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Ben 10 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes If they thought I was a freak before ( ignites hand )... just wait ....( Evil Laugh ). — Kevin 11 Let's face it, a meta-series about Aliens has to involve some horror at some point. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - The first three iterations of the franchise made it a tradition of showing detailed transformation sequences where we see Ben shapeshifting into his alien forms. Many of them tend to involve quite a lot of Body Horror: - Heatblast has Ben's skin being gradually covered with rock then being set on fire. - Ripjaws has Ben's mouth distorting itself and growing monstrous teeth. - Four Arms, XLR8, and Wildmutt in the original series have Ben's muscles growing in a quite disturbing way, making it look like his nerves are becoming apparent. - Four Arms' sequence has a brief shot of a grotesquely overmuscled Ben with the extra arms bursting from his sides. Looking carefully as he turns reveals that he has no nose or mouth before the full Four Arms form appears. - The original transformation for Cannonbolt had Ben's body inflate. - The Alien Force version changes it to Ben's body visibly distorting into the proportions of Cannonbolt, with a brief glimpse of a blank expression on Ben's face. - Ghostfreak has Ben withering into a skeleton during the first part of the transformation. Its even worse in Alien Force, where we get to see Ben's x-rayed skeleton distorting, claws emerging in a Wolverine-like way from his hands, and his skull making a 180° turn as it changes from a normal human skull into Ghostfreak's Ectonurite skull. - Diamondhead's transformation sequence shows his signature crystals growing out of Ben's skin, before a closeup of the yellow crystals of his eyes covering his eyes (although thankfully not in a way implying an Eye Scream). - Goop has Ben literally melting into a pile of goo. - Wildvine has Ben's arm become more vine-like, before the camera zooms into his face as he's suddenly enveloped by vines. - Upgrade has Ben visibly cringing as his face shifts to that of Upgrade, implying it hurts. - It's even harder to watch his first transformation into Heatblast, considering the fact he looked completely terrified and, the more worrying part is, for all we know it could've also been an immensely painful experience for him. It ends with a terrified scream. - Stinkfly has Ben's arm visibly twitching as it transforms and the Omnitrix gets pulled inside, followed by Ben smiling as Stinkfly's four eyestalks emerge from the sides of his head and blink while his human eyes stay closed. - Spidermonkey's four arms are shown to be formed by Ben's two arms splitting down the middle. - Swampfire's admittedly short transformation in The War of the Worlds shows vines spreading out from the Omnitrix, wrapping tight around Ben in a way that looks like he's being smothered. - Rath has a shot of Ben's face becoming Rath's, followed by his arms doing the same, implying that it's not all happening at once, before Rath lunges at the camera. - The original transformation for Ampfibian shows Ben silently screaming. Later transformations bring it more into line with the standard Alien Force/Ultimate Alien sequences, but Ben is still cringing a little. It also cuts from a shot of Ben half-transformed to the full Ampfibian via his tentacles hitting the camera. - The pop-up trivia versions of some original series episodes state that the detailed sequences are slow-motion versions of the more common flash of green light transformations. - A novelisation of And Then There Were 10 makes reference to Ben feeling Wildmutt's hairs growing out of his skin. - Eon in his first (albeit non-canon) appearance was damned creepy. What do you do when a Time Master doesn't like you? Basically, run. His time ray causes Rapid Aging, and the first guy we saw him used it on looked like a half-decomposed corpse... and was still alive. His body had become so brittle that at one point, a not-very-hard touch causes the guy's arm to break off (and we learned his ability to feel pain was very much intact). You probably sighed with relief when the poor guy finished his exposition and died. There's also the way he stalked Ben: staying out of step with reality, he could follow Ben anywhere unseen. You know that weird little blur in your class picture? That's him. Watching you. It's hard to describe, but the handling of him when he'd approach Ben was more like a horror movie's supernatural foe than one of Ben's standard enemies. Also, when he's around, no one can help Ben, because Eon is fond of Time Stands Still. You and a bunch of heavily armed Plumbers are getting ready to show this guy who's boss... and suddenly the Principal starts to talk... very... slowly. Then you're the only one moving... you, and the guy responsible for the most Family-Unfriendly Death in the history of the franchise, who hasn't done it to you yet because he needs you, and who's been looking over your shoulder at school and at home and everywhere. Unlike Vilgax or Dagon or any other Big Bad, there's not an alien in Ben's arsenal note : Okay, he'll eventually get Clockwork. that makes Eon less of a threat. Every time Ben encountered him - and all the times Ben had no idea he was there - Eon could have killed Ben at his leisure and there'd have been nothing Ben could do. His plan needed Ben alive and that's why Ben is still here. - When he returns in Ultimate Alien he's using his power to its maximum level via outright turning to dust anything he hits with it. He also gets a reputation as Hero Killer - he's hunting Bens one parallel dimension at a time and ours is just next on the list. ([It turns out they're not dead, though: his Mooks are the alternate Bens, brainwashed.) Ben gets lucky in that his alien forms leave his human form behind unharmed if they get dusted, though he loses the ability to transform into that alien. (They're restored, though.) He's no longer getting the horror movie treatment, but you still hold your breath with him. - It's kind of a scary world to live in because of how easily it seems the world is doomed. One Xenocyte? Your whole world contains nothing but DNAliens in short order. Death Star class ray guns are available to even comedic villains. Many planets, including Earth, are considered so insignificant that the Plumbers will sometimes not even bother ensuring security to protect them, meaning few people would lay a finger if someone suddenly decides to conquer or destroy Earth (even in the light-hearted iteration Omniverse, a character threatens to destroy Earth because a guy living on it won't marry his daughter, and encounters no resistance whatsoever). - Even worse, there is apparently a galactic code of conduct established by the Galvans to prevent massive loss of live that allows an individual to legally conquer a planet with no outside resistance whatsoever or interference from the Plumbers as long as they defeat the strongest fighter from the planet they are conquering. This allowed Vilgax of all people to conquer ten planets including Ultimos's home planet and would have controlled Earth with no resistance if he managed to defeat Ben. With that in mind, there's not much stopping some other alien from doing the same if they can manage to defeat Ben using the same code. - It also tells when being a genocidal psychopath alone isn't even considered heinous enough by the show's standards to qualify a character as a Complete Monster here because genocides are frequently and liberally attempted by major and minor villains, while in most other settings, it will often throw them into Monster territory. - Vilgax can be quite terrifying from some angle; his voice, provided by Steve Blum, is creepy by itself, especially when he is mostly seen in the shadows in the first episodes. When he finally ends his treatment and goes after Ben of his own, he proves to be unstoppable, defeating most of Ben's alien forms with nothing else than pure strength. And add to that he was ready to cut off Ben's arm to get the Omnitrix. - Even worse, in the alternate universe episode "Gwen 10", it's made clear he doesn't need to cut Gwen's arm to get the Omnitrix (unlike canon Ben, who had the Omnitrix long enough for it to bond to his DNA). He just prefers doing it that way because it's more fun for him... - And then the movie Secret of the Omnitrix reveals he destroyed a planet just for the sake of testing his newly acquired toy. - When he finally encounters Ben in Secret of the Omnitrix its in a dark, secluded hangar. "Hello... Ben." - When he is brought up in his healing tank, you get a good ten seconds of the looks of his injuries. Vilgax is missing both of his legs and his right arm, and its pretty obvious he has a lot of internal injuries as well. The fact that Vilgax, who is well known for surviving pretty much anything, openly admits to nearly dying happily sets off the tone the series will take. - The Limax appeared only once, but they were creepy like hell; those creatures kidnap old people to take their place, while retaining their classic reflexes. Seeing those old people twisting their bodies in weird ways, showing fangs and hissing like snakes could actually fit in a horror movie. To make things worse, it's clearly stated they were intending to eat the humans they had captured. - Kevin 11; the character initially appears as being a mere punk with powers... until we find out he is ready to kill thousands of people just to get money. The Slasher Smile he displays in some scenes also contribute. - The Slasher Smile is what really sells it. The joy he has when he's about to kill someone (stopped by Ben at the last moment, naturally) makes it clear that he loves hurting people, to a greater degree than any Big Bad the series has had. This also adds Fridge Horror to it: when he's onscreen, he's always stopped when one second away from killing people because he can... and he is sometimes active offscreen, when Ben's not there. (Watch Kevin's onscreen behavior in "Framed" and then recall that he operated with the same MO in several other cities before Ben and the gang found out what was going on. There's a reason people are complaining about the improbability of his HeelFace Turn to this day.) - Then it turns out his powers allow him to copy Ben's powers by absorbing energy from aliens, resulting in some scene into large Body Horror; his final mutation in "Framed" is one of the creepiest scene in the show; we can feel the pain he goes through while the whole thing happens. What triggers the transformation? His anger and hatred after Ben says to him, "You're not worth it. You never were." - Zombozo; not only is his look disturbing, with a zombie-like face and a long, inhuman tongue, but the guy feeds on people's happiness. Not scary so far? Well just see what is left when he has sucked most of it... - The place where he's fought in the end makes it worse. Basically, it's like being inside a Disney Acid Sequence, only significantly less cute. The guy is supremely creepy, especially because this is usually a sci-fi show. This guy isn't an alien, or someone who got this hands on phasers. He's a Humanoid Abomination who steals happiness and creates a bizarre netherworld with Alien Geometries at his command. Everything about him takes the subverted cuteness that makes a Monster Clown up to a cosmic, reality-bending scale, and we never find the man behind the curtain, never get the "ah, here's his Holodeck-maker" or "'stealing happiness' means his Applied Phlebotinum does this or that to your brain chemistry" Doing In the Wizard moment... and it also doesn't work like any magic we see with Hex and Charmcaster (and Gwen, once she steals Charmcaster's book). He doesn't play by the rules we know, he and everything about him simply is. He will feed on your very soul. He will turn your reality outside in. How? He just does, it's just what he is. If Stephen King wrote comic books, if HP Lovecraft had created The Joker, you would have this guy. - What's worse is how he was beaten; Ghostfreak. All we see is Ghostfreak's back to the camera as he pulls apart his body to reveal a mass of tentacles to Zombozo. It was only a taste of what was to come. (Not to mention... Ben has a form that a Humanoid Abomination is afraid of?!) - Clancy in his first appearance; not only is the guy controlling bugs, which is already creepy of its own, but he intended to have a woman eaten by them. - And in the "Negative Ten" special, he has been turned into a half-human, half-bug monster. He hasn't shown up since, so we never find out if the change is permanent or not. - Anything related to Zs'Skayr; from his creepy transformation sequence, to the nightmares he made Ben go through when he was attempting to escape, to his true form, to his scheme in season 3 covering Earth with darkness and turning everyone on the planet into monstrous mutants and to top it off, his laugh! - Just think for a second. You're a kid with superpowers, able to shape shift. Now, one of your forms, which you've always been wary of, has suddenly become the subject of screaming nightmares. NOW, it takes over your body and uses it to ruthlessly beat down a trio of villains (it's unclear whether or not Ben was conscious for that). And THEN, it pops up in the real world, giving you a mother of a jump scare before RIPPING OFF ITS SKIN. AND THEN, it goes on a rampage and possessed your cousin, forcing her to fight you and threatening to make her jump off a building unless you surrender. AND THEN, you're forced in a demonic hide-and-seek game while you're two inches tall and it can pass through walls. AND THEN, just when you think it's all over, just when it seems like the nightmare is finally over..."I LIVE!!" - Zs'Skayr's motive in Ghostfreaked Out after escaping? It's either to possess or absorb Ben. He never makes it explicitly clear which, but Ben is only saved by the fact Zs'Skayr can't bond with Ben when he's already in alien form. But he comes dangerously close. - The entire episode with the the alien tick trying to purify the Earth... by devouring all of Earth. This tick, dubbed "The Great One" by his followers, has already "purified" previous worlds, and you can see what it does to a planet as it feeds- mutate the environment into a completely inhospitable wasteland. It gradually poisons Yellowstone Park to the point plants have turned into living tentacles with mouths, Old Faithful becomes a sickening pustule of acid geysers, and the the atmosphere turns chalk white. Ben is unable to even lay a scratch on the Great One with any of his original 10 aliens, practically skipping Grey Matter because he's so pitiful in every way but brainpower. Worse, this tick engorges and grows as it feeds, secretes blue pus, is infested with lice, and sheds its skin to transform into a paler, nastier version of itself. - The nastiest scene is its death. Ben has acquired his first new alien, Cannonbolt, but the tick can't be harmed on the outside. Instead, Ben, as Cannonbolt, goes inside the tick and demolishes its inner organs until they leak out alien blood, smashes through all its ribs, and causes it to explode, spilling its goopy entrails everywhere. Fortunately, Yellowstone reverts back to normal, but there's still the matter of cleaning up the mess... poor Ben. - Just imagine if this incident spread out past Yellowstone and caught the attention of the world. They might not have been able to stop it from wiping out the planet. One also wonders if others in Yellowstone park witnessed the destruction. Plot hole, anyone? - The very fact that this thing has worshippers that call it the "Great One", refer to its process of destroying planets as "purification" and think of it as a joyous event to "rejoice" about. What happened to those three to put them into a mindset like that? - We commonly hear of Ben's exploits on the news and such; "those alien heroes" are well known before Ben's secret identity is exposed in Ultimate Alien. It's not like the world's unaware of all this stuff, even though this incident doesn't get directly mentioned. Of course, with Yellowstone turned into a Death World, it's entirely possible people saw but just didn't survive to report. - The Tennysons go to a wedding between a Plumber family's son and a nice girl who happens to be from a species that despises the Plumbers, and are basically oozes that can look human. When the girl's parents reveal that they have been trying to sabotage the wedding because they can't stand the thought of their daughter marrying a Plumber's kid, they not only turn into huge, bruise-colored monsters, but Ben uses Heatblast to cook them until they turn to stone, which apparently doesn't bother their daughter one bit. Even Ben's dance with the flower girl gets creepy when her feet turn to slime in the middle of their dance, which she thinks is funny as hell. - Damn near the entirety of the episode "Camp Fear". The title alone should have clued you in. The Festering Fungus villain nearly managed to spread its spores around the world, turning anything that breathed it in into a mushroom person. Not only that, but the missing campers never get accounted for... - Actually the missing campers are accounted for, at least to some degree. When Max enters the main mess hall, he notices that a plate of spaghetti and meatballs sitting on one of the tables is still warm; remarking that everyone must have left in a hurry. So it's more than likely that all the campers and councilors conducted a full emergency evacuation of the campgrounds the moment the mushroom monsters started showing up. The three campers we do see were simply left behind by accident. - The first transformation into Wildvine is played more ominously than normal, with the Omnitrix making some kind of charging sound and the white tubing beginning to glow green, with Ben having a terrified expression. It's also implied to have been malfunctioning immediately before. - Max is completely absent of his usual grandfather traits when the mask and key to "The Ultimate Weapon" is unearthed in its titular episode, especially given it was one of the major goals of his entire Plumber career. He becomes an Unscrupulous Hero that isn't afraid to elbow an innocent security guard to the side instead of treating civilians with care, he tries ram Enoch and the Forever Knights off the road without a shred of mercy, and is such a hard-concentrated man on a mission that he risks endangering Ben and Gwen's lives repeatedly before he finally comes to his senses. - The Forever Knights were showcased before this episode, and show they Would Hurt a Child quite readily when Ben impedes their path. But then trying to get in the way of Enoch's plans has him outright attempt to murder the entire Tennyson family with glee. For an idea of how much of a Knight of Cerebus this is, though it's not fully on-screen and isn't emphasized for causing wounds or the like, this is one of the only times in the entire franchise Max and Gwen are hit with live weapons intending to kill instead of narrowly dodging or getting non-lethally hit and knocked aside.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ben10
Beauty and the Beast / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The very beginning of the movie can be scary for younger viewers. The eerie music combined with the stained glass pictures, while both beautiful things when you're an adult, can make kids not want to watch the movie at all. A tiny, blink-and-you'll-miss-it image as the camera zooms in on the enchanted rose in the West Wing: on the balcony just outside, we see a stone face carved into the wall that looks like it's screaming. It's as if the castle itself were silently screaming in agony over the curse. The Beast's first full appearance (see above image), when he furiously confronts and drags away Maurice for trespassing in his castle. It's distinctly more bestial than his usual look and his eyes are depicted much larger and piercing than they usually are, creating an eerie sensation, overall looking like something out of a nightmare. Beast: WHO ARE YOU?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?! Before that there is a magnificent shot of when the parlour's doors are flung open, the wind blows the fire out and a long, hugely imposing horned shadow sweeps up to engulf the back of the chair where Maurice, only seconds ago, was enjoying a reprieve from his brush with death by the wolf pack. The Beast locks up Maurice afterward, likely with the intention of keeping him there until he eventually dies from hunger or older age. This happens in-universe for Belle, when she asks the Beast to come into the light to see him properly; as his foot appears her eyes get wider and wider, and when he's fully revealed she's clearly terrified. Cogsworth's terror of angering the master, and we see it's justified with the Beast's bad temper. Lumiere believes in Sacred Hospitality and Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!, but also it's not like the Beast can hurt a living candelabra. So when an innocent man is imprisoned, the two are arguing about Lumiere creating the situation. The Beast when Belle disobeys him and goes into the West Wing. For the only time in the movie Belle seems to be in danger of actual physical harm from him, as he smashes furniture in rage with single blows of his paws. On top of that, the way he yells can be enough to scare a child. The West Wing, which is much darker and more gothic than the rest of the castle. According to Word of God, the Beast hides the carcasses of animals he's slaughtered in there. I.e, because if Belle hadn't come along he would've turned full Beast and, as mentioned below, lost his humanity. And then there's that mutilated portrait. It's not enough that it was made with that creepy straight-ahead stare, the eyes just had to be the only intact part of the painting. The Beast's "GET OUT!" is extra powerful and extra scary in the French dub. Beast: She'll never see me as anything... but a monster. (a petal falls off the rose) It's hopeless. The creepy spidery coach-thing that whirrs like an angry insect hive as it transports Maurice back to the village. You never see this thing again during the rest of the film. It makes you wonder where it's hiding. Or what it used to be. Monsieur D'Arque, the asylum owner, is WAAAAAAY scarier than even the actual Beast himself, and is more evil and sadistic than Gaston. Played by the same person who voiced Frollo, and looked like Frollo. Gaston's opening attack on the Beast. He shoots him with an arrow, and kicks him onto the balcony. Note that Gaston could simply do a Boom, Headshot! with the Beast, but he goads him about being too kind to fight back. Of course, the tables turn when the Beast sees that Belle has come back, and she's calling out in alarm for Gaston to stop attacking the latter. The Beast grabs Gaston's makeshift club and roars. The Beast is actually more dangerous during the fight than he was before. In the beginning, he would lash out at people who came to his castle with violence and fought the wolves that way. Here, he's thinking on how to outwit Gaston because he knows Belle came back for him and thus he has a reason to live. As a result, he curb-stomps Gaston effectively by letting the latter waste his strength smashing gargoyles. In the musical stage play version, he stabbed the Beast two times. Imagine if that happened in the movie. That would be pretty messy. Then, directly afterwards, comes his Disney Villain Death: even though it's less Family Unfriendly than, say, the deaths of other Disney antagonists, such as Ursula or Scar, him losing his balance, the sheer height of his fall, his terrified expression (both while losing his balance and plummeting), and his long, high-pitched scream all make it chill-worthy. If you pause the movie when he's falling, you can see skullsin his eyes.◊ note :Word of God stated that they were meant to confirm his fate for those who doubt he died from the fall. That's nothing when you take into account the former option for Gaston's death: when stabbing The Beast on the roof before falling off, he reacted while falling to his doom in a very similar fashion to Jack Nicholson's Joker when he plummeted to his death in Batman. The original line was even darker before it was re-written to the above one. Gaston:Its over, Beast! (cue lightning strike) TIME TO DIE! Also consider the Beast's death itself, the placement of the wound looks like Gaston stabbed him in the lung (and knowing Gaston, knew exactly where to stab him to do it), which is a truly agonizing way to die. His obvious pain and struggling to breathe as he says his last words to Belle combine this trope with Tear Jerker. He is also visibly bleeding from that wound. And among other things, the music preceding that part and leading into it. There's a good reason it didn't appear on the original soundtrack. When Phillipe runs off, leaving Maurice alone, all the man can do is mutter "oh no" to himself as storm clouds gather. Maurice then hears an ominous growl, and sees three wolves off in the distance, staring him down. The image by itself is Nothing Is Scarier as they simply stare down the camera. Maurice appropriately takes off running, and the wolves are able to cover the ground between them and Maurice in moments. The second chase as well. There's a reason that pack is the page image for Savage Wolves. Belle and Philippe try to ride in the snow, only to get surrounded by wolves. Philippe's reins snag on a tree, and Belle is left to defend her horse with a stick. The wolves are smart; one grabs her cape when the other pounces. If not for the Beast, Belle would have died then and there. While it's both Heartwarming and Awesome, the Beast arriving to Belle's rescue with a full out roar is a poignant reminder that he is dangerous and not somebody to be messed with. According to Word of God, Gaston was originally supposed to survive the fall and then get eaten by said wolves in a deleted scene. It was deemed too dark, though it was eventually recycled for The Lion King with hyenas instead of wolves. The castle fight, for both sides. Sure, it's Played for Laughs in the movie complete with whacky music (except for Gaston's fight with the Beast, which is treated seriously), but when describing it in words, it sounds scary. At first, the castle inhabitants try to bar the door. They realize that it won't hold, however. Lumiere desperately tells everyone to prepare to fight. A trunk swallows the baker, with a slurp. It turns out he's fine, but geez. Mrs. Potts and the kid teacups pour boiling water on one of the attackers. He gives an agonized scream. The Wardrobe gives an operatic scream and crushes a man. No, it's no Gory Discretion Shot; he's still in the same spot where she made a physical impact. Then she curbstomps two other men with her drawers and clothes, all with a Death Glare. One of the villagers plucking Babette (the feather duster). It's the same as pulling someones hair. If you recall that she has a human form as a housemaid and that her feathers correspond to her skirt, this could be considered the same thing as rape, which is so much worse. The evil chuckling from the villager and Lumiere's reaction add to the effect. Considering that Lumiere probably gave that guy 3rd degree burns on his butt would seem a little harsh if it wasn't for the aforementioned act. It could have just been the equivalent of ripping off her skirt, which is... not nearly as horrifying as rape but still plenty unsettling. Compare Cinderella's abusive stepsisters tearing apart her homemade dress. Lefou and the villagers cornering the innocent cushion dog in the kitchen. All the dog did was steal Lefou's shoe, and they were aiming weapons and pitchforks at it. Then it turns out the dog lured them into the darkened room on purpose. Lefou and the other villagers were given a right scare when they realized that everything in that kitchen was alive and hostile, including the stove (complete with Evil Laugh) and the cutlery. Yeah, they justifiably hightailed it out of there fast, and in a hurry. Another bit from the battle scene where Lefou backs Lumiere into a corner with a torch. The following close-up shows Lumiere's terrified expression as the flames slowly melt his wax head, and as he was turned into a living candelabra, being melted might kill him. Thankfully Cogsworth shows up a second later in a Big Damn Heroes moment, but it's still a pretty tense moment. Overlapping with Tearjerker: After Belle leaves to take care of her father, the Beast bays out of sorrow. After watching him become more gentle and human-like throughout the film, it's both heartbreaking and horrifying to see him revert to animalistic roaring. If you listen carefully, when watching the Special Extended Edition, you can hear breaking glass and wood as she rides away. The Beast is destroying things in the West Wing again, likely with even more ferocity than when Belle nearly touched the enchanted rose.note : The addition of the Musical Chores number "Human Again" to the extended version necessitated the redrawing of several backgrounds, to remove signs of damage and decay. To save time redrawing all the backgrounds, the directors decided to leave those used during the climax untouched, and added these sounds to explain why they look damaged. On the 2002 Platinum Edition DVD, they also play in the "Original" and Work-in-Progress Editions, due to Disney using almost the exact same soundtracks for all three versions. Gaston's determination to make Belle his wife, including locking away her father in an insane asylum... purely because he can. Which gets even worse, by his reaction when Belle seems to have feelings for someone else, a "monster". Its pretty clear that, after this final rejection, Gaston has lost whatever sanity he may have had. Gaston's line about having six-or-seven strapping boys is unnerving. What if, hypothetically, his wife gave him a daughter? Or a son he didn't like? Gaston could have become an Abusive Parent quite easily. The thought of what Belles life might have been like had she married Gaston also counts. Being the wife of a chauvinist pig would have probably broken her, both mentally and possibly even physically. Stage Play Maurice has the sense to say he's leaving when the Beast appears, realizing he's not welcome. Whereas his film counterpart was too ill to move, he nearly walks out the door since the wolves seem safer than this unknown master of the castle. The Beast grabs him, taking out his anger on a random stranger and imprisoning him. While it's Played for Laughs, Gaston's proposal to Belle is even worse than the film. At least Animated Belle was able to trick him into tripping outside; Stage Belle doesn't have that option since Gaston catches her in the front yard when he's knocking on her door. Some stagings have her trying to discreetly get away from him, only for him to forcibly grab and manhandle her. Others have him shoving flowers in her face to start the song, usually ones she picked for herself. He puts his hands around her waist when she tries to go inside, makes her cling to him, and nearly kisses her before he resumes singing. At some point, Belle just gives up when Gaston picks her up and waits for an opportunity to steal away. Gaston assumes that Belle is playing "Hard to get!" and reassures the Bimbettes that this is a setback before pretending to skip off happily or stomping off. The Bimbettes are too enamored of Gaston to understand the implications. A random servant grabs Belle when she finds her father and the Beast in the dungeon. She's completely helpless, and it's unknown what the Beast would do to her: either lock her up as well or kick her out. Then said servant grabs Maurice when he's freed to escort him back to the village. The scene in which the mob comes to take Belle's father away. When Belle asks him to stop and he says he'll only help her if she marries him, not only does Gaston gives her a Forceful Kiss, but when she slaps him in retaliation, he almost punches her. He only stops because the rest of the mob were still watching this and gasps in horror, so he decided not to hurt Belle just so he can save face. Very frightening and not very Disney-esque. The servants who have been cursed to live as hybrid-object-human things are gradually turning into full-fledged inanimate objects. Cogsworth and Lumière (themselves transforming into a clock and a candelabrum respectively) even joke on a few servants that this has already happened to (including a "dumb as a brick" coworker who is the wall behind the stove). To elaborate: rather than simply transforming into sentient-but-mobile household items, the servants of the castle are still essentially human, but as each day passes, they become more and more object-like, slowly losing their humanity. It's implied that once they completely become objects, they'll either be dead, or stuck forever as human souls trapped inside immobile, sightless, voiceless items. In this case, the former actually seems like a kinder alternative. Of course, it's really a concession to the fact that the parts have to be played by people - so the scene explains why the clock, candlestick, teapot and others are still "human sized", but it still makes for excellent Nightmare Fuel. This transformation also happens in the 2017 live-action remake.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeautyAndTheBeast
Ben 10: Omniverse / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes While it is Lighter and Softer compared to Alien Force and Ultimate Alien, it had its moments too. - In case Zombozo wasn't creepy enough in the original series and Ultimate Alien, Omniverse gives him a more zombie-like appearance, with visible ribs, an apparently missing eye, and decayed flesh in some places. In addition, this is his first appearance since Gwen punished him back in Ultimate Alien, and maybe this is the end result. - Psyphon has become much more creepy and threatening, with a newer, more shark-like design, Ax-Crazy tendencies (he thinks about eviscerating one of his own henchmen), and actually managing to screw around with Ben's nerves. - Outbreak puts it further with him. Two words : Pyronite Psyphon. - And in the mainly fun episode "Special Delivery", he charges himself up with a Dwarf Star and beats the crap out of Humungousaur. Ben is suitably worried. - The Nosedeenians in A Jolt from the Past screech in terror as Fistrick's men re-capture them and when Fistrick uses them to power his mech-suit. It's also implied that being forcibly drained of their electricity by Fistrick's tech is causing them extreme pain. - Khyber's Trophy Room is filled with bodies and body parts from various aliens that have been confirmed to be sentient over the course of the show. This includes a skull from a Vaxasaurian (Humungousaur's species), a helmet that looks like it belonged to the Sentient Ultimate Humungousaur from The Ultimate Sacrifice above in the Ultimate Alien section, The hook hand of Lockdown, Grimlock's sword, a shell from a Geochelone Aerio (Terraspin's species), a Crabdozer head, an Appoplexian skeleton, and many others... - Khyber himself has his moment. In It Was Them, when Ben is being trapped by one of his pet's forms, he is shown holding a long knife and saying "Soon", strongly hinting he was intending to behead Ben... - Then in Of Predators and Prey, he outright states he plans to cut off Ben's hand and to keep it with the Omnitrix, even indicating where he plans to place it in his Trophy Room. Even Ben seems disturbed. - Malware's birth in Azmuth's flashback is very scary. When Azmuth disconnected the Helix, a yellow and black puddle leaked out, eventually shaping itself into a Galvanic Mechamorph. He then displays his ability to copy and destroy technology, seems weakened.... and rushes at the closest innocent Galvanic Mechamorph around with claws at the ready. And then the flashback cuts off. - Malware's appearance in Of Predators And Prey showcases that he's got a new, much more monstrous look to him, and it's shown that he, along with his associates, forced Phil, Max's old partner, to use the Nemetrix, with this experiment being shown, but scarcely seen. - Malefactor reveals the reason for Malware's monstrous appearance and all but demonstrates his Knight of Cerebus status. When he and Present Ben meet for the first time, Ben is furious and a bit scared at the sight of him. Now keep in mind that Ben himself stated that he's faced many foes such as Vilgax the Conqueror and Dagon the Destroyer. What has Malware done to make Ben of all people scared of him? Malware even hinted at it, saying something to the effect of Ben knowing better than anyone what Malware is capable of. Chances are that he wasn't talking about the worst thing he'd done in that episode to that point (serving as a distraction so Khyber could scan this alien moth animal for the Nemetrix.) - We also find out what his Arm Cannon does. Malware assimilated a gun that takes an enemy apart on the cellular level and the effect can spread to anything with a similar genetic structure. If it were to hit a human, every human for 100 miles would basically turn to dust. It also means if Malware ever scores a direct hit on Ben or any other of our heroes, there's no Only a Flesh Wound, no "just stunned." No possible effect other than "you die, game over." Malware's no Zombozo, but every single time we see him, we add to the list reasons why you know if he's around, shit just got real. - Malware endangering a busload of innocent children to escape from Ben is quite frightening. Especially right after the Sandy Hook massacre put endangering children right in the public's mind. - And we finally find out why Ben's so afraid of Malware. He painfully tore Feedback (Ben's favorite alien from when he was 11) out of the Omnitrix and destroyed the form. As if that weren't bad enough, there's how he did it. Red lines spread over Feedback as either he or the Omnitrix emits a horrific screeching noise that sounds like a dying fax machine mixed with AOL, until Ben has been pulled out of him and Feedback is just hanging limply in Malware's hand before Malware causes him to wither and disintegrate into dust right in front of Ben! So on top of all the other reasons this guy is so scary, Ben knows he can destroy his aliens in a horrific fashion if he ever gets the chance. No wonder Ben's scared of him. - And it's also a traumatic experience for poor 11-year-old Ben. It filled him with such rage that he actually tried to kill Malware by setting the Omnitrix to overload the rogue Galvanic Mechamorph, Not only did Malware eventually reform himself and flee in secret, the incident left Ben unable to turn into Feedback for the next five years. It also left him traumatized to the point where he won't even talk about Feedback in the present time. - Showdown, Part 1 also finally shows Malware killing two Galvanic Mechamorph guards onscreen, and the end of the same episode has Malware seemingly entering Omnicidal Maniac territory by destroying Galvan B. - Showdown, Part 2 shows Malware grow bigger than even Way Big and look even more horrific. This is even more punctuated by him absorbing Way Big into himself. - "Malgax Attacks" has Vilgax having Albedo fashion Malware's remains into a Powered Armor. But what's scary is at the end. After Vilgax is defeated, something black and red seeps out of Vilgax's petrified remains. - On a related note: said Powered Armor basically makes Vilgax look downright demonic. And that's not counting the fact Vilgax spends the episode more or less wearing a corpse. - The Psycholeopterran whose DNA Khyber was taking is kinda hardcore. It makes you see your fondest desire, but it is a predatory beast. Most Lotus-Eater Machine scenarios give you a long time to realize the world's wrong and marshal your Heroic Willpower, or your friends come and rescue you, or something. This thing however... If you happen to encounter this thing in the wild, you've got about five seconds in la-la land before this thing eats you. And just think, aliens use this thing as a G-Rated Drug. If it's improperly contained, enjoy your Darwin Award. - Billy Billions getting trapped in Dimension 12 is very frightening. Sure, he brought it on himself but think about it, he's trapped in a dimension where he cannot age and is hunted down by robots designed to destroy all organic life. That's scary. - And it's also scary how close he came to getting rid of Ben. Ben was too busy with the thief he caught to notice someone gunning for him. Had he not been Diamondhead at the time, who's crystalline body deflected the laser, he would have been sucked into Dimension 12 and the Ben 10 universe would have been very different. - For five years Billy's parents didn't know where he was. For five years, they had no idea their little boy was trapped in a dimension filled with killer robots. Truly, a parent's worst nightmare. - Store 23 was initially about Ben trying to find the legendary 23rd Mr. Smoothy store and lots of wacky hijinks ensue. Now, why is this episode on this page? Because Ben does find Store 23, and it turns out to be a unique Mr. Smoothy that travels between dimensions. The real shocker however comes when Ben stumbles into Dimension 23, whose native Ben Tennyson (dubbed Ben 23) is more of an Attention Whore and has Fantastic Racism against all aliens that aren't his Omnitrix transformations. The reason... in this dimension, Grandpa Max died before Ben obtained the Omnitrix. As a result, Ben 23 didn't get the moral support and Character Development that would mold our Ben into the Humble Hero he is today. Wanna make it even worse? Ben 23 nearly ripped his reality's version of Azmuth in half! - A weird variant, but Fistina's look with her Kraaho boyfriend in Special Delivery is kinda disturbing. Even the other villains are freaked out. - That same episode gives us Toepick, one of the aliens mentioned in the Ben 10,000 future and hasn't been given a physical form until now. All that was said about this alien is that it grosses even Ben out. At first it seems to be an ordinary alien with a helmet. Then the faceplate opens, revealing a horribly grotesque face. We're never shown its face, but if Psyphon's screams of terror are any indication, it's better if we didn't. Even more so, Zombozo is established as Nightmare Fuel incarnate, and yet Toepick terrified him at least as much as (maybe worse than) Ghostfreak. - Toepick, as mentioned just earlier, hides his Nightmare Face in a cage. According to Word of God, only Ma Vreedle, blind species, and robots aren't scared (though with robots it would trigger a defensive reaction). - It heightens the nightmarish implications when both Psyphon with a Dwarf Star and Zombozo (you know, the closest thing the series has to a god of fear), are scared relentlessly by Toepick. - Psychobos' Mind Control serum when used on Revonnah. Seeing all those mind-controlled people acting so mechanical was somehow extremely creepy. - Frogs of War has Psychobos and the Incurseans unleashing an army of mutated To'Kustar on Earth. While the most well known one is something of a Cute Monster Girl, the others are more akin to berserk Evas with skeletal faces. Three in particular are Body Horror incarnate. - Rook and Max as zombie clowns. Zombie clowns in general, actually. - Proctor Servantis, leader of the Rooters and serial mind rapist. His design is creepy enough, but then there's also his voice. Charles Adler is usually known for playing funny characters, but there is nothing funny about Servantis, who is a chillingly composed sociopathic Knight Templar. He frequently snatched and experimented on various humans AND aliens alike (most notably, YOUNG ORPHANS), brainwashing them into becoming his loyal servants. The purpose? All to stop Ben Tennyson, as his inexperience with the powerful Omnitrix could be detrimental to the world, possibly the universe. Sounds kinda noble, right? Unfortunately, Servantis and the Rooters didnt seem to care about leaving Ben alone with the device off his wrist, and insist that Ben must DIE along with it. - In "Mystery, Incorporeal", Darkstar appears to have a cult under his control. He drains one of the girls in the cult of life force. Another girl, who appears to be her sister, replies by saying "Margie's so lucky" When Margie has just been left a dessicated husk. As if that is some kind of opportunity.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ben10Omniverse
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes In The Ultimate Sacrifice, Ben is trapped inside the Ultimatrix with the Ultimate Aliens come to life. Somehow they've become sentient and believe that he is keeping them prisoner and using them as desired (which in reality is more up Albedo's alley since he created the Ultimatrix), and are not happy with it... and they believe Ben's death will free them. You're treated to a scene of a flaming pit where Ben is going to be tossed into to roast alive, as several of his alien forms stand around chanting "Burn! Burn! Burn!" - Think about it, it's almost the same situation with Ghostfreak, but worse. Six of his most powerful aliens, who all evolved to be combat based, want him to die. Funny thing is, Ultimate Wildmutt and Ultimate Way Big didn't show up in this episode (while Ultimate Wildmutt's reason for absence is unknown, Ben had yet to use Ultimate Way Big at this point), but if they DID, Ben would have been dead in a few seconds. - Ben spends a good chunk of the episode snapping between himself and the sentient Ultimate Humungosaur personality, enough for the two to hold a conversation, and for the Ultimate Humungosaur personality to attempt to strangle Ben. This even extends to when Ben is in human form. - How does the Sentient Ultimate Humungosaur personality first reveal itself? Take over mid-fight, deliver a particularly brutal beatdown to the opponent, and when Gwen protests that Ben's taking things too far, it roars "I'm not Ben!" - When Ben first wakes up inside the Ultimatrix, he thinks he's dead and has to try and convince himself that he might not be. Ben: I'm too young to die. And too famous, not to mention handsome and smart and talented. And charming, let's not forget that! But, if I am dead, chances are the place with the fiery red light is not where I wanna go! - How does Ben escape the Ultimatrix, along with the Sentient Ultimate Aliens? By willingly jumping into the pit, the Heroic Sacrifice causing the Ultimatrix to spare him along with releasing the Sentients. - Before doing so, Ben comes to the conclusion that he has to sacrifice his life, both due to his mindset that a hero would sacrifice themselves for the sake of others, and because of the Ultimates' belief that he's been holding them captive. - The entire situation with the Ultimate Aliens achieving sentience? Caused by a glitch in the Ultimatrix's systems. If it weren't for Kevin getting Azmuth to help with the situation and correct the faults, the situation could have happened again.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ben10UltimateAlien
Bendy and the Dark Revival / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "I... am the Ink Demon. This realm... is MINE!!!" The Ink Machine and its unholy creations return to bring us a new round of terror in a neverending Cycle. As we were warned the first time, we are warned again: Above all, fear the machine. For the Nightmare Fuel page of Bendy and the Ink Machine, go here. - Wilson introduces himself by prying the elevator doors open, which will definitely make you jump if you're not ready for it. But that's not the worst of it. He talks to you — in a voice that practically screams stranger danger — like a pet or child in need of "protection" which helps absolutely nothing. He even slips in some very unwelcome flirting. Then the power goes out... - The Lost Ones in the first game were largely peaceful, at least until Sammy's defeat in Chapter 5, but now, thanks to Wilson's manipulations, they are hostile enemies from the start around the studio; the first one you encounter threatens to kill you if he catches sight of you. While some Lost Ones are friendly and initially wary of strangers, others attack intruders on sight, even with weapons of their own. - The Ink Demon is back, and he means business. Not even the Lost Ones are spared from him. You barely manage to get away from him momentarily through a steel door during your first encounter, but now you are in danger of being hunted. If you get caught outside a hiding spot once his (very short) warning is up? Instant death. And not a respawn either, full on Game Over. Oh, and he can appear at pretty much any time. - If caught, the Ink Demon can kill you in a variety of ways, from being impaled to eaten alive to disembowled. - A memo titled "The Ghosts" describes how the ink creatures are pulled back into the ink to be reborn when they die, but sometimes their souls can slip from the ink completely, leaving them trapped between worlds unable to die or return. - You go into a room where the corpse of a female Lost One lays next to an audio log that belonged to an employee named Jane Todd, who worked on a female ghost character named "Carley" to add to the Butcher Gang. You see a wooden crate at the other side of the room beside a cardboard cutout of Carley. Should you choose to open the crate, you are treated to a horrific, mutilated version of Carley called "Slicer" laying lifelessly inside, looking very akin to the monster designs of Piper, Fisher, and Striker. Not too bad right? Well, when you look away from Slicer and turn back to it, she suddenly vanishes from inside the crate without a trace. And it's not just Slicer, but the audio log AND the Lost One corpse next to it are gone as well! It's then you realize that you have unleashed another threat into the studio. - You walk out of the room and move towards the next doorway to progress - when suddenly Slicer, reanimated with glowing eyes, appears out of nowhere, charges at you screaming and scratching at you before vanishing! You are now periodically haunted by Slicer, who is unkillable and can give new players jumpscares at random times while also harming them. - The Butcher Gang in general are far more revamped than before, as now all are a collective Ambushing Enemy. Piper, Striker, and Fisher might randomly pop up from nearly any hiding space while Audrey roams the inky world, without warning. - Audrey tries to take the elevator to the upper floors, but when the Keepers detect unauthorized use of the elevator, she is ejected into a chamber deeper in the studio called the Pit, where those caught in restricted areas are taken. Upon gaining consciousness, she finds herself in a nest filled with pulsing ink egg sacs. And what comes out of them are small and spider-like ink creatures with human-shaped molars, just ready to swarm and eat her. Even worse, there's a bigger one, presumably the parent! - If you die to it, there is a cutscene of it slowly eating you, legs first. Thats got to be an awful way to go - Ever wonder what happened to Bertram after Henry cut off his limbs? Well don't worry, he's alive and well... and just a head, outside his box, staring right at you the whole time you're in the room... - Making it worse is that his single eye follows you. - One of the objects in the room with the characters from the first game is a display case with the Projectionist's camera head, hitting the case makes the head scream indicating the Projectonist is still alive. - The Keepers audio logs note that they conducted painful experiments on Bendy AFTER he got turned into his smaller form in an attempt to learn how to kill him for good. They describe how fun it was making him cry and scream in a completely clinical tone. Note that normal Bendy is mute and only his demon form talks. The Keepers tortured a mute entity to the point it regaining its voice just to make it scream in pain. - A sidequest has Audrey get food for a large Lost One so he can let you into a room with loot. The food turns out to be one of those cartoon hearts you collected for Alice in the first game, cooking on a stove in the studio cafeteria. A nearby note from the Joey Drew Studios chef talks about how one of his coworkers unexpectedly died in his kitchen on his last day before leaving the company while the chef was wondering what to cook because he didn't have anything left due to Joey's budget cuts. The chef notes how everyone else thinks the coworker already left and no one will notice he's dead... - Knock over ten pots while out in the streets, then look up at the sky. The moon will suddenly get closer and bigger while bearing the face of an angry grimace, just like in that one The Legend of Zelda game. - Twisted Alice returns, making her appearance by ambushing Audrey as she takes her third sip of a sleeping potion. Next thing we see? We're in an electric chair, surrounded by a whole bunch of Lost Ones unfortunate enough to have earned Alice's wrath. - Wilson's true motive for Audrey. He plans to bring his cartoon creation, Shipahoy Dudley, to life in order to end the threat of the Ink Demon and take his place as a ruler that Wilson can control. However, in order to complete the process, Wilson needs Audrey's soul, intending to kill her. And we get a look at a row of saw blades revving up inside a capsule he's dragging Audrey toward, ready to shred her to pieces. During the struggle between Audrey and Wilson, she pushes him into the capsule instead, and the man is ripped into pieces by the saw blades as he lets out a dying scream. When the process is done, there's nothing left of Wilson but pieces of his arm and body surrounding the capsule. - In the Ink Machine chamber, Audrey pulls the lever that activates the surrounding signal towers, nullifying her powers. Suddenly a large anchor throws itself from the ink pool in front of the Ink Machine and out jumps a hulking, horrific monstrosity resembling Shipahoy Dudley. As a result of being merged with Wilson's soul, this monster is an amalgamation of Shipahoy Dudley, his pet crab, and Wilson himself. You can even see Wilson's mangled corpse wrapped around the monster's waist, still conscious.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BendyAndTheDarkRevival
Bendy and the Ink Machine / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes # WARNING: Spoilers Off applies to all Nightmare Fuel pages on the wiki. Unmarked spoilers ahoy! Above all, fear the machine. — Tagline The tagline above is not for show. In its relatively short run, Bendy and the Ink Machine has proven itself to be one of the scariest games of 2017. With a gloomy atmosphere that's rife with Paranoia Fuel, gameplay elements that change with each update, disturbing enemy designs that are guaranteed to make you lose hours of sleep, and a dark, cryptic story that increasingly sounds like something out of a Cosmic Horror Story with an ending that has to be seen to be believed, by the time you're done playing, you learn to fear the machine... will For the Nightmare Fuel page of Bendy and the Dark Revival, go here. - As of the Chapter 3 update, hacking or glitching into certain areas where you're not supposed to go (or going to these areas prematurely) will reveal a Bendy cutout holding a sign that reads "WANDERING IS A TERRIBLE SIN."◊ Unlike the other Bendy cutouts scattered throughout the studio, this one is smudged, has realistic eyes that make him all the creepier, and appears to be bleeding ink from his eyes and mouth. Apparently theMeatly put it into the game to discourage hacking, and boy is it a deterrent. - As a bonus, getting up close to them produces an audible rumbling sound, as if Bendy is getting very angry that you're not listening to him, and you should go back to playing the game normally. - As of the Chapter 4 update, dying now sends you to a swirling vortex of ink filled with whispering voices where you have to physically walk into the light at the end to get back to reality. - The Chapter 4 update also comes with a new redesign for Ink Bendy and it manages to make him look even more terrifying than before. In general, his new look seems to be a twisted fusion of his old beta design and his alpha design. Ink Bendy has a skinnier torso, making him look positively gaunt to the point that his spine is sticking out grotesquely, looking like the spikes of that of a reptile's, his perpetual Slasher Smile is wider and more deranged (helped by the fact that his head is smaller and more human sized), and the ink on his body is far more detailed and is seen dripping off his body. All in all, Ink Bendy's new look manages to give the Ink Demon a far more horrifying visage. - Looking at him closer up, one can see that while Ink Bendy's mouth may not emote, it does move. It jitters around on his face like a dirty film projection, as if he's only choosing to have it there to mock or terrify anyone who encounters him. - The second chapter ups the ante, as the player is now in genuine danger of being killed. - You'll notice throughout the chapter that there are a lot of pentagrams and coffins around. One has to wonder if the coffins are empty or not... - As of the Chapter 5 update, using the Seeing Tool reveals that every coffin has a name painted on it. Names you'll know from every audio log that you've listened to. - If you try and see if you can go back to where you fell through, you'll see that it's boarded off and ink is dripping... either it was to prevent the flood of ink from flooding the Music Department, or someone doesn't want you to leave... it also would leave people to wonder who did it... - As you're walking through, you'll come across yet another pentagram across from the gate you'll have to open. But this one is different. This one has a blob of ink in the middle of it, that pulses and beats much like a real heart. It's not really known what it's supposed to do or how that pulsing blob came about, but it's most certainly not good. - Though we still don't know what the pulsing blob is, when Chapter 3 came out, it was updated to be a Respawn Statue. - There are far more audio logs littered around the basement. Some are pretty harmless, talking about things like a new voice actor getting excited for her new role as a new character in the Bendy cartoon, but then you find one that has a deranged employee called Sammy Lawrence talking about how "he will set us free". His entire speech sounds like a cultist praising his deity. That's creepy enough as is... but then the tape ends, and Sammy keeps talking. - You find another one later, hidden and locked in a closet. Here, Sammy sounds more and more like he's lost his mind, talking about sanctuaries in the basement, and gives instructions on how to open his personal one. - Yet another one talks about just how bad the actual working conditions really were in Joey's studio: Most of the employees had to work in a stuffy basement with no visible ventilation, all the while the noisy ink machine rattled above them and made it impossible to focus. The real kicker came when several of the pipes above started bursting, flooding parts of the basement with ink. It's stated that this even happened at the stairwell, leaving employees trapped down there until the mess was cleaned up. - Early in the chapter, you find several moving puddles of ink on the ground. Shortly after turning on the power, one of the puddles of ink takes the shape of a human-shaped ink monster that's called a Searcher, and charges straight at you. Shortly after you kill it, more Searchers spawn around the area to attack you. - In the Chapter 4 update, the puddles of ink aren't there anymore when you first enter the music department hall. Shortly after turning on the power, a thick drop of ink (presumably from the Ink Machine) splashes in front of the music department sign and becomes a bubbling lump of ink, and if you approach it, it takes the shape of a Searcher that immediately attacks you. If you kill the pack of Searchers, the bubbling puddles from which they came do not disappear. - Even worse is what happens if they manage to overwhelm you: The screen goes black, and you hear the sounds of Henry choking and gurgling on ink as he's slowly drowned in it. What exactly happens after that? Is he turned into one of them, or does he end up much like Sammy Lawrence? - Chapter 3 seems to shed some light on this. Twisted Alice says that she had been "returned to the ink", and that the ink is a "well of voices". Perhaps Henry becomes a victim of this, becoming just another voice in the ink? - When playing the organ, there is a very faint cry, groan or whimper heard after the organ stops being played. It might be the Searchers... or something else... - The Bendy expression sheet: his expression is always the same, which may mean that the cardboard cutouts that have been stalking you all the time with that creepy smile of theirs may not even be smiling...they may be planning your demise. And if you chop them off? They could very well be pissed at you. - It's more or less implied that the drawing was a joke, and overall they seem more curious and perhaps helpful if anything. Still.. in Chapter One, there was a drawing of Bendy with a surprised expression on Henry's desk. And "NO" was written next to it... and that same image is on almost every desk. - As of "Tombstone Picnic", we see Bendy himself pulling various expressions. But if Joey didn't want this, then who managed to get the episode on air? Unless it didn't... - Apart from a single frame, all of his teeth are still showing. - As of Chapter 3, Twisted Alice states that Ink Bendy gets angry when his cutouts are destroyed. The situation surrounding the cutouts themselves is still a little ambiguous... - Finally, the climax and ending. - You finally activate the ink pump, clearing the stairwell of the ink leaked from the broken pipes. You head for the exit... and suddenly get knocked out. When you wake up, you're tied up and greeted by Sammy Lawrence, who turns out to have been trapped here ever since Joey's experiments went horribly wrong. He doesn't even look human anymore; he's just a human-shaped blob of ink, clothed in what looks like paper overalls, with a Bendy mask for a face. - Sammy sounds like a cultist the whole way, praising Ink Bendy as a god. He states that he plans to sacrifice you to Ink Bendy, which would hopefully cause his "god" to free him of his warped body. What's more, one of his lines implies that he recognizes Henry, so they could once have been friends a long time ago. Sammy leaves the room, and is immediately attacked and either murdered or tortured by Ink Bendy. You then have to run away from the Ink Demon down several boarded-up halls, frantically chopping away for your life to escape. Then your axe breaks, leaving you without a weapon. - Even worse is the appearance of Ink Bendy himself (as pictured above). Before the revision of Chapter 1, he looked like a nondescript pile of ink with a human head, but after the chapter's update and the inclusion of Chapter 2, he now has a mostly-formed humanoid body, complete with gloves and a bowtie. - The objective is merely "RUN AWAY". You can't fight him at all, especially without the axe, so that's all you can do. - The update that came with Chapter 3 now has you running through a maze-like corridor as you run from Ink Bendy. Any wrong turn can lead you to a dead-end where Ink Bendy can corner and kill you. - The real kicker is the ending. You see Boris, completely alive after his vivisection in Chapter 1. This implies that there are either multiple copies of each character, or that the ink characters can't be fully killed. But in this case it can double as Heartwarming or a moment of Awesome. Or both. - Oh, Chapter 3 confirms that there are copies. But so far they're only of the Butcher Gang and Boris... - And then, after the credits, you see an axe, a pile of ink, and a Bendy mask. The mask is almost definitely Sammy's, seeing as it has the same faded and damaged paint in the same places, and if you look to the left you can clearly see one of those damn Bendy cutouts. - Rather minor, but the interactive pool table added in the Chapter 4 update has an honest-to-the-Ink-Demon EYEBALL on it. - The trailer: - The ending of "Tombstone Picnic", which is entirely based on Nothing Is Scarier. A large, humanoid shadow looms over Bendy, who's backed into a corner and looks awfully scared and helpless, and then the short abruptly ends. There's speculation from this that Ink Bendy isn't in control and that it may be Foreshadowing... - The studio looks even darker and more grim than before, and hiding now seems to be in play. - Henry seems downright terrified, running and panting for his life down the dreary hall. And still with no axe. - There appear to be two Bendys running around, but it's uncertain whether the other one is evil too. - Note that this is actually some of the Butcher Gang. - As Henry appears to be hiding, Ink Bendy jumps at the screen at the end. - When you hear Joey's tape and how he mentions cheating death as an idea... he may have actually done that through the Ink Machine... - Twisted Alice's Establishing Character Moment. We are lead into a recording room filled with television screens that play what seems to be Alice's Theme Song. This goes on for quite a while, until... "I'M ALICE ANGEL!!!" - Twisted Alice herself. She has a grotesque Two-Faced look, with the right side being an Uncanny Valley "angel's" face and the other seemingly molten, with a distorted eye that is either a half-formed "pie eye" from classic rubber hose animation, or more likely, a large, empty socket, and melted/torn-off lips exposing her teeth at all times. Her normal voice has a creepy Voice of the Legion effect going on, but every so often, Susie's voice breaks through, causing her to speak in a chillingly human voice that sounds all too much like a frightened young woman. - The hostile, Body Horror copies of The Butcher Gang, antagonists from one of Bendy's cartoons. The first Butcher Gang member you encounter is "Piper", who jumpscares you by bursting out of the Bendy cartoon poster of "The Butcher Gang" at the second switch you need to open a locked door. Unlike his cute and tough appearance you saw on the poster itself, Piper is a snarling, mindless ink monster bent on harming you. The same applies to the other Butcher Gang members you face later on. - The ink room containing multiple dead copies of Boris and The Butcher Gang on operating tables or floating in the surrounding ink pool. Twisted Alice states that their insides were harvested to make her more beautiful. The copies that weren't perfect were discarded. - Twisted Alice describing her first attempt in becoming Alice Angel. She mentions being stuck in the puddles of ink, hearing waves of voices and feeling her own mind scrambling bit by bit. After being "born" from one of the ink monsters, she was a wiggling lump of ink. Being born a second time gave her her current disfigured appearance. - Heck, Twisted Alice's personality. Her mood swings make her a little unpredictable, but her constant mood, murderous and callous, is the more unnerving. - Ink Bendy. He still hunts for you and you never know when or where he'll emerge from. - When doing Twisted Alice's tasks, Ink Bendy can teleport through ink portals at random and even spawn close to you. When he is nearby, the area around him darkens and the walls and ceilings dribble with ink, not to mention the player can hear a heart beating as a warning sign of Ink Bendy's presence. To avoid getting detected, you have to avoid or hide from Ink Bendy in the Little Miracle Stations littered around. If he spots you, Ink Bendy's signature Scare Chord plays and he will pursue you relentlessly unless you hide in the Miracle Stations or escape into the lift to another floor. - What's even worse is that you can't fight him with your weapons, not even with the Tommy gun. Even when you are armed, Ink Bendy is invincible and can still instantly kill you. - When you destroy the last Bendy cutout in the area, Twisted Alice reveals that Ink Bendy hates it when she destroys the Bendy cutouts and instructs you to hide. By that moment you realize that by destroying the Bendy cutouts, you've angered Ink Bendy. What's worse is that he'll spawn near or in the area where you destroyed the last cutout and you have several seconds to move out or hide. - The moment you find out what happened to Norman Polk, the studio's projectionist. He is no longer human, and has become an ink-drenched, Mechanical Abomination with a running projector serving as his head and wires connecting from the projector to his back. Whatever human consciousness he had is long gone, reducing him into a feral monster that constantly stalks the dark studio halls in search of prey, ironically living up to his role as a projectionist. - The most unnerving part, however, is the Norman's audio log in the Projectionist's lair. It's like he knew and accepted what was going to happen or was happening to him. - If he spots you, the Projectionist will let loose a horrifying roar and attack you if you don't hurry and hide inside a nearby Little Miracle Station. - You have the option to kill the Projectionist, putting him out of his misery in a way. However, he takes a lot more hits than other enemy faced beforehand. If killed, he will release a high-pitched scream of agony before shutting down and collapsing to the inky floor, lifeless. - And then he comes back in Chapter 4, foreshadowed by his body not dissolving into ink after he collapses, unlike the other ink creatures. - There's apparently more than one Ink Machine... - Those clones of The Butcher Gang? They've got actual hearts. Not only are they all cartoons, but they've been given organs, like human beings. What on Earth happened to make them like that? - After you complete all of Twisted Alice's tasks, she finally agrees to let you go. As you return to the elevator and start ascending, with Buddy Boris in tow, you seem well on your way to freedom. But then Twisted Alice starts crying, which then transitions into laugher... then the elevator begins crashing downwards at an alarming rate. As it turns out, Twisted Alice was never really going to let you go... Twisted Alice: Did you really think I'd let you steal from me?! Did you really think I'd just let you go?! No Henry! I know who you are! And I know why you're here! And you will not stop what needs to be done! Now come down and It's the most perfect Boris I've ever seen and I want it! I need it. I need its insides so I can be beautiful again! Don't you understand? Don't you get it?! Give him to me!! Or better yet, I'll take him! Once... bring me back my Boris! you're... dead! - It doesn't get much better after the crash. As you lie there motionless, Twisted Alice slowly emerges from the darkness while Buddy Boris tries in vain to rouse you. Unable to warn your new friend, all you can do is watch helplessly as Buddy Boris is dragged into the darkness, visibly terrified and unable to scream for help. - theMeatly posted a video on his channel. It's only 82 seconds long, but it packs a lot into that amount of time. The video consists of an audio log from Henry, saying that somebody has taken him prisoner, and that there is a "secret in the shadows." His recording is interrupted by... something (most likely doors) opening... then it just cuts out. Henry : If anybody finds this... my name is Henry. And I'm trapped far below Joey Drew Studios, a man I used to work for. There's crazy things happening down here: Monsters, demons... Angels. And right now, 2 of them are holding me prisoner. I don't know how to get out of here... but there's more. There's a secret hiding in the shadows. I-I just feel like I'm being watched. There's something else at work here. If anyone finds this, you must not- (loud clanking noises) Hold on... They're coming back!" >Tape Ends< - Also worth mentioning, who were the last people Henry saw before Chapter 4 ended. Allison and Tom. What if they were the ones Henry was talking about? Is it possible they didn't intend to save him..? Thankfully, the actual game revealed that they're exactly who they seemed to be, although Tom is a bit of a jerk. They only locked Henry up because they weren't sure if they could trust him. - When Allison gives you the tool to see invisible messages, what is the first one you find? SHE WILL LEAVE YOU FOR DEAD. And sure enough, when Ink Bendy is heard coming, and Allison and Tom decide to drop you like a hot potato because they don't have time to free Henry from his prison. What makes this worse is that Tom has an axe that could smash down the boards in the way, but he doesn't even bother trying because he thinks you're dangerous. - The unidentified ink monster that lurks in the depths of the ink river in the tunnel. The only thing you see of it is its large toon hand that grabs and pulls under anything that moves. It soon comes to notice you when you are using the barge and pursues you to try and pull you under. The chase is made all the more frantic as the barge's wheel periodically jams due to the ink, forcing Henry to stop and get the ink off the wheel, . all while the creature is closing in on you - After the boat ride, Henry comes across the village of the Lost Ones... and has an unexpected reunion with his old pal Sammy Lawrence. Only Sammy's not too happy to see Henry. Being betrayed and nearly killed by Ink Bendy has turned the soft-spoken cultist into a literal Ax-Crazy lunatic complete with a Voice of the Legion and he's all too happy to take his rage out on Henry, leading to an impromptu boss fight. After knocking Sammy's mask off (revealing him to be completely faceless), he knocks Henry to the ground and prepares to kill him. Thankfully, Allison and Tom arrive in the nick of time. - Unfortunately, killing Sammy wasn't the best of ideas. Turns out he was the only thing keeping the Lost Ones and the Searchers in check. Now that he's gone, they decide to come after them, forcing Henry, Tom, and Allison to fight off a seemingly endless wave of hostile ink monsters. - Henry falling into the studio after attempting to navigate some planks. He survives, of course, but it's still an effective Jump Scare. - While in the studio, through audio recordings, we finally learn the truth of Ink Bendy's origin. It turns out that Ink Bendy is actually not a monstrous form of Joey Drew at all, or any person for that matter, but actually a literal demon. Ink Bendy was Joey's first attempt at creating a living cartoon character with the Ink Machine. However, because Ink Bendy had no soul, he came out as a gangly and misshapen abomination with a Blue-and-Orange Morality and, for whatever reason, an insatiable desire to slaughter other ink creations (and Henry). And instead of finding a proper way to destroy it, Joey just left it to wreak havoc on his traumatized, horrifically mutated employees until he could send Henry to clean up his mess. This line from Joey Drew makes it all the worse: - Near the end of the chapter, Henry is forced to head to Ink Bendy's lair alone. The Ink Machine that's been seen descending down into the depths of the studio? That's just a small part of a larger Ink Machine. And when we get inside it, we see test tubes for Joey's sick experiments, some containing Lost Ones. - The ending. It is easily the most mind-bending ending in a horror game. After defeating Beast Bendy, Henry awakens to find himself in an apartment. There, we finally come face-to-face with Joey Drew himself, who has become a kinder and gentler man with age. However, the truly frightening part comes after his monologue where he asks Henry to come down to the studio. Henry goes through the door... and finds himself back at the entrance of the studio. And it only gets worse from there. Playing through the game a second time using the searching device that Allison gave you reveals hidden messages all over the studio. Messages like TURN BACK or I ALWAYS FALL that seem to be written by Henry himself. All this leads to a horrifying implication: And judging by the number of tally marks seen at the beginning of Chapter One, he's been at this routine Henry is trapped in a never-ending time loop, unable to escape and forced to relive the horrors of the studio again and again. hundreds of times by now. And I Must Scream doesn't even to describe it. begin - The sequel, Bendy and the Dark Revival makes the above point even more horrifying with The Reveal that the "Henry" we've been playing throughout the game was never the real Henry, but an inky clone of him created by Joey Drew note : Which explains Henry's superhuman resilience and his ability to respawn at Bendy statues after being killed. And the reason Joey created him? So he could have him tormented endlessly out of hatred for the real Henry for abandoning their cartoon empire. That's right. All the suffering, all the nightmares Henry has had to endure throughout the game? All the product of one man's madness and spite. Humans Are the Real Monsters indeed.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BendyAndTheInkMachine
Beavis and Butt-Head / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes DEAR GOD, WHERE'S THE FIRST-AID KIT?!?Let's just say that this show has quite a few moments that can be off-putting for some people. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - The Point-and-Click Game Virtual Stupidity has a section where the duo get thrown in prison. Leroy's cellmate Sam is a disturbing character who evokes Nothing Is Scarier by hiding under his bunk, visible only by his eyes and sickly arms (when he reaches out for something). He frequently recites disturbingly violent childlike poetry such as "I will kill them in my house and I will feed them to my mouse." To escape the cell, Beavis and Butt-Head have to trip the warden on a bar of soap. The warden is dragged under the bunk, and only his keys emerge. Although Sam is later revealed to be a Harry Sachz lookalike and is then executed by the electric chair with his last words being "See you in hell, my friends!". - This hidden easter egg scene in which Butt-Head pulls out a shotgun, says "Fuck you, Beavis!" and blows Beavis's brains out. Jarring, to say the least, and makes one wonder how the game got away with a T rating.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeavisAndButtHead
