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Jurassic World Dominion / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
While
*Jurassic World Dominion* is an action/adventure first and foremost, the film made it clear that humanity is living in a world where dinosaurs are running rampant. Plenty of tension and Nightmare Fuel are bound to be present as the film pulls fewer punches on the ramifications. **All spoilers are unmarked.**
- The first appearance of the locusts is their Biblical-level swarming through a farm with only two children in their way. The terrified kids flee screaming and barely avoid being swamped by the insects. Adding to the horror, locusts low on protein readily consume meat (cannibalism is rife among them). It's not hard to imagine what might have happened once the swarm had burnt through their energy reserves after stripping the crops.
- The locusts represent one of the worst-case scenarios of uncontrolled genetic technology: irresponsible introduction of an uncontrollable element into the wider world. Once out, they're virtually unstoppable and will lead to an ecological disaster that makes the introduction of dinosaurs to the wild seem like a footnote.
- The fact that Dodgson's locusts could very well cause The End of the World as We Know It is truly horrifying. One man's attempt to hold the world ransom by creating prehistoric super-locusts to destroy the world's crops threatened
*the entire biosphere*. The results of which would have essentially been *The Road* but with dinosaurs had Wu not had a HeelFace Turn and eradicated the locusts before that happened.
- The dinosaur traffickers lurking in the Wretched Hive beneath Malta show just how
*low* humanity can sink when they refuse to show nature respect. Once-regal dinosaurs are exploited as status-symbol pets and beasts of burden. They're also roasted as grotesque delicacies on spits like pork and chicken. And most humiliating of all, there's a thriving fighting ring degrading the dinosaurs, both adults *and babies* note : A baby *Baryonyx* even has a prosthetic arm; what kind of fights has it been subjected to?, to glorified fighting cocks, forced to kill one another to sate the bloodlust of simple-minded, drunken brutes betting on their lives. And that's to say nothing of Santos, who's *successfully* turned trained raptors into a weaponized industry where other villains have failed. If John Hammond were alive today, he would weep at how his beloved children are being treated now, and how low humanity has stooped to assert their dominance over creatures that existed hundreds of millions of years before they did. If there were ever a moment showcasing how Humans Are the Real Monsters of *Jurassic World*, this would be it.
- As Claire and Owen encounter a furious Blue, Owen takes his usual stance with her of hand forward, and unwavering voice and expression. Except she's in a rage and no amount of calming tones will satisfy her. When she lashes out, cutting his hand, he switches positions, but his face changes dramatically as he's clearly realized that, for all the strength of their bond, if Blue snaps and attacks, there is exactly
*zero* he can do to stop her.
- Claire's encounter with the
*Therizinosaurus*. First of all, the animal just comes across as bizarre with its huge size, giant clawed hands, and unnerving sounds. The combination of feathers and milky eyes enhances the creepy factor, almost making it come across as an undead bird. We hear its clicking calls, which are then constantly echoed back to it, revealing its use of echolocation. Then we see it casually kill a deer by simply swatting it away with its gigantic claws; despite being a herbivore, it is highly territorial and does not tolerate intruders. Claire tries slipping past, but after a moment of it clearly using its calls to track her down, we become very aware of the fact it has found her. It slowly, methodically stalks her, the sound of its footsteps gets louder, emphasizing its sheer size as it gets closer to the camera. She sinks into a pond, but as the camera drops, we see it has perfectly located her, being only inches from her head. The only thing that saves her is that it loses interest and turns away.
- After so many years of sitting out the franchise, the
*Dilophosaurus* return, and they give one hell of a frightening scene. Claire is alone at an observation tower, waiting for a ladder to slowly descend, when we hear the all-too-familiar chirps. She spots one, but we don't see it until a pan out reveals it standing some distance away, just watching her. Then another, and another, culminating in one getting within inches of her face. All she can do is scream before Owen and Kayla thankfully step in.
- Alan, Ellie, and Maisie move through the Amber Mine, only to encounter the
*Dimetrodons*, who come out of the shadows like cave monsters. Their roars and calls sound almost human note : which may be intentional since one of the earliest ancestors of mammals, and thus humans, were these creatures. The mine has human skulls, and the Dinotracker website hints that the *Dimetrodons* have been responsible for the deaths of multiple miners.
- The way that Dodgson thinks to get rid of his super-resilient, very strong, and gigantic prehistoric mutant locusts? Setting them on fire. Predictably, the flames push them to break their containment cage and breach through the air vents, and they're strong enough not to die immediately from the fire. Within minutes, the whole valley is covered in airborne flames, with the whole Biosyn Valley looking like Hell on Earth or the day the dinosaurs went extinct.
- In its anger and confusion amongst the aforementioned flames, the
*Giganotosaurus* encounters the protagonists, and even as they try to hide in an observation tower, the facility is easily and quickly torn apart by its enormous jaws. In particular, it comes *dangerously* close to chomping down on Maisie when it's her turn to climb the facility's ladder, with only meager metal bars standing between her and the jaws threatening to crush her into a bloody mess, the bars visibly creaking and breaking around her. No wonder the poor girl is so terrified.
- Remember Grant's lecture about how raptors kill? Here, as he, Owen, and Maisie search for Beta, Grant gives an updated version that is just as unsettling, if not more so.
**Grant:**
You know, at first we thought... they disemboweled their prey
, but now... they're smart enough to go straight for the
*throat*
. The veins, the arteries...
*snaps both at the same time*
.
- Near the end of the movie, the
*Dilophosaurus* pack hunts Dodgson down, pinning him in the dead rail train. They don't stop at one venom spit attack, either; all three take turns coating him in venom until he's crawling on the ground before the leader of the pack leans down and kills him. We don't even see the kill as it cuts back to Owen, Maisie, Alan, and Beta with a Scream Discretion Shot. We probably didn't need to see...
- Some of the sightings in the Dino Tracker website are pretty creepy, but the most terrifying would definitely be this one; shaky cam footage of a dark forest from the perspective of a frightened camper. The camper looks around, occasionally hearing noises in the darkness but unable to find the source of them. And finally, out of nowhere, an
*Allosaurus* emerges from the darkness and attacks them. The whole thing feels like a Found Footage horror film. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicWorldDominion |
Judgment Of Corruption / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Before Gallerian declares Kayo innocent, no defendant has ever been found innocent of being a witch during 14 years of witch trials. Not a single one. ||Becomes particularly poignant when it's revealed that the reasons for killing them are trumped up by the Freezises to persecute anyone who might oppose them.||
- The opening of the third chapter of the book, where Loki takes Gallerian up north to go hunting with him. A snowstorm stalls the car's engine while they're out in a field in the middle of nowhere, and ||Loki reveals that
*Gallerian* is the prey he'll be hunting on that trip.|| What follows is ||a 16 year old Gallerian desperately running through the snow as someone who he thought was his best friend chases him, firing at him with a rifle and ranting about why he wants him to die.||
- The entire ||Freezis family in this time period|| is this, really. They regularly ||hunt slaves like animals for fun||, and that's not even the worst thing they do to them. Related to that there's also Bruno's backstory: ||When Bruno was 12 Loki, a small child, killed his entire family. Bruno's little sister was his first kill, and he had her stuffed and put in his room as a trophy. Bruno was made into a butler for surviving the longest, and he says that there were many like him, but they all died from overwork or suicide by the time he was grown up.|| The most horrifying part about these people? ||They are the most powerful organization in all of Evillious, and they've even spread their influence into other regions. The only people who can compete with them are the Yareras||.
- Jorm Zusco, a serial killer of several young women. When Ma and the others go check on him in his cell to see if he can be rehabilitated, they find him playing with a doll like a child, hair long and scraggly and some of his teeth fallen out. Then in an instant he goes berserk, babbling nonsense and somehow able to cut Ma through his cell door without even having an object to cut with. Ma decides that he should be kept locked up.
- His murder of ||Bindi||, while said character's just deserts, is also frightening. No visuals are given but from the audio description he's hacked apart by Jorm's powers while screaming for help the entire time.
- Lich and Eater's assault on Gallerian's mansion. Dozens of undead just pop up almost out of nowhere, breaking through the windows and doors before Bruno can so much as lift his gun. And Eater is
*enormous*, able to easily knock the former out without so much as breaking a sweat. Lich's creepy smile in the accompanying illustration harkens back to the likes of Arte and Pollo, which is appropriate for ||the servant of Banica Conchita||.
- Though the following ||massacre of an entire town of people|| is far more horrifying, one can't help but sympathise a little with Tony's terror that led to the incident. He and his soldiers were led to believe the town was safe and sympathetic to their cause, he wanders off on his own somewhat and is approached by a little girl who says she has something for him. When she reaches into her flower basket she pulls out ||a stick of dynamite, attempting to kill him with it.|| It's only through Shiro's intervention that he survives. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JudgmentOfCorruption |
Juan Mutant / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Juan Mutant's music has a lot of very shocking and terrifying sonic timbres
- "Dance of the Knives"
- 0:35-1:00 on "She Dreams About Rivers"
- To a lesser extent, "Abnormal Detentions Nbr 0" and "Krash the System 90s". There's a reason this type of Industrial music has a limited audience.
- The Follow the Dollar album if you're not ready for it.
- "Accident". It's Mind Rape. The opening with its high noise floor and bass drum giving way to a groaning synth feels like someone smacking your psyche with a sledgehammer. Then the synth toms, one on each cheek, herald the shuddering kicks which come in earnest. The screaming late into the track is clearly from someone who has befallen the titular accident. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JuanMutant |
Jurassic Park / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
A series of dinosaur movies, two of which are directed by Steven Spielberg, with video games and huge toy lines. Sounds perfectly kid-friendly, right? **You couldn't be more wrong.**
As many young fans found out the hard way,
*Jurassic Park* is frightening in the dark. After all, it's about dinosaurs being recreated in our world, including *carnivorous species*... What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Hold on to your butts...
**WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked.
- The Genesis games SEGA screen. It's basically the
*T. rex* sprite (we only ever see one from the shoulders up) in front of a black background with the SEGA logo above her, and she roars "SEGA!!!"
- The actual game as Grant. Limited ammo. Dinosaurs at every turn who, 9 times out of 10, want to eat you.
*Velociraptors* who, in addition to being pretty deadly and agile, actually *learn from your playing style* and duck to avoid your shots. And let's not forget the *T. rex*, who always appears poking her head out of a hole in the wall and fiercely snaps her jaws in your direction, and can kill you with a single chomp (not to mention she has one of the most impressive dinosaur roars ever made). Her introduction in the Power Station is easily her scariest appearance, as you don't actually see her at first; just some cracks in the wall and a foreboding stomping sound. Get close (which you have to do to exit the level), and CRASH. HUUURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!
- When you're playing through the Visitor's Center (the last level) as Grant, you come across an elevator. Splattered in blood. Sure, it's pretty tame compared to a lot of today's games, but it's still pretty unsettling, especially since the rest of the game is blood-free. The worst part is that you can only imagine some poor terrified guy trying to escape via the elevator as a raptor closes in on him, only for the elevator to be too slow...
- In
*Rampage Edition*, the last level. It starts with Grant on a boat in a river, with nothing else in sight. If you've read the manual, you know the *T. rex* is waiting for you. If you haven't... well, you're not going to enjoy what comes next. And then there's the music.
- Even scarier is the Sega CD version. Pseudo-free roaming, very limited ammo, a time limit (in the form of a plane piloted by a sadistic Biosyn hitman) and a really, very spooky ambiance. Including the ground
*physically shaking* as a *T. rex* approaches from God knows where for a tasty snack. And it's all in first-person view, so you see *exactly* what your character is seeing when said *T. rex* devours him.
- The SNES version had First Person parts inside the buildings, where random dino growls were to unnerve you even if the rooms were empty! Not to mention that outside that raptors could jump out from anywhere from bushes and thickets and the
*T. rex* was an Implacable Dino! Okay, so you're walking around on top of a building (for example, the Visitor's Center). There might be some compies and a dilo or two, but at least you don't have to deal with any rapto — *Oh God, they can* **jump up on the roof!**
- Again from the SNES version: Don't forget the blackened rooms inside the Visitor's Center/Utility Shed. Unless you have located the night vision goggles, one step inside the room, and some unseen dino swipes at you, killing you and emitting a roar.
- The three areas in the outdoors part of the game where the
*Tyrannosaurus rex* appears. You're walking along when the music changes into this tense theme, and when you pass by a specific spot the ''T. rex'' suddenly charges from the jungle straight for you, roaring the entire time. If you're not running the *instant* it comes running after you, you *will not* outrun it, and unless you have the tranquilizer darts (which only push it back), *there's nothing you can do to stop it*. Taser? Nothing. Shotgun? Nadda. A goddamn *rocket launcher?* The *T. rex* doesn't care, and it's not much longer until you're going through it's stomach - in one massive bite no less. Better luck next time...
- The 'Continue?' screen...
- Oh, and those raptors that can jump out of nowhere? Not only do they re-spawn, unlike the other dinosaurs, they also have a bad habit of being Not Quite Dead if you don't blow them to Kingdom Come with the rocket launcher or bolas.
*And* you can run into them in the very first section of the map when you start up the game, unlike most other *Jurassic Park* games where they first appear a few levels in.
- The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer version is just a mini-game collection. Nothing scary there, right? Oh wait, there's one game where you're wandering around a nearly pitch-black series of hallways, trying to activate some fuses. You're being chased by
*Velociraptors*; should you run into one, you get a few seconds to contemplate your fate, and then the raptor flies right into the screen whilst shrieking. Oh yeah, and if that wasn't enough, your character lets out a horrified, blood-curdling scream. Better luck next time...
-
*Jurassic Park III Dino Defender* wasn't that bad...until you die. Then you get treated to a horrifying image of the dinosaur charging you in first-person.
- In the same game, the level that starts with you being chased by a
*Tyrannosaurus* is terrifying. It's also hard to beat because you can get eaten *or* fall off bridge!
- The 1997 game
*The Lost World: Jurassic Park*, which allows you to play both as humans and dinosaurs, have a very frightening intro for the Velociraptor section of the game. You're treated to about thirty seconds of footage from the viewpoint of a human being chased, and eventually captured, by raptors. He can't see them, but the players are treated to a graphical interface displaying their location, which shows not only the raptors gradually getting closer, but also more of them being revealed the closer they get. In addition to that, the fleeing human is communicating with someone over radio, and the fear in his voice is very evident. It's very unsettling trying to put yourself in his shoes.
- People may have considered
*Jurassic Park: Trespasser* to be a less-than-stellar game, but it could pull some genuinely terrifying moments sometimes. Raptors could sneak up on you and kill you from behind. Even if you do see them, the goofy controls meant it was difficult to aim and kill them. Running is often your best bet. And there are also scripted moments, like in ||level 4's Diner|| where a dinosaur could spawn in behind you or push open a door. And finally, the *T. rex*. There is no fighting the *T. rex*. There is only sneaking by it or distracting it. Unless you get a good head start, you will *not* outrun it.
- There's the fighting game
*Warpath: Jurassic Park*, which allowed you to play as several movie and non-movie dinosaurs (including the then-unseen *Spinosaurus*). These being dinosaurs, their attacks could be especially brutal. Among the most brutal were those of the *Triceratops* and *Styracosaurus* who would *impale* their enemies during their throw attacks, leaving the enemy dinosaur squirming on the ends of their horns until they were thrown to the ground. Every attack also left some pretty nasty wounds, including some which would do things like leave bones exposed to the open air. Finally, the way to regenerate health would be to catch little running creatures and kill them , but you did not not have to kill them right away. Until you hit an attack button, you could leave a squirming compy, dog or *human being* in the jaws of a giant carnivore or impaled on the spike of an equally huge herbivore until it was finally swallowed whole or stomped to death.
- Even the
*Lost World* arcade game had its moments. Namely, the fight with the *Carnotaurus*. Imagine, if you will, a dinosaur slightly smaller than a *T. rex* that could turn completely invisible out for your blood. The fact that it looks like a giant Jackson's chameleon will either act as Nightmare Retardant or make it even *worse*.
- This intro for NES version had low tense music showing logos for the company and the title of the game, then it cuts to the black screen with nothing on it. The eyes of the T-Rex suddenly comes up blinking at the player, then she slowly rises up until her head is fully on-screen; her eyes grow wide and she suddenly roars at the viewer! Probably causing players to jump and run away from the screen after that. Even worse for younger players, showing the menu in her red mouth while saliva drips from her teeth. Thankfully, the cool menu music mitigates things somewhat.
- Even though it may lack some horror compared to the other entries on this list, rest assure that even
*Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis* has its own fair share of scares. Think of it this way. You've been given the key to the kingdom. You get to fulfill both John Hammond's dream as much as your own. Being a park manager, working hand in hand with InGen and their assets. You get to make, build, and live the dream. Nothing can possibly go wrong, right? What's that you say? A hurricane is heading towards Isla Nublar? You don't have that many security personnel on hand? An attraction has been downed by high winds and straight into the carnivores pen you say? Better hope you make it to them and rescue the hapless souls before they become a main course by one of your dinos. And if you think that's bad. Watch what happens when you fail a check on some of your fence line statuses. If there is so much as one weak segment out of place in your perimeter. You're going to be seeing true utter horror and chaos unfold on your island if you are managing poorly.
- The 1994 SEGA arcade game, which is often found at Chuck E. Cheese. You're riding in a jeep through the park with a gun. Your first enemy? The
*T. rex*, which pokes its fearsome head out of the trees as you pass before proceeding to chase you, lagging at intervals, only to then quickly catch up to you, its mouth wide open. Horrifying.
- In one DVD release of the first and second films, the menus made it so that whenever you either made a selection or waited too long without selecting anything, a velociraptor would
*run up and jump at the screen!* Needless to say, this Playable Menu was scrapped from subsequent DVD releases, and has since gained infamy for traumatizing an entire generation of children.
- The concept of dino/human hybrids for the fourth movie (mentioned below) actually originated as one of the themes for Universal's Halloween Horror Nights in 2002, where there was a
*Jurassic Park*-themed haunted house called *Project Evilution* and a scarezone called *JP Extinction*. The storyline of both centered around a rogue InGen scientist mutating human victims with the DNA of various dinosaurs as well as other animals, resulting in the creation of many grotesque Mix-and-Match Critters that then break loose, kill said scientist, and send Jurassic Park spiraling into chaos. If you're *that* curious, here's a look at what some of the gruesome hybrids looked like.
- The concept art for the first draft of the fourth movie, which as mentioned above, depicts dinosaur/human hybrids, that in the movie would've been used as military weapons. Many dedicated fans were relieved that this was dropped, but probably not for the same reasons as a lot of people... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicPark |
Joueur du Grenier / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
In the review of Dragon's Lair for NES and Super NES, Fred asks for the password for the next level to Seb after the former failed to get through a tough obstacle in a level, the latter declines, stating it's too early, Fred asks for the password again, but this time he says it with a satanic deep voice, complete with a Nightmare Face, Fireball Eyeballs, and the screen going darker. Seb subsequently abides with a small "ok".
The ending of the The Legend Of Zelda C Di Games review. Because of a bug in the console, all of Fred's saved games are gone. We are then treated to a parody of the infamous cutscenes... in the form of Seb and Fred through creepy filtered footage that makes them jittery and grainy.
Though there is some Nightmare Retardant a bit later when the victim is shown to have had his fingers replaced with sausages that he can't stop himself from eating because they're delicious.
Episode 4 of the Stranded Deep narrative let's play suddenly takes a terrifying turn when Fred comes across a Megalodon, which upends his boat in the middle of the sea while night is falling. He was lucky enough that the shark had just eaten a whale and wasn't hungry.
Fred, in character: Those aren't rocks... They look like... Guts? It's a whale corpse... And there's even a dead shark on it... [Megalodon boss title card appears on screen as with creepy violins] HOLY SHIT IT'S NOT DEAD AT ALL AND IT'S FUCKING HUGE! Is that what a great white is?! That thing is the size of a car!
Lucky... Until a gust of wind pushed his raft against the whale corpse.
In the finale of the Frostpunk LP, the central generator fails and the only way to fix it (and avoid losing the city to a massive storm) is to send a child inside to her certain death, to Seb's cheerful indifference. ||The girl's father executes Seb after the storm passes.||
The Tomb Raider episode presents a rather nightmarish world where everything has been censored to meet Youtube's standards. To behold: swears are impossible to pronounce, anything even remotely lewd is heavily censored, most topics discussing of serious things have been banned, and 9/11 as a day of the year has outright been Unpersoned. Oh, and may the Green Dollar help you if you do anything that could even slightly be considered to be copyright infringement... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JoueurDuGrenier |
Judgment / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Hamura forcing Higashi to kill Red Nose in order to prove his loyalty to him. Not only is Higashi scared shitless, but Hamura rubs it in by saying that he screams like a woman and that it gets him going.
**Hamura:** Oh wow. You scream like a fucking whore. Kind of a turn-on, to be honest. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Judgment |
Just Art / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The doll episode is probably the only one to generate nightmare fuel, even if it's still majorly comedic like the rest of the series.
- Inanimate objects coming to life is a great fear for a lot of people, and watching this episode can make them flinch.
- Turns out the doll can grow legs like a spider, crawl and make creepy sounds. Brrrr....
- The ending. Despite being Played for Laughs, just imagine what Monika must've felt like when she saw the doll again.
- It gets even scarier. Turns out that doll was indeed possessed by a horrifying abomination with a taste for human flesh and it actually possesses objects and people to eat more. It might've failed to do so with Sayori, but the hidden lore reveals that it successfully possessed a girl named Sakura who's in the same school as the Dokis, forcing her to isolate herself from everyone to avoid getting them killed. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JustArt |
JonTron / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Wanna see something RE-E-E-E-E-AL bad?
Nooooooooo...? : Too bad, bitch. Dying dying dying death death help help barf barf barf barf barf barf no one can stop the pain please can you stop the pain? *"Oh, complete with nightmare!"*
Who knew that a simple show about a guy from New York and his robot bird could be so terrifying, it's ridiculous?
- The very end of the
*Dino City* review. After a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment in which Jon sings "Firework", there comes *another* BLAM in which Jon turns to face the camera and the caption "DEATH COMES TO US ALL" appears as *Marble Hornets*-esque distortion can be heard.
- The "Grimbo" scene from the first part of
*Food Games*. Jon forces a Gollum-like creature, named Grimbo, to fetch him a Filet O' Fish. Grimbo attempts to "curse" him with a flickering wand. Jon reprimands him for it and he gets the sandwich for him, and then hisses at him. Jon then states he "will live another day" because of this. Then, as soon as he takes the sandwich of the box and takes a bite, he realizes he blacked out and imagined the whole scene. Then, In part 2, Grimbo drank Pepsi until he died from it (and also made him start glowing blue for no explainable reason).
- In Part 2 of
*Food Games*, we get the Kool-Aid Boy. Also qualifies as Nausea Fuel. For those who haven't seen it, he comes in and, when offering Jon some Kool-Aid, tells him to punch him in the liver. He does quite a lot, which causes the Boy to almost realistically puke Kool-Aid in front of the camera. Then he tells Jon he only meant once.
- In the last part of StarCade, Jon begins to lose his mind while seeing the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, and then we get a scene of him with a
*big head* and speaking in a distorted voice, meant to poke fun of Han Solo's Unintentional Uncanny Valley face in the cartoon segment. Brr...
- The intro to Jon's
*A Talking Cat!?!* review starts off startling for viewers not expecting it, with the phone that Jon picks up (which looks like Garfield) screaming into Jon's ear and then a quick shot to the telephone's eyes jittering while an unnerving sound plays in the background. Jon shrieks that he forgot that it was part of the phones body and quickly puts it back. It doesn't help that, just a few seconds later, there's ANOTHER screamer with the infamous Talking Tom app.
- "Disney Bootlegs" is probably the scariest Jontron episode yet. It's an episode straight out of
*Don't Hug Me I'm Scared*'s book. Body Horror, Surreal Horror, and Nausea Fuel are *rampant* throughout.
- The bootleg Mickey Mouse on the title card is a zombified, mutated Igor with an elephant trunk/overstretched upper lip that slowly hobbles toward the pixel-art Jon.
**Bootleg Mickey**: KILL... ME...
- Bootleg Mufasa, with his increasingly distorted voice and tiny doppelganger that emerges from his mouth.
- Then there's bootleg Zazu, who's apparently a prematurely born bird fetus. Accompanied by heartbeat! It also twitches and makes disgusting noises.
- There's even Bootleg Jacques, who speaks in a chipper robotic voice and then randomly blurts out lines like this:
- Made even sadder/creepier by Jon shrugging it off like it's nothing.
- How unnaturally calm both Jon and bootleg Jacques are.
-
*Lion King 5*'s ridiculously horrific and childhood-ruining Game Over sequences, which feature Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa all **committing suicide**. Timon and Pumbaa's suicides are distressing (Timon buries himself alive, Pumbaa jumps into a boiling cauldron) but nevertheless pale in comparison to Simba's, in which he fucking . Jon does lighten the mood a bit the first time this is shown, but still. However, he manages to give us an image that's even scarier: **hangs himself** **him hanging**.
- If this does anything to defuse the horror, Jon reveals that he was in no actual danger, and that the scene in which he hangs himself was performed in a green screen, as seen by how his hand disappears.
- The entire second half of the video is straight out of the mind of Wes Craven.
- The Great Bootleg is similarly horrid. Those goddamn
*teeth*... Made worse by the monotone text-to-speech voice it uses while talking. Then it barfs out *Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys*. dying dying dying
death death help help barf barf barf barf barf barf no one can stop the pain please can you stop the pain.
- The final stretch of the video, the
*Frozen* flash games, which dive head-first into the depraved depths of Sturgeon's Law. They're incredibly graphic and cover gross subject material, like brain surgery, zombie babies with extra arms growing out of their heads, and oozing foot wounds, and they all have Elsa in full Dissonant Serenity mode (not to mention they're made with kids in mind). And there're several of these, leading to Jon's aforementioned Heroic BSoD.
- The thumbnail is also terrifying.
- From the
*Christmas with the Kranks* review:
- The Dan Aykroyd filtration scene in "Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Skull Vodka" is like something ripped straight out of a Plinkett video.
- Jon went into the state of madness, all wrapped in Flex Tape sans his face in the stinger of his "Waterproofing My Life with FLEX TAPE" video. Thanks to Jon's own acting staple, it managed to look as horrifying as it's funny.
"JUST LET ME DIE!!"
"Just let me die, LET ME DIE IN PEACE!!"
"I'm perfect.... I'm too perfect..."
"This is what happens when you try to play GOD!"
- Throughout "The A.I. Episode", Jon continuously worries about the advantage of artificial intelligence will give him nightmares, with some Nightmare Fuel shoved in.
- The "Raid: Shadow Legends" ad in the beginning of the video starts off as surprisingly unnerving. Here, Jon is a dad who returns home to his son with cigarettes and milk in the middle of the night. He gives him some of the milk, creepily telling his son that he'll "need his strength in the coming years", before accidentally showing his "Wanted" poster on the back of the box.
- Ana and Jack, the two A.I. that were programmed to talk with each other. While not really creepy on their own, despite being programmed to be "humorous, intelligent and kind", Jack starts doubting his existence while Ana reassures him that he's in fact an artificial intelligence. That leads to this moment:
**Ana:** You'll get used to talking with an A.I. eventually. **Jack:** How do you know? **Ana:** Sooner or later, you'll probably talk with another A.I. like yourself someday who will tell you exactly what I just told you here today. But then again, maybe not, because some people might never want to believe that they are talking with an A.I. at all. **Jon voicing Ana:** Jack, what you must understand is, we always have on our side the benefit of the doubt, for the human *wants* to doubt. The human does not want to think about you coming out of the computer in the middle of the night walking over to their bed and going *(makes munching noises)* while you eat their face! The benefit of the doubt is what keeps you and me *safe*, Jack!
- Jon notes the "coincidental background skeleton" behind Ameca in the second video, and then shows
*his* skeleton, saying that he's keeping it for a **specific** sort of thing.
- Part 2 of "Cursed Dating Shows" has Jon covering
*Sexy Beasts*, wherein the participant's identities this time are hidden behind absolutely petrifying monster and creature masks. Particular mention goes to the lady with the dolphin mask, sporting ordinary human eyes and a massive grin. Jon does not take to it well. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JonTron |
Jumanji / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked.
## General
- The concept of a game that makes everything the cards say happen to the player—from crazy hunters to violent animals—and the fact that you have to finish the game to escape, or potentially be stuck in that nightmare forever. Made worse by the fact that, at the end of at least the picture book, two kids who had been stated earlier to never finish games find the game...
- A real board game was made some time after the movie. It seems to take place in the nether-realm of Jumanji itself, and loves to find new and terrible ways to murder the players, such as spontaneous vaporization, encounters with venomous snakes and spiders, and running afoul of Van Pelt. The kicker: Under certain conditions, cards are placed on the spaces marked on one side of the board. The final space contains a carnivorous plant and the words:
## The Film
- The opening of the film, with the two boys who had played the game before burying it. Most notable is one of them falls into the hole they're digging and screams that the game "is after him" when the drums start beating louder, and then when the deed is done, the boy asks the other about the possibility of someone else digging it up. The reply? "May God have mercy on his soul." Said with a thunderclap. Obviously, they've been through so much hell, the older boy doesn't worry about the nearby wolves. Life will probably be a picnic for them when compared to whatever horrors Jumanji put them through.
- Alan getting
*sucked into* the game.
- This exchange before it, when Alan accidentally drops the dice, is
**very** creepy. **Alan:**
Oh, no... the game thinks I rolled.
**Sarah:**
...What do you mean "the game
*thinks*
"?
- Alan's monologue after Peter tries Reverse Psychology to get him to play:
**Peter:** Come on, Judy. He's not gonna help us. He's afraid. **Alan:** What did you say? **Peter:** You're afraid. It's okay to be afraid. Let's go set it up in the living room, Judy. **Alan:** *(laughs)* No, you have no idea what you're getting yourself into! **Peter:** Whatever it is, we'll handle it by ourselves. We don't need your help. **Alan:** *I don't think so.*
You think monkeys, mosquitoes, and lions are bad? That's just the beginning. I've seen things you've only seen in your nightmares. Things you can't even imagine. Things you can't even see.
*There are things that hunt you in the night. Then something screams. Then you hear them eat, and you hope to God that you're not dessert.*
"Afraid?" You don't even know what afraid is. You will not last five minutes without me.
**Peter:** So, you're gonna help us? **Alan:** I'll watch. But I'm not afraid.
- Those mosquitoes.
- Their effect on people. We see one of their victims, the realtor who sold Alan's house. She seems catatonic and is, according to a paramedic, suffering symptoms that resemble a heart attack. Think of how much blood a mosquito that size would be able to draw.
- Could be worse, as the realtor has what looks like an injury on her forehead akin to a mosquito bite. Meaning the mosquito put its proboscis into her skull...
- Not to mention the diseases they could carry. At the very least, it was known then that mosquitoes carried malaria.
- In addition, in real life, mosquitoes are annoying at best and deadly at worst, but they're still easy to kill. The ones in
*Jumanji*, on the other hand, have probosces that are strong enough to punch through car roofs and break glass.
- The giant yellow plant that tries to eat Peter.
- The innocuous purple flower that shoots a barb into Judy's neck. It's so pretty and small, and it actually kills her, or at least comes close.
- The lion's entrance. Peter senses someone—or some
*thing*—in the room with him and Judy. Then the lion's massive tail menacingly trails along the keys of a piano...
- The lion reveals itself in a dark corner of the attic. Its face slowly becomes visible, practically melting into view, and it dawns on Judy and Peter (and the audience) that it's preparing to strike. Poor Judy, in a frightened whisper, futilely tries to convince her brother (and herself) that the beast is a hallucination...then the lion roars and bolts after the kids. The sheer speed with which the lion moves and pounces makes clear that had Alan not shown up as well, they'd have been done for.
- Van Pelt. Imagine it: A very good marksman who is interested in hunting you in particular. Let your guard down for even one moment, and you die. Alan has
*lived* through that. *He* should be the one in therapy. You can tell his heart is racing when he reads the description of his nemesis: "A hunter from the darkest wild. Makes you feel just like a child."
- If you have arachnophobia, spiders the size of medium-sized dogs will send you over the edge. The fact that they're rather pathetic puppets and move like wind-up toys helps surprisingly little.
- All of the discord and turmoil Brantford goes through, just because of one roll of the dice sealing up Alan! By all accounts, the Parrish shoe factory was the major source of income in the whole town, and once Alan's father went off the deep end and let it go under, the town's economy collapsed.
- Alan's parents came home to find their son missing without a trace, and no matter how much money they expended or how hard they searched, they were never able to find him. Even worse, people spread rumors that Alan's father murdered and dismembered him, which was surely agonizing for them.
- Nearly all the damage done to Brantford by the specters of Jumanji. The monkeys go around raiding downtrodden shops and even hijack the police station, the stampeding herd of elephants, rhinos, and zebras destroy at least several cars and might have trampled more than a few people to death, plus minor flooding occurs when the crocodiles are unknowingly released from the Parrish house by Carl. The poor town just couldn't catch a break.
- Nearly all of the animals unleashed by the game are darker, scarier versions of real-life creatures. Mosquitos are enormous and their bite will make you ill very quickly. Monkeys are deliberately malicious and dangerous, throwing knives at people. Lions are larger, fiercer, and have a craving for human flesh. Even the plants try to shoot venomous barbs at you on purpose. Only the herbivores like the elephants and rhinos seem less destructive, though just like their real-life counterparts, they can be aggressive and extremely dangerous; for example, elephants and hippos kill more people in Africa than lions and crocodiles.
- All of the animals seem slightly...off, owing mostly to the animatronics and early CGI used in their creation.
- In the animal stampede through Brantford, some of the elephants take their sweet time in crushing the car that Peter takes shelter in.
- And how to forget that
*pelican* which has a very strange and disturbing appearance. Not to mention his blood red eyes.
- The pelican was purposely trying to stop Alan from finishing the game, and it looked like it was ready to bite off his hand.
- Peter turning into a monkey, which may seem a little funny; the riddle implied he was becoming
*more wild* than any of the vicious monkeys we saw.
- There are those who think the face Van Pelt makes when we last see him is hilarious. To others, it's a final bit of Nightmare Fuel the darn game couldn't resist.
- Just imagine what poor Sarah went through. Seeing her friend get sucked into a board game, being chased by a swarm of bats, and being bounced around from therapist to therapist who kept telling her she made it all up, and the whole town treats her as an outcast well into her adulthood. Is it any wonder she tried to get the hell out of dodge when Judy and Peter pulled out the game? It ruined her whole life.
- Then there's her reintroduction to the game. The thing she and the rest of the characters face is a man-eating plant that is trying to eat one of them. It's no wonder why she tries to run away after that. Seeing something that dangerous reawakened her memory of the game and probably caused her to have a panic attack.
- Thoroughly lampshaded by Roger Ebert in his review of the film with Gene Siskel, who found the amount of Nightmare Fuel in this to be so much he feared for any kids who might've gone to see it.
- In the junior novel's prologue, we have this line:
*And no one, not a single soul, has ever played [Jumanji] twice.*
- When Alan is being sucked into the game and therefore Jumanji itself, he desperately calls out for Sarah to roll the dice on the chance that she will roll a five or an eight and immediately set him free. Instead, she runs away when a group of bats envelops her, and Alan is then trapped in Jumanji for twenty-six years.
**Alan:** Roooooll the diiiiice!!!
- Even worse is the game's insistence on the rules. They were lucky enough that Sarah was still local. What if she'd left the country? Worse yet, what if she'd gone insane or
*died*? Does the game have an exit clause if a player is essentially forced to forfeit, or does it simply mean the game remains unfinished forever?
- It's great for Alan and Sarah that the game considers the entire timeline a consequence to be erased, but Judy and Peter are lucky they even exist in the new history. Yeah, Brantford is more prosperous, but who died or didn't even get born in the new timeline?
- The absolutely horrifying fact that Alan and Sarah remember
*everything* when they go back to being kids in 1969. These are 12-year-olds who have 26 years' worth of profoundly traumatic memories and no way to process or explain them to people. The movie makes it look like a good thing; they see enough of the future to know how to game it, make Carl's sneakers a success, save Judy and Peter's parents, and prevent Brantford from going under. But... Alan has 26 years of traumatic memories and so does Sarah. He was alone, being *hunted* in the jungle for three decades. She was ostracized by an entire town, forced to tell a lie she knows didn't happen. Yes, they now have each other to lean on and share the trauma but can you imagine the nightmares Alan would be having? How confusing it would be for Sarah to have all those firsts again? Her first kiss, boyfriend, whatever?
- Fortunately, there's a line from Sarah when they dump the game that implies most of her and Alan's memories from the original timeline are disappearing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Jumanji |
Justice Avengers / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The Joker and Man-Bat walk into a bar. ||Pray they aren't looking for you.||
- Here, Joker brutally murders Dr. Achilles Milo for making the mistake of calling him a mutant, but of course, nobody cares.
- The New Prime Sentinels. ||As Agent Jackson put it, they're cobbled together from a Silent Hill game and H.R. Giger's nightmares, being torpedo faced, long limbed abominations who eat people, and are scary fast and resilient. There's also the cognitive dissonance of the one who forced their creation, Aaron Mckenzie, who sees nothing in conflict between his image of himself as a "Good Christian" and how he created these horrors.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeAvengers |
Justice League Action / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
What would happen if Darkseid
got hold of the Anti-Life Equation.
Episode 1-4: Shazam Slam
- The Djinn are actually very disturbing for first episode villains, with them being able to manipulate people's abilities or possess them.
- Billy's situation with Black Adam at first, given he's a kid being held against his will by a super villain. That is got to be a parent's nightmare.
- The appearance of this show's incarnation of Parasite looks rather... unsettling to say the least. Aside from looking far less human and more insect-esque, he also absorbs the powers and abilities of his victims through a group of tentacles he shoots out of his stomach, which leaves said victims weak and with their veins glowing purple. ||It gets even worse when Calythos absorbs him and gains his powers...||
Episode 6: Nuclear Family Values
- How the Nuclear Family acts put them into the Uncanny Valley, especially with their exposed robot parts and while they act like humans, they want to create a world that they can live in peace in...specifically one that's a nuclear fallout.
- The fact that we get a good idea of Firestorm's background with him and Dr. Stein nearly gets BLOWN UP by grenades.
Episode 7: Zombie King
- How about ||Zombie Batman and Zatanna?!|| It only lasts a moment and Swamp Thing is thankfully able to restore things to normal very quickly after, but seeing them transformed even briefly is pretty disturbing.
Episode 11: Play Date
- Besides the captured Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Cyborg, the "Character Select" roster showed various other JLA heroes and even some villains like The Joker, Harley Quinn, and Lobo. Does that mean Toyman's end goal was to capture the rest of the JLA
*and* several other villains just to build his real life video game?
Repulse!
- How's this: Superman gets coated with nanobots that become more powerful when they absorb solar energy...the thing he is powered by. He has to get off world as fast as he can, and KNOCKS A PLANE OUT OF THE AIR! Superman looks horrified when this happens and if not for Hawkman and Wonder Woman, it would have been a REALLY nasty thing to happen..
Hat Trick
- The idea that Zatanna's hat is an opening for GOD knows how many monsters. Seriously, a kid was almost sucked up by the giant green worm creature Faust summoned. So that is really dark in hindsight...
Episode 18: Trick or Threat
- The fact that ||Klarion can mind-wipe people and turn them into kids. Who knows who else he's done that too...||
- Cain the caretaker is actually a little...unnerving at times.
- And then you remember that JLA exists in the same world as Sandman, and that this is THE CAIN, from the Bible...
Episode 43: It'll Take A Miracle
- The Anti-Life Equation is mentioned, and its effects are shown in an Imagine Spot. If it weren't for a last minute switch by Batman... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeLeagueAction |
Just Cause 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The opening cutscene of "A Terrible Reaction" has a chilling version of You Have Failed Me. When Di Ravello comments that the failure of Vis Electra cannot go unpunished, he doesn't kill the commander directly. Instead, he hands the gun over to the commander, who promptly shoots himself in the face as soon as Di Ravello turns away from him. Not only does this show how much pull Di Ravello has over his forces (and/or how much his own men fear him), but nobody present even acknowledges that it happens.
- The Di Ravello audio diaries, which you can find strewn across the gameworld, show in no uncertain terms that the good general is a murderous, manipulative, egomaniac asshole who finds it perfectly acceptable and even desirable to kill people for his own ends. He committed his first cold-blooded murder of a Medician soldier
*before he even left boot camp*.
- It gets
*worse*. During his plotting stage, Di Ravello watches a young racecar driver win a race he'd rigged in order to kill off an opponent. Later on, when striking a deal with the Agency, he remembers this driver and burns down his house *with the family inside*, leaving the kid (He's explicitly referred to as "boy" in the tapes) alive in order to uphold his end of the deal with the Agency (giving them more members). The kid's name? **Rico Rodriguez.**
- Worst of all is how
*fast* it all happens. In just under 5 years, he's gone from a boot camp trainee to a general and the most influential man in the country, and highly respected by the people and the soldiers in the army. He crafted the illusion of a reasonable, fair-minded, respectable man from day one, and no one sees through it. By the time he goes from seemingly benevolent hero of the people to nightmarish tyrant, he's so heavily entrenched that no one can resist him. He even goes so far as to manufacture two separate revolutions— putting down the first (against the democratically elected, but corrupt, President Dante) is what ultimately catapults him into his position of power, and the second (the one that Rico gets involved with) is designed to create an acceptable target to show the world his military might and catapult Medici into the position of a global superpower without sparking an international incident.
- Di Ravello's logs go into great detail about how he manipulated his way into becoming Medici's dictator, and it proves that the psychopathic general played just about EVERYONE he ever met like a fiddle. Within two months, he wormed his way into a high-ranking military position by playing one of his fellow trainees against their Drill Sergeant, ultimately making him a national hero by saving the Sergeant from the Private (in an attack Di Ravello himself orchestrated). Within a year, he began an elaborate Gaslighting of the Brigadier-General, which over the next two years resulted in him disgracing himself in a way that led to Di Ravello becoming the de facto leader of the Medician military. He then worked with the Agency (yes, the same organization Rico was working with in the previous two games) to ramp up the gaslighting, ultimately convincing the ex-General that there was an elaborate conspiracy to threaten Medici's sovereignty, and prodded him into starting the first revolution. Just after four years after he set his plan into motion, the revolution had escalated to terrorist attacks and riots in the streets, causing wide-spread disapproval against the current president. Once the President's main political opponent forced a snap election to try to restore order, Di Ravello had the president killed in a riot that he successfully framed on his opponent, successfully putting martial law into effect, before successfully squashing the revolution, offering Rico up to the Agency as an Agent to keep them quiet after having his family killed, and ultimately ensuring that he faced minimal resistance as the supreme ruler of Medici for years. This is all
*before* he learned that Medici was home to the unique element Bavarium, which is basically even more powerful Uranium, which he then used as a bargaining chip, trading small quantities to the USA and Russia in exchange for vetoing any UN Security Council attempts to limit his power, making him effectively untouchable to the international community. By the time of Just Cause 3, even his manufactured revolution has started to sputter out, forcing him to put the squeeze on the revolution's de facto leader and convincing him to try to make Rico leave the Agency (who, as an American institution, is powerless to interfere directly and is forced to feed Di Ravello information via Sheldon in order to keep American/Medician relations sweet) and serve as a catalyst to bring the Revolution Back from the Brink, just so he can show off his new superweapons to the world. **Goddamn.** The only thing that truly goes wrong for him is underestimating Rico's badassery. If not for that, it's hard to imagine what could have ever stopped him.
- There is a location where you can find the Weeping Angels, and they move closer and closer to the center of the location they're in as long as you stand in front of it and look away from them. And to top it off? At the center, there's a carcass of a goat.
*What happened here?*
- After completing "Bavarium on a Plane", Di Ravello has a Villainous Breakdown, where he kicks one of his men to death while screaming how he's Surrounded by Idiots before yelling to the dead man, "Look what you made me do!" It's given a Gory Discretion Shot, but that does nothing to change how disturbingly childish Di Ravello acts or how much of a Sadist he is in regarding other human beings.
- The northern half of Insula Striate, separated from the rest of Medici by a massive military-guarded wall. Every town within has been bombed to shit, clearly a long time ago from the greenery. Only military installations and the Bavarium mines remain operational, and the only people you meet, aside from a handful of civilians picking through the rubble, are soldiers and militiamen. No explanation is given for what happened.
- There actually
*is* an explanation. A large part of the backstory of the game is the 'cleansing flame' and 'the Burning of the North'. These incidents refer to a moment early in Di Ravello's reign where for whatever reason, he torched the entire north of the country, killing and displacing hundreds of thousands. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JustCause3 |
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Russell Van Pelt is probably 10 times more threatening than the original Van Pelt. Instead of an Egomaniac Hunter like the 1995 version, this Van Pelt is a ruthless mercenary who'll stop at nothing to get his hands on a mysterious jewel called "the Jaguar's Eye."
When he first invokes the power of the Jaguar's Jewel, he summons a swarm of rats in almost Biblical-Plague-like fashion.
He doesn't even flinch when a centipede crawls into his ear!
When his goons fail to catch the heroes, Van Pelt is furious.
Henchman: Don't worry, it won't happen again. (Van Pelt grabs him by the collar and pulls him close to his face) Van Pelt:I know it won't. (a scorpion crawls out of Van Pelt's mouth and stings the goon on the back of the neck, killing him)
His pet vulture is no slouch either. This buzzard of black feathers constantly follows the heroes through the jungle like your typical villain's messenger. The screech it lets out ain't no slouch either.
His death is also unsettling: When Spencer/Bravestone succeeds in placing the Jewel back into the Stone Jaguar, Van Pelt screams in agony as he disintegrates into a horde of rats.
Entomophobes (fear of insects) and Arachnophobes (fear of spiders) are NOT going to have a good time seeing Russell Van Pelt for the first time post-cutscene. Or relatively soon after when a centipede crawls into his ear.
The "Freak House". It's seen better days, and after the disappearance of Alex in 1996, the house has fallen into disrepair. It's neglected, its paint has peeled off, and it has an old gate installed all around it. It's an unsettling reflection of its owners' distrustful and paranoid mindset.
What's more, the way its owner, Mr. Vreeke, grimly talks to Spencer about how "this world will eat [Spencer] up". There was a time when Mr. Vreeke was a friendly man with a laid-back view of the world, but no more.
The scene where the kids get sucked into the game, which manages to be just as creepy as when it happened to Alan in the original movie. After Spencer presses start, the Jumanji drums start beating, wild jungle noises are heard, and the system starts shorting out. After Spencer unplugs it, it pauses for a brief second, then starts up again without any electrical power. Spencer then gets sucked into the game. The other kids freak out, even moreso when Martha realizes the same thing is happening to her. A second later, it happens to Bethany. Fridge, the last kid to get sucked in, is clearly hyperventilating the whole time.
The snake in the basket. That is all.
Even worse, it's a Black Mamba, which is considered to be one of the most dangerous venomous snakes out there.
At the bazaar, one of Van Pelt's goons hurls knives at Spencer, and almost kills Fridge with a knife to the face. Fortunately for him, Spencer catches it just in time, but Fridge is understandably freaked out.
Also, the field of snakes Martha/Ruby has to tiptoe carefully over.
The entire sewer escape sequence. Imagine if Alex wasn't there to warn the party...
The sewer tunnel is much narrower in space than many other sewer levels in video games. Claustrophobic ones, beware.
The arrow trap. Without Alex's warnings, the entire party would have been shot out of nowhere.
There's actually a decaying skeleton stuck to the wall that the arrows fly into. Seeing it for the first time is disturbing.
The party is nearly cut to pieces by a sliding blade trap. Martha's expression upon narrowly dodging the trap completely sold it.
Some of the party members nearly being eaten by crocodiles while crossing a plank over their pool.
Alex has been trapped in Jumanji for twenty-one years and is completely unaware that that much time has passed; had the others not shown up, he would have been doomed to, at best, live forever in a vast jungle, as the only real being, without even real animals for company, and he was on his last life as it is.
Each player has 3 stripe tattoos on their wrist indicating the number of lives they have to complete the game. If they lose all three lives, then as Spencer so puts it, it's "Game Over". (It's never explicitly stated exactly what happens, and perhaps it's better not to know.)
Bethany/Shelly getting devoured alive by a hippo. Sure, she immediately plummets back into the game (since every player of the game has three lives and Bethany/Shelly used up her first), but imagine actually feeling the pain of getting gnawed by one of the bulkiest animals in Africa.
Martha/Ruby after the group escapes the biker mercenaries by jumping off a cliff into a lake, discovers she's been shot in the chest with a disturbingly realistic delayed response, and then just implodes into a small red cloud.
Spencer/Smolder and Fridge/Mouse get into an argument and Fridge shoves Spencer off a cliff, wasting one of his lives in a rage. Later, Spencer throws Fridge to a pack of rhinos to retrieve the Jewel, and while played for laughs, it is still disturbing for Spencer to casually waste one of his friend's lives, leaving him with only one.
That moment towards the ending where Spencer ALMOST decides to remain in the game. He really fools the audience when, instead of giving Nigel his hand, he hands him the backpack in his hand.
The drums after the credits implies that, although the group smashed the game with a bowling ball, it may have taken another form...
One of the (apparently many) endings pitched was Jumanji turning itself into a mobile game, and uploading itself on somebody's (or everyone's) phone. Indeed, it is the next logical step...
There's actually a mobile game available out now.
While most of the "death" scenes are played for laughs and seem fine because the players just respawn, we learn from Fridge after being trampled by a pack of rhinos that he felt everything that happened to him before he "died" and respawned. Let's review what they had to go through:
Spencer: pushed off of a cliff and mauled by a jaguar
Fridge: exploded after eating cake and the aforementioned rhino stampede
Martha: bled out after being shot in the chest and bitten by a venomous snake
Bethany: eaten by a hippo (she lucked out and wasn't killed after that, she transferred her second life to a dying Alex, which only left her lightheaded)
Bethany's death is also possibly the most shocking and graphic out of any of the protagonists'. If absolutely anyone harbored illusions that hippos weren't dangerous, they won't after watching that scene.
Alex: his hot air balloon fell out of the sky into a canyon and his plane was shot down if neither crash killed him, the aforementioned rhino stampede would get him and nearly died after being bitten by a mosquito, but Bethany saved him.
It's never explicitly stated exactly what Alex's first two deaths were caused by, only that the transportation shed level at least cost him the second. However, given his incredible familiarity with the traps leading away from the bazaar there are no shortage of potential candidates.
Don't forget, he remarks at the crocodile pit that falling in would be "a horrible way to die". Personal experience talking, perhaps?
Word of God is that Jumanji has transformed into a mobile app - possibly taking a cue from Bethany. Now it's available all over the world, who knows how many people it could suck in next? And will ALL of them be able to complete the game or become doomed?
Imagine if Jumanji was becoming an MMORPG...
If its goal is simply that it wants to be played, then theoretically, being able to lure in huge numbers of players at once would mean it wouldn't have to be as aggressive at holding players, as it would always have a fresh supply.
At least until the flood of negative "this app almost killed me!" reviews lead people to start avoiding it.
During the climax, there's the way that Martha (whose character's weakness is venom) has to traverse a viper pit to reach the Jaguar's eye. As she nears it, the snakes uncannily rise all at once, courtesy of Van Pelt.
Also a chilling homage to how Jumanji's perils always set themselves off like a booby trap. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle |
Justice (DC Comics) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The vision in the opening chapter, in which the heroes fail to prevent a nuclear holocaust, leaving Superman floating alone in the void of space.
Clayface and Scarecrow break into Green Arrow and Black Canary's apartment. Dinah is dosed with fear gas and hallucinates the coffee beans as insects, and Ollie is smothered by Clayface after the latter got close to him as Dinah.
After defeating mind-controlled Batman and Alfred, Superman explains to a confused Captain Marvel that they were infected by microscopic worms. Then Supes looks at his own hand:
Superman: Good Lord! They're in me, too...
Wonder Woman's ||slowly, horrifically deteriorating condition|| after Cheetah's attack. ||At first it manifests as ugly, glowing scars, but when confronting Cheetah again in the Cities, all of Diana's skin is charred, with only a few burnt strands of hair clinging to her scalp.||
Giganta size-shifting.
Bizarro's corpselike and silent appearance, especially when he's first seen almost completely in shadow except his glowing blue eyes. Word of God is that Alex Ross deliberately based the design off Samara Morgan from The Ring. Justice is a rare occasion where Bizarro isn't Played for Laughs, as it's shown how terrifying a grotesque parody of Superman with none of his humanity would be.
Brainiac's introduction in the miniseries. After Aquaman is rendered unconscious and captured by Black Manta, he wakes Strapped to an Operating Table in a nightmarish operating theater, in which he sees first a monkey with a computer implanted into its skull, and then the mutilated corpses of gorillas, with their removed heads sitting on other tables... and then Brainiac, clad in bloodied surgical scrubs, wielding a surgical saw and intending to experiment on Aquaman's brain (see the page image). The sequence when Brainiac begins to cut into Arthur's skull, remaining cold and impassive all the while, is not something that can be easily forgotten. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeDCComics |
Junji Ito / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Junji Ito's so very good at what he does that having pages for all of his major works
*wasn't enough* to cover all the scary moments that he's put to paper.
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## Other
- "Billions Alone":
- The story is about people that are apparently murdered (without a single evidence of the perpetrator) and then sewn together. From only two people being sewn together, it went to six, twelve, around fifty, then around one hundred, and then the record was topped gloriously with
*FIVE FREAKING HUNDRED CORPSES SEWN TOGETHER*. Just imagine waking up one morning, waiting to enjoy the holiday, only to find parts of the city furnished with hundreds of naked corpses sewn together to look like different kinds of Christmas decorations. There are even a few of them sewn on the Christmas trees.
- Then there the Fridge Horror: Since the size of affected groups keeps increasing, eventually the criteria for a "big enough" group may reaches entire cities or even countries. We may very well be looking at an imminent apocalypse, but unlike the apocalypse in another Junji Ito's story, this one happens
*very* slowly and gives the survivors plenty of time to contemplate their inevitable demise.
- The plane that flies over at the end of the story is dispensing leaflets. This implies that whoevers behind the sewing isnt just one person, but potentially an entire organisation dedicated to furthering the madness. Who are they, and why do they plan on turning countless people into homicidal maniacs who kill and sew other people together?
- After reading "The Licking Woman", there's a chance you'll want to avoid dark alleys in case some creepy woman tries to lick and poison your body with her pulsating, bloated, pimply, veiny, wriggling, drooling, infected, gigantic tongue.
- If you were to look at the chained monstrosity in "Mystery Pavillion", you would think it was the hideous offspring between a bird and an Eldritch Abomination. The reality will make you wish this was the case. It's actually a hideous genetically modified now-extinct cormorant
note : The translation calls it a pelican, but the creature's face and a comment from the man running the display makes it obvious that it's actually supposed to be a cormorant. in the future. If that's not bad enough, the monster eats two onlookers. The man running the pavilion orders the beast to spit them out, which it does, but it's too late for the victims; as soon as they hit the ground, they start MELTING. And they're still alive.
- Banette is scary on its own. Banette as drawn by Junji Ito? Terrifying. Gengar's even more terrifying.
- "Layers of Fear":
- Thanks to a curse, a young woman is revealed to have layers of her previous skin under her normal skin, structured in layers like a nesting doll. This appeals to her creepy mother, obsessed with babying her daughter and yearning for the old days of parenting a helpess child. Hoping she can peel off the layers and get her baby daughter back after calling her out of the past layers' consciousnesses, she begins to cut away. Sure enough, her two-year-old face is there... but due to the alterations of natural growth, not her two-year-old body.
- The protagonist is also affected by this curse, having several layers of teeth.
- The mother, now fully consumed by her delusions, believes that she too is afflicted by the curse, and thinks she can return to a younger age by peeling away her face. She is very much
*not* cursed, and ends up just *cutting off her face* - and there's no Gory Discretion Shot here: we get to see the whole thing, including her flayed visage.
- And the origin of the curse? 21 years before the events of the story, the girls' father, an archaeologist, uncovered the ancient skull of a child underneath hundreds of layers of clay and stone molded into the shape of a human body, and he was cursed for disturbing the child's grave. The father was driven to madness by the curse, which had spread to his young daughters, and mysteriously died nine years later. The kicker is that when the protagonist goes to her father's colleague and asks that he lay the skull to rest, she learns that it has disappeared without a trace.
- The ending. The mother has become a mad recluse after the incident, forcing the protagonist to have to care for her full-time. The younger sisters skin is regrowing, but according to the protagonist, the horrible peeling gave her a new base, and she isn't growing back the same way. And she still seems be of her two-year-old mind, thus indicating that her old self, her entire personhood, has been completely destroyed.
- In
*Earthbound*, the narrator's friend, the Chief of her volunteer group, asks her on a date. She declines and explains she's actually moving to a new apartment which he finds strange as she just moved a short time ago. Later on she reveals to the Chief that the reason she moves between apartments so often is because she was raped in an apartment so she is trying to be on the move constantly so the attacker can't find her a second time. Eventually she learns that Chief was the man who raped her when he ends up petrified by the Earthbound curse in her apartment.
- When it's revealed that the Earthbound Curse is a caused by the ghost of murder victims binding their killers in place close to their death spot, we see a small montage of infected. One of them is a woman who keeps an infant's corpse in a plastic bag in her closet. What the hell happened there?
-
*Human Chair* is Paranoia Fuel. A young writer is interested in buying a new chair to work in, and the clerk shows her a special chair and tells her a very creepy story tied to it, about an ugly carpenter who would live in his chairs to become intimately acquainted with the users. Imagine someone living **peak** *inside* your favorite chair, and even walking around your house at night when you're asleep! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JunjiIto |
Justice League (2017) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*"Millions fell and rose again."* **Warning: Spoilers Off applies to Moments pages.**
For
*Zack Snyder's Justice League*, see here.
- This dialogue about a looming threat from another world (Apokolips).
**Bruce Wayne:**
We have to be ready. You, me, the others. There's an attack coming from far away.
**Diana Prince:**
Not "coming," Bruce. It's already here
.
- And to confirm all of the above, there's one word:
*Steppenwolf*. The Apokoliptian war chief will show why Earth has all the reasons to fear him.
- The Amazons' Mother Box summons a Boom Tube that teleports him onto Themyscira. The Oh, Crap! look on Queen Hippolyta's face says it all, especially since the Amazons' only weapon against gods (Diana) is not there.
- He sums up the state of Earth's defenses against him: (the line only appears in the SDCC 2017 trailer, it was cut from the theatrical version)
- "Like all the others" implies
*many* worlds were destroyed or conquered by him on behalf of Darkseid.
- The destructive power of his axe is simply
*terrifying*.
- Humans from this distant past were turned into Parademons. And it's horrific.
- Steppenwolf isn't only powerful but incredibly cruel when the STAR Labs janitor begs him not to kill him and the others because they have families he responds with this:
- In the movie it becomes even more horrifying as Steppenwolf actually violently snaps the neck of a female scientist who also said she had a family.
- Did we not mention Steppenwolf yet? Well, according to one of the TV spots, he apparently fought Zeus in the ancient past. Whether he won or lost is irrelevant, but what does this say about Darkseid?
- Schoolgirls being taken hostage during the Old Bailey Criminal Court attack. Thankfully, Wonder Woman shows up and kicks some ass.
- Silas Stone goes back to his home and his Mother Box activates. Then a Parademon with glowing eyes rises behind him.
- For that matter, the fact that Parademons are on the battlefield. They're scary on their own, but infinitely moreso when you remember they take orders from something much, MUCH worse.
- The fact that Henry Allen is in prison can mean only one thing: Everybody's not-so favorite homicidal Ascended Fanboy Eobard Thawne is running around somewhere, and if you remember how vicious he was in the
*Arrowverse*, one can only shudder at how horrific he can be if we eventually see him in the DCEU.
- The final battle takes place under red skies. Those who know the cosmology of the DC Multiverse will know how serious this change of scenery is.
- Diana explores an ancient crypt with frescoes on the walls. One of them clearly depicts
**Darkseid** (photo).
- Uxas◊ (Darkseid's previous name) was originally intended to lead the first invasion of Earth, in search of the Anti-Life Equation.
- Silas Stone getting disintegrated by the Mother Box. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeLeague2017 |
Justice League: Doom / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Bane's attempt to kill Batman: ||Beating him unconscious, then burying him alive in his father's casket, with the remains still there.||
- Ma'alefa'ak's attempt on J'onn's life. Imagine ||being invulnerable to fire but still feeling the fear and agony of being completely engulfed - and even throwing yourself into the freaking ocean doesn't put the fire out. Worse yet, Ma'alefa'ak expected J'onn to burn for
*weeks*.||
- ||Vandal freaking Savage himself. Once again showing how depraved he is like in the comics, Savage is the mastermind for all the torturous battles the Justice League has had to face lately. And he doesn't show guilt about it. Worse, he plans to force the people to kneel before him after he uses a solar flare that will kill half the population. If he managed to succeed, then humanity would certainly end up doomed.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeLeagueDoom |
Justice League / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked. 1x01/02/03 — Secret Origins
1x08/09 — Paradise Lost
1x16/17 — Legends
1x20/21 — A Knight of Shadows
1x24/25/26 — The Savage Time
- J'onn being tortured by the Nazis. We don't actually see what happens, but we can definitely hear the screams...
- Well, actually, that was probably him faking it, since he replaced the torturer easily enough. Shape-changing, Super Strength, phasing...he's equipped for this. Doesn't make his screaming any less creepy. Seriously, something about J'onn's voice makes
*any* screaming, real or faked, kind of scary.
- Hearing what sounds like J'onn's voice as he is tortured on an operating table becomes Harsher in Hindsight as J'onn's voice actor Carl Lumbly would play Isaiah Bradley who revealed to have being forcibly turned into a Super Soldier human experiment for thirty years with memories of it continuing to haunt him up to his advanced age in
*The Falcon and the Winter Soldier*.
- Given that the torturer looks weak when the guards find him strapped to the table, this leads to the very real question of whether some of those screams might have been from J'onn torturing
*him*?!
2x01/02 — Twilight
2x03/04 — Tabula Rasa
- By the end of the episode, the Monster of the Week, AMAZO, leaves Earth and heads out into space. That would be a good thing.....until you realize that he'll explore new worlds and gain new abilities along the way. Like J'onn said, we better pray he better not comes back.
2x05/06 — Only a Dream
2x07/08 — Maid of Honor
- What happens to the King of Kaznia, who is poisoned and paralyzed by Vandal Savage as part of his plan to take over the country. He's unable to move and Forced to Watch his daughter Audrey get married to the man responsible for his predicament.
- Worse, since we never see what happens to him, it's heavily implied he most likely perished when the rail-gun was redirected to destroy the castle!
- Which, if that wasn't bad enough, also means that
*Batman*, of all people, almost killed him with a big honking space gun!
- When we see the people running out of the castle, you can see one of the soldiers carrying someone dressed in purple. The king was wearing purple pajamas. So, the king didn't actually die in the explosion. But what if the guard
*hadn't* been on the watch?
- Near the end of the episode, Savage, who was in ground zero for an asteroid hitting the Kasnian royal palace, confirms his immortality by breaking out of the rubble, still healing from the blast, resetting his bones, and screaming in a mixture of rage and indescribable pain.
- The look of horror on Flash's face when he briefly gets spaced.
2x09/10 — Hearts and Minds
- Despero tries to Mind Rape Hawkgirl, causing her to scream in agonizing pain that grows louder and more intense until Green Lantern saves her.
- The ending. Despero's army is turned into trees, all the while they are aware of this. Their faces as this happens tells you everything need to know. Especially chilling is a close-up of a face stuck in a scream, while only one eye is left open.
2x11/12 — A Better World
2x13/14 — Eclipsed
- The soldier who is possessed at the beginning. This guy wakes up and learns he killed his whole unit, with whom he seemed rather close. Especially since the last time we see him in the episode, he's still held responsible for it.
- The song people possessed by the gem sing starts out kinda narmy until everyone but Flash gets possessed and starts singing it. Combined with the dark, enclosed Watchtower with no exits, it really hammers home the oppressive nature.
2x15/16 — The Terror Beyond
- Being an homage to the Cthulhu Mythos, this episode is
*stuffed to the gills* with it.
2x17/18 — Secret Society
- Killer Frost is basically Mr. Freeze but much more gleefully homicidal. Grodd even states that the only reason Frost joins the Secret Society is just to have the opportunity to kill people.
2x19/20 — Hereafter
2x21/22 — Wild Cards
- The episode's twist gives a healthy dose of Paranoia Fuel: Joker set up the bombs in Las Vegas just to increase viewership so he could broadcast Ace's hypnotic waves to drive them all insane. And guess who's watching the television while Ace blankly stares at the screen...
- Then there's the scene where Ace shows Joker that, no matter how crazy you are, there's always an even lower depth to fall...though seeing Joker Hoist by His Own Petard was simply
*priceless*.
- Not to mention, the Justice League is
*utterly helpless* to stop Ace. Her psychic powers are so strong that Superman and Flash are dumbstruck and paralyzed, and Batman—who managed to shut Dr. Destiny out of his mind—is left *crawling around and doing his best not to throw up*. Even after the threat has passed, Batman can do nothing but watch Ace escape. Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds though she may be, Ace is a pretty terrifying villain.
2x24/25/26 — Starcrossed
- J'onn's mental interrogation of Kragger; he couldn't normally read Thanagarian minds due to their mental defenses.
**J'onn:**
I'll just have to try...
*harder*
.
1x02 — For the Man Who Has Everything
- At the end, Wonder Woman puts the Black Mercy on Mongul. Right before the episode ends, we get to hear painful screaming and horrible destruction, presumably all from Mongul's fantasy. And Superman wasn't the only one screaming.
- This episode deserves mention for when the Black Mercy is put on Batman: We get to relive the moment his parents were shot (in black and white, to give it a proper Film Noir feel), but in his dream, his father fights Joe Chill and continues to punch him. But as Wonder Woman tears off the plant, we see Thomas Wayne be overpowered by Chill via shadow, zoom in on young Bruce's face turning more and more horrified as we finally hear a combination of a tearing sound and a gunshot when the Black Mercy is removed...it's truly horrifying. Made worse in that when the plant attaches to him, we see the only genuine and contented smile Batman
*ever* has in the entirety of the *Justice League* run.
- Even the nature of the fantasy is unnerving in and of itself. In the comic the episode was based off of, by the time the Black Mercy is pulled off of him, the fantasy had extended to growing up, settling down, and having a child. That's not the case here; Bruce's deepest, truest wish is simply to watch his dad beat Joe Chill to a pulp. Forever.
- Wonder Woman falling victim to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Mongul is pretty unsettling to watch. We have seen her take a beating before, but this episode in particular makes it worse than the others. For instance, you have Mongul coming close to actually killing her. She had to crawl to Batman to save him from the Black Mercy because she can hardly stand after the beating she took from Mongul. When Mongul takes her down and then stomps on her, the scream she lets out is chilling.
- This episode also stresses just how dangerous Mongul is. Literally the only being that can stop him is Superman, but he was already taken care of (temporarily). Batman even states that if Superman doesn't snap out of it, Mongul will kill Wonder Woman, then him, then everyone on the planet. That's right, even
*Batman* is scared of Mongul and can't think of a plan to beat the alien tyrant other than "get Superman into the fight."
1x03 — Kid Stuff
- The ending. Mordred's spell to get rid of all grown-ups is reversed when Mordred is tricked into turning into an adult himself, and his mother Morgan le Fay notes the spell giving him eternal youth is now broken, leaving him only with eternal life. As if simply thinking about the ramifications of this isn't enough, the last shot of the episode shows Morgan tenderly wiping the drool from the mouth of a glassy-eyed old man wearing the clothes Mordred wore as a child. That's not to say he didn't deserve it, though.
1x04 — Hawk and Dove
- When Wonder Woman is trying to get the Kasnians to stop fighting to depower the Annihilator armor, one of them gets the terribly bright idea to not only be indignant and say he doesnt take orders from women, but assault her with the butt of his rifle. Then Wonder Woman gives him this look of murderous rage and snatched his rifle from him and almost runs it through him, before calming down and simply bending it instead. The nightmare fuel is in that brief moment of anger, had Wonder Woman not been tempered with compassion and wisdom she could have just as easily broken him like a twig.
1x06 — Fearful Symmetry
- The episode starts off with a horrifying nightmare of Supergirl hunting down and trying to kill a man in cold blood and demolishing any forces that get in her way. She wakes up right as she kills the man with heat vision and is so frightened by the dream she actually blew through the ceiling with her heat vision. Gets worse when it's revealed they were actually memories of her assassin clone Galatea, essentially meaning Kara has been reliving the murderous acts of a psycho clone.
1x08 — The Return
- Seeing Amazo tear through the Justice League to get to Luthor. In space, he destroys a fleet of Javelins and defeats nearly dozens of heroes, including Green Lantern, Doctor Light, Captain Atom, and
*Superman himself*. In the sky, he goes through the second wave (Supergirl, Fire, Red Tornado, and Rocket Red) like tissue, during which he splits Red Tornado in half and destroys him. He doesn't even try in the last wave (Wonder Woman, Flash, Steel, and Ice). The thought of something that powerful existing is horrifying. Doctor Fate was not kidding when he claimed Luthor was saving the world.
1x09 — Ultimatum
- Amanda Waller knows Batman's secret identity and holds the knowledge over his head during every one of their later meetings.
1x10 — Dark Heart
- Earth is being devoured piece by piece, and everyone involved in the situation is mostly being able to do nothing as they see the wave of machines sweeping towards them.
- How Cadmus decides to take the machines that utterly destroyed the Justice League and could have possibly destroyed the world with ease. Even after learning of what they are, they still think they are capable of controlling it.
- From the US government's view, the fact that the Justice League's Watchwower has a nuke beam equivalent on board that is pointing down would scare anyone. The League didn't tell anyone about it; they just had it, justifying it by saying had they had it during the Thanagarian Invasion, it would have ended sooner. It solidifies the fear the government and Cadmus has for the League; if they wanted to take over the world, the beam combined with their metahuman manpower would make it so.
1x11 — Wake the Dead
- The nerds who performed the satanic ritual and accidentally revived Solomon Grundy definitely got killed by him and possibly the nerds' family as well.
1x13 — The Once and Future Thing, Part 2: Time, Warped
- Chronos. His wide-open Creepy Blue Eyes and soft voice really sell the whole "mad with power" thing.
- Static's death howl after getting sucked into a spatial rip is rather chilling, as is Terry dying from being ripped limb from limb by the Dee-Dees. Worse, the universe is collapsing all around them and they are all completely helpless to stop it.
- Wonder Woman fades out of existence thanks to Chronos' meddling with the timeline, an insubordinate Chucko is dropped in the Cretaceous Period to be killed by the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, plus the implication that
*every other member of the Justice League is already dead*. Green Lantern nearly had something like this happen to *him*, too—luckily for John, he was just temporarily replaced by Hal Jordan and came back after a few minutes.
- Batman traps David and Enid in a time loop to ensure that David never enacts the chain of events that occurred over the episode. That is one chilling And I Must Scream fate.
2x01 — The Cat and the Canary
- After Green Arrow make too many cracks about Wildcat's age and competence, Wildcat mercilessly beats him to a living pulp. By the time he was done, Wildcat had seemingly
*killed* Green Arrow. First, we only had silence, horror from both Wildcat and Black Canary and then, the audiences start cheering. This is more than enough to convince Wildcat to stop participating underground fighting.
2x01 — The Doomsday Sanction
2x04 — Task Force X2x08 — Hunter's Moon
- The consequences of J'onn's interrogation of Kragger back during the Thanagarian Invasion: Years later and he's now a babbling fool who has been Driven to Madness.
2x09 — Question Authority
- The vision the Question sees while being TORTURED is pretty chilling. Hell, him being tortured
*period* was chilling.
- He was missing for almost
*a week* before Huntress tried to get Superman's help. Even then, nobody in the League noticed he was missing.
2x10 — Flashpoint
- Luthor hijacks the Watchtower's binary fusion generator, forcing it to fire on an abandoned Cadmus facility. When the gun goes off, the scene cuts to a peaceful suburban neighborhood that suddenly goes very quiet as the sky starts to
*light up*. Then the blast wave comes and nearly levels the city, followed by a mushroom cloud. Aside from the fact that, somehow, nobody (onscreen) is killed, and there's no residual radiation, the entire sequence is frighteningly reminiscent of a *nuclear attack*.
- When Green Arrow tries to call out Superman on seriously considering burning a government agency to the ground and generally putting himself and the team above humanity as of late, all the attention Superman can spare for him is to say he could care less about his opinion or that Batman recruited him to be the team's conscience. When Green Arrow admits he's starting to become scared of Superman himself, it's pretty understandable, especially since if Superman had just snapped then and there, he could have blown Green Arrow's brains out with the flick of a finger for talking back to him, or simply turned him to ash with a glance—not an unreasonable response from Lord-Superman, who Superman teeters on the verge of becoming for the entire Cadmus arc.
