verse.
- In "The Sleeping and the Dead," we learn that the vast majority of Europe's vampires have decided to go underground, sleeping and waiting for a time when humans forget they ever existed, with a minority staying behind and creating new vampires that immediately join the others. When humans finally forget about vampires, and how to fight them, they will reemerge and rule the Earth. This is illustrated with a scene of a ruined city with the air
*filled* with bats.
- The Nazi scientist getting sucked into the vortex. His skin gets burned/melted away, reducing him to a skeleton as he screams.
- Kroenen, especially when he's shown without his gas mask and almost completely naked. He's covered with huge, grotesque scars from his surgical addiction. His eyelids and upper and lower lips have been completely removed, making him look like something that crawled out of the Uncanny Valley. And it was all self-inflicted. Not to mention his inhuman movements, cybernetic implants, and body so decayed he literally excretes sand instead of blood when damaged.
- The giant tentacled Eldritch Abomination coming out of Rasputin's stomach.
- The Tooth Fairies. They sound cute, until you consider the fact that getting caught in a swarm of them means that you are Eaten Alive.
- Rasputin getting dragged into the portal. Some of his skin and flesh comes off in little globules, and it looks like his eyes float out of his head. He also is folded in half before entering the portal, getting his pelvis sucked in before the rest of him. Even though he's a Nazi creep, you end up feeling squicked out.
- The destruction of the asylum Liz was in in the first film, by said pyrokinetic's nightmare-guided hand. It exploded while guards and patients were all on site.
- Her childhood victims' fates are also pretty scary, though they're Asshole Victims and deserve what they're getting.
- Rasputin's unnerving ability to turn up
*anywhere* - the museum where Hellboy first fights Sammael, Liz's room in the mental hospital, even the freaking BPRD.
- The vision Rasputin shows Professor Broom of what the future will be if his plans succeed: a cosmic horror Class Z Apocalypse with smoking Scenery Gorn, and thundering, flaming red skies from which giant tentacles belonging to Eldritch Abominations hidden in the clouds dominate the scorched Earth Rasputin and his masters consider a "New Eden".
- Although Hellboy breaks the ritual seemingly making the Ogdru Jahad disintegrate in thin air, the sequel heavily implies that they're actually very much still alive and dangerous given how the Angel of Death warns Liz that Red will still go on to lead the apocalypse if she accepts to make him live, a terrifying but intriguing Sequel Hook that sadly never got payoff in a third movie that never was.
- Nuada's plan of awakening the Golden Army is a terrible scheme because it wouldn't just lead into a genocide, it'd ultimately cause much wanton destruction for his people too, as his sister poetically puts it: "Our green fields cannot grow out of all that blood". Besides, it's not ancient times anymore. Humanity has
*nukes* and weapons of mass destruction now, that they will inevitably use when trying to stop the Army after each terrible defeat. Nuada better have a fancy spell that can undo radioactive nuclear winters...
- While it's easy to hate on the citizens turning into an Angry Mob towards Hellboy and his group, try to see it from their point of view: Hellboy used to be more of an urban legend, a cyptic, who while showing some traces of his existence, was still a mysterious figure who'd come and go, and whenever it came across someone (like the child at the rooftop and the people he saves at the subway fight with Sammael) they react with enthusiasm because they're having a special, personal encounter with the mysterious figure everyone buzzes about, or would eventually rationalize it's some kind of strange stunt and not find him exceptional. The fight with the Elemental was a shock because the entire population learned that Hellboy, the supernatural and dangerous, malignant fantasy creatures are all 100% real, and the personal awe easily turned into all sorts of Fridge Horror fears about the implications of this reveal, about what else could be out there (indeed; an insane elf prince wants to unleash an unkillable robot army to exterminate mankind).
- The Angel of Death is quite scary, an Angelic Abomination with an Eyeless Face and eyes all over its wings, who keeps cackling in a very creepy way while informing Liz of its universal omniscience. It's not shown to have Blue-and-Orange Morality since it initially reacts with annoyance at the Goblin Master Blacksmith coming in, so despite being a neutral figure who claims that its heart is filled with dust and sand, the Angel clearly
*revels* at the concept of impending doom Hellboy's survival will supposedly bring and all the deaths he'll cause. Overall, this monstrous thing is out there, it knows everything, and it'll have a big laugh when it'll collect our souls once the end of times comes. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hellboy |
Hellbound: Hellraiser II / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- A straight razor is given to a mental patient. As he screams "Get them off me!" he starts carving into his torso, trying to cut the maggots he is imagining out (at several points, it shows things from his point of view, bugs and all). His spilled blood summons the skinless Julia, and the two begin wrestling, and there is just blood flying everywhere. When Julia finally kills the mental patient, he vomits, to add to the Nausea Fuel.
- Kirsty is driven to reopen the box again because she keeps seeing visions of her father Larry trapped in Hell after the events of the first movie. The visions are actually coming from Frank, who's hoping to trick Kirsty into freeing him from his Ironic Hell, a realm full of immaterial writhing female figures he can't sate his lust against. We never find out what happened to Larry, possibly a reference to
*The Hellbound Heart*, where both Julia and Frank are dragged off to Hell, but Kirsty sees no trace of Larry's soul inside the puzzle box.
- Pinhead's ominous warning to anyone who tries to deceive him or the Cenobites sounds almost like a strict pastor giving a harsh warning to a troublesome student and the fact he can make good on his promise to make the offending partys suffering legendary.
- One word: Channard. While the Cenobites had some redeeming qualities despite their ruthless tactics and leather garb, Channard was irredeemable even as a child.
- Make no mistake, Channard had it REALLY coming, but one can't deny his transformation sequence (bordering on Cruel and Unusual Death) is nothing short of terrifying: Julia pushes him right into the transformation chamber and he's immediately immobilized by four tentacles. A fifth one sticks four needles through
*his spine* (anyone who had to endure lumbar punctures may feel extremely uncomfortable at the mere thought of it) and another pair of tentacles ties four metal wires around his head to the bone. In the meantime, blood and cerebrospinal fluid get sucked out from his body and replaced by what looks like *blue blood*. The last shot of pre-transformation Channard has a toothed tentacle *munching on his mouth*, muffling his screams until he disappears along with the whole chamber.
- After Cenobite Channard comes out from the chambers, Leviathan completes his transformation by summoning a massive appendage with suckers and a central drill. The latter makes a smoothie out of the new Cenobite's brain, which grant Channard access to Leviathan's powers, but at the cost of his own physical and psychological freedom. Again, this is exactly what he used to do to his patients, which means he just got his just desserts.
- Channard manages to kill the four remaining Cenobites in a quick amount of time, including the Hell Priest himself, Pinhead.
- Pinhead's death is the most gruesome. The other Cenobites are impaled through the chest, dying pretty much instantly. Pinhead, on the other hand, has his throat quickly sliced by Channard, causing him to basically drown in the blood filling his windpipe as he gasps for air.
- The Reveal in this movie that the Cenobites, the terrifyingly sadomasochistic Humanoid Abominations, were human. They opened the puzzle box like anyone else, but for some reason they were chosen to undergo what we saw Channard go through and were horrifically mutilated until they fit Leviathan's vision, and became his enforcers. Even worse, they dont even remember their own humanity, thinking that they are nothing more then their God's servants.
- Something of note. When Channard kills the Cenobites, they revert to their human forms. Pinhead turns back into Elliot Spencer, Butterball and the Female return to their human forms, and Chatterer... is a kid. What kind of desires did he HAVE?!
- Supplementary material and stories reveal the young man was once a child framed for his father's murder by his own mother and put into the system. He ended up an underage prostitute who got twisted by these experiences and wanted to be ugly due to the "adorations" his clients constantly gave him about his "beauty". The Lament Configuration was his escape from that life and a means of gaining control over his life. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellboundHellraiserII |
Hawkeye (2021) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Moment pages are for post-viewing discussion; they assume that you've already seen the work in question, and as such are spoiler-free.
- The Chitauri Invasion from the perspective of an innocent bystander, especially from an 11-year-old Kate, is
*very* terrifying. Picture this — you're just relaxing and going about your day in your home when suddenly the ground starts shaking. Then your room nearly gets blown to pieces as your parents are nowhere to be found. *Then* you see aliens staring at you with murderous intent as you're helpless to do anything to fight back and can only duck in fear. Good thing Clint was there to stop them in time
- And just to twist the knife further, Kate's father is nowhere to be found as Eleanor manages to find Kate and run their asses out of there, and it later turns out that he died during the attack. It's all too easy to forget that some of the most epic and grandiose battles of the MCU can be extremely terrifying for anyone that doesn't happen to be an Avenger and is just a completely ordinary person living their life.
- The Cold Open of Episode 5 shows us the Snap and the Blip from the point of view of someone who was taken out and it's
*incredibly* creepy. From Yelena's point of view, she saw her hands turn to dust for a second (which was her death) and then come right back (her being brought back). Then the redecorated bathroom slowly morphs from the old appearance to the new one. The effect is intentionally confusing, representing just how lost someone would be in that position in real life.
- At the end of the credits of episode 5 after The Reveal of Kingpin, we see his huge silhouette looming over New York; a reminder that even after what happened to him at the end of
*Daredevil* this is still *HIS* city.
- While played for black comedy in Episode 6, the fate of the Tracksuits in the truck who first get shrunken by a Pym arrow, already horrifying given the two are without Pym tech suits to safely return to normal size, then an owl picks up the truck and carries them off to be certainly eaten. And given that owls actually
*swallow their food whole* to digest them, they are certainly in for a gruesome death.
- Much like in his debut appearance, Wilson Fisk remains a terrifying figure throughout the entire finale. Combined with his newfound Super Strength and his durability in battle, it only increases his threat level. His interactions with Maya, where he tries to present himself as a loving familial figure, also create an unsettling overtone of an abuser trying to gaslight their target.
- The level of sheer durability that Fisk displays is
*insane.* Kate shoots him point blank with an arrow, and the Kingpin doesn't even bother to pull it out. He just *snaps the shaft in two with the arrowhead still inside his body.* He gets hit with a car hard enough to throw him through a storefront and barely seems bruised. The final shot of the battle is Kate detonating basically every single trick arrow at her disposal, and that just knocked him out for... Ten minutes. Maximum. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hawkeye2021 |
Haydee / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Running around and shooting things as a curvaceous and buxom robot girl may not be as fun as it sounds when you're trapped in an abandoned facility surrounded by death and the horrors waiting for you around every corner.
- The atmosphere. Some of the inspirations for both of the games were
*Portal*, *Resident Evil*, and *Dead Space*, and it shows. The whole facility in both games feels so isolated and cut off from the outside world, to the point where you might wonder if something happened outside. It doesn't really help that the layout is claustrophobia-inducing thanks to the fact that there's no way to see the outside world. Special mention goes to the first game, due to the fact that most of the rooms are shrouded in Ominous Fog, the design is minimalist, and without the music, you're walking around through complete and utter silence.
- Some of the ways the enemies ambush you definitely counts as this.
- The Black Zone is this, thanks to the creepy and unsettling music, the place being pitch-black at first, forcing you to use your night visor (which has such an incredibly limited view distance to the point where you can't even see what could come after you), the constant and surprising ambushes from the robots. There's one area where you end up finding a
*massive* pile of dead Haydees, and another pile that seems to be in some kind of *incinerator*. The room itself is called D_ *Oven*.edith in the game files.
- The game's endings, each of them ends with the player dying in one way or another only for the cycle to start anew:
- "Escape" ending: The player's Haydee attempts to take the escape route within the Blue Zone, only for nothing to happen after using the orange keycard (other than the fact that if you look behind you, you'll notice that the door became locked when you used the keycard so you can't go back), the screen then cuts to black with a similar boot sequence from the start of the game stating the player's Haydee failed their master acquisition protocols. The dead Haydees next to the locked gate also met a similar fate.
- "Master" and "Backup" endings: After fighting through the final gauntlet of Slashers in the Black Zone's locked orange keycard door, the player is greeted with an ominous sight of a hallway full of Slashers and Walkers, except they are no longer hostile and look at awe of the player's Haydee. In the final room, there's a pile of dead Haydee bodies, yet there's one still alive and standing in the middle of the pile — the Master Haydee. The former ends with the player Haydee killing the Master Haydee only to become the next one, while the latter ends with the player Haydee killing the Master Haydee along with herself, but a backup dump of the protocols was used to ensure the cycle is never broken.
- The Creepers, in terms of looks, are completely different from the Walkers from the first game. Their designs lean heavily on the Uncanny Valley considering that they don't have any eyes to speak of, they look more humanoid than anything, and have pale and molded-looking skin. It gets even worse when you find out that said enemies are actually the employees that work in the very place you're trying to escape from but are affected by the entropy released after an explosion that damages Anchor at the very beginning of the game. Although, one could see this as Laser-Guided Karma considering what the company did.
- Just the fact that the other seemingly deactivated girls you find in the facility were actually real people that were kidnapped and turned into sex dolls/cyborg slashies by Jurani, and you're one of them. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Haydee |
Haunting Ground / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Fiona starts off the game with amnesia, in a cage, surrounded by instruments clearly used for torture and butchering, and
*wearing nothing more than a sheet*.
- "Endless Zero"'s lyrics seem to imply Ayla wanted Fiona's Azoth for herself.
- Each of the stalkers fits this trope in some form.
- Debilitas is three times the size of Fiona and cant speak coherently, reducing his mindset to that of an infant. Many players seem to find his antics funny until he knocks Fiona over, whereupon he can pound her body to a pulp or pick her up in a bear hug, which breaks her back.
- Daniella is considered to be one of the most disturbing characters in horror gaming, and for good reason. There are many things that are wrong with the seemingly emotionless maid, ranging from her fixation and jealousy of Fiona, her unpredictable and unstable outbursts of mania and her twisted belief that she is merely a homunculus in the guise of a beautiful woman that can never be "complete", unless she takes out the source of Fiona's Azoth: her uterus. What makes her unique among the stalkers is that Daniella is capable of switching back to "normal" at random - Fiona can stumble across the maid cleaning in various parts of the castle as if nothing had ever happened. It may seem as if all is well, but Daniella will inevitably resume the chase when you least expect it.
- If she manages to grab Fiona's hand, Daniella starts laughing in an odd tone and stands completely still while Fiona desperately tries to get away.
- If Daniella spots Fiona, she may point and
*hiss* at her.
- Riccardo wants Fiona to birth him a clone of himself ("LET ME INTO YOUR WOMB!"), and then it turns out he's a clone of her father. Yes. Let the implications sink in.
- Lorenzo is a dirty old man who can't walk, but get him on his hands and he becomes the fastest character in the whole game. Then he regains his youthful appearance and can teleport right in front of Fiona. He also has instant-kill attacks.
- The music in the game, while sparse, is chilling in its own right. Then you realize that the music has stopped, and one of your pursuers is on the other side of the door you were about to open. Many first time players likely experienced a severe fright because of how the game uses its music. When Fiona is hiding and the stalker leaves the room for a bit, the game will give a "Coast is Clear" message. This seems like an okay to leave the hiding spot, and sometimes it is... but, more often than not, the stalker's theme will pick up again, and chances are they will reenter the room before the player understands it was a false alarm. These precious few seconds will be enough for the stalker to return, preventing Fiona from hiding again and possibly even giving away the hiding spot entirely. The player needs to wait for the normal ambient music to resume in order to guarantee that the stalker has given up.
- Examine the figure sitting on the couch in the Old Mansion - it's a mummy. If you leave the room and then go back to it,
*the mummy will be in a different position*.
- A room in the Old Mansion houses a massive mammoth that appears to have barged through a wall and died upon impact with its eyes wide open. If you walk past it while taking a closer look at its eyes, you can see the mammoth's pupils following Fiona. It's no wonder Hewie always gets uneasy in this room.
- The strange hand that comes out of the crypt in the graveyard. While Fiona will note that it doesn't seem malicious, it's still creepy as hell and can catch you completely off guard. Things get even more horrifying when you give the hand a white mandragora and hear it being
*eaten alive* as it screeches in agony. When it's done, you can then hear something shuffling away... Kinda makes you not want to go down there after all.
- There are two cutscenes that the player can receive after playing through the game once. The first is before the Riccardo battle, where an unconscious Fiona is being given an ovulation test by him after he's obviously stripped her down and redressed her (in a dirty gown, mind you). The second is immediately after the same battle, where Lorenzo crawls to Riccardo's body and sucks his Azoth out.
- If you go into the kitchen near the beginning of the game, you can trigger a cutscene where Fiona watches as Daniella stirs a pot. When she lifts the ladle, a red liquid drips down from it... along with what appears to be blonde hair. Go back to the kitchen later on when Daniella isn't in there and examine the pot; Fiona herself will say that it looks disturbingly like human hair. She is later forced into having dinner by Daniella and feels sick afterwards. Remember Fiona's mother? Yeah, the implications aren't pleasant.
- In the Old Mansion during Daniella's chapter, Fiona comes across a room with a carousel inside. When you return to it later after moving some rooms around, it's become bloody and rusty. The formerly cheery carousel music is also grossly distorted now, making the whole thing that much more disturbing.
- The corpse in the torture room, which is apparently still alive. Go on, try to take the key from it before solving the puzzle.
- Panic Mode. You have little control over Fiona as she runs around tripping and slamming into walls. There's a good chance that she'll also fall over and remain helpless on the ground for an extended period of time. The creepy voices in the background repeatedly saying "Fiona" don't help. And did I mention that the screen goes black and white?
- The various ambient and chase themes are creepy or pants-crappingly scary for similar reasons, perhaps even more so given the chase themes' tendency to speed up or slow down based upon how close to or far away from you the stalker happens to be at the time. Here are the four main sets:
- The failed homunculi scattered throughout the castle.
- They are naked, deathly pale, and basically braindead. All of them remain stationary and merely repeat a random action, ranging from mumbling incoherently to licking the floor.
- One of them will actually
*lash out* at Fiona if kicked too many times.
- There are also the baby homunculi, which Fiona accurately describes as looking like "fatty clumps of meat." The very first time you encounter one is particularly unnerving: You round a corner to see it in a dimly lit alcove, just... standing there, waiting. Upon seeing Fiona, they squeak and run at her; if they manage to catch her, they hold onto her legs, rendering her immobile, and let out a continuous, high-pitched screech. You'd better be fast in either kicking or having Hewie deal with them.
- One room has several of them suspended in tanks, seemingly dead. If the player examines them and then goes to leave the room, the sound of shattering glass will be heard as one of the homunculi breaks free of its tank.
- It is possible to come across one of them being
*cooked alive*, screeching and all. A disgusted Fiona will comment that the more she looks, the more it resembles a child.
- Each stalker seems to represent a distinct and dark aspect of rape or human sexuality and how various instincts and urges can turn people into monsters, desperate victims, or both. They all desperately want something from Fiona physically.
- Debilitas obviously represents innocence in that he does not know that his actions are hurtful to others. He lacks the intelligence to understand and resist his powerful "urges." If he catches Fiona, he will attempt to play with her, which, given his massive strength and innate aggression, results in him killing her. The most common death at Debilitas' hand is a bear hug. If Fiona doesn't break out of it or Hewie doesn't stop him, Debilitas snaps her spine.
- Daniella represents sexual jealousy and repression. She also acts out of physical (and quite possibly sexual) abuse at the hands of Riccardo. She is so desperate to become a real human woman that she attempts to rip Fiona's uterus (which houses her Azoth) out of her in an extremely brutal and gory way.
- Riccardo does not see Fiona as an actual human, but rather a vessel meant to give birth to him. His intentions towards Fiona are arguably the most sexual in nature of all the stalkers. Additionally, of the three stalkers who want the Azoth, he is the only one who doesn't want to take it from Fiona; rather, he wants to
*claim* it, much like the notion of claiming someone's virginity or innocence.
- Lorenzo's motives are quite similar to Riccardo's, although he seems to place a particular emphasis on gaining power. He intends to hunt down a very non-consenting girl and forcibly take her Azoth for himself. Similarly, a rapist often does not rape for physical pleasure, but because sexual assault is physically and emotionally devastating for the victim while it gives the rapist a great degree of power.
- The various kill animations from all the stalkers are terrifying.
- Debilitas seizes Fiona in a bear hug and snaps her spine if she fails to escape. He also has a rare chance of dropping on top of Fiona and breaking her neck.
- Daniella grabs Fiona by the arm and starts laughing maniacally as she tries to escape. Should Fiona fail, she impales her with her weapon. She can also pounce on Fiona and slit her throat.
- Riccardo shoots Fiona dead, which may be preceded by him slapping her to the ground if he's close enough. He can also simply lift her by the neck and choke her or repeatedly slam her head into the ground.
- Old Lorenzo grabs Fiona's leg and tries to pull her to the floor. If he succeeds, he races over to her and slams his palm onto her uterus, doing something that causes her to violently convulse and die.
- Young Lorenzo grabs Fiona from behind and holds her close. Should Fiona fail to escape, he plunges his magic-coated hand into her uterus, instantly killing her.
- And should Fiona die at the hands of a stalker? You get to see the words "Acta Est Fabula" ("the story is done") bleed onto the screen, complete with the horrible sounds of the stalker desecrating poor Fiona's corpse, with each getting more and more insidious as the game goes on:
- Debilitas plays with Fiona's body like a child with a new toy, possibly tearing her limbs off in the process.
- Daniella moans and laughs hysterically as she cuts out Fiona's uterus.
- Riccardo whispers "Yes, Azoth..." as fabric is heard being shifted around, shortly followed by him moaning in ecstasy.
- Old Lorenzo hacks and slurps noisily as he drinks Fiona's Azoth.
- Young Lorenzo does the same as the above except with a triumphant laugh and some grotesque tearing noises.
- Flaming Lorenzo yells "Azoth! Eternal life!" and cackles with anguished laughter as we hear
*his flesh being melted away by molten fire*.
- If the stalkers trying to kill Fiona wasn't enough, the castle itself has a number of traps and dangerous rooms that will also kill her should she carelessly traverse them:
- The Red Marionette room is decorated with countless eyes on one wall that will shoot needles at Fiona should she try to just walk by it instead of deactivating the trap.
- A dimly lit hallway found right before Debilitas' boss fight is filled with spiked pits and has a near-invisible path that only Hewie can detect. One wrong step and Fiona is screwed.
- There is a Truth and Lies room where examining the wrong object will lock Fiona inside and unleash a swarm of
*flesh-eating bugs*.
- An Iron Maiden serves as an unlikely and unreliable hiding spot for the player to use in the torture room... Should Fiona be caught hiding inside it by Daniella, she'll happily lock her in and activate the trap.
- One corridor has a suit of armor wielding a crossbow at the end of a series of tiles, where stepping on the wrong tiles three times will result in the suit of armor shooting an arrow at Fiona.
- Perhaps the most gruesome, the rock crusher can potentially kill Fiona should she step onto the conveyor belt while it's turned on. Not only does she get flattened to paste off-screen, but you also get to hear the grisly noises and see her blood afterwards. This is easy to do accidentally on your first playthrough, as you could realize that you need to lure Lorenzo to the conveyor belt, but wrongly surmise that you have to step on it yourself to do so.
- And finally, Ending D. The way to obtain this ending is to mistreat Hewie throughout the game until the Riccardo chase sequence in the forest. As a result of Fiona being abusive to Hewie, it's implied he either dies from Riccardo's gunshot wound or abandons Fiona out of spite. Fiona wakes up days later in a small glass box in a dimly lit lab, where Riccardo announces he will rape her to birth himself an immortal body. As a smiling Riccardo marches to the box, the camera abruptly pans out to a seizure-inducing sequence of Fiona screaming in complete terror before the screen fades to black. The ensuing epilogue sees Riccardo made good on his taunts, as Fiona is now heavily pregnant and goes completely mad from the revelation she was raped and impregnated by her technical uncle with a clone of himself.
- The implications of this ending become far worse when the game hints Riccardo is a fairly mediocre alchemist, having many failures to his name like Debilitas and the braindead homunculi loose in the estate. We don't know if his plot to rebirth himself will even be successful, and moreover, what he plans to do to Fiona if it fails, given his track record as a violent misogynist. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HauntingGround |
Hellboy (2019) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Last time around, the horrors of
*Hellboy* were at least restricted to a PG-13 rating. *Not this time.*
- The gore.
*Dear GOD, the gore.*
- You know its going to be a horrifying film when the
*very first* shot is an eye getting plucked out.
- The climactic attack on London is probably the most nightmarish example. Innocent bystanders are skinned alive, chopped in half, impaled, and one poor bloke is slowly ripped in half at the waist. The carnage only lasts for a couple minutes, but by the time the demons are sent back to Hell, half of London is now destroyed.
- Baba Yaga, who provides the films arguably most disturbing sequence (and thats saying a lot). A decrepit, scarred demon who makes stew out of a dead human child.
- Heres a fun fact: her ability to contort and twist her body in all manner of nauseating ways? That wasnt CGI or puppetry. Troy James, the Canadian actor who plays her physical role (Emma Tate provides her voice) actually did all that for real. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hellboy2019 |
Hellboy Animated / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Sword of Storms
- The Body Horror Professor Sakai goes through the longer he's possessed. Aside from turning red and taking on oni-like features, his body grows swollen and bloated. Granted his body is being inhabited by two demons, it's still unsettling.
- To anyone with arachnophobia, the scene where HB encounters the Jorōgumo. So. Many.
**SPIDERS!** **shudder**
- The scene in which thanks to spirit possession, history starts to repeat itself, and the death of the Daimyo's daughter is almost recreated
with
*Kate* in her place. Thankfully, Hellboy is quick to stop it.
Blood and Iron
- The fate of Erzsebet's victims, including those that went with Bruttenholm when she was first killed. The women she killed to maintain her beauty are bound to the implements of torture and thus are forced to wander the mansion, begging for help. Meanwhile, the flashbacks leading up to Erzsebet's first death are presented in reverse so that the fates of the characters, which are particularly gruesome, are already known.
- The cold opening, showing the events at how Professor Bruttenholm first killed Erszebet. He is aided by several local policemen, including the girl's fiancé, and Father Lupescu. Needless to say, things do NOT go according to plan.
- We get a cut to a portrait of Erszebet on the wall, followed by an echoing hiss, the first hint things are about to go sideways, then several skeletons are seen littered about the chamber, remains of some of the poor souls Erszebet killed.
- Several instruments of torture are shown, with lovely cuts to Erszebet's victims being tortured. The sight of it all makes Father Lupescu briefly freak out, and it's hard to blame him.
- The party breaks down a wall to find Anna's dead body lying on the floor. Also doubles as a Tear Jerker, considering her fiancé's distraught reaction, not to mention what happens to the poor man shortly afterward. The sight of it makes Father Lupescu flee in blind despair.
- After ||staking Anna||, the party opens up Erszebet's coffin. You'd expect the vampire to be sleeping, right? Wrong. It's empty. Then things go hell.
- Bruttenholm and two other men turn in response to a hiss, and the bearded policeman is nowhere to be seen when they turn back. He sees a drop of blood on his sleeve, and turns the flashlight up to see the man dangling from the ceiling, his corpse ghostly pale and face drawn in a rictus of terror, all while Erszebet happily drains him dry with several pleased moans. The reaction says it all.
- Erszebet bares her fangs and hisses, the two policemen left promptly book it with Bruttenholm trying to calm them down. Erszebet promptly summons her spectral wolves, and when the unfortunate men hear their howls, they flee down two separate corridors, to the Professor's dismay. We then are subject to the sounds of the wolves barking and the screams of the men, followed by flesh tearing as they are torn apart offscreen, leaving Bruttenholm at Erszebet's mercy. If it hadn't been for that quick thinking with the holy water, Erszebet would have won right there.
- A minor one, but at one point in the movie, Bruttenholm mentions that Erszebet killed over a thousand people.
- The way Erszebet toyed with people, at various points pretending to be a seamstress to fool Anna, then after that pays a visit to the church to deliver a Breaking Speech to Father Lupescu after Anna had visited him, seemingly for no other reason than because she could. And in between, we get to see that she killed the shop owner and her child,
. **including a view of the baby's crib spattered in blood** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellboyAnimated |
Hell House LLC / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Examples from the film include:
There was no way I was going down those stairs.