Beneath the Planet of the Apes / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes He bleeds! The Lawgiver bleeds! - The horrifying visions the ape soldiers see when they invade the Forbidden Zone, which include roaring fires, gorillas that have been crucified upside down, and a dose of In-Universe Religious Horror in the form of a giant statue of the Lawgiver, the Ape equivalent of Jesus, bleeding from the eyes. And not some dainty little tear, no; it's absolutely drenched in gore pouring from its own eyes. - The Reveal of the mutants, who peel off their eerie masks to reveal the translucent skin beneath, making them look almost like anatomical models of the circulatory system come to life. It's comparatively subtle Body Horror, but it's grotesque enough that it sticks in the mind. - The mutants worshipping their "god", the Alpha-Omega Bomb, the same poisonous source of toxic radiation that made them what they are now. It's a chilling sight, made worse by the Lyrical Dissonance, as their hymns are blatantly recognizable as Christian hymns substituting "Bomb" for "God". - The sadistic way that the mutants "deal" with those captives they tire of: using their More than Mind Control Psychic Powers to make them kill themselves in horrible ways. This leads to such memorable scenes as our two heroes trying to fight each other to the death inside a cage whose walls are lined with huge spikes, and our previous film's protagonist kissing his Love Interest so violently that he almost smothers her. - The end of the film: the humans and mutants are massacred and, as a final screw you to the apes, Taylor uses his dying breath to hit the trigger and detonate the Alpha-Omega Bomb, which we're told would result in the destruction of the entire planet. Cue a fade to black for the credits and a nonchalantly nihilistic closing narration, hammering home the devastation and guaranteeing a sleepless night. And this was a G-Rated film! "In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead."	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes
Beethoven / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The first movie has a brief shot, complete with ominous music, of what looks like a crematorium. The second movie may have some of this for kids, as one scene has Regina's Mook, Floyd, holding a puppy over a waterfall. He never drops it, though. - Beethoven's 2nd has a particularly dark scene when Ryce stops by a party hosted by a guy she likes. They go up to a room where they start kissing. Ryce suddenly decides she wants to leave, but the guy locked the door. You can imagine what would have happened if Beethoven didn't inadvertently save her. - Understandably, this scene did not sit well with critics who found it to be too much for the kind of film it's in. - Emily nearly drowns in the swimming pool while under the babysitter's watch, and nobody hears her cries for help. If not for Beethoven, she almost certainly would not have made it. - Also from the first film, the villain getting impaled with a bunch of syringes. Even though he survives, it's still rather jarring for a family film. - Another from the first film: Dr. Varnick going through all the lengths to get Beethoven for the sole purpose of shooting him to test a new type of ammunition. - Varnick's faked attack on Beethoven, deliberately provoking the dog into attacking him. The fear the family feels in that moment when they think their dog's become aggressive is quite unsettling. - Additionally, Dr. Varnick is bitten in the crotch by another dog just as he attempts to shoot George; horrible as he was, it's enough to make one squirm. Doubly so later when his two lackeys are cornered and attacked by a pack of Dobermans in a junkyard. They pull through, but suffer pretty extensive injuries for their troubles.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Beethoven
Bee and Puppycat / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Bee and Puppycat - The Original Short - Wallace's transformation/possession, where the monster woman pours out of his mouth. His eyes turn wide and red, sharp teeth appear in his mouth, and then the fact that her appearance is accompanied by gross, wet sounds. - The monster herself, with two large, fanged mouths that cover her face, her vein covered grotesque body, and five sharp spines coming off her back. Farm - The cherry that can steal fricking souls. Period. - The farmer himself when he reveals that Bee is the fertilizer. The dark shadows cast over his face when he says it don't help. - Toward the end of the episode, the Farmer gets swallowed alive by one of his animals, which in turn gets eaten by another animal...which then gets eaten by another one... - What was the intended payment for the job? "The sweet release of death." Beach - Keith is annoying the protagonists with his obsession with cleavage. Puppycat's response when Keith asks for ice cream cleavage is really jarring. Donut - Something is happening to Temp-bot when Bee and Deckard get transported in front of her, which is causing her to glitch out without explanation. - Bee's new friend gets pulled into a black hole and she tries to pull him back out, result in her arms getting sucked in. Something cracks, ribbons flutter out of the black hole and Bee's arm is revealed to be robotic, with shattered circuitry and big sections of skin peeled back, and ribbons spilling out of it. The dream in the pilot where ribbons spill out of her gouged wrist suddenly makes a lot more sense. - This also brings up some Fridge Horror. If Bee wasn't completely robotic to begin with... then what exactly happened to her? Again for the First Time Who Would Want This? What Do You Want to Be? Gentle Touch Little Fingers Day Off Work Snow and Violets Funny Lying My Favorite Did You Remember Bird Friend Two Clown Noses Golden Eyes Why Don't You Help Me Now I'm Really Alone I Won't Leave You Alone	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeeAndPuppycat
Bentley Little / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Pretty much any of Little's stories where he decides he's going to use satire and commentary as a theme instead of just straight up horror. He'll take a normal situation with small issues (big box stores, insurance policies, homeowner associations, charter schools, etc) and will start cranking the dial to make them more and more horrible, disgusting, perverted, and depraved, like something out of a nightmare, all the while having relative normal people find themselves in the middle of it (and often the victims of it). While it can come off as absurd and ridiculous, it can also comes off as immensely disturbing, as the question being asked is 'You accept this without blinking an eye, why don't you accept THIS? And if you don't accept it, how long would it take for you to speak up? And more importantly...what do you do if things are too late by the time you do and you no longer have the power to affect it?' - The Resort. The book focuses on an exclusive 5-star hotel founded by a hedonist/sadist on a land already tainted by unimaginable evil. It's more horrible than it sounds. Needless to say creepy stuff happens there. But the resort, which apparently has a will of its own, uses some sort of mind control magic in order to smother the guests' will and make them stay even as they're witnessing one horror after the other: you can leave the hotel, but you won't want to. This is one resort you don't want to stay in. - Dominion, has a bunch of creepy scenes. Starting from the first chapter, even, when babies in the basement chew their own umbilical cords off and attack and kill their father, and, later, when the main male character dreams about Penelope and sees her at the top of a staircase with her legs open, bleeding from her vagina down the stairs in a small stream, rather unconcerned. And the ending. The book is based on maenads bringing back the Greek gods and Dionysus, after all, so it's one long slow descent into horror. - Various short stories also qualify: - First and foremost, we have "The Washingtonians" which starts off its nightmarish qualities with a discovered note revealing George Washington's cannibalism and his intent on devouring the children of the United States. It only gets worse when Mike's family is threatened by the Washingtonians into surrendering the note or facing a horrific death at their hands. (And they mean it as they gleefully inform Mike and his family about how Washingtonians had flayed John Hancock to death and devoured Thomas Jefferson alive.) Thankfully, this is one of few Little stories that ends with a semblance of a happy ending as Mike's family is saved by a historian and associates dressed as redcoats. - "Pop Star In the Ugly Bar" features a Music/Madonna stand-in being horrifically assaulted and killed by the patrons of the eponymous bar. And sadly, they get away with it and plan to do the same to one of the detectives investigating the pop star's disappearance.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BentleyLittle
Beowulf (2007) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary's original 98' script explains it well enough: Never before has a song of happiness seemed to warp into a TORTUROUS REQUIEM. An aria of joy and light, underscored by darkness and self doubt... To hear it all there is Grendel, who we now see in his full form and shape... a deformed man of gargantuan size. His skin like stretched leather over ancient muscles, interwoven into his flesh are strands of golden tattoo, as if someone had valiantly tried to beautify this ogre. His hands clutched tightly over the sides of his oblong skullcap. His golden eyes pinched tightly shut, tears of blood drip from them. This is a monster born of pain. Once a man, now twisted into a caricature of insanity and depravity. He writhes in pain at the song inside his head. His naked body scarring the sodden floor of the cave around him. The dank walls, lichen covered and marred with roots, seem to close in on Grendel as if the monster were inside an immense trash compactor. A claustrophobic nightmare has manifested itself into Grendel's twisted reality. Indeed, the cave is growing smaller. Or is it that Grendel is growing bigger?! The behemoth has grown so large he can barely fit into the room. The tiny bones of many Thanes litter the sarcophagus chamber, some bleached with age, others still ripe with their fruity flesh. Their armour, now dwarfed by the monster's size, seem like small cans of ripped open tomato paste. The monster can no longer take the haunting song of happiness inside his twisted brain. He scrambles for the exit to this tomb of song. There is only one thing that can stop the noise inside his head. Murder. Murder of all things living and good. Murder of all things beautiful and proud.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Beowulf2007
Beren and Lúthien / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Finrod, Beren and his men are captured by Sauron, thrown into the dark pits of the Isle of the Werewolves and tortured. Finrod and Beren's ten companions, who refused to abandon their king when everybody else did, are eaten one-by-one by werewolves: These much he pondered and bethought, and in their woeful chains them sought, and threatened all with dreadful death, if one would not with traitor's breath reveal this knowledge. Wolves should come and slow devour them one by one before the others' eyes, and last should one alone be left aghast, then in a place of horror hung with anguish should his limbs be wrung, in the bowels of the earth be slow endlessly, cruelly, put to woe and torment, till he all declared. Even as he threatened, so it fared. From time to time in the eyeless dark two eyes would grow, and they would hark to frightful cries, and then a sound of rending, a slavering on the ground, and blood flowing they would smell. But none would yield, and none would tell.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BerenAndLuthien
Best Friends Whenever / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - Every single time Shelby and Cyd end up in that strange futuristic laboratory. Complete with them Strapped to an Operating Table, the creepy lighting, the Malevolent Masked Man slowly advancing upon them intending to do who knows what to them. But what really sets it off is just how jarring the transition is, and the fact that both inverse and out no one presently has even the remotest idea what the hell is going on. Made even worse by recent implications that Barry is somehow involved. However, he's nothing more than a fanatic of the company, and even he doesn't know of their inner workings. It gets scarier when its revealed that the company's CEO Janet Smythe owns the lab and commissioned it, and she's just getting started. Made even worse by the apparent fact that Shelby's father apparently got a promotion that has him working with the very lab they end up in. - Later averted as it's revealed that Cyd and Shelby had actually agreed to undergo the procedure and have their powers removed, and that Barry was the one who was carrying out the experiment because they asked him to. - The events of "Shake Your Booty" are honestly quite scary, the idea that if you travel outside your own time stream and stay there too long, the timeline will consume you. To the point that you will forget even your closest friend and yourself, and be trapped there never to return to your true time. And that all of this will occur without you even noticing (and anything you notice you will quickly forget) is really honestly terrifying. - The whole of "Cyd and Shelby Strike Back" really: In an attempt to undo the Future Lab timeline, Cyd and Shelby alter history so that they don't live together anymore. That ends up being the least of their concerns, as not only does the Big Bad Janet Smythe know who Cyd and Shelby are from their break-in, the episode culminates in them, Barry, Naldo, and Marci being captured by her, and Cyd being dragged into a molecular separator and coming far closer than she should to being Killed Off for Real. It's less like a Disney Channel Kid Com and more like a really scary sci-fi movie. - The glimpse of the dystopian future ruled by Janet in "Fight The Future: Part 1" is very creepy and scary. She seems to have turned the country into a military dictatorship that worships her image, is brainwashing youth (like Drake), and has very strict rules that, when broken, get the perpetrator thrown into frozen suspended animation, even if it's just not saluting to her at the specified "Salute to Janet" time. She even had the power to throw Barry and Naldo into suspended animation, just to prevent them from recreating time travel and not because they actually broke her rules or did anything wrong. This means that Janet is able to publicly do heinous things to people, and she is not questioned or ever held accountable for it.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BestFriendsWhenever
Berserk / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Can we just cut the middle-man out and say 95% of this series is pure Nightmare Fuel? No? Then we're going to be here for a while. As one of the goriest, if not the goriest seinen manga of all time, Berserk has more than its fair share of everyday terror, suffocating trauma, realism-induced horror and demonic horror under its belt in over thirty years of its run-time. No spoiler tags will be used on this page. Examples are sorted in order of appearance. - In general, the series' former artist and writer, Kentaro Miura, drew some of the most terrifying (and disgusting) demons and monsters ever to grace the pages of manga, capable of rivalling the creations of similar artists such as Go Nagai and Junji Ito alike. Furthermore, by the time you get far enough, assuming that the villains commit atrocious acts of murder, rape, and torture is the norm. The true dread comes in seeing the incredibly fucked up thing they do that makes them different from the other villains. - No page on Berserk's horrors can begin without mention of the way that Apostles are made. It starts when somebody that possesses a Behelit hits a moment of absolute despair, where they would do absolutely anything to escape their situation. When this happens, the Behelit, a creepy little egglike thing that has human facial features scattered randomly all over its surface, rearranges those features into a human face. Which then proceeds to bleed from the eyes and start screaming. Then the angles in whichever area this happened start changing and the Godhand, the Big Bads of the series, show up to make the Apostle-to-be an offer. The offer involves sacrificing whoever the Apostle-to-be loves most in order to be reborn as a demon, which is a way of having the Apostle open themself up to evil. Since Behelits invariably activate at the Apostle-to-be's lowest point, that means that this offer sounds very much attractive, particularly if the friend or loved one to be sacrificed was the cause of the Despair Event Horizon in the first place. If the Apostle-to-be accepts the offer, the Godhand mark the person with the Brand of Sacrifice and what happens next is often a truly horrific death as demonic entities from the Vortex eat them alive. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also mentioned that anyone sacrificed in the creation of an Apostle, in addition to suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death, also has their soul condemned to Hell for all eternity, making this a true crossing of the Moral Event Horizon. - And things only get worse when it comes time for a new Godhand to be born, which happens once every 216 years during what is known as the Great Eclipse. A very special Behelit makes its way into the hands of a very special individual. This individual, a charismatic leader of men, achieves great things during their lifetime, but then things start going straight to hell for them, culminating on the day of the Eclipse when they lose all hope and activate the Crimson Behelit. When the Behelit activates, the bearer and everyone currently present with them is transported to the Nexus, a nightmarishly surreal place that to mortal eyes is a scene right out of hell itself. Instead of just one or two victims like is the case with Apostles, the Godhand demand that everyone that the Godhand-to-be has led be marked for sacrifice in order to become one of their own — and instead of just a good number of demonic monsters, nearly every Apostle in the entire Berserk universe has gathered for the feast, and comes out of the woodwork to eat everyone alive once everyone is marked for sacrifice. - For a good deal of the series early on, before Guts found his new True Companions, Guts was simply a ferocious warrior with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance. One of the more unnerving aspects of the series was how easily Guts could be seen as an even more horrifying creature than the Apostles he killed. Some of the Apostles are shown to be veritable Macbeths as far as their motivations and origins go. Examples follow in the respective sections. - The Apostles' mere form and appearance will give you nightmares, and during the eclipse, the most bizarre and horrific ones come to town. At first, the Apostles who first transform during the eclipse don't look that much different to ones seen before, but as the spectacle continues, more mutilated and disturbing ones appear, looking like deformed genitals with gaping maws, Vagina Dentata and unbelievably hideous faces. As for the Godhand themelves, Void has his lips peeled back to show off his teeth and gums and his eyelids are sewn shut. Let's not forget his exposed brain... - Kentaro Miura drew from the Hellraiser franchise when designing the Godhand, and it's not hard to see Clive Barker's influence in the way that they are called and the way that their Apostles are made. - Slan pulled a textbook example of Fan Disservice when she manifested herself in a mound of entrails from the trolls that Guts has just slaughtered in the Qliphoth to confront Guts and injure him. The most — physically — attractive of the Godhands turns into pure Squick. - In addition to their already horrific abilities, some Apostles have the ability to turn humans into monsters like them. These Apostle Spawn, while of lesser power than their makers, are still more than a match for most humans they face, fully capable of tearing people apart. - And to make matters worse, there's also the evil spirits that hound Guts every night, which try to claim him for their own and like to possess trees, corpses, animals, and even susceptible people to try to kill him or eat him alive. And when he sleeps, sometimes he'll be attacked by an Incubus that causes nightmares to feed on his fear (as if he doesn't have enough of them already). - All the Eye Scream that happens with disturbing regularity. - Special mention goes to Casca stabbing one of her would-be rapists in the eye with a stick and then the same guy gets his remaining eye gouged by one of Judeau's knives a moment later (only in the anime). Of course, the guy had it coming, but still. shudder - A more sentimental case - and therefore, a bit more horrifying - is what happened to Guts. After being dog-piled by a shitload of demons before he was mere feet away from saving Casca from being raped by Femto, the demon god that used to be Griffith, Guts is still desperately trying to get to Casca who, with her last sane thoughts, is now begging Guts to not look at her being humiliated, as Femto is pretty much forcing the two to look at each other at this point. Even with one arm missing and nothing but a bloody stump left, Guts tries to push himself up to try and get to her, which actually causes one of the demon's claws to drive itself into Guts' eye as it looks at its last sight of Casca's rape. - What's worse is that Guts remaining eye gets repeatedly threatened in the following arcs. - Chakrams can cut eyes in half... - One of Bishop Mozgus' disciples uses red-hot pliers to pull eyeballs out... - Not to mention that according to the manga, a good solid punch to the head will make your eyes pop right out. Every time. - Also, Miura seemed to have a fondness of drawing people's heads getting cut in half, right at eye level. Graphically. - And getting stabbed or shot in the eye with an arrow takes the eyeball with it. - Also, in the very beginning when Guts is fighting the Baron of Koka Castle. First, the Baron loses his left eye when Guts blows his head in half, then he loses his right eye when Guts shoots it with his crossbow during wholly unnecessary but well-deserved torture. - Serpico stabs a kelpie through the head, and then next page we see its left eyeball dangling from the socket. Lovely. - The Idea of Evil is just horrible on a whole philosophical level. There is no God but Evil, and humans subconsciously created it to have something to blame for their suffering, which without it is utterly meaningless, and considering the state of this world, it isn't going to leave . anytime soon - The Beast of Darkness - this thing is just pure evil that cares about nothing but to kill and maim and wants Guts all for himself. His scariest moment is probably when he takes over Guts and attempts to rape Casca, while giving a pretty damn ugly Breaking Speech. It was clearly looking like the Beast plans to make Guts eat her once he's done with raping. All to make Guts his again. - When Guts smiles, it is usually a creepy Slasher Smile. This should be your signal to run; he's usually in a blood-spilling mood when he's got that grin. This one in particular is pretty unnerving.◊ - All those rapes and attempted rapes. This series has so many rapes in them that it's not even funny. - What's especially disturbing about the rapes and sexual assaults in the story is that they're treated realistically. Most of it is done by characters who are human, (or were human) and as we've seen with Casca's rape at Femto's hands and Guts' rape at Donovan's hands the victims all suffer very realistic repercussions. - After Casca's rape she is seen taking a Shower of Angst under a waterfall fully clothed. At first glance, she looks totally serene and normal (granted you actually ignore what had just happened to her in the previous chapters), but when she turns around to face Guts - you know that something is very, very off. - The nature of insanity is always disturbing to think about, especially in Casca's case. She wasn't just reduced to the mindset of a child, but to something less than a child. A lot of fans like the theory that the real Casca is in a dreamworld where the Eclipse never happened and she has a family with Guts and she's too content to leave, but something from the Dreamcast video game brings that theory into question. What if the real Casca is actually in a nightmare world and she isn't allowed to leave? And she has been insane for over two years. - As of chapter 348, neither theory is fully true, though the And I Must Scream one is probably closer. She's trapped in, essentially, a coma dream that mirrors the world around her through metaphor, where a hellhound version of Guts drags around a coffin containing a broken doll (representing her) and protects it from monsters. - Even after she gets her memories back, Casca still suffers from the trauma from her experience in The Eclipse. - Farnese nearly getting raped by a demon possessed horse. - The eyes are the windows to the soul... and may account for Griffith's lack of one later. - There's just something very creepy about Griffith's eyes (especially in the anime) even before he crossed the Despair Event Horizon and became Femto. They become even more creepy after he loses the duel to Guts and has a Heroic BSoD which led to him sleeping with the princess out of depression. His Dull Eyes of Unhappiness are insanely creepy, punctuated with a lightning strike in the background. - In the last two chapters of volume 8, Griffith's eyes progressively get creepier and creepier as you turn each page, as if the moment Guts made the announcement that he wanted to leave, Griffith's sanity just started slipping. - Then, there's the look in Femto's eyes as he's raping Casca, also the fact that he stares into Guts' eyes the whole time he's doing that to her. - You know what's even more creepy? We saw some warning signs before the Eclipse when Griffith was giving them the SAME STARE when it became clear to him that Guts and Casca were a couple who were in love, and not just the blind admiration that people gave to him, which probably helped to set him off. - And now that Griffith has reincarnated himself into the physical world, he retains his demonic Femto eyes while in human form. And it's freaky to say that his eyes are even scarier in his human form than in his demonic form because it always looks like he's giving you the Kubrick Stare while in his benevolent facade. - It is established in the very first episode that children are not safe in Berserk, which counted a baby among the victims of the Baron's evil rampage toward the chapter's end before the throwdown with Guts. Plus the women and children who were being carted off in the wagon bound for Koka Castle, presumably to be eaten by the Baron, that Guts passed when he first entered the village. - Vargas from the Guardians of Desire arc, who was horrifically disfigured as a result of having pieces of him cut off and eaten by the Count — and this was after he was Forced to Watch his wife and son tortured and then eaten alive right before his eyes. It doesn't help that this is a situation Guts is rather intimately familiar with thanks to the Eclipse. - Captain Zondark receiving his powers from the Count by having a huge caterpillar-like thing with the Count's face forced down his throat. This is the first time we see a human turned into an Apostle Spawn, and it's appropriately horrific. - The Count returned from an expedition against heretics to find his wife in the midst of a pagan orgy, was driven mad with the pain of the betrayal, and used the Behelit to take away the emotions that hurt him so much. Even then, he still showed sorrow (as an Apostle, mind you) over the way that his daughter treated him differently, even though he had gone to great lengths to keep the cause of her mother's death a secret. In the end, he allows himself to be sucked into hell by many of the people he'd killed rather than sacrifice his daughter. Guts, inversely, not only killed an elderly priest to use as a decoy against the Count, but even used the Count's innocent daughter Theresia as a human shield to halt his attack...before proceeding to blast him with his Arm Cannon, brutally decapitate him, and then torture him further because the Count is still alive after all of this...all right in front of Theresia. He actually dragged the Count over to her so she'd have a front row seat. - Guts' horrifying childhood and family situation, which scarred him for life. Guts was adopted by Sys, Gambino's lover, after she miscarried, despite superstition that states that you shouldn't pick up a child from a dead body. Several years after Guts was taken in, Sys died of the plague, which was tragic enough because it left Guts without a significant mother figure in the years to come, but it also hardened the heart of Gambino against Guts, whom he felt should have died instead. Despite Guts looking up to him and doing everything in his power to make the mercenary leader proud, including bringing him his part of the pay for every battle, Gambino hated Guts so much that at one point, he sold the poor kid to one of his men, a creepy pederast by the name of Donovan, for three silver coins, which leads to Guts being raped despite his best efforts to fight the big man off. Things between Guts and Gambino come to a head when Gambino, after losing his leg to a cannonball, gets drunk one night, comes into Guts's tent, and tries to murder him, forcing Guts to kill him in self defense. - Casca's past isn't much better—she lost her village at an early age and was sold to a noble who wanted a new serving girl, only for it to transpire that he wanted her for sex. Just as he's about to rape her, though, Griffith shows up. Instead of killing her would-be rapist, however, he makes her do it instead. - Griffith's past wasn't much of a walk in the park either, as Ubik reveals just before goading him into crossing the Moral Event Horizon. He felt the burden of all the followers who had died to help him make it so far, and decided to sell his body to Lord Gennon for a night so that he could make money without anyone having to die. Afterwards Casca finds him washing himself in the river, complete with a wonderfully disturbing scene of him angsting while clawing at his arms until they bleed when washing himself. He only stops when Casca tearfully embraces him from behind. - Griffith had already been established as a vicious Manipulative Bastard, but his one and only trip into Magnificent Bastard territory comes after he just singlehandedly won the Hundred Year War. A group of disgruntled nobles led by the queen are planning to poison Griffith, then blame it on a rival kingdom that Griffith has just defeated. Griffith seemingly falls for it, but later, the conspirators realize that the castle they are in is burning. The queen rushes to a balcony to see what is going on, only to find Griffith, alive and well, standing outside the castle. Griffith calmly explains to the queen and her fellow conspirators that they are the losers, and death on the battlefield does not distinguish between nobility and commoners before the last of his enemies burn alive. Foss, a minister who had taken part in the conspiracy and had acted as Griffith's mole after Griffith kidnapped his daughter, finds himself shaking after the fact. Not because he's worried that he will be executed if anyone ever finds out, but because Griffith is just that scary. Also a Moment of Awesome for Griffith. - Zodd's introduction into the story, with Rickert detailing that he's an apparent immortal that's been slaughtering for 50 years, Guts goes into the fort, wanting to make sure his men are alright and if they're killed, avenge them. He enters the fort to see Zodd having left his men in bloodied piles and several impaled on his sword- an eight foot tall ogre looking man with vaguely feline features and an off feeling. Guts is put immediately on the back foot against this guy, until he manages to injure him. Zodd not only treats the blow as nothing, but reveals he's actually at least a 300 year old demon horned lion minotaur that not only can repair himself, but generate wings that made Guts frightened for the first time since he was a boy. Before Wyald and the Eclipse, Zodd was a nightmarish anomaly to the realistic medieval story he was involved in before the infamous terrifying shift to fantasy that is the Eclipse. - And what's more, the only reason Zodd doesn't kill Griffith during that first battle? It's because Zodd sees and recognizes Griffith's Crimson Behelit, and knows that this guy will be one of his masters someday. Since Guts and company (and the audience if they haven't seen the Black Swordsman arc before this, such as with many watchers of the Golden Age Arc trilogy, which leaves out the Black Swordsman arc at the very beginning of the manga) don't know what the hell is going on, the warning that Zodd gives is food for very troubling thought. - The relationship between the King of Midland and his beloved daughter Charlotte looks innocent enough, but turns out to be the kindling of disaster. She looks identical to her mother, the Queen, which caused some problems. He ends up trying to rape her, after his rage that Griffith slept with her. The idea of this is very disturbing, and definitely requires a ton of Brain Bleach. This alienates her from her father to the point of disowning him and refusing to see him when he's on his deathbed, his health having seriously deteriorated because of the guilt of what he had done and his obsession with destroying Griffith. - In fact, Charlotte's time in this arc is very emotionally intense for a first appearance. Put yourself in her shoes - you're a shy, virginal, romantic princess with no friends other than your maid, and your mother died when you were young, leaving you with your uptight father and ice-cold stepmother. You meet a handsome and charismatic knight (possibly the first man you've been allowed to spend time in relative privacy with), and during your second meeting, he's almost killed while protecting you. Said knight then disappears with no communication for around six months, before randomly appearing at your bedroom window dripping wet and proceeding to rather forcefully take both your first kiss and your virginity (an act that it is implied Charlotte is partly blamed for) with virtually no aftercare or communication. He is then arrested and tortured, nobody will tell you where he is or what happened to him, and you wake up from a drug-induced sleep to see your own father trying to rape you, which you most likely won't be able to talk to anyone about as it could bring your entire life down. - As the Hawks go into the Tower of Rebirth to rescue Griffith, Princess Charlotte mentions how Emperor Gaiseric, the founder of the kingdom, was cast down along with his great city by four angels sent by God, and that the remains of the great city could be found in the deepest part of the Tower. And then we get a good look down below when Casca accidentally drops her torch down there, where it lands in a pile of the skeletons of the ancient dead. All of whom have the Brand of Sacrifice burned into their skulls. Just what the hell happened all those years ago, and which of the God Hand ascended from this event? - Wyald and his Black Dog Knights take the Sociopathic Soldier trope to nightmarish extremes. The group is shown in graphic detail to rape, murder, and destroy entire villages before sticking the dismembered body parts of the dead and raped on their spears to parade around in front of their enemies. They did this so many times to enemies and nobles alike, the King of Midland himself had them banished to the country's borders because they were too dangerous to be around but too strong to be rid of. - Worst of the group is the leader Wyald who was infamously shown to rape and kill a young girl and her family after asking her for directions. The girl was later shown skewered to pieces and paraded with her dead family members before her head was used by Wyald as a projectile against Guts. Worse off is that Wyald's men literally rape, kill, and pillage out of sheer terror of the consequences inflicted by Wyald if they do not, speaking volumes of how horrible the man really is. - Wyald himself has several frightening aspects from his beliefs to what he actually is. He is introduced smashing the head of one of the concubines he's sleeping with. He managed to kill the previous contender for the title through an indescribable means in spite of having his hands bound at the time. His face is distorted in a way that is an unholy mix of ape and man, giving off the impression that he isn't entirely human, given that he later blocks Guts' sword with his teeth with no repercussions, which is presented as something very unnatural. And his philosophy is excitement and enjoyment, translating into doing every depraved thing imaginable to get a rush. It all comes to a head when he's reveals himself to be an Apostle like Zodd, but lacking the morales and honor of the latter as he undergoes his transformation into a giant three eyed, white furred ape demon with with his original head on the top and a large lower mouth with a long tongue that is explicitly his penis, which he uses to almost rape Casca. He then reveals the extent of Griffith's injuries to his band to demoralize them before Zodd appears to thankfully kill him for his rampant acts of hedonistic evil that almost endangered the fifth God Hand. His appearance marks the shift from the human evils they've been used to fighting to the truly inhuman nightmares of the Apostles. There are very good reasons why he never appears in an animated adaptation and only in a video game and even then he's stripped of many of his manga traits in order to make him even removably accessible to a wider audience due to how depraved he actually is. - Guts almost strangles Casca when he has a flashback to what Donovan did to him while he and Casca are having Their First Time. Imagine how frightening it would be if your true love suddenly put his hands around your throat and tried to squeeze the life out of you, without warning or explanation. Imagine the distress and fear of yourself you would feel if you suddenly lost control of yourself, and came to to find that you had just violently attacked the person you care about most in the world! - It gets better. Guts had that flashback because when he was doing Casca from behind, the position that he had her in was quite reminiscent of the position that Donovan had him in — meaning in short that he was seeing things through the eyes of his rapist. This sparked some very deep self-loathing in Guts, such that he was trying to strangle what he thought was his past-self to death before he snapped out of it and the truth of what he was actually doing and who he was actually doing it to was revealed. - As he endures a year of torture, Griffith is unable to move or talk on his own, and is tormented all the time by thoughts of Guts. The reveal of his tortured, mutilated and emaciated body when Guts and the Hawks come to rescue him after all that time is nothing short of horrific. The first panel where they get a good look at him shows a big chunk of skin missing from his back, and when they examine him further, he's missing several more patches of skin, with some wounds even showing bone. That's horrible, but when you see Guts take off his mask, gasp in horror, and put it back on? Nothing is scarier indeed. The torturer gloats about how he cut the tendons in his wrists and ankles, and cut his tongue out as a souvenir. Guts then proceeds to tear out the torturer's tongue on seeing him wearing Griffith's tongue around his neck - "I'm not letting you go to Hell two-tongued!". The fact that this is a moment of Tranquil Fury from a man more known for other traits really makes you realise just how unbelievably furious Guts is at that point. - The Berserk anime movie art staff drew a sketch of Griffith's face post-torture◊. At first glance, he looks like he's been badly burnt. Look closer, and you'll realise it's actually exposed muscle. - Looking at Griffith after he has been rescued from the torture. His body is completely emaciated, and he has absolutely no strength to do anything of his own. Swinging a sword is impossible, meaning he cannot fight anymore. The guy can barely even sit up without any help. That level of helplessness is utterly terrifying. No wonder Griffith attempted to kill himself, among other reasons. - Rickert's group were all waiting excitedly for Griffith's return. Unfortunately, Rosine and the Count had other plans, and horrifically slaughtered pretty much everyone except poor Rickert, who would have been slaughtered too if not for the intervention of the Skull Knight. - The arc of Guts, Griffith, and Casca's relationships with each other. After meeting and being defeated by Griffith, Guts moves up in the ranks of Griffith's mercenary band, eventually becoming a commander of raiders, and the two of them form a bond that is very much like brotherhood (or if you're that way inclined, more than that). Meanwhile, Casca has been Griffith's trusted Number Two ever since Griffith saved her from being raped as a little girl. Griffith gradually becomes obsessed with Guts, such that when Guts decides to leave the Hawks after deciding that he's not going to be a part of Griffith's dream, Griffith's thoughts during the resultant duel, about how he would not let him go, are very Yandere-ish. And after being defeated, he goes to see Princess Charlotte and proceeds to bang her, which he mainly did as a rebound, which gets him thrown into the Tower of Rebirth to be put to the torture. By the time Guts and Casca have rescued Griffith (and fallen in love), Griffith has come to hate him, and the focus of his obsession gradually moves to Casca. But when he finds out that Guts and Casca are in a relationship and are thinking about leaving him behind...oh boy, does he lose it. And to make things even worse, this is the point where Griffith finds his Behelit again, triggering the events of the Eclipse, which are better covered elsewhere on this page. No one, especially not Guts and Casca, walks out of the horror that follows unscathed. - And now, it's time to experience what's arguably the most nightmarish moment in Berserk - (volumes 12-13, The Eclipse. Berserk (1997) episodes 23-25, and Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - Advent, respectively): - When the Eclipse goes down in the series proper, it marks a crucial turning point, where things turn from grim and gritty medieval fantasy into straight up horror as Griffith does a truly malignant FaceHeel Turn, accepts the offer to become a Godhand, and marks everyone he's led, including Guts and Casca, with the infamous Brand of Sacrifice. Things go From Bad to Worse for them and the rest of the Hawks very, very quickly. Many people we had come to like get killed very horrifically, many of them being eaten alive until only Guts and Casca are left. When Casca's sword breaks at the very worst possible time, she learns that the demons have other plans in mind for her, in addition to being eaten. Guts in the meantime has made a very badass showing against a whole mess of demons, but when he sees Casca naked and in the hands of the demons, Guts tries to save her, only for a demon by the name of Borkoff to clamp his massive jaws around Guts's left arm before he can reach her. And then Griffith, reborn as the fifth member of the Godhand, Femto, flies down right in front of him, brings Casca down to him, and then starts having his way with her — which is made even worse due to the fact that, because the Brand causes serious pain when its bearer is in the presence of a demon, and she's as close as anyone can possibly get to a member of the Godhand, she is in complete and utter agony all the while that Femto is doing this to her. Guts tries to kill Borkoff with his shortsword but breaks it on his impenetrable hide and is forced to chisel off the arm with what's left of the sword in order to get free. But when he finally gets free and goes after Femto? He is dogpiled by a whole mess of demons that claw out his right eye and is Forced to Watch as Griffith, who used to be his best friend, brutally rapes the woman he loves to insanity, right in front of him and purely out of spite, and staring straight into Guts's eyes the entire time he's doing this to her, without Guts being able to do a thing about it. - The way it starts and gradually builds to it is sheer horror at its finest. As Griffith's bungled suicide attempt fails, a blood red sun slowly overlaps with a dark moon as completely naked people slowly gather in the distance. They don't seem dangerous at first, except they're subtly exaggerated in terms of facial features and there's an ominous danger about them in spite of not doing anything. Then, they they turn into the Apostle forms- far more disturbing than Zodd, Wyald, the Baron, and the Count, looking appropriately like legions of hell itself coming straight out of a nightmare and Guts outside describes the sight as visual despair. It's followed by a nerve-wrecking tension leading to the massacre- not how the Band will escape, but when the massacre will inevitably occur. And when the Brands start flying, everyone gets marked, and Griffith gives the go-ahead, those Apostles lunge at them with full force, devouring the helpless Band. - The Behelit's misshaped face upon Guts touching him after contacting Griffith's blood, finally arranges into a natural human face as it then screams complete with crying tears of blood, causing the entire area to shift into a an entire area and sky composed of red, gigantic human faces. - The movie ramps up the Behelit scare by having a repeating shot of a closeup of the Behelit screaming face as the interior of the mouth reveals another Behelit to repeat the cycle with glowing eyes. - The movie adds another terror of ominousness, as unlike the original anime, it starts off as an eerie purple until Griffith commits to the sacrifice, the area changes red to fit the nightmarish mood. - How Corkus dies is dark. He goes insane from Griffith sacrificing his men, his fellows being eaten alive by Apostles and believes that everything from Midland to the Eclipse has all been a dream. He then sees an alluring beautiful woman in the middle of the madness, but he's fully aware it's an Apostle disguising itself to eat him, hugs her anyway and whimpers how his death will be horrible as the Apostle reveals her true form. He's that damaged at that point]]. - Guts finds Gaston in the middle of the carnage, his seeming survival means that he's alright at least, relieving Guts of any worry. However, it turns out Gaston has already been eaten alive from the inside out as a small Apostle bursts out of Gaston's head. Guts turns around to see the other Apostles showing the dismembered corpses of his comrades out of sadism. It's little wonder Guts wants to hunt down every Apostle after this point after the undignified treatment of his colleagues. - The Count playing with Pippin's hollowed out corpse just to torment Guts. There's no wonder when Guts deals with him later (in chronological order), he stoops right below his level. - Casca's ordeal alone crosses SO MANY LINES. As if being raped and being in excruciating pain because of her brand is bad enough, but it's the way that Femto is raping her that deems the act as so heinously vile. Femto does some truly horrific things to Casca that can only be described as pure sexual sadism... things that you don't even want to describe just out of respect for this woman. Casca is being violated sexually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not to mention that that Hope Spot stunt that Femto pulled was really nasty as he allowed Guts to get just close enough to he and Casca after he chiseled off his arm only to get him dog-piled mere feet away. It's as if Femto did it just so Guts could get front row seats to see exactly what vulgar things he did to Casca. - And if all that wasn't bad enough, Griffith saved Casca from being raped when they'd first met. That's right, not only is her brand BURNING with literal Hellish AGONY as she's being violated, her tormentor is none other than the very same man who had previously saved her from the selfsame fate. - This is the point where the anime ends, and in the manga, that's only the beginning. Because it turns out later that Casca was pregnant with Guts's child when she got raped by Femto, and as a result of this, the child was horribly tainted by Femto's evil, and is born premature and deformed. Despite being tainted by evil, the child still cared for its mother a great deal, to the point of summoning ghosts to protect her from Bishop Mozgus's Cold-Blooded Torture. It's then used as the vessel for the rebirth of Griffith back into the mortal world when it's devoured by the Behelit-Apostle, basically a giant Behelit with tentacles, dying along with him. - For lack of a better word, volume 13 can catch you off-guard: it makes you want to throw up, cry, throw up again, guzzle down five gallons of Brain Bleach, and pet an adorable puppy for good measure just to get over it because you will feel as if you're getting raped yourself. It is truly a nightmare in itself to have to read volume 13. We understand if you don't want to - and we aren't forcing ya. - During the Eclipse there's also Slan commenting on how "delicious" the whole ordeal of Griffith as Femto raping Casca is while Guts is forced to watch. She even sounds like she's having an orgasm while she talks about it, and can be shown cupping her own breasts in sexual pleasure while she and rest of the Godhand look. - Slan being female (among other female-looking Apostles around Casca) amplifies this by a few orders of magnitude. A woman gleefully approving of another woman's rape is just the bitchiest thing imaginable. - Notice how during the Eclipse the demon apostles stripped Casca naked, one of them raised its horn close to her vagina in between her legs and looked like it was going to rape her had it not stopped to watch Femto being born with the others. And take a good look at the other apostles surrounding her. Freud would have a field day. - Rosine's little Crapsaccharine World is fairly disturbing, specially due to the fact that her "elves," who rape and kill each other, are basically still children playing. When we see the cocoons in which they are transformed, things reach a really disturbing angle when we learn she plans to turn her childhood friend into one of the little bastards; thankfully we later see (courtesy of Guts destroying the cocoons) the deformed children inside then. - The absolute worst part of Rosine's "elven kingdom" is the "Adult attack", where they pin each other to the ground and rape each other with their stingers. Depressing, horrifying, and slightly narmful in a way that produces an entirely new feeling of awkwardness mixed with terror. - Even worse than that, this happens in front of Jill, who has had to fight off Attempted Rape from one of her father's friends at least once. She throws up in horror when she sees it. - When Rosine's "elves" play "war", they actually kill each other with little stick-spears — and we know from an earlier scene that every one of Rosine's apostle-spawn that dies turns back into what it used to be. And then they try to make poor Jill eat one of those dead kids, which is around the point where she very understandably decides to get the hell out. - All those transformations - from little fairies into hornets and back, in all possible phases. - Rosine was in an abusive household, and discovered to her despair that the stories of elves in the distant forest were nothing but myth. Then, as her father is beating her mother on the very ground that her dreams and innocence were shattered, the Behelit takes away them both and turns her into a "elf," and grants her the ability to turn other children into "elves." When Guts finds her, not only does he leave a trail of mutilated and burnt child-corpses in his wake (the converted children turn back into humans when killed), he gleefully burns the "elves"-in-progress, and outright terrifies Rosine. - The beginning of the Chapter of the Binding Chain, which introduces the Beast of Darkness proper. The evil spirits have not let up in their torment of Guts, telling him about how he will soon become like them and become a monster. - Those creepy spirit-possessed dogs with human faces that try to eat Guts and Farnese. Dogs should not have faces like that. - And then one of these demons possesses the horse that Guts kidnapped Farnese on, which very nearly rapes her, only stopped by Guts flashbacking to the very worst moment from the Eclipse and shearing off its head in a berserker rage — and very nearly decapitating Farnese along with it! - And then there's what happens when Farnese winds up possessed herself. She pins Guts down, completely naked, and then starts choking him with string while begging Guts to "slowly cut her in two" with the Dragonslayer. It's a sexual moment, but also a very creepy moment, because both Guts and the audience are quite aware that Farnese is most definitely Not Herself. - The plague sequence that begins the Chapter of the Birth Ceremony, particularly the scene where the rats carrying the plague converge into the form of Conrad, the God Hand presumably responsible for spreading it. - Farnese is shown to be turned on by people burning alive to the point where she spends some "alone time" thinking very hard about that. Nausea Fuel as well. - The thought process and methods of Inquisitor Mozgus, who is just as horrible as you'd expect a fanatical religious nutjob with too much power and not a shred of objectivity can get. While it's pretty obvious from the start that he's Bad News, his vilest act we see is when a band of starving refugees attempts to steal some of the ample foodstuffs sent to Mozgus and his retinue, and he spots among them a woman with a starving infant. When she begs him to feed her child, he gently takes her along to his residence, lauding her courage and dedication. He sends away the child to be fed and cared for, then escorts her to a room while extolling the fact that while her intentions were good, she still has to expiate her sins... And then he opens the door, where we see the other refugees being horribly tortured, and the poor woman is dragged, stripped, and tied to another torture device over her increasingly frantic pleas... Then the door closes. It's as nightmarish as it sounds, if not more so. And somehow, the fact that he truly believes he is doing the right thing makes it even worse. An unrepentant Card-Carrying Villain like Wyald is certainly horrific, but the idea that someone can commit even worse atrocities and still consider themselves a good person is even more terrifying, especially when history has proven time and again that humans are fully capable of this without being demons. - To make matters even worse, we're shown later that the woman was driven insane by the torture, and that her baby is dead. - The cult dedicated to Slan, which among other things involves eating human remains as part of its initiation ritual. They're also quite rape-happy. - The demons drawn by Casca's Brand possessing the cultists during the battle with the Holy Iron Chain Knights. - Still not as bad as when it happened again in the refugee camp, which led to children being eaten alive by their own parents when they got possessed and turned into monsters. - The Great Goat Head was originally just a cultist leader with a goat head mask and a snake largely used for ceremony. But when the Egg of the Perfect World turns him into an Apostle Spawn, he becomes a real monster who wants Casca in the worst way. Thank goodness Guts arrived when he did. - The Great Goat's intentions for Casca become even creepier in that both he and his Mouth of Sauron say they only want Casca to "become family," completely ignoring what's going through her mind. - The Egg of the Perfect World collecting human bodies as part of his garden, including a huge symbol of the church decorated with flayed human skins. Not to mention the Egg himself, who looks like nothing less than a giant living Behelit, Humpty Dumpty if he were designed by Pablo Picasso and Tim Burton. - During the second Eclipse, when Griffith is reborn, we see Guts get up after the tower has crumbled into a hand-shaped edifice disturbingly reminiscent of the ginormous hand from the first Eclipse. He is alone. He looks down. His facial expression changes to awe and terror. On the next page, the refugee camps are shown. With a HUGE Sacrifice symbol made up from all the burning huts and houses running across them. - When fighting Mozgus, while Mozgus is established as a monster, after becoming infected by the Egg of the Perfect World and becoming a real monster, he has the appearance of an angel, as do his interrogators. While he does intend to sacrifice Casca to placate the demon tides, he's also the only one protecting the refugees from said demonic flood. Guts, of course, tells the refugees to shove it and die like men, and then kills their angelic guardians, cementing his status as the demonic Black Swordsman. Even in death, fire consumes Mozgus' body, which actually holds back the flood as a handful of remaining refugees kneel around him in prayer. "Mommy, the angel fell!" - What happens as soon as Mozgus is gone? Unspeakable tides of pure evil surge forward and start devouring the crowds of terrified men, women, and children. - While an awesome moment for Casca it was also quite creepy how post-Eclipse when she ran away from Guts out of fear and ran into some bandits, who then tried to gang rape her... but by the time Guts found her, Casca was naked and covered in her would-be rapists' blood after she slashed all of their throats. - It's disturbingly implied that Guts has In Love with Your Carnage toward insane Casca when he finds her naked and soaked in the blood of the men who tried to gang-rape her after she killed all of them. Various panel shots have the Male Gaze over Casca's body, and it's implicated that despite the disturbing scenario of both Casca's insanity and her near-assault, Guts is turned on by this display (possibly due to years of being desensitized to violence and being emotionally deprived after so much trauma), which leads him to nearly rape Casca himself soon after finding her. Guts just barely stops himself from going through, but it leaves him SEVERELY messed up and EXTREMELY aware how far off the deep end he's been going. - If you look closely at the panels where Guts assaults Casca, the two are posed exactly as Casca and Griffith were during her rape at the Eclipse. The Beast even commands Guts to "tear her up, like Griffith did," after which readers are shown an Imagine Spot of the Beast raping and devouring Casca. Thankfully Guts realized what was happening and stopped himself, or the Beast probably would have killed her then and there. - After being reborn into the mortal world, Griffith doesn't actually seem to have changed that much. If anything, his cunning, military prowess and inhuman charisma have increased, making him even more successful than he was before. - In the bit where he meets Guts again, he calmly declares that he feels no remorse for anything he did, and says it all so damn reasonably that it's almost as if he thinks Guts is the one being irrational, is truly horrifying. Even if you didn't know what he was capable of with his demonic powers, the sociopathic lack of remorse would be frightening enough on its own. This aspect of him rattles even Guts, and considering how much he's been through without batting an eye, that says a lot. - Casca actually seemed affectionate towards him. She collapsed before long due to the pain his presence caused her Brand of Sacrifice, but apart from that she didn't seem bothered by him. Presumably it was the remains of her child (whose body Femto had used to transform into his physical vessel in the mortal world) she was reacting to, but that doesn't stop it being horrifying that she seemed willing to embrace Femto when Guts struggled day and night to keep her safe and she still wouldn't trust him. - Casca can subconsciously remember her ordeal during the Eclipse when other characters are trying to force themselves on her, but she didn't seem to do that when she was near Griffith... One could argue that she didn't see a reason to fear Griffith at the time because it was Griffith as Femto who raped her but remember that Casca INDEED recognized the demonic entity as Griffith before he violated her. This just brings on an onslaught of bad thoughts and assumptions. - What about the way Femto builds up the new Band of the Hawk? The readers know that he's a monster, but not many of the characters do, and seeing a new bunch of people looking for a purpose in life flock to his banner just as they did before sets off no end of alarm bells for what might happen to them. - Femto actually went so far as to replace the original leaders of the Band of the Hawk, even after claiming that he felt no remorse for selling out the first batch. It was no wonder that Guts was so pissed when Grunbeld mentioned that he was part of the new Band of the Hawk. - Trolls from the Qliphoth, whose primary method of reproduction involves forcibly impregnating captured women from villages, with the births of new trolls being every bit as horrific and lethal to the poor women involved as that of Ganishka's demon soldiers. Particularly wretched is the fate of Hannah of Enoch village, whose husband and brother are killed by those creatures while she is raped and captured. Later, Farnese and Casca encounter her in their den, desperately pleading for help before the troll spawn rip their way out of her stomach. - When Schierke taps into the powers of darkness and reminesces that when you look into darkness, the darkness looks back at you. And does so in form of a Cthulhu-esque nightmare. Okay, it was later revealed to be just an Earth spirit, but his first appearance and build up to it was damn creepy. - When the Kushans take over the capital of Wyndham, they literally Paint the Town Red, by decorating the city with the corpses of all the people they killed. Meanwhile Charlotte is being held captive in a tower, when enter Emperor Ganishka intending to rape her and force her to carry his heir just to secure the throne. As if being threatened with rape by an Apostle wasn't horrifying enough, Charlotte is immediately reminded of her father's previous attack and sees Ganishka as her own father, and considering this is a literal demon we are talking about, there is little chance she would have been able to fight him off like she did before with the King. The only thing that saves her was screaming for Griffith's name, making Ganishka have second thoughts about going through the deed. - Ganishka gleefully calls the occupied Wyndham palace his "demon castle." Why? He's "decorated" it with the mangled corpses of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of murdered Midlanders. Statues have their heads knocked off and crudely replaced with the real thing, and gargoyles have their mouths stuffed with yet more severed heads. Worst of all are the live, naked women dangling from rafters above a pit of crocodiles, to be slowly Eaten Alive piece by piece for Ganishka's amusement. He has applied a similar treatment to the entire city; countless corpses are skewered on steeples and hanging from church rafters. These massacres, compared with the enslavement of men for war and women for sex or daka production, claim the majority of Wyndham's population, leaving an entire national capital a nightmarish ghost town stalked by ravenous Kushan-made monsters. - Ganishka's moustache conceals More Teeth than the Osmond Family, and you do not want to see what they look like. - Ganishka's method of drawing new soldiers for his demon army? He throws pregnant women into vats made up of stitched together Apostles, their children become monsters and rip their ways out of their mother's wombs, and the remains are given to the newborn for food. - The second time Guts used the Berserker Armor, Guts greatly overestimates his ability to control it, resulting in him barely avoiding splattering all his friends. And only because the moonlight boy intervenes. Guts had lost control completely. The really scary part is thinking about the potential aftermath of this: it would probably result in Guts never being able to escape the armor's grip, randomly killing anything that moves until he dies or turns into another Skull Knight. - The dinner party in Vritannis, when the first tiger shows up. It's really unnerving to see Miura toy with classic horror tropes (not showing us the tiger initially, the lights going out, blood splattering on bewildered onlookers...) when most of the other monsters have been so in-your-face. It's almost less frightening when the rest of the pack burst in, just because they're immediately spotted. - Ganishka's 'Shiva' form. It starts off as a mass of faces, which swells into a towering, multi-armed figure, which dwarfs the city of Windham and towers over the new Band of the Hawk, to the point where even powerful apostles could surely do nothing against this unstoppable behemoth of destruction. To make matters worse Ganishka seems to forget who he is and doesn't seem to understand his sheer size, wondering where his army has gone as he unknowingly tramples his own soldiers to paste and breathing fire at his chief sorcerer, believing him to be an insect. - Also anyone he steps on reforms into smaller apostle spawn in his own image, with fangs and tentacles, which will eat anything in their path. - Ganishka's past sucked. It doesn't remotely excuse his crimes, but why he became such a monster is understandable to a limited extent. When he was 6, his own mother tried to murder him in favor of his little brother, more concerned by doting on the latter even when the older son is in front of her suffering from the poison. - Despite its adaptation faults, Berserk (1997) manages to give the Eclipse a completely new tone, one that is very different from the manga and movies. Unlike them, the anime could believably look at first like a series about a mercenary warrior in a world very similar to our Middle Ages, without any shadowy overtone lurking at its back. The opening sequence only shows Guts in his pre-Eclipse look, the episodes are slow-paced and focused on the characters and their human struggles, and most of the manga's supernatural/bizarre elements (the female Apostle, Puck, the Count, Wyald, the Bakiraka, the Skull Knight and the Baron of Koka if the viewer missed the first episode) are expunged, so it's easy for a casual viewer to think that Zodd was a random fantasy cliché monster, that the Behelit is just a weird amulet, and that there are no problems in the setting which cannot be solved by Guts's sword or Griffith's smarts. Then the Eclipse happens almost out of nowhere and, surprise, things CAN turn bad beyond any hope for our beloved characters after all. Their world happens to be ruled by a pantheon of near-omnipotent evil gods who not only turn the Band of the Hawk into an all-you-can-eat monster food buffet, but also turn one of our heroes into one of their kind, who proceeds to horribly betray his friends and rape the female lead. And if that's not enough, the Eclipse sequence ends fading to black in its most horrible climax, and the next and last thing we see, a surviving Guts going to a presumable quest for revenge, is set after an unknown amount of time. We end up without any explanation of how Guts survived the carnage, what ultimately became of Casca or simply what the hell happened. - The track "Behelit" in the 1997 anime. It's especially nightmarish when it plays while Femto is raping Casca while Guts is held down and forced to watch. It's the first track on the OST too. Such a pleasant introduction having to be reminded of the most nightmarish scene in the series right off the bat. - The anime might have toned down the violence, but still: some scenes are still extremely horrifying when you attach sound effects, voice acting, and full motion depictions to the mix. - Guts actually screaming in pain as Nosferatu Zodd prepares to tear him limb from limb. - Guts hacking off his arm with his broken sword, while badass, was also incredibly disturbing. And in the anime the sound of him hacking at his arm. - And to end, Casca's rape itself. Yes, the anime was more lenient on us to at least show less of their bodies, but it's still sickening having to watch her writhe in agony as this is being done to her. - Not to mention The Scream that Guts gives after seeing it all happen before his eyes - it's very powerful and effective in bringing the viewer to their knees. - If you thought that some scenes from the TV series were disturbing, don't even talk about Berserk: The Golden Age Arc. All gory battle scenes are played out precisely how they are in the manga. Most disturbingly is that sexual violence is played up in the movie; for instance the noble who assaulted Casca was not only trying to rape her, but he also beat the CRAP out of her. The Advent, the movie where the Eclipse goes down, has reached notoriety in Japan as being one of the most violent and disturbing animated movies PERIOD. In fact, it was so disturbing that some people reportedly had to leave the theater. And this was the edited version!! - Related to the above of how adding sound effects and voice-acting to the mix makes thing more horrific. Now in the movies, since it covers the Eclipse to its completion, both English and Japanese voice actresses of Casca nailed it when expressing her sanity and hope crushing despite her not saying a lot during the scene: Casca's tone of disbelief when she realizes that Femto is Griffith, her whimpering and weeping in fear and pain during her violation, and her last tearful words to Guts are just plain awful to listen to. At her lowest point, she sounds almost childlike and innocent, almost a brilliant but twisted nod at how Casca's sanity would eventually slip to that of a very young child.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Berserk
Beelzebub / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes While this manga has its violent moments, Chapter 207 trumps them all by showing \|\|Lucifer jamming her hand through Furuichi's chest and ripping his heart out.IN DETAIL.\|\| And as if that wasn't enough, after \|\|Lucifer cuts Furuichi's heart (the representation of his soul) into pieces, Takamiya delivers them to his underlings as "desserts"... and they EAT THEM.\|\| Takamiya's first meeting with \|\|Lucifer. She killed everyone but his dad when he was a kid, the dad's in a coma, and since he couldn't control her, he didn't leave a tiny dark room in his house for two years until Saotome showed up to help.\|\| Keep in mind he looks no older than eight or so in the flashbacks. \|\|Himekawa\|\| uses a device to somehow cut the link between Oga and Beel. His absolute panic upon realizing this and looking for Beel is pure fear. The following chapter shows Beel's version of said terror \|\|as Oga can't see or interact with him and he freaks out. When he comes back with Kanzaki, Oga is pretty much on the verge on death\|\|. The Black Fog that turns people into stone. All over the city. And it seems sentient enough to go after and attack people who are trying to avoid it. Fuji and Satan. \|\|The Six Upstarts AND the entire pillar squad didn't even slow either of them down. In Fuji's case 20 seconds was (rightfully) deemed too long to stall for in a fight against him. And in Satan's case the entirety of the pillar squad was finished in a similar timeframe. And all of them turn to stone.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Beelzebub
BEMANI / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Maybe it's a good thing most modern BEMANI games are arcade exclusives and that arcades are generally crowded spaces; imagine experiencing these moments in your room late at night. As a Nightmare Fuel page, all spoilers are unmarked. In General - Just stay away from all BGAs of Asaki's songs...seriously. beatmania (including IIDX) - Breathless from IIDX 13 DistorteD. It's just contextually depressing and disturbing. - "CaptivAte ~Chikai~" is kind of a soothing song. But if you miss a note...a giant, decaying bat demon pops up and attacks you. - "Blind Justice" and "Apocalypse" are classic songs in the BEMANI series, but their BGAs are terrifying. - Just try playing "VANESSA" with the portrait in the background "video" staring at you, occasionally shifting facial expressions in reaction to your performance. It was replaced by a generic video in tricoro, for better or for worse, only to be put back in PENDUAL, though without the changing expressions. - "Nageki no Ki" and its sequel "G59" features some really creepy piano and violin voices along with Creepy Awesome demons appearing in the BGA. - The background video for "INORI", consisting of robotic abominations with red singular eyes and a faceless doll who runs away from them and jumps to her death. - Rche from the Lincle Kingdom event looks like a beautiful, feminine boy... until you miss a note, at which point his head suddenly turns into a goat head as he attacks you. Fitting, for a character meant to represent Lucifer. - In IIDX 22 Penedual, in a certain unlock event if his friendship level is low enough, he makes this face. - The boss character for "S!ck" is some sort of purple-skinned Humanoid Abomination with a grotesque muscle build and ridiculously thin limbs. - The boss character from "Rengoku No Elferia" is a princess known as Ferira that is transformed into a monster by evil wizards. If you don't get a high enough EX-Score before its final verse, she will not survive and explode. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero You have to get a high enough EX-Score to get her to assume her Bishounen Line form. If you get her to do that, you get the true ending... That is, it's a really difficult Level 12 ANOTHER. - If you fail to get an A or higher on NORMAL, AA or higher in HARD or an AAA in ANOTHER during "Motto! Motto! Tokimeki feat. Matsushita," a song that simulates dating Ooinu note : The woman from "Ooinu no Waltz", you won't meet her at the end. Instead, you will be meeting Mamonis in schoolgirl clothing! - In beatmania IIDX 23 copula, unlocking a Season Line song for the Extra Stage changes the song select background from the usual "train traveling through tunnel" animation to what looks like a train traveling at night towards a bright orange light, as if you're traveling into a portal to Hell. - The music video for "HADES", featuring a man being chased by a red-skinned demon. What makes this one so creepy is the animation style, and how much it looks like it could pass for an actual horror anime. - On a similar premise, NZM might look Lighter and Softer, but the premise is basically the same and the red demon is replaced by an evil version of the Aegis doll. - Honey Trap from IIDX 24 SINOBUZ does almost the same thing as HADES and NZM, but this time with a ghost girl chasing a boy. - At approximately over halfway into the BGA, the new girl in "Ska-sh All Neurons!!" makes this Yandere Slasher Smile. - "THE F∀UST"'s entire overlay and the song itself. You have no idea until you see this. DanceDanceRevolution - The original background◊ for Afronova features a man in animal body paint reaching his arms out with a menacing screaming look on his face. (That image was actually edited from a photo of Reese Witherspoon◊.) Later versions simply tone him down to a paint-less tribal man, but it's still creepy. - "Healing Vision ~Angelic mix~". The background image and the album art feature a hospital bed, and throughout the song there is a heart monitor beeping normally... until about 2/3 into the song, where it briefly goes crazy and flatlines. The flatline persists until the end of the track. - The updated background art◊ for I'm Alive from Extra Mix. - "New York EVOLVED"'s jacket◊ features a skeleton staring menacingly at the viewer. Dance ManiaX - Dance ManiaX 2nd Mix's DANGER screen. It's a skeleton on a red background that is reaching its arms out at you. pop'n music - Some of Asaki's characters, such as Goku-Sotsu Kun, Ichi-no Myo and Ninjin can be quite terrifying, although they aren't as terrifying as the BGAs in other games. - The Zizz-ALT from Pop N' Music 20 Fantasia is just terrifying. While the fact that Zizz did prey on an unsuspecting ALT 2.0 is terrifying enough, when you connect a note, Zizz's face pops out from ALT, and if you clear the song, ALT is killed and replaced with Zizz. (Winning with this ALT skin restores ALT to her original form, however, but this means that you need to lose "A.I. Darkness" to see it happen if she isn't set as your character). But that doesn't stop there! Another terrifying implication is during Zizz's song in Pop'n Music Lapistoria known as "Shuumatsu no jokyoku ~owari no hajimari~", which came after Pop N' Music 20 Fantasia, a part of the lyrics features "Where are we going? Mr.?" in ALT's voice, indicating that she might have become one of Zizz's servants! - Fortunately, the next time we see ALT 2.0, which is in Pop'n Music eclale, which came after Pop N' Music 20 Fantasia and Pop'n Music Lapistoria, she is alive and well and is no longer possessed by Zizz, as evident in her (currently) latest song Airport Shuttle! - Temari from Pop'N Sunny Park is a Cute Ghost Girl, but her dance animation can be quite unsettling at second glance. She's seen riding an eggplant with four legs on it... except it's actually a shouryouma, a type of offering to the dead during Obon, the Japanese ghost festival. - Lapistoria's endgame. - Eventually after beating Jadeite, the principal of the Lapistoria school, Retsu goes berserk... and the culprit is none other than the vice president Jade, a young boy in pure white that screams Dissonant Serenity. He then laughs right when Retsu goes berserk and his Lapis goes black. - After defeating Jade, everything goes monochrome and the sound and colors of the Pop'n world fade. It turns out that the Master Lapis in charge of the Lapistoria world is corrupting itself...and is responsible for both Jadeite and Jade's corruption. But Lapis isn't evil at all by itself; the Greater-Scope Villain turns out to be MZD himself who neglected the stone as he created the Lapistoria World. - After MZD beats the Master Lapis, it fades as well... and everyone is trapped. Yes, not even the god of Pop'N can escape, and everyone is trapped there for an eternity... unless someone has a colored Lapis, which caused Nia's Heroic Sacrifice. - Finally, there's the Fridge Horror scene after you fail to clear the ending. The bad ending penalty for failing to clear that song is the same scene at the start of story mode repeating. This means fail to clear the ending song... and your efforts are All for Nothing. Reflec Beat - "Survival Games -ZEUS Mix-"'s album art◊ features Yoshitaka and Sota in a blue tint with creepy glowing blue eyes. The REFLEC BEAT plus version of the album art takes it a step further◊, showing Yoshitaka as a bald alien-like character. - "CLAMARE" has an album jacket featuring a screaming skull face on a hellish yellow, green, and purple background, pictured above. The track itself is pretty harsh on the ears, featuring a quiet heartbeat section about halfway through the song. - Similar to "CLAMARE", the REFLEC derby event for VOLZZA now gives us "Rebellio"; if the former jacket didn't scare you, the latter◊ will. Sound Voltex - Grace from her SDVXIII debut. While in later installations she's purified and is a regular, in that particular installation she's the Big Bad and what she does there is outright disturbing and terrifying. Not to mention the face that she makes on the game's title screen. - After the NEMESIS crew defeats all four of Grace's minions for the first time, they are greeted by a Grace with 99999 HP that instantly defeats Rasis, critically injures her and proceeds to corrupt lesser members of the NEMESIS crew. - Let's not forget what she does to Left and Maxima. She ambushes and corrupts Left to serve her then uses Capsaisin to turn Maxima into a stone statue. Yes, you read it right, Maxima. The strongest and most cheerful member of NEMESIS... DESTROYED in an instant. - "MARENOL" by LeaF is imported to SDVX VIVID WAVE! Just DO NOT look up that song's BGA on YouTube. Simply DO NOT. We will not link it here; if you want to see it, look for it yourself. Context - Beware: it's unsettling! : The BGA itself is an 8-bit animation depicting the hallucinations of a girl attempting suicide by substance overdose — such hallucinations consist of , among other things. Thankfully, the suicide attempt failed and she wakes up near the end of the video. Thankfully SDVX doesn't have that BGA, but the beginning of the song starts with a loud scream, which might function as a Jump Scare if you are not suspecting it. the girl's body tearing off and being cut into shreds, being cuffed up and cut by cogs, being impaled on spikes, growing technicolor ulcers Gita Dora - The video for the song Exclamation from Tri-Boost Re:EVOLVE features a kid getting hunted down by a demonic rabbit plush. Hello, Sweetie. Nostalgia (BEMANI) - "Noah's song of collapse's" unlock animation. It's nothing like the past unlocking animations and it's just plain disturbing. - "Fear the Merry" marks Asaki's debut in the series and even if his singing is non-existent, there is an extremely ominous laugh followed by sinister violin/silent noises alongside Asaki's very own rock, piano and violin work.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bemani
