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Jak II: Renegade / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"I'm gonna KILL Praxis!"
If you thought Gol and Maia trying to infect the world with Dark Eco was bad enough, then well... You'll probably think Jak 2 is where they won. Of course, it's only far, far worse: With Jak 2 introducing far more vile and evil villains to the series, this is where the franchise takes a turn for the worse.
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The entirety of the franchise by this point takes a turn from a lighthearted platformer to a more darker story-driven game, where we see Jak turn from an innocent teenager to a broken hero who has been tortured to no end. It is this character transformation which can appear jarring to most fans of the first game, and boy it gets worse by the end.
- The Opening Scene takes the content level up to eleven. First we see Jak chilling with his friends opening a Rift Gate, when all of a sudden a swarm of Metal Heads storm into their world, sending them into the far future. When they arrive, Jak crashes onto the ground, and is then arrested by a group of soldiers for no apparent reason whatsoever. Fast forward 2 years, he's hellbent on revenge, and probably has a fuckton of mental issues as well as trauma.
- The scene at the very beginning of the game where we see Jak tortured by Baron Praxis and Errol, with the implication of "executing" him later on as he's considered a failed experiment. Had Daxter never arrived in time, then Jak would very well be dead.
- Pretty much every time we see anything corrupted by dark eco qualifies in some way as well, up to and including Jak. While mutated creatures in the first game are seen, in the second game Jak finds entire swaths of wildlife teeming with Dark Eco. Not only has it contaminated their world as they feared in the first game, but it has become a source of income and fuel for humanity, which paints just how bleak their world became after the rift gate was opened.
- Dark Jak, for being... Well, Dark Jak. The page's picture needs no introduction.
- The boulder chase in the Tomb of Mar that at first seems to be a Shout-Out to
*Crash Bandicoot*. What really takes the scare factor up to eleven is when ||a giant spider comes out of the bolder.||
- The Tombstone puzzle in Mar's Tomb has fairly creepy "puzzle jingles" which the player must match to finish. By extension, the atmosphere in the tomb is generally pretty unnerving for some players, being very dark as one of the few places in the game with little NPCs or scenery.
- The Metal-Pede chase with Sig. If you thought Aquatic Metal-Head squids were bad enough, then you're in for a big hit when you have to outrun a massive centipede with Sig.
- The Metal Head nest. You can see the decaying KG fortifications and vehicles from the failed invasion that was hinted at a few times previously, implying that it was the scene of a failed military campaign. It's also home to massive metal heads that can only be avoided (not killed), and the inside of the nest is made up of Meat Moss. The area itself is very desolate, irradiated, and creepy due to this, showing the "Hive" nature of the Metal Heads.
- The climax of the game where|| the metal heads break into the city, with the KG and Underground forces taking a last stand among the chaos||. Doesn't help that hundreds are probably killed; with ||vin being killed in a particularly horrifying way- Jak's radio giving a clue as to what
*really* happened to him.||
- ||Kor revealing his true form at the construction site includes a hideous face that even scares Jak.||
**Jak:** Kor! What's going on here? **Kor:** I'm sure you know...deep down in your darkest *nightmares*! We met before, remember? Everything is going exactly as planned. Heh, heh, heh, heh, *ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!*
- Metal Heads, known to the Precursors as the Hora-Quan, in general are pretty scary because despite their appearance, they're very clearly not regular animals. Metal Heads are the enemy of all living things and simply cannot live in peace with whatever environment they inhabit. The Wasteland is full of them and that's why it's called...the Wasteland, a desert of ruined cities and destroyed landscapes that the Metal Heads have killed and consumed over the centuries. Some of the various subspecies of metal head are pretty frightening in their own way, like Metalpedes who are treated more like a force of nature than something you can kill. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JakIIRenegade |
Intercom / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Chapter 13, *Hidden Depths*:
- When Riley finds out she was driving over the Memory Dump the entire time, her mental distress is so great that the train of thought begins plummeting down towards the orbs at the bottom, scaring the emotions to death that they'll all die when they hit the ground. It's absolutely terrifying to think that had Riley not snapped out of it, all 5 emotions would have been stuck at the bottom, and this time without a magic wagon to escape on.
- One reviewer summed it up nicely:
**gamby004:** And Riley sees the memory dump. For her, it's equal to Mind World Hell. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Intercom |
Jack (Jack Antonucci) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Despite its bright color and simple characters, Jack can be found disturbing for some.Examples: Robbie's violence and meanness can be unsettling. Up to eleven here. Jack's Locker isn't pretty and the way it eats him is a little unnerving. Jack's face (seen here]) when painting Anakin is creepy. Especially since it's in stark contrast to what we've seen of him. The color explosion in general. Jack's face is creepy again, expect this time it's for a different reason. The "food" in the cafeteria lunch is just disgusting. This entire comic. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JackJackAntonucci |
James Bond / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
James Bond needs quite the strong nerve to deal with nightmarish moments he meets in the field like these. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JamesBond |
James and the Giant Peach / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Examples from the book:
- The premise of the book is Nightmare Fuel. Sure, James's insect pals look sweet and cute in the illustrations, but would you like to come face to face with a human-sized centipede◊ or spider in real life? They're actually
*less* anthropomorphized than, let's say, Disney's Jiminy Cricket who is essentially a little green-skinned man with no ears.
- The premise of the book and the movie has a big one for any parents: Mr. Trotter's and Mrs. Trotter's sudden deaths after being attacked by a rhinoceros that escaped the London Zoo leave James all alone in the world except for his aunts whom he's presumably never met and who subject him to physical and emotional abuse. The idea of not being able to protect your child from such cruelty might make more than a few parents consider who would raise their children if they were to suddenly die.
- James is a young child who quite suddenly loses his mother and father and is taken away from the only home he has ever known. If that isn't pure childhood nightmare fuel, nothing is.
- The Old Man is
*extremely* creepy in the book. His first spoken line is: "Come closer to me, little boy. Come right up close to me and I will show you something *wonderful*." Throughout his meeting with James, he acts rather unhinged and slightly sinister, and it's impossible to guess his real motives for giving James the crocodile tongues — when James loses the bag so the magic works on the peach tree and the bugs instead of on him, there's the sneaking suspicion that he may have escaped a fate more horrible than anything Sponge and Spiker could have done to him. It's only later that his intentions become clear — considering what the crocodiles' tongues did to both the tree and the insects, it is implied that the magic potion would transform James into a giant which would obviously enable him to escape from his monstrous aunts.
- In the film, the Old Man is
*heavily* toned down; even if a bit of the creepiness remains, he's a lot gentler and is explicitly shown to be benevolent (especially when he reappears, in silhouette towards the end to tell the New Yorkers to "let the boy speak!"), and is revealed to have been the narrator of the story all along. This does not happen in the book (though one set of illustrations has him hidden in the bushes at the end, looking over James' new house).
- The swarm of sharks that comes out of nowhere to attack the peach.
- The Cloud Men after the Centipede mocks them. First, they throw their trash at the peach, then they make it hail, then the Centipede gets stuck in place after one Cloud Man dumps quick-drying purple paint all over him. The good news? It's not waterproof.
- Miss Spider tells a story of how her grandmother once got stuck in paint after Spiker and Sponge gave the bathroom a fresh coat. She and her family cared for her until one day Sponge saw Miss Spider's grandmother and ran to get a mop with a long handle. Miss Spider doesn't finish the story as she starts to cry, but we all know what happened next.
# Examples from the film:
- Ask anyone who watched this movie as a child what the scariest part of the film was; odds are good they'll respond that it was
*the rhino*.
- The book at least explained the rhino as one that had escaped from the London Zoo, but in the film adaptation it's portrayed as some sort of ghastly, nightmarish Eldritch Abomination that tragically killed James's parents
*and* remains his greatest fear. And this actually ends up being one of the reasons why it's so scary — the rhino's origin is left unexplained, to the point that it could be *anything* your twisted mind can make up.
- You don't even have to interpret it as a monster for it to be scary. It may very well have been a storm with winds strong enough to swallow two adults and orphan their child, which isn't even a concept of fantasy.
- Even when the rhino isn't on screen, there's always a
*horrible* feeling of dread that's built up around it; outside of flat-out abusing him, James's aunts torment him by promising that the rhino might come back to get him like it got his parents.
- Almost as bad as the rhino is the mechanical shark that attacks the peach; again, its backstory is never touched upon and thus left unknown.
- The pirate scene has a few instances of obscenely creepy imagery.
- Their Introduction alone, where Centipede is simply exploring the wrecks looking for a compass for navigation. He does find one, It glows warmly despite the deadness of the shipwreck, and its implied that it's somewhat cursed, judging by how the captain is first gripping it and appears inanimate. then grabs a terrified Centipede's suspenders and yanks him back into the darkness.
- Right when James and Miss Spider dive underwater to rescue the Centipede, they encounter another sunken ship on their way down, with a frightening depiction of
*James' aunts* on the bow of the boat (in the place of the traditional mermaid). It's not only excessively creepy but it's given *no* explanation whatsoever (and it's never brought up again. It *could* be taken as a Foreshadowing of his aunts following James across the Atlantic, but first-time viewers wouldn't know that.
- What the pirates planned to do with the Centipede, only to be foiled by James and Miss Spider: they were going to tie him down,
*painfully stretch out his body and cut it in half with an axe*. In a kid's movie, folks.
- The Nightmare Fuel might be lessened when you realize two of the pirates are played by Jack Skellington and Donald Duck. On the other hand, seeing them in the antagonist seat is pretty freaky as well, doubly so for Jack considering he's, you know,
*made* for scaring people.
- The Aunts. That is all.
- The scene at the end where they show up to try and take James and the peach back to England. Besides the fact that they've caught up to him and the dream he's come so close to achieving is in danger of being destroyed, during the whole scene, they're both so pale and sickly looking from being underwater for so long and makeup so badly soaked and smeared that they look like deranged clowns. You can practically
*feel* his fear!
- They actually try to
*kill* James at the end! When he finally calls them out for all of the abuse they've inflicted upon him, the aunts take a swing at him with fire axes (complete with slasher smiles)! And of course, all the police do is take care of crowd control and never come to James's side, leaving him on his own to deal with his aunts' wrath.
- The new musical has them threaten to put James down a well as a punishment. They do so while smiling!
- One of the more unsettling sequences in the film is James's nightmare. He dreams that he's a caterpillar, peacefully eating a peach growing from a branch. But suddenly the music goes from whimsical to ominous as James's aunts appear in their car, launching a pesticide cloud at him. Said cloud eventually manifests itself as the rhino, which then pursues a frightened James. The dream ends with the rhino cornering him underneath a bridge, and just as it rushes into the camera for the kill... James awakens in the nick of time. The whole thing is rendered in creepy cut-out animation that resembles some twisted sketch from
*Monty Python's Flying Circus* or an episode from *Angela Anaconda*.
- The aunts in the dream look absolutely haunting, but Aunt Spiker is especially worthy of mention: with the exception of her creepily-scowling face,
*the rest of her body is nothing but bone*.
- Aunt Spiker is made of spikes and Aunt Sponge is made of sponges.
- And then of course there's the fact that the aunts mockingly chant "The rhino will get you..." in the background. It starts out as a barely audible whisper, then gets progressively louder until the end, where it sounds as though the aunts are screaming it as the rhino manifests.
- The new musical pulls an Adult Fear type of Nightmare Fuel for the bugs. Centipede falls off the peach and James, using one of Spider's ropes, goes after him. The others wait at the edge of the peach and notice the rope has gone slack. Cue the bugs- Ladybug and Grasshopper especially- fearing the worst has happened. It doesn't last long, but for such a brief moment, it drives home the fear of losing both a friend and losing a child! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JamesAndTheGiantPeach |
James Ellroy / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Every book James Ellroy has ever written contains plenty of Nightmare Fuel.
- The extract from the killer's journal in
*The Black Dahlia*, in which, among other things, the killer wishes that the baseball bat ||she|| is using to rape the victim had nails in it.
- A scene in
*American Tabloid* where a woman who is being tortured for information by having her head crushed in a vice bites her own tongue off so she won't be able to talk, forcing the gangsters to put her out of her misery.
- The fictionalised account of his own mother's rape and murder in
*My Dark Places* is also extremely disturbing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JamesEllroy |
James Rolfe / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
James Rolfe is a comedian, but he is also a horror lover, so it makes sense that his works will have a lot of these.
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Jandek / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- There's something about the way that the first version of European Jewel cuts off abruptly when Jandek is in the middle of singing about having bugs in his brain...
- Down in a Mirror, period. The guitar part is somewhat unsettling in itself, then the lyrics begin with "We can't deny there's spirits in this house". The whole song is... chilling, to say the least.
- Jandek isn't one known for screaming much, but when he does, it's horrifying. Case in point, You Painted Your Teeth is one of the most demented, scary songs of the whole Corwood catalog - and that's saying a lot.
- Om, from Somebody in the Snow.
- I Need Your Life. The quality of the recording is awful, and there's nothing but Jandek's voice. The lyrics cross between Nightmare Fuel and Tear Jerker territory.
- Jandek's music in general is rather unsettling, especially to the unprepared. In his book
*Songs in The Key of Z*, Outsider Music proponent Irwin Chusid referred to *Ready For the House* as "The most terrifying album ever made". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jandek |
Jar of Rebuke / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Despite many of the trappings frequently associated with characters dying and resurrecting regularly,
*Jar of Rebuke* just as often plays it up for horror, often emphasizing how much of a mental toll it truly takes on Jared, such as the fact that they're still very painful experiences that leave the doctor with no small share of trauma. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JarOfRebuke |
Jackbox Glitchy Pack / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Champ turns Jackbox Games evil.
- Inverted Guy is the worst.
- Chuck Hull is the most evil villain yet, kidnapping Jackbox hosts.
- Za Za Royale uses fanart, something she wouldnt want to use in canon, to kill Cookie.
- Otoko refuses to help Josh, instead exploiting his weakness.
- Buzz refuses to change back. Talk about Redemption Rejection! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JackboxGlitchyPack |
Jack and the Beanstalk (1974) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Its an Anime from the 70s when its not a pleasant acid trip its a disturbing hallucinatory dive into nightmare land.
- The entirety of Tulip's and Margaret's wedding. The high-pitched singing voice, the faceless paper cutouts making up the audience, the witch's horrible evil smile...jeez.
- Really any scene with Madam Hecuba is freaky as hell. Her Lean and Mean figure is creepy when seen from a distance.
- The first scene of Jack with Margaret looks extremely oppressive because of her static posture and lifeless face combined with the psychedelic sound of the synthesizer.
- At one point, a bunch of voices emanate from a hallway, singing to Jack that he should run. Hecuba shuts all the doors in the hall, cutting the voices off. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JackAndTheBeanstalk1974 |
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- What happens to Jason's victims after he leaves their bodies. As Jason leaves Josh's body to possess someone else, Josh gruesomely starts rotting away, the highlight of this process being his jaw falling off.
- For how little you see of him in the film, Jason's actual physical appearance is pants-shittingly horrific. He's become so battered and beaten over the course of the franchise that his mask has been
**fused to his face**, with scarred, bloated flesh growing around the edges.
- It was designed specifically to show the results of the toxic waste bath Jason took at the end of the previous film.
- THE ENDING. We see a dog unearthing Jason's mask while digging in the dirt. Nothing happens, but after a few seconds,
**THE CLAWED GLOVE OF FREDDY KRUEGER BURSTS OUT FROM THE DIRT AND GRABS JASON'S MASK!** He slowly drags the mask into hell, and then we hear his bonechilling Evil Laugh, setting up the events for *Freddy vs. Jason*... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday |
Jack Reacher / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Die Trying* begins with Nathan Rubin being attacked and eventually killed. More specifically, he's beaten unconscious by some guys whom he catches breaking into his car. Then they shut him in the trunk, and once they're done using the car, they set it on fire. They leave him inside.
"So he died, because for a split second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic."
- Later on, Reacher's claustrophobic attack. It's terrifyingly realistic. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JackReacher |
Jacob's Ladder / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
We could just say "This entire goddamn film," but we wouldn't be accurate. Let's instead elaborate on all of the creepy moments this movie has to offer, shall we?
- Among (many) other things, the opening subway sequence manages to touch on pretty much every single irrational fear a lot of New Yorkers harbor about the transit system.
- Jacob getting off at Bergen Street, only to find every exit locked up tight. The station has an extremely still silence as if the place has been closed to the public for years.
- When Jacob is forced to walk through the subway tunnel on foot, he dives out of the way of an oncoming train filled with people staring out all of the windows. The facial details are vague as if Jacob is impaired by drugs (and indeed Jacob
*was* drugged back in reality), and it is left open to interpretation where these people are being taken. Is this train an Afterlife Express? A member of the train staff at the end of the train seems to meaningfully wave at Jacob, and their facial features are also obscured.
- On a more reality-based note, the prospect of being gravely wounded during the Vietnam War, in the middle of hostile territory, with only a medic tent between you and oblivion.
- The shot of the soldier stumbling around with only a flap of skin holding his leg on. Squick.
- The scene at the party where Jez is either dancing with or getting molested by some sort of black tentacle, which nobody else seems to notice.
- Jacob's ice bath. He has severe chills and feels frozen due to a fever above 106 degrees
note : 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is the "normal" body temp, for those on Metric, but is forced to go naked into a bathtub filled with cold water and ice cubes.
- If you're on board with the common interpretation that the entire movie is Jacob's Dying Dream after being gutted by drugged fellow servicemen in Vietnam, then the meaning of this scene is harrowing. Jacob is feeling the army medics stuff his damaged, dying and oh-so-cold guts back into his body while holding him down and reassuring him that he will be fine. Most organs within the chest cavity have an extremely low tolerance for temperature change compared to the extremities; a change of just a few degrees will cause them to begin to die. It's hard to imagine what this might feel like, but a horrific icy feeling throughout the body right down to one's core is not a bad guess.
- The scene where Jacob seems to wake up for real, with his previous wife and his son being alive and well. It's like a sense of hope is being presented like maybe Jacob has finally waken up, but it might seem
*too good* to be true. The coldness from Jacob's ice bath gets translated to "the window was left open" in this layer of the dream, giving a hint that Jacob is still dreaming. Indeed, Jacob can't stay in his relatively pleasant dream and has to wake back up into his New York City nightmare, creating a potential Tear Jerker.
- The sequence after his subsequent dreams, in which Jez is chewing him out for not getting out of the apartment; after several shots where her face being split by the panels of a mirror manages to be unnerving, she yells in his face out of frustration; here, her eyes are black, and her teeth look considerably more threatening than before.
- If you look closely at the mirror during this scene, youll see that Jezebels reflection isnt actually distorted by the glass, her face really is deformed in that shot.
- The hospital sequence, in which Jacob is strapped to a gurney being wheeled through an increasingly more dilapidated hospital corridor, passing by discarded body parts and random headshaking demons.
- When Jacob gets to his destination, all of the medical staff in the room are dead silent as he is restrained. The scene is relatively normal with nobody taking on a nightmarish appearance, and for some reason,
*Jez* is one of the staff members helping out. Jacob wants to go home, but a staff member bluntly tells him, "This is your home. You're dead." A doctorish specter with no eyes or eye sockets (see page image) looms over him with a hypodermic syringe, and Jacob is helpless to escape as the specter goes to stab him with it. It's pretty much every hospital nightmare rolled into a single surreal sequence.
- So petrifying was this sequence that it inspired the creation of the Dark World in the
*Silent Hill* series.
- There's also a scene where Jacob is hiding in a public toilet and a tissue is pushed through a glory hole at him, and "Dream on" is said again in the same way, but this was cut and can only be seen in the deleted scenes on the DVD.
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*"Dream on."* is subtly terrifying in its actual use in the film; rather than recurring, it's used *once* when Jacob is in the depths of confusion and terror at what's going on, and clutching to the thinnest strand of happiness at the idea his wife still loves him. Like the ||beings trying to coax him to accept the idea he's dead, the voice is forcing him to face the truth||.
- If you've ever been scared by the Demonic Head Shake effect where a character's head twitches uncontrollably, this film has indirectly scared you. It pioneered the effect, and it's been used literally
*dozens* of times since.
- The nurse with two symmetrical bone growths on her head, which look rather like stumps of sawed-off horns.
- If you've ever been subject to frightening hallucinations, you'll rarely see a film that captures their atmosphere better than this one. The worst part is the notion that your own mind and your senses are betraying you and cannot be trusted. Your senses are your only filter for the world, and if they go haywire you've literally got nothing.
- The Deleted Scene in which Michael "cures" Jacob, and what seems to be the Final Boss attacks - if you get the parallel that this is a rapist trying to get at its helpless victim again, you're spot on.
- The various expressions of Body Horror throughout the movie combine the unsettling paranoia that what you're seeing couldn't be real with the equally unsettling realization that it
*is* real, but you're the only one who thinks it's anything out of the ordinary. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JacobsLadder |
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Viktor Cherevin explains in great detail over the phone on how he plans to torture Cathy unless Jack returns the stolen data from his office. What's worse is that he speaks very calmly about the plan and then escalates when he begins to shove the bulb into her mouth. **Viktor**: If you squeeze a neck just right [Cathy is forced to open her mouth], human beings can't keep their mouth closed. Jack, a light bulb will go into her mouth. Because in Lubyanka and Lefortovo prisons, we discovered in torture that vacuum glass explosions inside mouth causes damage to... Soft tissue, to enamel, to bone and to lungs also. It's quite a bit of, what do you say, havoc for forty watts. But when you look at this Cathy, you will know... And Jack, you will understand that I am very serious when I say that I want what you stole from me and I want it now... [Forcefully inserts bulb into Cathy's mouth] I put bulb in her mouth, Jack. Now, I have my hand beneath your bitch chin! And now in moment, I will crush her jaw, so she bites down on it and begins slow and painful death! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JackRyanShadowRecruit |
Jack the Giant Slayer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The sequence in which hundreds of giants burst from the forest after the king and his forces.
Never mind that these Giants can out-run people...at full speed, they can almost out-run horses as well.
Indeed, the very fact that these giants subvert the usual "Big = Slow/Clumsy" expectation goes a long way to make them frightening.
The giants in general can be quite scary for younger viewers at the very least, especially whenever they make snacks out of the humans.
Fallon's death (As provided in the picture in this page). No noticeable blood, but being ruptured by a giant beanstalk growing from within probably scarred a few kids. Special points for the bursting head, with an eyeball flying right at the screen.
Fallon's second head may count as this, being an undeveloped, malformed conjoined twin that is unable to properly speak and seems to be mentally challenged.
Wicke crying out to Roderick as hes about to be eaten by Foe (a bit ironic, considering that just moments before this happened, he was in the middle of asking Roderick why people scream before they die...) Even as he's being shoved into the Giant's mouth, his muffled screams can still be heard for a brief moment before his head is ultimately bitten off. While we don't actually get to see any blood or gore, we do get to see Roderick's horrified expression, as well as a brief shot of Wicke's headless corpse.
The destructive consequences of felling a giant beanstalk are primly glossed over in fairy tales, No Endor Holocaust-style. In this film, they're very muchnot glossed over, and may well have killed more people than the giants did!
The sequence where Jack uses his last magic bean to kill Fallon. The camera, following the bean, takes a trip into the giant's mouth, down his gullet, and right into his stomach full of acid, as though the viewer is beingSwallowed Whole. Before that, he even straight up suggests this was what he intended to do to Jack. And even worse, there's a brief glimpse of a human skeleton at the bottom of said acid. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JackTheGiantSlayer |
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As the Journalist wanders the streets of a deserted London, the awed, eerily poignant music is suddenly accompanied by a distant wail of "Ulla." The Journalist pursues the sound to several deathly still Tripods. The final, anguished cry of "Ulla" is suddenly strangled into profoundly eerie silence. **Journalist:** Abruptly, the sound ceased. Suddenly the desolation, the solitude, became unendurable. While that voice sounded, London had still seemed alive. Now, suddenly, there was a change... the passing of something... and all that remained was this gaunt quiet. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds |
JAG / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Being Watched: In "Skeleton Crew", Commander Alison Krennick, while investigating the murder of a female officer, is lost in the corridors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Seahawk. She suddenly feels that shes being watched, the lights go out and when she desperately reaches for the hatch to an upper level its stuck. Then it suddenly opens and a Marine guard is on the other side and he goes down to see if there is anyone there, but he finds nothing. It is implied by the camera angles that someone actually was following her, but we never get to see who it was.
Booby Trap: Admiral Chegwidden's girlfriend, Judge Delaney, is killed by a booby trap, set up by an old rival from The Vietnam War, in front of him on his own porch in the season 2 episode "Ghosts".
In "Crossing the Line" (second season), Lieutenant Isaacs loses control of her jet while attempting to land, and she and Skates eject just before the plane slams into the carrier's fantail. Skates just barely misses landing on the deck and ends up snagged on the railing of the carrier (Harm barely rescues her from going overboard). Isaacs... is less lucky, as she ends up parachuting directly into the burning wreckage of her own plane.
In "Death Watch" (third season), Commander Holbarth, the murderer of Harm's academy classmate in "Skeleton Crew", fell into the water and was crushed to death between the hull of a destroyer and the dock.
In the pilot episode, Lt. Arutti is thrown overboard and drowns. Upon performing an autopsy, the coroner finds that she survived the fall, suffered internal injuries, but was conscious and ingested water while trying to swim despite her injuries. According to the coroner, her death was slow and excruciatingly painful. Even worse is that she did nothing to warrant her murder. A crewman with a grudge mistook her for someone else in the dark and she was effectively killed entirely at random.
"Pilot Error" highlights the worries that spouses and family members of military personnel face: That their loved ones will be gone for months at a time and could die without warning, in addition to more mundane concerns about infidelity (the deceased pilot and his female wingman were very close, and rumors abound that they may have had an affair).
Coming in Hot: Unlike Top Gun which skirted this particular aspect of carrier aviation altogether, this show makes no bones about how dangerous carrier landings are, particularly night traps. Harm's backstory involves a botched night trap that killed his Guy in Back, a Lt Isaacs who was grounded for unsafe flying scorches to death after ejecting from her failed landing, another aviator "dead sticks" his plane in because a different crewman' mistake left him with inadequate fuel, Harm again has to land an aircraft that is leaking fuel and has one engine flamed out.
Backdoor Pilot "Ice Queen" gives us the very epitome of a Bus Crash, pictured above, Lieutenant Loren Singer's remains are found after a Boy Scout accidentally shot an arrow into them. The poor woman's been dead for two or three weeks judging from decomposition, and crows have completely eaten away her face, leaving a bare skull with heaps of rotten flesh mangled around it. She was a rotten person to the core, so the creators used her as cannon fodder to set up a new series, knowing nobody would miss her. It's also a stark moment where the show kills off a character in such a grisly manner to show that they mean it and there is no going back... and to top it all off, she's also used as the first murder victim for NCIS, where remains like this are found on a regular basis, often in even worse condition than hers.
Gibbs:(sounding mildly disturbed) What happened to her face...? It's too cold for larva...
Unfriendly Fire: Multiple episodes deal with this all too real horror faced by military personnel. People are shot, strafed, bombed, hamburgered by artillery not by the bad guys but by people who were supposed to be on their side. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JAG |
Jeff Dunham / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The original Sweet Daddy Dee puppet. Those
*eyes*. Dear God, those eyes!
- Achmed can strike the Unintentional Uncanny Valley at first sight, and not just because hes a skeleton terrorist. Thankfully, you get used to it.
- Achmed Jr. on the other hand is just straight up terrifying. He may have a funny British accent, but hes still a zombie.
- Achmeds original Dead Osama design. On top of being incredibly offensive, its also horrific. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JeffDunham |
James Herbert / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"REMEMBER WITH FEAR..."
**Unmarked spoilers**
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*The Fog (1975)* combines a set of shears and an agonised scream to brutal effect.
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*The Dark*: In a suburban London house, experimental occultists rouse from humanity's collective consciousness a fathomless tendency to sadism. The house retains a phantom recollection of their murderous orgy. When the house is demolished, its evil escapes to infect patches of darkness, which, across the city, rouse an increasing number of people to sadistic violence.
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*The Magic Cottage*'s titular cottage, initially an idyllically peaceful rural haven, reasserts its earlier state of decay, amidst which the rotted spectral presence of the cottage's previous occupant is hinted to linger.
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*Creed*: A member of an occult society shape-shifts with shocking ease and lurid variety.
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*The Ghosts of Sleath*:
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*Once*'s magically infinite horde of spiders spring our of their jar in an endless flow to cover nearly every inch of floor, walls and ceiling; attempt to cocoon the protagonist, and even go in his mouth.
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*The Secret of Crickley Hall*:
- Augustus and Magda Cribben, a fanatically austere brother and sister, terrorise their charges with vicious discipline, which culminates in Magda's assisted murder of a kindly young tutor and Augustus's crazed, fatal attempt to circumcise a five-year-old orphan.
- Sixty-odd years later, eerily subtle indications in Crickley Hall of inscrutable presences include a darkly silhouetted, oppressively malodorous figure which exudes malice and strikes one of the children with a sadistically fashioned cane.
- The ghost of the murdered tutor then appears to her co-murderer as a water-rotted walking corpse.
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*Ash (2012)*:
- Comraich Castle, a remote, expensive retreat for people with incriminating connections houses a psychically conducive inmate who rouses the castle's angry spirits to physically harm and even kill; stir violent impulses in the living, and infest all the food currently being consumed in the castle into maggots - which quickly mature into flies.
- The castle saw a brutal fourteenth century clan dispute, wherein Laghlan Deahan butchered the wife and daughters of Laird Duncan McKinnon, and, with a red-hot knife, put out his eyes.
- Investigating ghost hunter David Ash, on first sight of the castle, is overcome with premonitory dread. Chauffeur Gordon Dalzell then tells Ash of ill-fated medium Moira Glennon: on sight of the castle, she exuded a ghostly chill, and, on the passenger seat right beside Gordon, died. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JamesHerbert |
Jaiden Animations / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*"I thought I had experienced the worst already, but this...*
destroyed
*me! A nightmare where hundreds of thousands of people are wanting to see you, and then, when they finally do, it's at the lowest,*
darkest
*point of your life, and they don't even know it!"*
—
**Jaiden**, "Why I Don't Have a Face Reveal"
Most of Jaiden's content tends to range between either silly and quirky or sobering and personal, but every once in a blue moon, she'll put forward something that'll send shivers down your spine.
- "Why I Don't Have a Face Reveal" has striking, sketchy visuals, and the descriptions of Jaiden's struggles with an eating disorder are often quite apparent. It's terrifying because of the Vocal Dissonance where Jaiden describes battling these disorders in a very matter-of-fact way, while going into very realistic detail about the kinds of things that anorexia and bulimia will do to a human body.
- Jaiden putting on a fake smile at VidCon 2016, where she has to lie about how nice she feels while hiding her paranoia.
- Her eating disorder represented by a shadowy image of herself, complete with a bar over her eyes saying things like "YOU WANT THIS" and "THIS WILL MAKE YOU BETTER." It's a horrifyingly accurate visual representation of the ways in which a disorder like hers ends up overtaking a person's control over their actions and desires.
- Her descent into depression after her appearance at VidCon 2016 is accompanied by her avatar plunging into a sea of blackness, accompanied by a high-pitched screeching. Jaiden's voice also breaks a few times, showing the real emotion she feels thinking about it.
- "I Attempted a Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke" has three big ones.
- Her encounter with Giratina. It grabs her and splits her apart into two individuals. One of them falling into the abyss while the other is left trying to catch her. But then she blinks and is left holding the Master Ball to catch Giratina. The entire sequence is rendered in a glitchy manner.
- When she challenges the Elite Four, before the first three fights, we see glitches similar to her Giratina encounter happen again. Each one with blaring audio distortion, and flashes to Jaiden's Pokémon dying. A Freeze-Frame Bonus for the first instance of this before Aaron's fight shows Togekiss impaled on rock spikes. Later, Bertha's Rhyperior is shown holding Quagsire and Garchomp's limp bodies by their heads, while it stands there with glowing red eyes while Bertha herself grins maniacally. Finally, as Jaiden is about to enter Flint's room, it cuts to her Scizor, Torterra, and Magnezone, all weak to Fire types, just look on in horror as a giant flame engulfs them. In-universe, these moments show that the Jaiden that won was an alternate timeline version of her, as in reality, she originally wiped out against the Elite Four, but her chat urged her to continue. The video ends with her defeating Cynthia, but not feeling like she earned it.
- In the Bertha one, there's a Freeze-Frame Bonus of said Elite Four member with Giratina's face.
- "The worst thing that's ever happened to me", which describes her experiences suffering from stress-induced hives, can hit a little close to home for people familiar with having a chronic or difficult-to-diagnose illness. The fact that several doctors couldn't figure out the cause and could only provide temporary relief, every time she thought it was gone it would come back worse than ever, the pain became so unbearable that her family had to rush her to a hospital two nights in a row, and at one point, she
. ...Imagine if doctors didn't find a cure within a few days. **WISHED FOR DEATH** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JaidenAnimations |
Jekyll & Hyde / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Just before "It's a Dangerous Game," Jekyll is in Lucy's room and bids her goodnight, but Hyde takes over almost immediately. This exchange occurs. **Jekyll:** Lucy, my dear...
[Hyde approaches her]
**Lucy:** For a moment I thought it was someone else. **Hyde:** For a moment it almost was. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JekyllAndHyde |
Jem / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"The Jem Jam": Ba Nee, mad with grief with being told a man whom she believed was her father couldn't have been, throws herself into a bear exhibit believing her the man she thinks is her father will save her. note : "You ARE my father! AND I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU PROVE IT!!" Her sobbing/screaming was horrifying in itself, especially considering she's one of the quieter Starlight Girls. **Ba Nee:** Save me, daddy! Please! *(Bears start closing in)* SAVE ME! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jem |
Jennifer's Body / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
In the same scene, Needy grips Jennifer's wrist, only to drop it and back away in horror, implying that Jennifer no longer has a pulse.
Jennifer's murder is horrific, with her being tied down, unable to do anything but sob and beg for her life. Meanwhile, Low Shoulder (especially the lead singer, Nikolai) laugh at Jennifer's distress and joke around to bolster themselves, going as far as singing the "867-5309/Jenny" song (since Jenny is short for Jennifer) before Nikolai kills Jennifer. Nikolai also looks to enjoy stabbing Jennifer a little too much. The only guy in the band with any reservations about the whole thing is Dirk.
The bar burning down is utterly horrifying. Several people die, and we're treated to several shots of people being burned alive and trampled in the ensuing panic.
The idea of Low Shoulder possibly being the ones who started the fire makes the band more diabolical, willing to endanger and kill dozens of innocent people on top of abducting and killing Jennifer afterward, all just to get fame and fortune.
Stick off during the first part of the credits, and you see the aftermath of the band's sudden murder by a superpowered Needy. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JennifersBody |
Jenny LeClue / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Unmarked Spoilers ahead!
- The prologue has a mysterious man slowly walking down to the lake during a dark and stormy night. The player can even choose to have him whistle a creepy tune to add onto the atmosphere.
- The opening, while doubling as funny, can be this if taken at face value. Arthur starts off the newest Jenny LeClue-book by cheerfully revealing that the lead apparently died a gruesome death. And the first scene we see of her has her lying in a puddle of what seems to be blood. Of course she isn't actually dead, but still...
- The Scare Chord that plays whenever Jenny finds herself in a dangerous situation is extremely jarring and will most likely make you flinch the first few times you hear it.
- The entire scene in the library.
- Getting into the quiet and seemingly deserted library is already pretty unnerving, with even Jenny commenting that it's way too quiet.
- Jenny almost gets electrocuted, courtesy of the malfunctioning ladder-system and a puddle of water.
- Following the clues to the Dean's corpse. That slowly building feeling of dread never goes away.
- Finding the Dean's body, with its very obviously broken neck, the grey pallor and the creepy purple veins all over his head.
- Jenny slowly realizes that the Dean died only a few minutes ago and that there is only one exit in the library that she is currently blocking. Meaning
*the murderer is still in the building*.
- The Nightmare Sequence.
- It starts off with a shrunken Jenny being forced to traverse the newspaper headline of Dean Straussberry's murder and her mother's subsequent arrest. Then goes over to a giant version of the sheriff (who is also her grandfather) angrily yelling at her and interrogating her. She runs from him and sees her mother in the distance, but before Jenny can reach her she is imprisoned by a shadow-y figure and disappears.
- Following this is a scene of Jenny trying to in vain to get a gigantic Keith to notice her while all around her people start badmouthing her mother. She cannot reach him and the platform she was running on turns out to be a huge coffin that tilts to the side to drop her off.
- Jenny finds herself in a red-tinted room and tries to put together a bunch of haunting creatures that have her torn-up family picture for heads. When put back together, the picture comes to life and attacks Jenny, who futilely tries to get away. Thankfully, this marks the end of the dream and Jenny wakes up.
- When peeking through the keyhole from Suzie's room, Jenny eavesdrops on a conversation between her grandfather and Mrs. Glatz. She pulls away for a time and when she looks again, her grandfather seems to have disappeared - only for him to be appear right in front of the keyhole.
- The ghosts of the miners in the Glatz-mine. They're actually harmless and even helpful at times, but the first reveal of them just staring mutely with their lifeless glowing eyes is still incredibly creepy and unnerving. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JennyLeClue |
Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The famous "Jedi mind trick" is given a heavy dose of this throughout the story. Unlike in most *Star Wars* media, where the mind trick is a fun tool used by the heroes to outwit random mooks; here the Jedi mind trick is depicted as being extremely invasive and borderline Mind Rape for those subjected to it. After Jaune accidentally mind tricks Weiss, the way she describes the feeling seems like something straight out of a Psychological Horror. **Weiss:** I can't forgive you, because I can't hate you for what you did! Something inside of me won't let me. I still feel what I felt last night! Our friendship that could've gone even further. And how much of this my own feelings, and how much is just
manipulation!? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JauneArcLordOfHunger |
Jaws / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## The film:
*"Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is hes got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a dolls eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesnt even seem to be livin... til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then.... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin and your hollerin those sharks come in and... they rip you to pieces."*
—
**Quint** *Jaws* is a movie about a shark stalking its prey, devouring them piece by piece, with nary a noise nor expression. You bet your ass it has its scary moments.
- The iconic tune of whenever the shark appears is unnerving in itself. The happy jingle about half way in doesn't help.
- The famous poster of the menacing shark heading towards the unsuspecting victim is very chilling.
- Just think about the fact that this film alone is responsible for making people afraid of going into the sea because of what could be lurking below the surface. People were even afraid to go into swimming pools. It's considered one of the scariest horror films ever for a good reason.
- The opening scene of the film where the girl in the water is killed. You never see the shark — only its perspective and her reaction, while hearing the amazing score by John Williams. Hearing her scream, struggle to breathe, and try to seek refuge on the buoy makes you imagine what the shark is doing to her under the surface. Bravo named it the scariest scene in film history for a
*reason*.
- What makes it even worse is, as she's screaming for help, the guy she was going to go skinny dipping with is falling asleep on the shore and completely unaware of what's happening to her. Granted, there's not a whole lot he could have
*done,* but it's still horrible.
- Listen carefully during the attack, and you can hear Chrissie screaming "Oh, it hurts!" and quoting part of the Lord's Prayer, and then her final words being a screamed "GOD, PLEASE, HELP!", with her being dragged under the water for good before she can even finish the "HELP!"
- The actress Susan Backlinie is so convincing in playing the horrible pain that a rumor persists that were actually seeing her ribs get broken by the harness used to drag her around. Even if its likely not true — she insists it isn't — the fact that its so believable is a real testament to the scenes power.
- The complete silence that sets in once she's pulled under for the last time. Where one second earlier there was a human begging not to die, there is now... nothing. No trace, no echo, no bloodstains, nothing, just the Atlantic ocean rolling on.
- The contrast between the instantly peaceful ocean and what is surely happening to her under the surface is chilling to think about.
- While it lacks the suspense factor of the film by virtue of its medium, the attack is quite frightening in the original novel, too, though for different reasons. Particularly, with the benefit of not having to watch a special effects budget, Benchley gets quite gruesome with Chrissie's death scene. The other attacks by the shark are also described pretty graphically, especially Alex Kintner's, but none are quite as effective as Chrissie's.
- The bit where the two fishermen try to catch the shark. The dock they're on collapses, dragging one of the men out to sea. As he shakes himself loose and begins to swim back to shore, the piece of dock that the shark is still attached to stops and
*turns around* and begins pursuing him. What makes this moment so terrifying is that at this point, we get a Theme Music Power-Up. Only his friend's constant encouragement of "Take my word for it, *don't look back*! Swim, Charlie, *swim*!" saves his life. Then the music intensifies into a fast beat as if the shark is accelerating after Charlie and getting closer. Even as Charlie reaches the dock he can't find purchase on the slippery surface as the dock comes in fast towards him as he screams "I can't get up! I can't get up! Help me! Help me!" Had the other fisherman not pulled him out he would have seen the shark lunge forward and devour him. You can almost sense the shark's disappointment that his prey has eluded him. There is also some Black Comedy as once ashore Charlie groans "Can we go home now?"
- It's a short moment, but as the two fishermen are trying to catch the shark, Brody is flipping through a book about sharks. The first couple of pictures aren't too bad, showing mostly just shots of sharks swimming or sharks that were caught, but the last few photos are
*real* pictures of shark attack victims, including a lingering shot of a man with a chunk of flesh the size of a basketball *ripped out of his side*, with his hip protruding from the gaping hole of where the rest of him used to be, and a man (possibly a corpse) who is missing almost all of the flesh of his leg from the knee up.
- When Pippet the dog disappears, with the very strong implication that he's become shark food. It can be very unpleasant for people who really like dogs. It doesn't help that right after the above happens, there's the attack on Alex Kintner. There's perhaps the most distressing thing about the implied death of the dog.
*NO-ONE NOTICED*. As horrible a thought as it might sound (especially to pet lovers), if someone had actually sighted that the dog had been taken by the shark, it would have given them some warning. And young Alex might have been spared his fate as a result. But no. A silent predator sneaks in, takes someone's cherished pet, and then takes someone's son. What's even more horrifying about the scene is that it's the horror version of the Shell Game; the audience is too busy trying to pick out Bruce's next victim that they lost track of the dog in the process.
- The second major attack from the titular shark. A peaceful day, everyone's minding their own business, shouts of joy drowning each other out. Then, slowly, we focus on Brody's dawning horror, as we cut between him and a lone child, panicking beyond belief, bobbing up and down in the water
Then, the blissful calm turns to wary alarm as everyone on the shore starts rising up, murmuring in wonder and confusion. Then, all of a sudden, the child's screams stop, and we see a woman, Mrs. Kintner the child's mother, asking "Alex?" warily before it cuts from her to an image of a torn flotation device, surrounded by tomato-red water before fading to black. **IN A GEYSER OF HIS OWN BLOOD. IN A PG MOVIE.**
- When Alex is going down, he's still gagging and screaming, while the water around him turns red. That seven-year-old boy's death was
*excruciating.*
- The search for Ben Gardner aboard his boat is one of the most frightening jump scares ever put to film. When Hooper goes into the ocean to investigate the hull of Gardner's seemingly abandoned boat, he discovers a shark tooth embedded in one of the holes of the boat. When he takes a closer look into the hole, the severed head of Gardner (missing an eye) suddenly shows up with a terrifying shriek, scaring both Hooper and the audience. Steven Spielberg reshot that scene during post-production to make it into a Jump Scare because he wanted to add "one last scream" into the film And it was definitely effective!
- Making Hooper's reaction even moe effective and frightening is how slightly delayed it is. He's so in shock by the abruptness of the dismembered head that his brain takes a while to even process this terrifying new information.
- The Fourth Of July Attack
- Brody tells Michael that he can go on his sailboat, but go to the pond and not the open water. He reasons that if the shark reappears, it won't go into a small estuary. Then an artist screams, "SHARK! SHARK! SHARK IN THE POND!" Brody is prepared to investigate halfheartedly if it's another hoax, before his wife reminds him, "Michael's in the pond." Those words strike instant fear in him; Brody's power-walk becomes a full-on sprint and he screams if someone has a gun. He nearly sees his son eaten alive.
- Credit to the parents, they do what they can to rescue their kids, and a Heroic Bystander group. There is also a group of people frozen in fear, watching as the telltale fin slices through the water, and shouting.
- The scene where the shark attacks one of the victims riding a paddle-boat followed by the sight of the poor man's severed leg drifting in the ocean. He's screaming at the top of his lungs before going eerily silent. Even worse, said boater was warning Michael and his friends to get out of the water, asking if they were okay when Michael was having trouble tying knots.
- This particular attack has an extra element that makes it terrifying; it's the first time in the movie we get to see an actual shot of the shark's head, and it is
*massive*. It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot, but the sight of those massive jaws just leisurely opening as it comes in on its side, angling to sink its teeth into the victim, is terrifying foreshadowing of the infamous chumming scene and Quint's death in one simple shot.
- Michael goes into shock, and he's barely conscious when his friends drag him onto the beach. His mother cries over him, fearing that he's dead. Brody reassures her that he'll be fine, but there's a cut to him in the hospital with his parents promising him all the ice cream he wants. He doesn't have a physical scratch on him, but the trauma was very strong.
- Sharks, on the whole, are misunderstood and nonviolent creatures. However,
*Jaws* was based on one very atypical shark in *real-life* that brutally killed four people over the course of five days. So, a creature whose species isn't normally given to murder goes on a killing spree... wait, doesn't that make it even WORSE?
- During the hunt for the shark they periodically manage to harpoon floating barrels to the beast to track it and keep it from diving. Quint insists no shark, no matter how big, can possibly dive once it has three barrels attached. The shark dives. This is NOT any ordinary shark.
- The scene where a disgruntled Brody dumps chum in the water and the shark makes a sudden appearance. They definitely should've gotten a bigger boat... This moment is even more powerful by the soundtrack — or lack thereof. All throughout the movie John Williams has been training you that Shark = Music and that No Music = No Shark. Every attack, we get Williams leaning hard on the string section and fake out moments like the boys with the cardboard fin are scoreless. So later in the movie, it's been a while without an attack, the audience has gotten relaxed, Brody is throwing out chum and suddenly BAM! SHARK! Our first good look at the beast, and there was no "okay, here comes the monster" music. It completely catches the audience off guard, creating one of the most memorable moments in the movie, and it's all because the soundtrack sucker-punched you.
- Quint describing the
*Indianapolis* disaster. *Because that really happened*. Sure, some of the finer details are wrong, but potentially hundreds of people *really were* Eaten Alive. One of the most chilling scenes and it doesn't involve any action at all. After he told his bone-chilling story, you can hear a haunting sound. Quint explains it's just a whale, but it's still creepy.
- In a bit of Five-Second Foreshadowing is Hooper's reaction to learning that Quint's arm scar is of a removed
*Indianapolis* tattoo. Hooper, who had been drinking and is in a very jovial mood after swapping scar stories, *immediately* stops laughing and is Suddenly Sober. Clearly aware of what happened to the ship, for the rest of the story he keeps quiet and stares at Quint with a look of respect and awe.
- The scene in which the shark begins ramming the side of the
*Orca* was distinctly frightening.
- The scene where Hooper is in the cage, watching the shark slowly inch closer and closer. It passes the cage, seeming not to care. Hooper readies his spear. The shark slams onto the cage
*from the back*, just behind Hooper. The worst part is that, when the shark keeps lunging towards Hooper, you honestly can't tell if it's a real shark or Bruce. The scene is even *more* terrifying in the book, where we get an agonizing description of Hooper's last moments:
"The fish thrust again, and Hooper saw with the terror of doom that the mouth was going to reach him. The jaws closed around his torso. Hooper felt a terrible pressure, as if his guts were being compacted. He jabbed his fist into the black eye. The fish bit down, and the last thing Hooper saw before he died was the eye gazing at him through a cloud of his own blood."
- On a minor note, Hooper has a knife on him that he uses to fight the shark, and blood sprays up from the shark. For somebody who's not looking carefully enough, many people could mistake that for HOOPER GETTING BIT.
- Quint slowly being killed by the shark is both nauseating and horrifying. The experienced shark-hunter slowly slides down the length of his boat, incapable of preventing his descent. There's also the fact that we know we are watching his absolutely worst nightmare coming true. The once fearless and excitable fisherman now looks absolutely terrified as he desperately kicks to prevent himself from going into the beast's jaws. Then we see the shark's teeth biting right into his stomach and all the blood spilling out from his body painting the water red. Throughout the last 15 seconds, you can also hear his spine breaking as poor Quint lets out
**EAR-SPLITTING ** of agony as he chokes on his own blood. Those are NOT screams of terror, but the sound of inhumane *SCREAMS* , like an animal being ground by a hay bailer. **PAIN**
- Brody's reaction to Quint's death. He almost manages to save him, but Quint's hand slips from his grasp. When he Quint in the shark's mouth, he looks absolutely horrified.
- John Williams composed a terrifying score for Quint's death scene, and listening to it is enough to send chills down your spine. It was cut from the movie though, not because it wasn't great, but it was cut for one disturbing reason; so the audience heard nothing but the sound of Quint's screeches of pain and the sound of his bones breaking.
- Everything after Quint's death, imagine being alone on the mast of a sinking boat, and knowing the only thing saving you from being devoured alive is a one in a million shot. And unlike the previous attacks where the shark leaves you alone for awhile, the shark rams through the side of the sinking boat at Brody very unexpectedly.
- A Deleted Scene makes the estuary attack even worse, where the shark goes after Michael whilst it has the first boater in its jaws, and at first Michael ends up in the boater's grip. The boater is thrashing while bleeding from the mouth, and Michael can't move at all, all while it seems like the shark is trying to find a way to fit Michael in its mouth, too. In the end, either the boater dies and his grip slackens, or he uses the last of his strength to push Michael away to safety before being dragged underwater and ripped to pieces. You can see why it was cut, with the production crew saying it was too horrifying to use, including the stuntman involved.
- The attack on Alex Kintner was originally going to be even
*more* gruesome and terrifying. Originally, it was planned that the shark would rise from the depths and gobble up Alex in plain sight. It was scrapped for being too graphic, and the film went with a Nothing Is Scarier approach where the attack isn't clearly shown. However, the scene *was* filmed at some point, and there's a truly creepy picture showing what it would have looked like.
## The ride:
- At the beginning of the ride, it is revealed that the shark has returned, as it sinks and eats the passengers of another boat. You get to hear the not-so pleasant sound of that boat's skipper begging for help and then screaming over the radio transmission.
- There's also a scene where the boat enters a dark boathouse, which suddenly begins to crumble apart due to the shark attempting to break in. It succeeds, pops out of the water, and
*lunges right at you*. All in the dark.
- Additionally, upon entering the boathouse, you are first treated to the sight of some gory pieces of flesh from another shark lying on the floor.
- The boathouse ambience isn't much better. It's quiet and dark, and for a while the only sounds are random dripping water.
- After the boathouse, the shark lunges right out again to the left of the boat, creating a rather effective jump scare. In the original version of the ride, it actually bit into the boat and dragged it a couple of feet before the skipper eventually regained control.
- The ride's gruesome ending where the shark accidentally bites a power line, electrocuting and then completely frying it. You even see its roasted remains, until it reveals that it's actually still alive when it makes one final lunge towards the boat before being killed by the blast of the skipper's grenade launcher.
- The ride's original ending was arguably even more graphic. The skipper would shoot a grenade right into the shark's mouth. The shark would then go back underwater, only to explode mere seconds later, leaving behind a pool of blood and pieces of skin and flesh. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jaws |
Jam / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Chris Morris's
*Jam* (TV)
- Pretty much the entire show is this! The series, with few exceptions, is deliberately intended to make the viewer incredibly uncomfortable if not terrified. Unsurprising given that the opening more or less tells you it's about people who have totally broken down beyond all rationality.
- The way the show is edited and structured is nightmare fuel all on its own. Shots are jerky, grainy, distorted almost to the point of being unwatchable at times and the tone jumps abruptly between funny to outright disturbing. The music is often relaxed and jazzy, but then switches to loud, blaring and screeching. The show often feels like a televised bad drug trip or decline into insanity (and adds to this atmosphere by featuring many deranged and unhinged characters and situations).
- Symptomless coma. A horrible affliction that is invariably fatal and only seems to happen to healthy young people...oh, and the doctor is the one causing it...
- Every intro to the show. The very first features a woman dancing to "techno" only to realise it's her baby's ECG.
- One introductory scene has a man who wakes up and discovers he's just a head and a spinal column in a maggot-like body...
- The intro featuring a man alienated from his friends and alcoholic (walking to work "all swig-faced"). His only respite from his messed up life is being regularly captured by "dung-breathed men" in broad daylight and forced to wrestle pigs on a farm in front of a crowd. Equal parts bizarre and disturbing.
- But dear god, the intro to to the sixth episode. The first part shows a man feeding something kept in a locker some milk from a baby bottle. We don't get to see what it is, but just from looking at how horrified he is when he leaves, it's probably best if we didn't. But if you thought that was bad though, the second part gets worse. A LOT WORSE. It basically shows a woman dragging around a decomposing dog on a leash towards a playground, then she calls the children over to admire it! No wonder they were "deranged by what you're dragging round". And for added Fridge Horror, she locked the dog in a shed and forgot about where it went for 7 months! No wonder she was presented with that monstrosity pictured on this page upon opening the door long after it probably died of starvation.
- The sketch where a man jumps into a wood chipper that sprays his bloody remains all over his ex's house (and into her face, as she was leaning out of the window).