- What happens in the basement. All you get is Melissa screaming, "This isn't part of the show!" and begging to be let out, people panicking, some strange figure standing in the corner, creepy masked faces and blood on the stairs with the clear implication something horrible happened down there.
- Sara whispering, "Alex doesn't know" while staring blankly at a wall in some kind of trance.
- Whatever the dead girl did to Paul, all we know is it ends up with him suffering from something that looks like Demonic Possession.
- Both times the dining room appears, completely set just like the night Andrew Tully hung himself, out of nowhere.
- The strobe light scene where Paul gets locked in the hallway as three immobile mannequins are seemingly moving in on him and their actions are only visible thanks to the strobe flashes.
- At two points in the film, the camera quickly passes over
something
that is in frame but hard to notice. The first time, the documentary rewinds to show a cloaked figure standing in the corner of a room shortly after Alex and crew arrive at the hotel. The second time, though, there is no rewind and you have to catch it yourself. When Diane and her cameraman are in the kitchen, there is what is pretty obviously a dummy propped up against the wall in a hallway. But when the camera pans back, it's been replaced by a much more menacing figure in black with a white mask. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellHouseLLC |
Hell in a Cell / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Imagine being trapped inside a 16 ft. high, 2 ton cage with your opponent and the referee. Since you can only win through pinfall or submission, you or your opponent are bound to get legitimate and severe injuries that could potentially end your career and ruin your life. That's assuming it doesn't ruin your career and end your life. It's of no surprise, then, that both this kind of match and the namesake PPV have their terrifying moments.
- In the 2018 event, the Hell in a Cell match between Randy Orton and Jeff Hardy. One particular spot that made fans cringe was when Randy twists Jeff's earlobe with a screwdriver, proving how sadistic the Viper really is.
- In the 2020 event, the "I Quit" match beween Roman Reigns and Jey Uso shows Roman at his most vicious. At the end, Jimmy Uso rushes in and tries to talk him down. Roman seems to be listening... and then grabs Jimmy and starts strangling him to death, forcing Jey to surrender before Roman
*kills his brother*.
- Mankind and The Undertaker's infamous match at
*King of the Ring 1998*. Mankind took two hideous bumps; one (intentional) from the roof to the announcer table, and another (accidental) through the roof to the ring below. Undertaker later admitted he thought he'd killed him.
- The second of those two bumps is even more horrifying when you know that there were TWO ways in which, with only the tiniest difference in circumstances, it could have gone from a shock to an all-out
*catastrophe*. Firstly, when Taker was going for the chokeslam, he'd initially had one foot on the panel he was about to slam Mick onto, but had shifted it at the last second to put his weight on the crossbar. If he hadn't, he would undoubtedly have pitched forward and fallen through the cell roof himself when the panel gave way under Mick, possibly sending him plummeting down *head-first* to land *on top* of Mick. Secondly, Mick was still too dazed to be able to sell the chokeslam properly, so he barely even got off the cell roof when Taker "lifted" him. This undoubtedly saved his life, as if he'd gone up properly to come down flat on his back on the mesh, he would have over-rotated when he went through the roof and come down on his neck or even his head, which would *unquestionably* have killed him on the spot. *Both* men danced with death on top of that cell, and yet they *still* carried on with the rest of the match afterward!
- After an awful, bloody mess that was the Hell in a Cell match in
*WrestleMania XV*, The Undertaker proceeded to summon the Brood to let down a noose and hang Big Boss Man from the cell with assistance from Paul Bearer, because that's how their match ended. (Of course, this was mitigated as an illusion, because Big Boss Man had worn a safety bungee harness underneath his suit when he was attached to a long harness cord disguised as a noose while playing the "hanging victim" card; and he had to be taken down off-camera so that he could get to a hospital on a stretcher, but still...)
- Shane McMahon jumping off Hell in a Cell through a table as a 46-year-old non-career wrestler who hadn't been in a match in eight years at
*WrestleMania 32* (By his own admission, he broke two ribs doing that).
- Following the story regarding Edge, Vickie Guerrero and the reinstatement of The Undertaker is the
*SummerSlam 2008* HIAC match, possibly the most brutal of them all of the post-Ruthless Aggression Era. The match ends with the Rated-R superstar losing and getting "sent to hell" for three months until that year's *Survivor Series*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellInACell |
Hello? Hell...o? / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages, so all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
Hello? Hell...o? is widely claimed to be the black sheep of RPG maker horror gaming, and very much unlike the rest. No kidding. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HelloHello |
Hazbin Hotel Lucifers Folly / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
It's a roleplay series set in Hell, what did you expect? As such, there are a lot of examples to be found.
-
**Lockhart**. Just...everything about him. A hundreds of years old, dirty, grimey and insane miner demon who likes to torture other demons. His creepy appearance (imagine a miner but with long sharp clawed hands that can turn into pickaxes, constantly Glowing Eyes of Doom and Slasher Smile) and just how he can always seem to pop out of nowhere, not to mention how he's portrayed as a more realistic horror compared to others (having next to no comical moments), he's easily considered one of the scariest characters in *Lucifer's Folly*. He's so menacing that even Gevaudan Silverwolf is unnerved by him. He's less like a character from Hazbin, and more like a horror movie villain.
- Zepio the stalker pegasus demon. Seems harmless at first...up until you see his big, bulging bloodshot eyes. And he seemingly only appears whenever someone is alone in the restroom. You'll want to avoid using the restroom at night thanks to this guy.
- Valentino when he gets really dark. He's already scary enough when he acts all seemingly polite and charismatic to others, but when it gets dark and one is alone, he gets really dark and nasty. Him forcing Angel Dust to give him a blowjob all while sadistically laughing all the ways further solidifies it.
- Fucko the Clown himself can be kind of unnerving in just how enigmatic he is. The time he looked directly into the viewers didn't help.
- Some of Volk's war stories from his KGB days, comically dark as they are, are pretty gruesome to hear. Like the time his squad was mauled by a highly trained tiger on Bangladesh.
-
**Dr. Varkreim**. He hasn't even appeared (at least physically) but already he's quickly solidified himself as one of Lucifer's Folly's darkest characters due to his cruel and barbaric experiments, not to mention him expanding and making the Hell Nazis more of a threat.
"
*In life I toyed with God's creations....now in the afterlife, I toy with Lucifer's creations.*
"
—
**Dr. Varkreim**
- Murmur's tantrums when he gets REALLY angry can fall into this.
- Mephistopheles. He might present himself as a slick conman who has nothing to hide, but if you make a false move with him and fall for one of his deals....lord knows what he can do with you.
- Metatron and his angels flying above a darkened Pentagram City and flying in the air like fighter jets, killing and slaughtering as many demons as they can. Metatron's ravings only make it worse.
"
*They're * **just** demons.
"
—
**Metatron**
- Gavin himself can be this sometimes with his kills.
- Monty-Jasper when they get into their "obsessive" state...yikes...
- Toby's other demon forms (that were given to him by Kur) are all pretty unsettling, but his final and full demon form is by far the most nightmarish. Black pits for eyes, risen up hair, warped jacket and flayed-like skin...no sleep tonight!
- Cazador when he attacked Angel Dust when he was depressed and turned into his full demon form. Just seeing Cazador so emotionally broken and acting so brutal towards his friend like that is scary enough, seeing him literally turn into a monster was extremely frightening. Thankfully he stops himself from harming Angel when Angel begs and pleads, reminding Cazador who he is.
- Of course it wouldn't be this trope without mentioning El Condor. His brutal execution methods and how he treats his prisoners is portrayed as realistically graphic and not with humor once unlike other demons—-he's as depraved as they come. He has even
*killed* his own men for being drunk or such petty crimes, that's how empty he is.
- From
*Hazbins Hell Hotel*, John beating up Alex to a bloody pulp out of sheer petty anger all while he's laughing and forcing Alex's daughter Serena to watch (most likely traumatizing her). Not only is this *not* depicted in a humorous light but it's shockingly disturbing, even for John. Granted it's somewhat undercut by Alex shrugging it off, but still; John's a fucking sociopat.
- Leon St. John killing his girlfriend after she was tortured by the Overlord Fractalis Mandel. While she was in a bad shape, she could have been saved. Instead, he opted to choose to
*end her life*. The fact he just forgets about her and doesn't even treat it like a big deal afterwards (in fact, he seems more upset about losing his fucking guns) that solidified him as a monster.
-
*Hazbins Hell Hotel* was a bit of a real life example in itself, what with the lack of disregard towards the source and being filled with bigots, raiders and actual deviants. Dear lord, the place was a nightmare.
- Ribesal. Not only is he as big as Lamashtu, but his design is utterly terrifying. Imagine seeing a creature like him lurking in Earth's seas (which he
*can* appear in.)
- The very concept of some demons being able to roam Earth freely and you wouldn't know it. Sweet dreams!
- Raguel himself is pretty scary looking for an angel. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HazbinHotelLucifersFolly |
Halloween II (1981) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Remember that jack-o-lantern in the last film's opening? They topped that.
- Michael's utter relentlessness in pursuing Laurie. It perhaps doesn't top the Nothing Is Scarier nature of him possibly targeting anyone, like in the first film, but the fact that Michael
*simply won't stop* is utterly terrifying, and prompts Laurie to ask why he won't die, at one point.
- One moment in particular, Michael while pursuing Laurie, Loomis and Marianne walks straight through a plate glass door, without so much as a flinch, really starts to solidify Loomis maybe not so unfounded belief that the guy ain't even human.
- Going along with this, the shot of Michael walking on fire before he dies. It's just so creepy to watch Michael be so determined to fulfill his objective that his imminent death doesn't faze him.
- Michael lifting up a nurse with a scalpel one-handed, as well as him breaking through a thick, locked door later on in the film certainly adds to this. Not only does Michael not stop, he's got strength that he can use even after all the abuse he's taken throughout the night. No one and nothing will get in his way.
- If you get nervous or scared in hospitals, this is not the movie you should be watching.
- Doubles as a Tear Jerker- the Michael doppelganger getting hit by a police car, and pinned between it and an ambulance which suddenly explodes. Made worse by the fact that said person was
*just an unassuming regular*. If only Loomis had paid more attention to the hair colour on the mask...
- What's worse is that this death of an innocent trick or treater is a foot note in the movie. The heroes of the film murdered a man and no one was too bothered by it.
- Laurie and Loomis being trapped in a small room with a blinded Michael Myers swiping erratically with his scalpel. This also applies to the shot of him bleeding from the eyes in the same scene.
- Also? The reason he's blind is because Laurie shot both his eyes out...and
*all* it did was blind him instead of put him down for real. Nothing spells out that Michael is something less than human more than the fact that something that should be instantly fatal only moderately handicaps him.
- Michael drowning Karen in the scalding hot tub, especially disturbing with the skin peeling off her face.
- The kills in which Michael uses needles. Especially if you're Afraid of Needles.
- The young boy with a razor blade stuck
*in his teeth*, playing into the Urban Legend of children's Halloween treats containing objects or poisons intended to harm them. The implication that it is not in any way related to Michael Myers and is never retroactively explained away as being related to the storyline or child-hurting antagonists of any other film in the franchise (e.g., Silver Shamrock, Cult of Thorn, etc.) arguably makes it the film's most disturbing mystery (leading one to wonder what other potential homicidal maniacs are stalking the supposedly quiet town of Haddonfield). | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HalloweenII1981 |
Hello Mary-Lou: Prom Night II / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Mary's death in the opening scene, in which she is slowly burned alive onstage.
- Jess's death. Mary uses her supernatural abilities to wrap her cape around Jess's neck and drag the screaming girl across the room. At first we are led to believe that Mary will use a blade to decapitate the poor girl (whose neck is already clearly wounded from the cape) but she apparently changes her mind and opts to hang her instead. Then, as one final "fuck you" to Jess, she proceeds to chuck her out the window and onto the grass. We then cut to a shot of her lifeless eye, before the camera pans out to show her mouth covered in blood.
- That damn horse. The lifelike tongue, red eyes, and the way it
*slowly* turns its head to look at Vicky make incredibly unsettling.
- In the same scene, there's the way Vicky is trapped under her own blanket, able to do nothing but scream.
- Vicky being pulled into the chalkboard, which turns into a pool of some strange liquid.
- The cafeteria scene, where the lighting becomes sickly and seedy, cockroaches can be seen all over the damn place, and the slop being served as food contains Mary Lou's floating head.
- Mary's murder of Father Cooper. As Bill later discovers, she took a pair of scissors and shoved them down his gullet.
- Josh's rather violent death by electrocution. His face boils off while he's still alive, screaming in agony.
- The entire sequence of events leading up to Monica's death. What starts out as apparently nothing more than shallow Fanservice turns into one of the most tense scenes in the movie, as Monica is reduced to hiding in a locker while Mary stalks the room in search of her. Just when it seems as though she's in the clear, Mary uses her powers to crush the locker with Monica still inside.
- Mary's reemergence at the prom. The image of her hand reaching out of Vicky's open chest is disturbing enough, but the sight of her charred corpse is utterly haunting.
- Even after her body is fully restored, her laugh will send chills down your spine.
- Mary in general is just a deeply unpleasant character. Some viewers may initially sympathize with her due to her painful death, but as the movie goes on, it becomes clear that she is truly a monstrous psychopath. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HelloMaryLouPromNightII |
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
While mostly goofy, the trailer for *Galakrond's Awakening* shows just how far off the deep-end Rafaam has gone. His attempt to recap the story by holding a puppet show, after getting derailed by Reno's grandstanding, turns into him rushing through his song while pulling out a gigantic Galakrond puppet he uses to violently bludgeon the puppet theater into splinters before stopping in a mixture of catching his breath and what sounds like quietly sobbing. And, as shown by the adventure itself and it's E.V.I.L. ending, his plan goes off without a hitch.
*That was the plan, because I am a fan of the most evil thing that has ever walked land. It's a dragon I claim, Galakrond is his name, the UNSTOPPABLE beast of NEFARIOUS FAME! ONCE YOU'VE RUN OUT OF TIME, AZEROTH WILL BE MINE,* But i'll just...'' *THIS WORLD WILL BE BURNIIIING!!!* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft |
Heartland / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Who could have expected a show about healing horses could be so scary?
- Amy is severely injured and Marion killed in a car accident that also severely traumatizes Spartan. Imagine being Jack receiving that phone call to find out your daughter is dead and your granddaughter is in the hospital!
- While both Lou and Amy are out for the night with their respective beaux, one of Tim's former employees sets fire to Heartland's barn, and Jack is severely injured letting all the horses into the paddock.
- Spartan is very clearly spooked by the sight of his abusive owner at the Fall Finale.
- The wild stallion, Ghost, nearly kills Amy when he rushes at her; it is only Ty and Caleb's quick thinking that prevents her from being injured.
- Cattle rustlers hold up Amy at gunpoint when only she, Ty, and Caleb (all teenagers without cell phones) are on watch at Tim's cattle ranch; if Ashley hadn't seen the cattle rustler's trucks, all three might have been kidnapped or killed.
- The ghost story of what happened in Hanley Barn.
- Even though Hanley Barn is not actually haunted, something is going around spooking all the horses; we eventually find out it is one of Mr. Hanley's neighbors spiking the horses' feed with glycogen loader in an effort to force him to sell his farm.
- A cougar winds up breaking into Heartland, killing one of the hens and ultimately even breaking into the horse barn (though none of the horses or Amy or Ty gets hurt).
- Richard Chenoweth, the oil exec, is a world-class creep, constantly coming onto Lou and even telling her that the best way to make the lawsuit go away is to "spend the night" with him and trying to assault her when she reveals that she was recording their conversation. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Heartland |
Heavy Rain / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Although many of them are censored, the abundance of possible death scenes for the four main characters is very nerve wracking if you fail to do the QTEs on time. Examples include Norman getting crushed by a grinder, Scott getting impaled on a pole and Madison getting drilled into her private parts. Here are the death scenes here on YouTube.
- After Ethans son, Shaun is kidnapped by the Origami Killer, he is forced to participate in a grand total of five trials that is designed to test Ethans willingness to save Shaun. In order, they are:
- If you take too long on the final use of ARI as Jayden, his
*eyes start bleeding*. Then he dies if you take even longer.
- The Origami Killer's MO involves kidnapping a stray child and putting them under a locked grate. Slowly, rain will begin to fall into the grate and gradually fill up the area until the child drowns (or succumbs to hypothermia). You'll be afraid to get into the bathtub, let alone any large body of water.
- When Ethan hallucinates he sees Jason (his other
*dead* son) again in the train station. From his point of view, time is frozen, and any time he touches one of the other people in the station, they fall limply, as if suddenly sucked of life. Try not to get nauseous.
- Adrian Baker, the evil doctor. What are the odds that investigating leads on a serial killer makes you bump into ANOTHER serial killer? And a less insane, more evil one?
- Made even creepier if Madison is killed in this chapter. Adrian will gently stroke her corpse, all with his unnerving laugh.
- Adrians death is also quite shocking as Madison brutally plunges a drill into his heart.
- Want some Paranoia Fuel? That sweet guy who saved you from suicide, took care of your baby, and stopped a robber from shooting you in the head may kidnap and kill your son the next day. Rock yourself to sleep with that one.
- Mad Jack himself. Stereotypical, but creepy nonetheless. When he puts Norman at gunpoint, he mentions that one of Normans buddies was asking too many questions and he had to shut his mouth. Not to mention that when you investigate the scrap yard, you can find a human skull floating in a tank of what seems to be acid.
- How about one of his deaths in the chapter? Being crushed under a car while yelling.
- Scott's rampage into Kramers mansion. From Kramers bodyguards perspective, Scott is their grim reaper. Armed with only a pistol, Scott manages to blast his way inside the mansion, killing every single person he sees without hesitation. Its even more scary when you know who Scott really is.
- Unintentional on the developers' part. While the graphics are great, they do still fall into the Unintentional Uncanny Valley from time to time; most notably the TV reporter you see throughout the game.
- The complete lack of caring shown by Scott's father when he's told one of his sons is drowning is very disturbing. He even claims it'll be a good thing if it happens. Scotts brother death is also the trigger point that turns Scott into the Origami Killer.
- Scotts sickening ways of killing children and torturing their fathers just
*to find a father capable of saving their own son.*
Scott: Just to find a father?! Have you had any idea how it feels to know youve been a worthless nothing in your fathers eyes? Believe me, I suffered just as much as my victims
Ethan: Youre mad
youre completely
**fucking** mad!
- Being a game with multiple choices, it is possible to screw up big-time and get an incredibly depressing and disturbing Downer Ending that really hits you with a massive pang of guilt.
- Ethan Mars: "Origami Blues" has him shooting himself in the head while being all alone in his hotel room. "Tears In The Rain" is similar, except Ethan does it
*in front of his sons grave*. "Helpless" is by far the worst one, with Ethan accused as the Origami Killer, locked up in jail, Shaun dies, and he *hangs* himself.
- A disturbing similarity in "Origami Blues" and "Helpless" is that Ethan is surrounded by origami figures that he made himself, showcasing how guilty and mad he has became.
- Norman Jayden: "Uploaded" requires Norman to die in any of his chapters. Thats horrible enough, but then it turns out his conscious is somehow uploaded (hence, the endings name) into the ARI. This ending is never explained, and its up to the player's imagination. "Smoking Mirror", on the other hand has Norman overusing the ARI and eventually fatally overdosing in his own home.
- Madison Paige: "Square One" is definitely a nightmare to people who suffer from insomnia. In this ending, Madison succumbs to her insomnia and begins to see men in black masks sneaking around and eventually facing her, unable to tell the difference between reality and her hallucinations. A telephone message from her friend has him asking, concerned, about Madison who he hasnt seen in a while, which means she has been in this condition for days.
- The "Unpunished" ending for one simple reason: Scott gets away with all his crimes. And there's nothing to say he won't claim more victims in the future. Though this depends on the player's actions. He may: (1) Stop his life as the Origami Killer if Ethan saved his son. Or (2), continue it if Shaun died or Ethan didn't reach the warehouse to save the boy's life, due to not finding a father able to save his son.
- Leland White, the suspect that Madison investigates in the Taxidermist DLC, kills women and has them stuffed just like the animals mounted on his wall. The first stuffed woman Madison sees is VERY creepy as it is just sitting on the couch smiling.
Leland: Im gonna cut you up in little pieces. Im gonna cut up your skin and add you to my collection.
- One of the possible ways for Leland to die is by Madison driving a
*chainsaw* through his body. Leatherface would be proud.
- Madison can also die in this chapter, following which a newspaper clipping mentions her sudden disappearance. God knows what happens to her.
note : Her death in the DLC isnt canon as it takes place before the main game. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeavyRain |
Heart of Darkness / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.** *Heart of Darkness* the novel
- Kurtz's house is surrounded by the heads of executed rebels,
*facing* the house.
- Especially when you think about it and realise that you usually point the heads AWAY from you (as one is) to deter intruders.
- The scenes of the labour camps when Marlow starts comparing the Belgian overseers to demons.
- Arguably, the most horrifying part is when you then read the history of the Congo Free State and realize that it was actually even worse than Conrad described.
- The fact that the jungle is portrayed, for all intents and purposes, as some kind of Eldritch Location that drove Kurtz insane and into the practice of "unspeakable rites"...
The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ball — an ivory ball; it had caressed him, and — lo! — he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.
*Heart of Darkness* the video game
- The ways that Andy can die, would possibly qualify. Right from being eaten to crushed.
- The amigos may be annoying, but the effect of the dark land on them is both sad and horrifying. Touching the ground irreversibly turns them into one of the flying skeleton minions.
- The reason that the whole scenario happened was because of Andy's fear of the dark. Every Shadow he fights is a metaphor for his fear of darkness, which would explain the horrible deaths since that's what Andy fears could happen to him. If you count the "All Just a Dream"-ending.
- ...but since the game ends with a "Or Was It?"-ending, it's possible that all that could've happened to Andy, meant that a little child has been barely avoiding death in another world, trying to save his dog and save the world he was at before somehow going home. At least he grew out of his fear of the dark.
- The final part of the game. Just you and a broken lightning gun against a pitch-black room full of amorphous horrors. And all you can do is survive.
- The Heart of Darkness's servant getting crushed underneath the magic rock is pretty disturbing despite how cartoony it is (one of his eyes
*pops*.) | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeartOfDarkness |
Hellraiser / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*We have such sights to show you...*
- Frank's slow and horrific reconstruction within the first movie. He is in such agonizing pain that the first thing he does when his brain is connected to his shambling heap of a body is manage to scream without lungs.
- The screeching, misshapen, monstrous
*thing* that chases Kristy through a tight, enclosed hallway after she first opens the puzzle box. Big-Lipped Alligator Moment or not, it is terrifying. It's supposedly the movie version of the Engineer, the creator of the Lament Configuration (before the Lamarkand family was introduced). It also appeared in the original novel, but only as a faceless Energy Being that kills Julia.
- The climax from the first film:
**Larry!Frank**: Hush now! Everything's alright now... Frank's here... **Kristy**
: *weeping over her father's skinned corpse* BASTARD!!
**Larry!Frank**: Your dear old uncle Frank...
*the lights dim, and the chime of a music box plays, as though from a great distance.*
*the Cenobites suddenly appears out of the shadows*
**The Chatterer**: *gibbers*
**Pinhead**: *Fraaaaaank....*'
**Female Cenobite**: We had to hear it from your own liiips...
**Pinhead**: *to Kristy* This isn't for your eyes!
**Larry!Frank**: *NO!!* You set me up, *bitch!!*
*Frank attempts to attack Kristy with a switchblade, but chained hooks lurch out of the darkness, embed themselves into every part of him, and stretch him hideously while a horrified Kristy watches*
**Frank**: *smirks and flicks his tongue across his teeth while obviously in enormous pain* *Jesus...WEPT!!* *is torn apart by the hooks*
- After the Cenobites are pulled back through the gate and the house collapses, Kristy witnesses the creepy hobo reappear and transform into a hideous undead dragon...thing, and carry off the Lament Configuration. It's then shown once again in the possession of the mysterious man from the start of the movie, offering the puzzle box to another fool in search of the ultimate pleasure.
**Man**: *What's your pleasure, sir?*
- A subtle one, but arguably the only time in the movie Pinhead shows much emotion is that moment when he talks to Kirsty with such
*earnestness*:
**Pinhead**: *We have such sights to show you.*
- The
*Hellraiser* anthology comic book has some horrifying stories about other people who have stumbled across Lamarchand's accursed box. Of note are:
- The very first story in the first issue, which is illustrated like a painting and revolves around the wife of a French nobleman who finds the Lament Configuration during a crusade in Jerusalem. Her husband is shattered by the goal of his crusade being a mere ornate box, leading to his wife desperately searching for some meaning to it, along with her friend, a priest. She does, she discovers that it's proof of
*Hell*. By the end of the story, the nobleman, the wife and the priest have all been dragged off, with the Cenobites leaving behind the woman's unborn child which they delivered through an impromptu c-section and left alive and healthy in the chapel.
- The baby of a woman and her abusive husband solves one of the Configuration boxes and is taken off to Hell by a pair of Cenobites. The mother manages to follow and save him, but there is no escape from hell. Instead, the Cenobites offer her a deal: she'll raise her son in Hell, and one day, he'll be strong enough to escape himself, but for her, there will never be an escape. Hell is forever. She agrees, and the Cenobites take her to her personal hell: a replica of the same apartment, with the same abusive husband in it. Now however, she has something to suffer for.
- The beloved actor who has a horrible secret to his performances: he's a serial killer who murders people whose faces inspire him for the roles he's cast for, and cuts off their faces, then preserves them and uses them as masks during his performances. He's finally caught after he murders a limbless carnival freak and the poor man's mother recognizes his face on the screen and discovers that his grave had been dug up. However, he isn't punished for it, Pinhead arrives and takes him to Hell where he's made a new Cenobite, known as "Face", who keeps a vast museum of faces he has claimed.
- The story about the couple who isolated themselves in their house for 7 years after the husband had an encounter with the Lament Configuration at a party where puzzles were solved for fun. After solving it, he went to fetch his coat, and then nobody saw him for three days. When he was finally found, he had somehow been transported to his own house, trapped in the kitchen cupboard, where he was found hovering near death. After coming to, he told a story about how, when he went into the bedrooms where the coats were kept, he heard the door close behind him, and when he turned around, the hallway door had been replaced by a strange gold door. When he turned back, the bedroom was gone, replaced by darkness. When he opens the golden door, it just lead to another door, only a little further away. Then again. And again. And
*AGAIN*. Every time, the door was further away, until it was just a speck in the distance. When he finally reached the last door, it was **locked**. Using the last of his strength, he banged furiously on it, and that's when he was found in his own kitchen. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hellraiser |
Hellraiser: Bloodline / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The twin cops that get tortured by a rotating device that clings to one side of each of their faces...and binds them together. The scene in which Pinhead threatens Jack deserves special mention for one of the Cenobite's most terrifying lines in the entire series:Pinhead: Although the boy will not die here, for a thousand years his dearest wish will be that he had! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellraiserBloodline |
Heavy Metal L-Gaim / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The bio-relation system and ||what happens when it is switched off||. Also, L-Gaim Mk. II without its face mask. Shudder. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeavyMetalLGaim |
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Pinhead, via the Pillar of Souls, flays a woman alive before absorbing her into the pillar.
- The death of Monroe is pretty horrific due to how easily Pinhead was able to convince Terri to offer him as a sacrifice despite Pinhead wanting to give her a Fate Worse than Death minutes earlier, as well as how ready Pinhead was to kill him. Not to mention Monroe looking up to see Pinhead's face as he drives a piston through his head. Sure, he was a jerk, but that is still an ugly way to go out. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth |
Heart of the Woods / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This isn't even the scariest thing in Eysenfeld.
- Late in Chapter 1, Morgan offers to take Madison and Tara out to show them something, but they end up being caught in a freak snowstorm and have to run into the church to avoid freezing to death. Madison then looks outside and sees the giant forest spirit pictured above. It turns out that the forest spirit isn't evil, but it's definitely scary-looking.
- As mundane as it is compared to later events, the snowstorm itself is genuinely pretty suspenseful, thanks to the music and pacing.