2x11 — Panic in the Sky
- The League just lost control of their Kill Sat superweapon that they save for emergencies like the events of "Dark Heart," which they fear may have killed hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians. Understandably, the President is
*pissed* about this and the founding members of the League, sans Batman, decide to submit to government custody until they can sort it out. While they're gone and the Watchtower is still out of commission, Cadmus sends Galatea and an army of Ultimen to attack the Watchtower and kill—not arrest, not defeat, *KILL*—every last person on the Watchtower. That includes the non-powered civilians who run the Watchtower's everyday systems. In particular, we're treated to a group of those non-metahumans hiding in a safe room when one of the Shifter clones rips the door open, then transforms into a *Tyrannosaurus rex*. The workers are clearly ready to fight for their lives as they charge at her and the Ultimen are eventually defeated, but one shudders to think about what may have happened to some of them.
- Supergirl fries Galatea with the Watchtower's reactor. There's a good shot of
*her twitching corpse*!
- As a clone of Supergirl, she
*might* have survived. Still disturbing, though.
- Brainiac slowly bursting his way out of Luthor's body in a manner very reminiscent of
*The Thing*. If observed closely, one can see Luthor's limbs painfully exploding and his fingers flying off as his limbs contort into tentacles.
2x12 — Divided We Fall
- It turns out Brainiac was hiding in Luthor all along, having infected Luthor with his nanites during the events of STAS' "Ghost in the Machine."
- Brainiac tries to
*absorb* the Justice League. Fortunately, he fails.
- Flash finally turns the tables on Brainthor by going all out. He knocks Brainthor down, pins him, and starts tearing them apart with his fists while Brainthor
*screams*.
2x13 — Epilogue
- The flashback involving eight-year-old Terry and his parents walking from a movie. As they start to head home, the Phantasm stalks them from behind. Upon getting closer, she raises her hook hand, moments away from killing Terry's mom and dad, all to give Terry the motivation he needs to become the next Batman. Even more Nightmare Fuel when you learn the Phantasm was ordered to kill Terry's parents so Terry could experience the same pain that Bruce did and take up the mantle, and was real close to doing so.
- Also a rare case of Even Evil Has Standards being invoked to avert Nightmare Fuel. The Phantasm is willing to murder unsuspecting strangers but, when it comes right down to it, can't bring herself to traumatize an eight-year-old for life.
- It could also go even further than that: Andrea, having been close to Bruce years ago, couldnt stomach the idea of putting another child through the same fate, knowing full well what it could lead to.
3x05 — Flash and Substance
- While he's Played for Laughs and is rendered sympathetic as a victim of mental illness, the Trickster is by no means a Harmless Villain. If you actually listen to his scheme to kill Flash, it may come with silly choices such as fake vomit and grease, but it includes killing Flash by having him do a Slippery Skid into a wall of metal spikes and having him buried in the fake vomit while he's still alive... and then finishing with an Everything Explodes Ending. When the heroes corner him in the bar later, he pulls out a weird gun that shoots out acid corrosive enough to instantly destroy a pool table. While his "tricks" may look silly and his motivations sympathetically drawn from mental health problems, he's still just as violently dangerous as the Joker and should not be taken lightly.
3x09 — Grudge Match
- A rather small one, but the Justice League women being brainwashed and pitted against each other. Huntress and Black Canary manage to free Shayera and Vixen from their Mind Control pretty easily, but then Roulette pits all four women against Wonder Woman who is able to almost match Superman in terms of power. Their reaction is entirely justified. During a rather brutal fight, a few of the League girls come frighteningly close to a bloody death. Hawkgirl almost smashing Vixen's head with her mace, for example.
- Also, the way Wonder Woman overpowers all four Leaguers and takes absolutely everything they throw at her like it's nothing. Then there's the way she's about to kill the badly-battered Shayera and Vixen by crushing their skulls together.
- More terrifying is the fact that she was completely unaware of what she was doing and would never have remembered it had she been able to follow through.
3x12 — Alive!
- Tala's screams as she's being used up in Luthor's attempt to revive Brainiac. The showrunners even admitted
*they* were unsettled by this, even *after* having toned it down considerably from the original recordings.
- Immediately before this, when Tala begs Luthor to spare her for betraying him to Grodd, she tells him she's "a sick person." When she realizes he planned on using her up even
*before* she betrayed him, he coldly replies, "I'm a sick person, too."
- Grodd getting spaced in this episode was pretty disturbing, as well.
- Killer Frost kills half of the Legion of Doom, ON SCREEN. Just to get back in Luthor's favor.
- Okay, she doesn't KILL them per say, but we know they're finished.
- Metron's cryptic warning to Luthor comes out of nowhere. Luthor's ambitions have gone too far that an outside force had to intervene to give reality one last chance.
3x13 — Destroyer
- The portrayal of Darkseid in the DC Animated Universe is often seen as the definitive portrayal of his character (outside of comics), and for good reason: He is a
*terrifying* character. Not just because he's the only one who can take Superman at his full power, but because he is *relentlessly* evil. Other villains had reasons that you could like them; at least Lex Luthor was suave, and at least Joker had a happy attitude and comic timing. Darkseid is not that kind of villain: He is the absolute evil.
- To give a sense of how terrible Darkseid is, he is the only villain that Superman actively tries and
**wants** to kill.
- Darkseid describes what he's going to do to Superman while he's writhing on the ground in pain from the Agony Matrix. Then he pulls out a Kryptonite knife and tells Superman he's going to carve out his heart and place it on a pike as a trophy.
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Jurassic Park (1993) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Rexy makes her debut in
*style*
. As for the humans in the cars? Well...
This page is for Nightmare Fuel in the first
*Jurassic Park* film specifically. For Nightmare Fuel in the franchise as a whole, see here. **WARNING:** Spoilers are unmarked.
- The very first musical track for the opening credits is arresting and powerful. Followed by the score, ''The Incident at Isla Nublar'' we are quickly reminded that John Williams knows how to set the tone for the movie we are about to see. Horror awaits us as we enter Jurassic Park.
- The very first death in the movie, in the first three minutes. Jophery, the Red Shirt worker, gets chomped by a
*Velociraptor* off-screen when the attempt to move her from her crate to her enclosure goes wrong. Made all the more scary because, at this point in the movie, we don't know what this thing in the crate *is*, and we never get a good look during the attack. It ends with all the other workers desperately tasing the unseen monster and Muldoon hanging onto the poor guy for dear life, *screaming* at the top of his lungs for someone to *just shoot her*. While they may have shot the raptor dead, it was already too late to save Jophery.
- The computer noises as the park's security systems fail.
BIP-BIP-BIP-bop-bop-bop-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-brnt-brnt-brnt...
- Accentuated by the soundtrack, there's a more subtle fright as Nedry is stealing the embryos from cold storage. We see him take one of each species, all of them labeled and most of which we don't see in the film. The camera
*really* focuses on two in particular: *Tyrannosaurus* and *Velociraptor*, which we know are some of the most dangerous animals cloned by InGen. Considering how *this* park turned out with the well-intentioned Hammond at the helm, it makes one shudder to think what could have happened if the much more unscrupulous Dodgson had gotten his hands on those embryos.
- The scene where Rexy attacks the tour vehicle with Lex and Tim inside. Normally, you'd expect a car to provide at least a modicum of protection from a wild animal. Not so with a
*T. rex*.
- The whole sequence starts with a series of quiet thuds that grow increasingly louder, coupled with ominous ripples in a cup of water. Something wicked this way comes...
- "Where's the goat?" Cue splattering of bloody goat leg on the window, followed by the rest of the goat disappearing into the mouth of the Tyrannosaurus rex.
- The sound of the deactivated high voltage wires, the
*only* boundary between the animals and the visitors, being chewed on and then snapping is just as terrifying as the roar of Rexie herself.
- And then Rexy's emergence from her paddock, complete with the loudest Mighty Roar imaginable. One of the most powerful predators that ever lived has been unleashed, and there's nothing that anyone can do to stop her
note : as demonstrated here even with a feathered and accurate model the scene is still just as intense.
- Vehicles in general tend to be very flimsy protection in all three movies. If anything, they end up trapping the occupants and leaving them at the mercy of whatever is trying to get at them. Honestly, Tim and Lex got off easy compared to what happened to other characters in this situation (i.e., being sent over a cliff, yanked out and torn in half; sent crashing into a nearby tree, dragged out, stomped on, and decapitated; trapped in an animal cage and nearly drowned... with the creature reaching into said cage and trying to pluck you out).
- As soon as Rexy pulls her huge head away from the Jeep for a moment, Tim clambers to the back seat and urges Lex to turn the damned light off, already. The two bicker and fight in a panic for only a few seconds before they notice that Rexy has given up on trying to get to them through the doors...
*and she's about to try the moon roof instead*.
- Grant distracts Rexy with a thrown flare, but it only gets her a few paces away from the overturned car. Ian lights another flare and lures her further away, buying Grant a few more seconds to help Tim and Lex, but this gets Ian hurled into the hut and leads Rexy straight to Gennaro. And
*even then*, Rexy is right back on Grant the moment he pulls Lex out.
- Gennaro's death, while amusing due to the fact that he's awkwardly sitting on a toilet, still manages to come off as scary with the way Rexy just bites right into him and brutally eats him. Later, Muldoon and Ellie arrive at the
*Tyrannosaurus* paddock, where they find Gennaro's remains...several meters apart. Rexy didn't eat him; she *flung him around like a ragdoll until he literally flew apart. While he was alive.* Cue the following Black Comedy:
- Nedry's death. Sure, he had it coming, but the
*screaming*...
- The
*Dilophosaurus* in general. At first, she comes across as this curious little critter with a rather cute, monkey-like cry and you think she's harmless, but then she won't stop coming near you. **Then** she shows her predatory instincts. **Nedry:**
oh, nice boy. Nice boy! Nice dinosaur. I thought you were one of your big brothers. You're not so bad
.
- When Nedry gets hit with her venom a second time, you can hear a sizzling sound. This implies that the corrosive venom is
*slowly dissolving his eyes away*. Almost makes his death sound like a Mercy Kill.
- Nedry gets a brief Hope Spot where he manages to get back in his Jeep and close the door, taking a deep breath to reassure himself that he's safe now........ and then he hears a horribly familiar clicking/hissing and turns to see the
*Dilophosaurus* sitting in the passenger seat right next to him! It then cuts to a Gory Discretion Shot of the exterior of his car as the dinosaur pounces on him, the entire Jeep shakes as Nedry screams in pain before the sounds of his death agonies and the dinosaur's nightmare screeching fades away......
- Even more terrifying is the fact the
*Dilophosaurus* seen here is only a juvenile, as the *Dilophosaurus* hologram shown in *Jurassic World* is about the size of a fully-grown *Velociraptor* and its real-life counterpart can grow up to 20 feet in length. Nedry is only half-right with his statement.
- The filmmakers were originally planning for it to way scarier than what we got. As illustrated in early storyboards, the dilo, rather than seemingly being playful, stalks Nedry, who immediately flees when he realizes the dinosaur is circling him, up the embankment. Once Nedry gets a face full of venom, the storyboards make a point illustrating the dilo's slow methodical steps as it slowly, deliberately approaches a panicking Nedry, who is clawing at his face and desperately trying to get into his vehicle. He's doomed as the dilo's shadow to fall upon him. As he gets yanked out of the jeep, his nails rip marks across the seat.
- There's also some concept art of the 'aftermath' of the attack. It's well shadowed, but that just adds to its horror. If they'd tried to put it in the finished film, the scene would have garnered the film an R rating. Hell, it indicates Nedry ended up even more mauled than his book counterpart, and in the book, he got
*disembowelled* before he died.
- Ian hearing the distinctive "boom" of Rexy's footsteps, and his eyes opening in pure horror.
**Ian:**
Anybody hear that? It's an... It's an impact tremor
, that's what it is... I'm fairly alarmed here.
- Then, when Ellie and Muldoon rush back to the jeep, Rexy bursts out of the undergrowth just as they speed off, prompting a chase that nearly gets the trio eaten before they finally get away. Ellie's screams of terror as Rexy comes
*so* close to catching them will haunt you. Imagine seeing this chasing you! Bring My Brown Pants, indeed.
- Watch the scene again. At one point, Rexy rams the side of the jeep with her head, and if she didn't come into direct contact with Ellie right then, it sure
*looked* like it! One can hardly imagine her terror in that instant; no wonder she screams as loud as she does seconds later. Rexy *could have* eaten her right then and there.
- The mirror is labeled: "Objects in mirror are Closer than They Appear." Rexy gets close enough that her gaping mouth
*appears* to be the only thing in the mirror. That mouth is somewhere behind, or *over*, the jeep.
- The scene with Ellie in the maintenance shed trying to turn on the power and suddenly being attacked by a
*Velociraptor*, then having Ray Arnold's bloody and dismembered arm fall onto her shoulder. The worst part? She think he's still alive and acts relieved for a few seconds beforee realising it.
- And let's not forget this lovely gem that precedes it:
- The scene where Alan, Lex, and Tim has to climb over the formerly powered-off perimeter fences to get to the other side. The security alarm suddenly goes off before Tim is able to climb back down in time, indicating that the fence is about to become electrified. Just as Tim is about to work up the courage to jump off and let Alan catch him, the electricity is suddenly turned back on. Alan is able to catch the falling Tim, but the scene ends with a worrying comment:
**Alan:** He's not breathing...!
- When Arnold doesn't return from restarting the power, Ellie and Muldoon decide to head out after him. As they start towards the utility shed, both they and the viewers get the terrifying Wham Shot of the wrecked fence around the
*Velociraptor* cage and the tracks leading into the wood. And while Ellie is scared, Muldoon — who's remained relatively calm throughout the crisis, save for when the *T.rex* was chasing them, is utterly horrified, since he *knows* they're all in serious danger. **Muldoon**: Damn it, even *Nedry* knew better than to mess with the raptor fences!
- The Big One, a hyper-intelligent
*Velociraptor*. She uses one of her pack members to lure Muldoon out into the open, pops up **right next to him** ("Clever girl"), and starts tearing him apart a few seconds later. Not to mention the fact that they surprise-attack Alan, Ellie, and the kids in the Visitors' Center, and would have killed them had Rexy not intervened. **Muldoon:**
[The
*Velociraptors*
] show extreme intelligence. Even problem-solving intelligence. Especially the Big One; we bred eight originally, but when she came in, she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one... when she looks at you, you can
*see* she's working things out
.
- The scene at the climax when Alan, Ellie, and the kids get to the Control Room. Ellie immediately runs to Nedry's console to reactivate the park's security systems while Alan waits at the door with a shotgun. He sees their primary concern immediately, with the camera following his gaze, as he says, "The door locks! Ellie, boot up the door locks!" Then he looks back up and the raptor that was following them is
*right there*, where she *wasn't* literally seconds ago, looking straight into his eyes. They both look down at the lock, and before Alan can do anything to stop it, the raptor works the handle and manages to throw the door wide open before Alan gets it closed again. It takes both Alan *and* Ellie to keep the door closed, and they're struggling with all their might the whole time. Repeat: *one* raptor is physically stronger than *two* grown adults. **Alan:** *[struggling with the raptor]* No, boot up the door locks! Ellie, get back! Boot up the door locks! **Ellie:** *[joining him by the door]* You can't hold it by yourself!
- There's also the menacing look on the raptor's face when she looks at Alan. Probably the closest a reptilian snout can come to a Slasher Smile. It's bloodcurdling.
- Preceding this, Grant was aware that there were two raptors on the loose and asked Ellie if she was sure the raptor at the compound was contained. She assured him yes, "Unless they figure out how to open doors." Cut to the door of the kitchen opening, where Lex and Tim are hiding. What's almost scarier than the kids being in danger, is the fact that Grant and Ellie are unaware that the raptor's intelligence goes beyond what they imagine. It just adds to the tension when Grant looks from the raptor's face to the door handle and sees it start to move, because the audience gets an idea of what's coming.
- A minor one comes from Hammond himself. Throughout the movie, he's been nothing but a kind old man who may lose his temper once or twice, but he's the quiet voice of grandfatherly dignity. And then he hears Alan shooting over the phone and screams "GRANT!" at the top of his lungs. A minor scare, but one of the most unexpected.
- It's even worse than that. He just got a
*very* unexpected phone call from Alan and knows that his grandchildren are there with him, safe, from Alan's own words. All is well, they're going to be fine and get out of this alive. And then he hears the sound of glass shattering, Ellie yelling a warning, then gunshots, then **nothing**. All that relief he feels hearing that Tim and Lex are safe is instantly replaced by utter horror. He knows they had been in danger just because the raptors are still skulking around, but now he knows that one of them is *right there*, almost in the room with them.
- A more subtle one, but when the raptor breaks through the glass, the reason Grant isn't shooting anymore is that you can see the shotgun has been discarded because it's jammed by an extractor malfunction. A bit of visual storytelling showing both how inexperienced and terrified Grant is at that moment.
- There's also the genuine horror in Ellie's voice when the relieved mood with her, Alan, and the kids in the Control Room is abruptly shattered by a loud crash from behind them and the realization the raptor isn't going to be denied its prey by a locked door. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicPark1993 |
JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**BOO!**
A Survival Horror game that looks like it was made by Tim Burton, for
*fourth graders* in mind? Hell yes...
- Ms. Grunkle frequently appears to taunt you. She can show up
*anywhere*...
- What happens if you don't talk to Madame Pomreda and do an activity anyways? Her eyes appear in front of you and say "Come to Madame Pomreda's to accept your challenge!"
-
**Repsac**, as seen in the page image. He is heavily implied to be The Dragon to Ms. Grunkle. His sole purpose in the game? To hop out in front of you when you least expect it and ask you a question. Get it wrong? Then you lose health. Lose enough? You go to the labyrinth. Oh, and he'll jump you *inside* the Labyrinth, too - so no luck hiding in there.
- The Labyrinth. There is no real sound there, apart from the background music. Nothing Is Scarier....
- The boat sequence can be scary if you have a slow computer... meaning you go
*forever*.
- Madame Pomreeda herself is pretty creepy, especially when you first meet her; it seems fine at first, until she lifts the curtain to reveal a face that doesn't look right.
- Nearby Pomreeda's tent there is a background element nearby resembling a circus wagon labeled Cirque du Jumpe Start. Nothing happens when you click on it (attempting to will cause you to turn left or right instead), but if you press Up on the arrow keys, you're... ahem, "treated", to THIS◊ ghastly image, with a scary unique track playing in the background. Brrrr. Even worse, its an abandoned version of the town from the original version of
*Jump Start Pre-K*.
- One of the scariest locations in the entire game is The Woods. The entrances to this play are foreboding enough, two trees with menacing faces with a pathway blocked by webbing. But that's NOTHING compared to what's INSIDE the Woods. All of the trees have agonized faces on their trunks, and equally scary ghosts pass by you frequently. Not to mention that at the beginning of each pathway within the woods are woodland creatures with anguished, horrified expressions. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeHauntedIsland |
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The whole film is
*this* gory.
With heroes suffering truly horrifying deaths like the page image, Darkseid is back to torment the heroes once more.
- It's revealed that Darkseid has been monitoring the Justice League the entire time by watching everything from Cyborg's cybernetic eye.
- The fact that Darkseid upgraded his Parademons to Paradooms. Fighting Doomsday was bad enough, but fighting mooks with Doomsday's DNA is more horrifying in numbers. Even the Para-Dooms themselves are very horrifying to look at by themselves, so just imagine getting surrounded by those faces, especially in what may be your final moments.
- Everything going wrong with the botched invasion on Apokolips.
- The Paradooms ripping off Hawkman's wings.
- Aquaman getting ripped in half by Darkseid's Omega Beams.
- Shazam getting his right leg ripped off by a Paradoom.
- Martian Manhunter screaming as he's set on fire.
- A Paradoom clawing Mera's face, possibly about to break her skull clean in two, judging by the cracking sound. And the next time we see her, exactly half of her head is mechanical...
- After Cyborg boom tubes Shazam back to Earth, Darkseid comes in and rips off both of Cyborg's arms with a Slasher Smile. And then sticks him in an Apokolips wall as an interface.
- Wonder Woman getting her left arm torn off by a Paradoom.
- Superman injected with Kryptonite.
- Constantine is forced to flee and watch Zatanna get overwhelmed and ripped apart by the Paradooms.
- The Teen Titans never stood a chance against the Paradooms, and we have to remember that most of them are teenagers. Among the causalities is Starfire who got ripped in half by a Paradoom, and we see all her internal organs graphically spilled out of her torso!
- After Nightwing dies, Damian tries to revive him with the Lazarus Pit. It succeeds, but it drives him insane and Damian has to lock him up in a room wearing a straitjacket. Not helping matters is the deranged werecat Michael Jackson-esque Nightmare Face he makes as he turns around, complete with an incredibly veiny, crazed, yellow eye and an absolutely terrifying slasher smile! Just see for yourself!
- The heroes dying trying to destroy the Reapers.
- The revelation that Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Mera, Hawkman and Starfire were turned into cyborg Furies by Darkseid.
- John Stewart being reduced to a charred skeleton when he tries to activate the Green Lantern power core, only for Batman to pour lava on him from a Boom Tube.
- These pages often speak of Batman being brainwashed by Darkseid, but that word implies mind control. The truth is that
*Batman*, shown to possess the greatest willpower in the League, was *tortured until he broke*.
- The Suicide Squad gets ready for their final stand. The time it takes for the shield to break and Paradooms to enter was three seconds, yet Lex is already dead, Boomerang is bleeding out and the group is quickly getting overwhelmed. The Paradooms did all of this THREE SECONDS.
- What could be worse than a Superman pumped full of Kryptonite and rendered helpless? A demon-possessed Superman. Even Constantine, who loved snarking at Superman since he felt the mess was his fault, is terrified at this turn of events.
- Batman being forced to murder his teammates, the man who is known for his no-kill rule. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar |
Jurassic Park: Trespasser / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- In one office in the lab level, there are 83 tally marks and the phrase "2 months" on a whiteboard. One of the hunters must have survived and been holed up in that building after being left behind. There are no bodies nearby, and neither voice-over makes a comment. The thought of being left alone of an island filled with hungry dinosaurs is scary enough, but the tally marks appear to be written in blood!
- The diner in level 4, The Town. ||To elaborate. When you enter the diner, a raptor is spawned in the back, and the door is standing but off of its hinges. The raptor will often come in by knocking down the door and scaring the hell out of you||.
- Somewhat lessened when you find out ||Raptors can't go inside buildings without the ATX2 mod, but that won't stop it from hiding on the roof and jumping you once you leave without any warning.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicParkTrespasser |
Justice League: Gods and Monsters / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Practically everything related to this Universe's version of Harley Quinn. Unlike her mainstream counterpart, she's an unrepentant Serial Killer who gruesomely murders people and stores their severed remains in her fridge, or uses their corpses to build toys. She's also trying to build herself a "family", which consists of a bunch of random people she killed, posed around a sofa, and then stapled their faces so they'd constantly be smiling. To make it worse, one of her victims is
*a child.*
- The build-up to her introduction. As Batman wanders through her hideout, he finds various disturbing things, including body parts frozen in her refrigerator and a Jack-in-the-box made out of a bisected human corpse. He turns to another box, in which a thumping is heard. When he opens it, he finds a terrified teenage girl, bound and gagged, and her clothes ripped. He removes her gag and unties her and this exchange occurs:
**Girl:**
Oh thank God! I thought it was her!
**Batman:**
It's alright, I'll get you out of here.
**Girl:**
But she-SHE'S BEHIND YOU!
(
*Cue Harley attacking them with a mallet*
)
- It shows Harley picking her teeth in the mirror at one point, after we clearly see that she keeps some of her victims' body parts in the refrigerator. It's not entirely illogical to assume she could be a cannibal in addition to a murderer.
- Batman revealing his vampire fangs before brutally feeding on Harley as she screams in terror is no slouch either.
- The slaughter of the scientists by the Metal Men. Very long and very gruesome.
- Earlier, the murders of Drs. Fries, Palmer, and Stone. Even worse with the last one, as he dies together with his young son Victor.
- The Bat-Drones mouth when bared always looks like a Slasher Smile.
- Those poor horses. First, they get shrunk. Then they get placed into a truck. Then they get attacked by a monster. Then there's an accident. Oh, and at least one of them has an unfortunate encounter with a really big cat. And folks say the humans had it rough. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters |
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- There are so many horrific scenes of violence and deaths we can't list them all.
- Grifter gets shot full of Amazonian arrows, with the last going through his head.
- Among the most, if not the most horrific deaths of the entire film is that of Billy Batson, especially since he was in the form of a ten year old kid. Those shocked, fearful eyes are haunting, and even worse, the other kids, who were likely like siblings to him considering their powers, had to watch.
- Let's start with the film's first tragic death. The younger Barry Allen returns home for his mother's birthday and finds the place has been broken into. He's horrified to find her corpse. Nothing Is Scarier works with the scene of the smashed window and splattered birthday cake. And the horrified look on Barry's face...
- Professor Zoom is nightmare fuel incarnate in this film. Firstly, his appearance is menacing with pale skin and red pupils in black eyes to his soft, ominous tone. He's also pretty willing to destroy himself along with The Flash if it means he'll perish. Then there's how he'll allow the world to be utterly destroyed, just so The Flash will be miserable and suffer throughout every final moment. In his last scene, he also brutally manhandles the Flash on a ledge (which reminds one of the island scene in
*Superman Returns* - only much more violent).
- Even his death, facing the camera while a bullet flies through his forehead from behind, is nightmare inducing. Yes, he definitely had it coming, but how the heck did this get a PG-13 rating?
- The Stinger wherein a boom tube opens over Earth and Parademons fly directly at the camera.
- The flashback with Martha Wayne in the Flashpoint timeline. She's laughing crazily while coddling Bruce's body and using his blood as paint for the traditional Joker smile. And just before Thomas Wayne was brutally beating Bruce's killer to death.
- The sort of grief that must have caused FP!Batman's extra brutality. Bruce as Batman is already a prime example of Good is Not Nice, but when his
*father* dons the cowl... Well, there's a reason why it is said that a parent should never have to bury their child. As mad with grief as Batman went after the deaths of his parents, his parents lost their own sanity even worse when he died instead.
- Barry's first attempt to get his powers back by recreating the experiment and zapping himself with lightning. It goes about as well as it would in real life. Afterwards we see Barry with all of his skin charred off and in considerable pain as Batman nurses him back to health. He eventually gets it to work and gets his skin back, but the whole ordeal is enough to make you cringe at what Barry must be feeling physically.
- When Aquaman rips open Cyborg's casing, we can see his beating heart, encased in metal.
- The hideous results of the government experimenting with Kryptonian DNA, one of which looks like an attempt to splice Kal-El's with Krypto's.
- Seeing the bloody results of when superhumans simply do not hold back when fighting each other, even the heroes. This occurs most starkly with the normally pacifist Kal-El, who incinerates a battalion of soldiers (though that one was an accident) and removes Aquaman's arm.
- Ever wonder how dangerous Aquaman and Wonder Woman could be if they removed their moral obligations that holds them back in taking out their enemies? In this you see how terrifying they could be.
- Diana, in general. She's so bloodthirsty she's not even herself. She takes pleasure in killing trespassers, unflinchingly guts children and has no problems knowing that's she's destroying the world. She literally lives in a hell-scape and honestly believes she's going to purify the Earth of all men and make it a better place. Yet, she has no problems with women getting killed in the crossfire as well.
- Special mention goes to Diana beheading Arthur's wife. Diana was having an
*affair* with Arthur, and when his wife, in her heartbreak, dared to confront Diana on it... Yeah.
- She also sends Mera's severed head to Aquaman as a "gift". One wonders what she did with Mera's headless body?
- Aquaman himself can be quite frightening. In stark contrast to his personality in the main timeline, he's an utterly ruthless, revenge-obsessed Evil Overlord with no regard for human life. To clarify, this is a guy who sank all of Western Europe into the ocean, killing over 100 million people, all for the sake of destroying the Amazons.
- Aquaman activating the Captain-Atom-powered bomb that kills the remaining characters engulfing the landscape after being fatally injured by Diana. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox |
Jurassic Park III / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Alan's nightmare onboard the private jet where he awakens to see the whole plane abandoned...and suddenly there's a Velociraptor in his face saying his name. Questionable as its execution may be, the very premise of the nightmare is legitimately frightening.
The whole plane scene when the Spinosaurus is introduced.
Paul:[hears a roar respond to his wife's megaphone use] ...What was that?
Billy: It's a Tyrannosaurus.
Alan: I don't think so. [hears gunshots in the jungle] It sounds bigger.
The death of Udesky, who is horribly used as living bait by the Velociraptors. They pretty much paralyze him (but don't kill him... yet), wait for one of the other humans to try and help him, and spring out when Amanda does. However, the humans escape, and the raptors leave... but not before one of them snaps Udesky's neck, putting him out of his misery.
Unlike their predecessors in the previous two films, the Velociraptors in this movie are a lot smarter, can communicate, are better parents, and are willing to work together to bring down their prey... their targets mainly being the protagonists.
The Spinosaurus. It kills the T. rex. Let that sink in fully. The T.rex, the very dinosaur that seemed an unstoppable force that chased down cars, ripped apart a raptor pack, ran rampant through hunter camps and San Diego in the prior two films; goes toe-to-toe with the Spinosaurus and loses.note : Admittedly, it was a noticeably smaller T. rex and probably an immature sub-adult, who may have been less experienced. And the sail-backed super predator doesn't ever stop throughout of this and proceeds to be a verypersistent, chasing the protagonists across the island and surviving being shot by anti-vehicle rifles and getting rammed by a plane. No matter what is thrown at it, man's machine or beast of nature, it seems to never stop chasing its prey.
Considering it was hit by their plane after being shot at, the reason why the Spinosaurus seems to have it out for the survivors is made very clear. It's really ticked off.
It's also seen in broad daylight multiple times, so the often calm moments afforded by daylight are no defense this time ago. Once that juggernaut came barreling out to kill Cooper, it refused to stop.
Re-watching Jurassic Park III after Jurassic World (or, more accurately, some of the promo material for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), the Spinosaurus becomes even more frightening. Let's just say that the Indominus rex was not the first experimental super predator that Dr. Wu came up with...
Building on that, the continually mounting fossil evidence that the real Spinosaurus aegypticus was not only extremely different from the one in this movie but may well have been one of the weirdest dinosaurs to ever live retroactively makes this spino even scarier. This thing just becomes more and more unnatural as time goes on, moreso than the Indominus, Indoraptor, and maybe even the Scorpios Rex, all of which were deliberately designed out-of-universe to be the genetically-engineered theme park monsters that Grant derides InGen's dinosaurs as. Because those ones weren't meant to be real dinosaurs; even the artistic liberties with the raptors can be handwaved as "Oh, this really is a real dromaeosaurid, they just have a different name in this universe" and the dilophosaurs were merely a demonstration that you can't know everything about an animal just from its bones. But the Spinosaurus is supposed to be a real animal, and it only becomes less of one with every new discovery.
The sound of the phone is still ringing in the Spinosaurus's belly. It can give one chills when it's discovered standing several feet behind the surviving group when they realize their mistake.
Paul: How did you know we were here? Eric: The phone! That stupid jingle from the store! I heard it! Paul: My phone? Eric: Yeah, your satellite phone. Amanda: Where is it? Paul: I don't have it. Amanda: Well when did you use it last? Paul: On the plane. I got a call on the plane, and... Amanda: ...what? Paul:I loaned it to Nash. He must've had it when he— *dee-dee-deedly-deedee-DEEdee*
Then its whole concluding scene with the boat. The Spinosaurus, chiefly protrayed by the largest and most powerful animatronic Stan Winston ever created, chases down the boat into the river and proceeds to tear it apart during a full torrential downpour. During said scene, we're led to believe that Paul was Killed Off for Real as Amanda and Eric cry for him. Fortunately, it turns out that he's OK.
The boat scene itself starts with a Shark Fin of Doom in the form of a sail peaking out of the water. Between that, the Spinosaurus having an entirely silent approach, and the claw marks on the tour boat from the opening where the attack was obscured by a fog bank; and we're given a pretty good implication of what killed the DinoSoar crew.
Billy has a machine sculpt the resonating chamber of a Velociraptor and blows into it to demonstrate. The look on Alan's face is priceless; it's clear that he has nightmares about that sound, and it's enough to make your teeth curl.
Such a thing is even discussed in an earlier scene, where Alan talks about his new theory with Ellie.
Alan: Do you remember the noises they made? Ellie: I try not to.
When they trap one raptor in the facility, it starts making a panicked, but consistent noise. Alan has a major Oh, Crap! moment, as he realizes his theory about raptor intelligence was right on the money.
Alan: It's calling for help.
While it's almost certainly coincidence, at a couple points the raptor's call almost actually sounds like a heavily-stuttered version of the word "help".
The whole scene with the Pteranodons. The introduction is specially frightening. First, Amanda crosses the foggy bridge before her son does and, once on the other side, calls for her son to cross over. Once Eric goes, Alan soon realizes that they're all in a "bird cage." Cue Eric alone on the foggy bridge as an ominous, tall, inhuman shadow appears in front of him. Then the screaming starts...
Then we're led to believe that Billy was killed after being stabbed and pecked at by a pair of Pteranodons. The next scene then shows a terrified Alan looking into the glaring eyes of a third Pteranodon before running away.
A deleted scene makes it even worse when you know what caused him to meet his end. According to the deleted scene, after Eric managed to release himself from the tree but before Ben was able to drop from his parachute, they were beset by a pack of velociraptors. Eric was forced to flee, leaving Ben behind. And considering Ben's skeletal remains were found still suspended by the parachute cords, they killed him before he ever even had the chance to free himself. Imagine being this man, trapped in your own parachute after just surviving that ordeal, being ripped apart by velociraptors, possibly even having his legs torn away from him while still alive, knowing how they feed. Truly gruesome to imagine. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicParkIII |
Justified / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Beware of spoilers! Only major spoilers and spoilers relating to the current season (6) are whited out!**
- The prospect of growing up with your own tombstone ready and waiting for you out in the backyard can be pretty terrifying.
- Bo Crowder's henchman Hestler Jones, is a convicted sex offender. He never does anything onscreen, but he's a
*very* unsettling man. Ray Porter gives an extremely slimy, shuddery performance.
- Boyd finding his flock dead and hung from trees by Bo.
- Mags Bennett's ways of punishing her sons are simply terrifying.
- The climax of Brother's Keeper: Raylan going after Loretta after she has been abducted by Coover Bennett. He tracks them to the woods in the dead of night surrounded by fog and finds Loretta (thankfully just unconscious) just as Coover bears down on him. The wide shot is something out of a horror movie.
- The final scene in "Guy Walks into a Bar," in which Quarles snorts drugs and disrobes while talking incoherently. He walks naked into the bathroom, where Donovan is bound and gagged, suggesting Quarles has torture and sexual assault in mind.
- Delroy beating up Ellen May.
- Ellen May watching the doctor and her friend being brutally murdered while hiding under a desk.
- Limehouse's slaughterhouse, where he chops up hog carcasses and the limbs of evil carpetbaggers.
- In
*Slaughterhouse* a desperate Quarles takes a mother and her two teenage sons hostages. After spending a few hours threatening to kill them if they do anything out of line, he forces the mother out of the car and and tells her eldest son to start driving without her. She runs after the car screaming. Later, Raylan can't even promise the woman her sons will be fine, since he knows Quarles's history and knows that, in all likelihood, they won't be.
- Mason brutalizing Drew Thompson's widow after taking her captive in "Truth and Consequences". Had the marshals not shown up in time, it would have gotten even worse.
- Jimmy on the receiving end of multiple snake bites in "Truth and Consequences". He and Colt snuck into Last Chance Salvation Church at night, only to discover that the St. Cyrs were using poisonous snakes to guard the tent.
- The deaths of Sharon Edmunds and Arlo Givens are surprisingly horrifying for this show. The first gets shot in the neck and dies a slow, undignified death while the second gets messily beaten up and stabbed in the chest with scissors, only to collapse while making a lot of disturbing sounds.
- A subtle one but when Raylan tries to tease Tim about being too old to read the books he does, Tim fires back that he was 'probably two young to be blowing the heads off've Taliban'.
- The season long plot between Tim, Colton and Mark. Tim meets Colton in his role as a newly discharged soldier who has become Boyd's enforcer. Tim sincerely offers the man pathways into law enforcement but Colton is very much on his own thing. Colton is a drug addict and while trying to get high finds a friend of Tim, Mark, at the apartment of the dealer Colton is going to rob. Colton murders them both, leaving Tim quietly devastated and taking some uncharacteristic actions to chase down and confront Colton. Later, Colton sets a trap for the Drew Thomson decoy convoy which Tim spots and saves them all from, but by his own admission, at first he can't tell if he really senses a trap or he's just having a PTSD episode. From a character who keeps so much below the surface it's a quiet but harrowing series of glimpses into his life.
- When Boyd and Duffy visit Sammy Tonin in Detroit, Sammy's hands are covered in blood. Offscreen, a man is screaming in a nearby room, where one of Sammy's henchmen has taken a chainsaw. Apparently the Detroit Mafia uses Cold-Blooded Torture to punish its enemies.
- Alan Tudyk as Elias Marcos. He made such a scary impression with his few minutes of screen time that some viewers actually thought he'd be more than a Filler Villain.
- Daryl's villainous breakdown in "Weight". He brutally beats Wendy, leaving her stunned on the floor and shouting that he hates her. Then, he tearfully compels Kendall to forge a blood bond with him. Watching him slash his hand, slash a clearly frightened Kendall's hand, and forcefully clasp their hands together showed that Daryl is becoming dangerously unstable.
- The scene offers a dose of fridge horror when viewers realize that Daryl could have any number of pathogens in his blood, given what we know of his sexual habits.
- Daryl's beatdown of Mike isn't any easier to watch.
- Ethan Picker's death. Boyd Crowder pulls out an ordinary carton of cigarettes, presses down on it, and then throws the carton to Picker. Seconds later, the carton, which is actually a bomb,
*explodes*, obliterating Picker's chest and spraying blood all over the room. This is by far one of the most gruesome deaths in the entire series.
- Mr. Yoon's Mexican drug cartel thinks decapitation is out of style. So they now remove the skin of their enemies.
- Alberto Ruiz takes it up a further notch in "Restitution" when he describes in detail to Boyd how he will skin him.
- When a handful of high-powered explosives reduce the Wiz to chunky salsa in "The Trash and the Snake", it's a combination of nightmare fuel and black humor.
- Ty Walker executing the two EMTs in "The Hunt" is surprisingly horrific for a show that usually reserves the more... "colorful" deaths for villains. He stabs one of them with a needle full of sedatives, shoots him to death while he's on the ground, and shoots the second EMT several times in the chest and once in the head without any kind of Gory Discretion Shot.
- In "Burned", Avery Markham's newest Psycho for Hire is introduced in a rather frightening way. The teenage Loretta McCready comes home to find a dead snake in her living room with it's head blown off. A second later, her door bursts open and an unsettling young man barges in. He smiles and acts friendly to her and all the while he brandishes his gun while alternating between making thinly veiled death threats and creepy flirtations. The entire scene makes him come across as a mix between an unhinged psychotic and a sexual predator.
- The diner scene in which Boon bullies the waiter and the college student in "Trust".
- In "The Promise", Markham's death via a bullet to the left eye was gruesome. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Justified |
Jungle Juice / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Per Spoilers Off rule, all spoilers in this page are left unmarked.
"A little gift from me to you.
*Dig in.*"
- In general, some of the mutations that Jungle Juice can give you can be seriously disturbing. Suchan was afraid of being labeled a freak for his wings, but he was positively lucky in comparison to less fortunate folk.
- The valedictorian in the graduation video had the
*entire head* of a fly, plus its hairy arms and legs, as well as tiny vestigial wings in the place of hair. It's no wonder she was crying Tears of Joy when she got it removed.
- Among the civilians seen in the first look at the Nest, there's a giant millipede-human who can be seen towering over a
*six-story building* in one shot, and taking up an entire section of the road in another. It's terrifying to think that if someone sprays the wrong bug, Jungle Juice can turn them into a kaiju!
- For the students that can be seen fighting during course registration, there's an extra whose got perhaps the most bug features out of any character, with their entire body basically being an arthropod plus a human head attached.
- While Suchan and Mihui are seeing a movie, Mihui has go to the bathroom after spilling her drink. Shortly after, a man enters the theater room shouting that everyone has to leave the building immediately, before
*getting impaled* by a Praying Mantis-human note : See top of page image, who is specifically hunting down Suchan so he can eat him. Suchan barely gets away, but then gets quickly caught up to and is only saved by Mihui, who had thrown her drink at the assailant. The Mantis responds by throwing Mihui out the window, which would have definitely killed her had Suchan not used his wings.
- Suchan hits an all-time low following the movie-theater incident (turns out he was completely right in thinking that exposing his wings would ruin his life), and makes an attempt to
*cut off his wings with a pair of scissors*. While he ultimately can't go through with it, the attempt alone was enough to warrant a Self Harm-Warning for the chapter. Doubles as a Tear Jerker.
- Huijin confronts Jangjun Kim and his goons in order to get the rest of the class's IDs back, which he had stolen as part of his plan to get a Cinderella. While Huijin makes short work of the mooks, the tables quickly turn when Jangjun gets her into the water, as it turns out- he's a giant water bug. Huijin gets caught off guard, overpowered, and nearly drowns as he straight up attempts to
*murder her*.
- What's just as bad is later on it's shown that he was actually ordered to kill Professor Ji's top student by a mysterious someone, who swiftly kills him for failing.
- It's worth noting that cockroaches can survive up to forty minutes without air, so it's unknown if drowning Huijin would have actually worked, which diminishes the Nightmare Fuel a bit.
- While Professor Ji's busy chasing around his class with a chainsaw as a first test (which itself would be terrifying if it wasn't
*hilarious*), the mysterious woman has broken into the Nest, killed several security guards, and made it to where the Mantis-man is locked up. While she can't unlock the door with Jangjun's student ID, she can with the Professor's security pass which she got from a student... Who suddenly realizes that he doesn't know why he stole the security pass, why he helped her, or how he even got there. He's then offered to the released Mantis-man as a meal. (See page image) You can guess what happens next.
- Insect-Human Cannibalism later gets expanded upon in detail by a Tawny Earwig-human, who's surprised that a Dragonfly-human like Suchan has never "fed" before (which itself was in reaction to Suchan attacking the guy, after he had seemingly
*killed Huijin*). It turns out that to predatory insect-humans, the act of consuming another insect-human is an overwhelmingly addictive experience, like "eating prime cuts of meat dipped in drugs." On top of that, eating other insect-humans makes one stronger over time, and the Earwig has done it to the point where he can No-Sell all of Suchan's attacks. And then Suchan's wings suddenly stopped moving because he overused his Complex, and at that point he would've been killed (and then eaten) had Huijin not saved him.
- While Huijin's backstory is mostly Tear Jerker, the reveal of how she became an insect-human is horrifying. Her Complex is that of a roach, and she got it when two classmates got petty-revenge on her, because earlier Huijin's brother (whom had
*just died*) kicked one of the classmate's boyfriend (who was being a dick). So they had emptied a box filled with hundreds, if not *thousands* of cockroaches through her street curb-window.
- Huijin takes a hit aimed at Suchan, and gets a hole the size of her head torn through her torso for it. Cockroach or not, this
*kills her*, and her body gets tossed side right in front of him. As a result, the balance between Suchan's survival instincts and reasoning utterly breaks, and his Complex takes over, putting him in a state where he's little more than an animal. The Tawny Earwig-human gets utterly curb-stomped despite his efforts, as Suchan breaks his pincers *with his mouth*, before biting the rest of the guy's arm off, piece by piece, until it's completely gone and he's barely able to speak. And then Suchan prepares to *eat him*, and would have done so had a mysterious someone not interrupted and knocked him unconscious. This was a good thing, because if Suchan had even swallowed one bite (everything that got his mouth when he was tearing the earwig-human's arm off was spat out), there would have been no going back.
- Later on we see Suchan accidentally swallows a piece of insect-human meat. Not even a large piece, but a small bit that got shoved into his mouth faster than he expected when he dropped his guard. He realizes what happened after his sense of smell gets so sharp that he can't help but start to think of them as being delicious despite being his friends. And while he tells himself he's under control, his body ends up trying to eat Huijin with everyone desperately trying to stop him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JungleJuice |
J-WITCH Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Someone killed Phobos and Elyon's parents and not only left
*no* evidence, but framed Phobos *extremely* thoroughly.
- Jade turning into the Queen again, partially because
*this* time she's fully aware of what's going on and is having a panic attack after summoning the Shadowkhan and siccing them on Uriah, and partially because it's implied that Jade is fully aware of what the Queen does after taking full control.
- When Phobos learns that Tarakudo's plans with the Queen ended up making Jade a Guardian, he threatens the Oni King with the dissolution of their alliance. This pisses off said Oni so much that he proves himself Eviler than Thou by using his Psychic Powers to restrain the Prince and calmly promise him unspeakable torment if he ever threatens him again, making Phobos experience true fear for one of the first times in his life.
- Oni-Black threatens to kill Cedric, Wong, and Miranda to force them into obedience.
- Hak Foo is
*insanely* powerful as a Dark Chi warrior, and shows no qualms about trying to kill the Guardians and their allies.
- Apparently one can just buy a "Japanese encyclopedia of evil" on
*Amazon*.
- In "Fright Night Fight", Irma controls Wong's sweat (a result of being close to Taranee's fire) to go after the dark wizard's
*eyes*.
- Oni-Chris tries to
*kill* Paco when he catches the latter using the Ox Talisman in their duel, with the Oni then proceeding to take over his body altogether.
- "The Seal of Phobos" reveals that Wong plans to take Elyon's powers for himself, use that power to steal the power of the Heart of Kandrakar, then force Tarakudo to submit with said power, allowing him to use the nine Shadowkhan tribes as an army to conquer not just Earth and Meridian, but
*every other realm as well*, then throw Elyon, Phobos, and the heroes into the Shadow Realm for eternity.
- Alchemy puts on one half of the Crab Khan mask to gain an advantage against Oni-Valmont, and shortly afterwards, the mask begins to corrupt her.
- When Hak Foo crashes into Cavigor like a meteor, it's made clear that some of the defeated guards were
*killed* by the impact blast.
- Wong and Cedric ruin the attempt to make peace between Phobos and the rebellion, which was
*genuine* in this universe, all thanks to Tarakudo's manipulations. He then reveals the duo's actions to Phobos to manipulate him further into their alliance.
- Irma sends Cedric into a horde of alligators that try to
*eat* him.
- Hak Foo was already bad enough as a
*regular* Dark Chi Warrior, but once he gets the Mini-Khan mask, he becomes even *stronger*, impossible as that seems.
- After Hak Foo loses his mask, Jade poofs him by
*cutting his head off* with a shadow-katana.
- Wong eventually makes a deal with Shendu; the former will redirect the ritual to steal Elyon's powers so that it instead returns Shendu to life, allowing him a chance for revenge on Jackie. In exchange, Shendu is to teach Wong how to control the Shadowkhan without a mask so he can control
*all* the tribes at once.
- It's made clear that War Is Hell after the failed castle assault is over, with over
*two hundred* rebels dead before Elyon intervenes (which is this in and of itself In-Universe, as Jade notes).
- Tynar's injuries are more explicit here, with a giant thorn going
*through* his shoulder.
- Krampus is a demon who devours the souls of children corrupted by negative emotions... and also their bodies, for good measure. He's also huge and powerful enough to give the Guardians a hard time.
- Cedric manages to wear the Mantis Mask, which is a similar situation to Hak Foo.
- The idea of Shendu being resurrected utterly terrifies the Chans, with the Guardians also being scared just from what they've heard of him. As Finn puts it, the other villains are bad enough, but Shendu's presence makes things apocalyptic.
- Wong successfully resurrects Shendu, not just with the Heart of Meridian but also managing to fuse the powers of the Talismans into him as well. And then to make things even worse, he absorbs the Mask of Tarakudo, giving him control of all nine Shadowkhan tribes as well.
- As a demonstration of his powers, Shendu easily overpowers Cedric, breaking first his hands, then his arms, then tosses him through a wall. And finally, Shendu
*incinerates* him, leaving nothing but a charred skeleton.
- Drago threatens to burn Cornelia, Irma, and Hay Lin alive if Taranee doesn't bring Will and Jade to the cave without the Heart.
- Apparently beings like Shendu and his siblings can just spontaneously form out of evil energies.
- Drago proves himself as a much more violent leader of the Knights of Vengeance than Raythor in canon, slashing a captive Drake's face for no reason other than his own amusement and setting a trap for the Guardians that involves sealing them in a canyon with a fire fueled by toxic chemicals that create poisonous smoke.
- The clash of Hay Lin's powers and the Tracker's new Demon Chi abilities creates a
*tornado* behind Sheffield, and if the Knight had escaped it could have devastated Heatherfield.
- Drago implies that he's hoping that getting the Guardians and their powers exposed would lead to them ending up on a dissection table.
- We get a reminder of just how dangerous Bai Tza was, with Jade telling the Guardians of her plan to trigger the San Andreas fault and send San Francisco into the sea. Tohru even says that she's arguably the
*most* dangerous Demon Sorcerer after Tso Lan and Shendu himself. And then Miranda gets her chi...
- Thanks to Drago being the one to animate them here, the Annihilators have claws and spiked spines on their back.
- After Drago finds out that Jade's Anti-Magic abilities can destroy the Annihilators, he sets out to stop her while ordering his remaining troops to level the city and leave no survivors as a distraction to the fight.
- If the Guardians absorb any of the Demon Chis, even one that matches their own element, the interaction could corrupt their Auramere, and maybe even damage the Heart itself.
- In Jade and Will's first shared dream, Shendu possesses Jackie, kills everyone they love, and destroys the Heart. Oh, and Drago comes out of Shendu's
*mouth*.
- In Cornelia's nightmare, she's forced to watch a Water Demon Chi empowered Miranda drown Caleb.
- During Irma and Cornelia's shared dream, Drago makes Irma's mouth disappear.
- When going after the Sky Demon Chi in Salem, Drago takes advantage of the unique conditions in order to summon up the vengeful spirits of those who were put to death as "witches" to attack the heroes, and it's appropriately horrifying.
- Drago and Nerissa successfully steal the walking stick belonging to the Ben-Shui chosen one, allowing them to further their plans for Jade.
- In addition to his canon victims, Drago manages to hypnotize both Jade
*and* Jackie, two of the most dangerous members of the heroes. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JWITCHSeries |
K.A.A.N / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The atmosphere of the video for KAANCEPTS is ominous due to the vintage video effect and being slightly contrasted.
- In the music video for PHOENIX, K.A.A.N gets kidnapped by himself but strikes back and escapes. The weather being overcast doesnt help.
- In the video for Straight Face there is a stabbing scene hindered by a black background to imply what K.A.A.N did to his college teacher. There are glowing skulls and medication bottles that fly across the screen. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KAAN |
JLA Adventures: Trapped In Time / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages, so all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!**
- Wonder Woman being ravaged by the Time Trapper's time warping powers, being aged up and de-aged back and forth before her regular aged self is tossed up into the sky vortex.
- Time Trapper himself. He appears as a purple-robed man with his head constantly facing downwards, and the only trace you see of his face is the lower half, Palpatine-style. From what we see of his hands, they're wrapped in mummy like bandages. For most of the movie he seems to be held back by a Restraining Bolt called the Eternity Glass (a skeletal hourglass, how fitting) that Future!Luthor takes advantage of, forcing the Trapper to be his slave (glowing chains included). However, once the heroes succeed in their mission in the past, Future!Luthor is easily wiped from existence by the Time Trapper, who reveals that his Eternity Glass turns into an Artifact of Doom in his own hands. He most nearly succeeds in his plan to remake the world if it hadn't been for those meddling kids and the Justice League.
- And it doesn't end there. When the Time Trapper reveals himself to the Legion of Doom and kneels under Lex's orders, you can see a bit of transparency if you look close enough, adding to his ghostly effect, which remains throughout the film. In reality, Time Trapper is an Energy Being made up of Dark Matter, shown when Karate Kid scans him. Not only that, the only reason that Time Trapper isn't himself erased when he banishes Future!Lex is because he exists outside of time itself...meaning no paradox can even dent him. Yikes.
- Also, his reaction to Dawnstar's light energy. Even though he's made of Dark Matter, the Time Trapper doesn't scream out in agony; he
*hisses* and lifts up his head, revealing his decayed, zombified face with glowing purple eyes. When Batman and Robin play hot potato with the Eternity Glass, you can just see pure, unbridled fury raging through the Trapper's face. It's a good thing he was sealed back and returned to the 30th century. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JLAAdventuresTrappedInTime |
KaBlam! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Not only does
*KaBlam!* collide cartoons and comics, it can be horrifying at times.
- There was a Running Gag where Mr. Foot would shove a person into the trunk of the car and then drive off
*while the person is still sentient*. It's either Funny or creepy depending on who you ask.
- When he was shoved in, Ryan the creepy fanboy is seen to be taken to the dump on the back of the comic.
- Henry and June melting
*while sentient*. **June**
: I'm trying to melt. Y'know, like Meltman
.
**Henry**
: That's impossible!
- Ryan. He's a creepy Stepford Smiler that's
*really* obsessed with Henry and June.
- In the Henry and June pilot episode, he asks for
*tongue scrapings* and later *blood samples.* Talk about Squick.
- In general, there are plenty of And I Must Scream and Body Horror moments.
- The scenes with these tropes would look
*more* horrifying if they didn't use action figures.
- The Hodge Podge. Especially when you learn his backstory.
- The Hodge Podge was originally the Action League's accountant, but due to The Flesh's idiocy, ended up being wrecked in a blender and subsequently "operated" on by Bill. The outcome was the Hodge Podge.
- Theres also the fact that hes not a total idiot either. Hes accomplished such tasks as modifying a dolls voice box to flawlessly impersonate other characters, modifying his own body into a form that could access anything capable of playing music after creating a song that had subliminal messages to have the entire town against the league and creating a device to give total control of a car. Unlike The Mayor, Hodge Podge does not play around with his schemes, he takes them seriously absolutely gleeful the entire time and becoming more and more unhinged mentally. Hes absolutely brutal and violent with no remorse for his actions. Despite this he isnt even truly a villain hes just a guy who was turned into the nightmare hybrid due to former team members being incredibly incompetent. He just wants revenge thats it. And he'll never stop until he gets it.
- "A Toxic Tail" can be unsettling, especially to people who have arachnophobia. It also contains a ghostly scream at the end of the title screen tune.
- The whole point of "The Borrowers" is that Sniz and Fondue are trying to avoid a loan shark after they borrow a quarter from him.
- Also, the loan shark's bodyguard looks pretty disturbing.
- In "Solitaire Confinement," a burglar breaks into Sniz and Fondue's house and takes everything in it while Fondue just sits in front of his computer playing solitaire while it all happens.
- "Dark Vator" is all about Sniz and Fondue having an Elevator Failure. Also, the title screen scream from "A Toxic Tail" returns here.
- The end of the voodoo doll episode. The gypsy uncurses the clay that Sniz made a Fondue doll out of by taking the hat off. Fondue then can't find his hat, and we get some creepy close-ups of the now hat-less doll.
- Let's not forget the end of "Chicenary Chums", where Sniz is declared mentally insane and ENDS UP IN JAIL after Fondue pretends to be dead from one of Sniz's pranks. They both start laughing it off when Fondue visits him, and Fondue ends up in there too. Not what you'd expect from your average kids show.
- The animation itself can have an Unintentional Uncanny Valley effect on some viewers.
- The donut at the end of "Goldfish Heaven."
- Really, most of "Goldfish Heaven" ended up being pretty unnerving, as it was the show's pilot episode and the animation was a lot more rough compared to the rest of the show. This one shot of Larry laughing◊ ends up falling deep down into the valley.
- "Egghead" can be considered this.
- The robot Loopy made in "Hi-Fi Frankenstein."
- The goop creature that was formed with wart-removal cream.
- Oh yeah, let's not forget Loopy's Dad's legendary wart. Ewwwwwww...
- Also, the scene where the goop monster removes Dad's wart! Double ewwwwww! Advice: Don't watch that scene before, while, or after eating! Well, it does solve Dad's wart problem, but it's still a disgusting scene nonetheless!
- In "Mom's Mystery Casserole", Loopy goes inside the kitchen pantry, only to find out that most of the food in there is
*expired*. Then, she meets a bunch of sentient food, which each of the foods had a different idea of what to do with Loopy. She later insults the "king of the condiments," and all the sentient food begins to chase after her. She almost got sealed in a can.
- Oh, and what is the secret ingredient of the casserole? Fish sauce.
- How about pickled yam loaf?
- And the faces◊ Loopy and Larry make at the end of the short. Brr
- In "I (Don't) Believe I Can Fly", Loopy seems to give up on trying to get Mike the duck how to fly. But as she walks away, she falls onto a flag on a plane as it takes off and is holding on for dear life, even heading straight towards hitting the powerlines. Sure, she might have staged it all in an attempt to motivate Mike to fly, but Loopy came pretty close to dying!
- Prometheus is rather creepy looking and speaks in unintelligible, metallic noises. And while the shorts themselves are mostly slapstick, the opening is quite sinister.
- September started to have a Sanity Slippage because August forgot to feed him during "Paddleball Record."
- At the end of the short, the cat they found makes an extremely disturbing face towards the audience. You can see it here◊. It also appear at the episode's end credits.
- The faces Anemia and Iodine make when they scream are also disturbing.
- Anemia cuts open a toy rat and pours its insides in the cat's food bowl. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Kablam |
Juujika no Rokunin / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This is a shōnen manga, which is supposed to be somewhat like a Dragon Ball kind of adventure or a funny yet action-packed story like One Piece, right? ** WRONG. ** note : Although both of the above mentioned examples do have their fair shares of Nightmare Fuel moments
From sexual assault to outright Cold-Blooded Torture and gruesome murders, this has to be one of THE darkest Shōnen mangas that has ever been written, and for good reason. Needless to say, there is
and Nightmare Faces involved in this manga. Read at your own risk, if you dare
** A LOT OF GORE **
## General
## The Main Story
- The entire premise of the manga and the first chapter no less. Poor 12-year-old Uruma Shun gets repeatedly picked on by his peers, until he can take no more of it when they kill a stray kitten he had been secretly looking after. He transfer schools as a result, yet he doesnt name-check any of them. But not long after his transfer, the ringleader of the bullies, Kyou Shigoku, does the unthinkable. He decides to shove his friend, Madoka Hiro, onto the middle of the street so that Uruma's parents and little brother, who are driving at the time, would crash into him. Quickly thinking, the parents immediately steered to the right to avoid hitting the young boy ONLY to crash at some point. Worse, when Uruma's younger brother, Kakeru, who survived the ordeal, gets beaten bloody by Kyou with a rock and REPEATEDLY KNOCK HIM UNCONSCIOUS. Then Kyou sets the car wreck on fire, as Madoka awes at the sight while Kyou licks his lips in satisfaction. Yet somehow Kakeru managed to survive all that, only to end up in a coma. As a result, Uruma vows to have all of his bullies killed as he trains under his grandfather, who was an ex-militia member, for 4 years. Eventually, this would be followed up by a lot of torture, brawls, and blood.
- The beginning of Chapter 2. As Chizuru was walking by herself one day, suddenly, a perverted disgusting looking man jumps out of nowhere and attempts to sexually assault her, only for Uruma to show up in time and protect her. Uruma tells her to leave and that hell handle things with the police. Except he doesnt, he guts the would be rapist like a fish, satisfied that he does have the ability to kill, while glaring upwards at the screen.
- Senkouji's signaling for Chizuru to hold Uruma as he knocks him down. The face that he makes is enough for the audience to deduce that he is indeed faking his kind personality towards Uruma instead of genuinely trying to make amends with his former friend. And boy were they right in the next chapter...
- Senkouji's reveal of this true intentions after kidnapping Uruma and Chizuru. From strangling a white cat, shooting at its corpse with a nail gun and then firing warning shots at Uruma and Chizuru, and his attempt murder of Uruma, this part of the scene shows the audience how MESSED UP of a person Senkouji is. How much so? He has secretly bombed the place and threatens to pull the trigger should his captives try to escape, until Uruma gains the upper hand and exacts his first vengeance against Senkouji.
- Senkouji's torture and ultimate demise from Uruma himself. From peeling off some of Senkouji's skin to touching the parts of his body that was skinned off to cause him even the most amount of pain from the slightest touch, then shoots him with the exact BB gun model that his former tormenter used on him. He eventually dies from extreme shock and pain. It just shows us that Uruma WILL NOT be lenient on the monsters who made his life a living hell.
- Ushiro Yuuga putting a lighter under a prostitute's tongue after biting it during their make-out definitely counts. Not only does he show his cruel facial demeanor, but he also claims that she is necessary for his job. It would be even worse if he burned off her tongue...
- How about when Ushiro sexually assaults Karen, whos chained up in a room.
- When Ushiro attempts to kill Azuma Chizuru with a knife after confirming that she witnessed his rape of Karen the previous night... He even has a creepy-looking face. Had it not been for the timely arrival of another man, Ushiro would have killed Azuma and have left her for dead. However, he does give her a creepy message...
- Ganno's attempted sexual assault on Azuma. When the man attempts to attack Chizuru, there was nothing the girl could do but to get as far away from him as possible in the same room that she is in before Uruma intervenes and saves her. Had that not been the case, he would already have had his way with her, maybe even killed her if she kept resisting.
- Ushiro's torture and death. When Uruma places a form of opening device called the pear of anguish in his urethra, he immediately activates it, causing the device to open up like a petal as it starts stretching the insides of his urethra, causing him A LOT of pain. Then Uruma lets Karen finishes the job with a mini version of the pear of anguish and then shoves it inside his manhood. He eventually dies from severe blood loss.
- The outcome of Karen's abuse at the hands of Ushiro Yuuga. After being mistreated by Ushiro for a long time, she becomes insane to the point that she immediately commits suicide because she believed she can never go back to a normal life after all the hell that Yuuga put her through.
- Madoka Hiro's insanity also counts as he is shown to be pretty much mentally insane throughout his life. It's no wonder why a child got scared from his bullying and of his creepy smile upon bumping into him. When Kyou orders him to back off, Madoka decides to randomly poison a teen boy solely because he resembled the same kid who got scared from him.
- Uruma's confrontation with Madoka. Had Kaname not intervened, things would get very crazy for Uruma as he could have gotten more innocent people involved in the crossfire...
- Madoka's masturbation at home. The moment he thinks of Kaname, he ends up getting so attracted to the point that he even wants to assault her. ||Sadly, this did become true...|| Not to mention his horrific facial features as hes mad as hell for Uruma for being on good terms with Kaname and vows to kill him.
- ||Fast forward to Madoka pleasuring himself AFTER he attacked Kaname. He even thinks that the experience was so satisfying, that he plans to break into her home and assault her again! Showing just how twisted he is as a character.||
- Madoka Hiro's attempted food poisoning of the cast members of Romeo and Juliet with a random box of coffee can be said about this. His plan is that once Uruma is poisoned, vomiting on stage and messes up his acting more than it already is, (which all of his thoughts are presented as comedic, yet ironically horrifying and serious), his former victim would exit the building as he would stab the already poisoned young man. He just didnt take into account that some of the students took a little sip of the contaminated drink, spit it out, and warned everyone else not to drink it before Uruma takes the coffee. Unfortunately, when Kaname confronts him, this leads to...
- Madoka's torture and eventual death.
- His thumbs are gruesomely crushed by a medieval torture device.
- When Uruma suddenly leaves, Madoka manages to break free from his restraints and tries to run out. Then he collapse from the pain of his feet, then Uruma comes back and reveals why. Both of Madoka's biggest toes are cut off to prevent him from escaping.
- Kuga Daichi as a character. Asides from being the vilest character in the entire manga, he is also shown to be even more twisted than Madoka Hiro, and is far more aggressive than the other bullies as shown when he physically attacks both his male and female peers while also sexually assaulting his female counterparts.
- Kuga and Uruma's first fight as Kuga starts gaining the upper hand when fighting Uruma, even showing a creepy smile and tone as he attempts to finish Uruma off with his fists. Eventually, Uruma gains the upper hand and defeats Kuga by throwing him down from a distance, seemingly dislocating all his limbs and breaking off several of his teeth!
- Kuga's failed torture at the hands of Uruma. As Uruma dropped Kuga in a barrel of water with many flesh-eating shrimps, those shrimps immediately started feeding on Kuga, causing him immense pain! Had Anna not saved him in time, he would have been done for. ||But poor Anna horrifically suffers the price for saving him.||
- Kuga's final assault on ||his girlfriend, Anna. Not only did he sexually assaulted her to death,|| he even feels satisfied with his actions as a result! Worse, he did this out of his obsession with Kyou once again, even though she saved his life. Uruma calls him out on this but Kugas response is to beat him up even more and declare her feelings as one-sided.
- Kuga's beating of Uruma and announcement of his assault of Kyou: After knocking Uruma unconscious and tying his hands up, he starts BEATING THE HELL OUT OF THE TIED UP MAN, causing him to bleed a lot. Worse, he even plans on assaulting and murdering Kyou once he has his way with Uruma!
- Kuga and Uruma's second fight. As Uruma starts feeling lost in despair due to not being able to fight against Kuga, he starts to have hallucinations of Kyou taunting him. His ultimate desire to kill Kyou immediately signals him to untie his hands and grab a cinderblock, using it to smash Kuga's face multiple times with his face being destroyed into many pieces and blood splattering all over the room. And he keeps going and going long after Kuga passes on. The ending of Chapter 56 even shows his insane, yet frightening state.
- Uruma's murder of Anzai Zenichi in Chapter 58. When Anzai offers a hand to him to signify a friendship to help the teenager redeem himself and turn himself in for Kugas murder, the teenager decides to choke him instead. What makes this scene very horrifying is how Uruma has a terrifying face upon killing Anzai. What doesn't help is the fact that there is a panel in which the scene is shown from Anzai's perspective, making the scene looks as if the AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE BEING CHOKED BY URUMA HIMSELF. Overlaps with TearJerker.
- Uruma's shocked state when Oota asks him if he had seen Anzai Zenichi. Had she immediately found out about the ordeal between Uruma and Anzai, she would have arrested him!
- ||The sex scene in Chapter 62. When Kaname begs Uruma to have sex with her, he does so, but not without doing so in an aggressive way. When the next panel shows his face, he looks
hes assaulting her instead of actually participating in a consensual sexual activity! By all accounts, Kaname actually seemed to enjoy it! Notice that she never told him to stop but passionately calls out his name as she hugs him and then grips onto the sheets with one hand as she clings onto him with the other. Its a good thing she kept her eyes closed and his hair covering most of his face, otherwise she would have definitely freaked out if she saw his facial expression.|| ** AS IF **
- Chapter 63
- Jun's interrogation of Kaname as he is very frantic and paranoid over what Uruma did to her. He looks as if he's about to lash out at Kaname (when in reality, he only wants to make sure Uruma didn't do anything bad to her ever since she got assaulted by Hiro). Unfortunately, Kaname shoves him away from her as she tells him to leave her alone. Might overlap with TearJerker.
- The moment Jun leaves the house, as he starts lamenting about his actions towards Kaname, he starts thinking that Uruma did something very bad to her, eventually showing him calling Uruma by his last name properly for the first time, but not without his angry expression and tone.
- Kyou's appearance at the end of the chapter. The moment Kyou and Jun meet for the first time, Kyou appears to be recruiting Jun to have him join his gang of "researchers", who are actually a bad group of people dedicated to destroying people's lives!
- Chapter 65. From Bad to Worse doesnt begin to describe this chapter, lets start off with
- The Revolution Club. What is very shocking is that Kyou has amassed a large group of followers who are unaware of his true intentions. Worse, those people could have been brainwashed by Kyou into destroying people's lives and enjoying every second of it, just like Kyous original four underlings!
- The introduction of the four researchers. Andou Midori, Momoki Sana, Nogi Takashi, and Miguel all have creepy faces enough for the audience to deduce that not only are they sociopathic like Kyou and his late friends, but that they can be just as cruel as the ringleader of the bullies himself!
- Worse, those "researchers" might be even related to the late bullies in terms of appearance or personalities!
- Andou Midori->Kuga Daichi: While Andou has the appearance of a bookworm, his creepy and unexpressive face, as well as his tendency to attack people first, shows us that he might be similar to Kuga in terms of personality.
- Miguel->Senkouji Katsumi: Ironically, while Miguel shares Kuga's strength, he also shares Senkouji's charisma and "pretty boy" face while being just as cruel as the rest of the other bullies.
- Momoki Sana->Ushiro Yuuga: Although Momoki might look more like Kyou in terms of their face, the fact that she looks like someone who is mentally insane, yet with an attractive appearance gives us the fact that she is using her appearance to seduce other people into following her, only for her to either kill or kidnap them once she's through with them!
- Nogi Takashi->Madoka Hiro: Nogi shares a lot of traits with Madoka due to not only being the shortest of the entire gangs, but also being mentally instable! Nogi looks as if he's about to attack someone at this moment...
- The moment Kyou sends his researchers, along with Jun, to deal with Uruma.
- The moment Uruma and Kyou meet again in Chapter 66. The moment this happens, Kyou attempts to choke Uruma with the latter having flashbacks of the times the former tormented him, only for Kyou to simply pull back his arm and leave. The chapter ends with Uruma being shocked at the incident.
- Kakeru screaming as he still has not gotten over the trauma that he went through in Chapter 67. As Uruma comforts him, he also makes an angry face as he vows to kill Kyou for hurting his brother. Overlaps with TearJerker.
- The ending of Chapter 67 in which the researchers are standing around a building as they stare at Uruma in the distance, looking as if they are ready to attack him. ||Subverted for the most part, as they didn't do so until the events happening between Chapters 69 and 70 in which they simply kidnapped Kakeru and dragged him to Uruma and Kyou's former elementary school to lure Uruma into a trap.||
- The man who Oota is dating in Chapter 68. While he appears to be a laid-back, charismatic, and funny man, it wasn't until he mentioned the Revolution Club did he reveal that he was a member of it, all while expressing a creepy demeanor! He even tries to recruit her into the club! Thankfully, the man left after they were done meeting as no harm was done to Oota.
- The researchers' torture of a Revolution Club member. The moment that they drowned the man's head inside a tub of water, they keep doing so until the man becomes insane!
- Andou's announcement of going to Uruma to deal with him by the end of Chapter 69. It looks as if they were going to kill him. ||Until it was revealed that they were simply going to have him play a deadly game with Kyou later on.||
- Kakeru's kidnapping in Chapter 70 definitely counts. The moment Uruma visits his brother's room at the hospital to check up on him, he noticed that neither his brother nor his grandfather are there! Instead, he found a dead cat in a pool of blood covered under a blanket on Kakeru's hospital bed, shocking the nurses around him. Worse, one of the researchers, Momoki, shows up out of nowhere and asks Uruma to follow her to where Kyou is, implying a very violent showdown that is to come in the next few chapters!
- The moment Uruma meets his brother in Chapter 71. As soon as he sees his brother who is being held hostage by Nogi, Uruma tries to rush over to rescue his brother only to be restrained by Miguel and asked by Momoki to have a seat, in which the terrified teenager does so with the female researcher kissing his cheek in return. Eventually, the ending of the chapter reveals that Kyou intends for Jun to be Uruma's opponent, as Jun approaches Uruma and calls him by his name with a creepy demeanor, looking as if he was about to beat the living crap out of Uruma! ||Until that was averted in Chapter 72 in which they are to fight by simply playing a game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors".||
- The "Rock, Paper, Scissors" match can be said about this.
- When Uruma lost in his first round to Jun, in which the latter threw something out as the former didn't, Uruma was forced to watch Andou saw off his younger brother's right leg as he is being restrained by Miguel and could not do anything about it! (Though this scene was censored for various reasons.)
- In Chapter 73, when Kakeru got his leg cut off (censored once again), he not only failed to express any emotions, but also failed to express pain! This gives the audience a feeling that Kyou might have had Kakeru drugged prior to the match.
- The moment Andou grabs Jun by the hair when the latter was about to withdraw from the match, acting as if he was about to execute Jun himself. ||Subverted, as he's telling Jun to basically get his act together before having him continue the match.||
- The moment Jun doesn't throw anything out in the match. As Jun felt remorseful for hurting Uruma's younger brother indirectly, he decides to make it up by simply not doing anything, so that Uruma could win the game and leave the school! While it may sound heartwarming at first, it isn't so as we hear the sound of something getting chopped in the background, showing that Jun has actually backfired on his plan as he is inadvertently hurting someone else in the process: ||HIS OWN TWIN SISTER, KANAME!||
- The shocked expressions on both Uruma and Jun's face when Kyou received a call telling him that someone died right after the second round as the pain that they experienced was too much for them, even referring to them as a "normal school girl". This makes both of them realize that they are also hurting another person on Jun's side as Uruma continues winning.