- The Gush.
- The most disgusting part may be a throwaway line about how you know the victim's dying "when it turns red, then eventually black." Doubly so if you know what causes Black Blood in real life.
- It has this effect on so many people that, according to The Other Wiki, Jam came 26th in Channel 4's top 100 scariest moments poll, beating actual horror works such as
*Carrie* and *The Silence of the Lambs*.
- The ending to the "Lizard Man" sketch - the husband becomes a hysterical, crying wreck...because there are lizards coming out of his TV.
- Also the implication that the creepy guy (played
*very* convincingly by Mark Heap) representing the TV company is somehow tormenting the family deliberately.
- There are multiple sketches involving dead children and child-sized coffins and they almost all involve weirdly cheerful adults, happy music and no real plot to the sketches. They're also pretty much completely devoid of actual humour (perhaps a postmodern comment on how child death
*isn't* funny) and are very disquieting because of this. This particular troper found them easily the most disturbing out of everything in the show.
- An extension of this is the sketch involving the missing child's parents appealing for him on TV. It ends with a "joke", with the parents singing part of their appeal, but it's still a thoroughly horrifying scene because it feels like a genuine appeal for a missing child and the actors appear distraught. If you could call it humour, it couldn't be any darker.
- The "Sex for Houses" sketch, in which a couple cruelly send a mentally disabled relative to be abused for an indeterminate time by an exploitative perverted weirdo just to get money off a house he's selling.
- Lucy Tiseman. A woman who is so desperately lonely that she begins deliberately hurting people to give herself opportunities to "befriend" them. She crosses the Moral Event Horizon when she lies to a woman that her son has died; the woman's sobs are pretty heartbreaking and it's all so this weirdo can give her "sympathy".
Yahtzee Croshaw's
*Jam* (Literature)
- The graphic description of Frank being dissolved.
- The cultists in the mall. ||Particularly Lord Awesomo. This is what happens when psychotic hipsters form an equally psychotic cult. When tossing a cult member into the deadly jam, instantly killing him, all Awesomo has to say is
*"He died *"|| **ironically**. You older generation just don't **get** our sense of humor.
- Imagine watching your best friend since childhood slowly lose his grip on sanity until he's actively killing people.
- Hell, just the realization of how little time it took before seemingly
*most of humanity* has gone completely starkers in the face of the jampocalypse in one way or another. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jam |
Jesus Christ Superstar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The Crucifixion and preceding torture in the 1973 version.
In a desperate attempt to pacify the angry mob, Pilate has Jesus whipped 39 times note : In Jewish law, a flogging of 40 lashes is considered equivalent to a death sentence, and 39 lashes were often ordered to avoid accidentally killing someone who didn't deserve it. Many real-life crucifixion victims did not survive the preliminary scourging . The lighting and intensifying music add to the horror of the scene. In the 1973 movie, the flogging itself is nasty enough, but then there's the intense music that goes with it, and Pilate's voice counting out the lashes. He sounds almost elated. Then when we see him trying to compose himself, he has an expression that could be aroused or disgusted or both. Caiaphas and Annas, who are largely to blame from this event, seem unnerved. Even Herod, who watches the flogging from a distance, and laughs at first, looks appalled by the end.
During the crucifixion scene, Jesus is clearly in pain and delirious from blood loss. In some versions, he cries out "Where is my mother?".
The 2000 version has the look of realisation on Jesus' face when he is held down to the cross and sees one of the soldiers picking up a nail.
The brutality of the crucifixion having been foreshadowed during the 1973 movie's "Gethsemane", where the moment Jesus accepts his fate, there's a montage of zooms on images of his crucifixion as depicted in paintings across the years since.
The scenes from the 39 lashes through the "Superstar" song all the way to the Crucifixion itself in the 2000 version. Even Pilate looks pretty disturbed.
The original Rock Opera is arguably the most scary version. The instrumentation is a strange sound collage that wouldn't sound out of place on a Frank Zappa album. The discordant jazz drumming that comes in halfway through makes things worse. Throughout all of this, Jesus cries out for his mother and asks "why you've forgotten me", complains about being thirsty, before saying "It is finished. Father, into your hands, I commend my spirit". And then it cuts out, cue John Nineteen Forty-One. Oh, and did we mention that this all comes immediately after "Superstar"?
Additionally in the original album, the robotic voice (actually Tim Rice himself) that counts down the lashes on Jesus with complete dispassion.
The stage version includes a sequence so traumatizing that it's the visual/musical equivalent of swallowing an ice cube too fast. Immediately after performing the first half of "The Temple and Lepers," Jesus is accosted by a whole horde of lepers, cripples, and various other blighted folk. Pretty heart-rending in itself. But did I mention that they are covered in spider webs? That they're so wrapped in rags that you can't see their faces? And that they graphically describe all their injuries and infirmities in song? True, it's not Michael Jackson's Thriller, but it's pretty grotesque in itself. You can hardly blame Jesus when, in a What the Hell, Hero? moment, he screams: "HEAL YOURSELVES!!!"
Not forgetting that the song they're singing? It's the same tune as the merchants', only... different. And in 7/8 time, one of the most unsettling time signatures.
The way that the crowd of sick people moves is also disturbing. They crawl and limp their way to Jesus, then surround him and frantically reach for him.
Judas' emotional breakdown after betraying Jesus is heart-wrenching. After screaming at God for using him to carry out a "bloody crime", he repeats "Murdered me!" over and over again before hanging himself.
The 2018 NBC version is extremely unsettling. Rather than going crazy and lashing out, Judas stumbles up a flight of stairs while repeatedly yelling out ''You have murdered me!!", while an ominous red light is cast on the wall behind him. Rather than showing him hanging (wise move, because the last thing they'd want is an actor hanging to death on live TV), as soon as he's off screen, the music abrubtly cuts out and so does the red light, leaving a bright light shining through an arch... and a ladder falling, leading the audience to assume the worst. The glitter that sprinkles down as the choir ominously chants "sooooo loooong Juuuudaaaasss..." doesn't make things better.
In the 2018 NBC version, the Roman soldiers are covered from head to toe in black leather, making them look more like medieval torturers than military men.
Annas in general. In a show whose cast is made up of tragic, morally gray characters and Herod, he stands out as the only true, legitimately sinister villain in the story. His specific characterization varies depending on the show, from the sneering, unfeeling vampire portrayed by Michael Shaeffer in 2000 to Gerard Bentall's brutal, explosive attack dog in 2012, but Annas is universally the vilest, most disturbing character in the cast, actively encouraging Caiaphas to have Jesus killed and mercilessly abusing Judas throughout the story. His entire moral stance and philosophy can best be summed up by what he says in the opening verses of "Judas' Death," pretty much cementing him as The Sociopath:
King Herod and his song are usually played for laughs, but the 2019 Barbican production had his servants with wide silver platter collars and blood running down to collect on the plates in a ghoulish reference to Herod's execution of Jesus's cousin, John the Baptist, and his Decapitation Presentation on such a platter.
Even in versions of the song that are played for laughed, the sudden shift that can happen from the silliness of the number to the absolute meltdown Herod has in the last verse when he realises Jesus isn't going to play along with him can become this in the hands of the right performer. One production even had him screaming and attempting to physically attack Jesus by the very end of the song and only being held back by his servants, like a toddler throwing a tantrum. For something that could very easily be Narm, it was in fact singularly disturbing...
The 1973 and 2000 version of "Hosanna" add a final verse: "Hey JC, JC, won't you die for me..." The 1973 version does a freeze frame on Jesus' face as his expression turns from smiling to troubled, while in the 2000 version, Jesus is horrified to see just what the seemingly-adoring crowd expects from him. Judas can only glare at him, reminding him of his earlier warnings and clearly is deeply troubled that they have come true so quickly. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JesusChristSuperstar |
Jane the Virgin / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"On the bright side, Jane's Quinceanera was no longer the worst party she'd ever been to.."
Even for a affectionate telenovela parody, Jane the Virgin has moments that are absolutely disturbing.
Please be aware that there are spoilers below:
- The entire premise of the show. Imagine going for a routine pap smear and being mistakenly inseminated with a stranger's sperm. Whether you're a virgin saving yourself for marriage or not.
- The next moment would be ||Roman Zazo's death. He's pushed off a balcony and falls onto the ice sculpture. The sequence isn't seen but the sculpture impaling him is... rather dark and disturbing for a comedy||.
- The end of Chapter nine sees Alba looking for Petra accidentally sees Ivan held hostage by Magda. Alba tries to escape to report this. The lift takes too long and she has to take the stairs, only to be pushed down by Magda ||who can actually walk||.
- Milos
*slitting Petra's throat*. Granted, it's a set-up and they're using fake blood, but for a few seconds, it really seems like Petra might die, and it looks *horrific*.
- Rose killing Rafael and Luisa's father, by burying him in concrete.
- The season one finale. Mateo is abducted by Sin Rostro, moments after being born.
- Chapter Ninety-Seven follows up on this, while Jane adds a Switched at Birth scenario to her novel to add suspense she starts to worry that it might have happen in real life too. Imagine raising a five-year old only to discover that it was they were never yours.
- Season 2's finale is pretty dark also. Michael gets shot by ||Sin Rostro||, just after he and Jane got married. Anezka paralyses Petra, who then pretends to be Petra to sleep with Rafael.
- Chapter Sixty-Nine: Luisa ||had committed herself to a mental hospital because she wasn't mentally stable to run the Marbella by herself, because she was talking to an imaginary person. The episode's end revealed that she was set up by Anezka and Magda, and the person she was talking to||.
- In Chapter Seventy, Anezka starts feeling lonely and misses Scott (who was murdered by ||Eileen|| in the time jump. ||The next we see her, she has killed herself, but the narrator said that it was made to look like that||.
- ||Anezka actually faked her death, but she finally dies the next episode.||
- Chapter Ninety-Five brings us an Imagine Spot of Lina's disapproving five-year old daughter with Jane's face superimposed on top. It's as creepy as it gets◊.
- ||Rose's death. Not only does she fall to her death and get impaled on a statue (in a nod to Zaz's death), but she's then set on fire. It's for sure, but there's enough true horror there.||
- The knowledge that a well-known crime boss had mastered Latex Perfection can be this in general. The possibility that someone you might be close to or working with may not be who they really are can be unnerving. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JaneTheVirgin |
Jaws 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The water skier scene during which the shark gets itself burnt is absolutely horrifying to watch. Two friends are enjoying an innocent afternoon on the water with one driving the boat while her friend is skiing close behind. And the entire time, the shark is trailing her, *picking up speed* before plucking her from down below, her struggle and her cries for help going completely unseen until it is far too late. Her friend comes back to investigate, only to have the shark tear her boat to shreds as she clings helplessly to the side. In desperation, she douses gasoline onto the animal, and accidentally douses herself in the process, although one could easily reinterpret this as a desperate act of suicide to escape the creature's jaws. Whatever the case, she ignites a fire with a flare gun, her and her attacker aflame until the boat explodes into a fireball. And as mentioned earlier, the shark *lived to strike again*.
Footage of the boat friend burning to death before the boat exploded was shot but cut to keep the rating. It would have been even more horrific. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jaws2 |
Jason X / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The very idea of Uber Jason, in addition to being awesome, is somewhat terrifying. He's already proven himself to be all but invincible, even when his body is decomposing to the point that large portions of his skeleton are exposed to the elements. The idea of someone like that being given cybernetic upgrades is unnerving, to say the least.
- Kay-Em's Slasher Smile after she upgrades to fight Jason has to count. When an android is having fun...
- Jason dunking Adrienne in a sink filled with liquid nitrogen, pulling her out, and then slamming her face-first onto a counter.
- Janessa's death. The vacuum of space pulls her entire body through a fist-sized hole currently covered by a grate. The camera cuts away, then cuts back to show all that's left is some scraps of bloody flesh clinging to the grate. It's all too easy to imagine what happened. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JasonX |
Jaws 3-D / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Just the thought of having a man eating shark at a local theme park is pretty unsettling.
- Fitzroyce being swallowed whole by the shark.
- This deserves some elaboration, for in a movie regarded as being so awful, it is genuinely one of the most unsettling moments in the whole series, topped only by Quint's death in the original; Fitzroyce isn't even bitten, he's actually crushed by the force of the shark's jaws moving up and down, all the while trying desperately to pull the pin on his grenade, to no avail. His gargling screams only make the scene harder to watch.
- The corpse of one of the victims drifting in one of the fish tanks. In addition to the scene where somebody pulls the sheet off a decapitated body. And we get to see it up close.
- And then we get a wide shot of said corpse and see the damage done.
- Just to correct, the corpse isn't decapitated. We get plenty of time to look into the staring, terrified eyes of the decomposing Overman. The art department went as far as to place real live wrigging, leech-like marine creatures onto the prop, including one that slithers out of his mouth during the close-up.
- Bad effects aside, a mammoth shark ramming into the control center would be very terrifying.
- The Special Effect Failure actually renders this film even creepier than it was intended. As the 3D effects don't translate well over to 2D formats, this gives the effects-heavy scenes a surreal, dreamlike quality like something out of an Avant-Garde film. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jaws3D |
Jimmy Havoc / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Once, he cut this promo for a match against Will Ospreay, where he seemingly kills someone to show he is not going to hold back during his match. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JimmyHavoc |
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"All of your friends and family would be safe at home, if it wasn't for one little problem.
**You**."
- The scene where King Goobot's army abducts all of the adults of Retroville, accompanied by eerie music.
- The manic look in Goobot's eyes when he first sees Jimmy's parents.
They look...
*delicious*.
- Special mention that we hear Hugh and Judy's terrified screams as they're individually kidnapped by the aliens via being sucked up by shafts of light from the spacecrafts.
- Poultra and her appearance can make people afraid of chickens.
- The apple worm from Ms. Fowl's point of view after being shrunk down to the size of an ant by Jimmy's Shrink Ray. Especially its
*several rows of sharp teeth!*
- Bit of a Fridge Horror but all the parents are taken away in the film. What happened to all the toddlers and infants that were left behind while their parents were gone? | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius |
Jingo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"Things to do todaytodaytoday: Die..."
"...Seven eh em... Organize Defenders at River Gate... Seven twenty-five...vHand-to-Hand Fighting in Peach Pie Street... Seven forty-eight eight eight... Rally Survivors in Sator Square... Things To Do Today: Build Build Build Barricades... bingeley... Eight oh two eh em, Death of Corporal Littlebottombottom... Eight oh three eh em... Death of Sergeant Detritus... Eight oh threethreethree eh em and seven seconds seconds... Death of Constable Visit...Eight oh three eh em and nineninenine seconds... Death of death of death of...Death of Constable Dorfl... Eight oh three eh em and fourteenteenteen seconds... Death of Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson... beep... beep... Things To Do Today: Die..."
- And if that wasn't bad enough, imagine what the Vimes in the other leg of the Trousers of Time would have been hearing, as everything fell to bits around him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jingo |
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Mike Hames, who used to head Scotland Yard's National Paedophile Unit, describes just how easily a lot of pedophiles are able to pull the wool over people's eyes, including Savile.
"I realized that it's a different type of criminal. They weren't without brains. They manipulate the people around them. Family, friends, people that they work with. These people create this other world almost. They live almost a parallel life. They try to fuck with your head as well." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JimmySavileABritishHorrorStory |
Jittery Dragon / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Go watch The Stinger for "Dinosaur Trains, Poop, and Time Travel Part 1". Go ahead. Ruby's zombie-ish faces in "Petrie has a Nervous Breakdown (Then Kills Everyone) Part 1" ||The Pterano cyborg clones|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JitteryDragon |
Jean-Michel Jarre / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- "Second Rendez-Vous" has plenty of bits that can cause this in people. If anything, the whole song is this because it's got a dramatic and fearful feeling throughout. A particular mention goes to that ominous sounding choir going off like a firecracker at the end. And also, that laser harp bit in the middle.
- That god damned album cover for
*Oxygène*. It shows Earth's crust peeling away like an orange rind, revealing a *human skull* beneath
- "Part 3" from
*Oxygène*, which is one very ominous electronic progression with a wailing synthesizer in the background.
- "Le Pays De Rose" from
*Les Granges Brûlées*, one of Jarre's early albums and his only full-length film scoring assignment. With its screeching analog synths, it's bound to conjure up images of death and destruction by technological misadventure. One YouTuber claimed it evoked Commander Sonak's death by Teleporter Accident in *Star Trek: The Motion Picture*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JeanMichelJarre |
Joe Scruggs / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Talking Toy Box is a darker song he created. There's a vampire announcer at the beginning and the vast silence in Joe's voice. Lets not forget the baby doll shouts "
**FEED ME!**" It turns out she ran out of batteries, and this hits close to home for people whose toys' batteries were dead. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoeScruggs |
Jigsaw / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The poster for the film on the main page. The person's makeup is riddled with so many cracks that it's likely to scare anyone with trypophobia.
- Some additional teaser posters conjure their own form of creepy by showing an assortment of people of different shapes, sizes, and races wearing Jigsaw's pig mask (see one example here). Jigsaw is no longer a man — he's more of an idea, and as the multiple taglines say, "he is everyone," "he is everything," and "he is everywhere."
- All of the traps.
*All* of them.
- In the first one, the characters wake up with buckets over their heads, hooked up to chains connecting them to the wall. After Jigsaw's monologue is finished, buzz-saws protrude from the wall and activate, while the chains gradually retract, pulling them ever closer to the saws.
- Even worse is the solution: they have to willingly cut themselves on one of the saws to make them stop.
*Brrr.*
- Not to mention that one of the victims doesn't wake up until it's too late and he's about to be chopped up by the saws. Making things worse is the fact that we never see him die. Of course, this eventually turns out to be because of the fact that he's still alive.
- The second trap is slightly less bloody but no less horrifying. The four remaining victims are hooked up to chains leading through the ceiling, which Anna quickly deduces is an indication that the next trap will involve death by hanging. It is then revealed that Carly has been injected with poison, and the way to stop the trap and save everyone from hanging to death is to inject her with the antidote, which Jigsaw has been so kind as to provide. The problem? It's in an unmarked syringe, next to two other syringes, one of which contains a simple saline solution, while the other contains outright poison. After a minute's worth of bickering, the chains retract once more and everyone goes up. So how do they escape? Ryan injects her with all three syringes just to be safe.
- The third trap is initiated after Ryan attempts to escape through a door marked "NO EXIT". His leg winds up going through a weak part of the floor and is wrapped with three ever-tightening pieces of piano wire. Anna and Mitch then find themselves inside a silo that is increasingly filled with grain. The only way to save them is for Ryan to pull a lever located under the floor, but doing so will also cut off his leg.
- The silo trap gets even worse when the grain stops pouring in, and is instead replaced with knives, pitchforks, nails, and other assorted goodies.
- In the fourth trap, Mitch winds up getting torn apart by the blades of a wind turbine powered by a motorcycle engine. From the faulty motorcycle he sold to Kramer's nephew, no less.
- The laser collar trap, pictured above. Both Logan and Halloran are fitted with collars lined with tissue-cutting lasers, and Jigsaw tells them over an intercom that if they don't confess their sins, they'll die. Logan apparently dies even after he admits that he accidentally mislabeled two x-rays, which led to John Kramer's brain tumor not being discovered until it was too late. Halloran admits that he let criminals walk free and that innocent people died because of it, and his collar shuts off...
*And then Logan gets back up, completely fine.* He reveals that he's the new Jigsaw and that he orchestrated the movie's entire plot both to frame Halloran for his crimes and to get revenge on him since a criminal Halloran let walk went on to kill Logan's wife. He planted evidence to incriminate Halloran, and now that he has both an airtight alibi and a fake confession from Halloran admitting his "guilt", Logan turns the lasers back on and slices Halloran's head apart like a cantaloupe. The real kicker? Halloran tries to appeal to Logan, saying that Kramer gave people a chance to win their games; he gave them a choice. Logan's response?
- Halloran's death. Once his collar releases and his body drops to its knees, his head
*splits open like a flower, spraying blood out like a fountain.*
- Despite being styled as a typical horror movie heroine and the only person in the game with a genuinely sympathetic backstory, it turns out that this backstory is a lie and Anna turns out to be one of the most, if not
*the* most, vile character in *the entire franchise*; she and John were neighbors, and while she and her husband Matthew were supportive during John's chemotherapy, they argued constantly, which put a severe strain on their marriage. Then one night, Anna smothered their infant child to death in a fit of petty rage and gaslighted Matthew into thinking he did it, resulting in him being committed to a mental hospital where he hung himself out of guilt. Even when John directly confronts her with his knowledge of this, Anna continues to deny that she's done anything to deserve being put in the game and shows zero remorse or sadness over it. When trapped in the final room with Ryan, she almost fanatically believes she has to kill him so she can live, only for the shotgun John left them to literally backfire on her, killing her instantly, destroying the keys to their shackles that were hidden in the shell, and singlehandedly screwing Ryan out of getting his happy ending. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jigsaw |
Jet Force Gemini / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- There are Airborne Squadrons in the game which are one of the dangerous enemies in the game. And they are the Stealth Drones, Cyan Flying Machines which follow you when you get to close to them and rapidly shoot you. These enemies must have scared a lot of players in their childhoods.
- Hydrophobes are certainly not going to like Vela's neck of Mizar's Palace, as it features an entirely-underwater maze that you have to get through. Granted, Vela has Super Not-Drowning Skills, but it doesn't mean you won't get lost. The eerie music doesn't help matters.
- On the surface it seems alright for a younger audience... then you get into the giant mutant zombie bugs, the implied wholesale butchering of Tribal families, the
*zombified planet*, the level spent almost entirely traversing a colossal worm's digestive tract, the giant praying mantis Dual Boss, the showers of splattering blood and the screams of the dying and the decapitations (including the ability to decapitate things that look like teddy bears). Can someone tell us how exactly did ESRB give this game a T rating?
- The rotflies that swarm around the dead or dying bodies of the ants you will inevitably slaughter throughout the game.
- The game involves genocide. The Bugs invade the Tribals' home planet and slaughter them indiscriminately. In a cutscene, we see that the bugs are executing tribals in firing squads, which Floyd just simply cannot tolerate. Even given the Tribals'.... hate among gamers, you obviously aren't supposed to feel guilty for the bugs as you shred them to bits.
- The Abandoned Spaceship.
*Something* happened there, but the only thing you can find is damaged walls, a few tribals hiding in corners, a small amount of drones patrolling the area, and really, **really** eerie music.
- The air vents full of cockroaches in the
*S.S. Anubis*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JetForceGemini |
Jaws: The Revenge / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This aint the Kool-Aid guy.
- Just forgive how Mitchell Anderson is embarrassingly obviously hiding his arm under his jacket and think about his character Sean Brody's situation.
- ||Just on your boat, doing your job, when suddenly some unknown menace emerges from the depths, latches onto you, and starts violently pulling your arm. For some reason, it's bloody even before it happens but who cares!? You manage to stay on the boat, but realize your flippin' arm is gone! You try to scream for help, but unfortunately your very far out and everyone is busy Christmas caroling so no one can hear you. So the beast returns, and your efforts to keep yourself in the safety of your boat are futile as it effortlessly drags you into the water. Keep screaming all you want for the remainder of your time above water, because it proceeds to pull you down and finish you off.||
- The sequence where Michael is chased by the shark. Every scuba diver's worst nightmare.
- While the execution is ridiculous, the idea that a shark is mercilessly hunting you and your entire family down is a truly terrifying thought. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JawsTheRevenge |
Joe vs. Elan School / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*And for decades now, Elan always got what it wanted. Mainly because there was nobody around to stop it.* *"Food and sleep deprivation played a serious factor, but one thing was clear: Elan turned us into living weapons. And our gods demanded sacrifice."*
Considering that
*Joe vs. Elan School* features the Realism-Induced Horror of a Real Life Juvenile Hell, there is no shortage of nightmare fuel, and it starts from the very beginning.
- Given what's to come, the opening line is equal parts horrifying and heartbreaking:
*"I was 16."*
- The opening panels feature a kid trying to fight back from being kidnapped from his bedroom at 2 in the morning, a common practice for "troubled-teen" facilities. Imagine the trauma of being kidnapped from your bed and carted off to an unknown destination, not knowing what's going on or if the rest of your family is okay. This is known as "transporting" or "gooning" among survivors of the troubled teen industry, and it is the
*biggest* red flag that the program you're getting taken to is going to be abusive, making it the very first taste of the nightmare to come.
- Joe notes how the Elan School compound he's taken to is dilapidated and unsettlingly
*off*. He quickly finds out that there are mechanisms in place — both physical and psychological — meant to keep anyone from escaping. The very first time he tries to escape, which is right when he first arrives, the people Elan has posted in the woods intercept him and bring him back.
- The very first thing that Elan School takes away from new students is their identity. Students are forced to strip and shower in front of strangers, ostensibly for delousing. Their own clothes are given up to the school, and their new clothes are blank.
- In Joe's case, because of his escape attempt, he's forced to wear a bright yellow shirt, bright pink short shorts, and shoes with no laces. Joe explains it as a humiliation tactic — very effective against teenagers — and hearing the explanation as to why they do this doesn't make it any less horrifying.
- New inmates are assigned a "Big Brother" to orient them to Elan's structures, but this person is a False Friend at best, since the only way to advance at Elan is to screw over others.
- New inmates are forced to start with nothing, and if you're punished you get even less. To that end, Joe is punished for his escape attempt by not being allowed shoelaces, and being forced into wearing a bright yellow shirt and bright pink shorts in order to humiliate him. He notes that Elan School was built off of peer humiliation — an "extremely effective weapon" when used against teenagers.
- Elan forces everyone to become The Stoic. Any trace of emotion, positive or negative, is severely punished.
- Even worse, several of Elan's rules were deliberately written to both be very vague and self-contradicting (for example, it was forbidden to be "talking too loudly" or "talking too softly", to be "talking too much" or "talking too little", and to be "oversleeping" or "under sleeping"). If someone higher up ever felt like punishing you arbitrarily, even if you ostensibly had done nothing wrong, the rules as written could always provide them an excuse.
- At Joe's first house meeting, where Joe is surrounded by teenagers treating him like crud, we meet Ron for the first time, whose snarl causes everyone in the room to quiet down out of fear. Joe notes how scary the guy is, and how much of a cult leader he seems like, and says that even 20 years later he's still the scariest person he's ever met.
note : Which is an extremely unsettling and haunting Rewatch Bonus if you're rereading the comic and know what's yet to come.
- The house meeting turns into a General Meeting when Joe snarks at Ron. Ron throws a broomstick on the ground, orders the house to "get your feelings off", and they all take turns unleashing a torrent of screaming abuse at him. He then explains that Elan parlayed its inmates' rage at being at the school into something that could be used
*for* the school, leading to the page quote.
- Elan practices collective punishment. Someone screws up, and the entire house only is allowed three minutes to eat. Again, designed to channel rage at others.
- Joe's first escape attempt comes at night — he pretends to sleep, waits for a break in the regular headcounts, and hides out near the house while everyone else runs into the woods. He gets caught only because another student pretends to be on his side.
- He compares Elan to the Stanford Prison Experiment, saying that Zimbardo's experiment had to be cut short after less than a week, but that Elan School ran uninterrupted for
*41 years*.
- Ron's reflections on Elan's past, which Ron himself was a part of. Back in The '70s when Jay Cirri ran the place, the windows were completely boarded up, inmates were forced to defecate in a bucket (which was dumped on inmates as punishment), inmates were forced to wear straitjackets for two weeks for "acting crazy," and house spankings regularly happened.
**Ron:** And that stuff was nothin', we had real bad shit back then...cowboy-ass-kicks, sleepin' outside as the house dog...wakin' up to a "tight house"...the wheelbarrow punishment...or *[voice cracking]* the horrors of Parsonfield. You kids today have it easy.
- Elan's encounter groups force teenagers to yell abuse at each other for three to five minutes, going in a loop. The recipients of the abuse are not allowed to react at all. It's ostensibly "therapy" but it's not overseen by any licensed professionals.
- The Ring. The school actually has teenagers beat up each other to the point of being bloodied up.
- The Ring is designed to single out a dissident and place them up against Elan's "champions," to show the person that Elan
*always* wins. The dissident is booed by the rest of the house when he's introduced.
- A later chapter reveals that an Elan administrator named Caesar attends every house Ring, enthusiastically acting as The Announcer as if introducing a prize fight.
- Failure Is the Only Option, and you can't not participate. The goal is to show that any kind of resistance is met with a swift and certain end.
- Joe's escape. Imagine attempting to escape from a hellish scenario, and your own parents — the people who are supposed to support, comfort, and protect you — berate you for being "out of control" instead of pausing to ask themselves why their kid would act this way out of desperation.
- Somehow or other, Elan is able to recapture Joe in Brooklyn after barely
*three* days. Hidden in Plain Sight is not enough to escape those people.
- Joe's descriptions of Synanon, and the ripple effects of its impact that extend to Elan and other similar facilities, will give a sane person pause. Especially when he gets to describing Jay Cirri, who was able to parlay his Synanon experiences into founding Elan School as an easy profit center.
- Speaking of Jay Cirri, he's able to amass such a fortune from Elan that he's able to use his money and political connections to keep himself profitable and out of trouble. Even a state trooper is stunned into quiet compliance when the guys recapturing Joe say that they work for Cirri.
- Joe is forced into a General Meeting with all three Elan houses, where he gets berated by
*everyone* at the school. He is then forced into a three-house Ring, and is swiftly beaten. It's so bad that he refuses to draw it again, and asks the reader to imagine the first Ring he'd already drawn — except *bigger*. *I pictured a view from above, so that you could see the massive mob of teenagers cheering and screaming as a lone boy was beaten in the middle of the crowd by kids he'd never even met, one at a time. One after the other. Over and over. And over. Kids from Elan houses he barely even knew existed, let alone their names or where they'd come from, or their stories...kids who'd been chosen to fight "in the name of good" and "for the honor of their house" by adults who drove home in eighty-thousand dollar cars and came to work loudly bragging about who they'd slept with the night before.*
- At one point, Joe and several other students (including the one beating him) pause when they hear a girl freaking the fuck out — she was a new inmate just fresh from her own delousing, and forced to watch a horde of staff and teenagers brutalizing a single person. Joe says that the staff could have shown this poor girl mercy on her first day, but "they probably got off on it." Joe says that he wonders about her to this day, and if she's still traumatized.
- Joe hits his Despair Event Horizon while in the Corner, and begins seriously considering taking his own life. Had the power in the house not gone out — leading Joe to reflect upon its existential implications — he very likely would have made an attempt.
- Ron tags Joe to be Elan's "champion" in an Elan 7 house Ring. The ensuing Art Shift and typeface changes are so deranged that you get into Joe's head as the sheer yearning for
*any* kind of control over his own life, combined with the weight of Elan's horrible, horrible consequences, force Joe to *annihilate* this poor kid. He only gets snapped out of his adrenaline-fueled reverie when he sees a look of disappointment on a girl's face, and is instantly reminded of his sister.
- Before that, as he tries to avoid participating, Joe blankly tells Ron that he'd like to run it by his parents first. Ron smiles and says that it's a funny coincidence, because he called Joe's parents a couple of hours ago and they said it was okay. It's not clear if Ron is lying, or if Joe's parents were misinformed, but Joe says that being constantly Out-Gambitted is standard for Elan.
- When describing his rise to the top in ranks at Elan, Joe points out that there was more added pressure; if you messed up, or if a student in your charge acted up, there were severe consequences for
*you*, too.
- For this reason, when describing that being promoted to Coordinator involved being voted on by other Coordinators, he said that it was usually a No vote out of their own self-interest. He goes on to explain that it's because if the new Coordinator buckles under the pressure, everyone who voted for him would be reprimanded, too.
- He writes about how awful it is being an SP for corner kids. Whereas Joe had been comparatively easygoing in the corner, he says that a lot of kids would turn into animals and attack whoever was closest, Gaining the Will to Kill with whatever is available. He says a lot of the horror is not knowing if or when the person is going to snap. Worse, he says that he also had inmates throw saliva, urine, feces, and semen at him.
- The third-party account of an Elan riot is horrible. A guy crashes out a window and escapes, the police and fire department are brought in, one kid cuts himself up with razor blades, and the really die-hard brainwashed students made everyone else's life awful. The person even says that they ended up with a broken hand.
- Adding further horror to Joe's situation, Christy refuses to let him talk to his sister because of her and Joe's bond, but lies and tells Joe's parents that Joe's sister can send him letters. Except whenever Joe's sister sends him a letter, Christy typically reads it and then tears it up in front of Joe's face, taunting him about it.
*I remember reading once that it's a very serious federal crime to refuse to give someone mail with their name on it. But like the cigarettes, I don't think Elan gave it a second thought. Why worry about that when you're getting away with crimes against humanity like dehumanization and torture. Or more accurately, making *us * do those things *to each other *.*
- Joe says that Elan isn't a good program gone bad. He says that it was designed rotten from the start. No guides, no training, "just a green light to do whatever you felt like." He then cites a couple of horrific and sickening "essay" questions given to kids as young as twelve:
*1. What was the sickest porno you've watched?* and *2. What was the sickest thing you've done to get off?* Then he shows a photo of a student's essay that answered these questions, to *very emphatically show that he's not making any of this up.*
- Joe writes that Elan is effectively a factory churning out psychopaths, since its routines and rules cause students to turn on each other in order to save their own skins. He includes a YouTube video of an Elan "blast" as evidence of how Elan transforms normal people into savage animals — and says that it happens to him, too. Joe experiences severe cases of Becoming the Mask, finding that his "act" has led to him
*accepting and enjoying* it, meaning that Elan's brainwashing is *working* on a sick level. He later says that the scariest part of his time at Elan was when he noticed that the school's brainwashing had parasitically attached itself to his concept of the Great Energy.
- One thing Joe also notices are dreams of home, which (as he says) is likely his mind's way of seeking comfort the constant trauma. Except one of these dreams turns into a nightmare when he dreams that his sister screams abuse at him Elan-style.
- Joe immediately ends the Elan 8 riot because he is NOT going to have others mess up his chance to leave. As the riot is winding down, Joe talks about Julian, doubled over in pain, because he's just impaled himself
*deeply* in the abdomen with a Bic pen. Joe says he wasn't sure if Julian was trying to go to the hospital or seriously commit suicide, that it's the worst thing he's ever seen in his life, and that he refuses to draw it because it was so horrifying. Even *worse*, Joe watches the windows for an ambulance that doesn't come — instead, Julian is given a bandage and that's it.
- After the riot, Joe notes that everyone is terrified of a shotdown former coordinator named John, who remains hogtied because everyone is too afraid to untie him. John is seen snarling death threats like a savage animal, and there's no doubt that he
*would*. Joe's narration then mentions that he hears about John after Elan, but is waiting to tell *that* story.
- One thing that Joe notes about Elan is that several staff members, like the maintenance crew, teachers, kitchen staff, all have a Weirdness Censor that keeps them from seeing just how utterly fucked up the program is. Anytime one of these staff notice or raise objections — like Jerry did — they are promptly fired and replaced.
- Christy keeps stringing Joe along with regards to his graduation date because she comes to rely on his help as time goes on. But Joe also notes that Elan's policy is to keep Moving the Goalposts because it means more income for the school. When she finally gives him one (after Ron threatens her), she invokes Shame If Something Happened daily until Joe actually leaves.
- As Ron drags Gino in front of a General Meeting and orders Gino to report other students' guilt — meaning, the "contracts" or forbidden friendships he'd made with other students — Joe prepares himself to go into berserker mode to harm as many people as possible and escape Elan,
*somehow*. It's awful to think that Joe is ready to seriously maim or kill others over being ratted out for becoming friends with another person.
- Katie's chapter takes us right back into the madness of Elan School, featuring Christy's continued cruelty, and a general meeting to bully a girl who has been stuck in the corner and deemed the house enemy. Katie also describes an "MMR" or "Morning Meeting Report," which involves being laughed at and berated by the rest of the house. Katie's role that day is to read "the poem," meaning that she has to debase herself for the entertainment of the house's strength and high-strength, or else earn herself a general meeting.
- When Joe meets the van driver while on the run, Joe has absolutely no idea what the driver's intentions are, and realizes that he used up all the pepper spray on his parents and Peter. Thankfully, the driver ultimately isn't a threat.
- Joe's first experiences with Elan PTSD occur when he escapes, when he finds that he can't sit in the middle of a restaurant booth, and when he thinks he sees an Elan expeditor in Central Park.
- When he eventually leaves Elan for good and gets home, he barricades his bedroom door and sleeps with a baseball bat nearby. He's so traumatized by his experience that he's willing to murder someone rather than be taken back.
- Joe also comes to discover that his own parents deliberately left him there for three years, and refuse to discuss it. In fact, Joe gradually comes to realize that they are more willing to save face with the community and side with Elan than hear out their own son.
- The first example of The Villain Knows Where You Live: not long after leaving Elan, Joe gets a call from Peter, who feigns friendliness and claims to be in Joe's town and on Joe's block. Joe's internal alarm bells immediately go off, as he notices that Peter didn't introduce himself by name; Joe only knew it was him because he recognized his voice. Since their last interaction ended with Peter getting maced, then getting shotdown for allowing Joe to escape, Joe makes excuses and hangs up, and spends the next week avoiding leaving his parent's house as much as possible, and constantly looking over his shoulder the few times he does, paranoid that he's going to be attacked.
- Elan's terrible conditioning leaves its former students with lasting psychological and social issues. Joe and Randall in particular are spurred to violence out of nowhere; Joe punches his childhood bully over a stolen bottle of beer, and Randall methodically attacks and hospitalizes a college classmate.
- What's worse, it invokes Refuge in Audacity. When Joe snaps and yells at his mother Elan-style, she thinks he's completely crazy. Joe's narration says that this is likely by design.
- Earlier, when Joe's made his brief escape to New York City, a wannabe Gangbanger starts bothering him, causing Joe to snap at him and scream at him using the same kind of language Ron would use. Once its over Joe feels disgusted and uneasy with himself once he makes the connection.
- Just barely a year out of Elan, Joe gets on an online forum called Fornits, where a bunch of former Elan inmates post, and he is incensed to hear all the disinformation being spread about how great Elan is. He gets into several flamewars with a group that seems to be coordinated in its praise for Elan, and one night gets a DM that makes the hair on the back of his neck stand up:
*We found you once, do you really think we can't do it again? Just fucking move on with your life.*
- It's especially haunting for Joe because it's both vague and specific. Did he let slip too many personal details? Were they referring to his recapture in New York? Was it someone messing with him? He has absolutely no idea, and his paranoia is not helped when he gets a knock on his door later on in the evening.
- During his time with Eva, she gives him twelve of an unknown pill, and casually says that she has to take eighteen to feel anything. The drugs hit Joe all at once, and he has to make an excuse to go vomit "like my life depended on it. And looking back, it probably did." Joe spends the rest of the evening experiencing the after-effects of the drug, and at one point hallucinates a demon in his room.
- The details about Ezra's unnamed cult are unsettling, including child betrothal and a "Book of Decency" which contains punishments for their version of what Elan called "guilt." Joe can't help but notice the mental turmoil that Ezra is enduring.
- Joe goes to Denver to visit other Elan survivors. He takes some hallucinogenic mushrooms, and he describes the "perfect storm" of circumstances that lead to his ensuing bad trip: Elan PTSD, sleep deprivation, an empty stomach, meeting up with other survivors, being in an unfamiliar city, feeling unsafe thanks to Diego's knife and shady behavior, and the resulting feeling that he's going to die.
- His flight from Wilma's apartment is frightening. As he's running down the stairs, he experiences intense time dilation and flashbacks to his pre-Elan childhood. And then he pops out of the building and remembers that he's in an unsafe neighborhood.
- Then he starts seeing Elan people everywhere with clipboards. The text even switches back to the deranged typeface used in Chapter 51 when Joe brutalizes the other kid in the Ring.
- The police pick him up, and he hallucinates the officers taking him out into the countryside and murdering him with a bullet to the head.
- Joe's parents calmly lure him home, then immediately berate him about his Denver hospital bill from a year earlier, and declare that his college education is being cut off. Their previous horrific behavior about Elan aside, it's extremely upsetting that they immediately pounce on him and don't ask about his well-being.
- The girl who sexually assaults Joe is frightening with what appears to be chronic sexual aggressiveness. Joe's music tutor warns Joe about how crazy she is, telling Joe that the girl tried to rope the (married) tutor into sex by showing up to a lesson in a raincoat with nothing on underneath. The tutor is spot-on in his warning; the girl has staked out the classroom Joe is in, makes a beeline for Joe when he leaves, and follows Joe home. Joe being Joe, he is too awkward and intimidated to say anything, and politely lets her in despite being sketched out. She asks him to play a song on the guitar, immediately puts her hand down his pants without asking, then pounces on him, straddles him, and starts undoing buttons on her shirt. Joe (justifiably) freaks out and yells at her, so she angrily hurls some homophobic slurs and abuse at him and leaves, leaving poor Joe feeling incredibly dirty and guilty.
- Gino offhandedly tells Joe that Ron sometimes asks Gino about Joe. It's chilling to think that Gino has developed so much admiration for their former abuser that he probably sees no issue with discussing Joe's activities and whereabouts with Ron.
- Niels, the drug dealer that Joe meets in the beach city, is intimidating and
*extremely* mercurial. He strong-arms Joe into selling weed, sucker punches Joe and threatens to fight him (but backs off and says that it was a "test"), and is so possessive of his girlfriend Laura that she has Joe help her escape to another country quietly because she's so paranoid about Niels killing her. Later on, Joe becomes worried about being caught with drugs that he lies to Niels about his whereabouts, ghosts him, and flees the beach city for a time.
- Just the sheer fact that Joe is so protective of his anonymity because he's
*terrified* that Elan's former overseers and/or former inmates will have him harassed, harmed, or sued.
- More so after the disclaimer that ends Chapter 77, shown in a sans serif font that's not the norm for Joe's narration:
Due to the subject matter of upcoming chapters, a lawyer has advised me
to state that This Is a Work of Fiction
. That's right, I made it all up. There was no Elan School
(so don't bother looking it up!). All similarities are purely coincidental and nothing I wrote or am about to write actually happened... ahem...
*especially*
the stuff I'm about to write.
- In Chapter 83, Joe finally reads a pirated copy of Maura Curley's book
*Duck in a Raincoat*, released while Cirri was still alive, and gets to a point where Curley's narration mentions that going against Cirri and Elan puts you and your family at risk. He goes on to say that Curley had to *flee the country* after the book's release when the threats got to be too much. Sure enough, a few days after reading this, Joe starts getting death threats himself.
- After Joe begins his anonymous online campaign against Elan, he does receive death threats, but notes that most of them give up after a week or a month. But in Chapter 90 he talks about this one guy he calls "Two-Face," who writes continually for years, alternating between death threats and apologies.
**"Two-Face":** Dave, please forgive me for everything I wrote yesterday, I just get so angry sometimes when someone thinks they can talk bad about a place that saved my life. I pray you reconsider your position, I really do Dave because then I'd stop my search for your whereabouts and fantasizing about finding you and all of the things I'm looking forward to doing to you to make you pay and hurt and understand how fucking wrong you are and why aren't you writing me back you little piece of shit, I know you're reading this and man is it going to be bad for you if you don't stop soon. Like, right now! I'm trying to prevent a massacre Dave don't you fucking understand?''
- What's worse, Joe notes that he's back living at his childhood home yet again, which is the address Elan had on file for him, and is where Peter found him years before. Joe begins seeing an unknown car pull up to his curb at night and sit there for hours, and he has to give himself some flimsy reassurance that the car's occupants are probably just looking for a quiet place to smoke.
- After Elan's closure, and after divorcing Maria, Joe takes to traveling around the world. During one of his adventures, the train he is traveling on is violently attacked. The passenger cars behind Joe's are raided by bandits who beat the passengers and rob them of their money and possessions. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoeVsElanSchool |
Jeepers Creepers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The sight of hundreds upon hundreds of preserved corpses stitched together is unbelievably creepy. Not to mention the way this sight is revealed, and the accompanying music.
Earlier in the movie, Darry and Trish talk about the local urban legend of Kenny and Darla, a prom king and queen who went missing. Authorities only found a smashed up car and Darla's headless corpse. Venturing into the basement, Darry discovers they were previous victims of the Creeper and their harvested remains were added to the House of Pain. The Creeper even reattached Darla's head to her body. Darry can barely explain when he gets back to Trish.
Darry:[overwhelmed] She did lose her head. Darla lost her head, just like they said. And you know what he did, Trish? You know what he did for her? He sewed it back on. He sewed it right back on.
See Eye Scream on the main page. In one version, you can even hear Darry screaming during the establishing shots before the reveal.
The screams at the end of the movie were too intense for the UK Home Video release that in order to get a 15 certificate rating, they had to edit out the final screams although the closed captioning on the DVD still has the screams included as well as them being audible during the commentary and other language audio tracks.
To add to the horror of the situation, it's show that Darry was abducted at night but screaming during the next morning. Darry spent a night as the Creeper's helpless captive and being readied for that grisly demise.
The scene where the siblings witness the Creeper throwing the bodies down the pipe. At first he doesn't seem to notice them as he carries on with his business, but then he turns around and just stares at them as they drive past. Trish and Darry very quickly decide to make a swift exit... and then they notice, to their horror, that the Creeper has started up his truck...
Much more disturbing if you know that the scene is directly inspired by a Real Life incident in which wife-murderer Dennis DePue was spotted disposing of a bloodied blanket by a couple passing by on a seldom-used back road. DePue pursued the witnesses in his own vehicle and attempted to run them off the road, but they managed to elude him.
The cat lady notices someone behind her fence and asks Darry and Trish if they're alone. They turn around to see a scarecrow behind the woman's picket fence. Only, it wasn't there before.
Cat lady: That's not my scarecrow.
The idea of what the Creeper does to its victims. It takes them to a building that it calls the "House of Pain" and then rips them apart while they're alive and screaming, eating only certain body parts before leaving the victim to die on their own. Whether it needs fresh body parts or just likes to cause suffering is questionable, but it is certainly sadistic. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JeepersCreepers |
John Dies at the End / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Pretty much any creature described in the book is a combination of hilarious and terrifying. Anyone could be a replicant. Even you. And, oh yes, the baddies can travel through time and wipe you or anyone you love from existence any time they choose. Or may already have done so, since you'd never remember the difference. Even outside the supernatural, Dave and various monsters' speeches about the horrors of life itself are disturbingly reasonable. Warning: Do NOT try to read this story to cure insomnia.
- "There are always some who... resist progress." He is referring to a scene where thousands of spiders maim and gore millions of men and women in trench warfare. Not kill. Maim. The scene is extremely unsettling to imagine.
- Thanks to the film, imagination is unnecessary. The scene makes very explicit note that children were also included in the slaughter, though it avoids directly showing them being maimed.
- The end of the first plot arc, when you learn that some of the unreliable narrator's unreliability is (in his mind anyway) due to the fact that one of the main characters was actually erased from existence at the climax. The only evidence that he ever did exist are memories dredged up during the narrator's Soy Sauce flashback hallucinations.
- The demonic version of Ronald McDonald that Dave sees is being forced to eat his own guts. And it's described in quite a bit of detail.
- We get a very graphic scene of a ten year old boy melt while screaming in pain, and be transformed into a squealing pig while John and Dave watch in horror.
- Late in the book, David explains to Amy that he had a really bad time in high school. It got to a point that everything just went wrong at once, and he may have been raped, which led to a fight with his tormentors that involved him cutting one of said tormentors' eyes out. Said tormentor later killed himself.
- The idea of Korrok itself. A giant malevolent force insinuating itself into as many realities as it can while convincing the peoples of those realities that it's there to help. Not to mention the fact that it has the maturity of a 13 year old.
- The chat transcript! Imagine a group of girls chatting with each other, all friendly and entirely normal. They talk about how they don't remember certain times of night. Gradually the conversation gets more creepy (one by one, each girl starts repeating one word in the phrase "I Serve None But Korrok") as the girls start talking about other worlds they have seen and what is in them. The end of the transcript is just...seriously, reading it gives one chills.
- The audiobook version is even creepier.
- On the film, the priest that Dave calls turns (courtesy of a Soy Sauce hallucination) into a black-eyed monster that talks with the Voice of the Legion and tells Dave that the world is going to end... played in a cameo by Angus Scrimm, for those who just can't have enough of The Tall Man livening up their nightmares.
- The final transmission from Shit Narnia as the entire world is consumed by the flying insects. Someone manages to open one final portal to our world for a few moments in an attempt to escape, which manifests on David's TV screen. Only it was already too late, as the individual trying to get through was already infected, and the barrier between our world and theirs was impassable. The individual pounds desperately on the TV screen, leaving splatters of blood from their fists, causing David's TV in our world to
*shake*. David can only see the individual's hands, as the rest is obscured by what at first he thinks is a thick blizzard of snow before he realizes... *it's the insects.* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnDiesAtTheEnd |
John Carter of Mars / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Valley Dor. At first, it appears to be the closest thing to a paradise on Mars as lush and fertile land in contrast to the arid wasteland that is the rest of the planet. Once you reach it, its revealed the valley is also inhabited by white apes and plant men, some of the most fierce predators in Barsoom. If you managed to survive them, you will be captured and enslaved by the White Martians if not devoured by them. While horrific, it's said those that die are
*the lucky ones*. Thuvia, Princess of Ptarth, was their Sex Slave for 15 years.
- The ending to
*Gods of Mars*: Carter briefly reunites with his wife Dejah who has been captured by the First-Born after being separated for 10 years, only for her to be trapped inside a Temple with no way out for an entire year without enough food to survive. That on itself is bad enough but the last thing he sees before the door closed permanently was a very jealous Phaidor pulling a knife and trying to kill her. This was so traumatizing that Carter hovered over the Despair Event Horizon.
- The Carrion Caves in the third book
*The Warlord of Mars*. A putrid graveyard riddled with the corpses of Green men and apts, it's deemed a cursed place by the Barsoomians and no one dares cross it. It's how the Yellow Martians have kept themselves hidden for so long, since that is the only possible entrance to their domain on foot, while their advanced technology keeps any flying ships of getting too close.
- Female White Martians are the primary targets of the First Born pirates whenever they raid Valley Dor. Because they never take any males alive, it's believed the females suffer A Fate Worse Than Death and to make matters worse, the men are forced to abandon them to their fates out of fear of retribution. It's hard to not feel bad about Phaidor when she pleads Carter to save her when she is dragged off by them.
- The work of the brilliant but amoral Ras Thavas takes a nightmarish turn in
*Synthetic Men of Mars.* As the title suggests, he's gone beyond his already-macabre work in transferring brains between bodies and started producing artificial people. The synthetics themselves are generally deformed and malicious, but that's not the worst part. "Something" has gone wrong with one of the vats, and now it's not producing synthetic men at all - it's just a screaming, seething, ever-growing and constantly regenerating mass of arms and faces and organs. In the end, the Helium air fleet have to Kill It with Fire. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnCarterOfMars |
Jekyll / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Hyde's Establishing Character Moment comes when Tom Jackman is about to be attacked by a guy (who was originally attacking a girl but Jackman bumped into them) while already on the verge of transforming. Before the transformation, Jackman leaves Hyde an audio note on his dictaphone and specifically adds "minimum necessary force" - the reason being 1: to ease his own conscience, "while I still
*have* one." 2: to save the guy's life. The sudden change in demeanor as he transforms into Hyde is evident from the moment he turns around and grins. Hyde gives the guy three goes with the knife, each of which he avoids... then he has the guy in a headlock and twists the guy's neck saying that while he does not get much pleasure out of killing kids, it is enough. He steps up to the girl who is beyond herself with terror, and fortunately he lets her go. Then he steps back to the boy... who was only knocked unconscious by the neck snap.
- Hyde explains to Katherine why she has to keep the cameras and lights on: if she doesn't, she's going to be dinner because Jackman won't have the footage to turn himself in. Then he gives her a Jump Scare just to prove the point.
- Katherine has to look for something in the apartment without Jackman or Hyde finding out. So she sedates Jackman and puts her in the chair... but neglects to put on the binds before turning off the lights and cameras. Cue a nightmarish chase scene with Hyde taking both sets of keys, which leaves Katherine whimpering and sobbing under one of the desks and begging Hyde to leave her alive in return for her telling him the secret of what she was looking for.
- Said sedation has the side effect of Hyde and Jackman both being "awake" though Jackman steering the body while at the zoo.
- The company after Jackman and Hyde use Jackman's outing with the boys to a zoo as an occasion to take one of the boys and put the kid into the lion's pen to provoke Jackman into transforming. Jackman is panicked as he tries to get a guard... nothing. He runs back to the pen, climbs in... and lands in front of the lion as Hyde. Seconds later the huge male lion is tossed out, throat ripped out by teeth, and lands meters away on top of the van of the company.
- Hyde, driven by the still "awake" Jackman's fury, takes mere seconds to find out who put the boy into the lion's den, then kidnaps the guy with the van. When Jackman awakes at an abandoned place, Christopher, the guy in question, is undressed down to his underwear and tied up to a chair in a room, with arrows and the words "dinner" leading to the door.
- While talking to the guy, Jackman discovers Hyde is still awake... and Hyde convinces him to send a message to the company. "Look at what happened to the last one." The guy's scream as he sees Hyde's Psycho Smirk is unsettling enough, but the next thing we see is Hyde carrying a garbage bag into a hospital then dropping it off for the nurses... it's Christopher, still alive but so badly hurt he will never be able to eat solids again. No wonder when Jackman finds out he nearly faints. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jekyll |
John Frusciante / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- His debut album had some very disturbing tracks. "My Smile is a Rifle" and "Your Pussy's Glued to a Building on Fire" immediately come to mind.