- At the end of Chapter 2, Madison worries that Tara is caught in a blizzard, and runs after her, only to realize that she ran after an illusion. She spends the last few minutes of her life freezing to death, desperately wanting to get back to her best friend, her family and her cat.
- There's also the moment when the illusion of Tara turns around to reveal she has no face.
- In Chapter 4 Evelyn magically controls Morgan and forces her to destroy the oldest of the ancestral trees of the forest. It's not just the horror of Morgan losing control of her body (complete with her speaking in some garbled language) and being forced to do something so horrible, it's the way describes hearing the forest screaming in pain all around her.
- Not long after the above scene, Madison and Abigail are horrified to discover Alma, the fawn that Abigail befriended, covered in gaping wounds. There aren't any visuals, but the text describes the injuries as being as if the poor little deer's body simply "opened up," a casualty of the damage to the forest.
- Towards the end of the chapter Maddie begins to flicker in and out of existence due to the intense damage to the forest's power. This is represented by both the visuals and the music suddenly cutting to black and pure silence.
- In the climax of the game, Evelyn's body, for lack of a better phrase, seems to start falling apart as she prepares to transfer her soul to Tara's body. The way blood pours out of her mouth (even as she grins) is unsettling enough, but even more unsettling is the way her eyes seem to start
*melting,* with her pupils seemingly liquifying and oozing down her face like tears.
- During the confrontation in the fairy grove in the true ending, Evelyn uses another illusion to make Maddie believe that she killed Tara, Morgan, and Geladura. Abigail is eventually able to help Maddie snap out of it, but her despair and the description of the corpses makes the horror palpable. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeartOfTheWoods |
Hellraiser: Deader / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Amy wakes up with a knife in her back. After several frantic minutes, she resorts to slamming a door on the handle, and then begins painfully inching forward to try and slowly pull the blade out.
- The female Deader initiate committing suicide on video in the beginning of the film. She shoots herself in the head, and then Winter (rather erotically) breathes life into her corpse. She revives and climbs off the bed, revealing the massive hole in the side of her head and her hair matted with blood. Even Amy, who is no stranger to the dark side of humanity, is thoroughly disgusted.
- Pinhead executing Winter and his followers with his trademark dismemberment by chain trick and a single chain for his Deader Initiates respectively is the most gruesome moment in the film. It's also strangely satisfying, considering what Winter and his followers did. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellraiserDeader |
Hellsing Ultimate Abridged / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This is a Hellsing abridged series, so naturally it's to be expected... For moments from the original series, see here.
Warning: Spoilers Off on moment subpages, so read at your own risk.
Impressively, Team Four Star has managed to make an already tense scene from a horror-themed anime even more terrifying. Jan's call to Integra and the Convention of Twelve is changed drastically in this version. Instead of boasting about how awesome he is and telling them to "piss themselves and pray to their impotent God," he instead forces a Hellsing employee (who cries throughout the ordeal) to read a note detailing the violent and sexually graphic things Jan plans to do with Integra when he gets his hands on her. He then kills the employee and laughs about it before hanging up.
Hellsing Employee: ... (still reading Jan's threat) Now pardon me while I blow this faggot ginger's brains out-OHGODNO!(gunshot) Jan:(laughing) Oh, his fucking face man! Oh, now that shit is priceless!
On another note from that episode, Luke's Sound-Only Death. We hear Alucard taunting him while eating him alive as well as Luke's horrified screams until his voice finally dies. It's terrifying In-Universe too, since Integra uses it to convince the Council of Twelve to keep funding the Hellsing Organization.
Even with (or rather because of) the ironic music playing, Millennium's attack on London is just as horrifying as it was in the source material, if not worse. It's spine chilling when The Major speaks lines from War.
The Major: Induction, then destruction. WHO WANTS TO DIE?!
In episode 6, there is a flashback to Seras' parents being murdered, and her mother's corpse being raped. This scene is not played for laughs, and even the sliver of Black Comedy at the end (where Seras bluntly says "I grew up in Leeds. Nothing happened.") is Seras being a clearly traumatized person trying not to think of such horrible events in their life.
In episode 7, Team Four Star added more humor to the scenes. It did not remove the most horrifying scenes, including what Zorin does to Seras, such as a full flashback to the murder of her parents, then Zorin cutting off Seras' arm and blinding her with her scythe. That's where the title comes from.
In episode 8, Alucard's reaction to Walter heartlessly crushing Anderson's skull as he was about to say his last words. While Walter does deliver a smarmy Bond One-Liner, in context it just makes things worse. If you did find it funny, the humor is quickly snuffed out by the pure, absolute fury as Alucard howls his rage into the sky. Completely out of character with everything we've seen from Alucard up until now, and it is terrifying.
There's also the scene where Alexander Anderson stabs himself through the heart with the Nail of Helena, aka one of the nails that pierced Christ's body, so as to bring the LITERAL POWER OF GOD down on Alucard. Try to sleep after seeing that, why don'tcha'? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellsingUltimateAbridged |
Hellsing / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**...You're dog food.**
Well, seeing as how this is
*Hellsing* we're talking about, this is going to take a little while. Alright, buckle up, let's get the ball rolling...
- Every Goddamn thing about Alucard. He's more the Anthropomorphic Personification of Nightmare Fuel than a vampire.
- Granted, it's not a
*bad* thing since vampires have suffered a serious case of Nightmare Retardant over the years; it's good to see that there's a vampire out there that can *still* scare people shitless.
- Whenever Alucard gets into his full monster mode, shooting, biting, flaying, breaking his way through whatever unfortunate mooks happen to be in his way. No one, not even a vampire Nazi, deserves to die like that. And then he gets angry when one of the GATE soldiers commits suicide out of fear...
- Alucard's face on the DVD cover◊ for the first series can freak one out
*even before watching the first episode.*
- It is heavily implied that he has no true form, and the more power he is allowed to unleash the more he tends to resemble an Eldritch Abomination. One would have thought that it was impossible to actually depict a Lovecraftian horror, but Hirano gets
*damn* close.
- If you're curious... You're welcome.
- And the scariest thing? This wasn't even at his full power, and Luke was cowering in fear at just how damn powerful Alucard really is. To the point that he, another damned vampire, is yelling out "What the Hell Are You?!"
- And then there's Luke Valentine's death, Baskerville coming out of Alucard to devour Luke. Eaten by a doggy indeed.
- The lead up to Luke's outburst is horrifying in just how genuinely
**excited** Alucard is for Luke show that he's at his level. The powers Alucard lists off so casually hammer in how goddamn far he is above a standard vampire.
- Which, speaking of truly horrific vampires, sounds uncomfortably like WRYYYYYY!!!.
- Really, anytime Baskerville appears for that matter is terrifying.
- When he releases his first restriction seal, we see this...just what the actual fuck happened?◊
- Alucard's Nightmare Face upon being given the order by Integra to kill everyone in his way in Brazil, the demonic Slasher Smile that tells Seras, and us, that he is going to
*thoroughly enjoy* everything he does to the people who are being sent after them.
- And Girlycard, just Girlycard. Look at those eyes and try not to think they're looking at you. And why the hell doesn't she have a
*nose*?!
- Seras is perhaps more frightening than Alucard. Alucard is a Blood Knight, true, and a real horror show when fully released, but he really only does that when he's following orders, meaning he has
*some* form of self control. An angry Seras, on the other hand, is disturbingly akin to an EVA unit gone berserk. Not that she has no motive to be in that state, which brings us to...
- Seras watching all her police friends die in the first episode.
*And then * **dying** and coming back as a vampire.
- And then being stabbed through the chest with God knows how many silver blessed bayonets that deliberately miss the heart so that she suffers, watching her master's head get cut off, who's the only thing resembling family and connections at this point, and pulling out the bayonets one by one as she limps away from the crazy priest with her master's decapitated head and would have probably been killed a second time if Integra hadn't entered at the right time.
- And then watching all her Hellsing friends die in the Valentine arc.
*With her * **personally** ripping dozens of them apart in her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- And
*then* watching all the Geese die in the blitz. *With her * **eating** Pip's soul to restore herself.
- And watched her parents be murdered in front of her and then her mother's corpse raped.
*With her * **stabbing** one of the killers in the eye with a fork, and then getting shot.
- Rip Van Winkle getting impaled on her own rifle, while also sobbing and getting sniffed/licked/bitten/assimilated by Alucard in a very suggestive manner.
- Rip Van Winkle's fight against Alucard was unique for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it's made abundantly clear that Rip is
**scared utterly shitless** of Alucard. She spends half the fight sobbing uncontrollably in sheer terror. She manages to shoot Alucard ONCE, using her bullet to tear through Alucard multiple times, as her power allows her to personally control every bullet she fires with that musket. But then Alucard comes back from this, catches the bullet right in his teeth and shatters it, and then she goes back to sobbing as Alucard impales her with her own musket. It doesn't have a bayonet, **he just jams the barrel through her left breast.**
-
*And the HANDS. GOOD GOD, THE HANDS.* There's at least ten and they certainly weren't helping with the fight.
- The way Alucard licked her blood off the floor. Ugh.
- It really speaks volume that
*this* is the one Nightmare Fuel scene that Hellsing Ultimate Abridged omitted in a way. Even *Team Four Star couldn't find a way to make this not terrifying* so they ended right at the impaling.
- "Look what I just caught. *CLANG* I just caught you... Rip...Van...Winkle!"
- What's even creepier is that catching the bullet apparently shattered his jaw. And he doesn't give a shit.
- Place yourself in Rip's shoes. An unstoppable, terrifying enemy has his sights set firmly on you. You know he is going to do horrible, unspeakable things to you. And there is NOTHING you can do to prevent it from happening. And that, my friends, is High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
- There's a reason Taliesin Jaffe and the English VAs described Rip van Winkle as being a fairy tale protagonist, with Alucard as the Big Bad Wolf. For the record, it's (fittingly) the German style of fairy tale. There is no huntsman to come to Rip's rescue.
- What makes this scene truly disturbing is that it is a clear subtext for a rape scene. From the way Alucard slowly corners Rip, to the way he
*penetrates* her breast with her gun, to the way he licks her blood off the floor while multiple shadow arms grab her *everywhere*, to the Luminescent Blush Rip gets when Alucard bites into her neck and starts to slowly drain her. Add in that vampire biting is a metaphor for sex, and...well,,
- Just how
*personal* Alucard makes killing Rip. Sure, his previous targets all died horrifically, but at least he was quick about it. With her, there's no swift use of his powers to tear her to shreds - he punches her, strangles her with her own musket, lifts her by her neck and slowly, **sloowwly** pierces through her heart before devouring her, all with just his bare hands - and not just the two. And there's no reason for why he decided to savor ripping her in particular apart, other than she more than anyone in her unit was *terrified* of him and that made it *so* much more fun.
- And the Major's reaction to his first lieutenant being subjected to this? He has Schrodinger set up his camera on the ship so the Major can bid her farewell, waxing poetic to her about the inevitability of death before the rest of Millennium joins in cheerfully saluting goodbye too, as if this were nothing but them seeing one of their fellow soldiers off to retirement. He even openly decides not to hit the kill switch on her, saying that she's "earned a hunter's death" - something which
*the goddamn Doktor* of all people seems to find uncomfortable.
- Zorin getting cheese grated against a wall. She deserved every second of it, though,
*by GOD*, did she.
- And of course, it's also quite grisly to see Zorin trying to punch away Seras,
*just to have most of her fist crunched off*.
- Alucard getting raped as a child, which turns him into a barbaric warlord committing mass-atrocities in a religious quest masking personal vengeance which turns out to be all for nothing as he looses and in a moment of utter despair sells his soul to the devil.
- Alucard, the Lovecraftian Eldritch Abomination, badass fuckmothering vampire who would kill you on a whim without even blinking, was once a child, just like anyone else. A child who, as stated above, was held down and had everything quite literally stripped away from him. Perhaps he has more reason for his actions than we give him credit for...
- Any scene where the Nazi mooks are winning. Tag, somebody else is it.
- There's a shot in the manga and OAV of one of the Nazis eating a baby.
There is **NAZI VAMPIRES EATING BABIES.** *NO* pretty way of putting it.
- The "War Declaration" scene. The fate of the old guard Nazi officer Heer is simply grisly, if not Nausea Fuel.
- The images we get before we get to him. A pile of dead bodies, ripped to pieces.
- To be specific, the Millennium vampires eat him. No, they don't kill him first.
**The Doktor**: Be sure to eat every bite. If he turns into a ghoul, I vill not be happy.
- Schrödinger decapitates himself with a huge grin on his face, and his severed head keeps laughing as it and his body fall into a river of blood running through London ||that Alucard is in the midst of drinking||.
- In the anime, the rather graphic depiction of a man being turned into a vampire by the chips is... well, quite disturbing, to say the least.
- The Millenium vampires massacring the entire population of London.
- Let's expand the horror a bit. Imagine you're a normal citizen of London, walking around on a cool evening. Suddenly, you hear the sound of airships. And then Nazis, a group that everyone thought was done for good, come flying down and begin killing everyone in sight. Worse still, they seem to be absolutely invincible, and are turning the entire populace into zombies. Then you see more blimps hovering overhead. Thank goodness, it's ||the Catholic Church! And then they join in the slaughter as well, because they're being led by a crazy fanatic that hates Protestants.|| Face it, any civilian in London is boned.
- Heck, just imagining what being
**a regular human being** in Hellsing's demented world would be like is enough Nightmare Fuel to keep anyone up for a few hours.
- Which is exactly why those who choose to stay human when offered a chance of becoming something more — or less — are so very much admired. Anyone can become a powerful monster but it takes a truly brave person to stay relatively "powerless" in the face of all that insanity.
- Awesomely executed though it is, The Major's speech is absolutely
*soaked* in the kind of nihilistic blood-lust that would make a regular Blood Knight blanche. It becomes very clear that the "man" simply *does not care* who is fighting, who is winning, who is losing, and who is getting chopped into dog meat all the while. He's a personification of merciless, indiscriminate, demented desire for conflict. He doesn't even care if himself or his whole organization burns as well, as long as he can take a nation or two with him, and he finally gets the apocalypse he promised them decades ago.
"Gentlemen, all I ask for is war. A war so grand as to make Hell itself tremble."
- Rip Van Winkle's
*incredibly* disturbing face as she is killing the soldiers on the ship. Take a look: [1]◊
- Oh and top it off with her jauntily humming an
*opera* tune as she paints a swastika on the ship *using the blood* of the soldiers she just killed.
- While we're still on the ship, imagine being there as your captain and two officers suddenly turn into monsters and start killing your fellow crew, who only rise again to keep killing. You're basically trapped on your own coffin, folks, without even the time to make your peace with God.
- Plus van Winkle's questioning of the newly vampirized captain. She asks him how he feels after committing high treason against his own country, slaughtering the men he worked with and condemning them all to Hell by turning them into ghouls... before congratulating him in an unsettlingly chipper manner.
- Anderson's regenerative powers and the Major's ||cyborg conversion|| are most definitely Body Horror and Fridge Horror in the same package. Especially considering how damn painful it seems to be. The 10th OVA somehow makes the Major's ||cyborg nature all the more unpleasant by including the faint clicking and tick of machinery within as he and Integra speak. Then as he dies, you can hear the faint wheeze as if whatever pump has been serving as his lungs slowly winds down.||
- The page flip revealing what the Captain actually is. Half his face is twisted and contorted into some thing what does not even resemble ||a wolf||.
- Zorin Blitz herself, and the illusions in which she traps her enemies.
- Especially what she does to Seras. She forces Seras to relive the most horrible thing that ever happened to her (the murder of her parents and the subsequent rape of her mother by two perfectly normal humans), and as a result Seras is too traumatized to fight back. Zorin then cuts off her arm and stabs her, and as a horribly injured Seras tries desperately to crawl away, Zorin drags her back and
*cuts out her eyes*. Thankfully, Seras gets better.
- This one crosses with Fridge Horror: in the very beginning of the story, a vampire infects an entire village and turns its inhabitants into ghouls. However, when a virgin is bitten and drained of blood, he or she will become another vampire instead of a ghoul. The village of course had its share of children, yet Alucard met only one vampire, the originator, during his purge.
*So what did the vicar do to the children?*
- From the eighth OVA:|| Maxwell's death. And how!||
- Forget Maxwell, just imagine what it would be like if you were there when Alucard unleashes his hordes. Literally a Hell on earth.
- There's also the scene with Jan Valentine in
*Hellsing Ultimate OVA 2*. During his infamous "I highly recommend pissing yourselves, followed by a course of praying to your impotent God!" spiel, he places his thumb atop the eye of the decapitated head he's playing with and presses down hard causing the eyeball to burst and blood to shoot out.
- Shockingly, this scene as redone in the Abridged Series is actually
*worse.* And it doesn't even show the eyescream. ||Probably for the best since instead of a decapitated head it's a live ghoul and instead of his thumb...||
- Seras's Mind Rape at the hands of Zorin Blitz as well as when Zorin mutilates her afterwards and planned on killing her before killing Pip.
- The vampire preacher planned on raping Seras Victoria before killing her, since she was a virgin and he didn't want an "equal" vampire. Fortunately, Alucard steps in before it gets to that, although the preacher gets a few good gropes in for effect.
- It should be noted that said vampire didn't know that she was a virgin. He was just doing it on the off chance.
- Then there's Jan wanting to rape, kill, and rape Integra again. ...In That Order.
- "Come out little Ms. Hellsing. We only want to torture you, kill you, maybe skull fuck your corpse a couple of times and go home and masturbate, O.K.?"
- The first TV series had a little more disturbing declaration: "I'm gonna fuck that bitch, shoot her in the head, then fuck her
*there*!" meaning he actually intended to use the bullet hole for his post-mortem session.
- The Hellsing Ruins OST track 19. First reaction: "wait, is this a Hellsing song? Still nice, I guess... OK, now it starts becoming eerie an — OKWHATTHEFUCK." It can be heard on YouTube here.
- This one crosses over into Fridge Horror, but the Chapter 94 revelation that Codename "She", the creature upon which Millennium based their artificial vampires is none other than ||Mina Harker. Because Alucard "Dracula" was not outright destroyed, she is presumed to have stayed in some half-human half-vampire state before dying and being dug up by Millennium for their research.||. The Nightmare Fuel really kicks in when you recall that she is chained and bandaged in
*The Dawn*, and this is after they dug her up. So, it is possible that she did die — as in her body stopped functioning — but her half-vampire state kept her soul/consciousness alive and imprisoned within that rotting form. Walter ||setting her remains on fire and obliterating them completely|| was probably the kindest thing that could have been done at that point.
- There's some Paranoia Fuel and Fridge Horror regarding Schrödinger, and people often ignore that because of his Plucky Comic Relief personality. Think about it: he's the perfect spy. He can infiltrate anywhere he wants, do whatever he wants, and he won't be caught by security measures simply because he skipped them all to his target. Also, you can't kill him, because he'll just disappear. And as shown during ||Zorin's death||, he can appear inside people's
*minds*! Also, consider the nature of his power: He can basically warp reality regarding his own existence, thus appearing anywhere he wants and healing from any wounds, as long as he believes he can do it. Just Think of the Potential!. Can that extend to people's memories of him? Can he even be detected by cameras if he chooses not to be? Can he become invisible, selectively or completely? Can he shapeshift to any form he desires? He's a Nazi Youth Enfante Terrible created by a Mad Doctor who not only can teleport anywhere and heal from any wound, but his powers can potentially make him a god! He's basically Nazi Haruhi Suzumiya!!
- And, at the end of the series, Alucard implies that he has the same powers after having ||absorbed Schrödinger.|| Sure, he's only got one extra life, but with those powers, he's even more immortal than he was with all his millions.
- Speaking of Schrödinger, it may have been the music, it may have been the context, but the scene in the OVA where he goes "Meaow" in a burning tower is
*supremely* creepy.
- Maxwell's acceptance of his archbishopric. It starts with that cruel, mocking grin as he seizes the Archbishop stola, and it devolves into insane laughter as he sees his troops loaded up in Hercules helicopters,
*rejoicing* in the thought of the Protestant carnage to come. However, this is made even worse when one considers that England *does* have a significant population of Catholics; they may be a distinct minority, but they're still *there* and a member of their own Church is *celebrating* their deaths.
- "Level 0 Release". ||Alucard summons a mass of familiars (numbering in the millions) and blood to devour his enemies and
*London*||. The CGI serves to make ||the roiling sea of the damned he summons all the more terrifying and unnerving||.
- And the biggest nightmare fuel of this entire scene? ||The Level 0 Release is Alucard unleashing
*every soul he has ever devoured as a vampire*. And he has devoured a whole lot of souls over the centuries he's been a vampire||.
- How many? ||In the epilogue, Alucard puts the figure just shy above
*three million.*||
- And what's even worse? ||The very first souls he consumed were Wallachian soldiers. Men who served under him when he was still king. Even
*Maxwell* is horrified when he sees them.||
- Anderson after using the Nail of Helena. He gives his humanity away for power and becomes what the narration can only describe as something that is neither human nor demon and is only referred to as a Monster of God by Alucard. The members of Iscariot are terrified of what has become of their Father and Alucard is utterly disgusted at what Anderson has become. The OVA even gives him unfocused and unnatural eyes right before he lops off Alucard's head.
- And then to make matters worse, Anderson completely turns the fight in his favor and ends up beating the undead snot out of Alucard so badly that the latter is nearly butchered and incinerated and would've given up hope had Seras not snapped him out of his funk. While this is certainly an awesome moment for Anderson, it's not played as such in the manga/OVA. It's terrifying and Alucard, a maniacal Blood Knight is nearly as horrified as everyone else is.
- Also, Anderson's head when it's first made entirely of thorns, with only sunken holes for eyes and a mouth.
- Schrodinger's abuse of quantum mechanics. He can be anywhere and survive anything.
- You're in an elevator. You're about to escape from a creature like you've never seen before, but one of your men suddenly has the expression of a panting dog as he repeatedly presses the open button. And Alucard is coming.
-
*"Open Sesame."*
- What is just as horrific is not just Alucard slaughtering you and your men. It's the fact that your commanding officers
*knowingly, deliberately* sent you all to your deaths because the promise of immortality and power were dangled in front of them by an unknown force. Men who trained and led you, throwing you to a monster like Alucard like meat to a rabid wolf for their own selfish desires. Humans Are the Real Monsters indeed.
- The panicked radio call. "HQ! GET US THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hellsing |
Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- While the executioners fail over and over to kill Gabimaru, the series doesnt skimp out on explaining or illustrating the grisly details of each execution method used on him. For example, the exact effects of fire burning humans alive.
- At several points in the second chapter/episode, there are moments where we see a disturbingly rapey visual representation of Sagiri's fears in insecurities when she takes a person's life. We see her imagine herself naked while legions of undead hands molest her.
- The results of one expedition out of five sent by the Shogunate to retrieve the Elixir of Life for Shinsenkyo; a single boat filled with beautiful flowers sprouted from a member of the search party, including his eye sockets. The man also has a listless smile on his face.
- After the most recent expedition, one sergeant—out of roughly 60 members—returned alive with lumps all over his body. When he woke up a day later, the plants started to
*erupt* from those lumps. The shogunate presented his body to the prisoners, and hes *still alive*, blissfully stammering.
- The Shogun ordering the convicts to cull their own numbers. Not only because the Asaemon are supposedly too understaffed to be assigned to each of them, but clearly for his own amusement. And they arent allowed to untie their hands.
- Chobe starts off by choking a man to death so hard that his face turns red and he foams from the mouth, followed by him crushing anothers face with a rock. The other convicts follow suit, displaying such brutality as eye gouging and stomping each other to death.
- When some of the prisoners are ordered to kill Gabimaru specifically when the latter calls them out for the bloodbath, the Hollow doesnt hold back in defending himself and brutally rips his assailants apart... right down to ripping their throats open with his bare hands and teeth. Even the Shogun and the Samurai are disturbed by his brutality.
- Tamiya and Fuchi discovering the process that turned the last expedition crew into human flower-beds; Tamiya's hand suddenly gets stung by a butterfly with
*a human face*. He immediately cuts off his hand along with the insect, and his severed hand turns into a mass of branches and flora. After that, theyre encroached upon by giant centipedes with faces and several fingers coming out of their mouths.
- Sōshin, the giant Titan-like monsters that roam Kotaku. Abominations that resemble deities with humanoid and animalistic characteristics.
- The first one Gabimaru and Sagiri encounter is a bipedal creature with a fish for a body, six arms and a set of spiked tails.
- Everything about Rokurota is Nightmare Fuel. He's a colossal, cannibalistic giant who is also comparable to the Titans, especially with the cannibalism. And to make matters worse, he has the mentality of an 8-year old, making him borderline ignorant of just how monstrous he is. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellsParadiseJigokuraku |
Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- A lot of the demons can come across as this.
- Some of the tortures that ||Milton|| finds in Hell.
- The Grabbit has hints of this- Marlo is at first so entranced by it that she doesn't even notice she's walking through barbed wire to get to it. ||Then there's the fact that it's an Omnicidal Maniac.||
- The Pangs, especially after Milton makes a suit out of one to ||break into Blimpo.|| It slowly starts eating him as he wears it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeckWhereTheBadKidsGo |
Hellbound (2021) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Considering the nature of *Hellbound*, which is about religious horror, extremism, and a Crapsack World to boot, there will be moments that will really make your skin crawl. **As with all moments pages, Spoilers Off!**
- The design of the trio of demons. With inhumane faces, black texture, sinew on their bodies, muscular in appearance, and their other-worldly strength. Imagine finding yourself seeing THAT during your day.
- The idea of the decrees. Imagine going about your daily life, then an angel announces in your presence that you are hell-bound at a specific date and time. The sheer paranoia of waiting for the inevitable is terrifying enough all on its own.
- The time-frame is also worth noting. Your time could be take years to
*seconds*. Either possibility is frightening in its own right.
- The Wham Shot at the very beginning of the series. In a coffee shop, someone from a group show their friends a video from a man discussing a prophecy from God, but they fail to recognize a man in the same shop in a state of distress. He keeps checking the time, and when a specific time arrives, nothing happens. Then right out of the gate, three demons burst into the shop, and give the man a divine beat-down. He's repeatedly beaten within an inch of his life, he gets his body dragged across the street, until he is completely immobile and suffering. To end it, the three then engulf him in a bright light, that reduces him to nothing but charred bones. Wow...
- Just the very concept of the Arrowhead. A fanatic and extremist organization that takes the ideologies of the New Truth and crank them up to extreme levels.
- Even worse? This is Truth in Television, there are groups like them in the real world, with radical religious ideologies.
- It doesn't matter how far they run; the three demons will find their target and make sure they get a brutal beating before being sent to hell. Not even
**killing yourself** will spare you from their wrath. In episode 4, a businessman ended his own life before his time ran out to avoid the horrible fate; that didn't stop the demons from **beating the shit out of his soul** before sending his ass to hell.
- What's worse is that they did that in front of the businessman's friends and family, during
*his funeral*, no less.
- Your newborn baby is
*dying*. And since the cause of their impending doom is so *weird*, the media wants to make a circus of their slow and painful death, ensuring they'll go down in history as a tragic and pathetic short-lived thing for future generations to mock. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hellbound2021 |
Henchgirl / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Tina impaling the guard at Dr. Maniac's office with her carrot arm.
- Coco's death. After being judged unworthy by Amelia, Amelia zaps her with the Angelic Scepter. Amelia's powers turn the Angelic Scepter into a death ray (when it was used by the Butterfly Gang, it was more like a taser), essentially cooking Coco. (Imagine a human-sized butterfly hitting a bug zapper.) Coco's corpse crumbles when Fred touches her. Mary would have been next had Paige not pushed her out of the way. ||The scepter was apparently used at least once as a death ray by Mr. B too? (Issue 1, toward the end.)||
- ||Tina defeating Evil Tina in the second edition's new material. Evil Tina (a sentient carrot) has Tina's carrot powers controlled with a power dampener, so Tina bites Evil Tina's head off. || | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Henchgirl |
Henrik Drescher / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Even though Henrik Drescher's works have been well known for their surreal quality, they were also well known for their nightmarish quality in some of his works (the nightmarish qualities are a bit more intense in his adult works than in his childrens books). | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HenrikDrescher |
Hell House / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. Florence being attacked by the cat in the middle of the night. Imagine waking up in your room to find an animal attacking and clawing at you. The séance scene is auditorily unnerving, when Florence begins to speak in a completely different voice.Possessed Florence: I don't know you people. Why are you here? Florence allowing what she believes to be Daniel's spirit to have sex with her - only to discover that it's actually Belasco possessing her. The look on her face is terrifying. Ben's final showdown with Belasco's spirit. A scene that could easily have been Narm, but Roddy McDowall's performance and the good direction make it a combination of this and Awesome Moments. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellHouse |
Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
I'm sorry, I'll go now
- When the monster clown mannequin, which was already pretty scary in the first film, is leaning up against a wall and blocking the open exit door you already know things have gone very wrong. It gets worse when the head and one of the arms move just before the door slams shut.