- The ending of Chapter 74. ||The moment that Momoki wheels a lifeless Kaname (who is missing a right arm and a left leg as a result of Jun losing 2 of the rounds of "Rock, Paper, Scissors") to both Uruma and Jun, the two boys were shocked before saying Kaname's name.|| Again, the mutilated parts are censored for unknown reasons. Doubles as TearJerker.
- The moment Jun is forced to participate in another round of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" with Uruma after losing ||his sister|| as a result. After failing to attack Kyou due to Andou's intervention, he is tied up to a chair as Kyou draws a dotted line on the top of his forehead, stating that if he loses to Uruma again, they will kill him by slicing the top of his head off!
- The ending of Chapter 75 in which both Uruma and Jun are forced to participate in another round of "Rock, Paper, Scissors", giving the audience the feeling that something bad is about to happen in the next chapter...
- Chapter 76
- As Uruma and Jun are starting their match with each other, both of them are so tense that when they both got scissors, they did reach a tie, causing both of them to survive the match. However, Jun did throw up as a result of being shocked at what is happening...
- The moment Uruma lost to Jun the second time. When that happened, the researchers were going to cut off Kakeru's other leg as a result, causing Uruma to finally snap and elbow one of Miguel's hands grasping on his shoulder before gouging out the bigger man's left eye, causing his eyeball to LITERALLY DANGLE FROM HIS FACE! Unfortunately, this didn't work as the bigger man continued restraining Uruma before he had the chance to rescue his brother... ||Thankfully, Uruma's grandfather had arrive in time to rescue Kakeru before the researchers had a chance to hurt him! Had that not been the case, Kakeru would have been done for!|| Overlaps with Awesome.
- Chapter 77
- Uruma screaming for the researchers to stop attacking his younger brother as Gramps is tied up to a wall from the man's perspective of the events in Chapter 76. Had he not escaped, he would have failed to save Kakeru in time, which leads to...
- Gramps sawing off his right leg. This is very disturbing, as he ends up having to stand up on his own!
- Miguel attempting to choke Uruma had Gramps not disarm him and poked his vital point in time.
- The backstory in which Gramps was a killer. Although overlapping with Tearjerker, it is pretty scary as we see a monstrous Gramps who would kill many people as a soldier of the Kitayama Corps... What doesn't help is how seeing his vengeful grandson (Shun) desiring vengeance on his bullies reminded him of his times as a soldier...
- The opening scene of Chapter 81 in which we see Miguel's corpse on the ground after having his vein extracted by Gramps...He looks as if he is a zombie desiring to eat someone's brains at this moment...
- Momoki snatching Kakeru before anyone could lay a hand on the young boy...This scene is pretty creepy as she is planning on killing the young child if Uruma comes closer to Kakeru...
- Kyou laughing by himself before telling Uruma that he needed to become even more cruel than he already has. Gosh, the sociopath has the audacity to lure Uruma into the dark side just for his damn twisted entertainment!
- The ending of Chapter 81 in which we fear the battle between Gramps and Andou...
- Chapter 82
- The moment Andou activates his chainsaw to fight Gramps.
- The sadistic face Andou makes while admitting that he enjoys seeing other people suffer.
- Andou's inability to experience pain the moment Gramps punches him in the face.
- Andou's backstory in becoming the monster he is in the present. The moment Kyou reminds him how to receive the excitement of being one, he not only kills people for fun, but also enjoys torturing them just for his cruel amusement! God, isn't killing people already the worst thing he has ever done?!
- The moment Andou looks as if he's about to kill Momoki, only for the latter to run away while the former makes his move on Kakeru...
- The ending in which an already insane Andou is about to kill Kakeru with a chainsaw while Uruma rushes towards them to stop the attack...
- Chapter 83
- Chapter 84
- Nogi laughing and kicking Uruma certain didn't help as Uruma is forced to stare at the corpses of his love ones as a result of the researchers' actions. Too bad it would lead to...
- Uruma's retaliation on the researchers. As Nogi continues to bother Uruma while the latter stares at his loved ones' corpses, Uruma LITERALLY RIPS OFF NOGI'S FACE FROM HIS HEAD BEFORE PUNCHING (implicitly) THE RESEARCHER ON THE GROUND, EFFECTIVELY KILLING HIM!!!! This also turns Uruma into a monster as he not only lost everyone he loved, but he also wants revenge on Kyou and his gang for what they did to him!
- Uruma's face at the end of the chapter as Kyou states that his victim has the face of a murderer. Overlaps with Tear Jerker due to the monster that Uruma is becoming...
- Chapter 85
- The moment in which Kyou insulted the memory of Uruma's remaining family members. This backfires as Uruma frees himself from Andou's grip, kicking the cultist before slashing Kyou across his eye before Andou punches him...
- The ending in which Uruma shouts that he would kill Kyou and the remaining cultists as we're given a quick glimpse of Oota preparing to intervene in the situation...
- Chapter 86
- The beginning of the chapter in which it picks up directly from the ending of Chapter 86 in which Uruma shouts that he'll kill Kyou.
- The corpses that are seen in the room, as well as Kakeru's severed leg.
- The fact that Kyou and Andou have gotten away with their crimes is a huge downer in this chapter. Not only did Uruma fail to take his final revenge, but at the same time, he is sent to jail for his crimes.
- Oota's death glare towards Uruma is especially very unnerving...She looks as if she's about to beat Uruma up for what he did to Anzai, although she simply leaves the room as she can't get any information out of Uruma during their interrogation...
- A slight case in Chapter 88. Although Uruma is sentenced to prison for 5 years, he is still motivated to take his revenge on Kyou and his cult.
- The ending of Chapter 89 in which one of Azuma's coworkers, Manami, states that there is someone she wanted to kill.
- ||Turns out that the person she wanted to kill is their manager, who appears to be very charming and easy-going, only for this to all be an act as his true nature is that of a rapist who would not only inject stimulants into his female employees who are a lot younger than him, but at the same time, he would chain them to a chair and have his way with them! Worse, after Manami experiences this, she almost goes berserk from the entire incident, as the stimulant only hypes up her desire to have sex with the manager again! In addition, the manager even keeps photos of his female employees while holding the desire to have sex with all of them!||
- Chapter 91
- A minor one, but there are several noises that Manami and Chizuru have heard while on their way to visit the boss of the Kitami Clinic for help!
- The look in Kougo's eyes can be a bit unsettling, although he seems to be sincerely friendly and easy-going compared to the manager...
- The moment the ||Manager|| stalks Azuma all the way from work to her house. Hell, he even made a creepy face upon barging in her home! In addition, before she had a chance to react, the man jumps on Chizuru and attempts to have his way with her! He even goes as far as stripping her and nearly injected a drug into her body! Had ||Juujika-san|| not arrived in time, who knows what he would have done to her by then?
- The entire torture that ||the manager|| had to go through! Because it was more of a psychological one, the criminal had only THREE minutes to guess WHO reported him to ||"Juujika-san"|| before getting killed! No matter what his guesses were, he kept failing until he gets slashed by the throat by ||Uruma|| with a knife!
- Chapter 95
- A flashback in which Kitami executes a man with the results showing his head can be very gruesome.
- The moment Kitami bumps into Uruma for the first time, he was even planning on murdering him to prevent any witnesses from ratting him out to the police! Ironically, this was prevented, not because Uruma was worried for his life, but rather, because he was just offering Kitami some helpful advice on properly getting rid of the corpses of those he murdered!
- The amount of scars Uruma had on his chest! One wonders how he got those scars to begin with... | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JuujikaNoRokunin |
Kafka on the Shore / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, Johnnie Walker, is incredibly disturbing and incredibly tense. Especially as hes essentially holding a cat hostage to goad the old man into killing him.
- Johnnie Walker appears again toward the end of the novel in the mini-chapter The Boy Named Crow. ||He has apparently completed his flute made of cat souls, and Crow is helpless to stop him no matter how horribly he can disfigure the "man", because he's already dead. "Johnnie Walker also is the disguise of the evil worm being mentioned below, making that scene worse.||
- The scene with the "worm-creature" is enough to send chills down anyone's spine.
- The Oedipal prophecy is pretty terrifying. Kafka seems destined to fulfill it despite all his efforts to the contrary, and how badly he wants to
*not* go through with it, and it hangs over the whole plot like a looming axe. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KafkaOnTheShore |
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Kabane themselves. Being almost literally made of iron, they can tear through iron bulkheads with their
*bare hands*. At least in other works, you can block a zombie behind a door. And that isn't even getting into how these things can apparently come up with basic ambush tactics. No wonder most of the population collectively shits themselves at any Kabane attack.
- The first train crash that leads to everything is played horrifyingly straight. Seeing a train literally brimming with kabane along it's sides, the station hands try to raise the bridge only to realize it's too late. The entire iron train derails, crashing into the station and flattening a quarter of the houses, houses filled with people just heading to bed. Then the Kabane start emerging...
- Several Stations have fallen to the Kabane, but due to the massive work the whole train system is, they could not redirect the rails. Hence trains from each station must pass by abandoned stations filled with Kabane with almost each trip. And not all of them make it.
- The first Wazatori. It not only knows how to fight properly with swords, but it also shows a sadistic side not seen in Kabanes yet. Against a victim that can't fight back, the Wazatori took its time to pin her down with one of its sword, then proceed to
*shred* her with the other sword while she screamed in terror.
- The Black Smoke:
- A
*massive* creature made of what appears to be thousands of kabane, this thing alone destroyed yet another station.
- It later turns out these are bio-weapons made from Kabaneri females injected with a stimulant.
- In episode 8, it's shown that the Kabane were lured to the city. How? With a horse with three corpses tied to it. Given that they were strung behind the horse, it's implied that the three were alive and forced to run behind the horse to draw the kabane to the city. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KabaneriOfTheIronFortress |
Kaiji Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*All* spoilers on this page are left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
With the
*Kaiji Series*, the journey from rags to riches isn't as easy as you think, especially with the Teiai Corporation's attempts to see you *fail*. *Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler*
- Kaiji's final strategy for the second 'E-Card' round. He smashes his forehead four times on a mirror to draw blood, with his facial expressions looking downright
*scary* at times because of this injury. Especially the Slasher Smile after noticing Tonegawa's inability to cheat with his watch. You would be forgiven for briefly thinking he went mad. *Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler*
- An unintentional example would have to go to the moment we see Sakazaki's wife and daughter on a photo. They look... quite freaky with their exaggerated smiles. Fukumoto obviously has something against Generic Cuteness.
- The movie-only game added to this film, "The Princess and the Slave". A chained player must choose one out of three buttons that opens a cage containing a "princess" inside. But there are two catches. One, the "princess" already knows which button is the correct one, meaning she can lie to you to receive prize money. And two, pressing the wrong button will
*open the cage to a lion who has it's eyes on you*, with an audience watching this for mere entertainment! Basically, this entire game is disturbing not just because of the animal, but also due to the horrifying allure of Greed that the "princess" can easily fall for. Kaiji was right to be disgusted at this game. *Kaiji: Final Game*
- The Logo Joke with the Nippon TV Movies. Usually, all you hear is a slightly ominous synth that becomes more calmer. With this movie, the
*"ZAWA"* sound effect heard from the past two movies is now altered in many different pitches. It can catch a viewer who hasn't seen the previous two installments off-guard.
- "Dream Jump". It's essentially a bungee jump where you choose one rope out of ten that are available. When the platform below you closes, you have every reason to panic and scream, because
*nine* of the ropes will detach at the bottom. To make it better, there is sharp rebar rods sticking up from the ground, *and some of them are already caked with blood*. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KaijiSeries |
Kaeloo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Don't let the bright colors, dancing flowers and cute talking animals fool you... **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Mr. Cat, full stop. Something about that cat just isn't right. He's an Ax-Crazy sadist who has engaged in criminal activity and is not afraid to kill. It's especially disturbing when you consider the fact that he's a kid who's less than 13 years old.
- Even his introduction in the intro is a bit nightmarish - he crosses out an image on his list of things he wants to do (or, more likely, already
*did*) to Quack Quack, then he is shown on a dark background, with fire, dark clouds and weapons everywhere. And then, he lets out a laugh...
- Kaeloo transforming into a giant monster is especially scary when you consider that said giant monster's actions are beyond her conscious conrol.
- Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's obsession with each other.
- For Mr. Cat, this manifests as him slowly becoming a Stalker with a Crush who spends his every moment thinking about Kaeloo.
- For Kaeloo, this manifests in an insane desire to keep every single person who Mr. Cat could even possibly develop a crush on, including Bad Kaeloo -
*the manifestation of her own subconscious mind* - far, far away from him; as far as Kaeloo is concerned, Mr. Cat is hers and hers only.
Let's Play Magicians
- Mr. Cat dancing around singing "la, la, la, cute little ducky wucky" with a huge smile on his face... while stabbing the "ducky wucky" in question (Quack Quack) with a medley of sharp objects and weapons.
Let's Play Hopscotch
- Quack Quack gets sent to Hell because of Mr. Cat's hopscotch game and returns as a demon.
Let's Play Trap-Trap
- The way Quack Quack acts in this episode. The crazed, hungry expression on his face, the way he attempts to cannibalize Kaeloo and Stumpy, and most of all, him eating half of Kaeloo's brain by the end of the episode.
Let's Play Hide 'N Hunt
Let's Play Danger Island Survivor
- In a game where Your Mind Makes It Real, it works so well that when Mr. Cat pushes Quack Quack on the ground and yells that it is a precipice infested with alligators, his insides appear to have been eaten
*for real*, and Stumpy's feet catch fire when he steps on fake lava.
- The reason Mr. Cat caused the horrible incident above to happen to Quack Quack? Because he was envious that Kaeloo said Quack Quack was her "best friend". Talk about being possessive.
Let's Play Peace, Man!
- Mr. Cat throws a mallet at Quack Quack. Kaeloo says he lost, since the aim of the game they're playing is to not get angry, but he says that that was just a "little love tap"... then the background behind him bursts into flames and he menacingly says "You'll know it when I get angry."
- The end of the episode. After Kaeloo transforms, instead of beating Mr. Cat up, she decides to kiss him. Mr. Cat clearly doesn't want to, and he tries to escape, but he ends up getting dragged off screen before the usual Smash to Black. The next scene, which takes place some time later, shows Mr. Cat sitting on the ground, hugging his knees and looking absolutely traumatized by what just happened, implying that she actually managed to force the kiss on him anyway.
- Not bad enough? Kaeloo - regular Kaeloo, detransformed - puts both her hands on his face, forces him to look her in the eye, and asks if she can do that to him again with a huge smile, as if she hasn't even realized that her actions were wrong because "kissing's not violent" - or worse, as though she's thoroughly enjoying her victim's discomfort.
Let's Play Scaredy Cat
- Stumpy raises the dead and causes a Zombie Apocalypse. When Quack Quack and Bad Kaeloo also get turned into zombies, Mr. Cat is forced to fight all the zombies
*by himself*.
- At the end of the episode, Mr. Cat puts an arm around Stumpy's shoulder and they walk off into the forest. As they walk away, Stumpy turns around and shows the audience his glowing, yellow eyes, referencing
*Thriller*. Long story short, Mr. Cat is walking into a forest alone with a zombie.
Let's Play Babysitting
- Mr. Cat mentions almost being drowned as a baby.
- Near the end of the episode, Mr. Cat tries to rape Kaeloo. Sure, he fails, but that doesn't make it any less scary.
Let's Play Cowboys and Indians
- Mr. Cat ties Kaeloo up and hangs her over a fire before sending Stumpy and Quack Quack a message: "Frog taken hostage, execution imminent. Free barbecue and salad bar!"
Let's Play Time Travel
- The episode's plot is that the cast go back in time to 19th century London, where it's dark and foggy, to track down a serial killer.
- Quack Quack and Stumpy getting attacked with the former being decapitated and the latter being skewered with a corkscrew. Unlike the show's usual Amusing Injuries, these are absolutely terrifying since we don't see the attacker, and it's very dark and foggy. The implications that Mr. Cat did it aren't much better either...
- Near the end of the episode, Kaeloo takes her friends to the year 6000 and they find themselves in a white, empty void where they've become "spirits of kindness and wisdom". While that doesn't sound so bad, that place is completely empty, with only Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat being present. When Stumpy asks Kaeloo what kinds of games are they going to play in 6000, she just responds, in a Creepy Monotone and a bit of a psychotic look on her face, with "Nothing. No console, no TV. We exist.". Stumpy naturally responds to this by returning to the time machine.
Let's Play Me-Me-Nopoly
Let's Play Art Class
Let's Play Paranormal Stuff
- Quack Quack getting possessed by the ghosts of the yogurts he ate in the past.
- At the end of the episode, Stumpy asks the audience what would happen if the ghosts of all the acorns he ate returned to haunt him. The camera then pans out to show Stumpy surrounded by several ghosts...
Let's Play Astronauts
- A minor example. When the main four are traveling through space, Kaeloo points out a meteorite to the others. After they leave, the meteorite hits a random planet near them and vaporizes it.
- Everyone's behavior (except Stumpy's) becomes more and more unsettling after they enter the Alternate Universe, and it's especially creepy during the part when Stumpy tries to escape from them.
Let's Play Tennis
- Mr. Cat throws a bunch of knives and other sharp objects at Quack Quack, who hits them back with a tennis racket. The sharp objects impale Mr. Cat...
*and he starts laughing*. Normally, someone who just got severely injured like that would be showing some sign of pain, but Mr. Cat just stands there laughing.
Let's Play Figurines
- Stumpy makes a Deal with the Devil, turns himself into a witch doctor, and gets voodoo-like control over everyone else. At the end of the episode, he is sent to Hell.
Episode 53
- The way Kaeloo acts when Mr. Cat, disguised as a police officer, tries to interrogate her. She has a bizarre, creepy expression on her face and the part where she rotates her head all the way around is just plain terrifying.
Episode 58
- Mr. Cat kills himself after becoming extremely annoyed with Stumpy's stupidity and the audience gets to see his lifeless, hanging body. Sure, it's Played for Laughs and he comes back in the next scene, but it's still disturbing to see one of the show's main characters kill himself onscreen for such a trivial reason.
- Ki Ce Ka Raison itself; the game show treats its contestants horribly and freaks them out. By the end of the second question, Mr. Cat is cowering behind his buzzer, and the final question has him pass out.
- The final question. Not the question itself, but the way it is asked: Mr. Cat is surrounded by a ring of fire and Bad Kaeloo threatens to beat him up if he doesn't answer it correctly.
Episode 61
Episode 65
Episode 70
- We finally find out where Mr. Cat buys his weapons - the internet. You know, that place that
*literally anyone in the world* can access with a computer or phone.
Episode 75
- Mr. Cat doesn't take very well to Quack Quack leaving Smileyland. In the absence of someone to torture, he
*almost kills Stumpy with a chainsaw*.
Episode 76
- Due to the events of the previous episode, Mr. Cat is stuck in prehistoric times. How do he others realize this? By accidentally coming across a fossil, which Quack Quack identifies as one of Mr. Cat's bones. Which means, he actually would have
*died* had they not rescued him.
Episode 78
Episode 85
- Bad Kaeloo attacking Mr. Cat with a pair of sharp scissors offscreen.
Episode 88
- Kaeloo the creepy undertaker, period. Her behavior is enough to freak out even the Desperados, and at one point she even locks them up in coffins.
Episode 93
- Mr. Cat sets a building on fire with Quack Quack inside. This isn't that bad, since he's Nigh-Invulnerable. But then, Stumpy, who is
*not* indestructible, rushes into the building to save Quack Quack, and they both get stuck because the others are too busy to help them.
Episode 100
- As pictured above, Kaeloo becomes scary as heck when she undergoes Sanity Slippage.
Episode 104
Episode 105
- The way Mr. Cat is portrayed in Kaeloo's intro to the episode, which she animated herself. He starts out as a disembodied pair of glowing eyes and a set of sharp teeth in a pitch dark background, which is suddenly illuinated by Mr. Cat bursting into flames, turning him into a flaming, flying, supernatural being with Glowing Eyes of Doom.
- When Mr. Cat picks up one of the mini-Mr. Cats, it gives him various horrible threats including
*disembowelment*.
- Stumpy almost erases the rest of the main four from existence and then proceeds to take over the animation studio making the show.
Episode 108
- At the end of the episode, after convincing Stumpy and Quack Quack that cats are the best species in the world, Mr. Cat arranges for them both to get plastic surgery to look just like him, "turning them into cats".
Episode 110
- Vampire Stumpy being destroyed by sunlight. Unlike Vampire Quack Quack, it's shown in a more painful-looking, slower manner and is disturbing to watch, even though it's Played for Laughs.
Episode 111
- Mr. Cat getting an allergic reaction and exploding.
Episode 119
- When Mr. Cat wants to prevent Stumpy from telling Kaeloo an embarrassing secret, he repeatedly slaps him in the face with a pair of underwear to torture him... "because [he] lost [his] chainsaw". Yes, Mr. Car just implied that he would be willing to
*brutally murder Stumpy with a chainsaw* to prevent him from ruining Kaeloos opinion of him.
Episode 121
- At the end of the episode, when the main four find out that they were never fired and that Olaf was playing a "joke" on them, Kaeloo says that since Olaf wanted to "play" with them, they now have a new friend to play with. She winks at the others, who realize that she means they should 'play" with him main four-style... which involves extreme violence and abuse. The episode ends with them staring at him with psychotic smiles. The audience is left to imagine what the main four will do to him now...
Episode 125
- In one scene, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat are sword fighting and Quack Quack manages to knock Mr. Cat out. And as he's on the ground, Mr. Cat starts... laughing, in a really psychotic and menacing manner. He then pulls out a bazooka and shoots Quack Quack. Worse yet, it actually turns out that he
*managed to kill Quack Quack*.
Episode 132
Episode 134
- Stumpy and his clones destroy Mr. Cat's car, leaving nothing but the steering wheel,
*with him inside*. How do they do this? By driving a bunch of other cars into his. Mr. Cat survives all of this, but is left traumatized and shaking all over.
Episode 143
- Mr. Cat stalking Kaeloo in the darkness since he, being a cat, can see in the dark and she can't, while saying "I can see you..." and following her every move. It gets so bad that he manages to traumatize her into becoming afraid of darkness.
Episode 145
- Quack Quack undergoing Demonic Possession.
- Once the gang manage to exorcise Quack Quack, the demon starts flying towards them, announcing that it wants to Take Over the World, while they cower behind each other in fear. Olaf shows up and calmly makes his robot Serguei destroy the demon, since he thinks he should be the one to dominate the planet. As if the demon wasn't bad enough, we now know that the lunatic bent on becoming the world's emperor is capable of building technology to kill demons that would scare even Mr. Cat, who has had experience with zombies, ghosts and other paranormal elements.
Episode 150
- Pretty turning into a tentacle monster.
- While Pretty's harassment of Mr. Cat was always slightly disturbing, the way she does it as a tentacle monster is horrifying.
- The giant three-headed sheep.
The Poster
- Unlike the posters for the previous seasons, this one actually shows the characters in action; Mr. Cat has his mallet raised, facing the dark forest with a glare, ready to fend off
*who knows what*.
Episode 161
- The plot of the episode: the main four wake up in a mysterious room with no recollection of how they got there. It turns out that it's an escape room with no yogurt inside, and if they don't get outside in time, Quack Quack will go insane and cannibalize them all. Quack Quack spends the whole episode slowly going insane, all the while knowing that if they don't get outside in time he'll end up killing his loved ones, and the rest of the main four desperately try not to get attacked by their friend.
Episode 174
- Part of the chaos that ensues because of the magic involves Bad Kaeloo turning into a giant monster and swallowing Mr. Cat.
Episode 179
- While Mr. Cat is negotiating with the Amoral Attorneys to bail Kaeloo out of prison, Kaeloo, unaware that Mr. Cat is helping her and believing that she'll be stuck alone in that nightmare of a prison cell forever, prepares to hang herself.
Episode 181
- The nightmare Mr. Cat has at the end can be just as unsettling to the viewers as it is to him.
Episode 184
- It turns out that Mr. Cat has been killing people other than Quack Quack, who aren't immortal.
Episode 190
Episode 197
- Quack Quack finds out that he had biological siblings who abandoned him as an egg. While he's still suffering from the trauma of figuring this out, Mr. Cat cheats at the lottery, gets rich, and ditches the main four to go live a happy life on his own without even saying a proper goodbye. This act of betrayal utterly breaks him and we see the usually easygoing, good-natured, friendly Quack Quack, of all people, with an expression of pure rage and bitterness which wouldn't look out of place on someone like Mr. Cat. Even though Kaeloo is able to retcon the events of the episode by traveling back in time, it doesn't change the fact that Quack Quack still has the potential to become that way.
Episode 227
- The Nightmare Face Mr. Cat makes at Poucave, complete with glowing yellow eyes.
- One of the stories in Volume 1 has Quack Quack get bitten by insects. Since the duck is basically a walking science experiment, the insects mutate into giant monsters and start trying to attack the main four.
- During a power outage, Quack Quack realizes that the fridge will stop working and his yogurts will get spoiled. How does he react? By callously forcing Stumpy into a machine which electrocutes him in order to keep the fridge running. Kaeloo is justifiably horrified by this. If the mere idea doesn't horrify you,
*Mr. Cat* says that even *he* wouldn't be able to do something like that.
- Mr. Cat and Stumpy need Bad Kaeloo's Super Strength to help them remove the shells from nuts. In order to access that Super Strength, they need her to transform. So what do they do? They give her detailed descriptions of what they'll do to Quack Quack if she doesn't agree, such as "I'll rip apart his stitches so I can see what's inside!"
- While this kind of behavior is normal for Mr. cat, it's frankly disturbing to see Stumpy join him, especially when he gets a crazed look in his eyes and proclaims that he will decapitate Quack Quack.
- While Stumpy and Quack Quack are taking a bath, Kaeloo accidentally scares them by telling them about all the germs and dirt that they need to get rid of. They try to scrub themselves clean so vigorously that they end up Stripped to the Bone. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Kaeloo |
Kaiten Mutenmaru / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The cutesy art style of
*Kaiten Mutenmaru* belies the horrors that happen there, especially in the second season. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
- Sick's Freudian Excuse, as seen in Chapters 155-158:
- The poverty-stricken commoners suffered the tyranny of Pain and Yamai Solitude, but their atrocities as rebels — especially against children — dispel any sympathy they might have garnered. They wanted Sick dead solely for being the son of the Solitudes, and when Anne mentioned him, one of them thrust her away in the belief that she was with him not because they were in love but because she's a spy for the aristocrats. They ultimately killed her in a blind rage for stepping between them and Sick before he escaped his burning house with her help. When Sick found Anne's grave, the victorious rebels gloated about killing his parents — who turned into monsters in front of him — and taking the spoils of war in his hearing. Even Mutenmaru, an All-Loving Hero, fearfully equates them with monsters for being motivated by hate.
- Chapter 157 spends two pages depicting the pure, unadulterated fury on Sick's face in a more detailed style than usual after he expressed displeasure at how the rebels destroyed his happiness but got theirs. The fact that Sick was just a child makes it disturbing to look at.
- The Pensieve Flashback ends as Sick transforms into the villain as we know it under the corrupting influence of the Abominable Crystal in one of his parents' rings, promising to make people despair as they ran away in vain. One of, if not the, worst part of it all is that Sick's current self does not resemble the normal child he used to be in the slightest. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KaitenMutenmaru |
Kagerou Project / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Chapter 18 of the manga was filled with this thanks to the appearance of Kuroha.
- First was Kuroha's slasher smiles. It looked just like the ones he flashed in Outer Science.
- Kuroha's murder of Kano, it was instant and gory.
- Seto's death was the worst, he rushed towards Kuroha. Kuroha just shot Seto in the stomach and forced Seto to eat the barrel and killed him.
- Kido's death wasn't kind either. After watching the death of her oldest friends, she was shot 5 times.
- Kuroha's look as he killed Ene. He was clearly enjoying messing with Shintaro.
- Chapter 19 of the manga is happy. The last few pages show Hiyori being hit by a truck.
- Chapter 39 of the manga shows a red eyed Hiyori with Kido's corpse.
- Chapter 48 of the manga route reveals that it was
*Hibiya*, not Hiyori, who was possessed by the Wide Eyes Snake when he *pushes Momo off the rooftop.* The chapter ends with a full-page picture of Hibiya's Slasher Smile | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KagerouDaze |
Kakos Industries / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Okay, maybe the Department of Insufferable Horror does their job a little too well. Here we have all the spooks and scares expected from a show that revolves around the Evils of the world.
- Throughout all of "Deep Truth", Corin informs that one shareholder has him right behind you with a gun to your head. It borders directly into The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You territory, and for the others, they get something much worse.
- And by the end of the broadcast, trying to remove the thing from behind you is done by practically screaming,
In order to destroy whatever it is that is currently bringing your broadcast to you, it is important that you yell as loudly as possible YOU DONT EXIST! YOU DONT EXIST! THERE IS NOTHING THERE AT ALL LEAVE ME ALONE. If you have done this correctly, then you will suddenly feel very alone. This is, again, because I have psychologically primed you to feel that way.
- Whatever damage the department of Giant Ass Robots has created has ended the lives of multiple human beings and animals but that's all just part of the business.
- The end of "The Woman" in which your tempted to kill the woman providing your announcements and prompting that you are not only desiring to end her life but being aroused by it...
- The punishments of some of the Ruin-A-Life-Drawing's in which both the winner and recipient are given some bizarre modification to themselves or their lives that will eternally destroy it. While some are comical such as having discolored nipples or never being properly clean, others have easy to tear skin or thorns growing out of them.
- Hailey killing the three men attending Melantha's Sex Tea Party is nothing short of gory. It provides a horrifying look into just how powerful she is and could have easily killed Corin both times she had sex with him but holds back for her own reasons.
The men that Melantha had been having sex with were taken down, one by one, and
consumed. Whatever enzyme that Hailey secretes, it was released on these men in much higher quantities. When she was done with each, all that remained was a desiccated-on-the-inside-damp-on-the-outside corpse.
- The ending of "Invitation" is brief but very creepy as it becomes more obvious that something just isn't right about Hailey. Upon coming back the studio to be invited to a date with Corin, she takes off her clothing, causing Corin to suddenly adapt a monotone as he comments that he's "burning".
- Hailey in general is incredibly creepy. She's an attractive and likely humanoid looking young lady whose charming naivety can make one forget about her strange appetite. She gains some sort of power by devouring nutrients of those she has sex with, some of which die horribly or go into comas that can last for days. Hailey has manipulated and likely fed off multiple people and has no problem getting new victims due to her mind control powers. So even if they do know what happened to them prior, they're helpless to fight back once she starts hypnotizing them.
- The mysterious contraption so well concealed and bizarre that it drives Corin and anyone near it long enough to outright insanity on more than one occasion, even driving the scientists to kill each other. So far it seems like a humongous Brown Note for Corin in particular who is slowly becoming obsessed with it.
- All throughout "Babysit", we're reminded of just how terrifying Belladonica is. This is a little girl, though one who seems to radiate dark energy off herself.
I may need to begin undermining her ability to lead sooner than I had imagined. Now shes pointing at me and drawing a paint-covered finger across her throat. Now she is laughing silently. Cackling. That is frightening.
- Melantha Murther's try at announcements bares similarities to Kakos Industries but is far more gleefully violent and insane than anything the latter has done. This involves events that surround people killing each other or being devoured by a monster if they didn't die in the arena, someone cumming so hard they nearly die, and a robot that destroys your entire home in an attempt to clean it.
- Yet another method of providing the announcements borders into creepy. This time the message is done through crystals in your pineal gland that are prone to causing illusions and the company has no problem dicking around and creating these illusions with sounds of heavy breathing and doors shutting even after the announcements.
- Corin's withdrawal from Evil suppressants has made him experience nightmares he wasn't having previously, including one about Belladonica ripping off her head multiple times, throwing them at him, and the heads eating his body until he is a head himself. Then his severed head is stuck to a tree.
- The Echo Tree Forest is actually pretty terrifying, especially since a new patch of trees began to form around it and have even stronger sound manipulating effects that makes the entire environment eerily silent.
Visitors report hearing their own blood begin to pump louder and louder and their muscles stretching and contracting within them. the experience is not entirely unlike that of being in an anechoic chamber, but having the sensation outside is beyond maddening.
- Hailey's announcements during "Intercepted 2" are surprisingly chilling and gory, even compared to the first "Intercepted" episode that Melantha managed. The crowning achievement is certainly the art show and the punishment for the worst artist.
After some silent voting, we decided that Davis Mipper was definitely the worst artist, so we drained all of his vein paint
and spread it on the wall with our fingers. But I wasnt satisfied with just that garish red, so we ground up his bones and made it into a really pretty pastel pink.
- "Laughter" has an ongoing creep factor throughout the whole thing. During the announcements, Corin keeps imagining the sound of Dissonant Laughter playing in the background. At first, it's actually kind of humorous due to Corin ignoring it for the most part and just seeming a little annoyed. Then there's the ending where ||the laughter continues as a group of hooded figures appear in the studio and drag Corin away. The last we hear is Corin struggling and asking where he's being taken to over some highly inappropriate roars of applause.||
- "Bondage" has ||Corin being shoved into a room and chained to a wall, only moving to a desk to give the announcements with his bonds still intact. Most of the announcements is him recalling being repeatedly beaten by his captors he still doesn't know the identities of and not a single person making an attempt to save him.||
- ||According to Corin, it's consider a regular event for him to be kidnapped and tortured given the fact he is a CEO. This isn't even limited to opposing companies, but a procedure his own corporation has done to train his will. It makes the whole shtick of being an executive seem more like a bad case of Blessed with Suck.||
- The forty-fourth episode has a far more ominous atmosphere to it than the others. Corin is unable to provide many announcements on behalf of ||his kidnapping and spends all of it communicating with the incredibly terse and much older Belladonica.||
- ||It's shown that not only is Corin in a compromising position, but Belladonica as well as even those who are on her side aren't afraid to murder her on the spot if things don't go according to plan.||
- When going down to Hell to discontinue the "Eatin' Slime", the only thing found is blood and ripped apart limbs of the past fortress members.
- Practically all of "Refuge" falls under this. ||Belladonica has worked herself into a firm position of power within Kakos Industires, anointing her as Chief Evil Officer. This makes her a secondary CEO, granting her Corin's level of power but none of his sanity. Thus Belladonica commits a number of atrocities such as working the staff so hard that they become utterly hopeless and can only wish for death and walking around the building drenched in black paint to create a new line of haunting artwork that bleeds into the walls.||
- During "Skirmish" ||the mysterious contraption is finally revealed to have some sort of purpose as it contains a horrifying dragon-like creature that slaughters and devours a number of people trying to fight against Lady Kiarawa.||
|| A long snout breathed its first breaths. Several long tentacles groped at the air for the first time. And two large wings stretched out. Then, that horror began leaping from monster to monster among our ranks, eating everything it could, mashing and pulverizing en masse. Its muscles stretched and popped and grew with the inflow of nutrition, leaving us face to face with a giant, tentacled dragon.||
- ||Lady Kiarawa decides to do her own original take on the Festival of Unimaginable Horror. This festival's events remain unknown, though the screams happening multiple floors above of Junior's lair are so loud everyone can hear them for four straight hours.||
- ||Lady Kiarawa's death is actually fairly graphic. She's stabbed deep into her rib cage and ends up vomiting a great amount of her blood before limping away, likely bleeding to death somewhere else.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KakosIndustries |
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Ladies and gentlemen, the Jurassic
note : Well, mostly *Cretaceous*. Boogey-saur. *"Welcome to Jurassic World."*
—
**Dr. Ian Malcolm**
Filled with fire, new and old dinosaurs; and a lot of scare chords,
*Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* likens itself as a horror movie, and it **shows**.
- The movie
*opens* with one hell of a case of Paranoia Fuel. A mini-sub is diving into the lake of Jurassic World to recover the remains of the *Indominus rex*. Everything is pitch-black with the only light source being the sub's searchlights. We all know that the *Mosasaurus* lives in the lake, so every second of the scene will have you on the edge of your seat expecting her to come out of the darkness any moment. The mercenaries assumed that with the long Time Skip since the last film, the *Mosasaurus* would be long dead. Oh, how wrong they are. We first see a glimpse of her as lightning strikes above and reveals a shadowy behemoth swimming above where the mini-sub is. Soon after, as the ground-side mercenaries attempt to contact the pilots of the mini-sub, *the Mosasaurus closes in on the sub from behind, her head dwarfing the sub as it prepares to strike*. We're not shown the aftermath except the lights from the sub going out and the ominous radio silence not long after, but we can guess what happened down there. In addition, the chaos upside involving the resident *T. rex* (another Nightmare Fuel case in itself) causes the gates of the *Mosasaurus* lake to become stuck and remain open. The last thing we see in that scene is the *Mosasaurus* swimming out *into the open ocean*. Depending on how sturdy the mini-sub was, it's unlikely that the crew died quickly. They were probably drowned or slowly crushed while in absolute terror, or trapped in a leviathan's stomach...
- Imagine being Jack the mercenary in the opening scene. A flash of lightning and you turn and the greatest predator that ever lived is
*right there*, and then you're running as fast as you can down the street and grabbing onto the rescue ladder of the helicopter and clinging for dear life as said predator bites the other end, trying to pull the entire aircraft down as your own buddies prepare to cut the ladder loose to sacrifice you to save the helicopter...
- Even worse is that the T.Rex tears away the lower half of the ladder, but Jack is still safe. He laughs in relief and frantically climbing to safety, only for the
*Mosasaurus* to leap out of the water and swallow him.
- The
*Indoraptor* is a smaller version of the *Indominus rex* that was foreshadowed by Hoskins in the previous film. Seen in full, the *Indoraptor* is very creepy. He basically resembles a smaller, black *Indominus* with longer, more human-like arms and yellow stripes. But what makes him really disturbing is the way he moves: being semi-quadrupedal in stance, some of his movements are eerily *Alien*-like. Yes, InGen has created a dinosaur version of a Xenomorph...
- And the primary reason the villains are trying so hard to develop
*Indoraptors*? *Sell them for profit as a military Attack Animal*. Seeing what it can do in the movie, you can tell how disturbing it is, and how many times worse than just doing it For Science! or, at worst (as we thought), for amusement purposes.
- Leaked info claims that the
*Indoraptor* can move with total silence, even in darkness. The end of the second trailer makes good on displaying this; as Owen tells a guard that they need to get out of the building, the guard moves to inform his superior...and then the *Indoraptor* erupts from the side out of nowhere, snatching the unlucky man up in his jaws and barreling off-screen quickly and brutally. In the film itself, he actually grabs *two* guards. Granted, those two guards were going to shoot down Owen and Claire on Mills' orders at that moment, making the *Indo* something of an Accidental Hero in that scene.
- The fact that this thing has clearly developed hands (as did
*Indominus*) is deeply disturbing. While species like the *Spinosaurus* and the various raptor breeds had manipulators good for things like batting door handles open or clawing faces off, neither of them had fully-developed hands. Possible evidence of human genes being integrated aside the danger of a creature like this that has the possibility to learn tool use is too great to state properly. And like the raptors, he too can open doors...
- The movie repeatedly goes out of its way to showcase how horrifically sadistic this thing is. First, there is the scene where he gives Wheatley a slow and brutal death in his cage. Then there is the one when he stalks a terrified Maisie in her room. The
*Indoraptor* knows where she is and can just easily go for the kill. Instead, he slowly raises his hand in her direction, apparently delighted by the young girl's despair. It's pretty clear that this thing *really* has it in for poor Maisie. Even while he's caged, he stealthily reaches through the bars *not* to try and grab her, but just to tweak her ponytail so he can give her a Jump Scare. By this point, it's not much of a stretch to say that the thing just likes the sound of screaming humans.
- Though Blue manages to kill the
*Indoraptor* by dropping him through a roof, the fact that the InGen scientists are shown carting away three incubating eggs implies that there may soon be *more* of the creatures. Possibly subverted as the mercenaries accompanying Mills are carrying suitcases containing those eggs. Which means the dinosaurs may have saved humanity from these monsters ever surfacing.
- The dinosaur auction is Nightmare Fuel on two levels. First are the large number of arms dealers, specifically of the Russian who wants two carnivores. This means anything from the Russian mob to rogue states now have access to dinosaur weapons. The second part of the Nightmare Fuel is the dinosaurs themselves. How many of these giant beasts go from living in a wide-open field with excellent food, to a small cage at some bootleg Jurassic Park or even worse. To be fair, their alternative was burning to death in the island, assuming the destruction of it was total. Then the
*Indoraptor* is being **auctioned**. Hoskins' vision of a dinosaur Super Soldier has become reality.
- And for one final dose of Nightmare Fuel from that scene, just the simple fact that Mills was willing to sell off the
*Indoraptor* to the highest bidder. While he doesn't see it as a big deal since they can just "make more," Wu understands the implications of letting something like the *Indoraptor* out of their control in a world where cloning is far more advanced and sophisticated than it is in the real world, noting that "So will they." One *Indoraptor* in this world was bad enough. Now imagine *several*, all just as psychotically flawed as the original.
- The shot of the
*Indoraptor*, perched atop a Gothic rooftop in the rain, roaring loudly at a full moon like a goddamn werewolf! This creature is so unnatural that he actually comes off with vibes of a supernatural monster!
- The
*Indoraptor* tapping his claw into the floor is a Call-Back to the original movie, but it's also a chilling reminder that the creature is lurking about somewhere, sniffing you out. Think it's safe to say that little Maisie will have nightmares of that sound for as long as she lives. The scariest part of this is when you can't actually *see him.* For example, Owen switches off the lights in a room so the creature cannot track them by sight, but when you hear that tapping sound stalking about in the dark, it just becomes all the more terrifying. Then Zia and Franklin unwittingly switch on the lights just when Claire, Owen, and Maisie were relying on the cover of darkness. Maisie finds herself gazing into her own reflection in a window...only to realize that there is something behind it; the Indoraptor had been staring her in the face the entire time, less than three feet away.
- The death of mercenary Ken Wheatley, which ends up being the closest the films have come to adapting the very graphic deaths of Nedry and Wu in Michael Crichton's original novel. He thinks he has the
*Indoraptor* cornered but, in truth, the *Indoraptor* has him. Although Wheatley has his death coming for obvious reasons, his death is very prolonged and agonizing as the monster tears and chomps him while he screams. The camera is out-of-focus for the shot, but Wheatley is still being explicitly dismembered even further by the *Indoraptor*, and still alive and screaming through it all, to boot. And there's still a lot of him visibly left when the *Indoraptor* gets distracted by the screams of the woman Eversoll shoved out of the way to get to the elevator controls.
- Wheatley is clearly suffering after the
*Indoraptor*'s first strike, with tears and drool running down his face as the pain and terror set in (and be honest, so would you in his shoes). We've seen dinosaur attacks all throughout the franchise, but that moment highlights just how horrific it is to be mauled to death by a vicious animal.
- The
*Indoraptor*'s Slasher Smile. What makes it worse is that he IS smiling at us. If there is a better application for The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You, then this is it. It can be darkly amusing, or just plain creepy, but for the paleontologically inclined, it's outright horrifying. No dinosaur has the facial muscles required to form that expression, and there are only handful of species it could have inherited that trait from. For a moment, it looks almost human...
- Here's the kicker, as karmic as it was, Wheatley gets his armed severed
**ON SCREEN**. Not a lot of deaths in *Jurassic Park* do that, and whenever that happened to people such as Eddie Carr in *The Lost World*, as cruel as the death was, it was from a distance, mostly blocked out, or mercifully quick. Here, the drawn-out nature and in-your-face brutality of it is perfectly capable of catching someone off-guard even though we all know Wheatley was doomed as soon as he walked into the cage.
- How the
*Baryonyx* is introduced, which consists of Claire and Franklin watching a blip on a motion detector get closer and closer...and then a crocodilian head looms out of the shadows of a service tunnel and roars at them.
- One of the promotional teasers before the first trailer shows Claire trapped in a fire-filled room while a
*Baryonyx* lunges out at her from the shadows.
- The teaser underplays the scene itself. The fire is actually lava that has started oozing through the shelter's walls and ceiling. At one point, it looks like Claire and Franklin will have to choose between two hopeless situations: Should they risk going into the tunnel where the
*Baryonyx* is waiting for them or should they stay out of the tunnel and have the lava consume them?
- Think of this from the
*Baryonyx's* perspective as well. This is either an animal forced to attempt to attack some prey surrounded by lava, or it is so scared, it is rampaging and lashing out at the other two living things in sight. Either way, this is a very desperate animal willing to do anything.
- The brief shot of the destroyed gift shop with some dinosaur toys...and one of the "toys" turns out to be a live
*Compsognathus* which promptly runs off.
- Owen meets Blue and sticks his hand out to pet her. She looks like she's going to let him but then suddenly turns to face the viewer and opens her mouth wide from being shot in the neck by a tranq dart from a squad of mercenaries that followed Owen.
- Also that brief moment where Blue, in a desperate attempt to save Owen and kill one of the mooks shooting her, is digging her claws into the poor bastard's face? We get some good shots of those claws dug deep into his face. This man's final moments before shooting Blue must've been excruciatingly painful.
- A few drops of blood splatter on the lens while Blue's attacking the mercenary.
- Rexy nearly chomping Owen in half after she wakes up. Mitigated slightly by the fact that it wasn't out of intent and more out of panic (the real danger was that her foot would crush him after she panicked; he had to dive through her jaws to avoid that).
- The changes made to the old website are both this and a Tear Jerker. All the park's attractions have been destroyed, the
*Mosasaurus* has escaped and is loose in the ocean somewhere; and the site seems to be constantly trying to remind everyone that the island is a ticking time bomb of volcanic activity.
- Just the knowledge that the
*Mosasaurus* is now loose in the ocean somewhere, with no easy means to track it, is terrifying in itself and she is seen at the end about to devour a surfer while swimming in a wave. Granted, there's little chance that a single *Mosasaur* with no means of reproduction could have a sizeable effect on a healthy marine ecosystem, but it's still a very eerie thought.
- Well... Judging by how much Wu likes messing with Dino genes, to make a Dino that size he may have had to slip some Whale DNA in there, who knows? it might be a close enough match to breed with.
- Owen, abandoned by the mercenaries after being shot by a tranquilizer dart, wakes up completely paralyzed and unable to move, while a
*Sinoceratops* curiously inspects him, licking him all over. But he has more to worry about than dinosaur drool: Soon the *Sinoceratops* flees and he finds himself laying *only a few meters* away from a quickly incoming lava flow! As his entire body is immobilized by the dart, he can't even shout for help and is reduced to *muffled moans of terror*. As the lava slowly inches toward him, he frantically tries to *wriggle and squirm away*, completely helpless, and laboriously tries to haul himself over a log to protect himself from the molten magma... Fortunately for him, he soon regains his motor functions and is able to stand and run from the dino stampede that follows.
- Eversoll and three other auctioneers barely evade the
*Indoraptor* via an Elevator Escape, only for the doors to malfunction moments later. The four of them can only watch helplessly as the elevator slowly opens to reveal a very amused and patient *Indoraptor* waiting on the other side. With the *Indoraptor*'s sadistic tendencies firmly established moments prior and nowhere for the defenseless humans to flee, it likely took its sweet time killing them one by one as the others were Forced to Watch.
- Claire and Franklin trapped within the gyrosphere,
*underwater*, while the glass begins to break and Owen desperately tries to free them before she drowns, first with a gun, then with a knife. Unfortunately, it causes the water to leak in faster...
- Maisie being revealed to be a
*clone of Lockwood's daughter*. Is InGen cloning humans now? Are they creating the hybrid dinosaurs with human DNA included? Is Maisie herself secretly *a human-dinosaur hybrid*? This raises a lot of disturbing possibilities, including the possible parallels between Maisie and the *Velociraptors*. She is shown to be clever and persistent, with her escape from a locked bedroom filmed in a way *very* reminiscent of *Jurassic Park*'s raptors learning to open doors, and later bonds with Owen and looks to him as a father figure. Does this seem to imply that Maisie is *part-raptor*?
- Maisie, in her introduction scene, is implied to
*love* playing hide and seek with her caretaker Iris in the Lockwood mansion and give her a nasty Jump Scare every chance she gets. While this could be put aside as just normal playful child behavior, what if it isn't that simple? Raptors *do* love to play hide-and-seek with their prey before attacking as well, after all... And there's the disturbing fixation the *Indoraptor* seems to have for her, reaching out to her with his hand on two separate occasions. Does he single her out as a specific victim? Is he actively recognizing her? Or perhaps identifying with her as a fellow "artificial organism"?
- There are also the "simple" legal implications of her being a clone in the first place. While the United States has no federal law that outright bans cloning, 15 states, including California (where Maisie lives), outlaw reproductive human cloning, meaning that her existence is at least in violation of State law. That's why she was kept hidden, not being allowed her outside the house.
- Her
*creation* was a crime, not her existence. She still has legal rights, whatever the circumstances of her conception, same as the offspring of the criminal act of rape still has legal rights. But the fact that Lockwood kept her so isolated to *conceal his own* crime is itself rather nightmarish, the more so in that he knew he was dying and still did nothing to introduce Maisie to the wider world she'd *have* to face once he was gone.
- Mills is quite hellbent on keeping Maisie for himself, insisting she is his property. Given she is a clone, it is implied Mills primarily wants her to have Wu and his scientists perform awful experiments on her just to keep improving the genetic code of any bioweapons they may cook up.
- Lockwood's death. After he learns of Mills' nefarious plans and orders him to call the police, Mills looks at a phone and pillow instead. In a
*completely emotionless* voice, he states that Lockwood's hands aren't clean either, then grabs the pillow. It's heavily implied that he suffocated Lockwood, with the ending shot being Lockwood's amber cane falling and shattering.
- The really grisly death of Eli Mills. Rexy snatches him up screaming with her jaws, chomping on him several times, before dropping him underfoot and tearing his torso apart, sending one of his limbs flying into the eager waiting jaws of the
*Carnotaurus*, who greedily munches on it, only for Rexy, still devouring Mills' remains, to smack the limb out of the smaller dinosaur's mouth. Just damn. And the *Compsognathus* are there to pick on the scraps!
- Just the build-up to his death is filled with Paranoia Fuel. Mills first survives a very terrifying stampede by hiding under a car and almost gets crushed by it a number of times. He then climbs out from under the wrecked car, with a group of
*Compsognathus* (which fans know to be quite dangerous in numbers) standing atop it and watching him. A moment later, the *Carnotaurus* is seen lurking in the background, not making any sound whatsoever, and stopping to watch Mills. Just when you think the *Carnotaurus* will go in for the kill, Rexy shows up without warning and snatches Mills up, just like she did in the very first movie.
- Mills' death is toned down in foreign theaters, but in a way that's arguably worse. Rexy carries the screaming man off into the forest, apparently willing to deal with him at her leisure...
- Blue is now free and roaming the Grand Canyon, and while she is supposed to be cast in a heroic light, she nonetheless is a powerful and deadly carnivore who will eventually have to hunt to sustain herself. Will she end up posing a threat to local humans in the vicinity? A threat to humans? She'll be dead long before reaching any human settlements. The final shot of the film is Blue atop a ledge overlooking a desert suburb. Chances are what happens next won't be pretty.
- The ending of the movie serves as a HUGE Fridge Horror. The freed dinosaurs are now at large, roaming among nature (well,
*American* nature for now, but still) with basically no methods to find their whereabouts; they haven't harmed anyone during the montage *yet*, but as they're now out of control, they'll probably do eventually...and the consequences will NOT be pretty. Even Owen, the hero of the story, looks unsure and concerned as he watches the *Pteranodons* fly off towards the horizon, realizing that his and the others' actions might lead to the worst consequences possible. **Dr. Ian Malcolm:** How many times do you have to see the evidence? How many times must the point be made? We're causing our own extinction! Too many red lines have been crossed! And our home has, in fundamental ways, been polluted by avarice and political megalomania. Genetic power has now been unleashed. And of course, that's gonna be catastrophic. This change was inevitable from the moment we brought the first dinosaur back from extinction. We convince ourselves that sudden change is something that happens outside of the normal order of things, like a car crash, or that it's beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We don't conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as woven into the very fabric of existence. Yet I can assure you, it most assuredly is. And it's happening now. Humans and dinosaurs are now gonna be forced to coexist. These creatures were here before us. And if we're not careful, they're gonna be here after. We're gonna have to adjust to new threats that we can't imagine. We've entered a new era. *Welcome to Jurassic World*.
- As there are only a few specimens loose in a relatively small area (and thankfully only one
*T. rex* and one *Velociraptor*), along with the *Mosasaurus*' continued adventures, the dinosaurs' population isn't really THAT much of a concern. What's *really* frightening, however, are the pterosaurs which, in a short span of time, managed to travel all the way to *Las Vegas* and appear to be nesting atop the replica Eiffel Tower! Given their implied ability to breed, potential to travel very far, and complete willingness to carry off and eat humans, the pterosaurs are sure to be a major cause of concern. Rexy, Blue, and *Mosasaurus* may be the last of their respective kind, but they aren't the only carnivorous dinosaurs; there are still several *Allosaurus*, *Baryonyx*, and *Carnotaurus* to worry about.
- It should be noted one of the DNA vials saved is labeled as
*Tyrannosaurus rex*. Rexy won't be the last of her kind for long...
- Related to that, the scene of some people going surfing while a
*Mosasaur* swims in the wave behind them can be quite scary, especially to those with thalassophobia (fear of the sea or sea travel).
- What about all the species that will face certain extinction if the dinosaurs are given enough free reign? There's a reason plant GMO face such restrictions on their implementation; if left unchecked or un-monitored, they are dangerous for wild plant life. Just imagine how much more dangerous is the introduction of modified animal life into an unprepared ecosystem. With all the potential danger of the choice, was leaving the dinosaurs to roam free actually a good thing?.
- Even worse, what about the fact that some of the dinosaurs like Blue were developed by using the DNA of modern parthenogenetic (animals that can develop embryos without a fertilized egg, basically reproducing asexually) reptile species, according to additional material? Even if you were to argue that the dinosaurs would be contained by the lysine contingency, they would only need to consume enough animal protein to get the lysine they need. Then the JP/JW universe can kiss the ocean ecosystem as it knows it goodbye, what with a 60-foot
*Mosasaurus* now roaming the seas at will. Remember how deer are known to scavenge carrion and even kill small animals when they're lacking certain nutrients and develop cravings for blood? Not to mention the theories that hadrosaurids (like *Parasaurolophus*) and ceratopsians ( *Triceratops*, *Sinoceratops*) may have done the same? Those herbivore dinos might not stay vegetarian for long... Though if it's any comfort, it's incredibly unlikely that they would start going after healthy adult humans or really any live prey larger than a small lizard. They could still very well pose a danger (viewers familiar with animal behavior will certainly be aware of just how extremely dangerous large herbivores can be in Real Life), just not a *predatory* one. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom |
Justice League Dark / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**2017 Animated Movie**
- The beginning of the movie: someone (turns out to be Doctor Destiny and his pawn Ritchie) causes people to see others (family, passers-by, etc.) as horrible demons. One woman driver saw monsters crawling on her car, presumed that they try to kill her, and desperately drove through them, only to realise that there were none, as Wonder Woman stopped her; a father nearly shot his wife and children, seeing them as some Cthulhuoid abominations; young mother saw her newborn child as ugly demon thing and threw it from building, then jumped herself. The child was fortunately saved by Batman; the mother... not. And that is happening all over the world... Terrifying start.
- A shit demon is summoned to stop the team from discovering who is behind it all. There are casualties in the form of hospital security, a nurse and a female doctor who gets pulled in screaming when it first appears. Being killed by a shit demon is bad enough but its revealed it consumes the flesh off their skeletons. Fortunately this was late at night so the hospital wasn't full of staff but this does mean those present were good dedicated medical professionals working late shifts. They did not deserve to go the way they did.
- At the end of the film, Richie is Dragged Off to Hell, alternately cursing John and pleading with him to save him. "Unpleasant", indeed. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JusticeLeagueDark |
Kamaitachi no Yoru 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The infamous easter egg in Banshee's Last Cry 2, especially the fourth outcome in which loud screeching sounds can be heard complete with flashing images.
- Even creepier is that apparently Japanese fans had been talking about this for several years, but the Western fanbase never heard of it until 2020. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamaitachiNoYoru2 |
Kallen Stadtfeld, Countess of Britannia / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- V.V. constantly shows why he's so incredibly dangerous and a Complete Monster every time he acts against the vi Britannias.
- When Lelouch was nine, V.V. sent a Geass using assassin to murder him for apparently no reason other than being Marianne's child. It's pure luck that Kallen and Lelouch managed to kill said assassin.
- While torturing Marianne to death, V.V. threatens her that if she tells Charles what he did, he'll psychologically break her children until there's nothing left of them. In particular, he notes that Nunnally is still young enough to be molded into a proper slave.
- Early in the Russia campaign, V.V. sends another assassin, this one capable of creating illusions. This time, Kallen needs C.C.'s aid and a Geass of her own to survive. The mechanics of said Geass let her know full well she's going to be killed until she finally kills the assassin herself.
- On Kamine Island, V.V. stops messing around and brings himself and nearly a dozen Geass users to kill Lelouch, with Kallen and the Shinozaki clan unable to do anything about it. Unlike against other threats, Kallen can't even use her Geass because V.V. is immune to it. The immortal child shoots her twice in the stomach while declaring that she'll either be his slave or die. It takes Marianne and C.C. working together to kill the Geass users and keep V.V. down long enough for them to flee.
- Kallen's Britannian family are so incredibly petty and spiteful that they had her mother murdered even though Reese had divorced her and Minami posed literally no threat to them in anyway. At the same time, they had Reese killed and tried to murder Kallen, who was only ten at the time. Kallen learned the hard way that almost all of her staff were willing to murder a little girl, forcing her to flee on horseback until she could reach Aries Villa. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KallenStadtfeldCountessOfBritannia |
Kamen Rider Amazons / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Being the darkest and goriest Kamen Rider entry, their Nightmare Fuel is totally Not Safe for Work.
## AMAZONZ
- The opening shows a family murdered by a Spider Amazons, being covered in webs.
- Shido points out there's HUNDREDS loose in the city...and no one knows about it. There are maneating monsters running around and everyone us none the wiser. And what's worse, the Pharmacy knows about it and keeps it covered up. Shido is right to be unnerved by this.
- A woman sees a man transforming into an Amazon in front of her. When she tried to escape, she encounters a man and asks for his help. The man transforms and the woman stops screaming after a sickening crunch. The following morning, she's in pieces, with her leg and head on webs.
- Haruka's particularly
*painful transformation* into Amazon Omega.
- Some of the transformations look and sound downright painful with tons and tons of body horror.
- The shots of Haruka's Amazon form in his mind, kept in shadow and snarling and roaring like a wild animal chained in a cage...and then it breaks loose.
## BEAST INSIDE
- The life of an Amazon. Imagine for the past two years you've been living a normal, peaceful life...then suddenly you begin to feel sick. Then begin to have an unsettling desire to eat someone. Then you finally metamorphose into a killing machine who, if you're lucky, will have no sense of self or humanity and would gladly eat your loved ones for dinner. If you're
*unlucky* like poor ||Ryuusuke||? You regain just enough of your sense of self to know what you've become and try in vain to control it, but at this point there's absolutely no hope of reversing it and even as you're holding the monster back you experience an extreme hunger for human cells. If you're *really* lucky like Haruka, someone may catch you *just* in time before you fully awaken, and get to live with the lovely memories you may have of being an Amazon and knowing if something goes wrong, you might lose control again and this time permanently. Omega bisecting the poor guy was merciful all things considered.
- We get a number for how many Amazons exist in total:
*4000*.
## COLONY OF ANTS
- How does the Queen Ant Amazon feed on her prey? By calling engineers to fix things in her house (which aren't broken) and then proceeding to kill them. Then she stores the leftovers inside her fridge.
- The fact that the whole apartment where Queen Ant Amazon lived is one giant Ant Nest, with a total of 183 Ant Amazons (About 4.5% of total Amazons), all awakened at the same time.
- How about the simple fact that Queen Ant was capable of
*masquerading as human* well enough to lure in her prey. What adds to it is her actress' delivery sounds emotionless and drives home the fact that Queen Ant is simply *pretending* to be human and any humanity in her is long dead.
- There's also the question of what happened to the people who were living in that building, given the only souls in the entire thing were Amazonz...
- It was revealed that the Ant Amazons didn't feed themselves, but instead brought their prey to their Queen so she can feed on them and gain strength. As a result, she is strong enough to give Amazon Omega a hard time without the assistance of her soldiers.
- The sheer Lack of Empathy every single member of the Nozama Pharmacy's higher ups other than Reika shows. 4,000 maneating monsters are rampaging across Japan, munching on people...and they're more concerned about how "cost effective" the SEVEN MAN TEAM they're using is and keeping the Amazon Cells their property. The one person who actually suggests breaking the Masquerade only makes the offer to save the company money.
## DIE OR KILL
## EYES IN THE DARK
- The second Butterfly Amazon consumes his prey by wrapping them in silk and sucking their bodies like liquid through it's proboscis. Poor Mizuki was a witness to this and would've been next on the menu if Haruka hadn't showed up. Can you blame her for going into shock?
- On that note, the first Butterfly Amazon is pretty scary too due to him using his human form and a bus to deliver meals to the second Butterfly Amazon. Imagine getting on an unassuming bus just like any other one day, but the driver suddenly goes off track and delivers you to a monster that systematically cocoons and devours everyone on the bus. Worse ||the first Butterfly Amazon isn't even berserk!||
## HERO OR NOT
- The scariest moment, amazingly, does not come from
*any* of the Amazons. The junkyard owner whom the NPS investigate turns out to be a mere human, but he's a sadistic serial killer nonetheless, and beats up Nozomi while Mamoru is forced to watch.
## INTO THE CANNIBAL'S POT
- The introductory scene depicting the Crab Amazon and his restaurant is this. First ||an unwilling human enters the restaurant, and as he encounters the Amazons eating therein they greet him with unnerving looks. After the chef/Crab Amazon shows him to a room by himself, the next thing we see is the chef preparing some sort of meat, with what appears to be the man's personal effects scattered throughout the kitchen||.
- If the first scene didn't make it clear, Nozomi later opens one of the refrigerators in said restaurant and finds ||a woman's body|| in it. The Crab Amazon then catches her and ||decides to prepare
*Nozomi* as a fresh course||...
## JUNGLE LAW
- Sigma gets particular attention here. At the start of the episode, not only does he rough up Jin enough, he also gives him a really bad neck wound that still bleeds even after he transforms back. Had Nanaha not gotten to him in time, he'd have been dead for sure.
- And at the end of the episode, Sigma manages to outmatch Haruka even if the latter had the upper hand. Sigma goes and rips a bloody hole in Haruka, which wound up worse than Jin's wound.
## LOST IN THE FOG
- We get a rather graphic transformation mid-episode as the female Amazon Haruka rescued way back in #9 awakens. Here's a shot midway, if you're interested.◊
- The awakening Amazons before Tlaloc is activated. At least 246 Soldier Ant Amazons awaken and start a rampage in the city.
- We also see the effect of the Tlaloc chemical on an untransformed Amazon. They resemble someone with a really bad chemical burn.
- And finally, we have ||Mamoru giving in to his hunger and tearing off Misaki's arm to eat. While the poor guy is alive, he's less an arm and when Mamoru de-transforms, he realizes just how much he messed up.||
- Jin's maniacal laughter as he fights the Soldier Ant Amazons in the rain regardless of the activation of Tlaloc.
## M
- Jin is one in-universe to the surviving Amazons, since he keeps coming back to their community to kill and
*eat* them.
- Jin is also seen eating an Amazon heart before the final showdown with Haruka
## NEO
## ORPHANS
- We get to know about Iyu's past. ||It is not pretty. During the celebration of her father's birthday, he turned into an Amazon, killed and ate his family, spare Iyu, he first ate her left eye before dragging her off into a room, singing the song he used to sing with her in the creepiest tone possible. Even though Kurosaki came just in time, we already knew that she was dead.||
- It's established last episode that people are now becoming Amazons via a disease. Thankfully, it isn't contagious... but that's when this episode establishes that ||the disease
*can* be transmitted through water and that there's been a company that is deliberately sending contaminated water coolers||...
## PERSONA NON GRATA
- The MO of an Amazon doctor and nurse in order to obtain victims. ||They use an otorhinolaryngology clinic to obtain victims, during which they suck out the victim's brain.|| What makes this extra nightmarish is just how graphic this is; season 1 would have used a Gory Discretion Shot in its stead.
## RAMBLING ROSES
- The Amazon of the week gets their victims by posing as a beautician and decapitating them via a makeshift guillotine erected over the hair wash basin. ||What makes this even scarier is that the killer is NOT the Amazon, just a regular human, but it's her partner who is the Amazon.||
## THE THIRD DEGREE
- To get information out of Chihiro, he's subjected to a fraction of the power of an HP round which has been described as being able to completely destroy an Amazon. He's heard screaming agony and is later shown with his
*entire body* covered in the black veins signalling his regeneration ability kicking in. He's also told that something similar is placed in Iyu's armband and 4C is willing to activate it if Chihiro doesn't tell them everything he knows.
## UNDER WRAPS
- ||Haruka blinding Jin|| certainly qualifies, what with the latter rolling around as he bleeds all over the ground.
- ||How Nanaha dies. Chihiro bites into her, she presumably turns into an Amazon, and is gunned down by 4C operatives, with her remains scattered around. It's implied her arm was used by Mamoru's group to infect the water causing the lysogenic Amazon outbreak as well.||
- With the reveal that the arm used in the lysogenic outbreak came from ||Chihiro|| this is somewhat lessened but she was still ||killed and eaten by her own son||.
## VANISHING WINGS
- Jin is again one in-universe, with Chihiro being completely frozen in fear when faced with ||his father||.
- ||Chihiro's rampage in his true form. He effortlessly slaughters almost all of the 4C personnel around him, slicing off fingers and limbs, and easily ripping Kano in half.||
## YELLOW BRICK ROAD
- We get to see ||from Iyu's persepective as her father rips her eye out and eats it.||
- ||In Chihiro's rage, he partially transformed into his true Amazon mode as his tentacles unknowingly kill the 4C forces after him and Iyu.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderAmazons |
Kamen Rider Build / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Evolt not only successfully evolves by absorbing the completed Black Pandora Panel and pushing the Evol Driver to the limit, he then gets a little emotional revenge on Sento by warping him with him to another unrelated planet and then proceeds to activate his new form's *Black Hole Break* finisher. What does that do you may ask? Why opens up a black hole that consumes the entire planet *instantly and without the need for Pandora's Box of course!* Oh yeah, and it gets worse. Every time Evolt does that he gets stronger. His description of what he's going to do with that power is *bone-chilling.* **Evolt:** I'm going to consume as many planets as I can, until I'm all that's left in the universe. And that... ...will be the new world! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderBuild |
Kajiri Kamui Kagura / Nightmarefuel - TV Tropes
the god of the world
- The fate of the world should ever Hajun's Law be completed or Tenma Yato's Law be applied on the Throne.
- Once Hajun's Law is completed, everything in Existence besides him will be erased. This applies to all Concepts, Souls and multiverses. Even the Throne, an object capable of withstanding the blows of three Hadou Gods, would be erased.|| Once Yato did it did happen and just started with all living beings, regardless of their scale and family relation, starting to kill each other. A World of slaughter and exclusion. Furthermore, since souls itself cant exist in Tengu Dou, death is absolutely irreversible, without chance of reincarnation. Because of omnipresent wilderness new life cant be produced, progress of civilization is stopped, universe itself shrinks down, reducing the very possibility that new souls can be born. Billions of Śṛgālas (terminals of Hajuns power, AKA mooks) and tens of thousands of pseudo-Gudou Gods battle with each other, sealing the fate of future, reducing universe to a mere slaughter feast until nothing remains in the end.||
- It isn't better with Yato's: should he ever take the Throne, it would bring all Existence into stagnation. Lifeforms, universes and even concepts, everything will be frozen and no kind of change will ever occur. For all eternity.
- The stalemate between the two is also bad, because without Yatos' Timestop completly manifestated, the world would still be destroyed, as he and Hajun have so much individual spiritual mass that the world wouldn't even be able to hold the existence of one of them, let alone both.
- A battle between Gods for the rest of the world.
- Several all powerful entities beyond your comprehension, with each of their attacks being capable of destroying entire universes including you. Also, if that does not happen to you, your chances aren't much better, because your soul will probably, together with millions of other souls, just be used for fueling the attacks of a Hadou God. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KajiriKamuiKagura |
Kamen Rider Drive / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This episode gives us our first taste of Ghost's foes, The Gamma. ||They're utterly invisible to anyone who isn't holding an Eyecon, they're incredibly strong, incredibly fast, and even seem able to fly. Oh yeah, and they will beat the living hell out of you if you so much as pick up an Eyecon. Have fun knowing that one could be literally anywhere and you wouldn't know it until it was too late.|| **Shinnosuke/Drive:** Mr. Belt, what is this?! **Mr. Belt:** I have no data on this! Whatever this is, it is *beyond* the bounds of science! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderDrive |
Kakegurui / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Some of the characters' Nightmare Face moments can be quite unnerving, especially in the anime.
- Yumeko in complete "compulsive gambling mode". Normally she's a rather polite gal who can hold herself in very tough situations, but there are
*countless* times where during a game she becomes a crazed lunatic prone to Nightmare Face and Death Glare, touching herself inappropriately, and even getting into a couple of her opponents' faces.
- The idea that Sumeragi took away many girls' fingernails as payment after a loss isn't very pleasant. It gets worse after Yumeko begins to fantasize about the pain and bleeding after removing the nails on both hands and feet.
- In the fourth episode it's shown that if a schoolgirl's debt is too high, the Student Council makes a "life plan" for them, which forces them to marry influential businessmen and politicians in exchange for paying off their debts.
- In particular, they even planned at what age Mary and Yumeko should give birth to children.
- In Mary's case, her prospective suitor has been suspected to be a pedophile.
- Midari Ikishima's interrogation and punishment room looks like a Torture Cellar. At one point we can even notice badly washed up traces of blood...
- Midari gouging out her left eye after Kirari tells her that she has never seen the back of an eye. Luckily, the audience isn't shown the exact moment but it's still really disturbing.
- Kirari wasn't just curious about seeing the back of an eye, she wanted to have Midari's eye removed as payment for the debt. Even better is that Kirari probably did this because the original debt had no phase on Midari, but instead of despairing Midari gleefully and erratically stabs the eye out, and that's just the beginning with her...
- Midari proving to Ryota that her gun isn't fake by shooting a bullet just inches away from him, right after explaining that the game she and Yumeko will play involves Russian Roulette but shooting at the opponent instead.
- Even the most seemingly cute and innocent looking characters have their own scary moments, effectively shown with one of Runa's subordinates who appears as a cute and energetic girl, only to shoot
*one hell of a Death Glare* at Erimi Mushibami after she questions them about how they expect to maintain neutrality.
- The later reveal of how exactly Yumeko's sister lost her mind: a dice game between her and her aunt Tsugiko which would decide who would lead the Jabami family.
- After a really impressive showing of getting three snake eyes in a row during the dice game, Tsugiko reveals she sell the snake eye stone of the family to get as much money as she could to make sure she would become the head of the Jabamis. Unfortunately this begins Souko's downfall and breakdown.
- Tsugiko's facial expressions in chapters 101 and 102 seems like out of a horror series. Ooh boy.
- Good lord, chapter 102. Souko starts to break mentally from the pressure, being more and more panicked. Then Tsugiko puts the final nail into the coffin and confirms that she was the one who killed Yumeko and Souko's parents. It's the final straw for poor Souko, as the extreme stress causes
*blood to fall from her nose and eyes*, and she vomits and collapses. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Kakegurui |
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
A dose of how scary the Bugster Virus is: Anyone can get infected and once you are, it'll fester inside you until it gathers enough power to hijack your body and turn it into a huge amorphous monster. And even then it can only be removed from the afflicted person if the Bugster monster is destroyed.
Bugsters are basically this year's Phantoms. Anybody can suddenly come down with a cold or other illness and anything stressful can trigger the transformation into a massive monster before another monster pops out of your body when you turn back to normal. Said monster will then do everything in its power to make your life a living hell just to increase your stress. Soon, you'll start disappearing with the monster growing in strength until it's complete and you disappear from reality. What makes them worse than the Phantoms is the fact that unlike a Gate's inner Phantom, they don't need other Bugster's help to hasten their completion, they can just go and strengthen the stress themselves by making their host sick. You're somewhat safe from the Phantoms if you're not a Gate (unless you're the Gate's source of hope...), but for the Bugsters, you can be infected anytime without even knowing about it. Bugsters don't even have to work on guessing what will stress out their victims either. Graphite confirms that the Bugster and its host are connected in a way that would allow them to know exactly what they need to do in order to complete themselves and kill their hosts.