- But it gets worse on the "second part" of the record. Just listen to "Untitled #5".
- "Enter a Uh" is the opening track of his second album, and it's unsettling to say the least. Coughs, screeches and out of tune vocals, over a heavily distorted guitar track. Near the end, the vocals slow down.
"Skies fuck you / I wanna kiss, meet you / Drops into"
- "A Fall Thru the Ground":
"Kill your mama, kill your daddy/I'm the peaceman, so understand me"
- The unreleased music video for "Life's a Bath". Why? It shows John living among trash, in horrible health, and using heroin.
- From Shadows Collide With People, "00ghost27". It's a instrumental one, and boy is it scary.
- Curtains is a very calm and maybe even sweet album, but that didn't stopped John from putting a song called, ironically, "Hope". And what's scary about this short song? Well, it's about The End of the World as We Know It. Yes, that's right.
"There is no more world, the land is gone/Water is all that survived that one/There are no escapes, no escapes, no escapes/Gone are the days of mistakes, of mistakes" | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnFrusciante |
Johnny Got His Gun / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Anyone who sees this 1971 film know the premise before hand: a soldier is wounded in during a battle in WWI, and is reduced to a limbless, faceless figure that is being kept alive in an army hospital—for reasons. Despite that, this is a completely bloodless, gore-less film, filled with performances, not graphic scenes. But try to watch this segments where the patient discovers what happened to him. Then consider how modern horror measures up to that.
- A line that sums up the horror of Joe's condition: "What good is being alive if I can't even tell if I'm asleep or awake?!?"
- The ending is a horror. Joe realizes he isn't going to be granted a merciful death, and will remain in his state until his natural death. As he drifts off, he can only tap SOS in morse code, but nobody will listen. A cruel fate to endure, and Joe has to undergo it after a hope spot of a possible death had been taken from him.
- Joe's monologue at the end of the book, demanding that he be publicly displayed to demonstrate the true toll of war. It involves him asking to be brought into classrooms, knowing that children will cry and get nightmares from seeing him, and asking young women to kiss the wound where his face used to be. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnnyGotHisGun |
John Lennon / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
An eerily prophetic photo from 1968, photographed by Tom Murray.
When John Lennon started recording outside The Beatles catalogue, his solo output was more personal and, as a result, sometimes sounded a lot creepier too.
**Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins** (1968)
- Turn out the lights and listen to "Two Virgins". The album is a terrifying playlist of disjointed noises, shouts, and clatterings brought about by John and Yoko stumbling around John's homebrew recording studio (actually just an assortment of tape decks) in the middle of the night. You could be forgiven for thinking it's the audio from a horror movie... unless you're a sound collage devotee, in which case you're probably laughing all over the floor. These two were Negativland before there was Negativland!
**Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions** (1969)
- The album begins with Yoko's announcement: "This is a piece called Cambridge # 1969". Then she provides a Jump Scare by starting to scream for a very long time!
- "Baby's Heartbeat". A heartbeat monitor recording of John and Yoko's unborn child. This would be charming in a way, were it not for the fact that the child died in miscarriage, making the two minutes of silence that follow on the record all the more morbid. And this all happened before the record came out, so they
*could* have kept this from the album. But they didn't, thus we share their pain and horror. **Wedding Album** (1969)
- Some of Yoko and John's screaming during "John & Yoko" can catch you by surprise.
note : They're making fun of a Stan Freberg satire of 1950s soap opera, but that context has been utterly forgotten. Besides, we've warned you about spoofs of spoofs. The real problem with this one is that it can sound Harsher in Hindsight. **John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band** (1970) **Imagine** (1971)
- "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama": The song starts out relatively normally, but both the lyrics and music gradually end up becoming more disjointed, and the the song ends with weird electronic noises.
**Shaved Fish** (1975) | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnLennon |
Jenny Nicholson / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
In general, Jenny's fascination with spiders can lend itself to this; particularly in videos from "The Quest For the Man-Sized Spider" (which itself features a close-up shot of a live tarantula) onwards, where her enormous Aragog plush takes up nearly half the screen beside her.
"It looks almost the same [as the first target Porg], but just different enough to unnerve and confuse you. Like waking up in your house to find everything shifted an inch to the right. Your family at breakfast. But something unfamiliar behind their eyes."
The post-credits scene of this particular video is a close up of porg plush starring into the viewer's soul with its huge lifeless eyes.
In "Evermore: The Theme Park That Wasn't" Jenny talks about the lack of enforced boundaries between the park's employees (who, unlike larger theme parks like Disney and Universal, have one performer per character) and guests, making it very easy for unhealthy attachments to form. Jenny specifically mentions the amount of immersion expected from the characters goes well beyond what would be expected in other parks or even other LARP scenarios; specifically that there is no real "backstage" area for performers to take a breather, and little to no security they could go to for help if needed. The actors are essentially in character at all times, regardless of wether they're comfortable with the interaction they're having. Jenny admits that even thinking about a scenario like this gives her goosebumps, and she's not the only one. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JennyNicholson |
John Wick / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Franchise-wide
- John Wick himself is utterly
*terrifying*. If he wants to kill you, he will kill you. Especially if you deserve it. No matter how rich or powerful you are, how many bodies and guns you throw at him, how far or how fast you run, John Wick *will kill you*.
- We may be cheering John on for his quest of vengeance more or less, but from his targets' perspective, it's like having a Robot Soldier akin to
*The Terminator* hunting them down ceaselessly and being nearly as unstoppable. John Wick manages to be both awesome and chilling to behold.
## Chapter 1
- The home invasion scene with Iosef and his gang. John is given a real beating with a blunt weapon and has to watch his new dog get senselessly killed. Thankfully, this is Iosef at his worst and the tables start to turn with John getting ready to hunt him down.
- The best two examples of this occur during the club scene, in particular the scene where John knifes the bald guy to death, his hand over his mouth and staring straight into his eyes as the life leaves them; as well as John giving the mother of all Death Glares to Iosef as he kills the guys trying to go after him, just before executing the guy he's got on the floor, his eyes never leaving him. This is the moment when Iosef truly realizes just how terrifying and dangerous Wick is, and just how badly he's fucked himself by pissing this guy off. Iosef can only flee as if being pursued by a Killer Robot assassin.
- John becoming truly enraged during the interrogation scene. For most of the movie, Keanu Reeves has portrayed John as a Noble Demon who can otherwise be perfectly normal and just another person on the street. So seeing him becoming a screaming mess can be quite unnerving. Especially cause we know John is more than willing to live up to the threat. He has a bag forced over his head to suffocate him. Marcus is there to save him with his sniping skills, but it's left a little vague if this was where John would have died without his mentor to save him, or if John could have found a way to break free otherwise.
- The scene where Iosef is finally done for usually has him whining that "It was just a fuck'n..." before getting shot in head, making the scene feel cathartic, but in the version of the movie edited for the USA channel to remove the swearing, this scene ends up more eerie than the original cut, as Iosef doesn't even speak and just gets a Boom, Headshot! without even saying a word. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnWick |
Jemjammer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Baphomet:**
The well shows them what they want to know. It gives them a reason to give up. On a world far from yours, and yet so very close little angel, a poet
once wrote of the Aleph - a place where one can stand and see the whole of creation at once.
**Jyll:**
And that gives them a reason to stop?
**Baphomet:**
Gives them a reason to despair. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jemjammer |
John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- John breaks Ernest's jaw before finishing him off by using the book as a chopping block for a Neck Snap.
- John's stabbing Huang's henchman with a knife slowly stabbing his eyeball. Then he casually finishes off Huang with an axe to the head even though Huang couldn't even stand anymore. Wick did warn Winston that if anyone comes after him he'll kill them.
- The ballerina dancing in front of the Director until she drops, first thing off is the shot from her back where her legs are seriously bruised, then later she rips off a toenail without reacting.
- Blink-and-You-Miss-It but almost all the ballet dancers have back tattoos that peak out from the backs of their leotards very similar to the one John has implying it is some type of way to identify members of the Ruska Roma, some of them are barely teenagers and the implication that they are all being raised as Child Soldiers is quite horrifying when in the Directors own words they are all orphans seeking a better life without suffering.
- Zero storming the Director's headquarters with quick and brutal efficiency, and then impales the Director's palm without saying a word.
- The assassins' world in
*Wick* is pretty frightening, almost everyone in New York either knows about them or doesn't even see the bodies dropping, immigrant children are trained into becoming killing machines for the High Table and the organisation's history and presence is implied to go back to the Middle Ages. Before this movie, a popular fan theory was that Winston was among the founders of the system, because of how old he was and how much power he had, but it turns out he is just a serf who served for forty years and is still expendable in the eyes of the true power. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum |
In the Mouth of Madness / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Moments subpages are Spoilers Off pages, as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- All of the film's Jump Scares.
- Trent getting attacked by the man with an axe, with the close-up on his bleeding, polycoric eyes pictured above.
- The very strange boy and his bicycle.
- Trent's nightmare. Made even more unsettling when Cane's agent appears.
- "This is not the ending. You haven't read it yet."
- "I can see... he sees you."
- Styles looking down to see nothing but lightning-lit clouds beneath their car. In that moment they are in the void outside reality, and nothing is certain.
- A character is Driven to Suicide entirely against his will.
**Trent:** Don't. **Simon:** (holding a shotgun below his chin) I have to, he wrote me this way.
- The whole scene is terrifying, as Simon alternates between making Brutally Honest observations about Trents situation and spouting cliche horror dialogue.
- Trent's first direct encounter with Cane. Cane reveals to him that he's nothing more than a character in the titular upcoming novel, and that he has no choice but to deliver the manuscript of said novel to Harglow. Then he rips himself like paper, revealing a black void from which an army of horrific entities likely the Old Ones themselves appear and chase Trent down the tunnel that Cane had just made.
-
*"Did I ever tell you my favorite color is blue?"*
- Trent's final monologue to Dr. Wren is, by itself, probably one of the grimmest things about the movie.
**Trent:** Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won't have a pretty time with it. In ten years maybe less the human race will just be a bedtime story for the children. A myth, nothing more.
- The ending. Monsters break into the asylum and kill everyone, Trent survives as he cowers in his cell, and overhears via an emergency broadcast that the world is rapidly succumbing to an epidemic of insanity and mutation into horrible creatures (some of which you might be able to catch in the background; one figure appears to have unnaturally long arms, all induced by the release of the titular book and its film adaptation.
*The very film you're watching.*
- Midway through the film, children seem to be happily playing with a dog. It's later revealed that the children were the first to fall to Cane's influence, and when the dog reappears, it's missing a leg.
- Stiles slowly being driven insane by having read the book, and becoming another one of Cane's mutated, deranged servants. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/InTheMouthOfMadness |
JFK / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Paranoia Fuel-based terror in the film is when Garrison is reading the Warren Report and listening to Lee Bower's testimony, especially with the Scare Chord shot of Bower's dead body.
- The infamous Zapruder film, the home movie filmed by Abraham Zapruder that managed to capture the moment when Kennedy was fatally shot, is shown in this movie. And this isn't actually a recreation of the Zapruder film for the movie. This is the REAL-LIFE footage, with the real-life President Kennedy getting murdered. Anyone not familiar with the footage, or who hasn't seen it, might well find the actual headshot very disturbing. You literally (and repeatedly, in slow motion), see part of his head being blown off.
- X's summation of how big the conspiracy is. Even with all the holes in real life that have been pointed out, in the context of the movie it's terrifying the kind of power such a small group could hold over the actions of a nation, even
*starting the Vietnam War* to achieve their unknown goals.
- The Deleted Scene of "Oswald Beyond the Grave" imagines what he would have said if he could have been called to the witness stand. Almost-entirely Deliberately Monochrome and has Gary Oldman (whose idea it was to shoot this) Breaking the Fourth Wall in close-up. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JFK |
Jessica Jones (2015) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
## Season 1
- Jessica's flashback to Kilgrave taking her to the restaurant. David Tennant makes "then
*smile*" terrifying, especially if you're a viewer who relates to having abusive partners.
- Relatedly, the increasingly horrified expression on Jessica's face as the restaurant worker relates how everyone suddenly started giving a customer anything he asked for, no matter how outrageous. You can practically see the moment where she realizes what's going on.
- Also related, after she stops reeling from the realization that he's back, what is the first thing Jessica, private eye who has no qualms breaking a door's glass with the head of an unruly customer, tries to do?
*Get out of town pronto.* O.O.C. Is Serious Business, indeed...
- When she finds Hope in a hotel bed, Jessica tells her to get dressed, but Hope says she can't, and Jessica realizes Kilgrave told her not to move. Hope has been frozen in that spot for five hours, even wetting the bed. When Jessica drags her up, Hope screams as if in pain at going against what she was ordered to do.
- Even worse is when Jessica reunites Hope with her parents who happily take her down an elevator. Just as the door closes Jessica sees Hope pull a gun from her purse. She races downstairs just as Hope shoots her parents, then delivers a message from Kilgrave to Jessica: "Smile." And then, having completed her orders, she realizes what's just happened.
- Jack Denton, the ambulance driver who was forced to donate both his kidneys to Kilgrave and is left a helpless wreck who begs Jessica to kill him.
- Hope's flat statement to Jessica, "You should kill yourself." Given what Kilgrave could do with her powers, she's not wrong.
- Kilgrave's first appearance on screen, where we see his powers firsthand as he uses them to take over a family's apartment, sends the kids to the closet and tells one to soil herself there, similar to the girl above.
- Jessica comes home from working the case, to find a strange man in her apartment doing who knows what. It turns out to just be the repairman that Trish hired to replace her door, but still, imagine the terrifying scenarios that must have been going through her head, especially given that for all she knows, he was sent by Kilgrave.
- Trish tries to use her talk show to raise some sympathy for Hope, but when Jeri is doubtful, Trish, who knows
*very well Kilgrave is real* as well as what he did to Hope and Jessica, starts a tirade which devolves into bashing Kilgrave. Kilgrave immediately calls the show to threaten her, and hearing his voice is enough to reduce Hope to a screaming fit: **Kilgrave:** First time caller, long time listener. Trish, I want to applaud your courage. You've always been a hero to the downtrodden. Self-preservation be damned. It's admirable. But my question is, if there really is a man with the abilities you've described, someone who could make anyone, anywhere, do whatever he wanted them to do, seems to me that insulting him would be wildly dangerous. Or, let's just say it, stupid in the extreme. Everyone has feelings, even, um, how did you put it? Sadistic, corrosive men? Are you worried he might, I don't know, make you kill yourself? Or worse? I'll take my answer off the air.
- We see Reva's death in detail: Kilgrave tells Jessica to "take care of her". Jessica promptly swings at Reva's chest, throwing her backwards through the air about twenty feet, caving in her chest. Her non-reaction to being hit also suggests that Reva was killed instantly.
- What Kilgrave did to Malcolm. He used to be a promising and successful social worker until he was "recruited" by Kilgrave and became his spy. Since Kilgrave knew that his powers wear off after roughly 12 hours, he forcefully got Malcolm addicted to drugs he supplied in order to guarantee his return and turned him into a shell of his former self (it helped that, as revealed in season 2, Malcolm was already a party animal and a bit of a user). All of this was done in six months. When Jessica confronts him about being the spy, Malcolm admits that all of his actions were partially of his own free will, just so he could get his next fix. All of this just shows how far Kilgrave is willing to go to get Jessica.
- Simpson has his own hermetically sealed room in an abandoned CDC building. While this is useful for Jessica's needs, it sounds an awful lot like those Black Sites that intelligence communities supposedly use to do any number of terrible things to people. Also, the NYPD has already had a bad year, what with how many of the cops from Simpson's own precinct were in Wilson Fisk's pocket. So you can tell there's a legitimate reason for Simpson to be doing this while not on-duty.
- He later modifies the room for the express purpose of torturing information out of Kilgrave by partially filling the room with water hooked up to an electrical line.
- Kilgrave turns out to be smart enough to have a backup plan in case his powers get disabled: he just pays a private security firm to send guys to protect him. This ends up ruining the black bag operation as they swoop in, easily tase Trish before she can even step out of the van, manage to overpower Jessica and Simpson, then extract Kilgrave and drive off.
- When Jessica's black bag operation fails, Kilgrave gives her an ultimatum: he'll continue to use and abuse Malcolm, whom he'd be able to hook back onto drugs with his powers, or Jessica can take over Malcolm's job, and send Kilgrave selfies every day at 10:00 a.m. on the dot. So, in order to protect her friend, she has to send selfies to her former rapist, and follow his precise wishes concerning it.
- Hope finds out that she's pregnant with Kilgrave's child. Horrified and disgusted at the thought that she's carrying the baby of the man who raped her both physically and mentally, and forced her to shoot her parents, she pays some of the other inmates to beat her up. Unfortunately, this doesn't cause the anticipated miscarriage and Hope still has to take painful abortion drugs to end the pregnancy.
- Jessica's panic when her 10:00 alarm doesn't go off is nerve-wracking. She's lucky Kilgrave lets her off with just a warning to not be late the next time around.
- Kilgrave uses his poker winnings to purchase a house. At first, it seems fairly innocuous, even bit out-of-character, that he's buying somewhere to hole up instead of just making them give him their house. Then, whilst he's walking about the house he finds a door frame with notches in it, and peels back the wallpaper, in a very "Blink"-esque way, next to it to reveal that it's a height chart for one Jessica Jones. Then the camera cuts to the exterior of the house, and pulls back to reveal a street sign for Higgins Drive and Birch Street. He found the house she grew up in.
- Before that, there's what he does to the poor guy who tries to confront him about his blatant cheating at poker: he makes the man bash his head into a post repeatedly. Since he never revokes the order, it can be assumed that the guy continued to do so until he died or the post collapsed, whichever came first.
- Luke Cage intends to violently beat to death Charles Wallace, the driver of the crashed bus the night Reva died and convinced he was the one who killed her as he was found drunk while on the job. Jessica, under the control of Kilgrave, was the one to do it. Luckily Jessica intervenes, but Luke was serious about killing a man who was apologetic and repentant instead of denying his presumed guilt.
- Kilgrave breaks into Jessica's apartment, examining her belongings and generally invading her space, when Ruben walks in to encounter him. He then commands Ruben to lie down on Jessica's bed and slit his throat. A nice gift to leave behind for Jessica to discover when she comes home later.
- Midway through Jessica's attempt to convince Clemons to have her locked up, the door opens, and Sgt. Brett Mahoney comes in to tell Jessica she's free to go. Jessica leaves the interrogation room, thinking Hogarth had her sprung. Entering the bullpen...she finds every single cop in the room frozen in place, commanded by Kilgrave to point their guns at each other or their own heads.
**Oscar Clemons:** What the hell is going on here?! Drop your weapons! *[Brett pulls his gun and points it at Clemons' head]* **Oscar Clemons:** Brett?! **Brett Mahoney:** Shut up. Don't move. **Kilgrave:** *[emerges from underneath a desk]* Oh, everyone, calm down, you're killing the mood!
- Why has Kilgrave been stalking Jessica and ruining other peoples' lives?
*Because in his twisted mind, he thinks he loves her.* Terror, disgust and disbelief leave Jessica scrambling for words and trying desperately to make sense of it all. **Kilgrave:** Jessica. You're not surprised to see me. You had to know I'd come for you. Not this fast? I... I will admit to keeping eyes on you. Spies are easy to come by, for me. **Jessica Jones:** Do whatever you're going to do to me, but let them go. **Kilgrave:** Well, I have to protect myself, so... **Jessica Jones:** Then control me, not them. **Kilgrave:** I have absolutely no intention of controlling you. I want you to act on your own accord. **Jessica Jones:** Act how? Suicide? Is that why you've been torturing me? **Kilgrave:** Oh, my God. Jessica, I knew you were insecure. That's just sad. I'm not torturing you. Why would I? I love you. **Jessica Jones:** You have been ruining... my life. **Kilgrave:** You didn't have a life. **Jessica Jones:** As a demented declaration of love? **Kilgrave:** No, obviously. I... I was trying... to show you what I see. That I'm the only one who matches you. Who challenges you. Who'll do anything for you. **Jessica Jones:** This is a sick joke. You have killed innocent people. **Kilgrave:** Oh, well, that... that milquetoast little man-boy? He interrupted me while I was leaving you a present, which, apparently, you didn't even find. Come on! You cannot pretend he didn't irritate you, too. I wanted to slap him after 30 seconds. I know. I realize this will take time. But I'm gonna prove it to you.
- For once, we see Kilgrave lose his superficial charm when a phone rings.
**Kilgrave:** Whose is that? *[cell phone continues to ring as Kilgrave stalks around the room, looking for the phone]* Whose phone is that?! *[Kilgrave approaches Clemons, the source of the ringing. Upon getting a silent confirmation that yes, this is his phone, Kilgrave takes Clemons' phone and throws it at a wall, shattering it into pieces]* **Kilgrave:** THE NEXT PERSON WHOSE PHONE RINGS **HAS TO EAT IT!!!** *[Kilgrave rubs his hands over his face and paces around the room, trying to compose himself]* Crappy fluorescent lights and cockroaches and loud cell phones and the smell of piss! I AM TRYING TO PROFESS ETERNAL *LOVE* HERE, PEOPLE!
- And he never rescinds that order. Hope no one's phone rang in the next twelve hours or so- oh shit, it's a police precinct. Someone's phone probably will ring within ten seconds of Kilgrave's departure. Then again, his last command was for every one to assume this was all a joke, possibly rendering the command nullified.
- Among the cops that Kilgrave controls is Brett Mahoney. This allows you to see how Kilgrave's behavior works on someone we're already familiar with: those who came here straight from the first season of
*Daredevil* are familiar with Brett as Matt and Foggy's friend on the force who put the handcuffs on Wilson Fisk, yet he behaves so differently under Kilgrave's control that he might as well be someone else. Most people would react like Clemons does when Brett points a gun at him.
- In season 2, we learn that Detective Costa was another one of the cops under Kilgrave's control. He says he had nightmares after what happened, and they stopped only once Kilgrave died.
- Kilgrave's childhood, if it can really be called that. While he's undoubtedly a monster, you can kind of see why he turned out that way. Though it's later revealed he left out some details... like how he later used his powers to enslave his parents, who only abandoned him after
*he forced his mother to take a hot iron to her own face.*
- There's a reason he was put under so many horrific surgeries- he was born with a degenerative neurological condition that would have resulted in him being brain-dead by the time he was twelve, and his parents were trying to
*save* him. Eventually, they succeeded, but the method they used also gave him his powers, which he immediately put to horrific use.
- Kilgrave claims he can't turn his power off, so he
*always* has to be careful about what he says ("I once told a man to go screw himself. Can you imagine? note : If you want an idea of what likely happened, read *Preacher*, where the protagonist has a power that's like Kilgrave's. At one point he tells a nasty redneck sheriff to "go fuck yourself", without thinking of the implications. Later on he finds out that the sheriff tore off his penis with his bare hands and put it in his anus. Paramedics were able to keep him from bleeding to death, but the man then had his son bring him his service revolver and shot himself in the head with it.) It's chilling to imagine such a life and becoming accustomed to, and then expectant of, having your absolute *every* whim obeyed. Put in his shoes, many people would end up acting as Kilgrave does, especially if they've possessed that power since childhood.
- There's another way that can be interpreted: because Kilgrave's words can be interpreted so many ways, the guy might have actually
*picked up a drill* . It's hard to say which is worse to imagine. **and literally SCREWED himself**
- Jessica has a dream that starts off normally enough, with her parents telling her to get ready for the family vacation. Then her brother complains that she'd just ruin the trip, we see blood trickling from his head. Her whole family then starts bleeding profusely while accusing her of killing them.
- The sheer, skin-crawling creepiness of how thoroughly Kilgrave replicated Jessica's childhood home, right down to precisely replicating her bedroom. The level of detail showcases just how utterly obsessed he is with her more effectively than anything else he's done up until that point in the series.
- Let's remember that the point of this episode is that Kilgrave has blackmailed Jessica into living with him. While she's immune to his powers, Kilgrave can still exert an awful lot of control of her just through pure manipulation. Jessica has to live in the same house, eat with, and spend time with a man who'd previously and repeatedly raped her, and kept her as a slave for quite some time. Like the photograph blackmail thing above, this is right out of the worst fears of someone with Jessica's experiences.
- And let's put a cherry on that sundae: Kilgrave uses Jessica's neighbor as a suicide bomber as payback to Simpson for his previous attempt at getting to him, literally returning him his own bomb. For
**anyone** who has experienced a terrorist attack in Real Life, this scene comes as realistically scary.
- Worse is the fact that this fate was actually considered at one point for Elena Cardenas over in
*Daredevil*.
- Kilgrave's escape.
- Jessica is forced to watch as Kilgrave makes his mom stab herself to death with a pair of scissors, all because her method of preventing it was tampered by Jeri Hogarth, as part of her Deal with the Devil. It's made particularly bad because Jessica specifically promised no harm would come to her, but due to Hogarth's betrayal she is unable to intervene until it was too late.
- Then Kilgrave tells his father to cut his heart out. Luckily Jessica knocks him out before he gets started.
- Kilgrave tells Trish to put a bullet in her head. The way she just
*immediately* pulls the trigger upon hearing that was chilling enough on its own. Good thing she just spent all of her bullets on the glass.
- Kilgrave orders Clemmons, who is handcuffed to a pole, to follow him. He immediately breaks his thumb and skins his hand to allow it to slide out of the handcuffs.
- Kilgrave commanding Wendy to attack Jeri, saying "You wanted death by a thousand cuts? Then do it!" It's not necessary to make a thousand cuts (Kilgrave gives Wendy
*some free will*), it's still scary.
- Wendy dies brutally by smashing her head against the table when she falls. Jeri can only lie staring in utter shock at her wife's corpse, knowing that
*she caused this.*
- It gets worse when you realize that this type of torture is chillingly similar to the torture methods that Gregory Salinger uses in Season 3.
- In the previous episode, Trish luckily had no bullets left in her gun when Kilgrave told her to "put a bullet in your head." Here it turns out she still has to obey that order, meaning she has to hit herself in the head with a bullet until the repeated strain lets it go in. Jessica had to literally put a bullet in Trish's mouth to get Kilgrave's command to stop.
- In the previous episode, Albert was ordered to cut out his own heart, only for Jessica to knock him out. On recovering, and seeing his wife's body, his response is to try to continue to carry out the command planted by Kilgrave. The only two options to free Albert are for him to either let him do that, or to tie him up and wait 12 hours for Kilgrave's power to dispel (which they do, barely).
- An understated one, but once they're able to tie Albert up, he starts a conversation as if he wasn't under control. Jessica stresses that the moment he'd get untied was when he would go back to trying to kill himself. A friendly reminder that Kilgrave's victims are fully aware of what's happening to them.
- Hope's death and the situation regarding it is horrible. She slices her throat open which prompts Kilgrave to command the hostages on the bar counter to step forward and hang themselves. Jessica has to use all strength to rip the post from the ceiling to ensure that there is only ONE funeral, not five.
- Will Simpson, after having taken his combat enhancers. He was already out for blood beforehand, but now that his team is dead, he is at his limit. For a start, he murders Oscar Clemmons when he refuses to let him go through with killing Kilgrave. Then when he is approached by Kozlov's men, he shoots them both dead as well. Then, he tries to murder Jessica in her apartment, blaming her for all the people that have died. With the red pills in his system he is able to physically match her and even overpower her in combat.
- The effect that the pills have on a human body is terrifying. They heighten the user's adrenaline yet also shut down their pain receptors, causing the person in question to ignore serious injuries. Simpson doesn't even flinch from the burns on his arm one bit and hardly reacts to Jessica's blows at all.
- Then Trish takes a pill, which nearly kills her because her body is not used to it. Her adrenaline spikes which causes her brain to forget to pump blood to her heart. In short, she nearly dies of a seizure right then and there.
- It turns out that Kilgrave manipulated Luke so that not only did it appear that he had forgiven Jessica, but he said exactly what Jessica needed to hear. When the deception is revealed, Kilgrave starts laughing like a lunatic as he quotes several romantic things Luke said over the course of the episode, all the while crowing about how it was
*his* chemistry with her, *his* relationship that was what Jessica truly desired. **Kilgrave:** "I want you to know, I forgive you for everything. I'll say it every day for as long as you need to hear it." **Jessica Jones:** You heard that? **Kilgrave:** *[smirks]* **I ** *WROTE* IT! *[singsong voice]* Surprise! *[Luke appears and punches Jessica on the face, throwing her across the room]* **Kilgrave:** Mr. Cage had been ordered to ring me about your exploits since before he blew up his seedy little bar. Uh, the 12-hour window at that point was actually 16 hours. Now it's 24... and a hundred yards. Did you think he was more powerful than me? With his unbreakable skin? Is that why you desired him? **Luke Cage:** You really thought I could forgive you? You killed my wife. **Jessica Jones:** That's not you talking, that's him. **Luke Cage:** Shut up. **Kilgrave:** I tried so hard to avoid this, Jessica. This is not what I wanted. But you failed the test. *[into mike]* Kill her. *[Luke starts approaching Jessica]* **Jessica Jones:** No. You can fight this. Luke. *[Luke tries to punch her, she grabs his fist. Both keep pushing each other, until Luke prevails.]* **Kilgrave:** Every move he made was mine. Those tender moments. Those sweet things he shared, it was all me. It was our sexual tension. It was all me! You chose wrong, Jessica. You always have. Stop her, Cage!
- Kilgrave's power has now increased dramatically. Now instead of being under a control for just 12 hours, a victim is susceptible to his command
*for an ENTIRE DAY.* Then there's the fact that he can control hundreds of people at once. If he really wanted to, he could send an army after Jessica. Which is almost exactly what he does in the next episode.
- Kilgrave unleashing Luke Cage, super-strength and unbreakable skin, against Jessica. Watching a character who we've seen in a near universally positive light turn into an Implacable Man who silently proceeds to show exactly how much he has been holding back. Even the ending of the confrontation involves Jessica having to shoot him at point-blank range with a police-issue shotgun.
- In a non-Kilgrave related case, Dorothy Walker's visit to Trish's apartment is this for anyone who grew up with abusive parents. She just walks right in, examining the place like Smaug would a hoard of gold, acting like she has every right to be there when she very clearly doesn't. The scene comes complete with the guilt tripping, emotional manipulation, and self-serving motives of a textbook abuser (many of which we saw in the flashbacks), and it's hard to watch if you know what Trish is going through. Doubles as a CMOA for Trish, as you can see how much it takes out of her to tell her mother to leave.
- Having Luke Cage's unbreakable skin has its pros, but it also comes with a few catches: like when internal injuries cause fluid to build up in your skull from a point-blank shotgun round to your head, the only place a needle could go into your body to drain it is through your eye socket. Luke's having a seizure while Claire does this, so if the super strong Jessica wasn't there to keep his head steady, someone would've had a very bad day. In fact this treatment is about as risky as what Claire has to do to Luke after Diamondback uses Judas bullets on him.
- Albert's death. It's done by Kilgrave ordering Justin to, in his words, "remove Dad from the face of the Earth", which involves cutting off Albert's arms at the shoulders. Then he orders Justin's husband to inject himself with drain cleaner. Even worse, Justin is physically unharmed despite chopping off Albert's arms with a hacksaw and stuffing one of them down a garbage disposal. Meaning he now has to live with not only his husband's death but the horrors he himself was forced to commit. Is it any wonder Kilgrave's victims are often Driven to Suicide?
- Albert is still barely clinging on to life when Jessica finds him.
- Kilgrave, still unsure of whether or not his amplified power has worked on Jessica, threatens to take Trish with him and disappear. Jessica has to keep a perfectly blank face while he describes in detail what he plans to do with her adopted sister, and even forces Trish to kiss him in front of her. Everything depends on Jessica's non-reaction, and had her bluff not worked, her best friend would have been condemned to a life of sexual slavery and psychological torture with no hope of escape.
- "From your perspective, I'd be raping her every day. My skin will be touching hers. She'll be my plaything. She'll be my slave. And in her mind she'll be dying, isn't that right?"
- It's also profoundly disturbing to see Kilgrave's glee when he's finally convinced that Jessica is under his control again, frantically assuring her that he
*knows* that she'll grow to love him. He genuinely believes that he's not doing anything wrong.
## Season 2
- Simpson secretly following Trish wherever she goes.
- The
*monster* that was created alongside Jessica and Whizzer. Who- or whatever it is, the short glimpse the audience gets through the flashback is already unsettling enough.
- Jessicas brutal beatdown of Cheng is this considering it is Jessica who assaulted him first and as Cheng tries to defend himself (while at the same time goading her). The beating gets worse with Jessica nearly killing him before coming to her senses.
- The reason Simpson has been following Trish is because IGH have been trying to kill her to stop her chasing her story. He's not on his Psycho Serum anymore (instead an inhalant that has a lesser effect which doesn't seem to affect his sanity), and is revealed to be The Atoner before whatever else IGH cooked up comes after Trish again. He goes to fend it off while Jessica gets Trish out of there, only for them to double back to find that the real culprit has killed Simpson by twisting his neck nearly a clean 180 degrees.
- Searching the basement of Dr. Hansen's building, Jessica reaches into the incinerator and pulls out the charred remains of a human head. Jessica drops it in shock when she realizes what she's holding, while Trish covers her mouth and almost vomits.
- Alisa's brutal murder of Nick Spanos, Pryce Cheng's fixer and best friend. Nick is attacked as he's loading the stuff he stole from Jessica's apartment into his van, and when we next see his body, his entire arm has been torn off and the interior of the van is covered in blood.
- Following an argument with her mother, Trish takes Simpson's inhaler, and the camera does an extreme close-up of her pupils dilating.
- Watching Alisa smash that piano to pieces.
- It's a minor one, but Inez freaks out when Malcolm pulls up a crime scene photo of Luanne McClure. He admits that he found it on an online black market for crime scene pictures. Just the fact that there are people who pay money to see such gory material raises a lot of shivers.
- Alisa was horribly disfigured in the crash, and spent five years in induced comas as IGH treated her. All disturbing stuff, not helped by an extended look at her flayed face.
- We see the event that gave Inez her lacerations: Alisa gets loose and attempts to escape to go seek out Jessica. First, she pushes Inez into a glass container hard enough to embed shards of glass into her back, then, as Luanne tries to push the emergency button to call for help, Alisa grabs her and snaps her neck like nothing. We are given a focus shot of these two, Inez lying maimed on the ground with huge glass shards sticking out of her back, unable to move or turn away from her dead coworker.
- When Jessica is sedated and bound by Dr. Malus, she freaks out and screams at him not to touch her. It doesn't matter that he's actually a nice person who acted in self-defense and has no intention of harming or violating her. Being absolutely powerless before a man is the exact thing rape survivors have nightmares over.
- Jessica's Accidental Murder of Dale Holliday, the serial killer guard. While simultaneously blinded from pepper spray and assaulted by Dale, she snatches the baton he was using and whacks him in the head with it, only she swings too hard and it busts his head open.
- Even worse, Jessica hits him so the tonfa-style baton's handle impacts his head, not the baton itself. If she'd been able to see, she might have hit him with the broader side, instead of all the force focused on the end of the handle, and the blow might not have been fatal.
- Dale Holliday himself. He's a sadistic prison guard who kills inmates who defy his streak of terror, and keeps their numbers as trophies. Another example of showing that Humans Are Bastards.
**EAT YOUR PROTEIN, 46592!**
- The PTSD of accidentally killing Dale causes Jessica to begin having visions of Kilgrave. They become increasingly regular until she's seeing Kilgraves everywhere and actually throttles an innocent man against a wall.
- In the end when Jessica finally conquers her demons, Kilgraves last words before disappearing arent an angry or rueful youll see me again or something akin to that nature, but just a calm Ill be here if you need me, showing that Kilgrave will
*always* be a part of Jessica's psyche.
- Jeri's baroque revenge on Shane and Inez really stands out for how
*pointlessly* cruel it is: she could easily have just gone to the police and filed criminal charges, but instead goes right to psychologically manipulating Inez into killing a man who apparently really does love her, before sending her away for that. As harsh as she was before, this is a Jeri Hogarth who truly has nothing left to lose.
- You don't know just how utterly broken Trish is until she kills Alisa in cold blood. Not only does she not show an ounce of remorse or think committing murder is wrong, she flat out states that she did it just to feel powerful, just to feel good enough to be the one who "saves" Jessica. The way she shows up at Jessica's doorstep and acts like killing her mother in front of her is something they can hash out over a drink shows that, in contrast to someone like Karen Page who was shocked and torn up over killing James Wesley and self-aware of the repercussions, Trish Walker is completely divorced from reality and mentally destroyed.
- Another disturbing factor is how Trish is totally oblivious to how much she has traumatized Jessica by shooting her mother
*right in front of her eyes*. She is completely unable to understand how Jessica would understandably react to this.
- And another factor is that Trish, a woman who is bordering on becoming an example of The Sociopath is developing powers. If she keeps going down this path, Jessica might not be able to stop her from killing anyone else and the police wouldn't stand a chance. What could have been Trish's Superhero Origin is becoming more like a Start of Darkness.
- And just after this, when Jessica jumps off the Ferris Wheel and grabs Trish's gun, it's entirely conceivable that Jessica is ready to Pay Evil unto Evil and shoot Trish dead for what she's just done.
- And to keep herself out of jail and close the case to everyone's satisfaction, Jessica has to live the lie that she killed her mother, not Trish. Jessica will be hailed as a hero for putting an unrepentant monster in the grave again, but this time not only is it not true, that monster was her mother.
## Season 3
- Most could agree that Gregory Salinger is the scariest aspect of Season 3. To clarify, the man is a vicious Serial Killer who loves to torment and torture his victims before killing them. Just think of an Evil Counterpart of
**THE PUNISHER**, that's how scary this guy is.
- Perhaps the scariest aspect is that his victims die as a result of the knife wounds he causes them. In other words,
**their victims die slowly**.
## Trailers
- The first teaser, zooming around a purple-tinted New York as Kilgrave faintly calls, and then
*howls,* Jessica's name. Any knowledge of the characters makes it utterly chilling. It's not a storm that's oncoming; it's something *much* worse.
- And the "Evening Stroll" teaser retains that purple tint.
- The "All in a Day's Work" teaser, which is just Jessica putting up pictures of some investigation... except Kilgrave is talking over the teaser, saying that he knows about Jessica, about her friends, about her gifts, that he knows
*everything*. And then camera pulls back and all the pictures become his *eyes* (As pictured to the right). And Jessica is tinged in purple. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JessicaJones2015 |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Spoilers Off applies to all "Moments" pages, so
**Unmarked Spoilers Ahead!** *"Let me see that pretty face drain of all hope! [...] Just be sure to cheat this way so I can get a good look before you go ahead and die!"* *Vento Aureo* is notorious for being the darkest part of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* next to *Steel Ball Run*, with its brutal Anti-Heroes being matched by much viler villains than ever before (complete with the darkest Big Bad in the entire series so far), while the gruesome violence is turned up to eleven. As such, it's got plenty of Nightmare Fuel.
## General
- While not as outlandish as the other examples here it still bares mentioning on how disturbingly realistic Giorno's backstory is and how it happens in real life. Giorno's mother left her not even four-year-old son by himself at night because she didn't want to give up her life of partying. Then she marries a man who seems nice on the surface, but turns out to be abusive asshole who would beat Giorno for just looking at him wrong. Who knows how Giorno's life or how he would turn out if he never rescued and meet that gangster.
- This part is where the stakes start to get a lot higher for the Stand fights. This isn't Part 3, where the enemy Stand users are paid mercenaries, many of them bumbling comic relief characters who have clearly never killed before and beg for mercy when they lose. This isn't Part 4, where they're ordinary townspeople who are testing out their new powers and are perfectly willing to become friends after being defeated. This is Part 5, and the main charactersmost of them barely 15 to 17 years oldare facing professional, seasoned killers who know exactly what they're doing. They know the exact powers and limitations of their own Stands, and they don't waste a second messing around on the job. Once their sights are locked on a target, they're
**out for blood**, and they wont stop until their enemies are dead or they are. Every fight ends in a gruesome death—pummeled into a bloody pulp, melted alive by a killer flesh-eating virus, torn into pieces, impaled, run over by a train, and worse.
- Giorno himself. A highly intelligent, calculating and ambitious 15-year-old boy with all the charisma and ruthlessness of Dio, who does not hesitate to inflict savage punishment on two kinds of people: those who hurt innocents, and those who get in his way. With a series of cunning plans, the assistance of his team and the power of his Stand, he takes over the most powerful gang in Italy in the span of one week. It's very lucky he has the true heart of a Joestar, or one has the feeling he could reach heights even Dio never dreamed of.
- His teammates can be scary in their own ways, as well. Bucciarati can unzip a living person into chunks while keeping them alive or simply dismember them for a swift death, Mista can aim bullets at a target's most vulnerable spots with pinpoint precision, Narancia controls a miniature fighter plane with infinite ammunition that can track a target by their breathing, spray bullets, drop bombs,
*and* shred with its propeller, and Fugo can release a killer virus so deadly it takes less than 30 seconds to reduce a grown man to a puddle of melted flesh.
- Polpo's Black Sabbath is one of the most terrifying Stands in the entire series, let alone this part. A long-range autonomous Stand that has a Stand arrow within its mouth and is capable of moving within shadows at an incredible speed. Even when Giorno manages to escape its grasp and enter the sunlight, Black Sabbath just keeps on wandering back and forth aimlessly, waiting for him. Made even more nightmarish when you take note on how Polpo utilizes its power: by
*impaling* those who reignite the lighter and thus break the #1 rule of his entrance exam. The poor janitor who had no idea what was going on was unfortunate enough to die for having his soul *forcibly dragged out* by the arrow.
- Black Sabbath's appearance itself is pretty terrifying: tall, lanky, entirely dressed in black and having a Venetian carnival mask styled head. Its appearance is even more unsettling when you take note on how it's supposed to be remotely based on the black figure Geezer Butler saw and which inspired Black Sabbath's first album cover.
- The less said about Polpo himself, the better. A grotesque glutton who is both impossibly tall and wide by human standards and with a reverse-colored eye scheme. He is such a sloppy eater that he regularly
*eats his own fingers*. They grow back, a sign that this fat freak is clearly a Stand User.
- After his defeat, Zucchero was turned into a disembodied head by Bucciarati and had his mouth zipped up. He was left at the mercy of Mista, who hung him up by the eyelid with a
*fishing hook* in a position where he would look directly at the sun while wearing glasses that magnified his eyeball. It's overshadowed by the group's hilarious dance routine and the fact that Zucchero had this coming, but this is a position *no one* would want to end up in.
- The Defeat of Sale. While the fight is generally tame for the most part the climax ends with Mista using Kraft Werk's ability against it by having the Sex Pistols climb onto one of his stationary bullets about to be fired and redirecting it at Sale as he fires it. He tries to avoid it but it comes in contact and hits the bullet wound in his head Mista made earlier and hits the bullet he previously fired, pushing it further into his skull and destroying his brain. The Last few seconds of their battle consist of the now lobotomized Sale blankly staring off until he collapses and begins to bleed profusely. What's worse is he doesn't die right away even after this, Mista notes he still survived the shot but let's face it, he might as well be dead at this point.
- Aerosmith's debut chapter is not a good one for arachnophobes. The Stand of Formaggio, Little Feet, has the power to shrink things. Throughout the chapter Narancia continues to shrink, until Formaggio captures him and shoves him into a bottle, along with a large spider. Formaggio then proceeds to describe exactly what being eaten alive by a spider would be like:
**Formaggio:** Oh yeah, don't assume that its bite will send you to a swift and peaceful oblivion. Its venom will first paralyze your muscles, rendering your body immobile. But it's what happens *after* the paralysis that's really terrifying. It'll grab you and inject both a venom and a digestive enzyme deep into your body. The deadly cocktail of enzymes will then slowly but surely liquefy your insides into a pulpy, viscous slime, then... slurpety slurp. Keep in mind, you'll be fully conscious, meaning you'll be able to speak while it's lunching on your flesh...
- The anime adds a brutal bonus scene that highlights the dangers of Formaggio's ability and tells us more about La Squadra as we see a man ingest a miniature car, before Formaggio uses his Stand to make the car grow to full size while it's still inside him. The results are terribly unpleasant, is it any wonder that Pesci was queasy?
- Sorbet's death. He and his partner Gelato were dissatisfied by the small territory Diavolo had given them so they began to look into him. Diavolo caught both of them, tied up Gelato and made him watch him cut Sorbet into 36 separate pieces... while he was still alive,
*toes first*. Gelato was so horrified that he committed suicide by swallowing his cloth gag to spare himself from this torturous death. Later, Diavolo sends formaldehyde-filled slabs containing bits of Sorbet to the Hitman Squad as a warning not to cross him again.
- The anime makes this MUCH worse. Not only do we see Sorbet's brutal death albeit a Shadow Discretion Shot, we see who butchered him up through an Early-Bird Cameo of
*Cioccolata* — the most twisted of Diavolo's men, with Secco filming it all on a camera in the background while Sorbet was heavily restrained as he was being cut up, which amplifies the terror from the perspective of both him and Gelato in their final moments. It's especially unsettling seeing Cioccolata's silhouette lumbering around menacingly and the noticeably large and sharp blade he's holding makes him very reminiscent of Pyramid Head from *Silent Hill 2*. The creepy visuals, haunting music, Sorbet screaming and the horrified expressions of fellow La Squadra members just add more nightmarish undertones to this scene.
- It becomes even worse when we later learn that Cioccolata is capable of using his own Stand to temporarily split his own body into multiple pieces, and then reassemble himself with no ill effects. Meaning that he could easily have kept Sorbet alive for way longer than what would have been normally possible...
- If this additional scene is anything to go by, Diavolo didn't kill him with King Crimson in the manga either which would have potentially been a better fate as Diavolo doesn't torture or mess with his opponents. Instead, he got
*the* most monstrous of his squad to do it, as a macabre warning of sorts, in the most gruesome and painful way possible. Even though Diavolo claims he's disgusted with Cioccolata, the fact that he still has him and Secco working for Passione and using them as means of intimidation (with Cioccolata being his personal *chief torturer*) makes him a complete Hypocrite.
- Though it is possible Diavolo has to let Cioccolata torture people from time to time to keep him from rebelling, and in doing so, becoming even more dangerous.
- The amount of creative sadism involved in how Diavolo made his point clear to the remainder of La Squadra is both impressive and horrifying, as the team suddenly receive a whole bunch of frames with glass boxes filled with formaldehyde shortly after Formaggio discovered Gelato's body. Then they notice the body parts, and line them up... And see that it's Sorbet's body, frozen in a horrified expression in what is basically one big horrific art piece (that also must've take a lot of effort to get
*just* right). Their terrified reactions are completely reasonable.
- The initial discovery of Gelato's corpse in the anime deserves a special mention. Formaggio goes into Gelato's apartment - only to find Sorbet's blood
*everywhere* in the kitchen and Gelato's body sitting in the corner, all tied up, with a cloth gag stuffed down his throat, dried tears on his cheeks and *opened eyes frozen with terror*. Then there's that small tag in his chest that says "punishment". The sheer fact that Sorbet's corpse is nowhere to be found just drives the point even further - that you do *not* want to mess with the Boss.
- The leadup to Sorbet's fate is made worse by the anime where the viewer can
*hear* the members of La Squadra, a band of *hardened assassins*, audibly losing their composure as it gradually comes into focus exactly *what* they're looking at. Pesci especially screws his eyes shut and screams that he doesn't want to see any more of what became of his ally, and *Formaggio* who had recently been shown assassinating a man by causing a full *car* to explode out of him and crush the man's date to paste not much earlier lets out a bloodcurdling scream of terror once the full "picture" comes together, and can be seen with his hands over his mouth struggling to keep from vomiting. When Illuso realizes just how Gelato died his voice is audibly wavering in fear.
- He's a good guy, but Fugo's Stand Purple Haze has one of the scariest abilities in the series: it releases a deadly flesh-eating virus which dooms anyone affected to a horrifically painful and gory death within the next 30 seconds.
- The anime adaptation adds a more in depth look into Fugo's childhood and reveals that the professor he beat senseless with an encyclopedia was apparently
*molesting* him. The way Fugo starts hitting his breaking point as the professor grabs him by the shoulders and invites him to "dinner" while *drooling* is just plain *uncomfortable*. Oh yeah, and Fugo was a *13-year-old* prodigy in college at the time; this incident essentially destroyed his future, which likely hits uncomfortably close to home for anyone who's ever been victimized by a powerful and respected figure.
- The Adaptation Expansion of his backstory makes Purple Haze's appearance and abilities even
*worse*. A Stand is the manifestation of their user's psyche in some way, and before this backstory was added Purple Haze was simply the manifestation of Fugo's hidden frothing-at-the-mouth rage. Now however, it's a frothing at the mouth berserker *with an instant kill radius around it to prevent anything from getting near*. It seems just the kind of Power Fugo would've wanted back when he was a kid in the clutches of that professor.
- The anime even made Purple Haze's "UBASHAAAAAA!" cry scarier by making it a gurgled monstrous sound instead of a Kiai like most stands. And when it isn't screaming like that, it just stands there, twitching and groaning like some kind of
*Silent Hill*-esque monster.
- Possibly one of the most unnerving things about Purple Haze is its erratic behavior, which reflects Fugo's personality. One second it's just staying still, breathing heavily and moaning like a zombie, and then the next second it unleashes a flurry of punches, obliterating any life that's unfortunate enough to get into its range.
- Purple Haze's disposal of Illuso is one of the goriest and most horrifying deaths shown in the entire series. After Illuso's hand has been infected by the virus due to Giorno allowing himself to be dragged into the mirror with said virus, Illuso is left with no other option than to escape the mirror without his infected parts. This, however, left him vulnerable to a full-on assault from Purple Haze, which ended up essentially being a Hope Spot from Illuso's perspective due to his last glimmer of hope involving an attempt to block Purple Haze's punch and inserting it into a nearby mirror shard... only for one of Purple Haze's virus capsules to launch right next to him. After he is completely infected by the virus at point-blank range, Purple Haze proceeds to pummel the virus throughout his entire body which is followed by Illuso's
*face being punched clean off* and a loving shot of the guy liquefying into a pile of mush and discarded clothes. The anime adaptation of this scene is slightly censored but it manages to compensate that with squishy sound effects mixed with Audible Sharpness of sorts and Illuso shrieking in agony after the virus starts showing its full effect. Not helping things is the anime framing the whole thing like Illuso getting caught by a slasher movie villain.
- Even Fugo's theme in the anime is terrifying. It starts with a
*biohazard alarm,* and is followed by a tune that wouldn't sound out of place on the *Jaws* soundtrack, before getting hit with a filthy distorted guitar noise and the theme switches to something out of a survival horror game.
- The scene where an unnamed woman (named Anita in the anime) is cornered in her train cabin by Melone and used as a host for Babyface, especially since its laptop form isn't Invisible to Normals. The terror of the scene comes from a combination of the mystery of what exactly Melone's Stand
*does* coupled with his pseudo-masochistic reaction to the woman slapping him. He's really just happy she's violent since that means that Babyface's "child" will be violent, and the fact that Babyface going on the offensive against her to implant her with its Homunculus is framed like a rape scene complete with Babyface slamming its hand against the glass as she presses up against it in horror.
- Bucciarati's backstory is filled to the brim with terror. His father was happy enough to assist two fishers in riding his boat to an isle in Naples. When one of them forgot his fishing rod, Bucciarati's father tried to return it to them and instead stumbled upon them making a drug deal. They shot him seven times and he survived thanks to a passing coast guard, but then the thugs came to his hospital room to try and finish him off while he was unconscious.
- Granted they deserved it and it was an awesome moment, but there is seriously something eerie about just how kid Bucciarati killed the thugs. He stabbed the first one in the chest and
*slowly* carved the blade up into to his neck as if he was cutting open a chicken breast, then he suddenly stabbed the other thug in the eye. And Bucciarati looked perfectly calm the entire time.
- When one takes into account that Bucciarati is the son of a fisherman, he likely learned how to
*gut fish* from his father and wound up using that skill to kill another person.
- The Elevator scene, the first hint of King Crimson's power. After a heartfelt and touching moment between Bucciarati and Trish, she holds his hand to help with her nerves, Bucciarati turns his head for
*a second* to check the distance to the roof and when he turns back Trish is gone except for *the hand he's holding*. This also serves as Diavolo's Establishing Character Moment as Bucciarati realizes he had his daughter brought to him not for her protection but so *he could kill her himself to protect his identity*.
- Also adding to the terror is the fact that King Crimson's ability
*doesn't make a sound*. There's no bass drop like The World and no deafening explosion like Killer Queen. One second Trish was there *and the next she's not*.
- The Clash and Talking Head arc, while initially hilarious, was scary on a psychological level. Imaging knowing there's a killer mini-shark hidden in the water your friend is about to drink and only being able to tell them it's fine to drink.
- Squalo's and Tiziano's Stands, the aforementioned Clash and Talking Head, wouldn't be that much of a danger for Bucciarati's crew individually, but
*combined* they are a significantly larger threat than any of the previous members of La Squadra encountered. Clash is a shark capable of transferring between liquid surfaces and is swift enough to bite off Narancia's tongue before he can warn his friends. Much like the predatory tendencies expressed by sharks in real life, Clash prefers to attack only after a herd has scattered. This is perfectly demonstrated when it suddenly jumps at Giorno and *bites his neck* when the only other individual present is Narancia, who is *unable to tell the truth* due to Talking Head attached to his tongue. Clash's size depends on the amount of water available and is as small as a tadpole when residing within Narancia's tears and even *larger than a real shark* when lurking in the canals.