- It gets even worse when the monster clown starts chasing two of the investigative crew through the strobe light hallway.
- The first time the crew is chased through the hallways of the hotel. The fact that mannequins are already moving makes every single mannequin leftover from Hell House even creepier than they already are.
- One of the crew running past Melissa, one of the haunted house actors from the first film, who is on the phone to her mom explaining everything is ok. When they turn back to look at her Sarah's face is suddenly covered in her bloody injuries and she gets up to chase after her newest victim.
- The Hitchhiking Ghost of the 2009 incident luring two victims into the hotel's basement. Her true face is also pretty terrifying. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellHouseLLCIITheAbaddonHotel |
Remina / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Part of the horror *is* Humans Are Bastards taking hold, what fear and hate can turn your basic decent human into. Especially "lovely" is what the bum who ultimately saves Remina answers when she asks him to just let her go and save himself.
They get you, they don't, don't mean a thing to them. They'd never stop with you now that they got a taste for it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellstarRemina |
Hellblazer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
With a name like
*Hellblazer*, this trope would seem to come naturally... **Spoilers below**
- In the very first issue, John Constantine drops by to visit his friend Gary "Gaz" Lester. Letting himself in, he finds that the place has an awful stench and hasn't been cleaned in weeks. The syringe he finds with tiny bug carcasses suspended in fluid is disturbing, but when he enters the bathroom and finds Gaz sitting in the bathtub complaining: "... it feels like there's bugs all over me", it's pure Nightmare Fuel. What's causing Gaz's problems is even worse: he's become the target of a famine demon who causes people to literally consume the objects of their desire, i.e. start gobbling up money or jewelry as if it's the last, most delicious food on earth
note : See the liquor store scene in the film version for a similar premise. One disturbing panel shows a bodybuilder chewing on his own muscular arm. The only way to keep innocent bystanders safe is for Constantine to seal Gaz alive in a wall.
- "Early Warning"/"How I Learned To Love The Bomb", a two-part Grant Morrison story which culminates with John and a friend trying to save a village from a mind-warping pagan festival with masks involved. Those big, hideous, over-the-whole-head ones. And guess who's the only survivor.
- It specifically brings up the effects of Margaret Thatcher's politics on rural Britain, and how the working class had been reduced to barbarism and turned on each other.
- "Archbishop Bomb. Archbishop Bomb. Archbishop Bomb."
- The
*Son of Man* arc? Back when John was still in Ravenscar, he got sprung (unwillingly) by a psychopathic mob boss who demanded John resurrect his dead boy, and John was too loopy to think of a way out except for conning his friends into helping him summon a demon into the child's body. Which he left there, to do whatever it wanted for the next twelve years. And then the story gets really nasty.
- Also the flashback when he's begging to be allowed back into Ravenscar, even though they torture him on a nightly basis in there.
-
*The Horrorist*, where John has stopped even caring about the awful things he sees.
- From the same story, there's Angel, the eponymous Horrorist. Essential an anthropomorphic personification of human misery, determined to balance the karmic scales by bringing suffering everywhere she goes: just by walking through a town, Angel causes famine, oppression, serial-killing and insanity to erupt across the area without any logical origin. As if this wasn't creepy enough, Angel's appearance has Humanoid Abomination written all over it: a seemingly ordinary young woman with an eerily-beautiful face, unblinking "black hole" eyes, and a curiously detached demeanor.
- In
*Hard Time*, what he does to the prison.
-
*Highwater*, guest-starring some of the crowd from *Preacher.* (Not really, but they might as well be.)
- More recently, the
*Scab* storyline, where John is addicted to putting on a monster's skin.
- The Newcastle Incident itself. It's not what happened that's so bad (we've seen worse since), but what's haunting about it is that it all happened because of recklessness and ignorance.
- The man with the hole in his head, from
*Damnation's Flame*. **Dear God...**
- The monstrous elite club where Britain's upper class indulge in all manner of horrible depravities, including cannibalism, devil worship and murder. One man, implied to be Prince Andrew, snorted his uncle's funerary ashes. What's worse is, they don't see the SLIGHTEST problem with this and just excuses themselves with the idea that England's aristocracy has always "fed" on the poor.
- John's actor friend who has been the inspiration for so many fictional characters that the universe now classifies HIM as a fictional character and thus tries to balance itself by drawing him into the realm of fiction rather than the real world, and does this by sending all manner of characters after him, including Blind Pew, Sherlock Holmes, and Bill Sykes. He's finally captured and sentenced to the Vault Of Minor Characters where forgettable minor characters are consigned to limbo. The person who draws him there? Winnie the Pooh.
- A boy heavily implied to be Peter Pan is murdered by a man with a hook...
- Bill Sykes killing his prostitute girlfriend for warning John.
- What happens to the souls of children consigned to Hell through no fault of their own.
- ||"You wanna know how I got him pregnant? I slit a hole in his belly and fucked him through it."|| said by a ||daemon who is called a Fuckpig and was possessing the body of the man's 5 year old son, with a 3 foot long penis it uses to rape its victims to death with...|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hellblazer |
Henry Cow / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- From the 2009 and 2019 boxed sets, the two volumes of
*Trondheim*, a recording of an entire live performance from Norway in May 1976, when the band was temporarily reduced to a quartet, bassist John Greaves having left and singer Dagmar Krause being too ill to tour. The band decided to improvise their entire set except for the last track, and to play in complete darkness, and to accompany themselves with tapes that they'd prepared beforehand and could fade in and out as they wished. The result is 110 minutes of improvisation, weird voices coming in and out, guitar noise, percussion, shrieks from the woodwinds and snatches of melody interrupted by unearthly noises. It's deeply unnerving.
- Norwegian musicologist Trond Einar Garmo, author of a book-length study of the bands music, only saw them live once, and it was this very gig: he called it "my most confusing concert experience ever." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HenryCow |
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Any of the murders depicted in the film.
- There is poster art by outsider artist Joe Coleman that was deemed too horrifying to use.
- Henry in general, there's just
*something* so off about him, which makes it more glaring and depressing that Becky doesn't see anything unnerving about Henry's misanthropic personality. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller |
Henry Danger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"The Bucket Trap", in which Piper uses a taser to shock Jasper into not telling his (fake) secret.
The ending of "Scream Machine", where Ray jumps out of the car, leaving everyone else stuck in a swerving car.
"Jasper's Real Girlfriend": Henry tells her that Jasper loves Charlotte (he means as a friend), but the girlfriend doesn't take it too well, as she tried to kill Charlotte!
Henry's nightmare sequence in "Dream Busters".
Dirk, the angry customer from "Henry's Jelly".
The many people getting sent to jail (for dumb reasons like wearing two hats) in "Christmas Danger".
Jasper getting arrested when Mitch Bilsky framed him in "Mouth Candy".
"The Beat Goes On" has Dr. Minyak and Nurse Cohort brainwashing Charlotte and turning her into an uncontrollable evil psychopath who nearly killed the main team.
Lacey and Roger turning into a gross, horrible, and disturbing blob after trying Schwoz's teleportation machine in "Saturday Night Lies".
Henry turning into a feral, hairy monster in "Henry the Man-Beast".
"Green Fingers", especially Schwoz using nearly all of Jasper's blood to create an antidote.
Frankini and Goomer controlling Captain Man and Kid Danger with a domitron in "Live and Dangerous".
It turns out Ray was lucky! In "Indestructible Henry", it's shown that when other people were put through the desensitizer machine, they not only became indestructible, they also grew extra body parts! One guy had a face on his belly, and another guy had arms pop out of his ears that constantly poked him in the eyes!
Schwoz theorizes that because Ray was a young boy, he did not suffer any mutations. He decides to test it out on Henry, who is also a young boy. Unfortunately, Schwoz was wrong. Henry does get a mutation: he breaths fireevery time he laughs! As Henry stated, he could melt anyone's face off should he laugh!
Drex going back in time to prevent Captain Man from getting his indestructibly in "Back to the Danger". And he nearly succeeds! Worse still, when he becomes indestructible, his right hand turns into a dinosaur's.
His final fate: Henry sends him back 100 million years into the past.
The Thumb buddies after getting sent to outer space in "Thumb War".
The lonely monster named Kevin from "Danger Things", and after Captain Man destroys the portal, Oliver gets trapped in the other dimension with Kevin, forever. Although, it is Nightmare Retardant when it's revealed Kevin is actually pretty friendly.
From "The Great Cactus Con", "GAME ON".
In "Part 1: A New Evil", the new villain, Rick Twittler plans to drain Captain Man and Kid Danger of their powers and use those same powers to create a biological computer virus that will shut off the internet permanently. While people can live without phones and computers (despite the fact that the people of Swellview go crazy if they can't send a single text message), what will happen to vital machinery that runs on the internet?
And to make things worse in "Part 2: A New Darkness", Rick Twittler succeeds, and all the power in Swellview goes out!
And in "Part 3 : A New Hero", Rick Twittler gets infected by his own computer virus (thanks to Captain Man punching him into it), turning him into a viral version of the Borg, intent on spreading itself to humans! Thankfully, the virus only infects only one henchman and the process is reversible.
"Sister Twister Part 1 and 2": Piper finally learns Henry is Kid Danger and Ray is Captain Man. So what does Ray try to do to her? Do what he does whenever someone learns their identities: completely erase their memories and reduce them to a mindless fop. Only this time, Piper turns the tables and erases his memory.
Ray getting pregnant after eating the alien egg in "Captain Mom".
It turns out Schwoz has a setting on his memory eraser that lets him erase only the part where people realize Ray is Captain Man and Henry is Kid Danger. Ray is of course outraged. Why erase everyone's entire memories when they could have erased that one particular memory?! Schwoz says because it's fun watching people being reduced to mindless, confused idiots.
Drex is back! Thanks to his indestructibility, he survived being sent back millions of years into the past and has an army of cavemen with him!
The first sign that he's back is the painting of Captain Man and Kid Danger on a cave wall. At first, you think it's just graffiti, but it's actually an ancient cave painting Drex drew in order to make his army of cavemen hate Captain Man and Kid Danger.
Drex's final plan. Upon learning of the memory wiper's above mentioned setting, he intends to use it to erase all of Swellview's memory of Captain Man so he can replace him. And to ensure Captain Man won't impede his plan, he sends him back 101 million years into the past and breaks the time machine so Henry and his friends won't use it.
Miles nearly drowns one of the cavemen he was fighting after gaining his teleportation powers.
During the fight on the blimp, Drex tosses Captain Man off.
Drex: Good thing he's indestructible. Oh, wait! Not anymore!
The episode Toon In For Danger the cartoon about Captain Man and Kid Danger that the gang watches is just creepy as hell. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HenryDanger |
Hellsister Trilogy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Supergirl is frisked at the door of the Legion's Headquarters. One cop wonders his partner what they would have done if it had been Satan Girl.
One of the Policemen said to the cop with the scanner, "Sir, what would we have done if it hadn't been Supergirl?"
The scanner-cop replied, "I would have pushed this button here, set off an alarm in Legion headquarters, and prayed some of us were still alive by the time those kids got out here. That answer your question, Tyrril?"
"Affirmative, sir," he replied.
- Satan Girl reminds us she's a monster every time she opens her mouth:
Kryptonians could survive in space without a suit. Was that not a pleasure? It certainly was. She could live her life between the stars, and never once need to breathe.
She could devastate planets, wipe them clean of life. Rebuild them at her whim.
She could tyrannize worlds, whole systems of planets, make them bow to her mighty hand, instantly execute anyone who dared protest—or just anybody she wanted to kill.
She could explore pleasures of the body that Kara never would have dared to, satisfy lusts that the blonde beast never even knew she had. She could force herself upon any suitor, male or female or whatever, and destroy them after their job was done. Or perhaps just maim them, so that they could never again do such a job for anyone else. Satan Girl smiled. Now that was being imaginative...
She could have children from those couplings, or kill them in the womb.
She could become a goddess to an unsophisticated planet's people. Drinking in their worship, demanding sacrifice.
All of this she could do, she would do, and more.
For Kryptonians and Daxamites were gods, off their homeworlds. They really were. What a pity their morality forced them not to realize that fact.
She clasped her bent knees to her chest and thought. The problem was, in this time, she was hardly unique. Billions of Kryptonians existed on Rokyn. Billions more Daxamites, with the same power, existed on Daxam. Luckily, there was only one prisoner still left in the Phantom Zone, that old poop Gazor, so there wasn't much competition there.
But, somehow, she'd have to do something about both planets. Daxam would be easy. A shower of leaden hail across its surface, and the dead would litter the ground in heaps beyond Hitler's and Stalin's dreams.
That world would stink of corpses for eons to come.
She laughed soundlessly.
- Desaad's mental torture of Pariah:
Pariah could not rise from his chair, held as he was by a stasis beam that paralyzed his lower body. Whatever he faced, he could not get up and walk away from it. Perhaps it would not have helped.
Desaad had clamped a helmet over his head. It transmitted images from his brain to a receiver, which the master torturer of Apokolips manipulated like an orchestra conductor. He picked and choosed among the scenes of Pariah's life, helped along by a gauge which glowed more redly when it registered a pattern of fear in a certain remembrance.
The images were recorded and stored in the device's memory bank. Then Desaad began to fiddle with them, for he was an artist, and artists always reshape reality to their best intent. Some of the images were made more subtly frightening. Others were enlarged so as to knock down the viewer's mind with fear coming at him like a diesel train.
When he was ready, Desaad touched a control on the machine. "Tell me," he said, "what do you think of this?"
The images transmitted back to Pariah's covered eyes depicted the Great Experiment.
He saw Daneeta, coming into the lab, but much more slowly. The fear in her eyes was much more pronounced than it had been before. Around her, subtle things played, just out of the focus of his conscious mind. Sounds were heard, such as Pariah would never have preferred to hear in his too-long lifetime. She stepped into the laboratory slowly, and with every step, something happened to her body. It distorted, began to burn. Slowly. So that he could see every layer of skin being vaporized, all the organs beneath pulsating and bleeding and...
And she was looking at him. And saying something. And pleading with her eyes, her eyes which were still intact though her body burned and burned and burned.
"OH, GODS!" screamed Pariah. "TAKE IT AWAY!"
But it would not go away. Not even when he closed his eyes and sobbed.
Daneeta took a very long time to die. When she did, she was replaced by the faces of some of his relatives, his colleagues, his old teachers, all of them dying in precisely the same way, all of them accusing him with their eyes full of terror. The eyes which were the last things to be consumed.
Then there was the Great Hand again. The Great Hand which was altered, somehow... made more clawlike, more threatening.
And it was reaching out...
For HIM...
Pariah had been screaming for some time. He didn't know he could reach a higher pitch at that time, having given about as much effort as he could to the task. But he managed it, howling like a trapped animal, tears coursing down his face, sweat staining his clothes from armpits to waistband, his bowels beginning to move of their own accord.
He heard laughter. This he did not think was a simulation.
Before he passed out, he heard someone say, "I think we're getting results now."
The nightmares he had after fainting were not as bad as the ones he had waking. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellsisterTrilogy |
Hello Neighbor / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- When you turn around and The Neighbor is right behind you, staring into your soul. Complete with Scare Chord.
- The mysterious basement? What's in it? Alpha 2 implies the Neighbor is keeping a woman and her children down there, along with what appears to be tools for a Hollywood Satanism-style ritual. In Alpha 4, the basement features some kind of shadow-like humanoid monster. There's just enough ambiguity at this point that all this could mean anything, but it probably doesn't mean anything pleasant.
- In the E3 Beta trailer, the player character wakes up to screaming and banging noises coming from the Neighbor's basement. Said screaming sounds almost... inhuman. And as if we didn't have enough proof that whatever's down there is going to be disturbing.
- The final game employs subtle horror Foreshadowing in the dream sequences that the protagonist has between being captured by the Neighbor, which slowly reveal pieces of his past. Most of them are Tear Jerker, but in one of them, you ride through a roller coaster equipped with a pair of hands, operated by the boy on the missing poster. At the end of the ride, you see the girl from the missing poster standing in the middle of the tracks and you push her off the edge. Explaining, through rule of symbolism, what might have really happened to the two children in the poster.
- There's another creepy dream where the neighbor is shown burying
*something*, in silhouette.
- In Act 3, some of the minigames can be a little surreal and unnerving, especially for anyone who has a phobia of mannequins (who serve as your enemy in the minigames.)
- The mysterious shadow which haunts the protagonist through all of Act 3. It's possibly a representation of the protagonist's trauma at the hands of the Neighbor when he was a child, but even by the end of the game it's never quite explained what it is. Just that it's big, nasty, and in the final boss fight it wants to
*get* you. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HelloNeighbor |
Hell Teacher Nube / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Hell Teacher Nube* usually mixes horror and Japanese folklore with lots of comedy, but several chapters/episodes are more disturbing than funny, especially for a Shōnen manga aimed at teens and pre-teens, where (save for the teachers) all the protagonists are in fifth grade.
### Spoilers below.
- One chapter has a little ghost girl who at first was a benevolent spirit, but when her favorite book was torn apart, became an angry ghost and started kidnapping the kids in the loan list, searching for the culprit. She'd go to them one by one, repeating her favorite part of the book; if they failed to continue the verse, she'd lock them inside the book and go search for the next victim, growing more and more desperate and angry... Until Noriko, the local Cute Bookworm, manages to recite the whole paragraph and calm her down. And right in time, as the poor torn book
*was about to be burned*. Meeep.
- A ghost girl who stole (ripped off) the legs of other children because she lost her own when she was torn in half by a train. She pulls herself with her arms, trailing guts and blood.
- A girl who lost her best friend, so she took her remains and made a mud golem out of them. The entire school is inundated with mud that cries out in pain, ending up dissolving at the pool.
- A procession of ghostly monks and nuns, cursed to wander forever, that appear out of
*torii* gates (or drawings of such.) A couple of nasty, nasty schemers (a guy and his girlfriend) are tricked into stepping into their path and dragged along for all eternity.
- A dog with a man's head, who grows attached to Kyoko. In the end, it pushes her out of the way of a falling pane of glass and is decapitated.
- A very detailed, "visible human" doll, whose left half exposes all its internal organs, comes to life and
*believes itself to be a real boy*, and forcefully pushes itself into anyone it could think of as a "friend." It escapes the planned exorcism and moves elsewhere, with the implication that the weird kid in the baseball cap sitting next to you might be keeping a gruesome secret...
- A human Serial Killer targeting children that used the legend of
*Aka Manto* (Red Mantle) to systematically and sadistically kill children as a grudge against the kids who nearly burnt him to death in his barbershop in a prank gone wrong. Terrifying in how close he gets to killing several of Nube's students, and doubly so when he's supposed to be human (though the ending suggests that his supposed death perhaps didn't take...)
- Mixed with Tear Jerker: Ippon Datara's
*'brutal* verbal abuse of Yukime, leading her to kidnap and almost kill Ritsuko. (Something that didn't even seem to even *cross her mind* before.) The effects are both heartbeaking and disturbing as it's VERY unsettling to see the always cheerful and resourceful Yukime become vicious and *directly attack a human*, which she hadn't done ever since she came for Nuubee; and even worse because she *clearly* doesn't want to do it but, after being completely mindscrewed, feels that it's her only hope to stay with Nuubee *and* not lose her own life. And it's eating the poor girl inside as she strips Ritsuko almost naked, gets her bound and prepares to freeze her to death, while apologizing to her almost nonstop. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellTeacherNube |
Hereditary / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
There are very good reasons
*Hereditary* has been called not only "one of the best horror films of 2018", but one of the scariest films the genre has ever produced. **Be wary: per wiki policy, spoilers are off on Nightmare Fuel pages!**
- The first trailer
*alone* is goddamn terrifying.
- It opens with a Wes Anderson-esque dollhouse/cutaway home, a cutesy gag that only further emphasizes the horror coming.
- The sound design and music are enough to set you on edge.
- The first remotely supernatural scene. Annie leaves her workshop, turns out the light...and sees her dead mother standing in the darkness. It happens with neither a Scare Chord nor dramatic camera zoom. Ellen is just...
*there*, silent and unmoving, smiling at her daughter from the shadows. And when the lights are flipped on, she's simply gone again, like mistaking a coat rack for a person in the dark.
- Is this supernatural, or a by-product of Annie's mental health issues? The ambiguity alone is disturbing.
- What happens 30 minutes into the film has become such a phenomenon for being both wholly unpredictable and immensely shocking that a mere mention of the words "car scene" is enough to send a chill down the spines of many. Peter is speeding down the highway from the party he was told to take Charlie to; she ate nuts, she's having an allergic reaction, and he's high. She rolls down her window to get some air, and Peter ends up swerving to avoid a dead deer in the road. This swerve puts Charlie's head directly in the path of an oncoming pole, and...bang. In one instantaneous moment, audiences realized that they were not watching their standard horror movie, but something much,
*much* darker.
- After the impact, the scene literally grinds to a halt as Peter slams the brakes, then sits in complete Stunned Silence as the camera holds on his face. He can only muster the wherewithal to drive home, park the car, and climb into bed fully clothed.
- The horrific shot of Charlie's severed head lying on the side of the road, covered in ants, with Annie's agonized screaming in the background. It's both terrifying and heart-wrenching to listen to.
- It tends to be common to drum up hype for a horror movie by saying people walked out. But in this movie's case? They were not kidding. It actually did happen to various audience members.
- Worse? We listen on with the emotionally-numb Peter to Annie's reaction
*in real time*. There's strong dread built up by hearing her cheerfully converse with Steve and walk to her car, making her inevitable discovery and her following screams of despair and grief all the more gut-wrenching.
- Anyone with little brothers or sisters will probably feel nauseated by Peter's reaction in the car immediately after the accident. He essentially shuts down — his face slowly becomes a mask of pain — and can only shed a single tear.
- Following this we see Peter slowly drive home in shock and go to bed, leaving the body in the car for someone else to find,
*Chappaquiddick*-style. However, it's hard not to feel empathy for him and his terror. How would you react, as a teenager, having inadvertently killed your sister? Would you have this Schrodinger's Cat argument with yourself — "if I don't look back at her, it's like she's not dead" (hinted at later when Peter's in class and sees a vision of the rear-view mirror for a second)? Would you get out of the car, collect her *decapitated smashed-in head*, take it to...the hospital? The police? The funeral home? Your PARENTS? The only thing worse than admitting she's dead to himself is telling his parents - how the hell do you wake them up and tell them what happened? He's living in a nightmare so he gets into bed and doesn't even sleep, hoping he'll wake up, and he never does, not even when he hears his mother's blood-curdling screams upon finding the headless body.
- Annie tearfully confessing to Joan that, during a sleepwalking episode, she once covered her children in lighter fluid and was preparing to set them on fire. She woke up at the striking of the match.
- Early on, we see a shot of Peter smoking from outside, with a
*second person's breath* coming from offscreen.
- The hair-raising close-up of Peters sleeping body covered in ants. The shot is so close and detailed that you can see them bubbling out of his mouth. Followed by Annies heartbreaking reveal that she tried to abort Peter multiple times before he was born. The scene has the fluidity and logic of a nightmare...which it in fact turns out to be.
- When Annie reveals her previous attempts to abort him, Peter tearfully keeps exclaiming "You tried to kill me!" and is suddenly dripping with paint thinner. Cut back to Annie, who's covered with it as well. A match is lit off-screen and ignites Peter, startling Annie awake. Thank God it was just a nightmare.
- One evening, Peter wakes up in the middle of the night after hearing Charlies tongue click and sees what appears to be Charlie sitting in the corner facing away from him, but is really just a jacket hanging over a chair.
- Another evening, he hallucinates his sister standing in the darkness and her head falling off, which is really just a ball. Then suddenly, two hands come through his bed frame and try to rip his head off.
- The seance. Charlie seemingly possesses Annie, repeatedly exclaiming how terrified and confused she is. Peter cries and screams for his mother to stop. She regains her senses after Steve douses her with water.
- The ambiguity of this scene enhances the terror, especially when considering that dissociative identity disorder runs in Annie's family. Is she actually possessed? Is she having an episode? Both? A great deal of the terror comes from not just watching the actual event, but trying to figure out just what in the world is happening to these people.
- Annie stumbling upon the bloated, headless corpse of her mother in her attic.
- Peter's possession at school is way more disturbing than the trailer made it look. His body and face look twisted before he starts smashing his head against his desk.
- Damn near everything about the last 20 minutes or so. From Steve catching fire, to Annie being possessed and crawling over the walls, and her actually
*decapitating herself with a wire*. THEN after Peter is possessed by Paimon, he goes to the treehouse to find the cult, where they mounted Charlie's heavily decomposed head onto a statue.
- Throughout the film, the passage of time is shown with a shot of the exterior of the house hard-cutting from day to night. In the last of these cuts there are suddenly
*dozens of naked people standing around the house*.
- Before the possessed Annie chases Peter through the house, the latter turns around and sees a naked cult member standing in a dark closet, silently staring at him with a bone-chilling smile. Remember him? He's the same man that smiled at Charlie during the opening funeral scene.
- Towards the end of the movie, after Steve is dead and Annie has been possessed, a nightmare wakes Peter up. As he slowly rises, the camera holds on him for a while, which gives the audience plenty of time to realize Annie is crouched in the corner of his bedroom ceiling holding completely still. The anticipation builds for her to simply attack, but she waits at the perfect opportunity. That's what makes this scene all the more frightening.
- When Peter starts to turn towards where we know she is, we instead see her scuttle away behind him
*in mid-air*, completely silently.
- After Annie rushes at Peter, he bolts into the attic, pulling the ladder behind him and, utterly confused, he starts sobbing and begging "Mommy" for forgiveness as she pounds rapidly on the door. It becomes far worse when we see just how the possessed Annie is managing to do this — she's kneeling on the underside of the door, and she's not banging on the door with her fists — she's
*rapidly bashing her head into it.*
- Peter sees the candles outlining where Ellen's body was, and a photo of himself with eyes cut out of it. He starts trying to slap himself awake, hoping he's dreaming, before he's denied that hypothesis by a squelching sound. He looks up in horror and the audience sees Annie, stiffly levitating in the attic rafters, jerkily moving her back and forth. She does it a few more times as blood starts spurting out of her neck, and she stares down at Peter with a hauntingly unclear gaze before her body is puppeted to move much faster until her hands are a blur. The dark lighting and the nature of the action make it pretty hard to discern what's happening, so the audience is placed in the same confused trying-to-process-the-visual headspace as Peter...but it becomes clear after a few seconds that Paimon is forcing Annie to
*slice her own head off from behind using a wire.* It's the most horrible thing Peter could be seeing at the moment—confirmation that his mother is possessed (he *didn't know * until this point) and watching her killing herself gruesomely in an inhuman way while her face stares him down. Peter jumps out the window after seeing more cultists and the camera follows him out of the attic, but we continue to hear the incredibly rapid sawing until the noise stops and we hear a heavy mass thud and roll onto the attic floor.
- Upon re-watch, the clues as to the ultimate reasons behind the terrible events happening to the Grahams are even more starkly apparent. It's entirely possible and very likely that Annie's family was truly mentally ill. Combine that with the machinations of the cult, and they truly had no chance. It's hard enough raising a family and going about your life while dealing with all that illness and trauma, then imagine if a truly evil group of people systematically engineered you and your family's demise for worldly riches and the favor of an Eldritch Abomination. A truly nightmarish scenario.
- There's a 3-hour cut with an alternate ending that was deemed too much for audiences. Considering the already disturbing scenes that are still present in the film, what could this cut have that's even more horrifying?