Beetleborgs / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - With his Uncanny Valley Makeup, the actors' sometimes desperate enthusiasm, and some occasional Special Effects Failure, Flabber himself can be quite off putting. - The Hillhurst monsters have more than a few times expressed the desire to feast upon the children, and half of those times they have tried to act upon that desire. It's also questionable whether those kids are their first targets. - A particular scene from one episode where there's someone playing the organ, someone sneaks up to take a closer look and touches the mysterious figure on the shoulder, when we get a look at the figure playing the organ we see that it's the phantom who turns around and cackles maniacally like Jack Nicholson's Joker. - Shadowborg is this. Not only is he powerful, his only wit or humor more or less deadpan mocking of the heroes as he makes it clear he's got them dead to rights and is just playing with them at that point. He's also the first villain who's attack on the town is played dead seriously and is actively aiming at people. Especially in contrast with the rest of the first season. - While partially Played for Laughs, the reveal that Mums was mummified alive by a jealous priest is kind of horrifying. - There's just something genuinely intimidating about Nukus. Especially compared to the Magnavores. Particularly the fact he flat out tries to kill Flabber.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Beetleborgs
Betrayal at House on the Hill / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Okay, so yeah it's a board game, but seriously, read some of the events (like "Funeral," "Burning Man," or "Hanged Men" to name a few) and then imagine really experiencing them while exploring in a creepy haunted house. shudder - After a few rounds, you'll likely start to have a silent group consensus on who should read all the cards and the scenario texts, based simply on who has the best voice and style. - The "Better With Friends" scenario retcons the traitor into the ghost of someone who drowned years ago and wants to drown the heroes for eternal companionship. \|\|Due to her Chekhov's Hobby, nine-year-old Missy Dubourde is always the traitor in this scenario if somebody is playing as her.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill
Best of the Worst / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes At the end of episode 89, Mike and Jay decide to destroy "Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings" by smashing it with a sledgehammer, on the grounds that the tape didn't even work. Mike goes to grab the sledgehammer, passing by the Plinketto board in the process... only to discover something on the back of it that genuinely horrifies him. Namely, the Wheel of the Worst. note : At the end of the 20th Wheel of the Worst, Mike and Rich had decided to destroy "Energy & Me" by dropping a safe on it with rope... only to realize after the fact that they had put the tape on the "Wheel of Misfortune". Jay: What is it? Mike: (terrified) You wanna see? Jay: ...what? (Mike steps behind the Plinketto board) ...what? Mike: (begins spinning the Plinketto board around...)	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BestOfTheWorst
Ben 10: Guardians / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Faction as a whole are a lot more like a trio of Knight of Cerebus than before. Highlights include: - Malware being a lot more malicious in combat, slamming Ben around more monsterously. - Psychobos being a lot more matliculute and enjoys causing harm to others. - Khyber is a Serial Killer who has no qualms with including Julie into his room and is a lot more malicious in his actions with his hunt. - Orianus, an original villain created for the story, is a Pyromaniac who is a planetary arsonist. By which means he burns ENTIRE PLANETS. - Seebik has a darker intentions still as he tried to burn down all of Bellwood with lava. - All the while they are unable to move, The Faction decimates Animo's forces with the following: - Blowing up Heatbat with Orianus' flames. - Absorbing Mad Cow via Malware's technology absorbtion - And finally Psychobos Mind Raped Dr. Animo for information. - Ben, as Way Big, getting so angry at Captain Nemesis that he nearly crushed him to death for nearly killing his dad. - The Feedback Flashback is given a more serious twist despite the Mood Whiplash after the flashback ended. - the Incursean arc introduces the second most dangerous Bountyhunter; Apex, a white furred Appoplexian. Who is as much of a Blood Knight as the rest of his race but more malicious. - For the Incurseans, Vilgax And his henchmen arrive for a Curb-Stomp Battle thats more like a massacre. - During a battle on Revonnah, Astrodactyl tries to save Kundo... but his reckless behavior ends with Kundo losing his arm, which he replaces with his damaged Sickle Bo Staff to form a plant-based prosthetic.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Ben10Guardians
Better Call Saul / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "<You know what I was thinking about this morning? The smell of burning leather and horsehair stuffing. Do you remember? Hotel Tulipan. You were so polite to that guy. And he turns his back on you? Makes that big deal to show he's not scared... You took your time with him. And his wife listening from the side. That asshole was so proud of his beautiful Spanish, his books, his antiques. But when it burned, it all smelled like shit. I never told you this, but... I went back inside. I went through the flames, the smoke. It was so hot the rubber on my shoes melted a little. Yes, I know it was very stupid, but... I'm sentimental. I wanted a souvenir.> " Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned! - Tuco Salamanca. He was terrifying enough in Breaking Bad, but in season 1, he takes it to new extremes including beating the shit out of the skateboarding brothers with his grandmother's cane, lying to his grandmother that a blood stain from the beating is spilled salsa, but even that is nothing compared to when he threatens to sadistically torture them in the desert and give them Colombian neckties definition of "Colombian necktie" : a form of post-mortem mutilation consisting of a deep incision under the victim's chin, through which the tongue is extracted and displayed over the neck, as if wearing a very short necktie. Jimmy manages to negotiate with him, but only just: their legs are broken off-screen as he is Forced to Watch and listen. note : On a production note, an interview reveals that Raymond Cruz was actually stomping on wooden boards to achieve the sound effect. Said incident is enough to scar him so much that even he cannot watch breadsticks get broken without thinking of it. So much that he immediately runs and vomits in a bar toilet. - Chuck suffering from his electromagnetic sensitivity from just walking outside to get the paper. This is followed in the next episode by him getting tasered by cops who think that he's a drug addict. - "Bingo" has the scenes with the damn Kettlemans again. Betsy Kettleman's sociopathic behaviour here is even worse than it was the last time we saw her. Even when Jimmy gives her a satisfying shut-down, she seems to one-up herself. - While it's not quite as disturbing as the other scenes, in "Pimento", Chuck suddenly goes apeshit and rants at Jimmy is still unnerving because it just... comes out the blue and turns their relationship upside-down. - Nacho hires Mike to get Tuco out of the picture, ostensibly by killing him. When Mike asks if he is ready to kill his partner, Nacho tells a story that explains just how horrific working with someone like Tuco is: during one of their extortion efforts, on a guy named Dog Paulsen, Tuco snapped due to being high on crank and blew off Dog's head with a Sawed-Off Shotgun at point-blank range while Nacho was standing behind Dog. He still has a chunk of skull stuck in his body ever since to prove it. And that's before Tuco graduated to harder drugs. - Also somehow both sad and heartwarming because he's doing it for Kim, Jimmy sounds on the edge of manic and deranged when hes almost begging Chuck to ruin his life, get him to quit the law and it'll be like Jimmy McGill never even existed, plus Chuck would get away with it and Jimmy would never tell anyone. Even Chuck starts to think that he's not the only mentally ill one in the family after that. - Tuco's beatdown of Mike, in particular after that one blow that dazes Mike. There's seeing Mike all bloodied and beaten up, and his psychotic laugh before delivering the final blow to Mike's face. - The Cousins were always creepy whenever they appeared on-camera in Breaking Bad. But here, they are first shown looking down onto to Mike and his granddaughter. They don't say anything. They just stare. Then Marco casually points his finger towards Mike's granddaughter in a gun formation. This gets Mike scared shitless to the point that he immediately gets Kaylee out of the pool and dries her off in a way that looks very akin to someone shielding a person from gunfire. - We get to see where Tuco got his psychotic tendencies from: Hector. The scariest part? Hector appears more fastidious and stable than Tuco. Worth noting is how Nacho is reacting to the whole thing. He's more frightened than we'd ever seen him, especially since Mike tells him later that "Your problem is coming back sooner than expected." - Chuck suddenly collapsing after having endured a meeting in normal no-lights-off-conditions with the Mesa Verde people. He's left a shivering mess back at his house and ends up sleeping until the afternoon. Howard gets nervous at the thought of Chuck going outside unprotected again and Ernesto is at a loss when Jimmy's usual solutions to help Chuck recover fail to do anything. - During Mike's heist of the ice cream truck, notice how the bound and gagged driver starts thrashing on the ground the moment Mike revs up the saw to cut open the tires. He's reacting like he thinks Mike is about to cut him to pieces. - The aftermath of the above, when Nacho tells Mike that Hector killed a Good Samaritan who stumbled upon the aftermath of the robbery. - Chuck going into a seizure and knocking himself unconscious on a desk at the copy center. And Jimmy can do nothing to help him because he's afraid of getting caught. - On a subtler level, however much Chuck is an ass, Jimmy's Gaslighting with the documents is quite creepy; imagine a close family member taking advantage of a medical condition and trying to convince you that you were losing your ability to do the job you love. In Jimmy's defense, he almost certainly knew Chuck would immediately figure out the truth, but won't be able to prove it. - Chuck desperately trying to tell the doctors about his condition and having all his pleas fall on deaf ears is truly something out of a nightmare, made all the more unnerving by keeping the camera anchored upside-down on his face while the doctors are faceless voices who keep blandly repeating that everything's going to be fine. He receives a CAT scan against his will, an experience so traumatic that he's left catatonic for a day. - Chuck pretending to have a Villainous Breakdown, covering his walls in tinfoil, all to abuse Jimmy's sympathy and trick him into confessing. - The entire third season is incredibly dark, much more so than the previous two. - The end of the flash-forward in the first episode. After speaking up and telling a young shoplifter to get a lawyer, "Gene" returns to work, only to collapse in a manner very similar to Walter's collapse in the first episode of Breaking Bad and Chuck's various collapses, as well. - Jimmy going off of the handle at the end of "Witness" after learning that Chuck taped him. Rarely has the goofy Jimmy ever threatened to burn the house to the ground before. - Hell the lengths Chuck's willing to go to to incriminate his brother is pure Nightmare Fuel in and of itself. - Gus and his Terminator-like turn towards the camera in the middle of cleaning litter. Fring's back, indeed. - Although Chuck DEFINITELY has it coming this time round, Jimmy's speech about hoping that he dies alone paints a bleak picture of what could happen if Chuck doesn't change his ways and is a subtly scary example of Jimmy in Tranquil Fury mode, brrrrrrrrr. Considering how much of this turns out to be proven right... - Being a customer or lower level boss of Los Pollos Hermanos and having Hector and his goons come into the restaurant looking for Gus Fring in "Sabrosito". It's a good thing Nacho was wise enough to permit the patrons to leave so that they only were holding the employees hostage until Gus comes back. - Chuck's Villainous Breakdown at the very end of Chicanery is terrifying. All the true reasons for his resentment towards Jimmy come pouring out in one spell-binding performance by Michael McKean. - Nacho having to dish out a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Krazy-8 for being short on his payments, he's clearly shaken up about it afterwards as he's not concentrating on his job and winds up getting an upholstery sewing machine needle tearing through his skin, between his thumb and index finger, by accident. Worse is that he barely reacts to the injury. - Nacho's realization that Hector will drag his father's business into the drug game no matter what is terrifying, especially given Hector's sadism. Because of Nacho's involvement in the drug game, his father's entire livelihood — and life — are now in jeopardy. - Hector's Villainous Breakdown serves as an unnerving teaser for when he gets his stroke in the future of BCS. - Jimmy's combination of Evil Is Petty, Crocodile Tears and Never My Fault, all in one during the scene in the insurance office is even more disturbing than his 'fire me' plan at Davis and Main and Chuck's tape recorder trick. It drives home that Jimmy does serious damage con-wise if you've crossed him. - Daniel Wormald coming home to find Nacho waiting for him on the couch despite his security system, reminiscent of what Walt pulled on Eliot and Gretchen in his final episode. - After stretching herself too far by taking another client and having to pull several all-nighters, Kim falls asleep at the wheel and crashes in a quite visceral piece of direction, with her slowly trailing off while practicing her explanation of the deal, and then abruptly cutting to the crash waking her up. She stumbles out with a broken arm and her papers spilled all around, with perhaps the worst part being how much worse it could have been. - Jimmy going full Alpha Bitch and socially marginalising Irene from the rest of the elderlies so that she can be forced to settle and he gets his payday. Especially scary as his elder law gap in the market was supposed to be one of his most humanising qualities. Imagine what could happen if Kim found out about this dastardly scheme. - The events leading up to Chuck's suicide. After being given the boot from HHM and delivering one final Take That! to Jimmy, Chuck relapses hard on his EHS delusion. He pulls all of the breakers in his house, disconnects the phone, and when he notices that the meter is still running, tears his walls to shreds looking for whatever hidden wiring the current may be coming from. After he spends hours doing this and finds the meter still running, he violently destroys it with a baseball bat. The last we see of him is that of derelict human wreckage, having decided to give up on it all. He deliberately kicks over his gas lantern, and immolates himself as his house burns down. - According to Peter Gould, Michael McKean got so deeply into character over the four days it took to film the sequence that he was legitimately afraid he was watching someone have a complete mental breakdown. - Hector's second Villainous Breakdown leading to an actual heart attack, even if he's a detestable drug lord is still intense to watch. ### Smoke - In the present day story, Jimmy sees that his cab driver is from Albuquerque, and suddenly the man starts looking at him hard in the rearview mirror, like he recognizes Jimmy. He asks to get out, and it still takes a while to happen, and he's left to walk the rest of the way home with no idea how close an encounter this might be. - Nacho heavily tenses up as he's trying to toss the pills down a sewer grate while Gus is distracted, not sure if Gus won't turn around and catch him. He's interrupted before he can throw the bottle away, but breathes a sigh of relief when Gus doesn't ask him what he's doing. He and Arturo go with Gus to a meeting with Bolsa in a Pollos warehouse. After the meeting, Nacho drives in his truck to a remote bridge to throw the pills into the river. Then, just as Nacho is exhaling in relief, the camera changes to show Victor sitting in his car near the end of the bridge, watching Nacho through binoculars, and has installed a tracker on Nacho's truck. - It's a minor one, but we see some traces of Saul come out when Jimmy throws Howard's guilt over Chuck's suicide back in his face. ### Breathe - Gus reminds us why he's a crimelord not to be trifled with. Just from reading Hector's medical charts and Victor's report from when he got back after tailing Nacho, he's able to figure out that Nacho induced Hector's stroke, and sets a trap that night when Arturo and Nacho make the next scheduled drug pickup. As Nacho and Arturo are walking back to their car, Gus suddenly emerges from beside the refrigerator trucks, and before anyone can react, hogties Arturo and puts a plastic bag over his head. Simultaneously, Victor and several other henchmen pull guns on Nacho and force him to watch as Arturo suffocates to death in front of him. - And then the music dies off as Gus walks off, reminding us that the music is for the benefit of us, the audience; and for Nacho, this all happened without the benefit of the soundtrack. - Even more is the realization that yeah, Nacho has nowhere to run. The Salamancas are very powerful, and Mike won't be able to help Nacho out of this one since unbeknownst to Nacho, Mike has started working for Gus as well. Any efforts he made at getting out of the game have left him reduced to being a pawn for Gus to use. - To illustrate just how horrible Arturo's murder is, imagine getting a plastic bag forced over your head from out of nowhere, and then getting zip-tied up so you can't do anything about it. Then, they just leave you there on the ground to helplessly suffocate, while forcing your partner to stand by and watch. Arturo's long and needlessly cruel death stands out as one of the most terrifying in both series. The scene also reminds us that, much like what he's going to do down the road with Hector, Gus is a sadist. - Perhaps more chilling, is that Gus just innovated on what was done to him by the Cartel, having found a way to actually make it worse than it was for him. And coldly did it to someone else. ### Something Beautiful - Nacho is forced to go along with Tyrus and Victor as they run a False Flag Operation in which they fake evidence of a shooting ambush to cover up Arturo's demise. Part of the scheme involves Victor shooting Nacho and then leaving him to slowly bleed out in the desert. By the time the Cousins come along, Nacho is barely hanging on to life. It also firmly cements Gus' Bad Boss status as Nacho could easily have died if the Cousins showed up too late. - Dr. Caldera doing a "sniff test" to check that Nacho's bowel isn't ruptured and leaking fecal matter into his open wound is this as well as Nausea Fuel. - Dr. Caldera then graphically describing what will happen if Nacho's bowel has been perforated and ruptured by a bullet, saying he will have the worst infection of his life, it'll hurt worse than anything else he's ever felt, and then he'll die. ### Piñata - While he wasn't going to kill them, it's a little chilling that Jimmy's idea of payback on the guys who mugged him is to hang them upside down from a ceiling like piñatas and have Man Mountain and Huell threaten them with baseball bats. He'd rather do this instead of therapy, which should you tell you everything about his state of mind this season. - Gus decides to visit Hector in the hospital, and has a five minute long scene where he describes in graphic detail how he grabbed a coati with one broken leg WITH HIS BARE HANDS. And when it got away, he just waited for hours like a predator until it came out from hiding because it was hungry. Then, rather than just kill it, he kept it alive, waiting for it to die in the slowest way possible. And he uses this as an analogy to explain to Hector what his fate will be. ### Something Stupid - We get the payoff to the above-mentioned monologue from Gus. Hector might have eventually regained much more mobility, but Gus halts his treatment so that he'll spend the rest of his life almost completely paralyzed. Suddenly that Death Glare Hector gives before killing Gus has a lot more context. ### Coushatta - It's a more mundane one, but Mike has to give an Implied Death Threat to Werner to warn him that after his drunken slip-up at the bar, he needs to remember that Gus may not be so forgiving if he messes up again. A reminder both of just what Gus does to liabilities that negatively affects his business, but also shows how hardened Mike has become in a year of working for Gus. - Since we last saw him, Nacho is pretty shaken by having to rip a bling-wearing dealer's earring off, and he chides Krazy-8 for not doing it, which also suggests he's become a bit hardened as well having to head the Salamanca street crew and be a double agent to Gus. - The first appearance of Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca. He is easily the most affable and approachable Salamanca met so far, but there is definitely something off about him, similar to that of Gus. His more dangerous side is even further hinted when you look at the terrified faces of Krazy-8 and the cook, who are both visibly disturbed by his presence. And going all the way back to Breaking Bad, even Saul is terrified of this guy! ### Wiedersehen - The origin story behind Hector's communication bell. A hotel proprietor in Mexico made the mistake of disrespecting Hector. Hector and Lalo retaliated by torturing the proprietor (with his wife being forced to listen in the next room) and burning down the hotel. Lalo ventured into the hotel as it was burning and retrieved the bell from the front desk as a souvenir. Today, years later, he gives the bell to Hector to help him communicate. Making it more disturbing is the fact that Lalo talks about it like it were some funny anecdote. ### Winner - After Lalo heads into Travel Wire to find out where Werner went (since he knows that Mike, also looking for Werner, had already been there), the clerk, Fred, refuses to give him the information he needs, then steps away to deal with a phone call. When he returns to the counter, Lalo has vanished... and, to Fred's concern, in the corner of the room, one of the ceiling tiles was moved... Then, in a scene that practically acts as an Alien tribute, Fred can only look in slowly dawning horror as he hears creaking in the ceiling, before Lalo bursts out and lands in front of him, gun at the ready. Thankfully, we don't see the shooting, but cut to Lalo examining the security camera footage while Fred's body lays next to him. - According to the script, and later confirmed in "Wexler v. Goodman," Lalo covers up his tracks by burning down the Travel Wire. EXT. TRAVEL WIRE - MINUTES LATER PULLING Lalo forward as he emerges, wiping his face with a paper towel as he goes. Fingers of SMOKE curl from inside — a FIRE glows behind the counter. In classic Salamanca style, Lalo is burning the evidence. We can guess that Fred is still in there, somewhere. Lalo may be charming, but he's also a cold-hearted murderer. Off Lalo, motel brochures in hand, hot on Mike's trail... - In "Wexler v. Goodman," Mike gets access to the police files, which include crime scene photographs of what remains of the Travel Wire. The images show merely a burned out husk of a building. - Speaking of Lalo, the whole episode showcases brilliantly how terrifyingly effective Lalo really is. He manages to extract information on Gus' underground laboratory in a matter of hours. First he follows Mike to a parking lot; when Mike manages to gum up the exit so that the car separating him and Lalo gets stuck, Lalo rams the car and follows him anyways. Then he sneaks into Travel Wire (as detailed above), and then he manages to figure out where Werner is faster than Mike and calls him, pretending to be one of Gus' subordinates. He is the first Salamanca to not come across as mentally unstable but rather as a calculated, intelligent and outright refocused individual. He is not to be taken lightly, not even someone like Gus. ### 50% Off ### Bagman - The ambush scene. Jimmy is just driving down the dirt road, heading back to the highway, when he's ambushed by several cars of cartel hitmen who cut him off. They are all armed, Jimmy is not, and Jimmy is left having to fast-talk in hopes he can talk them out of shooting him. One of them points a gun straight at his head, finger on the trigger, and just as he's about to squeeze, a shot is heard...as the gunman is felled by a sniper bullet from Mike. Jimmy is left hunkering down by his car as the gunmen try to find and shoot back, as Mike picks them all off one at a time. - Jimmy chugging the bottle of his own urine. Less said, the better. - After retrieving one of the bills from a cactus, Jimmy stubs his toe on it and it pierces his shoe. We are treated to the slow, cringey process of extraction. - The whole discussion between Kim and Lalo. After asking him where Jimmy is, Lalo is completely silent at first until he suddenly interrupts her bluntly, seeming very disappointed with Jimmy for telling his secrets to someone he loves. And after realizing Kim is Jimmy's wife, Lalo seems more amused than angry. Kim then realizes a way too late that she is also part of the game now. - Jimmy realizes too late he's being chased into an ambush, and finds himself at the mercy of gun-toting thugs who are clearly intent on murdering him. And then he's left pinned down as Mike picks off the gunmen one by one with his sniper rifle, then comes in and uses his revolver to finish off the last one. ### Bad Choice Road - The ending scene is ten minutes of unbearable tenseness, with the threat of Lalo shooting Jimmy or Kim looming over the entire scene. - Lalo repeatedly demanding to hear Jimmy's side of the story on what happened in the desert, clearly wanting to smoke out the truth of the mysterious bullet holes in his car. The whole time, Lalo has his gun prominently displayed. - The whole buildup leading to this scene is filled to the brim with Oh, Crap! and Paranoia Fuel. Jimmy gets a phone call which he hangs up. Then, someone knocks on his door even though it's already nighttime. Then, he is called again, but this time Jimmy answers. It's Mike, who instructs him to leave the phone on so he can hear and we also see that he is speeding. Jimmy and Kim open the door and - it's Lalo in the hallway, the very last person they wanted to find out where they live. - Jimmy is about to actually talk (tying in with his PTSD and not being able to be his Motor Mouth self when he's emotionally exhausted). Kim saves him, but as Point and Shoot makes clear, Lalo remembers this. - Kim repeatedly hammers home the point to Lalo that he doesn't trust his men with $7 million, and he needs to get his own affairs in order. Lalo leaves quietly, but orders Nacho to head to Mexico by another route, and he has a long night ahead. Kim may have inadvertently opened Lalo's eyes and sealed Nacho's fate. ### Something Unforgivable - Lalo escapes Gus' hit on his family, and after finding them dead heads off for a Roaring Rampage of Revenge with a look of raging fury in his eyes, the sound of his footsteps on the gravel distorting until he sounds like a monster from Hell. Years later, Saul will still be terrified of Lalo coming back for revenge over this. - Also, this is the first time we see Lalo completely stripped of any humor whatsoever and the true depths of his inner beast become fully visible. He is now like all the other Salamancas! - Lalo being smart enough to force one of the assassins into calling the middleman and falsely report that the hit was a success. Everyone thinks Lalo is dead but he is still on the loose and is about to set things right. Should this facade carry over to Breaking Bad, even Gus believes it! - Before Lalo heads off, he looks at the bottle and two glasses of liquor that Nacho brought him, implying that he knows that Nacho had a hand in the assassination attempt. - Kim plans to ruin Howard's career for the heck of it. This makes Jimmy very concerned. ### Wine and Roses - After the attack on his hacienda, Lalo visits a nice Mexican couple who live nearby and has a friendly, casual conversation with the wife about how he had previously funded her husband's oral surgery. Then without warning, Lalo brutally kills them both (offscreen) because he needs the husband's body to serve as a decoy. Even when Lalo might genuinely consider you a friend who has not wronged him in any way, you're not safe. If he needs to walk over your dead body in pursuit of his own goal, he will. - Lalo visits Mateo (the husband) in the bathroom after he's shaved his beard and exchanges pleasantries with him. Then when Mateo's back is turned, Lalo's smile turns into a cold, uncaring grimace and you know what's about to happen. - Additionally, it's clear that the entire reason Lalo generously paid for oral surgery for the husband was simply to have a body double for situation like this one. For all his seeming kindness, he was always looking at the couple as an expendable tool in case he needed to fake his death one day. ### Carrot and Stick - Kim Wexler shows just what she's capable of as she browbeats the Kettlemans into playing ball with them. First, she makes a call to the criminal investigation department of the IRS and forces the Kettlemans to overhear her conversation with the agent, in which she is prepared to turn the couple in for tax preparer fraud if they rat out Jimmy to Howard. Then, when Betsy caves, Kim coldly tells her if she thought she "lost everything" when Craig was sent to jail, that experience would pale in comparison to what Kim would do to their family if they get on Kim's bad side again, adding that she will be keeping her eye on them. Even Jimmy is visibly disturbed by the confrontation. - Additionally, consider Jimmy and Kim's plot against Howard from Howard's perspective: suddenly, people suspect him of having a serious drug problem and nasty rumors are spreading all over town, reaching important professional friends and allies. And manufactured "evidence" seems to turn up all around you. ### Rock and a Hard Place - The entire scene where Nacho is handed over to the Cartel in the desert is intense. The scariest though has to be when the comparatively genial Bolsa tells him "Today, you are going to die. But there are good deaths, and there are bad ones." As he says this, we are given a view from the back of a car where an array of tools has been laid out in preparation for what is to be a "bad death". - More of a sobering thought, but it can get kind of spooky, looking at all the people assembled for Nacho's execution and realising that in a few short years, every single one of them will have died one way or another, leaving no memory of what took place in that barren desert beyond a piece of broken glass and a single flower where Nacho's body was left behind. Michael Mando: Theres an ominous thing to this scene, where these are all dead men walking, watching the first man die. But theyre already dead, they just dont know it yet. ### Axe and Grind - Lalo versus Casper has the latter use an axe handle to hit Lalos ribcage. He feigns being hurt before using a razor blade hidden behind a business card to slice Caspers face and then takes the axe to chop Caspers left foot off. All while Lalo comments that one of his ribs might be broken, but otherwise he seems no worse for wear. ### Plan and Execution - While Kim and Jimmy are at home, an ominous shot of a candle flickering is shown, making the viewer think Lalo has come to pay the pair another visit, just at a point in which Mike's men who previously covered for Kim are busy with Gus... but instead its simply Howard. After chiding them over the scam they pulled on him that day, the shot of a candle flickering plays a second time... and this time it's Lalo who walks in the door from the other room. He decides that Howard has already seen too much and slowly pulls out his pistol and screws on the suppressor, all while the pair desperately try to get Howard to leave - before Lalo blasts him in the head and kills him right in their living room, leaving Jimmy and Kim screaming. - The suddenness of his death is also frightening with just how casual Lalo is about it. - Once Howard's body hits the ground, we see a haunting shot of his face with his eyes still open and his mouth ajar from being Killed Mid-Sentence. Even worse, look at his jaw - the way it's hanging open implies that it might have broken from the fall. - Even more chilling is how amongst all the confusion mixed with mild drunken stupor, Howard has no idea who Lalo is and sounds like a confused child when trying to put the pieces together and figure out what's going on. It's only after Lalo pulls out his pistol when Howard realizes he's in the worst possible moment at the worst possible time and tries to desperately reason with Lalo, but to no avail. - On a relatively lighter note, the scam against Howard is so thoroughly planned it's almost ridiculous how helpless he is once it has kicked into gear, and shows how much damage a crafty con artist can do. Even his catching on and his attempt at fighting back were engineered, as the "P.I." he had hired was on Jimmy's payroll. In the end Howard loses his colleagues' respect, can't do anything about it without hurting his case, and has no one in his corner due to circumstances outside of his control. ### Point and Shoot - There's a long shot of Howard's blood seeping down the floor, before distorted sounds are heard of Jimmy and Kim still panicking. - Lalo and Howard are buried together under the floor of the excavation. Meaning that during all of the superlab scenes in Breaking Bad, Walt, Jesse, and Gale were obliviously working on top of Lalo and Howard's shared grave. Brrrrrrr. - While thinking that Jimmy was the one to help Nacho with the assassination attempt, Lalo ties him up and gags him while Jimmy is begging that he had nothing to do with it, and leaves while turning up the TV to muffle his screams. Jimmy tips over while struggling and is forced to look into Howard's dead eyes - even worse, since Howard was Killed Mid-Sentence, his mouth is still open, and it almost looks like his corpse is smiling at Jimmy's suffering. The writer even said that for the rest of his life, a part of Jimmys brain will always be stuck helpless in this moment, thinking Lalo will come back and kill him and everyone hes ever cared about. - Kim having to force herself to carry out a murder of a man she has no idea existed before now, terrified but willing to do it if it means Jimmy will be safe, and her expression at the end looks like a large chunk of her humanity has died thanks to the trauma. - Lalo easily overcomes Gus' bodyguards but keeps him alive so he can show him the location of the underground laboratory he is constructing, while shooting a movie by camcorder to justify himself to Don Eladio and Juan Bolsa. He even permits Gus to record an insulting farewell message, just to let him implicate himself further. He managed to defeat Gus, and gloats about it. All the while, Lalo's smugness and jokes all show his cruelty while on his power trip. - Even Lalo's death is creepy. After Gus manages to outsmart him at the last minute with careful planning and sheer luck in his part, Lalo ends up dead: choking in a pool of his own blood after getting hit by a stray bullet in the neck. Instead of looking disappointed, Lalo musters one last laugh with the remaining breath before ultimately succumbing. He sure died the way he lived, laughing and smiling all the way until the very end. ### Fun and Games - Kim's ability to heartlessly gaslight and guilt trip Cheryl while she's grieving the loss of her husband whose name tarnishing and death Kim and Jimmy were responsible for is deeply unnerving. The script openly calls it the worst thing she's ever done. - At the end of the episode, seeing Saul Goodman as he existed in Breaking Bad has a quietly unsettling quality to it. Jimmy McGill is gone, disappeared from Saul's mannerisms like he never existed in the first place. It's just bluster and overconfidence, just as we were used to from Saul in the days of that show. After spending six seasons with Jimmy, seeing the character we've known replaced entirely with a hedonistic, shallow, too-cartoonish jerk feels...wrong. Jimmy no longer exists. We're seeing a demon inhabiting his reanimated corpse, wearing his skin like a suit. And from her reaction in "Waterworks", Kim seems to feel much the same way the audience does, with the added bonus guilt that she encouraged and suggested all this. ### Nippy - It's depicted in a humorous light, but Jeff coming home from work to find the wanted man he bullied into revealing his identity just a few days ago sitting in his kitchen laughing over drinks with his mother is disturbing from his point of view. - While also cool of him and Jeff deserved it, Gene imitating Walt (when he was saying were done when I say when were done) when hes making Jeff say its done. The writer confirmed Gene has trauma over that whole experience, and this is the only way he can admit it. ### Breaking Bad - The Cold Open takes us back to when Walt and Jesse kidnapped Saul and took him to the desert, but reframed it from Saul's perspective. As such, hearing him plead for his life and beg to not be taken to the desert hits a lot worse given all we have learned since this show started. It even has the benefit of having a certain line sound even more desperate than it was originally: - After his failed attempt at reconnecting with Kim, Gene begins drugging and robbing strangers. Its a series of crimes that feel less sophisticated and uglier than Jimmys cons or Sauls creative approach to legal defense. One of his targets is a man with cancer who seems genuinely nice and for a second it seems like Gene might not go through with the robbery. But instead its Buddy who refuses to rob him and after failing to bully him into going through with the robbery Gene decides to do it himself. The episode ends with him smashing into the house of a man with cancer who Gene drugged. - Lalo struck such fear into Jimmy that even Jesse simply asking who he is makes him shudder in discomfort. Just the thought of him seems to horrify Jimmy. - The transition from the grave that was going to be Sauls, to Gene lying in bed, almost in the grave himself, showing just how much hes destroying himself and digging his own grave in both the Saul and Gene timelines. ### Waterworks - After ripping the cord off of Marion's phone, Gene extends it like a garrote in his hands while softly threatening her into not calling the cops. This culminates in Gene holding Marion's Life Alert device in an aggressive manner, only stopping when Marion calls him out. The disturbing hostility Gene displays to Marion truly shows just how far the man previously known in a past life as elder law specialist Jimmy McGill has fallen. Gene: Listen, I'm still the good friend you thought I was, okay? Jeff understands me! Buddy understands me! And you will, too. You just have to, uh... you know, keep things on an even keel, alright? - A split-second, Sadako-esque shot of a distorted, pure-black female silhouette in the intro. It later turns out to be (as you can easily guess) a warped shot of Kim's arrival back into Albuquerque, but the moment in the intro is a chilling reminder of the fact that, beneath the colorful tapes of Saul and all his cartoonish bluster, Jimmy desperately misses the ever-fading memory of his wife. ### Saul Gone - While nothing bad happens, just a horrible edge to the whole thing, Saul definitely feels Alone with the Psycho with Walt, flinching if he gets too loud and trying to be quiet while Walt insults him for anything he can think of. What makes this scene more disturbing is Saul finally realizes he was attracted to Walt because the guy was like Chuck (not the only reason of course, but a big one), and he's recreated a bad relationship from his childhood. It makes both Saul's relationship with Walt and Jimmy's relationship with Chuck so much worse. - At the legal office Kim volunteers at, one of the clients is a young, pregnant woman with a restraining order against a man. Before leaving, the lawyer reminds her not to let him in if he shows up, and to both call the police and her. While it could simply be a Crazy Jealous Guy and the pregnancy is unrelated, it raises the possibility that she was raped and can't get an abortion.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BetterCallSaul
Berserk / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Can we just cut the middle-man out and say 95% of this series is pure Nightmare Fuel? No? Then we're going to be here for a while. As one of the goriest, if not the goriest seinen manga of all time, Berserk has more than its fair share of everyday terror, suffocating trauma, realism-induced horror and demonic horror under its belt in over thirty years of its run-time. No spoiler tags will be used on this page. Examples are sorted in order of appearance. - In general, the series' former artist and writer, Kentaro Miura, drew some of the most terrifying (and disgusting) demons and monsters ever to grace the pages of manga, capable of rivalling the creations of similar artists such as Go Nagai and Junji Ito alike. Furthermore, by the time you get far enough, assuming that the villains commit atrocious acts of murder, rape, and torture is the norm. The true dread comes in seeing the incredibly fucked up thing they do that makes them different from the other villains. - No page on Berserk's horrors can begin without mention of the way that Apostles are made. It starts when somebody that possesses a Behelit hits a moment of absolute despair, where they would do absolutely anything to escape their situation. When this happens, the Behelit, a creepy little egglike thing that has human facial features scattered randomly all over its surface, rearranges those features into a human face. Which then proceeds to bleed from the eyes and start screaming. Then the angles in whichever area this happened start changing and the Godhand, the Big Bads of the series, show up to make the Apostle-to-be an offer. The offer involves sacrificing whoever the Apostle-to-be loves most in order to be reborn as a demon, which is a way of having the Apostle open themself up to evil. Since Behelits invariably activate at the Apostle-to-be's lowest point, that means that this offer sounds very much attractive, particularly if the friend or loved one to be sacrificed was the cause of the Despair Event Horizon in the first place. If the Apostle-to-be accepts the offer, the Godhand mark the person with the Brand of Sacrifice and what happens next is often a truly horrific death as demonic entities from the Vortex eat them alive. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also mentioned that anyone sacrificed in the creation of an Apostle, in addition to suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death, also has their soul condemned to Hell for all eternity, making this a true crossing of the Moral Event Horizon. - And things only get worse when it comes time for a new Godhand to be born, which happens once every 216 years during what is known as the Great Eclipse. A very special Behelit makes its way into the hands of a very special individual. This individual, a charismatic leader of men, achieves great things during their lifetime, but then things start going straight to hell for them, culminating on the day of the Eclipse when they lose all hope and activate the Crimson Behelit. When the Behelit activates, the bearer and everyone currently present with them is transported to the Nexus, a nightmarishly surreal place that to mortal eyes is a scene right out of hell itself. Instead of just one or two victims like is the case with Apostles, the Godhand demand that everyone that the Godhand-to-be has led be marked for sacrifice in order to become one of their own — and instead of just a good number of demonic monsters, nearly every Apostle in the entire Berserk universe has gathered for the feast, and comes out of the woodwork to eat everyone alive once everyone is marked for sacrifice. - For a good deal of the series early on, before Guts found his new True Companions, Guts was simply a ferocious warrior with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance. One of the more unnerving aspects of the series was how easily Guts could be seen as an even more horrifying creature than the Apostles he killed. Some of the Apostles are shown to be veritable Macbeths as far as their motivations and origins go. Examples follow in the respective sections. - The Apostles' mere form and appearance will give you nightmares, and during the eclipse, the most bizarre and horrific ones come to town. At first, the Apostles who first transform during the eclipse don't look that much different to ones seen before, but as the spectacle continues, more mutilated and disturbing ones appear, looking like deformed genitals with gaping maws, Vagina Dentata and unbelievably hideous faces. As for the Godhand themelves, Void has his lips peeled back to show off his teeth and gums and his eyelids are sewn shut. Let's not forget his exposed brain... - Kentaro Miura drew from the Hellraiser franchise when designing the Godhand, and it's not hard to see Clive Barker's influence in the way that they are called and the way that their Apostles are made. - Slan pulled a textbook example of Fan Disservice when she manifested herself in a mound of entrails from the trolls that Guts has just slaughtered in the Qliphoth to confront Guts and injure him. The most — physically — attractive of the Godhands turns into pure Squick. - In addition to their already horrific abilities, some Apostles have the ability to turn humans into monsters like them. These Apostle Spawn, while of lesser power than their makers, are still more than a match for most humans they face, fully capable of tearing people apart. - And to make matters worse, there's also the evil spirits that hound Guts every night, which try to claim him for their own and like to possess trees, corpses, animals, and even susceptible people to try to kill him or eat him alive. And when he sleeps, sometimes he'll be attacked by an Incubus that causes nightmares to feed on his fear (as if he doesn't have enough of them already). - All the Eye Scream that happens with disturbing regularity. - Special mention goes to Casca stabbing one of her would-be rapists in the eye with a stick and then the same guy gets his remaining eye gouged by one of Judeau's knives a moment later (only in the anime). Of course, the guy had it coming, but still. shudder - A more sentimental case - and therefore, a bit more horrifying - is what happened to Guts. After being dog-piled by a shitload of demons before he was mere feet away from saving Casca from being raped by Femto, the demon god that used to be Griffith, Guts is still desperately trying to get to Casca who, with her last sane thoughts, is now begging Guts to not look at her being humiliated, as Femto is pretty much forcing the two to look at each other at this point. Even with one arm missing and nothing but a bloody stump left, Guts tries to push himself up to try and get to her, which actually causes one of the demon's claws to drive itself into Guts' eye as it looks at its last sight of Casca's rape. - What's worse is that Guts remaining eye gets repeatedly threatened in the following arcs. - Chakrams can cut eyes in half... - One of Bishop Mozgus' disciples uses red-hot pliers to pull eyeballs out... - Not to mention that according to the manga, a good solid punch to the head will make your eyes pop right out. Every time. - Also, Miura seemed to have a fondness of drawing people's heads getting cut in half, right at eye level. Graphically. - And getting stabbed or shot in the eye with an arrow takes the eyeball with it. - Also, in the very beginning when Guts is fighting the Baron of Koka Castle. First, the Baron loses his left eye when Guts blows his head in half, then he loses his right eye when Guts shoots it with his crossbow during wholly unnecessary but well-deserved torture. - Serpico stabs a kelpie through the head, and then next page we see its left eyeball dangling from the socket. Lovely. - The Idea of Evil is just horrible on a whole philosophical level. There is no God but Evil, and humans subconsciously created it to have something to blame for their suffering, which without it is utterly meaningless, and considering the state of this world, it isn't going to leave . anytime soon - The Beast of Darkness - this thing is just pure evil that cares about nothing but to kill and maim and wants Guts all for himself. His scariest moment is probably when he takes over Guts and attempts to rape Casca, while giving a pretty damn ugly Breaking Speech. It was clearly looking like the Beast plans to make Guts eat her once he's done with raping. All to make Guts his again. - When Guts smiles, it is usually a creepy Slasher Smile. This should be your signal to run; he's usually in a blood-spilling mood when he's got that grin. This one in particular is pretty unnerving.◊ - All those rapes and attempted rapes. This series has so many rapes in them that it's not even funny. - What's especially disturbing about the rapes and sexual assaults in the story is that they're treated realistically. Most of it is done by characters who are human, (or were human) and as we've seen with Casca's rape at Femto's hands and Guts' rape at Donovan's hands the victims all suffer very realistic repercussions. - After Casca's rape she is seen taking a Shower of Angst under a waterfall fully clothed. At first glance, she looks totally serene and normal (granted you actually ignore what had just happened to her in the previous chapters), but when she turns around to face Guts - you know that something is very, very off. - The nature of insanity is always disturbing to think about, especially in Casca's case. She wasn't just reduced to the mindset of a child, but to something less than a child. A lot of fans like the theory that the real Casca is in a dreamworld where the Eclipse never happened and she has a family with Guts and she's too content to leave, but something from the Dreamcast video game brings that theory into question. What if the real Casca is actually in a nightmare world and she isn't allowed to leave? And she has been insane for over two years. - As of chapter 348, neither theory is fully true, though the And I Must Scream one is probably closer. She's trapped in, essentially, a coma dream that mirrors the world around her through metaphor, where a hellhound version of Guts drags around a coffin containing a broken doll (representing her) and protects it from monsters. - Even after she gets her memories back, Casca still suffers from the trauma from her experience in The Eclipse. - Farnese nearly getting raped by a demon possessed horse. - The eyes are the windows to the soul... and may account for Griffith's lack of one later. - There's just something very creepy about Griffith's eyes (especially in the anime) even before he crossed the Despair Event Horizon and became Femto. They become even more creepy after he loses the duel to Guts and has a Heroic BSoD which led to him sleeping with the princess out of depression. His Dull Eyes of Unhappiness are insanely creepy, punctuated with a lightning strike in the background. - In the last two chapters of volume 8, Griffith's eyes progressively get creepier and creepier as you turn each page, as if the moment Guts made the announcement that he wanted to leave, Griffith's sanity just started slipping. - Then, there's the look in Femto's eyes as he's raping Casca, also the fact that he stares into Guts' eyes the whole time he's doing that to her. - You know what's even more creepy? We saw some warning signs before the Eclipse when Griffith was giving them the SAME STARE when it became clear to him that Guts and Casca were a couple who were in love, and not just the blind admiration that people gave to him, which probably helped to set him off. - And now that Griffith has reincarnated himself into the physical world, he retains his demonic Femto eyes while in human form. And it's freaky to say that his eyes are even scarier in his human form than in his demonic form because it always looks like he's giving you the Kubrick Stare while in his benevolent facade. - It is established in the very first episode that children are not safe in Berserk, which counted a baby among the victims of the Baron's evil rampage toward the chapter's end before the throwdown with Guts. Plus the women and children who were being carted off in the wagon bound for Koka Castle, presumably to be eaten by the Baron, that Guts passed when he first entered the village. - Vargas from the Guardians of Desire arc, who was horrifically disfigured as a result of having pieces of him cut off and eaten by the Count — and this was after he was Forced to Watch his wife and son tortured and then eaten alive right before his eyes. It doesn't help that this is a situation Guts is rather intimately familiar with thanks to the Eclipse. - Captain Zondark receiving his powers from the Count by having a huge caterpillar-like thing with the Count's face forced down his throat. This is the first time we see a human turned into an Apostle Spawn, and it's appropriately horrific. - The Count returned from an expedition against heretics to find his wife in the midst of a pagan orgy, was driven mad with the pain of the betrayal, and used the Behelit to take away the emotions that hurt him so much. Even then, he still showed sorrow (as an Apostle, mind you) over the way that his daughter treated him differently, even though he had gone to great lengths to keep the cause of her mother's death a secret. In the end, he allows himself to be sucked into hell by many of the people he'd killed rather than sacrifice his daughter. Guts, inversely, not only killed an elderly priest to use as a decoy against the Count, but even used the Count's innocent daughter Theresia as a human shield to halt his attack...before proceeding to blast him with his Arm Cannon, brutally decapitate him, and then torture him further because the Count is still alive after all of this...all right in front of Theresia. He actually dragged the Count over to her so she'd have a front row seat. - Guts' horrifying childhood and family situation, which scarred him for life. Guts was adopted by Sys, Gambino's lover, after she miscarried, despite superstition that states that you shouldn't pick up a child from a dead body. Several years after Guts was taken in, Sys died of the plague, which was tragic enough because it left Guts without a significant mother figure in the years to come, but it also hardened the heart of Gambino against Guts, whom he felt should have died instead. Despite Guts looking up to him and doing everything in his power to make the mercenary leader proud, including bringing him his part of the pay for every battle, Gambino hated Guts so much that at one point, he sold the poor kid to one of his men, a creepy pederast by the name of Donovan, for three silver coins, which leads to Guts being raped despite his best efforts to fight the big man off. Things between Guts and Gambino come to a head when Gambino, after losing his leg to a cannonball, gets drunk one night, comes into Guts's tent, and tries to murder him, forcing Guts to kill him in self defense. - Casca's past isn't much better—she lost her village at an early age and was sold to a noble who wanted a new serving girl, only for it to transpire that he wanted her for sex. Just as he's about to rape her, though, Griffith shows up. Instead of killing her would-be rapist, however, he makes her do it instead. - Griffith's past wasn't much of a walk in the park either, as Ubik reveals just before goading him into crossing the Moral Event Horizon. He felt the burden of all the followers who had died to help him make it so far, and decided to sell his body to Lord Gennon for a night so that he could make money without anyone having to die. Afterwards Casca finds him washing himself in the river, complete with a wonderfully disturbing scene of him angsting while clawing at his arms until they bleed when washing himself. He only stops when Casca tearfully embraces him from behind. - Griffith had already been established as a vicious Manipulative Bastard, but his one and only trip into Magnificent Bastard territory comes after he just singlehandedly won the Hundred Year War. A group of disgruntled nobles led by the queen are planning to poison Griffith, then blame it on a rival kingdom that Griffith has just defeated. Griffith seemingly falls for it, but later, the conspirators realize that the castle they are in is burning. The queen rushes to a balcony to see what is going on, only to find Griffith, alive and well, standing outside the castle. Griffith calmly explains to the queen and her fellow conspirators that they are the losers, and death on the battlefield does not distinguish between nobility and commoners before the last of his enemies burn alive. Foss, a minister who had taken part in the conspiracy and had acted as Griffith's mole after Griffith kidnapped his daughter, finds himself shaking after the fact. Not because he's worried that he will be executed if anyone ever finds out, but because Griffith is just that scary. Also a Moment of Awesome for Griffith. - Zodd's introduction into the story, with Rickert detailing that he's an apparent immortal that's been slaughtering for 50 years, Guts goes into the fort, wanting to make sure his men are alright and if they're killed, avenge them. He enters the fort to see Zodd having left his men in bloodied piles and several impaled on his sword- an eight foot tall ogre looking man with vaguely feline features and an off feeling. Guts is put immediately on the back foot against this guy, until he manages to injure him. Zodd not only treats the blow as nothing, but reveals he's actually at least a 300 year old demon horned lion minotaur that not only can repair himself, but generate wings that made Guts frightened for the first time since he was a boy. Before Wyald and the Eclipse, Zodd was a nightmarish anomaly to the realistic medieval story he was involved in before the infamous terrifying shift to fantasy that is the Eclipse. - And what's more, the only reason Zodd doesn't kill Griffith during that first battle? It's because Zodd sees and recognizes Griffith's Crimson Behelit, and knows that this guy will be one of his masters someday. Since Guts and company (and the audience if they haven't seen the Black Swordsman arc before this, such as with many watchers of the Golden Age Arc trilogy, which leaves out the Black Swordsman arc at the very beginning of the manga) don't know what the hell is going on, the warning that Zodd gives is food for very troubling thought. - The relationship between the King of Midland and his beloved daughter Charlotte looks innocent enough, but turns out to be the kindling of disaster. She looks identical to her mother, the Queen, which caused some problems. He ends up trying to rape her, after his rage that Griffith slept with her. The idea of this is very disturbing, and definitely requires a ton of Brain Bleach. This alienates her from her father to the point of disowning him and refusing to see him when he's on his deathbed, his health having seriously deteriorated because of the guilt of what he had done and his obsession with destroying Griffith. - In fact, Charlotte's time in this arc is very emotionally intense for a first appearance. Put yourself in her shoes - you're a shy, virginal, romantic princess with no friends other than your maid, and your mother died when you were young, leaving you with your uptight father and ice-cold stepmother. You meet a handsome and charismatic knight (possibly the first man you've been allowed to spend time in relative privacy with), and during your second meeting, he's almost killed while protecting you. Said knight then disappears with no communication for around six months, before randomly appearing at your bedroom window dripping wet and proceeding to rather forcefully take both your first kiss and your virginity (an act that it is implied Charlotte is partly blamed for) with virtually no aftercare or communication. He is then arrested and tortured, nobody will tell you where he is or what happened to him, and you wake up from a drug-induced sleep to see your own father trying to rape you, which you most likely won't be able to talk to anyone about as it could bring your entire life down. - As the Hawks go into the Tower of Rebirth to rescue Griffith, Princess Charlotte mentions how Emperor Gaiseric, the founder of the kingdom, was cast down along with his great city by four angels sent by God, and that the remains of the great city could be found in the deepest part of the Tower. And then we get a good look down below when Casca accidentally drops her torch down there, where it lands in a pile of the skeletons of the ancient dead. All of whom have the Brand of Sacrifice burned into their skulls. Just what the hell happened all those years ago, and which of the God Hand ascended from this event? - Wyald and his Black Dog Knights take the Sociopathic Soldier trope to nightmarish extremes. The group is shown in graphic detail to rape, murder, and destroy entire villages before sticking the dismembered body parts of the dead and raped on their spears to parade around in front of their enemies. They did this so many times to enemies and nobles alike, the King of Midland himself had them banished to the country's borders because they were too dangerous to be around but too strong to be rid of. - Worst of the group is the leader Wyald who was infamously shown to rape and kill a young girl and her family after asking her for directions. The girl was later shown skewered to pieces and paraded with her dead family members before her head was used by Wyald as a projectile against Guts. Worse off is that Wyald's men literally rape, kill, and pillage out of sheer terror of the consequences inflicted by Wyald if they do not, speaking volumes of how horrible the man really is. - Wyald himself has several frightening aspects from his beliefs to what he actually is. He is introduced smashing the head of one of the concubines he's sleeping with. He managed to kill the previous contender for the title through an indescribable means in spite of having his hands bound at the time. His face is distorted in a way that is an unholy mix of ape and man, giving off the impression that he isn't entirely human, given that he later blocks Guts' sword with his teeth with no repercussions, which is presented as something very unnatural. And his philosophy is excitement and enjoyment, translating into doing every depraved thing imaginable to get a rush. It all comes to a head when he's reveals himself to be an Apostle like Zodd, but lacking the morales and honor of the latter as he undergoes his transformation into a giant three eyed, white furred ape demon with with his original head on the top and a large lower mouth with a long tongue that is explicitly his penis, which he uses to almost rape Casca. He then reveals the extent of Griffith's injuries to his band to demoralize them before Zodd appears to thankfully kill him for his rampant acts of hedonistic evil that almost endangered the fifth God Hand. His appearance marks the shift from the human evils they've been used to fighting to the truly inhuman nightmares of the Apostles. There are very good reasons why he never appears in an animated adaptation and only in a video game and even then he's stripped of many of his manga traits in order to make him even removably accessible to a wider audience due to how depraved he actually is. - Guts almost strangles Casca when he has a flashback to what Donovan did to him while he and Casca are having Their First Time. Imagine how frightening it would be if your true love suddenly put his hands around your throat and tried to squeeze the life out of you, without warning or explanation. Imagine the distress and fear of yourself you would feel if you suddenly lost control of yourself, and came to to find that you had just violently attacked the person you care about most in the world! - It gets better. Guts had that flashback because when he was doing Casca from behind, the position that he had her in was quite reminiscent of the position that Donovan had him in — meaning in short that he was seeing things through the eyes of his rapist. This sparked some very deep self-loathing in Guts, such that he was trying to strangle what he thought was his past-self to death before he snapped out of it and the truth of what he was actually doing and who he was actually doing it to was revealed. - As he endures a year of torture, Griffith is unable to move or talk on his own, and is tormented all the time by thoughts of Guts. The reveal of his tortured, mutilated and emaciated body when Guts and the Hawks come to rescue him after all that time is nothing short of horrific. The first panel where they get a good look at him shows a big chunk of skin missing from his back, and when they examine him further, he's missing several more patches of skin, with some wounds even showing bone. That's horrible, but when you see Guts take off his mask, gasp in horror, and put it back on? Nothing is scarier indeed. The torturer gloats about how he cut the tendons in his wrists and ankles, and cut his tongue out as a souvenir. Guts then proceeds to tear out the torturer's tongue on seeing him wearing Griffith's tongue around his neck - "I'm not letting you go to Hell two-tongued!". The fact that this is a moment of Tranquil Fury from a man more known for other traits really makes you realise just how unbelievably furious Guts is at that point. - The Berserk anime movie art staff drew a sketch of Griffith's face post-torture◊. At first glance, he looks like he's been badly burnt. Look closer, and you'll realise it's actually exposed muscle. - Looking at Griffith after he has been rescued from the torture. His body is completely emaciated, and he has absolutely no strength to do anything of his own. Swinging a sword is impossible, meaning he cannot fight anymore. The guy can barely even sit up without any help. That level of helplessness is utterly terrifying. No wonder Griffith attempted to kill himself, among other reasons. - Rickert's group were all waiting excitedly for Griffith's return. Unfortunately, Rosine and the Count had other plans, and horrifically slaughtered pretty much everyone except poor Rickert, who would have been slaughtered too if not for the intervention of the Skull Knight. - The arc of Guts, Griffith, and Casca's relationships with each other. After meeting and being defeated by Griffith, Guts moves up in the ranks of Griffith's mercenary band, eventually becoming a commander of raiders, and the two of them form a bond that is very much like brotherhood (or if you're that way inclined, more than that). Meanwhile, Casca has been Griffith's trusted Number Two ever since Griffith saved her from being raped as a little girl. Griffith gradually becomes obsessed with Guts, such that when Guts decides to leave the Hawks after deciding that he's not going to be a part of Griffith's dream, Griffith's thoughts during the resultant duel, about how he would not let him go, are very Yandere-ish. And after being defeated, he goes to see Princess Charlotte and proceeds to bang her, which he mainly did as a rebound, which gets him thrown into the Tower of Rebirth to be put to the torture. By the time Guts and Casca have rescued Griffith (and fallen in love), Griffith has come to hate him, and the focus of his obsession gradually moves to Casca. But when he finds out that Guts and Casca are in a relationship and are thinking about leaving him behind...oh boy, does he lose it. And to make things even worse, this is the point where Griffith finds his Behelit again, triggering the events of the Eclipse, which are better covered elsewhere on this page. No one, especially not Guts and Casca, walks out of the horror that follows unscathed. - And now, it's time to experience what's arguably the most nightmarish moment in Berserk - (volumes 12-13, The Eclipse. Berserk (1997) episodes 23-25, and Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - Advent, respectively): - When the Eclipse goes down in the series proper, it marks a crucial turning point, where things turn from grim and gritty medieval fantasy into straight up horror as Griffith does a truly malignant FaceHeel Turn, accepts the offer to become a Godhand, and marks everyone he's led, including Guts and Casca, with the infamous Brand of Sacrifice. Things go From Bad to Worse for them and the rest of the Hawks very, very quickly. Many people we had come to like get killed very horrifically, many of them being eaten alive until only Guts and Casca are left. When Casca's sword breaks at the very worst possible time, she learns that the demons have other plans in mind for her, in addition to being eaten. Guts in the meantime has made a very badass showing against a whole mess of demons, but when he sees Casca naked and in the hands of the demons, Guts tries to save her, only for a demon by the name of Borkoff to clamp his massive jaws around Guts's left arm before he can reach her. And then Griffith, reborn as the fifth member of the Godhand, Femto, flies down right in front of him, brings Casca down to him, and then starts having his way with her — which is made even worse due to the fact that, because the Brand causes serious pain when its bearer is in the presence of a demon, and she's as close as anyone can possibly get to a member of the Godhand, she is in complete and utter agony all the while that Femto is doing this to her. Guts tries to kill Borkoff with his shortsword but breaks it on his impenetrable hide and is forced to chisel off the arm with what's left of the sword in order to get free. But when he finally gets free and goes after Femto? He is dogpiled by a whole mess of demons that claw out his right eye and is Forced to Watch as Griffith, who used to be his best friend, brutally rapes the woman he loves to insanity, right in front of him and purely out of spite, and staring straight into Guts's eyes the entire time he's doing this to her, without Guts being able to do a thing about it. - The way it starts and gradually builds to it is sheer horror at its finest. As Griffith's bungled suicide attempt fails, a blood red sun slowly overlaps with a dark moon as completely naked people slowly gather in the distance. They don't seem dangerous at first, except they're subtly exaggerated in terms of facial features and there's an ominous danger about them in spite of not doing anything. Then, they they turn into the Apostle forms- far more disturbing than Zodd, Wyald, the Baron, and the Count, looking appropriately like legions of hell itself coming straight out of a nightmare and Guts outside describes the sight as visual despair. It's followed by a nerve-wrecking tension leading to the massacre- not how the Band will escape, but when the massacre will inevitably occur. And when the Brands start flying, everyone gets marked, and Griffith gives the go-ahead, those Apostles lunge at them with full force, devouring the helpless Band. - The Behelit's misshaped face upon Guts touching him after contacting Griffith's blood, finally arranges into a natural human face as it then screams complete with crying tears of blood, causing the entire area to shift into a an entire area and sky composed of red, gigantic human faces. - The movie ramps up the Behelit scare by having a repeating shot of a closeup of the Behelit screaming face as the interior of the mouth reveals another Behelit to repeat the cycle with glowing eyes. - The movie adds another terror of ominousness, as unlike the original anime, it starts off as an eerie purple until Griffith commits to the sacrifice, the area changes red to fit the nightmarish mood. - How Corkus dies is dark. He goes insane from Griffith sacrificing his men, his fellows being eaten alive by Apostles and believes that everything from Midland to the Eclipse has all been a dream. He then sees an alluring beautiful woman in the middle of the madness, but he's fully aware it's an Apostle disguising itself to eat him, hugs her anyway and whimpers how his death will be horrible as the Apostle reveals her true form. He's that damaged at that point]]. - Guts finds Gaston in the middle of the carnage, his seeming survival means that he's alright at least, relieving Guts of any worry. However, it turns out Gaston has already been eaten alive from the inside out as a small Apostle bursts out of Gaston's head. Guts turns around to see the other Apostles showing the dismembered corpses of his comrades out of sadism. It's little wonder Guts wants to hunt down every Apostle after this point after the undignified treatment of his colleagues. - The Count playing with Pippin's hollowed out corpse just to torment Guts. There's no wonder when Guts deals with him later (in chronological order), he stoops right below his level. - Casca's ordeal alone crosses SO MANY LINES. As if being raped and being in excruciating pain because of her brand is bad enough, but it's the way that Femto is raping her that deems the act as so heinously vile. Femto does some truly horrific things to Casca that can only be described as pure sexual sadism... things that you don't even want to describe just out of respect for this woman. Casca is being violated sexually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not to mention that that Hope Spot stunt that Femto pulled was really nasty as he allowed Guts to get just close enough to he and Casca after he chiseled off his arm only to get him dog-piled mere feet away. It's as if Femto did it just so Guts could get front row seats to see exactly what vulgar things he did to Casca. - And if all that wasn't bad enough, Griffith saved Casca from being raped when they'd first met. That's right, not only is her brand BURNING with literal Hellish AGONY as she's being violated, her tormentor is none other than the very same man who had previously saved her from the selfsame fate. - This is the point where the anime ends, and in the manga, that's only the beginning. Because it turns out later that Casca was pregnant with Guts's child when she got raped by Femto, and as a result of this, the child was horribly tainted by Femto's evil, and is born premature and deformed. Despite being tainted by evil, the child still cared for its mother a great deal, to the point of summoning ghosts to protect her from Bishop Mozgus's Cold-Blooded Torture. It's then used as the vessel for the rebirth of Griffith back into the mortal world when it's devoured by the Behelit-Apostle, basically a giant Behelit with tentacles, dying along with him. - For lack of a better word, volume 13 can catch you off-guard: it makes you want to throw up, cry, throw up again, guzzle down five gallons of Brain Bleach, and pet an adorable puppy for good measure just to get over it because you will feel as if you're getting raped yourself. It is truly a nightmare in itself to have to read volume 13. We understand if you don't want to - and we aren't forcing ya. - During the Eclipse there's also Slan commenting on how "delicious" the whole ordeal of Griffith as Femto raping Casca is while Guts is forced to watch. She even sounds like she's having an orgasm while she talks about it, and can be shown cupping her own breasts in sexual pleasure while she and rest of the Godhand look. - Slan being female (among other female-looking Apostles around Casca) amplifies this by a few orders of magnitude. A woman gleefully approving of another woman's rape is just the bitchiest thing imaginable. - Notice how during the Eclipse the demon apostles stripped Casca naked, one of them raised its horn close to her vagina in between her legs and looked like it was going to rape her had it not stopped to watch Femto being born with the others. And