- Squalo's short-lived Villainous Breakdown when he carries the now perished Tiziano who used the last way of action to stand in the way of Aerosmith's bullets to both protect Squalo and launch streams of blood on Narancia so that Clash can travel close to Narancia's neck. He was
*pissed* beyond compare losing his partner, vowing to not only kill Narancia but the rest of the crew just to get back to him. The way his voice travels from Tranquil Fury to the Rage-Breaking Point as he commands Clash to end Narancia here and now, slowly and painfully. If he actually won, there's no telling what things he'll do to the rest of the crew with that kind of anger.
- Carne's Stand, Notorious B.I.G., a horrific, carnivorous blob that will devour anything that it sees moving (unless softened by Trish's Spice Girl Stand). The worst part? It literally cannot die. The heroes can't kill it. They have no way of ever killing it. They can only drop it into the ocean and render it mostly harmless, but the narration states that it still attacks passing ships. And the reason it can't die? Stands aren't vulnerable on their own. To defeat a Stand, you must defeat the Stand user. This thing broke out of its user
*when the guy DIED* — it can't be killed because there's nothing to target. Given that Stands are in part a reflection of their user, what does that say about him?!
- Carne himself is creepy as hell despite his extremely limited screen time. When Giorno and the rest are about to board the plane, they spot Carne further away just
*slowly walking towards them and grinning*. He doesn't even say anything, he just *stares* at them. Even after Mista manages to shoot Carne's kneecaps off, he still sports a confident demeanor, believing that Bucciarati's crew is finished if they kill him. And then, after being shot, he calls out his Stand which *devours* him for energy.
- The graffiti it writes on the wall can send chills down one's spine if they take the time to translate it.
**Notorious B.I.G's graffiti, rough translation:**
The corpse is eating us. Save us.
[Carne] was used and abandoned like an old rag. He died with hatred in his heart. That hatred is his energy. An energy that activated for the first time when he died. An energy not even he had seen in his lifetime.
Nothing can kill him anymore because he is a corpse.
Help. Please. I can't take it anymore... before dying, I want to eat pizza from my hometown, Naples
.
- That last line in particular is terrifying in context: It's an Ironic Echo of Giorno's longing for some Naples pizza just moments ago;
*the damn thing's been listening to him the whole time*.
- The line "was used and abandoned like an old rag" brings up a horrifying possibility: Carne might not have been Notorious B.I.G's first user at all. It's possible that like Cheap Trick before it, Notorious B.I.G was a parasitic Stand that latched onto a host to use its power. Given the graffiti contains the line "An energy not even he had seen in his lifetime" despite Carne seemingly knowing what would happen if he died, it's entirely possible that Carne was
*entirely subsumed by Notorious B.I.G by the time he walked to his death*.
- The grievous maiming it inflicts on the group. Notorious B.I.G. devours most of Giorno's left arm (forcing Mista to shoot it off) and forces him to cut off his other one in a vain attempt to get rid of it, turns 4 of the Sex Pistols into a fused mass of flesh causing Mista to bleed out, and
*tears pieces of Narancia's flesh off*.
- Notorious B.I.G in the manga was horrifying enough, the anime achieves the feat of making it even more terrifying through the contribution of menacing motion and suspenseful soundtracks. The nightmare of Notorious B.I.G's presence reaches the point where the only difference between its debut-episode and a horror-movie, is the run-length. Nothing else.
- Then there's the moment when the crew thinks that they have gotten rid of Notorious B.I.G's 2nd form, only for it to slam against the plane window in an effective Jump Scare. It keeps doing this to Trish who is now completely alone and vulnerable against a carnivorous parasite-like blob that reacts to even the slightest amount of movement.
- After Trish deals with its second form through awakening her Stand, Spice Girl, Bucciarati sees something and tells the girl to slowly walk towards him with uncharacteristic dread. Trish turns to see that it has devoured most of the ship and is no longer an oddly cute small creature, but now a towering blob with a small semblance of its original features that is confirmed beyond a doubt, that has true immortality and nigh-indestructibility after everything that was thrown at it, just waiting in anticipation for its next attack. The palpable fear Bucciarati shares with the viewers is justified at this point.
- After Trish has Notorious B.I.G tossed out the plane and into the ocean, it
*STILL* doesn't die. Instead, it is doomed to chase after the ever-chaotic movements of the currents for all eternity, along with the occasional boat that happens to pass by if it's moving faster than the currents. It becomes a sort of urban legend, with the local fisherman calling it the "Tyrrhenian Belly".
- Cioccolata is this all by himself.
- He's a doctor who purposefully botches surgeries just to see what would happen, then films it to watch it again. He also knows exactly where to cut to dismantle a person without killing them, which is how he comes after Giorno as a bunch of detached body parts hobbling towards him.
- Adding to Cioccolata's already unsettling Monster Clown of an appearance and the fact that he dismembers himself in order to hide himself from plain sight is already nightmarish enough, but in the anime he
*stitches himself back together* and looks like a Frankenstein monster of sorts. All this while he's bragging about how looking down on others who are about to fall in despair is the sole reason for living.
- He also gets an Early-Bird Cameo in the anime, which reveals that
*he's the one who butchered Sorbet*. Given how we can still hear Sorbet screaming in terror and pain during the flashback to the moment Gelato committed suicide out of despair, and knowing the information about him dismantling people in the item above, it's very likely Sorbet suffered *a lot,* while Cioccolata enjoyed *every second of it*.
- And before
*that*, when he was FOURTEEN, he masqueraded as a kindly attendant to the elderly... but in actuality drugged and starved them to keep them weak while also telling them that their family hate them and nobody cared enough to come visit them. Nine people committed suicide from his psychological abuse, and he filmed that, too.
- The anime adaptation on Cioccolata's youth is way more graphic than it was in the manga (similar to Angelo in part 4). We first see him
*slowly removing a conscious patient's innards* (This is the new page image) and then his time as a caretaker for the elderly where he is filming a patient who committed suicide in a bathtub while sporting a *massive Slasher Smile*.
- What's
*worse* is that he performs both of these hideous acts in respectable professions with almost *fetishistic glee*. No one realized what a monster Cioccolata was mere inches below his facade, and he kept this up for *well over a decade of his life*.
- The anime makes the initial encounter with Cioccolata feel like something out of a horror movie. It takes a while before Bucciarati and his crew even realize that literally
*everyone* in the fishing village is either dead or *dying*. The disturbing, tense music certainly doesn't help.
- While waiting to ambush Bucciarati's group in Rome, Cioccolata uses his Stand Green Day to gruesomely murder every innocent bystander by inflicting them with a flesh-eating mold that
*slowly tears apart their bodies*. He doesn't even give them a clean death and instead waits until his partner Secco has filmed their expressions on a video camera. After Bucciarati, Mista and Giorno manage to escape from the bay, Cioccolata takes on a helicopter so that he can spread the mold faster which results in mass casualties: people falling off balconies in agony, a motorcyclist shrieking while his body is falling apart while driving and numerous collisions around the Coliseum. The sheer level of destruction in this arc is only rivaled by Dio's rampage in Cairo!
- The anime shows that there are 3 million people in Rome and Cioccolata wanted all of them gone, and would have gone further if the Gang didn't stop him. This is simply the biggest scale of destruction in the series yet.
- To call a spade a spade: Cioccolata essentially staged a one-man
*terrorist attack* on the city of Rome, basically *just because he could*! No wonder Diavolo never wanted to set this maniac loose unless he had absolutely no other manpower left.
- Cioccolata's voice in the anime deserves a mention. Unlike the higher pitched, slightly goofy voice of his in the PS2 game, the anime gives him a deeply unsettling and almost calm baritone by the courtesy of both Atsushi Miyauchi and Bill Butts in the English dub. But then, after repeatedly getting his plans ruined by Giorno, Cioccolata's mask of barely disguised insanity slowly falls apart and he starts to speak with an extremely unhinged, almost beast-like growl. And when it seems he has won and Giorno is supposedly falling to his demise, Cioccolata unleashes an Evil Laugh similar to that of The Joker's, fitting for his status as a Monster Clown.
- Cioccolata's "friendship" with Secco is sick, twisted and unhealthy in every way possible. Not only were these two messed up in the head to begin with, but together they just keep on corrupting each other even more. While Cioccolata does all the killing and torture, Secco films everything and aids his "master" in killing by
*sinking* their victims underground so that Green Day's mold can affect faster. The amount of twisted homosexual innuendo between the two is heavily implied for the fact alone that Cioccolata is the master to Secco's borderline sex slave. Not even helped that Secco's Oasis manifests around him disturbingly similar to that of bondage gear.
- Secco himself has also something very unsettling about him. Normally, he is almost as sadistic as Cioccolata himself, but when Bucciarati hurts him to the point he starts bleeding uncontrollably, he is reduced into a sobbing child. And when he calls Cioccolata and informs him about this, he just doesn't care as he wants the footage of Bucciarati's crew dying. Given that Secco was Cioccolata's former patient and was tortured by him and is now his assistant he either abuses or treats with candies just drives the point further how the two of them have an extremely unhealthy obsession with each other.
- Episode 32 of the animation also gives us Secco's true personality and capabilities under the facade of a submissive, pet-like lapdog. It's downright frightening along with the disturbing faces he's constantly getting off, along with the revelation that his ability to turn inorganic objects into mud can also be applied to LIVING PEOPLE! He almost melted Bucciarati and Doppio before the former stopped him.
- It's telling that
*the Big Bad of the arc* thinks he's a psycho. This is the same Big Bad who wants to kill his daughter due to unjustifiable paranoia.
- During the second half of the fight, Cioccolata reveals that his experience as a doctor means that he's able to sever parts of his body, and still keep them intact, let alone move, with his stand. This leads to some very disturbing sights. One of the biggest contenders for that is when Giorno botches his sneak attack on the helicopter, Cioccolata severs a part of his torso just to get away, accompanied by his spine being visible and wriggling about.
- With that all said, yes, he deserved every bit of suffering he took in his death, but that doesn't make it any less brutal. First he was shot in the head, then Giorno turned the bullet into a stag beetle that ate his brain from the inside, then Giorno used Gold Experience to
*beat him within an inch of what little life he might have had left for seven pages*, and Gold Experience's punches infuse the target with life causing them to perceive the world in what amounts to Bullet Time. note : Bucciarati, a hardened mafioso, was reduced to mentally begging Giorno not to pummel him in that state while *whimpering*. And a comment in this video calculates that the beatdown probably lasted *twenty minutes* for Cioccolata, while another person calculated that if Gold Experience's ability stacks that Cioccolata experienced *three billion times one quadrillion to the power of 13 years worth of pain,* which is longer than the universe itself has existed by an obscene margin. The final punch then sends him flying into a garbage truck's *trash compactor*. *God damn.* Again, he deserved every second of it, but And depending on the day of the week his beatdown had taken place, it's not even over for Cioccolata, as a sign on the trash compactor says that the burnable trash pickup is on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. **God DAMN.**
- During the final moments of the beatdown in the anime, you can almost hear Cioccolata beg for Giorno to stop as he's taking the pummeling, which only serves to reiterate how much pain he's in. To make matters worse, there was an extra level of horror during the
*"WRY"* part in the English dub. Giorno's scream contains so much primal anger as he continues to lay on the punches. This can show the audience one thing: if you value your life, **DON'T FUCK WITH GIORNO GIOVANNA**.
- Cioccolata's Leitmotif called "Mold" has a bunch of eerie sounds playing in the background and sounds straight out of a horror movie. Then it gets intense, which plays when Cioccolata starts his rampage at Rome and is about to kill Mista by slashing his neck with his right hand.
- The boss of Passione, Diavolo, and by extension Doppio, is a strong contender for the most unsettling Big Bad in the series. Everything about him; his stand, brutality, ambiguous origins, true nature, and his lack of actual appearance for most of the story makes him come across as more of an implacable horror movie monster than a human villain.
- His sheer obsession with keeping his identity a secret is this. The amount of time he devotes to ranting about keeping himself "on the apex" becomes unsettling when you consider just how
*serious* he is about it and the amount of effort he makes in making it clear to his subordinates that he does *not* want to be investigated. Remember what happened to Sorbet above? He was a **warning** for La Squadra and they all backed out accordingly until they learned about Trish. *DIO* was nicer to his henchmen, and even they were still terrified of him. Imagine having *this* psycho for a boss.
- Diavolo's past counts as this as well. He was born in extremely unusual conditions to a female inmate after a two-year pregnancy, in an all-female prison. Then he was raised in a Sardinian village by a priest who thought of him as a clumsy, yet well-meaning boy. But then, after Diavolo turned eighteen, the priest found that he had kept his
*own mother for years* locked up underneath his floor, buried in concrete and with her *mouth sewn shut*. This was followed by an incident where the entire village was burned to the ground with many civilian casualties in which Diavolo effectively managed to erase his own childhood from existence. Given his backstory and the fact that he had an obsession in keeping himself a secret at a very young age, Diavolo is more or less the Devil incarnate. Is it any wonder why his name means "Devil" in Italian?
- A minor one, but there's still something very unsettling about Diavolo just sitting in his hotel room in fetal position at night while having his face and body covered by a long cloak. This man is so paranoid that he can't even move around freely in his comfort zone!
- King Crimson looks like a skinned human with two masks. It has the power to both skip time and forecast the future respectively 10 seconds ahead, rendering Diavolo virtually untouchable by normal means. And the fact that his user is a complete nutjob and it's physically one of the strongest stands in the series makes it more terrifying than usual.
- If King Crimson's already terrifying appearance wasn't enough, the anime adaptation makes it clear that the Boss is
*talking* through it in his fight with Bucciarati. There's just something very unsettling about Bucciarati being punched through by King Crimson while the Boss' ominous shadowy silhouette looms behind it like a puppet master pulling from strings.
- King Crimson's facial expressions were somewhat of an unintentional source of humor in the manga due to their over the top nature. In the anime however? The viewer gets to see King Crimson's face
*twisted and distorted with rage* in real time, making it much more terrifying in nature. One such contorted face◊ from when the Boss attempted to kill Trish only for Bucciarati to persist in protecting her now serves as the former page image (until it was replaced with Cioccolata).
- Bucciarati's initial encounter with King Crimson is filled with hopelessness and despair. First, the Boss uses his ability to erase time and snatches Trish from Bucciarati's plain sight,
*chopping off her hand* and leaving Bucciarati disoriented and shaken that he would go as far as to murder his offspring to remain anonymous. When Bucciarati catches on to the Boss, he erases time once again and Bucciarati is about to attack his future self before King Crimson suddenly appears *behind him* and punches a hole through his chest, bragging how anyone who threatens his throne will be redacted. Then, King Crimson *cleaves Bucciarati in half from the shoulder* with a single karate chop before tauntingly reappearing in front of him, sitting in stairs when Bucciarati tries to escape with Trish. Also, this is where Bucciarati officially dies due to his grave injuries but if it weren't for Giorno's healing ability, he would have remained dead instead of reanimating and the Boss would have succeeded in erasing his bloodline.
- The anime adaptation of this scene is no better thanks to oppressive atmosphere, dark visuals and Katsuyuki Konishi's chilling performance as the Boss, who whispers most of his lines with cold and calculative tone. Then, when bragging about how no one can threaten his throne, Konishi's voice becomes suddenly downright
*demonic* in comparison. The episode even ends on a cliffhanger after King Crimson punches a hole through Bucciarati's abdomen which drives even further the point how he is completely helpless and alone in a situation where he's trapped in a desolate location with a complete lunatic.
- When Bucciarati gets punched through the torso by King Crimson in the anime, we see that, instead of opting for a swift Megaton Punch, he actually
*digs his fist into Bucciarati's body until he bursts out on the other side*. The sound his chest makes when being impaled only makes it worse.
- The English Dub manages to make this scene ten times scarier thanks to a nightmarish performance from Kellen Goff. The way he gradually transitions from calm and authoritative at the beginning to murderously insane at the end really captures what an unhinged psychopath Diavolo is and you can practically
*hear* the madness in his voice as he gives his infamous speech. Special mention goes to the way he delivers the last line after he deals the killing blow. His voice dropping to a guttural snarl is utterly *chilling*. **Diavolo:**
Think of this as a gift. A farewell gift from the heart. In a moment, you will cease to exist so I will allow you to know now. What you witnessed and felt... was your future self laid bare. Simply put, your past self saw a future version. Now behold. Know the almighty power of King Crimson! I obliterated time and leapt beyond it! (
*punches Bucciarati in the spine*
) It doesn't matter who it is, I shall
*never*
allow any cretin to threaten my eternal transcendence.
**Not. Ever.**
The time's come for you to fade away! (
*burrows his fist through Bucciarati's chest*
) Bucciarati, your mission as protector has been terminated...
**Now may the fires of Hell embrace you.**
- His very fighting style complements his paranoid nature, and it makes him even more terrifying to fight against. He uses King Crimson's ability to keep himself out of sight when he can, with the only indication of his presence being the change in his surroundings as a result of erasing time. And then he reappears to violently dismember or impale his opponents/victims before they have a chance to react or defend themselves. Even if you do manage to get him in attacking range, he'll have seen it coming already thanks to Epitaph and will immediately erase time again.
- King Crimson's power becomes even more frightening in the anime as in the manga Epitaph's "world" of precognition was just represented with a black background. The anime makes it into an
*Acid-Trip Dimension* where everything crumbles away while King Crimson, Diavolo and the target of his precognition float in a void filled with stars. It makes King Crimson seem almost like a cruel *god*.
- This theme for The Boss in the anime soundtrack. The unsettling choices of instruments, combined with King Crimson causing the OST to skip like a scratched CD, highlights just how utterly insane he is, even in comparison with villains like Kira or even DIO.
- Doppio losing control of himself tends to alternate between massively creepy and utterly hilarious. Hilarious as his constant mood swings. Creepy as in the amount of violence he causes whenever he switches. Diavolo came out and brutally murdered a fortune teller who figured out how old he actually was. Later, when a taxi driver tried to con him out of his money, Doppio retaliated by almost
**pushing the man's damn eye out**.
- The fortune teller himself is pretty creepy too: his cat-like eyes, inexplicable ability to figure out Doppio's identity at a glance, and obsession with reading Doppio's fortune already paint him as a weird guy, but his reaction to being attacked by Doppio/Diavolo makes it so much worse: rather than scream or beg, he just laughs uproariously even after having his hand cut off, even drooling and rubbing his face on Doppio's palm.
- The anime actually makes his shifts even scarier; whenever his eyes change in the manga he just goes cock-eyed before his pupils change, but in the anime they spasm all around like the muscles controlling them are seizing up. Even worse is when he attacks the fortune teller as his eyes go
*deathly black* before changing the pupils and we actually see him physically grow to match Diavolo's build. The sound of his muscles growing and tightening up against his clothes is downright *nauseating*, not to mention physically painful. The English Dub makes the scene even scarier by having Diavolo and Doppio's voices briefly overlap as they make the switch, making it seem less like Doppio has a split personality and more like he's being possessed by some demonic force. And then there's the way Diavolo tells the fortune teller he's going to kill him in the most painless way possible as a twisted sign of respect for his talents. The calm, matter-of-fact way he does so is nothing short of *terrifying*. **Doppio:** *Leave me the hell alone!* Don't you *dare* touch me! **Diavolo and Doppio:** **So what if you can predict the future?!** **Diavolo:** Seems you're not a Stand user. Pity you had to peddle your talents of perception on the side of the road like a common beggar. It was the greatest misstep of your life. You see, **THAT ABILITY WILL BE USELESS TO YOU ONCE YOU'RE DEAD!** *indovino*, anyone who possesses any knowledge of my true self must not be allowed to live. But you have proven yourself to be a fortune teller of the highest caliber. You've my admiration, so I shall kill you in a way that inflicts the least amount of pain.
- An added scene in the anime showing Doppio's/Diavolo's birth when the guards in his mother's cell are cleaning him off. He was been staring blankly into space and never
*once* made a sound the whole time since he was conceived mere *minutes* ago. The guard holding him also happened to see his eyes switch from between amber to red and back for a brief moment, in other words *Doppio's* eyes to *Diavolo's*, showing that their split personality has been there since infancy. And with the confirmation that Diavolo and Doppio have separate souls this means that Diavolo is an invader in *Doppio's* body.
- The depths that Diavolo went to restoring his iron after the fight with Risotto shows how depraved he really is. He
*ate a live frog* for starters. Then Bucciarati and Narancia, searching for an enemy stand user, instead found a nearby child behind a rock with his mouth sewn shut with shoe laces and his wrist slit open with blood draining out of it. Diavolo doesn't even need to become a vampire to sacrifice his humanity.
- This video shows King Crimson from the perspective of the protagonists. Finding out that you suddenly moved a few feet has never been so terrifying. No wonder it was thought to be invincible until GER came.
- Risotto Nero, the leader of Squadra Esecuzioni/Hitman Team. For starters, there's the fact that he has red irises and black sclera. Combined that with his demeanor and you already get a creepy man to come across. Then there's his Stand, Metallica. It can manipulate iron, including the iron in his opponent's blood. When fighting him, he forces Doppio to
*cough up razor blades*.
- The anime adds a scene where he has apparently roped a hapless grunt into performing a extensive data analysis of a photo's ashes to decipher the next destination of Bucciarati's group. When the grunt starts to complain, nails burst out from one of his hands. Nero warns him that the next unwanted comment will cost him an eye, coldly reasoning that he only needs one hand and one eye to do his job. The guy seems to get the message, but begins to whine reflexively before he can stop himself. Cue his left eye starting to bulge before a Gory Discretion Shot. And blood splattering on Risotto's unflinching face.
- His whole fight with Doppio is quite possibly the most brutal, painful and
*nauseating* fight in the series, and that's saying **a lot**. Risotto spawned a pair of scissors in Doppio's neck and tried to use them to cut his throat. Doppio had to *rip the scissors out of his skin*.
- Doppio deducing where Risotto was hiding by using a frog, hoping that Risotto's ability would activate on it before reaching Doppio. And it did, causing the frog to
*burst open with razor blades spilling out*. Then Doppio cut off one of Risotto's feet by throwing a part of scissors at him.
- As the fight went on, lack of iron in Doppio's body was turning his blood into yellow pus. He was barely able to breathe and think from the lack of oxygen that iron provides for the body.
- Finally, Risotto tried to end the fight by
*slowly* slicing Doppio's head open from the top of his skull with razor blades. The anime adaptation doesn't make this any easier to sit through especially with Soma Saito and Griffin Burns's performances as Doppio whose *screams of agony* really drive the point further on how brutally Risotto is torturing him.
- What happened to Polnareff years before the events of
*Vento Aureo* takes place. While searching for the lost Stand arrow, he discovered that the said arrow had been taken to somewhere in Europe as the crime rates in France were skyrocketing. Investigating Passione's drug related crimes in Italy and Diavolo himself, Polnareff made two grave errors as he seriously underestimated King Crimson's ability and the amount of influence Passione had over the government. As pointed out in a flashback, Polnareff was *cut off from every facet of society* as he was unable to call Jotaro for help with telephones, postal service, transportation, mass media, politics and police being completely wrapped around Passione's payroll. Diavolo then gouged out Polnareff's eye with his King Crimson before tossing him over a cliff and destroying both his feet. Luckily, Polnareff survives, but he had to live *years* in hiding while keeping a low profile so that Diavolo wouldn't find out he's actually alive. Adding to that, he is now completely bound in a wheelchair and his inability to walk just makes him that much more vulnerable.
- Narancia's death is mostly Tear Jerker at its most devastating but it's also one of the more disturbing ones due to how unexpected and sudden it was. During Diavolo's time erasing rampage, Bucciarati notices that something is very off when he sees gallons of blood dripping from above. They then find Narancia mangled and impaled within a broken fence in crucifix position, dead. Adding more horror to the scene is that Narancia was killed during the segment that was erased by King Crimson. This means that for a second, Narancia was alive, and the next,
*he was just simply dead*.
- Some added symbolism in this scene is that Narancia was killed while he was in Giorno's body. Since Giorno is DIO's (God) son (Jesus), so Diavolo (Devil) basically just killed Messianic Archetype in a crucified manner.
- This part of the story is filled to the brim with Paranoia Fuel as Diavolo is hiding within the group in Mista's body and Bucciarati's crew haven't got a clue where he is attacking from.
- The anime adds a chilling scene where King Crimson is lurking from the shadows after Bucciarati and the rest go after Chariot Requiem, accompanied by terrifying music. Trish (in Mista's body) then suddenly turns around and notices that something is very, very wrong. It also serves as foreshadowing that King Crimson is actually hiding inside of Mista's body, which is revealed in the following episode.
- Chariot Requiem itself is Nightmare Fuel incarnate. Compared to Silver Chariot, Polnareff's original stand, THIS stand is strange looking, covered completely in shadow.
- It switches bodies of anybody within proximity of each other. Not just humans ... but animals too. You could be a mother taking care of an infant and all of a sudden, you're in the infant's body. Or you could have been walking your dog and all of a sudden, you're on a leash. Thankfully it tries to avert some of the Nightmare Fuel by having the babies and animals Suddenly Speaking (which also happened with Polnareff when his soul inhabited Coco Jumbo), but that's not without covering things like police and criminals, who a criminal (who was in a policeman's body) even used the opportunity to try to sexually harass Mista (who was in Trish's body at the time). Additionally, if there's a chance that there's a split personality, similar to Doppio and Diavolo, the stand will eject the split personality into someone else's body ... even if they're hiding inside someone else.
- It can also make Stands turn against their masters, possibly even killing them if they attempt to take the arrow from them, as shown when it turns Sticky Fingers and one of the Sex Pistols berserk, with the latter even attempting to psychotically kill Mista. If you're lucky enough not to be a Stand user and attempt to touch the arrow, Requiem will personally kill you, as shown when Polnareff (as the turtle) gets chased by it. It only stopped attempting to blindly kill Polnareff when ...
- ... Requiem's other effect starts to kick in,
**MUTATING** everybody. Watching things from animals to humans have hideous mutations is quite unsettling to watch, especially when Polnareff starts to get a second head (which looks almost zombielike) and humans start getting weird tumors and eyes. Mista's body also starts to peel off as well. It's played off as being harmless advanced evolution, but it's still very nightmarish to look at. The population of Rome has had a pretty bad day ...
- Between its Blue-and-Orange Morality, strange appearance, and nightmarish powerset, Silver Chariot Requiem is closer to an SCP than a stand!
- The second version of "Traitor's Requiem", which starts playing as of Episode 34. The changes are pretty minor at first, with Doppio turning into Diavolo... and then we get to the scene with the blood drops, and the full events of the time skip are shown: the landscape explodes around Giorno as Diavolo casually strolls behind him (in an eerie Call-Back to when Giorno's father did the same to Jotaro), all the while monitoring the future with Epitaph to avoid Giorno's attack. The distorted version of Diavolo's theme playing is the icing on the cake, and his monologue while he does so is simply bone-chilling.
*Nessuno può sfuggire dal destino scelto.* Translation : No one can escape the fate that was chosen for them. *Rimane solo il risultato che voi sarete distrutti.* Translation : All that remains is the end, where you will all perish. *L'eterna cima esiste solo per me.* Translation : Eternal greatness exists only within myself. *Puoi cantare canzoni di tristezza nel mondo senza tempo.* Translation : Sing a song of sorrow in a world where time has vanished.
- The "sound"
* : The penultimate episodes of each part have sound effects on their intros. version of "Traitor's Requiem" adds a very terrifying and distorted scream to the Doppio/Risotto Nero scene as he's transforming himself into Diavolo. This also becomes one of King Crimson's primary sounds when in use in that same episode. What makes it all the more unsettling is that it was almost never used at all beforehand. * : One of the few times it is heard is when Doppio switches to Diavolo for the first time. However, it's possible that its sudden use symbolizes just how unhinged Diavolo's soul is, now that Doppio is no longer a part of him by this point.
- The fate of Diavolo when defeated by Gold Experience Requiem. He just gets stuck in an endless loop of horrible deaths, including being stabbed by a random drug addict, having his liver pulled out during an autopsy, and being ran over. The worst part is he can't die due to GER returning everything to "zero", and he still feels all of the pain. Granted, it's truly well-deserved considering how horrifically monstrous he is, but his terrified expression as he trembles at the idea that
*literally anything approaching him could be his next death* at least makes him pitiable. **Diavolo:**
How... How many deaths must I die?! What'll happen to me next?! How much longer will I have to wait for the end?! (
*To a little girl walking towards him*
) Stay back! Leave me be! D-Don't come closer!
**STAY AWAY! LEAVE ME ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!**
- What doesn't help is that Diavolo is continuously dying, over and over, during the epilogue, the entirety of
*Purple Haze Feedback*, and *Stone Ocean*, the latter which takes place **10 years later**, Diavolo is **still** repeatedly dying. It's mere ponder for what state he'll be in by that point.
- Thanks to the anime adaptation, this scene is even worse to sit through and stomach.
- All of these nightmarish scenarios become amplified tenfold in the English dub, as Kellen Goff perfectly manages to capture the absolute despair, terror, and utter agony that Diavolo is currently experiencing, driven completely insane by crippingly extreme irrational paranoia, crying for help and painfully shrieking ear-piercingly prolongated and absolutely bloodcurdling screams of bloody murder at the top of his lungs in a horrifyingly realistic manner. Quite fitting, considering the
*other* series he is best known for having worked on, but it's still absolutely petrifying.
- Then there's Gold Experience Requiem itself. With that scaly skin, rough jagged outline and fish-like eyes, it simply seems so wrong and unsettling. Then GER just before subjecting Diavolo to an infinite time loop of death speaks by itself in a way similar to King Crimson a while before, implying that Giorno isn't exactly in complete control of his own Stand.
- During GER's beatdown of Diavolo, there's a brief frame of a mortally damaged King Crimson with
*half of its face shattered and its eye hanging from its broken face, and that says nothing of a similarly broken Epitaph's face falling off as King Crimson lunges for a Death or Glory Attack*. Combine that with King Crimson's already terrifying Nightmare Face, and it's not pretty.
- Giorno's explanation of Gold Experience Requiem's ability. And by "explanation", we mean
*reciting what GER said to Diavolo before succumbing to his endless death loop*. While certainly not as nightmarish compared to above, listening to his explanation will make you think twice that you do *not* want to mess with Giorno and his GER. **Giorno:**
Even though I couldn't witness Requiem at work myself, something deep in my soul tells me our job is done. Nothing will ever come within his putrid reach again. Not even the truth of his ultimate fate will grace him. His own death will remain a mystery to him for all eternity.
**It's over**
.
**Trish:**
B-but we didn't finish him.
**Giorno:**
His end is
*without end*
. That...
**is Gold Experience Requiem's judgement!**
- The official English dub translation of Giorno's explanation regarding what his stand just did to Diavolo deserves special mention. In many of the original subtitled translations, including Crunchyroll's, the line is translated as "His end is that there is no end.", as in "His end is that he will forever be unable to reach his fate.". While this isn't inaccurate by any means, it underscores the gravity of the situation. The English dub instead decided to go with "His end is without end.", as in "His end is that he's already dead, but he will never realize it and so he will keep experiencing death, over and over and over again,
**forever**." This translation of the line is signfiicantly more powerful, hammering home the fact that Diavolo is not only defeated, he's *royally screwed*. From his perspective, the release of death is forever beyond his grasp, and he'll keep suffering in a cycle of death and rebirth until the very end of the universe itself.
- Scolippi's Rolling Stone Stand
*shows him how people die*. If they touch it, even on accident, or accept their death and do so, it tells them a way to get a more peaceful and meaningful death — which they'll promptly embark on. When it showed his girlfriend how she'd die, she took the peaceful suicide it suggested would also help her father via organ donation. This, though, caused her father to attempt to send assassins after him. He handles this pretty well for a Messianic Archetype.
- The anime ramps up the horror factor of Rolling Stone, with its appearances constantly being accompanied by what one YouTube commenter described as the "choir of the damned." Not enough? You get to see it
*throb* and melt, too, making it seem less like stone and more like *flesh*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Tonight, you will be biting the dust...
*"Sorry, but Killer Queen has already left its mark on the doorknob."*
—
**Yoshikage Kira** warning his next victim of their untimely death
You'd think that since this part is Lighter and Softer,
*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* would let up on the horror this time around. You would be *horribly* wrong, as *Diamond is Unbreakable* goes to show.
-
**Everything** about Anjuro "Angelo" Katagiri. Despite his extremely short presence, this guy is, without a doubt, not only the darkest Starter Villain in the series, but also hands down the evilest villain in the entire franchise, period.
- For starters, he's a petulant Serial Killer and Serial Rapist since the age of 12, whose horrific crimes make even typically stone-faced Jotaro admit that he felt a shiver down his spine when reading about them (with him even addressing the audience that they don't wanna know, as it would make a sewer rat puke), which included kidnapping, raping, and brutally killing three teenage boys alongside countless other unspeakably horrible casualties, all For the Evulz. His Stand can
*hide* inside water and other liquids and kill people from the inside. He also boasts that after he's killed Josuke and Jotaro, he will "have fun" with Josuke's mother Tomoko, and is also not above taking a child as a hostage. Luckily, he gets a fitting end. That said, he's still an absolute monster through and through who's singlehandedly responsible of kickstarting the Part's events. If that wasn't bad enough, the anime goes one step further by adding flashbacks that show very brief but unbelievably squicky glimpses of Angelo's crimes being depicted on-full, with *even more detail than the original manga*.
- There's the anime scene where Angelo distributes a special kind of "justice" on an unsuspecting citizen who lets his pet dog poop wherever he can, even if it's on other people's lawns... by biting the dog's face off, spitting the gore (and his Stand) into the man's mouth, and then having his Stand erupt from the man's head to kill him,
*splattering his brains all over the place!* JEEZ.
- Aqua Necklace's design deserves a special mention with its unnerving appearance. Sure, in the anime, it looks like an Akira Toriyama character◊, but its manga design looks like a giant, humanoid leech with eyes all over its body, and its design in the live-action movie is easily the most terrifying of the bunch, looking like a cross between the T-1000 and a Xenomorph.
- No matter how well-deserved it might be, Angelo's fate in the live-action film adaptation stands out as being
**worse** than that in the anime and manga. Here, we're treated to a more gradual display of just how Angelo's body parts are horrifically fused into the stone around him as Crazy Diamond repairs it and him. It begins pushing parts of him around as it resets, distorting his face as his last moments of begging become low-pitched, garbled exhaling. By the point the Angelo Stone is finally christened, it's hard to tell if he's even alive compared to previous source material. And I Must Scream doesn't even *begin* to describe the horror of this situation.
- This one's related to the above. After Angelo kills Josuke's grandfather, Josuke and Jotaro are preparing to battle him. When Jotaro namedrops Angelo, we get to see a spilt-second Jump Scare of a murderous Josuke with his hair standing up. A second later, he's calmly combing his hair back in shape. Later, it's shown that he destroyed a bunch of objects in the room they were in. Suddenly Josuke's mood swings aren't so funny anymore...
- Pretty much anytime Josuke goes absolutely berserk will make it clear why he's the series' epitome of Beware the Nice Ones (even more so than the Nice Guy and Quintessential British Gentleman that is his great-grandfather Jonathan). The reason this is nightmarish it's because once he gets angry, he will go from the mellow, laid-back, good-hearted and morally upstanding teenager he typically is to a horrifically savage and unstoppable destruction machine as well as a rampaging berserker who will trash everything on sight. The most extreme instance and notable example here is during Josuke's battle with Rohan, where he gets so horrifically angry he's literally Blinded by Rage and brutally pummels Rohan to the point of hospitalization. O.O.C. Is Serious Business doesn't even
*begin* to cut it.
- Of special note is the Latin American Spanish dub in which Josuke's voice actor, Luis Fernando Orozco, manages to make him sound even angrier than he already is (sounding less like he typically does when calmed and more like a rabid wild animal freshly released from its cage), turning him into a Guttural Growler as he unnervingly emphasizes the "Unstoppable" in Josuke's Unstoppable Rage thanks to the use of Harsh Vocals. Bare witness.
- Similarly, what Josuke does to his worst enemies is also pretty terrifying. Even though they clearly deserve it, having them permanently fused with inanimate objects (from rocks to books) while perfectly aware and conscious of their suffering and what's happening to them but are completely powerless and unable to do anything about it is absolutely horrifying, and is clearly a lot worse than Telence D'Arby's soul collection in
*Stardust Crusaders*. To put into perspective, not even John Kramer or AM would probably go that far. Granted, Josuke might be the hero of the story, but he's clearly to be messed with or even taken lightly, as he will happily apply this Fate Worse than Death on you even if you deserve it. **NOT**
- Tamami's first appearance shows him scamming and extorting people by using his Stand, The Lock, to crushingly weigh them down with their guilt. He is also willing to harm your family members, framing you and manipulating them into thinking you're a horrible person, thus driving them to suicide (which would have happened if it weren't for Koichi's Stand).
- Yukako is one of the earliest examples of Yandere in manga: in her introduction, she lights a girl's hair on fire, blinds her, and binds her tongue just because she was helping Koichi with his classroom chores. She then kidnaps Koichi, forcing him to experience humiliating events that ruin his self-esteem, insulting him at every turn, "training" him, and even beating him up and trying to kill him multiple times.
- Take out the Stands, and suddenly you have something that could be on the news. An otherwise normal high school girl develops an unhealthy obsession with a boy. The girl kidnaps the boy, and gets progressively crazier as they don't return the affection, eventually trying to kill them because of their own insane logic of "they will always live on as a memory I love".
*Yikes...*
- Yukako suddenly appearing outside of Koichi's window. The anime makes the scene◊ much worse.
- While Toshikazu Hazamada is generally treated as a joke, it's disturbing that he seems to be heading in the direction of a full-fledged sociopath by the way he stabs a classmate in the eye and torments cats and birds. The only reason he hasn't flat-out raped his crush Junko is that he'd get caught.
- Rohan Kishibe's Stand, Heaven's Door, makes your entire life's experiences and memory appear as open books on your flesh. The thing is, it looks like he just
*flayed your skin off*. It gets even worse when he *tears a page out*, as the person actually loses weight (meaning that, yes, he actually tore out a chunk of their body), and if he tears all the pages out, the person dies (and he was planning on doing this to Koichi when they met just for the sake of his manga).
- He
*unravels* Okuyasu, leaving him with coiled slinky limbs, unable to control his own movements, and, should he have interfered any farther, Rohan had written that he would commit suicide by self-immolation.
- A different flavor of this is when he uses Heaven's Door on Hayato. Imagine you're Rohan: you have a Stand that allows you unlimited, totally truthful access to a person's memories and identity, so it's basically become second nature for you to use Heaven's Door to investigate suspicious people. When you come across Hayato — who is not only acting suspicious, but is more specifically trying to keep from telling you something he
*wants* to tell you — you naturally use Heaven's Door to figure out what the hell's going on, but as you leaf through Hayato's pages you see a message that, unlike everything else Heaven's Door has ever printed, *directly addresses you*: **"DO NOT READ FURTHER."** And then there's what happens next, which can only be described as In-Universe The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You... it's enough to make you hold your books at arm's length for a while.
- The side effects of Tonio Trussardi's Stand, Pearl Jam. More specifically, what it does to his cooking. Sure, it's meant to heal and rejuvenate the body, but damn! Okuyasu's eyeballs shriveling up, a mass of dead skin peeling off his body,
*his guts exploding*... no wonder Josuke was alarmed when he starts suffering the side effects of the healing process.
- When Josuke investigates Tonio's kitchen, it literally plays off like a horror movie, with Tonio going complete psycho and the visuals and music getting all dark and serious, culminating in Tonio leaping up behind Josuke, as if about to strike him with a brick...and turns out it's just a bar of soap, as Tonio's Berserk Button is people entering his kitchen without washing their hands. Nonetheless, the entire scene plays off very dark and sinister, even though it all ends well.
- That said, Tonio did throw a knife at Josuke and narrowly missed his face by an inch...
- And that's not to mention the adorable little puppy in Tonio's kitchen, who, given Jojo's track record in dogs, doesn't look very promising. He feeds it a bone from his roast lamb recipe, and the puppy happily chews on the bone, before
*it starts twitching violently, regurgitates its own intestines, and explodes in a shower of blood.* The puppy is later shown to be unharmed and Tonio was just giving it a taste because it also had tummy problems, but nonetheless, seeing a dog vomit out its own innards is still a rather horrifying sight, context or not...
- That rat Jotaro and Josuke look for. It has the ability to shoot a barb that melts and fuse bodies together like gelatin, while they're alive.
- The intelligence of the rats, Bug-Eaten in particular. They have the same human-level mind as other Stand-using animals like Iggy, Forever, and Pet Shop, being able to calculate which direction its shots will ricochet off of. However, unlike them, the rats
*don't* have humanized qualities to show their emotions. They have the same eyes as real animals. They're less humanized than *freaking Pet Shop* and just as smart and aggressive.
-
**The rat corpse cube.** Jesus Christ... *It's not even censored in the anime!*
- There's also the fate of the couple living in the farmhouse that Bug-Eaten takes over, melted into a blob of meat and locked in their fridge to be used as a buffet for the rats, a horrified Josuke notes by their heads that they're still alive and moving; thankfully, the fact that they
*are* still alive means Josuke (hopefully) fixes them up with Crazy Diamond offscreen without much difficulty, as he can easily heal the similar wounds Jotaro suffers.
- There's also the fact that Jotaro was essentially one more needle away from becoming a melted goo pile of food for the bastard.
*A merciless Stand-using rat did more raw damage to Jotaro in the span of a minute than * **DIO** did overall.
- Akira Otoishi's Red Hot Chili Pepper may be the Disc-One Final Boss, but he's pretty scary in his own right. A Stand that draws strength from electricity in a world where it is very hard to avoid it, with unlimited range as long as there's electricity nearby, and can drag you into a power line to kill you like he did with Keicho Nijimura? It's a good thing that Akira Otoishi isn't very smart. If he'd decided to attack the heroes in their sleep, this season would be a lot shorter.
- There's a corner where Reimi's ghost resides, and the only way to get out is to turn after 20 feet. If you ever turn completely around at the wrong point, this happens◊ and you're Dragged Off to Hell. This is Kira's ultimate fate.
- Kira definitely gets it the worst. When Koichi or Cheap Trick turned around, they were simply grabbed. When it happens to Kira?
**He shatters.**
- Yoshikage Kira in general. He's a 33-year-old man but has no qualms about beating down and killing a 14-year-old boy. In Reimi's backstory, he kills and hangs her dog, and hides under her bed and
*licks her hands*. In the story proper, he kills another man and assimilates his identity to keep himself hidden, murders his 11-year-old 'son', and maybe most disturbing is the fact that he will *absolutely* keep his identity a secret no matter what.
- Sheer Heart Attack. When it isn't loudly exclaiming "Over here!", it is completely indestructible, chases whatever the warmest thing in the vicinity is, and the explosion is bigger based on how hot that heat source is. The worst part? Even if you trick it, it seems to know whether it did or didn't kill a human. Even worse, if you're not a Stand User, you can still see tread marks crawling around you... especially if you're wondering why your arm got blown off. Just ask the shoe shop owner who did Kira's jacket.
- Made worse in the live-action film, where instead of Red Hot Chili Pepper being the one who kills Keicho... IT'S SHEER HEART ATTACK.
- Sheer Heart Attack in the live-action film is considerably more deadly. In the anime, it was slow but unstoppable. Here it's still as unstoppable, but moves faster than an RC car. An invincible bomb that can come at you in the blink of an eye.
- Keicho's death in the film is
**even worse**. The damn thing rams into his stomach and drills into his body (fortunately off-screen) with some sickening crunching and squelching noises. A few seconds later, Keicho turns to face the others, and we're greeted by the sight of SHA *sticking out of his mouth*, chattering and clicking like a pair of wind-up teeth. Keicho can't move and is in agony, and then he blows up. While Kira's always had a sadistic side, this is easily his most brutal murder so far. As much of an asshole as Keicho was, it's as bad or maybe even worse than his anime/manga fate of electrocution by Red Hot Chili Pepper.
- Killer Queen's explosions also
*completely obliterate a person*. The only thing left of Shigechi was a few out of *hundreds* of Harvest. The anime goes as far as showing the victims' *souls* also getting torn apart in the afterlife.
- In episode 34, we finally get to witness Killer Queen's explosions from a Invisible to Normals perspective. The only thing we hear to signify that Killer Queen activated is a small click. Aside from that, we see Kira's latest victim get reduced to a hand, and it's completely unnerving hearing nothing as a woman's twitching hand suddenly stops and the rest of her turns to a puff of smoke. A sharp contrast to the visible and loud explosions that Stand users can see.
- The original Kosaku Kawajiri's corpse, slouched over a table with his
*face sliced off*, is probably one of the most gruesome and nightmarish shots of the whole season, especially as in this case, the gore is fully uncensored.
- What happens to Masazo Kinoto once Cheap Trick leaves his body... It essentially involves Cheap Trick leaving the host by flaying their back, causing them to die from blood loss. If that wasn't bad enough, their corpse is reduced to an indistinguishable shriveled fetus-like corpse that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- Superfly is an independent Stand that traps a person inside, and turns them into metal if they try to leave. If you try to destroy it, it will rebound any damage dealt to it back at the attacker. And as an independent Stand, it'll continue existing for pretty much the rest of time. Sounds like an SCP.
- The manga does mention that Super Fly needs a "host" because it cannot produce by itself the spiritual energy required to maintain the Stand. Meaning that there is a way to destroy it: having everyone currently inside the tower
*die.*
- The anime adaptation added a very creepy moment to the first episode. You see a happy morning in a happy neighborhood in Morioh, as the radio host happily announces it's morning and puts on some cheery music, while showing the hand of a woman making breakfast. And then the camera zooms out from the hand as the music distorts, revealing that this hand is
*severed*. Especially jarring for fans who hadn't read the manga and had their guard lowered by the appearance of a Lighter and Softer season; the character responsible for this severed hand (or as he calls it, one of his "girlfriends") doesn't even appear proper until several arcs later, leaving it unexplained for the moment.
- Another such moment appears at the end of Episode 12.
- Highway Star is a Stand that drains people's nutrients and their skin becomes transparent til the bones are visible, which got demonstrated on poor Rohan when he gets taken hostage. Josuke is later subjected to the effects a few times as well.
- The second anime OP, Chase, is, in contrast to the fist-pumping pulp stylings of its predecessors, a horrific and oftentimes surreal sequence. Nearly the entire thing is in monochrome colors, and the imagery is gritty and drab.
- For a brief moment in the second half of Kira's anime debut, Killer Queen is drawn with an unnervingly realistic skull◊ (that has
*human* teeth rather than feline), and GIANT, blazing red eyes. It comes right the hell out of nowhere, too; not only had the Stand's first appearance been horribly Off-Model, but there's nothing like it in the manga.
- Seven words. Killer Queen's Third Bomb: Bites the Dust.
- Especially from Hayato's perspective, which is equal parts terrifying and outright hopeless. Imagine being a child who just got found out by a killer masquerading as their father; despite that, life goes on. Like Hayato, maybe you would feel like you have something to blackmail the killer with. Now imagine that on a car ride to school, you encounter someone who suspects your "father" to be the killer and when he tries to find out more information about you, he suddenly explodes. Next thing you know, it is the same morning again, with only you and the killer having knowledge about what happened. And then you find out that the killer essentially planted a bomb inside you that would kill anyone who knew his identity and that you actually died the night before, before he used his new ability to reverse that. Now you try avoiding talking to this person again, but he
*just dies anyway*, and now his friends have gotten curious and are now stuck in this timeloop of dying. And not even trying to kill yourself will save you, because Bites the Dust is also determined to keep its "host" alive. Read that last sentence again. HOST. Bites the Dust does not have a user. It has a host. This thing is essentially a PARASITE Stand. It's the only one that benefits from this whole experience.
- Somehow the anime rendition of Bites the Dust is
*even worse*. Imagine watching people explode *right in front of your eyes* after they either try to question you about the serial killer who's killed and replaced your father and then being sent screaming into a horrifying technicolor eye-shaped time warp to the beginning of the day as that horrible, *horrible* monster your father's killer implanted in you sits on your chest and just *looks at you with its glowing red eyes.* No wonder Hayato tried to kill himself with an exacto knife!
- Speaking of the anime,
*Episode 36's opening*; As Hayato experiences the horror of Bites The Dust's first time loop, the opening begins as usual, and nothing seems all that out of the ordinary...until Kira first appears onscreen, at which point- ***CLICK!*** Bites The Dust activates *in the opening, reversing it from end to beginning,* *all while a creepy whirling rewinding noise plays.* That's right - Kira's trapped *you* in Bites The Dust's cycle, unable to do anything but watch helplessly as his new power kills and resets, kills and resets...again and *again* and It makes **again.** *-end of THE WORLD-'s* alternate opening with DIO downright *tame* in comparison. Thankfully, it's somewhat mitigated by two things: the second half of *Great Days* playing throughout (barring the beginning, as mentioned above), and the fact that at the end of the opening, which leaves on a shot of Kira pressing the trigger for a new cycle, all the main cast have now turned around to face him, having finally caught on to his tricks and ready to give him his just desserts.
- The segment that starts off Bites the Dust's arc is pretty unnerving too. Remember that triumphant moment when Hayato stood his ground against Kira in the aforementioned bathtub scene? The next time we see the boy, he's lifeless with eyes wide open, bleeding from the head and stuffed into the bathroom closet. And Shinobu was
*this* close to finding her own son's corpse before Bites the Dust emerged for the first time.
- During the second opening of the anime, a brief moment is dedicated to Yoshihiro, showcasing a variety of photos of him holding the Arrow. One of them, however, is under the effects of Atom Heart Father, meaning that he's staring directly at you.
- The anime adds a (mercifully) brief scene of Kira's head being twisted backwards by the ambulance tire. Small wonder his face was completely unrecognizable afterwards. To add to it, DP not only added a shot of Kira's sudden realization of what's about to happen, but also a Sickening "Crunch!" to accompany his neck snapping. Even worse, as his corpse is being covered up, we are treated to a small but thankfully censored glimpse of the kind of damage his face took: the entire left side has been
*completely torn open*! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
All it takes is one small injury, and suddenly, there's a monster under your skin.If we had to sum up all the terrors that plague the
*Stardust Crusaders* in one word, it would be this: , who not only has a new Story-Breaker Power that makes him nigh-unstoppable, but his own legions of Stand users with very unsettling powers that invoke psychological and physical horror, on top of the majority looking like regular people or even animals, so everything the heroes meet along their journey might potentially be an assassin sent to kill them. **DIO** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Spoilers Off applies to all "Moments" pages, so
**all spoilers are unmarked**.
- The setting is based on the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan's Tōhoku region on March 2011. Except it's added with the occurrence of strange giant faults called "Wall Eyes", which suddenly rose up from the ground around Morioh after the earthquake, preventing things like highways and power lines from passing through. No one can explain why this happened.
- Josuke taking away Joshu's sight, leaving two blown out voids where his eyes used to be. It didn't stay that way, but still.
- Ojiro Sasame booby-trapped Kira's apartment in order to get his revenge. This ranges from hiding pins and razor blades in various locations, to a
**live venomous snake** ready to bite, with a hacksaw nearby so you can amputate your envenomed limb. This is all to set up his Stand's ability: Fun Fun Fun can control any limb that has an injury on it as long as its user is standing above its target. If it wasn't for a timely intervention from Yasuho, Josuke would have been forced to used the aforementioned saw to **saw off his lower jaw**.
- Daiya has the power to take away memories, which is already horrifying, but these memories manifest in the form of chess pieces that fall out of her target's body. Not to mention Daiya is a 16-year-old immature girl, and used it in an attempt to
*seduce Josuke*, who already is amnesic. If it wasn't for his Memory Gambit...
- While trying to find Kira's mother, Josuke gets attacked by
*Born This Way*, a Stand that suddenly appears whenever someone opens something. Not only can it appear anywhere, but it creates winds cold enough to freeze someone to death.
- Just the fact that a Stand this deadly and persistent can appear just from almost
*anything* being opened - a door, a notepad, a *map*... Hell, when Josuke finally manages to corner Kei, she attempts a last-ditch attack on him by simply *throwing an un-capped pen into his hands,* prompting Born This Way to **drop from the air** and nearly crush him.
- Rina's disease, which itself shares the same patterns as the male Higashikata's curse/disease. When she was sick, her skin became stiff and folded as if it was origami, and she seemed to not remember who she was. It gets healed by the Holy Corpse, but her son gets it due to Equivalent Exchange, yet Johnny sacrificed himself to save him. It's implied it's the same disease Holly has.
- The discombobulating effects of Tsurugi's
*Paper Moon King* Stand, causing illusions that can make it difficult to discern objects or people from each other. Yasuho unfortunately gets inflicted in its introduction. Despite the fact that she's clearly terrified, her *own mother* doesn't even try to help her.
- During the fight against Yagiyama, Josuke and Norisuke IV have to escape from chestnuts. Sounds boring, right? Well, the Stand they fight causes a center of gravity in their bodies, drawing in surrounding objects. The spines of the chestnuts fly off them, and into
*Josuke's eyes.* It gets worse when the same thing happens, but with jugs of pesticide instead.