- Purportedly, this cut had Peter gouging his own eyes out, completing the Oedipus Rex parallel hinted at by the photo of Peter found in the attic with his eyes cut out. This proved too much for test audiences, though.
- There's a very easy to miss detail in the final scene: when the camera slowly pans over the headless corpses of Ellen and Annie after Peter is crowned, the middle finger of Annie's right hand twitches minutely.
- Even more disturbing - when he first climbs into the attic, they're "bowing" to the mannequin with Charlie's head on it. But after he's crowned, they're bowing towards
*him*, with no indication that the cult members moved them. As if even *lacking a motherfucking head* isn't enough to free them from Paimon's spell. **Joan:** Oh, hey, hey, hey. It's alright. Charlie, you're alright, now. You... are Paimon. One of the eight kings of Hell. We have looked to the northwest and called you in. We've corrected your first female body and give you now this healthy male host. We reject the trinity and pray devoutly to you, Great Paimon. Give us your knowledge of all secret things, bring us honor, wealth, and good familiars. Bind all men to our will as we have bound ourselves for now and ever to yours. Hail, Paimon! HAIL, PAIMON! HAIL, PAIMON! HAIL!
- The dinner scene after Charlie's death. The tension between Annie, Steve, and Peter is already high considering the circumstances, but the sudden lash of anger from Annie when Peter swears at her is enough to give people a nasty scare.
**Annie:** *Don't*
you swear at me, you little shit! Don't you
*ever*
raise your voice at me! I am your mother! You understand? All I do is worry and slave and defend you, and I get back is that...
*fucking* face on your face!
So full of disdain and resentment and always so annoyed! Well, now your sister is dead! And I know you miss her...and I know it was an accident, and I know you're in pain and I wish I could take that away for you. I
*wish*
I could shield you from the knowledge that you did what you did! But your sister is
*dead!* *She's gone forever!*
And what waste...if it could've maybe brought us together, or something, if you could've just said "I'm sorry", or faced up to what happened. Maybe then we could do something with this.
*But you can't take responsibility for anything*
! So now, I can't accept. And I can't forgive. Because...
*BECAUSE NOBODY ADMITS ANYTHING THEY'VE DONE!*
- Special mention should go to the film's score by experimental saxophonist Colin Stetson. A lot of the songs throughout the film have a subtle, continuously thumping drone throughout a lot of the intense scenes in the film, further intensifying the anxiety of the scenes. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hereditary |
Here I Lie Awake / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As a Psychological Horror webcomic, its to be expected ;
Zoey grinding her teeth while trying to get to sleep, to the point where one of her teeth literally cracks in explicit detail.
Zoeys arm injury while nodding off at her job. From her insomnia-addled perspective, we see her arm literally chopped off, as opposed to just being broken. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hereilieawake |
Heretic / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
With the addition of ambient sound to the
*Doom* engine, Heretic has an extra dimension of eeriness to accompany the Dark Fantasy theme of the game.
As usual, Spoilers Off apply to all moment pages, so proceed with caution if you don't want to spoil impact of the nightmares described below. You Have Been Warned.
- E1M9: The Graveyard, is a pretty Bleak Level, and relatively dangerous Secret Level with its sheer number of Undead Warrior Ghosts. The fact that it's explicitly a place where remains are buried can be a step up in eerieness from the game's spiritual predecessor,
*Doom*.
- E4M9: Mausoleum, is like a sequel of sorts to the aforementioned Graveyard, using the same dire soundtrack. This time, you're completely underground, albeit in a mostly constructed artifice, with no sign of the surface sky. The lighting is very unreliable here too, and progressing requires some guesswork.
- The Iron Liches have an eeriness to them due to their realistic texturing. They're like a robotic giant skull with a helmet and have a constant Slasher Smile to them. Their appearance at the end of Episode 1 can be jarring after getting used to the relatively normal monster Mooks. Their attacks also hit like a truck. Their screams they make sound like a distortion of someone crying out in agony, plus this sound is also used as level ambiance, creating the sense you can hear one crying out in the distance.
- The Disciples of D'Sparil evoke a sense of Nothing Is Scarier with the hooded cloaks concealing their face so you can't know what they look like. Their phrases they chant are actually English phrases reversed: "Destroy the Heretic." and "Succumb to us, Heretic." which makes it sound like they're whispering Black Speech. Like most enemies, they collapse into the pile of giblets with a sound vaguely like they're choking on their own blood. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Heretic |
Heretical Edge / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
One of Flick's classmates, Zeke Leven, at one point describes the "tourist-busters," Heretics who stake out travel hubs like airports, bus stations, etc, to kill any Strangers they find preying on human travelers. Or just any Stranger they find, period. Flick quickly notes to herself that there undoubtedly *are* murderous Alters that actually prey on humans, but most are probably just trying to travel. Zeke says his mother Sophronia, a Committee member, likes to joke that the duty is sometimes like "shooting fish in a barrel."
- Sophronia also invented a proximity spell that causes Alters who activate it to need to use the bathroom. Then Heretics lay in wait in the bathrooms to murder them when they can't fight back... Flick puts it best when she hears this:
*Honestly, it sounded more like horror movie stalker-type tactics than heroic guardians, but I wasnt going to tell Zeke that.*
- But what's really horrifying about this conversation is the sheer glee with which Zeke describes the tactics his mother uses on a regular basis. It's more than a little disturbing to see a teenager get so excited about wanton slaughter. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HereticalEdge |
Hero Academia D×D / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Mori, the Port Mafia's leader, is strong enough to curtail Raynare and get her to agree to work for him without even needing to attack her, just using his sheer killing intent to cow her. She even compares his level of bloodlust to
*Kokabiel*!
- After the U.A. Entrance Exam, while hanging out at Dagobah Beach, Izuku, Ibara, and Ochako come across Itsuka Kendo being threatened by a trio of drunk guys who are trying to force her to have sex with them, and that they'll
*make* her if she turns them down, even mentioning that she'll get in trouble if she uses her Quirk to defend herself. Luckily, the devil trio shows up and manages to scare them off.
- Although it's Played for Laughs, Momo's cooking is
*so* bad that she's nearly *killed* people!
- The USJ incident becomes worse for several reasons:
- Rather than just bringing in several Mooks, Shigaraki went and brought Muscular.
- The Nomu
**is** Riser and Ravel's brother, meaning that the League is experimenting on Devils as well as humans. And the Phenex flame regeneration makes it powerful enough that, even though All Might still has One For All, he has even more trouble beating it, requiring a total of 500 blows to defeat it.
- Bakugo stumbles onto Freed murdering a priest and gets shot repeatedly. If Azazel hadn't saved him, he definitely would have died.
- Xenovia pisses off Akutagawa when she tries to attack him, only to fail to do any damage become he's using a Quirk, not a Sacred Gear or magic, and she would have been seriously injured or even killed by Rashomon if Izuku hadn't intervened, and he gets part of his wing torn off for his trouble. Fortunately, he can get that healed with Phenex tears, but he still has a huge scar left, and had he timed it just a little differently he would have lost an
*arm*, and he can't regrow those.
-
*Everything* about Lailah. The fact that she's deliberately based on Airachnid from *Transformers: Prime*, complete with a similar history with Griselda that Airachnid has with Arcee, should tell you a *lot* about her, and none of it good.
- She's first mentioned by All For One's doctor, confirming that she has ties to the League of Villains.
- She first encounters the ORC when they're hunting a stray devil, only she got to it first. When they investigate the warehouse she's in, they find that it's
*full* of human corpses, and she takes interest in killing Ochako to add her witch head to her "collection".
- The worst part of it all? She's an
*angel*, who has avoided Falling due to Loophole Abuse, having been created to be a Torture Technician for *God* during the Great War, and has been freelancing since the war ended.
- As the Sports Festival ends, Stain is approached by Lailah, and then the League shows up, looking to recruit the former...
- Mizu has been confirmed to be a Stain attack survivor, and Ingenium's attack has caused her
*horrible* nightmares.
- Xenovia trying to get Izuku to leave her pregnant, even though it is obvious he is uncomfortable with the idea
*at best*, feels less like the harem hijinks it means to evoke and more like an outright **rape** attempt, particularly when Izuku attempts to leave only for her to grab him and pin him to the floor. And everything happens because Xenovia's lack of social skills kept her from realizing what she was really doing until the other girls in the Peerage give her a What the Hell, Hero?.
- Overhaul gets so pissed about Eri escaping that he rips apart the grunt who was supposed to be watching her and puts him back together
*twelve times* before finally letting him die.
- It's made clear that Eri could have been in pain for the rest of her life, given how little care Overhaul took to put her back together if she had been in his "care" for too much longer.
- A doctor warns Rosalba that overusing her Quirk on wounds like Ingenium's could cause cancerous growths to form.
- Although it's only to make a point, Fukuzawa still puts a katana to Bakugo's throat faster than the latter can even react.
- Not only is the original Nomu confirmed to be Ravel's brother, but the League is turning
*other* supernatural beings into Nomu as well.
- Itsuka stumbles across Lailah, and the sadistic angel takes a personal interest in her. And then the chapter ends...
- Zero's Quirk lets him control the movements of those within twenty meters of him using
*their own bones*. Even the narration lampshades how creepy his Quirk is, especially since he makes a Nomu contort in ways that are clearly unnatural even for its altered biology.
- When Milia brings up Asmodeus, Itsuka has a reaction that
*heavily* implies that she has Fake Memories and extreme fear of a mysterious face...
- When Fat Gum arrives to help the police against a group of drug dealers, one of them takes Trigger in order to fight back, becoming powerful enough to hold his own against Fat Gum, Suneater, and all the officers at once.
- Apparently the chaos of the early Quirk era was so bad that the Satans seriously considered revealing devils to the world to try and settle things.
- Tartarus Prison apparently has
*lots* of allegations of abuse and human rights violations.
- A mysterious girl in a hoodie pays Giran to look for several unnamed villains. The frightening part is that the payment is
*heavily* implied to consist of *broken Evil Pieces*. Not only that, but Giran *knows* what they are and their value on the black market, even broken.
- Not only is the Old Satan faction now aware of Ingvild and Itsuka and seeking to kill them, but they have what appears to be Itsuka's
*mother*, seemingly either brainwashed or reanimated, under their control. Even worse since it's all but said that the figure Itsuka remembered attacking her mother and trying to kill her was Creuserey Asmodeus, and he wants to finish the job now that he knows Itsuka is alive.
- Of the people attacking for Gasper not only destroys the Switch Izuku gave him, turning it to marbles and popping one into his mouth, but he implies that he'll do the same to
*them* if they resist.
- Bobby Ball, the man with the marbles Quirk, manages to one-up himself by using it on the
*head* of a Khaos Brigade magician who's wounded, despite them still being capable of helping him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeroAcademiaDXD |
Herman Hedning / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
In one strip Herman came across a sad-looking wilted flower with a sign by it, saying that this is the worlds most deadly carnivorous plant with remarkable camouflage abilities. It can stand still for up to a hundred years in order to lure in the prey it is specifically bred to capture. Lilleman was also standing by it with a brain-dead grin on his face. Herman promptly mocks the flower and then asks Lilleman why he is looking even more stupid than usual. "Lilleman" then reveals that his whole lower body is actually a giant maw filled with razor-sharp teeth. He proceeds to messily devour Herman alive and then sprout several grotesque looking organic tentacles. **Monster Plant:** "Finally after all these fucking years! Time to go INTO BLOOM!"
- Its revealed to be a nightmare Herman is having, thankfully. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HermanHedning |
Hero: 108 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Twin Masters:**
Hidden Kingdom is now ours for the taking! Once we ingest this pathetic world, there will be
*nothing*
left alive.
**HighRoller:**
You mean, no
*heroes*
left alive... right, Twin Masters?
(Twin Masters swat HighRoller)
**Twin Masters:** *Nothing. Left. Alive.* Your services are no longer required... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hero108 |
Hermitcraft Server / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Season 8
- The moon plot as a whole is
*horrifying*, as it's such a massive departure from what Hermitcraft has always been in terms of subject matter and tone. It's like if your favorite children's TV show suddenly became a Cosmic Horror Story.
- The fact that, when people first took notice,
*the moon had already been getting bigger for weeks.* The change was so gradual, nobody could tell until it had become nearly *twice* its original size. And from there, it only continues to get bigger and bigger, until it doesn't even fit on people's *screens* anymore. Seeing the gigantic moon hanging in the sky at night is an *incredibly* uncomfortable and horrible feeling.
- The effects of the approaching moon are similarly unsettling, starting off small but slowly ramping up in intensity, until they're a constant, terrifying reminder of what's happening.
- The first effect was the earthquakes. They started off small and subtle, but slowly grew in intensity and frequency, until they were occurring at least ten times per hour, lasting around five seconds each. And they are
*violent*, enough to force Hermits to stop moving and wait for the quake to pass to avoid accidentally hurting themselves. In the real world, they would likely be strong enough to level buildings.
- The second effect was the floating. At first, Hermits would briefly float off the ground before dropping back down, something so small and infrequent that the first few instances were chalked up to server lag. However, Hermits then started floating more frequently, and much, MUCH higher, to the point that it actually started to disrupt things like building sessions. Eventually, gravity got so messed up by the moon's approach that every Hermit gained a permanent slow falling effect, while still intermittently being pulled up into the sky.
- The third effect, also related to gravity, was the floating blocks; the moon's gravity pulling blocks out of the ground before letting them fall back down. The first few instances were hard to spot without pausing or rewinding videos, with the first few Hermits to spot them wondering if they were seeing things. However, the blocks got pulled up more and more often, higher and higher, until the earth itself almost looked like it was
*boiling*... **And then they stopped coming back down.**
- The fact that, despite many of the Hermits making efforts to stop the moon, there is absolutely
*nothing* that *any* of them can do. Gem and False's Doomsday bunker will make them *feel* safe, but it won't survive the impact of an entire celestial body. The Mooners and the Order of Octa are both devoted to worshiping the moon, but intentional sleep deprivation and human sacrifices will not help pull the moon back into orbit. Cleo's plan to use TNT to move Hermitcraft itself out of the way, or Tango's plan to blow the moon back out to its original orbit will not work at all, because detonating explosives on the surface of a planet to shift its orbit *without* causing a life-as-we-know-it-ending apocalypse is like trying to move a truck by blowing on it. The only Hermit with a viable plan is Scar, and his entire scheme consists of "cram as many people and items as possible into a rocket and bail." As a result, the Hermits just go about their day, pretending everything is just fine, because the only alternative is to hide in a hole and wait for the end of the world.
- The Mooners and the Order of Octa deserve special mention. The former believe that the Moon is the Great Lunar Neighbour coming to server to punish Hermits for constantly sleeping through the night and they burn their beds and forgo sleeping to hopefully drive the Moon away. However, sleep deprivation quickly starts to set in. Mumbo and Grian, who joined first, eventually started to suffer from visual and auditory hallucinations, like Phantom shrieks becoming the demented laughter or Mumbo seeing Grian with his skin sideways, both of which came absolutely out of nowhere. The latter are borderline Lovecraftian cult formed by Ren and Doc after they began to hear the voices from the moon rock that fell on their base. During the episode immediately after, Ren confesses to feeling mental distress and decides to write a diary, trating viewers to what was essentially a Sanity Slippage, as he tried to piece together why he remembered a massive amounts of potato-trivia that he has never learned, which after few days spirals into obsession about them... Then he starts Hearing Voices again and, obeying them, he and Doc launch a killing spree, slaying Mumbo, Grian, Impulse, Joe and a few other Hermits, before finally killing each other.
- During Tangos mission to save the world, he ends up having to stop at a Pass & Gas for rocket parts. The conversation he has with Keralis during this moment is downright unnerving, featuring him constantly contradicting himself, overlapping dialogue like he has no idea Tango is speaking, and phrases repeated with the exact same inflection. He doesnt even recognise Tango until he takes his helmet off! The most terrifying thing, however, is that he mentions having been in space for months, and has no knowledge of the moon crashing, when Keralis most recent episode was only released two weeks before this interaction, and it featured Keralis trying to escape the moon, so
*who was Tango talking to?*
- And in the end, the moon
*does* destroy the server. Some Hermits escape (the Boatem crew drops themselves through the Boatem hole, Gem creates an amethyst portal into another realm, Cleo flees to the End), but those that are left behind can only watch, helplessly, as the moon comes crashing down for real. We get treated to a (frankly stellar looking) animation of Boatem's portal being ripped apart, Gem's base being obliterated by space debris, and Grian's villagers panicking, all the while the server is cast in a bright orange glow as the atmosphere creates enough friction for the moon to start to burn. And then... kaboom.
- While every Hermit has their own plan for dealing with the apocalypse, most of their fates are absolutely horrifying in their own right.
- The Boatem crew drops themselves through the Boatem Hole, and wind up stuck in what appears to be the Void Between the Worlds. While they're still together and seem relatively okay with their situation, they can't do anything except wait to either die of dehydration or crash into something.
- Xisuma, Cleo and Gem escape into the Nether, the End, and some kind of extradimensional amethyst portal respectively. While it's not clear where Gem ended up, Cleo's episode's Stinger shows her approaching the End's exit portal... only to find it inactive. And with the moon's gravity shown to have ripped Nether portals apart, it's not unreasonable to assume that Xisuma is now trapped in the Nether, just as Cleo is trapped in the End.
- Tango attempted to save Hermitcraft at the last second by setting off explosives on the moon's surface to blast it back into its normal orbit. His supercomputer Holsten attempts to guide him through the process of finding highly volatile iridium crystals on the moon's surface, and leading the hostile moon bunnies away from them — but Tango's rocket is destroyed by space debris, causing him to lose contact with Holsten. Tango attempts to set up the explosives solo, but one of the bunnies steps on the pressure plate while he's still setting up the TNT, setting off the explosion too early and launching Tango into deep space, while the moon continues to fall.
- Bdubs appears to have gone into hard denial, claiming everyone's bases for himself, relishing in the fact that Big Eyes no longer has competition, and talking about how great it is that the entire world is his now. He appears to not even be aware that the moon is falling... until you watch Tango's POV, in which Bdubs has sent him a message in a panic, saying that the entire world is falling apart, and begging him not to come back down to Hermitcraft. Bdubs's denial wasn't a symptom of stupidity, it was his way of coping with his impending death.
- Ren's episode reveals what's actually been going on; Hermitcraft Season 8 has all been a simulation. The Hermits are all in cryo-stasis aboard a Sleeper Starship, on its way to the next season. The Hermatrix, the supercomputer in charge of keeping their minds active while in suspension, has been infected with a virus called the Nothing, with as goal to
*wipe the minds of the Hermits*. As a last resort, it created the world of Season 8 to keep their imaginations alive, and sent instructions to Ren and Doc to create anti-virus measures, before sending the moon crashing down onto the server to eliminate the Nothing. However the question remains, who would make a virus to wipe the minds of so many people? And why?
- The cutscene also has an... unnerving end. The Hermatrix alerts Renbob and the Goatfather — the pilots — to the fact that there's an intruder on board. Thinking the Hermatrix is just mistaking the life signs of the Hermits coming out of stasis for a foreign invader, Renbob has it do a full system scan. After putting the Hermits back in cryosleep, the scan results come back... fine. The Hermatrix is not malfunctioning...
*so who has snuck on board?*
## Season 9
- The Rift under the Grian's base is... unnerving, to say the least.
- It's established early on as a weak place between worlds, through which various entities can come through. It's also imlied to be the source of supernatural force that created The Entity and flying rocks that serve as Grian's base
- Some time later Grian accidentally falls through the hole in the Rift's cave and survives, despite the height that should kill him. He then looks at The Rift, thoughroughly weirded out. Which either confirms The Rift's supernatural nature or suggests an existence of another force.
- Then, The Rift unveils part of its true nature when Grian finds in the cave... Grumbot. The old AI is quite different than he remembers, which it explains as it comeing form Alternate Timeline of Season 7, where Mumbo did become a mayor of shopping district. While initially helpful, the robot seems to have a darker side as of Episode 19. After King Ren claims the shops in the server, Grian tries to get someone to act against him by rigging the random content generator that Grumbot controls. Later in that episode Grian returns, only to see a very angry Grumbot's face looking at him. After Grian apologizes, the machine responds with: "My Grian was sorry too". Season 9 Grian immidiately freaks out because not only he has no idea what the message is referring to, but it would also imply that Grumbot did SOMETHING to the alternate Grian.]]
- Grumbot gets even more unnerving when he reveals that Scar
*was* the mayor, even stating that he was the best mayor
for about 5 seconds. Just what happened in Grumbot's version of Season 7? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HermitcraftServer |
Hellraiser (2022) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
*"It's time."*
A new league of Cenobites have plenty of new, horrific sights to show you...
## Previews:
- Pinhead's new form, as seen in the trailer. In comparison to the clean appearance of the character in prior films, here her chest is scarred and cut open, and what seems to be flesh hanging from her arms.
-
*The Cenobites.* A particular scene in the trailer shows them emerging from the shadows to torment one of their victims. Special mention goes to the reappearance of the Chatterer, who ends up looking like a Xenomorph of all things.
## Film:
- The film opens with a man getting used as a sacrifice by Roland Voight. At first, he simply moves the pieces like with any other version of the puzzle box. Suddenly, as it's solved, a blade shoots out and impales him through the hand.
- Voight locks him into the room with the puzzle box, a portal opens up, and a metal chain shoots out and impales the man backwards through the kneecap. As it tries to drag him off, the man grips one of the room's pillars and pleads for mercy. Voight chillingly ignores him and the chains drag him off. Voight then prays to the Leviathan as the man is hoisted up into the air by his wounds in the background and pierced
*over and over again* by more chains until his screams of agony and terror become more and more incoherent. The catastrophic damage to his organs that is no doubt being done makes it sound more and more like he is gargling than anything else. Oh, and he's *still alive and screaming* by the time the scene ends, making it crystal clear just how drawn out his death was.
-
*The kills*. Good lord, the kills...
- Matt's death. Nothing Is Scarier is in full effect as all we see is a faucet leaking blood and then hear him scream. However, whatever happened is implied to not be pretty at all as we later see a hallucination of him completely skinned.
- Nora's death is the first time we see an extended moment of what the Cenobites deal out to their victims. The Priest strings Nora up in an uncomfortable position with chains that hook into her flesh, before then taking a pin from her head and stabbing Nora in the throat. The Priest then
*twists the pin around to listen to Nora's screams* before the Chatterer basks in her dripping blood and tears her free from the chains, also relieving her of her back skin.
- It bears noting the Priest isn't just listening to the screams: It's piercing her vocal cords in order to
*tune them*, twisting and adjusting the needle so her helpless shrieks rise and fall in pitch.
- The new Cenobites. Unlike their previous incarnations, these absolute angels are all flesh, with biomechanical workings thanks to the Leviathan. In fact, we later see how a Cenobite is made after Voight is taken and it is
**not pretty**, as we watch his skin stripped away and his lips torn off.
- Pinhead's new androgynous form gives her a new Uncanny Valley edge which makes her seem more ethereal and eldritch compared to the design of the original. What's scarier is the implication that she's more sentient and aware than the other Cenobites, and she still goes along with it all out of pure pleasure.
- Voight's fate in the present. Rather than the reward he hoped for, he was afflicted with a device in his chest that tugs on his nerve endings, keeping him in constant pain. It starts and stops unpredictably so that he never becomes numb.
- There is something deeply unnerving about the idea that almost everyone who cares for you could be brutally tortured and murdered all because you made some poor choices, or even just touched a random box. Riley may earn a Redemption Earns Life in the end, but the Priest notes that having to live with this every day for the rest of her life is its own kind of torment.
- Voights ultimate fate - having his skin flayed in Hell, forced to look straight at the Leviathans true form, as he transforms into a Cenobite. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hellraiser2022 |
Heroes Join Forces / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Vandal Savage is both deadly and very quick to kill, having had thousands of years of practice. His mystical nature is enough to make Barry decide Team Flash needs help, and in one timeline he's able to kill Team Arrow, Kendra and Carter with a magic staff.
- For Kendra, Vandal is a very potent source of nightmare fuel: this is a man who can
*not* take no for an answer who is willing to follow her to the ends of the Earth and brutally murder her and any one else who gets in his way due to his lust-fueled obsession with her. And unlike most creeps or stalkers, he's *immortal*, and even death won't save her since he'll just repeat the process with any future reincarnations of her, like he's done over two hundred times already.
- Vandal Savage nuking Central City, complete with seeing Oliver and the rest of the cast being reduced to skeletons and then into ashes. True, Flash undid it with his time-travel jump but still seeing it happen was gripping.
- Carter mentions that they've never beaten Savage before. He's killed them over 200 times, and they've
*always* failed to do anything to stop him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeroesJoinForces |
Hell Girl / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Third season, when Yamawaro gets fungus-juice applied to his back, which then grows a patches of mushrooms on his back. May also be counted as Squick.
- Some of the going-to-hell sequences (Episodes 1 and 17 of
*Futakomori* come to mind) fit this to a T.
- The second episode of the first season centers on a teenage girl who is the victim of a stalker, which can be horribly uncomfortable for anyone who's ever been in a similar situation.
- A chapter in the manga's third incarnation is about a girl being harassed by a postman through her late grandmother's parrot. It somehow still stays scary despite the premise.
- Some of the Hell banishments in the live-action series are pretty nasty, too. They include such delightful things as a guy getting crucified with wooden stakes and someone getting hanged from a staircase.
- The premise of the show is pure Paranoia Fuel: No matter who you are what you did or didn't do, there
*will* be someone out there who hates you; and *could* be someone out there who hates you enough to do terrible things to you. And you might not even be better than them.
- You can be sent to hell for something you did years ago, like milling around a camera crew at the scene of a car accident, trying to get on TV.
- You can also be sent to hell because some student who isn't quite keen on losing the attention she's getting and actually believes a lie that you're stalking someone, who then snaps and pulls the string before Hell Girl can even finish the End User License Agreement.
- Hell, as the first season establishes, you can be sent to hell
*by some rando you don't even know just because he can*. Anyone can fall victim to hell correspondence, at any time, even if they didn't do anything wrong.
- The show also has flashes of what the fates of the people who contract Hell Girl's assistance will be - namely, what their punishments will be when they are finally sent to Hell themselves for pulling the string. Granted, they happen fast, but they are horrifying when you can make them out. Case in point - in the first season, a baseball player uses the string to send The Ace on the team to Hell for injuring and killing his friend. When the user dies, the rest of eternity will feature him being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice at various points throughout his body. One of them being
*through his face.*
- The other ones are pretty unpleasant too, consisting of the clients getting attacked and torn apart by disembodied hands or other damned souls, drowning in a river of blood or being sent to your classic Fire and Brimstone Hell.
-
*The Two Prisoners* involves a guy who dumped his pregnant girlfriend, who then decides to send him to Hell. His torture? Being slowly drowned in amniotic fluid while a giant fetus floats next to him. As if this isn't enough, while on the ferry to Hell his stomach is very swollen and something appears to burst out of him *Alien*-style.
- For some, the most horrifying part of the show is not Hell Girl herself or any of the punishments she inflicts, but the atrocities committed by ordinary people that drive their victims to send them to hell. A high school girl blackmails her classmate and frames her for stealing class money. A circus worker sabotages her twin sister's performances so the ringmaster will brutally punish her and she herself can live in luxury as the ringmaster's favorite. A veterinarian only treats the pets of rich people and leaves one girl's injured dog to die. A woman's neighbor sees her cheating on her husband, so the woman harasses the neighbor, gets her daughter to bully the neighbor's daughter at school, and sends a man to rape the neighbor. Another woman forces a girl to become her slave by holding her beloved dogs hostage, and then kills the dogs and their puppies even after the girl did everything she wanted. An actress's daughter cripples her rival by hiring thugs to force-feed her acid in a dark alleyway. The people of Ai's village sacrificed her and her parents, burying them alive and forcing her beloved cousin and Only Friend to participate in the ritual because they blamed him, and her, for a famine that was making the village starve. And this is before taking into account people who are willing to condemn themselves to damnation after death, so they can send someone who unintentionally wronged them, wronged them but since repented their action, or even someone completely innocent to hell for petty and/or stupid reasons (Episode 23 of Season 1 established that this happened horrifyingly frequently). Maybe in this world, Humans Are the Real Monsters after all. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellGirl |
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Warning: Spoilers Off applies to this page. There will be unmarked spoilers below.