take a good look at the other apostles surrounding her. Freud would have a field day. - Rosine's little Crapsaccharine World is fairly disturbing, specially due to the fact that her "elves," who rape and kill each other, are basically still children playing. When we see the cocoons in which they are transformed, things reach a really disturbing angle when we learn she plans to turn her childhood friend into one of the little bastards; thankfully we later see (courtesy of Guts destroying the cocoons) the deformed children inside then. - The absolute worst part of Rosine's "elven kingdom" is the "Adult attack", where they pin each other to the ground and rape each other with their stingers. Depressing, horrifying, and slightly narmful in a way that produces an entirely new feeling of awkwardness mixed with terror. - Even worse than that, this happens in front of Jill, who has had to fight off Attempted Rape from one of her father's friends at least once. She throws up in horror when she sees it. - When Rosine's "elves" play "war", they actually kill each other with little stick-spears — and we know from an earlier scene that every one of Rosine's apostle-spawn that dies turns back into what it used to be. And then they try to make poor Jill eat one of those dead kids, which is around the point where she very understandably decides to get the hell out. - All those transformations - from little fairies into hornets and back, in all possible phases. - Rosine was in an abusive household, and discovered to her despair that the stories of elves in the distant forest were nothing but myth. Then, as her father is beating her mother on the very ground that her dreams and innocence were shattered, the Behelit takes away them both and turns her into a "elf," and grants her the ability to turn other children into "elves." When Guts finds her, not only does he leave a trail of mutilated and burnt child-corpses in his wake (the converted children turn back into humans when killed), he gleefully burns the "elves"-in-progress, and outright terrifies Rosine. - The beginning of the Chapter of the Binding Chain, which introduces the Beast of Darkness proper. The evil spirits have not let up in their torment of Guts, telling him about how he will soon become like them and become a monster. - Those creepy spirit-possessed dogs with human faces that try to eat Guts and Farnese. Dogs should not have faces like that. - And then one of these demons possesses the horse that Guts kidnapped Farnese on, which very nearly rapes her, only stopped by Guts flashbacking to the very worst moment from the Eclipse and shearing off its head in a berserker rage — and very nearly decapitating Farnese along with it! - And then there's what happens when Farnese winds up possessed herself. She pins Guts down, completely naked, and then starts choking him with string while begging Guts to "slowly cut her in two" with the Dragonslayer. It's a sexual moment, but also a very creepy moment, because both Guts and the audience are quite aware that Farnese is most definitely Not Herself. - The plague sequence that begins the Chapter of the Birth Ceremony, particularly the scene where the rats carrying the plague converge into the form of Conrad, the God Hand presumably responsible for spreading it. - Farnese is shown to be turned on by people burning alive to the point where she spends some "alone time" thinking very hard about that. Nausea Fuel as well. - The thought process and methods of Inquisitor Mozgus, who is just as horrible as you'd expect a fanatical religious nutjob with too much power and not a shred of objectivity can get. While it's pretty obvious from the start that he's Bad News, his vilest act we see is when a band of starving refugees attempts to steal some of the ample foodstuffs sent to Mozgus and his retinue, and he spots among them a woman with a starving infant. When she begs him to feed her child, he gently takes her along to his residence, lauding her courage and dedication. He sends away the child to be fed and cared for, then escorts her to a room while extolling the fact that while her intentions were good, she still has to expiate her sins... And then he opens the door, where we see the other refugees being horribly tortured, and the poor woman is dragged, stripped, and tied to another torture device over her increasingly frantic pleas... Then the door closes. It's as nightmarish as it sounds, if not more so. And somehow, the fact that he truly believes he is doing the right thing makes it even worse. An unrepentant Card-Carrying Villain like Wyald is certainly horrific, but the idea that someone can commit even worse atrocities and still consider themselves a good person is even more terrifying, especially when history has proven time and again that humans are fully capable of this without being demons. - To make matters even worse, we're shown later that the woman was driven insane by the torture, and that her baby is dead. - The cult dedicated to Slan, which among other things involves eating human remains as part of its initiation ritual. They're also quite rape-happy. - The demons drawn by Casca's Brand possessing the cultists during the battle with the Holy Iron Chain Knights. - Still not as bad as when it happened again in the refugee camp, which led to children being eaten alive by their own parents when they got possessed and turned into monsters. - The Great Goat Head was originally just a cultist leader with a goat head mask and a snake largely used for ceremony. But when the Egg of the Perfect World turns him into an Apostle Spawn, he becomes a real monster who wants Casca in the worst way. Thank goodness Guts arrived when he did. - The Great Goat's intentions for Casca become even creepier in that both he and his Mouth of Sauron say they only want Casca to "become family," completely ignoring what's going through her mind. - The Egg of the Perfect World collecting human bodies as part of his garden, including a huge symbol of the church decorated with flayed human skins. Not to mention the Egg himself, who looks like nothing less than a giant living Behelit, Humpty Dumpty if he were designed by Pablo Picasso and Tim Burton. - During the second Eclipse, when Griffith is reborn, we see Guts get up after the tower has crumbled into a hand-shaped edifice disturbingly reminiscent of the ginormous hand from the first Eclipse. He is alone. He looks down. His facial expression changes to awe and terror. On the next page, the refugee camps are shown. With a HUGE Sacrifice symbol made up from all the burning huts and houses running across them. - When fighting Mozgus, while Mozgus is established as a monster, after becoming infected by the Egg of the Perfect World and becoming a real monster, he has the appearance of an angel, as do his interrogators. While he does intend to sacrifice Casca to placate the demon tides, he's also the only one protecting the refugees from said demonic flood. Guts, of course, tells the refugees to shove it and die like men, and then kills their angelic guardians, cementing his status as the demonic Black Swordsman. Even in death, fire consumes Mozgus' body, which actually holds back the flood as a handful of remaining refugees kneel around him in prayer. "Mommy, the angel fell!" - What happens as soon as Mozgus is gone? Unspeakable tides of pure evil surge forward and start devouring the crowds of terrified men, women, and children. - While an awesome moment for Casca it was also quite creepy how post-Eclipse when she ran away from Guts out of fear and ran into some bandits, who then tried to gang rape her... but by the time Guts found her, Casca was naked and covered in her would-be rapists' blood after she slashed all of their throats. - It's disturbingly implied that Guts has In Love with Your Carnage toward insane Casca when he finds her naked and soaked in the blood of the men who tried to gang-rape her after she killed all of them. Various panel shots have the Male Gaze over Casca's body, and it's implicated that despite the disturbing scenario of both Casca's insanity and her near-assault, Guts is turned on by this display (possibly due to years of being desensitized to violence and being emotionally deprived after so much trauma), which leads him to nearly rape Casca himself soon after finding her. Guts just barely stops himself from going through, but it leaves him SEVERELY messed up and EXTREMELY aware how far off the deep end he's been going. - If you look closely at the panels where Guts assaults Casca, the two are posed exactly as Casca and Griffith were during her rape at the Eclipse. The Beast even commands Guts to "tear her up, like Griffith did," after which readers are shown an Imagine Spot of the Beast raping and devouring Casca. Thankfully Guts realized what was happening and stopped himself, or the Beast probably would have killed her then and there. - After being reborn into the mortal world, Griffith doesn't actually seem to have changed that much. If anything, his cunning, military prowess and inhuman charisma have increased, making him even more successful than he was before. - In the bit where he meets Guts again, he calmly declares that he feels no remorse for anything he did, and says it all so damn reasonably that it's almost as if he thinks Guts is the one being irrational, is truly horrifying. Even if you didn't know what he was capable of with his demonic powers, the sociopathic lack of remorse would be frightening enough on its own. This aspect of him rattles even Guts, and considering how much he's been through without batting an eye, that says a lot. - Casca actually seemed affectionate towards him. She collapsed before long due to the pain his presence caused her Brand of Sacrifice, but apart from that she didn't seem bothered by him. Presumably it was the remains of her child (whose body Femto had used to transform into his physical vessel in the mortal world) she was reacting to, but that doesn't stop it being horrifying that she seemed willing to embrace Femto when Guts struggled day and night to keep her safe and she still wouldn't trust him. - Casca can subconsciously remember her ordeal during the Eclipse when other characters are trying to force themselves on her, but she didn't seem to do that when she was near Griffith... One could argue that she didn't see a reason to fear Griffith at the time because it was Griffith as Femto who raped her but remember that Casca INDEED recognized the demonic entity as Griffith before he violated her. This just brings on an onslaught of bad thoughts and assumptions. - What about the way Femto builds up the new Band of the Hawk? The readers know that he's a monster, but not many of the characters do, and seeing a new bunch of people looking for a purpose in life flock to his banner just as they did before sets off no end of alarm bells for what might happen to them. - Femto actually went so far as to replace the original leaders of the Band of the Hawk, even after claiming that he felt no remorse for selling out the first batch. It was no wonder that Guts was so pissed when Grunbeld mentioned that he was part of the new Band of the Hawk. - Trolls from the Qliphoth, whose primary method of reproduction involves forcibly impregnating captured women from villages, with the births of new trolls being every bit as horrific and lethal to the poor women involved as that of Ganishka's demon soldiers. Particularly wretched is the fate of Hannah of Enoch village, whose husband and brother are killed by those creatures while she is raped and captured. Later, Farnese and Casca encounter her in their den, desperately pleading for help before the troll spawn rip their way out of her stomach. - When Schierke taps into the powers of darkness and reminesces that when you look into darkness, the darkness looks back at you. And does so in form of a Cthulhu-esque nightmare. Okay, it was later revealed to be just an Earth spirit, but his first appearance and build up to it was damn creepy. - When the Kushans take over the capital of Wyndham, they literally Paint the Town Red, by decorating the city with the corpses of all the people they killed. Meanwhile Charlotte is being held captive in a tower, when enter Emperor Ganishka intending to rape her and force her to carry his heir just to secure the throne. As if being threatened with rape by an Apostle wasn't horrifying enough, Charlotte is immediately reminded of her father's previous attack and sees Ganishka as her own father, and considering this is a literal demon we are talking about, there is little chance she would have been able to fight him off like she did before with the King. The only thing that saves her was screaming for Griffith's name, making Ganishka have second thoughts about going through the deed. - Ganishka gleefully calls the occupied Wyndham palace his "demon castle." Why? He's "decorated" it with the mangled corpses of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of murdered Midlanders. Statues have their heads knocked off and crudely replaced with the real thing, and gargoyles have their mouths stuffed with yet more severed heads. Worst of all are the live, naked women dangling from rafters above a pit of crocodiles, to be slowly Eaten Alive piece by piece for Ganishka's amusement. He has applied a similar treatment to the entire city; countless corpses are skewered on steeples and hanging from church rafters. These massacres, compared with the enslavement of men for war and women for sex or daka production, claim the majority of Wyndham's population, leaving an entire national capital a nightmarish ghost town stalked by ravenous Kushan-made monsters. - Ganishka's moustache conceals More Teeth than the Osmond Family, and you do not want to see what they look like. - Ganishka's method of drawing new soldiers for his demon army? He throws pregnant women into vats made up of stitched together Apostles, their children become monsters and rip their ways out of their mother's wombs, and the remains are given to the newborn for food. - The second time Guts used the Berserker Armor, Guts greatly overestimates his ability to control it, resulting in him barely avoiding splattering all his friends. And only because the moonlight boy intervenes. Guts had lost control completely. The really scary part is thinking about the potential aftermath of this: it would probably result in Guts never being able to escape the armor's grip, randomly killing anything that moves until he dies or turns into another Skull Knight. - The dinner party in Vritannis, when the first tiger shows up. It's really unnerving to see Miura toy with classic horror tropes (not showing us the tiger initially, the lights going out, blood splattering on bewildered onlookers...) when most of the other monsters have been so in-your-face. It's almost less frightening when the rest of the pack burst in, just because they're immediately spotted. - Ganishka's 'Shiva' form. It starts off as a mass of faces, which swells into a towering, multi-armed figure, which dwarfs the city of Windham and towers over the new Band of the Hawk, to the point where even powerful apostles could surely do nothing against this unstoppable behemoth of destruction. To make matters worse Ganishka seems to forget who he is and doesn't seem to understand his sheer size, wondering where his army has gone as he unknowingly tramples his own soldiers to paste and breathing fire at his chief sorcerer, believing him to be an insect. - Also anyone he steps on reforms into smaller apostle spawn in his own image, with fangs and tentacles, which will eat anything in their path. - Ganishka's past sucked. It doesn't remotely excuse his crimes, but why he became such a monster is understandable to a limited extent. When he was 6, his own mother tried to murder him in favor of his little brother, more concerned by doting on the latter even when the older son is in front of her suffering from the poison. - Despite its adaptation faults, Berserk (1997) manages to give the Eclipse a completely new tone, one that is very different from the manga and movies. Unlike them, the anime could believably look at first like a series about a mercenary warrior in a world very similar to our Middle Ages, without any shadowy overtone lurking at its back. The opening sequence only shows Guts in his pre-Eclipse look, the episodes are slow-paced and focused on the characters and their human struggles, and most of the manga's supernatural/bizarre elements (the female Apostle, Puck, the Count, Wyald, the Bakiraka, the Skull Knight and the Baron of Koka if the viewer missed the first episode) are expunged, so it's easy for a casual viewer to think that Zodd was a random fantasy cliché monster, that the Behelit is just a weird amulet, and that there are no problems in the setting which cannot be solved by Guts's sword or Griffith's smarts. Then the Eclipse happens almost out of nowhere and, surprise, things CAN turn bad beyond any hope for our beloved characters after all. Their world happens to be ruled by a pantheon of near-omnipotent evil gods who not only turn the Band of the Hawk into an all-you-can-eat monster food buffet, but also turn one of our heroes into one of their kind, who proceeds to horribly betray his friends and rape the female lead. And if that's not enough, the Eclipse sequence ends fading to black in its most horrible climax, and the next and last thing we see, a surviving Guts going to a presumable quest for revenge, is set after an unknown amount of time. We end up without any explanation of how Guts survived the carnage, what ultimately became of Casca or simply what the hell happened. - The track "Behelit" in the 1997 anime. It's especially nightmarish when it plays while Femto is raping Casca while Guts is held down and forced to watch. It's the first track on the OST too. Such a pleasant introduction having to be reminded of the most nightmarish scene in the series right off the bat. - The anime might have toned down the violence, but still: some scenes are still extremely horrifying when you attach sound effects, voice acting, and full motion depictions to the mix. - Guts actually screaming in pain as Nosferatu Zodd prepares to tear him limb from limb. - Guts hacking off his arm with his broken sword, while badass, was also incredibly disturbing. And in the anime the sound of him hacking at his arm. - And to end, Casca's rape itself. Yes, the anime was more lenient on us to at least show less of their bodies, but it's still sickening having to watch her writhe in agony as this is being done to her. - Not to mention The Scream that Guts gives after seeing it all happen before his eyes - it's very powerful and effective in bringing the viewer to their knees. - If you thought that some scenes from the TV series were disturbing, don't even talk about Berserk: The Golden Age Arc. All gory battle scenes are played out precisely how they are in the manga. Most disturbingly is that sexual violence is played up in the movie; for instance the noble who assaulted Casca was not only trying to rape her, but he also beat the CRAP out of her. The Advent, the movie where the Eclipse goes down, has reached notoriety in Japan as being one of the most violent and disturbing animated movies PERIOD. In fact, it was so disturbing that some people reportedly had to leave the theater. And this was the edited version!! - Related to the above of how adding sound effects and voice-acting to the mix makes thing more horrific. Now in the movies, since it covers the Eclipse to its completion, both English and Japanese voice actresses of Casca nailed it when expressing her sanity and hope crushing despite her not saying a lot during the scene: Casca's tone of disbelief when she realizes that Femto is Griffith, her whimpering and weeping in fear and pain during her violation, and her last tearful words to Guts are just plain awful to listen to. At her lowest point, she sounds almost childlike and innocent, almost a brilliant but twisted nod at how Casca's sanity would eventually slip to that of a very young child.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Berserk2016
Beware! The Blob / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Blob is back! - In the original Blob movie, the Blob never ate an animal onscreen, so the kitten scene is awful. To explain to people, the kitten gets near the rather small Blob and the Blob grabs the cat. We never actually see it eat the cat, but the Blob drags it out the window. The worst part? The kitten is mewling as it gets pulled out. - The way that Chester and his wife, Mariane are enveloped and devoured by the Blob is much scarier than anything in the first film, and if anything nearer to the deaths in the remake. - Mariane steps outside looking for her cat Samuel, whom the Blob has already devoured, that's when she gets ambushed by the Blob, which grabs onto her leg and starts climbing up her body. - As Chester is getting ready to watch a movie, the Blob sneaks up from the back and crawls up his recliner, then it waits like a patient predator for Chester to obliviously sit down. By the time Lisa comes by for Bobby's present, she sees Chester being consumed by the Blob as seen in the page image above. - Some of the Blob's early victims are sure to make the audience question if they are actually safe where they are. - In a storm drain, there are two hippies that get found by a policeman. The Blob creeps up behind the policeman and latches onto him and devours him before presumably going after the hippies next. - At a hair salon, the Blob comes oozing out of a sink as the stylist is shampooing his client's hair. The hair stylist notices the Blob too late and lowers his client's head into the Blob-infested sink and the Blob grabs both of them. - At a man's house in the bathroom, a man is taking a bath with his dog. Then the Blob crawls in from under the door. The man throws his shoe at it to try to make it go away but it fails and his dog is caught while trying to get the shoe. Even though the man manages to get away by throwing his telephone at the window to break it and escape, this shows that wherever you go, you are not safe from the Blob, not even at your own home. - At a farm, it crawls into the chicken coop and starts feasting on the chickens inside, the crying of the chickens get noticed by three hobos. The first hobo, by the looks of it from his shadow with the Blob's, it actually shows him being engulfed by the Blob and struggling from inside the Blob. The other two come by and attempt to fight off the Blob by stabbing it with a pitchfork, but it doesn't work and they become the next victims.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BewareTheBlob
Ben-Hur (1959) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - After the galley of Quintus Arrius is rammed during the battle, one of the galley slaves freed by Judah is clearly seen having a bloody stump instead of a hand. Supposedly the scene was reshot with extra blood when William Wyler noticed a one-handed extra. - The slaves' naked terror as they realize they're about to be rammed, pulling at their chains and tearing their ankles bloody in a futile attempt to escape. While Judah is able to grab some keys and get them free, at least one slave is crushed to death by the ram. - Miriam and Tirzah have been locked by the Romans deep inside a dark dungeon. Messala's envoy orders the jailer to go check them, and the latter finds out that they've become afflicted with leprosy. We don't see them in that scene, but the terror on his face is palpable. - The dungeon itself is terrifying. Even with a bright torch lighting the way, the tunnels are so small you can just barely stand up, and they extend so deep that there's simply no light down there, at least at night. - The Valley of the Lepers, not helped by the music. We can never see the faces of the lepers, but Judah does.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BenHur1959
Bewitched (1981) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Boo! - The film's Gorn, all over the place. - Pictured: the Witch Doctor's death after having his curse working against him. Consisting of his skin peeling off, followed by Rapid Aging... - The Worm Curse consist of victims vomiting a million maggots, all at once, enough to carpet the floor of a hospital room. - The voodoo incantation scene has a close-up of a vat filled with what appears to be intestines, aborted fetuses, and animal livers, all combined in a single cauldron. Which the witch doctor then scoops and drinks it, like soup! - Stephen, waking up to find his daughter feasting on a raw pig's liver. - Imagine being Stephen; returning home from an uneventful trip in Thailand, and then finding out a curse has been afflicted on you. For starters, your only child will try to kill you... - No Asian horror would be complete without feasting on live maggots...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bewitched1981
Ben Drowned / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes While not overtly terrifying itself, FOR INTERNAL CORPORATE USE ONLY - PLEASE DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE sheds an enormous amount of light on what's actually happening in the story; \|\|it turns out the haunted cartridge and everything to do with it is not about paranormal powers, but actually the result of a project to digitise people's minds, allowing them to live forever in a Matrix-esque digital landscape. One of the big draws of the project? * Being able to live in your favourite video games.*\|\| It removes some of the horror mystique surrounding the narrative, but replaces it with the \|\|raw existential terror of living forever in a simulation, and being trapped in one with a being as malevolent and all-powerful as The FATHER.\|\| Worse yet, \|\|the Father's corruption is no longer limited to the Majora's Mask world...\|\| - The Morse code at the start of the following video - The Final Hours.wmv - drives this point home. \|\| trapped in an endless cycle\|\| \|\| no way to die\|\| \|\| they didn't tell us this\|\| \|\| was ascension\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BenDrowned
Ben and Ed / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Who would have thought that a game about a flesh-eating zombie could be scary? As a Moments Subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You have been warned. - The very premise has shades of this. In a Crapsack World (so much so that a Fat Bastard showmaster making a show about participants getting killed is wildly popular), a kid has been kidnapped to force his zombie buddy to participate in the aforementioned show. A show that entails getting mutilated and destroyed again and again. True, since the protagonist is a zombie, he doesn't suffer much, but it is still shocking to see how many times does your character die or loses his limbs. - The page image belongs to an Easter Egg found in the game. After following a hidden path, you get this beautiful Shout-Out to Ben Drowned. Needless to say, if you didn't expect it, it's pretty shocking. - Many of the faces and designs you see in the background or in certain parts of the game are quite unsettling. Also, some of the ads in the game do a good job to showcase just how deranged and twisted the world of this game is, like "Crippled Cindy" note : Play with me...FOREVER!!! - The Robot Clown is a gigantic clown-shaped robot with big palms to smash Ed and a gaping maw the size of a bus. And he cackles constantly while he smashes you to bits. Have fun destroying him without getting swiped away by his giant hands! - The ending. Just...the whole ending. Ed "celebrates" with Ben by devouring Ben whole. And you can give the input to "celebrate" yourself. - Beating the final level in Bencalypse mode gives you this image. Lovely, ain't it? - Try beating the final level as Ben and then approaching Ben at the finish line. You get a similar image except now it says 'Ben can't free Ben.' And then the game crashes. - If you get to the highest point of the boxes in level ten, You can find a giant circle with the text "Go to BennnnnnnEd!". This is actually the link for a facebook page full of creepy imagery and videos filled with hidden coordinates. it's a debate on what this is, but some are speculating that these are posts from an zombified Ben trying to get people to find him.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BenAndEd
Berserk / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Can we just cut the middle-man out and say 95% of this series is pure Nightmare Fuel? No? Then we're going to be here for a while. As one of the goriest, if not the goriest seinen manga of all time, Berserk has more than its fair share of everyday terror, suffocating trauma, realism-induced horror and demonic horror under its belt in over thirty years of its run-time. No spoiler tags will be used on this page. Examples are sorted in order of appearance. - In general, the series' former artist and writer, Kentaro Miura, drew some of the most terrifying (and disgusting) demons and monsters ever to grace the pages of manga, capable of rivalling the creations of similar artists such as Go Nagai and Junji Ito alike. Furthermore, by the time you get far enough, assuming that the villains commit atrocious acts of murder, rape, and torture is the norm. The true dread comes in seeing the incredibly fucked up thing they do that makes them different from the other villains. - No page on Berserk's horrors can begin without mention of the way that Apostles are made. It starts when somebody that possesses a Behelit hits a moment of absolute despair, where they would do absolutely anything to escape their situation. When this happens, the Behelit, a creepy little egglike thing that has human facial features scattered randomly all over its surface, rearranges those features into a human face. Which then proceeds to bleed from the eyes and start screaming. Then the angles in whichever area this happened start changing and the Godhand, the Big Bads of the series, show up to make the Apostle-to-be an offer. The offer involves sacrificing whoever the Apostle-to-be loves most in order to be reborn as a demon, which is a way of having the Apostle open themself up to evil. Since Behelits invariably activate at the Apostle-to-be's lowest point, that means that this offer sounds very much attractive, particularly if the friend or loved one to be sacrificed was the cause of the Despair Event Horizon in the first place. If the Apostle-to-be accepts the offer, the Godhand mark the person with the Brand of Sacrifice and what happens next is often a truly horrific death as demonic entities from the Vortex eat them alive. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also mentioned that anyone sacrificed in the creation of an Apostle, in addition to suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death, also has their soul condemned to Hell for all eternity, making this a true crossing of the Moral Event Horizon. - And things only get worse when it comes time for a new Godhand to be born, which happens once every 216 years during what is known as the Great Eclipse. A very special Behelit makes its way into the hands of a very special individual. This individual, a charismatic leader of men, achieves great things during their lifetime, but then things start going straight to hell for them, culminating on the day of the Eclipse when they lose all hope and activate the Crimson Behelit. When the Behelit activates, the bearer and everyone currently present with them is transported to the Nexus, a nightmarishly surreal place that to mortal eyes is a scene right out of hell itself. Instead of just one or two victims like is the case with Apostles, the Godhand demand that everyone that the Godhand-to-be has led be marked for sacrifice in order to become one of their own — and instead of just a good number of demonic monsters, nearly every Apostle in the entire Berserk universe has gathered for the feast, and comes out of the woodwork to eat everyone alive once everyone is marked for sacrifice. - For a good deal of the series early on, before Guts found his new True Companions, Guts was simply a ferocious warrior with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance. One of the more unnerving aspects of the series was how easily Guts could be seen as an even more horrifying creature than the Apostles he killed. Some of the Apostles are shown to be veritable Macbeths as far as their motivations and origins go. Examples follow in the respective sections. - The Apostles' mere form and appearance will give you nightmares, and during the eclipse, the most bizarre and horrific ones come to town. At first, the Apostles who first transform during the eclipse don't look that much different to ones seen before, but as the spectacle continues, more mutilated and disturbing ones appear, looking like deformed genitals with gaping maws, Vagina Dentata and unbelievably hideous faces. As for the Godhand themelves, Void has his lips peeled back to show off his teeth and gums and his eyelids are sewn shut. Let's not forget his exposed brain... - Kentaro Miura drew from the Hellraiser franchise when designing the Godhand, and it's not hard to see Clive Barker's influence in the way that they are called and the way that their Apostles are made. - Slan pulled a textbook example of Fan Disservice when she manifested herself in a mound of entrails from the trolls that Guts has just slaughtered in the Qliphoth to confront Guts and injure him. The most — physically — attractive of the Godhands turns into pure Squick. - In addition to their already horrific abilities, some Apostles have the ability to turn humans into monsters like them. These Apostle Spawn, while of lesser power than their makers, are still more than a match for most humans they face, fully capable of tearing people apart. - And to make matters worse, there's also the evil spirits that hound Guts every night, which try to claim him for their own and like to possess trees, corpses, animals, and even susceptible people to try to kill him or eat him alive. And when he sleeps, sometimes he'll be attacked by an Incubus that causes nightmares to feed on his fear (as if he doesn't have enough of them already). - All the Eye Scream that happens with disturbing regularity. - Special mention goes to Casca stabbing one of her would-be rapists in the eye with a stick and then the same guy gets his remaining eye gouged by one of Judeau's knives a moment later (only in the anime). Of course, the guy had it coming, but still. shudder - A more sentimental case - and therefore, a bit more horrifying - is what happened to Guts. After being dog-piled by a shitload of demons before he was mere feet away from saving Casca from being raped by Femto, the demon god that used to be Griffith, Guts is still desperately trying to get to Casca who, with her last sane thoughts, is now begging Guts to not look at her being humiliated, as Femto is pretty much forcing the two to look at each other at this point. Even with one arm missing and nothing but a bloody stump left, Guts tries to push himself up to try and get to her, which actually causes one of the demon's claws to drive itself into Guts' eye as it looks at its last sight of Casca's rape. - What's worse is that Guts remaining eye gets repeatedly threatened in the following arcs. - Chakrams can cut eyes in half... - One of Bishop Mozgus' disciples uses red-hot pliers to pull eyeballs out... - Not to mention that according to the manga, a good solid punch to the head will make your eyes pop right out. Every time. - Also, Miura seemed to have a fondness of drawing people's heads getting cut in half, right at eye level. Graphically. - And getting stabbed or shot in the eye with an arrow takes the eyeball with it. - Also, in the very beginning when Guts is fighting the Baron of Koka Castle. First, the Baron loses his left eye when Guts blows his head in half, then he loses his right eye when Guts shoots it with his crossbow during wholly unnecessary but well-deserved torture. - Serpico stabs a kelpie through the head, and then next page we see its left eyeball dangling from the socket. Lovely. - The Idea of Evil is just horrible on a whole philosophical level. There is no God but Evil, and humans subconsciously created it to have something to blame for their suffering, which without it is utterly meaningless, and considering the state of this world, it isn't going to leave . anytime soon - The Beast of Darkness - this thing is just pure evil that cares about nothing but to kill and maim and wants Guts all for himself. His scariest moment is probably when he takes over Guts and attempts to rape Casca, while giving a pretty damn ugly Breaking Speech. It was clearly looking like the Beast plans to make Guts eat her once he's done with raping. All to make Guts his again. - When Guts smiles, it is usually a creepy Slasher Smile. This should be your signal to run; he's usually in a blood-spilling mood when he's got that grin. This one in particular is pretty unnerving.◊ - All those rapes and attempted rapes. This series has so many rapes in them that it's not even funny. - What's especially disturbing about the rapes and sexual assaults in the story is that they're treated realistically. Most of it is done by characters who are human, (or were human) and as we've seen with Casca's rape at Femto's hands and Guts' rape at Donovan's hands the victims all suffer very realistic repercussions. - After Casca's rape she is seen taking a Shower of Angst under a waterfall fully clothed. At first glance, she looks totally serene and normal (granted you actually ignore what had just happened to her in the previous chapters), but when she turns around to face Guts - you know that something is very, very off. - The nature of insanity is always disturbing to think about, especially in Casca's case. She wasn't just reduced to the mindset of a child, but to something less than a child. A lot of fans like the theory that the real Casca is in a dreamworld where the Eclipse never happened and she has a family with Guts and she's too content to leave, but something from the Dreamcast video game brings that theory into question. What if the real Casca is actually in a nightmare world and she isn't allowed to leave? And she has been insane for over two years. - As of chapter 348, neither theory is fully true, though the And I Must Scream one is probably closer. She's trapped in, essentially, a coma dream that mirrors the world around her through metaphor, where a hellhound version of Guts drags around a coffin containing a broken doll (representing her) and protects it from monsters. - Even after she gets her memories back, Casca still suffers from the trauma from her experience in The Eclipse. - Farnese nearly getting raped by a demon possessed horse. - The eyes are the windows to the soul... and may account for Griffith's lack of one later. - There's just something very creepy about Griffith's eyes (especially in the anime) even before he crossed the Despair Event Horizon and became Femto. They become even more creepy after he loses the duel to Guts and has a Heroic BSoD which led to him sleeping with the princess out of depression. His Dull Eyes of Unhappiness are insanely creepy, punctuated with a lightning strike in the background. - In the last two chapters of volume 8, Griffith's eyes progressively get creepier and creepier as you turn each page, as if the moment Guts made the announcement that he wanted to leave, Griffith's sanity just started slipping. - Then, there's the look in Femto's eyes as he's raping Casca, also the fact that he stares into Guts' eyes the whole time he's doing that to her. - You know what's even more creepy? We saw some warning signs before the Eclipse when Griffith was giving them the SAME STARE when it became clear to him that Guts and Casca were a couple who were in love, and not just the blind admiration that people gave to him, which probably helped to set him off. - And now that Griffith has reincarnated himself into the physical world, he retains his demonic Femto eyes while in human form. And it's freaky to say that his eyes are even scarier in his human form than in his demonic form because it always looks like he's giving you the Kubrick Stare while in his benevolent facade. - It is established in the very first episode that children are not safe in Berserk, which counted a baby among the victims of the Baron's evil rampage toward the chapter's end before the throwdown with Guts. Plus the women and children who were being carted off in the wagon bound for Koka Castle, presumably to be eaten by the Baron, that Guts passed when he first entered the village. - Vargas from the Guardians of Desire arc, who was horrifically disfigured as a result of having pieces of him cut off and eaten by the Count — and this was after he was Forced to Watch his wife and son tortured and then eaten alive right before his eyes. It doesn't help that this is a situation Guts is rather intimately familiar with thanks to the Eclipse. - Captain Zondark receiving his powers from the Count by having a huge caterpillar-like thing with the Count's face forced down his throat. This is the first time we see a human turned into an Apostle Spawn, and it's appropriately horrific. - The Count returned from an expedition against heretics to find his wife in the midst of a pagan orgy, was driven mad with the pain of the betrayal, and used the Behelit to take away the emotions that hurt him so much. Even then, he still showed sorrow (as an Apostle, mind you) over the way that his daughter treated him differently, even though he had gone to great lengths to keep the cause of her mother's death a secret. In the end, he allows himself to be sucked into hell by many of the people he'd killed rather than sacrifice his daughter. Guts, inversely, not only killed an elderly priest to use as a decoy against the Count, but even used the Count's innocent daughter Theresia as a human shield to halt his attack...before proceeding to blast him with his Arm Cannon, brutally decapitate him, and then torture him further because the Count is still alive after all of this...all right in front of Theresia. He actually dragged the Count over to her so she'd have a front row seat. - Guts' horrifying childhood and family situation, which scarred him for life. Guts was adopted by Sys, Gambino's lover, after she miscarried, despite superstition that states that you shouldn't pick up a child from a dead body. Several years after Guts was taken in, Sys died of the plague, which was tragic enough because it left Guts without a significant mother figure in the years to come, but it also hardened the heart of Gambino against Guts, whom he felt should have died instead. Despite Guts looking up to him and doing everything in his power to make the mercenary leader proud, including bringing him his part of the pay for every battle, Gambino hated Guts so much that at one point, he sold the poor kid to one of his men, a creepy pederast by the name of Donovan, for three silver coins, which leads to Guts being raped despite his best efforts to fight the big man off. Things between Guts and Gambino come to a head when Gambino, after losing his leg to a cannonball, gets drunk one night, comes into Guts's tent, and tries to murder him, forcing Guts to kill him in self defense. - Casca's past isn't much better—she lost her village at an early age and was sold to a noble who wanted a new serving girl, only for it to transpire that he wanted her for sex. Just as he's about to rape her, though, Griffith shows up. Instead of killing her would-be rapist, however, he makes her do it instead. - Griffith's past wasn't much of a walk in the park either, as Ubik reveals just before goading him into crossing the Moral Event Horizon. He felt the burden of all the followers who had died to help him make it so far, and decided to sell his body to Lord Gennon for a night so that he could make money without anyone having to die. Afterwards Casca finds him washing himself in the river, complete with a wonderfully disturbing scene of him angsting while clawing at his arms until they bleed when washing himself. He only stops when Casca tearfully embraces him from behind. - Griffith had already been established as a vicious Manipulative Bastard, but his one and only trip into Magnificent Bastard territory comes after he just singlehandedly won the Hundred Year War. A group of disgruntled nobles led by the queen are planning to poison Griffith, then blame it on a rival kingdom that Griffith has just defeated. Griffith seemingly falls for it, but later, the conspirators realize that the castle they are in is burning. The queen rushes to a balcony to see what is going on, only to find Griffith, alive and well, standing outside the castle. Griffith calmly explains to the queen and her fellow conspirators that they are the losers, and death on the battlefield does not distinguish between nobility and commoners before the last of his enemies burn alive. Foss, a minister who had taken part in the conspiracy and had acted as Griffith's mole after Griffith kidnapped his daughter, finds himself shaking after the fact. Not because he's worried that he will be executed if anyone ever finds out, but because Griffith is just that scary. Also a Moment of Awesome for Griffith. - Zodd's introduction into the story, with Rickert detailing that he's an apparent immortal that's been slaughtering for 50 years, Guts goes into the fort, wanting to make sure his men are alright and if they're killed, avenge them. He enters the fort to see Zodd having left his men in bloodied piles and several impaled on his sword- an eight foot tall ogre looking man with vaguely feline features and an off feeling. Guts is put immediately on the back foot against this guy, until he manages to injure him. Zodd not only treats the blow as nothing, but reveals he's actually at least a 300 year old demon horned lion minotaur that not only can repair himself, but generate wings that made Guts frightened for the first time since he was a boy. Before Wyald and the Eclipse, Zodd was a nightmarish anomaly to the realistic medieval story he was involved in before the infamous terrifying shift to fantasy that is the Eclipse. - And what's more, the only reason Zodd doesn't kill Griffith during that first battle? It's because Zodd sees and recognizes Griffith's Crimson Behelit, and knows that this guy will be one of his masters someday. Since Guts and company (and the audience if they haven't seen the Black Swordsman arc before this, such as with many watchers of the Golden Age Arc trilogy, which leaves out the Black Swordsman arc at the very beginning of the manga) don't know what the hell is going on, the warning that Zodd gives is food for very troubling thought. - The relationship between the King of Midland and his beloved daughter Charlotte looks innocent enough, but turns out to be the kindling of disaster. She looks identical to her mother, the Queen, which caused some problems. He ends up trying to rape her, after his rage that Griffith slept with her. The idea of this is very disturbing, and definitely requires a ton of Brain Bleach. This alienates her from her father to the point of disowning him and refusing to see him when he's on his deathbed, his health having seriously deteriorated because of the guilt of what he had done and his obsession with destroying Griffith. - In fact, Charlotte's time in this arc is very emotionally intense for a first appearance. Put yourself in her shoes - you're a shy, virginal, romantic princess with no friends other than your maid, and your mother died when you were young, leaving you with your uptight father and ice-cold stepmother. You meet a handsome and charismatic knight (possibly the first man you've been allowed to spend time in relative privacy with), and during your second meeting, he's almost killed while protecting you. Said knight then disappears with no communication for around six months, before randomly appearing at your bedroom window dripping wet and proceeding to rather forcefully take both your first kiss and your virginity (an act that it is implied Charlotte is partly blamed for) with virtually no aftercare or communication. He is then arrested and tortured, nobody will tell you where he is or what happened to him, and you wake up from a drug-induced sleep to see your own father trying to rape you, which you most likely won't be able to talk to anyone about as it could bring your entire life down. - As the Hawks go into the Tower of Rebirth to rescue Griffith, Princess Charlotte mentions how Emperor Gaiseric, the founder of the kingdom, was cast down along with his great city by four angels sent by God, and that the remains of the great city could be found in the deepest part of the Tower. And then we get a good look down below when Casca accidentally drops her torch down there, where it lands in a pile of the skeletons of the ancient dead. All of whom have the Brand of Sacrifice burned into their skulls. Just what the hell happened all those years ago, and which of the God Hand ascended from this event? - Wyald and his Black Dog Knights take the Sociopathic Soldier trope to nightmarish extremes. The group is shown in graphic detail to rape, murder, and destroy entire villages before sticking the dismembered body parts of the dead and raped on their spears to parade around in front of their enemies. They did this so many times to enemies and nobles alike, the King of Midland himself had them banished to the country's borders because they were too dangerous to be around but too strong to be rid of. - Worst of the group is the leader Wyald who was infamously shown to rape and kill a young girl and her family after asking her for directions. The girl was later shown skewered to pieces and paraded with her dead family members before her head was used by Wyald as a projectile against Guts. Worse off is that Wyald's men literally rape, kill, and pillage out of sheer terror of the consequences inflicted by Wyald if they do not, speaking volumes of how horrible the man really is. - Wyald himself has several frightening aspects from his beliefs to what he actually is. He is introduced smashing the head of one of the concubines he's sleeping with. He managed to kill the previous contender for the title through an indescribable means in spite of having his hands bound at the time. His face is distorted in a way that is an unholy mix of ape and man, giving off the impression that he isn't entirely human, given that he later blocks Guts' sword with his teeth with no repercussions, which is presented as something very unnatural. And his philosophy is excitement and enjoyment, translating into doing every depraved thing imaginable to get a rush. It all comes to a head when he's reveals himself to be an Apostle like Zodd, but lacking the morales and honor of the latter as he undergoes his transformation into a giant three eyed, white furred ape demon with with his original head on the top and a large lower mouth with a long tongue that is explicitly his penis, which he uses to almost rape Casca. He then reveals the extent of Griffith's injuries to his band to demoralize them before Zodd appears to thankfully kill him for his rampant acts of hedonistic evil that almost endangered the fifth God Hand. His appearance marks the shift from the human evils they've been used to fighting to the truly inhuman nightmares of the Apostles. There are very good reasons why he never appears in an animated adaptation and only in a video game and even then he's stripped of many of his manga traits in order to make him even removably accessible to a wider audience due to how depraved he actually is. - Guts almost strangles Casca when he has a flashback to what Donovan did to him while he and Casca are having Their First Time. Imagine how frightening it would be if your true love suddenly put his hands around your throat and tried to squeeze the life out of you, without warning or explanation. Imagine the distress and fear of yourself you would feel if you suddenly lost control of yourself, and came to to find that you had just violently attacked the person you care about most in the world! - It gets better. Guts had that flashback because when he was doing Casca from behind, the position that he had her in was quite reminiscent of the position that Donovan had him in — meaning in short that he was seeing things through the eyes of his rapist. This sparked some very deep self-loathing in Guts, such that he was trying to strangle what he thought was his past-self to death before he snapped out of it and the truth of what he was actually doing and who he was actually doing it to was revealed. - As he endures a year of torture, Griffith is unable to move or talk on his own, and is tormented all the time by thoughts of Guts. The reveal of his tortured, mutilated and emaciated body when Guts and the Hawks come to rescue him after all that time is nothing short of horrific. The first panel where they get a good look at him shows a big chunk of skin missing from his back, and when they examine him further, he's missing several more patches of skin, with some wounds even showing bone. That's horrible, but when you see Guts take off his mask, gasp in horror, and put it back on? Nothing is scarier indeed. The torturer gloats about how he cut the tendons in his wrists and ankles, and cut his tongue out as a souvenir. Guts then proceeds to tear out the torturer's tongue on seeing him wearing Griffith's tongue around his neck - "I'm not letting you go to Hell two-tongued!". The fact that this is a moment of Tranquil Fury from a man more known for other traits really makes you realise just how unbelievably furious Guts is at that point. - The Berserk anime movie art staff drew a sketch of Griffith's face post-torture◊. At first glance, he looks like he's been badly burnt. Look closer, and you'll realise it's actually exposed muscle. - Looking at Griffith after he has been rescued from the torture. His body is completely emaciated, and he has absolutely no strength to do anything of his own. Swinging a sword is impossible, meaning he cannot fight anymore. The guy can barely even sit up without any help. That level of helplessness is utterly terrifying. No wonder Griffith attempted to kill himself, among other reasons. - Rickert's group were all waiting excitedly for Griffith's return. Unfortunately, Rosine and the Count had other plans, and horrifically slaughtered pretty much everyone except poor Rickert, who would have been slaughtered too if not for the intervention of the Skull Knight. - The arc of Guts, Griffith, and Casca's relationships with each other. After meeting and being defeated by Griffith, Guts moves up in the ranks of Griffith's mercenary band, eventually becoming a commander of raiders, and the two of them form a bond that is very much like brotherhood (or if you're that way inclined, more than that). Meanwhile, Casca has been Griffith's trusted Number Two ever since Griffith saved her from being raped as a little girl. Griffith gradually becomes obsessed with Guts, such that when Guts decides to leave the Hawks after deciding that he's not going to be a part of Griffith's dream, Griffith's thoughts during the resultant duel, about how he would not let him go, are very Yandere-ish. And after being defeated, he goes to see Princess Charlotte and proceeds to bang her, which he mainly did as a rebound, which gets him thrown into the Tower of Rebirth to be put to the torture. By the time Guts and Casca have rescued Griffith (and fallen in love), Griffith has come to hate him, and the focus of his obsession gradually moves to Casca. But when he finds out that Guts and Casca are in a relationship and are thinking about leaving him behind...oh boy, does he lose it. And to make things even worse, this is the point where Griffith finds his Behelit again, triggering the events of the Eclipse, which are better covered elsewhere on this page. No one, especially not Guts and Casca, walks out of the horror that follows unscathed. - And now, it's time to experience what's arguably the most nightmarish moment in Berserk - (volumes 12-13, The Eclipse. Berserk (1997) episodes 23-25, and Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - Advent, respectively): - When the Eclipse goes down in the series proper, it marks a crucial turning point, where things turn from grim and gritty medieval fantasy into straight up horror as Griffith does a truly malignant FaceHeel Turn, accepts the offer to become a Godhand, and marks everyone he's led, including Guts and Casca, with the infamous Brand of Sacrifice. Things go From Bad to Worse for them and the rest of the Hawks very, very quickly. Many people we had come to like get killed very horrifically, many of them being eaten alive until only Guts and Casca are left. When Casca's sword breaks at the very worst possible time, she learns that the demons have other plans in mind for her, in addition to being eaten. Guts in the meantime has made a very badass showing against a whole mess of demons, but when he sees Casca naked and in the hands of the demons, Guts tries to save her, only for a demon by the name of Borkoff to clamp his massive jaws around Guts's left arm before he can reach her. And then Griffith, reborn as the fifth member of the Godhand, Femto, flies down right in front of him, brings Casca down to him, and then starts having his way with her — which is made even worse due to the fact that, because the Brand causes serious pain when its bearer is in the presence of a demon, and she's as close as anyone can possibly get to a member of the Godhand, she is in complete and utter agony all the while that Femto is doing this to her. Guts tries to kill Borkoff with his shortsword but breaks it on his impenetrable hide and is forced to chisel off the arm with what's left of the sword in order to get free. But when he finally gets free and goes after Femto? He is dogpiled by a whole mess of demons that claw out his right eye and is Forced to Watch as Griffith, who used to be his best friend, brutally rapes the woman he loves to insanity, right in front of him and purely out of spite, and staring straight into Guts's eyes the entire time he's doing this to her, without Guts being able to do a thing about it. - The way it starts and gradually builds to it is sheer horror at its finest. As Griffith's bungled suicide attempt fails, a blood red sun slowly overlaps with a dark moon as completely naked people slowly gather in the distance. They don't seem dangerous at first, except they're subtly exaggerated in terms of facial features and there's an ominous danger about them in spite of not doing anything. Then, they they turn into the Apostle forms- far more disturbing than Zodd, Wyald, the Baron, and the Count, looking appropriately like legions of hell itself coming straight out of a nightmare and Guts outside describes the sight as visual despair. It's followed by a nerve-wrecking tension leading to the massacre- not how the Band will escape, but when the massacre will inevitably occur. And when the Brands start flying, everyone gets marked, and Griffith gives the go-ahead, those Apostles lunge at them with full force, devouring the helpless Band. - The Behelit's misshaped face upon Guts touching him after contacting Griffith's blood, finally arranges into a natural human face as it then screams complete with crying tears of blood, causing the entire area to shift into a an entire area and sky composed of red, gigantic human faces. - The movie ramps up the Behelit scare by having a repeating shot of a closeup of the Behelit screaming face as the interior of the mouth reveals another Behelit to repeat the cycle with glowing eyes. - The movie adds another terror of ominousness, as unlike the original anime, it starts off as an eerie purple until Griffith commits to the sacrifice, the area changes red to fit the nightmarish mood. - How Corkus dies is dark. He goes insane from Griffith sacrificing his men, his fellows being eaten alive by Apostles and believes that everything from Midland to the Eclipse has all been a dream. He then sees an alluring beautiful woman in the middle of the madness, but he's fully aware it's an Apostle disguising itself to eat him, hugs her anyway and whimpers how his death will be horrible as the Apostle reveals her true form. He's that damaged at that point]]. - Guts finds Gaston in the middle of the carnage, his seeming survival means that he's alright at least, relieving Guts of any worry. However, it turns out Gaston has already been eaten alive from the inside out as a small Apostle bursts out of Gaston's head. Guts turns around to see the other Apostles showing the dismembered corpses of his comrades out of sadism. It's little wonder Guts wants to hunt down every Apostle after this point after the undignified treatment of his colleagues. - The Count playing with Pippin's hollowed out corpse just to torment Guts. There's no wonder when Guts deals with him later (in chronological order), he stoops right below his level. - Casca's ordeal alone crosses SO MANY LINES. As if being raped and being in excruciating pain because of her brand is bad enough, but it's the way that Femto is raping her that deems the act as so heinously vile. Femto does some truly horrific things to Casca that can only be described as pure sexual sadism... things that you don't even want to describe just out of respect for this woman. Casca is being violated sexually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not to mention that that Hope Spot stunt that Femto pulled was really nasty as he allowed Guts to get just close enough to he and Casca after he chiseled off his arm only to get him dog-piled mere feet away. It's as if Femto did it just so Guts could get front row seats to see exactly what vulgar things he did to Casca. - And if all that wasn't bad enough, Griffith saved Casca from being raped when they'd first met. That's right, not only is her brand BURNING with literal Hellish AGONY as she's being violated, her tormentor is none other than the very same man who had previously saved her from the selfsame fate. - This is the point where the anime ends, and in the manga, that's only the beginning. Because it turns out later that Casca was pregnant with Guts's child when she got raped by Femto, and as a result of this, the child was horribly tainted by Femto's evil, and is born premature and deformed. Despite being tainted by evil, the child still cared for its mother a great deal, to the point of summoning ghosts to protect her from Bishop Mozgus's Cold-Blooded Torture. It's then used as the vessel for the rebirth of Griffith back into the mortal world when it's devoured by the Behelit-Apostle, basically a giant Behelit with tentacles, dying along with him. - For lack of a better word, volume 13 can catch you off-guard: it makes you want to throw up, cry, throw up again, guzzle down five gallons of Brain Bleach, and pet an adorable puppy for good measure just to get over it because you will feel as if you're getting raped yourself. It is truly a nightmare in itself to have to read volume 13. We understand if you don't want to - and we aren't forcing ya. - During the Eclipse there's also Slan commenting on how "delicious" the whole ordeal of Griffith as Femto raping Casca is while Guts is forced to watch. She even sounds like she's having an orgasm while she talks about it, and can be shown cupping her own breasts in sexual pleasure while she and rest of the Godhand look. - Slan being female (among other female-looking Apostles around Casca) amplifies this by a few orders of magnitude. A woman gleefully approving of another woman's rape is just the bitchiest thing imaginable. - Notice how during the Eclipse the demon apostles stripped Casca naked, one of them raised its horn close to her vagina in between her legs and looked like it was going to rape her had it not stopped to watch Femto being born with the others. And take a good look at the other apostles surrounding her. Freud would have a field day. - Rosine's little Crapsaccharine World is fairly disturbing, specially due to the fact that her "elves," who rape and kill each other, are basically still children playing. When we see the cocoons in which they are transformed, things reach a really disturbing angle when we learn she plans to turn her childhood friend into one of the little bastards; thankfully we later see (courtesy of Guts destroying the cocoons) the deformed children inside then. - The absolute worst part of Rosine's "elven kingdom" is the "Adult attack", where they pin each other to the ground and rape each other with their stingers. Depressing, horrifying, and slightly narmful in a way that produces an entirely new feeling of awkwardness mixed with terror. - Even worse than that, this happens in front of Jill, who has had to fight off Attempted Rape from one of her father's friends at least once. She throws up in horror when she sees it. - When Rosine's "elves" play "war", they actually kill each other with little stick-spears — and we know from an earlier scene that every one of Rosine's apostle-spawn that dies turns back into what it used to be. And then they try to make poor Jill eat one of those dead kids, which is around the point where she very understandably decides to get the hell out. - All those transformations - from little fairies into hornets and back, in all possible phases. - Rosine was in an abusive household, and discovered to her despair that the stories of elves in the distant forest were nothing but myth. Then, as her father is beating her mother on the very ground that her dreams and innocence were shattered, the Behelit takes away them both and turns her into a "elf," and grants her the ability to turn other children into "elves." When Guts finds her, not only does he leave a trail of mutilated and burnt child-corpses in his wake (the converted children turn back into humans when killed), he gleefully burns the "elves"-in-progress, and outright terrifies Rosine. - The beginning of the Chapter of the Binding Chain, which introduces the Beast of Darkness proper. The evil spirits have not let up in their torment of Guts, telling him about how he will soon become like them and become a monster. - Those creepy spirit-possessed dogs with human faces that try to eat Guts and Farnese. Dogs should not have faces like that. - And then one of these demons possesses the horse that Guts kidnapped Farnese on, which very nearly rapes her, only stopped by Guts flashbacking to the very worst moment from the Eclipse and shearing off its head in a berserker rage — and very nearly decapitating Farnese along with it! - And then there's what happens when Farnese winds up possessed herself. She pins Guts down, completely naked, and then starts choking him with string while begging Guts to "slowly cut her in two" with the Dragonslayer. It's a sexual moment, but also a very creepy moment, because both Guts and the audience are quite aware that Farnese is most definitely Not Herself. - The plague sequence that begins the Chapter of the Birth Ceremony, particularly the scene where the rats carrying the plague converge into the form of Conrad, the God Hand presumably responsible for spreading it. - Farnese is shown to be turned on by people burning alive to the point where she spends some "alone time" thinking very hard about that. Nausea Fuel as well. - The thought process and methods of Inquisitor Mozgus, who is just as horrible as you'd expect a fanatical religious nutjob with too much power and not a shred of objectivity can get. While it's pretty obvious from the start that he's Bad News, his vilest act we see is when a band of starving refugees attempts to steal some of the ample foodstuffs sent to Mozgus and his retinue, and he spots among them a woman with a starving infant. When she begs him to feed her child, he gently takes her along to his residence, lauding her courage and dedication. He sends away the child to be fed and cared for, then escorts her to a room while extolling the fact that while her intentions were good, she still has to expiate her sins... And then he opens the door, where we see the other refugees being horribly tortured, and the poor woman is dragged, stripped, and tied to another torture device over her increasingly frantic pleas... Then the door closes. It's as nightmarish as it sounds, if not more so. And somehow, the fact that he truly believes he is doing the right thing makes it even worse. An unrepentant Card-Carrying Villain like Wyald is certainly horrific, but the idea that someone can commit even worse atrocities and still consider themselves a good person is even more terrifying, especially when history has proven time and again that humans are fully capable of this without being demons. - To make matters even worse, we're shown later that the woman was driven insane by the torture, and that her baby is dead. - The cult dedicated to Slan, which among other things involves eating human remains as part of its initiation ritual. They're also quite rape-happy. - The demons drawn by Casca's Brand possessing the cultists during the battle with the Holy Iron Chain Knights. - Still not as bad as when it happened again in the refugee camp, which led to children being eaten alive by their own parents when they got possessed and turned into monsters. - The Great Goat Head was originally just a cultist leader with a goat head mask and a snake largely used for ceremony. But when the Egg of the Perfect World turns him into an Apostle Spawn, he becomes a real monster who wants Casca in the worst way. Thank goodness Guts arrived when he did. - The Great Goat's intentions for Casca become even creepier in that both he and his Mouth of Sauron say they only want Casca to "become family," completely ignoring what's going through her mind. - The Egg of the Perfect World collecting human bodies as part of his garden, including a huge symbol of the church decorated with flayed human skins. Not to mention the Egg himself, who looks like nothing less than a giant living Behelit, Humpty Dumpty if he were designed by Pablo Picasso and Tim Burton. - During the second Eclipse, when Griffith is reborn, we see Guts get up after the tower has crumbled into a hand-shaped edifice disturbingly reminiscent of the ginormous hand from the first Eclipse. He is alone. He looks down. His facial expression changes to awe and terror. On the next page, the refugee camps are shown. With a HUGE Sacrifice symbol made up from all the burning huts and houses running across them. - When fighting Mozgus, while Mozgus is established as a monster, after becoming infected by the Egg of the Perfect World and becoming a real monster, he has the appearance of an angel, as do his interrogators. While he does intend to sacrifice Casca to placate the demon tides, he's also the only one protecting the refugees from said demonic flood. Guts, of course, tells the refugees to shove it and die like men, and then kills their angelic guardians, cementing his status as the demonic Black Swordsman. Even in death, fire consumes Mozgus' body, which actually holds back the flood as a handful of remaining refugees kneel around him in prayer. "Mommy, the angel fell!" - What happens as soon as Mozgus is gone? Unspeakable tides of pure evil surge forward and start devouring the crowds of terrified men, women, and children. - While an awesome moment for Casca it was also quite creepy how post-Eclipse when she ran away from Guts out of fear and ran into some bandits, who then tried to gang rape her... but by the time Guts found her, Casca was naked and covered in her would-be rapists' blood after she slashed all of their throats. - It's disturbingly implied that Guts has In Love with Your Carnage toward insane Casca when he finds her naked and soaked in the blood of the men who tried to gang-rape her after she killed all of them. Various panel shots have the Male Gaze over Casca's body, and it's implicated that despite the disturbing scenario of both Casca's insanity and her near-assault, Guts is turned on by this display (possibly due to years of being desensitized to violence and being emotionally deprived after so much trauma), which leads him to nearly rape Casca himself soon after finding her. Guts just barely stops himself from going through, but it leaves him SEVERELY messed up and EXTREMELY aware how far off the deep end he's been going. - If you look closely at the panels where Guts assaults Casca, the two are posed exactly as Casca and Griffith were during her rape at the Eclipse. The Beast even commands Guts to "tear her up, like Griffith did," after which readers are shown an Imagine Spot of the Beast raping and devouring Casca. Thankfully Guts realized what was happening and stopped himself, or the Beast probably would have killed her then and there. - After being reborn into the mortal world, Griffith doesn't actually seem to have changed that much. If anything, his cunning, military prowess and inhuman charisma have increased, making him even more successful than he was before. - In the bit where he meets Guts again, he calmly declares that he feels no remorse for anything he did, and says it all so damn reasonably that it's almost as if he thinks Guts is the one being irrational, is truly horrifying. Even if you didn't know what he was capable of with his demonic powers, the sociopathic lack of remorse would be frightening enough on its own. This aspect of him rattles even Guts, and considering how much he's been through without batting an eye, that says a lot. - Casca actually seemed affectionate towards him. She collapsed before long due to the pain his presence caused her Brand of Sacrifice, but apart from that she didn't seem bothered by him. Presumably it was the remains of her child (whose body Femto had used to transform into his physical vessel in the mortal world) she was reacting to, but that doesn't stop it being horrifying that she seemed willing to embrace Femto when Guts struggled day and night to keep her safe and she still wouldn't trust him. - Casca can subconsciously remember her ordeal during the Eclipse when other characters are trying to force themselves on her, but she didn't seem to do that when she was near Griffith... One could argue that she didn't see a reason to fear Griffith at the time because it was Griffith as Femto who raped her but remember that Casca INDEED recognized the demonic entity as Griffith before he violated her. This just brings on an onslaught of bad thoughts and assumptions. - What about the way Femto builds up the new Band of the Hawk? The readers know that he's a monster, but not many of the characters do, and seeing a new bunch of people looking for a purpose in life flock to his banner just as they did before sets off no end of alarm bells for what might happen to them. - Femto actually went so far as to replace the original leaders of the Band of the Hawk, even after claiming that he felt no remorse for selling out the first batch. It was no wonder that Guts was so pissed when Grunbeld mentioned that he was part of the new Band of the Hawk. - Trolls from the Qliphoth, whose primary method of reproduction involves forcibly impregnating captured women from villages, with the births of new trolls being every bit as horrific and lethal to the poor women involved as that of Ganishka's demon soldiers. Particularly wretched is the fate of Hannah of Enoch village, whose husband and brother are killed by those creatures while she is raped and captured. Later, Farnese and Casca encounter her in their den, desperately pleading for help before the troll spawn rip their way out of her stomach. - When Schierke taps into the powers of darkness and reminesces that when you look into darkness, the darkness looks back at you. And does so in form of a Cthulhu-esque nightmare. Okay, it was later revealed to be just an Earth spirit, but his first appearance and build up to it was damn creepy. - When the Kushans take over the capital of Wyndham, they literally Paint the Town Red, by decorating the city with the corpses of all the people they killed. Meanwhile Charlotte is being held captive in a tower, when enter Emperor Ganishka intending to rape her and force her to carry his heir just to secure the throne. As if being threatened with rape by an Apostle wasn't horrifying enough, Charlotte is immediately reminded of her father's previous attack and sees Ganishka as her own father, and considering this is a literal demon we are talking about, there is little chance she would have been able to fight him off like she did before with the King. The only thing that saves her was screaming for Griffith's name, making Ganishka have second thoughts about going through the deed. - Ganishka gleefully calls the occupied Wyndham palace his "demon castle." Why? He's "decorated" it with the mangled corpses of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of murdered Midlanders. Statues have their heads knocked off and crudely replaced with the real thing, and gargoyles have their mouths stuffed with yet more severed heads. Worst of all are the live, naked women dangling from rafters above a pit of crocodiles, to be slowly Eaten Alive piece by piece for Ganishka's amusement. He has applied a similar treatment to the entire city; countless corpses are skewered on steeples and hanging from church rafters. These massacres, compared with the enslavement of men for war and women for sex or daka production, claim the majority of Wyndham's population, leaving an entire national capital a nightmarish ghost town stalked by ravenous Kushan-made monsters. - Ganishka's moustache conceals More Teeth than the Osmond Family, and you do not want to see what they look like. - Ganishka's method of drawing new soldiers for his demon army? He throws pregnant women into vats made up of stitched together Apostles, their children become monsters and rip their ways out of their mother's wombs, and the remains are given to the newborn for food. - The second time Guts used the Berserker Armor, Guts greatly overestimates his ability to control it, resulting in him barely avoiding splattering all his friends. And only because the moonlight boy intervenes. Guts had lost control completely. The really scary part is thinking about the potential aftermath of this: it would probably result in Guts never being able to escape the armor's grip, randomly killing anything that moves until he dies or turns into another Skull Knight. - The dinner party in Vritannis, when the first tiger shows up. It's really unnerving to see Miura toy with classic horror tropes (not showing us the tiger initially, the lights going out, blood splattering on bewildered onlookers...) when most of the other monsters have been so in-your-face. It's almost less frightening when the rest of the pack burst in, just because they're immediately spotted. - Ganishka's 'Shiva' form. It starts off as a mass of faces, which swells into a towering, multi-armed figure, which dwarfs the city of Windham and towers over the new Band of the Hawk, to the point where even powerful apostles could surely do nothing against this unstoppable behemoth of destruction. To make matters worse Ganishka seems to forget who he is and doesn't seem to understand his sheer size, wondering where his army has gone as he unknowingly tramples his own soldiers to paste and breathing fire at his chief sorcerer, believing him to be an insect. - Also anyone he steps on reforms into smaller apostle spawn in his own image, with fangs and tentacles, which will eat anything in their path. - Ganishka's past sucked. It doesn't remotely excuse his crimes, but why he became such a monster is understandable to a limited extent. When he was 6, his own mother tried to murder him in favor of his little brother, more concerned by doting on the latter even when the older son is in front of her suffering from the poison. - Despite its adaptation faults, Berserk (1997) manages to give the Eclipse a completely new tone, one that is very different from the manga and movies. Unlike them, the anime could believably look at first like a series about a mercenary warrior in a world very similar to our Middle Ages, without any shadowy overtone lurking at its back. The opening sequence only shows Guts in his pre-Eclipse look, the episodes are slow-paced and focused on the characters and their human struggles, and most of the manga's supernatural/bizarre elements (the female Apostle, Puck, the Count, Wyald, the Bakiraka, the Skull Knight and the Baron of Koka if the viewer missed the first episode) are expunged, so it's easy for a casual viewer to think that Zodd was a random fantasy cliché monster, that the Behelit is just a weird amulet, and that there are no problems in the setting which cannot be solved by Guts's sword or Griffith's smarts. Then the Eclipse happens almost out of nowhere and, surprise, things CAN turn bad beyond any hope for our beloved characters after all. Their world happens to be ruled by a pantheon of near-omnipotent evil gods who not only turn the Band of the Hawk into an all-you-can-eat monster food buffet, but also turn one of our heroes into one of their kind, who proceeds to horribly betray his friends and rape the female lead. And if that's not enough, the Eclipse sequence ends fading to black in its most horrible climax, and the next and last thing we see, a surviving Guts going to a presumable quest for revenge, is set after an unknown amount of time. We end up without any explanation of how Guts survived the carnage, what ultimately became of Casca or simply what the hell happened. - The track "Behelit" in the 1997 anime. It's especially nightmarish when it plays while Femto is raping Casca while Guts is held down and forced to watch. It's the first track on the OST too. Such a pleasant introduction having to be reminded of the most nightmarish scene in the series right off the bat. - The anime might have toned down the violence, but still: some scenes are still extremely horrifying when you attach sound effects, voice acting, and full motion depictions to the mix. - Guts actually screaming in pain as Nosferatu Zodd prepares to tear him limb from limb. - Guts hacking off his arm with his broken sword, while badass, was also incredibly disturbing. And in the anime the sound of him hacking at his arm. - And to end, Casca's rape itself. Yes, the anime was more lenient on us to at least show less of their bodies, but it's still sickening having to watch her writhe in agony as this is being done to her. - Not to mention The Scream that Guts gives after seeing it all happen before his eyes - it's very powerful and effective in bringing the viewer to their knees. - If you thought that some scenes from the TV series were disturbing, don't even talk about Berserk: The Golden Age Arc. All gory battle scenes are played out precisely how they are in the manga. Most disturbingly is that sexual violence is played up in the movie; for instance the noble who assaulted Casca was not only trying to rape her, but he also beat the CRAP out of her. The Advent, the movie where the Eclipse goes down, has reached notoriety in Japan as being one of the most violent and disturbing animated movies PERIOD. In fact, it was so disturbing that some people reportedly had to leave the theater. And this was the edited version!! - Related to the above of how adding sound effects and voice-acting to the mix makes thing more horrific. Now in the movies, since it covers the Eclipse to its completion, both English and Japanese voice actresses of Casca nailed it when expressing her sanity and hope crushing despite her not saying a lot during the scene: Casca's tone of disbelief when she realizes that Femto is Griffith, her whimpering and weeping in fear and pain during her violation, and her last tearful words to Guts are just plain awful to listen to. At her lowest point, she sounds almost childlike and innocent, almost a brilliant but twisted nod at how Casca's sanity would eventually slip to that of a very young child.