- When Tsurugi and Yasuho attempt to hunt down the disease-curing fruit, they see the man they're tailing drop his package near a heavily disfigured old man. The old man munches on the fruit and quickly grows his leg, teeth and toenails back. After he jumps into the car with his wife, his eyes
*turn to stone and break away into small pieces* and has sex with her in the back seat while this occurs.
- The duo are then almost crushed when the person they're tailing finds their Stands wrapped up in a frog origami figure and steps on them. And said person's Stand creates a damaging vortex that materializes through their
*breath*.
- The Rokakaka fruit as a whole is terrifying due to its properties of Equivalent Exchange, as it heals an injury/ailment at the cost of another body part turning into stone. The problem is that the exchange can get rather...disproportionate.
- The Rock Humans. If the explanation is anything to go by, it would give Paranoia Fuel to
*anyone*. They look like normal humans, but they grow in a different fashion than them (they sleep for longer periods—it could be at least 3 months, and they stay awake for another two), and even though they get normal activities as per any other human (however, they can't adopt regular business hours jobs because of their sleep patterns; suspect anyone who is an artist or even a *mangaka*), they are essentially unable to coexist peacefully with them (some live with them as *parasites*, and on the rare occasions they fall in love with a normal human, it almost always seems to end in *one murdering the other*). They are very nearly *all* Stand Users, as well.
- The beginning of Chapter 46 shows an unseen narrator observing a Rock Human for the readers. They show a secluded area with various rocks and statues, and wonders "where and how many there are". The answer is 2...
*probably*. Then it's mentioned that they'll be *killed* if these Rock Humans notice the fixed camera they have set up.
- It's also stated that, even in their hibernative-states, they can be damaged and bleed. Meaning it's possible for one to encounter what appears to be a
*bleeding statue*.
- Chapter 99 can actually make you feel sorry for Asian giant hornets. Newborn Rock Humans trick them into giving them a free ride to their hive, where theyll not only take over their queens for seventeen years, but also wipe out the hive when the next phase of their growth begins. It also establishes that being The Sociopath is the
*standard* for them. Rock Human mothers feel no affection after leaving their newborns in position to deceive hornets, and Rock Humans almost never feel any friendship or affection even amongst themselves.
- Then there's the Rock Animals/Insects, which range from somewhat odd to borderline incomprehensible in design. Some of the Insects are said to be
*carnivorous*, and (fortunately) remain largely undiscovered by humans.
- One of them is disguised as a hair clip, which seems to give the wearer extreme dandruff, but also gives them high amounts of anxiety to the point of seeing hallucinations, which can cause the victim to commit suicide. Unfortunately, the one who received it ended up being a young and oblivious Yasuho.
- Tamaki Damo is a very disturbing individual. His Stand, Vitamin C, turns your entire body into a near-amorphous, slippery mass. A mass that can be
*washed down drains*, or else *pulled and flattened onto a wall*. Once his victims are incapacitated by this, he loves to torture them in creative ways, such as mutilating them with a folded 1000-yen bill or putting live fish in their liquefied body. Even worse, he nearly manages to kill the *entire Higashikata family* by just appearing as Hato's boyfriend.
- Josefumi's backstory begins with him as a child at the beach with his mother, only to fall in the water, drown, and nearly die at the hospital if it wasn't for Kira. Even worse is the fact that, instead of trying to get him out, his mother
*just stood there and watched her own child drowning*.
- Dolomite in general, from his limbless body, his rotting teeth, and his Stand ability, which turns people into zombies who chase their target in a straight line. It caused a young boy to repeatedly ram his head into a sign until his eyeballs started to leak out! Seeing it used on a baby actually drives Josuke to utter despair and he all but surrenders to his pursuer out of sheer horror and disgust.
- The flashback in Chapter 64 gives us the story of Kaato's child homicide and incarceration. Jobin unwillingly knocked a bully out with his Stand, and Kaato buried his body underground near the Joestar shrine. The boy was found 5 years later as a
*rotted corpse*. And the worst part? Kaato said this was necessary to save her son from the family curse.
- Urban Guerilla's stand, Brain Storm, melts the flesh off of anything it touches, and will enter the body if it makes holes, killing one from the inside as it is impossible to remove once inside. Rai ends up amputating his hand rather than dealing with certain doom.
- By squeezing Doggy Style's tape with a knife's scabbard, Poor Tom fulfills Ozon Baby's condition of a "room with an open door", inflicting extreme decompression sickness onto Rai. The result? His body basically falls apart, with one of his eyes popping out. In the end, he's reduced to a vaguely human-shaped pile of tape. Luckily, he's revealed to have survived using his Stand in the next chapter, but it's still a horrifying visual.
- Jobin's Stand, Speed King, allows him to turn anything he touches into a trap that accumulates heat without dispersing it (up to 300 C°), until you touch it; at that point, it will release the accumulated heat into your own body, all at once. Effects include: making your blood
*literally* boil from inside your vessels, making your eyes explode, and giving you a fatal brain embolism. Oh, and unlike Part 4's Killer Queen (which is limited to only 1 active bomb at any given time), Speed King can maintain multiple "traps" at the same time.
- The worst thing is that this is just ONE of Speed King's abilities. As for the others,
*only Jobin knows.* Not even his own family knows how strong his Stand actually is.
- The end of Chapter 83 shows a flash-forward scene with the Higashikata family being their usual selves. Daiya asks Tsurugi to go get their father from upstairs...and then there's suddenly a shot of him
*dragging a dead Norisuke in a body bag*. And part of his arm seems to be missing...
- When Yasuho goes to their household in hopes of getting the New Rokakaka fruit, she notices that the family seems uncharacteristically tense. She manages to use her Stand to find a way inside, which is where she discovers Tsurugi in his bed...while appearing to turn rocky and paper-like from what appears to be
*fusing with his Stand*.
- Due to her Stand being drowned thanks to Jobin dropping the phone it possessed into the toilet, Yasuho starts combusting. She manages to get Mitsuba's attention...but then Jobin convinces her to put the family before everyone else, causing Mitsuba to betray Yasuho by continuing to flush the toilet. Yasuho then falls off the hill she's on (but not before noticing the Head Doctor nearby) and has her entire right arm
*snapped off*...
- Everything that Josuke goes through after he willingly gets subjected to Satoru Akefu's attack. He ends up in the hospital, riddled with holes, which would be bearable if he didn't try to continue his pursuit of the Head Doctor so stubbornly. Holy Joestar is the one to find him, crawling on the floor and covered in blood, and she takes him to the Rokakaka sample kept in the hospital's laboratory, stating it as the only way to cure Josuke's wounds. By now, we all know the potentially horrifying side effects this thing could cause, and it's even worse than you could've guessed: Josuke's
*lips are instantly turned to stone and fused shut,* leaving him unable to even ingest the rest of the sample. Holy's forced to pour the rest into his mouth through a hole in his cheek. Fortunately, he gets better, but we hardly ever see the *main JoJo* of their part as utterly terrified and defeated, faced with the threat of either dying or being potentially disfigured for the rest of his life.
- Everything we know about Satoru Akefu (or rather, what
*little* we know about him) makes him come across as a Humanoid Abomination, even by Rock Human standards. He appears to be an elderly old man, yet can appear in multiple places at once. If someone even *thinks* about pursuing him, something bad happens, no matter how improbable, stated as a person's bad karma catching up to them all at once. What's worse is that *this isn't even what he looks like*; the old man is just a figure created by his Stand. There's a reason why Holy describes Satoru as "without a true face".
- The revelation in Chapter 102 that Tooru has been in Yasuho's life
*at least* since she was 9 years old, and used her (dormant at the time) Stand to further his goals. How did he discover her? How many times has he popped up afterwards? Just how much does he know about Yasuho?
- Wonder of U being the type of Stand that can continue to attack people even after the user dies - Just the fact that it can continue to bring calamities on with its automatic ability, until the Stand itself is completely destroyed, makes it terrifying.
- Despite being a flashback epilogue, the Radio Gaga Incident has some of the most bizarre and disturbing imagery in the part, and its premise would be far more at home in the
*SCP Foundation* universe than your average *Jojo* story. The issue focuses on a mysterious guard rail by the Higashikata Orchard who people allegedly disappear around, leaving behind just their clothes and a few bloody scraps. *This happens to Lucy and Fumi-kun's cab driver*. Eventually, Lucy hears Fumi-kun's voice coming from the guard rail even though Fumi isn't next to it. Lucy walks towards it and investigates it, but it sucks in a part of her clothes. She realizes too late that the guard rail is some kind of living creature, with one of the nails hammered into it transforming into an eye, and as it sucks her in more, she manages to push off the rail's outer covering, revealing the *entire inside* of the rail to be caked with gore and viscera from its previous victim... and said victim is still alive and suffering, begging for help despite how horribly mutilated he is. Safe to say, you'll probably never see a guard rail in the same way again. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion |
Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- There's an area in the warehouse level where bonus points and tools can be found. If you enter it, a bulldog will chase you and try to bite you, causing you to lose health. The bulldog, being a short dog, attacks only at ground level and can be escaped by using the elevator platform to get to higher parts of the area. However, there is a glitch in one part of the area, where, if you stand at the edge of a shipping container, the bulldog will
*levitate* the equivalent of ten feet up and attack you as if you were at ground level. That just ain't right.
- The virtual reality level's loading screen of a bug with huge, menacing eyes◊.
- The platforming part of the Egyptian level where everything beyond the platforms is totally dark and falling off results in falling into a bottomless pit.
- The third mummy-bot room, where the music suddenly becomes far more sinister-sounding, even if the enemies remain exactly the same.
- The Mummy-bot rooms in general. You're trapped in a large room full of creepy robot mummies that take two hits and run away after the first. The only way out is to defeat them all.
- The level where you're being chased by Herminator and can only run until you gather all the parts to make the burpzooka that can defeat him is also pretty bad, as you have to constantly be running. He always knows where you are and there's nowhere in the level you can hide.
- Somewhat lessened by the fact that his AI is downright HORRIBLE and you can stay in one place for a while before he finds you.
- The level early on that involves outrunning the flood of water and the "big boulder" Indiana Jones homage are also a bit tense. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JimmyNeutronVsJimmyNegatron |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Just when you thought
*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*'s addiction to violence, surreally nightmarish imagery brought upon by inventive Stands, and being pursued by psychotic criminals couldn't get any worse, *Stone Ocean* ramps up the ante by taking place in prison for the majority of the Part, meaning the heroes often live in the same place with criminals who have very realistic crimes, wishing to inflict those deeds onto them. Made all the worse by the fact that they have more creatively inventive Stands than previous parts to use in their attempts to kill them in a variety of nightmarish ways. Additionally, this Part invokes Religious Horror with its Sinister Minister of a Big Bad planning to bring forth the Apocalypse based on the plans of the series' most infamous vampire. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The JOJOLands / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Attempted Rape scene in the first chapter is very disturbing and uncomfortable, where a cop sexually assaults Dragona during a search. Its especially disturbing due to its realism.
- Though it's absolutely deserved, what Jodio subsequently does to the cop definitely counts as well. Dragona uses his Stand to slide the one of the cops' eyes into the back of his head, then Jodio sends crushing raindrops on top of him that leave baseball-sized holes in his body. The rain isn't enough to kill the cops, but then Jodio starts stomping on them like a madman, in contrast to his initially stoic nature. Ouch... This goes so far that Dragona has to talk him down from actually killing him.
- In Chapter 2, Jodio gets arrested by the same cop, who shoves him onto the ground and grabs his chin in a suggestive manner. He says he's been dreaming about Dragona every night, and threatens to take Jodio into the back of a dark concrete cell and rape him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JojosBizarreAdventureTheJOJOLands |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Don't let the Retraux nature of the game fool you- It still has the nightmarish moments of the source material, and given that some of them are expanded in here, this means that the game still has moments that will cause the player to stay awake at night.
- The scene where Vins is revealed to be a vampire by killing DJ Inc and Raul.
- The Arabian Mansion. Not only are you chased by an indestructible boulder that will kill you if you so much as touch it, but the mansion's owner (who was unsympathetic
*before* he gained his Stand) discovered he had a Stand and went utterly insane, plotting to have a party at his mansion involving killing the people he'd invited. And Vins was behind that too.
- Sanctuary. There's no music, and the place is full of the ghosts of the dead.
- ZZ's ghost mentions that no one helped him because they thought he was really training, causing his death.
- The hidden area known as the Dream World, accessible after dying to Vins in the final battle after a 3rd playthrough, seems normal enough, but slowly becomes something out of a Creepypasta, complete with a reference to an infamous urban legend about the original
*Shin Megami Tensei I*.
- The credits for the Dark Side Ending. The music stops right after the battle and never comes back, the silence only broken when the credits show up... By the sound of babies crying, men and women screaming, the 7th Stand User's evil laughter and the blowing wind of a wasteland presumably created by the 7th Stand User himself in their rule over the world. Which then leads to...
- The "Mad World" eyes, a pair of realistic eyes that show up at the end of the credits roll, and at the Dream World should you come face to face with the shadowy figure during the "TURN IT OFF" sequence. While it may seem as a cheap scare at first, it gains a
*completely* different meaning in the context of this ending: These are the eyes that intimidated *DIO*, the ones he recognized to be much like his own, much like the ones that scared Kakyoin, Avdol and Polnareff frozen... Or, in DIO's words, *the eyes of someone born purely evil.*
- The whole premise of the Stand Adam Ant - a giant horde of insects, noted to be difficult to control, that attacks by swarming onto an enemy and slowly eating away at their body. If the user isn't careful, it could end up turning on their friends.
- If you managed to defeat Joey Operetta in Varanasi, you can enter his secret warehouse in Karachi, where you find an
*insane* amount of Joey Dolls. However, the true horror lies within the 2nd basement... namely, in which there's an entire floor that resembles a wedding chapel, which has dolls that resemble civilians, and if the protagonist is female, it gets worse: The dolls in the last row resemble that of *the Joestar group*, the priest doll resembles Enrico Pucci, and while the room containing Joey's dolls in the nude has some black comedy if a male protagonist has the Perverted and Lolicon trait, a female protagonist is downright furious at how eerily it resembles *them*, resulting in them destroying it. Not to mention there's a room that contains dolls that resembles the female protagonist's family. And Chaos Mode makes it : A female protagonist who got her family kidnapped has the family dolls suddenly turn to the protagonist and walk slowly to her **even more worse** *fused to each other* as the Combined Demon, shocking them in the process. If they're alone with the Squeamish or Sickly trait and faint from the horror, a figure who is either a Joey Doll or Joey Operetta himself may "have some fun" with her, and given the above, there's no surprise what he plans to do with her. The only light is that you can rescue your family from him if they were kidnapped.
- Even Joey himself is creepy. His Stand, Murderdolls is made of wax figurines, which he can control via strands of hair. How does he make those wax figures, you say? Well, his backstory as revealed by Clayman reveals that he makes the wax dolls based off of suicide victims and people he's killed as well. Oh, and it's not the "make a statue of wax based off this person" type, it's the "dump this person's corpse in wax" type of wax figure. And some of them are
*still alive*. Is it any wonder that in his backstory, Rainbow freaked out and destroyed his dolls when he mentioned it? Sure makes you feel lucky that he hasn't killed the protagonist's family in Chaos Mode, but it's an unsettling thought to think about what might have happened if the protagonist didn't rescue them... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureThe7thStandUser |
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The specter of Death follows me wherever I go.
I am haunted by memories of Death's icy touch on my shoulder.
I know one day I will fall into an abyss so deep I will not be able to claw my way out.
Would you like me to repeat that? (No/Yes)
Despite the cutesy exterior,
*Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass* takes inspiration from both *Earthbound*'s more disturbing aspects and *Yume Nikki*, and it shows. Whether it be the titular eldritch antagonist or the many Nightmare Zones scattered throughout the game, Jimmy's adventure will have him face many horrors. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- The titular Pulsating Mass, the Big Bad of the game, is a prime example of Vile Villain, Saccharine Show. It is a pulsating mass of
*something* that hates Jimmy and wants to corrupt and destroy his dream world- to this end, it corrupts and possesses many of the denizens, turning them into zombies with Body Horror galore. It is massive enough that the final dungeon is a Womb Level taking place inside of it. And even worse, it is heavily indicated to be a representation of Jimmy's cancer, and as such, it can never truly be defeated.
- The Goons recruitment exam involves jumping down a chute that sorts them based on whether they're worthy. Jimmy and three other Goon candidates pass and enter the lower level of the Goons' hideout, while one of them (Information Guy) has failed. When you leave the Goons' hideout you can find the failing candidate has been dumped outside the hideout onto the rocks that he's messily impaled on. It's a jarring contrast to how the previous Information Guy was killed cleanly.
- At the very end of the demo we see that the Queen Bee and her guards have disappeared. All that's left is a strange green trail leading into the next room, hinting at some gruesome fate. In the full game we find out what happened to all the bees. The Pulsating Mass has mutilated them, leaving body parts strewn about the hive. In one room there are horrifically mutated corpses that appear to be fused with the pulsating mass. The enemies you fight in the level are all undead versions of the bees with green goop bleeding out of their bodies, with the exception of Drones, which appear to be nothing but lumps of flesh with eyes, a mouth, and wings. The boss of the level, Queen Bee, appears to be a veiny, skinless humanoid... thing, tearing itself free from a giant, pulsating bee abdomen.
- After the murder mystery in Wharf Dog is seemingly solved, Jimmy can walk outside the club into the nearby alleyway where he finds the Pulsating Mass-possessed dog, the true culprit. The dog then mutates into a long necked, fleshy monstrosity with a gaping open mouth, green drool, and sharp teeth.
- In the Ashby's mall, Jimmy jumps through a TV screen into his favorite show,
*Jonathon Bear's Playtime Forest*. The level is very cutesy, with all of the plants and trees made of wooden props. But the further in you travel the more the scenery changes into a hellish nightmare, Jonathon's animal friends turn into nightmarish, bloody monsters, and at the end you have to fight a giant, mutated Jonathon Bear, with one skeletal arm sticking out of his fur, a small eel-like creature protruding from his left eye, and many sharp teeth.
- The final dungeon and showdown against The Pulsating Mass:
- The last area is the Central Hub, now having been taking over by the Pulsating Mass. As a result, it is one giant Womb Level with organs and eyes everywhere, and filled with grotesque enemies like the Flesh Orb.
- One such enemy is a parasitic worm that attacks by invading the body of one of your party members and inflicting a unique status effect that will kill them immediately after a set number of turns. Thankfully it wears off after combat, but it's an especially horrifying aspect to the already visceral dungeon. Poor Lars...
- When you're facing The Pulsating Mass, everything seems hopeless - it's taken the rest of your family, leaving only Jimmy and Buck to fight it, The Secret Knowledge is out of your hands, and the Mass has begun the process of assimilating the world into itself, starting with the Central Hub, which has been turned into a fleshy Eldritch Location. And The Pulsating Mass itself isn't a slouch, either - while you fight it, it takes on the forms of your family members in a manner similar to that of Giygas. Special mention goes to how when it imitates Andrew or Helga, it can inflict a unique status effect on Jimmy - Heartbroken. The final boss theme, "Organic Nightmare," is one of the most disturbing themes in the game, with a Heartbeat Soundtrack, heavy breathing, and organic pulsating.
- The first sign that the game is not as cheery as it seems is in the Whisper Weaver's Cavern in Giant Garden. Unlike the cheery outside area, the cavern is dark, gloomy, and filled with giant spider webs and green goo. Your field of vision is very limited, as well, and the enemies are initially only seen as eyes in the dark (though the effect lessens when they reveal themselves as the goofy enemies of the outside). When you can finally enter much later in the game, you will find that the lower section is populated with creepy Giant Spiders, and the titular Whisper Weaver boss is a disturbing humongous spider with a particularly ugly Nightmare Face and Slasher Smile.
- The Bonus Dungeon in Wilted Lands is definitely a case of this, what with hallways randomly changing upon reaching a dead end, the near silence of the location except for the ungodly roars of... something, and the uncomfortably claustrophobic hallway that forces Jimmy to squeeze himself through as it shrinks, all leading up to an Optional Boss called Slither, a giant snake with Black Eyes of Evil and Tears of Blood.
- Ebeezil's Domain, a cold, dark, and lonely world where everyone who wanders into it is said to be doomed to wander forever, dreaming without sleeping. They all become the Sleepwalkers, creatures with Black Eyes of Evil. Ebeezil himself can never fall asleep, for if he does, the world will be destroyed.
- Turnbuckle's Mansion is a Haunted House where the gameplay suddenly shifts to an Adventure Game-esque exploration. The mansion is filled with toys abandoned by their owners who have become angry at humans, and one of them, Pollyanna, is a Creepy Doll who will play hide-and-seek with you while jump-scaring you. At least one human woman has fallen prey to them, and her corpse can be found in the bathtub.
- The progression of Grimclaw throughout the game is pretty unsettling. At the start of the game you just see an innocent bird circling around its nest atop the peak of the mountain, but after you come back to Homeflower later in the game, you now find it undulating painfully and creepily in a ball in its nest, no longer flying idly around. When you climb up the mountain where he resides, you find a bunch of birds who have also been zombified, as well as Pud, a creepy humanoid creature with a Nightmare Face. When you finally encounter Grimclaw in person, he is fully corrupted by the Pulsating Mass, with his wings fleshy and veiny, and three disgusting leeches using it as a host.
- The entirety of Mr. Cat's Lair:
- When Jimmy hears from the villagers in Smile that Cordelia has gone missing, It doesn't take long to discover a cave not too far from the area she was last seen. Once inside, you're greeted by Mr. Cat's home, completely vacant, and with the cabinet's doors wide open. Stepping inside the cabinet embarks the player on an absolutely *dread-inducing* trip through a nightmarish mansion, packed with telephones that yield no answer, a hallway vandalized with manic scribbles referencing a group named "The Skin Thieves", and an unsettling replica of Smile populated by dark, stringy, humanoid creatures. It can be noted that the music that plays when the Pulsating Mass or something related interacts with you is called "Skin Thieves".
- At the end of this ghoulish hellscape, you find yourself in an empty room with a single ringing telephone. Answering it causes the room to become engulfed in an inky black substance, and the monster behind all this, Mr. Cat, to reveal himself. After the ensuing boss fight, you travel through one last hallway, and enter the final room, where the game wastes no time in capping it all off with one final Gut Punch. The final room is a child's bedroom, with a chilling trail of blood leading from the bed straight to a closed cabinet, containing the mangled remains of Cordelia. From that point, the game automatically transitions to an absolutely heart-rending scene of Cordelia's family mourning their lost daughter.
- Most horrifying of all are the implications brought about by finding Cordelia's clothes outside in the hallway. And her body was found in a bedroom...
- The Asymmetrical Cavern near the Giant's Feet. You enter a cave with no music, and there's nothing there but some glitchy TV screens. But when you enter the next room you a thrust into a pitch black series of tunnels with a chaotic soundtrack of people shouting different numbers and static. If that's not bad enough at the end of the tunnel you seemingly reach a dead end, but when you exit that room the layout of the tunnel has changed. The world will suddenly shift as though it's glitching out. At one point it looks like you've been teleported outside the cave, but when you try to leave the area the world shifts back into the cave. Eventually you're teleported to a long hallway, where all you can hear is a squishing noise. At the end of the hallway is a bizarre humanoid creature with empty eyes scratching at its exposed brain.
- The Tower of the Mad Queen is a twisted, grimmified Alice Allusion where you are first greeted by a giant caterpillar who will give you a riddle and send you down no matter your answer. The dungeon, belonging to the titular Queen, is filled with skeletons, blood, and even some flayed skin stuck to walls. When you have to venture into the caterpillar's mouth to encounter the Queen, she lets you know why; she has gone so insane that she thinks the skin on people's bodies is dirty and must be removed. She then shows off her husband, having been reduced to a skeleton, and a giant, boney hand and arm sticks out of a nearby hole, revealing the demented visage of the Queen.
- Information Isle, the home of the Information Guys. When you get there, the whole place is eerily empty. Then you encounter a zombified Information Guy feasting on the remains of a deer who then tries to kill you, and soon learn that they are infesting the island. You then have to enter a dark, creepy tunnel where the Totem that transformed them all into zombies lies in wait.
- The Accelerated Dynamics building seems innocuous at first- you are attending a luncheon along with several other characters. Then you leave and can enter an elevator to go up
and the lights start flickering while the elevator shakes and lets you out, where you are met with a maze of cubicles and creepy flickering screens that turn on and off, and it becomes apparent that you have entered another Nightmare Zone. Other horrors include a soundtrack that manages to make office sounds (like keyboard typing) unsettling, several corpses- two of which are hanging from windows and four of which have black things coming out of their mouths- and, for a more conceptual horror, seeing the once friendly Mr. Groose warped into a greedy Corrupt Corporate Executive who has no problem killing Jimmy to keep his illegal arms dealing a secret.
- The Temple of the Inward-Looking Eye seems like just a place where the Sacred Lantern inhabitants worship, but using the Vampire form on the mirror takes you to another dimension where an Apocalypse Cult resides. The temple has an underwater section where three bodies are hanging by chains, and they disappear when you return to the area; later on, two more bodies suddenly pop up and beg you to stop the ritual that the Black Prophet is enacting to bring about the end of the world.
- The Halls of Greed is a more standard optional dungeon with a seemingly normal boss at the end: The Golden King. Normally he doesn't really attack you, and if you win the fight as is you don't really get any money out of the battle. However, if you use any of your Video Game Stealing abilities to steal the mounds of gold from the king during the battle, his true form starts to show itself. The more gold you steal, the more a fleshy structure gets revealed underneath the layer of treasure, to the point that if you manage to steal all the treasure from him you'll be greeted by a living mound of flesh surrounded by multiple eyes and green and red organs. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass |
Joker (2019) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Being an R-rated origin story about the most dangerous enemy the Dark Knight has had to face, it should come as no surprise that Joker has disturbing moments, on a physical and emotional level.
When Arthur's psychiatrist asks him if he was better off at the psych ward, we Smash Cut to Arthur banging his head against the door to his room in the ward.
When Arthur's boss tells him unless he brings back a sign he lost or he'll take it out of his paycheck, the boss's talking goes inaudible as Arthur sports a silent, creepy smile.
The subsequent image of Arthur angrily stomping and kicking on garbage outside.
Arthur stalking Sophie after she dropped her daughter off at school. Perfect delivery of Paranoia Fuel.
The first people Arthur hunts down are the three WayneTech employees. While he killed the first two out of clear self-defense, he goes out of his way to pursue Ryan — even as he's running for his life — and shoots him dead in the subway, in total silence. And then, even that isn't enough: he then shoots the corpse multiple times out of cold malice.
Afterwards, the weight of the killings hits Arthur and he runs through the city in a panic, eventually finding refuge in some dirty bathroom. Instead of curling up and crying or even trying to rationalize his actions, Arthur just starts dancing in slow motion while some eerie music plays.
The scene where Arthur stops by the Waynes' house and interacts with a young Bruce Wayne. While Arthur is nothing but nice to Bruce at the start (believing him to be his half-brother), he's uncomfortably touchy-feely with the poor, confused kid, shoving his fingers in the boy's mouth to literally force a smile on him. Given that we've already seen Arthur's mood swings, we the audience know Arthur's already strange affection could turn to violence if provoked.
What makes it especially horrifying is how he doesn't react in the slightest while he smothers her to death, and how there's no backing music at all in the scene; we only hear the sound of them struggling, his mother's muffled cries, and the increasing tempo of her heart monitor until it just...stops. True to reality, there is no dramatic flatline, just pure silence.
There's also the line he says before he does the deed...
With the reveal that he imagined their entire relationship, Arthur coming into her apartment unannounced is this to Sophie and the audience. She's a single mother who has just put her young child to bed, only to find a man she's only spoken to once silently sitting in her living room, having broken in without her noticing. All she can do is calmly try to ask him to leave only for him to gesture shooting himself in the head, clearly terrifying her.
Arthur killing Randall is easily the most brutal and violent scene in the whole film, and thats saying something for very good reasons. He jams a pair of scissors into his jugular vein, then his eye, then proceeds to slam his head against the wall until the blunt force trauma kills him, all while Gary is wailing for him to stop. At least the Wall Street three and maybe Penny could be seen as Asshole Victims; while Randall did give Arthur his gun and subsequently threw him under the bus when he got fired for it, that comes nowhere near deserving of a death this brutal.
It certainly doesn't help the fact that at that moment, Arthur's white-painted face (looking near-identical to the Joker in the comics) is streaked with blood (pictured).
Immediately following this is Gary trying to escape the apartment, being forced to cross Arthur and Randall's corpse, but being unable to reach the lock, with his only course of action being to ask Arthur for help. The scene is hilarious in anespecially horrible way, but it's still terrifyingly intense as Arthur has just become so unpredictable that him also murdering the completely innocent Gary is presented as a real possibility (though fortunately, he's spared).
Once he gets to the Murray Franklin show, Arthur stays backstage and silently smokes a cigarette while Murray once more plays Arthur's disastrous stand-up routine to the audience. His gaze is burning, and the audience is left with a deep unease as the wheels silently turn in Arthur's head.
Murray Franklin's death. After Joker rather gleefully admits to the three Wall Street murders, Murray rips him a new one, stating that not everyone is a horrible person and that his actions were utterly unjustified even if that were the case. Joker just laughs and says "I know", then telling a final joke despite Murray's protests — slowly raising his voice until he is resorted to tearfully screaming at him, and the moment he finishes... Boom, Headshot! On live television.
Joker: What do you get... when you cross a MENTALLY ILL LONER, with a SOCIETY, THAT ABANDONS HIM, AND TREATS HIM LIKETRASH?!I'LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU GET!YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!!!
The chuckle Joker gives to himself after shooting Murray while his audience screams in the background, especially considering the implication that it's a rare genuine laugh, and not one that's faked or triggered by his condition.
The final scene at Arkham is an Ambiguous Ending at best, though one of the most disturbing factors would have to be Arthur's demeanor throughout it. Arthur is laughing his ass off at a "joke" he never tells - and this is a genuineEvil Laugh as opposed to the neurological 'laugh' he lets out throughout the film. His voice drips with joyous malice that Arthur never expresses in any other scene. One of the few solid facts given by this scene is that there is nothing left of Arthur Fleck. As far as he was concerned, Arthur never existed as he wasn't recognized. In his place, there now only exists the making of a violent, sadistic, and what has been interpreted as thoroughly evilMonster Clown with not even a shred of ethical goodwill left, who definitely finds mass homicide to be mere comedy in his eyes. There now only existsThe Joker. And this is before he happily walks out of the room, leaving bloody footprints on the tile and dancing to Frank Sinatras Thats Life. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Joker2019 |
Jonathan Joestar, The First JoJo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Jonathan snapping and becoming *incredibly* enraged after being told of ||Dio stealing his body and hurting countless people, including his descendants with it||:
Joseph then risked looking at Jonathan.
*Oh no.*
Jonathan, although he was still sitting, had a look on his face that could only be described as sheer fury. His brows were scrunched up impossibly, his teeth were grit with such force Joseph feared they would break, and his fists were curled so tightly that it surely would've drawn blood had it not been for the leather glove.
At this, he abruptly shot up, hands coming to slam on the table, causing the glass still containing soda to spill. Contrary to Jonathan's previous interactions and voice, the ones full of politeness, attentiveness, nervousness or happiness, this one was a pure scream, raw against his throat and booming with force, like that of a beast. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JonathanJoestarTheFirstJoJo |
Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked. *Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures* had its share of disturbing material, including extensive use of Family-Unfriendly Violence and death, which was no less disturbing because of all the Gory Discretion Shots.
- The nerve gas attack in "Escape to Questworld". You can see the agonizing look on the construction workers' faces as rigor mortis sets in.
- "Race Against Danger" had Clark and Hill killed in extremely disturbing fashion by having Hill thrown into a pit and Clark ripped apart by mechanical branches. It is later revealed, in the surveillance video Race and Jonny are Forced to Watch, that Hill is not just thrown into just a simple pit, but a SPIKED PIT.
- Greg Temple, who had been impersonating Kreed, meets with a karmic end when one of the machine's death traps malfunctions on him and kills him. Could Temple possibly survive being shot several times? Maybe, but not the island's self-destruct mechanism which has now been reactivated upon him dropping its controller. Bonus points for if he was not quite dead yet from the gunshots but still aware of the countdown to the explosion, whilst being too weak or injured to crawl to the remote to stop it.
- The hunter getting mauled by a tiger in "Manhattan Maneater". Seeing nothing but the tiger's claws only adds to the terror.
- The greedy developer being eaten alive by alligators in "Alligators and Okeechobee Vikings". Though it's offscreen, you can see the movements of the gators' heads as they rend the flesh asunder.
- In "The Mummies of Malenque", a Mad Scientist and self-proclaimed descendant of the Malenque plans to infect the world with an ancient virus. However he gets a taste of his own medicine (well, disease) as his ancestors rise from their graves and give him a good whiff of the virus.
- The rogue biocomputer in "DNA Doomsday". Not only does it normally look like a giant blob of brain matter, which is unnerving enough, but it imitates a person's speech by
*morphing their head and a pair of lungs*.
- In "The Haunted Sonata", the climax includes the ghost of the original composer of the sonata, who was hidden in the wall of the basement after being pushed down the stairs and breaking her neck, come back to kill the greedy descendant of the man who killed her. She drags him into the wall by the neck and the wall reforms around them, sealing him inside with her red-eyed corpse. Although we later find she didn't actually kill him, we're told by the time he was pulled out of the chamber, he'd gone totally insane. We're never told what the ghost did to him.
- "The Secret of the Moai" has Race and Dr. Quest de-evolved into ape-like animals in Quest World. That's freaky enough, but when they're removed from the computer, they still are mentally animals and run around, trying to attack their kids.
- "In the Darkness of the Moon" features a
*very* unlucky guy who, at the start of the episode, changes into a wolf in a way that sounds very unpleasant. He later saves Jonny from drowning and can talk, but he's clearly in pain and seems to still have something physically off about him, since the camera never shows him directly.
- The aquatic monsters accidentally unleashed in "Undersea Urgency" are unrelenting killing machines who claw apart and devour dozens of characters onscreen, in one case devouring a shark and leaving behind a skeleton mere seconds before descending upon a trio of unlucky divers. When it looks like one has been killed, the head scientist of the undersea base wishes to take the corpse with her so they can learn more about its species... and then the creature awakens in her arms. It immediately cuts back to Dr. Quest and Jonny, who can only cringe in horror as the scientist is ripped apart.
- "More Than Zero" was an episode about two paranormal specialists investigating a haunted house in Venice, and Dr. Quest arrives with Race, Jonny, and Hadji to lend a hand. Needless to say, the house is more haunted than
*any* of them would've expected.
- The entity in the house pulls the two specialists inside a room where the ceiling begins to descend. The two men desperately try to get out and can be heard screaming their heads off... and then it cuts to outside the door where the ceiling is heard slamming on the floor and the screams stop. Race's reaction when he opens the door afterwards to see what's left doesn't help either.
- The source of the haunting is a malevolent black pearl containing an entity which feeds off human greed. 200 years prior, the pearl corrupted the original owner of the house and his business partner, empowering the partner and cursing the owner with eternal old age. The man wasn't sure what happened to his partner, until we discover exposure to the pearl turned him into some kind of horrible octopus-like monstrosity living hidden inside a sealed room in the house.
- The villain of "Nuclear Netherworld" falls into his own radioactive waste. The result is he suffers from severe burns and radiation poisoning, and he dies very soon.
- "Ndovu's Last Journey" sees the Evil Poacher villain light a fire to around Jonny, Jessie, Hadji, and a border patrol in an attempt to kill them all. One of the unlucky patrolmen actually catches on fire. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures |
Jonathan Creek / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
A series about locked room murder mysteries is expected to be somewhat scary. But sometimes,
*Jonathan Creek* goes that extra mile.
Heavy spoilers below.
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*The Grinning Man*: The water tank. There are likely several people swearing off baths forever because of that scene.
- The picture of said "Grinning Man" himself is very strong Nightmare Fuel.
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*The Three Gamblers*: An evil old man is killed after a drug deal goes wrong. He gets six bullets in the head, and is dumped in the cellar of an abandoned house nearby; they put a wardrobe in front of the door. Terrified that the old guy will still come back for revenge, one of the killers insists on going back to check he hasn't moved... only *he has*, crawled to the top of the stairs and apparently clawed at the door, despite being very dead. And looking it. He *was* dead, but the cellar had flooded, and the body had floated to the top of the stairs, and still looked creepy as hell.
- In
*Jack in the Box*, it turns out the murderer actually bricked himself up at the crime scene then committed suicide. Meaning that every single time Jonathan and Maddy investigate the murder scene for clues *there was an unseen dead body right behind the wall*.
- Also, the murderer turns out to have been the man who was let out of prison at the start of the episode thanks in no small part to Maddy getting involved in his family's campaign to clear his name — and that he
*actually had* committed the murder that led to him going to prison in the first place. Meaning that Maddy, a journalist who's dedicated to exposing injustice, has helped a murderer get out of prison and kill again.
- In the 1998 Christmas special,
*Black Canary*, the backstory involves a magician who died during a rehearsal when some equipment spectacularly malfunctioned and she got sliced in half by a table saw ... lengthwise. Gruesome, but it just seems like your run-of-the-mill sort of gruesome — until you *really think* about the concept of *lengthwise*. From the bottom up. Maddy sums it up best: "I'm gonna have to sleep with a saucepan between my legs!" Even worse, later there are several flashbacks to this incident, which show that the poor woman was conscious and screaming for *far* too long.
- To make it worse, there are hints that her twin sister deliberately sabotaged the trick so that she could kill her and take her place.
- To make it EVEN WORSE, it could have been a genuine accident which the sister decided to exploit. However, since she later dies, the family has no way to ever find out the truth.
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*The Eyes of Tiresias*, a woman is having nightmares about people who are eventually murdered. At first nothing special, just your average *Jonathan Creek* episode. Then we get to see one of her dreams, in which a one-eyed man stabs her to death with a sword. Firstly, the amount of blood is really creepy, but then he turns around and has an actually pretty horrible looking mask on. It can really shock you when you're not ready for it.
- The stalker in
*Danse Macabre*. Initially his presence is only mildly unsettling - until ||he chops the head off of the corpse of his obsession.||
- Made even worse at the end of the episode — it turns out he's flying back to States with a package (heavily implied to contain that head). After seeing that scene, you will be REALLY glad for all those X-ray machines at the airports that ensure people can't bring severed human heads to planes anymore.
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*Mother Redcap* manages to combine Nothing Is Scarier with Realism-Induced Horror in one fell swoop. First, there is the terrifying tale of the pub where people would drop dead in sheer terror after seeing something through one of the rear windows. Then comes the reveal that ||the victims were actually being electrocuted to death by a trap set up by the landlord.|| Both the legend and the truth manage to be equally disturbing.
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*Gorgons Wood* is one of the grimmer episodes of the already-dark fourth season especially after the midpoint ||with the introduction of the disfigured prostitute and her violent pimp, and the uncle-niece Incest Subtext component of the plot becoming clear.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JonathanCreek |
JLA/Avengers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
While some comparisons between the DC!Earth and the Marvel!Earth are played for laughs, it's anything but when J'onn and Diana come across the remains of Genosha. Wonder Woman even compares it to the destruction of Hiroshima. When asked why the place was annihilated, J'onn reads the minds of those nearby. Explaining to the other League members that the inhabitants were discriminated against for having genetic mutations, all while holding the skull of one of the victims in his hand... (Keep in mind, this is *especially* offensive to J'onn, who endured a Martian pogrom himself.) It's used as ammo in a "Reason You Suck" Speech by Superman towards Thor about the heroes of the Marvel Verse as a whole for letting such an atrocity happen at all. **Superman:** Tell yourself that, Mister... Ease yourself to sleep at night while you let your world go to Hell! Where I come from, though...LIVES MATTER! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JLAAvengers |
Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The bugs are kinda creepy, but not really on the level of nightmare fuel; but then Dr. Zin kills all of his human assistants! Thankfully, two of them are off-screen -then the last one is turned into a Human Popsicle and crashes to the floor into several pieces. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JonnyQuestVersusTheCyberInsects |
Johnny Test / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The episode "Johnny Test: Party Monster", in which Susan and Mary test a substance named Phero-Booster on some mice and Johnny to make them look good. It works at first, but when they want to use it themselves, they discover that both the mice and Johnny turned into hideous, disfigured monsters. When the party guests were on the verge of leaving the party, the sisters' antidote is an invention that transfers their good looks to Johnny, causing them to become the same kind of monsters. At the end, when Dukey calls them boogers, they pull a lever that opens a door underneath him, making him fall.
The episode "Johnny's Nightmare House" has Johnny inadvertently turning the house into a haunted one for mistaking Hugh's nightmare diary for a book which contains his father's plans for a dream house. Some of the terrifying monsters from Hugh's nightmares include a weird-looking, purple-furred, three-headed creature and a giant spider with sharp teeth and three red eyes.
The episode "Johnnyitis", where Johnny drinks an unstable isotope and almost blows up.
Johnny becoming a hulk-like beast after getting much testosterone in him in "Johnny Testosterone".
Dukey: Okay, I'm officially scared.
"Johnny's Royal Flush" has a disturbing scene where an alligator gets sucked into a sewer turbine and is promptly ripped to shreds, which is followed up by revealing that it got turned into alligator-skin bags.
Poor Gil being very terrified when the now vampire Susan and Mary try to bite him and have him for the rest of eternity in "Fangs a Lot Johnny". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnnyTest |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Warning: Spoilers Off applies to all Moments pages, so
**Unmarked spoilers ahead!**
Just because Dio is out of the picture for now, it doesn't mean that
*Battle Tendency* doesn't have any more horrors that will make you scream *"OHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"*
- After Joseph blows up Straizo with about a half-dozen grenades, we're treated to this really awesome scene of Straizo's pieces Pulling Themselves Together. It includes things like his arm's flesh flaying itself and using the shredded pieces to move and intestines, toes, and eyeballs (with the optic nerve still attached) sliding across the floor to join back to the main body (you can clearly see Straizo's femur, spine, and ribs sticking out of the bloody flesh). It's a gruesome enough sight that Smokey clasps his hands and asks God to save him.
- Stroheim himself dipped into this before his HeelFace Turn, but two of the things he does stand out:
- The first happens when he conscripts some of the local women to shave him, and one of them accidentally slips and cuts his cheek. Stroheim tells her to lick it off, and then puts the sharp edge of the straight razor under her tongue so that if she moves she'll cut herself on the blade, taunting her and laughing as he does so. Fortunately, she doesn't get cut, but geez...
- The second, far more horrifying event, happens when the Nazis plan to feed the Pillar Man blood, and have captured a bunch of the locals to use as food. Before this can be carried out, Stroheim offers a trade: one person will die and the others will live. When one boy steps forward, Stroheim congratulates him for his courageous spirit... and then immediately has everyone BUT the boy executed. Even worse:
*the Nazis actually did this in real life*. We later find out that he had a good reason for it, but even so...
- Santana, in order to exit a room completely devoid of any "normal" exits, opts to
*completely fold and crush his body to fit inside a few-inches-wide ventilation shaft.* Made even more disturbing in the 2012 anime adaptation, where the viewer is "treated" to the full, very-well-done animation of Santana's body crushing, contorting, and folding like origami, complete with squishing, cracking, and popping sounds coming from his body. You may now commence with the shuddering.
- After the above, Santana turns a Nazi officer into an obese yellow man-blob by going into his body through his eyes. Said Nazi officer is still alive and aware of what's happened for several seconds before transforming, and outright
*begs for help* before Santana takes him over.
- One of the creepiest things about Santana and his ability to merge with humans? As both Stroheim and this random soldier can attest, it doesnt hurt:
*it feels pleasant*.
- And throughout all of the above, Santana has this emotionless facial expression, and it's utterly creepy. Then he is introduced to sunlight, and loses his stoicism completely, becoming even
*more* terrifying in the process.
- Santana's attack in general. It plays like an anime adaptation of the SCP Foundation!
- Wamuu's introduction involves him assimilating a row of Nazi soldiers in a very Cell-like fashion, drinking them until they're reduced to deflated blobs of skin.
- Mark's death. All it takes is Wamuu accidentally bumping into him without even noticing, and the right half his body isn't there anymore.
*And it doesn't even kill him.* All he can do is beg Caesar for a Mercy Kill before the pain becomes unbearable. Not only is this a horrifically gruesome death, with lots of blood spurting out from what's left of Mark's body, it also sets up the Pillar Men as terrifying foes who are so far above humans that we may as well be mere vermin by comparison.
- The way Esidisi would have killed Joseph — had Joestar not had a plan in advance to beat him with — by having his prehensile veins enter his body, and violently pumping his lava-like blood through it, boiling him alive from the inside out. Just try picturing that.
- When Joseph manages to defeat Esidisi the first time, beams of light start erupting from his body and his face rips apart. When his horn erupts from his skull — tearing more of his face open — he looks like a demonic skull-unicorn ready to impale Joseph, and when the horn is destroyed he has an appearance like a human Jack-o'-Lantern with light blazing from his mouth, nose hole, eye sockets, upper head, and a dozen points in his body where his veins had come from. The process of finally exploding takes several seconds and he screams in absolute pain the entire time.
- Reduced to a brain with blood vessels, Esidisi possesses Suzi Q, resulting in some hexagon shaped eyes while blood bursts out of her profusely in preparation to blow himself up with the three Hamon users. It's worse when he starts flipping back and forth between Suzi's face and his
*own* face; on the same body.
- The squirrel created by Kars eats through another squirrel, Stroheim, and several other Nazis. See the image above for your sake.
- Kars had caused genocide of his own race because they were against him and the creation of his Stone Mask. He only spared two kids and his right-hand man for his cause.
- Kars the Ultimate Life Form. Much like all the Pillar Men, he was a strong-enough foe before, but after being powered up by the Red Stone of Aja and the Stone Mask, he becomes an all-powerful amalgamation of the DNA from every creature that's ever lived or ever
*will* live on Earth. Not only can he now use Hamon that burns *as hot as the core of the Sun* note : 27 million degrees Fahrenheit, or 15 million degrees Celsius. alongside Esidisi and Wamuu's powers, his general abilities are amplified to a ridiculous degree — with some serious Body Horror on the side whenever he partially-shapeshifts to use his animalistic abilities — and due to a combination of Complete Immortality and a healing factor leagues more powerful than any vampire or Pillar Man, he literally **cannot die**. It's telling when just the very sight of Kars standing triumphantly in direct sunlight is enough to elicit a Mass "Oh, Crap!" from all parties present.
- Kars' fate. After getting blasted into orbit by Joseph and the Hamon-boosted power of an active volcano, he attempts to get back to Earth using his air jets and wings, only for his body to freeze solid and eventually turn to stone due to his Adaptive Ability against the extremely cold vacuum; leaving him helplessly drifting through deep space for eternity as a creature caught half-way between organic and mineral. As his immortality renders him unable to die naturally, Kars is left begging for
*something* out there to kill him; and eventually, his mind shuts down altogether from the isolation and sheer despair. Kars' descent into blind panic when he realises he can't escape nor control his own movement — and especially his agonised screaming right before he's fully petrified — sum up just how *dire* the whole situation is even for him. It's even worse in the manga, where he turns into this.◊ **Kars**
: NO!!! AUUUGHH!!! NOOOO!!!
(
*calms down*
) Don't panic... just find the Earth. (
*sprouts air jets to try and push himself toward Earth*
) I'll use air to change my trajectory! Once I'm back on solid ground, I will tear that boy apart! (
*freezes over*
) REAUUURRRGHHH!!! NO! It's not working! I'm freezing!
The air is freezing around me! The moment it comes out of the jets, it turns to ice! (
*attempts to use his wings, which also immediately freeze*
) I... can't change my path!
**I CAN'T MOVE! ** *NOOOOUUUAAAAARRRGGGH!!!!!!*
- As divided as audiences are over the anime's English dub, what most people seem to unanimously agree on is how well-acted the scene where Joseph gets his arm cut off by Kars is, some even preferring it over the Japanese version. Ben Diskin's performance makes an already terrifying scene downright
*horrific*, with screaming that sounds disturbingly realistic and, as some comment sections on YouTube have noted, make Joseph sound like *he's being violently murdered.* Listen to it here. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency |
Johnny English / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Yes, the movie's a comedy, but if Pascal Sauvage's plan to turn the U.K. into a giant prison were executed in real life, that would be a
*horrifying* abuse of power. The video demonstration in the film is incredibly dystopian: Countryside destroyed to make way for endless stretches of prison walls and lookout towers, long-standing homes and landmarks destroyed to make room for prisons, etc. And that's not even counting the financial costs to the country if he undertook such a thing: While other countries would pay out the nose to send prisoners to the U.K., it would still cost a fortune to build all this, and tons of citizens would be displaced in the process. Yikes. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnnyEnglish |
Joy Division / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Joy Division never sounded happy (their band name was inspired by a prostitution wing in a Nazi concentration camp), so its no surprise that their gloomy music features lyrics with images that seem to come from your deepest nightmares.
Also impossible to forget is the fact that the lead singer, Ian Curtis, committed suicide before the group actually broke into the mainstream. This paints a black shadow over their entire oeuvre.
- "She's Lost Control": Curtis wrote this song about an epileptic woman he once knew. The nervous rhythm closely follows her own mental breakdown.
- "Day of the Lords", a disturbingly haunting song with a proto-Doom Metal riff about what seems to be either childhood trauma or the PTSD of a war veteran.
*This is the room, the start of it all *
Through childhood, through youth, I remember it all
Oh, I've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain
And the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained
Where will it end? Where will it end? Where will it end? Where will it end?
- "Wilderness"; Curtis singing as if he's an ancient traveler who saw nothing but mankind's misery and despair around him:
*I traveled far and wide through prisons of the cross *
What did you see there? The power and glory of sin
What did you see there? The blood of Christ on their skins
[...]
*I saw the tears as they cried. THEY HAD TEARS IN THEIR EYES. TEARS IN THEIR EYES!*
- "I Remember Nothing": A loosely structured 6 minute dirge based around sinister chanting and murmuring, punctuated briefly by the sound of breaking glass.
*Weee... Were strangers...*
- "New Dawn Fades" is haunting, the almost apathetic delivery and heavy pulse contributing to the atmosphere. The lyrics are particularly eloquent, especially:
*I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore...* *Directionless, so plain to see, a loaded gun can't set you free — or so they say...*
- "Atrocity Exhibition": About people who pay to see a barely living man in an asylum.
*For entertainment they watch his body twist *'
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.
- The Reality Subtext makes it even worse, as the line likely refers to people coming to concerts to see Curtis have epileptic seizures on stage. The song continues...
*You'll see the horrors of a faraway place *
Meet the architects of law face to face
See mass murder on a scale you've never seen
And all the ones who try hard to succeed...
- Not horrifying enough? The second verse indicates that the asylum inmate is forced to fight in deadly Gladiator Games:
*In arenas he kills for a prize *
Wins a minute to add to his life
But the sickness is drowned by cries for more
Pray to God, make it quick, watch him fall.
- Special mention for this track goes to Peter Hook's guitar playing
note : He usually plays bass, but here switched instruments with Bernard Sumner and Martin Hannett's sound editing of said guitar. The gibbering clicks and weird wails sound like a chorus of deformed souls moaning in agony. Did I say a chorus? I meant a *cacophony*. It's horrifying and it totally fits in with the lyrics.
- "Heart and Soul": Something about the song feels so ancient, and Ian's mind-state at the time
*really* shows. It doesn't help that his vocals are slightly off-key the whole time. *An abyss that laughs at creation *
A circus complete with all fools
Foundations that lasted the ages,
Then ripped apart at their roots
Beyond all this good is the terror,
The grip of a mercenary hand,
When savagery turns all good reason,
There's no turning back, no last stand
Heart and soul
One will burn
- "Isolation" is quite disturbing, in the literal sense of a feeling of anxiety: The distorted vocals and stabbing synths adding to the almost Tear Jerker lyrics.
*I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through, I'm ashamed of the person I am.*
- "Decades" is a haunting closing track to the album, filled with bone-chilling instrumentation.
- "Twenty Four Hours". The instrumental, and the lyrics... It sounds like Ian already made up his mind about his life, and anytime he says "Just for one moment...", you're bound to get intense chills.
**Other**:
- "Dead Souls": The lengthy, ominous instrumental intro sets the stage for one of Curtis' most terrifying lyrics, with a performance to match. He sounds like he's been obsessing on man's inhumanity to man while in a museum or church, and it's deeply affected him:
*Where figures from the past stand tall *
And mocking voices ring the halls
Imperialistic house of prayer
Conquistadors who took their share
- "In a Lonely Place" was recorded a few days before Ian Curtis hung himself, and
*boy* is it unnerving. Mind you, the New Order version is pretty creepy as well, but the production work, and Curtis's slightly ghostly sounding voice just cranks up the nightmare fuel factor to a whole new level. And it goes without saying that the final lyrics of the song are eerie as all hell. *The hangman looks round as he waits *
The cord stretches tight, then it breaks
Someday we will die in your dreams
How I wish we were here with you now
- Similarly, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is very dissonant and unnerving, especially with those eerie synths. While it's arguably the band's most critically successful song, very rarely has a discussion of the song passed without someone mentioning that it's basically a suicide note set to music.