"You have no idea what's on the way."
When you have a series whose most well-known villain has a literal skull for a face, you know the bar for terrifying is a little higher than average
## Season One
- Keldor's Havoc affliction is literally eating away at his body, leaving his left arm from the elbow down nothing more than bones. It's also apparently very painful.
- Then there's the fact that alleviating the symptoms requires him to steal the lifeforce of others, leaving them lifeless husks of stone.
- The Dark Masters' transformations are disturbing enough to come right out of a horror movie.
- It starts with Skeletor infusing his minions with Havoc by having the chains latch to everyone's weapon or their necks, holding their lives in his demented hands.
- Kronis tries to keep his mouth closed, but the invasive Havoc pries his mouth open and shoves itself down his throat. We then exit the hellish maw of spinning teeth as Trap Jaw shifts and roars in unnatural movements, like he's a puppet to his cybernetics, before he lunges forward to Eat the Camera.
- Evelyn embraces the Havoc with sadistic glee, the camera flickering repeatedly to her shrieking face as she transforms. Then Evil-Lyn coats herself and the land in a chaotic mix of black magic and rushes forward with the most horrific face yet.
- R'Qazz is eager at first but then starts clawing at his chest in pain before he petrifies. Beast Man suddenly bursts out of his far smaller body's chest, snarling and raving. Once he's out, he wastes no time in destroying his previous body, his remaining humanity, by charging forward.
## Season Two
- The Sigil of Hsss is a pretty terrifying piece of work with the power to raise an army of zombie snakes. No other information is needed for the heroes to do their best to keep it away from Skeletor.
## Season Three
- What's worse than an army of zombie snakes? How about an army of zombie snakes that endlessly revive and can come back in stronger forms?
- The Reveal that King Grayskull was the original Skeletor all along, having created Havoc to defeat the Snake People once and for all when the Power alone wasn't enough, paints a really dark picture for the setting. The once Greater-Scope Paragon became Eternia's greatest villain that threatened to destroy the entire world to satiate his newfound god complex. Even his voice, in spite of the fact it is the comically nasally tone of
*the* original Skeletor himself, does nothing to downplay his sheer menace as he lets off his trademark Evil Laugh before Eldress wills herself to kill him.
- Beast Man's transformation into a Skele-Drone sounds terrifying even with the Gory Discretion Shot.
- When Rampage turns on the revived Skeletor in Episode 7, he grabs her and
*shoves her head into the Havoc fountain in Castle Greyskull*, with her face starting to turn into a skull as he gleefully tortures her.
- Hordak's Slasher Smile is arguably more terrifying than anything listed above. He is the first of the Evil Horde, a force so terrible that even Skeletor fears what their coming will bring. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021 |
Hellraiser: Inferno / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- There's a scene where a character is being killed behind closed doors. We just hear really, really awful noises as a large amount of blood begins flowing out from under the door.
- The Engineer's first appearance could also count.
- The Torso Cenobite, which would be considered a copy of Chatterer... except it's
*just* the upper body of one of the Chatterer's experiments, made to look in its master's image.
-
*The ending*: Forced to relive your actions and watch everyone you love die for *all eternity*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HellraiserInferno |
Help! I'm a Fish / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
For a film aimed at kids, it certainly has a couple of prominent moments. Notably, it was designed as a "horror movie for kids". **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- When Joe takes too much antidote, he ends up turning into a horrifying human/fish hybrid that resembles a cross between Ryuk, the Joker and Mr. Hyde. His death afterwards is no less horrific.
- We get a nice multi-second shot of Joe's drowned corpse floating down the drain. Even Fly appears to be shocked by this.
- Another creepy thing is that his death is so... quiet. There's no scream at Fly at how he tricked him, no cursing him with his last breath. There's no fanfare to it, no big to-do, nothing cinematic. He just drowns while his body lifelessly falls down the drain. The anti-climax just makes it more unsettling.
- The process of the transformation is itself made up of several horrifying moments, as Joe's human body grows out of his fish body. It starts with human thumbs sprouting to complete his hands, then the next sip makes bones erupt from his back and arms. Several of his teeth can be seen falling out, and he even tears off a fold of his old flesh without noticing. When the transformation is completed, we can actually see Joe's lower jaw
*rot and fall off* as a human jaw replaces it. Those clothes that Joe is suddenly wearing just before he dies? Those aren't clothes, that's what's left of his skin!
- Fly's Disney Death near the end, especially when it looks like Aunt Anna
*stepped* on him, complete with Sickening "Crunch!". Thankfully, it turns out to just be a stuffed fish of the same species as Fly.
- While Played for Laughs, the Shark's constant devouring of various smaller and fully sapient creatures can be disturbing.
- While trying to take the potion from Fly, the Crab wallops him violently. Prior to the deed, we get to see a shot of the Crab looming menacingly over Fly (who is quite visibly terrified) as the music in the background tenses up. And then, when the Crab attacks Fly, the music instantly goes silent and the next few seconds show Fly
*bleeding from his gills* behind a red image filter as he helplessly falls in slow motion. Doesn't help the Crab has a sadistic grin on his face and utters a hideous, growling sound during the scene.
- During the climax, the trio attempt to consume the potion as their last few seconds run out. Stella and Chuck manage to take it in time, but Fly is seen struggling and attempting to reach the potion as he gets sucked towards the drain and we hear the ominous sound of the last few seconds ticking away.
- The scene with Anna waking up from her sleep. Early on in the movie, she falls asleep while reading a story to Stella and the little girl uses make-up to decorate her aunt's face, seemingly setting up for a funny moment later on. But that never happens. Instead, Anna suddenly springs up from her sleep in the evening shouting her son's name, and then wanders around the house looking for him, Stella, and Fly. The house is empty and quiet, and they're nowhere to be found. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HelpImAFish |
Helluva Boss / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Warning: Spoilers Off applies to this page. Proceed at your own risk.
*"Oh... crumbs."*
Considering that this show is from the creator of
*Hazbin Hotel* and shares a universe with it, it's not all that surprising to see moments like these on this show.
- The very fact that in this universe there exists a service in Hell where damned sinners can put hits out on living people they had grudges against, from deranged Asshole Victims to innocent bystanders, is a terrifying thought. There's no telling if, or when, somebody you slighted even lightly before they eventually went to Hell might decide they hate you enough to pay I.M.P to murder you.
- Blitzo's complete disregard for privacy and personal space more often than not crosses into the realm of the criminally inappropriate.
- Whatever you do, do
*NOT* fuck with Moxxie if there is even the *slightest* chance Millie will find out or can retaliate. Otherwise, bad things will happen. Very, very, *VERY* bad things.
- While it may not be a traditional Fire and Brimstone Hell, Hell is still...Hell. It is a lawless place with lawless people who are the very definition of toxic (with the notable exception of Charlie and Moxxie), only looking out for themselves or paying lip-service to some greater devil for personal gain. As shown in
*Hazbin Hotel,* it is a place where gang warfare is treated as a spectator sport and every manner of vice is indulged. One can even say that it is a toned-down version of Commorragh or (to a lesser extent) a Bloodier and Gorier version of the Grand Theft Auto universe.
- Stella's already a walking nightmare, but anytime she raises her voice, it rasps and cracks in a way that sounds appropriately demonic.
## Season 1
- Mrs. Mayberry's breakdown and murder of her husband and attempted murder of Martha. It's especially disturbing because she seems completely normal before she snaps. After being reminded it was her husband's birthday, she starts twitching at the idea that she forgot. Then when she actually sees Jarold cheating, she goes completely silent (with Hidden Eyes included), strangles and throws one of her students through the roof when she tries to stop her, brutally attacks Jarold and Martha with a chainsaw and shoots them, then when she realizes that the kids were all still watching it all go down through the camera, she kills herself out of guilt.
- In-Universe, the students are terrified and traumatized of the whole ordeal with their beloved teacher snapping like that, since she forgot to turn off the camera when she enters her house. It's little wonder they see the cheating woman Martha in a different light when she recovers. The chalkboard even describes the lesson of the day as
*"How to cope with trauma."*
- The reveal of Martha and her family actually being a bunch of cannibalistic, Satan-worshiping psychopaths.
- It's not just that; there are multiple shots of them with Slasher Smiles that make them look even more demonic than an actual demon, with Martha sporting one right before Moxxie shoots her that would give
*Alastor* a run for his money. Millie is *completely right* when she says that humans can have all kinds of hidden nastiness within them.
- Before The Reveal, an eagle-eyed viewer can notice several hints in Martha's house that something is
*very* wrong with her. Among these are human pelvis wallpaper, a lamp made of skin and a spinal cord, and even a mounted *human head.*
- The Reveal heavily recontextualized the first half of the episode, particularly Martha's past, promiscuous behavior. She regularly is having sex with men all over town basically at random. It's probably safe to assume that most, if not all, of these men ended up being her victims after she lured them back to her house. Mr. Mayberry was probably her next target after they hooked up, with Mrs. Mayberry's sudden psychotic break being the
*only* thing that eventually led to Martha's downfall. Most likely, this is why Ralphie doesn't seem to care about her extramarital activities: His wife brings home the meat.
- The kids of the family keep a collection of skinned bodies as leftovers of their "pets" after "playing" with them, and they were fully intent on having "fun" with Moxxie in the same way.
- Moxxie also happens to be tied to a chair made out of a mummified human corpse.
- Just the
*reveal* of their playroom. Sweet dreams...
- The little brother speaks just a little slower than his sister. They start a line together, but end it in an out-of-phase way that almost makes him echo her, and comes across as seriously disconcerting.
- Martha chasing Blitzo through a forest trying to blow his head off with her shotgun is portrayed like a scene from a slasher horror film, but with the killer/victim roles reversed. That does
*nothing* to make it any less terrifying or heart-racing.
- While pretty funny as well considering who it is, Blitzo's sheer ''malice'' when he tells Moxxie not to screw up again or he will "fuck" him and Millie is more then a little disturbing. Not to mention, Moxxie's horrified expression during the scene shows that he seems to be genuinely afraid of that threat. While Blitzo's immediate switch back to cheerfully remarking they should head home plays said threat for laughs, it suggests that he's a Mood-Swinger who could easily make good on said threat, forget about it, or get distracted by something else...
*without any indication of which way he'll go*. **Blitzo:** Apology accepted! But, if you ever pull a stunt like that again, I will *fuck* you and your wife. Alrighty, job well done!
- In the end, Moxxie decides to give the surviving family one last chance at redemption for the sake of the kids, by calling the police. Problem is, Moxxie wasn't counting on Police Brutality being a thing. Upon surrounding the house, the cops open fire with a
*helicopter-mounted missile,* blowing the house - and, presumably, the family with it - to smoldering bits. Even if you take into account the possibility that Moxxie's call helped the police realize just how many people the cannibal family murdered, the cops had no problem using lethal force on *children*. Moxxie, for all his professionalism, is rightfully horrified.
- Stolas laying out his stipulations for Blitzo's continued use of the grimoire in clear, cold, certain terms, absolutely aware that Blitzo is in very real danger and
*not caring one iota*. When Stolas starts to go off on a tangent about what he wants to happen at their next encounter, Blitzo briefly gets a look on his face that's somewhere between disgusted and agonized, but shakes it off.
- Even after the phone has been forgotten in the woods, Stolas can
*still* be heard rambling about his depraved intentions.
- Loo Loo Land is completely falling apart, one poor imp gets crushed by a falling sign letter, and the Loo Loo mascot
*dares* people to try and sue if they get hurt. A couple of young imps even get crushed after an animatronic's head falls onto them.
- The imps trying to kidnap Stolas are mostly seen as minor inconveniences to him and don't phase the demon noble at all. The one exception to this is near the end of the episode where one almost interrupts his moment with his daughter Octavia, where he turns the imp to stone with just a glare. It's a chilling reminder that despite acting like a bumbling but loving father then and a horny businessman most of the time, Stolas is still a demon lord.
- Robo Fizz in general. He's a manic, wildly-moving mechanical Monster Clown with extendable Rubber-Hose Limbs and a killer Slasher Smile (especially when taunting Blitz by asking if anyone loves him). It's no wonder he's an in-universe example to poor Octavia, who as a little owlet was driven to tears on likely many occasions because of the robot's terrifying performance, who noticeably doesn't care at all.
- This is to say nothing of the point when his circus tent and the other animatronics catch fire, upon which we see the burning, shadowed endoskeleton of Robo Fizz advancing towards Blitzo from a sea of green flames, his deterioration
*melting his face* and giving him a downright nightmarish appearance complete with glowing red eyes. His looping, distorted, sinister laugh doesn't help either.
- The other mascot animatronics are even
*worse* due to their supposed cheap maintenance, or lack thereof. They malfunction or have exposed machine parts that give them a creepy presence. And then they catch on fire...
- When Moxxie goes to discuss the parking spot with Verosika and her crew, they outright sexually assault him, with him being Covered in Kisses
*and* bruises when he gets away. Is it any wonder Blitzo gets pissed?
- They're quite lucky that Millie wasn't around to see them do that, given what happened to the fish monster after it tried to eat him...
- Assuming the silhouettes weren't simply exaggerating how terrifying their imminent deed was, Verosika and her fellow succubi/incubi can transform into
*much* more monstrous forms — reminiscent of shark-jawed snakes or worms, if the shadows are accurate!
- A great deal of induced debauchery and carnage get unleashed in the mortal realm over parking rights. While all played for laughs, it makes it abundantly clear that the denizens of Hell are happy to trivialize suffering and sin over petty matters.
- Loona on two separate occasions has guys come onto her with clearly unpleasant intentions, made worse with the second guy being one of Verosika's incubi that tried to charm her into sleeping with him. While Loona could easily handle herself, and she had Blitzo as backup just in case, the fact two different guys tried to force themselves onto her really gives credence to Blitzo's statement about there being a lot of "freaks" that would love to have their way with "young vulnerable goth girls", regardless of if they consent or not.
- The fish monster created by Verosika mindlessly tossing her "Beelzejuice" flask into the water is utterly horrifying. It's basically a rampaging Kaiju, with the series' Black Comedy meaning it winds up killing quite a few people in ways that end up darkly hilarious, and the mutation gave it a maw full of hundreds of thousands of sharp teeth, which it shows off in full when swallowing people. Even Millie's awesome moment beating it to death is pretty gruesome, slashing off its tongue to save Moxxie before leaping into its stomach and literally fish-gutting it from the inside-out.
- Even worse, this just happened because it was exposed to something like Hell's
*alcohol*. What happens if some more caustic Hell substances gets onto Earth...
- Also for consideration; the flask only ended up in the sea because it bounced/was pushed by the spring breakers. Imagine what that stuff could have done to a human if they had decided to catch the flask and drink it like it was any other alcohol...
- Loona saying she was almost 18 when Blitzo adopted her brings up three nightmare fuel scenarios depending on how Hellhound adopting works.
- (A) Loona ages out of the system and is then forced to fend for herself, and as they're in Hell, the orphanage would probably just throw her out onto the street without helping her look for a job, or even force her into indentured servitude with a new master.
- (B) Loona would be treated like any animal at the pound who has stayed for too long and would be
*euthanized*, with zero regards to whether or not she is put down humanely. Makes it even more grim when she says she never needed Blitzo's help, whether she meant it or not.
- Alternatively, Loona could have made into then sold as a Breeding Slave to create more hellhounds until she either couldn't produce anymore or died. And given the poor conditions that many dams are subjected to then add the fact that this is Hell we are talking about...
- (C) Her Abusive Parents were so horrifyingly inhumane that getting kidnapped and adopted by a narcissistic hitman
*was a step up*.
- This episode has a strong focus on Black Comedy, so most of the jokes, while funny, can be unsettling to some.
- The way Loopty Goopty dies is very unpleasant when one thinks about it. His machine aged him to the point where he has a heart attack and dies. Meanwhile, his partner Lyle Lipton turns into a suicidal, overweight blob barely hanging onto life support.
- When Blitzo points out to Loopty that if I.M.P succeeds in killing Lyle, he'll be stuck with him in Hell forever. Loopty, who up till now simply came off as a goofy cartoon villain, responds by whipping out an arsenal of weaponry and torture equipment while gleefully declaring that he's "counting on that". While we later learn it was a lie to be reunited with his friend and colleague, this more or less Ascended Fridge Horror that some I.M.P clients are willing to torture the people they want revenge on after they've been assassinated.
- The tour guy's response to I.M.P jumping out of the tour bus to kill Lyle is to simply tell the people that rich people being targeted for murder happens all the time. Even if Lyle is a greedy asshole, the fact that people treat others potentially being killed so casually doesn't really sit well.
- The Cherubs try and reignite Lyle's will to live by showing him the wonder of nature. The Imps strike back by showing him an adorable rabbit family that is ambushed and ripped apart by wolves, followed by a bear ambushing one of the wolves, followed by a lumberjack felling a tree on said bear, followed by a beehive from the tree falling on his head and panicking him enough to
*accidentally saw his own arms off*, followed by a random buck deer *impaling* him to death. Even Blitzo is momentarily shocked, possibly horrified, by the sheer carnage (but nonetheless happy about crushing Lyle's spirit). Both are proven right and wrong: Nature *is* beautiful, but most animals would gladly tear an unprepared, undertrained human to shreds as much as they would their prey, and even the perpetrators of death and violence are victims of nature (and their own stupidity) themselves.
- For bonus points, the predators are
*not* disgusting up close, instead being portrayed with anime-style adorableness; despite their vicious instincts, they are still nature's children, yet are impulsively forced to kill each other, or suffer undignified deaths from men - if said men aren't giving themselves undignified deaths first. Even "herbivore" prey, like the deer buck, can be just as deadly as the wolves in the right situation.
- No explicit context is given as to why a bear would casually disregard the typical strategy of staying the fuck away from a pack of feeding wolves, but the lumberjack loudly tearing up its habitat and driving it confused might be an explanation. It would also explain why the deer buck chose to murder the lumberjack instead of running away from a roaring chainsaw. Additionally, all that habitat exploitation will
*still* go on thanks to human progress!
- The Cherubs being so easily and casually kicked out of Heaven over an accident, and not given a single way back or a chance to explain themselves, implies that Heaven is quite a nastily strict place. The unsettlingly cheerful way Deerie does it doesn't help matters.
- Earlier, a Fauxtivational Poster visible in the background of C.H.E.R.U.B's commercial, apparently made by God himself says "Surround yourself with people who will lift you up. So ditch your loser friends who you can't use". It doesn't paint a very good picture of God, does it?
- The way Collin is treated in general (used as beast bait, forced to do most of the paperwork, slapped around for appropriately panicking), along with his skin tone and voice, horrifyingly implies that
*racism is alive and dancing in Heaven*; keep in mind that real-life religion agrees that there are hierarchical *castes* of Angels in the Old and New Testaments. Keenie is outright racist against the imps, strengthening this morbid theory.
- The fact that Deerie didn't convict C.H.E.R.U.B of mass-manslaughter-through-incompetence, which would have solidified their justification for exiling them, implies that either (A) they are apathetic/ignorant of the
*billions* of civilians who are killed through genocide or killing sprees because nobody in Heaven knows or gives a crap about them, or (B) they *wanted* all those people to die and didn't like their plans getting derailed by the *one trillionaire* losing his life alongside them. Or kind of both.
- Really, the entirety of the Deerie scene has horrifying ramifications for, not so much this show, BUT THE ENTIRETY OF THE HAZBIN HOTEL UNIVERSE. As Charlie's mission is to get damned souls redeemed so they can enter heaven so the yearly purges wouldn't be necessary, but if Deerie's actions are to be believed, then Heaven wouldn't let ANY damned soul in, EVEN IF THEY'RE GENUINELY REFORMED, making Charlies entire quest pointless.
- The metaphorical metaphysical battle between Heaven and Hell for human souls apparently can get *very* hot as the imps were eventually able to incite the otherwise pacifistic cherubs into a violent brawl where neither side seemed to care about bystander casualties.
- I.M.P seems to be getting good enough with the tome that they can retreat from a situation with nobody noticing and sticking freelance guardian angels with the blame. The fact that even angels might not be able to protect someone from the assassins is chilling.
- Millie killed
*nine* people just because she got carried away in a *competition*.
- Her sister Sallie Mae is also quite the killer, just that unlike Millie she's better at hiding her body count.
- The Reveal of Striker's reasons for being at the ranch. Moxxie spots a peculiar glow coming from below the former's door, and sneaks into his room to find a powerful blessed rifle in a gun case. The kind, as Moxxie muses aloud, that could
*kill demon royalty*. And then it turns out that Striker's standing right behind him...
- Striker's ensuing attempt to murder Moxxie. It's played terrifyingly straight, with the latter's attempts to fight the former off ultimately failing. Some fans have noticed that the suggestiveness of the scene leads some to initially fear a ...darker fate for Moxxie, as multiple shots show him squirming underneath Striker with just their legs showing, being cornered as Striker advances with a predatory grin, and clawing and hissing at him as Striker pins him to the floor.
* : It should be noted that choking someone out, as Striker appeared to be doing, isn't a maneuver meant to kill someone, only to render them unconscious, and Striker had demonstrated before that he is completely able to kill when he wants to. While he likely just needed Moxxie alive as leverage, *Satan knows* what he would have done between then and his meet with Blitzo had Millie not shown up, and it's probably not something that should be dwelled upon. There's a brief Hope Spot when Millie races into the room and jumps Striker as Moxxie passes out, but he fights *her* off, too. He only lets them both live because he wants to talk Blitzo into joining him while having some leverage, and he doesn't think they're worth killing.
- To get the furious Millie off his back, Striker slams her against the wall so hard, he injures her arm enough to break some bones, which can be seen through an open wound.
- And in the process of Striker tossing M & M into the basement, Millie gets her leg
*caught in a bear trap!* She tries to reassure Moxxie that she's fine, but the quiver in her voice - and the cry of pain she lets out - prove otherwise.
- Millie's expression when stabbing Striker. "Seeing red" would be an understatement. Suddenly, her murdering nine competitors for the sake of winning a competition suddenly doesn't feel so ridiculous for her anymore.
- Exactly how Striker attempts to kill Moxxie deserves further examination, if only because it manages to be both uncomfortably intimate AND hideously cold-blooded. He speaks softly and genially while Moxxie confronts him - and slips inside and shuts the door just as quietly behind him. Then he goes on the attack without warning, using his
*tail* to grab and fling Moxxie across the room by the throat, not even bothering to attempt convincing him like he did with Blitzo. Almost before Moxxie comes to a stop on the floor, Striker straddles him and begins *strangling* him, staring him in the eye with a grin all the while and barely seeming to notice the one feeble swipe Moxxie does manage to land on his cheek. When Moxxie briefly manages to break away, Striker drags him back, spins them both away from the door, then drags them both back down to the floor and tries strangling Moxxie *again* - this time covering his mouth and pinning the smaller imp against his own chest, effectively preventing Moxxie from wiggling away a second time.
- His attempt at a Breaking Speech against Blitzo deserves mention as well; regardless of whether Blitzo was actually affected by his words or simply playing them up to buy Moxxie some time, Striker's attitude and demeanor was perfectly tuned for wrapping Blitzo around his finger, all the way down to cornering Blitzo against the wall and getting into his personal space when he was (supposedly) going to seal the deal. As mentioned above, he also injected a disturbing amount of intimacy into his conversation, to the point that it is clear that, to him, it's just another tool to dupe everyone around him.
- All in all, everything seen about Striker makes it clear that he is not a swell guy by any means. Arguably, he is the
*darkest* character depicted on HB so far, showing a complete lack of empathy, an ability to completely fool and manipulate others, and a *disturbing* amount of suggestiveness towards those he perceives as weaker which gives some rather scary implications, and some have noted that he checks off a lot of qualities for a narcissist and even a *clinical psychopath,* both of which are qualities that are found in several Real Life high-profile *serial murderers and rapists.*
- Despite being out-fought by Blitzo and Moxxie, Striker does what no other antagonist up to this point managed — he manages to
*get away*. And given how he's vowed to see the contract through, it's likely he and I.M.P will run afoul of each other again.
- While the identity of Striker's client is played for Black Comedy, it's still rather frightening to realize that Stella's so infuriated by Stolas' infidelity that she's willing to
*hire an assassin to kill him.*
- Not the imp that Stolas cheated with, mind you — Stella's putting the hit out on
*Stolas*. Assuming she isn't doing so in front of him as some form of warning, and/or this isn't par for the course for demonic royalty in this series (putting out assassination attempts that aren't meant to succeed, but to cause inconvenience), she has no problem killing her daughter's beloved father out of fury at being cheated on.
- The hallucinations caused by the Truth Gas are a psychological take on this, as both Moxxie and Blitzo have to confront unsettling aspects of their lives — the former has to face his issues with his boss; the latter is forced to examine how his own toxic habits and fear of vulnerability have made it hard for him to open up, even though he just wants to be loved.
- While Moxxie's hallucination looks like something out of a Disney movie, Blitzo's own hallucination looks like something out of Warner Bros. bad trip hell. Unlike Moxxie, who just has Blitzo himself to deal with, Blitzo has to deal with not only Moxxie, but Striker, Fizzarolli and Verosika all tearing him apart verbally. Even Stolas joins in, the imagery suggesting that Blitzo views their relationship as one between master and servant. While Moxxie eventually comes to some kind of reconciliation, Blitzo's sequence ends with everyone taunting him that he is going to die alone.
- Although the fight scene between I.M.P and the D.H.O.R.K.S. is one long moment of awesome, some of the ways that the agents die are extremely horrific, such as the agent who gets all four of his limbs cut off by Millie and presumably left to slowly and painfully bleed to death if the shock didn't kill him, or the agent who Moxxie accidentally shoots in the dick when the latter is startled by Blitzo. Thankfully Blitzo decides to Mercy Kill the castrated agent to end his suffering.
- Three imps and a hellhound, the lowest of Hell's hierarchy, racked up over 70 on-screen kills against a horde of (presumably) highly trained agents. These are the
*weakest* beings in Hell, and they didn't suffer a single casualty themselves during the entire battle. It makes you wonder; how much worse would things have gone had they somehow captured a higher order of demon, such as Alastor, Lucifer himself, or even just Angel Dust or Striker? Regardless of how many missteps D.H.O.R.K.S. made, it just goes to show how woefully unprepared humanity is for demonic encounters no matter the scale.
- Worth mentioning that the D.H.O.R.K.S. agents
*were* devastatingly limiting themselves by only using weapons from Japan's Edo period for the sake of looking "badass" instead of using more advanced weaponry or even more gasses since that did prove effective on Blitzo and Moxxie. However, I.M.P has more than shown to be skilled with firearms and are very resilient creatures, and, oh yeah, they have Stolas on their side in case anything happens.
- Stolas possessing the corpses of the dead agents and using them to draw out a summoning circle isn't just chilling to the bone to witness, but it also tells the audience that a demon like Stolas doesn't
*need* their Grimoire to access the human world.
- Stolas also doesn't appear as his usual self at first, but in what might be his
*true* form: a huge feral-looking four-eyed owl, with needle fangs lining the mouth between his beak, that's completely shadowed and glowing red. He then screeches right in One and Two's faces before turning back to normal and giving them the mother of all Death Glares... Then he walks away.
- Honestly, the look on Agent Two's face when Stolas first possesses her...it looks as though she's suffering a mental variant of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- If you listen closely, you can hear Stolas
*laughing maniacally* as his form pours out of Agent Two's mouth.
- To put it in perspective, "Loo Loo Land" implied Stolas didn't
*need* to hire I.M.P as bodyguards and just used it as an excuse to spend time with Octavia uninterrupted and/or shamelessly flirt with Blitzo. Pretty safe to say that was definitely the case.
- To put it in another perspective: Stolas's rescue looked like a legitimate
*horror movie*.