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes If they're not Glurge or Narm, some episodes can fall under this. Major offenders include the stories "Red-Eyed Creature" and "The Mirror of Truth". To elaborate: - The reveals. Seeing FACT or FICTION stamped over the creepiest screenshots of each segment and holding it for a few seconds was rather nightmare-inducing. Especially the ones that were revealed as FACT. - In The Landlady, an elderly woman is terrorized by a mysterious prowler. Scary enough on its own even if the woman in question is as friendly as a hornets nest. But what sells the dread is at the end when on the next night she goes to confront the prowler, only to see phantom boot prints indenting in the mud and theyre heading towards her. - In "Red-Eyed Creature", a couple, their young son, and their nanny purchase a new home. On the night they move in, the young son goes downstairs, and in the dark kitchen, witnesses a pair of ominous red eyes floating towards him, accompanied by a disturbingly loud whooshing sound. The parents think the frightened son just imagined the whole thing, until the same thing happens to the wife some time later. When the father inspects the house, he notices that the panel of the family's thermostat on the wall has two red lights that could easily be mistaken for glowing red eyes in the dark, and postulates that the whooshing sound was just the heater kicking in. The parents are relieved by this rational explanation, but the son remains unconvinced. When the son is in bed that night, the nanny goes to tuck him in and reassures him that there's nothing to be afraid of. As she leaves the son's room, she pauses, faces the audience, and her eyes glow red and emit a whooshing sound, implying that she's some sort of supernatural entity intent on terrorizing the family. Of course, she might be a supernatural creature who looks scary but is otherwise a nice person. Jonathan Frakes even brings up the possibility that the woman/creature is protecting the family, not terrorizing it, as no bad incidents happened to them while they were in the house even though bad things always happened to past owners. - "The Kid In The Closet". A young boy is convinced that there's a monster living in his bedroom closet. His mother and sister insist that he has an overactive imagination, but his older brother teases and bullies him over it. One day, the older brother and his friends gang up on him and drag him upstairs, intending to throw him into the closet to scare him. The boy dares his brother to prove that there's no monster by going into the closet and shutting the door. As soon as the closet door closes, the older brother begins banging on it and screaming for help; everyone (except his younger brother) assumes he's faking it, and doesn't help him. Suddenly, the boys' mother arrives home, and the screaming abruptly stops; the boys' mother inspects the closet, and finds that her son has vanished without a trace, leaving only his clothing and shoes crumpled on the closet floor. The police are called and search the closet, but find no trace of the boy, and no clues as to what might have happened to him. What's worse, this story is based in * Fact. - It was later revealed that the author of the story failed to research it properly: while it was indeed based on actual events, the missing boy had actually run away from home after climbing out a hidden ceiling panel. He was missing for two weeks before he was discovered living at a friend's house and returned home. Even with this in mind, the story is still rife with horror: imagine your firstborn child vanishing from your own home without a trace, in broad daylight, mere seconds* before you arrive home, after one of your other children has been insisting for weeks that there's a "monster" lurking around the house. Makes your mind go to some terrible places, doesn't it? - In "Mirror of Truth", a vain, shallow woman obsessed with her appearance enters a beauty parlor and is given a makeover. Dissatisfied with the results, she treats the beautician with rude indignation, and in response the beautician apparently casts a curse upon her. Although we never see her face, the woman believes her good looks are rapidly fading, and soon states that she finds herself grotesquely ugly. In The Reveal, she looks into a mirror, and her reflection shows a hideously deformed. animalistic face with bugged-out eyes. When we see the woman's actual face, her youthful, photogenic appearance remains; it was only that the curse caused her to perceive herself as ugly. The deformed face (as seen above) is Nightmare Fuel at its finest for anybody that wasn't expecting it. - "The Land" is about a farmer who is about to lose his land because of a long drought and makes a deal with someone (and to the writers' credit, it's not implied to be The Devil or some demonic entity, just some guy who lives in town) for the land to be fertile for the next twenty years. The next day his family wakes up to find that it is indeed fertile, and the man is heavily implied to have become the land itself. The imagery in this story is creepy. - "The Stalker" is a truly terrifying segment. Revolving around an escapee from jail, he torments a lady and her daughter by hiding in their home. It is one story that can seriously leave viewers scared and paranoid, especially if they had an experience with stalking before. - "The Cake" is about a kind baker ordered by his Jerkass boss to bake a truly gigantic cake as a reward to a man he had done a favor for. The baker begins hearing groaning from inside the oven and sees a spectral entity inside the oven. The baker informs his boss, and is promptly fired since he wisely refuses to bake the cake. The boss decides to bake the cake himself. At home, the baker discovers the entity was the ghost of a crime boss that the boss had assassinated and his wife informs him that smoke was filling the bakery. The baker goes to check on the boss, and finds his boss baked into the cake, something that looks surprisingly horrifying. - "Damsel" has a lonely young woman named Sandy looking for love through a matchmaking program. The purveyor of the program, a middle-aged woman, tried to set her up with her son Steve and said that he would find her (as she was an aggressive pursuer of love instead of just letting it find her), but she's skeptical about the scenario and declines. One day, while out on a drive, she pulls over and helps an attractive man who's having car trouble and when the woman starts to feel uneasy about him, especially after catching him looking through her purse, he shows his true colors by deciding to rape and murder her. After initially running away and failing to evade him, he overpowers her ready to put his plan into action when the son materializes out of nowhere and fights him off. The most shocking thing about the story is that it's Fact, and if the story sounds familiar, it's because it was loosely based on one of the worst serial killers in American history. - "The Sleepwalker" at first starts with something more annoying than terrifying. Leon Woodward is dealing with sleepwalking and it's driving his wife crazy. They turn to a spiritualist, who says he's been hit with a terrible curse and will one day leave during his sleepwalk and never return, and there's nothing she can do to lift it. Then one night, it happens and he disappears. As his wife panics once she files a missing person's report with the police, their daughter states she knows what happened to him. She takes her to her dollhouse... where a doll that resembles her father, complete with clothes and the bell he wore to help his wife find him, is laying there. It would seem the curse has trapped his very soul in a doll. Even more creepy? Not only was this marked as Truth, Frakes reveals that author Robert Tralins was even shown a doll resembling the real life person who disappeared.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeyondBeliefFactOrFiction
Beyond Evil / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The events leading up to Yu-yeon's murder. When she goes to meet Dong-sik she's filmed from behind as if someone's following her. At one point she hears a strange sound nearby, and then the street-lights go out. The next morning her mother finds her fingers cut off and placed in their garden. - The moments before Min-jeong's murder are pretty scary too; she's walking while talking to Dong-sik. And then you hear the sound of footsteps following her.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeyondEvil
Betray Me Not / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - In Betray Me Not, the 'punishment' Biscoe and Norton give Brandon is actually creepy and painful, especially regarding Brandon's leg. Brandon has just lost An Arm and a Leg the day before, and William patches them up with stitches. Then, Biscoe and Norton force him to wear an artificial leg. \|\|It's so bad that the stitches snap, and poor Brandon, unable to feel pain, is unaware of his rotting residual limb.\|\| Good thing that Brandon himself is a Necrolyzer, so it's not too scary, but still. - Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome AKA SIRS. It's not explicitly mentioned that Brandon is affected by SIRS, but the signs and symptoms are there: Brandon is getting feverish, breathing rapidly and gradually weakening \|\|thanks to a rotting residual leg (and it reeks with blackened flesh)\|\|. While this is tearjerking, it's actually chilling and depicts how inhumane Millennion is. \|\|Brandon gets better.\|\| - The angry Brandon in Retribution is downright scary. Even the animals around him knows to scurry when he passes through an alley to reach his targets' houses. - The way Brandon harasses his targets in Retribution is worthy of Paranoia Fuel. He randomly barges into a house that is listed on his notepad and threatens the residents (with violence) until they tell him what he wants to know. And worse, when Brandon's first victim, Steve, attacks Brandon by smashing a chair against his torso, the chair breaks and Brandon is unfazed. After that, Brandon seizes him by his neck and is sure to crack his skull open and choke him to death if Steve insists on not saying anything about Leonard, the leader of the riot. - Basically, an angry Brandon is horrifying. In Betray Me Not, he riddles \|\|Harry's goon\|\| with D-Point bullets in a fit of rage. D-Point rounds are strong enough to hurt a Necrolyzer. Imagine unloading all of them on a human. - Brandon himself, even when not angry, is a terrifying man as well when not with Mika. He is a Nigh-Invulnerable Necrolyzer with the ability to break into a house with ease. Imagine yourself not being at home...and when you return, your door is on the floor and your TV is gone. Paranoia Fuel, indeed. - And him paying his clients a visit is just as haunting, especially to civilians. Nothing can stop him. Whack him with a cane, bash him with a chair, or shoot him with a regular pistol; he'll just walk through them. Doors can be easily smashed or knocked down as well. - The whole Millennion is a combination of Nightmare Fuel and Paranoia Fuel due to Sinister Surveillance and their nigh-unlimited freedom. Like in the canon, law does not exist, so The Syndicate is free to do as they like. And nothing can help the poor civilians. - They are everywhere in the town. It's why in Wintertime Business, Brandon knows that he won't have to go through all the troubles to locate Vash. Millennion's scouts will do that for him, and when they've spotted Vash, they'll report. - The Sinister Surveillance is also why Arnold can suggest Brandon to just leave the case to Millennion sweepers in Retribution. - Millennion loan sharks themselves, especially thanks to Brandon's active participation. When you owe them money, even if you aren't at home, Brandon can easily break into your house and steal something of similar value to your debt. - With his Super Strength, he can open the way for his subordinates to do Break-In Threat (spraypainting threats on the wall of a house), although he greatly prefers pillaging. - In Retribution, a little girl watching her father being gunned down is just haunting while being tearjerking. - The Hellhound of Billion is rather unsettling, considering the nigh-unkillable necrolyzed beings are brought back, even if they are just dogs. - As badass as Brandon is, he shows no qualms pulverizing necrolyzed dogs. This includes crushing their skulls under his sound foot and taking a bite out of their brains. - When the dog bites Brandon in the calf, he simply pulls his leg forward, full force. The result? A chunk of flesh from his leg is torn off along with a small part of his pants. - The necrolyzed dog is an Ax-Crazy big black mongrel with red eyes. Sara says that a pack of those dogs has just shredded some cats the day before. And they can also munch metallic trash cans like crackers. - Fridge Horror: This means that they actually won't have problems tearing down brick walls and breaking into civilians' houses. Brrr! - Charles' way of getting his revenge on Brandon. First, he punches Brandon to the point blood gushes out of of his ears and nostrils. And some blood manages to get into his throat, causing him to cough sometimes. After that, when Brandon turns the table and attempts to get the anti-necrolyze rifle, Charles simply stomps his wrist, breaking it. And he continues with putting anti-necrolyze bullets in both of Brandon's legs. To cap it all off, Charles lets Brandon live and leaves. - Charles' actions also have some hints of Mind Rape. Charles steps on Brandon's wrist and taunts him by telling him to grab the gun and fight back. Brandon is already screaming out of his frustration (unable to grab the gun), and Charles just rubs salt to the wound. And Charles' Cruel Mercy is intended to push Brandon into Despair Event Horizon. - Brandon's way of fighting back as a result of said Mind Rape? Bites off chunks of meat from Charles' leg. Ouch. - Hemorrhagic shock. It's not shown, but it's mentioned. And it happens to poor Brandon. After having the anti-necrolyze bullets taken out of him, he bleeds so much that his body goes cold, his blood pressure drops, and his pulse grows weak and fast. - Basilar skull fracture as well. It's not specified, but Brandon's condition implies that. After taking several blows to his head, he starts bleeding from his ears and nose...and something is trickling down his throat, choking him and causing him to cough. - According to Word of God, Brandon was once intended to have his Raccoon Eyes and Battle's Sign appearance mentioned by Mika, but this was removed. As later seen in The Missing Necrolyzer, the Raccoon Eye is mentioned. - Twisted Death is even worse. - A necrolyzer tries to kill Nancy by throwing her into the air and leaving her to splatter on the ground. - The torture scene. Brandon is constantly sedated so that he doesn't know who's behind this, but imagine getting injected with tranquilizer whenever you show some movements. And how is the torture? Brandon is flogged while the hellhounds play with his helpless body like a chew toy or a scratching post. - Rafael Jones of the Cardosi. He has his men ram Elizabeth's belly with a steel beam, which they just use as a battering ram. It leads to the death of Brandon's little sister in Elizabeth's womb. After that, when Elizabeth asks where her husband Bruce is, Rafael simply shows her Bruce's severed head. In front of six-year-old Brandon. And it doesn't end there. He has his man carry Brandon and says that the black market will pay a lot for a healthy boy like Brandon. It angers Elizabeth to the point she manages to save Brandon, but Rafael then shoots Elizabeth dead. In front of six-year-old Brandon. Ouch. - The chase scene. Poor Brandon tries to run away, but Rafael's goon tosses a can at him and knocks him down. The worst part here is how the goon later treats Brandon: instead of carrying him, he just drags him back to the dark alley.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BetrayMeNot
Betsy the Vampire Queen / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes We learn that the Book of the Dead was written by Evil Future Betsy in her husband Sinclair's blood and bound with his skin.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BetsyTheVampireQueen
Big Brother / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - From Big Brother 2: Justin Sebik's legitimately psychotic behavior and drunken madness, infamously warranting the first-ever contestant expulsion and the permanent removal of unrestricted access to alcohol on the US run. As the game went on, something about him rang out as... off. It started with urinating on a window and smashing up a chess set. Yet later, he became an actual threat to contestants' well-being, threatened them with violence, and brought a knife up to Krista's throat. It was such a severe incident that he was immediately ejected from the game, and the incident preceded what was supposed to be a live episode and Julie remarked it is one of the most serious offenses someone could commit on the show. What he did was so serious, the producers cut away from the footage and had Julie explain what happened by word of mouth. Even scarier, Krista was too drunk to reason and inadvertently tempted Justin to keep bringing the knife up to her neck. It was seriously fucked up, even by this show's standards. Because of what he did, Sebik is now the most hated contestant on record. And this was only two seasons into the US run of the show!! Julie: At this point, Justin picked up a large kitchen knife and repeated to an intoxicated Krista, "Seriously, would you get mad if I killed you?" He put the knife to Krista's throat as they kissed. He then took the knife away momentarily. With Krista's encouragement, he put the knife back to her neck. They kissed again, and then he returned the knife to its drawer. (cut back to footage with them in the kitchen) Supervisor: Justin. Please go to the Diary Room. (cut back to Julie) Julie: After a lengthy consultation with the show's psychologist, producers were left with no choice but to expel Justin to protect the safety of the houseguests. - Worse, the incident occurred late at night and witnessed by nobody but the camera watchers on high, when most guests were either in bed or elsewhere- in a normal setting, this could have been disastrous. Justin was quietly dismissed from the game without any fuss raised until next morning, when houseguests learned straight from the horse's mouth that Justin had suffered the punishment of expulsion, and not only did it deeply hurt some of them, it was compared to as though he had just died and didn't get to pack up or say goodbye or anything. - Worse yet, in the post-expulsion interview he has with Julie, Justin denies that what he said is disturbing and even calls anyone who thinks it was a threat an idiot and that he doesn't know what kind of glasses they're looking through. Julie has to remind him that there are people on the outside watching the show and might interpret what he said differently or be frightened of his dangerously off-kilter remarks. Justin doesn't even understand why he got thrown out of the house and thinks he deserves to go back inside. - Scariest of all, that moment was captured right on the live feeds for us to see for all time. They didn't have the chance to cut away like the show did. Genuine proof that he couldn't come back into the house. - Similar to Justin, but in many ways so much worse, is the severely deranged behavior of Scott Weintraub, coincidentally also a bartender, in Big Brother 4. Scott's sanity wanes after being forced to live under the same room as his ex-fiance Amanda Craig, culminating in him trying to get himself thrown out of the game by throwing chairs and threatening to hit people with oversized chess pieces. Scott starts smoking like a chimney and becoming increasingly hostile towards everyone and ranting about how the game is treating him like a puppet, before finally wrecking the meeting room and ignoring an emergency call to the Diary Room to prevent him from continuing to go berserk. He then calls the whole house in for a group intervention, where he announces his decision to forfeit the game. It's also made evident that when he did finally go to the Diary Room, he was declared unfit to participate any further like Justin. Some people even speculate that he has syphilis, which is causing mental issues for him. And because of this incident, Amanda was the next to go. - It also doesn't help that Scott's ex-fiancee later had sex with someone else in the house and it was shown on TV. Scott almost certainly found out about that, on top of being unable to move on from his ex-lover. - The creepy mime in Big Brother 4, especially when he put on a mask and tried an Exorcist crawl. - The tense backyard showdown in Big Brother 6 between Kaysar, Ivette, and Eric. The latter two are angry Kaysar has apparently been making personal attacks on their character and personal lives, and Eric has been very clear from day one to all of the house that one thing he will not tolerate is any attack on his family. Worse, another conflict has bothered the house beforehand: Michael has been going around making advances when they weren't wanted and Eric intervened on behalf of the house to stop him from causing any further discomfort to the women. Michael took this personally because he feels like he's beeing treated like a pervert, and walks out into the backyard as one fight is starting to brew and both Ivette and Eric are about a hair's breadth from losing their tempers on Kaysar. Then, Michael starts to shoot some nasty sideye at Eric from by the hot tub. Eric glances over a few times and notices Michael, and then Michael leers at him agressively and Eric takes it as a challenge. Michael eggs him on and Eric seems to think Michael also wants to go after his family and then leaps up from his chair so fast he knocks it over, immediately bearing down to get into what may very well have been a physical altercation, had all the other houseguests, even Howie, not stepped in to hold the two back. Production intervenes and forces Michael to go to the bedroom, and Eric to the Diary Room. But that isn't the end of it. Kaysar and Ivette continue to argue after this fight is broken up and then Kaysar angrily springs from his chair and bears down on Ivette, causing another crackdown where Kaysar is sent over to the hammock and Ivette has to go to the gym. The entire house is then gathered into the living room several hours later after the four troublemakers have had enough time to cool down and giving a group warning about their behavior. Fortunately, this is followed by several honest apologies for their poor reactions and everyone making peace. - Allison in US Season 9 ran into the diary room and started to tell people that she needed an epi-pen and to be sent to the hospital because she was having an allergic reaction to something. (Likely a Bee sting.) In the same day, Amanda fainted due to low blood sugar from eating slop. - Amanda Zuckerman thinking it was okay to threaten to slit someone's throat, especially considering the above example. Her threat was so malignant she caused an hour-long blackout on the live feeds where the producers absolutely railed her. But what the hell did they say!? - Some of Caleb's creepiest interactions with Amber in BB 16 entail this response, reaching their height in episode 10, as production even threw in the sound of ghostly music box tinkling. Another time, he seemed ready to snap at Cody for just talking to Amber and production added a Jaws-like menacing theme as Caleb looked on and later walked by in a huff. - On Tuesday, September 20, 2017, during Big Brother 19, a mild earthquake hit the house. It caused the final three houseguests to head outside and wait for it to pass. Josh freaked out, since it was the first time he ever went through one, while Paul and Christmas braced for the tremors and helped calm him down. - Megan Lowder becoming so traumatized by the Big Brother atmosphere that she started having fits of vomiting and diarrhea, and cutting herself loose from the show so completely to ensure full healing that she is just gone. - The instances in the UK run where contestants have threatened to commit suicide in the house and warranted the arrival of a psychiatrist or even walking off the show. - Any incident where a contestant has an accident and gets hurt. The worst one on record is a broken leg. - Big Brother 19 seems to be the year of the foot curse, where two women end up with heinous injuries to their left feet, Christmas and Raven. In only Week 2, Christmas has her foot severely broken when Jason drops her while roughhousing (for which he is infinitely sorry and ashamed of), and the injuries were bad enough to cause permanent damage. Christmas actually had to leave the house for a while to undergo surgery, where she had fractures in ten bones, one so bad she needed replacements from a donor. She has also been unable to compete in some competitions in the game and is looking at the end of her athletic career. Then, there's Raven, who got her foot injured the very next week, when she made the foolish choice of puttering around the house in just socks, slipped on the spiral staircase, and sliced open her left foot, requiring five stitches and causing enough bloodshed that she had to throw away her socks. Alex later comments during Week 7 that the spiral staircase is "death" after being forced to lug heavy camping equipment around in the middle of a punishment. - Christmas' injury was so bad, she had ten broken bones, some of them distended out from the bottom of her foot; she even required an entirely new bone from a donor to replace a bone damaged beyond saving. - The infamous 'Fight Night' from BBUK 2004. UK viewers found this very unnerving to watch, they even had to call the police. - The cute/creepy robot from Big Brother 20 is very creepy. - Good Lord Almighty, the first Veto Competition in BB 20 does something no other season in the US has done... it uses SNAKES. Real, actual, live snakes. Everybody panics. There's also the use of shock collars on the arms and legs that will probably have superfans reconsidering their desires to be on the show. - A few times, rats and mice have actually gotten into the house. - Sam Bledsoe, on a very off week when she's down in the dumps and emotionally troubled, explaining to JC what "stomp a mud hole" infers, and tells him it's a very bad thing and something you shouldn't repeat. She compares it to a curb-stomp, which JC also doesn't know. By this point in the game, Sam is exhausted and very pissed and not handling things well, and gives a very clinical description of it. The conversation takes a hard turn into incredibly disturbed territory as Sam casually explains the gory details of what a curb-stomp is, and Tyler's eyes go wide with shock. JC asks if this would normally kill someone, and Sam is hesitant to answer and dismisses any perceived approval of such violence. However, she does heavily imply that a curb-stomp can easily prove to be fatal. Then, and no longer wanting to talk about this subject, Sam walks out of the room, as if nothing was wrong and the conversation never happened. It leaves JC and Tyler speechless for several seconds. JC: (to Tyler) ...That was terrifying. - "Evel" Dick Donato managed to hijack Season 22 All-Stars by posting on Twitter for people to out Nicole and Cody as puppetmasters. Then, midway through Christmas's HOH reign, a person deemed the "Wall Yeller" shouts into the backyard, "NICOLE AND CODY ARE PLAYING EVERYBODY!! NICOLE AND CODY ARE PLAYING EVERYBODY!!" Then, the production makes the live feeds go dark and pit the house on indoor lockdown. It also happened on BB 16, but this time actually scared some players. And worse, it proves ex-players can ransack the game with a simply touch of their fingers on a social media platform.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigBrother
Bennett the Sage / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "WHICH EYE!?" - Most of "Top Ten Most WTF Music Videos". - His description of how it would feel to be Ishtar when she first woke in Hibiki's apartment in Macross II is this, especially when he starts emphasizing the sexual assault undertones. - At the end of his Devilman review, he holds up an uncut copy of Violence Jack before deciding not to review it, presumably because of too much Gorn and squick. He is shown throwing the videotape off of a bridge in disgust, but there's still about a minute or so left in the video... \|\|We are then treated to footage of a small chest in a dark room prying itself open, glowing red light shining through the cracks while horrible screams are heard in the background. The chest opens and the words " VIOLENCE IS COMING" in red, bloody font appear on the screen\|\|. Perhaps he would end up reviewing it, after all... - And later we find out that MarzGurl apparently watched it... and the results ain't pretty... - When Bennett's eyes are replaced by mouths in the Apocalypse Zero review, similar to the Corthinian's...and then the mouths begin chanting "Cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!" - In the same review, the " Violence Is Coming" breakaway. - In the Violence Jack review: - Bennett and Mark the Engineer decide to try doing the review as if Bennett is slowly going insane. Knowing that this is just an attempt doesn't make it any less creepy, especially when the video cuts to Bennett cutting into a doll... which bleeds. - Bennett's hallucination of Mark, who speaks like he's possessed, and his later hallucination of his friend Gabe. - In the Love Hina Spring Movie, Bennett makes a comment about subs vs dubs before just sitting there for a few minutes... and then, suddenly, the screen has a red tint and Sage is leaning in towards the camera with scary eyes and fangs. Jesus... It's worse when you're not expecting it, though the stinger softens the blow a bit... - In the Ninja Resurrection review, Bennett starts getting nosebleeds - ala Bioshock Infinite - which get more and more severe as the review goes on while a high-pitched whine is heard. Then he starts bleeding out of his mouth... - The Sins of the Sisters review has three Jump Scare scenes featuring the "bloody, empty eye socket" effect from Event Horizon (the page pic is the first). The first two are played for horror in-universe as manifestations of Sage's repressed guilt for putting out Gabe's left eye, but the third comes out of nowhere. - In the Speed Racer review, The Nostalgia Critic has not only kidnapped Sage, but has a bit of a twitchy eye as well. He also mentions casually smothering Malcolm with chloroform when he gets mouthy. - The entity/organization which delivers the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure discs to Sage is unnerving in its simplicity. Its approach is heralded by a low rumbling sound effect, but the packages it brings silently pop in and out of existence. That, combined with the polite but firm note which the "advocates" write to Sage, gives the whole scene a sinister feel even though nothing outwardly malicious is happening.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BennettTheSage
Big City Greens / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Although HIYA, CRICKET!!! WHO'S THE DUMMY NOW???!!! Big City Greens is considerably more light-hearted than even some of its contemporary Disney Channel shows, at times the show will unexpectedly introduce themes that are rather horrifying and dark, be it confined to the kids' vivid imaginations or actual trouble the characters get into around town. ## Season 1: ## Season 2: - Crickets "If I cant have Christmas" song from "Green Christmas" qualifies. While some of the stuff he does is kind of funny and/or harmless (Like sneaking hot sauce into hot chocolate), others are terrifying (Like stabbing snowmen and setting up tinsel to make it look like theyre bleeding out) not to mention that this all leads to the end of the song where Cricket overflows a fountain and it looks like blood and freezes in a horrifying position, all while Tilly is visibly scared. - "Reckoning Ball": - Chip nearly destroying the Green House with a wrecking ball. Keys manages to stop him. - The ending scene where Chip assumes full control of Wholesome Foods and begins to exact his complete revenge on the Greens with no interference from his retired father, complete with a full-on Nightmare Face in the mirror and ominous music. A Nightmare Face including a platinum filling. - In "Impopstar," Cricket gets kidnapped by Amaryllis, Zillon Brax's Stalker with a Crush, and tries to keep him trapped inside a warehouse filled with headless mannequins. Where are the heads? Amaryllis used them to build her Stalker Shrine. Amaryllis: Now, now, Zillon... SAVE YOUR PIPES FOR THE DUET!!! - Cricket's prank in "Shark Objects" goes horribly wrong when a lifeguard tries to kill him with a harpoon gun; it is to the point when Nancy gives herself a talking-to does Cricket realize the consequences, causing him to break down in tears and vow never to do it again. - "Heat Beaters" has two cases of dangerous temperature extremes, with Cricket and Remy roasting in the Heat Wave and the other Greens freezing due to a malfunctioning air conditioner. The boys were uncomfortably close to dying of heat stroke by the time Officer Keys saved the day. - "Flimflammed": The scene where Gloria furiously parts the fence panels apart looks as if it came from a horror film. Just imagine yourself in Cricket's place, where a furious person with bulging eyes and open teeth trying to catch you, as if they want to kill you. How can you NOT be scared? Gloria: Come here, Cricket! - The librarians from "Quiet Please". They look less like humans and more like a cross between a snake and Ms. Bitters from Invader Zim. - Cricket completely forgetting he's supposed to be quiet once he enjoys the graphic novel he unknowingly stumbles across, alerting the librarian; she begins to close in on him, and he doesn't even look up once or even notice her shadow. If it weren't for Bill intervening, Cricket would've been mauled and banned without even knowing it. - Chip's plan in "Chipwrecked" is finally falling into place. First, he buys Big Coffee, effectively putting Cricket and Gloria out of a job and he plans on expanding Wholesome Foods by dismantling the Greens' farmhouse. Cricket tried to stop him, but one of his new bouncers holds him back by an arm and tosses him away. And just to rub it in Cricket's face, he tells him that if he hadn't followed his "advice" to "set him straight" and get into his father's good graces, none of this would have happened. Man, does Cricket totally feel sorry about this. - Even before that, there's the setup of his plan. His father, not knowing what's really going on, gives Chip a call and he tells him he has a problem. His father responds by telling him to use the company to solve any problem. This gives Chip an idea. The first thing he does once he "gets his act together"? He fires his two henchmen and replaces them with a group of intimidating bouncers. - The ominous Ethereal Choir played over the background score in the final scene. It completely sets the mood for the Greens' worry. - The very last words of the episode, which shows Chip has won and the Greens are awaiting the inevitable if they don't fight back: Cricket: What the heck is going on?!? Chip can't win! It can't end like this! Tilly: And yet... it just... did. (Cut to To Be Continued as we hear a Sting and the choir sounds out) - And then the end credits roll — not set to the cheerful, upbeat "Do It All Again" with scenes of the Greens' house and their surroundings — but with a dark, ominous theme with a still shot of the now-closed Big Coffee that night. The image gets progressively darker as the credits near the end, followed by a Scare Chord as we cut to the end logo. - This all gets even worse as similar to "Reckoning Ball"'s situation, this was the last new episode of the year, with the continuation airing some time in January or February, leaving many fans shaking in fear at the fate of the Greens. - "Chipocalypse Now": - Not only is the Greens' house is to be demolished, but Big Coffee and the Elkins Building as well. The expressions on all five Greens' faces says it all. - Chip ominously saying Cricket's "bingo-bango." - When Chip's plans start falling apart and his true nature is revealed to all of Big City, resulting in him being banned from the city for good, he finally snaps and tries to kill Cricket and his family with a helicopter. - All of the Greens plus their neighbors' sheer look of horror during the above counts, just before Cricket realizes a Fatal Flaw leading to his Pre Ass Kicking One Liner. - Speaking of the neighbors, they aren't that far behind the Greens themselves. A lot of blood could've been shed. In case you don't know, among the neighbors there were children in the group (Andromeda and Kiki), animals (Daisy, Anoush), and old people (Mr. Grigorian). - And to think, Officer Keys does not do anything about it, and lets Chip go, despite the fact he would've gotten him in even more trouble for attempting murder, like he said in "Reckoning Ball". - For even more points, Mr. Whistler never showed up. How would he feel if he saw his son completely defied him, on LIVE TV?? - "Bleeped": Bill going "full-dad mode" on the children to force them to stop cussing, using an even scarier version of his Comical Angry Face combined with Blank White Eyes, along with a Compelling Voice. - "Sellouts" has Tilly try to form a "personal connection" with a woman named Angela, by staring and making eye contact for increased amounts of time. It is enough to even put her in a trance, complete with a hypnotic background and eerie music.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigCityGreens
Beyond the Black Rainbow / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Several songs on the movie soundtrack sound sinister. "1966: Let The New Age Of Enlightenment Begin" consists largely of an ominous Drone of Dread. - The sheer amount of control that Barry has over Elena is chilling. He keeps her prisoner in the Arboria Institute's lower levels, monitors her through video cameras, denies her any mental stimulation aside from a small TV set in her cell, suppressed her power through a pyramid device that renders her catatonic, plays sick games meant to manipulate her emotions, and clearly has a sexual interest in her. - Barry doesn't actually lose his shit until the third act, but from the beginning it's clear that he's basically a bomb waiting to go off. - There's also the implication that the reason the facility is so empty is that he killed most of the staff long ago. - The photo of Elena's mother is black-and-white, inky, and ghostly. She looks less like a person and more like an apparition. - Margot finding Barry's notes about Elena, which are filled with some rather... explicit drawings that raise some troubling questions about the nature of his obsession with her. The fact that he has explicit drawings of a minor whom he is keeping captive make the notebook drawings worse. - One of the notebook drawings depicts a human with black tendrils coming off of their head, connecting to several other humans who have black tendrils coming off of their heads. The drawing might represent a hierarchy of mind control, suggesting that Barry wants to use Elena to mind control others on his behalf. - The flashback to Barry's trip. The whole thing is visually an homage to Begotten, which should be enough to qualify as Nightmare Fuel in and of itself, but the actual trip is downright horrifying. It's essentially a series of hellish images, including (1) Barry made out of weathered, porous stone, with a strange light glowing within him, (2) billowing, garishly colored clouds and water, (3) Barry's head liquifying in a lurid black and pink hellscape, (4) otherworldly smoke pouring into Barry's skull, and (5) Barry as a man made out of glowing red amber or glowing hot metal, as if he is being reforged into a new being. - After he reemerges from the mysterious vat that showed him the images, he vomits up copious amounts of the black liquid and whimpers in fear and pain. He then proceeds to bite into Anna (Elena's mother) like her throat is an apple. He does this while coated from head to toe in a strange black liquid, which makes things even creepier. - Bonus footage on the DVD shows a wax humanoid head that slowly melts from exposure to a stream of hot air from above. The filmmakers may have intended to include this and other disturbing images in Barry's psychedelic experience! - After Barry's 1966 psychotic break and Anna's murder, Dr. Arboria decided that it would be a great idea to submerge his infant daughter in the same black liquid that corrupted Barry. Viewers are mercifully spared the actual image of Arboria doing so, but the thought of him submerging her in the ooze, and of baby Elena entering the same otherworldly hellscape that Barry did, is horrifying. - Barry killing his wife by crushing her eyes with his thumbs. - Elena crushing Margot's head using her telekinetic powers. - Elena coming across a mutated man in a blood-stained straightjacket. The man looks and acts like a ravenous zombie, and was probably one of the Arboria Institute's experiments gone horribly wrong. - The Sentionaut has a tall, humanoid body and the face of an infant. Like the creature in the straightjacket, he was probably the result of Arboria Institute experimentation gone wrong.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeyondTheBlackRainbow
Berserk / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Can we just cut the middle-man out and say 95% of this series is pure Nightmare Fuel? No? Then we're going to be here for a while. As one of the goriest, if not the goriest seinen manga of all time, Berserk has more than its fair share of everyday terror, suffocating trauma, realism-induced horror and demonic horror under its belt in over thirty years of its run-time. No spoiler tags will be used on this page. Examples are sorted in order of appearance. - In general, the series' former artist and writer, Kentaro Miura, drew some of the most terrifying (and disgusting) demons and monsters ever to grace the pages of manga, capable of rivalling the creations of similar artists such as Go Nagai and Junji Ito alike. Furthermore, by the time you get far enough, assuming that the villains commit atrocious acts of murder, rape, and torture is the norm. The true dread comes in seeing the incredibly fucked up thing they do that makes them different from the other villains. - No page on Berserk's horrors can begin without mention of the way that Apostles are made. It starts when somebody that possesses a Behelit hits a moment of absolute despair, where they would do absolutely anything to escape their situation. When this happens, the Behelit, a creepy little egglike thing that has human facial features scattered randomly all over its surface, rearranges those features into a human face. Which then proceeds to bleed from the eyes and start screaming. Then the angles in whichever area this happened start changing and the Godhand, the Big Bads of the series, show up to make the Apostle-to-be an offer. The offer involves sacrificing whoever the Apostle-to-be loves most in order to be reborn as a demon, which is a way of having the Apostle open themself up to evil. Since Behelits invariably activate at the Apostle-to-be's lowest point, that means that this offer sounds very much attractive, particularly if the friend or loved one to be sacrificed was the cause of the Despair Event Horizon in the first place. If the Apostle-to-be accepts the offer, the Godhand mark the person with the Brand of Sacrifice and what happens next is often a truly horrific death as demonic entities from the Vortex eat them alive. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also mentioned that anyone sacrificed in the creation of an Apostle, in addition to suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death, also has their soul condemned to Hell for all eternity, making this a true crossing of the Moral Event Horizon. - And things only get worse when it comes time for a new Godhand to be born, which happens once every 216 years during what is known as the Great Eclipse. A very special Behelit makes its way into the hands of a very special individual. This individual, a charismatic leader of men, achieves great things during their lifetime, but then things start going straight to hell for them, culminating on the day of the Eclipse when they lose all hope and activate the Crimson Behelit. When the Behelit activates, the bearer and everyone currently present with them is transported to the Nexus, a nightmarishly surreal place that to mortal eyes is a scene right out of hell itself. Instead of just one or two victims like is the case with Apostles, the Godhand demand that everyone that the Godhand-to-be has led be marked for sacrifice in order to become one of their own — and instead of just a good number of demonic monsters, nearly every Apostle in the entire Berserk universe has gathered for the feast, and comes out of the woodwork to eat everyone alive once everyone is marked for sacrifice. - For a good deal of the series early on, before Guts found his new True Companions, Guts was simply a ferocious warrior with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance. One of the more unnerving aspects of the series was how easily Guts could be seen as an even more horrifying creature than the Apostles he killed. Some of the Apostles are shown to be veritable Macbeths as far as their motivations and origins go. Examples follow in the respective sections. - The Apostles' mere form and appearance will give you nightmares, and during the eclipse, the most bizarre and horrific ones come to town. At first, the Apostles who first transform during the eclipse don't look that much different to ones seen before, but as the spectacle continues, more mutilated and disturbing ones appear, looking like deformed genitals with gaping maws, Vagina Dentata and unbelievably hideous faces. As for the Godhand themelves, Void has his lips peeled back to show off his teeth and gums and his eyelids are sewn shut. Let's not forget his exposed brain... - Kentaro Miura drew from the Hellraiser franchise when designing the Godhand, and it's not hard to see Clive Barker's influence in the way that they are called and the way that their Apostles are made. - Slan pulled a textbook example of Fan Disservice when she manifested herself in a mound of entrails from the trolls that Guts has just slaughtered in the Qliphoth to confront Guts and injure him. The most — physically — attractive of the Godhands turns into pure Squick. - In addition to their already horrific abilities, some Apostles have the ability to turn humans into monsters like them. These Apostle Spawn, while of lesser power than their makers, are still more than a match for most humans they face, fully capable of tearing people apart. - And to make matters worse, there's also the evil spirits that hound Guts every night, which try to claim him for their own and like to possess trees, corpses, animals, and even susceptible people to try to kill him or eat him alive. And when he sleeps, sometimes he'll be attacked by an Incubus that causes nightmares to feed on his fear (as if he doesn't have enough of them already). - All the Eye Scream that happens with disturbing regularity. - Special mention goes to Casca stabbing one of her would-be rapists in the eye with a stick and then the same guy gets his remaining eye gouged by one of Judeau's knives a moment later (only in the anime). Of course, the guy had it coming, but still. shudder - A more sentimental case - and therefore, a bit more horrifying - is what happened to Guts. After being dog-piled by a shitload of demons before he was mere feet away from saving Casca from being raped by Femto, the demon god that used to be Griffith, Guts is still desperately trying to get to Casca who, with her last sane thoughts, is now begging Guts to not look at her being humiliated, as Femto is pretty much forcing the two to look at each other at this point. Even with one arm missing and nothing but a bloody stump left, Guts tries to push himself up to try and get to her, which actually causes one of the demon's claws to drive itself into Guts' eye as it looks at its last sight of Casca's rape. - What's worse is that Guts remaining eye gets repeatedly threatened in the following arcs. - Chakrams can cut eyes in half... - One of Bishop Mozgus' disciples uses red-hot pliers to pull eyeballs out... - Not to mention that according to the manga, a good solid punch to the head will make your eyes pop right out. Every time. - Also, Miura seemed to have a fondness of drawing people's heads getting cut in half, right at eye level. Graphically. - And getting stabbed or shot in the eye with an arrow takes the eyeball with it. - Also, in the very beginning when Guts is fighting the Baron of Koka Castle. First, the Baron loses his left eye when Guts blows his head in half, then he loses his right eye when Guts shoots it with his crossbow during wholly unnecessary but well-deserved torture. - Serpico stabs a kelpie through the head, and then next page we see its left eyeball dangling from the socket. Lovely. - The Idea of Evil is just horrible on a whole philosophical level. There is no God but Evil, and humans subconsciously created it to have something to blame for their suffering, which without it is utterly meaningless, and considering the state of this world, it isn't going to leave . anytime soon - The Beast of Darkness - this thing is just pure evil that cares about nothing but to kill and maim and wants Guts all for himself. His scariest moment is probably when he takes over Guts and attempts to rape Casca, while giving a pretty damn ugly Breaking Speech. It was clearly looking like the Beast plans to make Guts eat her once he's done with raping. All to make Guts his again. - When Guts smiles, it is usually a creepy Slasher Smile. This should be your signal to run; he's usually in a blood-spilling mood when he's got that grin. This one in particular is pretty unnerving.◊ - All those rapes and attempted rapes. This series has so many rapes in them that it's not even funny. - What's especially disturbing about the rapes and sexual assaults in the story is that they're treated realistically. Most of it is done by characters who are human, (or were human) and as we've seen with Casca's rape at Femto's hands and Guts' rape at Donovan's hands the victims all suffer very realistic repercussions. - After Casca's rape she is seen taking a Shower of Angst under a waterfall fully clothed. At first glance, she looks totally serene and normal (granted you actually ignore what had just happened to her in the previous chapters), but when she turns around to face Guts - you know that something is very, very off. - The nature of insanity is always disturbing to think about, especially in Casca's case. She wasn't just reduced to the mindset of a child, but to something less than a child. A lot of fans like the theory that the real Casca is in a dreamworld where the Eclipse never happened and she has a family with Guts and she's too content to leave, but something from the Dreamcast video game brings that theory into question. What if the real Casca is actually in a nightmare world and she isn't allowed to leave? And she has been insane for over two years. - As of chapter 348, neither theory is fully true, though the And I Must Scream one is probably closer. She's trapped in, essentially, a coma dream that mirrors the world around her through metaphor, where a hellhound version of Guts drags around a coffin containing a broken doll (representing her) and protects it from monsters. - Even after she gets her memories back, Casca still suffers from the trauma from her experience in The Eclipse. - Farnese nearly getting raped by a demon possessed horse. - The eyes are the windows to the soul... and may account for Griffith's lack of one later. - There's just something very creepy about Griffith's eyes (especially in the anime) even before he crossed the Despair Event Horizon and became Femto. They become even more creepy after he loses the duel to Guts and has a Heroic BSoD which led to him sleeping with the princess out of depression. His Dull Eyes of Unhappiness are insanely creepy, punctuated with a lightning strike in the background. - In the last two chapters of volume 8, Griffith's eyes progressively get creepier and creepier as you turn each page, as if the moment Guts made the announcement that he wanted to leave, Griffith's sanity just started slipping. - Then, there's the look in Femto's eyes as he's raping Casca, also the fact that he stares into Guts' eyes the whole time he's doing that to her. - You know what's even more creepy? We saw some warning signs before the Eclipse when Griffith was giving them the SAME STARE when it became clear to him that Guts and Casca were a couple who were in love, and not just the blind admiration that people gave to him, which probably helped to set him off. - And now that Griffith has reincarnated himself into the physical world, he retains his demonic Femto eyes while in human form. And it's freaky to say that his eyes are even scarier in his human form than in his demonic form because it always looks like he's giving you the Kubrick Stare while in his benevolent facade. - It is established in the very first episode that children are not safe in Berserk, which counted a baby among the victims of the Baron's evil rampage toward the chapter's end before the throwdown with Guts. Plus the women and children who were being carted off in the wagon bound for Koka Castle, presumably to be eaten by the Baron, that Guts passed when he first entered the village. - Vargas from the Guardians of Desire arc, who was horrifically disfigured as a result of having pieces of him cut off and eaten by the Count — and this was after he was Forced to Watch his wife and son tortured and then eaten alive right before his eyes. It doesn't help that this is a situation Guts is rather intimately familiar with thanks to the Eclipse. - Captain Zondark receiving his powers from the Count by having a huge caterpillar-like thing with the Count's face forced down his throat. This is the first time we see a human turned into an Apostle Spawn, and it's appropriately horrific. - The Count returned from an expedition against heretics to find his wife in the midst of a pagan orgy, was driven mad with the pain of the betrayal, and used the Behelit to take away the emotions that hurt him so much. Even then, he still showed sorrow (as an Apostle, mind you) over the way that his daughter treated him differently, even though he had gone to great lengths to keep the cause of her mother's death a secret. In the end, he allows himself to be sucked into hell by many of the people he'd killed rather than sacrifice his daughter. Guts, inversely, not only killed an elderly priest to use as a decoy against the Count, but even used the Count's innocent daughter Theresia as a human shield to halt his attack...before proceeding to blast him with his Arm Cannon, brutally decapitate him, and then torture him further because the Count is still alive after all of this...all right in front of Theresia. He actually dragged the Count over to her so she'd have a front row seat. - Guts' horrifying childhood and family situation, which scarred him for life. Guts was adopted by Sys, Gambino's lover, after she miscarried, despite superstition that states that you shouldn't pick up a child from a dead body. Several years after Guts was taken in, Sys died of the plague, which was tragic enough because it left Guts without a significant mother figure in the years to come, but it also hardened the heart of Gambino against Guts, whom he felt should have died instead. Despite Guts looking up to him and doing everything in his power to make the mercenary leader proud, including bringing him his part of the pay for every battle, Gambino hated Guts so much that at one point, he sold the poor kid to one of his men, a creepy pederast by the name of Donovan, for three silver coins, which leads to Guts being raped despite his best efforts to fight the big man off. Things between Guts and Gambino come to a head when Gambino, after losing his leg to a cannonball, gets drunk one night, comes into Guts's tent, and tries to murder him, forcing Guts to kill him in self defense. - Casca's past isn't much better—she lost her village at an early age and was sold to a noble who wanted a new serving girl, only for it to transpire that he wanted her for sex. Just as he's about to rape her, though, Griffith shows up. Instead of killing her would-be rapist, however, he makes her do it instead. - Griffith's past wasn't much of a walk in the park either, as Ubik reveals just before goading him into crossing the Moral Event Horizon. He felt the burden of all the followers who had died to help him make it so far, and decided to sell his body to Lord Gennon for a night so that he could make money without anyone having to die. Afterwards Casca finds him washing himself in the river, complete with a wonderfully disturbing scene of him angsting while clawing at his arms until they bleed when washing himself. He only stops when Casca tearfully embraces him from behind. - Griffith had already been established as a vicious Manipulative Bastard, but his one and only trip into Magnificent Bastard territory comes after he just singlehandedly won the Hundred Year War. A group of disgruntled nobles led by the queen are planning to poison Griffith, then blame it on a rival kingdom that Griffith has just defeated. Griffith seemingly falls for it, but later, the conspirators realize that the castle they are in is burning. The queen rushes to a balcony to see what is going on, only to find Griffith, alive and well, standing outside the castle. Griffith calmly explains to the queen and her fellow conspirators that they are the losers, and death on the battlefield does not distinguish between nobility and commoners before the last of his enemies burn alive. Foss, a minister who had taken part in the conspiracy and had acted as Griffith's mole after Griffith kidnapped his daughter, finds himself shaking after the fact. Not because he's worried that he will be executed if anyone ever finds out, but because Griffith is just that scary. Also a Moment of Awesome for Griffith. - Zodd's introduction into the story, with Rickert detailing that he's an apparent immortal that's been slaughtering for 50 years, Guts goes into the fort, wanting to make sure his men are alright and if they're killed, avenge them. He enters the fort to see Zodd having left his men in bloodied piles and several impaled on his sword- an eight foot tall ogre looking man with vaguely feline features and an off feeling. Guts is put immediately on the back foot against this guy, until he manages to injure him. Zodd not only treats the blow as nothing, but reveals he's actually at least a 300 year old demon horned lion minotaur that not only can repair himself, but generate wings that made Guts frightened for the first time since he was a boy. Before Wyald and the Eclipse, Zodd was a nightmarish anomaly to the realistic medieval story he was involved in before the infamous terrifying shift to fantasy that is the Eclipse. - And what's more, the only reason Zodd doesn't kill Griffith during that first battle? It's because Zodd sees and recognizes Griffith's Crimson Behelit, and knows that this guy will be one of his masters someday. Since Guts and company (and the audience if they haven't seen the Black Swordsman arc before this, such as with many watchers of the Golden Age Arc trilogy, which leaves out the Black Swordsman arc at the very beginning of the manga) don't know what the hell is going on, the warning that Zodd gives is food for very troubling thought. - The relationship between the King of Midland and his beloved daughter Charlotte looks innocent enough, but turns out to be the kindling of disaster. She looks identical to her mother, the Queen, which caused some problems. He ends up trying to rape her, after his rage that Griffith slept with her. The idea of this is very disturbing, and definitely requires a ton of Brain Bleach. This alienates her from her father to the point of disowning him and refusing to see him when he's on his deathbed, his health having seriously deteriorated because of the guilt of what he had done and his obsession with destroying Griffith. - In fact, Charlotte's time in this arc is very emotionally intense for a first appearance. Put yourself in her shoes - you're a shy, virginal, romantic princess with no friends other than your maid, and your mother died when you were young, leaving you with your uptight father and ice-cold stepmother. You meet a handsome and charismatic knight (possibly the first man you've been allowed to spend time in relative privacy with), and during your second meeting, he's almost killed while protecting you. Said knight then disappears with no communication for around six months, before randomly appearing at your bedroom window dripping wet and proceeding to rather forcefully take both your first kiss and your virginity (an act that it is implied Charlotte is partly blamed for) with virtually no aftercare or communication. He is then arrested and tortured, nobody will tell you where he is or what happened to him, and you wake up from a drug-induced sleep to see your own father trying to rape you, which you most likely won't be able to talk to anyone about as it could bring your entire life down. - As the Hawks go into the Tower of Rebirth to rescue Griffith, Princess Charlotte mentions how Emperor Gaiseric, the founder of the kingdom, was cast down along with his great city by four angels sent by God, and that the remains of the great city could be found in the deepest part of the Tower. And then we get a good look down below when Casca accidentally drops her torch down there, where it lands in a pile of the skeletons of the ancient dead. All of whom have the Brand of Sacrifice burned into their skulls. Just what the hell happened all those years ago, and which of the God Hand ascended from this event? - Wyald and his Black Dog Knights take the Sociopathic Soldier trope to nightmarish extremes. The group is shown in graphic detail to rape, murder, and destroy entire villages before sticking the dismembered body parts of the dead and raped on their spears to parade around in front of their enemies. They did this so many times to enemies and nobles alike, the King of Midland himself had them banished to the country's borders because they were too dangerous to be around but too strong to be rid of. - Worst of the group is the leader Wyald who was infamously shown to rape and kill a young girl and her family after asking her for directions. The girl was later shown skewered to pieces and paraded with her dead family members before her head was used by Wyald as a projectile against Guts. Worse off is that Wyald's men literally rape, kill, and pillage out of sheer terror of the consequences inflicted by Wyald if they do not, speaking volumes of how horrible the man really is. - Wyald himself has several frightening aspects from his beliefs to what he actually is. He is introduced smashing the head of one of the concubines he's sleeping with. He managed to kill the previous contender for the title through an indescribable means in spite of having his hands bound at the time. His face is distorted in a way that is an unholy mix of ape and man, giving off the impression that he isn't entirely human, given that he later blocks Guts' sword with his teeth with no repercussions, which is presented as something very unnatural. And his philosophy is excitement and enjoyment, translating into doing every depraved thing imaginable to get a rush. It all comes to a head when he's reveals himself to be an Apostle like Zodd, but lacking the morales and honor of the latter as he undergoes his transformation into a giant three eyed, white furred ape demon with with his original head on the top and a large lower mouth with a long tongue that is explicitly his penis, which he uses to almost rape Casca. He then reveals the extent of Griffith's injuries to his band to demoralize them before Zodd appears to thankfully kill him for his rampant acts of hedonistic evil that almost endangered the fifth God Hand. His appearance marks the shift from the human evils they've been used to fighting to the truly inhuman nightmares of the Apostles. There are very good reasons why he never appears in an animated adaptation and only in a video game and even then he's stripped of many of his manga traits in order to make him even removably accessible to a wider audience due to how depraved he actually is. - Guts almost strangles Casca when he has a flashback to what Donovan did to him while he and Casca are having Their First Time. Imagine how frightening it would be if your true love suddenly put his hands around your throat and tried to squeeze the life out of you, without warning or explanation. Imagine the distress and fear of yourself you would feel if you suddenly lost control of yourself, and came to to find that you had just violently attacked the person you care about most in the world! - It gets better. Guts had that flashback because when he was doing Casca from behind, the position that he had her in was quite reminiscent of the position that Donovan had him in — meaning in short that he was seeing things through the eyes of his rapist. This sparked some very deep self-loathing in Guts, such that he was trying to strangle what he thought was his past-self to death before he snapped out of it and the truth of what he was actually doing and who he was actually doing it to was revealed. - As he endures a year of torture, Griffith is unable to move or talk on his own, and is tormented all the time by thoughts of Guts. The reveal of his tortured, mutilated and emaciated body when Guts and the Hawks come to rescue him after all that time is nothing short of horrific. The first panel where they get a good look at him shows a big chunk of skin missing from his back, and when they examine him further, he's missing several more patches of skin, with some wounds even showing bone. That's horrible, but when you see Guts take off his mask, gasp in horror, and put it back on? Nothing is scarier indeed. The torturer gloats about how he cut the tendons in his wrists and ankles, and cut his tongue out as a souvenir. Guts then proceeds to tear out the torturer's tongue on seeing him wearing Griffith's tongue around his neck - "I'm not letting you go to Hell two-tongued!". The fact that this is a moment of Tranquil Fury from a man more known for other traits really makes you realise just how unbelievably furious Guts is at that point. - The Berserk anime movie art staff drew a sketch of Griffith's face post-torture◊. At first glance, he looks like he's been badly burnt. Look closer, and you'll realise it's actually exposed muscle. - Looking at Griffith after he has been rescued from the torture. His body is completely emaciated, and he has absolutely no strength to do anything of his own. Swinging a sword is impossible, meaning he cannot fight anymore. The guy can barely even sit up without any help. That level of helplessness is utterly terrifying. No wonder Griffith attempted to kill himself, among other reasons. - Rickert's group were all waiting excitedly for Griffith's return. Unfortunately, Rosine and the Count had other plans, and horrifically slaughtered pretty much everyone except poor Rickert, who would have been slaughtered too if not for the intervention of the Skull Knight. - The arc of Guts, Griffith, and Casca's relationships with each other. After meeting and being defeated by Griffith, Guts moves up in the ranks of Griffith's mercenary band, eventually becoming a commander of raiders, and the two of them form a bond that is very much like brotherhood (or if you're that way inclined, more than that). Meanwhile, Casca has been Griffith's trusted Number Two ever since Griffith saved her from being raped as a little girl. Griffith gradually becomes obsessed with Guts, such that when Guts decides to leave the Hawks after deciding that he's not going to be a part of Griffith's dream, Griffith's thoughts during the resultant duel, about how he would not let him go, are very Yandere-ish. And after being defeated, he goes to see Princess Charlotte and proceeds to bang her, which he mainly did as a rebound, which gets him thrown into the Tower of Rebirth to be put to the torture. By the time Guts and Casca have rescued Griffith (and fallen in love), Griffith has come to hate him, and the focus of his obsession gradually moves to Casca. But when he finds out that Guts and Casca are in a relationship and are thinking about leaving him behind...oh boy, does he lose it. And to make things even worse, this is the point where Griffith finds his Behelit again, triggering the events of the Eclipse, which are better covered elsewhere on this page. No one, especially not Guts and Casca, walks out of the horror that follows unscathed. - And now, it's time to experience what's arguably the most nightmarish moment in Berserk - (volumes 12-13, The Eclipse. Berserk (1997) episodes 23-25, and Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - Advent, respectively): - When the Eclipse goes down in the series proper, it marks a crucial turning point, where things turn from grim and gritty medieval fantasy into straight up horror as Griffith does a truly malignant FaceHeel Turn, accepts the offer to become a Godhand, and marks everyone he's led, including Guts and Casca, with the infamous Brand of Sacrifice. Things go From Bad to Worse for them and the rest of the Hawks very, very quickly. Many people we had come to like get killed very horrifically, many of them being eaten alive until only Guts and Casca are left. When Casca's sword breaks at the very worst possible time, she learns that the demons have other plans in mind for her, in addition to being eaten. Guts in the meantime has made a very badass showing against a whole mess of demons, but when he sees Casca naked and in the hands of the demons, Guts tries to save her, only for a demon by the name of Borkoff to clamp his massive jaws around Guts's left arm before he can reach her. And then Griffith, reborn as the fifth member of the Godhand, Femto, flies down right in front of him, brings Casca down to him, and then starts having his way with her — which is made even worse due to the fact that, because the Brand causes serious pain when its bearer is in the presence of a demon, and she's as close as anyone can possibly get to a member of the Godhand, she is in complete and utter agony all the while that Femto is doing this to her. Guts tries to kill Borkoff with his shortsword but breaks it on his impenetrable hide and is forced to chisel off the arm with what's left of the sword in order to get free. But when he finally gets free and goes after Femto? He is dogpiled by a whole mess of demons that claw out his right eye and is Forced to Watch as Griffith, who used to be his best friend, brutally rapes the woman he loves to insanity, right in front of him and purely out of spite, and staring straight into Guts's eyes the entire time he's doing this to her, without Guts being able to do a thing about it. - The way it starts and gradually builds to it is sheer horror at its finest. As Griffith's bungled suicide attempt fails, a blood red sun slowly overlaps with a dark moon as completely naked people slowly gather in the distance. They don't seem dangerous at first, except they're subtly exaggerated in terms of facial features and there's an ominous danger about them in spite of not doing anything. Then, they they turn into the Apostle forms- far more disturbing than Zodd, Wyald, the Baron, and the Count, looking appropriately like legions of hell itself coming straight out of a nightmare and Guts outside describes the sight as visual despair. It's followed by a nerve-wrecking tension leading to the massacre- not how the Band will escape, but when the massacre will inevitably occur. And when the Brands start flying, everyone gets marked, and Griffith gives the go-ahead, those Apostles lunge at them with full force, devouring the helpless Band. - The Behelit's misshaped face upon Guts touching him after contacting Griffith's blood, finally arranges into a natural human face as it then screams complete with crying tears of blood, causing the entire area to shift into a an entire area and sky composed of red, gigantic human faces. - The movie ramps up the Behelit scare by having a repeating shot of a closeup of the Behelit screaming face as the interior of the mouth reveals another Behelit to repeat the cycle with glowing eyes. - The movie adds another terror of ominousness, as unlike the original anime, it starts off as an eerie purple until Griffith commits to the sacrifice, the area changes red to fit the nightmarish mood. - How Corkus dies is dark. He goes insane from Griffith sacrificing his men, his fellows being eaten alive by Apostles and believes that everything from Midland to the Eclipse has all been a dream. He then sees an alluring beautiful woman in the middle of the madness, but he's fully aware it's an Apostle disguising itself to eat him, hugs her anyway and whimpers how his death will be horrible as the Apostle reveals her true form. He's that damaged at that point]]. - Guts finds Gaston in the middle of the carnage, his seeming survival means that he's alright at least, relieving Guts of any worry. However, it turns out Gaston has already been eaten alive from the inside out as a small Apostle bursts out of Gaston's head. Guts turns around to see the other Apostles showing the dismembered corpses of his comrades out of sadism. It's little wonder Guts wants to hunt down every Apostle after this point after the undignified treatment of