- Non-music related, Peter Hook noted in his book
*Unknown Pleasures* that Ian went from having the occasional seizure to having them practically daily, growing increasingly terrified of it happening. It's hard to listen to *Closer* without thinking about how he must have felt. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoyDivision |
Jorge Joestar / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
And, what's worst of all - they can reproduce not only by infecting human hosts, but also by yearly process, similar to cellular division. In mere 15 years, a single skin zombie was able to create an army of 16,384 copies.
"If he's kept that power as a skin zombie, and is still growing new skin, then every year, on June 16th, skinning day, Antonio Torres is making copies of himself. The Torres case on La Palma happened in 1900. Fifteen years have passed, fourteen skinning days, and Antonio's copies have all made copies, doubling each time, so 2 to the 14th power, leaving us with 16,384 asshole Antonios. More than enough to terrorize the 800 pilots the Naval Air Service has spread across the channel and the North Sea, wouldn't you say?" | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JorgeJoestar |
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
While Jhonen Vasquez would go on to create one of Nickelodeon's most popular cult classics,
*Johnny the Homicidal Maniac* remains his most profoundly dark and disturbing work yet. Given what Nickelodeon let Invader Zim get away with, that's saying something. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac |
Juan dela Cruz / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
In a TV-Series which involves the monstrous aswangs and other supernatural beings, it is bound to happen that there will be Nightmare Fuel.
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. As the show is also well-known for its sudden and rapid descent into madness, many of the spoilers appear early on. You Have Been Warned.**
- The Kapatiran found out that the aswangs were getting their food, human remains, from hospitals and even cans them. At least they are not directly shown. Right?
- When Pepe turned into an aswang. In fact the whole "Pepe turned into an aswang" arc was full of Nightmarefuel. He was turned into an aswang in a Nightmare Fuel-filled process, when the Haring Aswang forcefully feed him some kind of transformation orb to let him know how it feels to be an aswang. Pepe initially went after live chickens after realizing he can't eat vegetables anymore. He eventually went after live humans, giving in to his new beastly aswang instincts. He was later killed by a reluctant Juan after begging the later to kill him.
- Juan gradually turning into the Anak ng Dilim. First, Juan's hand occasionally transformed into a clawed purple aswang hand with a mind of its own when Juan gets angry. This has caused Juan to uncontrollably choke his allies including his love, Rosario. Then it eventually took over Juan for some time. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JuandelaCruz |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Moment pages are Spoilers Off by default, so all spoilers were removed. Proceed with caution. You Have Been Warned!
- Doppio's transformation to Diavolo, at least in PV 5, is quite unsettling. We see Doppio pop up and be his usual self, when suddenly his eyes turn uncharacteristically sharp and aggressive, and his voice drops several octaves. For the brief seconds we see Diavolo!Doppio, the whole thing comes off like he's possessed. Then he steps through the panel divider, taking off his shirt, and Diavolo comes out the other side. (It's based on a scene in the manga where Doppio took off his shirt while walking behind a column, emerging on the other side as Diavolo, but you can't tell from the game's cutaway.)
- Fugo's GHA has him infect his foe with the Purple Haze virus, which is known for inflicting a swift and painful death to its victims. Enjoy the screams of pain and anguish. Fun fact: when a fighter is hit by this GHA, the game plays their "knocked out" voice clip, which is why their screams are more intense. The only reason the game isn't rated M is that the screen turns black-and-white for a moment during the attack.
- Funny Valentine's GHA is fairly unsettling: he transports himself and his opponent to an alternate dimension, next to said dimension's versions of themselves. Valentine's safe, thanks to his Stand, but his opponent ends up getting fused with his alternate self and splitting apart into Menger sponges. The game's graphics engine uses tricks with the color, similar to with Fugo's GHA to compensate for the fact that what's happening to their bodies is really gnarly◊.
- In
*All-Star Battle R*, one of the battles in All-Star Battle Mode has DIO go up against Yoshikage Kira in the latter's Kosaku Kawajiri form, and when he wins, he decides to implant Kira with a flesh bud rather than kill him. If you think Kira was already bad to begin with, imagine him with Blind Obedience and Undying Loyalty to DIO.
- Another fight in the Stardust Crusaders part of All-Star Battle mode is Pet Shop vs. Shigekiyo Yangu, which amusingly starts off with Shigechi telling Pet Shop not to go after his sandwich. Considering how ruthless Pet Shop is, the fact you
*play* as Pet Shop for this fight, and especially the events that led in the original canon to Shigechi's death *starting with a missing sandwich*...
- While it's also a badass Call-Back to his fight against Mista and Bruno, Prosciutto and Pesci's GHA ends with Prosciutto capping his opponent three times in the head with Mista's gun. This is all well and good, but against certain opponents, things can get a bit disturbing when you think about it. You can basically watch a mobster mercilessly execute Middle/High schoolers or dogs or birds.
- Risotto's GHA essentially shows what would have happened to Diavolo/Doppio if Risotto's final attack hadn't been interrupted by Narancia. After perforating his opponent with a veritable storm of scalpels made from the iron in the ground, Risotto turns the iron in their blood into razor blades, making them essentially
*explode* from the inside out in a cloud of blood and razor blades. Like Fugo and Valentine's respective GHAs, it is censored by the game briefly going black and white. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle |
Jojo Rabbit / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Hitler's appearance after the Gestapo search is the one time he gets really and truly angry with Jojo, and launches into a tirade that is *remarkably close* to the actual Hitler's speeches. Up until this point Hitler has been speaking in Waititi's usual cheerful, high-pitched tenor, but as Jojo listens to him rant, his voice actually distorts until it sounds like it could be coming from behind a microphone in front of a roaring audience. It's the first time Jojo sees Hitler for what he truly is: a raving, power-hungry, violent megalomaniac.
"I am beginning to question your loyalty to myself and the party. You call yourself a patriot, yet where is the evidence?! The German soldier was born out of
*necessity* — Germany depends on the passion of these young men, passion and a readiness to fall for the fatherland, despite the futile efforts of Allied war profiteers who send their ill-prepared armies clumsily into the lair of the wolf, and only zealous men who stand steadfast in the face of the enemy will be etched in German memory forever! *But it is up to you to decide if you want to be remembered or disappear without a trace like a pitiful grain of sand into a desert of insignificance!*" | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JojoRabbit |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* is known for its awesomeness in its epic moments, its tragic history and quirky events, as well as its few moments of genuine happiness.
However, it didn't start off as this; it initially focused on a man turned into a vampire and his Legions of Hell, and the Gorn could get extreme at times. It only gets worse with all the Body Horror of the Pillar Men and Stands in later parts.
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Judas Priest / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Jugulator, he is near, attracted by the stench of fear, part demonic, and part machine, hungry and it's time to feed...
- "Winter Retreat" from
*Rocka Rolla* is a very, very disturbing instrumental track.
- "The Ripper" from
*Sad Wings of Destiny*, a song from the first-person view of Jack the Ripper, filled to the brim with Paranoia Fuel and a bridge that, at one point, has a guitar mimicking the screams of one of his victims.
- Sad Wings Of Destiny is not entirely a nightmarish album, but the artwork most certainly is. A simple image of an angel, burning in Hell, a look of pure agony on his face as he writhes in pain. The lone skull in the background makes it much worse, and the fact that it is not obvious he is burning, as much as it is implied with the flames in the background.
- "Night Crawler" from
*Painkiller* is about a flesh-eating Monster terrorizing a small town and the unlucky family who ends up as his meal for the night. The lyrics are very tense and makes good use of many Horror Tropes.
- The opening title track from
*Jugulator*. Firstly, the song itself is about a murderous mechanical monster. Secondly, the start of the song (and by proxy, the first thing you hear on the whole album) is a series of whirring and clinking mechanical sounds interspersed with very low guitars.
- "Brain Dead", also from
*Jugulator*, is even worse. It starts with screeching tires, followed by the sounds of a car crash and ambulance sirens, which is fitting, considering it's about the horrors of total head-to-foot paralysis. It's comparable to Metallica's "One", only with the added message of Life Will Kill You, since the protagonist wasn't even in a war.
- "Electric Eye" from
*Screaming for Vengeance* is basically distilled Paranoia Fuel. They're watching you. Always.
- Pretty much everything from
*Stained Class* is ripe with this trope. A hauntingly bleak album forever tainted by an incident where two boys attempted to commit suicide because of claimed back-masking on "Better by You, Better Than Me". One of them succeeded while the other survived, with horrible injuries to boot. note : He died a few years later from an overdose. As a sidenote, he was also the inspiration for Arseface in *Preacher*. Definitely a dark chapter in the history of Judas Priest.
- "Metal Gods" from
*British Steel* is about a nightmarish future where machines have gained sentience and are in the process of enslaving all of humanity. The lyrics are creepy enough, but the last minute or so of the song really tops it off: it has no vocals, just the instruments and a deep, metallic thumping sound note : Made by shaking a cupboard full of cutlery up and down''- the sound of the machines marching in unison. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JudasPriest |
Jujutsu Kaisen / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Sweet Dreams
In the world of
*Jujutsu Kaisen*, humanity exists in a Forever War with a species of monsters with extraordinary mystical power, each and every one of them birthed from all of their fear, regrets and hatred. It's obvious that you'll be seeing tons of horror.
- Jogo demonstrates his power by lighting a whole restaurant on fire. Not the restaurant itself; everyone in it, one by one, is incinerated without him even getting up. He did this
*purely* to vent excitement at the prospect of killing Gojo himself.
- The anime prolongs this scene, with people reacting to each other suddenly catching fire before combusting themselves. The last victim, a waitress, watches everyone die in terror and barely reaches the door to safety before she combusts. This speaks volumes of Jogo's control over his abilities and his sadistic streak.
- While it is played for laughs moments before, a waiter could instinctively feel that he would die if he walked over to the table. He quits his job and runs out of the restaurant. With the incident that happens afterwards, he barely managed to avoid a gruesome fate.
- Junpei's death. The boy goes after his bullies, thinking them responsible for his mother's death. After a fight, Yuji manages to calm him and bring him to reason, only for Mahito to arrive and transfigure him. He dies from the damage, realising that Mahito had arranged his mother's death.
- Mahito and Sukuna are left howling in laughter at his fate, the latter after denying Yuji's desperate request to save his friend.
- Cursed Technique: Hollow Purple, the pinnacle of Gojo's offensive power, hammers in the scope of his abilities as Person of Mass Destruction outside of Domain Expansion. Hanami bolts immediately after sensing it incoming and still loses the entire left side of his torso. Also, it left the Jujutsu Tech's grounds with a new perfectly cut out valley!
- Quite literally everything about the creation of the Cursed Painting: Death Wombs, 9 Special Grade relics from the Meiji Era. These are the twisted result of a woman with the ability to give birth to human-Curse hyrids being taken hostage by Noritoshi Kamo, forcibly impregnated and aborted 9 times. What happened
*after* that was apparently so horrific that all records of it were put to the torch, which says *quite* a bit about how awful it was that the 9 abortions was considered necessary information. The end result is one missing dead woman and 9 demonic and fully sapient fetuses with different varieties of Blood Magic sealed in jars for over a century with nothing to do but refine said Blood Magic techniques. ||And it was all a funny but ultimately failed little experiment to Kenjaku.||
- Megumi's demonic grin before using his Domain Expansion for the first time is so much more unhinged than could be expected from the team's Only Sane Man. Justified by the fact that being the cautious, responsible one or trying to play it safe wouldn't get him to that level.
- It's shortly after the revelation that he used to be a vicious Bully Hunter only a few years ago and the underclassmen at the middle school he went to are still terrified of him. The younger him is shown sitting on top of a pile of people he beat up. Despite the cool attitude, guy has enough rage inside him for the whole team.
- Kugisaki goes full on Terror Hero when she and Yuji fight against Eso and Kechizu. Her response to getting infected with their poisonous blood is to stab nails thorough
*her hand* and use Straw Doll Technique: Resonance to make them feel it. They know it can't hurt them too much, but are disturbed by her actions anyway. Worse, even though both Jujutsu sorcerers got hit by their Cursed Technique and should be in excruciating pain, they have barely slowed down. Way to horrify the horrors.
- In the lead-up to the Shibuya Event, a newly restored Kokichi Muta/Mechamaru faces off against Mahito, managing to do very well up until Mahito crashes into his cockpit with a Nightmare Face that encapsulates his entire Uncanny Valley vibe.
- In a disturbing case of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome, it should be noted that modern-day Shibuya is a
*'massive* party venue and experiences a staggering peak of activity on Halloween due to cosplay raves and similar events completely overtaking the area. The party-goers didn't even know what hit them.
- Gojo's fight with Hanami and Jogo in Shibuya. Despite the curses' confidence, Gojo easily deals with both of them, pursuing the duo relentlessly while making numerous Slasher Smiles the whole time. It comes to an end when he catches Hanami with his guard down and smashes him against the wall with Infinity, crushing the curse until he's no more than a stain.
- Prison Realm looks like a simple fabric-wrapped cube with etchings, the
*still-alive* remains of a Heian era Buddhist monk by the name of Genshin. When activated, it breaks apart to reveal a fleshy mass with a large, bleeding eyeball in the middle. Stay within its range for one minute, and it envelops your body, trapping you in place and removing any ability to fight back. At a final command, it closes up, locking you in a hellish void where skeletons surround and grasp you. It will only release you after a thousand years have passed. Even worse? It doesn't take one actual minute to be trapped — it just has to *feel* like one minute to the victim. Gojo, flashing through *3 years of his life* upon seeing Geto, had no chance to escape.
- The reveal that the current Geto is an impostor. When revealing himself to Gojo, he pulls a string that had been keeping the top of his head on, and
*takes it off like a cap* complete with brain fluids oozing out over the rim, revealing a *brain with teeth* inside his skull. The startlingly large smile he flashes Gojo with, seemingly caused by Geto's facial muscles going completely slack, like a marionette puppet that's having a grin held up by it's master, is absurdly sinister.◊
- The ocean curse, Dagon, looks docile and silly. In Shibuya, after being punched, it to vomits out a
*whole mountain of bones* from humans it has consumed. Then in rage, its body splits apart, revealing a far more menacing form.
- Jogo feeds ten of Sukuna's fingers to Yuji while he is unconscious, with two curse users feeding him another beforehand, unleashing Sukuna. This pushes the harrowing situation in Shibuya into an absolute calamity:
- First, the King of Curses is not pleased with any perceived attempts to order him around, cruelly murdering the two girls and challenging Jogo to hit him in exchange for any assistance. This begins a fight which sees Jogo summoning a
*meteor* down on the city, Sukuna threatening several witnesses (among them Panda and Kusakabe), and the Earth Curse ultimately meeting his demise.
- After dispatching the Special Grade, Sukuna meets, to his surprise, a former associate, Uraume. By the time they part, they appear to have arranged for a plan that would allow Sukuna to be free.
- Finally, Sukuna senses that Fushiguro has summoned his trump card across the city, and is very close to death. He leaves Uraume and manages to defeat the uncontrollable monster that Megumi summoned, saving the sorcerer. In the process, however, he unleashes his Domain Expansion, purposefully causing
*staggering* amounts of damage in a 140 meter radius, cratering the area and killing most of the civilians taking shelter. He does all of this simply for the sake of violence and destruction, and ends his rampage making sure Yuji would remember all of it.
- Yuji's Badass Boast to Mahito is both an awesome moment and a horrifying one, due to just how malicious and predatory it sounds, so much that it could very well be a villain speech:
- In Chapter 137, A little girl whose scurrying around for food is lured by a very creepy humanoid kind of curse who continues to repeat what the girl has said to it, the little girl decides to offer the curse a drink. Right as she walks out the door,it is revealed the monstrous entity had used a dead body as bait to lure the girl out to devour her. Luckily for her ,Yuta Okkotsu was around to save the day. Otherwise....
- The Shibuya Incident ends on a terrible note, as even though the Disaster Curses are gone, a very large number of civilians and sorcerers are left dead or injured. Gojo is sealed, while the unknown man in Geto's body escapes with Prison Realm and Mahito's techniques for future plans. The elders' response only worsens it: Gojo is declared an "accomplice" of the incident, exiling him from the world of jujutsu, with attempts to rescue him from the Prison Realm made a capital offense. Yaga is framed as a traitor for "inciting" both Gojo and Geto. Concurrently, Yuji's death sentence is reinstated, to be carried out immediately by
*Yuta Okkotsu*, who harbors a grudge against him for Inumaki's loss of an arm in Shibuya. Finally, Geto has awakened the potential of nearly 1000 people (including Megumi's step-sister), and unleashed millions of curses, to sow chaos in the country for his agenda.
- The true nature of the man we see as Suguru Geto. He is in reality a man by the name of Kenjaku, whose technique allows him to transplant his brain into other people, taking over their bodies and acquiring their techniques. He's said to be at least as old as Sukuna, and the worst part is that it's implied Suguru Geto is only one of many bodies he's taken over the years in the name of furthering his terrible goals - at one point he was the most evil sorcerer in history, Noritoshi Kamo. Even more horrific is that he at one point took on the identity of Yuji's own mother.
- Maki's rampage in chapter 150 is one of the most brutal displays of violence seen printed in the pages of Shonen Jump. After reaching Toji in terms of power through Mai's death, Maki singlehandedly takes down scores of the Zen'in clan cronies with her boosted restriction technique as penance for their abusive ways. The chapter begins with Maki brutally slaughtering the Zen'in personal guard with effortless movements, liberating arms from forearms, heads from shoulders, and
*penis from groin* in one instance. One unfortunate soul is killed when Maki brings her blade up through his chin and into his skull, ultimately pulling his *entire face* off as she drags her blade out of his head. She effortlessly dispatches some of the highest ranked members of the Zen'in clan following this all at the same time, ripping one's throat out and decapitating another, throwing his head into a lake. The chapter ends with Naoya asking if Maki has "a human heart". Her response?
- Chapter 159 is this crossed over with Tear Jerker. Through the backstory of culling game participant Hiromi Higuruma, we are treated to an utterly harrowing depiction of the Japanese justice system.
- Prior to the game, Higuruma was formerly a criminal defense attourney who would frequently take on difficult cases while knowing his results in law school opening up pretty much any legal job he could have wanted, despite both Japan's 99% conviction rate and the psychological toll involved, in order to ensure his clients would at least have a chance of receiving a fair trial. However, due to the severe imbalance in resources between independent defence lawyers and public prosecutors, these attempts are implied to ultimately prove futile - with Higuruma's clients taking their subsequent anger and distress out on him.
- The case that caused Higuruma to snap involved a man with a criminal record who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and subsequently blamed for a family's murder. The prosecution lazily convicted the man without even bothering to consider the ample evidence and circumstances surrounding the case that could've proven his innocence, causing Higuruma to furiously call for a retrial while awakening his cursed technique: a terrifying specter with stitched eyes and justice scales for its arms.
- Chapter 163 has a chilling opening with a flashback of a bystander Amai Rin witnessing Yuji punching down bullies, with a near-blank expression the whole time.
- In Chapter 165, upon hearing Itadori bluntly admit to committing mass murder, the once stoic Judgemans face twists with anger and sentences Itadori to death.
- Chapter 173 introduces a Special Grade curse named Kurourushi. If its face didn't give you away, this ugly sucker is the result of humanity's fear of cockroaches, which Kurourushi controls and propagates as part of his Cursed Technique. Worse, it controls a
*rivers* of cockroaches that can reduce a human to mere bones in seconds. It's also stated that Kurouroushi was hibernating up until Yuta killed one of the strongest Culling Game players in the colony, causing it to wake up and start eating now that its biggest obstacle was out of the way. Yuta meets it when it sicks its cockroach swarms on a group of civilians.
- The cursed tool at its disposal isn't much better in that it doesn't stop at cutting things. Rather, it injects insect eggs into the unfortunate victim, which hatch into fully mature cockroaches that will proceed to eat the victim from the inside out.
- Chapter 200 reveals what Kenjaku's been up to all this time as well as the preparations he's done prior to Gojo's sealing. He went to various foreign countries and revealed to them the existence of the Jujutsu world in full, playing into the idea that cursed energy could be used as an alternate energy source. The Under Secretary of the U.S. office realizes what Kenjaku's playing at with this, namely that in order to study cursed energy to determine its viability, they need to
*capture* Jujutsu Sorcerers and Curse Users. Kenjaku tells them they'll have all the study cases they need in November, i.e. *the Culling Games*. To reiterate, this guy has not only been playing Gojo and the others around for fools, but managed to convince foreign nations to secretly infiltrate Japan to seek out and capture anyone who can use cursed energy. Fridge Horror does not even *begin* to cover it.
- Chapter 202 has Kenjaku finally reveal his master plan: To merge all non-Sorcerers into a massive abomination using Master Tengen. The kicker? When Choso demands to know why, Kenjaku responds "
*It just sounds fun*." All the suffering, the mass casualties, the pain our heroes have endured? All of it was for no greater reason than a madman's *amusement*.
- Kenjaku finally reveals his Domain Expansion while fighting Yuki Tsukumo; An absolutely
*diabolical and abominable* thing by the name of "All-Encompassing Womb Realm" that depicts mutilated corpses of women and mummified corpses sitting in prayer around what appears to be a **tree made of faces caught somewhere between screaming and laughter**. The effect it has isn't much better, easily peeling Yuki's Simple Domain apart before twisting one of her arms around by the elbow until the entire limb was a pretzel while simultaneously dunking her through the floor with enough force to shatter it.
- Chapter 209: The soldiers are shown to have somewhat of a chance against modern-day sorcerers, tranquilizing a panicked Remi with ease and managing to kill Haba off-screen. But, they are completely outmatched by Cursed Spirits, who they have no expertise in handling. As the header image shows, one unfortunate soldier is treated to a Cursed Spirit that looks like a lumpy clove of
*heads* on eerily long limbs wandering out of an underground passage to presumably eat him alive, completely freaking out without even knowing that his gun, which isn't a Cursed Tool, won't even dent it.
- Chapter 210: A Fishermen style curse has been using Soldiers (who are still relatively alive and conscious) as bait for the cursed fish below the building. Using said bait attracts one of the cursed fish and it snags onto the line, prompting the fisherman to whip it up to it's platform ontop and we're shown that there are other curses who feed upon both the cursed fish and the soldier inside. It shows us (The audience) that curses eat each other and can also care not for one another much like how humans can be toward one another.
- Chapter 212:
- Tsumiki is revealed to have been fully possessed by an incarnated Sorcerer known as Yorozu, who absorbed her memories and flawlessly mimicked Tsumiki's personality up to the groups' meeting. After spending the points that the sorcerers achieved in trying to free Tsumiki of the Culling Game to enable travel between Colonies, she declares herself to the horrified Megumi as his big sister with an
*inhumanly* wide smile.
- Sukuna takes advantage of the chaos of Yozoru's impersonation of Tsumiki and effectively opening all of the Culling Game colonies to activate the forgotten Binding Vow he established with Yuji in Chapter 11. He takes over his body, knocks Hana out (And ONLY because of the Binding Vow keeping him from killing anyone),
*breaks Yuji's pinky off*, and then *feeds it to Megumi.* In one minute Sukuna achieves what he has been working for since the beginning of the series: **possessing Megumi**. With Megumi essentially dead, Hana and Angel unconscious, Sukuna in control of the Ten Shadows Technique as well as being free of his Binding Vow / Yuji's influence, and everything Kenjaku has planned, this may be the Darkest Hour for the Jujutsu sorcerers.
- Chapter 213 comes to show just how much of a threat Sukuna has been ever since the Shibuya Incident, both power and intelligence.
- Ever since he met Megumi, hed sensed both his potential and tolerance to withstand him. But since there was a chance he could be a cage (like Yuji suppressing him) instead of a vessel, he waited for the exact moment Megumis spirit would break while regaining his power. And it worked. Now free from his former vessel's control, the first thing Sukuna does is send Yuji
**flying across the city with a single punch in the gut.**
- Worse, he now has access to Megumis Ten Shadows Technique, in which he summons a monstrous Nue
to rain lightning down on the protagonists and allies. Considering its amplified by Sukunas Cursed Energy, one can only wonder how powerful his other shikigami can be, including Mahoraga. **several dozens of times bigger than the original**
- The only threat to Sukuna now is Hana/Angel, who cancels out the summon and unleashes Jacobs Ladder, a holy Kill Sat that completely shreds the ancient sorcerer as he screams in agony. However, Sukuna exploits Hanas feelings for Megumi to cancel the technique by pretending to have been suppressed. Despite the Angels pleas, Hana falls for it and embraces him, to which the chapter ends with a
Sukuna attempting to devour her whole. **very deranged**
- Chapter 217: This chapter particularly shows how some of the most Formidable sorcerers are not only interested in Ryomen Sukuna for Battle but also for a twisted sense and view of love like Yorozu. A sorcerer who is in fact an Insane Ax-Crazy loony bin with a fascination for dead corpses to marry and wants to kill and defeat Sukuna all so she can do just that and make a "ceremony" filled with dead heads of handsome men and Monkey brain pottage to feast on. Her excited demeanor and outlandish behavior doesn't make it any better.
- This chapter showcased that even the more docile and gentle looking of Megumi's Shikigami, such as the Divine Dogs, can be twisted into vicious and bloodthirsty versions of their normal forms. This chapter ended with Sukuna summoning a ring above his head eerily similar to
*Mahoraga*, the next chapter will be a beat down for Yorozu and it will be *bad*.
- Chapter 219: A glimpse into the Heian era is seen in that Yorozu was once a Country Bumpkin who was known to have an abhorrent interest in Sukuna and a tendency to be naked. Within her own home we see that she's highly abusive without a care in the world toward her servant and blatantly admits she abuses her everyday to her face so she should be "Used" to it. We are also shown through the conversation between some local noblemen that the teams of both the Sun-Moon-Stars and the Five Void Generals were rendered utterly unrecognizable as corpse by Ryomen Sukuna, and the now the
*imperial capital* is trying to stay on Sukuna's good side in order to avoid the same fate upon themselves by holding festivities in his honor. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JujutsuKaisen |
Jumanji: The Next Level / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked.
This sequel isn't called "The Next Level" for nothing. It's probably even more intense than the '95 original film and
*Welcome to the Jungle* combined! If you looking for Jumanji Nightmare Fuel other films is down here:
- Whenever people lose lives is played much more violently.
- Eddie/Bravestone taunts an ostrich and it attacks him and he
*explodes into a bloody cloud*.
- Our heroes being chased by those damn mandrills on the bridge, those mandrills look creepy and terrifying.
- Luckily Alex and Bethany come to the rescue.
- When they realize that they only (except Alex) have one life. It means if they screw up, they're dead for real. Sure, they survive once in Jumanji. But it's still frightened them when they realize that they are closer to death. Thankfully, Alex cheers them up and told them "this team" can do anything.
- Jurgen the Brutal turns out to be well named. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JumanjiTheNextLevel |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Warning: Spoilers Off applies to this page. Proceed at your own risk.
Some way to start the series, huh?
A long time ago, before the self-awareness that defined an entire generation,
*Phantom Blood* had plenty of bloody terrors to be found in Victorian London.
- How does the story start?
*With a woman being sacrificed alive!* Her blood is used to turn a guy wearing the Aztec Mask into a vampire, who proceeds to kill one of his followers and absorb his blood.
- The way vampires in this series suck blood — while the normal neck-biting method works, more often than not they'll just dig their hand into someone's neck, causing all of their veins to bulge hideously as they're drained to a husk. At one point, Dio grabs Jonathan's carotid artery between his fingers and plays with it like a squeaky toy.
- Really, Dio Brando in general. Where to
*begin?*:
- It's generally agreed that Dio's first truly despicable action (at the age of
*twelve*) was trapping Jonathan's beloved pet dog, Danny, in the incinerator with his jaw wired shut so the groundskeeper wouldn't notice until it was too late, as revenge for his totally-deserved beating after he stole Erina's first kiss. A Big Friendly Dog dying such a horrible death is awful enough as it is, as is the mere fact that Dio is willing to go that far for petty revenge, but it's even worse in the manga, as we get the gruesome sight of the wire melting and his body blackening as it's engulfed in flames.
- Dio Brando's actions before Jonathan Grew a Spine involve a great deal of psychological horror. First, Jonathan is beaten up, becomes the subject of unfavorable rumors by Dio, made to look less desirable in his father's eyes in comparison to Dio himself, and finally steals his Sacred First Kiss with Erina to drive a wedge between their relationship so Jonathan would become a nervous wreck. A scene that was cut from the anime involves Jonathan trying to find his watch, only to see Dio had gotten his hands on it- showing how easily Dio could take everything from him. Really emphasizing how subtle and gradual that Dio was pushing Jonathan to a corner that he couldn't escape from. Thankfully, Jonathan Took a Level in Badass and started to turn things around.
- After Dio becomes a vampire, he gets so much worse. He does continue his dog-kicking streak throughout the rest of the storyline, but the most horrible thing that he does would have to be the scene in which he turns that woman into a zombie and calmly watches her eat her own baby. The woman Dio has brought before him is begging him to take her, but spare the baby. He gives her his word that he will not even touch it. Shortly afterward, the zombie mom does as is said above. He kept his word, but still ensured the baby's demise by having the now zombified mother eat its face off, once more proving what a monster Dio was.
- His taste in pets, which involves putting cats' heads on birds. Later, he put a man's head on a dog's body to amuse himself by mixing his love of abusing dogs and punishing minions to kill/kick one if the particular manages to be too vulgar as a surreal stress reliever.
- Due to Dio's augmentative and amalgamated experimentations with zombies, the zombies gradually go from the garden-variety, warped corpses with reddish eyes to monstrous, alien, and even demonic beings that resemble denizens of hell than zombies. Given that Dio Brando is a thematic Satanic Archetype for the series, the choice of appearance was likely deliberate.
- The way in which Dio manages to deal with what happens to him at the end of
*Phantom Blood* is quite shriek-invoking. Long story short, he decapitates Jonathan and places his then-severed head onto the headless body.
- Jack the Ripper's introduction. The carriage in which Jonathan, Zeppeli, and Speedwagon are riding suddenly stops in the middle of a tunnel. The group goes to see what's wrong, and find that their coach driver has been turned into a knife block while the horses have been decapitated. As they wonder who or what could have done something like this, Zeppeli senses something strange about the dead horses: turns out Jack was hiding inside one horse's corpse, and he emerges from its neck stump, covered in blood!
- The fact that he sheathes his knife through his cheeks is also quite creepy.
- During the fight with Tarkus, he decides to grab two hapless townsfolk, and straight up
*crush them to paste with his bare hands*, before drinking the body juices that came out. We even get to see one of the victims have the skin on his face tear off near the end of it. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood |
Judge Dredd / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
A 2021 story titled "Savior" has an alien from a race of aliens who look like pulp-style cave-men being sent to Earth to seek help from Judge Dredd, who visited their world once in the past and made such an impression that they have deified him as a justice god. The reason is because their planet has been invaded by a particularly amoral Mega-Corp, which is strip-mining their world for minerals and enslaving them to assist in the process. Dredd shows up and drives out the Mega-Corp... then orders the natives rounded up and put on reservations; now that Mega-City One's Justice Department knows that this planet has valuable minerals, they're going to exploit it themselves, whilst justifying their presence as "protecting" the natives. The story ends with *'Dredd* of all Judges saying this: **Dredd:** City needs those resources. Long as the cave-freaks need our protection then we're here to say. And, trust me, we'll make sure these dumb alien simps **always** need protecting... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JudgeDredd |
Jumanji: The Animated Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"Nothing to Fear" breaks the Never Say "Die" trope for good and has Alan worrying about growing old and dying in the game. While being subjected to Ibsen's Triangle of Terror, which can read and materialize your worst fears, he is confronted by his own tombstone (which laughs at him) and a mad version of himself in his old age. **Old Alan:** What's the hurry? You got nothing but time!
- In one of those fears, Alan finds himself in the house, where adults Peter and Judy leave the latter's daughter with a babysitter while they visit Jumanji to try to free Alan. We see Judy's daughter looking up at the intimidating-looking babysitter. Perhaps one of the reasons Alan wants the pair to give up trying to free him is because he doesn't want them to grow up to be neglectful parents because of him or, worse, they might never come back. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries |
Jonny Quest / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The way the Lizard Men sneak aboard and assassinate the boat crew in the beginning of the pilot comes across like something out of a horror movie.
- The Diabolus ex Nihilo status of many of monsters. While some are shown to be the result of science gone wrong, many just show up out of nowhere. One never knows where or when they might appear.
- The villains throughout the show come across as unsettling, since they don't make their evilness subtle.
- The vast majority of the villains have zero problem with killing Jonny or Hadji if they get in the way. Montoya in Treasure of the Temple even burns their tent while they sleep with Bandit warning Jonny being the only reason they dont burn to death.
- The Invisible Monster. Created from a lab accident, you can only see it by the footprints it leaves. Everything it touches either dies or violently explodes. On top of that, it makes a creepy high-pitched wailing sound. Combine that with ominous music every time it's around, and you have the scariest episode in the series.
- To those who are sensitive to animals getting hurt, a dog was scared upon seeing (or sensing) the Invisible Monster and whimpered in fear. As the next scene after that was shown, the dog could either have run away, or — worst case scenario — been killed by the monster offscreen.
- The Robot Spy from the episode of the same name: a round, black spider-like thing with one big, creepy red eye and a decidedly unnerving set of spindly legs. It also happened to be practically invincible, relentlessly plowing through everything the military threw at it in the episode's climax. That thing had to give a few kids nightmares... and inspired at least one writer for the 1990s Sequel Series
*Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures* as a result.
- The Mummy in "The Curse of Anubis", especially the horrible shot where the Thing is looking in the window and one can see the rotting corpse under the slipping bandages.
- The music on the scene after Ahmed Kareem's men saw the Mummy can make one feel nervous, even if one doesn't know Egyptian language.
- The Gargoyle in "The House of Seven Gargoyles".
- Even before it becomes clear that Baron von Fleulich plans to murder Race in a one-sided dogfight to up his kill count from the war in Shadow of the Condor, his entire demeanor oozes sinister intent.
- Both Turu and the wheelchair-bound Deen in "Turu the Terrible", sinking in the tar-pit.
- Turu itself is terrifying, large enough to kidnap grown men into the air and durable enough where the worst Race can do to it is fire a bazooka dead on at its head and, even then, its more disorienting for it than directly injurious.
- Von Dueffel in "The Devil's Tower", laughing as he throws grenades at the Quest team, then screaming, "Nooooooo!" when one gets caught in the wing of his plane. His willingness to undermine his own objective to flee with his loot just to murder random strangers is deeply disturbing.
- Benton notes he recognizes him as an escaped Nazi commandant guilty of war crimes.
- General Fongs face as he furiously demands the mines be used to stop the heroes from escaping at the end of The Quetong Missile Mystery goes nightmarishly off-model.
- The yeti in "Monster in the Monastery". Both the terrorists dressed up as them and the real one which blows through the fakes like a hurricane off-camera.
- "The Sea Haunt". The titular creature may or may not match, with its blank, staring, impossibly large eyes and gangly, near-human body, but the setup and pace of the early episode is straight out of a horror movie — and then there's the showdown with the Nigh-Invulnerable abomination itself...
- Dr. Ashida is all-but visually shown being Eaten Alive by the very giant lizards he bred into existence. Sure, he deserved it by that point, but if the way Komodo dragons kill their prey is any indication, his demise was neither quick nor pleasant. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JonnyQuest |
Joker Game / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Joker Game
- Sakuma nearly being forced to commit seppuku, all because he's a man of honor.
Miscalculation
City of Temptation
- The breakdown of ||Captain Oikawa|| of the Big Bad after Honma unmasks his actions throughout the episode.
Coffin
- A completely freak accident causes ||Miyoshi to end up Dying Alone with nobody to mourn him, and no one knows who he really was besides Yuuki.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JokerGame |
Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Nightmare Fuel pages are Spoilers Off. As such,
**all spoilers are unmarked. Read at your own risk.**
Ito's first works are known for offering some of his best scares, and rightfully so.
- "Bullied" starts with a sweet woman telling about how, when she was much younger, she bullied a younger boy his mom trusted her to play with. She hurt him physically and psychologically, but he stuck around because he remembered how nice she once was to him and seemed to think she'd go back to being that way around him. As adults, the girl and the boy meet again, fall in love, and get married. After having a son though, the guy goes off to work and never comes home. The woman does her best to be a single mom, but the stress makes her start to build up anger towards her son. She then notices that the son is the spitting image of the guy as a child, prompting her to dress up like she did as a child and begin subjecting him to the same horrific bullying. It's one long child abuse story. What may be the worst part is that there's nothing supernatural at all. With things like
*Uzumaki*, you can rest easier in the knowledge that that could never happen in real life. But with "Bullied"? *That could ACTUALLY happen!*
- In "The Hell of the Doll Funeral," a disease that turns children into dolls starts spreading, which is bad enough. The worst part comes when you don't dispose of their body. You can see it here if you have a strong enough stomach.◊ Both a case of horror and Tear Jerker in regards to the parents' reaction to their daughter contracting the disease. Imagine a loved one suffering from an illness that first causes paralysis and then causes horrible growths to form all over the body. Now imagine there's nothing that can be done to ease their suffering except for death.
- If you're afraid of the sea or deep-sea creatures, "Washed Ashore" will surely make you shiver. Now, consider what they found inside the creature. Now, consider that the thing, whatever it was, probably isn't the only one in the ocean. The chapter also alludes to the possibility of even creepier creatures. Now, as creepy as the sea creature is, it's not even the real horror of the story. The main horror is what's inside the creature - the still-living survivors of a shipwreck who have been
*living for years inside the creature like human parasites*, feeding off the creature itself and being driven mad both by their horrifying situation and the things they've seen through the creature's translucent skin. By the time they're released when the creature dies and washes up on shore, they're raving, screaming madmen.
- "Flesh Colored Horror" starts off creepily enough by introducing a little kindergartner named Chikara with a bad skin condition who attacks his school mates out of resentment. But then we get the real reasons behind his skin condition, and it just gets worse from there. Turns out the kid's mama and auntie have been experimenting on themselves and their own skins, and they've reached a point where they could successfully jump in and out of 'em like clothing. And now they've been researching for ways to do the same to junior, explaining his scars. Why? Because the mother believes that the human body, sans skin, is the most beautiful thing in the world, so she wants to spread her twisted sense of beauty to her child. One of the more unsettling scenes is after Chikara destroys his mother's skin. Realizing how screwed she is without it, she decides to "borrow" her sister's. By basically ripping her face off. And then Chikara defends his aunt. How? By grabbing his mother's leg muscles and ripping them apart. Ugh.
- "Where the Sandman Lives." Here's a riddle: what's worse than a body turning inside out? The answer: a body turning inside out and swallowing another body in the process.
- "The City Without Streets":
- First off, there's the dream the protagonist has of a Jack the Ripper-type guy who breaks into her room and kills a boy who has a crush on her.
- Second off, there's the absurd escalation of the main character's loss of privacy and how her family goes to enormous lengths to spy on her and lie about it.
- Things get much worse once she runs away to the titular town, There's the
*strange ones* note : who are people with deformed oblong heads with lots of eyes. Too many of them, who are, of course, depicted in good ol' Junji Ito levels of detail. Then there's the way everyone in the city just sort of accepted the absurd situation with the buildings taking over an entire section of the city, because there was nothing they could do, since anything that was torn down was just rebuilt again. It borders on Kafka-esque. Finally, a kind man in a mask who had helped guide her through the city turns out to be the same man who appeared in her dream and killed the boy in her room. And he had gone into her room to kill *her* while she slept, and only was kept from doing so because he was there, leading him to kill the guy out of frustration. Even worse, there's really *no* reason for this guy to be in the story. He's around in both the girl's old life and the strange city, so it's hard to know *what* is going on with him!
- In "Honored Ancestors," the protagonist Risa loses her memory, but she keeps having a nightmare about being attacked by a giant caterpillar monster. However, it turns out it wasn't a nightmare, and there was no caterpillar. What really happened was that when she visited her boyfriend Shuichi's ailing father, she saw that his ancestors' scalps were still attached to his head alive and fully capable of thought and feeling. After the father dies, the scalps attach themselves to Shuichi's head and tell him to chase after Risa so she can bear his child and continue the family line. It seems to imply that Shuichi plans on raping Risa while she's mentally collapsed to the point of jibbering with a blank look on her face. Or at the very least, he plans on having her in a constant cycle of mental breakdowns and amnesia to facilitate their marriage.
- "The Long Dream." In Mukoda's mind, he's lived for thousands- no, MILLIONS- of years, every night lasting exponentially longer than the last. After several days, one night of sleep is enough to wipe all his memories of the waking world. And then he ages, or evolves, into something resembling a gray alien mixed with a harlequin fetus, which crumbles into dust soon after. It then begins happening to the woman with the fear of mortality as well, and it's revealed that the main character found these odd crystals in the remains of Mukoda's skull, presumably the state his brain had evolved into, and used them as medication on the woman.
- "The Hanging Balloons" is the surreal story in which giant floating balloon heads of random people start hanging the actual people they resemble using nooses that act as their balloon strings. One shocktastic scene is when Kazuko and her friend Chiharu escape being hung by ducking into an alley. A man who lives in the house next to it sees the giant faces floating and shoots Chiharu's balloon head with a crossbow. The giant face deflates... and so does Chiharu's head, in a gruesome display. And no, that's not the end of the story yet.
- It gets more downright horrifying and disturbing on the doppelganger balloons' side. Capable of mimicry and are very devious along with the side of being resourceful. The fact that nobody can actually cause harm to a "balloon" without causing death to another (Or in most cases their own owners since the balloons home in on just the sight of their original victim's that they're based off of) and to be relentlessly hounded by them throughout the duration to the point of exhaustion... It's one of Ito's many stories where you can feel the entrapment and the helplessness of the atmospheric world that he's crafted, where you can't fight back and no matter where you go... they're always looming overhead.
- "The Window Next Door" loses no time by already featuring a creepy opening illustration. Then it gets worse. Wait until the old lady next door actually appears...
- "Near Miss!" starts with a disturbing premise, especially given aircraft accidents in recent history such as Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and Air France Flight 447; a Boeing 747 has gone missing over Japan, and three people, Konishi, his sister and his friend from university, Kawaguchi, have set out in their Cessna 172 to search for the plane, aware that one of their friends, a man named Takashio, was on-board. As the group look out over rural Shizuoka Prefecture, Kawaguchi relates a disturbing story from his past about being an eye-witness to a plane crash, seeing the gory aftermath. Suddenly, the 747 appears right behind them, forcing Konishi to take evasive action not to be struck by the plane, its engines ablaze and numerous holes torn in the fuselage, but the passengers on the 747, including Takashio, seem eerily calm. It later turns out that the 747 crashed into northern Shizuoka that night, shortly before Konishi and the others went out to search for it... Just
*what* did they see up there?
- "The Ice Cream Bus." A father and his son just moved to a new apartment complex that is visited by an ice cream truck every Saturday night. The good-looking driver of the truck gives the children free ice cream and takes them on a drive around the neighborhood before bringing them back. Sounds charming right? That is until the father lets his son go on the truck as well. One time he even catches a glimpse of what is going on in the truck and sees the kids licking huge mounds of ice cream. The scary part? The ice cream mounds are really the
*melted bodies* of the kids. Turns out the more ice cream the kids eat, the more their body becomes ice cream. Near the end, the father catches his son licking piles of ice cream-that used to be his friends mind you- and is naturally horrified. He tries to stop his son, but ends up knocking off his head in the process.
- The worst part is the kids realize they're turning into ice cream...and they don't care. In fact, going by one girl licking another's face, they seem to relish in it.
- The short story "Slug Girl" is about a high school girl whose close friend, Yuuko, one day develops a Speech Impediment but refuses to explain why. When she visits her home the second time after Yuuko stops coming to school, she finds out why. Her tongue transformed into a huge crawling slug. When she desperately tries to cut off the slimy new appendage with scissors, the offending mollusk grows back and continues to return no matter how hard she tries. When her parents try to put salt in her mouth, she spits it out as if she can't stand it. Eventually Yuuko's body slowly begins to starve, since she can't control the slug so she can't eat anything, and as a last resort, her parents submerge her in a bathtub of salt hoping it would cure her condition. Instead, the rest of her body breaks down, leaving only her head which the parents wash down with water hoping it will grow back. However, the slug STILL DOESN'T DIE and just like a snail, the slug carries her head on its back and continues to slither around in the backyard while its "shell" will stare at anyone nearby with the saddest gaze. What's more, it's mentioned that Yuuko was terrified of slugs. Imagine having something you're phobic about
*inside your mouth*, attached to you!
- "Mold." The final shot of the protagonist scratching the skin off his face, sitting alone in the dark, helpless to stop his body disintegrating as he repeats "itchy ... itchy ..." as blood begins to pour from the wounds he inflicts... With a bonus close-up of his rotting skin! He can't leave, even if his mind weren't under the influence of the mold, because his legs have been completely rooted to the ground by the fungus, and the mold has covered every exit. The image of the kids covered in mold is also pretty horrific, especially the girl, since we only see her eyes glinting in the dark and the bottom of her legs. Now, imagine what the rest of her looked like...
- "The Groaning Drain." The drain under the house of a clean-freak and her two daughters gets clogged and nothing will fix it.
*Then* the girls' father is killed by their mother when he sneaks into the house to see his daughters, leading to a lie about the mother using self-defense. The blood left by the father's body can't be scrubbed away. Shortly after this, a horrible stench starts to come from the drain, and they can hear it groaning, almost like a human. The younger sister puts her hand down the shower drain to unclog it and declares she's stuck, but the protagonist believes she's playing a trick. Even as the sister screams and begs for help all night, the protagonist thinks she's tricking her... And then she comes into the bathroom the next day to see her sister's leg sticking out of the shower drain, blood on the floor, as her sister has spent the entire night being *slowly and agonizingly pulled into the drain.*
- And then there's the question of how the guy got into the drain in the first place...
- Even worse, when the younger sister suspects that someone is hiding down there, her older sister tries to dispel the notion by pointing out that the drain is simply too small, and a human would somehow have to
*break their skull* to fit inside. Now, consider what must have happened to the younger sister, as she was pulled head-first down the drain. Brrr...
- A bit of Fridge Horror to make things even worse. Pipes tend to come in different shapes and sizes. What does this mean? Well, it means that not only would someone's skull have to be broken to fit inside, their
*entire skeleton* would essentially need to be absolutely pulverized. Let that sink in a moment. Imagine being pulled into a drain pipe while your skeletal system is slowly and painfully crushed bone by bone, ligament by ligament, joint by joint... just so you can fit inside better.
- The person who pulled her down was an unhygienic high school boy who had been harassing her older sister to go out with him. The younger sister took it upon herself to humiliate him by leading him to their house and having their clean freak mother pelt him with eggs. The younger sister realizes that he's the one in the pipes because of his body odor wafting through the drain. This guy destroyed his body and spent days drinking and defecating in the water that came through the pipes, all to get back at the girls that humiliated him.
- "The Supernatural Transfer Student." Human eyes growing out from flowers is bad enough, and that's before we see Shibayama return as a gigantic, hideous, bloated, projectile-vomiting zombie.
- "The Back Alley." A student named Ishida takes up a room on a boarding house. At night he's annoyed by the sounds of children playing on the alley next door. He manages to pull himself to the alley's wall to shout at the children, but it turns out the whole alley's off sealed by a very tall wall. Soon after, he hears the children calling for his landlady's daughter, Shinobu. Next morning, a man talks to Ishida on the street, telling him that he stayed once at that very room, and that within the sealed alley, there's a bunch of bones belonging to a couple of kids as well as human silhouettes on the alley's wall and he begs the student to see if he can confirm the story and report it to the police to put the bones to rest. Ishida finds a hidden window and a rope leading into the alley. Going down to take a closer look, he finds several human remains under a locked hatch. But when he tries to go up again, he's knifed... by Shinobu, who turns out to be a Serial Killer obsessed with ruling over the alley. She'd killed three kids, two classmates and her own father and hidden them there. Shinobu notices Ishida had passed out, so goes down to toss him with the other corpses. Having damaged it with her knife earlier, the rope tears and it's her, Ishida's body and the shapes in the wall... shapes that start to become three-dimensional...
- "Shiver" will give anyone trypophobia. It's about a cursed jade statue that causes holes to appear on your body. And if that wasn't bad enough, you're constantly chilled when the wind blows through the holes and insects even swarm in them. It's implied your only hope is to pass the curse onto someone else by having them take the statue, and it has to be done before it does enough to your body for its messenger, appearing as an elderly doctor, come to claim the victim.
- "Pen Pal." Much like "Bullied," what makes it even more terrifying than most of Ito's other stories is just how natural and realistic the scenario is. In the story, recurring character Oshikiri decides to befriend a introverted girl named Satomi in the hopes that she'll someday be his girlfriend. He soon learns that her only friends are three pen pals from different parts of Japan. Things start to get worse when Satomi starts to get increasingly harsh and insulting letters from her friends. However, Oshikiri soon learns that Satomi has actually been writing the letters to herself and is under the delusion her imaginary friends are real. It then escalates to the point where Satomi ends up killing herself while screaming for her "friends" to stop killing her. See, things like cyborg fish zombies and murderous lust-personifications are safely confined in the realms of fantasy. Insanity and hallucinations caused by a severely isolated lifestyle? That can really happen to some people in real life. To make matters worse, Oshikiri is also starting to hallucinate there's a doppelganger claiming to be the real him... though that's easily explained by the alternate-dimensional activity he frequently gets involved in.
- "The Long Hair in the Attic." A young woman's boyfriend breaks up with her, deciding that even though she tried her best for him they just don't belong together. Depressed, she falls asleep, only to wake up and find a
*dead mouse entangled in her hair.* She washes it out and decides to cut it all off, especially since her ex is the one who convinced her to grow it out. After her sister runs to grab her some scissors, she returns to find *her headless body* in the bathroom. The neighbors are concerned about a killer on the loose, but the truth is even worse. Her hair had decapitated her and crawled up to the attic, where it sits and waits until it's disturbed by her sister and their father looking for more mice. The hair, still with the woman's head attached, slithers out of the house and through the streets toward the ex's house. The story ends with him screaming in horror as the hair begins forcing its way through cracks in the walls.
- The ex is awoken by a phone call in the middle of the night, but all that comes through on the other end is a weird grinding noise. He thinks it's a dumb way for to get back at him and hangs up, only to remember that it can't be her, since she died a week ago. He wonders why he thought it was her... and remembers that the noise was one always she made when grinding her teeth.
- Ito's interpretation of Frankenstein's Monster is a sight to behold, and one which doesn't stray far from the monster's description in the original work by Mary Shelley. He's not a lumbering behemoth with green skin and bolts on his neck, he's a tall and imposing combination of human parts, with black lips and yellow skin so pale, you can see his veins. Much like Victor's description of his creation in the original book, the Monster's hair is black, shiny and flowing, which is perhaps the only thing about him that looks less than grisly. Finally, his eyes are permanently bloodshot, and he wears bloodied bandages all over whatever parts of his body aren't covered by his dark clothing.
**Victor:** How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips.
- Like in the book, the Monster demands a mate. Unlike in the book, Victor goes through with it, completing the Bride of Frankenstein by giving it the head of a maid who was friends with him. Said maid was beheaded after being framed for the Monster's crimes. Oh, yeah, and did we mention that the Monster provided the head for Victor to use? The Bride awakens and attacks Victor, screaming at everything around her. And when she sees the Monster, she screams and attacks her counterpart, forcing him to destroy her. The Monster blames Victor for toying with him and doesn't hold back on his word of destroying everything he held dear. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JunjiItoKyoufuMangaCollection |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Spoilers Off applies to all "Moments" pages, so
**Unmarked Spoilers Ahead!** *"Let me see that pretty face drain of all hope! [...] Just be sure to cheat this way so I can get a good look before you go ahead and die!"* *Vento Aureo* is notorious for being the darkest part of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* next to *Steel Ball Run*, with its brutal Anti-Heroes being matched by much viler villains than ever before (complete with the darkest Big Bad in the entire series so far), while the gruesome violence is turned up to eleven. As such, it's got plenty of Nightmare Fuel.
## General
- While not as outlandish as the other examples here it still bares mentioning on how disturbingly realistic Giorno's backstory is and how it happens in real life. Giorno's mother left her not even four-year-old son by himself at night because she didn't want to give up her life of partying. Then she marries a man who seems nice on the surface, but turns out to be abusive asshole who would beat Giorno for just looking at him wrong. Who knows how Giorno's life or how he would turn out if he never rescued and meet that gangster.
- This part is where the stakes start to get a lot higher for the Stand fights. This isn't Part 3, where the enemy Stand users are paid mercenaries, many of them bumbling comic relief characters who have clearly never killed before and beg for mercy when they lose. This isn't Part 4, where they're ordinary townspeople who are testing out their new powers and are perfectly willing to become friends after being defeated. This is Part 5, and the main charactersmost of them barely 15 to 17 years oldare facing professional, seasoned killers who know exactly what they're doing. They know the exact powers and limitations of their own Stands, and they don't waste a second messing around on the job. Once their sights are locked on a target, they're
**out for blood**, and they wont stop until their enemies are dead or they are. Every fight ends in a gruesome death—pummeled into a bloody pulp, melted alive by a killer flesh-eating virus, torn into pieces, impaled, run over by a train, and worse.