- Stolas is so often portrayed in this show as kind of a prissy, sex-starved and out-of-touch character, and he is, but everyone always forgets that he's Prince Stolas of the Ars Goetia. In the actual Ars Goetia, the description of Prince Stolas is basically translated to screen for the show, and it's noted on the Wikipedia page for the Ars Goetia that Stolas commands 26 legions of demons. Stolas is highly educated and intelligent, talented with magic and if he actually can command that number of legions, is a warrior in his own right. Considering his demonic form is the stuff of horror movies, and that a "legion" as a unit of measurement for the military can be from 5,200 to 6,000 soldiers (totaling 156,000 at most), Stolas is definitely NOT someone anybody should cross. Blitzo's expression as he watches Stolas make his way into the living world through Agent Two and the reanimated corpses of the other agents says it all and really calls his power dynamic with Stolas into stark focus.
- While we haven't seen what he's capable of yet, Asmodeus is so powerful that even
*Stolas* can't do anything to stand up to his mocking. And given how powerful Stolas is...
- It is very fortunate that Asmodeus didn't find out Stolas is loaning the Grimoire to Blitzo. Even if it's an arrangement revolving around sex, that's still a violation of Stolas's duty and Asmodeus could have punished him for it on the spot.
- Not to mention the fact that, in many occult texts, Asmodeus is a
*king* of Hell and is even said to be second only to Lucifer himself in power and authority. Who knows what would have happened if Stolas so much as *dared* to talk back?
- Moxxie and Millie are also lucky that Ozzie seems to be a Reasonable Authority Figure (by hell's standards, anyway) and merely kicked them out of the club rather than do something of the lines of Make an Example of Them for showing true love in a house of lust and whacking Fizz over the head with a guitar respectively.
- The real Fizzarolli is likely much less terrifying than his toybotic counterparts, given he's much more alive, much more emotional, and seemingly much less willing to go on the fritz and attack people, but many of the same basic points about Robo Fizz still apply to him, namely being a stretchy demon Monster Clown with a very notable Slasher Smile. His introductory speech also raises yet another point of concern about Loo Loo Land's operation, regarding the fact they used a Sexbot as a
*children's entertainer*.
- When the four Hellhounds jump into the massive fruity drink Bee summons, they are shown to be completely spaced out with wide eyes and foaming at the mouth after only being in there for a few seconds. What was in that stuff?
- Beelzebub AKA Bee is a Nice Girl most of the time, but when she gets angry she shows that she
*is* a Lord of Hell, growing to massive size and opening a Third Eye on her forehead.
- Blitzo very nearly gets taken advantage of by a much larger imp in his drunken state.
## Season 2
- When we first see Stolas's father Paimon, he makes a
*lovely* display of his shapeshifting powers, cycling through several different forms.
- In the photo Paimon shows Stolas of Stella, she's violently strangling a dog. Is it any wonder why Stolas starts bawling upon being told that he's marrying her?
- Paimon casually offering to
*purchase* a six-year-old Blitzo as a friend for his son, painting a *very* dark image of his code of ethics (or lack thereof).
- Blitzo's dad sells him off to Paimon for five dollars and a condom before gaslighting him into going along with the plan. It's no wonder why he has such a dim view of his father.
- There's also the uncomfortable tone of voice and body language Blitzo's dad uses when Blitzo says he's scared to take the job. "There are scarier things - aren't there?"
- Paimon slapping Stolas on the back of his head for the crime of simply bowing to an imp.
- Blitzo and Stolas happily playing "treasure hunt" in which they throw as much of the Goetia Family's wealth out the window as possible - literally. It's cute until you begin to wonder how Paimon reacted when he found out about the little imp's "game" of throwing countless valuables into the wallet of an amoral circus manager.
- Crosses over with Tear Jerker: Stolas' arranged marriage with Stella is a very toxic one, having to suffer his wife's constant emotional and verbal abuse, character assassination and passive aggression, resorting to both antidepressants and borderline alcoholism just to keep himself mentally afloat. Worst of all, even
*after* Stolas cheats on her, Stella still insists on living with him for no other reason but to continue emotionally-torturing him.
- During the episode's finale, Stella demonstrates just how much she
*doesn't* love Stolas during their argument — not only does she admit with a smirk that she enjoys tormenting him, but when Stolas brings up his wish for a divorce, she gets enraged and tries to *slap* him. Stolas catches the intended palm, but given how quickly he caught it and how little he reacted, it makes one wonder just *how many times* she's done this to him?
- We also see how how depressed Stolas is with his marriage with Stella. Its so bad that he takes anti depressant pills and at the Not Divorced party he eats a lot and drink a whole bottle of alcohol. It actually shows that if Octavia was never born or Blitzo ran into him again, Stolas would have been an alcoholic.
- It's worth noting that the bottle he picks at both the party and the aftermath of OZZIE'S is
*absinthe,* which was historically bottled at around 45%-72% alcohol-by-volume but in modern times can be as strong as 90% ABV. And he's mixing it with antidepressants, which is an unfortunately popular suicide method and equally common cause of accidental deaths. Either he's become actively suicidal, or he's already well into the alcoholism - or both. (Admittedly, being an extremely powerful archdemon might protect him, but still unnerving either way.)
- The faces Millie makes when she's reminded of Chaz.
- The flashback to Moxxie's childhood: his mother is the only member of the family who shows him any form of affection while his father sees him only as an asset to the family business. It comes to a head when he is made to execute a crucified Imp, presented as if it was a carnival game. Moxxie is three seconds away from hesitantly pulling the trigger before his mother is fed up with Crimson's violent nature, pulling him away by the hand. Later, a terrified Moxxie is seen hiding under the bed, watching his parents argue until Crimson
*viciously* slaps his mother.
- Watch the way Crimson interacts with his wife up to and including this argument. When she cuts Moxxie's steak for him, Crimson tries to go in for footsie - only to stomp a foot angrily when she pulls her leg away. And during the argument, watching the way they both move, it looks as though Crimson is forcibly pulling Moxxie's mother in before the slap, at which point she seems to break away and run from the room. The implications are...
*ugly.*
- At the end of the flashback, we see Crimson forcing Moxxie to drown one of the family's rivals. After the poor, pleading victim is thrown overboard with a cinderblock tied to his leg, the camera pans over to the many, many pieces of clothing belonging to Crimson's past victims, floating on the surface. Including a shoe belonging to
*Moxxie's mother.*
- Take a look at their family portrait. Crimson is smiling, his wife is smiling, but the young Moxxie has a Thousand-Yard Stare that says
*everything.*
- Chaz's betrayal, in which he makes off with a bag of stolen loot while leaving Moxxie, his partner-in-crime, trapped under a barred door. Moxxie is taken to prison while Chaz gets away without so much as a slap on the wrist.
- Place yourself in Moxxie's shoes: your father is a stone-cold mafia don that murdered your mother for standing up to him. Your father is so convinced that you're gay that he's installed
*retractable dildos* in the walls to "celebrate," even though you're bisexual. And he wants you, a happily married man, to marry your estranged ex-boyfriend against your will just so he can be another asset to the family business. And just to add humiliation to horror, he duct-taped your mouth shut, drew a smile on it and forced you into a bridal gown. Is it really any wonder why Moxxie is such a Nervous Wreck?
- Millie's takedown of Crimson's goons is
**brutal**, to the point where even Crimson himself is utterly terrified. Several of them have *their skulls ripped out of their heads* and her final kill has her dragging a demon behind Chaz's car while he's strangled *and* electrocuted to death by the hanging lights from Moxxie's wedding. Let this be a lesson for all of us: *Do NOT fuck with Moxxie*. Otherwise, bad things will happen. *VERY* bad things.
- Chaz's fate at the end. We don't see what happened to him, but we
*do* see Moxxie's dad hanging his teeth up on the wall as a trophy.
- Crimson is an out and about psychopath and not someone you want to be alone in a room with for any stretch of time. Him backhanding Moxxie so hard Moxxie is thrown off his feet is played dead serious. The only reason he hasn't killed his own son yet is he wants to, essentially, sell him off to some shark demon for money.
- Crimson's threat to Moxxie as he slinks out of the room makes absolutely no attempt to hide just what Crimson is willing to do to get his way. Richard Horvitz's delivery of the line is straight up
*bone-chilling*. **Crimson:**
Oh, and Mox...If you ever talk back to me again, you and that pretty little thing you brought here
*are going home in boxes*
. Capiche?
- The final scene makes it clear that I.M.P. just gained a new enemy.
- Something else to consider: Moxxie
*did* defy Crimson again after that threat, by refusing to willingly go along with the wedding and threatening Crimson to his face. Crimson only needs Moxxie alive long enough to marry Chaz and sign over his holdings in the family, maybe not even that long. If Millie and Blitzø hadn't intervened, who's to say Crimson wouldn't have sent his son to the same watery grave once the wedding was finished? After all, a little thing like a forged will wouldn't be beneath him...
- The entire episode reminds us, as established in
*Hazbin Hotel* and previous episodes, that Hell is *Hell,* ruled almost entirely by organized criminals who maintain the grip on their territories through violence, intimidation, treachery and utter cruelty. There is no law and order save for an apathetic aristocracy and the influence of rival mafia dons. Even "milder" crimes like robbery and illegal dumping are done in broad daylight, turning the entire Greed ring into a rundown, polluted ghetto. As previously stated, VivziePop's vision of Hell may as well be Commorragh. And at the end of the day, Moxxie is **very** lucky to be married to a killing machine like Millie.
- A group of Wrath demons takes offense to Moxxie wearing the same kind of hat as one of them when they stop for gas. It doesn't end well for them, with one in particular being strangled by the gas hose, and when Moxxie drives off he gets
*decapacitated* by said hose, with the gas station then blowing up for good measure.
- Anyone with trypanophobia can relate to Loona's paralyzing terror throughout the episode. Especially when the doctor brings out a needle almost the size of Loona herself.
- The condition Stolas is in near the end of the episode. He gets stabbed multiple times while his leg is broken and Striker nearly gouges his eyes out before he's interrupted.
- Blitzo's Thousand-Yard Stare after learning what happened and coming to the realization that Stolas, one of the most powerful demons he's ever seen, came this close to
*dying* had it not been for Stella realizing he'd be of better use to her alive
for now. **Blitzo:**
He can get *hurt*?
- Even though Striker is no longer under contract to kill Stolas, the fact he escaped once again, this time with no clear indicator as to where he fled, is terrifying, especially now that the true depths of his depraved nature have come out, and that, as Striker himself pointed out, Stella's orders are to keep Stolas alive, not necessarily
*whole*.
- Millie's near-decapitation via flying axe. If the axe landed any differently, she would've been headless. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HelluvaBoss |
Nightmare Fuel / "Heroes" Series
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*Heroes from two worlds* has many mystical creatures from various mythologies and folklore tales being MODOK's prisoners to experiment on. And when they come out, they show just why they were so feared in tales.
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*Heroes from Middle-earth* shows just how much of a threat Sauron is in spite of him only having a total of one appearance. He confronts Steve and Aragorn once each through the Palantír and while they come out on top, they are very drained by the encounter.
- The Witch-King of Angmar has a crown over an invisible head, and breaks the shields of both Steve and Boromir.
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*Heroes stand united* shows the effect that Thanos' snap has on the entire Multiverse, with various Heroes losing their loved ones and being unable to do anything about it. There are quite a few scenes where only one person is left in a room to grieve those they lost. In particular Matt Murdock just stops sensing the heartbeats of anyone who gets snapped away.
- Thanos alone was terrifying enough, but then Morgoth also joining him? Good luck to the Heroes.
- Red Hulk is around too, and this time, he is mystical in nature due to Morgoth having tortured Ross to turn into this.
- Morgoth's mechanical Ancalagon is a huge threat, and kills many defenders with its jets of flames.
- And then, Thanos brings back almost every single dead villain the Heroes have ever faced to fight them back, including some who'd been very hard to kill. And now literally all of them are opposing the Heroes together.
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*Of Speedsters and Forces* has Jean Grey as the Phoenix feast on a star and wipe out planets in the process too.
- The post-credits scene of this story has three Lex Luthors joining forces to trouble the Supermen and the other Heroes.
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*Heroes, Magicians and Luthors* has the three Lex Luthors brainwashing their three Supermen into fighting all over the Multiverse, causing untold destruction from their uncontrolled super-powered brawl.
- Earth-50 Lex Luthor unleashes a very powerful version of Doomsday which is created by a combination of the old Doomsday's and General Zod's corpses. Not even all the Heroes together are able to take it out by conventional means. It just keeps coming back from literally anything.
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*More than one Spider-Man* has Mysterio with a fear gas that makes all Spider-Men hallucinate all of their old enemies coming after them at once.
- Venom gobbles Coldheart's head in front of Mysterio.
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*One too many Dark Knights* shows just why The Batman Who Laughs is to be feared, and his grotesque appearance is the least of those reasons. He is a master manipulator who with his mysterious card has ravaged many Universes. He introduces himself with a terrifying poem, and reveals himself to the protagonists by throwing the bodies of his Earth's Superman and Supergirl via portal.
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*A Venomous Conspiracy* has Helen Stacy going through the ringer, with her daughter going missing from the hospital and no one but her apparently remembering it. Then when her husband George looks into it, he meets with an accident, and even she is almost killed, her wrist broken.
- Moon Knight is, for the villains, considering there is no length he won't go to in order to take them down. There's even a scene where he grins with the lower half of his mask gone under the moonlight, giving a creepy vibe.
- The Carnage Symbiote crawls upon Gwen Stacy when it decides to make her his host.
- And at the end, Carnage becomes a servant of Dormammu.
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*Rise of the Great Demon* shows just how bad Carnage is, his power now increased by Dormammu to take people's energies and that of the other Symbiotes born from him and use it all to bring Dormammu back. He goes around the Multiverse, killing many people by drinking their bodily fluids until not even their skins are left. Only the empty clothes of the people are left when Carnage is done with them. He enjoys this as well, playing sadistic games with some of the victims, and gloating to Constantine about all that he did. Before his end, his kill count is in the millions.
- The other creatures of Dormammu in the final battle aren't very cuddly either.
- And then Dormammu himself comes in. Even when he's not at full power, he ragdolls all of the Heroes, and before that, he'd tricked them all into releasing him as well. He has an orb of darkness formed from eons of destruction which can destroy the Earth, and he plays a sadistic game of catch with SuperThor with that orb. Not to mention almost the whole Multiverse is covered by his Dark Dimension when he gets angry. At the end, it is Time Travel that finally stops him.
- A small glimpse of an apocalyptic future is shown where the whole world is ravaged by Dormammu.
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*A Game of Doom* has Doctor Doom showing just why he is the most intelligent and ruthlessly efficient villain in the series, manipulating the situation to get the Phoenix Force for himself, and then being near unstoppable. He has also made deals with 4 other Entities to keep the Phoenix Force within him. He is also revealed to have been behind the death of Earth-199999 Jean Grey. He also tells Earth-167 Lex Luthor that when his seemingly perfect horse lost a race, he killed the horse and trained a perfect wolf to kill the owner of the horse that had beaten him. Even when he loses the Phoenix Force, he is able to escape unscathed due to knowing the location of Earth-167 Clark and also having information on Earth-167 Lex's crimes which he freely offers to sweeten the deal. It is also implied he is doing all this not out of malice but to protect his Universe from something even worse than him.
- Thor engages some Heralds of Galactus in a destructive battle, and while he wins, its clear the Heralds are just a precursor to their master's arrival.
- A Demon possesses Earth-167 Clark at one point and defeats a few of the Heroes pretty much effortlessly.
- Not to mention the return of The Batman Who Laughs who uses Earth-167 Batman's contingencies to take down almost the entire Justice League and comes close to killing them all with his new suit.
- The final fate of The Batman Who Laughs is somehow even more horrifying than his current appearance, which says a lot.
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*Heroes, Vampires and Slayers* once again has Doctor Doom going after the Senior Partners, and when he destroys the Seed of Wonder, he makes Earth-92 lose all magic, and Dawn fades away in front of Buffy's very eyes.
- Warren is still alive, but skinless. Let that sink in.
- Glory is now back at full power and teams up with Dromos who has turned into a Hell Lord as well via Seed of Wonder.
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*Arrival of the Devourer* has all the Heroes of Earth-199999 almost scared due to how big of a threat Galactus is. The worst part is its not out of malice but rather in his nature.
- The Ultimate Nullifier is a weapon that can destroy a Universe at its weakest and the entire Multiverse with all of its timelines at its strongest. The existence of something like this is pretty terrifying in itself.
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*Two Worlds' Finest* has Darkseid attack Earth-50 personally now, and he kills the whole Justice League except Earth-50 Barry who travels back in time and brings the Earth-167 Justice League to help out. Even the two of them together are only barely enough.
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*Of Heroes and Charlatans* has Mr. Mxyzptlk in a cameo, and he sends Steve and Earth-167 Clark to Earth-72 seemingly for his own fun. He is a powerful reality warper who does things like this for fun.
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*Never alone* has Earth-199999 Parker's loved ones all abducted with threats that he can't contact the Avengers for help, or they'd be killed. The fact that his enemies went to such lengths to keep a watch on him is telling enough.
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*The Bats against the Demon* shows just how dangerous Ra's al Ghul is, abducting various scientists to make a machine that can open a door to the Multiverse. His resources are vast.
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*Vampires, Witches and Blackheart* shows Blackheart gaining more and more power by killing any powerful creature he finds, and by the end of it, he turns into a powerful giant being. He makes his entrance by tearing through Michael Myers' skin as he'd been inside Michael until then.
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*The Contest of Champions* has the Grandmaster with the Cosmic Cube capturing almost all the Heroes to brainwash them to fight and kill each in gladiator-style matches, and then bring them back, all for his sick entertainment. He also randomly blows some of them up or makes them sing and dance, and airs the lives of Erik Lensherr and Logan for the whole Multiverse to see. When Steve defies him, he angrily has five brainwashed Supermen 'kill' him.
- The Heroes are all mind-controlled by the Grandmaster to fight and kill each other, regardless of their usual relationships, and they remember what they did too after the fight is over, traumatizing them with the guilt they feel.
- The Egyptian God Set makes an appearance and engages Thor in a destructive battle.
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*King in Black* has the return of Knull who possesses Earth-199999 Parker and tries to cover the Multiverse in his darkness. He is near unstoppable, and his Necrosword gets more powerful with the blood of the Gods. Even Thor, Hercules and Steve with both Green and Blue Lantern Rings are no match for him. Parker possessed by him is pale and unconscious permanently, which is another horrifying sight. Some of the other worlds also come under attack, and barely hold the enemies back. The worst part is this doesn't happen too long after the Grandmaster mess.
- The Dragons of Knull are pretty big threats by themselves.
- Carnage is back and there's a scene of him devouring brains of people he killed.
- When Earth-2002 Spider-Man and Earth-199999 Strange are dying, they are completely pale with bloodshot eyes, and come close to dying.
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*Return of the Devourer* has the arrival of the Black Winter, who scares even Galactus, and like Galactus, he doesn't destroy Universes out of malice but due to his nature.
- Thor at one point battles almost all of his major villains in a hallucination.
- Then there's Thor's vision of the Crisis.
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*Heroes from Infinite Earths* shows various Universes of other fandoms being destroyed by the Anti-Monitor, with red skies appearing as the characters barely have time to react before their ends. When the Anti-Monitor gets his power-up from the Beyonders, the skies turn white instead, but the end result is the same.
- Annihilus is a powerful general of the Anti-Monitor. He personally kills Earth-38 Supergirl effortlessly too, and it takes a lot of power from Thor to end him. The worst part is outside of the Shadow Demons he is the weakest of the Anti-Monitor's forces.
- The residents of the destroyed Universes all rise as Black Lanterns.
- The Exterminators have gained a lot of power from the Anti-Monitor and destroy their own masters the Celestials. Not to mention killing the Gods that battle them.
- Battleworld is created by Doom who is now God Emperor Doom. This world is under his rule, with the Thor Corps being his personal police force, Earth-2002 Stephen Strange as his Sherriff, and Earth-50 Clark as his Executioner. The sun is a punished Johnny Storm and Susan Storm is now Doom's wife.
- God Emperor Doom is very powerful, easily killing various Heroes, including Zarathos, and he even defeats Tony wielding all 6 Infinity Stones in his suit.
- One Beyonder alone manages to kill various Heroes within seconds, and it takes Thor-El with all of his power to barely defeat that one. Worst part is he was just one Beyonder.
- More Heroes are killed in the attack on Earth-10005, not very long after the destruction of Earth-199999.
- The Anti-Monitor is the most powerful villain in this series. He makes his entrance by effortlessly wiping out Darkseid, while his Exterminators kill the Celestials. The Heroes are no match for him as he kills Jean Grey with the Phoenix Force and Steve Rogers who has the power of both the Green Lantern and Blue Lantern Rings. Even God Emperor Doom is destroyed, as is Uatu the Watcher. The entire Multiverse is destroyed by him and replaced by the anti-matter Universe. Tony with all six Infinity Stones, Logan with the Phoenix Force, Earth-167 Clark with Mjolnir, Earth-199999 Strange with Earth-2002 Strange's power, Wanda with Chthon's power, and the other Heroes together aren't able to put him down. Rune King Thor is the one to finally end him. But only after Anti-Monitor causing an infinite amount of damage and deaths throughout the entire story.
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*When Heroes live their lives* has Alex literally suffer this as punishment for capturing Dream.
- Earth-22 has a Superman who became a dictator after being tricked into killing Lois and his unborn child, alongside Metropolis. The description of this Earth by its Batman is enough to give chills.
- Then there is Earth-33, which is home to the Crime Syndicate. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeroesSeries |
Heroman / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Kogorr's goal to destroy the planet by consuming it's nucleus, even creepier is that *the camera pans to show the other worlds he consumed*.
Kogorr: Pitiful bugs! This planet's energy will become my sustenance! I shall once again take to the skies! You and this planet should all be destroyed! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Heroman |
Helstrom / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Thought *Legion (2017)* and *The New Mutants* were the scariest Marvel would ever get? This series will prove you wrong.
- Elizabeth Marvel nailed the possesed Victoria Helstrom well enough that she resembles Pazuzu from
*The Exorcist*.
- The opening drawings are creepy as hell and prepare you for the show's darker tone.
- "Mother", the demon possessing Victoria, conceives a child by possessing Gabriella and having her demonic son possess Daimon and then having sex between them. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Helstrom |
Heroes of the Storm / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Two words: "Consume Souls." Said ultimate, courtesy of none-other than Mephisto, reveals all enemy heroes on the map after a short channel time, before detonating on them for a hefty amount of damage. This can easily finish off any low-health heroes making a hasty retreat, and there's next to nothing they can do to escape it. And at level 20, if it kills anybody on the first go around, it gets cast once more. And if THAT isn't enough, remember that the heroic reveals your location. After all of the above, anyone left standing is going to be severely wounded. And the enemy team now knows where you are. And they will be coming for you. And god help you if they have an Illidan with the Hunt, a Hanzo with Dragon's Arrow, or a Fenix with Planet Cracker.
**Mephisto:** I see you now... NAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeroesOfTheStorm |
Hetalia: Axis Powers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Warning: Spoilers Off applies to Nightmare Fuel pages. Proceed at your own risk.
- Belarus scratching at Russia's door and tearing out the doorknob when trying to "become one" with him. Not to mention the close up on her rather insane facial-expression or her repeating constantly "Let's get married!" Russia, who's pretty insane himself, even cries Tears of Fear when he's about to be cornered by her!
- Anytime Russia goes into Yandere mode. And there's the "Bloody Sunday" strip, in which he finally snaps and starts gunning down his own people as they're rioting in the streets ("If they hate me, they're not Russian.") before turning to Lithuania and stating "We don't want children who can't play nice, do we?". One of the strip's first sentences is even "The country has gone mad!"
- In the strip about the White Sea Canal, Russia is first subjected to heavy labour under terrible circumstances and with shoddy equipment (and repeatedly told by his boss, who by timeline should be
*Stalin*, to suck it up cos it's Russia), then when the job is finished he is told by said boss it was All for Nothing after all because the measurements were off which meant the canal was too small to be used for the purpose it was supposedly built. Russia turns to the boss saying "What did you just say??" and nearly chokes him.
- Russia is completely casual about walking into a meeting soaked in blood and mentioning that Stalin told him to destroy tanks with his bare hands, which it seems he did in fact manage to do. Your mileage may vary on whether this leaves you more scared
*of* Russia or *for* Russia.
- His extreme abuse of the Baltic Trio. Plus, Lithuania's wounds.
- One strip/episode implies that Latvia is short because Russia's "shows of affection" are
*slowly crushing his spine*. And Russia promptly tries to make up for it by *stretching him*.
- The fact that the dub's version of "kolkolkolkolkol" was turned into "kill kill kill kill kill kill"...
- Russia thinks nothing of his heart dropping onto the table in the middle of an Allied Powers meeting. According to him, it just "falls out occasionally".
- Japan betraying China in the strip "The Story about the Early Days of China and Japan". Let's just say China was scarred forever because of it.
- What makes it even worse is the drawing of Japan as he takes out the katana. It might just be the art style, but it looks like he's trying to actively resist doing it. Add in his quiet "Forgive me" earlier (said in response to visiting China late at night, but possibly as a prelude to the attack) and the possibility that nations are forced to obey their bosses no matter what, and we get that Japan was
*forced* to attack his older brother. Whole 'nother layer of nightmare fuel right there.
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*Paint it, White!* gives us a few good ones. For starters, there's the opening scene, with a woman running from a group of Pictonians chasing her. She thinks she escaped and found a police officer... Only to find out that he was just turned into a Pictonian himself! She just stands there, terrified, while she herself is converted. Then there's the final fight, where everyone but Italy is converted. It happens slowly, so we get to hear everyone screaming as it happens. And unlike the other people converted, the nations just *freeze* afterwards, while the aliens walk around them.
- That woman mentioned? She's the only Pictonian victim who
*never gets changed back*. That being said, she also chooses to Stay with the Aliens who pretty much made her their queen, so it probably wasn't too bad for her.
- The Pictonians in general, really. They're probably the closest thing the show has ever had to real villains, plotting to take over the world by systematically erasing all forms of individuality and excitement, making the world as bland and faceless as they are. And if Italy didn't show them how great happiness and excitement can be,
*they would have succeeded*.
- England's creepy Black Magic ritual also counts. He wore a black robe, everything was dark and then he suddenly started chanting something...and then the magic circle on the ground started to shine and RUSSIA appeared.
- Speaking of England's rituals, the full version of the song he sings at the campfire to which America yells that it feels like they are summoning the devil? It actually
*is* a summoning song, with creepy lyrics about everyone burning ("let not even their ashes remain"), with a voice that sends chills down your spine.
- There's also mention of Hungary's penchant for scary things. Given her at times disturbing elements in history (eg. Bathory), and her creepy aura as she plans on beating Prussia...it's best not to think about it too much.
- There's also her response to Prussia getting away with Silesia: she crawls out from under Prussia's bed, like a character from a Japanese horror movie, creepily hissing for him to give back Austria's vital regions.
- While still humorous, the anime version of Russia's scarf coming to life to strangle America is a bit frightening, possibly due to most of it taking place off-screen.
- Kid Greece as a Creepy Child in
*Beautiful World* episode 10. Teenage Turkey is telling a joke about the afterlife to him and Kid Egypt, only for Greece to start philosophizing, in a totally flat voice that maybe when we die there's nothing else and if someone erases proof of our existence, did we really live at all? Turkey and Egypt look freaked out. Thankfully Greece switches to talking about cats.
- The closeup of evil Santa's eyes in "Hetalia of the Dead".
- The nations appear to have a Good Thing You Can Heal factor going on, with Lithuania continuing a conversation with an arrow in his head and Russia being fine one scene after jumping out of a plane. Considering they appear to spend a lot of their lives on the battlefield or otherwise in danger, this has plenty of And I Must Scream potential too; there's no indication that they're immune to pain. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HetaliaAxisPowers |
Hey Arnold! The Movie / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*"Unfortunately, like your little plan, it's about to go up in smoke."* **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. Proceed only at your own risk! You Have Been Warned.**
- Scheck was first mentioned in the chapter book "Arnold for President" when she managed to get his help in building a skateboard ramp at the school, which doesn't sound too bad on paper... until it's revealed to be part of Helga's plan to win the Class Presidency over Arnold by framing him for stealing
*her* idea (when it was actually Arnold's to begin with). This makes it all the more horrifying for Helga when Sheck *appears in person* and is proven to be a pretty intimidating villain, Probably one of the most evil (human) antagonists of the franchise, and certainly worse than Helga herself..