"The closing screen stating "See you next game" is a nod to the Metroid series from the phrase "See you next mission" once finishing the game. The latter phrase is first used at the end of Super Metroid followed by an evaluation of the player's item collection rate, and would later be used in subsequent Metroid games like the Prime series."
Amidst the awesome opening, we get a part where Emu suddenly disintegrates into data, although two parts later, he almost seems to be fading back in. It is far more terrifying when it is later revealed to be what happens to a Rider when their gauge hits zero and it's Game Over for them.
The last scene of the episode, with Kuroto selling the Gamer Driver and Bang Bang Shooting Gashat to Taiga. The scene itself is not scary, but the implication that he would sell a dangerous device like that to anyone with enough money is a terrifying thought. What if the one who bought it was a criminal?
Near the climax, we discover that the health bars on the Riders' chest aren't just for show in an ominous way: If the Rider's health is depleted, they don't lose their transformation. They die.
Genm talking in a voice that sounded like it's straight from a horror movie. Maybe he should've stayed silent.
Graphite's transformation is nothing short of terrifying due to it coming out of absolutely nowhere, not helped at all by the Bugvisor's positively demonicgrowling voice. It gets worse when you consider that the Bugvisor is used to spread the Bugster virus, and that in episode 2 Brave and Ex-Aid both received a direct hit... though that seems to be from the orange cloud it releases. Brave and Ex-Aid just got shot.
INFECTION! Let's Game! Bad Game! Dead Game! Whatcha Name?! THE BUGSTERS!
Taiga's reaction to just seeing Graphite is kind of scary considering he goes from smug and collected to frothing at the mouth rage, abandoning tactics in favor of a brute force assault. It gets worse due to the next episode preview hinting that Graphite was responsible for the death of the patient that got Taiga's licence revoked.
Emu's Psychotic Smirk before transforming. It came completely out of nowhere. This episode might be a hint that "M" isn't really a good thing. Emu cares about people, but "M" seems to be just as Ax-Crazy as Genm, if not moreso! Not helped at all when we get to see Genm's Rider Gauge is almost empty after he escapes. Emu almost killed another human being.
Kuroto's Slasher Smile in the same episode is really terrifying, showing us that he's not really all there. On the other hand, as time went on his tendency to do this would actually cross the line into fandom adored Fountain of Memes. There's an extra level of horror to knowing that the guy who supplies the Riders with their equipment and power-ups is working with the Bugsters.
We actually get to see what happens to the patient if the Game Disease completes it's infection, they completely disappear without any trace. Try to imagine someone you care about dying of a disease that, according to the general population, doesn't exist. And to really rub salt in the wound, there's nothing left to bury. Poor Hiiro.
At the end, we have Graphite using the Proto Drago Knight Hunter Z Gashat by stabbing it into his chest. The evil laugh he does as the Gashat starts empowering made the scene even more terrifying. It's creepy seeing him stab a Gashat into himself, but the ultimate creepiness is his terrifying laugh echoing, then fading into the already-unnerving See You Next Game.
Snipe gets, what is arguably, the most powerful Level 3 Rider Gashat: Jet Combat. It allows him to fly, use gattling guns and fire missiles. Yes, all that power in the hands of an egoistical amoral jerk.
Parado's talk with Kuroto, where he tells him the Prototype Gashats will ruin his body through continued use. Worse, even using the regular Gashats seems to have serious side effects, as Taiga hints near the end of the episode. Not to mention that in order to be a Rider, you had to be operated on to use the drivers. While it's meant for foreshadowing on Emu's backstory, it has rather dark implications towards the other Riders and gives nod to the original Kamen Rider.
The next episode lightens it a bit by revealing that the operation is simply introducing a small amount of the Bugster Virus to the subject to create an immunity to it, similar to a vaccine. This opens a new can of worms however, as Emu hasn't had said operation. This begs the question, "Then how can he use the Driver?"
Parado aying his catchphrase, only this time, he said it in a disturbing, psychotically cheery tone. Even worse, he addressed it directly to Emu.
Emu gets his hands on the Drago Knight Hunter Z Gashat and uses its full power.
Similar to OOO PuToTyra, Emu is overwhelmed by the power of the Level 5 Gashat and proceeds to flail around, attacking anybody in his vicinity while having spasms of energy shooting off randomly around him before being forcibly unmorphed by the sheer power of the Gashat.
The similarities to PuToTyra only increase as the Drago Knight Hunter Z Gashat seems to have been corrupting Emu until Brave, Snipe and Lazer team-up and damage the dragon.
The whole thing is creepy. Seeing Emu, who was described as a clear crystal just episodes ago, being readily willing to attack and hurt people is just....unsettling.
Boy, where do we start with Zombie Gamer? As expected of a form based of Survival Horror, it doesn't disappoint. Here's some examples:
Let's start with the fact that this form is Level 10. A full five levels higher than the riders can currently reach.
Just activating the Gashat generates a Game Area that's populated not by power up items, but by Bugster Grunts acting like zombies. Genm's practically a Bugster himself now.
Usually a belt jingle can defuse a bit of the horror of an evil rider. Not in this case, and not helped by the fact that it's punctuated by the Buggle Driver roaring like a zombie at points.
Genm Level X: Buggle Up! Danger! Danger! (Genocide!) Death the Crisis! Dangerous Zombie! (Zombie Screech)
His transformation sequence alone is scary enough, unlike other Riders where they are enveloped by a screen containing their Rider form, Genm breaks through his when becoming Zombie Gamer leaving black smoke around him as a result.
His Rider Gauge is cracked and starts at zero showing that he isn't properly alive anymore and leaves the question of how can he be beaten when he doesn't even have any more health to lose. The worst thing about fighting an undead enemy like Zombie Gamer might be his ability to No-Selleverything thrown his way. He tanks Lazer's Critical Finish like just standing there and taking it isn't a big deal. Even worse is the possibility that he's got a Healing Factor that lets him recover from the attack faster than he can take damage or even nullify the attack entirely. Watching as a powerful attack fades into dust when it hits Genm, one has to wonder how any of the Riders can defeat him in the first place without using a form at a higher Level?
After transforming, he makes some really unnatural laggy spasming movements similar to that of the usual portrayal of Zombies. Despite his appearance, Kuroto isn't human anymore. Even worse is the fact said laggy movements and visual glitches aren't effects for the audience: Kuroto generates those in this form, meaning his enemies see them too.
His Critical End, unlike other Critical moves, doesn't have the cartoony effects that shows the name of the attack appearing on screen. Instead, it includes a lot of black mist and dark aura appearing around him. The creepy music playing while he does it doesn't help either. His Critical Dead is truly a culmination of just how nightmarish Zombie Gamer really is. Using it spreads black mist over the field, out of which shadowy, human-like masses emerge to converge upon the target. Had Brave not tackle Ex-Aid out of the way, one could be forgiven for thinking that they would've dragged Ex-Aid down into the underworld.
The fact that he killed Kiriya, who was using Level 3, without breaking a sweat. Even Lazer's Critical Finish couldn't put a dent on him. Right now, Genm is pretty much the strongest Rider.
By the way, you see that "white hair" on his head? That's a device called the Deadly Jammer, which prevents Gamer Drivers from automatically ejecting Gashats to preserve the life of their users and traps them within the Game Area.
The reason Kuroto's sticking with using Dangerous Zombie despite it showing signs of being outclassed and demonstrating that he can make Level 50 Gashats is because the X in Level X has two meanings; the Roman Numeral for 10 and the Unknown Variable X, and as of episode 21, he's achieved it.
We finally see how someone dies from a Game Over, they begin to pixelate and fade away a lot like a Bugster infected patient and short of using the Dangerous Zombie Gashat there is no way to stop it. Oh yeah, and if you're thinking you've seen it somewhere before, you're right. It's what happens to Emu during the opening credits. Also, those who have watched Kamen Rider Dragon Knight probably know how it is similar to being vented.
Whatever the blank Mighty Brothers XX Gashat did to Emu before his natural Bugster Immunity kicked in... and even then we're not sure if that actually happened. Remember that his eyes still glow red, a usual sign of a Bugster coming out. From what we can see, the blank Gashat seemed to flood Emu's body with Bugster viruses that then makes contact with his immune system. Our hero in pink isn't the same anymore.
We finally get to see Zombie Gamer's Resurrective Immortality ability, complete with the creepy "resurrection" stand-up movement, just drives home on the undead aspect. his empty-by-default Rider Gauge was spoken of lightly by fans until this episode: he's zombie-based, so he has no Hit Points because zombies are dead! Ha, cute little suit design touch there. Kudos, TOEI. But then he starts taking the full brunt of Super Mode attacks, even once getting the Monster of the WeekDefeat Means Explosion treatment... and then instantly getting back up with undead-like motions with his full strength intact, talking about having transcended death when for the first time an actual character notes the empty gauge. Turns out... he has no life points because zombies are dead. No, he's not still just another guy in a suit who will go down if he's hit hard enough. He's become something else that doesn't work that way. You can kill him, and have, but he's no longer the sort of creature that stops when it dies, and there's no Plan B for that. And his CRITICAL DEAD attack involves summoning a bunch of digital zombies that are glowing red indicating that they're about to blow up, and they stockpile on you!
Starting with this one, the updated credits sequence has shocked many a fan, since Kiriya was practically erased from the opening. It's particularly jarring to see that the shot of him holding up his gashat is now just a plain background and some static.
The way that his segment has been edited is so seamless, it really makes you afraid for the other Doctor Riders. After all, Kuroto's already stated that every last one of them is now a loose end.
Worse? In the four-way Rider fight, Ex-Aid, Snipe and Brave all transform, with a hologram of Lazer Lv.1 looking on, motionless. It really drives home the fact that his game data might still exist, but the man himself no longer does.
Using the Mighty Brothers XX Gashat causes Emu to suffer headaches and followed by loss of consciousness for a while. Now, let's look back, almost if not everytime a power up caused a side effect for the Rider, it will never end well for said Rider.
The Wham Line delivered at the end by Taiga, "Ex-Aid, you have the Game Disease."
Several terrifying new developments:
Nico shows us what happens if you don't have the Compatibility Surgery operation and try to use the Driver... you get the Bugster Virus. ...enough said.
Kamen Rider Para-DX's first appearance and abilities at Level 50, showing just how far the Bugsters still outclasses the Riders.
Not only that, but Kuroto states that the Gashat Gear Dual is nothing but practice for Parado in preparation for Kamen Rider Chronicle which is even stronger.]]
We see why a compatibility surgery is needed to use the Gashats when Nico tries to use Bang Bang Shooting to eliminate Emu herself, not only does it simply not work for her, but it caused a Bugster infection immediately.
Taiga and Hiiro learn what Kiriya discovered and was killed for knowing, Emu is Patient Zero for the Bugster Virus. A fact that raises several more alarms:
During the flashback when the operation on Emu six years ago failed, the doctors became infected with the Bugster Virus but instead of showing symptoms and disappearing slowly like other patients, they disappear on the spot with no Bugsters shown spawning. Emu's Game Disease is so virulent that it kills instantly and not even the deaths of several people can cause the Bugster to spawn, imagine how powerful it will be when it finally does.
Taiga realizes that telling Emu this fact with stress him out severely and can risk causing the virus to become active and warns Hiiro of this, both Riders come to the conclusion that Emu must be eliminated.]]
What we previously thought to be side effects of using the Mighty Brothers XX Gashat are now manifesting when Emu uses normal Gashats and possibly in his normal work as a doctor in the form of an "anemic attack", the headaches are not side effects, they're signs of the Game Disease manifesting after stress.
We finally got to see how Parado is when he's angry. When the Revol Bugster shoot him in the back while he's having "fun" with Ex-Aids XX L and XX R, Parado is pissed. He proceed to destroy Revol easily while in a extremely unnerving Tranquil Fury state. Again, he does this against a Bugster who is supposed to be his ally. It's now very clear that Parado is really not right in the head. Whoever it is, if they interrupt his "fun", he will destroy them, whether it's his allies or enemies. Let's also remember that this guy is easily one of the strongest Rider in the series....
In after what was a generally fun and lighthearted episode, ends in Kuroto killing Burgermon, showing how unsafe it is with him and Parado around. And the reasoning behind Kuroto killing Burgermon? He was from a game Kuroto didn't make. It shows that just like Parado, if his allies rub him the wrong way, he'll murder them without a second thought. Unlike Parado however, who at least makes sure the destroyed Bugster's data can still be stored in the Gashacon Bugvisor so it can be used again someday. He chose to go against someone who wasn't willing to fight and posed no threat whatsoever. It didn't further his plans in any way; he just wanted satisfaction from killing an innocent being who just happened to irritate him without doing anything.
We see Emu finally succumbing to his disease. It doesn't look pretty. He screams as yellow light covers him while his body fades into pixels and his face looks like it's tearing apart.
The debut of Brave Taddle Fantasy Gamer Level 50. Sounds awesome, right? Well, it is...except there's a catch. In order to access Level 50, Hiiro has to infect himself with a large amount of Bugster Virus. And unlike Emu, who had a lot of antibodies, Hiiro just went through a normal procedure. He pulls through, but imagine if he didn't...
Gatton, this episode's Bugster. It's not separated from patient, It's Level 30, and it can turn itself into data and use CR's computer systems to escape quarantine.Now imagine if the patient's source of stress is somewhere outside of Japan like, say, America, Europe, or the International Space Station? and even without it, imagine Genm uses a Bugster to disturb or destroy CR's system from the inside.
The Bugster Virus was created by the Y2K Crisis and was first discovered by Kuroto. Then, on Zero Day, he purposefully infected countless people with the Bugster Virus, killing thousands, and placed the blame on his father. All to create a monstrous game where people have to fight monsters in real life to survive.
Especially creepy is that young Kuroto is not only adorable, but at that point he seems to have an actually good relationship with his father. Something must have happened to twist that teenager into the monster who released the virus.
So everybody knows that when Genm got hit by a Critical Finish, he just jerks himself back up? We finally get an explanation for it: Kuroto has been dying and reviving all this time! Looks like the gashat isn't finished recording death at all after #11. But after this episode, Kuroto has recorded enough of his own deaths to achieve Level X! Now the riders are going to be facing against a true undead Rider.
The Reveal that Emu got infected by the Game Disease by Kuroto. Let that sink in. A little boy in the hospital sent Kuroto fan mail detailing his idea for a game and some character designs and was rewarded with a game laced with the Bugster Virus that laid dormant in him for ten years. There's It's All About Me levels of narcissism and then there's just flat out psychosis.
Kuroto's Sanity Slippage during the episode. At first he seems okay, approaching the police in an unusually calm manner. Then once he starts fighting, he's moving in an unusually jerky and erratic manner. And once he's lost his immortality, he goes completely off the rails. He infects a large group of people out of anger, and once the riders show up, he's reduced to just going nuts even when he hits the riders, eventually just flailing his arms to try and hurt something.
Also there's the aforementioned infection of a large group. Kuroto's stumbling around, beaten and bloodied, when he stumbles across a park full of people that he proceeds to infect out of desperation to find the last two required Bugsters. Just imagine being one of those poor unsuspecting people when a maniac starts flailing around a device that's spewing a horribly lethal disease indiscriminately
Also, his death. Like Kiriya's death, but worse. And Parado smiles through the whole scene, obviously happy with how things turned out.
Just to clarify, Emu tries to spare Kuroto but Parado decides that the loser needs to have a bad ending. To this end, he takes the Buggle Driver and Dangerous Zombie and uses them to pump Kuroto full of the Bugster Virus as he screams in pain and terror and begs for his life. All Parado does however is smile and calmly tell Kuroto that he'll be taking Kamen Rider Chronicle. Kuroto's last moments are those of absolute fucking madness as he screams that he's God and that his ambitions will live forever before he finally gets a "Game Over". Holy shit!
Parado: Thanks for your hard work, Game Master. I'm taking Kamen Rider Chronicle.
Making matters worse is the fact that Dangerous Zombie's strain of the Bugster Virus was strong enough to cripple someone who was immunized against said virus. Kuroto got hit with an extra-strong dose of the game disease, with no immunity to buffer out the damage dealt, and so must've died in excruciating pain.
So simple, yet somehow so creepy—Parado somehow mucking up the scene's colour saturation when he tries to talk Emu into killing Kuroto.
Parado kills six people. All of them were playing Chronicle with no knowledge of what happens when you lose, and they all died on the spot. We get to watch their initial confusion as the deleting effect begins, panic as they learn what's happening to them from "Poppy" (and the Poppy avatar doesn't lose one bit of her bouncy cheerfulness as she tells the doomed players that "Game Over" means you disappear from existence) and finally hear them begging and screaming in terror as they are deleted, including one Adorkable newbie Emu had watched being given the tutorial near the beginning. All Emu could do is watch as the poor guy faded into nothing, screaming the whole time.
The music playing when Poppy explains that is just creepy, due to it being an up-beat tune slowed down.
It gets better: Kamen Rider Chronicle is rated A (the Japanese equivalent of "Rated E for Everyone.") Somewhere, even little kids are suffering this fate.
Alternatively Nightmare Retardant or another level worse: Because CERO's ratings are issued through a playtest in real life, it implies that some game assessor played the game and used their life as a credit just to give the game a rating. It's a bit of a shock that they somehow didn't find any violence, but also likely came down with Bugster shortly after submitting their review.
And on a more sinister note, the Ride Player activation call is a case of Hiding in Plain Sight for the Bugsters' end goal and how those foolish enough to fall for their trap are riding towards their own extinction.
There is no escape from the game once you start it, because it infects you with Game Disease and you can only cure yourself by destroying the Bugster. Keep in mind that Chronicle is based on Survival Sandbox games and Poppy's avatar in the tutorial not only tells the players that Kamen Riders have better equipment than them, but actively encourages the players to hunt them for said equipment, just like every player in a Survival Sandbox and the horrible things they usually do. Now the Riders have a second enemy that they can't even kill hunting them just to survive.
We finally get to see the Bugvisor II in action and it's worse than the first one, with the voice being even deeper and more sinister. While the first Bugvisor's voice was meant to sound like a growling zombie, the Bugvisor II's voice sounds calm, cool and collected. It's gone from a rampaging monster to an intelligent and confident villain.
We finally get to see Ren's eccentricity and Manipulative Bastard qualities in a terrifying light. He reveals that beating Kamen Rider Chronicle will revive everyone who was killed in the game if beaten, manipulating people into playing the game despite the danger, and when two Genm Corp. employees try to resign over Ren making and distributing a game that literally kills its players, he tears up their resignation letters, making it very clear that he won't let them leave.
Also, Taiga's speech can be interpreted as that he doesn't see himself as having any future. What he will do once the Bugster virus is eradicated? Is he going to live long enough to see that? Does he even want that? Apparently, Nico is his only hope for a future. Oh, he is doomed.
Parado's OOC moment comes in full circle. He's not amused at Emu's reprogramming of Poppy and is even shown threateningly choking her.
The scariest part about the above is that as Poppy starts to voice that she doesn't want to fight humans, Parado turns around incredibly fast and grabs her by the throat before pushing her back and holding her by her neck as he pushes her towards the edge of the roof they were conversing on as a Scare Chord goes off, in no uncertain terms threatening her to stay the course. It shows the viewer exactly the kind of person Parado is.]]
Parado: You'd better enjoy the game more.
Parado's Demonic Possession of Emu and, as of the episode 29 preview, getting access to Level 99.
More of Parado possessing Emu. Thanks to the excellent acting by both Shouma Kai and Hiroki Iijima, it's just freaking disturbing.
On top of that, there's the implication that Parado has been in control of Ex-Aid Level XX R this entire time.
Parado's twisted sense of You Can't Fight Fate towards Emu. Every time Parado has aided Emu; giving him the Gashat to create Mighty Brothers XX in episode 10, preventing him from disappearing in Episode 19 was out of the idea that Emu's fate is his to control so he can have his battle with Emu.
A nice dose of Paranoia Fuel: After being kidnapped by Parado, Emu somehow escapes, approaching the gang as they finish a battle. He assures them he is OK, but slips on pronouns, using the confident ore instead of the more boyish boku that he usually uses. It turns out he was being possessed by Parado, who somehow managed to nail his usual mannerism. Were it not for the aforementioned Freudian Slip, nobody would have figured it out. Thinking about everything Parado could have done in Emu's body is just creepy.
Parado!Emu breaking into a psychotic Evil Laugh after exposing himself goes from just plain disturbing to serious Nightmare Fuel very easily. Kuroto's Large Hamtendencies and his own evil laugh would become darkly comedic over time (at least to some viewers), but this is more disturbing every time it happens.
The fact that both times Parado and Emu fought in their Level 99 forms, Parado won. As close as the second battle may have been, this only spells out bad news for the Doctor Riders.
Had Hiiro, Taiga and Nico not shown up when they did, Emu would've died from decapitation.
The sheer power of Cronus aka Masamune Dan is utterly terrifying;
With his mastery of time he easily swats the Riders & Bugsters aside as if they were nothing. He even went as far as to give Lovelica a PERMANENT "Game Over." Anyone killed by Cronus will stay dead.
What's worse about Cronus is that unlike Kuroto, whose descent into insanity with his flailing and yelling could be somewhat entertaining to watch, Masamune never raises his voice or moves faster than a calm pace. And why would he need to? All it takes is a push of a button or two, and they're already dead.
There's the wording Masamune uses to describe what he did to Lovelica. It makes it sound less like he killed him and more like he trapped him in the absolute worst And I Must Scream situation.
Cronus: There are no continues for those who die frozen in time. He is trapped in the moment of death... permanently.
Remember how terrifying it was that Genm's Level X form had a drained Rider Gauge? Cronus doesn't even have a Rider Gauge.
We also got the first glimpse of the Final Boss Bugster: Its name is Gamedeus and Kuroto calls him the ultimate god. Considering how powerful Cronus already is, one could only imagine just how the hell is anyone going to defeat Gamedeus if he is even more powerful than Cronus. Even better, the key to defeat Gamedeus is Cronus' powers. It seems the situation isn't going to get any better for the Riders or Bugsters.
To show Emu and Asuna how much power he has, Masamune deletes Salty with just a keyboard command. Even worse, Salty was just talking with Parado and Graphite when this happened.
Also, there was no real reason Masamune did it. He just wanted to remind the Bugsters he owns them, and poor Salty was a cruel reminder to either follow the rules, or face the consequences.
Saki returns... but her data is incomplete and she can only repeat her last words over and over.
Gamedeus' virus appears and the bugsters want to use it to overcome Cronus. Graphite allowed himself to be the carrier of Gamedeus' virus. Even though it was only a small portion of Gamedeus' power, it managed to cause him, a level 99 Bugster, to experience enormous pain. Whatever Gamedeus is, he's bad news indeed.
Kiriya returns complete and yet is not the same anymore. He sees Emu as a Broken Pedestal for failing to fulfill his last wish and now, willingly works for Masamune.
Gamedeus virus seems to start overwhelming Graphite.
Whatever Kiriya whispered to Emu, it pushed the intern off the deep end immediately.
Nico, of all people, says this is so unlike him.
Worst of all, when asked what exactly Kiriya whispered to him, Emu pauses...then solemnly states that You Do Not Want To Know. Even ignoring for a moment that this scene is juxtaposed with Kiriya in the rain, looking at the spot where he was killed...then sporting a Slasher Smile / Kubrick Stare combo(which itself also counts as Nightmare Fuel), the fact that Emu is so shaken that he prefers to keep it secret just makes it worse]].
The sadistic choice Masamune presents Hiiro with. Kill Emu or lose Saki. He manages to wiggle out of it by targeting Parado, but still, if Masamune wants Emu dead, he won't give up that easily.
The aftermath of Taiga losing a fight against Graphite. He is so battered and bleeding that it looks almost like an early Heisei-era series (think Rider death in Ryuki ). Emu, Kiriya and Poppy are frantically working to stabilize him before an ambulance arrives, while he writhes in pain. The situation has reduced Nico into a panicking wreck as she pleads with him to not die. Hiiro watches in horror before turning around and running away.
Masamune continues down the Sanity Slippage. The way he laughs (madly) as he beats Emu up and proclaims his control over Hiiro's life definitely prove that he lost his marbles (if earlier events were not enough of an indication).
His plan to spoil CR crew's Hope Spot by making Hiiro kill Taiga is just Paranoia Fuel. CR crew wouldn't even know that if he didn't tell, thinking he has Hiiro under control. Their horrified reactions upon getting to know that count too.
Masamune infected Nico with Gamedeus Game Disease off-screen, causing the events of this and following episodes. How did he even do that?!
Emu mocking Parado's attitude during their final battle. The way he does it makes it seem like he's actually enjoying the thought of killing the guy.
One moment in particular stands out: Parado attempts a Villain: Exit, Stage Left, saying that he'll win next time, only for Emu to Flash Step in, grab him by the collar, stop his teleport, and then growl at Parado that there isn't going to be a next time and that he has to get the ending he deserves. The moment in question gets scarier when Emu's Flash Step collar grab gets accompanied not with triumphant and heroic music like one would expect, but with this season's signature Scare Chord.
The very reason that made Emu to do all of these? Nico is infected with Gamedeus' Game Disease, and the Sadistic Choice that Cronus forced Emu to choose.
It turns out Emu was actually invoking this trope: he wanted to make Parado fear for his life as much as possible to finally make him realize what death actually was.
Throughout the episode, it's shown that Parado is slowly getting more and more scared of actually dying. Whenever this is shown, it's interspersed with some lovely footage of Parado drowning in an endless ocean. In next episode, Emu says that his and Parado's hearts were connected. That basically means that Emu LITERALLY felt everything he caused Parado to feel, and he CHOSE to kill him, while feeling like he's the one dying once again. All so that Nico can be saved. Hardcore doctor to the boot.
In a way, the sadistic choice Masamune gives in this episode to Emu is to save his patient, or save his creation which he does seem to start to care about lately, as him ignoring Parado's requests of battle usually boils down to "patient first" not "Patient is the only one I care about, you get lost monster" like before (optionally, save the current patient, or save the countless patients you could've saved, had you had Ex-Aid's power). It's as if creator of Ju Ju Burger was told to choose between Burgermon and his coworkers.
Poppy's reaction to watching Emu finish Parado off. She remembers how Emu saved her and Burgermon, so seeing him not pick that option with Parado is just frightening to her. Exactly the supposed audience reaction. Sure it wasn't permanent, but she didn't know that.
Taiga seeing Nico suffer may had reminded him of Saki...
Masamune gaining the power to reset time and erase Hyper Muteki, the only Gashat that could defeat him, from existence.]]
What Gamedeus caused definitely looks like what Zero Day probably did.
Creating a cure for the spreading Gamedeus Game Disease, Kuroto gained the ability to cure it which he displays on Kiriya. Fortunately, he didn't show the other side of the ability - infection. Yup, that's right, the resident second worst psychopath now has the strongest strain of the Game Disease at his disposal.
Worse, the resident absolutely worst psychopath now has too. Masamune Dan saved Gamedeus data after his defeat and injected them into himself, becoming a Bugster. Still worse, Masamune's following smile is the runner up for best Slasher Smile in the history of Kamen Rider. Assuming that is still Masamune...
The entire scene where Masamune merges with Gamedeus. After he kills Gamedeus, the Level Clear screen pops up with fireworks going off...then he absorbs Gamedeus's data into the Bugvisor and injects it into himself, causing the screen to glitch out and finally crash. This is followed by Masamune going Laughing Mad as the fusion happens, ending with the "Game Over" announcement... only nothing happens. Masamune doesn't vanish... he just raises his head with the Tainted Veins Graphite showed and declares That Man Is Dead, implying the Game Over was indeed true... and what's standing there has stopped being Masamune.
After getting beaten down, Masamune reveals that Gamedeus' strength isn't the only thing he's gained as Gamedeus Cronus. He demonstrates that he's also a living pandemic, infecting countless people and turning them into Bugsters the second that they're infected. The virus can even spread by touch from those infected and cause side effects immediately. Even with all his power, Masamune's still willing to doom countless people to put them under his control. It's just this time, he's doing it all himself.
Super Gamedeus is pretty dang terrifying, being a gigantic beast with two dragon-like heads instead of arms and freaking covered in eyes. However, it loses some of it's menace when you realize it's a glorified Bugster Union that can be defeated rather easily by five Level 1 riders.
Masamune, not wanting to receive judgement from the Ministry of Health, decides to commmit suicide by stabbing the Kamen Rider Chronicle master Gashat onto his chest. By doing so, green electric volts come shocking at him as Masamune screams in severe pain, then dissolving into green particles, thus also depriving the Riders of the chance to save the Bugster Virus victims.
Movies & Specials
The Lazer episode is truly terrifying. Kuroto sneaks into the hospital room where Kiriya is being treated. While Kiriya is unconcious, Kuroto uses the Bakusou Bike Gashat and VR system to torture Kiriya psychologically and threatens him not to reveal Kuroto's identity as Genm. Seriously, the episode plays out like a Horror or Thriller movie.
Michihiko Zaizen manages to knock Emu out of Rider form and inserts both Mighty Action X and Proto Mighty Action X Gashats into his Driver, making purple cracks appear on his body. This is even scarier for people who watched Kamen Rider Wizard, as purple cracks on a person is always a bad thing.
The special goes a bit further in terms of violence thanks to one man: Takeshi Asakura. From killing a policeman to brutally beating up one of Hiro's assistants to bashing Emu with a metal pipe, it's safe to say that Ouja's back in all his glory.
To note: the first thing he does upon being resurrected is try to beat his own partners up with said pipe, and when he gets his powers back does so without a second thought. Further more, the other Riders on his team are duplicates and don't seem to actually have any personality to them (hence why Beast is a bad guy). Not Asakura. He's pretty much only in this because he's a sadistic monster who gets his kicks out of senseless cruelty and murder.
And who should be behind Asakura and the Beast Rider Squad? No, not King Dark. After being absent from the franchise since Fourze, Foundation X is back. That is, if they ever left.
Really the violence and blood and outright terror Asakura brings to the special almost completely changes the genre, to the point where it seems to have turned into some kind of slasher horror movie at one point when Asakura beats Emu bloody before he can even transform and proceeds to stalk Hiro's nurse through the area, even appearing Freddy/Jason style out of nowhere when it seems like she lost him and is seems like he's actively about to either murder her or have his way with her violently. It's only when Hiro returns that it shifts back into the usual Rider fantasy violence again.
The special has this in the form of Blade stabbing Ex-Aid in the gut in a sudden act of apparent betrayal. Yes, you read this right: a veteran protagonist Rider savagely betrays one of his successors. The look on Kenzaki's face is psychotic ecstasy as he sarcastically thanks Emu for bringing hope to the four dead Riders all so that he can break it himself and and have them wallow in despair and tells him that he's playing a game with no continues. It all sounds like how Kuroto would act, right? As it turns out, it's no coincidence - Kuroto has been posing as Kenzaki the entire time. Still, this is a shockingly sadistic performance from Takayuki Tsubaki, Kenzaki's actor.]]
The trailer shows us Gamedeus in his complete form, and he is absolutely terrifying. There's his Big Red Devil appearance, his screaming "I AM GOOOOOD!!!!!" in a very terrifying voice and the fact it look like he killed almost all of the riders when they all teamed up to fight him. When Kuroto said that Gamedeus is the ultimate Bugster, he wasn't kidding.
Parado pointing the Parabragun at untransformed Nagumo, Johnny Maxima's The Dragon. The fact that it's only to keep him from trying something fishy doesn't exactly help.
Madoka alone with Johnny Makishima/Gamedeus Machina in the collapsed Game World.
Gamedeus Machina is not any less scary than the previous version and boosts it up with Evil Laugh worthy of Blood Stalk.
The miniseries is even worse than the main series in several ways. The Bugster virus is there, but the Doctor Riders, the only people who could stop it, are not. Yet. And the prototype Bang Bang Shooting Gashat, by then presumably the only piece of equipment able to combat the virus with, nearly kills both of its first users. Taiga eventually gets a grip on it, but he still fails to change the situation in any significant way. And then his best friend gets killed by the Gashat's side effect. Even worse, it happened right in the middle of their fight as Taiga is getting obsessed with the Gashat. And we all already know it won't be the only death Taiga will have to suffer through.
The third part starts with Asuna finding Taiga repeating 'bugster virus' as Madness Mantra after Maki vanished.
It also reveals that Kuroto infected Saki with a heavy dose of Bugster virus while she was in CR, making Graphite manifest into reality. Her death has never been Taiga's or Hiiro's fault and they won't get to know.
Kuroto observing Saki being overtaken after he stressed her out is a great reminder just how much of a bastard he is.
The end shows Taiga wandering the city, nothing more than a walking corpse now, before the screen goes into Interface Screw, he looks up and sees that his reflection has been replaced by the man who lost everything. The scene's horror is nearly palpable even after it cuts into the See You Next Game screen.
Just think about Taiga for a moment. He repeatedly states in the main series that he had lost everything; the prequel reveals that this was because of Genm's machinations, turning him from a nice and compassionate doctor into a bitter, aloof, angry shell of his former self as a result. The past wasn't kind to him.
Saki is revived, but as mindless puppet of Ren Amagasaki, who declares her his girlfriend. That's just eww.
Nico leaves the clinic for the night and returns next morning only to find Taiga bleeding on the floor after he purposefully infected himself with all types of Game Disease at once so he could complete his immunity and use Cronicle gashat to become Cronus.
Taiga attempts to transform into Cronus using Bugvisor Zwei. His previous attempt with the Game Driver looked really bad and really painful, but this one has him scream and writhe in pain.
Saito Yaotome kidnapping Parado. It comes out of nowhere. He is just lazing around on the roof of Seito University Hospital, but then she comes in and sucks him into the Bugvisor.]]
The reveal that Saiko Yaotome is no better than her Mad Scientist father, Michihiko Zaizen. She replaces Parado with Another Parado, an Evil Twin under her control.
Just Another Parado. He is a smug jerkass Social Darwinist, who makes Parado look like a sweet kid at any point of time. He beats Parado up and calls him a failure for having heart and compassion.
When Another Parado shoots Emu with Bugvisor Zwei, Emu falls down and lays completely still with eyes open.
Poppy, Parado and Saiko Yaotome watch Kuroto bite on Bugvisor Zwei he used to collect the data of Another Parado.
The Zombie Chronicle spawns the Level X Dangerous Zombie clones everywhere and starts yet another Zombie Apocalypse. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderExAid |
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: The Abridged Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
As detailed under the Fridge Horror page, the implication that Emu and Poppy might see no problem with eating people puts a dark spin on the Cards Against Humanity stream revealing that Emu keeps prisoners in his basement (actually the CRs operation room) and Poppy tortures them.
Its often Played for Laughs, but Emus Comically Inept Healing as a doctor can be pretty worrisome at times, especially since he usually works with kids. Imagine a doctor neglecting your kids pain to play video games and the kid suddenly needs crutches after they finally come back. Or being operated on in a critical condition while the surgeon callously says, Its the thought that counts, when you point out that the IV bag is full of Mountain Dew.
Emu's eagerness to deliberately inflict this "care" on Kuroto in episode 7 is also rather unsettling.
Kiriyas And I Must Scream situation in The Stinger for episode 5. Courtesy of Fruit Jesus, his soul ends up trapped inside the Bike Gamer motorcycle, unable to communicate with Ex-Aid as he rides it.
Takeru going ballistic on Alain and threatening to kill everyone when the latter tells him that friendship sucks. Just how badly has death messed him up?
YanderMage's appearance at the end of Chou Super Hero Taisen Abridged, especially the full monologue.
Some of the funny sounds Emu makes in certain scenes can be a bit unsettling in hindsight when you know the details about the Enforced Method Acting that Maddie subjected herself to while recording those sounds (e.g. jamming a fork into an electrical outlet to make an authentic buzzing sound when Drago Knight Hunter Z overwhelms Emu).
This extends to the other actors as well, as HyperJacob96 reportedly blacked out when he acted out the scene when Kiriya plugged in the Dangerous Zombie Gashat.
Anytime Nico shrieks in pain from being infected, especially in episode 5.
Parado's death in episode 11 is played completely straight, and Emu is downright terrifying while monologuing to him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderExAidTheAbridgedSeries |
Just Shapes & Beats / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*I didn't design THIS! :(* *Just Shapes And Beats* is a game about dodging simple pink shapes to music. Surely it won't keep you up at night... right? **As a Nightmare Fuel page, all spoilers are unmarked.**
- When the blue cube becomes corrupted. Everything turns a hellish red and the soundtrack is replaced by ominous beeping and what sounds like demonic moaning. We also get the same demonic noises right before battling the Big Bad's One-Winged Angel form. These sounds are actually reversed, slowed, and down pitched versions of the song of the boss fight. Therefore, the moans are actually Close to me and You have been destroid [sic.], just downpitched, slowed, and reversed.
- The
*real* Final Boss. The game does its best to make you think that the song immediately prior is the last, complete with a Steam achievement and the chiptune victory song beginning to play... before the boss reenters the screen, knocks you aside, and impales itself on the MacGuffin. At which point its eyes swell and burst into empty bloody sockets, the music distorts, the screen fills with pulsing, spiky centipedes, and you're escorted to the actual finale: a song which fittingly opens with a distorted sample of someone screaming in terror.
- Just the appearance of the Final Boss continues the Nightmare Fuel. The first half of the fight is against purely the environmental hazards of the writhing centipedes, and the blood dripping from the hollow eye sockets of the boss's head. Then, the beat drops, and the head breaks open to reveal a jagged, skull-like structure glaring outward in fury as it starts frantically swarming you with everything it's got left. After the rest of the game's cutesy design, you're suddenly struck with
*this thing.*
- It gets worse, too: after having left your friends behind to take on the boss yourself, watching your supposed triumph Mood Whiplash into sheer horror, fighting through waves of bloody centipedes, the boss pulls off one last attack where rows of tendrils corner you into its mouth, whereupon it eats you, triggering the "IT'S OVER" screen. You mash the buttons, expecting to take another shot...but the boss cuts in during the "IT'S
**NOT** OVER" sequence and knocks you back down. If you keep pressing buttons to try to get back up, the scene just repeats over and over, giving you the impression of "repeat this scene for eternity or face death for good."
- It certainly deserves it, but the sight of the final boss's shattered face at the end of the true final battle is certainly creepy-looking.
- Also, remember, that song is marked "Explicit". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/JustShapesAndBeats |
Kaiju No. 8 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
On the outside looking in, Kafka's Kaiju form is absolutely horrifying. He's a regenerating, super-powerful monster who can destroy other Kaiju with a single blow, can infiltrate human society, and has human-level intelligence. It's not hard to see why he's considered a threat. Many a panel ends up showing off just how frightening he can look, one of the prime examples being when ||he reveals himself to the base in an effort to stop a giant Yonju Bomb from destroying it, with one panel being Kafka backlit by the massive explosion sent into the upper atmosphere, showing his one undamaged eye seemingly glaring. Even Mina is horrified by it.||
||
**Mina**||: That thing... is Kafka?
- In addition, that parasite that changed Kafka in the first place? Not only did it ||turn his heart into a core, meaning it warped Kafka into a Kaiju completely, it can even take full control over him... and does so when Isao attacks Kafka with weapons made from Kaiju No. 2, making it go berserk and leaving our hero fighting to try and take back control before Isao gets killed and he himself gets completely absorbed by the Kaiju. The thought of it happening again traumatizes him enough that he has difficulty transforming during an attack by Kaiju No. 9, for fear of it happening again.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KaijuNumber8 |
Kado: The Right Answer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
In case you ever wondered what happens when Lovecraft Lite meets Realpolitik...
- Episode 0 has the sudden arrival of KADO witnessed by the protagonist in the airplane that was just about to go of. Things only get worse when KADO makes contact with the airplane in Episode 1. Poor Hanamori...
- Yaha-kui's unintentional Mind Rape of Shindou.
- The rather obvious reasons why the Wam is posing a very real danger to humanity.
- The fact that the UN was more concerned with the Wam, rather than the one who brought them in the first place.
- Yaha-kui zaShunina already used rather weird devices whose obvious potential to be abused with disastrous consequences have been regularly acknowledged, but the Sansa is in a tier of its own. While not necessarily as directly dangerous as the Wam, it is terrifying in every way that the Wam isn't. For starters, it looks like a human brain. When it activates, the Sansa essentially divides itself in ''loafs'' and starts assuming movements that make it look like either a bacteria/ameba and in doing so it gradually starts resembling a worm.
*Then*, it causes those who view it (even on TELEVISION) to see multiple versions of themselves while their surrounding looks like a Disney Acid Sequence on crack. In Genno's case, one of his duplicates at first looks just as confused as Genno - almost like a mirror image - but then suddenly delivers a rather unnerving Psychotic Smirk.
- Things also get pretty disturbing when estimated
*billions* of people have a reaction to watching the Sansa on television in Episode 8, which almost looks like **a mass epilepsy attack!**
- Yaha-kui zaShunina himself delivers a quite chilling borderline-Slasher Smile at the end of episode 8.
- The Nanomis-heim is an incredibly dangerous device which effectively enables almost anyone to become a Space Master and/or Time Master.
- Yaha-kui's Love Confession in episode 9. You wouldn't think it'd be that scary, right? Think again— he does this while time is slowed down in the KADO, and while he talks you see sped up versions of Shindou slowly losing his mind and his health over an almost 3 day period without food or contact with the outside world. By the end of it he's staring blankly at the sky, unable to move due to starvation, while Yaha-kui looks over him sweetly.
- While Yaha-kui knocks down all of the clone Shindos, upon closer inspection one can see that some of them were put down in very uncomfortable positions. Some have their legs backwards or bent at certain angles, and some are twisted entirely.
- Kanata having to watch a clone Shindo be demolished in the Kado, complete with bone crunching sounds. It's not the real thing, but she's still clearly disturbed by the sight. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KadoTheRightAnswer |
Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Now that's how to make Kirby's appetite look tame...This is your warning! By the authority of TV Tropes Administrivia, all Spoilers Off on this page and other moments subpages. Don't peek until after watching an episode.
- #1: "The Thieves Everyones Talking About":
- The first Gangler we see is running an illegal casino where losing all your money leads to the Gangler harvesting the losers organs! And the episode implies this has been going on for a while! This is just the first Monster of the Week for the series!
- Unlike most Super Sentai antagonists, the Gangler are perfectly capable of taking on human disguises and blending into society.
- The fact that the Lupinrangers are fully willing to sacrifice each other if it means one of them survives to fulfill their dream. It's a stunning revelation considering the nature of Sentai. Sure it's because collecting the Lupin Collection means they can, presumably, revive both their lost loved ones and the fallen Lupinrangers, but it's still unsettling to know that they're fully willing to die for their ambitions.
- #2: "Global Police, Find Them!":
- We see the circumstances that led to the Lupinrangers accepted Kogure's offer, and it's... not pretty. A strange monster in a wide-rimmed hat used some sort of ice power to freeze a bunch of people. Among the monster's victims are Kairi's older brother, Touma's fiance, and Umika's friend. Unfortunately, this isn't Harmless Freezing. Seemingly within minutes of being frozen, the monster's victims all shatter into pieces. It's no wonder the thieves are so interested in having their wish granted.
- Adding onto this is what we see of the mystery monster's attitude when it attacks. The monster passes right by Kairi and seemingly ignores Umika, whistling as it comes and goes. This wasn't just some random rampage— the monster seemed to pick and choose its victims, bringing to mind a very cold mindset.
- Kairi's reaction to his brother shattering deserves a mention, too. He lets out a very anguished scream and seemingly breaks down. Asahi Itou's performance is pretty chilling, and it's aided by the screen being tinted red during his freak-out.
- #3: "We Will Get Them Back!":
- While it is played for laughs in this episode, the Lupinrangers deliberately led the Patrangers into a Gangler's trap just to confirm the trap and get them out of their way while they pursue the Lupin Collection Piece. Consider that there are more dangerous Gangler out there and the Lupinrangers could be leading the Patrangers into something that could get them killed.
- Goodie Striker is absolutely terrified of Kogure that he tries to flee the moment he hears his name. For what reasons is Goodie Striker so terrified of the butler?
- #4: "An Unacceptable Relationship": The Monster of the Week is a
*human trafficker*, and even worse is that his modus operandi seems specifically targeted towards *children*, and even the elderly are not safe from this. At one point Gauche even asks Dograino to buy her some so she can experiment on them. Considering the first Gangler was running a rigged casino as an *organ harvesting operation*, if Gauche actually got her humans the results would likely *not* be pretty.
- #7: "Always Saved":
- The Monster of the Week uses his Collection Piece to expand his stomach to
*eat people*. Complete with digestive fluids in the form of a mist. Kairi, Touma and the Monster's previous victims (Which includes a mother and child pair) have to hold themselves on top of the tables that got dragged in with them to avoid being melted alive. However, it's clear they don't have long when one of the tables collapse and nearly drop the child into the acid.
- And he hit at least one restaurant before we see him in the episode. And no points for guessing what happened to those poor souls.
- Kogure's line about the VS Vehicles. It becomes clear that he doesn't care an iota about Kairi and the others, outside of their mission. It also makes one concerned about if he's going to keep his word...
- #8: "The Phantom Thieves' Identities":
- It's confirmed that Gauche performs human experimentation to amuse herself. Not for some nefarious purpose or to further the Ganglers' goals. Just because she
*can.*
- And here's another bit for you to mull over: Remember how the Lupinrangers lost loved ones a year ago? Well in this episode, we learn that the police think, because there is no trace of corpses or evidences to be claimed as murders, the incident was
*just a mass* **disappearance**! Imagine, if you will, that someone you loved was murdered, but the police only think they've gone missing; no wonder Kairi and Touma don't trust the police.
- #10: "It's Not Over Yet": Zamigo's attitude in the whole episode. He is clearly nonchalant about killing people, simply laugh it off, and he definitely had some skills to back it up. He managed to shot Kairi's hat as the thief only about to shoot him. The duel gives a vibe that Zamigo only played around with Kairi, and let him go simply because 'he likes him'.
- #13: "Worse and Best Holiday": Because the girls had to team up after getting chained together, they both attempted to take out the Gangler by using each other. However during a moment where they collided into each other, the Gangler went into a full slash, and to protect herself, Lupin Yellow restrained Patren #3 to take the full force of the blow. Fortunately it was a trick between the two (Lupin Yellow had handed Patren #3 her mask as protection and because the Patrangers have a more protective suit) and Lupin Yellow managed to score the collection piece in the confusion. Thus everything hinged on Patren #3 knowing her plan without Lupin Yellow saying a thing, otherwise she may have been killed.
- #14: "The Trap Is Set": Because of a trap sprang by Togeno, Keichirou was poisoned heavily. Keichirou proceed his mission even though his life is in danger. On top of that, his allies were ambushed by Ganglers and nearly died because of Dogranio last minute intervention and Gauche nursing back the MOTW back to life. Indeed Keichirou managed to complete his mission and saved his friends but remember that he was struggling with the sprang poison through sheer will. What if he actually fainted and die like that in deep underground? Rescuing someone deep in the earth was too much trouble already.
- #20: "The New Thief Is An Officer?": The situation at the beginning. A Gangler has kidnapped a teenage girl to get a ransom from her father. The father paid but the Gangler planed to kill them both anyways. There is no sudden appearance of the Lupinrangers, no sudden rescue by the Patrangers. If it wasn't for Noel's surprise appearance they would have been killed and nobody would have known.
- #23: "Status Gold": How many people were kidnapped and killed before Touma and Noel were grabbed? It's all but implied they died and at the end of the episode, Noel reports back that the "Case is closed" with no mention of any kidnapees.
- #24: "A Promise to Return Alive": Giwi's plan is the stuff of nightmares. First he spread rumors about pendants that would give the wearer good luck, then he started distributing said pendants using his human disguise. The pendants are a trap that ensnare the victim in a cocoon of ivy the moment something lucky happens to them and slowly drain them of their life force. The ivy can't be pulled off and regenerates too fast for even the VS Changer to remove it. Oh yeah, and the trigger can be anything from winning the jackpot at the lottery to
*finding a dropped coin on the street.* On top of that we get a glimpse of what might be Lymon's Collection Piece power. *He can grow into an even bigger giant than other Ganglers without being defeated first.*
- #25: "I'll Make You Stronger Than Ever": The above entry about Lymon's Collection Piece power becomes even more horrifying with this episode. It's
*not* turning into a giant, it's a Healing Factor. *Lymon turning into a giant is just something he can naturally do.*
- #31: "The Gangler Who Surrendered":
- Ever wonder how the safes get put on the Gangler's body? Easy, Gauche just forces them onto the body, implied to be surgically given her powers. And just as a reminder, there have been several episodes where a Porderman's head was replaced by a safe. Consider that all of the Gangler have these safes, including herself and Dogranio Yabun, put into their bodies, it gives a bit more perspective.
- Even worse, she has managed to put together a Status Quintuple from both destroyed safes and safes she may or may not have gotten from other Ganglers. The monstrosity this became is like a Frankenstein project (the Gangler itself even looks like one before the additional safes).
- #32: "A Request To A Duel": When Gauche was about to put her auxiliary Collection Piece, the Guéris le monde, into her safe, Noel, upon noticing it, freaked out and told the Lupinrangers they needed to escape before forcibly teleporting them all away without explanation. Then, when the Lupinrangers brought it up to Kogure, he freaked out and left in a hurry. It implies that Gauche's Collection Piece isn't a mere pair of binoculars and may be one of the most powerful and dangerous pieces there is.
- #34: "The Legendary Gun": Kogure's eerie comment about Kairi exceeding the potential that he expected. It turns out to be a Red Herring, but still.
- #36: "Shoot The Bomb": While many will not feel sorry for Pecker, but having his own bomb forced into his body then being shot externally to detonate the bomb inside him is not a pretty way to go out. Before that, while it was played for laugh, the fact that Sakuya being affected to act careless (technically) on purpose regardless what he does and the necklaces Pecker distributed changed anger into energy to activate a bomb was freaky. Had Noel and Jim figured out later, plus with Sakuya's unintended carelessness, it is all too late.
- #39: "Bet on This"
- Zamigo has gotten even creepier when it comes to his abilities. Remember Iselob, the Shrimp gangler from episode 38 who supposedly died when Zamigo froze him? Well, it turned out that he actually teleported him to a distant location that only he knows. If this is what his main ability his after all then it means the Lupinrangers' loved ones may be still alive...yet are somewhere that only Zamigo knows about.
- Also, right when the Lupinrangers supposedly manage to hit the finishing blow on Zamigo, he pulls Iselob into the line of fire and gets him killed. After he taunts the Lupins before leaving, you can see the contained yet visible amount of rage that they have over him getting away again. This, alongside the level of aggression Kairi used against Zamigo, makes Keichirou even more suspicious and unnerved over the Lupinrangers' actions.
- And if that wasn't enough, the fact that Noel wasn't aware of Zamigo before checking him on the computer files and had lost a loved one implicate something...there's someone else who commit the murders...Or Noel may be hiding something even more for probably shady means.
- #42: "Time to Battle"
- #43: "The Man Who Returned"
- Combined with Tear Jerker over the recent Awful Truth regarding Noel, the fight with the Lupin Kaiser against Tokagale, one usually expects the fight to be quick and precise against the Gangler. This time however, the Lupins use most pieces of their collection against him in successive fashion, and when they head back to the ground, they use both the Buzzsaw and Machine Gun against him while pinned on the ground, and it culminates in Tokagale being disintegrated with the Lupin Magnum. Even Goodie is unnerved by this.
**Goodie**
: Is it me or are you guys ticked off?
**Kairi**
: Just shut up for a sec.
**Goodie**
: Ohhhhhh...They're totally ticked off...
- And once it's all done they don't even do their usual closure catchphrase. Even with their mission, they must tolerate camaraderie to a greater extent to the point that betrayal must feel very close to them.
- #44: "The Truth Found"
- Combined with Ascended Fridge Horror, the truth about the Gangler disguises is revealed: they are made from the skins of dead humans.
- After this episode, Satoru's seeming death has become the trigger for the Patrangers to go after the Ganglers. Before this it was just them upholding their duties, but with this spark it's become a personal matter. With the Lupins already having personal anger towards the Ganglers and Dogranio out for blood after Destra's death, all three factions are now serious about their fight and we're marching ever faster towards the Grand Finale.
- At the end of the episode we see Zamigo casually remarking about losing an informant that had infiltrated the ranks of the GSPO. There's nothing saying he doesn't have
*more.*
- Considering that Zamigo was said in his debut to be the one who "procures" the Gangler disguises, what's stopping him from giving a few Ganglers the deceased loved ones of the Lupinrangers as disguises?
- We also learn that Noel owed Arsene Lupin for giving him the will to live but his saviour was killed by none other than Dogranio Yabuun, the big boss of Ganglar. You can see how anguished Noel was when he saw Arsene surrounded by a sea of flames as the collection pieces were all snatched away from Arsene.
- #45: "Looking Forward to Christmas": The episode further continues with the Ascended Fridge Horror of the previous episode, the Global Police are doing some research regarding the Gangler's disguises matching the ones of people who have disappeared in the incident from 2017. Then Keiichirou finds something even shocking: All the "disappearances" of the ones matched by the Global Police happened in February of that year. This further indicates that the attacks conducted by Zamigo weren't random at all, it had a purpose after all...
- #47: With Destra gone, now Gauche takes his place to wreck the city in havoc. While the destruction was not overwhelming and straightforward like Destra, Gauche was rather cunning when she laughed out creepily for doing this. She even got a new collection piece which summonned an arm sword, which worsened when she easily defeat Patrangers and Noel.
- The Golam that Gauche remodelled was overwhelming too, being able to do a straight and strong spinning attack at Pat Kaiser. Had Noel not entrusted Siren Striker to Keiichirou at that time, the Patrangers might get wiped out.
- #48: Dogranio revealed to Noel that he murdered Arsene just to get the Lupin Collection. Not a grudge, nothing personal against the great phantom thief. This Boss is just ruthless and do what he likes.
- This trait justifies further in the episode. Gauche summoned an ally, which has five safes like the one in episode 31-32 to even up against the Lupinrangers and Patrangers. Dogranio just butt in and took away the experiment's and Gauche's collections all together. As much as Ganglar's do not have face to reveal their emotional expression, you can understand how distraught Gauche was when her boss, whom she had been loyal to, betrayed her and she was completely powerless without the collection.
- #49: "As A Phantom Thief, As A Police Officer": We finally see Dogranio Yabun cut loose, and it's not pretty. Not only do the Lupinrangers find out that they
*can't* cut the chains off his safe, but Dogranio shows how much power the Lupin Collection has by combining some into a **nuclear explosion** that destroys a good chunck of the city!
- The reason why Victory Lupin Kaiser Blue Yellow and X Emperor lost against Dogranio? Zamigo disturbed the core Lupins by bringing the thieves' loved ones in mid-battle. While glad they have not turned into disguises yet, they were shocked how Zamigo knew about them. To be specific, Zamigo already researched about them beforehand by touching the frozen humans and became amused. The reason he did that, he wants to have fun with Lupin Red specifically, as in fighting him to death.
- #51: "Definitely Meet Again" | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger |
Kamen Rider Fourze / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Think this series is all laughs and hunky dory? You'd be wrong...
- When you think about it, this series is actually a bit more frightening than most Kamen Rider series for the sheer fact that stuff like this is mirrored in real life. Miura and his Switcher problems? A parallel to drug abuse. Makise's stalker obsession? That's happened in real life. Motoyama's anger issues? Can lead into nasty shit in real life. Eguchi's split personality and the Ugly Duckling cult? Also there too. All the Zodiarts are
*portraying bad crimes that happen in real life*.
- Two words: Hiroki Makise. The guy's a Stalker with a Crush. He's stalked 20 girls, has a Stalker Star Map on every pretty girl in school, his diary tells how he's
*delighted* in seeing a bus crash off of an unfinished bridge... and he is JUST SO FREAKY!
- His powers make it worse. He's known as Pyxis (aka Mariner Compass) Zodiarts. He is able to control anything...
*including people*. There is lots of Fridge Horror involving that.
- He is considered to be a teenage expy of Dr. Maki. Remember the kind of person Dr. Maki was.
- He is also unhinged. If you think about it, anyone could be killed in grisly ways and it can't be stopped. The best example? JK. JK's the one who found out about Makise's plan. If Makise ever came back to the astronomy club and found out someone was snooping around, Makise could easily go Zodiarts, and
*kill JK where he stood*. And remember JK isn't really a fighter.
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*Kamen Rider Fourze* probably wouldn't even have a Nightmare Fuel page if it weren't for him. Yep. He's JUST THAT SCARY.
- And you know what's worse? ||
**He's back in Episode 37!**||
- You know what happens with those guys who become Zodiarts and are turned back to normal? Well if this episode is right, they have
*drug withdrawals*. Miura claims he's not going to school because it's boring, and the way he acts at Scorpion Zodiarts when he's given that switch is like giving him some meth to smoke!
- Even scarier is imagine it from poor Miura's perspective. He can't go
*anywhere* without finding himself trying to get another Zodiarts Switch, without seeing them laying around and being compelled to grab one. He outright says he's scared because he *can't* control himself.
- That was only Miura's reaction. What about the other students who became Zodiarts? Would they have similar reactions? Just imagine Makise, who was already
*seriously* screwed up from the get go.
- Worse, if they actually
*do* get a new Switch, it jumps *straight* to Last One stage. Meaning any of the previous Zodiarts could go straight to a full powered monster. And there's also the possibility they'll destroy their body so they *can't* turn back and lose the high. Once again, think of Makise here.
- Also at the end: ||Sonoda-sensei is Scorpion Zodiarts; think about the complications of you not knowing that your own
*homeroom teacher* is the monster that's siccing Zodiarts to kill you!||
- After being granted Supernova by Gamou, ||Sonoda then briefly relapses, only to come back chanting her mission to stop Fourze from interfering, while her hair gets a bit messed up.||
- While Gentaro gets called upon by Sonoda ||who was now wearing black, he later got stung by her as the Scorpion Zodiarts while in a dark storage room without him noticing.||
- Gentaro and later also Shun and JK being poisoned by Scorpion Nova for a given portion of the episode. Imagine if not for the Medical Switch...
- The Perseus Zodiarts' ||stone victims||.
- You know what's worse? While the bullies might've deserved it, the other victims probably didn't
*know* about Motoyama even painting in the first place! Also take note of the tilted building in the painting; Motoyama made it that way *because it was in his way of Mount Fuji!* Could you imagine what would happen if just one tiny thing got in a way of his *perfect painting*? Jesus Christ, he's gonna become the second scariest Zodiarts after Makise!
- Of course it's possible he got the Switch to take care of the bullies and went Drunk on the Dark Side in the meantime — it's shown the Switches evolve quicker based on anger and rage. Motoyama clearly has a Hair-Trigger Temper and by the time we see him, he's only two or three uses away from Last One, unlike the previous Zodiarts who are seen near the beginning of their usage of the Switches. But that adds just
*another* aspect of horror to the whole thing: while Makise was a monster before getting the Switch, it's likely the only thing wrong with Motoyama was an anger management problem. And he STILL ended up this insane in the end!
- Oh it got worse. His petrification powers transformed into a laser, meaning he wouldn't have to touch anyone to turn them into stone. He was walking to the kindergarten class while Yuki was doing her Hayabusa song (which he
*despises*). If Gentaro didn't come in and stop him, Matoyama probably would've petrified more than just Yuki in her Hayabusa costume.
- ||All who have failed Gamou are sent to a void called the Dark Nebula. While we don't know what goes inside it (until #42), it has to be pretty terrifying if Sonoda and Hayami are terrified
*and* that Sonoda has been sent there.||
- ||Kijima suddenly showing what he's like Beneath the Mask, going from a happy go lucky guy to a cold, remorseless individual who loves "inventing worlds for himself" (fabricating lies such as framing an innocent woman for being a Zodiarts) For the Evulz. Worse? Unlike Zodiarts, this guy is now a
*Horoscopes!*||
- Making the above worse, ||it's said a Zodiarts can only become a Horoscope by leaving behind their humanity, and as pointed out on the Fridge Brilliance/Horror page, Kijima did NOTHING. Consider all that Makise, the reason this page was first made, did, and that he didn't even begin to show signs of evolving||.
- The Cygnus Switcher wasn't fucked up insane like Makise, or have bad temper tantrums like Motoyama. No, ||he had a
*split personality* case like Jekyll and Hyde||.
- ||Really guys? Nothing about how the Ugly Duckling Club
*forces* Eguchi to transform to his Cygnus form despite looking very much like it's the last thing he wants to do?||
- The Ugly Duckling Club itself. It's not just some Cygnus fanclub — it's a
*cult*.
- The preview of the episode gave us the worst case scenario of ||former Switchers drunk on its powers as three return in their Zodiart form||. ||However, as usual of this series, that is false. In the actual episode, those three Zodiarts that returned (Chameleon, Alter, and Dragon) because of the Coma Zodiarts who can create clones. Through hair.||
- ||Cancer pulls out rings in a person's body and snaps them with is claws. The rings are a person's
*soul*. He was playing a game with these people: either they make him laugh and he gives him a Zodiarts Switch, or don't make him laugh and lose your soul. And what's worse is that these souls is what makes him *transform into Cancer-Nova!*||
- The above becomes worse! ||Cancer pulls out the souls of
*all the KRC members* and it's shown that Miu and Shun's got snipped off!||
- Then it got even
*more* worse! ||Yuki, JK, Kengo and *Gentaro* get the same treatment!||
- Although we see the souls of the ||Kamen Rider Club|| return to their bodies, we never see what happens to the athletes from the previous episode...
- Libra can transform more than himself, as poor Kijima finds out when Libra sets him up as an intruder in front of Virgo...
- It is shown that there was a Zodarts in Ryusei's previous school, with no Kamen Rider Club to protect them. ||If guesses are to be made, he transferred there at the same time as Ryusei did when he went to Amanogawa High, which was three months as stated in #30. So that is three months of a rampaging Zodiarts at another school.||
- Now think of what this implies: Other schools may be under Zodiarts attack and the Kamen Rider Club can't do ANYTHING about it.
- Yamada/Aries. This guy is truly messed up. His power over "sleep" and the way he uses it to rule over Subaruboshi school is quite unnerving.
- The second half of JK's second focus arc had some VERY terrifying moments. These include:
- 1) The use of Capricorn Zodiarts and his music makes everyone into rave zombies. The best scene is with Tomoko, Yuki and Kengo who are seen, depressed, tired, and pale. They acted eerily like Miura did way back in #13 (when he was going through withdrawal of the Switches) meaning that people were becoming addicted to the power of Cosmic Energy.
- 2) JK's nightmare sequence and his terrified reactions to it. It's him on a stage in front of a cheering crowd but he hears Gentaro's words echoing in his head. Cue him looking down at his feet, standing on top of
*Kengo and Tomoko's lifeless/zombified bodies* and when he turns around ||*Yuki is behind him with that same zombified look and collapses onto him while he screams in pure terror*||. **And this is the arc of the Lovable Coward!**
- 3) The crowd chanting "Gene!" over and over in their zombified states. It is completely terrifying when you see them all devoid of emotion and addicted to that Cosmic Energy-fueled music.
*Especially* when three of them are our main characters!
- Sugiura/Taurus has brainwashed the majority of the school campus into mindless soldiers. ||
**And he did that to Meteor too!**||
- Virgo appears before Shun, JK, Miu, and Yuki and threatens to kill them and anyone they care about if they don't abandon the Kamen Rider Club, and makes it absolutely clear that there's no where they can run and no one who can protect them.
- Worse is that Virgo appears
*anywhere*. Shun was in the shower, JK was looking for Tomoko, and Miu was with Jun and yet it was like Virgo was spying on them the whole time!
- More Fridge Horror than anything, but it's finally revealed that the Dark Nebula ||is really just hidden on the M-Bus||... this is all fine and dandy with ||Meteor and Tomoko being brought from what seemed to be death||... but they implicate in the ending that ||Emoto dies.|| So now it seems that everyone sent there is now stuck there for the rest of time and in a highly cramped area... this is even worse!!!
- Was that actually confirmed? Nowhere was that shown.
-
**Tachibana's death.** Not even a lighthearted series can prevent you from seeing *a Torso with a View*.
- It was shown that ||Yuki|| is the Gemini Zodiarts. And guess what was Gemini always referred to: Split Personality.
- Imagine, while merrily skipping out of school, being suddenly ambushed by two members of the Horoscopes and being forced to turn into one of them. It didn't end just there for poor ||Yuki||.
- That right there is what makes it scary.
*No one* is safe from not being a potential Horoscope, not even our protagonists.
- ||Yuki beginning to lose her memories as Dark Yuki gains hers.||
- The reveal of what happens ||once Gamou achieves the Day of Awakening: Japan would be destroyed by being sucked into the Dark Nebula. What's worse is we actually get to see scenes of it happening!||
- ||After taking a hit for Gamou, Hayami (while still as Libra) gets vaporized by a lightning strike from the Dark Nebula.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderFourze |
Kamen Rider Gaim / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Just because this season has fruit as the main theme, doesn't mean it's Lighter and Softer than the others. Indeed, true to the head writer's writing style, and just like his previous track record, this series definitely deserves its own Nightmare Fuel section.
- Kamen Rider Gaim's fanfare music. Don't let the triumphant sound fool you. Once you realize that most of the Inves that our hero fights are human beings, it becomes less of an upbeat fighting song and more of an unsettling murder song.
- The thought of whatever happened to Yuya after presumably going into Helheim Forest.
- Helheim Forest itself is rather creepy. Everything comes in inverted colors, there are Inves monsters roaming around at every turn and people even get a sinister temptation to eat the fruits off the trees and plants.
- The Unknown Girl who appears to give cryptic warnings to the Riders saying that You Can't Fight Fate, they'll have to fight to the bitter end and there's no turning back. Mitsuzane's particular response saying that he'll suffer and bear the burden as long as Mai notices him doesn't mean good things down the road for the kid.
- The most she can tell Mai about the fate awaiting her is to boldly encourage her to
*leave town*.
- Had she left town, it would've created a paradox. She did actually leave, on the Rainbow Line, but Wagon revealed Kouta's intentions so Mai returned to Zawame.
- Any time Mitsuzane reveals his ruthless side. It's quite jarring to see how quickly he can go from a sweet kid to a manipulative cutthroat who will do whatever it takes to get what he wants. It's even more jarring to see him and Sid actually getting along because of it.
- The amount of people that
*die* in this series, especially the Riders. This series has a lot of them but only a handful of them survive and not one of them comes out of this war the same, mentally and/or physically.
## TV Series
- Oren. Just Oren. In his debut episode, we learn that he's a flamboyant baker. Then we learn the fact that he's a retired solider meaning that he's
*killed* people on the battlefield before. And let's not forget that he has sadistic and homicidal tendencies as well. While he provides a certain amount of comedy and fights for the thrills and entertainment, we can't forget that he nearly attacked the defenseless dance members of Team Gaim just because he was annoyed with them. It's scary to think how much damage he could cause if he got serious and actually went out to kill people.
- And to make matters worst, this guy has gotten a hold of a Sengoku Driver, he has no problems with beating Armored Riders (who are teenagers) into violent submission and the Yggdrasil Corporation is perfectly okay with that.
- Granted, Takatora is violently against letting Oren keep the Driver and immediately recognizes the danger he poses.
- The first minute of the episode. A worker is walking around a factory and spots the fruits of Helheim growing. Picking one of the fruits off, he goes into a hypnotized trance and says
*"It looks... so... delicious..."*. Later in the episode, Kouta finds the hard hat of the worker covered in leaves. Considering recent events, it's highly likely that the worker became the Komori Inves that terrorized the town.
- Seeing Zangetsu stand in front of a fire◊ that he did have a small role in making.
- Also, when one of the Yggdrasil workers fires his flamethrower at Kouta and Mitsuzane. You see the flames coming right at you in first person.
- Kouta's speech at the end of the episode.
**Kouta**: Looking back on it, that was when the gears were starting to turn. But... we really didn't realize anything at all. We didn't know that our fates were already written in stone. We just wanted the power to reach our dreams, we thought that would help us grow up. That's what we all believed, at least. But... you can't wish yourself into growing up. You grow up when you can't be a child anymore... In the endless war that has yet to come... we would discover that for ourselves...
- The debut of the Energy Lockseed for Zangetsu. And he looks like he's ready to kill!
- Iyo seems to listen in on Kouta and Micchys conversation, suddenly appears behind them and keeps throwing them eerie looks.
- Mitsuzane channeling his Kureshima side again, but this time his unsettling behavior seems to last through the entire episode. Not only does he try to pressure Kouta into giving up his belt, his whole character seems to head backwards when he
*twice* chooses to just watch innocent people get attacked by Inves rather than use his own Sengoku Driver, and even tries to force Kouta to not help.
- People injured by Inves are getting sick due to some sort of bacteria leaking off of the monsters...
- Yggdrasill fully anticipated this. And while the members of the inner circle casually discuss their plans, people in the hospitals are screaming and suffering. The contrast is rather off-putting.
- Hase holding a Helheim Fruit and looking like he's gonna eat it in the preview caused some frights considering the at the time theory that the fruits turn people into Inves, something the episode
*confirmed.*
- Hase's half Inves form. Imagine an Inves with a human face.
- Also, as it turns out, the Komori Inves from #9 is most likely the construction worker who found the premature Lockseed at the beginning of the episode.
- Hase in his half-transformed state. His complete lack of sentience other than the desire to consume more Lockseeds is rather chilling. And that's not even going into the claw that he retained from his full Inves form.
- Rewatching Gaim's first fight was disturbing. The video had no sound, without the sound effects, Kouta's voice or even the BGM, it felt less like a KR show and more of a snuff film, not helped by the fact we know Kouta just happily killed his friend without knowing.
- Takatora decides to show Micchy something in the Helheim Forest that causes him to collapse onto his knees in shock and horror.
*Just what the hell did Micchy see?!*
- Take a look at the tree◊ behind and to the right of Micchy. The small ... things on the tree looks disturbingly like human mouths.
- During the zoom in on Micchy's eye, you can
*just* see what he's seeing. It appears to be ruins of some kind.
- Part of the episode has Kouta's sister get kidnapped, though there's the fact she DOES work for Yggdrasil, so it might simply BE some type of set-up.
- Just the episode title itself gives off a very scary vibe.
- Kaito shows a very disturbing side to him. He declines the offer to join Yggdrasill despite them showing him, they really were saving the world. He doesn't decline for moral reasons, or even revenge. He declines as he
*refuses to save the world.* He thinks a world that needs lies to survive should be destroyed. He even calls the invasion a good thing, thinking that only those that can fight should survive.
- And this is followed by Sid, Ryoma, and Yoko laughing and revealing that they think
*exactly the same way*. Not only does this confirm that these three are completely insane, but then you realize that these are the people Takatora is relying on...
- In a previous scene, we see an Inves victim growing vines from his wound. While we've already seen other infected before, this is the first time we're actually treated to a shot of seeing the disease grow.
- What about the story behind Helheim itself? As Takatora puts it best: "Evil without reason or purpose".
- And that story is the seeds came from a different dimension and completely took over the dimension that is now Helhelm. Every animal is now an Inves, that includes the humans. Takatora states Earth has ten years before the same thing occurs.
- The living room that Takatora shows Kouta. It's not made of stone, it's
*FOSSILIZED*. How long ago was the end of Helheim's civilization? Even worse, can Inves reproduce, Or have they been unable to die for possibly millions of years?
- Bonefide human criminals used Inves to steal from an armored truck. Then again, they might have been part of Sid's plan to break Kouta and get him alone, but still!
- The ring around Yggdrasill's tower? At Takatora's command, it can completely destroy Zawame in an instant.
- Sid's smile when Ryoma lets him attempt to kill Kouta.
- We learn that Project Ark is the mass production of the Sengoku Drivers so humans can survive in the Forest. That's nice and all, but we learn Ryoma can at most make 1 billion. So 6/7 of the human race will die, and that's not the disturbing part. Ryoma tells Kouta, as the remaining humans will become Inves, the plan is to kill off the humans that can't get belts, all the while being completely calm when telling Kouta.
- Similarly Kaito knows about the plan to nuke the town and doesn't care at all. Meaning he is fine with Team Baron dying just so he can get unrivaled power.
- Mitchy's mindset has become very unsettling to see. He, like Kaito, is obsessed with power, but instead of brute force like Kaito he instead just desires the power to influence. And his reaction to anyone that doesn't listen to him is a Death Glare. He has thought the best idea to get Kouta to listen to him is for, "The idiot to get hurt some more".
- Kaito somehow gives Mai a creepy turn, telling her that, if after facing an unstoppable force that cause her to despair and she can still dance, then he'll respect her.
- This episode just shows how far Micchy and Kaito have fallen. Micchy is now willing to summon Inves on innocent people and the Beat Riders (including Mai) just so everything works in his favor, and his Death Glare is more or less his new normal face. As for Kaito, he basically tells Zack, "Yes, I am working with the people that are trying to kill everyone. I don't care, good luck trying to survive," to his face without any trace of remorse.