- Giorno himself. A highly intelligent, calculating and ambitious 15-year-old boy with all the charisma and ruthlessness of Dio, who does not hesitate to inflict savage punishment on two kinds of people: those who hurt innocents, and those who get in his way. With a series of cunning plans, the assistance of his team and the power of his Stand, he takes over the most powerful gang in Italy in the span of one week. It's very lucky he has the true heart of a Joestar, or one has the feeling he could reach heights even Dio never dreamed of.
- His teammates can be scary in their own ways, as well. Bucciarati can unzip a living person into chunks while keeping them alive or simply dismember them for a swift death, Mista can aim bullets at a target's most vulnerable spots with pinpoint precision, Narancia controls a miniature fighter plane with infinite ammunition that can track a target by their breathing, spray bullets, drop bombs,
*and* shred with its propeller, and Fugo can release a killer virus so deadly it takes less than 30 seconds to reduce a grown man to a puddle of melted flesh.
- Polpo's Black Sabbath is one of the most terrifying Stands in the entire series, let alone this part. A long-range autonomous Stand that has a Stand arrow within its mouth and is capable of moving within shadows at an incredible speed. Even when Giorno manages to escape its grasp and enter the sunlight, Black Sabbath just keeps on wandering back and forth aimlessly, waiting for him. Made even more nightmarish when you take note on how Polpo utilizes its power: by
*impaling* those who reignite the lighter and thus break the #1 rule of his entrance exam. The poor janitor who had no idea what was going on was unfortunate enough to die for having his soul *forcibly dragged out* by the arrow.
- Black Sabbath's appearance itself is pretty terrifying: tall, lanky, entirely dressed in black and having a Venetian carnival mask styled head. Its appearance is even more unsettling when you take note on how it's supposed to be remotely based on the black figure Geezer Butler saw and which inspired Black Sabbath's first album cover.
- The less said about Polpo himself, the better. A grotesque glutton who is both impossibly tall and wide by human standards and with a reverse-colored eye scheme. He is such a sloppy eater that he regularly
*eats his own fingers*. They grow back, a sign that this fat freak is clearly a Stand User.
- After his defeat, Zucchero was turned into a disembodied head by Bucciarati and had his mouth zipped up. He was left at the mercy of Mista, who hung him up by the eyelid with a
*fishing hook* in a position where he would look directly at the sun while wearing glasses that magnified his eyeball. It's overshadowed by the group's hilarious dance routine and the fact that Zucchero had this coming, but this is a position *no one* would want to end up in.
- The Defeat of Sale. While the fight is generally tame for the most part the climax ends with Mista using Kraft Werk's ability against it by having the Sex Pistols climb onto one of his stationary bullets about to be fired and redirecting it at Sale as he fires it. He tries to avoid it but it comes in contact and hits the bullet wound in his head Mista made earlier and hits the bullet he previously fired, pushing it further into his skull and destroying his brain. The Last few seconds of their battle consist of the now lobotomized Sale blankly staring off until he collapses and begins to bleed profusely. What's worse is he doesn't die right away even after this, Mista notes he still survived the shot but let's face it, he might as well be dead at this point.
- Aerosmith's debut chapter is not a good one for arachnophobes. The Stand of Formaggio, Little Feet, has the power to shrink things. Throughout the chapter Narancia continues to shrink, until Formaggio captures him and shoves him into a bottle, along with a large spider. Formaggio then proceeds to describe exactly what being eaten alive by a spider would be like:
**Formaggio:** Oh yeah, don't assume that its bite will send you to a swift and peaceful oblivion. Its venom will first paralyze your muscles, rendering your body immobile. But it's what happens *after* the paralysis that's really terrifying. It'll grab you and inject both a venom and a digestive enzyme deep into your body. The deadly cocktail of enzymes will then slowly but surely liquefy your insides into a pulpy, viscous slime, then... slurpety slurp. Keep in mind, you'll be fully conscious, meaning you'll be able to speak while it's lunching on your flesh...
- The anime adds a brutal bonus scene that highlights the dangers of Formaggio's ability and tells us more about La Squadra as we see a man ingest a miniature car, before Formaggio uses his Stand to make the car grow to full size while it's still inside him. The results are terribly unpleasant, is it any wonder that Pesci was queasy?
- Sorbet's death. He and his partner Gelato were dissatisfied by the small territory Diavolo had given them so they began to look into him. Diavolo caught both of them, tied up Gelato and made him watch him cut Sorbet into 36 separate pieces... while he was still alive,
*toes first*. Gelato was so horrified that he committed suicide by swallowing his cloth gag to spare himself from this torturous death. Later, Diavolo sends formaldehyde-filled slabs containing bits of Sorbet to the Hitman Squad as a warning not to cross him again.
- The anime makes this MUCH worse. Not only do we see Sorbet's brutal death albeit a Shadow Discretion Shot, we see who butchered him up through an Early-Bird Cameo of
*Cioccolata* — the most twisted of Diavolo's men, with Secco filming it all on a camera in the background while Sorbet was heavily restrained as he was being cut up, which amplifies the terror from the perspective of both him and Gelato in their final moments. It's especially unsettling seeing Cioccolata's silhouette lumbering around menacingly and the noticeably large and sharp blade he's holding makes him very reminiscent of Pyramid Head from *Silent Hill 2*. The creepy visuals, haunting music, Sorbet screaming and the horrified expressions of fellow La Squadra members just add more nightmarish undertones to this scene.
- It becomes even worse when we later learn that Cioccolata is capable of using his own Stand to temporarily split his own body into multiple pieces, and then reassemble himself with no ill effects. Meaning that he could easily have kept Sorbet alive for way longer than what would have been normally possible...
- If this additional scene is anything to go by, Diavolo didn't kill him with King Crimson in the manga either which would have potentially been a better fate as Diavolo doesn't torture or mess with his opponents. Instead, he got
*the* most monstrous of his squad to do it, as a macabre warning of sorts, in the most gruesome and painful way possible. Even though Diavolo claims he's disgusted with Cioccolata, the fact that he still has him and Secco working for Passione and using them as means of intimidation (with Cioccolata being his personal *chief torturer*) makes him a complete Hypocrite.
- Though it is possible Diavolo has to let Cioccolata torture people from time to time to keep him from rebelling, and in doing so, becoming even more dangerous.
- The amount of creative sadism involved in how Diavolo made his point clear to the remainder of La Squadra is both impressive and horrifying, as the team suddenly receive a whole bunch of frames with glass boxes filled with formaldehyde shortly after Formaggio discovered Gelato's body. Then they notice the body parts, and line them up... And see that it's Sorbet's body, frozen in a horrified expression in what is basically one big horrific art piece (that also must've take a lot of effort to get
*just* right). Their terrified reactions are completely reasonable.
- The initial discovery of Gelato's corpse in the anime deserves a special mention. Formaggio goes into Gelato's apartment - only to find Sorbet's blood
*everywhere* in the kitchen and Gelato's body sitting in the corner, all tied up, with a cloth gag stuffed down his throat, dried tears on his cheeks and *opened eyes frozen with terror*. Then there's that small tag in his chest that says "punishment". The sheer fact that Sorbet's corpse is nowhere to be found just drives the point even further - that you do *not* want to mess with the Boss.
- The leadup to Sorbet's fate is made worse by the anime where the viewer can
*hear* the members of La Squadra, a band of *hardened assassins*, audibly losing their composure as it gradually comes into focus exactly *what* they're looking at. Pesci especially screws his eyes shut and screams that he doesn't want to see any more of what became of his ally, and *Formaggio* who had recently been shown assassinating a man by causing a full *car* to explode out of him and crush the man's date to paste not much earlier lets out a bloodcurdling scream of terror once the full "picture" comes together, and can be seen with his hands over his mouth struggling to keep from vomiting. When Illuso realizes just how Gelato died his voice is audibly wavering in fear.
- He's a good guy, but Fugo's Stand Purple Haze has one of the scariest abilities in the series: it releases a deadly flesh-eating virus which dooms anyone affected to a horrifically painful and gory death within the next 30 seconds.
- The anime adaptation adds a more in depth look into Fugo's childhood and reveals that the professor he beat senseless with an encyclopedia was apparently
*molesting* him. The way Fugo starts hitting his breaking point as the professor grabs him by the shoulders and invites him to "dinner" while *drooling* is just plain *uncomfortable*. Oh yeah, and Fugo was a *13-year-old* prodigy in college at the time; this incident essentially destroyed his future, which likely hits uncomfortably close to home for anyone who's ever been victimized by a powerful and respected figure.
- The Adaptation Expansion of his backstory makes Purple Haze's appearance and abilities even
*worse*. A Stand is the manifestation of their user's psyche in some way, and before this backstory was added Purple Haze was simply the manifestation of Fugo's hidden frothing-at-the-mouth rage. Now however, it's a frothing at the mouth berserker *with an instant kill radius around it to prevent anything from getting near*. It seems just the kind of Power Fugo would've wanted back when he was a kid in the clutches of that professor.
- The anime even made Purple Haze's "UBASHAAAAAA!" cry scarier by making it a gurgled monstrous sound instead of a Kiai like most stands. And when it isn't screaming like that, it just stands there, twitching and groaning like some kind of
*Silent Hill*-esque monster.
- Possibly one of the most unnerving things about Purple Haze is its erratic behavior, which reflects Fugo's personality. One second it's just staying still, breathing heavily and moaning like a zombie, and then the next second it unleashes a flurry of punches, obliterating any life that's unfortunate enough to get into its range.
- Purple Haze's disposal of Illuso is one of the goriest and most horrifying deaths shown in the entire series. After Illuso's hand has been infected by the virus due to Giorno allowing himself to be dragged into the mirror with said virus, Illuso is left with no other option than to escape the mirror without his infected parts. This, however, left him vulnerable to a full-on assault from Purple Haze, which ended up essentially being a Hope Spot from Illuso's perspective due to his last glimmer of hope involving an attempt to block Purple Haze's punch and inserting it into a nearby mirror shard... only for one of Purple Haze's virus capsules to launch right next to him. After he is completely infected by the virus at point-blank range, Purple Haze proceeds to pummel the virus throughout his entire body which is followed by Illuso's
*face being punched clean off* and a loving shot of the guy liquefying into a pile of mush and discarded clothes. The anime adaptation of this scene is slightly censored but it manages to compensate that with squishy sound effects mixed with Audible Sharpness of sorts and Illuso shrieking in agony after the virus starts showing its full effect. Not helping things is the anime framing the whole thing like Illuso getting caught by a slasher movie villain.
- Even Fugo's theme in the anime is terrifying. It starts with a
*biohazard alarm,* and is followed by a tune that wouldn't sound out of place on the *Jaws* soundtrack, before getting hit with a filthy distorted guitar noise and the theme switches to something out of a survival horror game.
- The scene where an unnamed woman (named Anita in the anime) is cornered in her train cabin by Melone and used as a host for Babyface, especially since its laptop form isn't Invisible to Normals. The terror of the scene comes from a combination of the mystery of what exactly Melone's Stand
*does* coupled with his pseudo-masochistic reaction to the woman slapping him. He's really just happy she's violent since that means that Babyface's "child" will be violent, and the fact that Babyface going on the offensive against her to implant her with its Homunculus is framed like a rape scene complete with Babyface slamming its hand against the glass as she presses up against it in horror.
- Bucciarati's backstory is filled to the brim with terror. His father was happy enough to assist two fishers in riding his boat to an isle in Naples. When one of them forgot his fishing rod, Bucciarati's father tried to return it to them and instead stumbled upon them making a drug deal. They shot him seven times and he survived thanks to a passing coast guard, but then the thugs came to his hospital room to try and finish him off while he was unconscious.
- Granted they deserved it and it was an awesome moment, but there is seriously something eerie about just how kid Bucciarati killed the thugs. He stabbed the first one in the chest and
*slowly* carved the blade up into to his neck as if he was cutting open a chicken breast, then he suddenly stabbed the other thug in the eye. And Bucciarati looked perfectly calm the entire time.
- When one takes into account that Bucciarati is the son of a fisherman, he likely learned how to
*gut fish* from his father and wound up using that skill to kill another person.
- The Elevator scene, the first hint of King Crimson's power. After a heartfelt and touching moment between Bucciarati and Trish, she holds his hand to help with her nerves, Bucciarati turns his head for
*a second* to check the distance to the roof and when he turns back Trish is gone except for *the hand he's holding*. This also serves as Diavolo's Establishing Character Moment as Bucciarati realizes he had his daughter brought to him not for her protection but so *he could kill her himself to protect his identity*.
- Also adding to the terror is the fact that King Crimson's ability
*doesn't make a sound*. There's no bass drop like The World and no deafening explosion like Killer Queen. One second Trish was there *and the next she's not*.
- The Clash and Talking Head arc, while initially hilarious, was scary on a psychological level. Imaging knowing there's a killer mini-shark hidden in the water your friend is about to drink and only being able to tell them it's fine to drink.
- Squalo's and Tiziano's Stands, the aforementioned Clash and Talking Head, wouldn't be that much of a danger for Bucciarati's crew individually, but
*combined* they are a significantly larger threat than any of the previous members of La Squadra encountered. Clash is a shark capable of transferring between liquid surfaces and is swift enough to bite off Narancia's tongue before he can warn his friends. Much like the predatory tendencies expressed by sharks in real life, Clash prefers to attack only after a herd has scattered. This is perfectly demonstrated when it suddenly jumps at Giorno and *bites his neck* when the only other individual present is Narancia, who is *unable to tell the truth* due to Talking Head attached to his tongue. Clash's size depends on the amount of water available and is as small as a tadpole when residing within Narancia's tears and even *larger than a real shark* when lurking in the canals.
- Squalo's short-lived Villainous Breakdown when he carries the now perished Tiziano who used the last way of action to stand in the way of Aerosmith's bullets to both protect Squalo and launch streams of blood on Narancia so that Clash can travel close to Narancia's neck. He was
*pissed* beyond compare losing his partner, vowing to not only kill Narancia but the rest of the crew just to get back to him. The way his voice travels from Tranquil Fury to the Rage-Breaking Point as he commands Clash to end Narancia here and now, slowly and painfully. If he actually won, there's no telling what things he'll do to the rest of the crew with that kind of anger.
- Carne's Stand, Notorious B.I.G., a horrific, carnivorous blob that will devour anything that it sees moving (unless softened by Trish's Spice Girl Stand). The worst part? It literally cannot die. The heroes can't kill it. They have no way of ever killing it. They can only drop it into the ocean and render it mostly harmless, but the narration states that it still attacks passing ships. And the reason it can't die? Stands aren't vulnerable on their own. To defeat a Stand, you must defeat the Stand user. This thing broke out of its user
*when the guy DIED* — it can't be killed because there's nothing to target. Given that Stands are in part a reflection of their user, what does that say about him?!
- Carne himself is creepy as hell despite his extremely limited screen time. When Giorno and the rest are about to board the plane, they spot Carne further away just
*slowly walking towards them and grinning*. He doesn't even say anything, he just *stares* at them. Even after Mista manages to shoot Carne's kneecaps off, he still sports a confident demeanor, believing that Bucciarati's crew is finished if they kill him. And then, after being shot, he calls out his Stand which *devours* him for energy.
- The graffiti it writes on the wall can send chills down one's spine if they take the time to translate it.
**Notorious B.I.G's graffiti, rough translation:**
The corpse is eating us. Save us.
[Carne] was used and abandoned like an old rag. He died with hatred in his heart. That hatred is his energy. An energy that activated for the first time when he died. An energy not even he had seen in his lifetime.
Nothing can kill him anymore because he is a corpse.
Help. Please. I can't take it anymore... before dying, I want to eat pizza from my hometown, Naples
.
- That last line in particular is terrifying in context: It's an Ironic Echo of Giorno's longing for some Naples pizza just moments ago;
*the damn thing's been listening to him the whole time*.
- The line "was used and abandoned like an old rag" brings up a horrifying possibility: Carne might not have been Notorious B.I.G's first user at all. It's possible that like Cheap Trick before it, Notorious B.I.G was a parasitic Stand that latched onto a host to use its power. Given the graffiti contains the line "An energy not even he had seen in his lifetime" despite Carne seemingly knowing what would happen if he died, it's entirely possible that Carne was
*entirely subsumed by Notorious B.I.G by the time he walked to his death*.
- The grievous maiming it inflicts on the group. Notorious B.I.G. devours most of Giorno's left arm (forcing Mista to shoot it off) and forces him to cut off his other one in a vain attempt to get rid of it, turns 4 of the Sex Pistols into a fused mass of flesh causing Mista to bleed out, and
*tears pieces of Narancia's flesh off*.
- Notorious B.I.G in the manga was horrifying enough, the anime achieves the feat of making it even more terrifying through the contribution of menacing motion and suspenseful soundtracks. The nightmare of Notorious B.I.G's presence reaches the point where the only difference between its debut-episode and a horror-movie, is the run-length. Nothing else.
- Then there's the moment when the crew thinks that they have gotten rid of Notorious B.I.G's 2nd form, only for it to slam against the plane window in an effective Jump Scare. It keeps doing this to Trish who is now completely alone and vulnerable against a carnivorous parasite-like blob that reacts to even the slightest amount of movement.
- After Trish deals with its second form through awakening her Stand, Spice Girl, Bucciarati sees something and tells the girl to slowly walk towards him with uncharacteristic dread. Trish turns to see that it has devoured most of the ship and is no longer an oddly cute small creature, but now a towering blob with a small semblance of its original features that is confirmed beyond a doubt, that has true immortality and nigh-indestructibility after everything that was thrown at it, just waiting in anticipation for its next attack. The palpable fear Bucciarati shares with the viewers is justified at this point.
- After Trish has Notorious B.I.G tossed out the plane and into the ocean, it
*STILL* doesn't die. Instead, it is doomed to chase after the ever-chaotic movements of the currents for all eternity, along with the occasional boat that happens to pass by if it's moving faster than the currents. It becomes a sort of urban legend, with the local fisherman calling it the "Tyrrhenian Belly".
- Cioccolata is this all by himself.
- He's a doctor who purposefully botches surgeries just to see what would happen, then films it to watch it again. He also knows exactly where to cut to dismantle a person without killing them, which is how he comes after Giorno as a bunch of detached body parts hobbling towards him.
- Adding to Cioccolata's already unsettling Monster Clown of an appearance and the fact that he dismembers himself in order to hide himself from plain sight is already nightmarish enough, but in the anime he
*stitches himself back together* and looks like a Frankenstein monster of sorts. All this while he's bragging about how looking down on others who are about to fall in despair is the sole reason for living.
- He also gets an Early-Bird Cameo in the anime, which reveals that
*he's the one who butchered Sorbet*. Given how we can still hear Sorbet screaming in terror and pain during the flashback to the moment Gelato committed suicide out of despair, and knowing the information about him dismantling people in the item above, it's very likely Sorbet suffered *a lot,* while Cioccolata enjoyed *every second of it*.
- And before
*that*, when he was FOURTEEN, he masqueraded as a kindly attendant to the elderly... but in actuality drugged and starved them to keep them weak while also telling them that their family hate them and nobody cared enough to come visit them. Nine people committed suicide from his psychological abuse, and he filmed that, too.
- The anime adaptation on Cioccolata's youth is way more graphic than it was in the manga (similar to Angelo in part 4). We first see him
*slowly removing a conscious patient's innards* (This is the new page image) and then his time as a caretaker for the elderly where he is filming a patient who committed suicide in a bathtub while sporting a *massive Slasher Smile*.
- What's
*worse* is that he performs both of these hideous acts in respectable professions with almost *fetishistic glee*. No one realized what a monster Cioccolata was mere inches below his facade, and he kept this up for *well over a decade of his life*.
- The anime makes the initial encounter with Cioccolata feel like something out of a horror movie. It takes a while before Bucciarati and his crew even realize that literally
*everyone* in the fishing village is either dead or *dying*. The disturbing, tense music certainly doesn't help.
- While waiting to ambush Bucciarati's group in Rome, Cioccolata uses his Stand Green Day to gruesomely murder every innocent bystander by inflicting them with a flesh-eating mold that
*slowly tears apart their bodies*. He doesn't even give them a clean death and instead waits until his partner Secco has filmed their expressions on a video camera. After Bucciarati, Mista and Giorno manage to escape from the bay, Cioccolata takes on a helicopter so that he can spread the mold faster which results in mass casualties: people falling off balconies in agony, a motorcyclist shrieking while his body is falling apart while driving and numerous collisions around the Coliseum. The sheer level of destruction in this arc is only rivaled by Dio's rampage in Cairo!
- The anime shows that there are 3 million people in Rome and Cioccolata wanted all of them gone, and would have gone further if the Gang didn't stop him. This is simply the biggest scale of destruction in the series yet.
- To call a spade a spade: Cioccolata essentially staged a one-man
*terrorist attack* on the city of Rome, basically *just because he could*! No wonder Diavolo never wanted to set this maniac loose unless he had absolutely no other manpower left.
- Cioccolata's voice in the anime deserves a mention. Unlike the higher pitched, slightly goofy voice of his in the PS2 game, the anime gives him a deeply unsettling and almost calm baritone by the courtesy of both Atsushi Miyauchi and Bill Butts in the English dub. But then, after repeatedly getting his plans ruined by Giorno, Cioccolata's mask of barely disguised insanity slowly falls apart and he starts to speak with an extremely unhinged, almost beast-like growl. And when it seems he has won and Giorno is supposedly falling to his demise, Cioccolata unleashes an Evil Laugh similar to that of The Joker's, fitting for his status as a Monster Clown.
- Cioccolata's "friendship" with Secco is sick, twisted and unhealthy in every way possible. Not only were these two messed up in the head to begin with, but together they just keep on corrupting each other even more. While Cioccolata does all the killing and torture, Secco films everything and aids his "master" in killing by
*sinking* their victims underground so that Green Day's mold can affect faster. The amount of twisted homosexual innuendo between the two is heavily implied for the fact alone that Cioccolata is the master to Secco's borderline sex slave. Not even helped that Secco's Oasis manifests around him disturbingly similar to that of bondage gear.
- Secco himself has also something very unsettling about him. Normally, he is almost as sadistic as Cioccolata himself, but when Bucciarati hurts him to the point he starts bleeding uncontrollably, he is reduced into a sobbing child. And when he calls Cioccolata and informs him about this, he just doesn't care as he wants the footage of Bucciarati's crew dying. Given that Secco was Cioccolata's former patient and was tortured by him and is now his assistant he either abuses or treats with candies just drives the point further how the two of them have an extremely unhealthy obsession with each other.
- Episode 32 of the animation also gives us Secco's true personality and capabilities under the facade of a submissive, pet-like lapdog. It's downright frightening along with the disturbing faces he's constantly getting off, along with the revelation that his ability to turn inorganic objects into mud can also be applied to LIVING PEOPLE! He almost melted Bucciarati and Doppio before the former stopped him.
- It's telling that
*the Big Bad of the arc* thinks he's a psycho. This is the same Big Bad who wants to kill his daughter due to unjustifiable paranoia.
- During the second half of the fight, Cioccolata reveals that his experience as a doctor means that he's able to sever parts of his body, and still keep them intact, let alone move, with his stand. This leads to some very disturbing sights. One of the biggest contenders for that is when Giorno botches his sneak attack on the helicopter, Cioccolata severs a part of his torso just to get away, accompanied by his spine being visible and wriggling about.
- With that all said, yes, he deserved every bit of suffering he took in his death, but that doesn't make it any less brutal. First he was shot in the head, then Giorno turned the bullet into a stag beetle that ate his brain from the inside, then Giorno used Gold Experience to
*beat him within an inch of what little life he might have had left for seven pages*, and Gold Experience's punches infuse the target with life causing them to perceive the world in what amounts to Bullet Time. note : Bucciarati, a hardened mafioso, was reduced to mentally begging Giorno not to pummel him in that state while *whimpering*. And a comment in this video calculates that the beatdown probably lasted *twenty minutes* for Cioccolata, while another person calculated that if Gold Experience's ability stacks that Cioccolata experienced *three billion times one quadrillion to the power of 13 years worth of pain,* which is longer than the universe itself has existed by an obscene margin. The final punch then sends him flying into a garbage truck's *trash compactor*. *God damn.* Again, he deserved every second of it, but And depending on the day of the week his beatdown had taken place, it's not even over for Cioccolata, as a sign on the trash compactor says that the burnable trash pickup is on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. **God DAMN.**
- During the final moments of the beatdown in the anime, you can almost hear Cioccolata beg for Giorno to stop as he's taking the pummeling, which only serves to reiterate how much pain he's in. To make matters worse, there was an extra level of horror during the
*"WRY"* part in the English dub. Giorno's scream contains so much primal anger as he continues to lay on the punches. This can show the audience one thing: if you value your life, **DON'T FUCK WITH GIORNO GIOVANNA**.
- Cioccolata's Leitmotif called "Mold" has a bunch of eerie sounds playing in the background and sounds straight out of a horror movie. Then it gets intense, which plays when Cioccolata starts his rampage at Rome and is about to kill Mista by slashing his neck with his right hand.
- The boss of Passione, Diavolo, and by extension Doppio, is a strong contender for the most unsettling Big Bad in the series. Everything about him; his stand, brutality, ambiguous origins, true nature, and his lack of actual appearance for most of the story makes him come across as more of an implacable horror movie monster than a human villain.
- His sheer obsession with keeping his identity a secret is this. The amount of time he devotes to ranting about keeping himself "on the apex" becomes unsettling when you consider just how
*serious* he is about it and the amount of effort he makes in making it clear to his subordinates that he does *not* want to be investigated. Remember what happened to Sorbet above? He was a **warning** for La Squadra and they all backed out accordingly until they learned about Trish. *DIO* was nicer to his henchmen, and even they were still terrified of him. Imagine having *this* psycho for a boss.
- Diavolo's past counts as this as well. He was born in extremely unusual conditions to a female inmate after a two-year pregnancy, in an all-female prison. Then he was raised in a Sardinian village by a priest who thought of him as a clumsy, yet well-meaning boy. But then, after Diavolo turned eighteen, the priest found that he had kept his
*own mother for years* locked up underneath his floor, buried in concrete and with her *mouth sewn shut*. This was followed by an incident where the entire village was burned to the ground with many civilian casualties in which Diavolo effectively managed to erase his own childhood from existence. Given his backstory and the fact that he had an obsession in keeping himself a secret at a very young age, Diavolo is more or less the Devil incarnate. Is it any wonder why his name means "Devil" in Italian?
- A minor one, but there's still something very unsettling about Diavolo just sitting in his hotel room in fetal position at night while having his face and body covered by a long cloak. This man is so paranoid that he can't even move around freely in his comfort zone!
- King Crimson looks like a skinned human with two masks. It has the power to both skip time and forecast the future respectively 10 seconds ahead, rendering Diavolo virtually untouchable by normal means. And the fact that his user is a complete nutjob and it's physically one of the strongest stands in the series makes it more terrifying than usual.
- If King Crimson's already terrifying appearance wasn't enough, the anime adaptation makes it clear that the Boss is
*talking* through it in his fight with Bucciarati. There's just something very unsettling about Bucciarati being punched through by King Crimson while the Boss' ominous shadowy silhouette looms behind it like a puppet master pulling from strings.
- King Crimson's facial expressions were somewhat of an unintentional source of humor in the manga due to their over the top nature. In the anime however? The viewer gets to see King Crimson's face
*twisted and distorted with rage* in real time, making it much more terrifying in nature. One such contorted face◊ from when the Boss attempted to kill Trish only for Bucciarati to persist in protecting her now serves as the former page image (until it was replaced with Cioccolata).
- Bucciarati's initial encounter with King Crimson is filled with hopelessness and despair. First, the Boss uses his ability to erase time and snatches Trish from Bucciarati's plain sight,
*chopping off her hand* and leaving Bucciarati disoriented and shaken that he would go as far as to murder his offspring to remain anonymous. When Bucciarati catches on to the Boss, he erases time once again and Bucciarati is about to attack his future self before King Crimson suddenly appears *behind him* and punches a hole through his chest, bragging how anyone who threatens his throne will be redacted. Then, King Crimson *cleaves Bucciarati in half from the shoulder* with a single karate chop before tauntingly reappearing in front of him, sitting in stairs when Bucciarati tries to escape with Trish. Also, this is where Bucciarati officially dies due to his grave injuries but if it weren't for Giorno's healing ability, he would have remained dead instead of reanimating and the Boss would have succeeded in erasing his bloodline.
- The anime adaptation of this scene is no better thanks to oppressive atmosphere, dark visuals and Katsuyuki Konishi's chilling performance as the Boss, who whispers most of his lines with cold and calculative tone. Then, when bragging about how no one can threaten his throne, Konishi's voice becomes suddenly downright
*demonic* in comparison. The episode even ends on a cliffhanger after King Crimson punches a hole through Bucciarati's abdomen which drives even further the point how he is completely helpless and alone in a situation where he's trapped in a desolate location with a complete lunatic.
- When Bucciarati gets punched through the torso by King Crimson in the anime, we see that, instead of opting for a swift Megaton Punch, he actually
*digs his fist into Bucciarati's body until he bursts out on the other side*. The sound his chest makes when being impaled only makes it worse.
- The English Dub manages to make this scene ten times scarier thanks to a nightmarish performance from Kellen Goff. The way he gradually transitions from calm and authoritative at the beginning to murderously insane at the end really captures what an unhinged psychopath Diavolo is and you can practically
*hear* the madness in his voice as he gives his infamous speech. Special mention goes to the way he delivers the last line after he deals the killing blow. His voice dropping to a guttural snarl is utterly *chilling*. **Diavolo:**
Think of this as a gift. A farewell gift from the heart. In a moment, you will cease to exist so I will allow you to know now. What you witnessed and felt... was your future self laid bare. Simply put, your past self saw a future version. Now behold. Know the almighty power of King Crimson! I obliterated time and leapt beyond it! (
*punches Bucciarati in the spine*
) It doesn't matter who it is, I shall
*never*
allow any cretin to threaten my eternal transcendence.
**Not. Ever.**
The time's come for you to fade away! (
*burrows his fist through Bucciarati's chest*
) Bucciarati, your mission as protector has been terminated...
**Now may the fires of Hell embrace you.**
- His very fighting style complements his paranoid nature, and it makes him even more terrifying to fight against. He uses King Crimson's ability to keep himself out of sight when he can, with the only indication of his presence being the change in his surroundings as a result of erasing time. And then he reappears to violently dismember or impale his opponents/victims before they have a chance to react or defend themselves. Even if you do manage to get him in attacking range, he'll have seen it coming already thanks to Epitaph and will immediately erase time again.
- King Crimson's power becomes even more frightening in the anime as in the manga Epitaph's "world" of precognition was just represented with a black background. The anime makes it into an
*Acid-Trip Dimension* where everything crumbles away while King Crimson, Diavolo and the target of his precognition float in a void filled with stars. It makes King Crimson seem almost like a cruel *god*.
- This theme for The Boss in the anime soundtrack. The unsettling choices of instruments, combined with King Crimson causing the OST to skip like a scratched CD, highlights just how utterly insane he is, even in comparison with villains like Kira or even DIO.
- Doppio losing control of himself tends to alternate between massively creepy and utterly hilarious. Hilarious as his constant mood swings. Creepy as in the amount of violence he causes whenever he switches. Diavolo came out and brutally murdered a fortune teller who figured out how old he actually was. Later, when a taxi driver tried to con him out of his money, Doppio retaliated by almost
**pushing the man's damn eye out**.
- The fortune teller himself is pretty creepy too: his cat-like eyes, inexplicable ability to figure out Doppio's identity at a glance, and obsession with reading Doppio's fortune already paint him as a weird guy, but his reaction to being attacked by Doppio/Diavolo makes it so much worse: rather than scream or beg, he just laughs uproariously even after having his hand cut off, even drooling and rubbing his face on Doppio's palm.
- The anime actually makes his shifts even scarier; whenever his eyes change in the manga he just goes cock-eyed before his pupils change, but in the anime they spasm all around like the muscles controlling them are seizing up. Even worse is when he attacks the fortune teller as his eyes go
*deathly black* before changing the pupils and we actually see him physically grow to match Diavolo's build. The sound of his muscles growing and tightening up against his clothes is downright *nauseating*, not to mention physically painful. The English Dub makes the scene even scarier by having Diavolo and Doppio's voices briefly overlap as they make the switch, making it seem less like Doppio has a split personality and more like he's being possessed by some demonic force. And then there's the way Diavolo tells the fortune teller he's going to kill him in the most painless way possible as a twisted sign of respect for his talents. The calm, matter-of-fact way he does so is nothing short of *terrifying*. **Doppio:** *Leave me the hell alone!* Don't you *dare* touch me! **Diavolo and Doppio:** **So what if you can predict the future?!** **Diavolo:** Seems you're not a Stand user. Pity you had to peddle your talents of perception on the side of the road like a common beggar. It was the greatest misstep of your life. You see, **THAT ABILITY WILL BE USELESS TO YOU ONCE YOU'RE DEAD!** *indovino*, anyone who possesses any knowledge of my true self must not be allowed to live. But you have proven yourself to be a fortune teller of the highest caliber. You've my admiration, so I shall kill you in a way that inflicts the least amount of pain.
- An added scene in the anime showing Doppio's/Diavolo's birth when the guards in his mother's cell are cleaning him off. He was been staring blankly into space and never
*once* made a sound the whole time since he was conceived mere *minutes* ago. The guard holding him also happened to see his eyes switch from between amber to red and back for a brief moment, in other words *Doppio's* eyes to *Diavolo's*, showing that their split personality has been there since infancy. And with the confirmation that Diavolo and Doppio have separate souls this means that Diavolo is an invader in *Doppio's* body.
- The depths that Diavolo went to restoring his iron after the fight with Risotto shows how depraved he really is. He
*ate a live frog* for starters. Then Bucciarati and Narancia, searching for an enemy stand user, instead found a nearby child behind a rock with his mouth sewn shut with shoe laces and his wrist slit open with blood draining out of it. Diavolo doesn't even need to become a vampire to sacrifice his humanity.
- This video shows King Crimson from the perspective of the protagonists. Finding out that you suddenly moved a few feet has never been so terrifying. No wonder it was thought to be invincible until GER came.
- Risotto Nero, the leader of Squadra Esecuzioni/Hitman Team. For starters, there's the fact that he has red irises and black sclera. Combined that with his demeanor and you already get a creepy man to come across. Then there's his Stand, Metallica. It can manipulate iron, including the iron in his opponent's blood. When fighting him, he forces Doppio to
*cough up razor blades*.
- The anime adds a scene where he has apparently roped a hapless grunt into performing a extensive data analysis of a photo's ashes to decipher the next destination of Bucciarati's group. When the grunt starts to complain, nails burst out from one of his hands. Nero warns him that the next unwanted comment will cost him an eye, coldly reasoning that he only needs one hand and one eye to do his job. The guy seems to get the message, but begins to whine reflexively before he can stop himself. Cue his left eye starting to bulge before a Gory Discretion Shot. And blood splattering on Risotto's unflinching face.
- His whole fight with Doppio is quite possibly the most brutal, painful and
*nauseating* fight in the series, and that's saying **a lot**. Risotto spawned a pair of scissors in Doppio's neck and tried to use them to cut his throat. Doppio had to *rip the scissors out of his skin*.
- Doppio deducing where Risotto was hiding by using a frog, hoping that Risotto's ability would activate on it before reaching Doppio. And it did, causing the frog to
*burst open with razor blades spilling out*. Then Doppio cut off one of Risotto's feet by throwing a part of scissors at him.
- As the fight went on, lack of iron in Doppio's body was turning his blood into yellow pus. He was barely able to breathe and think from the lack of oxygen that iron provides for the body.
- Finally, Risotto tried to end the fight by
*slowly* slicing Doppio's head open from the top of his skull with razor blades. The anime adaptation doesn't make this any easier to sit through especially with Soma Saito and Griffin Burns's performances as Doppio whose *screams of agony* really drive the point further on how brutally Risotto is torturing him.
- What happened to Polnareff years before the events of
*Vento Aureo* takes place. While searching for the lost Stand arrow, he discovered that the said arrow had been taken to somewhere in Europe as the crime rates in France were skyrocketing. Investigating Passione's drug related crimes in Italy and Diavolo himself, Polnareff made two grave errors as he seriously underestimated King Crimson's ability and the amount of influence Passione had over the government. As pointed out in a flashback, Polnareff was *cut off from every facet of society* as he was unable to call Jotaro for help with telephones, postal service, transportation, mass media, politics and police being completely wrapped around Passione's payroll. Diavolo then gouged out Polnareff's eye with his King Crimson before tossing him over a cliff and destroying both his feet. Luckily, Polnareff survives, but he had to live *years* in hiding while keeping a low profile so that Diavolo wouldn't find out he's actually alive. Adding to that, he is now completely bound in a wheelchair and his inability to walk just makes him that much more vulnerable.
- Narancia's death is mostly Tear Jerker at its most devastating but it's also one of the more disturbing ones due to how unexpected and sudden it was. During Diavolo's time erasing rampage, Bucciarati notices that something is very off when he sees gallons of blood dripping from above. They then find Narancia mangled and impaled within a broken fence in crucifix position, dead. Adding more horror to the scene is that Narancia was killed during the segment that was erased by King Crimson. This means that for a second, Narancia was alive, and the next,
*he was just simply dead*.
- Some added symbolism in this scene is that Narancia was killed while he was in Giorno's body. Since Giorno is DIO's (God) son (Jesus), so Diavolo (Devil) basically just killed Messianic Archetype in a crucified manner.
- This part of the story is filled to the brim with Paranoia Fuel as Diavolo is hiding within the group in Mista's body and Bucciarati's crew haven't got a clue where he is attacking from.
- The anime adds a chilling scene where King Crimson is lurking from the shadows after Bucciarati and the rest go after Chariot Requiem, accompanied by terrifying music. Trish (in Mista's body) then suddenly turns around and notices that something is very, very wrong. It also serves as foreshadowing that King Crimson is actually hiding inside of Mista's body, which is revealed in the following episode.
- Chariot Requiem itself is Nightmare Fuel incarnate. Compared to Silver Chariot, Polnareff's original stand, THIS stand is strange looking, covered completely in shadow.
- It switches bodies of anybody within proximity of each other. Not just humans ... but animals too. You could be a mother taking care of an infant and all of a sudden, you're in the infant's body. Or you could have been walking your dog and all of a sudden, you're on a leash. Thankfully it tries to avert some of the Nightmare Fuel by having the babies and animals Suddenly Speaking (which also happened with Polnareff when his soul inhabited Coco Jumbo), but that's not without covering things like police and criminals, who a criminal (who was in a policeman's body) even used the opportunity to try to sexually harass Mista (who was in Trish's body at the time). Additionally, if there's a chance that there's a split personality, similar to Doppio and Diavolo, the stand will eject the split personality into someone else's body ... even if they're hiding inside someone else.
- It can also make Stands turn against their masters, possibly even killing them if they attempt to take the arrow from them, as shown when it turns Sticky Fingers and one of the Sex Pistols berserk, with the latter even attempting to psychotically kill Mista. If you're lucky enough not to be a Stand user and attempt to touch the arrow, Requiem will personally kill you, as shown when Polnareff (as the turtle) gets chased by it. It only stopped attempting to blindly kill Polnareff when ...
- ... Requiem's other effect starts to kick in,
**MUTATING** everybody. Watching things from animals to humans have hideous mutations is quite unsettling to watch, especially when Polnareff starts to get a second head (which looks almost zombielike) and humans start getting weird tumors and eyes. Mista's body also starts to peel off as well. It's played off as being harmless advanced evolution, but it's still very nightmarish to look at. The population of Rome has had a pretty bad day ...
- Between its Blue-and-Orange Morality, strange appearance, and nightmarish powerset, Silver Chariot Requiem is closer to an SCP than a stand!
- The second version of "Traitor's Requiem", which starts playing as of Episode 34. The changes are pretty minor at first, with Doppio turning into Diavolo... and then we get to the scene with the blood drops, and the full events of the time skip are shown: the landscape explodes around Giorno as Diavolo casually strolls behind him (in an eerie Call-Back to when Giorno's father did the same to Jotaro), all the while monitoring the future with Epitaph to avoid Giorno's attack. The distorted version of Diavolo's theme playing is the icing on the cake, and his monologue while he does so is simply bone-chilling.
*Nessuno può sfuggire dal destino scelto.* Translation : No one can escape the fate that was chosen for them. *Rimane solo il risultato che voi sarete distrutti.* Translation : All that remains is the end, where you will all perish. *L'eterna cima esiste solo per me.* Translation : Eternal greatness exists only within myself. *Puoi cantare canzoni di tristezza nel mondo senza tempo.* Translation : Sing a song of sorrow in a world where time has vanished.
- The "sound"
* : The penultimate episodes of each part have sound effects on their intros. version of "Traitor's Requiem" adds a very terrifying and distorted scream to the Doppio/Risotto Nero scene as he's transforming himself into Diavolo. This also becomes one of King Crimson's primary sounds when in use in that same episode. What makes it all the more unsettling is that it was almost never used at all beforehand. * : One of the few times it is heard is when Doppio switches to Diavolo for the first time. However, it's possible that its sudden use symbolizes just how unhinged Diavolo's soul is, now that Doppio is no longer a part of him by this point.
- The fate of Diavolo when defeated by Gold Experience Requiem. He just gets stuck in an endless loop of horrible deaths, including being stabbed by a random drug addict, having his liver pulled out during an autopsy, and being ran over. The worst part is he can't die due to GER returning everything to "zero", and he still feels all of the pain. Granted, it's truly well-deserved considering how horrifically monstrous he is, but his terrified expression as he trembles at the idea that
*literally anything approaching him could be his next death* at least makes him pitiable. **Diavolo:**
How... How many deaths must I die?! What'll happen to me next?! How much longer will I have to wait for the end?! (
*To a little girl walking towards him*
) Stay back! Leave me be! D-Don't come closer!
**STAY AWAY! LEAVE ME ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!**
- What doesn't help is that Diavolo is continuously dying, over and over, during the epilogue, the entirety of
*Purple Haze Feedback*, and *Stone Ocean*, the latter which takes place **10 years later**, Diavolo is **still** repeatedly dying. It's mere ponder for what state he'll be in by that point.
- Thanks to the anime adaptation, this scene is even worse to sit through and stomach.
- All of these nightmarish scenarios become amplified tenfold in the English dub, as Kellen Goff perfectly manages to capture the absolute despair, terror, and utter agony that Diavolo is currently experiencing, driven completely insane by crippingly extreme irrational paranoia, crying for help and painfully shrieking ear-piercingly prolongated and absolutely bloodcurdling screams of bloody murder at the top of his lungs in a horrifyingly realistic manner. Quite fitting, considering the
*other* series he is best known for having worked on, but it's still absolutely petrifying.
- Then there's Gold Experience Requiem itself. With that scaly skin, rough jagged outline and fish-like eyes, it simply seems so wrong and unsettling. Then GER just before subjecting Diavolo to an infinite time loop of death speaks by itself in a way similar to King Crimson a while before, implying that Giorno isn't exactly in complete control of his own Stand.
- During GER's beatdown of Diavolo, there's a brief frame of a mortally damaged King Crimson with
*half of its face shattered and its eye hanging from its broken face, and that says nothing of a similarly broken Epitaph's face falling off as King Crimson lunges for a Death or Glory Attack*. Combine that with King Crimson's already terrifying Nightmare Face, and it's not pretty.
- Giorno's explanation of Gold Experience Requiem's ability. And by "explanation", we mean
*reciting what GER said to Diavolo before succumbing to his endless death loop*. While certainly not as nightmarish compared to above, listening to his explanation will make you think twice that you do *not* want to mess with Giorno and his GER. **Giorno:**
Even though I couldn't witness Requiem at work myself, something deep in my soul tells me our job is done. Nothing will ever come within his putrid reach again. Not even the truth of his ultimate fate will grace him. His own death will remain a mystery to him for all eternity.
**It's over**
.
**Trish:**
B-but we didn't finish him.
**Giorno:**
His end is
*without end*
. That...
**is Gold Experience Requiem's judgement!**
- The official English dub translation of Giorno's explanation regarding what his stand just did to Diavolo deserves special mention. In many of the original subtitled translations, including Crunchyroll's, the line is translated as "His end is that there is no end.", as in "His end is that he will forever be unable to reach his fate.". While this isn't inaccurate by any means, it underscores the gravity of the situation. The English dub instead decided to go with "His end is without end.", as in "His end is that he's already dead, but he will never realize it and so he will keep experiencing death, over and over and over again,
**forever**." This translation of the line is signfiicantly more powerful, hammering home the fact that Diavolo is not only defeated, he's *royally screwed*. From his perspective, the release of death is forever beyond his grasp, and he'll keep suffering in a cycle of death and rebirth until the very end of the universe itself.
- Scolippi's Rolling Stone Stand
*shows him how people die*. If they touch it, even on accident, or accept their death and do so, it tells them a way to get a more peaceful and meaningful death — which they'll promptly embark on. When it showed his girlfriend how she'd die, she took the peaceful suicide it suggested would also help her father via organ donation. This, though, caused her father to attempt to send assassins after him. He handles this pretty well for a Messianic Archetype.
- The anime ramps up the horror factor of Rolling Stone, with its appearances constantly being accompanied by what one YouTube commenter described as the "choir of the damned." Not enough? You get to see it
*throb* and melt, too, making it seem less like stone and more like *flesh*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo |
Ju-on / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
- The curse itself is pretty terrifying. Anyone who even steps foot into the house is Doomed by Canon, and sooner or later, they will be killed by Kayako or the other ghosts. It can take years for the curse to consume a person, as in Rika's case where it takes six years. It is also established in the first TV film that the curse can target people associated with those who entered the Saeki house, usually when they are around said victims or in the place they died in - and then the curse spreads in those places and kills more people. So all the characters who survive the films are probably dead too.
- "Mar's Grave". Poor cat...
- The Jump Scare in the first film when Kobayashi glances at his hands and, for a split second, sees them as Takeo's blood-soaked and cat fur-covered hands, with the horribly mutilated corpse of Mar lying below him.
- Yuki in the attic. She pops her head up into the attic, and, as she has a look around, the shot changes to that of a POV shot through the eyes of...
*something*, watching. As Yuki fumbles for her lighter, the POV shot suddenly and rapidly moves towards her, until the something is *right in front of Yuki's face*, but completely obscured in the darkness. So terrified that she can barely move, Yuki switches on her cigarette lighter and... *BAM*! The sequence (prior to the Jump Scare) is played out with no music whatsoever, which makes the whole thing so much more tense.
- Kanna's face. That is all. Her poor mother's reaction makes it so much
*worse*.
- The manga adaptation adds some more Gorn to the mix. Following her encounter with her daughter's jawless ghost, Kanna's mother becomes possessed. Cue Kanna's father arriving home to discover his wife preparing a meal. Said meal consists of Kanna's body, chopped into several pieces. Oh, and the first sight to greet the poor guy as he steps into the kitchen is Kanna's severed, jawless head staring vacantly at him from atop the table. But wait! It gets worse: Kanna's mother then starts to
*cut her own arm into slices* all the while rambling in a monotonous manner.
- The original (and some would say best) "Kayako crawls down the stairs" scene from the first video release. Holy. Crap. Not just for the horribly creepy movements, but for the unsettling look of pure
*hatred* on Kayako's face.
- There's the ultimate fate of Kobayashi and his family: just as he's cornered by Kayako, he discovers that
*Takeo* is still alive...and has just killed his (Kobayashi's) pregnant wife and taken the unborn fetus from her body. What the character does with his "trophy" afterwards is the most terrifying, sickening thing in the movie franchise, surpassing anything Kayako and Toshio ever do.
- And then Kayako takes her revenge on Takeo, sloooowly crawling towards him in a plastic bag before emerging from it to claim his soul.
- The scene in which Katsuya returns home to find his wife Kazumi lying on the bed in a catatonic state after being terrorised by Toshio. He has no idea what's going on and tries to call an ambulance... when Toshio suddenly runs past in the background. Katsuya doesn't see him, but he
*knows* that someone else is in the room, and he proceeds to search it in a slow, quiet terror. What makes this scene so frightening is that the audience *knows* Toshio is there and just waiting to jump out, and the fact that the scene is just so incredibly quiet and tense. To make things even more tense, the moment where Katsuya searches part of the room and the cupboard is done in a single, still shot that goes on for around a full minute.
- Hitomi's vignette. Not even the bedcovers can protect you from this curse. The lead-up involving the TV is also horribly unsettling (see below). Not to mention the earlier scene in the staff toilets...
- Who can forget the television when Hitomi goes into her flat and the reporter is morphed into an Oiwa-style onryo with
*that* death rattle.
- Not to mention beforehand as she making her way to her apartment and riding up the elevator. While she doesn't notice him, the audience can see Toshio in the background with each floor she passes... and he keeps getting closer and closer .
- The scene where Toyama is reviewing the footage from the surveillance camera, and sees a dark, staticy blot walking toward it. Eventually, the monitor goes pitch black... and then Kayako's eyes open directly in front of the camera. There's a reason this one got brought directly into the American version.
- Izumi's vignette. Her dead, ghostly friends suddenly peer through the newspapers she covered her windows with, before materializing inside the apartment to pursue her, staggering in an almost zombie-like manner. Izumi ends up trapped, backed up against the shrine for her father... only for Kayako to burst out from the shrine and drag Izumi into it.
- An often overlooked example comes from the end of the third film, which
*strongly* implies that the curse has spread over much of Tokyo (and possibly even further). The streets are *completely* empty and eerily silent - no birds, no traffic, nothing - and *dozens* of "missing" posters are plastered all over the place.
- Tomoka's vignette.
- Two words: "wig scene". No matter whether one finds the build-up to be narmy or not, most tend to agree that the climax of that scene is pants-browningly terrifying. The music does
*not* help.
- Kayako emerging from the photocopier.
- Three words: "the birth scene". That is all.
- Just watching the first segment of
*White Ghost* makes one shudder. A poor guy has to deliver a Christmas cake to a house which he unaware had all of its inhabitants brutally murdered the night before. Then he discovers a headless corpse in the bed. Just when he tries to escape it all, we get the first jumpscare of the film: the hollow-eyed grandma *shudder*.
- The scene in the subway station, featuring Sota and Kayako. While Sota is patrolling the subway, he suddenly encounters Kayako in her human form. Strangely enough, she is able to converse with him and agrees to follow him to the guards' post. While walking there, she mumbles about Toshio, which goes faster and faster and
*faster* until eventually, she morphs into her ghost form. Of course, when Sota turns around, she disappears. Can he just run away from the spot as soon as possible?
- Mai encountering dozens of meowing Toshio inside the hotel elevator. You won't hear a cat meow the same way again.
- The final scene of the film (and indeed the series). Jawless Kayako◊. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Juon |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Unmarked spoilers ahead!
Not all the antagonists here can be sympathetic...
- The art for Steel Ball Run is beautifully detailed. That also makes the copious gore (remember that this is when Jojo transitioned from shounen to seinen) even more unnerving. Especially when a steel ball meets a (deserving, but still) face and all the chunks of skull and teeth come flying off, maybe with an eyeball as well.
- The whole process of fusing with the corpse parts of the Saint is pretty unnerving.
- Lucy actually had to carry the Saint's corpse in her womb. This creates a new Stand ability, but the process of the corpse parts fusing together inside of her cause the entire surface of her body to painfully turn into polygonal pieces of glass. All while the corpse absorbs her life energy, she's brought into a state of paralyzing exhaustion, and then, near-death.
- The first use of Gyro's steel balls literally twists a pickpocket's arm with the gun pointed at his head and then he kills himself by accident. Our hero, ladies and gentlemen!
- The fellow with the cross-hatching on his face in the page picture is Oyecomova. A Western Terrorist (specifically, an anti-monarchist from the Kingdom of Naples), his Stand, Boku no Rhythm wo Kiitekure ("Listen to My Rhythm") lets him attach little clock-shaped pins to anything he touches. If the pins are so much as lightly jostled, they come flying off... and then whatever they were attached to
*explodes*. The only way to keep them in place is to hold them down with physical pressure. Easy when they're attached to a tree; a tad harder when they're attached to *cigarette smoke* or *the surface of a *. **river**
- The Stand
*Scary Monsters* very much earns its name. It transmutes things or people into dinosaurs. Depending on who, it can leave the user (in human form) with crackling skin, an ear-to-ear Glasgow Grin and primal behavior (such as cooing and swallowing rocks).
- In the chapter introducing the second user of Scary Monsters, Johnny and Gyro take shelter in a house. They notice flies getting through the window, they look outside only to find a surprise on the porch: the body of a dead animal. But it's not just any critter, it's an adult bear carved wide open.
- In one scene, the affected user, Diego Brando, attempts to hide the gaps on the sides of his mouth with bandages, but as soon he drinks coffee, it starts leaking from the sides.
- Same scene. Diego Brando swallows rocks whole at night in a corner outside while a terrified Johnny Joestar watches helplessly through the window. Diego suddenly stops and abruptly turns his head almost on 180 degrees, and then, silently looks at the reader right into the eyes.
- The final fate of Magenta Magenta. In a callback to Kars and Anubis' fates, he ends up trapped at the bottom of the Delaware River with his Stand still activated, waiting for Diego or anyone else to rescue him. But no one comes for him. Eventually, his mind shuts down altogether after waiting for so long.
- Mike O. would seriously give Pennywise a run for his money in terms of making balloons
*terrifying.* See, his Stand, Tubular Bells, lets him make balloon animals from metal objects such as needles, nails, and tin shutters, which then go after the target whose scent they picked up, forcefully burrow into their body, and eviscerate them from the inside out. His arc is easily the goriest in all of *Steel Ball Run*, and possibly in all of Jojo *period.*
- Ringo's backstory. His entire family was killed in one night while he was sleeping and the same killer tried to rape him and make him his "son".