- When he confronts Arnold and Gerald in the filing room and reveals his true motives for bulldozing the neighborhood, his tone turns dark and intimidating. Paul Sorvino's delivery just gives you chills.
**Scheck**
: Looking for something? (
*Arnold & Gerald gasp and see Scheck leaning against the door*
) Well, here you are, back again. After I patiently explained that your mission is completely hopeless. It still is, though I'm less inclined to entertain you after you broke into my building for the second time. Did you think you could get away with this? There are cameras everywhere. I record everything that goes on, day and night. Did you think I'd let you win, let you save your little neighborhood?
Don't you realize who I am? I am Alphonse Perrier Du Von Scheck.
*(Scheck turns on the light revealing historical art)*
I can trace my ancestry back to the founding fathers.
*(Scheck angrily turns to a framed painting)*
Do you know when we lost control of this city? When that ridiculous Tomato Incident took place in your pathetic little neighborhood.
*(Scheck takes the painting from the wall, breaks it in half and flings to the floor)*
Tearing it down and putting my name up in its place will be revenge of the sweetest kind.
*(Grins evilly)* **Arnold**
: But the document! Where's the document?
**Scheck**
:
*(laughs evilly, reaches into his jacket and pulls out the document and a lighter)*
Unfortunately, like your little plan, it's about to go up in smoke.
*(With an evil smirk, Scheck burns the document in front of Arnold and Gerald. The burnt pieces fall at the boys' feet.)*
My guards will now lock you away where you won't cause any more trouble.
- Just the mere fact that he's so determined to avenge his fallen ancestor Archibald von Scheck, that he is perfectly willing to blow up an overpass and kill four people, three of them
*children* (not to mention any other potential driver headed for it) to see that it comes to fruition. Even Nick Vermicelli, one of the biggest douchebags in the *Hey Arnold!* universe, tries to talk Scheck out of doing this. **Scheck**: Is the overpass wired? **Vermecelli**: Yes. **Scheck**: Blow it! **Vermecelli**: Uh, just so we're being straight here, boss, this is pretty serious. **Scheck**: Serious? **Vermecelli**: Yeah, y'know, as in 15 to life. **Scheck**: **JUST DO IT, YOU INCOMPETENT MORON!** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeyArnoldTheMovie |
Hey You, Pikachu! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Any time you catch a HUGE fish in the fishing game. It practically fills half the screen. Even Pikachu freaks out sometimes. It's even worse if it's something harmless, like a Magikarp. Even
*worse* if it's as the sun's setting.
- Pikachu can slip and fall in the water when looking for Poliwag and get swept away. Pikachu cries out in panic and then disappears. Professor Oak says Pikachu fortunately washed up on the shore, but for a while it's like Pikachu drowned.
- Pikachu and the player go camping. Its fun and calming to sit in front of the crackling fire, but suddenly a Haunter appears from the darkness. Pikachu will shiver in fright until told to Thundershock the Haunter.
- Sometimes Pikachu will make a laughing noise, and turning will reveal that Pikachus apparently about to hit the player with a stick! He never does and is talked down easily, but its a bit unnerving.
- Pikachu sometimes goes stir-crazy in the house, and will toss yellow balls everywhere or fling tissues around. It could just be written off as playful, bored behavior, but Pikachu seems to think odd things are fun...like threatening you with a stick.
- Pikachu will also toss around and destroy any treasures you found. They come back the next day, but its a bit jarring to see them crash and disappear.
- Pikachu sometimes shocks the player for no reason, or will do thundershocks randomly when upset.
- Waking up one morning to find Pikachu gone from the bed, even though hes quickly found. His heart meter is a pulsing spiked ball, showing how upset he is. Its not explained why Pikachu runs away. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeyYouPikachu |
Hideaway / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Lindsay's hypothermia-induced hallucinations at the beginning. She plays fetch with her dog and the ball turns into a torn-out human heart; she finds herself sharing the dance floor with animated rotting corpses at her high school prom; a nurse gives her her newborn son and he's just a baby skeleton wrapped in a blanket. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hideaway |
HFIL / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Freeza refuses to be anybody but himself, as Cell learns the hard way. When he chokes Cell out, the music definitely amplifies how unsettling Freeza is as he chokes Cell with his tail, and shows that there is a damn good reason that TFS put Freeza at the number one spot on their list of villains. LittleKuriboh has not lost his touch one bit.
Cell hasn't lost his touch in the Break Them by Talking department despite literally going to hell - as shown when he begins to outline for Freeza just what will happen if he tells the rest that Freeza didn't die to Goku - not even to someone tangentially related to him - but to Trunks, Vegeta's offspring. The thought of losing his respect in hell is making Freeza of all people crap his metaphorical pants.
While it's also Played for Laughs, Ginyu has committed enough atrocities that even Yemma is disgusted by his track record. Even if he does mistake the current frog incarnation of him for the original, it genuinely makes you wonder how bad Ginyu must have been as his original self.
We get to hear Captain Ginyu's soul get put through the soul scrubber. It's surprisingly chilling. Even more chilling is the fact that, now that his soul has essentially been cleansed and reset, he really is gone, possibly making him the first character to truly be Deader than Dead. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HFIL |
H. G. Wells / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- A story called
*The Cone*, which is about a steel works manager whose disgruntled employee throws him off of a catwalk onto a red hot metal cone on top of a blast furnace. The story then goes on to describe, in the most gruesomely horrific detail imaginable, how the man is roasted to death.
- "The Country of the Blind" reverses the above example. The realization that they're better at tracking him blind than he is with both eyes; all he can do is watch. And, of course, why they're tracking him!
- "The Empire of the Ants", in which the intelligent ants decimate entire villages, seemingly unstoppable. It's all but said that they will eventually conquer the world.
- "The World Set Free" accurately describes nuclear weapons and their effects. In fact, it
*invented* the concept of nuclear weapons. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HGWells |
Hercules / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked.
Even in a film as funny as this, there's bound to be some scary moments.
- The Titans are so scary, they almost looked like they were coming out of the screen.
- The revelation that Hades is not like his neutral and mostly benign mythological counterpart but still rules over all the mortal souls that end up dying and essentially controls the afterlife. In the animated series, it's mentioned that Hades has no control over the Elysian Fields which Zeus reserved as a resting ground for heroes, but if you're not a hero like Hercules, then you're in Hades' clutches. This spells a lot of Fridge Horror for all of Herc's mortal friends and loved ones like Meg and Phil whose souls are vulnerable to eternal torture by Hades and his minions once they die. Granted, he doesn't actually seem to torture the souls of the Underworld, and if the Muses' song is correct, he prefers to ignore them for being "dull and uncouth", but if he actually
*wanted* to torment a specific soul, he probably could. Even ignoring that, the Underworld is pretty gloomy even by Greek standards. It's not Hell, but you wouldn't want to spend eternity there.
- Cerberus. Especially with all those
*teeth*. In fact, his introduction is him *snarling* at Hades as he's passing by.
- The Fates share an eye between them.
*One. Single. Eye*.
- If you think they're scary now, check out what they COULD have looked like◊.
- They were based on the Graiae, which also shared one tooth and were purportedly
*even more hideous than the gorgon sisters!*
- Their introductory scene has them snip the thread of life of an innocent woman, complete with deathly wail and her soul being sucked into the underworld. They also display a certain sadistic glee in ending that woman's life (including cackling laughter), unlike their mythological counterparts who were viewed as stern and unyielding, but also as the stoic upholders of universal order.
- The first monster Hercules ends up fighting, Nessus, is introduced forcefully coming onto Megara when she clearly wants him to leave her alone. Its also quite clear what he intended to do if Hercules wasnt there to save Meg. Not helping is when he grabs Meg, holding her close to him while noting he likes them fiery, implying this is not the first time hes tried to do such a thing.
- The Hydra. It's monstrous, no pun intended, and what makes it scarier is that it's like the one monster that gave Hercules trouble. Even more than the Titans, it was the only thing that came close to killing him.
- Hades' mood swings. When he's angry, he goes from controlled blue flames to out-of-control red flames. They
*can* overlap with Funny Moments, but just keep in mind that he's still the God of the Underworld. Hope you aren't terrified of fire.
- The moment Megara tells Hades that Hercules is alive in spite of being told otherwise his irises briefly shrink and it's a brief but noticeable moment that sells he's madder than usual at this revelation.
**Hades:**
I can't believe this guy! I throw
*everything*
I've got at him, and—
*[is cut off by the sound of rubber sandals squeaking, as he suddenly glances down at Pain]* What. Are. *Those?* **Pain:** *[wearing a pair of Air-Herc Sandals]*
I dunno, I thought they looked kinda... dashing.
*[There is a slurp, and Hades is interrupted mid-rage as he descends on Pain. They glance over at Panic sipping Herculade]* *[cut back to the crowd as Hades' scream of rage echoes far away, and an enormous mushroom cloud erupts in the background]* **Hades:**
Meg, Meg, Meg. My sweet, deluded little minion. Aren't we forgetting one teensy-weensy, but ever so crucial little, tiny detail?
*[suddenly bursts into flames]* **I ** *OWN* YOU!
- The Cyclops, his bellowing taunting for a de-powered Hercules to fight him, and his eventual attempt to bite off Hercules' head:
**"HEERCCUULLEESSSS!"**
- Meg is seen dying in agony and then shown clearly as dead as Disney can get away with on a G rating.
- The look of sheer
*rage* on Herc's face right before he goes into the Underworld to confront Hades and save Meg.
- As Hercules dives into the river of souls and swims to rescue Meg's soul, he very rapidly ages into an old man. This must've given both kids and adults nightmares.
- The Fates attempting to cut Megara and later Hercules' threads of life with scissors is enough to make viewers young and old cringe and hold their breaths in fright. The first time, they succeed in cutting Meg's thread; the second time, Herc's thread glows and becomes invulnerable with his ascension to godhood at the
*absolute last second*.
- Hades getting pulled into the river of souls as he tries to escape after Hercules punches him in.
- When Hercules goes through with Hades deal to give up his super-strength in exchange for Meg's safety, he is clearly shown to be in pain as Hades drains his powers away. Not helping is how Hades gleefully takes the opportunity to kick him while he's down:
- Pain and Panic may be silly, but the scenes where they turn into snakes and ambush Pegasus shows them at their most terrifying. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hercules |
Henry Stickmin Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Not only that, but judging from what the two options in respectively the Just Plain Epic route in *Stealing the Diamond* and Toppat 4 Life route in *Completing the Mission*, the CCC seems to have a big surplus of nuclear weapons, and one of their members also happen to have a rifle that can pinpoint a nuclear strike. Even the FAIL text points out about that. **FAIL Screen:** Gee, the Center for Chaos Containment sure has a surplus of nuclear bombs, huh... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HenryStickminSeries |
The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Nonomiya's encounter with the Principal in the alley. Whenever he turns away from the Principal, he's always there in every alleyway that Nonomiya is at. And he knows his name and class. And he intends to eat him.
The Principal suddenly appearing and devouring Yoko's soul.
Midori's face after when she remade the contract with the Black Tea Gentleman and goes back into her fake reality is particularly jarring. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi |
Highlander / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Throughout the series, the question hangs of what might happen should an Immortal break the rule of taking a head on holy ground. In "Little Tin God," Dawson shares an old Watcher legend of the only known time two Immortals fought on holy ground: **Joe**: It was in Pompeii. 79 A.D. **Duncan**: The volcano...
- And while the destruction of Pompeii was bad enough of a calamity, the very same episode shows that an Immortal can be buried alive forever and remain alive. If true, the two Immortals that fought in the legend were unlikely to have escaped the eruption and were simultaneously burned and buried alive by the ash cloud. From an Immortal's perspective, the legend is a warning; breaking this rule will result in a Fate Worse than Death. Best case scenario would be that the Immortals were freed at some point between 1799, when the city was rediscovered and the earliest excavations took place, and the mid-20th century, when most of the city was uncovered, meaning they'd have spent over 2000 years buried alive. Worst case? Since not all of Pompeii has been uncovered for various reasons,
*they might still be down there!* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Highlander |
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Iolaus:Hercules! Hercules: Iolaus? [pulls him out of the grave] Iolaus: I knew you'd come and get me, buddy. Hercules: I couldn't give up on you. Iolaus:You should've.[Evil Laugh]
Dumuzi's army of zombies, particularly how it's made clear they are being forced to do this. One of Nebula's crewmen is among them and begs for death.
"Twilight" doesn't pull any punches in showing that War Is Hell.
One poor soldier has his arm cut off during an ambush and dies a slow, painful death from his wound.
Jason has a nightmare about freezing up as enemy soldiers storm the trench. Everyone else is viciously stabbed, but viewers don't see any blood. For censorship reasons? Possibly, but more likely to surprise you when Jason's throat is slit in full view of the audience, and he bleeds out.
In "Redemption", Dahak makes Jason hallucinate that his hand is infested with worms. In pure terror, he slashes his hand with his knife several times and would have ended up killing himself if he hadn't been stopped. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys |
High School D×D / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*High School D×D* tackles some very serious subject matters even for a light novel series, in addition to touching on aspects on fanservice, harem and adventure... it isn't a series about characters from almost all religions and mythologies fighting each other for nothing...
- Issei's Death by Origin Story after his date with Raynare, while doubling as a Tear Jerker, is also disturbing. He gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice and is left to die, bleeding from the hole in his stomach. Also, seeing his betrayed and shocked expression when this is happening is suitably unsettling.
- After encountering Dohnaseek, he desperately turns to run, but gets stabbed from behind again and falls to the ground bleeding out in a similar manner before Rias and (in the anime) her allies rescue him.
- Those with gynophobia (a fear of women) will be caught
*completely* off-guard by the many times any female villain hunts down Issei.
- Likewise, those who have androphobia (fear of men) will also feel very unnerved by the male villains chasing down the female members of the Occult Research Club.
- During a job in Volume 1, Issei comes across the client's room, before stepping in something wet, thick, and red - then the camera pans to show the trail of blood, before Issei completely and utterly freaks out. We don't see the entire body, but it's so bad that Issei is visibly struggling not to
*puke*... and then as if to make the introduction worse, Freed shows us how *happy* he is to have done this.
- What's worse is that when Asia stumbles on the scene, is horrified and wonders how a self-proclaimed servant of God could be that needlessly cruel, he makes clear his intent to kill her, except that would offend his boss, so he settles for threatening her with Attempted Rape, if she doesn't shut up instead.
- While Freed was doing all that, Rias saw something that made her order a tactical retreat, forcing a grievously wounded Issei to leave Asia. We are never shown what it was that had Rias turn tail, but we can be sure it wasn't Raynare and her bunch because she easily vaporizes them later.
- Riser's beating up of Issei in volume 2 to twist Rias into ending their Rating Game can catch people off-guard. By the end of volume 2, Issei leaves serious burn marks on his face in their Final Battle.
- Xenovia attempts to perform an exorcism on both Asia and Kiba, making it a point that the Church opposes Devils. Issei's
*very* understandably opposed to this.
- Issei may be a silly fellow half the time and is unquestionably the main protagonist, but once he's sufficiently angered, may God have mercy on your soul. Case in point:
- One of the worst was his Juggernaut Drive transformation. Issei goes into an insane berserker state, during which he
*chews off Shalba's arms.* He also grows a multitude of limbs from all over his body. And the real kicker? Ddraig has to warn Rias and the others to run away, because Issei would have killed them as well if they hadn't. The only reason this isn't High Octane is the way he was brought out of it. And this was only from Kiba and the rest's point of view. From Issei's point of view himself? *It's a lot worse*. Shalba's look of utter terror as Issei attacks him is suitably unsettling.
- The second time he almost pulled off Juggernaut Drive was when he got himself knocked unconscious by Sairaorg in their match. He then wakes up to a white world with the past Boosted Gear users, surrounded by a dark aura. One by one, they tell him to pull off Juggernaut Drive to the point
*he joins with them.*
-
*BorN* takes this up to eleven and can catch viewers completely off-guard. *Issei's body grows draconic, slowly and painfully, while the form speaks in a voice somewhere between his and Ddraig's, voices of past users whispering creepily all throughout*. The resulting rampage is punctured by repeated cries of pain, mainly draconic but sometimes with *Issei's screams overlaying it*. Plus, Issei's Juggernaut Drive has the powers of Vali's *Divine Dividing* (stolen in their previous fight), and is able to No-Sell Gasper's *Forbidden Balor View.* This is an R15+ series, after all. *I, who shall awaken; I am the Heavenly Dragon who stole the principle of domination from God; I mock the infinite, and fret over the dream; I shall become the Red Dragon of Domination; I shall drown you in the depths of crimson purgatory. Juggernaut Drive!*
- The anime's version also has a soundtrack that reminds one of
*Evangelion*, especially the track that plays when Unit-01 goes into a similar berserk state. Yeah, no similarities whatsoever.
- Picturing the demise of the other nuns at Diodora's hands. They met Diodora at his most affable. But he would soon brand them heretics, thereby exiling them from the church, and then he would rape and enslave them, as no one else would have anything to do with them. They would know that this devil is not just crazy, but a murderer. Pious or not, it's too late to escape.
- Shalba tries to kill Asia by sending her to the Dimensional Gap without hesitation. That action is the trigger for the above mentioned Issei's Juggernaut Drive.
- Rias being corrupted by Loki's clone of Issei at the end of
*BorN*.
- Yasaka going berserk near Nijo Castle when the Hero Faction forces her to transform into her Nine-Tailed Fox form in front of Kunou and Issei.
- Hades is essentially a skeleton with Glowing Eyes of Doom and wearing a uniform used by priests.
- After Volume 12, Issei came
*this close* to dying permanently at the hands of Shalba.
- The aftermath of Kokabiel and Katerea's attacks on Kuoh Academy. Witnessing part of the academy's destruction can be unsettling.
- Kiba's tragic past is unnerving. All of his friends dying by being subjected to harsh experiments just so they can hold a holy sword while praying to God not knowing that God Is Dead in this series.
- Shuri Himejima's death at the hands of
*her own relatives*, given their resentment of Fallen Angels. To make matters even worse, her daughter Akeno was Forced to Watch her die. It foreshadows that Akeno's relatives were *not* about to let her escape alive.
- Evil dragons, in general, can catch anyone off-guard, even those with dracophobia (fear of dragons). Considered by everyone as the most troublesome existences ever because they just love to destroy For the Evulz. Guess they got some lessons from Acnologia and Nefarian.
- The aftermath of the Vampire Civil War and Rizevim's assault on the vampire's homeland.
- Gasper losing it when told that Issei's dead and calmly killing Marius Tepes will also catch people off-guard. The image even used to serve as the page image for the Anime and Manga subpage of Beware the Nice Ones.
- The murder of Cleria Belial at the hands of the devils for her illicit romance with Masaomi Yaegaki.
- Rizevim Livan Lucifer's demise, while karmic at best, caught readers off-guard. He might be an abusive grandfather and a malicious devil, but being curb-stomped by Issei and Vali and then Eaten Alive by Fafnir isn't the best way to go. Still, the look on his face is unsettling.
- As of the end of Volume 20, Trihexa is
**awake**.
-
*Everything* about Trihexa can catch people off-guard. Even without Apophis and Azakha boosting their forces with mass-produced evil dragon clones through their stolen Holy Grail, this creature could curb-stomp *gods* and even its exposed cores have a healing factor so strong, just one of them could take Issei's Diabolous Dragon and Sirzechs's full power head-on, and heal right up again, like nothing happened. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HighSchoolDXD |
HERZ / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Nightmare Fuel moments in
*HERZ*:
- The Chinese Eva. An multiple-limbed, winged abomination created in a Chinese seceret black facility.
- The fates of those dare to cross Rei Ayanami. The cleaning crews had to clean the orange goo off the walls after a pack of loonies threatened her niece.
- In order to protect humankind ||Rei seals forever in a kind of cosmic egg.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HERZ |
Heroes and Villains (Horrible's Igor) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This story wasn't rated Fiction M for nothing.
- Dark Willow has had a couple moments of Sanity Slippage so far. The second one has her Laughing Mad, Suddenly Shouting for a moment, and even the
*narrator* gets in on the nightmare-factor, switching to italics at the climax of the moment, getting *really* intense.
- Elsa actually has a nightmare in Chapter 11 (aptly titled 'Enigmas and Nightmares') where she's in Willow's building, and she is chased and subsequently
*eaten* by tiny little things implied to be robots that change the white lights and smooth walls to red lights and tessellated hexagons while an unnamed figure sings the first verse of 'Still Alive', but slower and with emphasis on different syllables (Horrible's Igor has not said thus far if the tune was changed). When she wakes up, the inside of the car she was sleeping in is covered in frost and stalagmites are jutting out from her seat.
- Depending on how reliable A Brief Timeline Shuffle (Chapter 15) was, Doc hurts Elsa badly enough to cause
at some point, causing her to lose sight in the upper-right quadrants of her eyes. **brain damage** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeroesAndVillainsHorriblesIgor |
High School Fleet / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Mood Whiplash at the end of Episode 10, a festival with all the girls singing a merry song... which fades to a hollow echo of their voices (as seen in countless war movies, usually before a carnage of those singing later in the movie). Given that we've been told in that very episode that they are to join the chase of Musashi as soon as they finish the festival, that was enough to send chills down many a viewer's spine, even in a show as light as this one.
- The Musashi, the second largest battleship ever built, armed to the teeth with artillery cannons and piloted by a Brainwashed and Crazy crew. It can disrupt modern electronics and carries a viral Hate Plague onboard.
*And nobody knows where it is.*
- The Fugitive Arc. Through no fault of their own a group of high school girls find themselves on the run from charges of mutiny.
- The Totalitarian Virus, the Big Bad of the 2016 anime, itself is a notable source of this. You could be out at sea minding your own business then suddenly your crew becomes irrationally bloodthirsty, with red eyes so you can actually tell who is infected, and those who aren't infected are completely helpless to stop the mutiny before they take over the ship. The ones who detected the virus early are the lucky ones to stop it from spreading, as the
*Harekaze* had only one notable victim (Tama) before it stopped. Others like The Musashi mentioned above is **the Worst Case Scenario**. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HighSchoolFleet |
Highlander / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Throughout the series, the question hangs of what might happen should an Immortal break the rule of taking a head on holy ground. In "Little Tin God," Dawson shares an old Watcher legend of the only known time two Immortals fought on holy ground: **Joe**: It was in Pompeii. 79 A.D. **Duncan**: The volcano...
- And while the destruction of Pompeii was bad enough of a calamity, the very same episode shows that an Immortal can be buried alive forever and remain alive. If true, the two Immortals that fought in the legend were unlikely to have escaped the eruption and were simultaneously burned and buried alive by the ash cloud. From an Immortal's perspective, the legend is a warning; breaking this rule will result in a Fate Worse than Death. Best case scenario would be that the Immortals were freed at some point between 1799, when the city was rediscovered and the earliest excavations took place, and the mid-20th century, when most of the city was uncovered, meaning they'd have spent over 2000 years buried alive. Worst case? Since not all of Pompeii has been uncovered for various reasons,
*they might still be down there!* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HighlanderTheSeries |
Hexen / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"...and he shall journey into the realms of the dead, and contest with the forces therein, unto the very gates of despair. But whether he shall return again to the world of light, no man knows." *long silence* Damn.
HeXen: Beyond Heretic (Including Deathkings of the Dark Citadel)
The whole Necropolis hub is where the game's tone shifts considerably, with the game stating that you're traveling to the realms of the dead. The theme music of the hub level really tells you that you're at the "very gates of despair", and the portal to the lair of Korax isn't far from where you enter this hub. This hub is also the first time you encounter the Reivers, hordes of floating undead who seem to rise from the graves endlessly.
HeXen II (Including Portal of Praevus)
The mood of this installment is potentially even darker thanks to the improved soundtrack, the game taking advantage of the Quake engine and the difficulty being taken up a notch. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Hexen |
Hero of the New World / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Kaido is described as a monster who overshadows All For One. All of the previous bearers are scared of the Yonko, especially after he senses them with his Haki.
- Kaido executes rebels during the fire festival and Izuku is forced to stand and watch, knowing that Kaido would squash him if he tried to intervene.
- Kaido felt Izuku's presence inside his room, and if it weren't for Yamato's distraction Izuku would have been brutally killed.
- Kaido was scary before, but after learning about Yamato's escape, he changes into his dragon form while in a rage-induced haze. He even critically injures Page One because he spoke out of turn, freaking out his crew in the process because of how
*angry* he is.
- Malice is so afraid of Kaido's wrath that he tried to get out of his room despite the severe injuries Izuku inflicted on him.
- To put it in perspective, had Malice warned a fellow Tobi Roppo or an Okanban, he could have made it harder for Izuku and Yamato to escape Onigashima or even prevent them from even escaping in the first place, but he didn't. All he can do now is to await his incoming fate and hope that Kaido is feeling merciful enough to at least spare him.
- The Salt-Salt powers of Finalem Handsome are described as being able to mummify opponents and grind bodies into meat, among other uses.
- Out of all the Marines fighting the Handsome brothers and their forces, only
*one* managed to get away.
- The Beast Pirates are currently scouring Wano for any trace of Yamato and Izuku, and they're not afraid to make its people suffer even more than they already are.
- Reichen Bach briefly goes Laughing Mad with a Slasher Smile on his face when he discusses the plan to take on the Finalem Pirates with Izuku, Yamato, and Jenner, almost like he's snapped from the stress of dealing with all the horrible things happening in his kingdom. It's only mitigated by the fact that Bach's brief spell of madness was actualy a "Eureka!" Moment that inspired him to lay out the plan to defeat the Finalem Brothers, or else the story could have gone in a much darker direction.
- As whimsical as Handsome can be, he's still a brutal pirate willing to do horrible things for the sake of his ambition, and he immediately demonstrates this when he decides to stop playing nice with Izuku during their battle.
- After Izuku and Yamato attack Bandsome and Handsome, three of the higher-ranking Finalem Pirates decide to attack the city's gasworks, potentially setting the whole city ablaze. Luckily, Sabo, Koala, and Doll intervene to try and stop them.
- Kuma is this to Bach who is understandably unnerved of The Tyrant's sudden appearance out of nowhere in the middle of a celebration party to check on the situation with the Kingdom of Doyle on behalf of the World Government.
- On the other hand, Bach states that it would have been worse if Sir Crocodile or Donquixote Doflamingo had appeared instead of Kuma.
- Bach also realizes the futility of his dream of making Doyle a strong nation powerful enough not to be reliant on the World Government after Kuma points out about the presence of powerful pirates like Kaido who would raze nations down to the ground.
- In Chapter 37, we see that Kaido is so pissed at losing Yamato that he's
*sober*. Sober in that he's sworn of alcohol *completely*. Kaido was already bad enough when he was drunk, but a sober and *angry* Kaido bodes ill for everyone as he tears through Wano searching for Yamato and Izuku.
- In Chapter 38, Ace and his Spade Pirates suffer a Fate Worse than Death at the hands of Kaido and his forces compared to canon where they got lucky to escape with their lives during their incursion of Wano.
- When Ace refused the offer of joining him, Kaido intends to
*break* Ace's spirit like he did to all other unfortunate pirates.
- Queen subjects the surviving Spade Pirates into Unwilling Roboticisation, turning them into flesh robots devoid of humanity, will and spirit as the new Surveillance Unit for the Beast Pirates. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeroesOfTheNewWorld |
Heroes On Campus / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Thomas White: The idea that he can steal anyone's power and if he keeps hold of you for a minute, a task only made easier with every power he absorbs, he
*kills* you! And he's such a good actor, no one sees him coming. (When he first entered the forum, it was a scary moment.)
- The Mind Rape the Redeemer inflicts on Herbert, which involves visions of a dystopian future, warped versions of his parents, Olympus rotting away, Olem killing Chris and finally, the Redeemer aging Herbert to such a degree that he can't walk. The Redeemer mocks him for failing to save everyone and letting him win, as he crouches over him. Amazingly, Herbert just about refuses to break. The Redeemer is not pleased. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/HeroesOnCampus |
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