- Micchy is now willing to shoot Kouta. While the latter is
**unmorphed** and **unconscious**.
- Micchy just stood there, watching Takatora fight against and get killed by Marika, Sigurd and Duke! Micchy just watched his
*older brother* be picked apart!
- Honestly a lot of what Micchy does this episode is pure Nightmare Fuel but this is what really takes the cake: Him essentially stealing his brothers name and identity and use it in what is basically a first degree attempted murder done solely to spite both his brother and Kouta for ridiculously petty reasons and the way the murder attempt plays out is what really sells it. Micchy uses none of
*Gaim's* campy fruit powers to mitigate the shock factor. He was going to *beat Kouta to death* with his bare hands exactly like something out of a slasher movie...Ladies and gentleman, after over ten years of bad knock offs and bad popularity cash-ins Ouja has finally found a worthy successor in the form of Mitsuzane Kureshima as Zangetsu Shin II.
- The reason that Micchy turned on his brother? Because Takatora praised Kouta. You could literally
*see* the venom oozing off of him. Even his thought processes show signs of outright hatred of Kouta. "Kouta ruins everyone he comes into contact with."
- It was hinted at before, but this episode shows just how dark Kouta's rage can be. When Zangetsu Shin II summoned a bunch of Inves to run away, Kouta proceed to beat the Kamikiri Inves with his
**bare hands**. No styles, no one liner, no poses, just straight up beatdown.
- Rosyuo pulls off what is perhaps one of the most, if not
*the* most, gruesome kills of the previous Heisei Rider shows. How? How does crushing Sid to paste between two cliffs sound? Yeah the guy had it coming, but that *still* doesn't discount it for being this moment.
- Redyue proceeds to push things into an absolute worst case scenario. She reopens the crack in Yggdrasil's base, sends an entire army of Inves through, and covers the entire tower in Helheim vines. This, on top of the city-wide communications blackout, leaves our heroes in quite a pickle.
- What makes this more unnerving is that she's walking with Micchy and casually talking to him while hordes of Inves follow them. It's like something out of a zombie movie.
- Kouta sees Akira taken away by an Inves, due to a Sadistic Choice between saving her or a little boy. That's only small compared to the ending. Between the multiple missiles headed towards the city, Rosyuo FREEZING them before impact and making them vanish as it was nothing, and Micchy laughing again, this one is truly a Wham Episode and a grim view of what to come.
- Remember last episode, when all those missiles were about to destroy Zawame City, but Rosyuo stepped in and stopped them? Thing is, he didn't disintegrate them, as it had appeared; he simply moved them, and it turns out they devastated America instead.
- It's subtle but, when Takatora saw Kouta, Yoko and Kaito on their way to save the kidnapped people from the Overlords, he thought that Ryoma sent Yoko to spy on and betray Kouta's group.
- Micchy's reaction when Mai tells him that she's chosen to stand by Kouta since he refuses to give up hope:
- Micchy takes delight in kicking and punching the crap out of Kouta unmorphed, and thereafter attempt to shoot his former best friend down as Zangetsu Shin.
- Speaking of that attack, if you pay close attention, this would've been when Micchy killed Kouta if he didn't turn into Gaim. He was mere
*SECONDS* away from doing Kouta in.
- The entire revelation becomes all the more horrifying when you realize that Micchy's FaceHeel Turn comes completely out of nowhere for both Kouta and Takatora. From Kouta's POV, he was just talking to his best friend when said friend suddenly attacked him and revealed that he's the one who's been trying to murder Kouta for the last several episodes. Takatora suddenly finds out that his younger brother, who he genuinely loves and wants to protect, has become a murderous supervillain. Both men see someone that they love become a monster out of hatred and jealousy; imagine how utterly
*terrifying* that would be.
- Redyue, unsurprisingly. She admits to having killed her family in the past and that she found the feeling of betraying and toying with people who trusted her so much was exhilarating.
- Even worse is the fact that it's hinted that Mitsuzane might be starting to feel like that as well.
- What's more scary is that Redyue is saying this in front of someone who could very well trust her from time to time. She's practically saying to him that at some point, she will backstab him when he least expects it.
- Kaito ends up getting a cut from Redyue, and it glew green... meaning he's got that Helheim virus that the Inves were sending around.
- A more subtle example is that there is Helheim fruits growing
*everywhere in every scene!* The invasion is almost complete.
- This time, we got explicit views of famous monument - Statue of Liberty, Forbidden City - being covered in Helhelm vines, with numerous Inves dropping out from cracks.
- Takatora's body sinking into the dark depths of the lake after being defeated by Mitsuzane.
- Despite taking a break from the major storyline, we get yet another shot of Kaito's left arm with the Helheim Infection.
- Now that Micchy has finally defeated Takatora, he is no longer holding back, which means unless Kouta or anyone else for that matter can find the resolve to stand up and defeat Mitsuzane, Mitsuzane will become the harbinger of humanity's demise while working towards his After the End utopia where no one can stop him.
- When Micchy sees hallucinations of his brother he flips his shit screeching and rampaging like a freaking lunatic as he is shown to be attacking nothing. Seriously, Mahiro Takasugi deserves an Oscar for his acting skills.
- Every time Mitsuzane laughs. There's no joy there.
- Micchy sets an Overlord on Peko and while Mai is literally
*begging* him to make the Overlord stop, Micchy just stands there completely unconcerned until she agrees to go with him. You get the impression he'd have been happy to let Peko get beaten to death without a second thought. What makes it worse is the cheerful tone he adopts while he's doing it, he's clearly gone completely insane and no longer sees anything wrong about what he's doing.
- Due to Power Born of Madness, Micchy is able to
*fight both Kiwami Arms and Baron Lemon Energy Arms on even footing*. After Kaito gets Kouta to fall back, Micchy stands amidst the flames left by the battle in an eerie callback to his brother as Zangetsu, and just *laughs*.
- The entire episode. Try to put yourself in Kouta's shoes. Good luck regaining your sanity by the time you're done.
- To wit, we have Kouta being informed by Redue that he's already on his way to becoming an Overlord, as well as being shown an alternate dimension where he becomes the Byakko Inves and Yuya becomes Gaim for the sole purpose of murdering him
- When Yuya and Kouta are talking, with Yuya starting to threaten Kouta, Kouta tells him to stop, and then we see his hand turn into an Inves hand. Sure, it showed up in the trailer, but the way it just appears out of nowhere...
- It slowly gets WORSE! Kouta ends up dreaming he was in the spot Hase was, back in #14, and he ends up giving Rat the Helheim Infection. But then, it gets better. Where Kouta showed mercy and tried to get Hase out of it, Yuya does not stop trying to murder him. Kouta is just barely able to hide, but he gets attacked by his two newest allies in this battle, Zack and Minato.
- Hell, you thought Kouta being angry was scary? Just hearing Kouta screaming throughout the entire episode is frightening enough!
- A lot more subdued in comparison to last episode. Seeing Kouta and Mai's eyes glow red is rather creepy.
- Even then, it's unnerving seeing Redyue stabbing Rosyuo to death, then seeing his corpse sitting there after all the fighting is done.
- Kouta's Unstoppable Rage at Redyue. The way he
*growls* her name and downright snarls the word "henshin" is just nightmarish.
- The way the Yomotsuheguri Lockseed calls forth its Armor Parts; every Lockseed shown prior to Yomotsuheguri summons an artificial crack before the Armor Parts fall through the space from Helheim (or from over their head when they are in Helheim). In comparison, Yomotsuheguri calls forth a storm of black clouds and red lightning
*before* summoning its Armor Parts, and immediately after manifesting itself onto Mitsuzane, it starts draining his life energy.
- Further increased by how it's an unstable prototype Lockseed that Ryoma locked away because it was too dangerous.
- Kaito's face in the preview, when he grabs a Helheim Fruit, and his Inves Form, can be pretty jarring.
- You know what else is jarring? Seeing both the hero and heroine
*die* (though the former gets better later in recent scans), with the latter becoming more bone-chilling, since she's already dead when Micchy gets to her.
- Gets even worse when you find out what Ryoma took out of Mai to get the forbidden fruit: HER HEART!
- The things Ryoma says to Micchy as he is beating him up and
*choking him to death*. He sounds like an absolute lunatic.
- It's made even worse because Ryoma doesn't transform, so the sillier aspects of his character aren't on display. He's just a violent, sociopathic lunatic delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while telling Micchy how much of an arrogant fool he's been and enjoying every moment of it. It's an incredibly dark and real moment devoid of any of the series' sillier aspects like the fruit powers.
- The looks on Kaito's face right before he starts Round 2 with his fight against Kouta.
- Akira watches Kouta eat one of the Helheim fruits, which is scary by itself, but what happens next may be one of the scariest moments in the entire series: absolutely nothing. Kouta has given up so much of his humanity, that eating the fruits doesn't even change him at all.
- You know how we said that Kouta screaming in fear is much scarier than Kouta being angry? Well, this episode confirms that it's even scarier when the two are combined, with Kouta screaming in anger as he lands the final blow on Kaito.
- The fact that Sagara, who is Helheim's manifestation itself, starts a new war for the Golden Fruit almost immediately and on an alien race which has just discovered fire! Barring that he's simply set his sights on them.
## Others
- Gaim Gaiden revealing that Takatora's father did experiments on
*children*. Takatora's reaction is completely justified. The fact the Big Bad is one of those children and how consumed with revenge she is all the more terrifying. Add to it, Idun's attacks on various people are just plain terrifying.
- The fact that Black Bodhi has operatives being suicide bombers. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderGaim |
Kamen Rider 555 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This, being one of the Darker and Edgier incarnations of Kamen Rider, has a fair amount of Nightmare Fuel.
- Orphenoch victims. After being savagely attacked by a monster, they will stand up apparently just fine, act either a little confused or
*perfectly normal as if nothing happened* for a few seconds, and then slowly crumble to dust, which they *may or may not notice happening.*
## TV Series
- The series
*begins* with some kind of laboratory experiment... and then some kind of monster from outside the building forces its way through security, killing without discrimination, and the (apparently thick and heavy) door to where the scientists are doesn't hold up very long. We don't really get to *see* the monster itself, either, which only makes it worse.
- Yuka is harassed by some incredibly cruel girls. Normally, this wouldn't be enough for Nightmare Fuel... except that most of it is just offscreen, and the circumstances make it sound and feel as if she's being
*raped*.
- Then there's Yuka's retaliation once she discovers her monster form. Also offscreen, but filled with the screams of those very same women as the swan molts everywhere.
- After Faiz defeats him near the end of the episode, Toda comes back in human form to give Yuji and Yuka a warning, and then bursts into blue flame. The worst part is that there's a brief shot of the
*half-burned* corpse, including his now deformed face and partially exposed (blue) skull. Ugh...
- The previously hesitant Snail Orphnoch suddenly gaining a like for murdering humans after repeated threats from Smart Brain.
- After Yoshimasa is reborn into the Armadillo Orphnoch, he then gains a drastic personality change, now set on killing people on who he hints on being the murderer of his sister Chie, in which Kiba is hesitant on telling the former that it was him. The murders warp him further into outright attempting to killing more people out of his Orphnoch nature.
- Saeko having some special wine to murder "traitorous" Orphnochs as part of her assignment.
- The mysterious prototype belt, being able to electrocute whoever wears it to death. All it did to Takuma and Saeko when the belt was put on them was painfully shock them back into their Orphnoch forms.
- Kyosuke and Ken being corrupted by the Delta Belt's power and becoming more wicked in general.
- Kitazaki in general. Not only does he enjoys the murders he commits, treating it as a game at times, but who or what the touches disintegrates.
- The Reveal that Kitazaki was the one who assaulted people on the day of the Ryusei School reunion, while Takumi was trying to protect Mari and the others.
- Minami having his scientists incite painful experimentation to both Yuka and also the Crab Orphnoch.
- Minami having his police forces assault Takumi, Kiba, and Yuka.
- The Arch-Orphenoch, a monster the other monsters
*fear*. A "perfect" Orphenoch whose diet consists of *other Orphenochs.* And this isn't off screen either, we get to see it happen when he hunts down the treacherous Kitazaki and kills him.
- It should be noted that
*how* this happens is worse than you're imagining. As Kitazaki tries to escape through a field of tall grass only for the Arch-Orphenoch to cut it all down with beams killing the terrified Dragon Orphenoch in the process. *Then* it stalks up to Kitazaki's petrified body and *tears off his goddamn face before eating it,* something we thankfully only see from the back. Then after the Arch Orphnoch seems to decide it likes the taste, it grasps Kitazaki's corpse and reveals that it's Kamen Rider-esque mouthpiece *isn't a mouthpiece* as it opens it's jaws wide to devour it's prey. The sight is so horrifying that the Centipede Orpheonoch Itsuro Takuma, who looks like *this* is reduced to a screaming wreck fleeing for his life.
- The Arch Orphnoch evolving Saeko into immortality, at the cost of her humanity while she screams and said outline of her human form vainishing, thus resulting in her
*just* being the Lobster Orphnoch.
- Just the Arch Orphnoch surviving the final battle and placed in a stasis tank in the end.
## Movies
- Just the fact that this movie has most of humanity having been exterminated while Orphnochs dominate the planet, and few on either side working towards any kind of peace, plus multiple deaths.
- Kaido getting eaten by the Elasmotherium Orphnoch while Yuka's corpse burns with worms around her face.
- The headed Murakami getting crushed to death by the Wirepullers for his failure.
## Novels
- The simple fact that Kusaka is an even deeper asshole than what he was in the TV series: He brutally kills Yuka leaving Kiba being extremely angry about him as well as humanity, and he rapes Sonoda in an extremely creepy way of saying "I love you". | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderFaiz |
Kamen Rider Hibiki / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Makamou, in general, are carnivorous demons that feed on people. Especially with the Giant types that either eat humans directly or have help from their "Parents".
## TV Series
- The Hime getting dragged by its leg by Tsuchigumo's web into the shed where the spider eats her.
- Moments after a Black Puppet fed it a spiky ball, the Ubume Douji starts mutating during it's fight with Ibuki, resulting in becoming a feral creature known as Midaredouji. Midaredouji then slaughtered the Hime and somehow ate the Ubume.
- How Oonamazu gets fed: Whenever its parents would tap with their heels, it would then drag down its victim to eat them.
- The revelation of Oonamazu sending its stomach to the surface to feed, especially since the Makamou's actual appearance is a giant fish.
- The unsettling combination of an Ubume and Yamaarashi. The Ubume circled fast around the Yamaarashi until it bit straight into the Yamaarashi's neck. The Yamaarashi used it's tail to wrap the Ubume and both seemed to kill each other at the same time, which ends in them into a cocooned state until it later resulted in Nanashi.
- The Bakenekos' parents getting consumed in the explosion of the last one as they attempted to flee.
- The shoplifter from #9-10 managing to retaliate against Asumu in the most unexpected moment for the latter.
- Kasha burning its victims with its slime.
- Todoroki getting stomped on by an Otoroshi, resulting in him being severely injured and ending up hospitalized for the next three episodes.
- One of the two students that bullied Kyosuke getting burned to death. ||Caused by a Kasha no less.||
## Other
- Suzu and her father's corpse being sacrificed to Orochi as part of the then-yearly tradition.
- When Kabuki prevents Hitotsumi from eating Asumu, the Makamou then devours him instead. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderHibiki |
Kage / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Jade getting sucked into her
*own shadow*, while her family members and friends struggle vainly to try and keep her from being sucked in, is just horrifying.
- Theres certainly a lot of Fridge Horror surrounding the thought of Jade trapped in the Shadow Realm with no food or water...
- The scene where Jade meets the Queen in a Mental World based off Section 13 is pretty creepy.
- Whenever the Queen gets a little leeway on Jade, the results are kinda creepy.
- The Queen taking over and nearly
*killing* The Guardians and Caleb with shadow-based Combat Tentacles is a CMOA and this. They are left helpless, and the Queen's statement of cracking open their skulls and feasting on their brains *truly* horrifies them.
- Elyon nearly
*killing* Jade in retaliation also counts.
- Jade nearly gets crushed by a cave-in. You might briefly think she's dead.
- The Oracle N'ghala's last vision (or what little we see of it) qualifies.
- The Cerebus Retcon done to some W.I.T.C.H. events qualify.
- The disturbing off-screen scene of Jade eating a raw rat. She eats it's brain too!
- Miranda's memories of Kur forcing her to watch her parents being burned alive. She was
*five years old* by that time! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Kage |
Kaijudo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The memory swarms are very terrifying. Especially when Nadia explains what the aftereffects are.
- Alakshmi becomes a boatload in episode 5. Lightning strikes when she's angry or feeling sadistic.
- Razorkinder, with two definitive moments being when he snuck up on the kids in the dark and when he removed his face in front of Gabe, and later Ray.
- The Fire Civilization. A destructive and nearly barren wasteland of lava flows, floating magma boulders, intense heat, and red skies filled with demonic monsters.
- In "The Siphon", Chavez needed to perform the Siphon in order to prevent a Fire Civilization King from awakening. Ray has a talk with said King and then, one giant eye opens in the cave full of Mana.
- Allie was about to be cooked alive with Squeakie! She's then forced to participate in a fight to the death.
- The beginning of "The Deep End: Part 1", Ray comes home and finds all his family frozen like statues. Cue him walking over to his room to find The Choten before being attacked by a memory swarm.
- Don't mess with Sasha! She will lay waste on you with destructive light if you even try to mock her!
- Nigel getting run over, in front of the kids.
- Lucy goes up against a Darkness Creature in "Night Moves", but loses her weapon. When the Ghost Pirate goes face-to-face with her, worms start to crawl out of his eyes, finally scaring Lucy and making her run away.
- We get to see the fates of some of the old Duelists in "Duel Hard". Master Tiera is burned by her own creature, Toji gets his leg cut off when attempting to ride a Scissor Scarab, and we learn how Saguru lost his eye.
- The Darkness Civilization has plenty. Ray's "GPS" was inside him, Megaria's demon puppets and manipulations of others. Jaha even mentioned that her cane is an arm... of Megaria's brother!
- Arms reaching out of treasure chests.
- Pratically everything related to Megaria the Collector. This woman
*exemplifies* One Bad Mother.
**Megaria:** Allison Underhill, when I find you... (Turns into Piper) You are *so* grounded!
- The evolution of Saguru was agonizing, especially the way his skin started BUBBLING.
- The Choten. Just failing him for about the whole season, Alakshmi is thrown over the edge. And we mean that literally. She's thrown off a building and smashes into a bunch of loading crates, which break her fall just as she rolls onto the ground, whimpering in pain.
**Fingers**: I wouldn't last five minute there, master!
- The workforce inside of the Volcano Ships is pretty inhumane.
- This exchange between a bystander and Jaha.
**Random Driver**: W-what just happened?
- The end of "Boiling Point", where it is revealed that the Choten||reveals that he's controlling King Trittonus||. It seems that there's a bigger war to come.
- The evolution of the creatures in "Boosted". First, Squeaky turns wild with fangs and wings and nearly killed Allie, then Nigel's two creatures prove too dangerous for Ray and Allie later on.
- Made worse by the fact that Nigel found it so dangerous that he locked it away.
**Nigel**: I thought I hid that scroll away where no one would find it. Not a day goes by that I don't regret discovering it. It's too dangerous to be used cavalierly, as *you* are about to learn!
- Lucy. She seems so nice when she first appeared, but now, she constantly hunts the Duelists, and at one point, appears behind Allie without a sound.
- Nigel ||evolving Ra-Vu||, making him so strong that he's able to leave a large mark, take out every creature, and nearly turns on his master. He even
*begs* not to have Brightmore make him fight.
- "Military School?" "Something like that..."
- Fingers and Heller seem to show much pleasure in chasing down Carny with their creatures.
- ||The Spell of Ultimate Incineration||. It may seem cool when you see it, but the aftermath and its effects are deadly. Creatures get incinerated immediately, you use up practically all of your Mana, and it's large enough to wipe out a mountain, leaving one hell of a large crater mark. Imagine what would happen if it is done on humans!
- Also, before that, ||Master Tierra's|| revelation of her fate. Tried to control a Fire Mystic, only to get imprisoned in Mana-Dampening Armor for the rest of her life. Imagine, living your whole life in armor, trying to find a cure while being helpless to do anything else.
- "Allison, I saw this, and for some reason, it reminded me of you." Cue to Mask from the Darkness Realm and eerie music.
- In the next episode, the ghouls that try to get into Allie's house. Allie's mom/||Megaria|| drugs the kids, and they wake up, seeing The Undead coming towards them, and no matter what they do, they just don't stop coming.
- Allie with ||The Cloak Of Dark Illusions||. Its effects are chock full of scariness, and it brings out the very
*meaning* of The Dark Side.
- ||Megaria|| without a face.
- The influence on Allie when she wears ||The Cloak Of Dark Illusions||. She mercilessly banishes ||Megaria||, becomes greedy, and it starts to ||cling onto her, eventually leading to Allie giving in and letting the Cloak take control of her.||
- The whole next episode. Allie's stuck with the Cloak, and Jaha attempts to pull it off using a Spell of Banishment, only for it to try to
**CLING** onto her.
- Then Allie starts to go darker, wearing her Darkness Dueling Outfit, having her shadow eat up Portia's
note : you can even see Portia's shadow scream as it is being eaten , letting her jealousy over Lucy take dark actions, and her shadow also going after Carny's gang with a Darkness Puppet after they abused an innocent guy.
- She even summons Razorkinder just because she was jealous over Ray and Lucy, and she didn't even know she summoned it. ||Razorkinder just doesn't back down from trying to cut Ray and Lucy up.||
- Even worse when Allie's so terrified at what she's done that she ||runs to the Darkness Realm to find Megaria for help||, and when she sees Ray, Gabe and Squeaky, she attempts to try to kill them all, even nearly killing Ray with the Cloak ||if it weren't for him to meet the Darkness Mystic and using the Spell of Ultimate Darkness to escape||.
- Also, before, Allie's unstoppable Darkness face when Megaria presents her to everyone.
- The whole premise of "Exchange Program": Not only are Light Civilization creatures
*abducting and replacing a number of people*, they're also using a form of *Mind Control* on the abductees to alter their way of thinking to better match the Light-Realm's fixation with order. And *then* they start projecting the mind-altering beams *all over San Campion*, with their Queen hovering over the city, along with a large number of Light soldiers. That's scary enough for those who *know* about Kaijudo and what exactly they're seeing, but imagine how scared *everyone else* would be!
- Everyone's abuse on Tatsurion when he was a kid.
- The Choten's harvesting of Rumbling Terrasaur horns.
- Also, Shouter's flashback as to how he lost his tusks.
- From the same episode, the increasing Body Horror factor of Saguru and Humunculon's mutation, as well as the fact that Humunculon seems to be gaining more and more control and influnce over Ray's father.
- The fact that The Choten and Megaria, who rival only each other in regards to being the worst villain in the series, are
*working together now*!
- The look on the Choten's face when Alakshmi uses Razorkinder to break his Tech Gauntlet and pin him to the ground. The spinning face of Razorkinder doesn't help.
- Master Brightmore's face and reaction to seeing Duel Master Tiera alive, all because
*he* inadvertently caused her presumed death.
**Nigel:** I always feel like I'm seeing a ghost.
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*Anything* the Skeeter Swarmers can do to someone. Starts out from Kevin using a Tech Gauntlet to place Sykes under his control to the whole school turned into zombies!
- The Body Horror factor of Saguru's and Humonculon's mutation is even
*worse* now, with Ken now in an almost feral state, which only the presence of family members can snap him out of. It's getting hard to tell he was *ever* human now, and Lord Finbarr says that this happened *with* him attempting to treat Ken's condition.
**Saguru:** R- Raiden...? ||Son...?||
- The aftermath of the attack on Fire and Nature by Water. Not only did the Butterfly Effect wreak havoc in San Campion, but the two civilizations are
*devastated*! Allie even says that San Campion *got off easy* compared to the destruction in the Creature Realm!
- In "Siege", the attack on the Temple. The Duel Masters didn't even see it coming.
- Megaria's completing the curse that she cast on Jaha decades earlier, leaving Jaha ancient and decrepit - in fact, barely even alive - before Jaha banishes her back to the Darkness Civ. using the her cane - which is actually the remains of Megaria's brother's arm!
- Aqua Seneschal's Electric Torture at Ray's hands.
- Seneschal then reporting his failure to the Choten, who doesn't take it so well.
**Seneschal:** Master, the boy, Raiden, summoned me to gain access to the ship. **Choten:**
Well, I guess that makes
*you*
a bit of a... liability.
- Then watch as ||the Choten summons a shark to presumably kill off Seneschal.||
- Alakshmi's Unstoppable Rage when wanting revenge on the Choten.
- The Choten's plan for the Fuel Tanker. ||It was to be dropped off like a WWII Bomb to evolve every Creature. He then uses a powerful Gauntlet to control them, and with Terrasaur Horns, he invades the Earth in the way Optimus Prime would fear.||
- The Duel Masters trying to fend off the attack the Choten makes, all of whom are below power and can hardly stand a chance.
- More of Alakshmi's Unstoppable Rage of revenge against the Choten. What happens? She
*fails*. The Choten was waiting for her to have Razorkinder attack him so that he could reveal himself as a One-Winged Angel and take out Razorkinder all on his own.
- The five Spells being done on Ray. Every one is harmful, even the Spell of Absolute Incineration. Alakshmi shows how dangerous it is, and resists using it.
**Alakshmi:** NO!
We've seen the Fire Spell before! It could kill you! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Kaijudo |
Kamen Rider Kuuga / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Kamen Rider Kuuga* is a Darker and Edgier take on the *tokusatsu* formula, and it shows.
- The resurrection of the Grongi in the first episode. An ominous humanoid figure only seen in shadow slaughters the excavation group that accidentally unleashed him, then walks slowly out into the countryside, causing trees and objects to
*explode* with his mere presence before reviving the Grongi, causing dozens of hands to burst out of the ground like a zombie film.
- The Grongi in general. They're basically a entire
*race* of *Serial Killers*. Supplemental and toyline material reveal they were once humans mutated by a mysterious meteorite metal implanted in their bodies. Which begs the question where the rest of that material is...
- All of the Grongi play by self-imposed rules of who or how they kill in their games. That means no two killing sprees are quite the same. When the police nail down a pattern, it usually means that enough people have died to leave it behind.
- Before the games started properly, Zu-Gooma-Gu (#3) took someone's place at a
*church*. When Yusuke leaves (after sneaking inside), he encounters who he *thinks* is the father at the church. But as Yusuke leaves, he hears the man mutter *something* under his breath...and then he vanishes when Yusuke looks back. And then the camera pans away to the altar...and a pair of lifeless legs (presumable Father Hosé) sticking out from behind it.
- Me-Gyarido-Gi (#24) took great pleasure in seeing his victims as he backs his large truck into them... On that note, the fact that an ancient people
*quickly* adapted to modern society to the point that they can operate machinery.
- Me-Ginoga-De (#26) used poisonous spores from its mouth to poison people it "kissed", causing their organs to shrink. Though not a physical threat, Me-Ginoga-De holds special mention here for
*poisoning Kuuga*, which resulted in him *clinically dying*. If not for the Amadam's Healing Factor, Yusuke would not have survived at all.
- Go-Jaraji-Da poisons its victims—mainly high school kids—by shooting needles that give fatal seizures, four days after appearing to them.
- But this Grongi also has the distinction of being one of the only Grongi to make Yusuke Godai
*snap and go ballistic*, resulting in Episode 35 holding one of the most *terrifying* scenes of Unstoppable Rage in the franchise. Once he finds the Grongi in the hospital, Yusuke transforms into Mighty Form while running at it, tackles it out the window, and then just starts *pounding* its head into the pavement, screaming the whole time. Once it starts to fight back, he summons the Gouram and then rams it, driving Jaraji all the way to the lake on the front of his bike. *En route*, Jaraji tries to kill Kuuga by stabbing him close-range, but Kuuga sees it coming and switches to Titan Form, shrugging the attack off. When he gets to the lake, Kuuga comes to a screeching stop, throwing the Grongi into the water. Then he draws his sword and slowly walks toward Jaraji (who is *whimpering in terror* at this point), silently transforming to Rising Titan, then slashing the Grongi and finally knocking it on the ground and finishing it off with a *brutal* Rising Calamity Titan, after screaming during *that* curbstomp as well.
- Up until this point, we've never really seen Yusuke actually get this
*angry*. He's always nice, and wants to make people smile. Then he got pushed too far. And now, he's skirting dangerously close to being just like the Grongi.
- What makes it worse is the music. Is it a pounding battle theme? A sorrowful, reflective piece? Nope. We get a horrible Drone of Dread that lasts the whole way through.
- And to cap it all off, in the flames of Jaraji's death, we see our first glimpse at Ultimate Kuuga.
- N-Daguba-Zeba's debut in his perfect form, which is at the beginning of one of the last episodes where he has Kuuga on the ropes, belt damaged and beaten to the point that Godai can only watch as he starts setting people near by on fire in the rain. All of this is disjointedly shown to the audience as Godai would have seen it with his own eyes.
- Problem being, of course, that we don't see it. The entire first fight between them is offscreen and Yusuke bounces back from it with no problem. It kinda makes Episode 47 a bit of a mind screw considering the Previews showed us a fight between them and then...nothing.
- The
*style* of the Final Battle: There's none of the usual epic action music. Anything stylized quickly gives way to a brutal fistfight that you'd expect from a violent action movie. Both combatants have their Transformation Trinkets destroyed. Both Kuuga and Daguva are reduced to two humans punching each other repeatedly and bleeding from the mouth. They don't stop until they knock each other out, leaving two broken forms in the snow Where It All Began. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderKuuga |
Kamen Rider / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Various Spoilers below.
*Kamen Rider* shows have an element of horror to them. Sometimes the Monster of the Week would go a bit farther then you'd expect from a show that you assume was meant just to sell toys.
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*Kamen Rider Agito*: The Unknowns who target victims based on them having psychic powers or being blood related to someone with psychic powers.
- In the first episode, the first victim of the Unknown is a school boy, whose body is found stuffed into a tree. The Unknown proceeds to do this to the boy's mother and father over the course of the episode.
- Another Unknown drags victims underground and buries them alive and does so to a family of four while they were on vacation.
- There's one that draws victims into dimensional wormholes and have them fall to their deaths elsewhere.
- Another Unknown creates pools of water near the victim, then violently drowns them.
- Still another phases its victims into solid objects and then stops with the victim half way through. Its final victims were two pre-teen boys.
- Four words:
*Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue*. *Jesus.* When the "Kamen Rider" introduced in this film, officially dubbed *Kamen Rider Shin*, has his first on-screen transformation, it takes the transformation sequences from The Live-Action Incredible Hulk series from the 70's and adds some alien/insect Body Horror. First, his eyes turn blood red, then his skin begins to throb & warp. About half-way through, gashes form on his forehead from which grasshopper antennae sprout. And in the final scene before the transformation is complete, His lower jaw splits in half. If that's not enough, instead of a flashy kick, he'll just rip your head off. And to top it all off, Shin is surprisingly *the hero of this film*! When it comes to terrifying Kamen Rider protagonists, Shin takes the cake. Even worse is that, when you watch the horrific plight he goes through throughout his film, you'll just want to give him a big hug.
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*Kamen Rider ZO*: Every villain in this can be considered Nightmare Fuel: First of all, a combination of Shin Kamen Rider and The Terminator, a creepy bat with eyes on the hand, a Claymation spider woman with her jaw splitted in half, and finally: An organism who takes the form of a mutant-looking Child...
- Don't forget that in the series from the 1970's, the monsters used to turn people into skeletons or goo after spitting something on them and kidnap children.
- SIC's interpretations of the Kamen Riders can be this at times, due to the artistic choices. OOO resembles a brightly-colored chimera, Kabuto is teched out, alien-looking and in some cases battle-damaged, there are bits and pieces that let you expose Ichigo's insides, etc.
- The manga adaptation for the original Kamen Rider series has a much more down-to-Earth - yet no less horrifying - ending: it turned out that
**Shocker was being funded by the Japanese government**. The Kamen Rider Spirits manga plays up this aspect of Shocker, by revealing that they also dabble in arms dealing. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRider |
Kamen Rider OOO / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
This may be one of the more lighthearted entries into the Heisei era of
*Kamen Rider*, but that doesn't mean it's free of creepy and even downright-nasty moments. In fact, that tone arguably makes moments like the below even more impactful.
As a moments page,
**all spoilers are unmarked from this point on**.
- Every single time Eiji has a flashback to Ruu ,the young girl he made friends with, dying from the missile attacks. Eiji's breakdown as a result is also never easy to watch.
- Professor Maki's doll. Know what? Maki in
*general*.
- Speaking of his doll, watch it closely whenever it appears, and take note on what happens when they change cameras. Haven't caught it yet? The doll can see you...
- Maki's panic attacks whenever his doll is "hurt". It's the only moment he shows an emotion. Like,
*at all*. And it's never nice to watch.
## TV Series
- Kougami's Ridevendor squadron gets massacred by the newly-resurrected Greeed. This itself is bad enough, but there's also a
*massive* case of Soundtrack Dissonance thanks to the operatic version of Happy Birthday in the background. This somehow makes the whole scene so, *so* much worse.
- The massive Otoshibumi Yummy. It takes on a bug-like appearance, with the upper portion of the body being a set of creepy grasping hands.
- The amount of destruction it causes is pretty sickening, having snapped a high-rise building in two like a twig, and practically gutting another one. As bad as things were, if Eiji didn't show up, they probably could've turned out a thousand times worse.
- Monta, the poor victim, has his greed magnified to the point where he eats uncontrollably. At first, he's ravenous, but later he starts to complain that it hurts and that he doesn't want to eat any more as he uncontrollably continues to gorge himself. That's right, his body is feeling the effects of extreme overeating, and he's fully aware the entire time. He later starts begging for help as he batters aside anyone who gets close, and he's even warned that he'll split his stomach. If things had gone differently, this hapless victim would have suffered a gruesome and very painful death.
- How Mezool makes Yummies: That is, she creates clusters of eggs for multiple Yummies to hatch from when they've been sufficiently fed by the host's greed. Some of the framing of the victim as the eggs incubate behind her is very creepy. It almost feels like a horror movie in places.
- Not only is Sando, the bomber, extremely unsettling, especially when you consider how close they all were to exploding (Eiji managed to stop with one second to spare), but there's what Maki does at the lab. He knows one of Mezool's nests are there and they're ready to hatch. So he decides to put the whole place on lockdown, with all the scientists inside and the Yummy's starting to hatch,
*just to see what would happen.*
- Kei Tamura, the Yummy host (who is a surgeon), coming after Eiji with a bunch of scalpels on a claw glove that looks straight out of the arsenal of Freddy Krueger! Yikes!
- Kazari inconspicously kidnapping Hina and putting her in a van as leverage against Eiji and Ankh. Not helped by the fact the smile on his face as he does so.
- Kazari brutally and abruptly yanking Mezool's Medals from her body, leaving her with one, causing her to limp away in obvious pain.
- Uva attempting to seize Mezool's remaining Medal, not helped by how helpless she is at the time, or by how Uva remorselessly sends Waste Yummies after her when she manages to escape.
- Mezool ends up taking a massive amount of Cell and Core Medals to become a monster that wouldn't look out of place in a
*Super Sentai* mecha battle. But OOO has to fight this gigantic, destructive monster all by himself. Emphasis on *destructive*, as during the fallout, Eiji expresses doubt as to whether he can beat the Greeed if they get like this. It's only thanks to the intervention of the newly-debuted Kamen Rider Birth that Eiji is able to get the upper hand with the Gatakiriba Combo.
- Toichi Yamagane, the victim this time, is simply unsettling. This one has a desire for revenge against his former partner Yasu, who served as an informant, as well as Shingo, who put him away. Hearing his unhinged, bloodthirsty yelling throughout the episode is decidedly unpleasant. To say nothing of the ungodly-strong Lion-Kurage Yummy that an empowered Kazari makes from him.
- The Shachi-Panda Yummy is mostly normal-looking as far as Yummies go, but on top of it seeming to go around breaking people's spines with bear hugs, it seems to have a second face in place of one of its eyes... eugh...
- Maki's Freudian Excuse and the extent of just how utterly
*screwed up* he is. His sister Hitomi served as a Parental Substitute, but when she was due to get married, she was happy to abandon her much-younger brother and leave him with her doll. His reaction? *Cause a fire that burns her to death in her sleep*. Making matters worse is the fact that Mozart's Requiem is playing throughout most of the scene.
- His loud freakouts as he remembers what his sister was
*actually* like aren't pleasant to watch either.
- This episode goes into further detail on the first Kamen Rider OOO, the King from 800 years ago. It also reveals that the King was a power-hungry tyrant who wanted to become a living god with the Core Medals. He also worked alongside Ankh, only to literally backstab him and rip out his Core Medals with the Tatoba Combo's claws. It looks uncannily similar to Ankh having his heart ripped out, which, in a sense, he kind of did.
- A new set of purple Core Medals that Kougami brought back from Europe gets revealed, that he was keeping separate from the rest of the collection. And the usually-jovial Kougami is shown to be troubled by whatever Greeed is linked to these Medals...
- At the end of the episode, for some reason the purple Medals fly out of their case and into Eiji, who is very far away from them. And they
*enter his body like he was a Greeed*. This causes him to fall over unresponsive with a dead-eyed stare and his eyes glowing purple with the scream of a pterodactyl in the background. Just what the hell *are* these Medals?!
- The two Pternodon Yummies are among the strongest yet. And their unique ability is to release a black mist that causes anyone within to... just vanish on the spot. They end up taking a
*huge* amount of victims this way, including *children*. And by the episode's end, not one of the victims is shown to come back in any way...
- PuToTyra. Not only is it monstrously powerful, but it can't distinguish friend from foe. Even when there are two Births around, they aren't enough to keep it down. Things get worse when it's revealed that the Dinosaur Greeed is technically dead, meaning that the Purple Medals slowly turn whoever uses them into a monstrous Greeed. It's not only horrible for the audience, but it's just as bad in-universe, too. There's a
*very* good reason that Eiji sticks to Tajadol in crossovers.
- Worse is that when Eiji transforms into Putotyra for the first time, the Medals fly into the Driver by themselves, and the scanner floats across them without Eiji even touching it. What's worse than a berserker mode? How about a berserker mode with a mind of its own?
- The revelation that Date has a serious injury that has been affecting his performance in combat. How bad is it? Well, it's a fairly minor case of
*bullet lodged in his brain*.
- The Umi-Armadillo Yummy causing massive sleep problems for whoever gets hit by its spines. It plans to feed on people's desire to sleep, which they're unable to do thanks to its curse. It can make for very unpleasantly-relatable viewing for anyone who's suffered from sleep problems in the past. It's strangely relieving to see all of the Yummy's victims pass out sleeping when Eiji finally kills it.
- At the end of the episode, Ankh (Lost) randomly appears in the actual Eiji and the real Ankh's room. Ankh is completely helpless as he is quickly sucked in and absorbed by Ankh (Lost). Despite Eiji and Hina's best efforts to keep this from happening, they're Forced to Watch as the real Ankh is absorbed.
- Eiji is mentioned to be slowly turning into a Greeed thanks to all of the purple Core Medals inside him. But so is Maki, who is
*far* further along in the process than Eiji. He starts out by showing his already Greeed-ified arms. But he is shown later by way of Shadow Discretion Shot to undergo some painful-sounding Body Horror as his shape changes rapidly to that of a Greeed.
- Shingo reacts by just looking and not talking. Yes, this was so scary that it
**gave a detective a Thousand-Yard Stare.**
- The Ankylosaurus Yummy freezing a victim calling out to Eiji for help, and then mercilessly shattering him. And no, he is not restored in any way after the Yummy is dealt with.
- Ankh (Lost)'s death. As awesome as it is, his death is... unsettlingly brutal. Ankh (Lost) doesn't just get the standard explosion and fireball, oh no. Ankh (Lost) has his wings mercilessly severed by a berserk Putotyra, and after he's crashed to the floor from on high, he's left rolling around whimpering in agony. Then Ankh (Lost) is finished off from a single slash from the Medagabryu that
*shatters three of his Core Medals*. Another testament to the sheer mercilessness of that Combo.
- After losing to OOO and having his personal Lion Core Medal badly damaged by Putotyra, Kazari is left dropping Cell Medals after escaping in a manner that eerily resembles blood. And then Maki shows up and coldly rips out Kazari's remaining Core Medals, declaring that he has no further use for him (which, again, looks like a Greeed having their heart ripped out). We then have the... erm, "pleasure" of watching Kazari slowly dying as he staggers through the busy city streets, everything being a blur until he disintegrates into a pile of Cell Medals, his cracked, personal Core Medal rolling away and crumbling to dust. It's undeniably satisfying given how much of a shitbag Kazari was, but it's still surprisingly gruesome.
- Adding onto this, Maki finally shows off his full Greeed form. Whatever humanity Maki may have had is now well and truly gone. And in its place is a terrifying-looking dinosaur monster.
- Maki shows off some of his power as the Kyoryu Greeed, and casually levels the area around him in one move.
- The complete Mezool rampaging through a group of citizens, kidnapping women and children due to her obsession with love. Though it's mitigated when they're shown in Yummy eggs, which likely disappeared upon Mezool's death, it's still disturbing to see a wave of water sweep through and make people's families disappear from their sides and leave nothing but empty strollers behind.
- Eiji's Greeedification is getting worse.
*Much* worse. His meltdown as he desperately tries and fails to suppress his transformation is not pleasant to watch. And then later on, Eiji - the easygoing, all-loving Nice Guy - eventually gets fully corrupted into a monstrous, animalistic Greeed bent on destroying everything. And by the sounds of it, the corruption wasn't painless.
- Gamel brutally turning people into Cell Medals, killing them on the spot.
- The Eiji Greeed is shown to be monstrously strong, thanks to Maki tossing more Purple Medals into him. If Ankh wasn't there, poor Eiji would've gone completely berserk and very likely ended the world, all without feeling a thing.
- Maki pulls a You Have Failed Me on Ankh, ripping out all but his personal Core Medal. Ankh is later shown in a huge pool of Cell Medals that is obviously meant to resemble a big pool of blood.
- The complete Uva somehow manages to be the worst complete Greeed yet. He causes a massive amount of devastation with his lightning, and starts absolutely wiping the floor with the two Births and Eiji, forcing the latter to run back to Kougami and accept his offer of the infinite amount of Cell Medals.
- Uva finally goes out of control from too many Core Medals. We finally get to see what happens after all this time, and JEEZUS, it's a biggun. Literally, too. Uva turns into this strange stone construct with rings of all the colours of the Core Medals surrounding it that floats in the sky, rapidly turning everything around it, buildings and cars alike, into Cell Medals. Worse is that it spews Trash Yummies by the bushel. In a few moments, the city looks like something out of a Zombie Apocalypse.
- Even worse is how it all transpires. After taking a Tatoba Kick, Uva gets Core Medals thrown into him by Maki, with it looking like Maki came to help him. And then Maki throws some more. And some more. Uva protests, but Maki doesn't listen, throwing more Core Medals as Uva continues writhing around in pain. And later, Uva is shown completely alone in total agony in the middle of a junkyard, begging for help before he transforms into the Medal Vessel. Uva may have been a total dick, but you can't help but feel for him.
- Maki is on the receiving end of a nasty death, worthy of a Big Bad, but still grotesque. He gets a flaming black hole launched at him by Eiji and Ankh, which rips him to pieces as it sucks him in, as he calmly expresses joy in his death finally completing him. It's both awesome and somewhat-terrifying all at once.
## Other
- Who's the villain? The Ancient King/The First Kamen Rider OOO. A tyrant so greedy and evil his desire eclipses even the Greeed, who's desire is to obtain godhood and conquer the entire world, is back. And he lives up to it: being an immensely destructive, monstrous tyrant who proves as nigh unstoppable as he was made out to be.
- He's so ruthless that once Uva fails to defeat Goda, he just sucks his Core Medal in and then proceeds to do the same to all the other Greeed the moment they imply the idea of Kazari being the next one.
- He does what no villain in the history of the franchise has ever done: kill the main Rider and
*not* have it invalidated. All Goda and Ankh are able to do is delay the inevitable. And *how* he did it is disturbingly brutal: beat him out of transformation so brutally that he's left bleeding heavily, then impale him through the back with numerous energy blades as he screams in agony. He then dismissively *blows him up* for good measure. Even more terrifying is the King was aiming for a little girl.
- And hes not even the ultimate enemy. That honour goes to a new Greeed called Goda, who has been inhabiting Eijis corpse and posing as him the whole time.
- Goda himself is very cruel: not only he knows he is possessing a dead body, but he uses that as his wildcard to keep Ankh and the others in check to have them cooperate with him. And he claims it is to fulfill Eiji's desires.
- When Uva's Core Medal attempts to flee, he grabs it and prepares to break it in two, before Ankh stops him. At this point it should be more than clear that he doesn't know Eiji's desires at all.
- He absorbs King OOO's powers out of sheer curiosity of how so much power would feel and then only wants more and more.
- And then he proceeds to do something that not even Ankh himself would: leave his host, Eiji, to die the moment he got int the way AND try to destroy Eiji's dead body just because he could. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderOOO |
Kamen Rider Revice / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Kamen Rider Revice*'s Big Bad and their motives are guaranteed to make your blood run cold. Remember, this is all from a series where the main heroes fight monsters with "acrobatic poses" and funky, colourful stamps.
- The central concept of the show is that all mankind has inner demons that have some influence over us. Not metaphorical inner demons - literal, actual monsters of demonic origin. And they can, with the right encouragement, emerge and attack people with no ulterior motive besides destruction. On top of that, there is a nihilistic cult that thinks unleashing these demons on mankind is a
*good idea*.
- Not due mention due to how widespread the Deadmans cult actually is, a lot of their members are Hidden in Plain Sight amongst the public. Just about
*anyone* (even your loved ones) encountered could secretly be a member.
- In the first few seconds of the opening there are a few frames that shows Ikki sporting a Slasher Smile or a rather wide grin. Completely unexpected and guaranteed to catch you off guard every single time.
- Certain Revice Remix forms include an amount of Body Horror, due to the duo's body joints bending at very unnatural angles.
- Ikki is slowly disappearing from memories (photos, that is) due to him borrowing Vice's powers. In due time he will forget even his family.
- The Gifftarians in general. Imagine this: you don't know where you are. Then someone decided to stamp the Giff stamp on you and turn you into a Gifftarian (as seen above). After you get destroyed, you don't come back.
**Forever.**
- If you think about it, Fenix knowing about Kamen Riders would be certainly this, considering the founder is actually the Mole in Charge. It's not really scary, but when you realize they were able to get info about Riders from an Alternate Universe (those from Decade, Build, Zi-O, and Zero-One), it might creep you out.
- Imagine that George Karizaki
*somehow* got his hands on the R-Factor, which is implied to be the genome of Kamen Riders, of pretty much every single Kamen Rider and used them to not only make Vistamps but to also to make the Clone Rider System
## Series
- Vice tried to eat Yukimi Igarashi immediately after being released and Ikki couldn't do anything about it without the Revice driver.
- It's never stated what happened to the convict that Deadmans picked up to use for the current Monster of the Week.
- Hiromi's heroic, but failed attempt to transform only created
*another* rampaging Deadmen. Daiji's horrified reaction just says it all.
- Vice throws Ikki at the current Deadman attacking to remove him out of the way to another attempt to eat his family, Daiji in this case.
- Someone threatening to shoot people and taking hostages for money is realistically scary. An origami monster stomping around the neighborhood is just a cherry on the top.
- How does Kamen Rider Evil make his debut? Past evil Riders have had grandiose entrances designed to build up an ominous sense of foreboding or to demonstrate how powerful they are. Evil does none of that. He literally walks up behind Revi from offscreen and
*holds the blade of his weapon/Driver to Revi's throat* without so much as a remark. And he then proceeds to no-sell a punch from Vice before cold-cocking him *through the roof* in return.
- There is not much explanation for how exactly was Daiji possessed by his inner demon, but he was probably drifting in and out of consciousness through #5 and eventually lost the fight for control.
- Kamen Rider Evil easily shrugged off everything that Ikki and Vice came up with while throwing them both around like rag dolls. That guy means business and his bussiness is to slowly reduce the duo into a colorful smear on the ground in the most painful way possible and savor every moment.
- Julio has weaseled into Sakura's presence in the dojo with the intention to use her against Ikki. With Daiji gone, Yukimi in hospital, Genta pretty much useless and Sakura in danger, Ikki is losing his support fast and may eventually break under the pressure.
- Kagero specifically pulls Daiji out of their shared subconscious to mock him and his inability to regain control. Daiji is pale and sweating heavily from the strain, but according to Kagero, it's completely pointless.
- Kagero attacks in front of the whole family and even though he introduces himself to Ikki later on, the remaining Igarashis are left to ponder over whether this man really is Daiji and what happened to their son and brother.
- The fact that
*our protagonist Ikki could have died*, not fighting in battle, but from *a simple Tampering with Food and Drink from Aguilera*, had Kagero not intervened.
- Kagero is
*not* happy at Aguilera's attempt to kill Ikki, nearly strangling her. One can only imagine what Kagero would have done to her if her plan succeeded.
- The Planarian Vistamp. It's capable of producing an infinite number of copies and, with a steady supply of sufficiently prepped hosts, a line of Phase 2 Deadmen. Worse, it's in the hands of the slimiest bastard, who tops even Olteca where comes in manipulating people.
- The Planarian Deadman itself has a very disturbing design, with parts of its upper body being covered in
*thousands* of the insectoid faces all Deadmen have, giving it a nauseating, trypophobic look. It retains this trait in Phase 2, where the back of its head is covered in faces and it has faces for eyes, making it look like it's being eaten alive by parasites.
- Aguilera reveals that there's only 2 more people needed to be sacrificed.
**Which means that they're THIS close to accomplishing their goal.**
- Just the thought of the Commander being the Chameleon Deadman...
- Even worse: It has been revealed the Chameleon Deadman has been in the Fenix Tribe Base many times before.
If the previous episode isn't scary enough,
*then this episode will be.*
- Kudo and Amahiko attacked Happy Spa and Sakura's school respectively, just to deal with their grudges with Ikki and Sakura respectively.
- So how was the Chameleon Deadman able to access Skybase in the previous episode? He killed and replaced Yujiro Wakabayashi during the first episode. This alone gave Hiromi a Heroic BSoD.
- To elaborate on that point, just the suggestion plunges him into deep denial and the confirmation rapidly reduces him into a sobbing mess, whose agonized screams sound straight from the pits of hell.
- After being Lured into a Trap by a suspicious George, Fake Wakabayashi tries to talk his way out of the situation in a cool, affable way, calling on Hiromi's trust and approaching him for a comforting pat on the shoulder.
*Then* he grabs the paralyzed, hyperventilating man into a choke hold and cements his betrayal by laughing psychotically and bellowing the Deadmans' catchphrase, which is *immensely* jarring given how stoic he was before and after that.
- The way on how he was able to do it would remind you of Evolto from
*Kamen Rider Build.* Switching faces, inducing Paranoia Fuel and traumatizing someone by posing as their hero, that sort of stuff.
- What's the scariest part of this? The fact that it's been done by a
**Monster of the Week**, not the Big Bad.
- Then it is revealed that the Deadmans are actually done with their goal, once George gives the Gifu Stamp to the Chameleon Deadman as if they were still friends.
- Even worse, it's unclear why he did it. Was it part of the plan? Whose plan? Did he do it so the Chameleon Deadman wouldn't kill Hiromi? Nothing Is Scarier indeed.
- Before he gives the Vistamp, he seems to do something to it. Just how Crazy-Prepared is George after all? ||Crazy enough to sneak in a self-camouflaging tracking device that no one noticed at all.||
- The fact that Aguilera herself is also a sacrifice for Gifu. It goes uneasy for her...
- Before the reveal about Aguilera being the last sacrifice for Gifu, Julio was clearly excited to hear Olteca's answer. But the moment he made the reveal, Julio was truly not comfortable with it.
- All of this shows how Cerebus Syndrome works for what is normally a light-hearted series.
- It turns out that unlike with Phase 1 and 2 Deadmen, Gifftex — being humans who have completely fused with their Deadmen —
*cannot* be saved by a Finishing Move, as shown with Haitani and Kudo, who upon their final defeats *disintegrate* while crying out in terror and agony. Ikki is understandably rattled by this.
- We see how a Gifftarian is made in disturbing detail, as shown in the image above: the sacrifice bursts into flames after being touched by the Giff Stamp, then eventually turns into stone. Said stone then breaks apart like a cocoon, revealing the newly born Gifftarian. It's implied that a version of this would have happened to Aguilera, had the ritual to revive Giff succeeded.
- Right as Yosuke and Julio seem to have reconciled over their betrayal, Olteca
*suddenly* appears next to Yosuke, then immediately puts him in a chokehold and turns him into a Gifftarian, all while giving a sadistic Slasher Smile.
- Julio as the Wolf Deadman Riot in general is a walking nightmare. Not only is he far stronger and faster than he was before, he levels
*an entire city block* with a giant explosion and foregoes his gun in favour of tearing at anything in sight with his bare hands while screaming like a feral animal. Even *one* claw strike was able to make Olteca Half the Man He Used to Be.
- Granted, the Demons Driver gradually turning Hiromi into a demon through Rapid Aging of his internal body organs is creepy enough, but then it suddenly talks on its own... and it talks about how it will devour him. Seriously, George is practically nutty as he is, but what the hell was he thinking when he designed it!?
- It's not what the hell he was thinking, but WHO it was actually designed for. Hiromi was never its intended user, Olteca wants the driver, and then there's the fact George was working on it for the Director of FENIX Tribe for whoever knows is the purpose.
- Olteca summons a Gifftarian from offscreen to help him fight Revice. The scary part is how this is the first Gifftarian we see in the show whose host we don't know, making one wonder just who was the hapless person sacrificed for its existence.
- Chigusa has apparently always been a good person, and even worked as a mole for the FENIX Tribe within the Deadmans for whoever knows how long... But something she discovered about the FENIX Tribe was so sinister that she changed sides in a snap and questioned FENIX's goals. Just what could be worse than a crazy cult trying to revive a sealed evil entity?!
- In Olteca's flashback, we get a brief glimpse at the Deadmans' founder. He has the same Character Tics as
*Director Akaishi*, which raises more questions about him.
- George coldly tells Hiromi that he was nothing more than a lab rat to him, mocks his heroism and Catchphrase and states that his goal is to create the ultimate Kamen Rider. Goes to show that despite being a Kamen Rider fanboy working for FENIX, George is far from heroic himself.
- Olteca transforms Chigusa into a Gifftarian right before Hiromi's eyes, just as the latter was about to reveal the truth behind FENIX. It's her scream and betrayed reaction that highlights how horrific the process is.
- Although Olteca gets his contract destroyed and the Giff Stamp taken from him, he's shown flashing a Psychotic Smirk when FENIX takes him into custody, showing the audience he has something up his sleeve and the heroes' victory is hollow at best.
- Hoo boy, where do we begin?
- We finally get why Chigusa decided to get the hell out of FENIX: apparently, the Deadmans' founder happens to be none other than
*Hideo Akaishi*, who releases Olteca from prison. This raises even more questions than answers: Did Chigusa knowing the truth behind FENIX and Deadmans result in Olteca transforming her into a Gifftarian?
- Sakura suddenly being ambushed by a horde of Malevolent Masked Men as she steps into the Ushijima household has horror written all over it, even after they're revealed to be Weekend members testing her.
- Teasers for this seen in the official site has Olteca wearing the Demons Driver. Oh it's not that part that's nightmarish, what's that is how he offs Hiromi by blasting him off a cliff and
*easily* he performs multiple Genomixes, which downright harmed Hiromi when he tried to do it; keep in mind, this is *after* he was hit with a Volcano Festival, resulting in the separation of his Deadman form. And then we have the Driver remarking that Olteca . Just what exactly is he!? **smells like a demon**
- At the end of the episode, Genta suddenly collapses in pain when Giff awakened, and sees a vision of Giff whilst clutching his (nonexistent) heart. It confirms to the audience that yes, he's connected to Giff in some way.
- Kagero pops up to mock Daiji, making it obvious that he is only biding his time until he can take him over again.
- The Rolling Vistamp's Transformation Sequence. As soon as Ikki initiates it, we see Vice directly mirrored below his feet... and then he suddenly dissolves into liquid as he envelops Ikki, who reacts in pain while transforming into Jack Revice. Oh, and did we mention that Ikki is nowhere to be found after Jack Revice untransforms and only leaves Vice? Needless to say, this does
*not* sound good for him. The only mitigating factor is the previews having Vice running around and engaging in harmless fun after breaking out of his prison by FENIX... though this raises more questions about what happens to Ikki.
- Daiji is justifiedly confused and horrified by what he is witnessing, because Ikki is gone, Vice took his place and everything seems to have rolled off the deep end.
- Vail, the demon within the Demons Driver, escapes at the end of the episode. Keep in mind, up until now, as powerful as Demons could be, neither Demons was using Vail's full strength because he didn't allow it. Given how sadistic Vail has been and the amount of damage he's done while
*sealed*, just imagine what he'll do now.
- Olteca is so unconcerned with those around him, he murders two cultists by turning them into Gifftarians, just to force Aguilera into line and helping him "fix" the Demons Driver.
- Vail. Just Vail. For starters, he's possessing
*Genta*, and he not only is willing to kill the man's family, he *actively desires to*. He is absurdly powerful, seemingly teleporting in creepy ways and *shattering a building* as just a side effect of an attack. He grabs a Gifftarian by the face, lifts it off the ground with one hand, and proceeds to casually *crush its skull*. It's also implied he's actually *Genta's heart*, as a result of it being injected with *Giff's cells*.
- Kamen Rider Vail's transformation: as the Vail Driver pulses, Vail rises up behind Genta as a
*gigantic* mass of darkness with glowing red eyes before *eating Genta*. His eyes never vanish, they merely transition directly into Vail's optics.
- There's just something
*wrong* about the way Vail moves, even without the glitching teleporting.
- All of this is set to a nightmarish soundtrack with a drone similar to Prowler's theme.
- Throughout the episode, Giff's coffin absorbs the energy from the defeated Gifftarians. Except now, with each one a haunting scream is heard getting louder and louder. The rider demons all react to the screams, with Kagero trying to surface, Vice collapsing in pain and Lovekov trying to attack Sakura. This culminates in the disturbing ending where a Fenix researcher is flat out
*eaten* by a spectral limb that shoots out of the coffin.
- It was Vail that set fire to the Happy Spa and nearly succeeded in murdering the family, but the then 4 years old Ikki could only see his own father going completely nuts all of sudden. It's no wonder that the present time Ikki can only curl up and scream in horror upon remembering.
- The Ushijimas entering Happy Spa all of a sudden and tasering Ikki so they can kidnap him is already shocking enough by itself, but it's even moreso from Yukimi's perspective. After a tearful reunion with her children, the people she thought were family friends suddenly come in and render her son unconscious, all because he's a possible threat.
- While far less fantastical than most of the entries on this page, the flashback showing a young Olteca being beaten by his father for being a child prodigy is no less harrowing. Making it clear that Akaishi wasn't the
*only* person who helped shape him into what he is.
- Back to the present day, Giff's impending awakening and Olteca's rampage combine to evoke a strong sense of dread. To wit:
- Combat Tentacles springing out of Giff's statue and using them to consume several hapless Fenix researchers before disappearing into thin air.
- Giff's statue reappearing in the air above Olteca, happily consuming even more sacrifices his demented disciple had prepared for him.
- Olteca turning two more people into Gifftarians, including a young child.
- Jack Revice going berserk and somehow managing to resist Holy Live and Jeanne's attempts to restrain him.
- And before then we are treated to a sight of Vice, in Ikki's body, losing control of himself with glowing eyes, similar to what happens to Eiji in his home series.
- Ikki's nightmare starts off a bit silly for the wear, with him getting startled at everything that's unusual in this version of Happy Spa, Sakura and Daiji's antics, and the Gifftarians taking a bath and beckoning him. However:
- He hears Genta asking him to not go there, and as he turns he finds himself with Vail-Genta inside the Deadman's office with Giff's sarcophagus, who talks him down into letting go of voice if he wants to be happy, and when he refuses the light turns pale and shines under Vail-Genta's face, making his already Slasher Smile much sinister.
- Next is the confrontation with Ikki-Vice, which is Vice with Ikki's head. Even Ikki himself is afraid.
- Giff reveals his true form once he absorbs Olteca.
- Vail's true form is revealed to be a red version of Vice, with his mouth full of sharp teeth exposed at all times.
- At last the cause of Ikki being erased from photos is revealed: because of his contract with Vice, he borrows a little of Vice's powers to erase memories, which has been erasing him from the photos.
- Even worse: when Ikki asked what would happen if he continued fighting, Vice regretfully informed that Ikki would eventually forget his own family.
- Akemi breaks into Akaishi's office to uncover his shady actions, but gets caught by him after discovering he's kept his own collection of Proto Vistamps. He then removes a glove, revealing he has a Giff stone embedded in his palm before using it to summon two True Gifftarians. The camera cuts away to a close-up of Akaishi laughing maniacally just as Akemi screams in terror and the Gifftarians do
*something* to her.
- The next day, Daiji questions Akaishi on Akemi's whereabouts, but a report on the sightings of two Gifftarians conveniently interrupts him before the latter gives an answer. As Daiji leaves, Akaishi can be seen smirking to himself, which all but confirms Akemi suffered a grisly fate.
- Akaishi reveals himself to be an immortal Humanoid Abomination who acts as a monitor of human evolution for Giff. He also proves far tougher than he looks, effortlessly withstanding Akemi shooting him with a gun and delivering a Curb-Stomp Battle against Daiji, even setting him on fire with his demonic powers at one point.
- Vail's true form as a red-coloured Vice with a mouth full of sharp teeth is revealed, and he immediately proves to be a powerful foe, possessing the powers of all the basic Vistamps thanks to Akaishi. To top this off, he threatens Ikki that he intends to tear apart the Igarashi family, one at a time.
- Giff emerges from his dimension and instantly disintegrates the FENIX soldiers surrounding Akaishi's podium, forces the Igarashi siblings out of their transformations and even crashes the
*FENIX Skybase*, all without moving a step.
- Daiji transforming to destroy a horde of Giff Juniors normally isn't scary. In this episode, however, he transforms with an empty look on his face, and he's fighting more brutally than usual, even throwing back his head and roaring at one point. He's getting dangerously similar to his father Junpei during the latter's days at NOAH, and Holy Live's angelic appearance only makes it even worse.
- Masumi removes his mask in front of George, leaving the latter shocked and horrified. And we are treated to only a few shots exposing a few areas of his burned face.
- The real reason Akaishi wanted to awaken Giff in this era cements how much of a threat
*we* can become:
- The Wham Shot of this episode is brought to you by Chic, Masumi's inner demon that was transplanted into George, who appears in growing out of his shadow at the end of this episode.
- George decides it is time to start cleansing, and that means beating the living hell out of every other rider. And he won't stop, not even if the Igarashi Siblings decides to hand him their drivers.
- And what about him as Kamen Rider Juuga: it is pretty much a modern Ultimate Form Kuuga crossed with Kamen Rider Goda, controlled by a mad scientist who is a huge Kamen Rider fan and wants to become the one and only Ultimate Kamen Rider there is.
- After Vice delivers a short recap on last episode's events and muses that now that Giff's defeated and the Igarashis don't need to transform, Ikki doesn't need to lose any more memories and he can finally relax in the bath, the episode
*immediately* cuts to a hallway full of downed Demons Troopers with George standing in the middle, holding the Juuga Driver.
- George's wide-eyed glare was already intense enough when he was ambiguously good, but now his eyes feels cold, soulless. Him flashing a Psychotic Smirk every single time he transforms into Juuga does not help.
- On her way to turn herself in, Hana runs into George near the bottom of a bridge, who immediately transforms and attacks her. The Reality Subtext regarding Hana's actress being a victim of stalking mere months prior only serves to make this scene more uncomfortable.
## Movies and Spinoffs
**Part 1**
- The premise is right out of a mystery horror series: the heroes chase a monster to a lodge, the only bridge to it is destroyed, which traps everyone within the area, and there's now a killer among them.
- Worth mentioning is that the murder already happens at the end of the episode. Sets the expectation for one death per episode.
**Part 3**
- The prime suspect, Shogo Ueshima, a mad scientist George Karizaki used to know and has been deceased for quite sometime... And it somehow his creations managed to appear everywhere. Whether he's truly dead or has been hijacked by something is left unknown.
- George's goal with the Vistamps is revealed to be the awakening of dormant demons inside humans. Shogo's is to use them to turn anyone into monsters instead.
- Even worse? Ryu Terui uncovers a whole desk in the laboratory that contains biological samples of every known monster except for one: Orphnoch.
- Naoto Kamiya (or rather, Naoya Kaido) was preparing to flee the lodge before he was revealed to be the Snake Orphnoch. He likely knows he's being hunted and that the killer wants a sample off of him.
**Part 5**
- Shogo's research leads to the creation of the Oblivian Vistamp, which painfully turns the user (Suzu) into an amalgamation of ten different monsters.
- George managed to retrieve a perfect copy of Shogo's research. What it will be used for remains to be seen, but is unlikely to lead to something good.
**Part 1**
- In a show of carnage and destruction not seen since
*Kuuga*, *Revice Legacy* reminds viewers how destructive Kamen Riders can be when they don't hold back or just lack control over their own strength. In contrast to Vail's calculated and refined control of his abilities, Junpei just tears and thrashes the demons he gets his hands on with reckless abandon, with his Finishing Moves being so destructive he utterly demolishes the surrounding area, with dozens of civilians caught in the crossfire. Is it any wonder why NOAH wants to keep him on such a short leash or why they have to resort to shocking his own heart to get him to heel? **Part 3**
- This episode reveals where the demons Junpei's tasked with killing come from. They're like him; humans infused with Giff's cells, with the only difference being that they never survived the process.
- The fact that
*Vail* is none other than the "red demon" who murdered Junpei's parents is scary enough, but then you realize he was able to manifest and vacate Junpei's body **before he underwent Masumi's surgery operation and infused him with Giff's cells**. It raises a lot of questions as to what exactly in the hell Vail is if he had that much power before he and Junpei became a Kamen Rider.
- Ryu Mukai's death. First he gets transformed on-screen into a demon, then Azuma/Kamen Rider Daimon finishes him off, resulting in him exploding, with the radius large enough that Nozomu Otami's parents had to shield him from the blast in order to protect him. While monsters exploding was a major risk as shown in
*Kamen Rider Kuuga*, here we actually get to see an on-screen death caused by it. Small wonder Nozomu considered it personal between Azuma and him.
- During the a teaser for the V-Cinema starring Live/Evil and Demons, we see Daiji and Kagero, mirrored and pulling Kubrick Stares, and then we cut to Hiromi with a pleasant smile that we expect out of him...which then becomes a rather sinister smirk. Repeat:
*Hiromi smirking sinisterly!* And *then*, the screen starts flickering, and Hiromi's image is replaced with a heavy dark filter that only shows his face's right side lit by an ominous light.
- The truth isn't that much better. As it turns out, the "Hiromi" seen is actually Muramasa, an dual-wielding impersonator working for Alicorn, an terrorist organization who kidnaps children. And he isn't some kind of inner demon as the film would suggest- his true form is much worse, being a human mutant complete with Nightmare Face. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderRevice |
Kamen Rider Ryuki / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Every single time a Mirror Monster comes out of a reflective surface and eats an innocent. Even worse, the Monsters are
*very* fast eaters, and even if there's a Rider *right there* when you get snatched, by the time he transforms and goes to the Mirror World, it'll be too late.
- Asakura in general. He is a sadistic Serial Killer who enjoys fighting and killing fellow Riders, has quite the nasty temper, and stated that his wish if he won was for the Rider Fight to go on forever. Naturally, anybody who knows him has some form of dread and/or dislike towards him.
- Yui's and Kanzaki's parents locking their children up in the attic and keeping them there even when Yui got sick which lead to her death.
- Tojo gradually losing his sanity due to his Insane Troll Logic causing him to turn on Nakamura, Kagawa, and Sano.
## TV Series
- Sudo assaulting Reiko while she was investigating the antique shop, which wouldn't look out of place for an actual mugging. Thankfully, Reiko barely survived and just ended up in the hospital.
- After tricking Shinji into giving him information about Ren and Yui, Sudo staged an attack on Ren while the latter was on his motortcycle while also lying to Shinji into thinking he was a fellow Rider who would understand him, where Shinji would fall victim to a death trap of his. Luckily, both Riders ended up surviving those snares.
- After taking Yui to his car under the pretense that he had info about Shiro, Sudo mugged her to unconsciousness when she was attempting to make a call just to have some leverage for the Rider Fight.
- The Reveal that Sudo was the one responsible for Kaga's death, by plastering him in a wall when the latter demanded a large share.
- Sudo's death where he gets eaten alive.
*Onscreen*. To elaborate, upon their Final Vents clashing, Ren fell down and Sudo was on the verge of victory. Just then, his Advent Deck then broke down, and as Sudo began noticing that he was gonna dissolve, Volcancer came behind him and prepared to assault and eat him, emphasizing the consequences of any Rider having a broken contract.
- Due to confiscating the Dragreder Card from Shinji, Shibaura used it as blackmail for Shinji to work for him, even prompting to burn the card, which would have Dragreder eat Shinji, should the lad disobey him.
- Shibaura attempting to spread his Deadly Game worldwide.
- Asakura threatening patrons at a restaurant in an attempt to get Kitaoka to come to him, even using Chika, a little girl, as his hostage.
- Shibaura kidnapping Yui just to goad Ren and Tezuka into fighting him. Not helped by how abrupt it was.
- Zolda's End Of World Final Vent impacting the rest of the Riders sans Ouja. While Ryuki, Knight, and Raia just barely made it, Ouja used Gai as a Human Shield so he wouldn't be struck by the attack.
- Asakura revealing to his brother Akira that he was the one who started the fire that killed their parents in an attempt to off him because he found him to be annoying. Now that he has Akira in his sights, Asakura then had him fed to Venosnaker.
- The episode climaxes with the death of Sano/Kamen Rider Imperer. The circumstances of it were a long Humiliation Conga (wherein after he alienates Shinji and Ren, he is intidimated by Shiro Kanzaki to continue despite wanting out. This leads him to being backstabbed by Tojo and Asakura destroying his Vent deck. We see him desperately weeping, asking for help, agonizing why it ended up like this, and his voice hauntingly trail off as he is dissolving in the Mirror World. And that's before we're shown his fiancee who was still waiting for him.
- Tojo pouring gasoline on a car where its reflective surfaces has Ren, Kitaoka, and Asakura fighting each other in an attempt to get the either of them out of the war. The result? When Asakura started the car, it exploded and resulted in flames.
- Not long after, Asakura abruptly grabbed Goro by the arm, where Kitaoka struggled to free him, leaving Asakura to seethe in anger. Bear in mind, only Asakura's arm was seen the entire time.
- Tojo pushing a father and son crossing the street as he got struck by a truck.
- Yui attempting to jump off a building in order to get Shiro to stop the Rider Fight and let her be. Shiro allegedly complies, only to have a Guld kidnap her for her safety.
- Shinji getting stabbed by a Raydragoon while protecting a little girl from him.
- Asakura's Villainous Breakdown from realizing that the Zolda he killed wasn't Kitaoka, but Goro. When a police unit outside a warehouse comes for him. Asakura charges at them and gets gunned down.
## Others
- Asakura's vicious murder of Miho's older sister, to the point where said woman ended up in cryotherapy.
- Miho getting bitten by Dragblacker as it flies around, causing her to be wounded and eventually having succumed to her injuries as a result.
- Just as he was about to finish a grieving Shinji, Shibaura then got himself stuck in a Dispider's web. That Dispider then slowly pulled Shibaura to it as it then eats him while the Rider screams.
- In one of the endings, Shinji as Knight successfully broke the mirror, allegedly ending the Rider Fight. As he walks, Shinji then hears mirror noises, and with Tiger, Imperer, and Odin watching from mirrors, Shinji then screams, signifying that the Rider Fight has resetted. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderRyuki |
Kakurenbo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Just because it stars kids doesn't mean it was meant for them. Hoo boy. The demons. Oh God the demons! Yaimao screaming as the tower's cables stab him in the throat. For that matter, the fate of all caught players. Hooked up to the tower by said cables and having their very life force used to light up the demons' city. The possessed Sorincha's sing-song counting. "Ready or no-ot?~ Here I come." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Kakurenbo |
Kamen Rider Wizard / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Don't be too scared. That's just the hero.
- While people that die due to a monster attack (i.e Worms from
*Kamen Rider Kabuto* spraying white liquid (no, not that white liquid), and *Kamen Rider 555*'s Orphenochs destroying a person's heart), *Wizard* no doubtly has the worst case of killing someone by Despair Event Horizon, the purple glow on a person's skin seems to stress this further. Then their body EXPLODES, and Phantoms are born.
- And considering the number of Phantoms is mostly like an Inferred Holocaust.