his colleagues. - The Count playing with Pippin's hollowed out corpse just to torment Guts. There's no wonder when Guts deals with him later (in chronological order), he stoops right below his level. - Casca's ordeal alone crosses SO MANY LINES. As if being raped and being in excruciating pain because of her brand is bad enough, but it's the way that Femto is raping her that deems the act as so heinously vile. Femto does some truly horrific things to Casca that can only be described as pure sexual sadism... things that you don't even want to describe just out of respect for this woman. Casca is being violated sexually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not to mention that that Hope Spot stunt that Femto pulled was really nasty as he allowed Guts to get just close enough to he and Casca after he chiseled off his arm only to get him dog-piled mere feet away. It's as if Femto did it just so Guts could get front row seats to see exactly what vulgar things he did to Casca. - And if all that wasn't bad enough, Griffith saved Casca from being raped when they'd first met. That's right, not only is her brand BURNING with literal Hellish AGONY as she's being violated, her tormentor is none other than the very same man who had previously saved her from the selfsame fate. - This is the point where the anime ends, and in the manga, that's only the beginning. Because it turns out later that Casca was pregnant with Guts's child when she got raped by Femto, and as a result of this, the child was horribly tainted by Femto's evil, and is born premature and deformed. Despite being tainted by evil, the child still cared for its mother a great deal, to the point of summoning ghosts to protect her from Bishop Mozgus's Cold-Blooded Torture. It's then used as the vessel for the rebirth of Griffith back into the mortal world when it's devoured by the Behelit-Apostle, basically a giant Behelit with tentacles, dying along with him. - For lack of a better word, volume 13 can catch you off-guard: it makes you want to throw up, cry, throw up again, guzzle down five gallons of Brain Bleach, and pet an adorable puppy for good measure just to get over it because you will feel as if you're getting raped yourself. It is truly a nightmare in itself to have to read volume 13. We understand if you don't want to - and we aren't forcing ya. - During the Eclipse there's also Slan commenting on how "delicious" the whole ordeal of Griffith as Femto raping Casca is while Guts is forced to watch. She even sounds like she's having an orgasm while she talks about it, and can be shown cupping her own breasts in sexual pleasure while she and rest of the Godhand look. - Slan being female (among other female-looking Apostles around Casca) amplifies this by a few orders of magnitude. A woman gleefully approving of another woman's rape is just the bitchiest thing imaginable. - Notice how during the Eclipse the demon apostles stripped Casca naked, one of them raised its horn close to her vagina in between her legs and looked like it was going to rape her had it not stopped to watch Femto being born with the others. And take a good look at the other apostles surrounding her. Freud would have a field day. - Rosine's little Crapsaccharine World is fairly disturbing, specially due to the fact that her "elves," who rape and kill each other, are basically still children playing. When we see the cocoons in which they are transformed, things reach a really disturbing angle when we learn she plans to turn her childhood friend into one of the little bastards; thankfully we later see (courtesy of Guts destroying the cocoons) the deformed children inside then. - The absolute worst part of Rosine's "elven kingdom" is the "Adult attack", where they pin each other to the ground and rape each other with their stingers. Depressing, horrifying, and slightly narmful in a way that produces an entirely new feeling of awkwardness mixed with terror. - Even worse than that, this happens in front of Jill, who has had to fight off Attempted Rape from one of her father's friends at least once. She throws up in horror when she sees it. - When Rosine's "elves" play "war", they actually kill each other with little stick-spears — and we know from an earlier scene that every one of Rosine's apostle-spawn that dies turns back into what it used to be. And then they try to make poor Jill eat one of those dead kids, which is around the point where she very understandably decides to get the hell out. - All those transformations - from little fairies into hornets and back, in all possible phases. - Rosine was in an abusive household, and discovered to her despair that the stories of elves in the distant forest were nothing but myth. Then, as her father is beating her mother on the very ground that her dreams and innocence were shattered, the Behelit takes away them both and turns her into a "elf," and grants her the ability to turn other children into "elves." When Guts finds her, not only does he leave a trail of mutilated and burnt child-corpses in his wake (the converted children turn back into humans when killed), he gleefully burns the "elves"-in-progress, and outright terrifies Rosine. - The beginning of the Chapter of the Binding Chain, which introduces the Beast of Darkness proper. The evil spirits have not let up in their torment of Guts, telling him about how he will soon become like them and become a monster. - Those creepy spirit-possessed dogs with human faces that try to eat Guts and Farnese. Dogs should not have faces like that. - And then one of these demons possesses the horse that Guts kidnapped Farnese on, which very nearly rapes her, only stopped by Guts flashbacking to the very worst moment from the Eclipse and shearing off its head in a berserker rage — and very nearly decapitating Farnese along with it! - And then there's what happens when Farnese winds up possessed herself. She pins Guts down, completely naked, and then starts choking him with string while begging Guts to "slowly cut her in two" with the Dragonslayer. It's a sexual moment, but also a very creepy moment, because both Guts and the audience are quite aware that Farnese is most definitely Not Herself. - The plague sequence that begins the Chapter of the Birth Ceremony, particularly the scene where the rats carrying the plague converge into the form of Conrad, the God Hand presumably responsible for spreading it. - Farnese is shown to be turned on by people burning alive to the point where she spends some "alone time" thinking very hard about that. Nausea Fuel as well. - The thought process and methods of Inquisitor Mozgus, who is just as horrible as you'd expect a fanatical religious nutjob with too much power and not a shred of objectivity can get. While it's pretty obvious from the start that he's Bad News, his vilest act we see is when a band of starving refugees attempts to steal some of the ample foodstuffs sent to Mozgus and his retinue, and he spots among them a woman with a starving infant. When she begs him to feed her child, he gently takes her along to his residence, lauding her courage and dedication. He sends away the child to be fed and cared for, then escorts her to a room while extolling the fact that while her intentions were good, she still has to expiate her sins... And then he opens the door, where we see the other refugees being horribly tortured, and the poor woman is dragged, stripped, and tied to another torture device over her increasingly frantic pleas... Then the door closes. It's as nightmarish as it sounds, if not more so. And somehow, the fact that he truly believes he is doing the right thing makes it even worse. An unrepentant Card-Carrying Villain like Wyald is certainly horrific, but the idea that someone can commit even worse atrocities and still consider themselves a good person is even more terrifying, especially when history has proven time and again that humans are fully capable of this without being demons. - To make matters even worse, we're shown later that the woman was driven insane by the torture, and that her baby is dead. - The cult dedicated to Slan, which among other things involves eating human remains as part of its initiation ritual. They're also quite rape-happy. - The demons drawn by Casca's Brand possessing the cultists during the battle with the Holy Iron Chain Knights. - Still not as bad as when it happened again in the refugee camp, which led to children being eaten alive by their own parents when they got possessed and turned into monsters. - The Great Goat Head was originally just a cultist leader with a goat head mask and a snake largely used for ceremony. But when the Egg of the Perfect World turns him into an Apostle Spawn, he becomes a real monster who wants Casca in the worst way. Thank goodness Guts arrived when he did. - The Great Goat's intentions for Casca become even creepier in that both he and his Mouth of Sauron say they only want Casca to "become family," completely ignoring what's going through her mind. - The Egg of the Perfect World collecting human bodies as part of his garden, including a huge symbol of the church decorated with flayed human skins. Not to mention the Egg himself, who looks like nothing less than a giant living Behelit, Humpty Dumpty if he were designed by Pablo Picasso and Tim Burton. - During the second Eclipse, when Griffith is reborn, we see Guts get up after the tower has crumbled into a hand-shaped edifice disturbingly reminiscent of the ginormous hand from the first Eclipse. He is alone. He looks down. His facial expression changes to awe and terror. On the next page, the refugee camps are shown. With a HUGE Sacrifice symbol made up from all the burning huts and houses running across them. - When fighting Mozgus, while Mozgus is established as a monster, after becoming infected by the Egg of the Perfect World and becoming a real monster, he has the appearance of an angel, as do his interrogators. While he does intend to sacrifice Casca to placate the demon tides, he's also the only one protecting the refugees from said demonic flood. Guts, of course, tells the refugees to shove it and die like men, and then kills their angelic guardians, cementing his status as the demonic Black Swordsman. Even in death, fire consumes Mozgus' body, which actually holds back the flood as a handful of remaining refugees kneel around him in prayer. "Mommy, the angel fell!" - What happens as soon as Mozgus is gone? Unspeakable tides of pure evil surge forward and start devouring the crowds of terrified men, women, and children. - While an awesome moment for Casca it was also quite creepy how post-Eclipse when she ran away from Guts out of fear and ran into some bandits, who then tried to gang rape her... but by the time Guts found her, Casca was naked and covered in her would-be rapists' blood after she slashed all of their throats. - It's disturbingly implied that Guts has In Love with Your Carnage toward insane Casca when he finds her naked and soaked in the blood of the men who tried to gang-rape her after she killed all of them. Various panel shots have the Male Gaze over Casca's body, and it's implicated that despite the disturbing scenario of both Casca's insanity and her near-assault, Guts is turned on by this display (possibly due to years of being desensitized to violence and being emotionally deprived after so much trauma), which leads him to nearly rape Casca himself soon after finding her. Guts just barely stops himself from going through, but it leaves him SEVERELY messed up and EXTREMELY aware how far off the deep end he's been going. - If you look closely at the panels where Guts assaults Casca, the two are posed exactly as Casca and Griffith were during her rape at the Eclipse. The Beast even commands Guts to "tear her up, like Griffith did," after which readers are shown an Imagine Spot of the Beast raping and devouring Casca. Thankfully Guts realized what was happening and stopped himself, or the Beast probably would have killed her then and there. - After being reborn into the mortal world, Griffith doesn't actually seem to have changed that much. If anything, his cunning, military prowess and inhuman charisma have increased, making him even more successful than he was before. - In the bit where he meets Guts again, he calmly declares that he feels no remorse for anything he did, and says it all so damn reasonably that it's almost as if he thinks Guts is the one being irrational, is truly horrifying. Even if you didn't know what he was capable of with his demonic powers, the sociopathic lack of remorse would be frightening enough on its own. This aspect of him rattles even Guts, and considering how much he's been through without batting an eye, that says a lot. - Casca actually seemed affectionate towards him. She collapsed before long due to the pain his presence caused her Brand of Sacrifice, but apart from that she didn't seem bothered by him. Presumably it was the remains of her child (whose body Femto had used to transform into his physical vessel in the mortal world) she was reacting to, but that doesn't stop it being horrifying that she seemed willing to embrace Femto when Guts struggled day and night to keep her safe and she still wouldn't trust him. - Casca can subconsciously remember her ordeal during the Eclipse when other characters are trying to force themselves on her, but she didn't seem to do that when she was near Griffith... One could argue that she didn't see a reason to fear Griffith at the time because it was Griffith as Femto who raped her but remember that Casca INDEED recognized the demonic entity as Griffith before he violated her. This just brings on an onslaught of bad thoughts and assumptions. - What about the way Femto builds up the new Band of the Hawk? The readers know that he's a monster, but not many of the characters do, and seeing a new bunch of people looking for a purpose in life flock to his banner just as they did before sets off no end of alarm bells for what might happen to them. - Femto actually went so far as to replace the original leaders of the Band of the Hawk, even after claiming that he felt no remorse for selling out the first batch. It was no wonder that Guts was so pissed when Grunbeld mentioned that he was part of the new Band of the Hawk. - Trolls from the Qliphoth, whose primary method of reproduction involves forcibly impregnating captured women from villages, with the births of new trolls being every bit as horrific and lethal to the poor women involved as that of Ganishka's demon soldiers. Particularly wretched is the fate of Hannah of Enoch village, whose husband and brother are killed by those creatures while she is raped and captured. Later, Farnese and Casca encounter her in their den, desperately pleading for help before the troll spawn rip their way out of her stomach. - When Schierke taps into the powers of darkness and reminesces that when you look into darkness, the darkness looks back at you. And does so in form of a Cthulhu-esque nightmare. Okay, it was later revealed to be just an Earth spirit, but his first appearance and build up to it was damn creepy. - When the Kushans take over the capital of Wyndham, they literally Paint the Town Red, by decorating the city with the corpses of all the people they killed. Meanwhile Charlotte is being held captive in a tower, when enter Emperor Ganishka intending to rape her and force her to carry his heir just to secure the throne. As if being threatened with rape by an Apostle wasn't horrifying enough, Charlotte is immediately reminded of her father's previous attack and sees Ganishka as her own father, and considering this is a literal demon we are talking about, there is little chance she would have been able to fight him off like she did before with the King. The only thing that saves her was screaming for Griffith's name, making Ganishka have second thoughts about going through the deed. - Ganishka gleefully calls the occupied Wyndham palace his "demon castle." Why? He's "decorated" it with the mangled corpses of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of murdered Midlanders. Statues have their heads knocked off and crudely replaced with the real thing, and gargoyles have their mouths stuffed with yet more severed heads. Worst of all are the live, naked women dangling from rafters above a pit of crocodiles, to be slowly Eaten Alive piece by piece for Ganishka's amusement. He has applied a similar treatment to the entire city; countless corpses are skewered on steeples and hanging from church rafters. These massacres, compared with the enslavement of men for war and women for sex or daka production, claim the majority of Wyndham's population, leaving an entire national capital a nightmarish ghost town stalked by ravenous Kushan-made monsters. - Ganishka's moustache conceals More Teeth than the Osmond Family, and you do not want to see what they look like. - Ganishka's method of drawing new soldiers for his demon army? He throws pregnant women into vats made up of stitched together Apostles, their children become monsters and rip their ways out of their mother's wombs, and the remains are given to the newborn for food. - The second time Guts used the Berserker Armor, Guts greatly overestimates his ability to control it, resulting in him barely avoiding splattering all his friends. And only because the moonlight boy intervenes. Guts had lost control completely. The really scary part is thinking about the potential aftermath of this: it would probably result in Guts never being able to escape the armor's grip, randomly killing anything that moves until he dies or turns into another Skull Knight. - The dinner party in Vritannis, when the first tiger shows up. It's really unnerving to see Miura toy with classic horror tropes (not showing us the tiger initially, the lights going out, blood splattering on bewildered onlookers...) when most of the other monsters have been so in-your-face. It's almost less frightening when the rest of the pack burst in, just because they're immediately spotted. - Ganishka's 'Shiva' form. It starts off as a mass of faces, which swells into a towering, multi-armed figure, which dwarfs the city of Windham and towers over the new Band of the Hawk, to the point where even powerful apostles could surely do nothing against this unstoppable behemoth of destruction. To make matters worse Ganishka seems to forget who he is and doesn't seem to understand his sheer size, wondering where his army has gone as he unknowingly tramples his own soldiers to paste and breathing fire at his chief sorcerer, believing him to be an insect. - Also anyone he steps on reforms into smaller apostle spawn in his own image, with fangs and tentacles, which will eat anything in their path. - Ganishka's past sucked. It doesn't remotely excuse his crimes, but why he became such a monster is understandable to a limited extent. When he was 6, his own mother tried to murder him in favor of his little brother, more concerned by doting on the latter even when the older son is in front of her suffering from the poison. - Despite its adaptation faults, Berserk (1997) manages to give the Eclipse a completely new tone, one that is very different from the manga and movies. Unlike them, the anime could believably look at first like a series about a mercenary warrior in a world very similar to our Middle Ages, without any shadowy overtone lurking at its back. The opening sequence only shows Guts in his pre-Eclipse look, the episodes are slow-paced and focused on the characters and their human struggles, and most of the manga's supernatural/bizarre elements (the female Apostle, Puck, the Count, Wyald, the Bakiraka, the Skull Knight and the Baron of Koka if the viewer missed the first episode) are expunged, so it's easy for a casual viewer to think that Zodd was a random fantasy cliché monster, that the Behelit is just a weird amulet, and that there are no problems in the setting which cannot be solved by Guts's sword or Griffith's smarts. Then the Eclipse happens almost out of nowhere and, surprise, things CAN turn bad beyond any hope for our beloved characters after all. Their world happens to be ruled by a pantheon of near-omnipotent evil gods who not only turn the Band of the Hawk into an all-you-can-eat monster food buffet, but also turn one of our heroes into one of their kind, who proceeds to horribly betray his friends and rape the female lead. And if that's not enough, the Eclipse sequence ends fading to black in its most horrible climax, and the next and last thing we see, a surviving Guts going to a presumable quest for revenge, is set after an unknown amount of time. We end up without any explanation of how Guts survived the carnage, what ultimately became of Casca or simply what the hell happened. - The track "Behelit" in the 1997 anime. It's especially nightmarish when it plays while Femto is raping Casca while Guts is held down and forced to watch. It's the first track on the OST too. Such a pleasant introduction having to be reminded of the most nightmarish scene in the series right off the bat. - The anime might have toned down the violence, but still: some scenes are still extremely horrifying when you attach sound effects, voice acting, and full motion depictions to the mix. - Guts actually screaming in pain as Nosferatu Zodd prepares to tear him limb from limb. - Guts hacking off his arm with his broken sword, while badass, was also incredibly disturbing. And in the anime the sound of him hacking at his arm. - And to end, Casca's rape itself. Yes, the anime was more lenient on us to at least show less of their bodies, but it's still sickening having to watch her writhe in agony as this is being done to her. - Not to mention The Scream that Guts gives after seeing it all happen before his eyes - it's very powerful and effective in bringing the viewer to their knees. - If you thought that some scenes from the TV series were disturbing, don't even talk about Berserk: The Golden Age Arc. All gory battle scenes are played out precisely how they are in the manga. Most disturbingly is that sexual violence is played up in the movie; for instance the noble who assaulted Casca was not only trying to rape her, but he also beat the CRAP out of her. The Advent, the movie where the Eclipse goes down, has reached notoriety in Japan as being one of the most violent and disturbing animated movies PERIOD. In fact, it was so disturbing that some people reportedly had to leave the theater. And this was the edited version!! - Related to the above of how adding sound effects and voice-acting to the mix makes thing more horrific. Now in the movies, since it covers the Eclipse to its completion, both English and Japanese voice actresses of Casca nailed it when expressing her sanity and hope crushing despite her not saying a lot during the scene: Casca's tone of disbelief when she realizes that Femto is Griffith, her whimpering and weeping in fear and pain during her violation, and her last tearful words to Guts are just plain awful to listen to. At her lowest point, she sounds almost childlike and innocent, almost a brilliant but twisted nod at how Casca's sanity would eventually slip to that of a very young child.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Berserk1997
Big Hero 6 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes This action-packed Superhero flick has some rather dark and disturbing elements — especially for a Disney feature. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - The fire which claims Tadashi's life. Burning to death is not a pleasant way to die. One can only hope that the explosion killed him quickly. - The scene where Hiro discovers the factory where his microbots are being replicated is scary from start to finish. Even before Yokai is revealed, the scene is just so eerie, due to the darkness and silence. Then you see the black objects come to life... - The Big Bad Yokai. He's got an intimidating design, introduces himself by means of an Unflinching Walk towards Hiro, wears a nightmarish mask, never says a word, is NOT the comedic type, and commands a swarm of black flying microbots, which occasionally hiss not too dissimilarly to a snake. - One shot◊ of him is particularly scary. Just a dimly lit, shady masked figure ambling towards you with an army of malicious nanobots. - The reveal of Yokai as Callaghan, which is both Nightmare Fuel and Fridge Nightmare Fuel. What makes the reveal particularly disturbing is that Callaghan apparently has zero problems with killing his former students, and knows full well that Hiro is only a 14-year-old boy. Hiro: It's over, Krei. [Yokai slowly stands up and turns around to face Hiro, revealing himself as...Callaghan.] P-Professor Callaghan? ( the rest of the gang gasps in shock as well) The explosion... you died. Callaghan No. I had your microbots. (a flashback shows Callaghan using Hiro's microbots to protect himself from the fire) Hiro: But... Tadashi... You just let him die... Callaghan [coldly] Give me the mask, Hiro. Hiro: He went in there to SAVE you! Callaghan: That was HIS mistake! - The whole scene in general is pretty terrifying as well as heartwrenching. Callaghan's callous remark makes Hiro so consumed with rage over his brother dying for nothing that he is willing to kill another human being, going so far as to remove the healthcare companion chip from Baymax who adjusts to his new murderous personality by having his eyes turn a terrifying red. The team tries to stop the brainwashed robot, but until Honey Lemon inserts the chip back in, nothing they can do will even slow Baymax down. The way Hiro commands Baymax to kill Callaghan after the robot readjusts to his new violent personality is nothing short of bone-chilling. - The entire final battle, as Callaghan pretty much is attempting to murder all of his students without remorse. - Callaghan making his appearance from atop a building at Krei's press conference, surrounded by microbots slithering down beside him, is pretty unnerving. Not to mention Callaghan's sudden enraged bellow makes the Mood Whiplash more startling. Just imagine looking up and seeing this◊ heading directly towards you. Krei's look of absolute terror is very understandable. Callaghan : "SETBACK?!" ( The microbots crawl toward the crowd like army ants. As the crowd runs away screaming, the microbots coil around Krei like a python and bring him up to Yokai, who pulls off his mask, revealing himself as Callaghan. His eyes burn like torches as he glares at Krei. ) Was my daughter a "setback"?! Krei : Callaghan! Your daughter...that— that was an accident! I— Callaghan : NO! You knew it was unsafe! My daughter is gone because of your arrogance! ( The microbots haul up the pieces of the broken portal. Krei gasps in terror. ) Krei: What are you doing?! Callaghan : You took everything from me when you sent Abigail into that machine. Now I'm taking everything from you. Krei : N-n-n-NO! You can't! ( The portal fires up, and pieces of Krei Tech start to get sucked into the portal. ) Callaghan : You're going to watch everything you've built disappear. Then it's YOUR turn! Hiro : PROFESSOR CALLAGHAN! ( Callaghan turns to see Hiro and the gang arrive ) Let him go! Is this what Abigail would've wanted? Callaghan : ABIGAIL IS GONE! Hiro : This won't change anything. TRUST me. I know. ( silence as Callaghan teeters on the edge of sympathy ) Krei : Listen to the kid, Callaghan. Please, just let me go. I'll give you ANYTHING you want! Callaghan : ( eyes narrow menacingly ) I want my daughter back. - The world within the portal, though beautiful, becomes frightening when you realize that without a portal to return to our world, it's an endless expanse of nothing in which you'll drift forever.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigHero6
Big Finish Doctor Who / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes What is inside the TARDIS? "Zagreus sits inside your head / Zagreus lives among the dead / Zagreus sees you in your bed / And eats you when you're sleeping..." — The Eighth Doctor, "Zagreus" Just like its parent series, Big Finish Doctor Who has some rather unsettling moments. Unlike its parent series, it no longer needs to worry about televised restrictions. The Monthly Range - Spare Parts. It's a story about the creation of the Cybermen, so it's inevitably pretty creepy. One standout moment is when a person you've met previously is cyberconverted, but only partially. They return to their family confused and the father, who thinks that she's just in the "workcrew outfit" tries to pull her cloth mask off and she screams in the horrible cyberman voice. The ending has you thinking that the Doctor has prevented the Cybermen turning evil and stopped further cyber-conversion, but then the Cybercommander suddenly turns out to be alive. "We will begin again." - Creatures of Beauty. The Doctor and Nyssa drop out of the Vortex for a second, just enough to gather their bearings... which is just long enough for the TARDIS to smash into a ship illegally transporting enormous tanks full of contaminants, spreading all of it into a lush, developing world and transforming it into a dying, nightmarish ecological disaster and dooming its people to horrifying genetic degradations. And the worst part is, they don't even know they're responsible... - The Cradle of the Snake. The Mara is back. And it has taken over the Doctor. - Axis Of Insanity is not bad either. "The lunatics... have taken over the " Good grief, but that line is creepy. And then you find out that reality is asylum! melting around the Doctor. - Son of the Dragon, featuring Special Guest Star Vlad Tepes, aka Dracula. The fun kicks off with the Fifth Doctor and friends landing in a village which has been turned into a massive graveyard of slaughter involving a forest of impaled villagers on spikes. - Mission of the Viyrans. Starts with Peri chatting with the Doctor after a fun night on a party planet. He seems distracted. Then he starts vacantly repeating everything she says. Then he painfully, graphically transforms into a clone of her. Thus begins the most Mind Screw Big Finish has ever packed into 30 minutes. Happy listening! - The Apocalypse Element. It managed to portray the Daleks as a credible threat without use of Conservation of Ninjutsu to help them. In the story, the Daleks take a planetoid out of time and space, kidnap Lady President Romana and hold her prisoner for twenty years, trap a delegation of ambassadors on a planet and steer the aforementioned planetoid towards it. The plan actually succeeds, killing millions in the process. Then they bypass the transduction barrier and invade Gallifrey, ripping the eyes out of citizens to bypass retinal scanners and killing guards in a Curb-Stomp Battle. Then they detonate a volatile element mined from the planetoid, which destroys a whole galaxy and almost the entire universe, killing billions. In short, do not mess with the Daleks. - The Holy Terror starts off as a light-hearted satire of Medieval Morons and ends up Mood Whiplashing you into a gruesome Downer Ending orchestrated by the Enfant Terrible to end all Enfant Terribles. - ...ish. Words cannot describe how creepy it is when people get taken over and just start mass chanting "ish, ish, ish" over and over again. - Jubilee, being the original inspiration for the Series 1 episode "Dalek", has one of the most scary, if not scariest, uses of EX-TER-MI-NATE in Doctor Who. It occurs at the Dalek's execution, but it is not said by the Dalek. It is instead the chants of the human crowd as they prepare to kill the creature who has been tortured for a century. It reinforces the Humans Are the Real Monsters message of the audio and shows, without a doubt, that the human race has become no better than the Daleks. Just think about that. The Doctor sums it up rather well. The Doctor: The Daleks were genetically bred to kill. What excuse do you have? - The Reaping has one of the most beautifully understated threats you've ever heard, courtesy of the Cyber-Leader: We have your companions, Doctor. You will assist us, or their deaths will be... emotional. - Bedtime Story, one of the shorts from 100, is incredibly dark. The Doctor meets a man named Jacob, whose family is under a curse in which parents always die as soon as they become grandparents. Then it turns out they're not really dead, they're frozen in time but still aware, so countless generations have been buried alive, completely conscious until their minds broke. Then there's the ending which reveals the narrator, who we assumed was Jacob telling a story to his grandchild after the Doctor broke the curse, is actually the psychotic shapeshifting alien creature who was behind the curse to begin with... - What happens to Charley in "Patient Zero". She is infected by Mila meaning she gradually fades away while Mila takes her appearance. She is left invisible, inaudible and unable to tell the Doctor what is happening. - "The Fourth Wall" has a fictional character being brought into reality, and realising that in the world of his TV show ( Laser, starring Jerkass hero Jack Laser), he's the villain: Krarn: Its called... Laser. Scullop: The show, yes. Krarn: Why? Scullop: Because hes the lead, hes the hero. Krarn: I see. Scullop: Is something the matter? Krarn: (with horror) Im the bad guy. Scullop: Yes. Krarn: He destroys my happiness, kills my wife. And yet I am the bad guy. - In The Genocide Machine, the robot duplicate of Ace grabs Cataloguer Prink by the neck. Robot Ace: "You humans are so fragile. All I have to do is twist..." crack "... and you die." - The Shadow Of The Scourge. A race of eight dimensional monsters who are the source of all human despair and failure. That is bad enough but then remember that, if they order a humanoid to do something, then it is physically impossible for the human nervous system to disobey. Then they start issuing orders such as: Place your hands against your windpipe and press with all your strength. Find the weakest among you and turn on them; now, tear the limbs from their torso (made all the worse because we hear all the screams and tearing flesh that that entails) - Quite possibly the most horrific command, though, is one that nastily targets how sensitive eyes are. Fortunately, Ace (the intended victim) had burst her own eardrums, giving herself immunity. - Dust Breeding makes inventively sinister use of Edvard Munch's already decidedly unsettling "The Scream". The Warp Core, an incorporeal entity of "unreasoning hate," is revealed to have taken refuge in the unsuspecting painter, thereby inducing a sense of overwhelming horror, with the sky having turned to "coagulated blood." By way of possessing the Doctor, the Warp Core introduces itself. Warp Core: I frighten you, don't I? Ace: Yes... Warp Core: It's what I was built for. I am every death you can possibly imagine! I am blood, and tongues of fire! - Nobody No-One is an ax-crazy, utterly deranged being from another dimension with ridiculously overpowered godlike abilities that allow him to do more or less whatever he wants, provided he hears someone say he can. And he's very, very good at provoking people to say the magic words: "Nobody can do that...". - Master. As you may have guessed from the title, it prominently features you-know-who, and it's not the suave, here-come-the-drums, Magnificent Bastard Master, either. It's the skeleton-looking, Ax-Crazy psychopath Master. Basically, it's And Then There Were None meets Jack the Ripper as a homicidal Time Lord, but it's WAY freakier (and more tragic) than that. One last thing: you know how one of the Doctor's names is "Time's Champion"? The Master is Death's Champion. You will never look at For the Evulz the same way again. - The Doctor showing why he keeps trying so hard to redeem the Master even after all the horror and suffering he keeps spreading. When the Doctor and the Master were kids, a bully very nearly killed the Master, and the Doctor killed him in retaliation. That night, Death came for the Doctor, to make him her Champion. The terrified Doctor instead chose to give the Master to Death, and was later forced to acknowledge the possiblity it was always meant for the Master to be the guy who keeps saving galaxy after galaxy, and that he was the one who was supposed to blow up chunks of the universe and massacring species for fun. - The worst part of Master was the whispers. Gods, the raspy, cackling whispers, just in the background. "All who hear my voice will die." Coming very nearly in second was Jade's Wham Line while washing dishes: They say he sits inside your head, they say he lives among the dead, they say he eats you when you're—What an odd verse. They say he sits inside your head... - Not only are the described events of Live 34 horrifying— but the fact that Ace, who is usually completely cool in the face of danger, is completely and utterly broken, so much that she can barely speak by the end. Just the thought of what she might have gone through to get to that point is... well... eek. - Night Thoughts: The Doctor and his companions trapped on an island mansion during a storm with no electricity, a ghostly spectre of a woman drowning in the lake and a hooded creature that likes to whistle while removing people's eyes? Don't listen to this baby at night. - Will you walk into my parlor, said the spider to the fly... - Things you'll never ever ever want to see again after this story: Taxidermied bears, stuffed toy rabbits, bear traps. What's worse is that ending... oh god the ending. Where the Major gets his eyes gouged out by the zombie child/evil toy rabbit and not only do you hear him scream, not only does the monster whistle that jaunty tune, but you also get to hear the actual sounds of his face being cut into and his eyes being removed. - Red. Ax-Crazy as The Virus. And Friend Computer in charge decides the best way of stopping the spread is to burn out your brain. Red. Red. Red. Red. Red... Other ranges - Horror of Glam Rock is a pretty humorous installment... except for the bit where you hear the people in the parking lot get torn to bits. With lots of squishy, meaty sounds and screaming. Yeeesh. - Lucie Miller/To the Death was clearly this. The Earth being invaded after a terrible plague, the Doctor showing up years late, and the ending to Lucie Miller where the Doctor is on a Dalek Saucer which is being torpedoed, Susan and Lucie realising too late...And even though he survives he is left in a coma. - The Dalek Time Controller's plan is absolutely horrific. It plans to pilot Earth through time to infect it with the Amethyst viruses, then pilot it around the Universe, infecting any world that comes under its influence. And with Cruel Mercy it wants to leave the Doctor on Earth, he will survive long enough to watch humanity die from the plagues. - The Dalek Time Controller itself is pure Nightmare Fuel. Just its creepy sing-song voice, not to mention how it seems far more evil than any other of its kind. Just be thankful Steven Moffat hasn't been able to bring it into the TV Series. YET. - The Doctor yelling at the Monk for thinking an apology would right the wrongs of his actions. For an incarnation normally defined as being happy-go-lucky and naïve, it's incredibly unnerving to hear him just lose control. - The Eminence, first introduced in the main range and then later became one of the main threats in "Dark Eyes", are becoming this. They're a threat so terrible the Doctor is willing to work with his Arch-Enemy the Dalek Time Controller to stop them. They are a Super Smoke from the end of time that turn people into zombies. And to demonstrate there is an image on the cover of Times Horizon. Here it is◊. - As a follow-up to Rassilon's insanity, the Doctor eventually learns that Time Lord society was already rotting long before the Time War. A member of the High Council checked the Matrix for future projections and found that Gallifrey was destroyed in virtually every timeline, save for those in which it was the only planet in existence. His answer? Found a group of Time Lord madmen to implement a plan to make the Time Lords truly immortal and damn the cost to the rest of existence. This group's name? The Doom Coalition. - The sheer horror of the Time War cannot be overstated. Across the audios, the Time Lords descend into the same depths as the Daleks in a monstrous, endless struggle, matching them so equally they feel there cannot possibly be any hope for victory other than increasingly desperate Hail Mary passes as both sides keep smashing across threshold after threshold, each time with even less to lose. At one point, the War Valeyard successfully engineers a plan that eradicates the Daleks entirely from the timeline. And just to show how goddamn scary the tinpots are, just as everyone's trying to catch their breath and revel in a job well done, they come back, more pissed than ever. Even the Doctor has never dared to go through with eradicating them and this is why - the Time Lords have made the Daleks angry and, even worse, . made it personal. Dalek Time Strategist: This is no victory, Time Lord. This is merely a cessation in hostilities. We shall return, restored, stronger, immortal. And we will rain down fire on you and all your people. - It also shows why the Daleks never actively hunted the Doctor down. Even with everything he's done, he's never done anything like this before. This time, killing the Doctor can wait, because the Daleks have something more important to do: The Daleks have a war to win - and the insult, this time, is personal. Spin-off's - In the second part of this mini-series, Purity, we see first hand where Davros gets his manipulative and murderous tendencies from; his mother, Calcula. To elaborate, she tricks his sister, Yarvell, into revealing the fact that she inadvertently put Davros' life in danger by warning the Thal's about a mission he was on. How does she do this? By lying to her that Davros was killed. And then, to make things worse, Calcula drowns Yarvell, her own daughter, for accidentally putting Davros' life at risk! - And then Davros decides to use her dead body for his experiments! He even taunts her about how she always hated science but now she's "helping" him with it. Sixth DoctorOther - The Light at the End. The Doctor looks into a doll house, and finds the Master's been a-calling... The Doctor (breathless with horror): Mr Dovie - I wonder, would you mind describing your wife and children to me? - The War Master: The entire range shows what happens if the Doctor isn't around to stop the Master's schemes. Worse yet, it's a Last Great Time War range, so the Master has absolutely no reason to hold back, making both his triumphs and defeats that much more horrifying in their scope. - In The Master of Callous, he casually drives one of his victims to insanity and suicide without even physically being with her. And when he finally pops into scene, he just regards the corpse with mild annoyance - now there's nobody to move the loot to his ship and he'll have to do it himself. - In The Heavenly Paradigm, we finally find out just what Chaos is too much for the Master: The Daleks taking the Cruciform. The Master is horrified and flees to the end of the Universe to get away from the sheer disaster of it all. You know it's bad... when the Master, who would pour gasoline on a bonfire just for the hell of it, runs away from chaos. - The War Doctor Begins: The Barber-Surgeon. Seemingly a rogue Time Lord waging the Time War against both the Daleks and the Time Lords. With his god-like powers, Palpatine-esque voice and eerie, distorted leitmotif, he's one of the most frightening villains Big Finish have depicted. The Barber-Surgeon: This is the way the world ends. This is the way... the world ends... Third Doctor Eighth Doctor - The Blue Tooth from the Companion Chronicles series is flat-out terrifying, made more so by playing off an incredibly common fear. Think you dreaded going to the dentist before? Now imagine said dentist wants to infect you with living metal that slowly, painfully turns you into a Cyberman. Also, Cybermats CRAWLING AROUND UNDER YOUR SKIN.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigFinishDoctorWho
Battle Bears / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes If you thought a game with cute teddy bears couldn't get disturbing, you've got another thing coming. - Huggables could be considered this as a whole, being deconstructions of cuddle bugs. They pretend to be kind to put you in a false sense of security so they can hug you so hard that all your bones break. - Zombie Huggables, just look at them! No wonder that Wil is terrified of them. (Although he's terrified of everything, but he especially seems to fear them the most.) - When you defeat a Huggable, their heads fly off. - Big Yellow Huggables are not only giant, but each step they take causes a huge shockwave. Thankfully they're pretty slow, but how slow they walk can come off as creepy. When they are killed, they fall and cause an even bigger shockwave than before. - Ghost Huggables can turn invisible, when they come come out nowhere to hug you! That is pretty jarring if you didn't see that coming. - Oliver's "Hugged!" screen in Battle Bears -1 is a bunch of huggables walking at him while he screams out a Big "NO!". And it's only shown in shadows on the wall. - The "Ejected!" death during Mecha Bearzerker's boss battle has Oliver plummeting to his doom through outer space while scary piano music plays. - For the game overs of Colbear's boss trial: - The death screen from Tentacleese's boss fight shows shadows of Tentacleese moving towards Riggs as the camera zooms in on him, the latter of which has red eyes. - Wil's "Hugged!" cutscene from Battle Bears -1 is mostly funny, though the fact that nothing is shown and we hear Wil getting killed is enough to disturb you. - The game over screen if Spaceboss destroys the Ursa Major depicts Overclocked Oliver making a ball of electricity, but then Wil is sucked right into the ball, killing him instantly. Also doubles as a major tearjerker when we see Overclocked Oliver crying over his best friend's death. - If you die during the Marecraft Carrier's fight, it shows Oliver exploding. - The "Zombified!" death during the Zombocalypse has a bunch of Zombie Huggables advancing on Oliver (and one of them is licking Oliver) while the latter yells "Ewww!" Then a deep voice is heard saying "Zombified".	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BattleBears
Big Human on Campus / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - This fic's version of Youkai Academy is a freakin' nightmare dimension. It doesn't let the reader forget for a moment that everyone at the school is a monster like in the manga/anime, and it shows in many ways: - The students are completely out of control, they murder, rape, curse and do who knows what else to each other on a daily basis. - Many of the teachers are worse than the students, doing the exact same thing but with more freedom and authority. Richard goes of murderous rampages when he's bored, Jadeite disintegrates students for the pettiest of reasons and canon teachers like Hitomi Ishigami are still at large committing vile acts like turning students to stone. - The enforcers, before they were disbanded, were incompetent at best and corrupt, murderous knight templars at worst. They demanded payment from all of the clubs on campus and those who couldn't pay or refused were dealt with harshly. The newspaper club and the fight club actively fought against them, but by the time the story begins the enforcers had gotten rid of most of the former and had all of the members (besides Ms. Wildman) in the latter assassinated when classes were finished. They don't really do anything to protect the order and peace of Youkai Academy and actually put in more effort quashing any criticisms directed at them. Any time they actually try to do investigations it shows how unsuited they are for the job, with Kuyo, their leader, actually having to look up the word in a dictionary. - Many of the non-sentient creatures and wild animals around Youkai are very dangerous with the spider infestation being the most prominent. A huge rock-hard spider, larger than any car, actively hunts the students. Ranma was almost eaten by a grue in the boy's bathroom; if he didn't know the moko takabisha, he would have been eaten alive. - Jadeite hints that there are even more mysterious and dangerous creatures and artifacts hidden in the wastes and ruins of the school and his exploration club's goal is to find and use them. - The Headmaster himself, though trying to get the school on track is kind of a dick and makes a lot of questionable decisions like keeping Richard around and inviting humans to bring a little humanity to the school.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigHumanOnCampus
Betterman / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The series has tons of it. This show legitimately makes worms scary. - Are you Afraid of Needles? Or hospitals in general? The eighth episode "Poison", will make you feel very, very uneasy. - Sakura usually speaks in a very soft, quiet voice, which makes the creepy things she sometimes says sound even more chilling. It also leaves the viewer completely unprepared for the few times she suddenly screams.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Betterman
Bevanfield Films / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "BEAUTY. BEAUTY. BEAUTY." So says a talking clock in Beauty's room one morning while she is at the Beast's castle. Its distorted voice and sudden appearance makes it a rather jarring element in an otherwise dull and Narm-y film.Phelous: Keep it away, keep it AWAY!	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BevanfieldFilms
Bethellium / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes It's notable in that this is a case where Even Evil Has Loved Ones is played more for horror than the usual sympathy— yes, it's clear that Zoana's father loved his child dearly, but it can be surmised that said love for her is what spurred him to commit such heinous crimes as murdering other children in order to provide Zoana with the aforementioned gifts. It's honestly worse than if he were just a remorseless and completely selfish killer.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bethellium
Big Mouth / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ♫You thought no-one was watching, but I'm right here in your brain.♫ - Judd Birch is walking Nightmare Fuel, being a stereotypical emo teenager and Straw Nihilist that busies himself with training raccoons, committing acts of vandalism and writing a "manifesto." Even the way he cuts and eats his food is reminiscent of stabbing. - Marty Glouberman, Andrew's overbearing Borscht Belt father. Though Played for Laughs in his every appearance, he's very verbally abusive of Andrew, castigating him for every mistake or problem - including those that he could not have possibly had a hand in. - While often played for laughs, Jay's home situation is a nightmare. His alcoholic, neglectful mother has to be reminded of his name and existence, and his father is an amoral, misogynistic attorney that doesn't let legal ethics or even his disbarment get in the way of winning a case. His older brothers, Val and Kurt are the worst, however. They are homophobic, sexist bullies that emotionally and physically abuse Jay for a cheap laugh, even going as far as to force him to eat their bodily fluids. It's almost a relief that Jay is a Loveable Sex Maniac and not a Serial Killer. Speaking of which... - The Ponytail Killer. As of season 5, nobody knows who he is or why he targets people with ponytails. Only a scant few clues to his identity are given throughout the show and none of them lead anywhere. - Though he always comes across as happy to be alive, Coach Steve has hinted at having a very Dark and Troubled Past on numerous occasions. When he was a child, his adult friend Gary shot himself in the mouth while they were both in the same car, his stunted mental growth has made him the victim of various crimes that include organ theft and he has been fired from multiple jobs for one reason or another. At one point, he even casually mentions that he has contemplated suicide. - Mr. Lizer faux-flirting with Jessi when she comes to school in a red bra. This short, sweet and to-the-point exchange is the first sign that his intentions may not be as noble as he presents them. - The Reveal that Daniel is a serial "head-pusher" with no respect for sexual consent in spite of his thespian persona. While his comeuppance is more than well-deserved, his actions are a disturbingly real reminder of a very real problem. - Maury decapitating and "skull-intercoursing" Garrison Keillor. - The sleepover episode is pure terror, with Lola and Devon exploiting Missie's sugar rush for shits and giggles while Jay's sociopathic older brothers make Andrew and Nick fight for their amusement. And that's before Val and Kurt try to make them eat cum crackers. - Andrew's nightmare after promising to never masturbate again, which has the school gymnasium descending into anarchy while it crumbles apart beneath his feet. As Nick Birch, dressed like a priest, gives a fire-and-brimstone sermon about the futility of holding back one's urges as a giant Maury rises behind him speaking with him in unison. - Judd is able to freely travel throughout the Birch household and spy on others without their knowing, implying that he hollowed out the entire house. His most obvious modification to the building is also his most disturbing: his bedroom door. Which reads, in scrawled-out letters, "Trespassers will be flayed!" - The POV of the Ponytail Killer as seen from the bushes, spying on Jessi as she opens up to Jay about her homelife. His interest in her fades when she lets her hair down, only to settle for another target that walks by none-the-wiser. - Jay and Jessi discovering one of the Ponytail Killer's victims in the synagogue dumpster. - Just when Andrew is able to overcome his pornography addiction, a SWAT team bursts into his room and arrests him at gunpoint after a botched DNA test frames him as the Ponytail Killer, throwing him into an adult prison. He's bailed out by Jay's father...only to find that the synagogue's security cameras caught him throwing his defiled socks in the dumpster and the footage has made him an internet laughingstock. Judd: Hey boys - he's the garbage! (turns out the light, leaving Nick alone with his "army.") - The Depression Kitty is very unsettling, due to Jean Smart's disarming, Southern-tinted voice carrying just the right hint of sinister undertones. Kitty acts benevolent at first but slowly smothers Jessi until she can't move. When she brings Jessi into a padded room, the door disappears. - Even though Jessi gets rid of her, the Depression Kitty reappears several times in Season 3 and Season 4, showing a saddening, yet realistic effect of depression that for many people, depression is a lifelong battle, regardless of the amount of therapy or counseling. In fact, the pressure Kitty puts on Jessi, a seventh grader causes her to not want to leave her bed in the morning for school or talk to anybody. - Andrew's descent into toxic masculinity at the end of "My Furry Valentine." Anvilicious as it may be, it ultimately shows just how dangerous someone can be when they don't recognize their own possessive tendencies, and how quickly it can turn an otherwise reasonable person into a monster. - Andrew attends an open meeting for men that are sick of being rejected by women, only to realize that they are not only deeply misogynistic, but full-blown white supremacists. Andrew, being Jewish, is quick to read the room and leave the meeting, ignoring Maury's suggestion of burning the place down, Inglorious Basterds style. - Nick's mother gets uncharacteristically vicious when Nick spends too much time on his phone. When she's finally had enough, she takes his phone and impales it with a fire iron. - Jay sinks to new lows when he decides to sell adderall to students as study aids, becoming a full-blown drug dealer. - Missy's brain under the effects of adderall. It's pretty much like being at a rave when you've got a headache. - Mr. Lizer tricks Lola into giving him a foot massage, then gaslights her when she gets suspicious, in a disturbing representation of child grooming. - "The Shane Lizard Rises": - Missy has a nightmare sequence, induced by the Shame Wizard, where she and Devon are trapped on a moon covered in her back acne. The pus is so acidic that it burns off Devon's legs and lower body, and we see his stringed muscles and a trail of blood as he painfully tries to escape to Earth. - Jessi tries shaving for the first time with an old razor. She nicks herself so badly that her legs ooze rivers of blood. Doubly cringe-inducing if you've struggled with shaving cuts before. - Near the end of "The Green-Eyed Monster," Walter stabs himself because Nick's love for Jessi is unrequited. Then Rick swallows soda and pop rocks and explodes a hole through his stomach, exposing his guts. - The nightmare sequence Jessi has in "Thanksgiving," where she envisions her future half-sibling as a monstrous "Cheese Baby" climbing on the walls, biting with razor-sharp cracker teeth, and speaking in a creepy crackly voice. - Rochelle's transformation into a Lovebug. She screams in pain and her body hideously cracks open, making you believe she's dying. Luckily her Lovebug form is so beautiful. - In the Christmas Episode, The Jansen Twins tell the story of Vader Johan (Father Johan), a terrifying Eldritch Abomination that makes The Krampus look like the goddamned Easter Bunny. Described as a mix of a walrus, a dolphin and "the legs of countless crabs", he lives on the bottom of the ocean in a castle made of childrens bones, and appears on Christmas Eve, playing a flute also made from childrens bones, searching for fresh victims. And it doesn't matter if you've been good or bad, Johan will come for you anyway. Your only chance at escaping him is by sleeping inside a child's coffin, making him think you're already dead, but if he hears your blood, he can tell that you're still alive. - There's a slightly silly part of the story about how Johan's good counterpart is the Mongoose King, who will appear if you put painted eggs in the window, and engage the monster in a dance-off to drive him off, but whatever Nightmare Retardant this might offer is short lived, as this isn't a guaranteed win! If the Mongoose King loses, Vader Johan gets a fresh victim. Oh, and according to the Jansens, death won't be swift, you'll still be alive inside Vader Johan to digest eternally. And finally, if you've once heard the story of Vader Johan, you must spread the story yourself, or he'll come for you next! Once You've Heard The Story Of Vader Johan You Must Share The Story of Vader Johan Or You'll Be Consumed By Vader Johan Which Is Like Death, but Worse! - Jessi develops a horrible yeast infection in "Vagina Shame," which is Nausea Fuel in itself as we see close-ups of her infected anthropomorphic vagina. Then her vagina gets overtaken by its evil twin Beatrice, turning into a screaming fanged mess on top of being extremely red and leaking pus. - "Mario", the unhinged commuter that takes an interest in Andrew while he travels to Vermont by himself. He tricks Andrew into accepting a lift in his car, which he later admits was stolen. Then a highway patrolman pulls them over and "Mario" goes apeshit. - It's brief but we're given this exchange from the climax of "Asexual Healing" that, when compared to a lot of the degenerate things the hormone monsters have said prior, feels genuinely cold and disturbing: Connie: Oh sweetie, humans change slowly. Ya gotta give em' time. Montel: But I thought you said they'd all be dead in 10 years. - During the climax to "F**ked up Friday", Andrew in Marty's body finds himself suckered into having sex with his own mother. He's visibly panicked and Maury is deliberately not helping because he lives for this kind of sick shit.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigMouth
Big Star / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Chris Bell's solo track "Better Save Yourself", where he casually mentions that he attempted suicide twice. - Almost all of Third/Sister Lovers can qualify. The band, now reduced to Alex, Jody and some session musicians, realized that they weren't going to hit it big. This clearly shows in the final product. Alex sounds like he's going through a Creator Breakdown and the whole album has a slightly-to-extremely unsettling atmosphere. - Alex's first post-Big Star album Like Flies on Sherbert takes the Nightmare Fuel present in Third/Sister Lovers and ratchets it up to eleven. The lo-fi production and Alex going through what sounds like even more Sanity Slippage just adds to the whole thing. The album feels almost Lynchian in design and execution.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigStar
Beyblade: Metal Fusion / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Warning: Spoilers Off applies to these pages. Proceed at your own risk. Despite being mostly a Merchandise-Driven kids' show depicting about happy kids playing spinning tops, Metal Fight Beyblade has some moments that was truly terrifying to watch and witness. Some characters also tend to induce these themselves. Metal Fusion/Metal Fight - Reiji. Let's do a list, shall we? He enjoys tormenting his opponents, even after he's clearly already won the battle (during his battle with Hyoma, for example, where we see Poison Serpent actually wrapping itself around Hyoma's neck in a way that would make someone think of strangulation), he has no qualms about scaring the everloving crap out of little kids and he talks like snake going after his prey. His eyes are also usually hidden and, when they open, he looks outright insane! - Yu being betrayed by Dark Nebula. The kid only lost one time and he was forced to battle Reiji, who stuck to his usual routine of tormenting his opponent. Made even worse when Yu spotted Ryuga watching him and begged him to help, only for Ryuga to turn and walk away from him, showing that the person he thought was a good friend was only using him, shredding the last bit of hope he had for anyone to help him. He manages to escape but, when he appears before Gingka and his friends, he looks completely battered and passes out immediately after he saw them, as if he's just then finally reached the limit of his energy. He's then captured again and left in a dark room, just being forced to wait for whatever punishment might be coming to him. - The end of Kyoya's fight against Ryuga in episode 49, in which we see the possessed Ryuga for the first time. It ends with Kyoya's crushing defeat and him being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by L-Drago itself. - Adding onto this, the dark power itself. It continuously gained more and more power inside of Ryuga's body until it completely took control of Ryuga's body and made him take on the appearance of demonic, dragon-like creature. - For whatever reason, after gaining Dark Bull, Benkei seemingly goes utterly insane with power. He begins hallucinating Gingka and starts screaming the word "Bull" over and over again. Despite the narm of his English voice, it's very unsettling to watch in action. Metal Masters/Baku - Continuing on the subject of the dark power, we learn a lot about it in this season when it's discovered that it's infected Tsubasa, bringing out a darkness in his heart that we eventually learn about through flashbacks. Tsubasa's dark side was just completely insane and only wanted to win, no matter what. This lead to the destruction of the entire arena during his and Yu's battle against Damoure and Benkei, as well as knocking out Damoure, Benkei, AND Yu. It makes one wonder why he never told anyone the truth about his past. - Then, later on, we learn the origin of the dark power: It was the dark emotions in the hearts of the people that L-Drago was passed down to through the centuries, including greed, ambitions, anger, and desires of those people. Think about it: a power actually created by the darkness in peoples' hearts... - There's also the nightmare Yu had after the above mentioned battle. A little kid, especially a normally happy one like Yu, dreaming of an entire building going up in flames while he can only stand there and watch. You wouldn't imagine such graphic imagery from the mind of a kid like him. - Julius' ghastly expression◊ after◊ he crosses his Despair Event Horizon when he lost against Damian. The way it's drawn is just downright terrifying. - Any battle involving Damian can qualify as this, especially when Hades Gate is used. Getting dragged down into a gate that leads into a world that is the Beyblade equivalent of Hell itself? Good god. - Adding to that, Damian is also ready to get Kerbecs to beat you up with chains whenever you do or say something funny to him. - Something scarier? The Hell dimension can also blast infernos to burn you up, as Kyoya can testify. Worse, they can appear on whatever spot you are standing. Being burned by an inferno is not a joke! - The Arrangement, in general. Depending on how compatible you are with it, going through the process can be VERY painful. Most people put through the Arrangement suffer terrible physical and mental damage, destroying their blading careers for good as well as possibly leaving them with severe physical/mental trauma and crippling them for the rest of their lives. Even for those that are 100% compatible, the Arrangement brings out, aside from enhanced beyblading skills, intensified negative emotions, and in the cases of Jack and Damian, possible insanity. In fact, it turns Zeo, who is previously such a Nice Guy into someone who is loaded with hatred. Then there's Damian, who spent several years in the highest level of Arrangement to the point where his original personality was almost certainly erased entirely, turning him into someone whose entire purpose of existence is essentially to carry out the will of Dr. Ziggurat. Let's not even start on what it did to Toby. - The potential of the Spiral Force. A small discharge was enough to annihilate an entire landscape. And if Ziggurat wasn't lying, a meltdown of it could destroy the entire planet. If Gingka and co. hadn't stopped Faust and Twisted Tempo, it would have been The End of the World as We Know It. - The fact that Twisted Tempo can create black holes and drag people into alternate universes with its space-warping ability. If that's not enough, it is shown what happens to those trapped inside the black holes: stuck in a timeless, grey-scale world for possibly eternity. THAT is the terrifying ability of a Beyblade with Reality Warper powers. Metal Fury/4D - A minor detail in the long run, but a group of tomb robbers who had been tailing Ryuto actually threatened him with knives! In this world where most people use magical spinning tops as a way of settling their disputes, it is at least a bit frightening to see actual deadly weapons being used. - Rago's line to Kenta in Episode 148 more or less qualifies as this, where he threatened to kill him. You know it is a nightmare fuel when a villain attempts to kill a hero in a mostly Merchandise-Driven kids show. Rago: It's fine. If you really want to die that badly, let me finish you first. - The entire story of Metal Fury is basically centered around the Apocalypse and, when everything's said and done, the destruction caused during the final battle isn't just magically fixed: it stays around for, presumably, many years after. - And this battle affected the entire world: volcanoes erupted, earthquakes ensued, buildings were destroyed, etc. Also, some people died...This IS a kids' show, right?!	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeybladeMetalFusion
Beyblade Shogun Steel / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Kira... the face of nightmares! Much like Metal Fight Beyblade, even if it's a Merchandise-Driven show it can still show some truly nightmare-ish images that may not just be scary for kids... - Eight getting brutally beaten by Yoshio. The fact that a young child like Eight gets both his bey and himself beaten badly by a much bigger and older guy doesn't help either. - Kira. His grotesque facial expressions and his sadism is enough to terrify viewers. - Doji's return as a ghostly form after being revived by Merci is pretty terrifying - What makes this so much more terrifying is that Doji is physically dead but had his spirit and data converted from his deceased body, now as a hologram. He goes on to a rant about how he can no longer experience any satisfaction from his favourite things like his favourite orange juice and cactus needles which is quite chilling. - The whole DNA headquarters collapsing after Doji jumps to his death in hopes of bringing everyone to the same fate as him, which is pretty dark even for the Metal Saga. It's not only the fact Doji stays dead this time, it's the fact that he chooses to all because he wants to have the last laugh against his long-time foes. COMMIT SUICIDE	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeybladeShogunSteel
Big Top Scooby-Doo! / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The flag with the clown head on it that Scooby and Shaggy encounter while theyre searching around the circus. - The Scooby in Shaggy's dream wears a very disturbing blank smile and stare while performing its feats of wonder. - A healthy dose of Fridge Horror makes one realize how dangerous Archambault really is. Most of the newer movies (Abracadabra-Doo and onward) have the people behind the hoaxes openly admit they were never trying to hurt anyone. While Doublebay and Archambaut's werewolf scheme didn't hurt anyone either, when it falls through, Archambaut decides to just straight-up murder Marius in his trailer. Think I'm exaggerating? Remember that Archambaut was slamming Marius against the wall by his neck when Scooby and Shaggy looked in. You can see his thumb pressing into Marius' throat. And Archambaut is a real strongman, so he knows he could really hurt Marius if he got angry enough. Sure, he tied Marius up as he stole the box office money, but he probably wasn't going to leave any witnesses, given how quick he turned on Doubleday, not with his strength and a dart gun full of super-strong animal tranquilizers. If Velma hadn't realized Archambaut's involvement, he very well could have committed murder. - And remember, this was someone Marius worked with every day for at least a year. Someone who was angry and jealous of him for inheriting the circus, and was strong enough to snap even a fit guy like him like a twig. Teaming up with Doubleday was probably the only reason Archambaut didn't try going after him sooner. - Shaggy nearly choking to death after stuffing popcorn in his face while talking about werewolves. His friends, believing that he's actually turning into a werewolf, back away. The music playing doesn't help either. He's barely saved when Marius throws a garlic necklace which hits him in the stomach, acting as an improvised Heimlich maneuver, and afterwards he chews the others out for not helping.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigTopScoobyDoo
Beware the Batman / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "...all the King's horses, and all the King's men...." As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. Hunted - Professor Pyg threatening to saw off Alfred's broken leg. Even though he's been toned down greatly from his comic counterpart, there are implications that he still butchers his victims. Secrets - Whilst fleeing Batman, Magpie falls off a rooftop and onto a car. She appears to be dead at first, but she slowly gets back up, her bones making a sickening cracking sound. - The ruins of Miskatonic Psychiatric Hospital are quite unsettling. - Magpie nearly killing Doctor Ravencroft. Broken - The opening could probably pass as an animated version of Criminal Minds. - Humpty Dumpty. His creepy laugh and Slasher Smile are quite disturbing, as seen in this page's image. - In Tatsu's flashback, the Soultaker Sword's powers are demonstrated when Silver Monkey uses it on a League of Assassins ninja. To say that it's unsettling would be an understatement. - What really clinches it is the look of fear in the ninja's eyes as Monkey steals his soul. - The toy soldiers Humpty imprisons his victims in. They detonate if one attempts to free them. Toxic - Stagg using the gas on Rex just to keep him away from Sapphire. - Rex's skin turning into metal, than bubbling. - The fact that the process that mutated him was killing him. - Batman electrocuting Metamorpho. - "Wayne hooked. Awaiting instructions." Family - Lady Shiva using the Soultaker Sword on Dr. Ravencroft onscreen. The end result is horrifying, to say the least. What really makes it chilling is Ravencroft's screams as Batman and Tatsu look on in horror. - And the only reason she doesn't use the sword on Silver Monkey? She's got something worse in mind for him. Allies - When Barbara gets kidnapped by Phosphorus Rex, we get a POV shot of her terrified face as she's grabbed. - The Ghosts in general. They never say anything aside from a few grunts during combat, their general appearance is quite scary, and then there's the way they emerge from the shadows after Match calls for them. Control - Pretty much everything about Cypher. He's very stealthy and often crawls on the walls, can make you into his personal puppet with his tendrils, and judging by what happened with his first victim, being his puppet isn't very pretty. Not to mention that when he talks through his victims, it's in their voice mixed with his own, complete with creepy metallic echo. And when he laughs, it's terrifying. Especially when he's talking through his victims. - Cypher getting electrocuted by his own tendril. - Jason Burr still being under control in the episode's end. Sacrifice - Anarky's plan to unleash a Titan-esque virus on all of Gotham. Not to mention when we see the virus' effect on the two ninjas. - The sight of Ra's al Ghul in a cryogenic suspension unit. - Tatsu getting infected from the virus. Instinct - Pyg and Toad's deathtraps. Jason Burr: Don't worry. She doesn't suspect a thing. By the time she and Wayne know what's happening, the Ion Cortex will be complete and in your hands. Lady Shiva: You will be generously rewarded for your assistance, Dr. Burr. Welcome to the League of Assassins. Attraction - Magpie's sanity seems to have deteriorated even more since her capture. Even worse, she's gone full-blown Yandere for Batman and nearly kills Katana by burying her alive in a coffin. Fall - The League now has control over Gotham's electricity network, and they've taken Batman prisoner. - You thought Dr. Ravencroft's fate was unnerving? Well, it happens again, and this time, with Jason Burr, a major recurring character as well as Katana's sort-of love interest. Way to come into your own, Beware the Batman. Reckoning - Pyg and Toad, Magpie, Milo Match, and Cypher have a four-way fight that plays out off-screen. Fridge Horror sets in once you realize Pyg and Toad are the only two of that group who are ever seen or mentioned again. - Ra's al Ghul's defeat: Being dragged down an elevator shaft by the ghosts of his past enemies. That were imprisoned in the Soultaker Sword. Nexus - The ending of this episode is quite chilling, as Batman, becoming increasingly ruthless due to Alfred's abscence, breaks down training boards aggressively as a concerned Tatsu tries to call Alfred on the phone and begs him to come back home. The editing, sound, and voice acting really sell it. Monsters - The beginning of the episode. Full stop. To elaborate, armored thugs have broken in to a store only to be picked off one by one by a mysterious assailant. At first, you're thinking it's probably Batman, but when we get a closer look at him, it looks nothing like Bats. The assailant takes down the thugs and you're left wondering "What the hell is that thing?" Thankfully it's revealed that it's Metamorpho who is trying to protect Gotham. - The very idea of armored thugs intimidating store owners into leaving Old Gotham. For a comparison, think about the Mafia and their extortion racket. Made even scarier by the fact that it was orchestrated by Stagg's daughter. It seems the apple doesn't fall very far from the tree. - Bruce's Crime Alley flashback, particularly when the way Martha Wayne was shot heavily implies she was shot straight in the head for young Bruce to see. Games - Humpty Dumpty's back, ladies and gentleman. And he's more terrifying than before. The episode can best be described as a twisted, G-Rated Shout-Out to the Saw franchise. - After Batman and Katana meet up with the others, Humpty reveals himself and orders them to open the tray on the table, revealing that it was a dead body. The horror is lessened when it's revealed it's just a mannequin, but Goddamn. What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? - Let's run through Humpty's deathtraps: - When Batman and Katana meet, the room they're in has a pendulum, acid, and flames. - Marion Grange gets trapped in an air-tight egg-shaped prison. She only had two minutes before she lost all of her oxygen and would have died had Batman and Katana not solved the riddle. - The next room had lit floor tiles that would give out when they darkened, causing anyone who stood on them to fall. - Another room was filled with spikes. - Hell, Humpty in general was a walking tank of Nightmare Fuel. While he was scary in his debut, he was still sympathetic, but here? He's a full-on sadistic psychopath. - Seeing Marion Grange, a stoic Iron Lady, freak out over the course of the episode was truly frightening. In fact, the experience so thouroughly traumatised her that the next episode revealed she had to take a vacation, and later she resigned. - And there's the fact that an innocent man got sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit. Made scarier by the fact that this actually happens in real life! Animal Doppelganger - The opening of the episode has Bruce having a nightmare about his battle with Killer Croc and confessing to Alfred that he's afraid of losing control of his Batman persona. It's really unsettling to see The Batman genuinely frightened by something and makes Magpie's "Not So Different" Remark speech in Attraction a lot Harsher in Hindsight. - Professor Pyg shows that despite being considerably toned down in comparison to his comic counterpart, he still retains his Mad Scientist traits. His plan in this episode? Create an army of Human/Animal hybrids with a special serum. And his first victims are three frightened women. Thankfully Batman and Katana free the women before they could start. - Pyg was even willing to let Mr. Toad pick one of the women for a bride. Choices - Killer Croc is shown to be a cannibal, unlike most animated depictions, when he tries to eat Barbara Gordon. He also continuously calls her "girlie" and "sweetie", which makes his hunt for her even creepier. Twist - A deranged, disfigured Harvey Dent stalking and threatening Jocelyn Kilroy and newly-appointed mayor David Hull to do his bidding. The former's POV is pretty much filmed like a horror film, and the later is unsettling considering how Hull was playing him along and dismissing him earlier in the episode.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BewareTheBatman