- President Valentine very nearly raped Lucy, and the only thing that stopped him was Lucy having Hot Pants' spray handy.
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (D4C), Funny Valentine's Stand. It has the ability to travel to parallel worlds, and bring people back to and from them. If two alternate universe selves meet (except Funny Valentine himself), then they fuse together, collapse into Menger Sponges, and cease to exist.
*This happened to Wekapipo.*
- Axl R.O.'s Stand, Civil War, in Steel Ball Run's Chapters 56 and 57, which attacks by manifesting the guilt and sacrifices made by the opponent and fusing with their bodies. Hot Pants and the body of her deceased younger brother, Johnny and 'Danny', etc.
- Not long after Diego's death, Funny Valentine uses D4C to summon an alternate version as backup in case he dies during his fight with Johnny and Gyro. What makes this Nightmare Fuel? Oh, just the fact that not only is this one closer to DIO in terms of personality, being an outright murderous sociopath that isn't above dirty tricks, but he
*has his same Stand*. That's right, The World makes a comeback, even using the same Checkmate combo against Johnny. It's lucky Tusk Act 4 was, by that time, able to move in the stopped time, otherwise Dio may well have killed Johnny. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun |
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- What happens to Lascelles. He's a horrible person who made the enmity between Strange and Norrell far worse, killed Drawlight in cold blood, and disfigured Childermass all for little reasons beyond profit and his pride. But he's also 'compelled' into taking the role of the Champion of the Castle of the Plucked Eye and Heart (probably along with having his mind wiped to fulfill the role's purpose) until someone kills him in turn. How long will that be?
- The Neapolitan soldiers that Strange resurrects. They're mutilated and decomposing, and spend all their time trying to find Strange to beg him to put them to a final rest, or send them home to their loved ones instead of Hell. In the end Wellington orders them to be burnt, though who knows if even
*that* released them? (Frustratingly, a footnote informs us that the "life" of such corpses can be ended by simply cutting off their eyes, tongue, and heart - but Strange never manages to figure that out.)
- One of the footnotes goes into detail about Simon Bloodworth, a 14th century magician who foolishly entered into a partnership with a fairy called Buckler, only to come home one day to find that all his family (save his eldest daughter Margaret) all of his servants and several of his neighbours had been tempted into a magic cupboard by Buckler, who said they would visit Faerie and return in time for mass. Bloodworth himself entered the cabinet to rescue them all, but he never emerged either, and even emissaries sent by John Uskglass were unable to retrieve anyone who was abducted by Buckler.
*Two hundred years later* another magician, Dr Martin Pale, was journeying through Faerie and found a human child, Anne Bloodworth, imprisoned in a fairy castle, starved and forced to wash pots for what she believed to be two weeks, and she says once she's done she'll go home to see her parents and sisters. And the footnote simply ends there, with no mention of whether Pale was able to rescue Anne, or what happened to all the other people Buckler stole away. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell |
Jurassic Park River Adventure / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Given that this type of ride is based on a movie series where things go wrong, and dangerous dinosaurs are on the loose, there are bound to be some scares and intimidating moments. Not to mention that this is a ride where you get to come face to face with the colossal
*T-Rex*. *Jurassic Park River Adventure*
"If you can hear my voice, get out of there! It's in the building!
*IT'S IN THE BUILDING!"*
- Right from the start of the ride, even the herbivorous dinosaurs are a bit unsettling, especially the Stegosaurus that suddenly shows up to the right of the boat.
- Even before you start seeing all of the bloodthirsty carnivorous dinosaurs, you know things are going to go downhill when you see another boat stuck at the entrance to the Hadrosaurus section, causing your boat to detour under a cut electrical wire, into a restricted area marked with danger signs.
- The
*Dilophosaurus* is depicted here in all its glory, first acting all cute and innocent, and then switching to ferocious as it spits its venom at you (even if it's just water).
- Velociraptors popping out of the dark at you when you're inside the building. The Hollywood version even has a raptor that pops out at you
*from the ceiling*.
- And of course, there's the massively imposing
*Tyrannosaurus* itself getting so close to the boat that you could almost touch it, before you're sent down in *85 foot* drop.
- The Japanese version is a lot more intense, the finale has you going through the shipping area, which is much bigger here, and you see shadow of the dinosaurs moving about and some trying to get into the doorways, which a few are rattling about. While it eventually has the dinosaurs pop out, it does a much better job at unsettling you and making you really believe you're in a danger zone before they even appear.
- For Halloween Horror Nights for Universal Studios Hollywood, the ride was retitled
*Jurassic Park - In The Dark*, which, as its title implies, is a trip through the attraction with most of the lighting either lowered or turned off entirely. When it first started off, the ride was normal...except when you get to the raptors. Unlike the original ride, they have humans to feed on and the added strobe lighting effects illuminated scenes of *Velociraptors* gruesomely tearing apart JP scientists. Although the violent scenes were later taken out, the toned-down lighting in the ride still adds an extra fear factor to the whole experience.
- The commercials for the ride when it opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1996 can be scary, due to how perilous the ride's show elements were depicted and the terror that the riders in the commercial go through, especially with the drop.
With the Hollywood ride having been retooled into a
*Jurassic World: The Ride* *Jurassic World* version, there's a few more frightening additions and changes.
- The
*Mosasaurus* tunnel ends with the giant predator noticing the boat and *cracking one of the viewing windows* with a single impact of its snout. It's enough to send water leaking onto the riders.
- When the ride first opened, several dead, bloodied
*Pteranodons* littered the spot to the left of where the ride boat turns the corner into Predator Cove, directly opposite the now-sundered *Indominus rex* pen.
- The 2021 refurbishment replaces them with a wrecked Gyrosphere. However, there are two
*Compsognathuses* fighting over a hat with blood still on the wall, heavily implying that the people that were in that Gyrosphere met a grisly end eaten by the *Indominus* in her escape.
- The 2021 update to the attraction has the
*Indominus* roar at the riders from a smashed wall before the boat ascends the lift. This can make for another effective Jump Scare for the first time rider, as well as add to the sensation she's after the riders.
- Going up the dark tunnel, it's no longer the
*Tyrannosaurus rex* that lunges at the boat from the ceiling, it's *Indominus rex*, and she's very angry and determined to kill you.
- In the final section just before the drop-off exit, a
*Dilophosaurus* and Blue the *Velociraptor* appear, snarling and calling. Then just before Rexy emerges from the waterfall, the *Indominus rex* looms up on the left and roars at the boat, even getting rather close to the riders before turning to Rexy as she appears to challenge her. Despite that, Rexy even tries to snap at the riders as the boat makes its plunge.
- Even scarier? This video shows that in the event of a stall before the drop, the
*Indominus* will lean upwards and sniff the air, and gradually be cast in shadow, almost entirely disappearing into the dark again. This takes advantage of the situation and adds an extra layer of fear, as once the boat moves, she will even resume her normal movements from the dark until Rexy appears. This pretty much means you get an extra scare in the form of the *Indominus* suddenly roaring at the boat from the dark. Even if the boat moves again before she slips back into the shadows, her suddenly moving and roaring as you seemingly pass by undetected can still make for an effective Jump Scare. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicParkRiverAdventure |
Jurassic Park: The Game / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
From the first episode alone, the game starts off with Nima being chased by the Troodon in an In Medias Res prologue sequence and we, the player, are only able to see their glowing eyes getting ever closer. The raspy, ghostly, haunting sounds they make are even worse.
As the episode switches to the chronological beginning of the story, Nima and Miles Chadwick find themselves being stalked and, in Miles's case being eaten, by a pack of Dilophosaurus, but not before being treated to glimpses of Nedry's corpse.
In the case of Nedry, there's buildup. Seeing the Jeep with its lights still on, Chadwick calls up to him, but gets no response. As Nima and Chadwick approach the vehicle, you can hear the sounds of bones crunching and flesh being ripped before they ever open the door. Then when they do open the door, there's a shadowy shape next to the body before it suddenly runs out and scares the crap out of Nima and Chadwick. To top it off, you the player already know what happened here, leading to some uncomfortable Dramatic Irony as Nima and Chadwick slowly piece together the events and learn why Nedry never made it to the docks.
What brief glimpses we do see of Nedry's corpse aren't very graphic at all, thankfully. This concept art◊, on the other hand...
To top it off, you find yourself having to deal with Rexy in the Visitor's Center and there is a moment where she actually stomps up the stairs after Jess. Again, keep in mind, this is just the first episode.
Another gruesome death that can be triggered if the player messed up the Quick Time Event has one of the characters getting his head crushed by two containers.
Nima's eyes fogging up as the Troodon venom progresses.
The wreckage of the abandoned Visitor's Center. The most triumphant scene in the first JP film suddenly seems a lot more sinister in hindsight.
Expect a lot of Jump Scares. One of them involves the Visitor Center at the end of Episode 1.
In a game featuring vicious dinosaurs, it is somehow even more disturbing to find corpses of people who were shot to death. Even more so when Yoder notices that they didn't even take cover. Then you discover that they were killed by a soldier going insane with fear and Troodon venom, and while investigating the Visitor Center, the building is filled with the sounds of creatures rushing from shadow to shadow.
The minute the Velociraptors turn up (in a designated safe haven, no less), you know you're screwed.
The utility tunnels. The player knows that Gerry, Dr. Sorkin, and Jess, who are unarmed, are being followed by Velociraptors using a parallel tunnel, but they don't know until Jess goes off for a quiet smoke and lights up...
The Troodon are so terrifying that most of the other predators flee from them, even the Velociraptors. Yes, those Velociraptors, the ones that terrify virtually everybody else.
The Troodon lay their eggs inside of their victims while they're still alive. Did we mention that the victim is paralyzed while this happens, except for their eyes, which stare at you if you get too close? Gerry's reaction to discovering this fact is entirely appropriate.
Yoder's reaction to learning Dr. Sorkin knew about the Troodon all along is rather intense, especially since it's close to the point where he turns on the party.
Yoder: You knew about this!? You KNEW? I'll KILL YOU!
The Troodon are so bad that Hammond, who saw no problems with virtually every other horrifyingly dangerous predator on the island, ordered them all euthanized in order to protect people. Hammond.
Late in the game (after the puzzle with the blueprints), Yoder hears some noises coming from a dark hallway and goes to check it out, suspecting Troodon. He doesn't see any glowing eyes, but still isn't sure. He slowly enters the hallway, creeps up to the darkness, and lights a flare... which reveals a whole pack of Troodon just inches from him.
Funnily enough, that action is what saves his life since they can't stand the bright light. Too bad he already mentioned earlier that he only has one pair of pants.
Somehow, the fact that the Troodons can't stand bright light makes them that much more terrifying. Even most nocturnal animals today can still cope with bright light sources. It makes the Troodons seem more like mythical creatures of the night, such as vampires.
It doesn't help that, because of their eye shine, the Troodon look like they have pure blank eyes, as if they really are undead creatures.
The Tylosaurus, which takes its tactics directly from Jaws. The ghastly, whale-like sounds it makes are creepy enough, but then you see its pure black eyes, the permanent snarl on its jaws, the dark coloration of its scales, and how fast it can move despite its size.
The part during the final chase, where Gerry runs into a crate, only to have Rexy stick her head in, lift it off the ground, and start flinging it around. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicParkTheGame |
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING: Per wiki policy, Spoilers Off applies to Moments pages. All spoilers will be unmarked!**
Despite being marginally lighter than the films, the series has the island throw just about as many terrors as it can at our main characters.
## In General
- Toro, a foul-tempered
*Carnotaurus* that seems to have it out for Darius and Kenji after they indirectly caused him to injure and scar himself. He then becomes the primary antagonistic dinosaur in the last few episodes of the show, at one so desperate to eat the characters that he runs/hops/shoves his way up the steps leading towards the monorails that the kids are trying to reach. In the lore, he was a *Carnotaurus* that was just so *violent* that he had his own special paddock away from the camp. He's resilient enough that he seems to survive an encounter with the *Indominus rex*. He's essentially Sharptooth in the modern day despite not being a T-rex.
## ShowSeason 1
- At an early point in the series, Kenji is almost eaten by Blue (who has largely become a mascot dinosaur for the series) and the rest of the Raptor Squad.
- Darius and Kenji's first run-in with Toro. The
*Carnotaurus* wastes no time trying to chase them. Darius gets stuck in one of the feeding holes and would have gotten devoured if Kenji didn't pry it open.
- Brooklynn and Darius nearly drowning inside their Gyrosphere when it gets stuck in a sinkhole.
- The
*I. rex*'s first appearance, making it *very* clear to the audience that it's every bit as sadistic and cruel as it is in *Jurassic World*. After killing the park workers who came to help them, it snaps its head up and *glares* at the kids, making it very clear that it's going after them simply because it can.
- Eddie (the scientist) giving a manic laugh when the kids tell him they hoped he could help them. Aside from the implication that he's gone insane, the kids are chilled when he tells them he has no clue how to aid them, dashing any hopes that a grown-up could help them home. As if they hadn't lost enough innocence, he goes into a mad spiel about how Jurassic World is all about making
*monsters*
- The fact that Eddie straight up
*abandons* the kids. He really couldn't care less that these kids are out here by themselves and in danger, he just wants to save himself.
- The
*Indominus rex* is up to her old tricks and eats at least three people (with one other kill being found just out of frame by Ben). One particular nasty death goes to the aforementioned Eddie after he abandons the kids and tries to steal their vehicle, only for the Indominus to ram the vehicle, smash it until he leaves the inside of it, and then finally devours him. Only a bush obscures us from seeing his body being torn to shreds.
- Roxie and Dave are kept in a waiting room for hours when trying to contact Claire about the multiple near-death incidents the kids got themselves into. Roxie suspects something is going very wrong and lockpicks a cabinet with radios. What they hear is gunshots and the ACU team screaming during their attempt to capture the Indominus Rex. The lines go out one by one as it kills them. Dave and Roxie can only stare in silence as they realize how bad the situation really is.
- The whole Mosasaurus encounter. There's just something so
*helpless* about being stuck on a boat and trying to out-paddle a giant sea and hungry sea creature. Kenji's initial terror after realizing where they are really selling it. After Yasmina distracts the Mosasaur from eating Darius and Sammy, she ends up dangling on the feeding line, just *barely* missing the mosasaur. She ends up falling a considerable height, landing on her foot and badly spraining it.
- A little bit of Squick, but Yasmina twisting her ankle. The show displays her foot giving out from the bad fall and in subsequent falls when she's trying to run away. The absolute terror it becomes for Yasmina to keep up with the other kids while limping badly. Eventually, it gets so bad that she can't support herself on her own and requires help or a walking stick.
- In the peaceful moment after surviving Jurassic World Lagoon, Kenji is seen looking for scraps of food in strewn popcorn containers. Here comes the realization that these kids haven't eaten a proper meal for over half a day until that point. When was the last time they even had a drink of water?
- Even though it turns out that the blaring sirens were just the park letting everyone know that the last ferry was leaving soon, the ominous echo of the Emergency Broadcast is just horrifying.
- Ben falling to his apparent death after being attacked by a
*Pteranodon* in the monorail. Darius tries to save him but loses his grip and Ben ends up falling. Throughout the whole ordeal, Ben is heard begging for Darius to help him.
- The final chase scene between the kids and Toro. They are in the maintenance tunnels, which are lit in a freakish red light in addition to a majority of the hallways being blocked off due to the lockdown. It illuminates Toro in a way that makes him seem like some sort of
*demon*. Just when there was some hope of making it to the ferry on time, the vents they escaped from end up being sealed in. Cornered, the kids are forced to finally face down the *Carnotaurus* in order to survive. The final showdown is mostly just the kids scrambling around trying not to get caught, despite their initial efforts to try to scare Toro off.
- When Roxanne and Dave try to convince a guard to hold out and keep the ferry from leaving just a little longer, he coldly makes a point that if they refuse to get on the ferry boat, he'll force them with a cattle prod if he has to. In reality, he is only doing his job and ensuring the counselors' survival. He has a point, they don't know for sure if the kids are alive and waiting might endanger the rest of the guests.
Season 2
- The Wham Shot of Rexy carrying something in her mouth while headed towards Main Street
where the kids are.
- In recent years, Rexy has very much been portrayed in an anti-heroic role, never really being a threat to the heroes while actively taking on the various villains or threats in the franchise. Here, she's one of the primary threats to the kids and forces them to move into the jungle as she's taken over Main Street as her lair. We also see what effect she has on the dinosaur population and they are
*terrified* of her. An entire stampeding intraspecific herd does a 180 at the sight of her and gets the hell out of dodge as quick as they can.
- Mitch and Tiff become this when we learn they're big-game hunters. For Darius, he discovers this while sneaking into their yurt and finds the disembodied head of a
*Sinoceratops*. So much for being eco-tourists.
- Just the way Mitch and Tiff quickly change their tune towards the children once Darius learns the truth. They quickly make a 180 from being sweet and accommodating to menacing and threatening, making it a point to Darius that they will electrocute his friends (Sammy and Yaz) to death if he doesn't give them what they want.
- Tiff on her own is pretty unsettling. She takes way too much pleasure at the thought of
*killing* children via electrocution. Nothing is sacred to her to the point she'd willingly abandon her husband to a hungry *T-Rex* just to save her own hide and gleefully mocks Darius and Brooklynn for missing the boat, proudly boasting that she'll never tell the world that the kids were still trapped and that she hopes that they all rot. This lady is a *scumbag.*
- Worse than a scumbag, she's a
*monster*. If her shooting Grim was any indication, she goes hunting in order to vent any *murderous* tendencies she has. Anyone who needs to shoot another living creature *just to feel better* has issues.
- When the kids are in the tunnels and are at the control station, Kenji repeatedly presses a button. A shot follows the wires to reveal that it leads to something frozen in ice, which his incessant pressing has now started to thaw. We don't know what it is, and the last shot of the season reveals that it's out.
- Tiff's death. After killing Grim, Tiff leaves Mitch to get eaten by the
*Tyrannosaurus rex* and abandons the children by getting on the boat and taking off. She doesn't get that far however as Grim's siblings - Limbo and Chaos get aboard the boat for revenge. We don't see the deed but we hear glass breaking and her terrified screams which suddenly cut off as we see her boat drift off into the ocean.
- Limbo and Chaos in particular holding a grudge and hunting down Tiff shows that raptors are perhaps not the only dangerously smart dinosaurs.
- What makes it worse is that for a few seconds, Tiff believes she's home free until she hears a thump, and the glass fogs with the two dinosaurs peering in at her. It's almost as if they gave her a false sense of hope before they killed her as payback. Even worse - she's away from the shore at the time:
*she has nowhere to run*... and they *know it.* They *definitely* waited for revenge.
- During the scene in which Mitch and Tiff are pursued by Rexy, Mitch shocks Rexy with a cattle prod multiple times as she screams in pain and rage, cutting to a shot of her eye seemingly focusing on Mitch. Come the season 2 finale, when Mitch is hung up in the tree by the snare, Rexy comes up to him and her eyes actually narrow and lets out an angry snarl as she recognizes him. Before during her pursuits of humans, she seemed to view them as just food or intruders trespassing on her territory (mainly because no-one else human has managed to lay a finger to her). Here, she holds a grudge against Mitch and seems to
*remember* what he did. From the sound of it, she finishes him off in one single bite.
- Yaz visibly reacting in revulsion as she apparently sees the remains of the
*Indominus rex* in the *Mosasaur* exhibit. We the audience don't get to see it, but apparently, some pieces were floating on the water.
- Fallen Kingdom makes it worse - the head
*is upside down*, meaning the Mosasaurus *snapped the Indominus's neck* instead of drowning. Anyone want to guess *what* is floating on the surface? Neck muscles and tendons, perhaps?
- Ben having to survive for weeks on Isla Nublar with no human aid. That alone is terrifying but he has to deal with the local carnivores like Toro and the compys. Luckily, he has Bumpy by his side to protect him
until he accidentally drives her away in a fit of anger, and has to spend the rest of the day and night surviving alone while the compys slowly surround him.
- Darius confirms that the compys are venomous and you have to quickly drive them away before they bite. If the original
*Jurassic Park* novel is anything to go by, a compy's bite can put a human in a dream-like paralysis, completely helpless and dully aware as the compys eat them alive. And after being treated as a relatively harmless nuisance in the first season, the compys start displaying their *Lost World* pack behavior and their primary targets are children.
- During the Main Street stand-off, Rexy managed to chase Tiff and Mitch away. Darius and Sammy watch Rexy begin to storm away when she stops
senses them, and turns around. Once she finds them, she chases them into a corner and snaps her jaws at them as they back up further into the corner screaming for their lives, her jaws inches from their feet. The only thing really stopping her from getting them is that the corner's opening is too small for her head. It reminds one of Lex and Tim in the first film only having a pane of glass blocking them from her jaws.
Season 3
- In general, the third season of the series is much more horror-based. The season's dark atmosphere is visually illustrated by the constant overcast, gloomy and stormy weather. It also has the largest body count of the season so far, though they're mostly dinosaurs.
- The homicidal monstrosity that is the
*Scorpios rex*, aka E750. This new hybrid is clearly the building blocks of what led to the *Indoraptor* and even the *Indominus rex*. It's a misshapen mutant that's described by Dr. Wu as being unpredictably bipolar in behavior - placid one moment, highly aggressive the next - as well as extremely venomous. A jet black demon with red eyes (and vision POV shots not unlike the ones featured in *Predator*), it's first introduced killing a *Ceratosaurus*. What makes things worse is that there are **TWO** of them. Not only that they **HATE** each other and go out of their way to attack one another on sight. They're without a doubt two of the most explicitly horror-themed dinosaurs in the entire franchise - and as a final point, all the other dinosaurs are more terrified of them than they are of Rexy. As in, Rexy the *Tyrannosaurus rex*.
- Speaking of its venom (which is deployed via quills), it's strong enough to bring down a full-grown
*Brachiosaurus*. Sammy herself gets poisoned and comes extremely close to dying.
- Before that, there's the entire first encounter. The
*Scorpios rex* notices the kids and lets out a loud, absolutely *chilling* scream that deafens the kids, before disappearing in the lightning flash. When the kids notice it again, it was already climbing on the tree ready to pounce on them. The rest of the encounter has the kids being absolutely terrified out of their minds as the *Scorpios* stalks them without giving them any breathing room, and would have *killed* them right then and there if it didn't get distracted by the flaming tree or the sounds in the distance and left, though not before poisoning Sammy with its quills first. The kids really stood *no* chance against it.
- While not as big as the
*Indominus*, the hybrid is noticeably larger than the *Indoraptor*. Which makes it all the more surprising and terrifying that the thing can climb trees. It even drags its kills up there, which Darius finds out when half of a dead *Gallimimus* almost falls on him.
- The
*Scorpios rex*'s constant use of Death from Above is so horrifying because in the dark all that's visible is its red eyes. In addition, as shown in the first scene with Blue in the old visitor's center, most dinosaurs don't normally look up, making the *Scorpios* an outside context problem even for predators. No wonder the *entire island* is in a panic.
- During the first fight between the two
*Scorpios*, some of the characters flee and lock themselves in the limo. However, this does little as the limo finds itself smack dab in the middle of the fight, leading to it getting bashed, slashed, and smashed from the force of the fight's impacts. These things really hate one another, and it makes perfect sense why the *Indominus rex* ate her sibling.
- Immediately
*Everything* the Camp Fam goes through after the *Scorpios rex*'s initial attack. At first, it seems everyone got out of the attack relatively unscathed
until Darius points out Sammy's been hit by the creature's quills. Eerily, she remarks she didn't even know they were even there. And then the venom takes effect. Brooklynn and Yaz are forced to painfully remove the quills from the already-poisoned Sammy, making her last conscious moments in agony before she passes out. But the worst part is, they realize taking out the quills doesn't help, and are (momentarily note : thanks to the video revealing there's an antidote ) facing the very real possibility that one of their own could *die*!
- It's even worse when one observes that sickly shade of
*green* she starts turning as the venom gets more and more into her system, especially when it reaches a tipping point where she shivers uncontrollably. Reminds one all too well of how Nima must've been when she was suffering from the Troodon's venom.
- It's an absolute miracle she's even alive as several moments earlier, as mentioned above, a Brachiosaurus was brought down by its venom. If the venom is that potent in that big a dinosaur, imagine how potent it is in a human.
- Yaz's escape from the
*Scorpios* - from the tense staring match that starts the scene to the chase.
- The group finds themselves being caught in between both
*Scorpios* in the visitor's center - who both want to eat them and kill one another. The gang is fortunately lucky that Blue repays Darius for helping free her from the pinned truck by throwing herself at both hybrids.
- Remember the kitchen from the original film? It reappears and like Lex and Tim, our cast finds themselves being stalked by a predatory dinosaur. Though stalking isn't the right word -
*Scorpios* absolutely trashes the place in its pursuit of our cast.
- The
*Ouranosaurus*. In *Jurassic Park III* we were introduced to the sail-backed Super-Persistent Predator that is the Spinosaurus. Here, we have sail-backed super persistent herbivores. These dinosaurs pursue the characters from land to sea, not letting up until the gang manage to scare them away with fireworks.
- The
*Monolophosaurus*. Darius informs the group these are loner dinosaurs. No one told the *Monolophosaurus* that though - a bunch of them swarm into Kenji's father's penthouse and hunt the characters in the hallways, rooms, air ducts, and elevator shafts.
- Rexy pursues the group towards the end of the season, chasing the characters in the gorge and leading to multiple instances of being too close for comfort. She has them in her "claws" with the only thing stopping her from being a team of ACU soldiers in Main Street (ie, the same ones Rexy pursued at the start of
*Fallen Kingdom*).
- Right before her pursuit, however, Rexy does get a human kill in that is seconds away from being fully onscreen before it cuts away at literally the last second. We see her jaws open over the unlucky soul and start to slam shut, then bam, cue a reaction shot from the characters and a grisly crunch.
- The Reveal that the kids have been on the island for
*six months* since the fall of Jurassic World.
- The possible death of the female pilot who was with Kenji, Ben, and Sammy. The moment she took her eyes off the skies, a brachiosaur rises out of nowhere and causes a swerve, sending the group into a tailspin. Kenji first regains consciousness and almost falls out of the crashed chopper. And then as the others awaken, they find the pilot gone with no corpse to be found. Sammy's question on what happened to her is never answered, leaving the audience to imagine all sorts of unpleasant outcomes. Doubles as a Tear Jerker since the pilot's Tragic Mistake in turning away was her finally coming around to the kids. Sort of like Hap from Season 2.
- At the end of the Season finale, when it seems like the kids might finally be safe and heading home, the ending shot reveals that there's an unknown stowaway on the boat, which is growling and rattling the door handle trying to get out. Becomes Nightmare Retardant in season 4 when its revealed to merely be a lone
*Compsognathus*.
Season 4
- In the first episode of the season, the boat gets attacked by the Mosasaur while at open sea. The Mosasaur is faster than the boat, which gets trashed and it's a miracle the kids all wash up on the same part of coast on the same island.
- Immediately preceding the Mosasaur attack is Darius having to untangle the propellers, which have been caught in kelp. Said kelp forest being a known place sharks appear, and do appear given the bad luck the kids often get.
- It doesn't help that the Mosasaurus
*is bigger than a sperm whale* at this point. And has two rows of *incredibly* sharp teeth.
- Ben upon finding water and fresh berries, he panics that perhaps the berries are poisonous look-alikes of the berries he and Bumpy used to eat.
- It also brings up Fridge Horror that had Ben been right, and had he not thought of this sooner,
*anywhere* between one to all of them could've been lying dead by now. The idea of them all being dead would be scarier, as they would've died before coming home, and none of their loved ones would've never known they were still alive!
- Yaz experiencing PTSD, after all the dinosaurs they've been through, is all too real. She has nightmares involving the previous dinosaurs they've survived, freezes up at danger, and has troubles falling asleep. It's pretty unnerving from a certain stand-point.
- The way these sequences are shot is pretty unsettling on its own, as there's often little distinction between her nightmares and reality until the scary stuff starts happening. It makes for some very effective Mood Whiplash.
- Kash. For being a nerd who tries to overcompensate with tattoos and flashy technology, he's nobody to take lightly. He's the very embodiment of how unethical Mantah-Corp is, either forcing normally peaceful dinosaurs to fight each other (Big Eater and Little Eater) or putting them through inhuman conditions (Pierce). But the most troubling indication of his cruel tendencies is to how he treats the BRAD that greets him. It wasn't the one that failed him, but when it brings him to the ice water where its comrade fell, he callously shoves it in. By all accounts, he makes Henry Wu's own cold handling of his creations look
*affectionate*.
- He immediately tries to kill Dr. Mae Turner with VELOCIRAPTORS the moment she tries to call him out (and tries to steal her research on top of that), and Darius has to constantly tip toe around his complete disregard for life, dinosaur or human. The ONLY reason he stops his sick dinosaur fight is because Darius makes him think of how much money each dinosaur costs, and Darius is only alive by playing to his ego.
- The BRADs are like the Dogs from
*Black Mirror*: persistent in their tasks and ruthless towards anything they consider a threat.
- And then there are the BRAD-Xs. Larger, stronger, and near-indestructible. They are basically the T-800 of the
*Jurassic* franchise.
- Imagine Kenji's devastation to learn that his own father is the enigmatic head of Mantah-Corp.
- The surreal first encounter with the Spinosaurus. It causally approaches barely visible in the heat, in broad daylight before attacking.
Season 5
- The way the Mantah Corp Raptors deal with their victims show that they are just as sadistic as their cousins, specifically the Big One.
- Once they are free from Kash's control, did they immediately attack him? No, they knock him down and let the asshole realize that he's fucked before they drag him off and rip him apart. They
**want** to make him suffer.
- After one of the raptors pin down one of the goons by stepping on her hand, she clicks her toe claw as if telling to look up and sees her teeth bearing down on him.
- The Compies killing Molina. It starts with one biting her leg, paralyzing it. Then another gets the other leg, leaving her to futilely try to crawl away while they swarm her and eat her alive. The feed cuts out just before anything can be seen, but there's a distinctly wet crunching sound for a moment before that.
- In its own way, the startling accuracy that Mr. Kon can manipulate anyone to his whims. Brooklyn and Sammy snoop around his office? He'll later use it against them to turn his son on them. Try to warn Kenji's his dad's a bad guy? Gaslight him into thinking they're going behind his back. Mae protests helping him mind-control the dinosaurs? Blackmail her with the threat he'll hurt the children. He's a chessmaster who's "as smart as he is evil".
- Heck, there's the sadistic way he tried to break Sammy's will to give her the password.
- There's also a tinge of Mundane Horror that, like any abusive parent, he methodically gaslights his son and manipulates him with promises of love and father-son bonding. It's to a degree of precision that, once you take out the dinosaurs, it's a toxic parent manipulating his child to cut his friends out of his life so he can have more control over him...
- Towards the climax of the season, Daniel uses what little control he has over the environment on Mantah Corp Island to make it hail on the children, his own son included. It's a small thing compared to the lines he has crossed and has yet to cross, but it's a very unsettling prelude to how he'll do
*anything* to sweat out the password from the kids.
- Mae voicing that mind-controlling the dinosaurs makes them
**scared**... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous |
Jurassic World / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Claire:** You think it'll scare the kids? **Masrani:** The kids? This will give the *parents* nightmares.
WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked.
# Film:
- Yes, Jurassic World is now
*OPEN*. This means that there are *HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE* around *DINOSAURS* as convenient snacks for when the shit inevitably hits the fan.
- The
*Indominus rex* is a deliberate In-Universe example. She's depicted as a highly intelligent, incredibly powerful, and unstoppably violent killing machine that even has streaks of sadism and gives off definite vibes of It Can Think. In essence, she combines the brute strength of a *T. rex* with the intelligence of a *Velociraptor*, various qualities of God knows how many other creatures, and the mindset of a Serial Killer.
- She's capable of camouflaging herself. Can you say "Paranoia Fuel"?
- She has dexterous hands. With
*thumbs*. Which she uses to *grab* people on multiple occasions.
- "What happened to the sibling?"
"She
*ate it*."
- The scary fact that she's killing anything that moves not for food. But
*for fun*. And one of her victims, an Apatosaurus (aka a friendly herbivore), is still alive when Owen and Claire finds her...
- Not only is she killing for sport, but she seems to have developed a taste for human flesh. The only time we ever see her eat her prey is when it's a human. And the only time we see her actively track prey, as opposed to just stumbling across it, is when she follows Zack and Gray's scent to the abandoned garage.
- The
*Indominus* gives several hints of high intelligence beyond mere animal self-awareness, but one of the most chilling happens right after the Mitchell boys escape her by jumping off the cliff into the lake. Despite being raised in complete isolation and having never seen a body of water before, she's still smart enough to stand perfectly still and watch the water for a considerable length of time, *waiting to see if they come up for air*. Only the fact that Zack was smart enough to keep himself and Gray underwater for as long as their lungs could hold out saved them. The *intensity* of the *Indominus*'s expression while she's watching the water is terrifying. Out of sight is *not* out of mind for this creature.
- This may be the most terrifying aspect of the
*Indominus* above all. She's ferociously powerful, incredibly fast, and frighteningly intelligent, but think to all the dinosaur threats in the past. They were killing for food, in self-defense or defense of young, or because the humans were unfortunate enough to stumble into their territory; even the raptors are motivated by instinct. The *Indominus* actually takes pleasure from the pain of other creatures. As shown above, she doesn't even have to seal the deal to be satisfied, she just has to mangle them good. This "dinosaur" is canonically Ax-Crazy. This is a dinosaur *serial killer*.
- Word of God implies she has
*human* DNA. It greatly explains her intelligence... and her sadism.
- She appears to have climbed over her fence, only for it to be revealed that she's been inside the whole time and left those claw marks as a distraction to get her handlers right where she wants them. Clever girl...
- The
*Mosasaurus*. She's a sixty-foot-long monster who eats *great white sharks* for lunch. And, most horrifyingly of all, apart from the (slightly) exaggerated size and back ridges, she's quite possibly the *most* accurate animal in the park. That's right, a monster like this *existed in real life*. She also eats the *Indominus*, the Big Bad of this movie.
- The scene wherein the park's pterosaurs have escaped and descend upon terrified tourists in Main Street. And when we say "the park's pterosaurs," we mean ALL of the park's pterosaurs.
- Zara, Claire's assistant, gets carried off, then dropped. Fortunately, she lands safely... in the waters of
*the Mosasaurus tank*.
- The
*Pteranodon* gets into the water to drown her and, after a lot of struggle, they both get chomped down by Mosey. And yes, she was still alive. It easily ranks right up there with Eddie Carr's demise as the most horrible death scene in the franchise, especially for how long her suffering goes on.
- The
*Pteranodon* attacking her after she fell into the water was possibly a stroke of Fridge Brilliance as they are fish eaters — her thrashing around possibly reminded it of a fish more than anything else in its panicked state, so it tried eating her instead of killing her.
- A few points during this attack show folks being repeatedly stabbed in the chest by the
*Pteranodons*' beaks. It's unlikely that any of these individuals survived (and one who potentially did appears to be missing an eye).
- The
*Indominus rex* killing a worker off-screen. Masrani, Lowery, and Vivian can hear him screaming in agony in the Control Room. In the film proper, you can also hear the bones breaking and crunching.
- A few seconds after, though, while it is partially obscured by trees, you can just make out the
*Indominus* having the worker's body in its mouth, grabbing one of his legs, jerking it off and then swallowing the remains.
- To anyone who still doesn't like the film's premise, just remember: It could have been worse...
- You are Claire and you are driving an ambulance to safety with your nephews inside. Suddenly, a
*Velociraptor* crashes into the cab's lateral window with *her head a few inches from *. That's a good reason to scream. **you**
- The pterosaurs end up attacking
*the petting zoo*. And even worse... children are much, much easier for them to carry than adults, right?
- Several tourists are thrown into the aquarium. You can perfectly hear a woman screaming in terror.
- John Hammond's statue. While it's a nice touch to the creator of Jurassic Park (and to Richard Attenborough), Colin Trevorrow stated that the sculpture could be seen as both heartwarming and creepy, depending on what angle you're looking at.
- The very first scene of the film starts out almost cute, as you see an egg hatching in a little laboratory, not dissimilar to the first movie. And then, ten seconds in, you find out what's hatching out of the egg: The
*I. rex*. And she's right next to the egg of her sibling, whom we know she has eventually eaten. The way in which the scene is shot makes it look like she's already plotting the park's destruction.
- Another, equally terrifying interpretation that doubles as a Tear Jerker: Look at
*I. rex's* body language. Her eye is darting around, she's tapping her claws on the eggshell, she's shaking like a leaf. She may actually not be plotting... instead, she may be *terrified* of her new surroundings and, unlike other dinosaurs (since she's not a naturally-occurring species, being instead a genetically-engineered abomination) has no parents of her own species or surrogate parents, like the raptors have in Owen, to comfort her. Kind of puts her actions in a whole new perspective...
- The soundtrack piece "The Dimorphodon Shuffle." Comical title notwithstanding, it certainly invokes the feeling of being chased by a swarm of winged monsters that want to tear you apart and eat you. Same goes for its sort of sequel, "Love in the Time of Pterosauria."
- The way the
*I. rex* makes herself known to Zach and Gray. **Gray:**
We shouldn't be here. And there's five dinosaurs.
**Zach:**
Aren't you supposed to be a genius or something? Look.
*[counts off the Ankylosauruses]*
One, two, three, four.
*[One of the grazing Ankylosauruses suddenly has an "Oh, Crap!" face while Gray points to the reflection on the Gyrosphere]* **Gray:** *[appropriately frightened]* *Five.*
- This is followed by
*I. rex* rendering an *Ankylosaurus* helpless by flipping it onto its back, then *biting its head off*. It then wraps its jaws around the diameter of the gyrosphere and bashes it against the ground repeatedly, *while the kids are still inside and watching the whole thing*.
- When
*I. rex* begins to target the two. Claire, unfortunately, attempts to call them, and Zach tries to reach for the phone, vibrating noisily on the gyrosphere's glass below their heads. As Zach attempts to reach the phone, Gray tries to get his brother's attention to what's in front of them. Zach then looks, and there we see the rex's pupil *staring straight at the two of them◊*.
- Zara being dunked into the water by a
*Pteranodon* and fished out *over and over*, before getting eaten alive by the *Mosasaurus*.
- The memetically awesome website went through a rather frightening makeover when the film officially came out. A cheery little message appears when you visit the site of Mr. DNA telling everyone that everything is under control and the Park will be back to normal in no time. Park Capacity dwindles down from 94% to
*17%* (a number that keeps dropping), either because people are being evacuated or because they're being *devoured*. The Park Cams (usually dull as dirt) are now filled with panicked tourists and employees running for their lives, while others have been completely shut down.
- A particularly nasty example from the Park Cams: The
*Spinosaurus* Cam shows an overhead shot of Main Street, from a balcony. We can see some people's hands on the balcony, moving in a way that makes it look as though they're holding on for dear life, as though something is physically trying to drag them away. Suddenly, the scene glitches and these people are gone. Now remember what was attacking Main Street... the pterosaurs... you may panic now...
- For a split second before the glitch, one of the above people (appearing to be a
*child*) seems to be trying to jump off the balcony, as if thinking its Better to Die than Be Killed.
- The cameras are reminiscent of those in
*Five Nights at Freddy's*, which often glitch out. But instead of the life of a single night guard up against five animatronics possessed by both the raging ghosts of murdered children and malfunctioning A.I, it's thousands and *thousands* of innocent tourists and park staff against the most terrifying dinosaur in existence, which is willing to kill everything on the island, *because it can*.
- Interestingly enough, the capacity recently went up to 19%, then 20%.
- And then it keeps fluctuating day by day, sometimes even going up to 22%. Fans have theorised that this means that not only is the park still open, but the incident actually
*didn't* discourage some tourists from coming back. Though the increase also may have counted emergency rescue workers arriving as "tourists" and some tourists might have gone back trying to find loved ones.
- The way the
*I. rex* freed itself from the cell is very creepy when you think about it. Owen discovered claw marks on the wall while Claire found out that there was no thermal signature inside the paddock, suggesting only one conclusion: she somehow climbed over the walls and escaped. As Owen and paddock supervisor Nick get inside the cell to examine the claw marks while Claire, in a panic, informs Lowery that "the asset is out of containment," Lowery then tells her that the tracking device shows the *I. rex* *is still inside the cage*, right there with Owen and the two members of staff. As Nick opens the door to get out, the *I. rex* attacks, killing a worker as people in the control room listen to his anguished screams, before running after Owen, bashing her way out of the cell and killing Nick who ran out earlier. The sheer *plan* that the *I. rex* cooked up to let herself out of the cell is nothing short of terrifying, showing that not only It Can Think, but also carry the action out with ruthless efficiency. Again, clever girl.
- The terrified tone in Vivian's voice when she says "It's in the cage! It's
*in there with you*!"
- The way Nick dies in particular is horrifying. He hides in front of a car, which the
*I. rex* soon figures out and knocks the car out of the way, exposing him. He then looks at Owen with a look of pure defeat before getting eaten in one single chomp.
- It's even more terrifying when you realise that this is the first time we are being introduced to the
*I. rex's* sadism. She obviously knew that Nick was there and could have easily simply walked around to the front of the car and snatched him up without even trying. Instead, she pulls back to give him a false sense of hope before flipping the car out of the way and then waits just long enough for Nick to realise how screwed he is before chomping down.
- To attest to the level of intelligence, consider how long the
*I. rex* concealed that it didn't have white skin.
- Though considering she doesn't use her camouflaging very much, even when it would be useful, would hint that she doesn't actually know that she's doing it, which considering she had no parents or really anyone to teach her how to do anything, is a definite possibility.
- Speaking of, the scene where the ACU team discovers that the
*I. rex* removed her tracking device, along with a chunk of her own skin. Seconds later, blood drips onto them from overhead foliage. Then they hear a rustling noise from the nearby trees as the monster slowly emerges, and they realise... "IT CAN CAMOUFLAGE!" Cue the *I. Rex* effortlessly giving the ACU team what is essentially the Dinosaur equivalent of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Rexy's entrance before the final fight. Claire orders Lowery to open the padlock, grabs a flare, and takes a few steps in. You can just make out the nearest trees and ferns, but otherwise there's this wall of darkness beyond. Then the flare's light is reflected in a pair of eyes far off the ground as something enormous slowly stalks forward with earth-shaking tread.
- During the climactic fight, for a brief moment, Rexy goes limp and, for a terrifying second, it seems like the old girl has not only been bested, but killed by her younger foe.
- The raptors turning on Owen and the InGen mercenaries after the
*Indominus* communicates with them. The raptors absolutely slaughter almost all of the mercenaries, though Owen and Barry make it out.
- Thanks to the cameras mounted to the raptors' heads, we get to see the whole thing from
*their* point of view. In effect, we are seeing the equivalent of the last moments of EVERY CHARACTER who has ended up as raptor chow (i.e., Jophery, Arnold, Muldoon, Ajay, and the hunters hired by InGen).
- Also bear in mind that the scene immediately prior where Barry tells Hoskins, "She looks at what she wants to
*eat*." After communicating with the *I. rex*, what do the cameras show the raptors turning to look right at? All four lock onto *Owen*.
- At one point, Barry barely manages to cram himself into a log, only to have Blue biting and clawing her way through it to get at him with incredible ease. If it wasn't for Owen, Barry would have died in a very claustrophobic setting.
- It's subtle, but if you watch the background of Hoskins' scenes, you can see Delta watching him with an eerie level of attention. And it's very,
*very* different than the attention she and her sisters give Owen, instead seeming far more calculating and predatory. This is also around the same time that Owen warns Hoskins about Imprinting and how the raptors will kill anyone besides him if they're given the chance. Well, guess who later gets cornered by Delta after the firefight? Delta seems to specifically zero in on Hoskins, turning him into a blabbering mess as he attempts to communicate with her like Owen often does. She just rips Hoskins' hand off and proceeds to turn him into a blood-spattered mess on the wall. It's quite clear that this raptor has been planning Hoskins' demise for a very long time, and she made it as brutal and bloody as possible.
- Even though he deserved it, Hoskins' death is still rather unsettling. Just hearing his screaming shortly degenerate into gurgling as he's disemboweled can be rather jarring.
- Zach's
*terrified* facial expression when the raptor jumps into the ambulance. It seems like just a regular scared face, but then you realise the only other time he has made that face was when the *Indominus* was attacking the gyrosphere he and his little brother were in.
- The way Owen realises (and how the film itself visualises it) the
*Indominus* has raptor DNA. As the *Indominus* speaks to the raptors to convince them to change sides, the *Indominus* is shown in a position that for a brief instance makes her look exactly like a *Velociraptor*.
- The raptors themselves go from all focusing on the
*I. rex* to zeroing in on Owen, which the Control Room and we as the audience see through their cameras. Under new management, folks.
- And then the audience is treated to a raptor's POV of its victim's final moments. Remember all of those off-screen raptor deaths in the first two movies? You'll never look at them the same way again.
- The deaths aren't all from the raptors' POV. About half of them are, but the other half
*are from the POV of the soldiers being murdered*, courtesy of their *Aliens*-style helmet cameras.
- One of the soldiers isn't killed immediately; he's dragged away, kicking and screaming, fighting for his life even though he probably knows he's doomed.
- The fact that the cheery theme park music continues to play, along with the pleasant and calm voice-over explaining that Jurassic World is temporarily being shut down and to proceed calmly to the nearest exit, while people are literally being attacked and killed, is unsettling, to say the least.
- Whatever happened to the people taking the Cretaceous Cruise? Or the other herbivores (
*Triceratops*, *Stegosaurus*, *Parasaurolophus*, etc) in the Gyrosphere Valley? We know that *I. rex* was in the vicinity but when Owen and Claire get there, only the dying sauropods are left...
- The deaths of Masrani and those two ACU troops after the
*I. rex* invades the Aviary, which could rival Zara's in terms of sheer horribleness. For context, one of the troopers nearly falls out of the helicopter before a *Pteranodon* flies in and kills him, another *Pteranodon* pecks at the chopper's window, stabbing the other trooper with her beak and killing him instantly, Masrani loses control of the chopper and desperately tries to get back into the air, but he crashes into the aviary. And the minute his chopper hits the ground, it *explodes*, negating any chances of him surviving.
- You really do have to feel a little sorry for Echo. And Owen. This is the
*second* time he's had to witness one of his raptors being burned alive right in front of him and there's not a damned thing he can do about it. Then, not even ten seconds later, Delta is bitten and flung into a nearby building. Owen's face just seems to crumble after each incident, showing that he's fighting to keep himself together at this point.
- The scene where Owen, Claire, and the others are in the control room watching the vitals of the ACU team flat-line one by one as the
*Indominus* mows them down was bad enough. But did it remind anybody else of anything?
- A bunch of professional badasses, ill-equipped for the threat they're facing, going down one by one while their leadership watches helplessly? Yep.
- Seriously, their deaths were darker than any we've seen in the franchise thus far due to how brutal they were. The first to go is Commander Hamada, simultaneously drowned and crushed to death underfoot. After that, they drop like flies, thrown against trees, their bones shattered from the
*Indominus*'s tail swipes, and worst of all the last two to die are eaten alive.
- How about the one guy who got
*shredded to bits* with blood spilling around like rain, with only the tree branches to cover what barely classifies as a Gory Discretion Shot?
- Masrani's first visit to the
*Indominus*'s enclosure. As he approaches the area, he notices ominous signs that would give any CEO nightmares. The first sign that something is not right is that walls are currently being reconstructed to accommodate the *I. rex's* size, as the *Indominus* is said to have grown bigger than expected. The second sign are the reports that she's being aggressive to the animal handlers to the point of nearly ripping off an arm. The third sign are the cracks on the window of the viewing pen, with a confirmation from Claire that she's been trying to break the glass. The fourth sign is the *Indominus* herself, barely visible in the foliage but its presence is enough to give Masrani the chills. The fifth sign, and the kicker for Masrani, is that there used to be a backup sibling of the *Indominus* and the *Indominus* ate her. These signs are the reasons why Masrani wants Owen to inspect the enclosure's security in the first place.
- When Owen, Claire, and the boys find their way into Henry Wu's lab, they see a bunch of other creatures he created, including a feathered caiman lizard, an axolotl with a sail on its back, a strangely intelligent chameleon, and a snake with two heads. The Nightmare Fuel doesn't come from these creatures themselves (they're actually kind of cute), it instead stems from the implication that Wu has been doing this for much longer than we realise...
- And then there's a computer screen, practically a background element, which shows
*other hybrid dinosaurs*. The *Indominus* is just the beginning...
- The lab itself has a montage scene of some of the creatures used in the
*Indominus*' creation. We see cuttlefish, tropical frogs, a few snakes... and a human spinal cord.
- Of all the people InGen could have sent to be their head of security on the island, they sent Hoskins. Hoskins, the greedy and short-sighted profiteer with a misplaced enthusiasm for genetically-modified living weapons and far, far less knowledge of how animals
*really* behave than he seems to think he has. There was barely anything that went wrong that he didn't somehow make worse.
# The Trailers
- The first official trailer has several moments.
- The
*I. rex's* whole body is never shown onscreen. All we get are ominous glimpses.
- Toward the middle and end of the trailer, a slow, ominous piano cover of the original
*Jurassic Park* theme can be heard.
- The ending of the trailer. Claire has an Oh, Crap! moment upon realising what the
*I. rex* is capable of, there's a brief shot of Owen running from the *I. rex*, Claire holding the flare and staring into Rexy's paddock, a crowd of tourists (Zach and Gray included) running and screaming from a then-unknown attacker and to top it all off... **Claire:** *RUN!*
- And at the very end (just before the Raptor Squad awesomeness) we see Gray, seemingly all alone, hiding from the
*I. rex*.
- The Global Trailer has a long list:
- A tracking implant is placed in all the dinosaurs in the park. The
*Indominus rex* was smart enough to claw out her implant and lead the soldiers tracking her into a trap.
- The
*Indominus* appears directly responsible for a helicopter crashing into the dome containing the pterosaurs, meaning she potentially engineered their escape, as we observe her roar directly at the pterosaurs and they begin flying away.
- There is a tense scene where Owen and the kids are hiding out in a store, and the
*Indominus* is trying to grab them and drag them out with her claws. Super-Persistent Predator, the *Indominus* is.
- "Something's wrong; they're communicating." The context of the scene is when Owen and his partner are hunting the
*Indominus rex* with the raptors. We know the raptors can communicate... so what are they communicating with?
- Compounded by a scene later in the trailer where we see a raptor catch and bite one of the Park's security. Either it's one of Hoskins' men (there was strong disagreement between him and Owen on how to handle the situation with the
*Indominus*) sent to kill the raptors on orders, or a normal park security member. Either way, it conjures up old memories of the raptors in their original antagonistic role.
- The "they're communicating" line also comes before a scene of
*Indominus* roaring at the *Pteranodons* followed by a scene where they start attacking humans, making it look like she's *talking* the other animals into attacking people.
- To top it all off, the trailer ends with a
*Pteranodon* being eaten by the *Mosasaurus*.
- THIS TV Spot. Probably the scariest advert for the film yet. It starts off relatively innocent, with an announcer (apparently advertising the park instead of the film) telling the viewers that they'll be going on a journey where their family will create "unforgettable memories", punctuating it with "Welcome to Jurassic World." Then the screen glitches and reveals the pterosaur invasion, repeating the words "Welcome to Jurassic World." Then it shows Claire preparing to release the
*T. rex* and the Raptor Squad attacking people, repeating "Welcome to Jurassic World" again, this time with the voice distorting. Then we see more images of the rampages, the *Pteranodons* attacking the petting zoo, Owen being chased by the *I. rex* and this time only repeating the word "Welcome" over and over in a voice that's getting more and more and more distorted before ending with "Welcome to Jurassic World" and showing the logo.
- TV spot #15 starts out almost cute, as you see an egg hatching in a little laboratory, not dissimilar to the first movie. And then ten seconds in, you find out what's hatching out of the egg. The
*I. rex*. And she stares around as the horrible things she does as an adult flash by in rapid cuts, the people she kills, the hundreds of deaths she causes, the trauma she gives to the core group, clipping back to her every few seconds. It's downright creepy, as you can see the eye and almost KNOW that already she's planning something big.
## Masrani Global's backdoor
- Late in 2015, the Viral Marketing Masrani Global website gained a backdoor terminal, revealing some secrets of the park's story. Said secrets are rather horrifying, especially with the proper Fridge Horror. The most notable example? The fact that the
*Indominus* was not the first hybrid creature Wu made... and that one of them was an "accident" left on Isla Sorna. was a hybrid, explaining why it had no pupils, wasn't on InGen's official list of assets, how it was able to easily kill the sub-adult **The Spinosaurus** *Tyrannosaur*, and (retroactively) why it looked and behaved so differently from the real thing.
- Additionally, sometime after
*Jurassic Park III* was when Hoskins was promoted to InGen's head of security by Masrani, who had acquired InGen in 1997 after the passing of John Hammond note : Supplementary material for *Jurassic World* states that Hoskins was the person who killed the three escaping Pteranodons seen at the end of *JPIII*. — yep, they've been in it together for *years*.
## Other
- This fan trailer which meshes the film with
*Alien*. The fact that it fits so well just makes it creepier. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicWorld |
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