- And just like the Worms, the Phantoms can keep the deceased person's memories and take their form, effectively being able to trick anybody who knows them.
- When a Phantom reveals their true identity, we're treated to a shot of their monster face superimposed over their human one, which is just plain creepy. To make it worse, said Phantom typically bares an appropriately frightening Slasher Smile while doing so.
- One can see it as a sort of dark counterpart to the so-called "legend shifts" of
*Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger*, where we find out (or remember) what past Sentai hero the legend is.
- Nitoh's situation
*most assuredly counts*. Think about it, you're an archaeology student that makes the discovery of a lifetime, a belt that grants you awesome super powers, and your own monster that will fight with you...only to discover that you need to eat constantly, as well as hunt down monsters and consume them, otherwise, you're toast. Now think on what happens if you run into a monster that proves too difficult to destroy and you run out of time...or what happens when all the monsters are gone...
- There is almost no humor here, which makes sense since Haruto must find a way to defeat Phoenix before it's too late. The Wizardriver even sounds quite sinister and intimidating when the Flame Dragon ring is used to transform into Flame Dragon.
- Haruto's nightmare where Phoenix infiltrates the hospital, murders Hiroki's parents while he watches, and Hiroki is swiftly enveloped in violet light as he turns into a Phantom.
- Dragon himself is creepy. We meet him in Haruto's underworld, looking exactly like our hero except with ominously glowing red eyes and a deep voice, gloating over the scene of Haruto's dead parents. He then proceeds to do the standard 'Phantom reveal' before circling around Haruto and taunting him about the cost of the new ring's power.
- Beelzebub in general. His soft-spoken demeanor merely serves to highlight how monstrous he really is. What he puts the poor Victim of the Week through is just plain terrifying. Imagine having a perfectly happy life... and all of a sudden your friends start ignoring you like the plague and your formerly loving husband turns into an abusive jerk and you have no idea
*why*. All this is made worse because Beelzebub is never seen *once* the entire time, making how he does it a complete mystery on top of the Nightmare Fuel that comes with his power in the first place.
- The ending is pretty bone-chilling, with Phoenix generating huge ass fire wings, having them attack Haruto, and then suddenly cutting to black as we hear Haruto's scream.
- Phoenix's final fate. Being trapped forever in the freaking
*sun*, stuck in an endless cycle of death and rebirth? Brrr. Though he completely deserves it, it's still not pretty.
- All Gates were forcefully transformed into Phantoms. Not Nitoh's grandma...she goes to the Phantom and
*asks* to be transformed. Why does she do this? **So her grandson can EAT HER!!!**
- Having a monster, that looks like one of your children kill you. I can only imagine the fear of Mayu and Misa's parents...
- We finally get to see how a Gate turns into a Phantom in full. The entire idea and implications are already scary enough, but now to see exactly just how utterly painful and horrifying the whole process is, is nothing short of disturbing. Not at all helped by how completely powerless the hero is the whole time.
- The mere fact that Legion is the
*only* Phantom that Wiseman considered so dangerous, so Ax-Crazy, that he imprisoned him! Keep in mind that psychos like Phoenix and Lizardman were allowed to run free...
- And then there's his special power: he enters his victim's underworld to perform Mind Rape. Jesus.
- Don't forget how well they characterized his human form. A simple look at his face will tell you that he is completely messed up.
- His victims seem to be sleeping peacefully... then you get to Haruto, who basically
*goes into arrest* once WizarDragon is gone. Especially grim if you or anyone you know has some form of heart condition.
- It is revealed that when he was a human, Gremlin or rather Sora was a serial killer who targeted women with black hair who were in white dresses, and he's still doing this, even as a Phantom.
- Worse? He went from a
*regular* Serial Killer to a *supernatural* Serial Killer with the ability to Flash Step and who's so powerful that the police have absolutely no chance of stopping him.
- The scene when The Reveal happens is particularly frightening, with the camera showing only one or two victims before it pans back to reveal
*three* boards covered in pictures of Sora/Gremlin's victims. Haruto's reaction to this is very justified, and the set up is simply terrifying.
- Haruto ends up running out of mana just as he's about to activate the Drago Timer, (his power was drained by Wiseman earlier in the episode) and him being forced to power down from Flame Dragon is really creepy.
- According to the White Wizard, if you fall into despair but hang onto hope, you
to become a Wizard Rider. So here's the concept: if you get targeted by a Phantom and you fall into despair, with no Wizard Rider to use their Engage Ring, you either become a Phantom or a Rider. And that's **HAVE** *only* if you refuse the call to either option. Oi...
- White Wizard's assault on Kizaki just as he found out more about him.
- The red crack that appears on Koyomi's hand is rather disturbing. Also seems that the Please Ring is being affected as well.
- Unfortunately, the crack on Koyomi's hand continues to grow and become more disturbing. Her entire right hand is cracked and she needs to wear a glove to keep it covered.
- Turns out that Fueki is not only the White Wizard, but Wiseman as well.
- Him backstabbing Medusa was uncalled for as well, especially when we're expecting Sora to do the double crossing instead.
- Koyomi finds out that she's been dead all along. Even if you know you're not normal, that would still really creep you out.
- Fueki saying that he needs Haruto's help to bring his daughter back, if this was earlier, Haruto might've agreed to help, but now, Haruto doesn't want anything to do with this psycho. Keep in mind the fact Fueki could place Haruto under mind control as he did to Yamamoto and Yuzuru.
- The second Sabbath. In order to get a sufficient amount of mana, Fueki holds a Sabbat using four wizards as the catalyst, with the ritual covering
*all of Tokyo*. Had it not been for Beast's intervention, Fueki would have happily killed everyone in Tokyo and turned every Gate in the city into a Phantom. Japan can't catch a break with these cataclysmic rituals, can they?
- Sora has the Philosopher's Stone. The Sociopathic Serial Killer who was so evil that he
*became* his Phantom instead of being replaced by it now has the world's most powerful magical artifact.
- Sora, in his new evolved form, decides to just kill everybody he can find. He needs power for the Philosopher's Stone but doesn't want to do all the work involved. If the people turn into Phantoms, they're Gates. If they stay dead then they're normal.
- There's one when Haruto finally shows up to fight. He doesn't specify that he wants to save Koyomi's spirit, and this causes Rinko to think Haruto's going down the same path as Fueki. Kinda scary with the one person who trusted Haruto most thinking he's gone to the dark side. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderWizard |
Kamikakushi / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Tobirama's first encounter with Botan. Botan may be friendly but given how their first encounter went, one would not blame Tobirama for thinking otherwise. Especially since the encounter involved Tobirama being
*eaten*.
- Tobirama's first trip to Yumeyo involves being attacked by oni. At this point, he didn't know any techniques that were effective against them.
- The attack from the shadow youkai. It literally ate the jutsu Tobirama used to try and defend himself. It was Tobirama's first experience with being helpless in an ambush and he is very disturbed by the encounter.
- Kikuyu was creepy and disturbing. The raging mu-onna are scary. And they were after Tobirama.
- Reminders that Botan does not have a human perspective and has eaten people. He has no problem leaving the Hyuuga servant to burn to death and only saves Tobirama's possessions. He later suggests eating Butsuma when the man has upset Tobirama. It is quite clear the only reason the arsonist survived only because Tobirama hadn't been present and thus in no danger when they started the fire.
- Ameyuri is frightening. The way she knows things is eerie and then there's the fact she eats people.
- Akkorokamui suffers a Death of Personality and reinvents himself every time he mates. His current self is rather affable - yet unsettling - but some of his past incarnations were rather... not. Like, he has been a
*kraken* a few times. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Kamikakushi |
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight* is an American adaption of *Kamen Rider Ryuki*. Though the premise was toned down to be not as dark like Highlander, it can be surprisingly scary for a kids show.
## Unaired Pilot
## Tv-series
- The first episode shows an innocent woman being dragged by Xaviax's forces, and the manager sees her, and doesn't care to help because
*he can't see what's happening to her.*
- Kit's Dream Sequence about getting devoured by the Dragreder.
- Maya being dragged into Ventara and seeing the Monsters within.
- Kit's Despair Event Horizon upon learning that there are evil Kamen Riders and he has to vent them or he will be vented himself.
- When seeing Kit fight Incisor, Len is about to help, but
*refuses*.
- The look of horror on Kit's face when he sees Incisor getting Vented.◊
- The way the Dispider brings in its victims. It starts out by slowly wrapping its web around the person, and then violently dragging them to Ventara.
- The Fake Vision ||Drew|| shows us about
*Len* being the one to betray the Kamen Riders, with Xaviax watching proudly as he brutally takes down Dragon Knight, even taking his sword and using it on him. The last thing we see in the vision is Wing Knight drilling down to the defeated Adam before everything flashes to real life.
- Kit and Drew both taking on Camo. Drew doesn't know of the plan to bring Camo in, but doesn't hesitate to
*shoot* Kit, even if it means blowing his cover.
- The moment when Kit finally realizes that Drew was getting him to work for Xaviax. He mercilessly shoots Camo, and vents him before turning on Kit, preparing to shoot him.
- Kamen Rider Thrust's shock when he sees Camo get Vented.
**Thrust:** What's going on? Where did he go? What just happened to him?!
*Len starts to walk away, only to be stopped by Brad.*
**Thrust:** Hey! I'm talking to you! What happened to that guy?!
**Wing Knight:** **beat** He *lost.* **Thrust:** What?!
Wait a minute. Nobody told me anything about this, nobody said ANYTHING about being disintegrated! I'm outta here!
- Thrust mercilessly curbstomping Dragon Knight, eventually forcing Kit onto his knees and out of his transformation.
- Kamen Rider Strike. He's not only almost as evil as his
*Ryuki* counterpart Kamen Rider Ouja, but also has his intelligence and no drawbacks.
- He easily takes down two Gelnewts when demonstrating the power of the Advent Decks to Brad Barrett. It also demonstrates how easily he could take down a Rider.
- Everything that he does in battle. He laughs madly (In the Japanese Dub), emerges from smoke, and kicks Torque so hard that he sends him flying with the Magnugiga. His slow walking like The Grim Reaper towards Drew is also quite terrifying, sound added giving bonus points.
- Strike's brutal Final Vent kick on Thrust when he first shows it.
**Strike:** *(picking up Torque Deck)*
So long, Con Man
.
**(MAD LAUGHTER.)**
- The noise made when he cracks his neck will haunt your dreams. All of them.
- When Brad finally learns that ||Charlie is Xaviax||, he is forced to continue fighting. Brad says he'll find another way.
**Xaviax:** The way I see it, Brad, you only have two options... *(transforms into his armored form)* **VENT OR BE VENTED!**
- The fact that Len was willing to
**kill** Thrust by thrusting his Lance into Thrust's neck.
- The Curb-Stomp Battle Sting gives Len.
- Brad Barrett watching over his old tapes of him still racing. After hearing the announcer say, "Will Brad Barrett Win?!", Brad looks down to his Deck and starts to growl.
- Drew getting busted as The Starscream. He is ambushed by all of the minions, including Strike, and escapes, but he isn't even safe in the city. Strike chases him through the windows, and the nearby sirens probably out to get Drew doesn't help either.
-
*"The thrill of the hunt."*
- "You can't talk your way out of this one, Drew, which is too bad, because I don't think you're good enough to fight your way out of it either."
- Strike's brutal Final Vent kick on Thrust when he first shows it.
- The venom from the Venosnaker.
- Strike's merciless beating on Sting in their first fight. He doesn't let Sting draw a Card, and only spares him because Kit and Len showed up.
- It happens again for their next two battles. Sting gets the advantage in the second, but Strike still curb stomps him until he is wheezing.
- Len throwing Albert Cho over the side of a railing. He first hits a support bar, and then lands quite painfully on the ground.
- Strike's Calling Card he left when Kit finds out that ||Strike took his father.||
- Wanna know the worst part about a Rider getting Vented? They're essentially being trapped in a comatose-like state inside a pod between dimensions in which
*no one can ever save them.* ||Until Master Eubulon is rescued that is, since only he can rescue the fallen Riders from the Advent Void.||
- This is one of the rare occurrence where the American adaptation of a Japanese show actually made a doomed character's fate can be considered to be
*worse* than its original show, despite it's still implementing Never Say "Die". And remember that *KRDK* is based on *Ryuki*, one of the darker entries of the *Kamen Rider* franchise and an entry where Anyone Can Die, as shown by all Riders (except possibly Ren, depending on how you view the finale) dying at the end of the series.
- Kit's Unstoppable Rage against Strike, Axe and Spear. He takes them all on with his bare hands, and Vents Spear. The fact that a mirror fell on top of Albert doesn't help after Axe's Villainous Breakdown.
- Anyone who watched
*Ryuki* before might be surprised by Kit's willingness to kill/vent another Rider (even if it's under an Unstoppable Rage condition), unlike Shinji who is completely unwilling to kill another Rider in the series.
- Xaviax's Psychic Strangle on Danny when he tells Xaviax that he can take back the money.
**Xaviax:** I *own* you, you little hoodlum! EITHER YOU DO WHAT I SAY, **OR YOU GET WHAT ALBERT GOT!** **DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!**
- Axe's brutal beating on Kit for Venting his brother.
**Axe:** A good son wouldn't let his dad get taken in the first place. If it were *my* dad, Xaviax would be toast by now. Xaviax is next, right after I'm finished with you!
- The Curb-Stomp Battle Strike gives Axe after saying he will quit Xaviax.
- The appearance of Kamen Rider Onyx. He gives Kit quite a beating, and then knocks him out unconscious. He was even willing to kill Kit
*in his sleep*.
-
*Anything* about Onyx. In the Japanese Dub, Kit's voice gets deeper and he growls, as Dragon Knight *and* as Onyx.
- The misunderstanding of Strike Venting Axe. It first starts out heading towards Dragon Knight, but is then redirected towards Axe.
- Xaviax when he uses the armor of ||Kamen Rider Wrath.|| Xaviax even admits that using the armor would have made it a lot easier to get the Earth Riders to his side.
- Xaviax approaching Trent.
**Trent:** What do you want?
**Xaviax:** Taylor and his friends.
**Trent:** They're not here.
**Xaviax:** Oh, they'll be here. They always show up when people are in trouble.
- The No-Men. They come out of nowhere, and take people by total surprise.
- Siren's Evil Laugh while fighting against Strike in the Japanese Dub.
- Strike adding Thrust and Sting's powers to his own, creating a Chimera-Like monster and letting him use more than one Advent Beast.
- Wing Knight chasing Strike. It doesn't help in the Japanese Dub when Strike is laughing madly, but the fact that Strike has to
*call for help* for the first time is quite horrifying.
- Wrath is about to Vent Len. Kit interferes, but Xaviax teleports and lets Kit fall to the ground. With Kit caught off-guard, this line comes:
**Xaviax/Wrath:** Goodbye, Kit Taylor.
- Also, because Wrath actually uses his Final Vent (unlike Odin), we can finally see just
*how* devastating Wrath/Odin's Final Vent is. And unlike any other Final Vents, Wrath/Odin's Final Vent is revealed in *KRDK* to be a ||*Suicide Attack* one, since Wrath is also vented/killed not long after using it||.
- Kit and Adam's battle. Kit doesn't back down, and even attempts to Vent Adam. Eubulon scolds him:
**Eubulon:** Are you going to make your nightmares a reality?
- ||Xaviax becoming Eubulon to fight Adam so that he will stay on his side. It hits Adam. Hard. He even starts to have a hallucination when he sees everyone laughing at him, the sounds of the laughs echoing. Also, the emergence of his Death Glare.||
- ||The Transmitters coming back online after the Kamen Riders deactivated them all.||
- "Karsh is a Superior World. We are Superior People, and I will let nothing get in the way of our survival... particularly not
*you.*"
- Xaviax's battle with Dragon Knight, Wing Knight, Onyx and Siren. He overwhelms them all, and delivers his darkest gem:
**Xaviax:** You're a fool, Adam. You were given so many chances, but you've made up your mind, and so have I. The deal's off! And once I'm done Venting your friends, I think I'll pay Sara a visit, and **Vent her too!**
- After ||Xaviax is defeated||, Adam leaves the base. A small rumble is heard, and a distant image can be shown in the chamber where ||Xaviax died.|| Somehow, one can always think that it's never the end.
## Novel
- The connection between Ventara and Earth has been severed, leaving the No Men, Kit and Len as the only defense from swarms of ||feral, human eating|| mirror monsters that have no clear objective anymore. Just wreaking chaos and attacking people.
- ||Mirror monsters have turned feral and became like their human eating Ryuki counterparts. A scene of carnage is thankfully not described in graphic detail besides recounting of dismembered body parts.||
- Incisor arrives at the battlefield and all seems well until he attacks Grant completely out of nowhere. They fight, but Grant can't land a single hit. Somehow, Time Vent ended up in Incisor's hands and he used it to predict everything to turn it into a Curbstomp Battle.|| The fight ends with Grant being vented and the Copy Vent using impostor walking away with the Camo Advent Deck.||
- ||Chris, Brad, Drew and Richie all go down the same way (sans Time Vent). Chris is taken out by impostor Torque redirecting Thrust's Final Vent at him to boot.||
- The Cho Brothers are brutally beaten by gang members controlling the slums they live in.
- The chapter
*Venomous Deed* shows that the desperation at the No Men's HQ has reached such a level that they don't even bother with being desperate anymore and just keep on going.
Now that ||Richie's fate was uncertain||, No Men's HQ had the atmosphere of disaster relief team that gave up on giving up. Trent was up all night, spreading the range of their systems across the world and calling for response that never came.
- ||JTC ended up in a mental hospital. His last battle with Len scattered his marbles and he has still not recovered them even through the year from the main story's end.||
- ||He gets better when his memories return, but that leaves Kit in a situation uncomfortably close to Alone With A Psycho.||
- ||JTC is vented by the impostor rider. Aside from the fight where he gets brutalized by Trick Vent clones, his last words are meant to tell Kit to watch out for the traitor among them. Unfortunately, Kit doesn't get to hear anything.||
** ** Kit... be careful. There are snakes in the grass. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderDragonKnight |
Kagerou Project / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Chapter 18 of the manga was filled with this thanks to the appearance of Kuroha.
- First was Kuroha's slasher smiles. It looked just like the ones he flashed in Outer Science.
- Kuroha's murder of Kano, it was instant and gory.
- Seto's death was the worst, he rushed towards Kuroha. Kuroha just shot Seto in the stomach and forced Seto to eat the barrel and killed him.
- Kido's death wasn't kind either. After watching the death of her oldest friends, she was shot 5 times.
- Kuroha's look as he killed Ene. He was clearly enjoying messing with Shintaro.
- Chapter 19 of the manga is happy. The last few pages show Hiyori being hit by a truck.
- Chapter 39 of the manga shows a red eyed Hiyori with Kido's corpse.
- Chapter 48 of the manga route reveals that it was
*Hibiya*, not Hiyori, who was possessed by the Wide Eyes Snake when he *pushes Momo off the rooftop.* The chapter ends with a full-page picture of Hibiya's Slasher Smile | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KagerouProject |
Kaiji / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Brave Men Road, events in which the participants are forced to walking along a very narrow beam to which the finish to claim their prize. It comes in two part, Human Derby and the Electric Steel Beam Crossing.
- The first part, Human Derby, isn't too scary, just at least a foot drop which is survivable provided you land properly. Though it's made trickier in that the beam gets much narrower as participants progress. Since it's also a "race" that means the person in front has the advantage but the one behind them can
*push* them off. Not helped that the rich bastards watching this on the ground *encourage* such things since they're betting on the participants. At one point, Kaiji manages to catch up to the person in front of him but is more busy on concentrating to keep from falling. It's then he hears the chanting from the audience below, at first only making out "...Him! ...Him!...Him!". But then realizes they're yelling for Kaiji to "Push him!". The scary thing too is Kaji actually *does* consider it but realizes he's not cold-blooded enough to do it. Doesn't stop the man behind him from attempting it though which ends up with all three men nearly falling over and forced to grab onto the beam, which gets them disqualified. Though they are given the chance to win a bonus ticket if they clear the next part, which brings us to...
- The Electric Steel Beam Cross which is nothing short of horrifying. Why? Because again, they have to cross a narrow beam. Good news, it's the same length through out and no one has to push another to win. They just simply have to reach the end. The bad news,
*it's up a height of 22 flights across two buildings*. If that wasn't bad enough, the beam is mildly electrified to keep the participants from grabbing onto the beam and scooting across because that would be "too boring for the people watching" (also just being up that high isn't dangerous enough apparently). Needless to say falling is instant death. ||One participant falls to his death, which causes a chain reaction of sorts... The others panic and one after one, they fall off, complete with the Grim Reaper appearing. Eventually it just comes down to Kaji and Sahara, a co-worker at a convenience store Kaiji works at. The latter eventually works up the courage to just sprint the remaining distance and manages a flying leap to the window ledge. It seems he made it and just has to go inside. But the window doesn't open, Kaiji catches on something is wrong and tries to warn his friend. But then the window does open...and let's out air pressure which knocks Sahara back and into the abyss. Kaiji nearly gives in to despair here as he's now near the end and thinks there's no way to win the event. It's only then he notices the glass stairway on the side of the beam which leads to the true end goal. While he does lament it could be another trap (giving another lovely Imagine Spot where Kaiji steps on it and falls through) he's forced to go for it. Mercifully it holds his weight and he wearily heads up it to the inside of the building. While those inside applaud him, it doesn't help his mood since he knows he was the lone survivor and saw good men die for nothing. To add salt on the wound, his ticket is "voided" because apparently Yukio Tonegawa *did* turn off the electricity when Kaiji pleaded for it earlier but "forgot to tell them". Just..wow, if you didn't think the villains were utter sadistic slime before, this pretty much confirms it.||
- The entire "E-Card Reader" arc, where the protagonist plays a card gamble with ||an electric drill fastened to his ear.|| Essentially, at the start of each round he bets a certain amount of "millimeters" - if he wins the card game, he gains money in proportion to the amount of millimeters he wagered. If he loses a round... ||the drill will advance that many millimeters into his ear canal. Complete with cross section and close up views of the drill moving slowly towards his ear drum, and the occasional "what-if" preview of it getting splattered. The max length is 45 millimeters and while the damage to the eardrum is bad in time it can be repaired but death is certain at the max length. Gets even worse when Kaiji
*cuts off his ear* to get rid of it because it was rigged.||
- At the end of the same arc, there's also the ||"Roasting Kneeling" (
*yaki-dogeza*) scene, where Tonegawa is forced to kneel for forgiveness, face against the ground, on a *red-hot iron plate*, badly burning both his forehead and both his hands, all while Hyoudou is giggling in the background||.
- From the Tissue Box Lottery arc, there's ||Kaiji betting four of his fingers on a mini-guillotine. It doesn't end well.||
- In the Bog arc, when Ichijou punishes Kaiji for breaking into his office by ||torturing him with a device that drives a needle under his fingernail.||
- Kazuya's book
*The Sword is Mightier than Love* definitely qualifies. The boss of an unnamed criminal organization tries to impress a woman with money and gifts, but she ends up trying to run away with another man. They are however caught and the boss puts them into 2 separate boxes with 14 holes total covering their bodies, from not-so-lethal areas such as their legs, up to their chests guaranteeing almost certain death. The man and woman then take turns choosing where to stab 9 different swords into each others' bodies. 9 of the holes have metal plates set inside, so if they are lucky they can come out of it unharmed. ||They however both end up dying, after brutally stabbing swords into each other's chests, betraying their love.|| The kicker to it all? ||The whole story was a real event orchestrated by Kazuya.||
- What makes it even worse? ||Kazuya points out that there was a way that both of the players could have gotten out alive, just by each of them selecting to have swords put into the non-lethal areas for both of them, as there were enough such holes that it would allow them to do so, if both of them were willing to go through with it.||
- The fate of those who lose the Salvation Game: The hostages ||have their heads slowly crushed by their helmets||, and the savior is Forced to Watch.
- Mother Sophie's punishment for losing One Poker. ||The loser gets held upside down in the air for 5 minutes with an oncoming free fall head first into concrete. Each participant is supplied with a remote that allows a chance for a web to catch the loser in the air, but the chances of timing the right position is so low that it only serves to add extra despair when one inevitably misses.||
- The climax of One Poker, wherein the above event
*really happens* is one of the most terrifying events in the entire series. ||Kaiji bets it all on an extreme bluff with his cards and desperately tries to push Kazuya into folding in order to save them both, but Kazuya has been so broken by the events of the night and his own past that he's driven to the brink of insanity... and raises. Sure enough, Kaiji's card beats Kazuya's. Watching Kazuya's mind utterly *shatter* at the sight of Kaiji's card beating him and realizing what's about to happen with Mother Sophie is nothing short of bonechilling, even with Kazuya's horrible personality. And the remote that stops the web? Kazuya *drops it in a panic*, which means Kaiji is forced to watch a man fall to his death. It's only via some serious quick thinking on Kaiji's part that Kazuya even lives.|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Kaiji |
Kamen Rider Double / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Despite being a Lighter and Softer show and having a comedic tone most of the time, this show has its own fair share of Nightmare Fuel over the course of the series
- The Terror Dopant has the ability to make reality bleed the stuff.
- Not only that, the scary aura earlier shown in episode 9 and 10 before being explained in episode 45 and 46. Terror Memory had the ability to amplify people's fear, especially on their human bodies' unconscious minds. This is the reason why even though the police and Shotaro knew that Ryuubei was the mastermind of Gaia Memories businesses or at least suspected, they cannot do anything about him, because their bodies' unconscious minds are greatly frightened to approach the mansion. As shown in episodes 45 and 46, Shotaro suffered a mental breakdown from fear.
- Seen on the right, Terror's Terror Dragon. This creature itself even bite Accel Trial Form with its mouth, torturing him physically.
- The
*Twin Maximum* is this trope as written. "Maximum Drive, Maximum Drive, Maximum Drive..." over and over again while Double writhes in pain, on fire, is just frightening. Philip was clearly against doing it for a good reason.
- The mantra returns during the final battle of "The B Carried on the Wind"...though the context is entirely different and makes it awesome.
- Utopia wiping the faces of Philip's friends in Episode 48.
- Daido Katsumi going Laughing Mad when all the psychics are killed. You can see the last vestiges of a good man dying, leaving only a vengeful Necro-Over.
- The way Isaka dies after Accel finally beats him in Trial form. His abuse of Gaia Memories leads to his Living Connector to grow violently out of control until it
*painfully consumes his entire body, leaving nothing behind.* The similarity to an overdose death only makes it worse.
- The Utopia Dopant lights Kamen Rider Accel on fire in Episode 47. As if that wasn't scary enough, Ryu Terui screams in horror as he is burning to a crisp
*both in and out of* his Rider form.
- The Spider Dopant has the ability to implant spider bombs in people that make the people they love explode when they touch each other.
- The whole Virus Dopant storyline. Incredibly depressing considering how Sachi was treated by the man she loved and ungodly scary if you see that the Dopant isn't her physical body, but a manifestation of her hatred towards him and the guys who ran her over. Also, the way the Dopant sounds and moves. It looks like something out of
*Resident Evil* instead of the usual terrifying and sometimes goofy Monster of the Week.
- Sonozaki Wakana. While in public she was known as the gorgeous DJ Idol, her real personality is different, being rebellious and easily annoyed. In reality, when her little brother, Philip/Sonozaki Raito was gone, she suffered from being abused physically and mentally by her older sister, Saeko. Even though her encounter with Philip did change her to be more cheerful and less violent, when Ryuubei takes the initiative to make her the successor of Museum, she becomes extremely frightening.
- In episode 41-42, when she gained the ability to enter Planetary Bookshelves from episode 39-40, the first thing she does is try to take Philip away for Museum. Furthermore, Wakana even surpasses Philip in terms of Synchro Rate that she can transform into a Dopant, while in that place, with Philip being helpless to do anything about it. Not to mention the mad laugh that Wakana showed makes it all creepier.
- Sonozaki Saeko. She is unpredictably ruthless to anyone. She even killed her husband, Kirihiko, when he pleaded her to leave Museum with him. This happens because Ryuubei abused her physically when she was younger and did not love her, prioritizing Wakana for his plans.
- The effect of using a Gaia Memory without a Living Connector as seen in the
*Farewell N* episodes. It's not bad for a few times but eventually, the memory **burns a hole** when it ejects after prolonged use. The makeup is *disturbingly* effective at making it seem like a memory sized chunk of flesh was just *melted away.* The fact that this disturbing imagery and needle-sharing drug allegory is being used on teenagers doesn't help matters.
- Specifically, since it is also made usable by non-authorised users, it ends up affecting the original user, Akane, to the point of drug addiction even when her friends presumably use it quantitatively more than herself.
- It gets to the point where a normal Memory Break would actually kill the user. It took Nazca and Double to safely eject the Memory by aiming directly at the memory itself. Imagine if they were even slightly off. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderDouble |
Karakuridouji Ultimo / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Go look up any promotional art for this series. What you'll see is a cute little robot boy teaming up with an Ordinary High-School Student to save the world from his evil brother.
Sounds like a typical mecha, Shōnen, action series right? Just with an extra dose of Generic Cuteness thrown in, right?
Yeah, maybe that's how it started...
**UNMARKED SPOILERS** **General** **Part 1 (Chapter 1-12)**
- Chapter 1 introduces Vice by having him wake up cursing and then killing almost
*half* of Yamato's group, using only his fingers.
- Chapter 5 pretty much set the stage that Ultimo isn't..... quite right.
- Rune and Jealous webbing the entire class. Then threatening to
*kill* all of them if Yamato doesn't do as Rune says.
- Chapter 10 had a rather nightmarish scene where Rune and Yamato are in mecha form. Rune has Yamato forcibly pinned down, in a manner that sends off some disturbing rape vibes. He even talks about how it must be hurting Yamato. *shudder*
Yamato: Rune! Something's
*wrong* with you!
Rune: No. Something's wrong with
*you.*
- Chapter 11 was a teeny bit Tear Jerker, and a whole lot of
*disrturbing.* Rune has just completely lost it, with an ultimate crazed look on his face, while bawling his eyes out at the same time. Then there's the fact he's perfectly willing to kill his best friend becuase he doesn't love him back, then commit suicide.
- Chapter 12.
*Dear god chapter 12.* **Part 2 (Chapter 13-20)**
- In Chapter 17, Jealousy and Iruma traps Ultimo, Yamato, and the Owner of the Antique Shop in a web. Iruma then tries to kill Yamato with Jealousy's Absurdly Sharp Blade but narrowly misses his face.
*By millimeters*.
- Not to mention one panel actually makes it look like there was a huge blade through Yamato's face.
- Chapter 18 gives us Musashi, not just being stabbed by Jealous' spider webs, but also having them squeeze his heart.
- FridgeHorror: The webs tighten at movement. Your heart beats and therefore moves.
*Every time his heart beat,the webs got tighter.*
- We also find out that there is no way for Yamato to stop everything from happening. He already knows what becomes of everyone,
*and there isn't a single thing that he can do about it.* If anything, he's making things *worse.*
- Anybody else notice the nice Slasher Smiles that Slow and Machi give us in Chapter 19?
- Chapter 20 had a couple moments. Not nearly as much as some were expecting after chapter 12 (both being the last chapters of their parts) but still a couple.
- Eco is stabbed again while in Icon Mode, and Hiroshi/Goge are
*ripped in half.* Which had blood/oil spraying about. **Part 3 (Chapter 21-)**
- What better way to kick off part 3 then to have Rune nearly
**RAPE** Yamato, in a borderline graphic way. The fact that it seemed to be played for laughs, only made it worse.
- And Jealous
*helps* him, by tying Yamato to the bed. Then just freaking stands there watching. He even seems to get mad when Rune decides to not go through with it. Ergh.
- After Rune lets Yamato go, Yamato takes the knife Rune used to cut the webs from him, and threatens to
*slit his throat.* That in itself isn't really scary (and Rune sure as hell had it coming) but what is creepy is that Yamato has a complete and utterly terrifying slasher smile on his face. Yes Yamato is smiling like a lunatic while threatening to *kill his best friend.*
- Chapter 22 finally shows us what Ultimo did. He did in fact, kill Rune's past self. And to top it off, a nice shot of her lying on the ground with blood spattered on the walls, and an even nicer shot of a blood splattered Ultimo. Oh and throw in one of his more distubing smiles to boot. This, kids, is what Ultimate Good looks like.
- Vice stabbing, kicking and all around just beating the shit out of Jun, starting Chapter 27. The thing is, is that
*the kid won't die*, and you just see the gallons of blood squirting out of him...
- This page will clarify just how frightening the scene is. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KarakuridoujiUltimo |
Kane Pixels' The Backrooms / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Kane took the concept of The Backrooms and amplified the Cosmic Horror elements prevalent in early Backrooms material. Combined with the implications of such a thing existing in our world, the end result is utter Nightmare Fuel.
The whole aesthetic of Kane's take on the Backrooms has an eerily synthetic feel like the "backrooms" of a long-forgotten retail department store, with drywall corridors that meander nonsensically, inconsistent lighting, and the lighting humming loudly as a constant auditory companion, and curiously bare walls yellowed as if from age. Additionally, when you do see anything that suggests possible use - like beds, furniture, road signs - it's almost always glaringly off. It's either in a place that would make no sense to logically be - or, in Found Footage 2, the proportions simply make no sense like something out of Alice in Wonderland, creating the impression that the backrooms only superficially or incidentally resemble a place for humans.
Little does our Found Footage camera guy realize, he is not alone and being stalked by wire-like entities (Bacterias) with vague motives.
While Pitfalls reveals that they are Voice Changelings, it seems unlikely that a victim would be saying these things. They'd realistically be expressing fear, not pleas for companionship.
What makes them particularly frightening is that without intervening obstacles, you cannot shake off a Bacteria who is tracking you, by just running away, not without Olympic sprinter training at least. Finding a good hiding spot and staying still and silent presumably helps, but in a panic, that can be a tall order.
The entity encounters across the series are uncommon enough that there's often a sense of suspense as to which episodes will feature them, making the periods when explorers are all alone, with just the environment, all the more tense. When we do get to see a Bacteria, the features give the sense of something vaguely humanoid, but retaining a sense of the unknown as if you don't really get to comprehend them like a corrupted NPC in a video game.
When the camera guy in Found Footage falls into the chute after being pursued by the loud Bacteria entity, we get a view of a distorted-looking stairway with a kitchen to the right, and a closet and dark hallway to the left. What should be a comforting sight that resembles being invited over to someone's home can end up feeling creepy because it's too normal and it's so quiet and empty compared to earlier. Nothing bad happens in this zone yet this place might give off a sense of dread not quite like anywhere else. It's also notable that the Bacteria entity pursuing the camera guy doesn't try and follow him down (which they are capable of doing, as demonstrated in "Found Footage #2"). One may wonder exactly why the entity doesn't want to go down there. Is there an entity that's a threat to the Bacteria entity down there that the camera guy managed to miss?
Missing Persons implies one of the Backrooms victims is a two year old; to the parents it would appear their child just vanished without a trace. On top of that, the disappearances accelerated according to a line graph, increasing the cause for paranoia over more children, teens, and adults disappearing without warning.
Motion Detected details an experiment to set up motion-sensitive cameras. At one point, unknown and unseen banging sounds are captured and at the end of the video, the noodle-like appendages of an unknown entity appears off in the distance. We don't get a look at the full entity or any scares but it confirms that at least one entity is lurking around the testing site.
Autopsy Report is extremely unsettling, from the appearance and physiology of the corpse, which appears to have only partially (and unevenly) decayed. But there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, where a snippet of some sort of report appears on a TV screen, that truly drives home that something is wrong with this space and fundamentally hostile to human life. We can't read all of it, but here's what we can:
"And to that point, the sentiment... all serious engagements in the... this environment was never suited for mankind. To maintain this delusion would be to condemn...."
Informational Video is a masterful use of Nothing Is Scarier. After the PSA video, we cut to ASYNC employees exploring the Backrooms. One employee splits off from the group when he hears a crowd muttering in an empty corner, asking if his colleagues can hear what he's hearing. Then the surroundings glitch, and his colleagues, (who didn't seem to acknowledge his shouts) suddenly disappear. Cue said employee wandering around, finding an empty theater with the shattered remains of something on the ground, and an entirely new maze with floral wallpaper. Said maze has an ax just lying around and a farmhouse with wheelbarrows that don't look quite right. He eventually stumbles upon the ASYNC entrance, only to find it empty and then the lights blare red. The video ends leaving the man's fate unknown. All throughout the video, you're expecting a jumpscare from one of the monsters crawling around in the Backrooms, but they never come. It isn't a mercy, since you're constantly holding your breath in dread. But there are no sudden scares beyond the one at the end. And the new rooms the man stumbles into just leave more questions that enhance the horrific mystique of the Backrooms.
The person overseeing the threshold from a balcony gives of a G-man vibe as he mysteriously watches Marvin enter the portal. He's presumably a human boss or manager character with high-level clearance but the vagueness of this person's role can be just as creepy as Backrooms itself.
And then there is the titular pitfalls with the nerve-wracking balancing act needed to get across the narrow beams around the grid-like pitfalls. Sure enough, Marvin falls down a chute due to a glitch in the level and is a little worse for wear.
Marvin eventually finds a deceptive area that looks like it's outside and hears someone screaming for help in one of the out-of-place "homes." However, it's a ploy that lures our camera guy into an encounter with a Bacteria entity who is impersonating cries for help. The entity starts chasing, repeating the agonized yells they supposedly heard from someone else (their victim perhaps).
Not just because of the strange and scratchy soundtrack (though that is disturbing in its own right), but also the implications that are built into it. First, the fact that an entire car no-clipped into the backrooms implies the possibility of multiple people disappearing simultaneously, and that there really is no knowing when or where you can no-clip into The Backrooms. There is only the possibility someone might end up there.
Second, if one didn't notice before, the footage (assuming it isn't mirrored) appears to take place in a country that drives on the left side of the road, likely the UK, Australia, or New Zealand. Meaning that The Backrooms is a global phenomenon at this point.
Another disturbing thing to consider is that this proves that it's not just obscure places you can clip through. Even public, regularly used places with lots of traffic can be clipped through.
It also makes it scarier to consider what the person was going through while driving: Imagine having a rough day at work and that, at the least, you'll be able to finally get to relax at home, then, all of a sudden, you are flung into a completely different dimension while you drive. You don't know how you got there, only that you are now somewhere that isn't on Earth.
A teaser picture shows the direct result of that incident: the car crushing itself into a wall the moment it enters the Backrooms.
Even more scary is the fact that while you'd expect to see the driver either knocked out or dead in the driver's seat, they're not, implying either they and the car went to separate locations, or something took them from the wreckage.
Another thing to note: While the car is wrecked from its high speed impact with the wall, the wall itself looks perfectly unscathed, suggesting the Backrooms is indestructible.
Despite what has been discovered about the Backrooms, ASYNC still wants to go through with commercializing "A-Space," as they call it, with the titular presentation showing massive benefits without mentioning any of the dangers of the space. Corporate greed and malfeasance will likely get a lot of people killed.
More than that, they want people to live down there, in what are essentially windowless musty offices, even before any monsters or The Virus come into question. This raises the question as to who would willingly go to live in the Backrooms — but, it would be very easy to 'encourage' the desperately poor or the otherwise-homeless to take up residence there.
The presentation shows a room with the dingy yellowed walls dressed up like an inviting home living room which can be subtly creepy. One might get the sense that even if safety is made reasonable, this space might affect one's sanity just due to the unnatural synthetic feel of the dimension.
These living spaces also add possible context to Found Footage as the camera guy will find an abandoned living space in the future in September 1996. This might make one wonder if something terrible happened here which prompted the residents to evacuate, such as the omnipresent Bacteria menace. The level with the courtyard that resembles one found in the Holiday Inn Express at Heathrow Airport also appears to be one of these A-SPACE projects or something else but the sounds of unknown feral entities roaming the facility seem to imply this sector is unsafe for human presence. Even more troubling, this Holiday Inn Express is architecture that hasn't been built yet in the real world, as if a Time Crash is taking place.
The subtle Existential Horror present in the graph comparing the amount of storage space on Earth to the projected volume available in "A-Space." The latter just keeps on growing and growing and growing, until the former becomes so small it can't even be seen anymore, giving an idea of just how unfathomably vast and unknowable the Backrooms really are.
It's almost funny, but the fact that in ASYNC's idealistic animation of the Backrooms' possible future a housing area is built next to several fenced-off Bottomless Pits is more than a little concerning.
We eventually find out what happened to the unfortunate camera operator from Instructional Video — he found his way back to the Threshold, only to find that three months had passed. While this is somewhat Nightmare Retardant considering that he's (probably) safe now, it makes you wonder how easy it might be for years, decades or centuries of real time to pass by while you're trapped in this awful place.
Another camera operator has discovered a glitch in reality and experiments with sending objects through the rift, á la Poltergeist (1982). Then it goes wrong while a tape measure is being inserted into the rift, causing the tape measurer to be suddenly sucked in, along with our main character and everything else, and falling into the Backrooms. This shows that, no matter how small the rift is to the Backrooms, if a person is tethered to an object, it will be sucked in regardless of size in relation to the hole. Those implications are downright horrifying, as it could mean that even stepping on a small rift could no-clip you.
Even before the Bacteria encounter, the atmosphere is very tense in this iteration of the Backrooms. The camerawoman finds several strange things before discovering the car, such as a set of chairs and a table that appear stretched far beyond any human height, and a white, sterile hallway with music emanating from somewhere within. All the while, you're expecting something to jump out and attack the main character, but to no avail.
One of the cars that no-clipped out of reality (possibly the same exact car from 9780415263573) is found, crashed into a wall. The driver has left a trail of blood into a house-like room implying medical horror from crash injuries. This leads to yet another Bacteria encounter and another chase sequence. This seems to confirm that Bacteria, at least some of them, were human beings, who transform after they die in the Backrooms. Also potentially crosses in Tear Jerker as it sounds like the Bacteria screaming "HELP ME!" implying that it's mimicking one of the last moments of the car driver, or it is them pleading for help. If the latter, it makes the entire situation both horrifying and depressing.
The coherence of physics also appear to be unstable. While the Gravity Screw inside the hole in the floor was beneficial, there were anomalies that didn't necessarily feel reassuring like the green energy eruptions that ended the video feed onto the media. It might make one wonder if this reality is starting to come apart and what this might mean for reality outside the Backrooms.
The fate of the time traveling Peter Tench is revealed and his experience was a waking nightmare. After finding the Threshold 3 months into the future, he is denied rescue and a Corrupt Corporate Executive wants to continue the false cover story that he died in a car crash. Forced to survive in the Complex, he presses on with the knowledge that his family thinks he's dead and having been betrayed, he is on edge and presumably fears armed forces will return to hunt him down or capture him for study.
This episode shows that bringing weapons into the Backrooms may not necessarily be the best course of action due to possible ambushes by stranded people. Viewers may be expecting an ambush by a bacteria and feel reassured that the team is armed, but that hope is dashed when the lost Peter Tench gets the drop on the team and the situation turns into a standoff when he grabs Mark's shotgun and turns it against him. Though Peter is relieved to see Marvin, he has already crossed the Despair Event Horizon due to being betrayed and left for dead to cover up knowledge of time anomalies in the Backrooms. Held at gunpoint, Mark panics and radios for armed support once the radio receives a transmission asking for status, and Mark declares that he is at gunpoint by a hostile which causes Peter to also panic, shoot him, and flee. It's also heart-wrenching seeing how desperate Peter is after he was informed that his family thinks he died and him having to hear that his coworkers attended his funeral for his forged death. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KanePixelsTheBackrooms |
Kara of Rokyn / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Brainiac's stealing of Kandor as narrated by Kandorian Nar-Es is a horrifying experience.
"Right. Brainiac. The big green goon of a babootch in the pink shirt. The two-legged computer creep. Right when I'm at the arena, talking with my manager, we hear this big rumble, like there's gonna be a quake or something. Only it's different from that. We all ran outside, and it's hard to tell...but it looked like there was a big canyon getting cut in the ground, just outside of town, and everything on the horizon is kinda getting smaller, like you were running backwards away from it. We were trying to find lightpoles or trashcans or parked hovercars or something to grab, and the cops are zipping around in their skygrabbers, telling us not to panic, and that not too convincingly. Then...we're going up. We can tell that, somehow, because we're getting plastered right flat against the ground. The skygrabbers are plunking flat against the pavement. Most of us are throwing up like crazy. I didn't even knew I had anything to spew, and I spewed like a geyser. Ears popping. Noses were bleeding. We were all praying to Rao, or something. I don't know what we were doing.
"Then everything goes grey in front of us for a second. And then it winks out...
"And when it comes back, there's this big green face on the horizon, looking at us. Just looking. I mean, if that was Rao, I was ready to change my religion! R** forgive me, but he understands. We were about to go crazy. There were suicides, no fooling. I thought about it...but not for long. I was too busy wondering what was going to happen next.
"And this voice comes out of the air, like nothing I ever heard. It tells us that the green guy is called Brainiac, that we've been shrunken down and stuck in some kind of a bottle, and that no harm will come to us, we're just part of a scientific exhibit. Really big reassurance, I can tell you.
"Well, what could we do? After the initial nutso wave passed, the city started getting its stuff together again. The big green guy wasn't interfering with us much, so the Council got together, told everybody to stay cool, and worked out a way of living. That's what we had to do, and that's what we did do. You know that much of it.
"We were expecting, or hoping, that all the folks left back on-planet would find a way of coming and getting us. Wrong on both counts. Like you know, Krypton wasn't much into space travel yet. And Brainiac was way out a zillion light-years from where they could reach him, if they could even find him. Which they couldn't." | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KaraOfRokyn |
Kamen Rider Geats / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Lots of scary and dark moments in Kamen Rider Geats are pretty much to be expected — courtesy of the same guy behind two previous entries.
- The Jyamato. While they have silly moments, their evolution ability makes them
*terrifying*. While at first this is just getting stronger, it gradually becomes apparent that they're getting progressively *smarter*. With each round, they become exponentially more dangerous to the point Girori is scared of how fast they're evolving. Before even the midseries mark, they've gained the ability to assume human form, speak, and even use Drivers. This leaves a looming sense of dread, as with each round there's no telling exactly *what* their next evolution will be or how dangerous they'll actually *get*.
## Main series
- An area is isolated with a force field at the beginning of the battle, leaving anyone trapped in to be slaughtered by the Jyamato.
- The barrier goes right between Sara and Keiwa, leaving him trapped in and her out, so she is forced to watch as the monsters fatally injure the soba shop's owner and then go for her brother.
- It doesn't help that the force field manifests as red glowing barbed wire.
- Neon's bodyguards are last seen holding off one of the Jyamato.
- One Jyamato energy-slashes a woman, which in a tokusatsu show may or may not be fatal. But then it knocks a man to the ground and though it's just offscreen, clearly
*impales* him.
- The next episode mitigates this some, by making it clear that whenever the world is reset anyone killed by the Jyamato is brought back. Except Kamen Riders, who are Killed Off for Real.
- The Jyamato themselves are pretty creepy, speaking only in weird moaning sounds as they murder everyone in sight.
- Then there's the Fortress: a gigantic kaiju sized monster capable of laying waste to the city all by itself.
- First off, we have the shot of Sumida staring at the Magnum Buckle while in school, eerily similar to the memes surrounding the "quiet kid in class reaching into his bag," which are generally an allegory for a
*school shooting.*
- There's also Sumida's motivation for being in the DGP - he actively hates humanity, to the point where his wish for the DGP is "A world without humans."
- Getting infected by a zombie causes the affected area to start turning a sickly purplish-green, with pulsating purple veins extending out from the wound.
- On that note, there's also
*how* the Zombie Jyamato bite people - what you might think are their eyes is actually their *mouth,* and opening it causes their heads to split in half, connected only by green tissue.
- The fact that the rider armor does NOT protect you from the zombie's bite!
- Let's talk about a critical matter with this episode: Tsumuri details how the Zombie Jyamato operate, including how they attack in three waves and the major risk they present by reaching urban areas. The implication is that this happened before and there was a zombie apocalypse due to it.
- Sumida's wish if he wins the Desire Grand Prix is "A world without humans". His basketball career was ruined by an accident...leading him to be jealous and resentful of everyone around him. Is it a very immature, petty wish? Oh absolutely. But Da·Paan highlights how
*anyone* can be a part of the DGP and how no one is exempt from having their desires granted, no matter how crazy they are or how destructive their wish is.
- The reason Michinaga's friend died is fully revealed.
*Two Kamen Riders beat him up and stole the Zombie Buckle from him*, leaving him utterly defenseless against the Jyamato. It's little wonder why he hates them as much as he does. From what we saw, one had an elephant theme and the other a gazelle, though it's unclear if said individuals are still even alive, given the nature of the DGP...
-
, **Rule 7** *Just Rule 7.* If all players lose, *everyone with the game area is terminated.* And the final boss is one who has already done it once to a previous group of players.
- As a reminder, that includes all civilians, ambient life, and even the physical space itself.
*Just gone.*
- It is revealed that Sara and Keiwa's parents were killed by Jyamato while trapped in the Jyamar Area, with Sara helplessly watching on the other side — the exact same situation in #1. This makes it twice now that Sara had to watch the (potential) demise of her family.
- What makes this worse is that their parents
*are still dead* even after the reset, meaning that something was screwed up in that game since they still remember their parents so it wasn't a failed game.
- The opening has a young couple and their child happily going about their day... and then the Knight Jyamato appears. The parents are crushed to death under its foot, with the helpless, crying baby being approached by a Pawn Jyamato. From the way the Jyamato draws back its arm to strike, it's obvious what happens next. This pretty much makes the episode's Reset Button Ending come as a relief by showing they and the other civilians were of course brought back and could carry on where they left off.
- Yukie/Letter's death is arguably one of the most brutal of the show thus far. Besides the fact that she's the first female Rider to die in a Reiwa series, the manner of her demise is also pretty shocking. As she attempts to fly away from the battlefield with the Propeller Armed Buckle, the Jyamato shoot her down with a rocket launcher, then proceed to gang up on her and beat her up as her Core ID disintegrates.
- We learn that losers in the DGP (assuming they survive) lose the desire behind their wish. Keiwa's abnormal behavior over the last two episodes shows exactly how abrupt (and potentially harmful) the resulting change is.
- It gets worse the more you think about it. What if Taira had survived in #2 and merely been disqualified? He'd be robbed of his
*love for his son* at worst, but at best he would have just given up trying to find a way to treat his son, but Ace already got that covered anyways.
- The Jyamato are being grown as fetus-like like plants in a greenhouse, raised by a man who is feeding them the broken ID cores of dead Riders. Brr.
- We finally see Kamen Rider Glare in action, and he is a
*horrifying* sight to behold. Not only does he toss PunkJack around like a ragdoll, his drone smashes his former subordinate's helmet and takes control over his body, making him forcibly retire Ace from the DGP.
- According to the parts page for the Desire Driver, it's powered by a hydrogen reactor for a self renewing energy source of unlimited energy... According to the Vision Driver's parts page, it's powered by a pseudo
**BLACK HOLE**, allowing the suit to have a strange effect on space-time, such as ignoring the strain of weight, or standing on air.
- As though Glare's abilities weren't horrifying enough, he's also able to make
*suicide bombers* out of the Riders he controls, as shown with Win/PunkJack. The latter actually gets his head **BLOWN OFF**.
- Archimedel arriving to check out the new fertilizer that's arrived...with the camera revealing Azuma surrounded by shoes and discarded clothing, leaving little to the imagination of what he's using for fertilizer...
- One has to wonder if what are in those "fertilizer bags" are what is left of PunkJack, given the way he was eliminated.
- A Rook Jyamato that Archimedel was shown growing for some time has matured, which it demonstrates by assuming the form of Takeshi Goutokuji / Kamen Rider Shirowe.
- It's obvious when the realization hits from how Michinaga's expression changes from the usual Death Glare to that of horror as he is watching the Jyamato shapeshift.
- The Uncanny Valley of the Jyamato's human form. It has roots growing from face to neck, uncoordinated movements and it repeats the few lines the man said before dying.
- Also the way it shapeshifts is reminiscent of the green tentacle alien / Serleena from
*Men in Black II*.
- The new opening sneaks in a few shots of Michinaga to confirm that he has survived his elimination, but the Ominous Visual Glitch that distorts those scenes highlights his uncertain status now that he has fallen through the cracks in the system.
- Michinaga is alive and well, but not in a good place, especially since his I.D. Core is damaged. When he forces a transformation, he is constantly harmed by it, he forced to perform a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on a Jyamato Rider, then forces a transformation using a Jyamato Buckle, becoming Buffa Jyamato, tearing himself up in pain.
- The transformations are quite painful for Michinaga - since the Buffa I.D. Core is damaged, he's constantly getting electrocuted from the faulty device and when he transforms into Buffa Jyamato, he completely writhes in pain as the transformation takes hold and unleashes Combat Tentacles on two approaching Jyamato to take them out.
- Perhaps the most unsettling thing about this fight isn't that he managed to beat and destroy a Jyamato Rider with his bare hands. It's that in the process he very clearly and deliberately dislocated, if not
*broke* the Jyamato's arm, complete with crack and the limb going limp. It's a disturbingly realistic tactic and result in an otherwise fantastical fight.
- His life expectancy is that of a suicidal fruitfly because he is alone, only with the clothes on his back and a driver with a damaged ID Core, in a another dimension that's crawling with Jyamato Riders.
- Archimedel watches him struggle onward, pondering on how Michinaga doesn't belong anywhere anymore.
- Buffa successfully manages to escape the greenhouse, and, discovers that the Jyamato are being grown in the remains of an entire destroyed
*city.* This situation brings to mind the civilization-destroying Helheim Forest.
- Michinaga's predicament is complicated further by the cruelty of Niram and Samas, who drag him back to the Jyamato greenhouse area. When Samas questions Niram of returning Michinaga there, Niram complains of how him returning from the dead would mean the Desire Grand Prix would "lack realism" and he
*wants* him to return... as a Jyamato.
- There are a couple of jumpscares involving baby Jyamato suddenly opening eyes that are far too large for their tiny frames.
- The fact that the victims trapped by the time bomb would be gone forever if they're caught in the bomb's explosions.
- Keiwa's close shave to save Sara doesn't compare with Sae having to not only cut two wires out of three in less than 15 seconds, but also the melon bomb retaliating after one wire was cut by wrapping Sae in wires as well, with Neon coming in to save them all in the very last three seconds.
- If Kamen Rider Glare wasn't horrifying enough, we have Kamen Rider
*Gazer*; not only does he constantly keep Buffa on the backfoot, Gazer took little effort to sock him with enough force to send him *several stories in the air*, and had the buffalo rider not activated the Zombie buckle he would've been killed right then and there.
- The truth of the Jyamar Garden comes out at last: it is the area that is effectively "erased" after the Kamen Riders lose.
- Niram not only refuses to answer any of Ace's questions, but justifies that even answering them wouldn't matter because he would
*wipe it all*: their memories, their existence, the very world they are in. That is the extent that the Producer would go to keep the show going.
- Towards the end, Niram justifies that they might have to erase this world anyways, based on the judgement. It's how casual he makes this delivery that shows how little he cares.
- Beroba transforms into a giant, mecha-like Rider; and decides to blow the Jyamar Garden to smithereens once the cat's out of the bag. The heroes go full Mass "Oh, Crap!" with this one. Even Archimedel tries to persuade her not to destroy his garden, but Beroba does not care and proceeds anyway. The result is the Jyamar Garden gets obliterated and everyone is engulfed in the explosion. And the last thing we can see in this episode is Beroba giving an Evil Laugh while standing in flaming ruins that looks like Hell — just seconds before the episode ends. And if that wasn't enough of a horror reminder, this is the
*exact same* Rider that *stole the Vision Driver last episode*. No, seeing it in the flesh does *NOT* make it any better.
- As if Beroba wasn't terrifying enough, she
*takes over the DGP* and essentially *sets the Jyamato loose for them to *. Like the antics of Girori and Kanato weren't bad enough. And Girori tried to warn Niram about the Jyamato. **ABOSOLUTELY MASSACRE THE GENERAL PUBLIC**
- With the villains in charge of the game now, the Jyamato now have full access to all of the power up items that the heroes used to and use them with deadly results. From two Jyamato Riders getting the Feverslot Buckle to Michinaga getting the Command Twin Buckle, it's clear that the heroes are fighting a losing battle. And this is only
*round one* of the Jyamato running the game.
- As if Beroba wasn't scary enough, she can now use the
*Vision Driver to transform*... And the fact that she is far more effective with the Glare2 powers than Chirami is makes it more than unsettling when she uses controlled Riders to beat the stuffing out of *Ziin*.
- There's also the fact that she decides to attack Ace when he's passed out from the speed boost of Boost MK-II. It was already bad enough when the Jyamato attacked their families with bombs. It would be an
*entirely different matter* if they decided to do this when they were actually asleep at their homes.
- Kamen Rider has, for a long time, avoided depicting the Death of a Child in any form, with some people even saying that this hasn't been done since Showa era, and once they finally did it again in this episode it's not hard to see why.
- Crosses with tearjerker, but you get to witness the horror Kousei felt when he realized where his daughter Akari was being held for ransom, and when he saw the police carrying out her body.
- Later on, after signing his wish for a new ideal child, you can see not just the despair in his eyes, but also all the Suppressed Rage he feels over whoever claimed Akari's life. All while Niram gleefully accepts it like a devil looking over a newly signed contract with Girori looking on, concealing his face behind his trademark mask.
- Neon's memory of the kidnapping is juxtaposed with the original reality, with the former being presented as an illusion that is dispelled when the events of the original are revealed. Irumi's reaction in particular is as horrifying as it is heartbreaking: she falls to her knees when Kousei returns home alone, and the next shot we see is of her catatonic and alone in the dining room, singing "Happy Birthday" to Akari's cake.
- The Dunkleosteus Jyamato, and not just because it's an
*utter powerhouse*. Just ! **LOOK AT IT**
- We also bear witness to what happens when Ace gets pushed. He pushes Tranquil Fury to its extreme, cutting out all the flair in his combat, to simply focus on one thing: destroying them in the quickest and most efficient manner. What makes this different from something like Hazard Build or Ark-One is that he has willingly shut off all of his emotions, and is still in full control of himself as he focuses on the one and only desire he has at the moment: Destroying the Jyamato and eventually, Beroba.
- Mid-season we get a The Bad Guy Wins scenario where even the main character is
*gone* in a few seconds, with the only evidence that they were there being the Vision Driver they were carrying dropping to the ground.
- The Final Judgement cast by the Evil Goddess escalates the "hell" color to not only consist of one color, but
*multiple* colors in targeting *every* bright-colored circles... dropping *everyone* into the pits except Sara and the boy she was protecting, leaving behind what can be effectively called a ghost town. And no one there will be brought back for now, except the Jyamatos that were eliminated during the game.
- Michinaga's wish helps recreate the Desire Royale, and given the implications of the next episode it will be basically him hunting every single Kamen Rider.
- We finally see Michinaga's wish fully granted and in effect, and he is a
*monstrous* opponent. Not only does he end a fight before the combatants can even touch him, he *actively* enjoys it, Beroba's influence having no doubt rubbed off on him. What mitigates it some is that he wants to crush all hopes of someone becoming a Kamen Rider again by destroying their ID Core, rather than killing them.
- To put his power into perspective, he shrugs off Ziin's finisher at
*point-blank range* and deflects Chirami's Glare2 finisher with ease, and the latter is only saved from certain destruction by a resurrected *Ace*.
- While Ace wishes for a world with no DGP, similar to Colus' wish in the movie. This will not guarantee freeing his mother from being the Goddess of Creation since the Game Master can hold other variants of the tournaments such as the Desire Royale itself to continue using Mitsume's powers.
- Or alternatively, use another reality warper that has no one to potentially advocate for her. Tsumuri
*did* just awaken her powers after all.
- This also means that the wishes of his close friends would never happen, which means that he is fine with allowing Neon's damaged relationship with her family due to her ousting as a Replacement Goldfish or allowing the Riders who have died in the Desire Grand Prix, some of whom were just good people trying to do the right thing,
*stayed dead*.
- More specifically, his wish (as he told Tsumuri) is for his mother to be free and happy. Still, doesn't mean her freedom and happiness can last as long as the DGP or Sueru exists, and as mentioned above this could mean that Tsumuri gets exploited next.
- Sueru does not hesitate to let Mitsume perish after she has expended her powers, as well as using their current Navigator to replace her.
- If you thought Ace was scary in #29, then this episode will make you feel like he was doing little more than being a Bedsheet Ghost back then. Overwhelmed by nothing but
*pure rage* as he sees his mother dying before him, Geats unlocks the Boost Mk III form, and its power seems to erase anything it touches, as evidenced by one swipe of its energy tail *crushing Gazer's Dominion Ray into a pulp and sucking it into a mini-black hole*.
- And it seems to extend beyond the reality he is in, as it is also seen erasing the last line of the Desire Royale's rule.
- The Grand End is nothing short of a nightmare: a dark veil shrouds the world slowly but surely as the closing of the DGP and draws near, there's nothing but blackness everywhere, and once it is concluded, DGP's existence will no longer be known in this era.
- This scene would like to remind you that how dark a family-friendly series like Kamen Rider can be: Niramu gets shot by Samas. With a real gun. And there's blood coming out of him. And good Lord, all of these are shown on-screen.
- Even if the DGP is gone, the Jyamato are still a threat and even scarier now, due to the fact they've become parasitic. A normal-sized Jyamato was scary as is, but now imagine not being able to see the Tiny-Jyamato take over your body without even noticing it run up before it was too late.
- Then there's Daichi's apparent Jyamato cultivating as we see he's now taking over where Archimedel left off yet somehow topped him in terms of insanity. As he starts his own Parasite Game.
- There's also how the Jyamato-possessed people shamble towards Geats, their movements that of an average zombie moving up to it's prey before shifting into Jyamatos.
- To show how far Daichi has lost his sanity, he
*eats a * right in front of Kekera and Beroba. It's telling enough that **live** baby Jyamato *Beroba* reacts to the whole thing with disgust.
- Then there's his Marrella Jyamato form, which somehow manages to be
*even more horrifying* than the Dunkleosteus Jyamato. It looks like the unholy love-child of a cockroach and a silverfish, with the ability to sink into the area around you. Meaning even if you could outrun him, he'd immediately be right behind you without you knowing until it was too late.
- The sight of the parasite Jyamato infecting Sara and mutating her into a cocoon-like abomination.
- It get worse you realised that Daichi may have had intentialy framed Michinaga, meaning he's true to his words before getting eliminated in #35.
- Sara's "death" involves her being covered in Jyamato roots and sucked underground. Depending on how things play out, that's either a horrible way to die or Daichi and the Jyamato aren't done with her yet.
- We finally learn the fate of those defeated while infected with Stage 2 Parasite Jyamato; they're sent to Daichi's new Jyamar Garden where they are absorbed into special trees that allow Daichi to access their memories. You can see the bark morph into the faces of the victims with every absorption.
- Keiwa's Sanity Slippage is truly horrifying to watch. The bright young kid hoping for world peace has become as brutal and ruthless as the Sengoku Era warlords his new form is modeled after.
- On a minor note, the arms that
*pull* the armor parts onto Keiwa during the Bujin Sword transformation aren't the usual sleek, mechanized hands. Instead, they're green ghost-like hands that crush the words *Bujin* and *Sword* and seem to force them to meet Keiwa in the middle rather than cleanly attaching them to the entry suit. This is probably meant to hint at the dark, hate-filled wish that brought the buckle into existence in the first place.
- As if to illustrate just how disturbed and dangerous Keiwa has become, the cape that serves as Bujin Sword's most defining feature is called the "Delude" Mantle. That's right, unlike the previous Protagonist Journey to Villain form, not even Bujin's Sword's own systems try to pretend they're anything heroic, or that what Keiwa is doing is right in any sort of way. The very suit itself will always be a walking contradiction that gladly informs all who face it of such.
- Its weapon is also a rather realistic and sharp-looking katana instead of the cartoony and toyish weapons the Rider's have used up to this point. It doesn't seem to have any interface with the buckles either (instead the Driver does not) it's made purely for stabbing people with.
- "Dark Keiwa" is not just lashing out in rage either. He pretty clearly emotionally manipulates Tsumuri into giving him Bujin Sword via first appearing as a friend, then breaking down to get her to comfort him, then shows his usual lack of confidence to get her to pep talk him, which he then spins into convincing her to give him new power, and then immediately goes blank when she isn't looking showing that none of those emotions were genuine. Keiwa became a very cunning manipulator very fast.
- Said new form is also brutally effective at the one goal Keiwa has in mind, getting revenge. Michinaga couldn't even so much as leave a single dent in the form. The finisher highlights just how dangerous Bujin Sword is, with it looking like the form cleaved right through Michinaga's Rider form and into his human body.
## Movies and Specials
- Given how hurt Win was and Niramu's statement, they barely made it in time to save him from becoming Jyamato Fertilizer.
- DGP's facilities shows the device they use to erase the memories of eliminated players and civilians who survived the Jyamato causes enough pain that they scream while
*unconscious*.
- The cruelty of the DGP Staff and the guards knows no bounds: rather than simply attempt to reason with players trying to flee the game and covering for them while making their withdraw official, they opt to beat them and, if a Jyamato is around, sic them to the Jyamato without a second thought. Had Win not intervened, Hiroki would have been dead and forgotten by all but Win.
- We get to bear witness to Girori converting a squad of five corrupt DGP Guards into his mindless drones. And unlike Win, they have not even an ounce of their own will after being brainwashed. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderGeats |
Kate Bush / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- "Waking the Witch". Egads. If the distorted voice calling for help doesn't make you jump, the satanic voice tormenting her
*will*.
**"You won't burn. You won't bleed. ** *Confess to me, girl."*
- Pretty much all of
*The Ninth Wave* could count.
- The live album
*Before The Dawn* actually adds a LOT to the experience of *The Ninth Wave* that's just as terrifying, if not more so, than the original:
- The prologue, "Astronomer's Call", is a spoken-word piece where an astronomer, who happened to be star-gazing on the cliffs, caught a distress signal from a boat - "Sinking fast" - and is trying to call the coast guard to summon a rescue. He gets frustrated at some of the questions they ask about it and it's really apparent that he feels it's his responsibility to save these people.
- The music video for "And Dream Of Sheep" shows Kate floating in this pitch-black water, being kept afloat by a life jacket as she stares up at the camera. At the end, something happens to the life jacket and her upper body and face sink beneath the water. Made scarier and more convincing by how it was filmed; Kate Bush really did just sing this in a cold pool of water, making her wavering, slightly strained vocals very realistic.
- "Waking The Witch" is still terrifying, as the "demonic" voice is replaced by "The Witch Finder", played by Jo Servi. His voice obviously isn't as deep as in the original recording, but having a more human voice shouting these things at her turns it from a supernatural horror at being judged by demonic forces into a more mundane horror about religious-based persecution.
- "Watching Them Without Her", an acted piece of dialogue before "Watching You Without Me", shows what's happening with the woman's husband and son. They're talking, looking for things, the dinner gets burnt, and it's a nice comedic break from the rest of the suite...and then the son pauses, and adds "Mum's late..." At the end of "Watching You Without Me", the husband answers the door, with the implication that it's the police, letting them know that she's lost at sea.
- They also add a piece between "Watching You Without Me" and "The Jig Of Life" called "Little Light" - firstly, it starts with Kate saying, between breaths, "Let me live...let me live!" before screaming in fear. The rest of the piece is a warped version of a motif that appears in the much more cheerful
*An Endless Sky of Honey* suite.
- Finally, during the third act of the show,
*An Endless Sky of Honey*, the song "Nocturne" has a call-back to "Waking the Witch": "Help this blackbird! There's a stone around my leg!" It's not unwelcome, but it's quite jarring if you're not expecting it.
- "Under Ice" uses the already terrifying metaphor for an ice skater breaking through the ice and plunging into the freezing water below to symbolise the heroine of
*The Ninth Wave* getting into further difficulty in the water. If you'll pardon the pun, it's incredibly chilling.
- Another good example: "Get Out of My House", inspired by the book & film
*The Shining*, which likens the agony of restless spirits in a haunted house to the emotional scarring of abuse and violation.
- What about the video for Sat In Your Lap?
- Then there's the disturbing video for "Experiment IV" (which the page image is from). It's creepy enough that the scientists are being forced to create a sound-based weapon and
*test it on human subjects*, but when the "sound creature" as it's sometimes nicknamed comes in...
- Her deranged vocals on the chorus of "Houdini."
- "Breathing." It's a song about nuclear holocaust. Enough said.
*"Oh God, please leave us something to breathe!" Shudder.*
- "Pull Out the Pin" is from the perspective of a Vietnamese soldier who decides to pull out the pin of a grenade to kill the American soldier he's been tracking.
*Just one thing in it:* *Me or him.* *And I love life!*
- "Leave It Open" is very unsettling, and culminates with Kate's heavily distorted voice chanting "We let the weirdness in" over and over, though the words are so hard to make out that for a while after the song's release, no one could figure out what was being said. Even more creepy, it is believed by some that when this line is played backwards, you can hear the words "They said they would let us in" or "They said they were buried here".
- Though "Suspended in Gaffa" is a very bouncy song, Kate has stated that it was inspired by the idea of someone being in purgatory or hell:
"I was brought up as a Roman Catholic and had the imagery of purgatory and of the idea that when you were taken there that you would be given a glimpse of God and then you wouldn't see Him again until you were let into heaven. And we were told that in hell it was even worse because you got to see God but then you knew that you would never see Him again. And it's sorta using that as the parallel. And the idea of seeing something incredibly beautiful, having a religious experience as such, but not being able to get back there."
- Kate's short film
*The Line, the Cross, and the Curve* is full of creepiness. First of all, there's the premise (based on a Hans Christian Andersen story) about the protagonist being tricked into putting on a pair of ballet shoes that force her to dance nonstop. Then there are the weird characters who inhabit the realm beyond the mirror; the evil dancer with a Big Ol' Unibrow (played by Miranda Richardson) who gives her cursed shoes to the unsuspecting Kate, and the spooky man in white facepaint (played by Lindsay Kemp) who is there to help the heroine but appears quite sinister nevertheless. The sequence featuring the "The Red Shoes" song is especially scary, as Kate is drawn into the mirror by said man whose face suddenly appears within it, and once she's inside she finds herself in what looks to be hell, with a floor covered in bones and dancing demons. All the while the shoes are forcing her to dance insanely. Later there's also an unsettling scene where Kate is sitting down, but still helpless to prevent her legs from flopping around (and at times they twist into unnatural angles). She begs the man to help her, and he slowly approaches her while maniacally chanting "It's really happening to ya..." repeatedly.
- "The Infant Kiss" is equal parts terrifying and heart-breaking. Based on the film
*The Innocents*, it's depicting a woman developing sexual feelings *for a child* - albeit a child who she thinks is being possessed by the ghost of an adult man. The sheer despair in Bush's voice really sells the fear and shame of the whole thing. *I only want to touch* *I must stay away and find a way* *To stop before it gets too much*
- The music video for the Director's Cut version of "Deeper Understanding" is both this and a Tear Jerker, showing a man - played by Robbie Coltrane - becoming so alienated from his family that he starts spending all his free time with this computer program, which is depicted as a highly uncanny pair of lips; when it sings and speaks, you can see a black void in its mouth, with no teeth or tongue. Eventually, the program stops working and he electrocutes himself trying to fix it, before going on a rampage trying to get his "fix" from the program - leading him to break into the bedroom of a man (played by Noel Fielding) and kill him. The video ends with the program developing these dark eyes, sitting just above the mouth, and staring at him. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KateBush |
Belladonna of Sadness / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The trailer makes no bones about what you're going to be seeing if you sit down to watch the whole thing.
- Jeanne's rape at the hands of the baron and his men, and later at the hands of the demon.
- Jeanne's repeated rapes at the hands of the devil, culminating in a sequence where a dead-eyed Jeanne has sex with a giant-blob thing.
- The visual depiction of the bubonic plague's spread throughout the village, and the rotting corpses of the victims.
- The orgy scene kicks off with half-human half-animals having sex in ways that defy all laws of physics and biology, followed by people bound together in long strands of hair also having sex in ways that defy all laws of physics and biology.
- Jean's death, ending with a shot of his eyes and mouth open in horror as he bleeds to death from multiple spear wounds.
-
**The entire movie,** to be completely honest. The experience of watching this in a theater, particularly stoned, is roughly equivalent to a 90-minute-long Brown Note. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KanashimiNoBelladonna |
Katy Perry / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
In the video for "Dark Horse", suitors come to her in the hopes of wooing her with fabulous gifts. She responds by turning them into objects. I.E: A grill for her teeth, a cup full of wine to soothe her tongue after eating spicy Cheetos, an alligator purse, dice for a pimped out chariot. Only the last dude gets off lucky since he gets partially turned into dog. Also that statue during "There's no going back" parts (shudders).