Beyblade Burst / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Boa managing to complete the Snake Pit's trials and obtaining Ark Balkesh is awesome in and of itself, but seeing how worse for wear he looked at the end (and with that scar, no less), one has to wonder just what kind of horrible stuff he went through. The Reveal that Shu got his scar from Lui using Luinor to launch Spryzen at his face during their battle in the previous National Finals. We don't see it onscreen (for obvious reasons), but it's pretty obvious what happened. It's even worse in the manga where the incident is not only shown in full, but we even see Shu's eye bleeding afterwards. No wonder he's so obsessed with winning! Xander becoming disappointed in Valt after seeing him get curb stomped by Ren Wu in their Battle Royale. Its the first time weve ever seen Xander get truly angry, and its unsettling. Lui, whenever he flashes his unnerving smiles. And need we say more about his Nightmare Boost? Silas, while one of the good guys, can also have some intimidating smiles. Free has his moments. He exerts his body when he is serious, gaining new strength, but appearing more monstrous, with veins popping out of his body, and his normally dark eyes turning gold. It's almost like Ryuga when he was being controlled by Lightning L-Drago. Ever wondered why Free wears that gauntlet? The manga reveals that to make himself serious in battle, he would bite his own arm to the point of drawing blood! The moment when Suoh first obtains Heat Salamander. In one scene, we see a dark shadow of Salamanders avatar. Hyde, Phi's younger twin brother, can be this: He often sticks out his tongue and licks his lips, laughing "HAHA" and shouting. Then there's whenever he calls upon Hades' special moves, all in a wildly creepy high-pitched voice. Shu, while under the effects of Spryzen Requiem's power. To see the normally kind, calm and gentle 11-year old boy become this angry, psychotic, power-hungry monster is both this and a Tear Jerker. Aiger's resonance slowly becoming corrupt. Stemming from his fear of Phi's intention to destroy his Bey, he becomes more and more obsessed with winning (aka, destroying his opponents), and refuses to listen to his friends when they want to help him. He also develops Glowing Eyes of Doom. His dark resonance with Phoenix can corrupt people. Whenever he uses it, he develops Black Eyes of Crazy and a Voice of the Legion, and his power skyrockets to frightening levels. Hes like a true demon from Hell. And in his final battle with Aiger, Phi tries to break his soul by making incredibly creepy faces, laughing maniacally, whispering to him, using deadly new moves, and trying to use his darkness to corrupt him again! Hes essentially a much darker representation of what Shu would be like if he were still Red Eye, and if Aiger had never realized his mistake. The Snake Pit. Although the show depicts nothing dark, one can imagine the trauma of being in there. Some even headcanon of eventual death. In reality, it is a secret organization devoted to creating the ultimate Bey using research, and is made up of a team of elite Bladers. While he was never really considered an antagonist, Theodore Glass, the owner of the Snake Pit Organization and manager of the Raging Bulls, used Shu's moment of weakness to convince him to become part of the Snake Pit Organization. Shu should consider himself lucky Theodore didn't have any ulterior motives. Evolution #43: Joshua's reaction when he unknowingly loses to Free with a Burst Finish; he sinks to the floor in anguish in a similar manner to Julian from the Metal Saga. Evolution #49: Shu vs. Lui in the semi-finals of the International Bladers Cup. Two of the strongest, most psychotic bladers finally face off. And it does NOT end well. It says a lot when Lui of all people is concerned after witnessing the destruction of Shu's previous opponents. Shu: Spryzen, DESTROY HIM. Lui's expression becomes increasingly scary as Nightmare Luinor is destroyed, culminating in a mix of terror and excitement. Turbo #18: While the ghost kid appearing at the end may be funny, there's still the fact that a young child apparently died on the pirate ship. Turbo #24: Phi makes an especially grotesque face (pictured above) when his dark nature is discovered by Laban, then he outright taps into his dark resonance and breaks Laban's Vise Leopard in two. Turbo #43: Free's Fafnir getting destroyed by Phi, and Valt immediately challenging Phi after witnessing it. Phi enjoys his opponents misery, however, so he claims Valt to be his last "sacrifice" as a reason to make Valt see his friends suffer first. Turbo #47: Phi attempting to corrupt Shu again (fortunately it didn't work), and destroying Turbo Spryzen, especially the moment where Shu was seemingly swallowed up by that scary black mist. In season 4, we have Devolos, a Bey that preys upon the the Beys' "lights". It's frighteningly similar to how Lightning L-Drago steals the power of its defeated opponents. In #10 of Superking, we see Free express genuine anger for the first time. This is not like his "glowing eyes/veiny muscles" serious mode. No, this is pure rage, and it's rather terrifying to see such a normally calm and emotionless character behave this way. And it's because of a vision he saw of the Blader who defeated him in New York. Bonus scare points: We don't even see this Blader's face, save for their glowing purple eyes and Facial Markings, which only serve to make their shadowy face all the more menacing. His name is later revealed to be Lain Valhalla, and he possesses a powerful type of Resonance called Flare, which grows stronger every time he defeats a Legendary Blader. If you thought Phi was terrifying, just look at the some of the expressions Lain gives off. Lain's hedgehog, Harry can also be pretty scary at times, especially whenever he hisses at someone. Bel's home address is publicly known, it's a large mansion filled with likely expensive Beyblade equipment and Jinemon is the only adult present. Think of the horrible implications, with robbery being the least of it. Ranjiro even accused Raul of being a kidnapper back in Turbo, which means that yes, even the world of Beyblade has heinous criminals.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeybladeBurst
Beyond Good & Evil / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - During the mission in the Nutripils Factory, one of Jade's objectives is to photograph a member of the Alpha Sections with his helmet off. You might think this is just to name and shame the conspirators, until you find out what they look like underneath their helmets. - It gets even worse when you see it later on the M Disc and that music is playing. - The human trafficking in the factory and the slaughterhouses is frankly unsettling in and of itself, especially if you haven't figured out yet what the DomZ plan to do with them. Scanning the crates with your camera before the X-ray pretty much proves that something is still alive in there. Then they start abducting children. Heck, one young NPC disappears later in the game. - The way the DomZ monster deals with the Alpha Section who didn't neutralize all the intruders. There's no warning, no words spoken, no clear idea exactly what the thing is doing to him as he groans in agony. All we know is that, when it's finished, he hits the ground as a corpse and the beast turns its attention to Jade. - Crochax aren't particularly scary by monster standards, especially when you've whacked a few of them already, but they aren't half fast and they can reduce you to button-mashing if they attack in groups. - In the DomZ base, Double H sums it up well. - The appearance of the Pterolimax has shades of Nothing Is Scarier. At first, the Pterolimax are shown as two goofy faces with mad grinning expressions on them, and after you cross a bridge to meet them, they play "peek-a-boo" when you try and photograph the pair. That bridge was its tail, and those two "faces" are its eyestalks. - The whales that suddenly appear if you drive your hovecraft too far away from the game's "map", and also the one in space. - Just to show you that the game is not fooling around, the very first monsters you fight are children, trapped inside some creepy exoskeletons that drain their lifeforce to power up their attacks. Sure, as you break them up, you free the children, apparently unharmed, but you don't know that from the start. - The DomZ Priest. What has been seen, cannot be unseen...◊	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeyondGoodAndEvil
Bill & Ted / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Various denizens of Hell in the second film, such as the Easter Bunny and Granny. - The Grim Reaper has a bit of this by appearing far away from the recently deceased B&T. They have enough time to spot him before he instantly appears behind them. - Ted's Disney Death in the first movie can be unsettling to some little kids. - Evil Bill and Ted revealing themselves as robots at the beginning by literally ripping their faces off in front of the crowd.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BillAndTed
Billy Bat / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The overall story; a seemingly harmless comic book character grows into a viral icon worshiped like a god, giving his producers tyrannical power, and has a real presence on the moon as a supernatural living idea prophesying the end of the world. - When Kevin and the Momochis reach Koumori village \|\|the place has gone insane. The villagers have been digging up holes in the middle of the night, and the sight of dozens of mud-covered locals crawling out of the holes and shambling toward their car is capped off by finding Henry Charles Devivie strung up.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BillyBat
Binary Domain / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!" - The Robotic Reveal of a Hollow Child is ALWAYS a scary moment, particularly for the Hollow Child itself. - \|\|Yoshiki's\|\| reveal as a Hollow Child is probably the most horrifying in the entire game. The slasher smile and evil red glowing eyes that dance around independently of one another might have something to to with it. - The whole sequence with Dan, Shindo and \|\|Detective Kurosawa\|\| in the basement of the Amada building. Three humans vs HUNDREDS of zombie-like defective Hollow Children. Considering they're rejected/defective versions of robots who believe themselves to be human, it's quite possible they have the mentality of a rejected/defective human. That is to say, they're homicidally insane. - Shindo's last meeting with Yoshiki, \|\|or to clarify, his meeting with a bunch of crazed robot-zombie duplicates of Yoshiki with human faces and skeletal bodies. Uncanny Valley to the Nth dregree\|\|. - Hollow Children are the ultimate infiltration agents - and they could be anywhere. Given that one Hollow Child became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - it passed all the background checks and vetting that needed to take place - you can't be sure you're not surrounded by them. - Surrounded by them? For all you know, you could be one. - Forget the fact that he's a crazy Beta Test Baddie who is responsible for all the horror relating to Hollow Children by virtue of being their creator, what's really scary about the \|\|Amada AI\|\| is what was done to him. \|\|Imagine how you'd turn out if your "father" essentially tortured you from birth.\|\| - Hollow Children look the same as humans. How can you be sure the main characters aren't Hollow Children themselves? Granted, the Amada AI doesn't control them, but maybe it's because it isn't trying to. - How about the idea that the little fact that \|\|your mother was a Hollow Child\|\| is considered reason enough to send heavily armed military crews to hunt you down and kill you? - The final boss, \|\|Major Philips\|\|. Not as outwardly terrifying as the above examples, but his near Dissonant Serenity and general Punch-Clock Villain attitude during the final encounter despite the circumstances puts him as far into the Uncanny Valley as the Hollow Children. Also, if you fail the small interactive QTE event involving charging Dan's Bosonic Charge underbarrel launcher at the boss, then you're treated to a very visceral blood-curdling scream from Dan as the boss's rapidly-spinning claw-arm saws him open, and while the damage to Dan himself isn't shown on screen due to it being from Dan's perspective POV, the scream and blood on the screen alone is more than enough to realize just how messy it is...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BinaryDomain
BIONICLE / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Well, the line is for Ages 6-16... ## Events: - The demise of the Bohrok-Kal when the Toa-Nuva tricked them into absorbing the powers of the Nuva symbols. - Mask of Light - The Rahkshi opening their head-plates. Averted in the toys themselves (due to the limitations of toy design), but it is used in full force here to unleash pure Nightmare Fuel on other characters (and the viewers, naturally). - Makuta's giant red eyes leering at Takua in the darkness of the caves at the Onu-Koro Highway, especially the final shot revealing them on the ceiling, watching the entire conversation between Takua and Jaller. - Legends of Metru Nui, darker than the first film - Web of Shadows, the darkest film in the series - The basic plot. The Toa Metru get back to the ruined city, only to find that the Rahi have all escaped and are running rampant (and yeah, this includes Rahkshi), and there are webs everywhere and green fog that looks creepy as hell. Even leaving out the extra horrors in Web of the Visorak, the true terror happens when the Toa get captured; the Visorak slowly appear out of the fog, ''screeching'' a noise so terrifying that you'll want a night-light (as with the Rahkshi from the first film), and then surrounding the downed Toa as they begin to drool their venom... - Vakama's Jump Scare at the beginning. - The Toa transformation scene to Hordika also counts while most likely being the Signature Scene at the same time. - Roodaka asking for the Toas bodies is just as creepy, if not even more. - The Toa Hordika in general. They are described as bestial, half-Toa half-Rahi creatures retaining their higher mental processes but plagued with animalistic impulses. The latter is exemplified with the roars they make, such as Vakama. - Following his FaceHeel Turn, Vakama can scare the crap out of you again in the scene where he suddenly attacks Norik. Really, poor both of them. - Sidorak's death by Keetongu. While not actually a scary scene (as you see nothing but Keetongu make the kill), just imagine being in his place. What actually makes this creepy comes from a Q&A where Greg Farshtey said that the damage sustained to his cranial capacity was so severe, to the point of nearly destroying his head, that he was unable to be revived on the Red Star. - Following his accidental release by the Toa Hordika, theres Makuta's shadow hand emerging and engulfing Roodaka. But thankfully (for her) instead of absorbing her like Nidhiki & Krekka, she gets teleported to safety. - If you have the guts, watch Web of Shadows 'til the very end of the credits. If you don't want to watch it, basically before the Miramax and Creative Capers logos there is a Jump Scare featuring the close up of a Visorak, complete with its screeching and buzzsaw mouth. But really, this film is rich in this. - The "Maze of Shadows" from the eponymous novel and video game. The whole place is literally littered with dead or dying mutant animals, all waiting for the end to come. Even the fact that it's a dark, creepy, unwelcoming (what else would you expect from the halls of the Makuta?) place where you can get lost in the first place is scary. - Matau being fused to a wall, following an attack from a Red Serpent. - The island of Xia, home of the Vortixx, is tied with Karzahni as being the most terrifying island in the Matoran Universe. The biggest mountain there is alive, and when climbing the mountain practically everything is trying to kill you. Vines pop out of the cliff face, rocks fall away, and not only that, the mountain eventually eats you. Climbing this mountain is also a Rite of Passage for all Vortixx. And it's another Makuta creation. - Worst thing is, it wasn't put there deliberately. Mutran just forgot it there and didn't bother to retrieve it. - Zaktan's interrogation of a Toa of Plasma. Only some shreds of the Toa's armor remained and a puddle of a substance one wouldn't want to identify. Sure, we never got to see just what had happened (Zaktan could've let the Toa free to set up a fake death scene), but to have nightmares, your imagination is enough. - The whole land of Karzahni before it got demolished in a flood. Zombie-like people wandering around aimlessly with deep, empty eyes; the ground turning you into rock if you dare to sit down; in turn, the ground itself coming alive to scream at every step you take; and to make matters worse, tiny, almost microscopic insects keep bugging you all the time. - The web serials in general, which peak in the series' dark and violent tone, offer a great number and variety of Nightmare Fuel. - One seldom mentioned example is the army of shadow Takanuvas. Now, Takanuva is originally a heroic character of light (the one and only Toa of Light, none the less). A mean Makuta named Tridax got the idea of creating an army of him. So he used a Mask of Dimensional gates and gathered a bunch of alternate-Takanuvas from different dimensions. He placed them into tubes, turned most of their light into shadow, and got killed by a sadistic good guy whose comrades subsequently destroyed the fortress, killing several evil Takanuvas in the process. The image of all those heroes-turned-villains, some totally evil, some only half-shadow, emerging from those tubes, leaving behind their dead alternate-selves in the ruins of the Makuta fortress is horrifying. Thankfully it's only a pictureless web-serial. But then you're still left with the following thought: all those alternate realities have been robbed of their Takanuvas, who was a desperately needed hero, a character who brought light into the darkness, and also responsible for reviving Jaller, his friend who died in battle. Tridax, you screwed all those realities, you deserved being dissolved by a virus and burning into nothing. - Alternate Tuyet's death in Dark Mirror. She is ripped in half by a portal, screaming in pain with body fluids spewing everywhere. - The way Makuta Teridax ended the Matoran civil war, AKA the Archives Massacre. He led most of the participants into the Archives, trapped them inside, and unleashed the "exhibits" (read: all kinds of nasty, freaky beasts). It took a while to clean up... - Botar's death. Crushed to death inside his armor by Makuta Icarax's magnetic power. In one sentence. - Carapar being shattered into crystal fragments by a third eye that suddenly appeared on Tren Krom; which is already an insanity-inducing, formless jelly mass. He's a Shout-Out to Cthulhu, after all. - Lewa switched bodies with Tren Krom, and Tren Krom is now running merrily about, Lewa is an island, and no one's the wiser. The being stuck in one place as an Eldritch Abomination and none of your friends knowing where you are because they think you're right there, if acting a little off... it's really terrifying. Tren Krom may technically be on the side of 'Good', but he's got a funny way of showing it... - The "Forest of Blades". Ancient warriors, half-consumed by vegetation, with parts of their anatomy (and their weapons, of course) sticking out of the trees. Worse, you can't tell whether they're still alive or not, and if you enter the forest, you're confronted with the possibilities of being sliced to shreds by those blades or the trees devouring you as well. - Since The Shadowed One attempted to execute him, Zaktan doesn't have autonomous physical control over his own body, as evidenced by this quote from Inferno. Imagine how horrifying that would be, particularly in a high-stakes battle. - Hakann's armor melting at the end of Legends #4. - "Empire of the Skrall", one of the three original comics made for the Legends of Bara Magna graphic novel, is probably the closest BIONICLE has come to feeling like outright horror. The Skrall, as villainous as they may be, are hunted down and killed by the Baterra, mechanical lifeforms capable of shapeshifting into their surroundings and just as quickly disappearing. The comic ends with Tuma ordering the Skrall to set their fortress ablaze when it gets overrun by Baterra and with the Skrall fleeing to the deserts of Bara Magna. The kicker to all of this? "All Our Sins Remembered", another comic from that same graphic novel, reveals that the Baterra are creations of the Great Beings, made with the purpose of annihilating every tribe that fought in the Core War. ## Characters: ## Masks: - The Kanohi Komau. It controls minds, as long as the order sent by the user doesn't go against the victim's morals. But when the victim has no morals, what then? - The Kanohi Suletu. Its design makes Kongu look like a zombie, though this is averted with Krakua, who wears the mask as well but his is shaped like a Kanohi Hau. - The Kanohi Tryna. It reanimates the dead regardless of the damage their bodies have received. Matoro used it to resurrect a decoy Tuyet when she was reduced to nothing but a pile of armor on the ocean floor. - The Kanohi Jutlin. It destroys inorganic materials by causing them to decompose and rust rapidly. Bear in mind that vast majority of the Matoran Universe are biomechanical beings with a lot of metallic parts and armor. Its bat-like appearance doesn't help. - The Kanohi Avsa. It looks like a vampire face, and its bearer is a silent, bat-like hunter. - The Mask of Undeath turns you into a literal zombie. It absorbs your life-force when you wear it, and then uses it to resurrect you if you die so that you can complete the last task you wanted to finish. Its design◊ also looks cold as fuck, but thank God there hasnt been a prominent bearer in the storyline, most likely due to being Ascended Fanon. - The Olisi, Mask of Alternate Futures. The already nightmarish Karzahni uses is to Mind Rape his enemies by showing them horrible alternate futures, as he did with Jaller for example. The Olisi's appearance itself is also scary. - The future he shows Jaller is itself pretty terrifying - What If? he hadn't pulled his Heroic Sacrifice in Mask Of Light? Well, for starters, Takua is killed by the Turahk, and without a Toa Of Light, Teridax continues tormenting the Matoran of Mata Nui uninhibited. He creates more and more powerful Rahkshi, sending them in waves until the Toa Nuva are overwhelmed and killed one after another, leaving Teridax free to enslave the entire island. The Turaga are imprisoned and attempt a ill-fated breakout - Jaller is Forced to Watch what happens next. Finally, he and Hahli are both reduced to Teridax's personal servants, now too far beyond the Despair Event Horizon to even try and resist anymore. - The vision Karzahni showed to Teridax during their fight. He showed him what would happen if the Makuta's plan failed and Mata Nui awoke of his slumber, enraged by his brother's betrayal. It's unknown what he exactly saw, but it was enough to make Teridax scream in horror. - Any Inika masks in general could work as Nightmare Fuel. They were organic. That's one reason enough to fear them. Then they were said to have some sort of sentience (activating when they sensed their wearer needed the power contained in them), and they were said to shift on the Inika's faces and react to touch. Good thing the Inika's faces are made of metal, or they'd be clawing them off like they were Alien Facehuggers. Add to the creepy masks the fact that the Inika's real faces are also obscured by the light beaming off of them (as a result of their transformation by lightning), and you've got a couple of creepy dudes. - The unnamed Mask of Fusion, which allows its users to fuse with other beings. Of particular note is that unlike Toa Kaita, the fusees don't have to consent. Again, no important character wears it, as with the aforementioned Mask of Undeath. - The Mask of Mutation worn by Miserix, which is basically Roodaka's Rhotuka turned into a Kanohi. - The Mask of Charisma. The name implies it simply convinces people. It doesn't. It subtly changes their view on the world to the point they agree with the user and are willing to serve him. In other words, it brainwashes people. And it's worn by one of the good guys. ## Other: - The Game Boy Advance game Web of Shadows, a interquel between Legends of Metru Nui and Web of Shadows, isn't as dark as either movie, but still has some elements of Nightmare Fuel thrown in. - The Rahi Nui - a hideous amalgamation of various Rahi species that was able to easily defeat the Toa Metru and even fatally poison Nokama, setting up the plot of the Toa Metru being forced to go get Energized Protodermis for the Karzahni (the plant, not the demigod) in exchange for the cure. It's also worth noting that we never see the full creature, just its stinger as it strikes poor Nokama down. - The music used for the first area of the game, where the Toa Metru are trapped on the uninhabited island of Mata Nui. It sounds like what would happen if you crossed the themes for The X-Files and The Twilight Zone with GBA static and a weird, droning melody. - And at the other end of the game, the theme for Makuta's lair. Ominous and mysterious, the track has been compared by some commenters to the Dark Citadel from the Playstation 1 version of Doom, giving the same sense of "You're close to your goal, but you may not like what you find there".	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bionicle
BioShock: Rapture / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The Start of Darkness for Rapture and many of its inhabitants is quite disturbing. Notably Tenenbaum with her description of hosting ADAM producing sea slugs inside of children and her complete disregard for the adults subjects she killed for her experiments which disgusts even Fontaine at first. Tenenbaum: We try adults already. Two subjects. They sickened and died. Screamingvery noisy. Irritating. One of them reached to me She looked in wonder at her hand. Tried to hold on to my hand. Begging, take it out, take it out of me But children! Ahit likes to be in children. The sea slug is happy there. Fontaine: Its happy in children? Wellhows it work exactly? Tenenbaum: We implant sea slug in lining of childs stomach. The sea slug bonds with cells, becomes symbiotic with human host. After host feeds, we induce regurgitation, and then we have twenty, thirty times more yield of usable ADAM. Fontaine: And how do you know it works so good on kids? (Dr. Suchong answered him as he pushed a gurney into the room) Suchong: Suchong and Tenenbaum experiment on this child! {(Stretched out on the gurney was what appeared to be a sleeping child, a rather ordinary little white girl in a dressing gown, strapped to the wheeled hospital bed. She was perhaps six years old. Her eyes openedshe looked up at him sleepily, gave him a distant, fuzzy smile. Drugged) - The way Rupert Mudge murders his wife over an argument against him using Plasmids with her money. Narrator: She was tugging at the door handle. Rupert Mudge turned, seized the icebox, lifted it up, spun aroundand threw it at her. Funny how light it seemed in his hands And funny too, how fragile she turned out to be. She had seemed like a real terror, sometimes. A little ball of fury. But now, just a big wet red splash all over the rusty metal door. And the wall. And the floor. And the ceiling. And a head all by itself, facing into the corner - The New Year's Eve Massacre of 1959. - Sander Cohen and Martin Finnegan murdering three innocent people. Even before that the two went on a drunken trip to Arcadia and forced a teenage boy to have sex with an octopus. - Dr. Steinman operating on a splicer woman he's bought off from the local authorities after he's gone mad. He rips her face off. - Harold Babcock and his wife getting electrocuted in a plasmid fight. Their deaths are described as followed: Narrator: Onlookers screamed as Babcock and his wife went rigid. The two of them were doing an absurd little dance together, locked in a fatal embrace as the current raged through them, sparking blue from their bared teeth. Mrs. Babcocks hair stood on end; her dress caught fire Their eyes smoked and then boiled out of their heads. Their faces contorted. The charge burst and sparks flew into the walls and floor as Mr. and Mrs. Babcock, flesh fused in a grotesque mock of marriage, fell in a limp, smoldering heap. - The experimental plasmid subject created by Tenenbaum and Suchong when first testing Plasmids; a twisted blob-mass of flesh and random body parts. Fontaine is so disturbed by it he has the subject and its cell burned. Narrator:We try to mix some genes from sea creatures with human, Suchong was saying. Give man powers of certain animals. But The musty, ill-lit rectangular chamber was about thirty-five feet by thirty, but it seemed smaller because of the shifting heap of the thing that dominated it. Clinging to the walls opposite Fontaine was something that mightve once been human. It was as if someone had taken human flesh and made it as malleable as claybones and flesh made pliableand plastered it onto the wall. Beaded with sweat, the mass of human flesh seemed to simply cling there, spread over two walls and a corner. A bloated face muttered to itself, at the center of the creature, near the ceiling; several human organs were exposed, including a heart and kidneys, damp and quivering, dangling like meat in a butchery from crust-edged gaps in its body, the creatures big limbs - The whole situation with the Little Sisters being essentially captured, experimented, and used as ADAM factories is explained in horrifying detail as an idea masterminded by Dr. Tenenbaum and Fontaine with help of some of Rapture's dirty cops and his orphanage. There's also implied cases of Little Sisters being sold and used as sex slaves by some residents of Rapture such as Sander Cohen and ripped apart by Splicers to feed on their ADAM later in the story. Just shows how Rapture, a society without supposed laws or even restraints, is a Hell on Earth for any unlucky child that ends up there. - The situation of kidnapping by cops also extends to adults as Splicers and Non-Splicers alike are kidnapped by cops and killed by some of Rapture's most depraved residents in exchange for bribes.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BioShockRapture
BioShock 2 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes BioShock \| BioShock 2 \| BioShock Infinite "Big Sister is always watching." - The fact you're called Subject DELTA implies that, even with all the screwed up stuff you learn about your past, there are/were 3 more Alpha-Series Big Daddies before you. In one of Alexander's Audio Diaries, they mention that they were currently testing Subject Sigma. Its implied that Delta may be the only one with sanity and considering later events, it is implied that Alpha Series Big Daddies are still being made. Makes it something of a relief that you actually get to play Sigma, huh? - Injecting your first plasmid is just as nightmarish as it was in the first game. Subject Delta is brought to his knees, violently spasming in excruciating pain while electricity sparks from his hands. And the entire time he is grunting in pain. If it wasnt for his vocal modifications he would probably be screaming bloody murder. - Amusement park animatronics are naturally creepy already. So what about damaged, vandalized, abandoned ones that spew propaganda? Hell, even Ryan himself said he was creeped out by them. Ryan: Seeing myself transformed into that... lurching waxen nightmare... Do children really respond to this? - Then you see Ryan's own animatron at the very end of the park. Only, by now, it's seen much better days when it still looked at least human. - And speaking of propaganda, it's not quite the concept of the propaganda itself that is the most unsettling, but the content. It goes on to explain how the governments seize crops and scientific assets, censors what doesn't benefit them, and most disturbingly, drafts youths into war to die early. And by the way, whenever Ryan sums up what the "parasites" say in a low growling tone, the display is illuminated with a red light as a huge hand representing the powers that be. As if we needed more hints of how Ryan views the world. - Sofia Lamb. - "This is not your daughter. Her name is Eleanor, and she is mine." There is no love in this voice. No affection. Merely possessiveness. Lamb sees Eleanor solely as something belonging to her, to mold and shape as she sees fit. And then she tells you to remove your helmet, put a pistol to your temple... - With a plasmid that you probably have used in the previous game. - And that you'll probably use in this game still. Hypnotize Level 3. - Don't think of it in terms of Big Daddy/Little Sister. Think of it as a father watching his daughter watch him commit forced suicide. - She didn't even need to make Delta shoot himself, she could have pulled the trigger herself. - The fact that Lamb used her psychiatry sessions not to comfort vulnerable and needy people, but rather to Mind Rape them into believing they were horribly selfish, "cure" them of their "selfishness", and get them to join her creepy Utopian cult is utterly evil, and utterly terrifying. More than one diary talks about how the speaker was so awful before Doctor Lamb "cured" them, but now they can serve the Family and do some good... - The fact that she is just waiting next to Eleanor when Delta finds her in Persephone, prepared to smother her own daughter just to stop him. This pretty much drives home the fact that she doesn't see Eleanor as a daughter; as something to care for as a person. She sees her a tool to be used as she sees fit and for nothing more and no-one else, and is fully prepared to nearly kill her if it means she's denying her to someone else. - Her line right before is enough to make your heart sink. - Her demeanor, which seems so cold and detached in comparison to Ryan. He at least showed passion in keeping "his" city, whenever he communicates with Jack. Sofia just seems cold and uncaring, speaking to Delta like he's just some especially troublesome organism on a lab table that won't stay still. - The novel makes it clear that Lamb was like this before coming to Rapture, but it wasn't until she had access to desperate people incapable of escape that she started thinking about a 'revolution.' At first you chalk up Ryan's hatred of Lamb to her being a Dirty Communist, but then you realize the utter disconnect between her terrifyingly soothing public face and her utter lack of empathy for anyone, from her followers to her daughter. Lamb emphasizes 'caring for everyone equally' to the point where she does feel the same thing for everyone: Absolute indifference to their status as humans, concerned only with how they can advance her Greater Good. - After Eleanor and Delta begin their escape, Sofia chimes in with this. She's gone off the deep end. And she intends to drag everyone down with her. Sofia: Subject Delta... I know you can hear me. You have stolen my life's work, and with it my only daughter. But Rapture is the house of monsters. The surface will not have us. And now, we shall be buried as a family. Side by side. - Unlike any other character in the franchise, including Atlas, Sofia doesn't show any genuine emotion. At all. Not even sadism. - Even creepier is one later on, where she reaches out to Eleanor in a vain attempt to change her mind. And she ends it with "Mummy loves you." - And there's Sofia's goal. She intends to use the resources of Rapture to create what she calls a Utopian; to her, a utopia is not a place but a people, something that will only exist when the right people are "fit to occupy it." Her way of achieving that? Creating a being who has the power to serve the common good, filled with the minds and DNA of all of Rapture's greatest geniuses, but with absolutely no sense of self- no desire, no free will, not even true consciousness. This is her ideal state of being for humanity- to Sofia, being forced to do good is morally better than having the choice to do evil. What's worse? She intends to force this transformation onto Eleanor, her own daughter. - Early in the game the player comes across a photo reading "Rapture's best and brightest 1952". Who's on it? Tenenbaum, Cohen, Alexander, Ryan, Lamb, and Suchong. Tenenbaum looking nervous and childlike, Cohen looking oddly warped, Alexander distant and unfocused, Ryan glaring at the camera, Lamb smiling calmly, and Suchong utterly indifferent. In other words it perfectly captures everything that makes each character scary. Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words. - LAMB IS WATCHING - Being able to overhear the conversations that the Splicers have with each other, often the perfect balance of lucid and deranged: Male Splicer 1: "Canned beans! (laughs stupidly) We're gonna be rich!" Male Splicer 2: "Well la-ti-da, princess! The next time you're eating out of the garbage, you think of me!" Female Splicer: "A lady has to have some standards!" (begins sobbing) Male Splicer: "We got plans for you, sweetheart!" Female Splicer: "Unhand me at once!" Male Splicer: "Paid good money." Male Splicer: "He he he." Female Splicer: (Screaming) " HELP!" - The Big Sister. No matter how many times they signal their presence with that high pitched scream, it never loses its effectiveness. You'll still be madly scrambling about, trying to set up a perimeter for their imminent arrival. - It doesn't help that you can often look out the windows and see them swimming around, seemingly stalking you. - There's Ryan Amusements, an Objectivist-themed amusement park meant to "educate" kids about the dangers of the outside world. Even Andrew Ryan himself thinks the Nightmare Fuel is overdone, noting the Uncanny Valley quality of the figurines. There are giant hands that would be sitting around, ready to represent whatever Ryan didn't like. Ryan animatronics that you can whack the head and arms off and the torsos continue to twitch around. The last one is mangled and strung up hanging from the ceiling. - It's sickening once all the farmer's limbs are taken off, and once the animatronic starts, the farmer's headless, limbless body is just... jerking around. - Perhaps most disturbing is the audio diaries. Apparently, once the populace started to revolt against Ryan, he had many parts of Rapture quartered off, one place being the park. You come across a series of audio diaries from a chaperone leading a field trip when the park was closed off. You get to follow along as she and all the students slowly die of starvation. - Although, it's implied that (some of) the children did survive, as the chaperone and some other adults gave them all their food. What happened to the children afterwards, though, is probably not worth speculating on... - Siren Alley. The brothel area has its multitude of dead hookers pinned to the walls and ceiling with speargun ammo. - The end of the level when the place starts to flood and Lamb chimes in to add another layer of creepy to things. "Subject Delta, I want you to commit this moment to memory for me - this howling, brutish slog through the dark. This is ." who we are - The flooding of Siren Alley. Sofia Lamb overloads the pumps and water starts flowing in fast, the entire place falling apart and crashing down around Delta as he hastily makes his way out through the currents of water now overshadowing the floor. All around you, you can see the lights flickering and going out, the bulkheads being twisted by the water pressure and seconds away from bursting, and you can hear the Splicers, Lamb's own followers, the prostitutes in the brothel and a few others all screaming in desperation among the rumbles and screeches of metal, some of them unable to even do anything but lie on the ground and cry. - Even worse: Lamb's reason to do this wasn't even to really kill Delta. After he's blasted by the water bursting out a bulkhead and the place is fully flooded, Sofia just adds a new comment as if she knew he'd make it. She killed several of her own people because she wanted to show Delta how little the city itself means to her master plan. She drowned hundreds of people to prove a point to Delta. "Look, Delta, it is the world for which you strive. You... alone... among the dead." - How about the Little Sisters Orphanage in Siren Alley? When you go in, you find a few bodies about you can search, including a spider splicer pinned to the wall by a spear (and keep in mind, those are a new enemy at this point, so you're not quite used to seeing those freaks yet). On the way up, you catch a glimpse of a live spider splicer as he darts around a corner, but other than that, no real fights. But then you reach the end and get your loot and the power goes out, leaving your flashlight your only illumination. As you charge back the way you came, by that beam you keep catching glimpses of the spider splicer darting around corners one step ahead of you until eventually they trap you in the second floor hall. The following standup fight with the spiders and a brute is outright catharsis at that point! Oh, but on the way out shine your flashlight at the "dead" spider pinned to the wall: he's about to leap at you. - In a certain area of the game where you're told, specifically, EVERYONE DIED OF DROWNING, you come across a disjointed audio log from a shy little boy who has a crush on a Little Sister. It's heavily implied he was killed by her Big Daddy, or drowned when the place flooded. - Cohen's Collection. Listen carefully when you start up the gathering event in the area. You can hear Cohen laughing... - Gil Alexander's fate. - When confronted with that... thing, you have the option of either fulfilling the person it used to be's final request for euthanasia, or letting it live, after it promises to "go outside." Now imagine that◊ swimming around in the cold, lightless depths of the Atlantic... - And just for a final layer of horror the choice you are making is really between two people. Gil Alexander and Alexander the Great, same body but at this point Alexander the Great has diverged enough to be considered an individual all his own not just a rambling mad man. Sure he might well be crazy but he is coherent enough to hold conversations putting him a solid step above the splicers, and he wants to live. Gil Alexander, the man who died before becoming Alexander the Great, wanted to die because he knew what he would become though so who do you listen to? The man he was or the man he is? - Worse is imagining that swimming around in the very brightly illuminated depths near Persephone. The luminescent biomass the bottom of that trench is confirmed by Word of God to be the ultimate source of ADAM. Gil can't avoid seeking the stuff, as revealed by the plants attracting him to the front of his tank even when he knew that they could kill him. Imagine what might happen if he found his way down to the bottom of the trench and gorged himself for decades on more ADAM than he could possibly consume. - Especially since he◊ looks more akin to an oversized fetus◊ than anything else. shudder - And to add another layer to this, Gil was Sofia's first attempt at creating a Utopian, and he provides a subtle but chilling hint at what may befall Eleanor in this experiment. Gil: Whatever you saw inside the tank, that was indeed... me. I fear the fate of Eleanor Lamb will be less physical, but no less grotesque. - The fate of Mark Meltzer, who went to Rapture looking for his daughter Cindy who was kidnapped and turned into a Little Sister, and he wound up being turned into a Big Daddy so he could be with her. Then you wind up killing him near the end of the game, but you can still save Cindy. - Seeing Rapture through the eyes of a Little Sister. The fact that everything is beautiful and sunny, with rose petals across the ground and butterflies floating around only makes it THAT. MUCH. WORSE. - Especially when you get short flashes of how it actually looks. - The rose petals are blood stains on the floor. Also, all the walls and ceilings seem to be covered in the same stuff as a padded cell. - Really doesn't help that you get to listen to the echoes of creepy laughter every few seconds if you decide to hang around long enough to harvest ADAM and collect items. - When you get close to the windows as a Little Sister you can see the glass isn't smudged or cracked like normal, but rather spotted... with tiny, childlike handprints. - Or that they see the Big Sister armor as a tiara (the helmet), pretty dress (the suit) and silk glove (the weapons). When I grow up I wanna be a princess! - The silent splicers. - The little sisters always see this... every second, a perfect world where no one gets hurt and nothing is scary. This is due to the conditioning they went through. When you rescue a little sister, you remove this perfect dream world, throwing them permanently into a world of sheer horror, death and destruction. When you don't, the little sister's see nothing but their daddy there, ripping out the very thing keeping them alive. Their last thing they see is the one they trust most of all murdering them, most likely staying in their perfect little dream world. Those Sisters had support in, at minimum, each other and Jack. Best case including the DLC, the Little Sisters in 2 have each other, Eleanor, Tenenbaum, Charles Porter, the Thinker, and the unnamed star of the Protector Trials, the Alpha-series who might just be Subject Alpha. The Thinker can and does undo ADAM modifications that helps change Porter from Subject Sigma back into a normal human. If it takes a while for the Sisters' programming to break, then at least it's been a while since they swallowed corpse juice or had people trying to kill them, and they live somewhere better than Rapture, so the contrast would be less sharp. Worst case, Eleanor kills them for any residual ADAM in their systems, of course. - According to Gil Alexander's audio diaries, when the original Little Sisters grew up, their programming started to decay, and they became feral and insanely aggressive: in other words, picture the first option mentioned in the entry above... and inflict it on a teenager who has spent years happily wandering her own dreamworld, and by now has enough ADAM-induced superpowers to be extremely dangerous. After suddenly experiencing the real world after a decade of comfortable hallucinations and learning that everything there is trying to kill you, going insane is horrifyingly understandable. - When you find the Big Sister suit and reality intrudes, you can hear drilling and someone screaming. For all we know, that might be Sinclair! - Almost the entire endgame in the Persephone penitentiary facility. - Even if you've been a paragon of virtue, Eleanor is still terrifying. She's every bit as aggressive as any other Big Sister, and, in between slicing up legions of splicers, can be heard to shout things like "This one died alone and afraid! Stand in our way and you'll get the same!" - Just think: not only was Sofia prepared to smother her daughter, she was standing there, waiting to do it. And she waited until Delta was there and would have to watch. - Using a fully-upgraded Hypnotize on Sinclair in his Big Daddy form. He brokenly pleads for death while fighting the mind control. Listening to him beg in that horribly strained and desperate voice is horrifying. Having to hear anyone do that... - The Spider Splicers. Dear mother of God and all her wacky nephews, the frigging Spider Splicers. - Especially the one in the movie theater area of Dionysus Park. You find yourself in a totally abandoned toilet block. No splicers anywhere to be seen, full of food and health packs... and one gene tonic. By now, you're pretty certain that nothing is coming for you, so you take the tonic, and nothing happens... Until you're halfway out of there, and a Spider Splicer just DROPS on you. - Another thing: don't. watch. Marble Hornets. and then play this game. The Spider Splicers might just look like everyone's favorite tall, slender stalker... - Just looking at what happened to the Crawlers is horrifying; they're barely human anymore with their elongated heads and arms, their huge feet with just 4 big toes, and their constant misery of hearing voices in their heads and killing people to get them to stop. Using Hynotize 3 on them implies that they get hypnotized by Lamb and what they say is a little heart breaking. - The lovely little "unstable teleport plasmid". - Doesn't help that the statues look like more of Cohen's work, or that, if you listen carefully, you can hear what sounds like someone taking a picture of you when you take the gene tonic. - Just hear it? If you turn around after grabbing the tonic, the camera flashes in your face before you immediately teleport back... Urgh. And the ambient sounds in that room are ever so creepy. What sounds like wind and gentle breathing... - The inner thoughts of splicers, still trying to convince themselves life is normal or that Lamb will cure them. Or the fact they might actually know what has happened to them. - What happens if you harvest a Little Sister instead of rescuing her: the little sister will squirm in your arms, crying and begging you not to hurt her. Then, the screen goes black... and you're holding the poor girl's slug which had been implanted in her stomach. The worst part is that the Little Sister simply doesn't know why her supposed protector betrays her. Tearjerker indeed. - If you harvest Little Sisters, whenever you adopt one, she'll say things like "Daddy...? You're never gonna hurt me, right?", "Daddy's home! I've been good! Promise!", "Daddy isn't angry, is he?", "I'll be extra quiet! I won't make you upset!", and "Where are we going? Daddy?" They used to see you as a knight in shining armor. What do they see you as here? - Everything that terrified you and made you feel sorry for the Little Sisters gets so much worse in this game when you remember one simple fact: these Little Sisters are girls who were kidnapped from the surface. - While the passive state of the Insect Swarm plasmid is less horrifying in this game (honeycombs on your glove, instead of having to watch bees crawl through your flesh), the effects have been appropriately ramped up. Now you get a swarm of angry bees with a smarter, more aggressive AI actively seeking out targets across several rooms. When they're not burrowing into corpses to lie in wait for the next hapless Splicer to come into range, that is... - "Daddy, Big Sister doesn't want you playing with me..." OHGODSHE'SONMYHEADGETHEROFFGETHEROFFGETHEROFF! - Eleanor in the Bad Ending. - If using Incinerate at any time while you have a Little Sister on your shoulders, she may cheerfully chant "Marshmallows!" Though it's slightly funny, it's also slightly disturbing, as the process that turned her into a Little Sister possibly resulted in the girl finding humor in someone burning alive. - Though remember, the Little Sisters don't see the world in the same way we do. Chances are, the people you burned don't look like people to them anymore. It's your call as to whether that's more or less morbid. - In Persephone, if you search hard enough, you can encounter some prisoners. Not splicers, but just normal people. They don't acknowledge the player in any way, and just cycle through a crying animation until they are killed. Your HUD doesn't register them, unlike everything else in the game, meaning you could try meleeing one to get a reaction, only for it to crumple up dead. They don't even drop anything. Such a minor detail, yet chilling nonetheless. - Colin Fix's early concept art for the Alpha Series. If you ever wanted to know what a Big Daddy looked like under their suit, this might just change your mind. - The Little Sisters unfortunately don't have perfect conditioning even in the new lines. They know when their daddies die and cry accordingly, though luckily for most of the game you're there to step in and they recover quickly. It's likely that what Eleanor saw was so contrary to what her programming is supposed to do that she got a glimpse of the real world. Ouch, that one is going to leave some emotional scars. - The physical appearance of Splicers in general is much more disturbing than in the first game. Their faces look half-melted, like something you would see with a serious burn victim who survived and the flesh healed as much as it could. They look like portions of their flesh have become swollen and detached from where they should be, and now are hanging down and bulging out with skin stretched over to contain it. And most of them do not wear masks now. Lovely. One Leadhead Splicer model has only two toes... that are about two or even three times the size they should be.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BioShock2
BioShock Infinite / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes BioShock \| BioShock 2 \| BioShock Infinite All spoilers on this page are unmarked, per wiki policy. You Have Been Warned! We knew BioShock Infinite was going to be quite frightening when it had one of these pages started JUST FROM THE FIRST PREVIEW. And Lord, it did not disappoint. - To start off, let's just go ahead and say that those of you here with acrophobia may find navigating a city suspended miles up in the air a bit uncomfortable, ESPECIALLY via Sky-Hook. - For anyone with aquaphobia, this also plays in before the game actually starts. Remember that priest that had to 'baptize' you before you could actually get into Columbia? He was blind. Suddenly, his statement of not looking clean enough is a bit more unnerving... - The Big Daddies have been replaced by the altogether creepier Handymen. Just to emphasize how much more disturbing they are over the Big Daddies, you get a viewport with the subject's beating heart on full display. Just the SOUND of their hands moving should be enough to get anyone freaking out. - Ken Levine has confirmed there's a tragic backstory behind the Handymen. Given the imagery on the Handymen booth seen in the fair in the Beasts of America trailer they are likely sick and/or disabled people who were turned into these monstrosities, probably against their will, given Columbia's eugenicist ideals. It doesn't help that they constantly scream that they're in pain while attacking. - Actually, it's more direct than that. The entrance of Comstock House shows photos of generic NPC under their various "sins" and a Handyman appears only on a board titled Pacifist. It puts something of a new spin on many of the enemy's quotes, such as "GET DOWN!" when electrifying the skylines. It's likely not so much a taunt, it's a warning from someone who doesn't want to hurt you but has to fight. - A particularly moving pair of Voxophone entries is by Hattie Gerst, the wife of a Handyman. In the first, she explains that her devout scientist husband Samuel's work with the Siphon had given him stomach cancer, and had to be turned into a Handyman to save his life; in the second, having passed away herself, she tells him to remember, even when the fits of madness overtake him, that she is the proudest woman in all of Columbia to have been his wife, and they'll meet together again in Heaven. The latter can be found by his corpse, where several Vox members are posing for photographs after bagging him like a wild animal. - Songbird. A giant, black, screeching mechanical steampunk bird gargoyle creature whose sole purpose is to hunt you down and retrieve Elizabeth. - The thing has claws, smacks Dewitt around like he was nothing and tears through buildings like paper (not to mention it's from Dewitt point of view the whole time. Those claws an inch from your face, yeesh). - How about the fact that the developers based Songbird and Elizabeth's relationship on an abusive romance? In the game, it doesn't stop attacking DeWitt until she apologizes for running away from him. - For what it's worth, Elizabeth is probably faking that, since she only does it at the very last second before Songbird punches Booker into paste and her 'normal' pleading with it to stop isn't working. - It has its share of Nothing Is Scarier moments. When it searches for Elizabeth, you hear a distorted, frightening cry, and a search spotlight very similar to The Scarecrow in Batman's nightmares in Batman: Arkham Asylum. - And how do you beat this monster on your own? You DON'T. There's nothing in your arsenal that can even make this thing flinch, let alone harm it. In fact Future Elizabeth flat out says that in every single alternate timeline where Booker fights the Songbird, he ultimately loses and likely dies as a result. If getting tossed stories upward into a building and then held at the mercy of this beast (all in terrifying first-person) as Elizabeth desperately begs for your life didn't make you feel utterly helpless, then that little revelation will. - Thought Songbird and the basic enemies were bad enough? Meet the Motorized Patriot, an unholy cross between an animatronic George Washington and the Terminator. Complete with creepy malfunctioning voice, minigun and the Terminator's endurance and Determinator tendencies. Motorized Patriot: Blood... is the price... of liberty! [dakka dakka dakka] - The disturbingly fast, mechanical cranking motion its arm makes to operate the aforementioned mini-gun. That alone looks just plain wrong. - In the trailer showcasing it, look closely at the scene where Elizabeth conjures a gun turret in order to distract it so you (Booker) can shoot its weak point. As the Patriot turns to return fire back at it, its head alone suddenly rotates back towards and stays fixated on you WHILE fighting the turret as if to say, "Don't worry. I have NOT forgotten about you. Once I've finished with this, you're dead!". - This is a phrase that you will learn to fear, because it means that one of these guys has spotted you and is getting the old Pepper Mill ready: - Staying behind cover too long will set you up for a nasty shock as the Patriot shifts gears from "slow, plodding lead hose" to "stomping, clanging juggernaut" as it attempts to rush you out of cover. - The final kicker: Motorized Patriot quotes are faction specific. Now while not particularly frightening in of itself, it points to two possibilities. 1. The man who records the voice for the Motorized Patriots has defected to make Vox quotes along with his original Founder ones, or the far more terrifying possibility 2. Motorized Patriots have gained some kind of sentience and rebelled against The Founders themselves. The fact these machines are basically clockwork machine gun toting caricatures of presidents originally envisioned as a museum attraction makes this disturbing thought all the worse. - One more thing: apparently there were going to be versions based on Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The artbook shows some of the details, including what they would look like when damaged◊, and is isn't pleasant. It also should be noted that the cracked porcelain look of the Motorized Patriots was inspired by an old china doll Ken Levine's mother had that terrified him as a kid. That should say enough about these damn things. - Imagine being forced into a suit that causes your body to become engulfed in flames, all the while you are pumped full of drugs that do nothing to numb the agony but everything to drive you utterly insane. This is the torture that the Firemen have to endure every day. There is no way to cure them, and it is implied that any attempt to remove them from their suits will kill them. Fireman: It burns! It burns so much! Let me out! PLEASE! - Possibly scarier than any monster is the political extremism that has torn the city apart: the Founders are racist, xenophobic, and theocratic despots who openly endorse eugenics and can, and have, used their floating super-weapon to impose their will on foreign countries in the name of imperialistic nationalism. The Vox Populi is a group that started with good intentions only to devolve into bloodthirsty thugs who loot shops, burn down buildings and publicly execute defenseless civilians. In Rapture you fought against mutants whose insanity was explicitly caused by fantastical Psycho Serum. At first glance, in Columbia you fight against people turned into monsters by mere ideology. - In the E3 demo, you get a very good look at this. People getting mugged, live terrorism in open daylight, propaganda of film reels showing faces on those red curtains. It's total anarchy in the streets. Heck at one point you come across some people about to do a live execution of an innocent mailman and you're given the choice to let him die to preserve your cover or save him and have the radicals gunning for you. - The pacing in general is absolutely terrifying. You're basically running around this expansive, acrophobia-inducing, reality-warped deathtrap of a super-weapon (currently in the midst of a civil war, no less), and absolutely everyone appears to be dangerous lunatics and psychopathic machines that will attack you seemingly at random. There is no escape, anywhere you go there will just be more crazies trying to blast you to smithereens. You don't know where they're firing from, they outnumber you hopelessly, and oh, did we mention the Vox Populi assault airship that will randomly pop in and spew death everywhere like a sprinkler? - Ideology turning men into monsters has been a recurring theme in the BioShock series: Andrew Ryan's "Every Man For Himself" philosophy proved that it would make a sustained society impossible (while he would never admit it, Frank Fontaine was basically the perfect embodiment of his philosophy, someone who cared about nothing but his own advancement and would give nothing to others, who wanted to keep everything for himself) and quickly devolved into total anarchy. Lamb's ideal society was no better, since in a society where no one individual was important and the group was everything meant that horrible things could be done to individuals if it meant the group would prosper. But both were based at least on ideas that had the best interests of everyone at heart. The ideologies expressed in BioShock Infinite, on the other hand, are based on things like racism, xenophobia, elitism, paranoia, etc. When Ryan's and Lamb's philosophies are taken to their natural conclusions, they lead to anarchy for Ryan, and a Dystopia for Lamb. When you take Columbia's various ideologies together, it leads to "Destroy Everyone Who Isn't Like Us", and "Us" is in debate even in Columbia itself. - The scariest part of all basically amounts to one question: "What happened to Columbia?" And, more importantly, do we want to know the answer? - The leader of Columbia, "Prophet" Zachary Hale Comstock, is heralded in posters as being the 'Hero of the Battle of Wounded Knee.' - Go ahead and look up exactly how that "battle" went. - His original look looked like all the worst aspects of Nixon and Cheney mashed together, with a curled sneer that just gave off 'is a sex offender' vibes. See for yourself.◊ - For extra points, that drumming and chanting you hear in the Wounded Knee exhibit at the Hall of Heroes? That's a real Native American war cry. - Comstock's Vox Populi counterpart, Daisy Fitzroy, could possibly be just as disturbing, given the scene from the E3 demo in which she projects herself onto a curtain◊. She looks absolutely insane or like Big Brother. - Perhaps the most disturbing element from Infinite is that many of the citizens of Columbia don't seem to realize that the city has fallen into ruin. In the trailers you can see a woman sweeping the porch of a building that is on fire, a man giving a speech to empty deck chairs, and another man on a bench who is covered with crows. Then it turns out both the Crow's politician master and the woman both seem to be suffering from tear sickness which wasn't revealed until the game proper. Look at that man in the demo, he twitches like there are two of him in the same place and he's obviously off his rocker when you see him preaching to absolutely no one. Yeah, they planned that particular insanity that far in advance. Even worse, his friend Charles doesn't even seem to notice that he's bat-shit insane and still follows his orders to the letter. Hell, maybe he doesn't even care, maybe the power of vigors drove him insane, or maybe he's just used to seeing things like that now? Any way you look at it, it's creepy. - The Siren, yet another enemy, is apparently a nod to late 19th century Spiritualism, which works a lot better in the game world, if this is anything to go by. The Siren is able to bring dead enemies back to life after you've gone and killed them once. Resurrection! Always fun. - She is actually a quantum superposition of a woman (namely, Lady Comstock) in both her alive and dead states, and fully aware of her existence in both. - More directly, her booming, distorted voice and the glowing-eyed zombie soldiers she resurrects to battle you are quite unsettling to behold. Of the three Siren fights, the showdown at the Bank of the Prophet is by far the creepiest, as you chase her into the depths of a deep, dark, abandoned vault, with lots of corners and alcoves within her arena where you can suddenly run into zombies meleeing you in the face while trying to scrounge for supplies. - For bonus creep factor doubling as Genius Bonus, her song is a heavily distorted snippet from the end of the Dies Irae sequence of Mozart's Requiem in D minor funeral mass. Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath") is a chanted prayer for the souls of the departed, and this particular section is known as Lachrimosa. Translated from Latin: Full of tears will be that day When from the ashes shall arise The guilty man to be judged; Therefore spare him, O God, Merciful Lord Jesus, Grant them eternal rest. Amen. For extra Genius Bonus and Oh, Crap! , she seems to leave out the last three lines about forgiveness and eternal rest. - The Boys of Silence, another enemy. They don't sound too creepy otherwise (they're meant to replace the cameras from the original BioShock, except they'll consciously be looking for you), but then you see their heads. They wear a helmet that has no eyes and a gaping mouth. - To makes things worse, take a closer look at their outfits: first their clothes heavily resemble those of a child, complete with bib and laces which raises an awful lot of uncomfortable questions. Second, consider that helmet design: you have two trumpets which redirect sound into a brass helmet which presumably reverberates. Does the sound they make derive from them screaming in pain? Third, the helmets are attached to the leather shoulder straps by metal clamps and padlocked shut. Why would the helmets be locked shut? - Even WORSE: The only time you run into them? Inside a dimly-lit, run-down asylum where it's just you, them and the crazies that stand around in Uncanny Valley-esque president masks and stare at the walls. If a Boy spots you, he'll shriek and alert every psycho around you, who will then grab whatever they can find and try to beat you to death with it. On top of that, ammo is low, you're without your plucky girl sidekick and one manages to get RIGHT behind you while you're working a control panel and shriek in your face. - The fact that they are introduced so late in the game, with no explanation, in the most jarring area available, amplifies their creepiness. They wouldn't be half as effective standing around the Hall of Heroes. - The WORST is that one of the Voxophones you find in Comstock House implies that ELIZABETH created them. - Speaking of which, they have Tear-powers. As Elizabeth taught us, you get Tear-powers by having a piece of yourself cut off and put in another Universe. Now, what's under that helmet? - Did you know that Boys of Silence lack facial rigging, unlike the masked Firemen and Crows? - And about those president mask-wearing inmates? An all too disturbing hint is dropped over the asylum's PA system as to why they're so bonkers. - It's worse if you've seen the artbook designs for people mutilated by exposure to Tears. Now ask yourself: what do you think those inmates really look like? - The wheelchair with the Ben Franklin mask that moved on its own... - The "Beasts of America" trailer features a crapload of scares. Highlights include watching the Murder of Crows tearing bloody clumps out of citizens, Booker's hands catching fire and his fingers burning away to the bloodied bone in a scene very reminiscent of taking your first shot of Electro Bolt in BioShock and a police officer getting his face torn to shreds by a Sky-Hook wielded by one of his fellows. The real kicker of the final example is that Booker is the one shoving the guy's face into the hook, making him complicit in what appears to be a cold-blooded murder. - Even before the violence, a warning you won't get until it's far, far too late—" Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt. That was the deal. The details elude me now; but the details wouldn't change a Goddamned thing." - The "False Shepherd" trailer elaborates on that last one a bit—it seems Booker was about to suffer the fate he gives to the policeman before a bit of... quick action on his part. Oh, but here's the new kicker: judging by the way the camera lingers on the device after the deed is done, this is how the player first acquires the Sky-Hook. That's right, just wipe the blood, bone fragments, and brain tissue off and it's as good as new! - The reason the cops were threatening Booker? It appears to be the scenario where Booker refuses to throw the first baseball at a "convicted" interracial couple, who are all surrounded by cartoonish depictions...of monkeys. And the police aren't too happy about it. (It gets better...the background is of "negro" monkeys conducting a wedding, and the crowd does a mocking rendition of the Wedding March in preparation for the stoning. Truly the stuff of nightmares.) - To make it worse, they WILL attempt to kill you, regardless of the choice you made (or even a refusal to throw it). Because the true reason for their attack is that you are what amounts to be Columbia's Anti-Christ. - From The First Few Minutes Of BioShock Infinite trailer, we get a subtle one. There is a quote presented at the beginning: The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...If you keep this in mind, it gives you a horrifying thought as the opening proceeds: Does the character actually remember anything, or is he literally creating his past out of things that he sees as he goes along? If that is the case, the main character is literally being dropped into a hellish situation with no training, no memory of his past, and little to no chance of survival. He was literally expected to piece together his mission, and his past, from what he came across along the way. It's like the plotline for The Usual Suspects, only the main character is doing it without realizing it. - The 'Columbia: A Modern-Day Icarus?' trailer, which is done in the style of a trailer for a cheap yet really creepy early 1980s educational/conspiracy-theory TV show in the style of In Search of... channeling the spirit of Creepypasta in how mundane yet just subtly off it is. Apparently, in the world of the game what happened to Columbia became an unsolved mystery/urban legend along the lines of Atlantis, the Mary Celeste and the Bermuda Triangle, and while the other trailers have presented the horrors that are lurking around on Columbia when the player arrives there, this one is done from the perspective of the people on the ground who, left only with a few hints and fragments that fell out of the sky (including a building that ended up somewhere in the Alps), even decades later were left wondering precisely where it went, what the hell happened up there, and whether it's still flying around up there... - There's also a terrifying undertone of "If it's still up there, " why haven't we found it?". In the time the games take place, there's a good reason for why nobody found the floating city. But by the eighties we have planes, radar, satellites... just think about the Paranoia Fuel for everyone that hasn't convinced themselves Columbia still exists. You have a super-weapon populated by xenophobic, nationalistic ultra-racists, just floating in the air and nobody knows what happened to it. And they CAN'T find out. - Now that the game is out, we can confirm exactly when this video fits into the timeline of the game and why it appears to be from the early 80's. It is from the timeline when Booker failed to rescue Elizabeth and she was brainwashed into becoming the new Comstock. The city has likely disappeared in preparation of their attack, given that the Alps are not on the flight path laid out in the lighthouse at the beginning of the game. This documentary would have been released right before Columbia attacks New York! - There's a second part too: It's about the Songbird. And the Ironic Nursery Rhyme is just terrifying if you've played the game, or know how powerful Songbird is. Songbird, Songbird, see him fly, Drop the children from the sky. When the young ones misbehave, ESCORTS CHILDREN TO THEIR GRAVE. Never back-talk, never lie, OR HE'LL DROP YOU FROM THE SKY! - Mind In Revolt, one of the pre-order bonus e-books, gives insight both into the screwed-up race science of Columbia and just how unhinged Daisy Fitzroy is. It ain't pretty. - In Columbia, they use phrenology and they've turned the local mental hospital into Bedlam House, where they dole out lobotomies like they're going out of style — and write them off as a good thing. To be fair, that isn't actually that different than medical science in the early through mid 20th centuries, but the Real Life doctors thought they were actually being helpful; Columbia's just seem to regard it as expedient. - Note that phrenology was discredited about fifty years before Columbia was even built- around the 1840s. Columbian scientists are so deluded and desperately clinging to their racism, they're not even really scientists anymore. - And in the same False Shepherd trailer we get BioShock's signature Body Horror of Booker watching the skin flake off his hands, exposing muscle and the vigor power underneath. - In the game proper, such attacks are frequent executions of enemies, and the first one includes imbedding the Sky-Hook into the face of a Columbian police officer. The visuals are frightening, but the sounds are horrifying. The whine of a dentist drill combined with the crunching of bones and tearing of flesh. - At the beginning where you have Booker hit the bells in a specific sequence to get the rocket ride to Columbia and a red light flashes over the sky with an ominous booming horn? Where is that red light and horn coming from? - Early in the game, you're at a carnival and you win a lottery. What good luck! What does that get you? The "honor" of throwing the first stone at the public stoning/execution of a mixed race couple. - The lottery itself is horrific, with the unfortunate couple being tied to stakes on a stage against a backdrop of "untamed African jungle", with African caricature-faced monkeys as ring-bearer and flower-girl and an equally caricaturish "Witch Doctor" as preacher, all while cheerful, happy crowds look forward to beating them to death with baseballs. Now, you think that this is supposed to be exaggerated for dramatic impact, right? Well, guess what? You're wrong. Lynchings could and often did have an almost carnival-like atmosphere, with white people treating the hanging, rape, castration, burning and other brutal tortures of African-Americans as jolly good fun for the whole family. If you've the stomach for it, these two links showcase both the horrors of a lynching and just how nonchalant the participants were. That, more than anything, is the real Nightmare Fuel here; that the horrors of the Founders are actually nothing that wouldn't have been been done by the Ku Klux Klan, and similar scenarios actually did happen in America during that time period. - No less disturbing is that not long beforehand, you received a telegram very specifically warning you against entering the lottery, specific even to the point of telling you which number not to pick — although you don't seem to be given much of a choice in the event. - When you're given your shield by the Luteces, Rosalind comments, "Surprising that it didn't kill him". How many Bookers have died from that Infusion malfunctioning? - The Fraternal Order of the Raven, a fanatical cult to John Wilkes Booth. Even before Columbia goes to hell, the place looks like it wanted to get a head start in that direction. What with the dark decrepit interior of what would otherwise be an opulent manor, filled with plates/bowls and tables of food long since rotted, left out as "offerings" to the creepy-ass crows/ravens that frequent (and shit all over) the place. - And it's there that you first see the Murder of Crows vigor in action... against a helpless Asian man tied down to have the flesh ripped from him by a swarm of the aforementioned birds. - The context for this doesn't help either. You walk through the aforementioned creep cult hangout filled with rotting food and ravens. You come to a room in which you get given some healing items, as if gearing you up for a boss fight. If you look around you'll find a hidden room with a blood covered cell in it. And when you move on, before you even fully open the door, you see a man being killed by a murder of crows. - The implication that from his dialogue he was an innocent man that had just been kidnapped off the street. His agonized screaming of "WHY?! " doesn't help. He's not white. That's crime enough for the Order. WHYYYYY?! - If that's not enough for you, The First Zealot's Voxophone recording heavily implies they can literally see through the eyes of the crows they summon. "Cover the city with eyes," indeed. - After boarding the first airship you come across, there's a woman you find praying in the cockpit. After Comstock gives Booker a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, the woman sets herself on fire. Not long before, Booker's first words to her were "I'm not going to hurt you", making the whole spectacle even more creepy. - Seeing this plus Comstock House arguably cements Comstock himself as the scariest thing in game (at the very least from an adult perspective). You have this psychotic Knight Templar who, holding absolute power over an entire city, has not only cyborg monstrosities and Vigor-enhanced zealots at his beck and call, but also enough raw charisma to have his otherwise sane, normal human followers go so far