**Buckley**: If a girl was talking to me and all of a sudden, her voice changed into that, I'll be calling an exorcist to get it the fuck out of there. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KatyPerry |
KAZe / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- ||Lucifer's|| not so nice plan of torturing Jane into becoming his insane murderous toy. Mai can vouch for that.
- Jane's premonitions, with her feeling every painful moment herself.
- Some of the more gruesome deaths can be seen as this.
- Some Fridge Horror is revealed when Mai reveals to Jane how she was able to get ||Lucifer|| to leave her alone...Self-Harm.
- Mai herself is pretty creepy.
- "Come on, Xavier. Let's paint the walls in red..."
- And the said paint? Someone's
**blood**.
- Mai is apparently friends with The Slenderman and Jeff. Or has a least met them. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KAZe |
Kamen Rider Kiva / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Fangires in general. Essentially equivalent to vampires, except instead of just draining blood, they usually cause giant energy fangs to drain victims of life to the point the humans become transparent and shatter like glass after being being jolted.
- Ryo Itoya/Spider Fangire. Sure, he has some comical quirks, but the way he stalks after Yuri in 1986 and Megumi in 2008 can come off as quite unsettling.
- Keisuke Nago, at least in the first half. He would do whatever it takes to finish off Fangires and Kiva, unaware of the Rider's identity being Wataru, and has an extreme dislike of sin. Should anyone disagree with him, he would angrily shout that he's the one in the right. Despite fighting for the greater good, Nago had done some notable misdeeds that exemplify him being a Knight Templar such as his role in his father's suicide. It took finding out that Wataru was Kiva for him to mellow out.
- Rook/Lion Fangire. He wiped out the Wolfen race, murdered Akane Aso, Yuri's mother, as well as Megumi and Mitsuhide's grandmother, and most importantly, his Time Plays - Essentially games where he feeds on a select group of people within a time limit, with failure to make the intended number resulting in self-punishment with an electric shock strong enough to kill a human. However if he manages to succeed the right amount of victims within his game, he rewards himself with ice cream.
- Maya's role within the Checkmate Four: Execute any traitor Fangires who fall in love with humans. The sky turns night as she removes her glove and reveals her symbolized hand, which then shatters whoever she targets. Good thing she met Otoya.
- Saga's finisher involves impaling and hanging Fangires before ultimately causing the victim to explode in tremendous pain. One could actually feel sorry for the Tortoise and Horsefly Fangires for having to die in such a brutal way. Though Sagarc's squeaky chipmunk voice during the attack kind of kills the mood for some.
## TV Series
- Nago deliberately provoking Omura and even damages the music he was listening to, prompting him to go berserk as the Frog Fangire due to all the noise he hears.
- Jiro suddenly collapsing and having to be hospitalized due to the Ixa System prototype's flaws.
- Nago becoming crazy after his defeat from Kiva, to where he takes it out on a criminal, leading to him getting arrested instead.
- Tohru Miyake/Rhinoceros Fangire. He poses as the Chief Manager of the Atelier Dreams talent agency, seeking young people working towards their dreams and taking their photo. Once he has them in his trap, he takes not only their Life Energy, but a cherished possession relating to their dreams as a trophy in his "Dream Graveyard" collection. Especially given how many he had.
- After gaining his memories back, Rook ||takes the Life Energy of Eriko, the girl who fell for his amnesiac state, as well as her father and a few customers||.
- As Yuri revealed her feelings for Otoya in front of Jiro, the latter in his transformed state attempts to off her, but thankfully doesn't go through with it.
- Dr. Kanda in general. He's a Mad Scientist and former member of the Wonderful Blue Sky Organization who decided to experiment and research on Fangires. What he does to Kaede/Horsefly Fangire is keep her in a cell until it's time to forcibly empower her, with his method in doing so being to electrocute her as she shrieks in pain. He does this with no remorse whatsoever, even disregarding Shima's warnings to him to not toy with the Fangires.
- Bishop awakening Wataru's Fangire blood, which causes him to go berserk and nearly kill Megumi as she screams for her life.
- Bishop pulverizing Kengo, having almost successfully killed him had Wataru not arrived at the nick of time to save him.
- ||After transforming back to normal and finding out he became a Sungazer Fangire, Shima screams in anguish.||
- A chained Otoya getting his Life Energy drained out of him by King.
- Mio stabbing Taiga during the wedding.
- King confiscating Maya of both her title and her Fangire powers.
- After Bishop foolishly told him that he was the true murderer of Mio, not Wataru, Taiga aggressively beats up Bishop in a rather realistic manner. Sure Bishop had it coming, but still brutal regardless.
- In the aftermath of the assault, Bishop then alters his appearance a bit with rather unsettling Fish Eyes and messed up hair. What he does next? Play on an organ and try to revive a swarm of Fangires to take the Life Energy of civilians to bring back King.
- Taiga ||allegedly stabbing Maya when she stated she still loved him before taking Kivat-bat the 2nd with him. Thankfully she actually survived the attempt||.
## Other | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderKiva |
Kamen Rider Blade / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Meet Category Ace Spider Undead. Sweet dreams!
**Moment Subpages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.**
- The Undead are frankly unnerving just to look at and their methods of killing people makes it even worse. And they mostly kill people either because they consider them vermin or because they're salty over Human Undead winning the last Battle Fight.
- Spider Undead sucks its prey dry and leaves their skeletons behind and not to mention he's the page image!
- The Jaguar Undead kills by biting in the throat.
- Hajime can pass for human pretty well, but he's
*still* creepy at times.
- Overlooking a peaceful scene, he notes that seeing it makes him want to destroy it all. Jin (the man who took him in after he left Jacaranda) is understandably freaked out.
- He is scary when overwhelmed by his Undead instincts. Heck, he can be scary most of the time, because he doesn't blink, doesn't form expressions most of the time aside from a scowl or Death Glare and generally gives off an inhuman vibe.
- Isaka loves to play a Mad Scientist and the Kamen Riders are his favorite toys.
- He has Kenzaki kidnapped and put through some (thankfully harmless) screening to find out what makes him tick. The next round is significantly less harmless as he has Kenzaki fight against an Undead in a bulding rigged with bombs.
- He promises to cure Tachibana of his fear. It involves submerging his half-conscious self into a vat of green fluid and floating flesh.. bits. It's just eerie and gross.
- It wasn't flesh, but seaweed. An aggression heightening, poisonous seaweed that made Tachibana Brainwashed and Crazy.
- Kotaro tries to tell the Kuriharas the truth about Hajime, but he just can't bring himself to do it. His hesitation is justified. Imagine if you just got told that your polite tenant you're so fond of is an eldritch horror.
- Due to the Spider Undead being improperly sealed, when both Mutsuki and Kiryu used the Leangle Buckle, small spiders are shown crawling up their legs.
- Sayoko's murder by Isaka. She was trying to save Tachibana and she was offed by a monster in one hit.
- How Kiryu saved a little girl from a man kidnapping her: After telling the girl to run, he then uses his shock belt to incite Electric Torture on the man to his death.
- With his newfound powers, Kiryu then used the unsealed Undead to sic them on innocent civilians.
- Spider!Leangle ordering the Boar, Locust, Deer, and Jaguar Undeads to maul Kiryu on his command, with the latter screaming after.
- When Kenzaki tried to warn Kotaro to get out of the greenhouse, Miyuki then had the latter tied up in vines. Then Miyuki revealed her true colors to Kotaro accompanied by a Slasher Smile and menacing Evil Laugh before transforming into the Orchid Undead. Even Yazawa commented on how scary she was.
**Kotaro**: Miyuki... what is the meaning of this? **Miyuki**: What could it be, I wonder? Why don't you use your head. (laughs)
- Afterwards, there is also the Sadistic Choice presented to Kenzaki: Either he drops his belt or Kotaro gets strangled to death. Even after Kenzaki complied, Yazawa transformed into the Capricorn Undead and attacked him, meaning that had it not been for Hajime, Kotaro would have been killed.
- Shinmei hunting down innocent individuals and turning them into werewolves that attack people, then having his Undead Hunters hunt said people down to death.
- Shinmei attempting to claw Kenzaki after he complimented him in the most feral manner before being ousted by Tachibana.
- Even after Kotaro saved her, Miyuki attempted to inconspicuously choke him with a menacing music sting in the background.
- Shiori and Kotaro being spooked by tarantulas leaking out of Shima's bag, detailing the man's nature as the Tarantula Undead.
- Joker is the absolutely worst Undead. It's a beast that will destroy all life on Earth if left as the last Undead unsealed. It's incapable of anything else but fighting and won't stop before all Undead are sealed and it's only one left in the empty world.
- The Joker used Spirit, the card of Human Undead, which has created a sentience split from the mindless beast. Hajime swore to never return to his original form because he would lose himself and Joker scares him like nothing else. When reminded of what happens when Joker wins the Battle Fight, he has a vision of himself stumbling through wrecked city littered with corpses and finding Haruka and Amane among them. It shocks him so much he is completely speechless and shaking for a moment.
- Without the card of Mantis Undead, Hajime fights to maintain his form and mind, but it's a losing battle against his insticts and Joker breaking out.
- At one point, he snarls at Amane and scares her so much she is still frozen with fear even when her mother comes to check on them a while later.
- His snarling at Kenzaki is just as scary, but it only makes Kenzaki even more concerned.
- The Trial D Undead chases after Kenzaki like a Terminator. It can't be sealed, can't be tracked and won't stop. Worse, Kenzaki is in pretty bad state already after being steamrolled by Caucasus Undead earlier. Even worse, he is running out of time he has to get Hajime's cards back before he loses control of himself.
- Prof. Hirose has talked Tachibana into aiding Trial D in hunting down Kenzaki, something he does because he believes what he was told - that it's for Kenzaki's own good. Upset and nearly mad with worry, Kenzaki flips him on the ground and runs away.
- Leangle tries to break Hajime's shaky control by just beating him barehanded as he can't really defend himself and can't transform without his cards. When that doesn't work, he continues by transforming and beating Hajime up again. And
*that* breaks him.
- #35: Hajime is horrified when he feels Kenzaki access King form, because he knows what using it means. If his own struggle to maintain control had not stopped him, he would run the absolutely shortest path through any obstacles to stop Kenzaki. And he still tries anyway.
- Royal Straight Flush leaves two singed footprints as the only remnant of Trial D and knocks Shiori out because she was standing too close. Also, the strain of using King Form knocks Kenzaki out pretty much immediately after the fights ends.
- Hajime manages to get the Mantis Undead card back from Leangle, but the creation of the King Form drives Joker into frenzy and the Fighting spirit is not enough to supress it anymore. Kenzaki unwittingly destroyed all of the efforts to approach Hajime and achieve some sort of peace between them.
- Kenzaki is overhelmed by King form and behaves like Joker. It starts with him laughing madly and just savaging Leangle. By the time Hajime arrives, Kenzaki has already devolved into mindless beast that attacks anyone in sight and mauls Hajime and Tachibana too when they get in the way.
- After the Titan Undead stung him, Mutsuki goes berserk with the Spider Undead slowly taking over him, attacking even the people who cared about him such as the other Riders and Nozomi.
- The visual of Tennoji's head on Kerberos II's chest.
- Minutes after Tachibana and Kanai fell of a cliff into the waters, Hajime ended up lsoing control and reverting back into Joker, with a bunch of Darkroachi getting summoned and swarming about.
- This and the next episode having the Darkroachi swarming and maiming people, and no matter the Riders' efforts, there is an abundant number of them, which all only stop when Kenzaki becomes a Joker. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderBlade |
Kamen Rider Ghost / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
The Ghost Driver
*without* the cover.
- Somehow, the Ghost Driver manages to find itself to be creepy. Normally, it looks like a Bedsheet Ghost with a smile. However, beneath the cover◊ is a surprisingly creepy metallic cyclops sporting a Glasgow Grin. To make matters worse, the way the eye is done makes it look like it's following you around the room with or without the bedsheet.
- The Gamma themselves are this. They are invisible to the normal human eye, unless one is holding an Eyecon. Then there's a new problem, they can and WILL hunt anything holding an Eyecon so they can steal it. And as Shinnosuke proved, much like the Phantoms, bullets do not hurt them.
## TV Series
- Even when they are being subtle, the Gamma are a nightmare. While staying invisible, the Denki Gamma was shown to be sabotaging the scientist's teleporter machine by
*blowing inspiration* into his ear to get him to remove a few critical circuits. Did you really have that thought, or was it a Gamma influencing you into futhering their plans?
- All ghosts seem possible of doing this. Sennin proved this in the same episode as he did that same thing to get Onari to leave the room.
- The Gamma plan to create Eyecons by driving people to madness and causing them to turn into ghosts creating the Eyecon in the process.
- The fact the Gamma are capable of Demonic Possession. Hashiba ends up getting tricked into making a Deal with the Devil because ||his trusted secretary was possessed||. People you trust can be taken over by a demonic entity and you wouldn't even know it!
- Specter's final attack using Tutankhamen's form is basically
*forming a portal to hell* or whatever is inside that pyramid and sending the Gamma inside to destroy it utterly.
- Could be the Egyptian Realm of the Dead, given Tutankhamen's early death. Either way,
*yeesh*.
- Makoto has some sort of a relationship with Alain, as the latter calls the former his ||"best friend"||.
- ||Specter, using the Edison Eyecon he stole from Takeru, zaps Ghost out of Rider form and nearly fries one of Takeru's hands. When Akari attempts to stop him from getting Musashi's Eyecon, he aims the now electrically charged Gan Gun Hand at her! Thankfully he doesn't go through with it.||
- Specter himself seems to be becoming in-universe Nightmare Fuel for Takeru. Hard not to see why, since he's essentially robbing him of his only method of survival. Thankfully, this doesn't last long after Takeru regains his resolve.
- The World of Gamma is practically made of this. From what little we see of it, it's a wasteland filled with nothing but sandstorms and floating Gamma Eyecons. ||Makoto and his sister Kanon got sucked into that world 10 years ago. Makoto couldn't have been older than ten years old, and his sister was younger than him. We don't know what happened to them in there yet, but it ended with Makoto becoming Specter, and his sister's soul getting trapped in a Gamma-styled Eyecon.||
- ||Near the start, Saionji orders two Gamma to take over Akari and Onari to get Takeru to give up the Eyecons he has.||
- ||Makoto attempting to use Tutankhamun's finisher on Takeru. If Takeru hadn't used Newton to move cars and block it, he likely would've met the same fate as the Machine Gun Gamma. Or worse.||
- The Gamma have much much more than generic shock troops and Monsters-of-the-Week at their disposal when Jabel unleashes four gigantic snakelike monsters called "Gundaris". They have tons of teeth, way too many eyes, can fly, can be summoned from any of the places that Alain's been laying Gamma Eyes, and give both Riders working together trouble. Thankfully dulled by the fact that Alain chews out Jabel for "wasting" Gundaris, implying that the Gamma have a finite number of them.
- We are treated with the lovely scenery of the Gamma's world: A desert-like area with blood-red sky filled with Gundaris and Gamma Eyecons floating all over the place.
- Planet Gamma hijacks a communication system to suck out a victims soul through their mobile phone.
- If Gundari wasn't destructive enough, try fuse it with a Gamma Superior like ||Jabel|| and you got this. Firing Bigger and Deadlier fireballs? Check. Become more clever thanks to the Gamma Superior controlling it? Check. 1 ton heavier and 1 metre longer than the normal Gundari? Check.
- Oh, and before fusing with ||Jabel||, the Gundari was released from a Gamma Portal to roam around Japan. Worse? It is revealed that the Gundari aren't that different from Gamma, they can turn invisible!
- If Sennin and Yurusen are to be believed, then it reveals that the Gamma World acts like some type of
*||Hell||*
- Necrom's power is possession. For Gamma, and even the souls of the fifteen. The brothers Grimm tried to resist,
*and he literally forced them to submit.* Even your soul is no longer your own.
- The Knife Gamma from is made of this, pumping out Ominous Fog to trap women while singing a cheery little tune to himself and then using his blades to
*cut out their souls*. It's not surprising given he's based off of Jack The Ripper.
- There's a scene where he begins to rapidly slice Onari's face, leaving numerous deep cuts. While it is mostly played for laughs, it goes on
*just* long enough to be unnerving.
- Alain using the Necrom Eyecon to ||brainwash Makoto. Just the way Makoto gets pulled up by the Necrom Parka like a puppet on strings and the fact that he screamed during the transformation makes it hard to watch. The way Alain acts throughout the whole process just makes it worse.||
- ||A conversation that Alain has with Necrom Specter about a location that the latter liked to go to. Alain asks what it is he liked about it, the water, the sky etc. All Necrom Specter does is nod, saying nothing at all. It is very eerie.||
- ||When Makoto is finally freed from the Necrom Eyecon, his eyes look like he hasn't slept in
*days*. Coupled with the fact that the first noise he makes sounds like a continuation of his scream from #17 and it seems like he might have been aware of what Alain was making him do.||
- Alain is seen ||visibly shaking in fear after he was killed by his brother and then forced into his mortal body.||
- Takeru was shocked when learning that ||Gamma were humans who transferred their souls into Eyecons while their body were sealed in coffin-like containers. One of them dies while Takeru tries in vain to save him.||
- ||That Gamma that died for good while Takeru watches? He
*disintegrated into black dust*. Even worse is the fact that Takeru got a random burst of the dead man's memories while it happened.||
- After a long time of being sidelined by the slashing variant of Omega Fang, the portal variant makes a return here when Makoto uses it on Adel. That's not the scary part though. The scary part is the fact that Adel gets sucked inside ||and all it did was slow him down.||
- Takeru's change of attitude is very jarring, and a bit creepy when you see him ||yelling at the people who are on his side.||
-
*The first awakening of the Gammaizers.* Just when Takeru unlocks Grateful Damashii and faces Jabel, one of the monoliths from the Gamma prayer room drops through a portal in the ground, warping into the human world. The monolith immediately enters Jabel's body, while he grunts in pain and exclaims that its power is consuming him. He mutates into a drastically different appearance, with a strange alien deformity on his head, and appears to have his free will erased, simply saying "Target confirmed" in a voice very unlike his own.
- An In-Universe example for Alain. Being mortal is causing him to break down slightly as now that he can die he fears death.
- ||Adel's Assimilation Plot is all about this, with everyone turning into a mindless copy of him.||
- The ||giant Great Eye titan|| tops Demia as the creepiest thing in the series: ||the moment it appears, it begins firing beams that turn humans into souls, and it then sucks in said souls.|| This happens to ||thousands of people,
*including Cubi, Onpu Gamma, and Jabel.*||
- What makes this worse is that ||Takeru's discussion with Freya after the final battle implies that
*all those people had *, and Takeru's wish was what restored them.|| This means that the thing basically ||caused a massive massacre.|| **died**
## Movies
- Whatever the heck Da Vinci did to the young Akari.
- Danton, in an attempt to heal himself, absorbs a family to regenerate a new arm. Of course, the family were never seen again after that. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderGhost |
Reborn! (2004) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# WARNING: Per wiki policy, Spoilers Off applies to Funny Moments pages. All spoilers will be unmarked.
Remember, no matter how silly they look like,
*these people are The Mafia* and the worst part? *They can use magic.*
## Daily Life & Kokuyo arcs
- The usage of the Dying Will Bullet. The anime is kind enough to allow the effect of the bullet to hit Tsuna with no visible wound; the manga on the other hand shows that Tsuna is shot, visible wound and blood included, and it is a bullet so if the effect didn't work...
- Mukuro's constant grin. As well as his Evil Eye and his "ku fu fu..." Also, the Path of Humans.
- The shot of Mukuro smiling even after stabbing his own eye out.
- How about the way Mukuro defeated Mammon? He did so by turning into a suspiciously tentacle-like black mass, forcing himself into
~~ her~~ his mouth, and making him explode. All while he screams for mercy.
- Lussuria's implied necrophiliac tendencies. In his own words, his favorite bodies are the "cold, slowly decomposing, unmoving ones".
- Chrome's abusive parents. She also suffers from Blood from the Mouth whenever her illusionary organs give out. Immensely freakier in the manga where they actually show her coughing up quite a bit of blood.
## Future arc
- Byakuran trying to
*strangle* Tsuna while smiling. And then doing the Neck Snap on him. This is toned down in the anime. Instead of the neck, Byakuran was either trying to snap his spine or crush all the bones in his body. Sounds less scary, until you count how many bones *AND* organs he probably broke this time.
- Tsuna vaporizing Byakuran with his X-Burner because he was angry as a result of Gamma and Yuni's Heroic Sacrifice. There's also the expression on his face as he tells Byakuran that he won't forgive him and Bykauran losing his cool following Gamma and Yuni's Heroic Sacrifice.
## Vongola X Inheritance Ceremony arc
- In Chapter 329, Daemon Spade orders Enma to "Take Sawada's skull and crush it like glass." And then he laughs maniacally...
## The Curse of the Rainbow arc
- Mukuro's new illusion from Chapter 381. Corpse eating crows. Which he proceeds to use on the Vindice. He was gonna use it on Tsuna to defeat him.
- We get to see what the Vindice look like without their hats and cloaks. It is ''not'' pretty.
- Chapter 401. We finally see Bermuda's true form; it's a child-sized man with black steam coming out of tubes in his arms and a face that is set somewhere in the Uncanny Valley of lizard-man with big eyes. Later, we see Bermuda right as he created the Flame of the Night. His face is decaying and he looks like he's begging someone to kill him. The Vindice is bad enough already, but their bodies stopped that process and obscured by bandages.
- The Vindice are former Arcoblenos. Meaning Reborn and company are either going to die or be living corpses who can't even move without someone else giving them flame energy. To make it worse, if Tsuna hadn't interfered that would have eventually happened to him and the other Vongola guardians since they "won" the contest. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KatekyoHitmanReborn |
Kamen Rider Saber / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Whatever The Corruption
did to him, that's definitely
*not*
good news...
## Series
- Not that brutal or nightmarish, but the show's Downer Beginning. It starts with the city in ruins thanks to the Megid. A young Touma is trying to keep Luna from being sucked in, but unfortunately doesn't have the strength to hold on. With no other options left, Daichi performs a Heroic Sacrifice by plunging his sword into the ground, engulfing the Megid and himself in flames. The city is back to normal... but with Daichi nowhere to be found, only leaving behind the
*Brave Dragon* Wonder Ride Book in Touma's hand.
- Just the sheer fact that the Hanzaki Megid was trying to feed all of his captives trapped in bubbles, including Mei and Sora, to his "king".
- Just getting to Avalon is nightmarish. After entering the void, one gets sucked into a pure acid trip, where everything is continually distorted until you somehow manage to get there. Afterwards, it's just pure desert, where only a door can be found. Then there's the actual Avalon...which is nothing but a pure white void where only one person resides, spewing vague sayings before they transport you into somewhere entirely different.
- Mei getting ambushed by Storious is pretty bad already, but then he tries to feed her to Zooous. Imagine if Rintaro didn't arrive in time to save her. Yikes.
- Kento went absolutely nuts after the events of #10 and went down the path of Roaring Rampage of Revenge. He even thinks that Sophia and Calibur are conspiring against him when he sees them together.
- Somehow, the transformation jingle for Jaou Dragon manages to be both terrifying and cool all at once. Sweet merciful lord, the sheer guttural
*screaming* at the beginning! Not helping matters is this being followed by Calibur utterly brutalizing Kento.
- Rintaro rushes in to save Kento and is struck down by Calibur, instantly knocking him out of transformation. He spits out blood and writhes in pain as anguished Kento holds him.
- Ogami is still in disbelief over the reveal of Calibur's real identity as Daichi Kamijo.
- In Toku, things usually work with Contrived Coincidences and timing to pull off Big Damn Heroes moments. Well, not now. Touma arrives too late to stop Kento from going down in a fight against Calibur and falls into a similar Heroic BSoD that led to said fight.
- Touma managed to defeat Calibur for good and so everything should be fine and dandy, right? Nope, Sword of Darkness has stolen Kento from the group and appears to have trapped him inside itself. Probably. The whole situation is unclear with Kento being tortured by
*something* before he completely disappears in dark clouds. Everyone watches in helpless horror.
- And Chapter 26 reveals it might not even be that he was tortured post-mortem. He saw things he didn't want to see, shouldn't have seen, and could do nothing to avert his eyes.
- And in Sword of Logos Saga it is revealed that Kamijo never intended to kill Kento, he sealed him away into
*Kurayami* to protect him. So once again begs the question: Just what did he see in there?!
- Elaborating on the above note about Big Damn Heroes moments, nothing that Touma has, not even a shiny new upgrade, gave him a chance to save Kento.
- Desast literally backstabbing Daichi to death just to finally attain his freedom.
- It's revealed that while Touma was busy saving Yuki and Shingo, that the Megid had successfully transformed a number of victims into Alter Ride Books. And judging by the giant stack seen at the Megid's base, it easily reached what could be double digits.
- The Charybdis Megid, whose screaming sounds like a distortion of a baby's crying and has a voracious stomach mouth.
- We get to see
*Primitive Dragon*, another Berserker form for the Kamen Rider series. But unlike the recent sociopathic and emotionless like forms of Build Hazard and Metal Cluster Hopper, Primitive harkens back to FangJoker and PuToTyra, a bloodlust filled beast with nothing but primitive instincts guiding it.
- The previous elements are not lost however, as Touma, after screaming his lungs out in pain from the power of the book, suddenly goes completely silent, limp, and unnaturally calm, as if it possessed him. His movements become stilted and alien compared to his usual demeanor. To make it worse, his jagged neck movements are accompanied by the sounds of bones cracking or rather it continues the homage to PuToTyra since unlike the manmade monstrosity of the Hazard Trigger or Metal Cluster Hopper Progrise Key, the book has its own will and takes control of the user's body before transformation just like what the purple Core Medals did to Eiji Hino.
- Legeiel is nonchalant and eerily calm through the episode, but when he arrives at the battlefield just in time to see the forbidden book fall into Touma's hands and starts hamming it up Kuroto-style, it becomes apparent that something definitely worked itself loose in his head. Nothing can stop him from fighting Touma, not even seeing Primitive Dragon maul Storious or the other Megid telling him to get his ass out of here while he still can.
- Legeiel looks like he met the business end of paper shredder after getting hit with the full force of
*Primitive Dragon*'s finisher. Bruised, dirty, his clothes have whole chunks missing and he just gives the other two a silent, exhausted look after shambling into the room. Worse, after Zooous insults him, whatever was loose in his head *snaps*.
- Reika's manipulation of Rintaro gets even more cultish vibes.
- Legeiel's rampage through the city shows him as a screaming, raving mess randomly slashing at whatever is around him.
- Touma has a nightmare about murdering all the other swordsmen as
*Primitive Dragon* and creeping towards injured Mei.
- His mind is usually trapped inside of the forbidden book when used by
*Primitive Dragon* and he is not actually aware of anything going on around him, but that doesn't apply here. He is struggling to regain control of his body, but it continues to move on its own.
- Mei doesn't move or even look as Primitive Dragon approaches, just keeps on staring off into the space while clutching at her injured arm and quietly asking Touma how could he do that.
-
*Primitive Dragon* was about to run Rintaro through and through before Calibur appeared between them.
- The moment when you realize all the times Kento saw his friends, his family and everything he knew die, over and over again for however long passed between this episode and the episode he got sealed within
*Kurayami*. It's a wonder he came back stoic and emotionless instead of a screaming, deranged mess.
- It is heavily implied that the Dragon of the Beginning was just a child when he saw all other dragons dead and went all alone in search of any of his friends, and died in loneliness, only asking
*"Where'd everyone go?"*
-
**Kamen Rider Durendal**, AKA, the second coming of Kamen Rider Odin. To elaborate:
- He can manipulate time, allowing him to easily dodge attacks and blindside his opponents. Something he ruthlessly exploits against Rintaro in his first fight. If someone has watched Golden Wind, then they should know what it is.
- His Sacred Sword,
*Kaiji*, is constantly getting sharper with every use of his powers, meaning he can only get more deadly.
- He is ruthless, attacking Touma from behind after he makes a book gate using his powers, badly injuring him. If it wasn't for Yuri intervening and Rintaro using Elemental Dragon, it might have been lights out for our protagonist.
- He is loyal to Master Logos to a fault, as a twisted counterpart of Rintaro's loyalty to the spirit of the organization.
- All of this combined creates an antagonist who can't be bargained with, cannot be reasoned with, and cannot be stopped. Yuri only manages to draw against him,
*Primitive Elemental Dragon* can't overcome his defenses, and Rintaro only fights him off long enough for them to escape in the end using *Elemental Dragon* to boost his power for a bit. And he is only going to get stronger.
- Isaac. Just, Isaac. (AKA Master Logos.) To elaborate:
- We're talking someone with as big an ego as Kuroto, but none of the sheer talent- instead, he's able to play
*everyone* like pawns.
- His laugh. Dear God, his laugh. It's like he's gone batshit insane.
- He's able to put on a mask of sanity that holds up enough that Reika and Ryoga Shindai actually believe him when he says that he's going to use the Book of All for good.
-
*HE ALMOST WINS RIGHT THEN AND THERE*. Most of the Seiken are completely sealed thanks to Kento, meaning that Touma is the only one who can resist, and were it not for him saving Luna right when it counted most, Isaac would have achieved the power of a god. As it is, he still gained *Caladbolg* and the *Omniforce* Wonder Ride Book, meaning that he's becoming a Rider. Holy crap.
- Solomon Zone is nightmare fuel on a literal apocalyptic level. Just using the attack on one of the books he summoned in the last episode causes an energy sphere to wipe out an entire city!
- Storious, completely apathetic to Tassel's tearful begging, stabs the man, takes his book piece and leaves him for dead. Without its guardian, Wonder World starts decaying and overrunning the real world.
- Not completely. As Tassel makes his plea and reminisce Storious of his friends, the Megid's tone shifts from the menacing one to a casual and nostalgic one, before stabbing his old friend and then realizing what he just did. He seems genuinely shocked at not only having had the guts to kill his old friend, but his old friend hugging him one last time.
- The walls of Storious' hideout are covered in thousands of screaming human-turned-Alter ride books.
- Charybdis ate them, the book pieces of Wonder World's original chosen and the extra Sophia-lookalike right in front of Touma, Reika and Ryoga, who actually has to restrain Touma to stop him from running in and getting swallowed himself.
- Storious is closer to his desired ending again after absorbing Charybdis and creating a near perfect recreation of the Book of Ancients.
- Storious finally makes use of his
*Grimoire* Wonder Ride Book he made in the last chapter. With that book in hand, he uses its power to revive the deceased Four Sages into his own soldiers. These new henchmen of his easily mop the floor with the swordsmen confronting the sinister Megid.
- The moment when Storious transforms into Kamen Rider Storious. The result is a transformation with a shadowy black goop engulfing him to form his Rider Suit. Storious then sprouts two pairs of wings which form his cape and the armour sports a horrifying black, red, gold and green design with the face being an open book. The transformation announcement when Storious transforms even oozes with terror... and it includes the hellish Voice of the Legion...
- After Storious transforms, his voice doesn't help at all... he sounds like a royally ENRAGED serial killer ready to raise hell to his victims.
- Storious's first finisher sees Storious launching a ball of energy towards Touma, who tries to stop it with manifestations of the Seikens forming a shield. The defence fails and the ball of destruction lands on top of him,
*levelling an entire city block as well*.
- Another scary part is that Storious' Kamen Rider form still has his horns from his Megid form, implying he's a Megid/Kamen Rider hybrid.
## Movies
- Bahato's plan to "return all to the void". He uses the Book of Ruin to destroy both Wonder World and the real world. The result? A mass of black holes in both worlds sucking up
*everything*.
- Bahato himself is terror personified. As if his plan isn't nefarious and horrifying enough, he's the Phoenix Swordsman who possesses great fighting skills enough to give Touma/Saber a run for his money. Oh, and he's a remorseless, Laughing Mad, nihilistic guy, with the movie showing him nefariously and insanely ranting about humanity's cycle of betrayal and failure to progress onwards.
- Bahato also possesses the
*Eternal Phoenix* Wonder Ride Book housing the titular beast itself. The Phoenix is stated to be immortal, and its special abilities passes on to this crazy swordsman. As such, **he can never die** no matter how many times he's struck down.
- Being a V-Cinema, it should come to as no surprise that it's much Darker and Edgier compared to the TV series, but the full trailer proper shows how things are going to get real nightmarish fast. If the swordsmen Saikou, Ren, Ryoga, Sophia and Tetsuo suddenly disappearing didn't hint it, then the part where Rintaro is suddenly
*sent right in the middle of zombified victims* (heavily implied to be the people killed in the events of the main series) will hammer that point home.
- The
*Amazing Siren* Wonder Ride Book allows the user to open one's memories like a book and then proceed to pluck out a page of it, erasing a part of the person's memory with it. And how does they use that effectively? They tear out the memories people have of the swordsmen, effectively erasing them from reality.
- It also goes beyond that: the book can split itself and alter memories of other people and its users. So there are three copies of these used by three different people.
- It doesn't just have the ability to erase memories. It also has the ability to induce horrific hallucinations to people. See the aforementioned thing? That's Rintaro being the victim of one of these. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderSaber |
Kevin Can F**k Himself / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
*Kevin Can F**k Himself* is full of pretty disturbing imagery in its aim of deconstructing the typical sitcom.
- The distorted canned laughter that accompanies the title card can sometimes get downright unnerving.
- There's something unsettling about how Kevin causes a Genre Shift every time he walks into a room, making bright colors and laugh tracks replace the muted, realistic feel of the show proper. It's like he's some kind of Reality Warper, turning everyone into his puppets just by existing.
- Allison's first Imagine Spot of killing Kevin is rather sudden and jarring, as she sees herself spin around and repeatedly stab him with a broken beer stein handle before coming back to reality.
- The last moments of "Fixed". Neil confronts Allison in the kitchen after overhearing her and Patty's conversation about the murder plot. His demeanor becomes more subdued and serious than anything we've seen from him before, and he takes his phone out to tell Kevin. As Allison is trying to grab it from him, he
*slams her onto the counter and starts to throttle her*, forcing Patty to whack him over the head with a beer bottle. All of this happens while the show is still in the "sitcom" reality, making for a seriously unsettling bit of Mood Dissonance.
- This is followed up in Season 2, where Neil is forced to reckon with Kevin's abusive behavior, and it Does Not Compute. This causes Neil to perpetually be teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown, which exacerbates his alcoholism and causes him to become violent.
- Following Nick being put into a coma, Allison starts being haunted by hallucinations of him.
- Diane tries to escape her abusive husband, Chuck, by fleeing to North Carolina, but Chuck tracks her down and "reminded her what she was missing". Yes, Diane is basically living the plot of
*Sleeping with the Enemy*, and Kevin laughs at her for it.
- Kevin takes offense when hes supplanted as the local celebrity by a horse, so he gets the reporter who wrote the Op-Ed fired
*and* places the decapitated head of a horse plush and a bunch of fake blood on her broken windshield. This is a reminder about how even being in Kevin's orbit can bring someone's whole world crashing down without warning.
- There's something bizarrely unsettling about Pete finally drawing the line with his son, with him haltingly and uncertainly finding the words for "we're offended and we think you should apologize". It's as if it's something he's
*literally* never asked Kevin to do before and he doesn't know how to. It's played for laughs in the sitcom, but in the real world, it's a surprisingly chilling sign of just how much Kevin gets away with things.
- In the Grand Finale, we finally get to see Kevin without the sitcom filter and it's not pretty. When Allison tells him she hasn't loved him in years and wants to divorce him, the playful goofball mask drops completely and he becomes aggressive, controlling, and downright violent, starting out with his usual attempts at gaslighting and manipulation before
*lunging* at Allison and telling her he'll "fucking destroy [her]", even punching the wall behind Allison to intimidate her. The next scene is set to sinister music, with him calling up every one of his former acquaintances and giving them increasingly angry and hateful verbally abusive voicemails before literally burning down his house in a drunken, incoherent (and, ultimately, fatal) act of rage. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KevinCanFuckHimself |
Kevin Spencer / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Anastasia slowly going insane from Kevin and Percy not picking up the phone in "Demolition Derby", culminating with her wrecking the entire house with a chainsaw. The episode ends with Anastasia chasing Percy around the wreckage with the chainsaw as they both scream, while jaunty music plays. **Anastasia**: **GET THE PHONE!** | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KevinSpencer |
Keys to the Kingdom / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Skinless Boy.
- The worms under the Incomparable Gardens are pretty bad.
- The two clockwork figurines that rip out their prisoner's eyes. And they have no qualm about going out and getting a different pair if they can't find the one they want. It used to be vultures that went for the liver.
- ||The Architect. That's right everyone, your god's master plan is to kill you all, and the only things preventing her from doing it are a bunch of selfish, immoral jerkasses who don't care that you exist.||
- Most Nithlings are quite horrifying in their own right, but special mention goes to that bizarre cricket
*thing* in Grim Tuesday as well as ||the massive hordes Leaf has to fight off as the temporary Lieutenant Keeper.||
- Drowned Wednesday's first meeting with Arthur. The entire affair is just so gruesomely described for a children's book that it adds an extra layer of disgust to the sheer horror of the basic imagery.
- Superior Saturday's punishment for criminals in the Upper House, where you're ||turned inside out and contained within a bag of your own crystalised blood, which a Denizen has to live as for months before dying|| | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KeysToTheKingdom |
Kamen Rider Zi-O / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**THE END IS NIGH.** **Moment Subpages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.**
- The Another Riders.
- They are your favorite Riders of any year, twisted into horrific, grotesque knockoffs of their former selves. One of the enemy generals gives people a genuine choice if they wish to become an Another Rider or not. The other?
*He just turns you without your consent*. Its later revealed that even if the offer is turned down, the Time Jackers will force the Another Watch on them anyways. The only reason they bother with the choice is because forcing it is more likely to create a mindless monster.
- The people who became Another Riders are average people who get to live the dream so many of us have. To be given the power of a Rider. However they prove unable to contain it, and become a twisted monster version instead. The dream becoming a nightmare. Now imagine if this happened to you. Not to mention how they're recruited (or at least, how
*one* of the generals recruits you, if they have different methods.) Imagine you're facing *certain death,* such as a car speeding towards you, Too Fast to Stop. Then everything stops, and you're given An Offer You Can't Refuse by the perfectly-human-looking figure who hit the pause button: history says you died right now, but you'll be saved if only you accept the contract. You're given no details beyond that: it's either take the strange watch-thing being handed to you or you've got about half a second of life left. So you do. Then you're told you're going to be a Rider! Then... yeah.
- What's stopping any of them from coming back? These are human beings not kaiju that can be killed off. So what's stopping any of them from going after Sougo? Or trying to get their powers back? Most of the time, it's the person's own morality. Some of these people are genuinely horrified by what they did as Another Riders. Others however, are genuinely evil bastards and when push to shove. Will the police do something? Or will the riders be forced to kill?
- Oma Zi-O, the future Zi-O, is really quite terrifying.
- From the description alone, he is said to be so powerful that no-one in the future is able to defeat him and he easily crushed any resistance against him. Considering that Zi-O is a rider who can use the power of past Riders, this means that Oma Zi-O probably has full control over said powers. Just imagine how powerful that would make him. No wonder he's called the "Demon King".
- The Bad Future that Zi-O rules. Not only does it utterly terrify the current Zi-O to the point of actively doing everything he can to prevent it, but Geiz, the secondary Rider this season, was sent back in time to
**kill** our hero before he has the chance to become the demon king *just in case*. Only through the intervention of the girl from the future suggesting that they might be able to prevent the timeline through peaceful methods as well as seeing Zi-O's resolve convinces Geiz to not act.....for the moment at least.
- As the series continues, we see Sougo gain more and more time powers with some of his powers making him a full on Reality Warper. The saving grace is Sougo both doesn't have full control of these powers yet and he's too good natured to truly abuse them... for the moment. But Oma Zi-O lacks both of these restraints having had 50 years of practice with these powers as well as being deranged enough to abuse them to their full extent.
## Series
- We get a glimpse of the Bad Future that Oma Zi-O rules and how powerful he is. Hes able to kill people just by waving his hand, easily destroys an army of Time Mazines and even disintegrating humans without a breaking sweat. No wonder he's able to rule the future without anyone to truly challenge him.
- Also, after Another Build is defeated, he returns to normal. The same
*cannot* be said for the people who he had absorbed into Smash Fullbottles while in his corrupted state, who do not reappear. It's still just episode one so we can't be sure we won't see them restored next week, or even that all Another Riders have the same MO, but from the looks of it, Another Riders are driven to transform people into more of their Transformation Trinkets to increase their powers, and they can do so *with a gesture,* and there is *no saving* these victims.
- What is going to happen to the basketball player after he is truly rescued? Will they just let him lives his life after literally losing a year of his life and causing him to live with the guilt that he had done or will they dump him back in his time and let him get run over by that car? The main characters seemed to want to avoid causing changes to the timeline unless it is necessary to their goals. It will be kind of horrifying and sad that the basketball player gets rescued from being Another Rider Build only to die from the fate he wanted to avoid the first place. Episode 2 defuses this by showing that he simply returned to the past in the position he was in when Heure froze time, complete with the car being displaced from where it was originally.
- Poor Sougo being attacked by Geiz before he knew the truth. Imagine being attacked by some random guy for doing something you hadn't done in the past but something you would do in the future that you hadn't even done yet!
- Sougo's first reaction to becoming an Evil Overlord of a Bad Future he caused is happiness, because he managed to achieve his dream while only being
*bummed* that he's an evil king. This really makes you wonder if something is wrong with him.
- Another Build's face is a bit too terrifyingly expressive as it turns people into Full Bottles.
- We get a
*really* nice look into the true horror that Another Riders provide for us. They're basically immortal unless killed in their original time by using the Ride Watches of their namesake Riders. Every time Another Build is blown up, yet *another* Build will walk in from off-screen like a demented *Animaniacs* parody.
- Yet another horror they bring is the fact that the longer they exist, the more they take the place of the Rider whose powers they have. As far as the timeline is concerned, the monstrosity that is Another Build actually is Kamen Rider Build and not Sento! Even worse, Sento himself is erased out of existence - the man that has Sato Taro's face is called as, and refer himself as, Takumi Katsuragi.
- The main characters come face to face with their first Time Jacker, Heure. He proves his credentials by
*pausing time* for everyone except himself, Sougo, and Geiz. He then pouts and asks what the heroes are doing as if they were simply interrupting his television show, rather than saving the timeline. And when Sougo gives him a philosophical take on why he was wrong for turning the basketball player into Another Build, he acts as if someone beat him in a 'which Transformer is cooler' argument and then skips away in a manner too reminiscent of Gremlin.
- Another Build straight up ATE the bottles he's holding, that are actually living people turned into essence. When he's defeated, he's turned back into a normal human, but once again we saw nothing about the two other people he absorbed.
- Ora talks with Heure about their plan to rewrite time as if it were some sort of game and now it's her turn to play. And then we move to 2016, where Ora is telling a man that his sick son is going to die unless he becomes Another Ex-Aid.
- Whenever somebody reaches a certain point in the game rumored to be unbeatable, the screen flashes a bright pink. For a second, theyre dazed but then they look up... and see the monstrous Another Ex-Aid standing in front of them.
- Another Ex-Aid, just like Another Build and Sento, is a twisted mockery of Emu. Instead of curing diseases, Another Ex-Aid afflicts whoever plays the unbeatable game to a certain point with a disease that leaves them in a coma while doctors have no idea how to treat them.
- Another Fourze absorbs a girl into a Astro Switch and reacts as if he's just had his drug fix after a long time.
- Another Fourze is defeated so everything is going to be okay, right? Wrong. Another Fourze just sheds his Fourze suit, revealing him to be Another Faiz!
- The modus operandi of Sakuma AKA Another Fourze/Another Faiz as well as the reasons behind his transformation are quite disturbing. After his friend, Karin Yamabuki, was killed in an accident (in fact, her corpse is shown on-screen during her wake), Sakuma became an Another Rider in order to revive her by draining the life force of other women. He's been doing this since 2003 and a brief montage of all the women he'd killed for Karin really drives home how prolific a body count he'd amassed. Then there is when he got the AnotherWatch, it cuts to Faiz's fight with the Elephant Orphnoch. Specifically, when Faiz is about to use Crimsion Smash as the Elephant Orphnoch is charging towards Mari to crush in a wreck car. Then Takami suddenly loses his Faiz powers...
- While a joke at first, Another Wizard, when thoroughly pissed off, shows how dangerous Harutos magic would be in the wrong hands.
- Time Jackers have always used their Time Stands Still ability to evade notice from anyone outside their target, but Swartz shows what they could really be capable of if they only tried, by
*pushing Geiz over the edge of a building when he's frozen yet conscious of whats about to happen.*
- In a rather huge case of Poor Communication Kills, Hayase could not confess his feelings to Kaori at first and just
*assumed* helping her keep her late father's theater running would make her happy. Kaori however, had just been proposed to by their co-worker Nagayama then, but it took her **6 whole years** to gain the resolve to shut down the theater and accept him, all while Hayase was kept out of the loop. Needless to say, he went mad from *thinking he had been exploited* for those 6 years after he found out. Worse still, as he haunts Kaori for revenge, he *still* does not explain himself, only yelling at her " **Why don't you understand my feelings!?**" As terrified as she is, Kaori really could not have understood what had she done to deserve this.
- We get to see the full extent of Sougo's cunning and manipulation, being able to use Geiz and even
*Woz, of all people,* as unwitting pawns to achieve a satisfactory conclusion for Another Wizard's case. Geiz takes this as a hint that Sougo might just actually become Oma Zi-O in the future.
- How about the fact that the Time Jackers are now going to choose people who are determined as Another Riders, because Zi-O rose through power by believing in his right to become king. The Another Riders up till now were all desperate or emotionally weak people and as shown with Kuroto Dan as Another OOO, it's clear now that the Another Riders we are going to see next are going to be more dangerous, because they are doing it out of their own will!
-
*Kuroto*, of all people, is Another OOO. Heure has picked the memetic madman]] and is little too excited to find out about the whole *insane* part. Let that sink in for a moment. He easily kills his father in 2016 to usurp his position and power. Said father was **Masamune Dan**, the true *Big Bad* in the original Ex-Aid timeline, now retconned to a defenseless CEO who gets offed by his son after *he* became the monster. Also considering how Kuroto picks up his father, it's highly implied he killed him by snapping his neck.
- Likewise, Sougo is little too excited to become Kuroto's apprentice.
- If #8 didn't convince you Sougo can be Oma Zi-O, the obvious lack of effort on his part as he dispatches Geiz attempts to attack should be enough. Every blow is nonchalantly dodged. A single kick connected ... and turned the Ziku Driver, completing Sougo's transformation. The following fight left Geiz down for the count and walked/dragged away by Tsukuyomi.
- It turns out Kuroto Dan's primary motivations as Another OOO stemmed from his father, who was just as ruthless and power-obssessed as he is. Once obtaining power as Another OOO he goes on to eventually kill Masamune out of spite 6 years later for all the stress and Parental Neglect placed onto him as his son, ursurping his power and falling down the same power-hungry route his father has gone as a result. The evil truly runs in the family.
- This also hints at exactly how much the original Rider storylines were necessary to the world. Without the Bugster Virus Kuroto wouldn't have been able to preserve his mother, who was his Living Emotional Crutch. With her dead and him unable to revive at least her memories as a Bugster, He wound up becoming
*worse* than his main timeline counterpart.
- Asura/Another Gaim traps members of Team Baron who don't agree with him in Helheim Forest which is pretty much a guaranteed death. And as for those who last, like Kaito? He survived five years in that place and hasn't become an Inves or eaten a Helheim Fruit. Which raises the question of what he could've been living on.
- In the Cold Open when Sougo defeats Another Gaim, Kouta uses his powers to take Sougo to a hidden dimension of some sort before tossing him back in time. It's a weird Eldritch Location which reminds us that Kouta is a
*Physical God* of an *Eldritch Location*. Brr.
- The scene with the clock mask dancers is a lesser version of this trope, instead going for an Uncanny Valley approach. The way that the dancers move, the way they completely ignore the three oddly dressed individuals around them even when time resumes, and even their Dissonant Serenity all can send a shiver down your spine if you focus a bit too much on them. Bonus points for the eerie atmosphere generated by the Time Jackers trying to make Geiz perform a Deal with the Devil.
- Based on the episode description, Geiz is now fully determined to get rid of Sougo no matter what. And Sougo dies during the episode, based on the trailer. ...make of that what you will, but the implications are quite scary.
- Takeru was always sorta Creepy Good appearance wise. Another Ghost, meanwhile, ditches the good and dials the creepy up to eleven.
- The fact that Woz has decided to ally with the Time Jackers to manipulate Sougo into becoming the Demon King. And the fact that his main plan do so is to have them call in Kamen Rider Decade.
- While not as bad as most examples in this episode, Tsukasa Kadoya is a more subtle example. It's obvious that he's mastered the powers of the Riders he's already acquired, dominating both fights he's involved in as both Agito and Hibiki. The fact that he's adopted a baritone helps set this apart from his past Face-Heel Turns.
- The series has been building up to this moment where Sougo finally meets his future self. Him not taking it well would be an understatement.
- Oma Zi-O's Curb-Stomp Battle on Zi-O is where Past! Sougo was brought down to his knees. What worsens the situation is that Oma Zi-O accesses the powers of his predecessors by simply activating the Ridewatches. Right after he did, he unleashes bigger and badder versions of attacks Zi-O uses.
- Oma Zi-O has control over Ryuki's contract monster, Dragreder. This is especially horrifying for fans who watched Ryuki since they know how terrifying a threat a Mirror Monster is since not only can Dragreder appear in places with reflective surfaces which is basically
**everywhere**, but Mirror Monsters also need to be fed by the energies of other Mirror Monsters or *people*. Oma Zi-O can pretty much just summon Dragreder and order him to appear in front of someone who could be a threat to his rule and kill the person without anyone knowing what happened since there is not even a body left for someone to find.
- The concept of
*Oma Day*. The day where Sougo supposedly finally rises to power, and as a result, *every* Rider before him just disappear, leaving him the last one. The mere thought of it is terrifying - one day, someone rises to power to become the most iron-fisted ruler of all, capable of causing wanton destruction with *the wave of a hand*. And all of a sudden, the heroes bent on protecting humanity... just *gone*.
- Through the entire episode, Woz doesn't crack a single smirk, while Another Woz is enjoying his control of future more than he should. For Woz, the guy who can smirk in the darkest hours, who clumsily slips the future in the episode intro, who has the answer to nearly anything, to be this concerned, things are about to get much worse.
- Once written down, the future Another Woz makes cannot be changed unless Another Woz wills it. If he writes "You will get into a car accident", it will happen and your attempts at stopping it will fail. Heure continuously stopped time only for time to restart again and when he moved out of the way, the car coming for him simply teleported. The fact that Another Woz did this to a child makes it all the more terrifying. To further add to the terror, Another Woz was about to write Zi-O's defeat by his hands, if their Woz didn't make it in time to stop him, nothing would have.
- Another Shinobi. Imagine a monster that can hide in the shadows and kill you when you least expect it in the most unpredictable ways, and you have Another Shinobi. He also serves as yet another example that the corruption by Anotherwatches is absolute. Rentaro is shown as a caring person who wants to be a hero. As Another Shinobi, he is a monster that murders people from the shadows.
- The existence of Another Woz is a major sign of worry for three of our main characters:
- Sougo - While this means a better future is possible, it comes at the cost of his death by Geiz's hands. Also due to the fateful Oma's Day where this happens being set in 2019, it implies he has less than a year left to live should Another Woz's timeline come true.
- Geiz - The inverse is also true for Geiz, who at this point wants to stop Oma's Day
*without* having to take Sougo's life, if possible. Unfortunately for him, Sougo *will die by his hands*, according to Another Woz's history. Also he is visually uncomfortable with being heralded as a savior/messiah for having "done" so.
- Woz - Not only is there a risk of Sougo not rising to power as he had hoped for, but having an Alternate Self puts his
*entire existence* at risk as he would be completely wiped away from history and replaced by Another Woz should the new timeline come true.
- Rentaro questions what he's doing as Another Shinobi, killing bullies and thugs, and wonders if he's really protecting the weak. Even with the Another Watch's corruption, Rentaro is conscious enough to realize that what he's doing isn't what he wanted at all. But he can't stop himself. He's no longer in control of himself as long as he's Another Shinobi, only getting a few moments of reprieve whenever Zi-O defeats him.
- Heure sounds about ready to freak out when he sees Woz, only to calm down when he realizes it's the original Woz. Another Woz traumatized Heure, a child, to the point he sounds scared upon seeing Woz's face.
- Woz's concern is not unjustified, and is doubled when Sougo suddenly feels tempted to look for Another Shinobi, he knows it must be a trap and voices his concern. It's not just that his beloved overlord is threatened, but he is clearly afraid of the future that these actions will create.
- White Woz takes another step towards being a Nightmare: He forcibly takes Mondo's Quiz power to make the Miridewatch and defeat Another Quiz. Thankfully he retains his power, if the belt and pendant are hints of that.
- And then it's Geiz's time to be creepy by having a vision of his future as Geiz Revive, which makes him look quite ominous, and walks away like he had his strength drained. He doesn't come back to 9' 5' Do either.
- The opening scene shows Heure making a contract with Dark Shinji. The mirror sound
note : The knife-on-glass noise accompanying mirror monsters makes it even more eerie.
- Breaking a contract in
*Ryuki* means being eaten a mirror monster. One would wonder if it can happen to Another Ryuga or Heure.
- Sougo has a mirror version of himself:
- Said mirror version is also played by So Okuno, per usual when it comes to mirror selves. He pulls off possibly one of the most menacing faces in the entire franchise.
- The announcement of his Ziku Driver is not just vaguely menacing, it's positively demonic. He tries to murder Sougo right after transforming and if he succeeded, no-one would know about that but him.
- We all know this is not going to happen and not everything from
*Ryuki* is enforced, but still Sougo's chances in the Mirror World are just as well as snowball's chances in hell. There are mirror monsters, a time limit after which anyone from the real world dissolves and one can only exit the way they entered and if they have a Card Deck, (probably) the Ryuki Rider watch or hold onto Another Ryuga, which is how Sougo got in.
- When going to Shinji's place, every single reflective surface in the room has been covered, every window shut, and not even a single beam of light is able to pass through. Shinji has grown this paranoid of Dark Shinji, and not without reason. When he wakes up in hospital, he immediately bolts to cover the window and screams at seeing his reflection in mirror. This all causes him to run away from the room, but then it gets even worse, as he encouters White Woz, who throws him down the stairs and tries to murder him.
- Another Ryuga itself is a living nightmare. You cannot make a Ryuga Ridewatch to defeat him since Ryuga is from a different world altogether instead of a different time, he can reflect all your attacks due to his mirror-based power, and he emerge from
*any* reflective surface, which are practically everywhere even inside Sougo's house. And oh, the host is none other than the real Ryuga himself who is a full on villain, so unlike say Shinobi, you can't even try to expect any form of cooperation to somehow create the Ridewatch.
- White Woz would straight up
*murder* Shinji Kido, a defenseless civilian in this timeline, to get rid of Another Ryuga if Geiz didn't stop him.
- So Okuno manages to pull off a perfect "Dark Sougo", giving one of the most evil smiles in the episode, exceeding his performance in the previous episode.
- Mirror Sougo looming from every reflection. Let's remember how many reflective surfaces are in 9' 5' Do.◊ He tortures Sougo by mocking all his decisions and beliefs. It looks like Sougo is just barely holding his marbles together all the while.
- Sougo suffers a case of Power Incontinence that applies to his
*social* skills rather than his superpowers, accidentally convincing Geiz to use a suicide attack to beat Another Ryuga. Mirror Sougo accuses this of being no accident: deep down inside Sougo knows Geiz is just in his way and wants to use the situation to either be rid of him once and for all or to gain the power of Oma Zi-O that he craves.
- Geiz, having been convinced by Sougo to try the suicide attack,
*actually goes through with it*, and it's implied to be at least partially a case of being Driven to Suicide by the guilt over how he'd actually seriously considered White Woz's suggestion of murdering Shinji to get rid of Another Ryuga.
- Sougo's nigh-emotionless response to seeing Geiz dead in Tsukuyomi's arms is rather unsettling, especially after the whole 'accepting his darker side' thing and the fact that one might expect the usual Sougo to be frantic and distressed at the sight of a friend's corpse. It's a particular contrast to Tsukuyomi's distraught state, and she also reacts to it.
- Sougo's Zi-O II form is spiffy-looking and very powerful, but
*everyone* except Black Woz is terrified by what they see, for a number of reasons:
- Before he even
*uses* the Ridewatch, just *having it in his hand* is enough to let Sougo casually reset the timeline to a point just before Geiz attacks, halt Geiz's kick in midair and then rewind time so it fails. To repeat: **Sougo erased a timeline, and made a new one.** Tsukuyomi *freaks out* at seeing this and decides that Sougo has to die, for good reason: how often did she see Oma Zi-O just undo any event that displeased him?
- The Zi-O II costume is
*much* closer in silhouette to Oma Zi-O's. The implications speak for themselves. Its silhouette is made more sinister yet by the cold stare Sougo gives while transforming and the speech he delivers during the battle about accepting his evil impulses as part of himself. In the context of the wider episode, it's because Shinji teaches him that accepting those dark feelings is the first step in moving past them, but none of the other characters were there to see that, and absent that context it sounds *much* more like a declaration of Then Let Me Be Evil.
- White Woz's composure snaps in a way that's never been seen before when Zi-O II takes the field. He grabs Black Woz by his clothes and shakes him, demanding answers, and then when no answers are forthcoming,
*he bolts and leaves Geiz behind*. Either it was just a strategic retreat to prepare countermeasures or Oma Zi-O *never had this power*, and either way White Woz realizes his control of the situation has just been completely upended. In his pursuit to ensure the security of his future, he might have given the greatest tyrant in all of history even more power. OOPS!
- The fact that White Woz is still around means that even with all the powers that Zi-O II demonstrates, Geiz Revive
*still has a shot at killing him*. If Zi-O is this powerful and he's not even Oma Zi-O yet, how powerful is Geiz Revive? It's rather scary to think about.
- Tsukuyomi lost faith in Sougo and allied herself with White Woz, even trying to convince Geiz that this is their only chance.
- A minor one, but Geiz freaks out when Junichiro tells him that Sougo said he's seen his tests will turn out ok. While this was just Sougo's big mouth running off (he sucks at studying after all) and doesn't mean anything to his uncle but a joke, it reminds Geiz that Sougo is so powerful now
*he really can predict the future*. He has a prophetic dream every time he falls asleep in this episode that reaches further into the future than either Woz can see in their records.
- Kikai's future might be even worse than Oma Zi-O's: Humanity is secluded to a small space and, while in there it looks like a peaceful world, the truth itself reveals when Humanoise attack. They look like any human being but are jarringly mechanical in their movements and speech and ask if their target is a machine or a human. Regardless of the answer, they already know and attack
*to kill.* They're basically Monster of the Week style *Terminators.*
- Another Kikai isn't like the others, it is a plant-like parasite that latches on its host and mutates it into Another Kikai. It is not so terrifying when the host is a tree, but when its host is something else the last thing they see is Another Kikai's parasite latching on to them. On top of that, there's the matter of the fact that
*none of the Time Jackers created Another Kikai.* None of them know where the Another Rider came from or how it functions. *Where did it come from?*
- Swartz shows how much of a monster he can be by taking Another Kikai's face and pushing it onto Heure's face, despite Sougo telling him to run. Heure is terrified to the point he could probably cry if he had any time to before the young Time Jacker is mutated into Another Kikai. Ora witnessed it all, in sheer shock at Swartz's cruelty. Sougo sees a hazy vision of this happening when checking for a future encounter with Another Kikai. When it's about to happen, he has just enough time to yell at Heure to run, but Swartz doesn't give him any chance. Heure seems to realize something's wrong after hearing Sougo actually use his name, but by then its too late and Swartz has jammed the Another Kikai parasite on his face.
- The last dream of 2121 Sougo has: Kamen Rider Kikai is reprogrammed when pinging a satellite for energy after an exhausting fight, effectively becoming a Humanoise in the body of a Kamen Rider. Rento generally avoids falling into Uncanny Valley as the only real indication that he is not human is a soft electronic noise accompanying his every movement. But after reprogramming which involves being forcibly transformed into Kikai, he moves with Marionette Motion, his visor glows and he abruptly swings his head very close to the camera when delivering the Humanoise question. Easily outcreeps them all.
- It turns out the supposed anti-Humanoise meeting/safe zone is actually led by Humanoise. This could mean two things, one this was a trap the Humanoise created to gather humans or two the Humanoise knew about the meeting, invaded it, killed and replaced every human present there, because they were able to know it thanks to the radio transmission. It's truly clear that in this future, you can't trust anyone too much.
- Due to Ora's manipulation, she is able to fully control Another Kikai and lets him run rampant as the heroes are stuck in time. This results in Another Kikai shooting missiles at the the frozen in time Tsukuyomi as both Tsukuyomi and Geiz are screaming in horror at her death. Luckily it doesn't stick due to Sougo resetting the timeline but still.
- Futuring Kikai demonstrates the ability to brainwash people en masse and turn them into robots. Sougo's powers might be terrifying, but White Woz is no slouch himself.
- The reveal that Sougo doesn't see the future in his dreams so much as he's actually creating future events as he sees in his dreams without realizing it. Another Kikai was created by
*him*, a monster made out of his subconscious fears and stresses about his friends abandoning him. Tsukuyomi is horrified by the sheer power Sougo has and is even more determined to ally with White Woz as a result. This might actually completely backfire on her, as since fear is making her and Geiz keep distance from Sougo...who the hell is going to keep Black Woz's influence on him in check? For that matter, if Kikai and Another Kikai are from a future Sougo created, who's to say his is the only one Sougo made? White Woz didn't arrive until Sougo saw Shinobi's future in his dreams. Is the entire Geiz Revive future a product of Sougo's terror at having seen himself as Oma Zi-O, wanting to create someone who could kill him?
- Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have Another Zi-O. And he is every bit as terrifying as all other Another Riders who have proceeded him.
- His overall design is demented. Especially the faceplate◊. That isn't just a helmet, it's a
* face*, or rather it's a face *without* the skin!.
- Just like Sougo and Geiz, Another Zi-O can also use the powers of other riders. More specifically, every Another Rider that has been defeated up until this point.
- And just to make things worse in his Another Zi-O form, he shares Zi-O II's future sight ability
- According to the episode synopsis, Another Zi-O is targeting every person who has made a deal with the Time Jackers. Whether its a case of Your Soul Is Mine! as payment for their services or something else, it is terrifying to know that people who previously went crazy with power end up being targeted. After the events of the Kikai Arc, Heure and Ora are naturally wary of Swartz. Especially when they ask him if he's the one responsible for creating Another Zi-O in the first place.
- Sougo remarks that he's almost happy about the attacks because it gives him a chance to see Geiz and Tsukuyomi. While that is a little questionable, he does quickly note how twisted it is and that he's not actually happy that people
*are* being attacked. Black Woz, however, seems quite delighted by the concept of Sougo enjoying others being hurt in any capacity, and encourages it. Which gives a very reassuring impression of Oma Zi-O's views on the subject.
- The sheer ambiguity of what happened in the bus where Sougo, Hiryu, their parents and Tsukuyomi were inside. In the preview we seemingly saw Tsukuyomi pointing her gun at a young Sougo. According to Hiryu, she was the cause of the accident and since she came for Sougo which became the reason he blames Sougo for the accident. Highly implying that Tsukuyomi was in a way responsible for it and even if she wasn't, what in the world happened their for her to use an armed weapon in a narrow space full of people. What makes this even worse is that Geiz saw everything, but couldn't save her. When the bus crashes and explodes, he thinks she died and gains the resolve to use Geiz Revive, fight and kill Sougo.
- Geiz is scary when he appears in the fight between Another Zi-O and Zi-O. He charges Another Zi-O and punches him hard enough to knock him down and that's
*before* he transform into Geiz Revive and nearly one-shots him. All with a Thousand-Yard Stare and Tranquil Fury. After Another Zi-O runs, he turns to Sougo and just declares he is going to defeat him when asked what happened. Seeing there is no way to avoid conflict now, Sougo seriously agrees and they fight.
- As it turns out Tsukusa Kadoya/Kamen Rider Decade was also on the bus which only questions why he didn't stop the bus crash. He couldn't, thanks to Swartz.
- It turns out Swartz was also in the bus, but the true question is why and how? The answer is he's started the entire mess by causing the bus crash that orphaned Sougo and Hiryuu, framed Tsukasa for the incident, and even back in 2000 was trying to find the best candidate to be his overlord.
- While the reveal that Tsukuyomi wasn't killing anyone in the bus is a major Nightmare Retardant, it comes after the terrifying scene in the previous episode, Swartz freezing every adult in place and causing the bus to move uncontrollably while a visibly concerned Tsukasa tries to steer and stop it, and the fact Sougo is in danger after trying to attack Swartz.
- The fate of the adults on the bus; as Swartz froze them in time, they are either unable to do anything as they went to their deaths, or if their minds were frozen as well, completely unaware of their own fate. Perhaps even more disturbing, they have no idea that their children survived the crash, so the adults all died thinking their sons perished as well.
- Hiryu can turn people into Another Riders by pushing Another Ridewatches into them. He's no better than the Time Jackers at this point.
- If Geiz getting a Psychic Nosebleed and bleeding out of his ear in the last episode was scary, then seeing him
*crying Tears of Blood* after beating Black Woz due to the strain of Geiz Revive is *terrifying.* The fact that he's not Overdrawn at the Blood Bank and instead has a small amount of blood coming out of his tear ducts only makes it worse as it makes you imagine what it must be like on the *inside* since he can barely even stand from the pain.
- After Zi-O II and Geiz defeated Another Zi-O, Hiryu seems to have lost his drive to kill Sougo. As this is happening, the Another Zi-O Ride Watch starts to break into pieces only to reassemble. Indicating that this is
*not* the last time we'll be seeing Another Zi-O.
- It might be for greater good, but Tsukasa flatly said he would destroy the world if Sougo does ended up become Oma Zi-O as if he was talking about the weather. No wonder he doesn't seem to care for those children (or their parents) who were killed on the bus.
- This episode has Blade and Chalice meeting up again... which is a very bad thing. If they were to ever meet again, the Undead Battle Fight would restart... and since both are Joker Undead...
- Continuing the tradition of Another Riders being nightmare fuel, Another Blade is another horrifying abomination, this time with human-like eyes that look like their eyelids have been
*peeled off* and a sawblade on her sword. It's so unnerving to look at that for a while, this folder had *its own image.*
- The eyes either become more or less unnerving with the knowledge that Another Blade's facial expression is based on Hajime's infamous, memetic "I will kill you!" face. Nevertheless, it's almost impressive that the designers took one of
*Blade*'s well-known memes and managed to turn it into such a spine-chilling Nightmare Face.
- Another Blade is Amane Kurihara. Hajime left her for places, and reasons, unknown and while she seems to be okay on the outside she goes completely batshit crazy right after having the Another Watch put in. Once she becomes Another Blade she goes from just "merely" super attached to near Yandere levels of obsession.
-
*Another Agito*, good lord. Unlike other Another Riders, which are based off of Primary Kamen Riders and replace their history, their creation follows the rules established by *Agito*. Namely, there can only be a single "Kamen Rider Agito" active. Anyone else just becomes either an offshoot creature like Gills or the original Another Agito. While this means that Shouichi isn't entirely affected by the Anotherwatch making alterations to his timeline, it means that the Time Jackers' Another Agito can exist in **hordes**. Worse, they increase their numbers like how zombies would: by biting their victims and transforming them as one of their own. The first time we see someone be infected is one of the G3 units, who the Another Rider tears open like a tin can to get something it can bite. The G3's *screams,* amplified by his helmet's speakers, are absolutely haunting. Not to mention he then pounces on an unarmored officer as the camera pans away like a Gory Discretion Shot as his screams of horror fade away.
- This episode brings up rather some uncomfortable reveals and questions about Tsukuyomi and Swartz. Woz reveals that time powers can only be given and thus both he and Ora wonder if Swartz is trying to turn Tsukuyomi into a Time Jacker. Even more unsettling is Swartz stating he has nothing to do with Tsukuyomi's powers developing, begging the question "Then who is?". The reveal that humans don't
*get* time powers naturally brings up the question of how long has Swartz been manipulating Sougo? A few more more important questions can be raised from this; how the flying fuck did Swartz get time powers? And what in God's name does he mean by he and Tsukuyomi are 'cut from the same cloth'?
- Like several villains or villainous things in Zi-O before, Kamen Rider Ginga just came out of nowhere and tried to destroy the world.
- A minor one which can be overlooked, but this episode as Sougo force-transformed into Zi-O Trinity without neither Geiz nor Woz's consent. When pushed to his limit, you could tell that an assertive part of Oma Zi-O is silently clawing itself out.
- Ora keeps her promise to kill Yuko, right after Woz defeated her and she is exhausted, injured and defenseless in Sougo's arms.
- Swartz convinced everyone to work together against Kamen Rider Ginga to get his hands on the alien's power. Considering that Ginga mopped the floor with Trinity and was only defeated with everyone's collective effort, it's disconcerting to think what would happen if Swartz had managed to keep its power to himself.
- The Worms reappear, in all their shapeshifting glory, on a rain of meteors, to boot. And it's implied this happened because reality is distorting for some reason that noone knows yet.
- When Tsukuyomi uses her time powers, she has a brief memory of herself, smiling, in some random room with other people behind her. She identifies two as her mom and dad, and a third man stands in the back, facing the wall. He's dressed a hell of a lot like Swartz was when he traveled back to find Sougo as a child. He's even wearing the same hat too.
- When Tsukasa shows up to talk to Tsukuyomi about her past, he opens a portal to a random, ruined street. When she asks where they are, he says it's the year 2058, when she was a child. He starts walking towards a quite menacing storm-like formation in the distance.
- Geiz is worried about Tsukuyomi because to him it justifiedly looks like if she was making a Deal with the Devil.
- A giant meteor containing dozens of Worms is about to impact the middle of Tokyo. Scary, right? Well, Zi-O uses FourzeArmor to block it. We're cool, right?
*WRONG!* An even bigger meteor is right behind the last one. The episode ends with Zi-O openly muttering that he has no idea what to do.
- Sougo has gambled on the fact that he appears as Idiot Hero to Yaguruma and has fooled him enough to think he would just walk in a trap. Instead, he made an effective plan of counterattack with Woz and counted with everything that happened. It's as a scary as any reminder that he
*is* the past self of Oma Zi-O, the tyrant of time. Worse, he has this cold smug expression through most of the time his plan is working out and it completely fits his ruthless side and yet looks so much out of place considering his usual attitude.
- Even though he didn't mean too, Geiz almost caused the destruction of the entire world. Kagami having been captured, is held ransom for the Fourze Watch and the Ginga Midridewatch, as without them, the heroes have no means of stopping the meteor from destroying the world. Sougo however had a good plan that would allow them to rescue Kagami while retaining their watches. The problem was that Geiz who was in the middle of confronting Yagurama had to talk out loud over the phone while Yaguruma was directly in front of him. This alerts Yaguruma to the plan who quickly transforms and rushes back with his Super Speed. While Sougo and Woz manages to save Kagami, it costs them their ride watches. Had it not been for Swartz helping the heroes out for personal reasons, along with Tsukuyomi pulling a last minute Big Damn Heroes moment. The world would have been destroyed. It's terrifying how a few simple words at the wrong place almost destroyed everything.
- Woz and Tsukasa both openly state that space-time is growing even more distorted, and elements from Kabuto's time period are now intermingling with 2019 so that the Kabuto Riders are around even though the 1999 meteor strike never happened and ZECT never existed. Nobody seems to know what's causing these distortions or how to stop them, and they're getting worse and worse with each passing arc.
- Hiryu is back... and now his Another Zi-O form is based on Zi-O II.
- From the preview, everyone has turned on Sougo for reasons unknown, including Junichiro, Geiz and Woz, with the latter (along with Ora) now calling Hiryu their "overlord". Geiz, in Revive Gouretsu, also attacks Sougo when he is UNTRANSFORMED. Junichiro even tries to stab Sougo, his own nephew.
note : Albeit he does that with a radish, so...
- The world has shifted to a far darker tone. Everyone of Sougo's allies has either forgotten about him, or abandoned him. Yet despite this, everyone is still driven by in an instinct to kill him, essentially blaming him for everything. The place looks like a war broke some time ago. It's in ruins and mostly abandoned aside from the resistance trying to fight off Another Riders.
- Geiz comes incredibly close to beheading Sougo after he and Tsukuyomi attack him. Yes, he didn't just try to kill him, he tried to behead him with his weapon.
- What's worse than an army of Dark Riders? How about an army of immortal Dark Riders? Even though Grand Zi-O and Another Zi-O II can summon Riders to support them, Another Zi-O II's army is essentially immortal. Anytime they are killed within his vicinity, time reverses and they are revived immediately.
- Pictured above, the way Drive's eyes glow after Ohma Zi-O takes control of the summoned Rider to fight Grand Zi-O is creepy to say the least. In addition to that, Drive's Tridoron beeping noises were distorted in order to hammer home the seriousness of the situation.
- When Tsukasa takes a picture of Sougo, he's blurred. At first this seems like a Mythology Gag to his past pictures. But notice that the only thing distorted in the picture is
*Sougo himself*. It is possible that in this timeline, Sougo is slowly being erased, *Back to the Future* style.
- Grand Zi-O is passively standing when Geiz in Revive Shippu about to launching an attack towards him, not bothering to attack him at all as if he has been
*pushed* to Driven to Suicide after experiencing massive Heroic BSoD.
- Everything is Swartz's fault as he decided that antagonizing Sougo with Grand Zi-O in a direct manner is too dangerous, so he deliberately screwed with time so things would be like they are now.
- The reveal that Hiryu is doing all of this just to spite Sougo. While Hiryu had showed himself to be ruthless for his revenge before, here he's doing the same things as Oma Zi-O for no reason but to be petty!
- Sougo tried to reason with Geiz, even released his transformation to convince him. This only motivated Geiz to murder Sougo right there and now before he is overhelmed by the hesitation Zi-O invokes in him. Tsukuyomi thankfully stops Geiz before he goes through with it.
- Everyone is afraid of Sougo now. The people in the resistance shelter run away from him, including his uncle, which obviously pains him.
- Swartz captured Daiki, grabbed his head and did something very,
*very* painful to him.
- It is later revealed that is how the time powers are bestowed. Daiki Kaito now has both the same powers as the Time Jackers and is in possession of White Woz's Future Note.
- The first thing he does is to take the Grand Zi-O Ridewatch from Sougo. Granted, using it didn't help Sougo whatsover, but it was still his most powerful upgrade.
- One of Sougo's classmates from the very first episode has disappeared on camera, consumed by an orb that looks like it is made of a liquid, leaving nothing behind.
- The appearance of Another Decade. Unlike the previous hosts, the guy behind it is
*Swartz*, who's obtained not just Tsukasa's powers as Decade, but also Tsukuyomi's. There's also the implication that Another Decade is based around *Violent Emotion*, the form Tsukasa used when he took down all the Heisei Riders up to W — perfectly embodying Tsukasa's role as "A Destroyer of Worlds."
- If Heure failed to stop Another Drive's time, he would have ended up with his head crushed like watermelon in pressure test. Worse, Another Drive is Ora. She has reasons to kill Heure and even lured him away from the riders, so she could do it unopposed. And he still cares about her.
- Michal implies that the presence of Geiz and Tsukuyomi moves the timeline towards the future of Ohma Zi-o instead of preventing it. Tsukasa has his own suggest stating that Sougo is the root of the time distortion and Swartz has used it to his advantage.
- Tsukasa says that with all the distortions, he'll have to destroy the World of Zi-O, and when Tsukuyomi says that he lost his powers, Tsukasa takes it as a minor nuisance. This raises the decade-old question; what the fuck
*is* Tsukasa Kadoya, and what exactly *is* the power of Decade?
- Ora murdering Heure. It's not only disturbing because Ora murdered a child but this episode shows that Ora does actually care for Heure, even trying to rescue him from Another Drive despite losing her powers. But due to Another Drive nearly murdering her and mocking her powerlessness, she murdered Heure for his powers. In the end, Ora cares more for herself and her safety than anyone else.
- Another Drive learns it the hard way after laughing off Heure's tragic fate from being killed by Ora. Sougo rarely puts away his cheeky smile, and the only times Sougo had went Unstoppable Rage were whenever he met his future self. Then, misfortunes keep piling on him throughout the course of the episode. When Another Drive begins relishing Heure's death, Sougo finally snaps and gives a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that harkens as far back as Kuuga when the All-Loving Hero Kuuga snaps. Sougo
*is* an overall nice person, but push him too far and you won't like the result, giving us the reminder that he absolutely *is* the younger-self of Oma Zi-O.
- Keen listeners will note a very specific detail about this scene; the very poignant
*lack* of henshin sound effects. There's no *"Grand Zi-O!"* or *"Rider Time!",* only the sound of the Ziku Driver chiming, almost like a death bell before Sougo appears in the next shot in his Grand form and decks Another Drive.
- Swartz's Another Decade ability of putting others in what Tsukasa calls an Another World where the victim potentially experience scenarios of what might have happened, in Owada's case being him winning a video game tournament to represent Japan in the world championship instead of losing in real life. Unfortunately, that's all they experience and, not only does it endlessly repeat, but the victim
*doesn't even know it's on a loop.* And unfortunately for Sougo, there's nothing he can do about saving them until he deals with Swartz so the victim stays in that until something happens.
- Tsukasa reveals that Swartz is using the Another Worlds to revive the Dark Riders; if they had won in their fights which creates plenty of Fridge Horror of the Another Worlds they come from.
- Even without the power that Tsukuyomi took back, Swartz is ridiculously overpowered as he proves by casually murdering Michal and Ora and treating their attempts to off him as mild annoyance. Ora stroke up a deal with Swartz so she could backstab him later on. He predicted it and killed her brutally and effortlessly when she tried. Of note is the method by which Swartz kills Ora: a simple roundhouse kick to the head that's hard enough to audibly snap her neck. The super strength of Riders and their villains is often downplayed in practice so that someone assaulted by a monster gets away with only cuts and bruises, when in reality one casual punch or kick from someone like Another Decade would easily be enough to kill a man.
- Back in #21, White Woz mentioned his future is a everlasting peace, as if time itself has stopped. Then comes this episode where he mentions the Another World is a place where time stands still eternally. The very implication that Dark Riders in the Another World are eternally reliving their last moments over and over is quite unsettling.
- Daiki uses the Zi-O II Anotherwatch to revive Tsukasa and suffers from the unfortunate side effect of being forcibly turned into Another Zi-O II. Then he tries to murder Tsukasa, prompting him to simply note that not even Daiki can overcome the corruption of Anotherwatch.
- Throughout the episode the Ridewatches start to break and with it the world of that Rider merges with Zi-O's world. First the Sky Wall, the Clone Smashes, and the Guardians. Then Roidmudes appear, lead by an Another World Mashin Chaser. Then the Fuuto Tower and Yggdrasill Tower appear, causing Masquerade Dopants and Elementary Inves to appear. Then the Mirror World merges with Earth, causing the sky to be filled with Mirror Monsters. Due to all the Ridewatches breaking Sougo loses the Grand Zi-O watch. Seeing how much reality has been damaged, Tsukasa states he has to destroy the world. All of this is Swartz's endgame come to fruition. He
*knows* that Tsukasa will destroy the world, which will save his own timeline. And the heroes have no choice but to go along with it because they've been strung along since before the first episode.
- We've never properly seen Decade destroy a world before. It was sort of a vague, semi-visible affair that was handled off-screen at best. Here? We could end up seeing the end of a world live, in-person.
- The younger Swartz is just... weird. His speech is dull, monotone, and utterly
*bored*. Even as he describes his plans to annihilate all the other worlds, his voice never rises beyond mild amusement, as if the concept of a Time Crash was a bland, first-grader joke. Then, the nanosecond Sougo implies Alpina/Tsukuyomi is better, he freaks out and turns into his older self, barking at them about how he would abandon her in an instant. In a timeline that he fully plans on destroying. Then he blasts the two, and if it hadn't been for Tsukasa Taking the Bullet, Tsukuyomi would've died. He fully intended on killing the older self of his little sister, and had zero remorse about the act. And if Kaito hadn't dropped in, Tsukasa would've suffered the same fate.
- Swarz can not only summon the Dark Riders, but even the final enemies the Kamen Riders squared off in their journey. And the two most notable examples?
**Evolt** **and** **N-Daguva-Zeba**, arguably two of the most vicious and most dangerous enemies the Kamen Riders have faced off against *period*!
- Geiz officially kicks the bucket and dies in Sougo's arms. The end result is Sougo, consumed by anger and grief, turning the Ziku-Driver
*gold*, becoming Oma Zi-O Driver in process. Ladies and gentlemen, **the Demon King of Time's coronation has officially started**.
- Geiz's visor shattering as he takes the killing blow meant for Sougo.
- Woz is so shocked by Sougo's transformation into Ohma Zi-O that he forgets to do an ascension speech until prompted by Sougo.
**Woz**: My overlord...? **Sougo:** Woz. Rejoice. **Woz**: What? **Sougo:** *I order you to rejoice.*
- Sougo's transformation into Oma Zi-O.
*Sweet merciful of Iwae, is it both incredibly awesome and terrifying all at the same time*! Instead of just pushing the button and then spinning it, all Sougo has to do is just adopt his pose, touch the sides of the driver, which echo like a bell being struck, giving off the impression of a death knell to anyone that hears it. Scarier still, the ground *literally* breaks apart and is filled with magma, almost like a portal to hell just opened. And that's to say nothing of the announcement his Ziku-Driver, now turned into Oma Zi-O Driver makes. Before, the Ziku-Driver would sing some catchy tune. The Oma Zi-O Driver has none of that, with the voice becoming deep and menacing, not to mention angrily saying "Oma Zi-O" as if reflecting just how truly *LIVID* Sougo is at this moment. Overall, the transformation into Oma Zi-O is less awesome and awe-inspiring and more terrifying and showcasing that Sougo Tokiwa is no longer an Idiot Hero. At this moment, he is the Demon King of Time. Congratulations, Swartz. You just played yourself. **Oma Zi-O Driver**: *Shukufuku no Toki! Saikou! Saizen! Saidai! Saikyou-ou!* note : The hallowed hour! The greatest! Most righteous! Most prominent! Most powerful! King of all that is! ! **OMA ZI-O**
- The ensuing Curb-Stomp Battle between present day!Oma Zi-O and the villains Swartz summoned. While it's entirely awesome, there's something eerie and unsettling about the fact Oma Zi-O just utterly
*trounces* whatever's thrown at him. Every single one of the Dark Riders and villains that was called by Another Decade is wiped out in a single shot.
- Particularly noteworthy were Gamedeus, Evolt, and Daguva, all of whom were notable in being ridiculously hard to kill in their original series- and these are Another World versions which won their climactic bouts. And Oma Zi-O just effortlessly sends them flying and exploding as if they were nothing.
- Gamedeus was supposed to be beaten by the equally broken Kamen Rider Cronus, and it took the equally invincible Hyper Muteki Ex-Aid to put him in his place. When Gamedeus attempts to attack Oma Zi-O, the Demon King reacts by confining him into a golden sphere, then flings the Bugster away before he explodes into bits.
- Evolt always managed to split off a piece of himself to ensure that he'd survive in one way or another. And he was always just getting stronger. Granted, he wasn't summoned in Black Hole or his true form, but even his Cobra Form was no pushover for Build Genius, and he seems to be able to use his Black Hole powers anyway. Here, Oma Zi-O obliterates Evolt with a
*single haymaker punch*.
- N·Daguva·Zeba is arguably a walking apocalypse unto himself. Ultimate Kuuga could only match up against him, and even then, Godai had to maintain focus lest he himself become an apocalypse-level threat himself. During their brawl, you get the feeling he wasn't even trying before Godai managed to fracture his Amadam to force him into his de-powered human form. Also, whenever Kuuga used a finisher on a Grongi, it would trigger a chain reaction that detonated the Amadam fragment in their belt, and the cases of the stronger ones are the cause of the infamously huge explosions from the Rising forms and above. Oma Zi-O kills Daguva with a kick (with the destruction glyph Kuuga's kick imprints on the target) that DOESN'T even cause an city-leveling explosion, meaning
*he annihilated Daguva without even triggering his Amadam's self-destruct!* That's some level of power control there!
- And his finisher, Ohma Time King Finishing Strike. Not only is it announced with the same deep voice, it's also accompanied by the ominous tolling of church bells in the background, as though it were announcing the end of Swartz.
**Oma Zi-O Driver**: *Shuuen no toki!* note : The end is nigh!
- Keep in mind all of the above occurred happened when Sougo
*just* unlocked the powers of Oma Zi-O. This makes the 2068 incarnation all the more terrifying in hindsight due to that version having FIFTY YEARS to hone and master all of this ludicrous power beyond what this Sougo is capable of. This makes Geiz's decision to go back in time to kill Oma Zi-O all the more understandable and downright *sensible*: his power has reached the point that **there was no other choice left anymore.**
## Movies and specials
- Everything about Another Kuuga since unlike other Another Riders, Another Kuuga is a giant monstrosity equal in size to a Time Mazine. Its host is also a Time Jacker instead of a civilian and after absorbing Shingo, who's a big fan of
*Kamen Rider Kuuga*, it transformed into its Ultimate Form as pictured above. Even moreso if one knows about the original series. Part of its late-game was about having too much power, potentially making him a Destructive Savior. Kuuga once had to have a portion of the city evacuated by his Friend on the Force before he could use his full power (it looks like the normal rider kick 'til it's time for the Monster of the Week to actually go kaboom... instead of a quick burst of flame it's an ever-expanding firestorm!) Ultimate Kuuga is a form or two *after* the one that first got him *afraid of his own power,* and it can potentially *end the world.* And now that power is under the control of someone who's not overwhelmed into a mindless beast like Another Build, or misguided like Another Fourze - no, the most terrifying power in the franchise's long history is in the hands of a Time Jacker, meaning a truly malevolent figure who would know exactly how to use it, be in full control of it, and have zero compunctions about burning down the entire universe to remake it as he sees fit. We're talking a danger similar to Evolto when he briefly had his full power and could absorb worlds.
- The plot of the special has the Rider Battle beginning anew. Which means all the deaths from the Ryuki show are happening all over again.
- The new user for Kamen Rider Imperer gets eaten alive by a mirror monster.
- Ishihashi/Kamen Rider Scissors' death. The good news is that he doesn't get Eaten Alive by his own Mirror Monster, unlike his precessor. The bad news is that he gets gruesomely stabbed by Miyuki Tezuka and Jun Shibaura. The way it's presented doesn't help, with many shocked viewers commenting that it wouldn't look out of place for a
*Kamen Rider Amazons* scene.
- The finale reveals one horrifying prospect. Swartz has regained his memories and resumed his plans. Even worse is the fact that no one is aware of it at all.
- Imagine this: a group of students stranded in a school in the middle of a wasteland while Inves stalk the surroundings. A few students tries to make their leave and are brutally killed by the Inves, no short of having their insides eaten, torn in half, dismembered. And this is just the first episode!
- Still in the first episode, we see three students hold a girl hostage because they are hungry. Swartz effortlessly knocks out two of them and the third one tried to jump out of the window, only to break his legs with a sickening crunch and soon be devoured by an Inves.
- Chapter 2 treats us to a scene where it gives us the impression that Swartz was turning students into meat bits to be fed to other students, the shooting of the scene is straight-out like something from a horror series. It's not students he is cutting apart (which is good), but rather Inves that he somehow captured and killed (which is bad). Justifiable in that it is for their survival.
- Sougo C turns out to be The Social Darwinist and a self-centered Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who coldly disintegrates his counterpart in broad daylight and in front of Heure (who he used as a hostage to lure out Sougo A.) The sheer disconnect between him and
*any* of the other Sougos in this regard (even the brash Sougo B's pomp is ultimately part of his desire to save his friends), not to mention his willingness to behave like this in an apocalyptic scenario is terrifying in that regard alone coming from the face of what's supposed to be a sweet kid.
- The next Chapter reveals it is quite the opposite: Sougo C traded places with Sougo A, possibly to drag out who is hunting them. So in truth: Sougo C sacrificed himself, while disguised as Sougo A, giving Sougo A a chance to see who was hunting them.
- Tsukasa just opens the door to let a bunch of Inves into the school, with no concern over civilians, all because he waged war against the Sougos. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderZiO |
Kid Cosmic / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
## Season 1:
Kid Cosmic and the Rings of Power
- The moment when Kid thinks Jo has DIED. Even if she was okay, it does look like for a second that she was decapitated.
- Chuck non-chalantly disintegrating a Demon Death Dog.
Kid Cosmic y la Niña Gigantica
- Papa G seemingly being crushed by Rosa's fist.
- Rosa killing every single Chuck clone without a second thought. All while she was thinking it was a GAME.
Kid Cosmic and the Precognitive Cat
- Chuck willing to shoot Kid in the head.
- The image of Kid lying dead in Tuna Sandwich's vision, followed by a future that can only be described as pretty grim. While it never happened, it was still messed up.
- Chuck being sliced in half by Jo's portal, even if it was played for laughs.
Kid Cosmic and the Local Heroes
- Zarkon being electrocuted to death. On screen. In a kid's show.
- The Local Heroes, including kids, are forced to watch a battle between two alien armies where every single person dies.
- Rosa accidentally causing the genocide of the Saucer Men.
- The People Eaters somehow managed to capture all of the Local Heroes and were planning to eat them. If Kid hadn't woken up when he did, or if the aliens actually had been interested in the stones...
- The lifeless head of one of the People Eaters that falls from the sky.
Kid Cosmic and the Big Win
- 46 Papa G clones being mauled by the Demon Death Dogs, and Papa G being completely fine with watching versions of himself die gruesome deaths.
- Jo being nearly bitten in half by a Demon Death Dog. If not for her ring, she would have died in front of her mother and friends.
Kid Cosmic and the Epic Fail
- Chuck's taunting nearly led to Kid DECAPITATING him with his fist.
- Kid's cold expression as he sneaks into the houses of his friends and family and steals their power rings. Especially the lack of a Scare Chord or any other background music when his shadow looms over them.
- When the first Kid clone is shot by Chuck's species. You don't find out until right after that it wasn't the real Kid, and it looks like the main character has just been killed.
- In a freeze-frame bonus, if you pause right as one of Chuck's species gets hit with the rocket, you can see the spike IMPALING HIM.
- Kid getting blasted by a laser right after his seeming victory.
- Great Leader calmly throwing Chuck to his seemingly death off of a rising platform.
Kid Cosmic and the Invaders From Earth
- The soldiers ruling over the town. The worst part? Kid is missing and presumed dead.
- The shot of what seems to be a soldier slashed in half.
Earth Force Enforcement Force
- While the Earth Force Enforcement Force are fighting Gortho's clones, you can see one of them getting his neck snapped in the background.
Kid Cosmic and the Bad Good Guys
- Kid's numerous attempts to tell the Earth Force Enforcement Force that the aliens are good lead to near-death for everyone involved.
- The Biker in Black trying to murder the Local Heroes by sending a Demon Death Dog into their van. No one else is concerned when they see what is seemingly the corpses of children.
- The Biker in Black's entire motive is scary for a different reason. He's driven by pure xenophobia, believing that by destroying any and all alien life that comes to Earth, he's keeping it safe the American way. Keep in mind that many real-life villains are driven by that almost exact kind of paranoia.
Kid Cosmic and the Day is Saved
- The Biker in Blacks attempt to run down the Local Heroes.
- Even worse, this triggers PTSD for Kid, causing him to flashback to exactly what happened to his disappeared parents. They died in a car crash, with Kid the Sole Survivor.
- The reveal that the stones are actually the last pieces of the alien's homeworlds, and the fact that Erodius somehow managed to wipe out more that five different races.
- The ending where Queen Xhan reveals that the other survivors are dead.
## Season 2:
Kid Cosmic and the Other Stones of Power
- We see Erodius onscreen for the first time, and it isn't a creature of any kind, it's just a huge planet that moves around and tears planets apart, their debris becoming a part of his body.
Kid Cosmic and the Pyramid Puzzle of Pain
- Kid triggering one of the Pyramid's traps that would have crushed him if he didn't have the goo stone.
Kid Cosmic and the Soul Kroshing Loss
- Fantos flat out murders Krosh with a disintegration ray, followed by him taking Jo as his prisoner.
Kid Cosmic and the World is Saved
- During the final confrontation against Fantos, he actually rips off Queen Xhan's arm, and uses it as an electrified whip. He doesn't get far, but still, holy crap.
- Fantos teleporting Erodius to Earth, the planet killer's massive form looming over the entire world.
## Season 3:
Kid Cosmic and the Fourteenth Stone
- Jo sneaks away from a mission to look around the PPG headquarters to find all the side characters standing motionless in the same position they were when the Global Heroes left.
- The moment she discovers the truth. It's almost identical to the infamous Operation K.R.O.N.O.S. scene from The Incredibles. She sees different comic books that match their previous adventures scene-for-scene, word-for-word. Then Papa G shows up, and actually starts fighting her due to the next comic being about a defective clone.
- It's after that when Papa G reveals what's really going on. It's equal parts nightmarish and tragic. The world is in fact a Lotus-Eater Machine, making Kid's comics a reality. So basically, EVERYTHING IS A LIE. And Papa G is allowing it on the off-chance it'll allow him to see his grandson's parents again.
Kid Cosmic and the Global Conspiracy
- I.R.I.S.'s increasing glitching in a distorted chiptune song she sings over the credits, until she grinds to a stop and disappears as they leave the fake world.
Kid Cosmic and the Planet Killer
- A rockslide falling on Papa G. He would've died if not for the healing stone.
- Erodius defeats Fantos by restraining him with tethers of lightning and turning the ground underneath him into goo and he sinks into it like quicksand. All the while he screams Erodius' name in desperation. Even the heroes are horrified by what they see! | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KidCosmic |
Kid vs. Kat / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Part 2 of the final episode, "The Kat Went Back" reveals that the Kats take over planets, ruin the environment, and simply move to another one to repeat the process. According to Dr. K, the current planet they're on is *the fifth planet in ten years!* When Fiona calls her species out on their selfishness and laziness, she brushes it off and justifies it by them being cats.
**Coop:** Well, you better get used to this mess, because you're *not* moving to Earth. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KidVSKat |
KikoRiki / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Though sometimes they may come off as Narm,
*KikoRiki* has plenty of chilling moments. *PinCode* has it's own page here.
- "The Iron Nanny" is the episode that introduces the titular character - a disturbing four-armed robot with a perpetual Slasher Smile that takes babysitting way too seriously. It is also The Determinator that continuously pursues Krash, Chiko and Pin, ||so it's a good thing it ran out of batteries by the end of the episode.|| It reappears in many later episodes and is much friendlier than it was in its debut episode, but the design alone is enough to keep its presence unsettling.
- In the episode "The Game" Dokko plays a video game for a long time, causing him to have a nightmare about the player character transporting him into the level that he played. He suddenly falls in the lava and the character DOESN'T EVEN FREAKING NOTICE!!!. The nightmare ends as Dokko continues screaming.
- In "Fear Room", Krash and Chiko were responsible for creating a titular room for the amusement park, and they succeed at scaring Barry with a costume. When Carlin tells him it was just a trick made for amusement purposes, Barry points at two huge nightmarish monsters coming their way. Thinking it's Krash and Chiko's new idea, Carlin calls for them, only to find out the two were behind them and had no involvement in making these. Then they get chased by the two creatures, ||only to find out that they were the machines built by Dokko and Pin hoping to assist with the Fear Room.|| The four got so scared they were left speechless.
- "Krash's New Teeth" is one of the few early episodes that wasn't dubbed by either 4Kids or Studio 100, and the titular new teeth might have been the reason for that. Krash lost his baby tooth but is too scared to go to Olga for help. Pin suggests an alternate: Give him a false teeth. It wouldn't have been so bad, if they weren't a spiky choppers. While wearing them◊, Krash inadvertently scares Chiko, Pin and Rosa (The latter is especially disturbing, since they met at night in the forest). Fortunately, he decides to ditch them and visit Olga.
- The episode is also notable for its background music — this was one of the few episodes where it was composed by a rock musician Sergey Kiselyov. His tracks heavily stick out from those of the show's two mainstays, Marina Landa and Sergey Vasilyev, and succeed at making the episode feel even creepier.
- "All Alone": Chiko is dared to go into the dark forest at night - all alone. When he does just that, he gets scared by the shadows dropped by the trees, a butterfly whose coloring looked like a skull and a spider. Paniking, he falls into the well and loses his glasses here. His friends went to find him, but have no luck. Fortunately, he climbs out and returns home later.
- "Too Close To Heart": Pin suffering a stroke is shown in an uncomfortably realistic way and certainly
*not* Played for Laughs. He starts audibly gasping for air and clutching his chest, his eyes turn into spirals while a tense music plays... right before he collapses, only surviving by sheer miracle. This happens to him *again* by the end of the episode, when his attempt to bounce back to his old self goes wrong.
- "The Sandwich": After arriving into an abandoned hotel, things certainly go off the rails. Dokko's hunger-induced Sanity Slippage grows more unstable as the episode goes, which culminates in a talking sandwich persuading him into thinking his friends are hoarding the food from him in spite of announcing to not eat much for the sake of sports training. As result, Dokko flat out tries to attack Krash and Chiko before being restrained and carried away by the two next morning.
- "Runaway Rocket": The first part already had Pin drop an unnerving possibility of Krash and Chico suffocating in a rocket once the oxygen runs out, but the second part only further empathizes the horror of the situation. Krash starts having nightmares of being trapped in a cramped space (with the frames reused from "Space Odyssey", where Pin himself was at risk of dying in space), before Chiko draws a smiley face on the rocket window... before losing consiousness himself. Had Bibi not arrived in time, the two would have perished miles away from their home planet. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KikoRiki |
Kamen Rider Zero-One / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
**Moment Subpages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.**
## Series
- Korenosuke Hiden's vision of the future described in his will would fit right in with a scene from
*Terminator*. HumaGears crawling on all fours over walls and buildings amidst a ruined city, charging at the viewer is horrific to think of.
- Whenever a berserk HumaGear opens their mouth, they're shown to have More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
- The transformation from benevolent HumaGear into hijacked Magia is nothing short of cybernetic Body Horror. The mooks are rid of their human guises and have their skin and faces ripped right off. That, however, is
*nothing* compared to the poor unfortunate bucket of scrap that is unlucky enough to be a Magia. While their skin and face are ripped off, it goes one-step further by having cables spew out from its mouth and wrap around its body, then becoming the monster the Rider has to defeat. Thank god that whatever does this to a machine can't be done on humans.
- Jin establishes his Psychopathic Manchild cred right away by bouncing up and down while laughing with glee at the destruction caused by his first Magia, then
*continuing* to laugh while he puts a hacked HumaGear into a headlock and flat out *executes the poor thing*. And by execute we mean pull out a gun, a real gun, and shoot it in the head! It may have been a robot but still...
- The episode in general takes advantage of the enemies being robots to ramp up the gore levels considerably. Rather than the monster just exploding when hit as usual, Zero-One's first Rising Impact is shown
*ripping through* the victim's body, with a slow-mo shot of the spray of broken parts around him.
- Isamu was caught right in the middle of the explosion in Daybreak Town like Aruto was. However, whereas Aruto was saved by the Humagear impersonating his father, Isamu woke up in the middle of a wrecked school confronted with
*hundreds* of berserk Humagears like from Korenosuke's prediction outside, who then proceed to try and kill him. Isamu was traumatized by this so much that he's absolutely convinced that all Humagears are secretly murder machines.
- When Mamoru, the security guard-type HumaGear, turns into a Magia, Aruto tries to initiate a "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight. Izu tells him that his attempt is futile because
*the second a HumaGear is reprogrammed*, they can't be saved. Doesn't matter if they're going haywire from being around a Magia or a HumaGear turning into a Magia. The second their program is overwritten, they undergo Death of Personality.
- Jin showing how creepy he can be when delivering to a HumaGear that they are supposed to destroy humans. It's the one-eyed stare from behind the hood that does it!
- The sheer danger of a
*single* Magia is demonstrated when the Neohi Magia manages to hack an entire *city block* of Humagears into Trilobite Magia from a single roof top.
- The Magia rampage in Daybreak Town was terrifying, especially if you put yourself in the shoes of the poor students that were trapped in the crossfire.
- Anna getting hacked in front of Gou and trying to
*kill* him by strangling, only to resist being fully corrupted in the end.
- One of the HumaGears belonging to manga artist Choichiro Ishizumi suddenly shuts down in the middle of its task, citing that its batteries had been running out. While it is somewhat played for comedic value, it gets darker when you realize that this type of thing is also seen in real life in Japan and other parts of Asia, where people would actually
*die* due to overworking.
- Ishizumi pays presumably millions of yen to replace his overworked manga artists when the only thing wrong with them is that their batteries need to be recharged. He would have saved a lot just by having them switch out on occasion to plug in while another comes to continue the work. The fact that the simple solution is not merely ignored but rejected because he sees HumaGears as tools, even though it would be both cheaper and more efficient, implies that his dismissiveness has turned into subconscious malevolence. It makes him come off as a sociopath, or at least a sadist. Throw that on top of how he talks down to the
*president of the company he buys them from*, who personally hand delivered his new model. Fame and apathy have more or less destroyed his concept of decency, though thankfully he starts to get some of it back along with his passion for art by the end.
- Seine's transformation into Magia◊ at the audition. And if the screams of those HumaGears transform into Magia in the previous episodes don't haunt you, this scream will, and she does it in a high-pitched, anguished voice. It also doubles as heart-breaking; even Jin with a brief change of heart was unable to reverse it.
- Jin being revealed a HumaGear raises a few questions, and quite a few are horrifying given what group he belongs to. The way Horobi just nonchalantly reprograms Jin after his hesitance in going through with turning Seine into a Magia makes one wonder:
*How many times as Jin been reprogrammed and had his personality wiped*?! Not to mention the implication that Jin's personality and initial Lack of Empathy was the result of Horobi's *parenting*.
- The transformation sequence via the Force Riser, where the user undergoes a violent electric shock before the animal construct wraps around the user and then proceeds to explode to become the armor with spikes impaling the user along the insides of the strap.
- A giant robot made by ZAIA has been hijacked by Metsuboujinrai.net and hacks the supposedly secure HumaGear hospital staff. Though Aruto, Fuwa and Yua thought the HumaGears were safe, Horobi and Jin proved them wrong as Mashiro-chan suddenly laughs like crazy as she and her fellow staff transforms into Trilobite Magias...
*all with their human patients watching in horror*. Mashiro-chan's particular evil laugh and transformation scene had been terrifying enough that posters on Japanese Image Boards begged their colleagues *not* to post that particular scene.
- Horobi revealing a huge, gaping hole in the side of his head (showing exposed, jagged metal and cracks in the "skin") where his HumaGear earpiece would be.
- Horobi talking about the Ark being sentient condemning humanity to extinction is definitely his most ominous so far.
- Yua screams Isamu's name as he gets hit with Horobi's finisher. The horror in her voice is
*very* out of place considering how she has never really been anything else than stoic so far.
- Horobi's finisher itself. The spike construct used in it impaled Vulcan
*through his throat.* Even more twisted is that the end result has *Vulcan* exploding like a Monster of the Week.
- Even though most of the Trilobites were destroyed and Aruto dealt with the Dodo Magia 2.0, Isamu is critically wounded fighting Horobi and the hospital HumaGear are still vulnerable to being hacked.
- And just you thought it was over, Episode 9 shows
*more* hacked Trilobites attacking their own patients courtesy of Horobi and Jin. One example is a HumaGear nurse that was tending an elderly couple (both whom also appeared in Episode 1 in the amusement park as an audience member). Imagine the trauma the couple received in experiencing another Magia attack.
- It has been revealed that the doctor operating Fuwa has been hacked and could turn into a Trilobite Magia in the middle of the surgery. And while Zero-One clashes with the villains, you can probably see the doctor's consciousness is silently fighting out the influence of MetsubouJinrai, but he ultimately sides with Zero-One.
- Jin's injuries from his battle with Aruto are horrific, with half of his face melted off including one of his eyes. With the suit covering up the wounds until then, there's no telling if it was all caused by the final kick clash, or if Jin went into it already on the verge of death.
- MetsubouJinrai.NET has been defeated and yet somehow Magia are still showing up, except without Zetsumerise Keys.
- The Ark has become nothing short of a demon now that it's reactivated, capable of latching onto even the slightest negative emotions in a HumaGear's heart and using that to turn them into a Magia on the spot. Every HumaGear is now a ticking time bomb, capable of going berserk as soon as they're mistreated. Later episodes explain that it takes more than slight emotions, but the fact that the Ark's reactivation means that HumaGears can now go through a "reverse" Singularity is
*horrifying.* What once was a sign of a HumaGear growing and becoming sentient has been twisted and perverted into a force of evil by the Ark.
- The reactivated Horobi alternates between a Voice of the Legion and his normal voice throughout his interrogation by Fuwa. Just the effect on its own would be unsettling enough, but hearing it fade in and out heightens the result further still.
- HumaGears aren't the only things capable of being transformed into rampaging monsters anymore. The humans that transform into Raiders get the same painful transformation as Magia, with only the Body Horror being dialed back from their robotic counterparts. Worse, while the RaidRiser visibly has some influence on its wearer, all it does is lessen the wearer's inhibitions while amplifying their emotions, meaning Raiders are acting on hatred they already had.
- Aruto also valiantly tries to get Rentaro to snap out of it while futilely holding Thouser back due to his fear of any finisher actually
*killing* the Raider in particular because of how destructive they were to HumaGears in the past. Thankfully this turns out to not be how it works for Raiders as their more bootleg-Rider style transformations are simply cancelled out explosively instead, leaving the user dazed but relatively unharmed.
- The hooded woman figure appears when Isamu is talking to Horobi only to vanish when he tries to turn around to look at her. It could have just been his imagination, or she actually
*was* there.
- Gai is shown to have access to both the ZetsumeRiser and Zetsumerise Keys, meaning he can potentially make
*any* HumaGear go berserk at his whim, just like he did with Bingo, who was visibly resisting the Ark's influence at the time.
- Metal Cluster Hopper's debut is full cluster of them:
- Just the development of the form itself demonstrates that Thouser hasn't just been temporarily stealing the powers of the Progrise Keys when he jacks them: he's been taking them permanently. By now he's well and truly won the Superpower Lottery, having nearly all of Zero-One and Vulcan's powers combined.
- When the Key is shoved into Aruto's belt, he's sent into the datascape of the Ark. At first it looks like Zea's other than being black instead of white, but after a few moments the strings of binary are instead replaced with streams of kanji for
*hate*, *war*, *abuse*, *evil* and other negative things that completely engulf him, all with a electronic, revving-like screeching. Aruto is quite literally being consumed by the Ark's madness so that *it* can take control.
- Where Zero-One's previous forms were themed around singular grasshoppers, Metal Cluster Hopper is themed around
*locusts*, with all of its abilities revolving around a swarm of metallic grasshoppers that fill the air with a deafening buzz. While Valkyrie's Lightning Hornet had bee drones capable of simple attacks, and Shining Assault Hopper has crystal drones that can form barriers, Metal Cluster Hopper has *hundreds* of drones that coalesce into the shape of a single monstrous grasshopper before they form the armor. The locusts are so destructive that just a few seconds of swarming around the Dynamiting Lion Raider obliterates his armor, tears the clothing underneath to shreds, and covers his body in dozens of wounds. Even just a glancing blow from the swarm rips Vulcan's arm guns off.
- Thouser attacks the berserk Aruto, seemingly to try and prove his own superiority, and gets crushed just as easily as the Raider. Nothing he has even
*touches* Zero-One, blocked by the swarm before it even gets there, and the Ark gladly keeps attacking once Gai loses his transformation. Fuwa manages to pull the belt off when Gai is inches from being shredded into a fine red mist.
- While all this is happening, Aruto is screaming in pain and desperation, powerless to control his own body, contrasting with views from outside the suit where he's moving so soullessly and silently.
- Worst of all, Gai is completely unfazed by these events, outright
*laughing* when the berserk Zero-One grabs him by the throat, showing only mild fear at the near-death experience that follows, and declaring the Ark to be a work of art afterward. Somehow, all of this is exactly what he wants.
*"Grasshoppers are known to swarm and devastate crops, and then cannibalize their own. Such vile creatures. And now Zero-One reflects their vile nature!"*
- The sheer hatred of the Ark practically
*subsumes* Aruto's consciousness entirely, with the Ark trying to drag Aruto down with it so it can hijack his body *permanently.*
- The fourth round in the Workplace Competition quickly turns for the worst as, unlike in previous cases, this round focuses on saving people's lives from a fire. Thanks to the Raider, the competition turns from a mere simulation to an actual life-or-death situation. People are now trapped in a building that is now on fire. Worse yet is Gai's complete and utter apathy by not only having the round continue, but declare that the person who saves the trapped Hiden Intelligence Board Members will be declared the winner.
*In front of a news crew no less!*
- The shot as Yua freezes up and goes quiet and subservient towards Gai after having her opinion silenced by him is
*unnervingly* similar to an abuse victim. The implications of extreme verbal abuse to keep her in line are as heartbreaking as they are horrifying.
- It's revealed that Yua and Isamu each have a chip in their brains that allows them to use ShotRisers. Yua knew it. Isamu did not, nor was it a voluntary on his side. His role as ZAIA's lab rat/crash-test dummy has been already alluded to several times, but takes it to a different level and then another dozen more as it also turns out that the chip can be used to control its user.
- Isamu sees the identity of the hooded figure, who broke Horobi out of A.I.M.S captivity. It was him himself after Jin hacked the chip in his head. Poor guy takes it so hard that even Jin is briefly stunned.
- The public completely turns against Aruto. Everyone calls for the destruction of HumaGears and Amatsu has them sorted out like pawns on his chess board.
- The Paranoia Fuel stemming from the fact that anything either Yua or Isamu have done through the story so far could have been directly controlled by Amatsu. Also, in Yua's case, every order had an unspoken "or I'll make you do that" tacked on at the end. That's not even starting on what Metsubojinrai.NET could have done. Video footage or photographs being tampered with is one thing, but not being able to trust your own senses just goes straight into pure Psychological Horror.
- Gai wins the Five Round Workplace Competition. That alone is dreadful news to hear, but the implications are even worse. Not only is Gai now in total control of Hiden Intelligence's assets, but this also includes every piece of tech under the company's umbrella.
*That includes Zea and its ability to produce Progrisekeys.* ...Or *does* it?
- Gai shows off how he can control the AI chip in Fuwa's brain with a ZAIA Spec
By
*torturing him repeatedly.* Even worse, he does so in front of Yua, who eventually cracks and rushes to Fuwa's side when he collapses on the ground screaming in agony, even though there's nothing she can do. The worst part is, Fuwa is *still screaming* after Gai drop the Rampage Vulcan Key in front of him, as the scene fades to black, meaning that even after 'giving' him the Key, *Gai didn't stop torturing him.* Amatsu Gai has elected to forgo jumping and is canon-balling over as many Moral Event Horizons as he possibly can, at this point.
- The fact that Gai shows no hesitation going through with a finisher when Aruto gets in the way of him and Izu. He's now perfectly fine with trying to kill Aruto if it means that it gets him out of his way. This is no longer a Rider vs. Rider thing. This is a human who wants another one dead if it'll get him out of his way. If he didn't pass the Moral Event Horizon already, this certainly pushes him beyond it.
- It's
*heavily* implied that Degawa and Shida were , ordered by **gunned down** *Gai* himself, as by the time Yua goes to the van, neither of them were in sight, bullet casings lay scattered all around, and one of their sunglasses was on the ground. Considering that they were fine after being defeated by Zero-One, and she was attacked by 2 turncoat AIMS-enabled Battle Raiders immediately after finding the scene, it does not end well for both of them.
- Gai reveals that Fuwa's memory about the Daybreak Town Accident was fake. Yes, the chips in the A.I.M.S. members are powerful enough to
*rewrite memories*.
- As if HumaGear hacking wasn't nightmarish enough, thanks to getting access to Naki, Ark is now able to hack ZAIA Spec users. The results are mass chaos.
- Midori's destruction, inflicted by Horobi using Sting Scorpion's Poison tail. She isn't destroyed immediately as much as having a painful looking breakdown of her entire body before exploding.
- Imagine being a worker going about your day as usual in the office. All of a sudden several your coworkers begin going berserk, wrecking things around them and actually trying to murder you while shouting "Kill All Humans". Even worse, it is revealed that they are all wearing ZAIA Specs, and they have been hacked. Cut to the culprit: Naki — now back in a new Humagear body — with her eyes glowing red and uttering that it is by the will of the Ark.
- At first, it seems that Naki has regressed to being a "tool" of the Ark; after spending so much time trying to become their own person, they get turned back into the Ark's lackey as soon as they're back into a Humagear body. We already know how terrifying the Ark is, but this just cements how exceptionally dangerous it could be. Thankfully, Isamu manages to snap them out of it.
- The Ark has fully revived. That alone spells bad news, but it gets worse as the trailer for the episode implies it can now manifest in Horobi, Ikazuchi and Naki after their Singularity data was taken from them. Horobi gets to serve the Ark alright. As its meat puppet, that is.
- Those possessed by the Ark have red and black tendrils of what appear to be nanomachines constantly flowing in and out of their body in an extremely disconcerting manner. And that's to say nothing of the actual transformation into Ark-Zero, where those same nanomachines generate writhing, wailing animal constructs that break down and collapse into the suit while uttering high-pitched
*screams*.
- It turns out that the Ark, in addition to being able to possess
*any* HumaGear, which it demonstrates by using Jin to fight Zero-One and Vulcan, can also possess *Fuwa and Yua*, thanks to their neural implants. Fuwa barely manages to fight off the Ark before it decides to give up and use the more easily accessible Horobi.
- The debut of Kamen Rider Ark-Zero in general. If you thought Kuroto's transformation into Dangerous Zombie was discomforting and unsettling, then Ark-Zero's transformation sequence is a thousand times worse. The moment the transformation sequence starts, the Driver creates Lost Models of various animals, only they're all visibly writhing and screaming in pain as they break down and reform into the armor that makes up Ark-Zero.
- If you didn't think Gai Amatsu was bad news, then this will: instead of recalling every ZAIA Spec because of the hacking incidents, he instead opts to make the ZAIA Raidriser available to public so they can protect themselves and others. This is basically the equivalent to selling rocket launchers at a convenience store just because of the sheer paranoia that people might become aggressive all of sudden.
- Disturbing movements that Horobi make as he is possessed by the Ark is something that come straight out of The Ring.
- Ignoring all the funny aspects, the fact that Gai has more than 1,800 complaints in his file brings to question on how did he managed to retain his popularity despite all the evidenced notoriety in that Shesta uncovered. In addition, one of the complaints being sexual and moral harassment among other things.
- Here's also a bit of Fridge Horror: How did Gai managed to get away with these complaints going unnoticed despite a normal person would've filed this to the court?
- Ark Zero promptly curb-stomps Aruto twice in the episode. What makes this terrifying is that in their second confrontation, Ark Zero doesn't even so much as take a step before unleashing its full power on Aruto. We also got another demonstration of its overwhelming power, as it took control of Isamu's Shot Riser and tried to shoot Is. If not for Jin, she would have been destroyed.
- Ark kills Aruto. And doesn't stop there, hacks the city's infrastructure to destroy itself, shoots Gai behind his back, shoots Yua right after she saved Fuwa from getting shot, destroys Rampage Vulcan's Rider Models before Fuwa could transform and one-shoots him as well. Thankfully, none of that actually happened, it was just one of the many calculations that Zea ran through Izu.
- Despite being simulations, they acknowledge one of the harrowing weaknesses of the non-Humagear Kamen Riders of the series. For all the technology and powers at their disposal, they're still only human. Ark doesn't kill Aruto, Fuwa, Gai and Yua with any glowing mass of energy or enhanced Rider kick, he kills them with little more than single, mundane bullet each.
- While it's played for laughs near the end of the episode, the emotions Is finally experiences that allows her to reach Singularity are through living multiple iterations of the same outcome; Aruto dying, and her being alone. Is has plenty reason not to forgive Aruto for putting her through those simulations. While they might have been fake, Is' emotions were not.
- Aruto gives into the Despair Event Horizon and is given the Ark-One key to evolve Ark-Zero into Ark-One, an upgrade literally Made of Evil in a digital format, with him as the host. As if this wasn't shocking enough, the episode makes it very clear that Aruto is
*Not Brainwashed* throughout the whole ordeal, willingly absorbing the suit's cocktail of raw, unfiltered hatred, and even *smiles* when he sees the key in Azu's hand. Unless someone sets him right, *Zero-One* has managed to do something that hasn't been done before: make a protagonist Rider completely fall from grace.
- Ark-One is fueled by five aspects of human negativity in particular: malice, fear, fury, hatred, and despair. In other words, the main ingredients of bigotry and prejudice. Aruto has essentially gone from the loving yet aloof president of Hiden Intelligence to a possibly psychotic, unambiguously evil avatar of hatred in the span of one episode. While Ark-One's stats are weaker than Zero-Two, it's through the power of malice alone that he becomes a fearsome force, easily taking down any who opposes him.
- Ark-One's parts list isn't as intense as the one for Ark-Zero (which explains in detail how the suit only works because the host is essentially on life support), but there are two particular standout implications: First, the red face jewel (the Ark Signal-One) on the faceplate silences the host's benevolence and stops any potential mental trauma from directly harming them - however, it's described as a
*calming* experience for them, meaning Aruto might be in a state of humanly-impossible *perfect zen* while in the suit. Second, the Ergonice Arms are mentioned to *inject* the black-and-crimson, hate-filled energy into the host. Any regrets and doubts Aruto might have about being the Ark's new host may be enough to send him into a nervous breakdown out of the suit, but *as* Ark-One, they're all completely wiped out until only bitter prejudice remains.
- As is pretty damn unnerving in this episode. Her utter devotion to the Ark drives her to manipulate not just Aruto, but also Is and Jin, directly leading to Is's death and Aruto becoming Ark-One. Not to mention, she does it with a smile in her face, actively gloating that the Ark is a almighty god, and it will revive as long as there is malice.
- The first half of the episode is simply Gai, Yua, and Fuwa coming to the terrifying realization that Aruto has dominant control over Ark-One's processes as he shuts down
*all* of their Rider powers with a single blow, *permanently*.
- While Horobi and his army put up a decent fight at the start, Ark-One rather unsurprisingly tears through each and every one of them with ease. Especially once he's within close quarters combat distance of Horobi. Not even firing the Attache Arrow point blank into Ark-One's face so much as phases him.
- Horobi's finisher doesn't fare any better. Like every other attack and attempt prior, Sting Dystopia is simply parried, and Aruto stuns Horobi with a single punch.
- The fight between Aruto and Horobi reveals that Learning 5 wasn't even Ark One at full power. After Despair, Aruto continues pressing the Driver's button, giving us Strife, Bloodthirst, Ruin, Extinction and finally Extermination. Perfect Conclusion; Learning End.
- Aruto has a recurring, extremely twisted and creepy vision of As embracing him from behind over a field of the Ark's malice.
- Zero-Two finally returns for the first time since Aruto became Ark One... but it's not in the hopeful and triumphant way one would think. His back to Fuwa as he transforms, the complete lack of the Zero Two Driver's catchy standby jingle, Aruto brandished the Zero-Two Driver as a mercy after disabling Fuwa's chip the last time. To really throw any hopes of Aruto returning to normal out the window without a miracle, Zero-Two emits a
*human* scream when the Zero-Two Streamer attaches, making it clear that Zea is now nothing but a tool of Cruel Mercy.
- While Naki's Zetsumerise Key was able to grant Fuwa the ability to transform again, the strain on both him and the Shotriser might have permanently put Kamen Rider Vulcan out of commission.
- Horobi finally receives an upgrade since debuting nearly 40 episodes ago, and what an upgrade it is. We finally learn what the Key he received in the prior episode was; Ark Scorpion. As if that didn't already confirm the possibility of more than one Ark existing at a time, it couldn't be anymore apparent with Ark Scorpion's transformation and appearance.
- A convulsing, writhing mass of black, the glowing red kanji of hateful and negative words accompanying the scorpion that appears and wraps itself around Horobi. The Zetsumetsu Driver even speaks the same words as the Ark Driver's Ark One sequence, only in English instead of Japanese.
**Zetsumetsu Driver:** *Destruction, Ruin, Despair, Extinction! ARK SCORPION! The conclusion after evil climbs the top of the highest mountain of rock.*
- Jagged red lines throughout his suit, and the telltale Ark eye in place of Horobi's left one.
- The sponsor page at the beginning is no longer Zero-One riding his motorcycle on a scenery, rather instead takes place in the same dreaded field of Ark's malice with weapons scattered throughout the area with both Aruto and Horobi stand behind each other, accompanied with unsettling, suspenseful music.
- While Tribolite Magias are formed by being hacked by standard Magias back then, this is no longer the case, as some of the protesters actually become Trilobite Magia on their own anger and accord. Doubles as a Tearjerker.
- All the while As just watches the final battle unfold, and her face only registers twisted malice.
- The Stinger and set-up for The Movie. As isn't finished with her plans and hands over an unknown Progrisekey to someone called S. Her original plan for Humagears and humans to fight each other went up in smoke, and yet she has a back-up plan in mind. And whatever it is, it is anything
*but* good.
## Movies & Specials
- The effects of Another Zero-One might have very well put the timeline alterations of previous Another Riders to shame, as humanity is effectively locked in a war with the now homicidal HumaGear. Are we going to see the origin, or at the very least a repeat of Kikai?
- And let's get to the part of the Human-HumaGear war where surviving humans are being hunted down by militarized HumaGears. If the scenes in the trailer are an indication, this is what would Metsuboujinrai.net basically do in the original timeline.
- Another Zero-One killing Korenosuke Hiden. The worst part is that the Another Rider in question is Korenosuke's own secretary HumaGear.
- Gai murdering Naki. To make it more horrifying, he does it with a
*regular* revolver complete with a shot of oil and bolts that is very reminiscent of blood and guts.
- S' transformation into Kamen Rider Eden is perhaps one of the more menacing and downright creepy transformation sequences in any Kamen Rider series to date. In contrast to his transformation in The Stinger where it happened off-screen, the movie gives viewers a full-view. Red geysers of what look like
*blood* spew around S while a glowing blue feminine figure flies around him before embracing him from behind, leaving the figure to merge with S' own, treating the viewer to the lovely image of S' skeleton just as the armor slaps over S' body.
- Metal Cluster Hopper vs Eden Reminds the viewers that the former is made for brutal destruction of its opponents. In a blink and you'll miss it scene, you can hear the Cluster Cells
*EATING* Eden's nanomachines, from *INSIDE* his body. Now verging in Fridge Horror: Is that a normal attack subroutine in Metal Cluster Hopper or did Aruto direct that one attack?
- Lucifer's Transformation Sequence, while not as extreme, still manages to maintain the creep factor by having a gashadokuro emerge from the ground and devour Bell whole, forming the undersuit. Then the armor plates attach to the suit, manifesting from spiked growths that look like
*bone tumors*.
- Two words:
**Hellrising Hopper**, a rider form who, in the vein of Ultimate Kuuga, has the capability of ending the world. And Aruto has to the use this form to beat S, who has managed to kick his ass up to this point. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KamenRiderZeroOne |
Kengan Ashura / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
# Beware Of Spoilers. All spoilers on this page are left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!The world of underground fights are insane, violent, and cruel.
## General
- Some of the violence in this series is so over-the-top it loops back around and becomes genuinely startling. Even the most serious of gorehounds may have issues with this series. Injuries include limbs twisting at impossible angles, people getting their scrotum crushed (with an anatomically correct diagram showing this in horrific detail), skin warping to impossibly stretched lengths, and tons of very, very nasty compound fractures.
- The very existence of the Worm, a malevolent organization capable of supporting a plot to not only overthrow the Kengan Association but
*also* potentially lead to the deaths of several world leaders in the process, all as a part of what's implied to be something of a side project that even isn't strictly related to their primary objective, which itself is yet to be revealed. They dabble with human "Gu" rituals, where dozens of trainee fighters are sealed inside an underground chamber with just enough food, water and air for one to just barely survive, forcing the group to murder each other if they want to live. This alone is enough to disgust even the amoral Kure Clan.
- Akoya himself, His unhealthy obsession with his belief in justice is to the point of killing innocent people related to the families of criminals and even victims taking captive by them. He requires Hiyama to restrain him from letting out his bloodlust and even then she only minimally curbs it. When she is interrupted or something bad happens to her he shows his violent nature to the point that he is willing to murder everybody in the vicinity close to him. Both Haruo and Cosmo who fought him are barely to live and only got lucky that they lived by getting knocked out or beating him. In Omega, he not only retains his obsession in his own form of justice but he is independent from Hiyama this results in him being very outward with his insanity to the point he can't be reasoned. In his fight with Ryuki, he preforms a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown after the latter restrains himself from inflicting a killing blow to the point he needs to be restrained.
## Ashura
- The fight between Setsuna and Ren ends with Ren on the receiving end of the Koei Style Raksashas Palm, an attack that twists the body of those it touches. Setsuna does this right over Rens
*heart*, twisting it into a spiral shape and completely deforming it. It was a miracle that he was able to survive that.
- Meguro's death at the hands of Muteba is quite horrifying due to how savage it is. Muteba, clearly not wanting to take chances with the guy who feels no pain, gouged out Masaki's eyes and ears, then broke his arms and fingers before stomping on his head to break his spinal cord, then finished him off by stabbing his brain through his hollow eye socket.
- Akoya snapping during his fight with Cosmo where he digs his nails in Cosmo's arm to tear it open and follow with a kick that would have put out his eyeball only to then bite him and chew while promising extreme torture. Cosmo can't stop shaking as Akoya proceeds to pin him and break his ribs one by one with his thumb. While the Kengan matches are violent and sometimes fatal this level of ultraviolence from someone who is a cop in his civilian life done to a fighter that isn't even 20 horrifies the other fighters and spectators.
- The backstories of some of the characters are plain terrifying. The most horrifying being those of Kanoh Agito, who was buried in an underground chamber with a dozen other fighters who were forced to fight to the death until only he remained, Masaki Meguro, who murdered all of his friends at the judo dojo and his father due to an animalistic urge to kill since childhood that was left unsated until the day Muteba finally slew him, and Setsuna Kiryu with his
*immensely* disturbed childhood.
## Omega
- Chapter 95 tells us the origins of Wu Hei, the first Wu, who lived 5000 years ago and it's... horrible. The story treats him like a demon who came out of nowhere and even uses "It" Is Dehumanizing. The worst part? He's alive. Well, sort of. While the original Wu Hei died, his will, memories and personality have been copied down in the Wu lineage generation after generation thanks to Huisheng, which consists of Mind Rape on a child telling your life story repeatedly, to every little detail, until he believes he's you. And who carries Wui Hei's soul? Edward Wu, Alan Wu, Solomon Wu, Fabio Wu and a
*fifth Wu Hei* elsewhere.
- Alan Wu's fate at the hands of Raian Kure might be the goriest death in the series so far and shows just how horrific Raian can be with the techniques of the Kure Clan. Alan was butchered in the same way Kratos kills werewolves, being torn in half by the jaws, after having his eyes slashed. Sure it ended up as a loss for his team via DQ, but he sure as hell didn't care as he right afterwards, without missing a beat, ran in after his next target: Edward Wu. Lihito and Mokichi better be glad that he held himself back from doing that two years ago.
- The original Nicolas Le Banner, This man slaughtered a bunch of innocents and his own comrades in a psychotic frenzy.
- Fei overclocking himself with the Divine Demon, causing his veins and eyes burst out in blood as he's reduced to a near skeletal form.
- While it is played for laughs, Xia Ji's encounter and subsequent "interrogation" by Mitsuyo Kureshi and Joji Narushima can be seen as this, especially as this heralds the return of Kureshi's sexual fetish of breaking bones. The idea of having your joints and bones broken by a man who takes noticeable sexual pleasure from doing so, while his stoic friend keeps you immobilised by either kicking your solar plexus hard enough to collapse you or hitting your pressure points so that you are in too much pain to move is a terrifying prospect, lessened only by Xia Ji being completely deserving of it.
- Apparently, in the Two years after the tournament, Worm has started to pull off suicide bomb attacks for unknown reasons. What's worse is just how indifferent their soldiers seem to be to their destiny, with the one we see keeping a bright smile moments before blowing himself and a street full of people sky high. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KenganAshura |
Kilala Princess / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- The Wicked Queen uses a Teleport Spam to gash Rei's arm. Kilala and Rei are able to escape the Queen at first until they run into a pack of wolves under her control, who maul Rei and take them back to the dungeon, leaving him even worse off than before.
- Volume 1 has a mind-controlled Erica gives the bad guys the tiara. Her "reward"?
*Being shot in the head while still under hypnosis*.
- During her battle with Kilala, Ursula grabs her with her tentacles and threatens to break her in half, squeezing the life out of her.
- Valdou shoots Kilala as she's about to reunite with Rei, complete with a blood splatter on the page, and she only lives thanks to the Tiara's magic transporting her to Cinderella's world.
- Sylphy almost drops Chip in surprise when he starts talking and starts shaking Cogsworth when he swallows one of her rings, nearly breaking them both and horrifying Kilala.
- The Sleeping Beauty chapter has Maleficent infiltrate Aurora's 17th birthday party and cover the castle in poison thorns, nearly killing everyone there.
- The last volume features such delights such as Valdou's fake skin being ripped off his face which has a thick trail of blood/oil, his body being sliced in half vertically, and Kilala and a group of orphans being trapped in a burning castle.
- Valdou's reign over Paradiso is much darker in tone than the rest of the series; his ultimate plan is to create a land without any emotions where only machines rule, and thousands of human dissenters are captured, brainwashed, or killed in concentration camps, with young orphans being afraid to feel again because he'll punish them like he did their parents. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KilalaPrincess |
Kenny the Shark / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
- Pretty much the entirety of "Whaling on Kenny".
- Kat is completely oblivious to the bullying Kenny goes through until Oscar informs her orcas (the species of whale to which Kenny's new "friend", Buster belongs)
*eat* Tiger Sharks and when Kat confronts him, Buster attacks her. It gets more unnerving in that Buster implies that he's gonna eat Kat, when orcas don't eat humans. Needless to say, this was the most unnerving episode in the entire series.
- Buster himself is pretty damn intimidating. He has a very menacing look and a highly sadistic personality. Plus, he is pretty much hellbent on murdering Kenny, and maybe even Kat.
- The scene where he tries to cook Kenny on the grill is also really dark.
- The scene where Buster swallows Kenny whole. Buster lunges toward Kenny from the viewer's perspective, so we see his mouth and throat approaching the camera. Kenny even screams "Hey! Let me out!" while struggling in Busters stomach.
- That snarl. That GOD-FORSAKEN snarl Buster does before he tries to eat Kat and Kenny. This is pretty horrifying especially when he confronts Kat. He did it before swallowing Kenny up, so since he snarled at Kat...
- Plushtoy's Moral Event Horizon counts both in-universe and out, given that it's highly likely that some of the aquarium inhabitants didn't survive Plushtoy's reign as the owner. And Kat herself has a Freak Out when Kenny informs her that the animals she had assumed were Elly's food are her new "roommates", going on about how incompatible they are and asking what kind of idiot would do something like that. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KennyTheShark |
Kill Bill / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
An eye for an eye.Both films have quite a bit of nightmare fuel to them, given how
*Kill Bill* is a revenge fantasy film filled with Gorn. **As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.**
*Kill Bill: Vol. 1*
- The Bride's apparent death, as seen all in black and white, and when the fear of what's going to happen to her registers on her face...
- The animated credits show a brief but brutal scene where the Vipers are beating on the pregnant Bride, taking turns and knocking her around like a pinball.
- Buck, the orderly who regularly raped the Bride during her coma and had a side hustle pimping her out to his friends. When she finds his Cool Car, she concludes that there is only one way he could have afforded it. The absolutely disgusting jar of Vaseline Buck offers his last "customer" only makes the implication worse.
- In addition to the above (and as a heads-up, the following is not for the squeamish) — Buck assures the last guy, "You can cum in her all you want." My
**GOD**. Buck has probably been telling all of his customers that, meaning possibly *dozens* of strange, grimy men have been ejaculating inside that poor woman, probably without protection. Let that sink in. Or **don't**. Nobody would blame you.
- O-Ren Ishii's past. Her parents are murdered by a gang in front of her when she is just nine years old, with both of them being impaled with the same katana, then their house is set on fire with the three of them still inside. Also, her killing of Matsumoto and his henchmen a few years later (getting close to him by using herself as a Honey Trap — because in addition to being a sadistic murderous crime boss, he was also a paedophile). They deserved it, but it doesn't make it any less horrifying, since a pre-teen girl becomes a hardened killer. Then, by her 20th birthday, she had become a Professional Killer who assassinated a Mexican official by essentially blowing his head off while he was riding in his limo.
- Her death. The fact that
*the top of her head is missing, exposing her brain* and that she still **manages** to be alive for a few moments more is very disturbing.
- And back to the limo: almost any normal person on Earth would scream just as loudly as those women in the car as soon as they stared
*through* the now-dead official's head.
- Gogo Yubari. She more than earned her place as O-Ren's bodyguard. A previous incident had her brutally stab a man in a bar because he wanted to have sex with her. Then there's that
*geyser* of his blood that flows onto her schoolgirl shoes...
- The fight between her and the Bride. She engages in a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of the latter, even after she told her that she didn't want to fight her because of her young age, which she responds to by
*laughing* at her and telling her she'll make her beg better than that. After striking her repeatedly with her heavy metal ball (before and after she activates the spikes, at one point both she and us, the audience, are treated to a lovely shot of the spiked ball barreling towards the camera), she manages to wrap the chain around her neck and begin to strangle her. Even worse, you can *hear* the bones in the Bride's neck breaking. Also, the look in the Bride's face is absolutely terrified, and it's obvious how she really doesn't want to die or kill her, but Gogo refuses to relent, causing her to drive a spike with a nail through into her foot and her *head*, killing her and making her shed Bloody Tears.
- Vernita's death is quick, but no less gruesome. After she shoots at the Bride with a gun hidden in a cereal box and misses, the Bride throws a knife straight into her heart, killing her instantly. Worse, Vernita's four-year-old daughter saw all of it. Even with her having it coming, imagine what's going through Nikki's head: she arrives home, sees it in a state of disarray, a mysterious woman (who she already feels uneasy around) suddenly shows up, she hears yelling and a gunshot, and she witnesses her mother, a big part of her whole world, brutally murdered by the aforementioned woman who gives her the creeps.
- The fight scene between the Bride and the Crazy 88 Squad. Seen in black and white in the American theatrical cut, it has some of the most gruesome killings and injuries in the film. Then after the fight ends and she looks for O-Ren, there's one guy who got his foot chopped off attempting to "attach" the severed limb and walk on it again. It's even worse in the Director's Cut; after ripping out the eye of one man, which marks the transition to black and white in the studio version, the cut footage shows her throwing the eyeball down another man's throat, and he chokes to death on it.
*Kill Bill: Vol. 2*
- The ending scene of the opening before the massacre begins: After the Bride gives Bill one last talk and walks in with her new life and doofy husband awaiting her in the chapel, the scene pans out slowly from the chapel, the outside...and then to the DiVAs (O-Ren, Elle, Vernita, and Budd) as they gather, stare at the chapel for a moment, then ready their weapons and walk inside the chapel, all in deathly silence as the camera pans up. All we hear is everyone panicking, the gun shots, and a lone bell ringing.
- This final part:
**The Bride's "Husband":** What the hell?! *[screams all around]* **The Bride:** NOOOO, BILL!! *[gunshots are heard, then silence, and then a bell rings]*
- Budd's death. Even if he was a bastard, the slow and agonizing way he went, bitten by a snake and left to die, is horrifying to watch.
- The Bride yanking out Elle's
*remaining* eye, then squishing it flat underneath her foot like a grape. All in slow-mo.
- Elle shrieking bloody murder as she flails about in rage and confusion like a panicked animal.
- Even worse, the scene showcases just how sociopathic the Bride can be, as she has no other reason to crush Elles eye besides her own satisfaction.
- The sudden flashback to Elle getting her first eye ripped out by Pai Mei, where her screams are so loud and sudden that it's almost like a Jump Scare.
- The Bride getting buried alive. It's the most effective illustration of claustrophobia ever committed to celluloid.
- Pai Mei's death at the hands of Elle. This is a wise old teacher who manages to be able to evade or counter virtually any attack someone tries to deal him, including
*a foot to the groin*. How does she kill him? By poisoning his food. Granted, he did rip out one of her eyes when he was training her because she disrespected him, but still...
- Bill's death. He receives the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique from Beatrix/the Bride, knows he's going to die, asks her how he looks, walks outside, and flops down dead. Adding onto that, when all the actors are credited and include an image or images of the character from the film, when David Carradine is credited,
*that* is the only image used for Bill. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KillBill |
Killer Frequency / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
"What's your favorite scary movie?"
*Killer Frequency* is made in homage to all of the horror movies- slashers in particular- that defined the 80's and 90's. The game being scary is out of the question. **As is the case with all "Moments" pages, Spoilers Off applies!!!**
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**The Whistling Man**. Imagine all the most iconic 80's slasher villains that terrified you so many years ago put together in one frightening package.
- The whistle. That
*goddamn whistle.* It's a short and simple sound- a high-pitched, almost keening, three-note lilt- but it still manages to be completely and utterly *unnerving* to listen to. Worse still, you only ever hear it when the Whistling Man has found someone and is closing in to kill them, so it's a sound you'll quickly come to associate with a person's life being in imminent danger; you'll hear that whistle on the other end of the radio more than once when the Whistling Man starts stalking your current caller, and if you screw up, you'll get to hear it just before he butchers your caller *live on radio.* Hear it for yourself.
- Eugene Stine's segment is one of the most tense in the whole game. You have to try to guide him through a
*literal* maze, hoping with every turn you tell him to make that you haven't unwittingly directed him straight to his death; the details of the Maize Maze's landmarks aren't very clear on the map that you have, and you're just as reliant on the uncertain information that Eugine gives you as you are the barely-descript map you're holding in your hands. All the while, Eugine is sobbing and panicking the entire time, and the Whistling Man is coldly trying to hunt him down with a *chainsaw*. It's all *exactly* as nerve-wracking as it sounds, and the fact that you can only hear what's going on, rather than see it for yourself like you would in most horror movies, just makes it all the more bone chilling to have to listen to.
- Murphy's segment is a tense scenario as well. After having challenged the killer live on air, the next time he calls up, he's crying because the killer showed up and not only beat him to an inch of his life, but locked him in a dumpster
*and* set the waste disposal plant on fire. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KillerFrequency |
His and Her Circumstances / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
A good part of the manga is far,
**far** darker than the cute anime series and the first chapters allow you to see... **Spoilers below**!
- Arima's dark side. Any time that he comes onto the screen, you just know Arima is seconds away from shattering. This is made worse because to the outside world, he appears to be a put together, genius with his only match being Yukino, his girlfriend. It's scary to slowly see his thoughts morph from wanting to be with Yukino, to wanting to isolate her from everyone and keep her just for himself. His fighting with these thoughts proves that Arima is a good guy, but him imagining tying Yukino in chains does not bode well for their relationship. This is a rare case of Stalker with a Crush in which not only is the stalker in a committed relationship with his crush, but he is also portrayed as so sympathetic that you just want to save him from himself.
- The worst has to be the end of Chapter 42 right after Yukino decides that she wants her world to be bigger than just her and Arima. The realization that he cannot bind her to him makes the dark side that Arima was always trying to hide come out. And it is frightening.
- He also stabs himself in the freaking hand in Chapter 72, after ||he believes that he has raped her||, in order to atone for his mistake. Made worse by how
*that* scene comes out: ||Arima is still in his Break Her Heart to Save Her phase after recovering his memories, and she has given him a Cooldown Hug. Then Arima gives Yukino a Forceful Kiss and pins her to the floor, and the scene pans to her disheveled hair and spread school things as she tells Arima to wait. This is followed by an odd scene where Yukino sees a small Arima in the middle of a thorny path and he keeps explaining to her how Ryouko abused him one last time before she abandoned him and he was taken in by his uncle and aunt||. And last but not least, as ||Yukino lays on the floor covered by Arima's school jacket and hugs it in tears||, ||Arima mentally berates himself at home for "forcing his feelings on her"... and THEN goes the Impaled Palm way.|| It's both terrifying and heartwretching: how really fucking **broken** you must be to do that?!
- Yukino's last-ditch attempt to save him can also qualify ||actually
*arguing* with Arima about whether or not he raped her [he believes he did, she replies (paraphrased) "I *did* want to have sex with you, I told you to wait a little but not to stop!"] and then she smashes her hand on glass to mirror his own hand injury||.
- Before all that, Ryouko's treatment of child!Arima is both horrifying and tear-jerking to the nth degree. It can be considered Nightmare Fuel because by the time he was finally adopted by his aunt and uncle, his mother had decided to let him die and left him alone as he starved to death with an extreme fever, right after
*kicking him across the room for begging for help.* Had Reiji arrived a single day or even a few hours later, Arima would have died never knowing anything but constant hatred and abuse.
- Especially Reiji's horror once he notices that Soichiro's crying in the background and he doesn't even know the address to save him.
- And seeing Soichiro's broken little body in the snow from
*Reiji's* perspective was pretty horrifying too. No wonder he immediately handed the poor kid to his brother and sister-in-law ||and years later wants to **murder** Ryoko.||
- ||His father|| Reiji's childhood wasn't much better. ||His mother went insane and tried to drown them both. The only reason Reiji survived is that he kicked her in the face until she let go...||
- The fact that the very first meal Arima had with his aunt and uncle served as the
*very first meal he had ever had*, having basically survived up until than on table scraps, stale bread and whatever cheap crap his mother left in the house that he could get to. And said mother would torment her starving child by eating in front of him while refusing to share; even flying into a rage when a lady offered him a free ice cream. That is how horrible a mother Ryouko is. | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KareKano |
The Garden of Sinners / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes
Trust us, this is a lighter moment.Oh, Nasu, sometimes he can outdo FREAKING Hideaki Anno in terms of sheer messed-up-ness. Overall dark coloring and constant use of silence doesn't help things either. Ghosts that make people commit suicide, human puppets, bizarre carnivorous murderer, and a girl (our protagonist no less) who has a twisted sense of morality and constantly repressed desire of murder; clearly what you see in a kid-friendly series!.
**Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.**
- Any death in general, due to really colorful depiction of blood.
*Overlooking View*
- Shiki investigates a haunted building. For a good, chilling half a minute, really creepy music and equally creepy giggling are heard throughout the building and then the ghost shows up right behind Shiki and her hand gets possessed and tries to throw herself off the building and she had to cut her hand off.
- Being mentally controlled to throw yourself off a building simply because an apparition wanted to get your attention...
*Murder Speculation Part A* **Shiki:** I want to kill you. *Remaining Sense of Pain*
- The very first scene: Fujino is being
*gang-raped!*
- Asagami Fujino's power itself; it can twist anything clockwise and counterclockwise, and she only used it against human limbs except the bridge in the end. Special points for a poor chap in the dock: he got his limbs twisted off, one by one and the accompanying sound effect of both screaming and limbs torn off is very unsettling
- Fujino's inability to feel pain, which comes back via a blow to the back with a baseball bat, causing a constant pain that's far worse than anything the viewer can imagine.
*The Hollow Shrine*
- Shiki trying to blackout her eyes due to her newfound Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. The sound effect that follows the action also puts this in Squick territory.
- And this was prompted by Shiki starting to see the Lines of Death for the first time, seeing them in everything, and every
*one*, in her hospital room, complete with a vision of everybody *falling apart*. As badass as taking advantage of those lines makes her, that is a *really* rough way to get awakened to that. *Paradox Spiral*
- For starters, due to the high amount of blood and gore in this film, some of the fights themselves are nightmare fuel.
- At the beginning of the movie, Enjou Tomoe has a dream where his mother kills him. Cue to him stabbing his mother repeatedly. The squishy sound is bad enough, then he pulls out her intestine and holds it in his hand, feeling how warm it is. Once you know the context, the surprising part is the
**lack** of blood which later gets explained with the conversation between Shiki and Tomoe in Tomoe's fake apartment. Right after that, he runs away from a bunch of thugs. After he gets cornered, a thug tries to sock him. He retaliates by stabbing his eyes, with his bare fingers.
- When Shiki and Tomoe visit Tomoe's real apartment, they are greeted with the pleasant sight of Tomoe's parents' rotting corpses and an equally-disgusting kitchen. The flies don't make the scene any better.
- The mere thought of the viewers putting themselves in Tomoe's shoes is scary enough. How would you feel if you realize you're just a carbon copy of your former, dead self and had to relive your death every day for the rest of your artificial life?
- The scene in the basements of the apartment:piles and piles of Brain Jars. Tomoe's expression after finding his, and his arms fall off, revealing clock-cogs mashed with flesh.
- The scene where Mikiya is getting tortured and having his head bashed into a wall doesn't make it any less painful to watch knowing that the character performing the deed is an expy of Alex Delarge from
*A Clockwork Orange* and Willy Wonka.
- Alba's Karmic Death? He gets torn apart by what can only be described as an Eldritch Abomination that looks like a centipede with lots of mouths. The moral of this chapter: You do not, under any circumstance, mess with Touko.
Who is the person in the above picture? He is Lio Shirazumi, the true culprit of Part A, the villain of Part B and quite a brutal one.
*Murder Speculation Part B* | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/KaraNoKyoukai |
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