as to perform self-immolation without even a hint of hesitation. In other words, this is the nightmare you get when you take Jim Jones and give him access to state of the art steampunk/sci-fi techonology. - Believe it or not it was originally going to be even worse: according to an early preview, that woman was originally a young boy. - The scare morphs a bit if you are aware about scares in horror games. When you see the woman praying, it's almost a given that she's going to attack you, especially with the perfect opportunity of her boss pontificating outside. What you don't expect is the aforementioned self-immolation, and the entire airship going up in flames around you. Comstock: The Lord forgives everything. But I'm just a prophet... So I don't have to . Amen. Woman: Amen. sets herself on fire - What makes it even more frightening is the realization that Comstock is Booker. - When you reach Elizabeth's home on Monument Island, the place is covered with warning signs. Every wall, every door, propped up on the floor. Everywhere you look, nothing but signs that say Danger! Do Not Speak To The Specimen, Do Not Approach Siphon While Specimen Is Inside, CAUTION: Proceed Only If Specimen Is Properly Sedated (refer to sedation protocol 080-312) and so on. What exactly can this girl do? - And it doesn't help that there are no staff or guards anywhere. - FACILITY UNSAFE. - Not to mention the fact that there apparently were people watching Elizabeth behind the scenes for years, and pictures being taken of her... even when she's in her dressing room. You even find a freaking bag of popcorn in one of the viewing rooms, bringing up some profoundly skeevy implications. Doesn't help that there are pictures of her dressing as a young girl. Either these people are so dedicated to the experiments and their "specimen" that they no longer see her as human or someone developed Lima Syndrome and fell in love with a preteen girl. Either thought is creepy as hell. - Near the entrance to her room are some of Elizabeth's childhood objects on scientific display alongside levers that activate Tear properties on said objects. The objects are "Companion (Age 1)" (a teddy bear), "Poetry Book (Age 4)," and "Menarche (Age 13)" (a cloth with blood on it). note : In case you don't know, menarche is the first stage of menstruation. If that doesn't speak levels about how creepy and disgusting these "scientists" are, nothing does. Even better, go ahead an activate the levers for each tear. The teddy bear and poetry book simply change color, but the blood on the cloth simply disappears. - For added creepiness, Booker hears Elizabeth's distorted voice humming bits and pieces of Everybody Wants to Rule the World as the Siphon continues draining power from her. Never has a Tears for Fears song inspired actual fear. - Songbird's introduction when you're rescuing Elizabeth from Monument Island is also very freaky. You're running at first from some kind of faceless terror that's wrecking the place around you, and just before you get out it smashes the door open and peers inside, the visible eye glowing a hellish orange before a piece of superstructure falls on it, allowing you to escape. It then hounds you across the Skyline as Monument Island collapses, and as Booker and Elizabeth fall into Battleship Bay it dives in after you, braving water pressure to try and kill you for taking her and only stopping (with its eye right in front of your face) when the water pressure causes one of its eyes to break open. The music doesn't help, at all. - After escaping from the tower and Songbird, Booker passes out and finds himself back in his apartment, much as he does when he "dies" in-game. However, in this instance, Elizabeth is with him in the apartment, staring blankly ahead and slowly repeating the phrase "Bring us the girl... and wipe away the debt," after the demonic-sounding voice outside the door. Booker begins to call uneasily, "What do you want with her?" and becomes increasingly frantic. This instance is reprised later in the game when things have become even more dire. Haunting, to say the least. - The scene where Booker is trying to buy a ticket for the gondola while a man is talking on the phone to someone. You can then get two possible choices. First, draw your weapon and threaten the man, which seems like a nasty thing to do. Second, simply ask for help again, to which he apologizes for the wait..before drawing a knife and stabbing you in the hand. - The man in question is setting you up for an ambush, and the phone call he is making when you walk up is reporting your arrival at said ambush. The wording of the phone call makes it sound extremely suspicious, far too suspicious for anything to actually come of it. - Furthermore, when you walk into the area, people are acting... off. A hotdog vendor is unsure of what he has "Sauerkraut? uh... I guess. That'll be uh... one Silver Eagle." Beyond this there are people talking and a violinist playing beautifully, but when you make it to the counter everyone STOPS WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND STARTS STARING AT YOU. It doesn't help that there's three violin cases, only one of which is open, and one violin. What are they storing in them? Then suddenly, everyone has a weapon. Oh, that's what that is. - The mere fact that the citizens of Columbia, both those aligned to the Founders and eventually the Vox Populi are actively out for Booker's blood makes the city even more frightening than Rapture's doomed denizens. Unlike the splicers, who are so insane from constant Plasmid use, Columbia's citizenry in general are still consciously sane and can hide in plain sight. Which means that with the exception of Elizabeth and maybe the Luteces, you really can't trust anyone. - Especially, as it turns out, you can't even trust yourself. - Keep in mind also that unlike Rapture's splicers, the people of Columbia didn't need Vigor abuse to become the warped madmen you come across—they already were. - Enemies hit with an upgraded Possession will commit suicide when the Vigor wears off. If they have a gun, they'll just shoot themselves. If they have a melee weapon, they'll beat themselves to death with it. If they have an RPG, they will point it at their feet and blow themselves all over the place. The worst part is you can't tell if they're doing it because the Vigor compelled them to or because being Possessed is just that horrifying. - Actually, you can tell: the description of Possession in the loading screens explains that being Possessed really is that horrifying. It specifically states that they commit suicide because of what they've done while possessed. Or, if they didn't kill anyone, presumably they commit suicide simply because they were possessed by the False Shepherd—and considering how fanatically religious Columbia is, it's perfectly understandable why that would be considered a Death Equals Redemption situation. - As Possession is advertised as a date-rape drug, the suicidal consequences are either that specific machine's upgrade (and the cheapest in the game—50 Silver Eagles!), or due to Booker being the one possessing folks. Given how things were arranged just-so by both the Lutece and Comstock, both might well be the case. - When you have the Murder of Crows Vigor equipped, you may see an idle animation◊ where the fingernails on Booker's left hand become black claws. It is surprisingly creepy. - The Shock Jockey vigor (as well as gear that causes electrical damage) has a particularly nasty kill animation: Victims' heads burst into chunks before their bodies and then their skeletons disintegrate into ash. - All the vending machines are mounted with animatronic salesmen who are constantly waving their arms around. In the dark, its easy to mistake that movement for an enemy, and their clanking gears can sound like a Motorized Patriot. They're also way louder and more talkative than Rapture's vending machines, which means you'll be constantly hearing voices, even when they're on the other side of a wall. - Every so often you come across an inactive vending machine that has the salesman frozen in a position leaning forward and staring at a Gear or Infusion under it. With open mouth and glowing yellow eyes. It's extremely eerie considering the normally talkative and energetic vending machines. - Towards the beginning of the Soldier's Field area, you're pointed to an ice cream shop where you're given the option to steal from the cash register there. Given that this is the first instance of the ability to steal anything being presented to you, many players probably won't be able to resist the urge to at least try it, resulting in the police being called and everyone in the area turning hostile. However, if you can resist your curiosity and push onwards, you can freely explore the entire area, experiencing Columbia's nightlife in one of the extremely rare instances where everything around you at least seems mildly peaceful and almost normal, at least until you reach the trolley station at the end. At that point, a loud message is broadcasted to the area, warning of the False Shepherd's presence, and the minute you turn around, literally every civilian in the area will have disappeared. There's no short scenes of people being evacuated or running away, they just vanish into thin air. Seeing the lively, bustling area that you just strolled through completely empty is an extremely eerie experience, and then the militia shows up to makes things worse. - The motorized Patriot in of itself is creepy enough, but then there's how you're introduced to it as well. Slate brings to life a motorized Patriot from the other side of the room, while it breaks itself free from the glass display it's in. - Worse still, the vandalized machines which originally sold Gear (modeled after Jewish tailors) have not only been stripped of their contents and broken, but have the word "YID" and "HEEB" painted on their sides. Anti-Semitism runs deep in Columbia. - Chen Lin's brutal interrogation. The man's corpse makes the most disgusting SQUISH sound when his head rolls to the side. It's absolutely disgusting. How long was he alive during the torture? Even in the universe where he lives, the video tape of his interrogation has his eye swollen shut, his neck bruised, and him just drenched in blood. Who's to say that this is even the first or last person this happened to? You find dead bodies in cells being eaten by beetles in the police station. They don't even bother to move the damn bodies. - Like with BioShock's Plasmids, taking Vigors for the first time is... disturbing to say the least. For instance, the "Devil's Kiss" Vigor gives us a vision of Booker's hands burning away to the bone. And his terrified screams really don't help... - Taking the "Undertow" Vigor will have Booker's arms have suction cups appearing on them... leaving massive holes in his arms. Body Horror indeed... - The scene where the Vox finally turn against you. First of all, the way Daisy calls you a "complication" is subtly threatening, then the elevator stops with a few Vox soldiers staring at the corpses they just made out of people. They don't do anything, so you think for a moment that maybe, MAYBE they are still your allies. Then they see you, pull arms and start trying to murder you despite the fact that you're with Elizabeth, an innocent looking civilian. You helped save their lives not ten minutes ago by taking down the Zeppelin, but now they want you dead. - As you make your way through the city after the Vox uprising, you can see all of the horrible things the Vox have done. Dead civilians litter the streets, while you see dozens of captured Founder soldiers mercilessly executed and left to rot. There is even one point where you see several high ranking Founders who have been scalped, with their bloody scalps nailed to a board. - At one point, later in the game, you can overhear a Vox Populi fighter talking about eliminating anyone who could be a threat. This includes people with guns... and glasses. What makes this especially frightening is that in Real Life, the Khmer Rouge did target people with glasses, as they were considered "intellectuals" and thus enemies of the revolution. It gives you a good idea of where the Vox Populi is going to be heading. - WHO ARE YOU? CHAAAAAAARLES!! ATTEND! When they said communists were red devils, we don't think it should have been literal. Doesn't help that the man is obviously suffering from tear sickness which we didn't learn about until the game came out three years later... Then you find his scalp nailed to board alongside Fink's. Yeah, he may have not appeared in the final game, but the developers made sure he died a horrible death like everyone else. - Incidentally, what did Booker do to warrant that guy siccing Charles on him? Attempt to walk past him, through the gazebo. He even assumes Booker to be an assassin when he sees him take a sniper rifle... that he was already giving out freely! - When breaking into the vault of the Bank of the Prophet, you will keep catching flashes of a Zealot running by just at the edge of your vision, making it so that you're never quite sure when he's going to ambush you. It doesn't help that sections of the vault are rather cramped and very dimly lit. - Comstock House is basically a creepy hospital, creepy school, creepy asylum, creepy jail, creepy science lab, and creepy orphanage all rolled into one. - And the screams! And the signs! "WHERE WE LIE." "WHERE WE WEEP." "WHERE WE CLEANSE." "WHERE WE SLEEP." "NO SIN EVADES HIS GAZE" before you meet the Boy of Silence. - Not to mention "WHERE WE WORK." "WHERE WE LEARN." - There's this one small room that you have to pass through which contains a ton of the Washington/Jefferson/Franklin masks, just sitting there looking at you. And one of the masks is a Comstock mask, which stares directly down the only path through the room. It has glowing eyes for some reason, and you must pass very close to it to get out. By this point, the player is hypersensitive to the environment, and weird, out-of-place things like this are pure Paranoia Fuel. It seemed almost certain that walking past that mask would trigger something horrible. It doesn't. - At one point you are moving through a corridor and a wheelchair with a mask sitting on it slowly wheels forward from behind a column into view... there is no one else in the corridor. - "WHERE WE WEEP" deserves special mention, as it appears to be a morgue, mortuary and crematory all in one. White sewed up body bags piled up, and a single coffin with a bodybag in it right in front of the furnace... doesn't help that the only access is through the apparent torture chamber either. - The three kinetoscopes you come across in Comstock House. Instead of opening with the "Word of the Prophet" title card, they all feature work from someone named William R. Foreman. What's on them? A sunrise over Columbia, shots of hummingbirds flying around a garden, and a view of Battleship bay. All without any music, text, or people in them. The only ambient sound is the buzzing of the projector. We don't even see or hear Foreman himself. They're all very unsettling to watch, and raise a lot of questions. Who put them there in the first place? And why? Worst of all, the final one ends with the cameraman jumping off the edge of battleship falls, followed by blackness, then text reading ''William R. Foreman (Oct 13 1867-July 2 1909)''. - The whole Bad Future in general with tears and recordings detailing how they broke Elizabeth. But probably the most chilling when you come across a projector showing nothing but glaring eyes as she expresses disappointment that Booker wasn't there to save her in probably the coldest tone ever. Talk about a guilt trip. - This level of the game is easily the most reminiscent of old Bioshock/ System Shock titles, given that it's happening AFTER the horrible calamity, like in those games, whereas Infinite is happening DURING it. It's the only place in the game you encounter the Boys of Silence, and their cronies are nothing but insane patients wearing Founding Fathers mask (much like the Motorized Patriots), banging their heads against the wall or just generally looking broken as human beings. The atmosphere is perfect with the snowy weather, and it all comes to a peak when you take Elizabeth's hand at the end of the level, only to discover she's an old woman and she's looking down on Columbia attacking 1984 New York City. The image of that alone is chilling. Just imagine living an ordinary, every-day 80's life, only to have a forgotten legend descend upon you and rain fire. - After rescuing Elizabeth from the scientists you sit her upright to find a plug put directly into her spine, for an added bonus the scientists are revealed to have not put her under during all of this, meaning she felt the whole process. Now remember the Bad Future where Booker couldn't save her... yeah. And Booker has to take it out under the same circumstances. - A truly horrifying use of Public Domain Soundtrack occurs in Comstock House. It's in the room with the surreal film that's punctuated by glaring, accusatory eyes, which also contains the audio diary in which Elizabeth reveals when and why she crossed the Despair Event Horizon: she eventually came to believe that Booker was not going to come and rescue her. Given how much both Booker and the player care about Elizabeth at this point, it's definitely a Player Punch already, and it gets worse when you realize that the music accompanying all this is a distorted version of Pachelbel's Canon. Finally, the distorted classical music, grainy black-and-white film, and mental degradation of a major character are horrifically reminiscent of Alex's undergoing the Ludovico Treatment in A Clockwork Orange. - What's worse is that the film has subliminal messages in it, just for that extra bit of creepiness. - A bonus, one of the Projectors in the later rooms of the Asylum has a barely noticeable face of Elizabeth which is unsettling once you realize what you're looking at. - As one of Comstock's warnings to Elizabeth as they try to reach the First Lady is that Booker would abandon her, it becomes clear that the Prophet has again looked at the possibilities, and that he'd been planning out the breaking of Elizabeth as an contingency from the very beginning. - Another creepy moment from Comstock House. When you first get to the room where you fight the Boys of Silence you can clearly hear Elizabeth screaming her lungs out in the other room. It's actually coming from a tear, you discover upon returning to the area later in the level. Which arguably makes it worse. Her dialogue will even show up in the subtitles if you haven't started the fight. - "No, please! I'll be... I'll be your daughter! screaming I'll be your daughter! I'll be... I'LL BE YOUR DAUGHTER, PLEASE!!!" - Just after throwing the switch to try and rescue Elizabeth from the snow-covered wasteland, the player turns around to see one of the Boys of Silence right behind them. This is also a callback to the first game when you headed into the basement of an area to retrieve something only to find a splicer behind you. - At the very end of the Lamb of Columbia trailer, Elizabeth and Booker are standing in the middle of a wheat field as a gigantic tornado creeps closer and closer... and Elizabeth just stares at you, motionless, no expression on her face at all. Just try to imagine the possible context for that. - Now we know the context: She's torn open a tear just after Booker's freed her from the medical procedure intended to keep her from using her powers, and is daring Booker to stop her from killing Comstock. Oh, and before that, she allowed that same tornado to sweep up the doctors that were operating on her. - Subverted by Booker answering firmly: "I'm going to do it for you." - Comstock's death and the lead up to it. He is perfectly calm when inviting you in, and then violently grabs Elizabeth and demands that she asks Booker about her finger. What follows is Booker flying into Unstoppable Rage, throttling the Prophet, cracking his skull open on the baptismal font and drowning him in it. And all the while he is raging not just Comstock but also himself. Booker: She's YOUR Daughter, you son of a bitch!! And you abandoned her! - Speaking of the artbook... oh god, the artbook. Facial Horror galore, of people's faces just so incredibly twisted... or stuck to another instance of their face, with the artbook saying "Quantum rifts splice different instances of people together with varying results," in a clinical tone rivaling the SCP Foundation. Faces are stretched like rubber into other versions of the same face, the mouth too twisted and too long on one end to make you ever want to know how they open them. The eyes aren't usually on the same level of the face as each other, and are often curved downwards in ways faces simply should not work, one face looks like raw hamburger on one side, with the jaw exposed and a single tendril of muscle connecting the upper and lower jaw on that side of the face, and one... vaguely face-shaped... thing with a single eye twisted into the middle and three mouths. Check out the scans, if you have the stomach. - At the very end of the game, Booker and Elizabeth wander through Rapture's "Welcome Center" in 1960. Nothing happens, but the atmosphere itself is unbearably eerie and quiet. - By the looks of the way things are situated, this is almost immediately before Jack sets foot in Rapture himself. The signs you first see when you step off the Bathysphere are pretty much in the same place. Hell, it might've been after. You're in this whole situation, might even be able to prevent it and you can't do anything about it. - Later on when Songbird dies, it might sound a bit familiar. That's because it actually was in the first Bioshock. - The EVA-esque ending when all those Elizabeths suddenly show up and crowd around Booker to drown him. Not only a crazy twist, but a pretty morbid freak out too. - And to make it worse, it's in first-person rather than third-person; you have to watch this through the eyes of a drowning person. That is, you're looking up at their faces through the water as they're drowning Booker, seeing the air bubbles escape, watching everything fade to black...there's one mitigating factor to this nightmare fuel, though; at least this is a voluntary Heroic Sacrifice on Booker's part to prevent the rise of Comstock. - Early in the game's development, 2K games considered making BioShock Infinite in the style of Art Nouveau, you can even find a good amount of their early artwork for the game done in this style on the BioShock Wiki. The sight of Colombia done in Art Nouveau style and the atmosphere it gives out makes even the sight of seemingly unimportant buildings look at best surprisingly creepy and unnerving, and at worst hauntingly ominous. Part of you may wonder what the game would be like if the Art Nouveau style and atmosphere made it in every visual of the final game, but to partially quote Sofia Lamb: ask yourself; do you really want to know? - One brief moment in the trailer for the Rapture-based " Burial at Sea" DLC— during the montage of various people walking around a pristine, happy Rapture, there's one shot of a stern, schoolteacher-type lady holding up a sign and seemingly lecturing a group of Little Sisters. They look completely identical to one another, and they all move in unison, at one point turning and staring right at the camera. There's a subtle but distinctly creepy air to the scene, even without context. - Which isn't helped by how said schoolteacher-type lady looks suspiciously similar to Sofia Lamb. - In the game proper, it happens much more quickly, with all the girls mechanically jerking their heads toward you the moment you come too close. - The very end of Burial at Sea, Part 1, shows us something quite horrifying. Remember the Portal Cut where Elizabeth lost part of her pinky finger? Well, that universe's Elizabeth had it happen to her head. Keep in mind that this happens to a baby. - Even worse if you consider what happens after the tear closes - Comstock was only left with the head, and the Booker in that universe was left with the entire body. Whatever happened to Booker following this can only be left to the player to decide. - The entire final cinematic is just one horrific scene after another - the zombie-like Little Sister Sally presumably dropping down the red-hot ventilation shaft, the sheer contempt with which Elizabeth and the Luteces treat Comstock, and Elizabeth's face getting spattered with blood as the Big Daddy's drill impales Comstock from behind. Talk about a Player Punch. - The sounds Booker/Comstock makes when he's killed. Let's run down the list: he hacks up blood and tries desperately to breathe after being initially stabbed, screams in utter agony when the drill rotates, and lets out a final spluttering cough when it's pulled out. Those are the sounds of a man dying in pain. - The unsettling painting from the teaser trailer. A somber-looking Booker and Elizabeth are dancing closely in the foreground, while the background is a hellish red with rabbit-masked figures lurking in the shadows. Not surprising that it's a bit..."off", being a Cohen original. - In that actual scene, when Booker and Elizabeth are dancing, they talk about why Cohen is trafficking little girls. Elizabeth: What do you think Cohen's customers do with the children? Do they- Booker: Sometimes. But those types lack the capital of Suchong and Ryan. Elizabeth: That's a blessing. - Yep, that is Elizabeth asking in a not-so-subtle way - and Booker confirming - that Cohen sells little girls to people who sexually abuse them. All the horror of Rapture just got taken up to eleven. - Sander Cohen's Miasma - a painting◊ about... something horrible, certainly. - Even worse, it was inspired by Francis Bacon's works, which are Nightmare Fuel; in their own right. - There are in-game radio ads that make use of the sound of Security Bots attacking. It instinctively makes anyone familiar with the sound want to run, hide, and look for a bot that's not there. - The return of Sander Cohen. His appearance◊, mannerisms and theatrics shows that he was already an utterly deranged Mad Artist even without the splicing. - There's a distinct Uncanny Valley feeling to his features and make-up already, but the sight of his face blown up and projected onto a giant stone carving (apparently locking eyes with another bust) is positively freakish. - Elizabeth at the ending of Episode One. The ending itself is a gigantic Wham Episode, but it's also a gigantic contrast in reactions to murder. As if her My God, What Have I Done? reaction from killing Fitzroy in the main campaign wasn't frightening enough, her LACK of reaction when the Big Daddy impales Comstock!Booker and splatters blood on her face is somehow even worse. - There's also the implication that the entire DLC was just Elizabeth and the Luteces toying with Comstock. Elizabeth's mission was to purge the remaining Comstocks from the multiverse, and if she wanted, she could've easily just shot him the moment she walked into his office, but she didn't. She dragged him around on a mission to save the missing girl he was obsessed with, repeatedly put his life in danger (only to save him when things got a little too dangerous), pushed him through the hellscape of the decrepit Department Store, and then, once Comstock realized what he had done and had just enough time to regret his actions, she let a Big Daddy slowly run him through with his drill. - 2:15 of this trailer for Burial at Sea - Episode 2. Elizabeth has gone a long way...but if the Chiaroscuro lighting is any indication, things are about to go to hell. Elizabeth: This world values children, not childhood. light flicker There's a profit to be made, flicker and the men who make it. - And she's changing from her original clothing, to her corset and dress outfit from the second half of Infinite, to her present outfit, looking menacing all the while. - And in the final product, we see a fourth version of Elizabeth: in her present outfit, splattered in blood. - The sequence of Elizabeth in Paris. It goes from a beautiful place full of smiling people who adore Elizabeth and including Disney-esque singing birds, to a hellish grey-tinted nightmare-scape that is deserted of people, most of the buildings are ruined or on fire and one building advertises lobotomies, foreshadowing what is to come later. - Even the Disney sequence is rather creepy in an Uncanny Valley sort of way. Everyone greets Elizabeth by name in the same chirpy tone, and turns to watch her as she walks past, still with smiles on their faces, but the effect is disconcerting, regardless. It was almost a relief to see it turn into a nightmare after waiting for the other shoe to drop. - The boat-ride to the lighthouse. Instead of the beautiful Inn Between the Worlds we saw in Infinite that was illuminated by countless other universes gleaming as far as the eye can see, this iteration is nearly completely silent and utterly pitch black. - And if you look in the water as you're being rowed merrily along...you'll start noticing all the drowned, staring faces. That's right: you're cruising the River Styx. - In one of the random videos stations scattered about Rapture you'll get the chance to experience a short artistic film produced by none other than Sander Cohen himself! What does this film consist of, you ask? It begins with a message stating "Please Stand By" in large, bold letters across the screen, only for the image to start slowly rotating as static noises, ethereal wailing, and deranged laughter begin to play in the background. Then a deep, almost demonic voice begins to speak: WHY DO YOU STAND THERE? WHEN SOMEONE IS RIGHT...BEHIND YOU. You'll never guess what happens once the video ends and you turn around! You see this lovely chap, just sitting there.◊ And he does absolutely nothing. Even worse? That isn't a man. That's one of Cohen's plaster statues. - Worse still, it's thought in some circles that Cohen makes those by slathering his victims with plaster... - And the book confirms that. He just gets his disciples to torture some first or slits their throats. And the poor blokes are so pumped on ADAM that they're almost numb to what they're doing, and when they eventually realise it, they can't do anything about it and are miserable. - Just about all of Sander Cohen's silent films in all their The Ring-esque glory are this. Most of them are a series of disjointed, incredibly creepy images. It makes you realize just how truly screwed up this guy was even before the Fall of Rapture. - The Ryan the Lion Prepatory Academy, in where children are indoctrinated into being selfish bastards. If that wasn't bad enough, there's a sign in the principal's office talking about disciplining children with Possession! The more you think about it, the worse this place gets... - The lower area of Fink's hidden lab. All of it is Nightmare Fuel, from the Handyman operating areas (one of the notes written on the chalk board mentions of some of the subjects won't stop screaming), to the areas where cruel test were preformed on innocent animals, to the long hallway filled with deceased dogs being preserved in some sort of liquid. - Atlas' torture of Elizabeth is one of the most brutal appliances of the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique ever seen in a video game. You get to witness the horror of a transorbital lobotomy (which involves inserting a metal pick just above the eyeball) from a first-person perspective. Then Atlas brings a hammer into play. And it gets even worse from there when Elizabeth remains defiant and dares Atlas to lobotomize her, prompting him to lose his cool and attempt the same procedure on Sally! - And keep in mind, this is the same Atlas persona that played you for a sentiment in the very first BioShock. No, this is not the attitude of the family man Jack knew, this is one of a desperate, ruthless thug, i.e. Frank Fontaine. - The scene where Elizabeth enters the lighthouse and the first thing she sees is Sally, stuck in a red-hot grate with bars, screaming to be let out. Then it multiplies and soon they're in a circle all around her. - The cut Jockey splicers. Even though this is the early years of the Rapture Civil War, these freaks look like something out of BioShock 2. Deformed from excessive Shock Jockey drinking, their bodies are covered with huge crystals bristling with electricity and they look even worse than Crawler splicers. It's difficult to express how badly Fink's and Suchong's vigors have mutated them.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BioShockInfinite
Bird Boy: The Forgotten Children / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes To begin with, the movie starts with a nuclear disaster, resulting in hundreds of deaths (Dinky's father being one of them) and the beginning of the island's downward spiral. - Life in the scrapyard. To mention a few things that happen there: - The only way to survive is to risk your life every day in search of anything made of copper, often fighting to the death with others who are looking for it too. - Anyone just passing through can be robbed and sentenced to torture or death, as the kids learn the hard way. - Hell, even the police are scared of going there, knowing how hellish it is. - The trippy hallucination Birdboy has after taking some drugs of having a tree come out of his chest and two dark birds eating his corpse. - The One-Winged Angel form of Birdboy. Sure, it saved the kids from being executed, but the carnage that he inflicts on the Forgotten Children is brutal. - Sandra's inner voices telling her to toss Little Fox off a cliff or refrain from saving Dinky when she is drowning.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BirdBoyTheForgottenChildren
Beyond: Two Souls / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes There's only one Game Over screen in the entire game that happens during Jodie's last fight with \|\|the monsters as she tries to reach the Black Sun. Fail the prompts, Jodie dies and the Infraworld merges with Earth, destroying everything in our world and turning it into Hell. And Jodie monologues how she's now trapped alone in the darkness forever with her regrets.\|\| Jodie: \|\|Nothing. There's nothing left... Nothing but death, chaos and destruction. The Infraworld has overwhelmed our world, and cast its shroud over the living. Billions of fragments of souls wandering in silence... The world I was born into has disappeared forever. But still the images from my life collide in my head. I try to remember each second... what I did... where I failed... what I could have done to avoid what happened. Ever since I died I... I've let myself float along the cold wave. I hunger for obscurity and oblivion. I am alone with my guilt and my regrets... Alone for eternity.\|\| - Worse, \|\|this actually counts as one of the endings, so you have to let it happen once if you're going for 100% Completion.\|\|	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeyondTwoSouls
Birds of Prey (2020) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As "You can't stand on your own, Quinn. You're not the type. You need me." Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is the first R-rated film in the DC Extended Universe, let's just say that it goes out of its way to portray the harsh realities of crime gangs through an equally troubled woman. - When some creep tries extorting sexual favours out of Harley in exchange for giving her a free hyena, Harley feeds him to the beast. What's more, Harley doesn't show regret or even savour the deed. She just goes back to angsting over her breakup, reminding everyone that this chick will feel nothing once she decides to kill you. - When Harley breaks the legs of Sionis' driver (with a Sickening "Crunch!"), the impact clearly leaves them in an angle that means the guy might never walk again. Quite excruciating to watch. - Victor Zsasz is a nasty piece of work; the single most disturbing, cruel and sadistic henchman in the DCEU so far. And he clearly enjoys being this way. - When Harley first introduces Sionis and Zsasz, they have a family tied upside down before Zsasz cuts the face off the father, and then proceeding to kill his wife and daughter. - To make things worse, Sionis was actually prepared to let the daughter go. But when she thanked him and shed tears of joy, he saw that she had a big snot bubble in her nose and was so disgusted that he decided to kill her just for that. - After hearing bad news from a henchman, an enraged Sionis forces an innocent woman in his club to stand on a table and dance for him. Once she's on the table, Sionis then orders her friend to cut up her dress and tear it off her. The reason he's doing all this? Sionis heard her laughing very loudly and immediately assumed it was directed towards him. - Even worse is that Zsasz eggs Roman on, saying the club attendee was indeed laughing at him. And the purring way he says it implies he knew she wasn't but wanted to see Sionis confront her anyway! - Roman and his False Face gang corner the heroes in the amusement park. Seeing him wearing his skeletal black mask and addressing a crowd of Malevolent Masked Men gives off a very cultish vibe. - The climactic confrontation and Founder's Pier. A fog that was not present anywhere else in the city envelops the area and conceals the holes in the rotting floorboards. Roman is able to completely disappear in it with Cassandra at knifepoint and is only revealed because he allowed himself to be. The whole scene is extraordinarily spooky. - Roman Sionis makes his waitresses wear kigurumi masks. This detail is easy to miss considering the way they're shot, so it can be a real shock the first time you notice the creepy blank doll face in the background.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BirdsOfPrey2020
Black Adam / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Upon his awakening, Adam reduces an unlucky adventurer to a charred skeleton, then to ashes. The black cloak he wore at the time also makes him look somewhat inhuman. - Upon bursting into the king's palace, Black Adam charges up a storm, with his eyes glowing bright white. Keep in mind he can incinerate somebody without breaking a sweat, so to go nuclear on the king shows that he doesn't just want to avenge the murder of his wife and son. He wants the entire world to feel his wrath. - Kent Nelson touches his Helmet of Fate while en route to the Justice Society's base of operations. He gets a flash of several horrific things happening at once, only to snap out of it when the chauffeur alerts him that they've arrived. When Kent asks how long he was entranced, the chauffeur tells him it was half an hour. It's at this moment you realize we only got a taste of the horrors that Kent sees everytime he has a vision. - Hawkman, if we're being honest. He's so convinced that he's on the side of justice and order that he doesn't give a damn about the collateral damage his heroics may cause. As dangerous as Black Adam may be, he won't argue that he's a good person. Hawkman on the other hand will write off anyone who disagrees with him as a villain that needs a good beatdown. At a certain point you've got to wonder if his no-kill rule is the only thing keeping him from going off the deep end. - When Teth-Adam is put in stasis, his chamber is shipped into a large underground bunker inaccessible to the rest of the world. The most chilling detail? He's not the only captive down there. - Ishmael donning the crown of SABBAC, only to get fried by Black Adam upon doing so. Atom Smasher finds his corpse still wearing the crown and he's put in a bodybag. You'd assume this was it for him, but then Adrianna discovers that the inscription on the crown alludes to the wearer resurrecting as The Antichrist. Cut to Ishmael in the bowels of Hell, greeted by six titanic devils who deem him their Evil Counterpart to the Champions empowered by the Wizards. Ishmael's charred corpse glows with hellfire, then explodes and reforms as a Big Red Devil. His mind scrambled by the resurrection and the corrupting powers that now form his body, SABBAC goes on a warpath that not even the Justice Society are able to stop.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackAdam
Big Hero 6: The Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes BEWARE OF UNMARKED SPOILERS ## Season 1 ## Season 2 - The Big Bad of Season 2s first arc: Liv Amara; a kind Benevolent Boss by day, a ruthless sociopath by night. - High Voltage's mutations thanks to Liv Amara in "Something's Fishy". Just when they wanted a normal life, they got forced by Liv into this mess... - The first signs of their mutation. They get hungry for fish... which they eat whole. The truck driver they steal the fish from is horrified and runs away screaming. - Their transformation into eel-like monsters. They are visibly distressed and horrified by their monstrous appearances. Juniper panics and goes to her mother for comfort, who while trying to comfort her daughter, is just as terrified as her. - Their final transformation into Animalistic Abominations. They look more eel than human, and are kept into Liv's aquarium as pets. Talk about disturbing. - Ned Ludd's transformation into the Hibagon in "Muira-Horror!" definitely qualifies. - Chris breaking into Honey Lemon's lab to steal a sample of Globby in "Nega-Globby!". He hides in the shadows until a security drone comes in, and gets the jump on it by shoving his arm straight through the robot. He then steals the sample he came for. The creepiest part is that the whole time Honey Lemon is sleeping in the room. Who knows what he would've done if she woke up. - If you thought the series would lighten the Body Horror on the monster transformations if they happened to a a main character, think again. Karmis - who is to note a young teen like Hiro - transformation is at least as horrific as Ned Ludds if not more. Much of it is covered by a half-Gory Discretion Shot, but at one point her jaw detaches and twists into something resembling a clawed mandible onscreen. - There's also Hiro, suddenly stuck in an enclosed space with a feral ten foot tall monster with claws that can rip through stone. He quickly goes from trying to help Karmi to trying to run for his life, but doesn't get far... - He also would have suffered the same fate as Karmi if not for the real Liv Amara surviving. - In "Fear Not", when Wasabi is hired to fill in for an absent teaching assistant, Hiro and Honey Lemon use Simmax, their new training room, to simulate the classroom, to help him get over his fear of public speaking. But when the students are simulated, they glitch out so only their eyeballs, tendrils and all, are visible, and come straight for him, never blinking. It's quite disturbing, and Wasabis reaction is justified. - "Legacies" shows that Chief Cruz was within a hair's breadth of a full FaceHeel Turn. The sting operation he planned to trap Big Hero 6 was not just illegal, but outright ruthless—taking advantage of their sympathy for others, and there was no illegal activity for him to arrest them on. Sure, Cruz was a jerk, but this is a whole new low that almost made him as bad as the bad guys.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigHero6TheSeries
Black Adam (2022) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Upon his awakening, Adam reduces an unlucky Intergang mercenary to a charred skeleton, then to ashes. Sure, said mercenary could be considered an Asshole Victim, but jeez... The black cloak he wears at the time also makes him look somewhat inhuman. - Upon bursting into the king's palace, Black Adam charges up a storm, with his eyes glowing bright white. Keep in mind he can incinerate somebody without breaking a sweat, so to go nuclear on the king shows that he doesn't just want to avenge the murder of his wife and son. He wants the entire world to feel his wrath. - Kent Nelson touches his Helmet of Fate while en route to the Justice Society's base of operations. He gets a flash of several horrific things happening at once, only to snap out of it when the chauffeur alerts him that they've arrived. When Kent asks how long he was entranced, the chauffeur tells him it was half an hour. It's at this moment you realize we only got a taste of the horrors that Kent sees everytime he has a vision. - When Teth-Adam is put in stasis, his chamber is shipped into a large underground bunker inaccessible to the rest of the world. The most chilling detail? He's not the only captive down there. - Ishmael donning the crown of SABBAC, only to get fried by Black Adam upon doing so. Atom Smasher finds his corpse still holding the crown to his chest and he's put in a bodybag. You'd assume this was it for him, but then Adrianna discovers that the inscription on the crown alludes to the wearer resurrecting as The Antichrist. Cut to Ishmael in the bowels of Hell, greeted by six titanic devils who deem him their Evil Counterpart to the Champions empowered by the Wizards. Ishmael's charred corpse glows with hellfire, then explodes and reforms as a Big Red Devil. His mind scrambled by the resurrection and the corrupting powers that now form his body, SABBAC goes on a warpath that not even the Justice Society are able to stop. - This film confirms the existence of Hell and devils in the DC Extended Universe. Before we had witnessed gods of war and vices given form, but this takes things to much darker level than the basic comic-book feature.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackAdam2022
Black Adam - The Justice Society Files / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The damnation that awaits James Craddock is terrifying to say the least, as he's surrounded by demons who make it clear they're going to enjoy tormenting his soul. - When Gentleman Ghost puts Hawkman in a nightmare realm, preying on his innate fears. Hawkman finds himself trapped in a glass case, being exhibited as a relic in a museum. He sees Doctor Fate in the neigbouring case, who doesn't respond to the name "Kent Nelson". When he removes his helmet, the face underneath is just a skull. And then Hawkman is forced to watch Gentleman Ghost murder two patrons and his partner Jeremy. - Albert's first foray into superheroics is loaded with Realism-Induced Horror. He tries hiding on a rooftop, but loses his footing and the noise causes the gang he's tracking to open fire on him, which he only survives due to his powers giving him super durability (and he can still feel pain). - Doctor Fate's story involves a group of kids seeking out the burial ground of a witch. They invoke a summoning ritual, which leads to one of them becoming possessed (pictured above). - Said demon probes Kent Nelson's mind by piercing tongues into his temples, showing him a vision of Black Adam decimating the Justice Society. SABBAC takes advantage and unleashes further chaos upon the world, most notably destroying the moon.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackAdamTheJusticeSocietyFiles
Black & White / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Nightmare Fuel from the Black & White series. Beware unmarked spoilers! ## Examples: - Deeeaaaatthhh...... Oh, and also the Pied Piper arc. If you fail, the creche becomes empty and the population drops! - A fair amount of Nemesis'/Lethys' actions could count as this (from a villager's perpective, at least): - Nemesis' 'revenge' on the first/fourth land. Turning the sky red? A little unnerving, but not too bad in hindsight. A permanent storm system over the site of your old village, complete with huge pillars of lightning? Again, given that nothing is explicitly in the way of this, it isn't that bad. Fireballs raining from the sky, though... Not to mention the fate of the one village that refused to bow to him: Rather than simply killing the inhabitants, he performs a 'miracle' that sucks them under the ground and turns them to walking skeletons. Granted, it is only a game and the problem is quite easy to rectify, but still. There's also the ogre attacks on your eventual village, Nemesis' kidnapping of a man's wife to ensure his loyalty, and the fact that the land has actually has huge scars that run across it. It's not surprising that the first native you come across in the fourth land sounds utterly terrified of your presence, given that it was technically your fault that Nemesis arrived. - The initial attack on your village at the end of the first land. Picture the scene. It's a beautiful day in the norse town, and everything is peaceful as a benevolent sheep/bear/lion takes your god to the summit of a nearby mountain for another of his lessons. Then a booming voice cuts across the sky, which simultaneously darkens and releases torrents of rain. There's a flash, the town centre is set alight, and suddenly all doesn't seem so peaceful any more. Even worse would be the fate of the villagers of a player who rushes to the second land, leaving half their town to face Nemesis' wrath despite the fact that all could have been sent through to the next land. - And imagine being thrown into the portal. In one day, your home is destroyed and you're thrown into a strange tunnel into a new land, possibly never to see anyone you love again. - Your creature doesn't have a particularly easy time in this game, either. On the third land, he is kidnapped, starved, frozen, and set alight countless times by Lethys' creature. This wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that he is clearly conscious for the entire experience! Then there's the fifth land. This is interesting. Nemesis' curse weakens him, shrinks him, makes him more like your enemy, and makes his alignment the opposite of yours at the end of each day. Thankfully, once you capture enough of Nemesis' towns, your creature is said to be strong enough to resist the curse. However, some versions of the game had a bug whereby the curse was never lifted. - There's also the small matter of what happens to the Greek capital at the beginning of the second game. Let's put it this way: there are probably more than five hundred people in that city, even more counting the soldiers that the Aztecs had already slaughtered. You escape with fifty. And this attack includes two volcanoes. And there are still people there. - On first installing Black & White, the game asks for your name. Innocent enough, until you hear names spoken in barely audible whispers. Lionhead included a soundbank of common names, which it would match to the one given during install and randomly play during the game. The experience of hearing your name spoken in this way can be incredibly unsettling. - If you play its sequel Black and White 2, the game whispers your name (or the closest name to it depending on your computer and game's name setting). - Unsurprisingly... You. Yes, you the player are this very trope to the core (should you choose to be). Think about it. You're the very essence and being brought forth from prayers. Originally, the many masses see benevolence and serenity in you... only for you to not only stab the many in the back that follow you, but also those that were former enemies of your land. You can do many vile things to your villagers. Rain fire from above, throw them across the horizon and into the sea, drop them in volcanos, etc. And the more you perform such dark acts the more your surroundings change, your villagers react (disgusted, afraid, begging for mercy) and your very cursor/hand changes into a demonic clawed hand. You may not be as dark as say Nemesis or The Aztec God. But you can be just as damn vile as the others, if more so. - The hilarious thing about this nightmare is that throughout history, a lot of Gods were portrayed to be just as mean as you are, totally wasting their own worshippers for the slightest mistake and demanding human sacrifices and then getting mad if you didn't do it.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackAndWhite
Big Trouble in Little China / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The centipede-like thing that attacks the heroes in the bowels of the earth. Egg drives it off with a grenade, but not before one of the poor Chang-Sing Red Shirts is Eaten Alive. Jack's freak out says it all, really. Egg: It will come out no more! Jack: Huh?! What?! will come out no more??! What	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BigTroubleInLittleChina
Billy & Mandys Big Boogey Adventure / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - While on Boogeys ship, Grim mocks Boogey by saying butterflies are scarier than him. Cut to a peaceful shot of a butterfly flying around flowers...before it transforms into a horrific butterfly-esque creature with pincers, coupled with a terrifying hissing noise. Jump Scare indeed. - Mandy is put into a sort of nightmare loop by Boogey for defying him. She wakes up on a beach by the River Styx and says "Wow, I just had the craziest dream..." Billy (off camera) then says, "Is it the one where you couldn't save us?" We're then treated to a FREAKY looking creature (as pictured) that has Billy, Grim, and Irwin as part of its body as it wails in a distorted voice, "Where are you, Mandy?" - Another nightmare Mandy has is when she's surrounded by ponies chanting in Irwin's voice "We can't do it without you, yo! We're doomed!" This nightmare is enough to make Mandy scream. - The third nightmare Mandy has is a cruel twist of the series Couch Gag, in where shes stuck in a black void with no escape. - The Hole of Oddities, which turns everyone into puppets. Even Mandy is disturbed by it. Billy: (lifts up his shirt) Aaaaaaahhhh!!!! I'm a forearm from the waist down! - When Boogey seemingly gets control of Horror's Hand, the first thing he does is make Grim explode out of sheer terror. Billy: Mandy? This isn't fun anymore. Mandy: Billy, for once I completely agree with you	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BillyAndMandysBigBoogeyAdventure
Black Christmas (2006) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Melissa's death in the UK edition. After having a bag pulled over her head, she gets her eyes ripped out, and is subsequently dragged kicked and screaming down the hallway by her bleeding sockets. - In general, the deaths in this movie can considered much more brutal than your usual slasher, as many of them involve the victims being strangled and suffocated with plastic bags before they are killed, giving an unnervingly sadistic quality to them. - Billy strangling his abusive mother and beating her with a rolling pin? Awesome. Making cookies out of her flesh? Creepy... or Black Comedy, depending on who you ask. - Everything about Billy abducting/attacking Agnes, who at that point is a little girl. - Specifically; Agnes hears a rustling noise behind the christmas tree, she peers through the branches, and Billy is staring right back at her, which a lot of first-time viewers miss. When their parents hear her screaming and come back down, he's just gouged one of her eyes out with a tree ornament, he then pops the eye into his mouth, before taking out both his parents.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackChristmas2006
Black Christmas (1974) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You have been warned. - The first moments are subtly creepy, as they're shown from Billy's view, where he shuffles around the sorority, then climbs in through an open window and spies on the girls from the attic. In most horror movies, we never know where the killer is at any given time. Here, we always know that he's just upstairs. - Every single time Jess is left alone in the house it creates a massive sense of dread, because we know the killer is already inside, and could strike at any moment. - Just to really hammer home how unsafe the characters really are, at one point when Jess is talking to the police over the phone, Billy's shadow can be seen moving in the background. - Every single one of those damn phone calls. Unlike later slasher movie icons like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, Billy isn't some silent, emotionless entity. Rather, he's a snarling, sniveling, cackling creep who frequently alternates between voices (possibly implying some form of schizophrenia), breaks down into sobbing fits, and makes all measure of obscene sexual threats. - The first phone call is arguably the worst. After squeaking like a pig and screaming sexual threats, Barb casually makes fun of him and insults him right back. In a calm tone, Billy replies "I'm going to kill you", then hangs up. - As per the Alternative Character Interpretation on the YMMV page, we also know absolutely nothing about the guy. No backstory, no motivation, just who the hell Agnes is, nothing. Hell, we don't even see what he looks like; instead we just get heavily shadowed glimpses of him. - The allusions Billy keeps making to Agnes is just enough for someone to deduce that something terrible happened to her at Billy's hands. When Billy does his imitation acts, he screams lines like "You left Billy alone with Agnes?!", "Where's Agnes?", and "Dirty Billy!", and later on during Barb's murder he says "Don't tell anyone what we did, Agnes.". The implication being that, whatever happened, it means that Billy's been a dangerous person for potentially years. - A few throw away lines early in the film suggests that Billy's been active long before the events of the movie, since the sorority girls are not only familiar with his threats and obscene rants (to the point where they've given him the nickname of "The Moaner"), and when one of the sorority girls mentions someone in town had gotten raped two weeks prior. It gives off the impression of a psychopath gradually escalating his criminal behavior until an all out massacre occurs. - Special mention goes to when he practically wails into the phone, "JUST LIKE HAVING A WART REMOVED!" In-Universe, it's a Wham Line, because Jess thinks it's Peter, but in general, it's just delivered in such a disturbing manner. - At one point in the film a mother goes to the police to tell them that her thirteen year old daughter has been missing for hours. A search party is sent out to find the girl, only to find her murdered. We're never shown the corpse, but the various reactions of the characters to seeing it tell us that whatever happened was gruesome. - Claire's murder. Billy lures her into a closet, and once she's in striking distance Billy wraps a plastic bag over her heard to strangle her with, while an incredibly loud sound of Claire struggling to breathe is played. - Every single time the movie cuts to Clare's increasingly rotted corpse sitting in the rocking chair with a bag over her face (pictured above). It just serves to remind us that, no matter how hard the protagonists look for her, they're never going to see Clare alive again. The fact no one ever discovers her body just makes it worse. - Barb being stabbed to death with a figurine. The scene is made even more disturbing by being intercut with shots of Christmas caroling children. - Ms. Mac being stabbed and hanged with a crane hook. What makes it worse is that Billy waits for her to see Claire's corpse, then waits for her to turn around and face him, before he releases the hook and kills her. He wanted her to be afraid before he killed her. - One of the most Paranoia Fuel-inducing lines in horror: "The calls are coming from the house!" - When Jess hears this line, she shouts upstairs for Phill and Barb, becoming increasingly frantic when they don't answer. At this point, they're already dead, and Jess is alone in the house. - To emphasize this point, far prior to this the Detectives had posted an officer outside the house to monitor it and to make sure nothing suspicious goes on. When they try to reach him, the camera pans up to reveal his throat's been cut open. There is no-one for Jess to turn to and the authorities are too far to reach her in time. - The ending. After the cops have left and Jess is left to lie in bed, the camera pans throughout the house and stops below the attic, which slowly opens with a creak. We then cut to Mrs Mac and Clare's bodies in the attic. - And during the credits, the phone begins to ring. The killer is still in the house...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackChristmas1974
Black Butler / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Deals with the devil? Sounds like it should be creepy! Unmarked spoilers below. - Similar to the story it is based on a number of prostitutes are horrifically killed and gruesomely dismembered to the point that Ciel throws up upon finding what's left of the last victim. And each of them had their wombs ripped out not unlike something out of an occult ritual. The kicker? The women were all killed because they requested abortions due to their profession, and the killer was the very person who performed the procedures all because she was pissed that she couldn't conceive kids of her own and that the women (or at least one of them) saw children as "a waste". The murderer is also assisted by a grim reaper of all beings who is not only an all around violent and sadistic person in her own right but also a transwomen who was motivated by her similar jealousy. And the latter ends up getting off (nearly) scotch free after she kills her partner for becoming "too boring" (as in, refusing to kill her nephew because she loves him). - What happened to said murderer that made her go on such a rampage counts too. Not only was the carriage accident severe enough to kill both Madame Red's husband and her unborn child, whatever injuries she received were apparently so bad she was told that she'd never be able to have children again (even having her womb removed without her consent, supposedly as a life-saving measure). - How's about the Nightmare Face that Grell pulls off right before she reveals her true self?◊ Freakin' hell! - At the beginning of the arc it turns out that the eccentric Viscount is actually a human trafficker who preys on pretty young ladies and attempted to sell off a then-disguised Ciel. He is never punished for this and it could be assumed that he is still participating in said activities. - In Chapter 31 when Ciel and Sebastian are at Baron Kelvin's mansion and are having dinner. The "circus" show he has a few children put on isn't all that scary... Until we see a little girl on the tightrope fall and we're treated to a panel of her leg and a nice splat complete with blood squirts. Then we see two other children drag off her headless corpse, leaving a lovely, bloody trail behind. Or how about the child who was a lion tamer that's eaten right on stage? The fact that Baron Kelvin is laughing and applauding makes it all the more frightening. Then he acts surprised that Ciel doesn't like the "show" he had the untrained children put on special for him. It was a pretty disturbing chapter. - Also, he wasn't just using the kidnapped children to perform in the circus or turning them into ceramic doll parts. He kept more of them locked up underneath his manor, trying to recreate the torture Ciel underwent while he was a slave. - Thought the manga part was bad enough? Wait until you'll see the anime adaptation. You just have to hear Baron Kelvin's voice once to know he's not exactly sane. - Near the end of Chapter 32, it seems as though Jumbo took care of Finnian, complete with a bloodied forehead. As soon as he stands back up from the impact, we were then treated with a creepy image of a smiling Finny, still with a bleeding forehead. - In the chapter after that, as the circus folk try to infiltrate the mansion, Peter and Wendy try to cut Finnian in half with wire... and Wendy takes a bullet through her head out of nowhere. This is our first look at Mey-Rin in her Cold Sniper mode, and it's a bit of a shock. - The entirety of the "fight" between the servants and the circus folk is one prolonged bit of horror from the latter's perspective. They are meticulously hunted down and killed, and the servants treat it somewhere between a mundane chore and a sadistic game, with Finny smiling the entire time and Bardroy making jokes at their quarry's expense. This is a total 180 from how they act in the first season of the anime where they at least seem to show some remorse in having to kill intruders, that being an alternative storyline notwithstanding. - The cherry on top is Bard putting an end to the Curb-Stomp Battle by getting Beast caught in a flour explosion that takes out a good chunk of the Phantomhive Manor. That's...not a pleasant way to die no matter if it was quick or not. - And, of course, to be fair the troupe were only there in the first place to kidnap either Ciel or any other kid who was on the property, which during that night would have been Elizabeth who was fast asleep at the time. If Ciel had not hired servants possessing great battle talents and knowing just what kind of a sick fuck Baron Kelvin is, that night could have still ended very badly. - Ciel's flashbacks. A crazed cult leader stabbing a child in front of you? Horrific. How about a doctor who uses children's bones in his prosthetics stabbing a child in front of you the same way the cult leader did? Really horrific. Ciel got physically sick when he saw the doctor do this. - It's as bad in the anime, where there's no sign of Ciel having been stabbed, but it's implied by Angela that he may have been raped. The flashback in the 22nd episode is also pretty creepy, with a naked Ciel calmly walking (through some rather eerie white mist) on top of the piled up corpses of the cultists without any fear or hesitation in his eyes. - As found out later in the manga, he was. Even worse is that in the anime adaption an associate of Baron Kelvin's said that he would give Ciel something along the lines of "extra attention" with the intention crystal clear before leaving the baron behind. Jeez. - "The book of circus" however gives us a LOT of Ciel's flashbacks, two are even in the opening clip. We even learn why the cultists wanted to summon a demon: to get enough money to be rich for the rests of their live]. Too bad Sebastian thought that Ciel was far more interesting as a contractor. - The manga makes this worse. Only ONE person wanted to have money and power, since he was the only one who thought the sacrifice could actually work. The rest of the "cultists" were just bored rich folks having fun, torturing children and killing them purely for entertainment. - In Book of Circus's fourth episode, we watch the circus members' abduction of a young girl, which seems to involve some sort of drugging or hypnosis (possibly by using Mind-Control Music) that causes her to hallucinate. The police try to stop them, but are killed by the circus crew. What really makes the scene stand out is how the girl sees the policemen as cute bears that "bleed" confetti. While the deaths we see for what they are are quite bloody, most of them are seen from the girl's pont of view. It's quite unsettling to hear her laughing and clapping her hands in delight as the "bears" get offed and then happily entering the "Carriage to the Dreamland". It's even worse once you learn where the "Carriage" is actually going... - Now we know that the poor girl was being kept locked in the basement, in a perfect recreation of the cultist's room where Ciel was tortured. And in episode 9, Doctor used her for his lovely demonstration on how he extracted the material for his artificial body parts. - The anime makes it even worse by giving every child captured by the Baron matching scars on their foreheads- which implies that they might have been lobotomized, especially since these children are so... uncannily quiet and obedient, not even crying out when they're all burning to death. - Book of Circus episode eight: too many things to count. Let's just say that the episode is way bloodier and creepier than manga. Oh, and Grell is back. - Book of Circus episode nine, The last shot of Sebastian while he's engulfing the building in flames. He looks downright psychotic. - Heck, even he found this particular act to be a tad too far judging from him momentarily questioning Ciel and later again asking Ciel why he did it, but an order is an order... - Grell's reaction to viewing Beast's death record ( and her "relation" to Sebastian) can either be absolutely hilarious or absolutely disturbing. - Speaking of the infamous scene, just how Sebastian got Beast to go to bed with him can be unsettling to some viewers. They were outside alone at night, he persisted both while she was at a low point and while it was obvious she wanted nothing to do with him, he constrained her to prevent her from attacking (again) or getting away from him while he propositioned her, and then he emotionally breaks her until she finally lets him have his way. Manipulation and pressuring at its finest and darkest, and the overall ambiance of the scene (the anime lovingly adds in creepy Background Music and makes Sebastian look like an inhuman predator in some shots), his prior "incidents" with Beast (getting too close to her crotch when he needed not to and with 0 consent and basically calling her a whore afterward because of her outfit, gawking at her half-naked when trapped in the box with Ciel), and Beast's misery and discomfort never letting up during what little was seen of the sex as well as never showing real signs of genuinely wanting it did not help at all. - Even worse is the "demons seduce then drag humans into darkness" aspect that William brought up. While this does refer to how Beast fell for Sebastian's temptation no matter how she felt about during or after it, another interpretation could be that as a demon Sebastian knows exactly how to easily and quickly manipulate his prey to the point it's nearly impossible for the target to reason or refuse an offer, using their own weaknesses no less. And even if there was truly no foul play going on, just remember this was all to gain information and Sebastian most likely had a clue on what was going to happen to Beast a little later.... - There is also something very unnerving about seeing William watch as this happens, understand very well what the implications were, and yet choose not to step in. Gets worse given that the only reason this even happened was because this became Sebastian's "Plan B" when William wouldn't let him leave the circus without Ciel. - And to top it off, remember that, again, Not only does this throw the affair Sebastian is a bloody demon. definitively into rape territory given not knowing exactly who/what you're sleeping with is deception which automatically nullifies any kind of consent given, it also raises some questions into what could have happened had Beast managed to survive note : Assuming Sebastian indeed went that far, as heavily implied in the anime. - Doctor, after telling Sebastian and Ciel the whole story behind the children kidnapping, actually had a nerve to ask Ciel of hiring him! Or recommending him to the Queen because "she's not getting any younger" and "could use some maintenance". To prove how brilliant he is, he made a lovely little demonstration on how he "extracted" the material needed to make artificial body parts. Ciel snapped. - Just the fact that, while it's for certain that Ciel and Sebastian killed Doll when she charged at them, we don't exactly see just how she died. \|\|And given that Undertaker was actually looking from afar when this happened...\|\| - Ciel's Laughing Mad moment at the end of the Circus arc in the manga is terrifying, especially considering how reserved he generally tries to be. After a massive PTSD attack in Kelvin's mansion and arguably crossing the Moral Event Horizon by burning down the entire mansion with uncountable innocent kidnapped children inside, discovering it was All for Nothing makes him... laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and babble about how humans are revolting and desperate and "even more demonic than a demon", and how he's the same. And as the ribbon off his hat is stolen by the wind, you remember that this is a thirteen-year-old kid.... - The murder mystery arc ends with Ciel and Sebastian telling the young Arthur Conan Doyle exactly what happened: Charles Gray was responsible for the murders, and they framed someone else anyway (he's a criminal for other reasons). When Arthur asks how Sebastian was capable with all of the things he did, Sebastian tells Arthur the truth that he is a demon. And if Arthur ever tells anyone, they'll be sure to kill him. His last words "we're always watching" haunt Arthur for the rest of his life and convinced him to continue writing. The only reason Sebastian did that was because Ciel liked his writing. - The anime makes it worse by having Sebastian show Arthur his true form. - Connected to this, the Book of Murder Side Story could also count if one interprets it as Sebastian being able to infiltrate Arthur's... or really anyone's (including Ciel's) mind at will via dreams. Gets worse if one wants to think that Sebastian did that to Arthur multiple times instead of only once as well as threatened him further. - Mr Phelps' sudden close-up during the conclusion of the Mystery Murder Mansion Arc when Sebastian relates how he heard the snake and checked in the room, Phelps was begging for help and foaming at the mouth. Sebastian...did absolutely nothing to help the guy and just carried on like nothing was happening. - Any time the bizarre dolls show up. Especially when they start acting more human- and begin repeating the same lines over and over. - During the Campania Arc, just the faces of the Zombies/Bizarre Dolls at times... especially unsettling how wide they open their mouths, if not weird movements like walking backwards or contorting themselves into weird shapes. - Ronald's carefree personality makes him really, really creepy at some points. He's grinning psychotically while killing zombies, casually tries to kill Sebastian, and when he finds the corpse of a woman he'd been flirting with, just smiles and remarks that he'd told her they wouldn't meet again. - The story of how the P4 killed Derrick. First of all, his death is covered up and his family thinks he's still alive for a full year after his death. Then he gets turned into a zombie\|\| - a semi-intelligent one who can still move normally for a few seconds before it starts eating humans.\|\| Finally, there's what Derrick himself was dong to deserve his death. Torturing other kids along with his friends, and he even says they do so just to "let off some steam." - The werewolf curse. First you cry, then you get rashes, your nose starts bleeding uncontrollably, your face swells up, until eventually you die in agony. Even more terrifying when we learn that the "curse" is actually the effect of inhaling a toxic gas, made by the villagers. And Siegliende was needed only for completing a formula for making the gas even more deadly. - Chapter 94. The second half. Sebastian finally snaps. However, it was probably just an act as we see in Chapter 95 (though Sebastian did say he was 90% serious about it...and probably would've gone through with it if Ciel hadn't snapped out of his BSOD right then and there.) - Chapter 97: The miasma that affected Ciel \|\|is actually a chemical weapon that kills anyone who breathes it in when it vaporizes.\|\| Think about that. \|\|Humans created a chemical gas\|\| potent enough to affect a demon like Sebastian. - Then again, chapter 99 gives a new nightmare moment for Sebastian. He actually suffers no ill effects from he mustard gas, as shown when he breathes in an entire room of the stuff and exhales it later. - Sieglinde got her legs and feet permanently broken and then tightly bound up as a part of "The Ritual" for the introduction of her as the new Green Witch. The whole werewolf story was entirely made up by the villagers to trick Sieglinde into completing and then giving them the formula for a new chemical weapon, the "ritual" was just to keep her from suspecting anything or keep her from escaping if she ever found out the truth. - The cliffhanger at Chapter 98: Ciel has an emotionally broken Sieglinde alone and held at gunpoint, forcing her to choose between going out into the outside world (promising that she'll most likely "be used by countless people and experience even worse tragedies than what already happened") or just "get it over with". This is also right after Wolfram was given the order to find Sieglinde and kill her even though it's obvious that he doesn't want to. - As it turns out, Sieglinde actually accepted Ciel's offer to kill her. And if it wasn't for the Queen's orders, who knows if Ciel would have pulled the trigger or not. - Chapter 100 has Wolfram believing to have found Sieglinde after defeating Bard and Snake, but it turns out that it's Ciel dressed up like her and he's about to shoot Wolfram point-blank. It gets worse considering that Wolfram could have understandably assumed that Sieglinde was either long gone, being tortured, or murdered at the time. - The satisfied look that Ciel has when it looks like he killed Wolfram can also count. - Wolfram nearly shooting Ciel the next chapter also counts, especially with Bard and Snake being within seeing distance but unable to do anything. - Chapter 105 once again hints that Queen Victoria is planning on starting a world war in order to conquer it in the name of England. Not only that, but she might have had some knowledge of Germany's advancements in weaponry and has now obtained its most deadly one by having Sieglinde and samples of it on their way to England. - Doesn't help that Sascha happily informs that the sulin gas could easily kills hundreds with just a drop of the stuff...not to mention he himself is extremely happy with the idea of a world war happening. - In Ch. 108, it appears that during the night \|\|Undertaker snuck into Ciel's room while he was sleeping and fed him some sort of liquid from a vial.\|\| It plays out to have looked like a nightmare, but the possibility of it having been real isn't exactly excused... - A moment not so much for us but in-verse \|\|for Sebastian of all characters. After the nightmare/the Undertakers nighttime visit, Ciels contract seal was either flickering in and out or just not there for a while after he woke up. All this work, all the condescension hes endured, and Sebastian was absolutely terrified for a moment that hed lost his reward and he didnt even know how.\|\| - There's also the idea that \|\|the sulin gas might actually come back into play again, given Sebastian opted to hide it in an underwater abyss as opposed to outright destroying it. Not exactly a far stretch to imagine another supernatural being getting a hold of it or something else occurring.\|\| - The Blue Sect arc revolves around a cult that welcomes members of all classes, offers free food and education, and even has live entertainment akin to Japanese idol groups. Sounds wonderful (and strange) enough, but in actuality \|\|it is sedating its members during said live concerts and taking large amounts of blood for the so-called masters, leaving a large amount of people (kids included) dead.\|\| It gets worse since \|\|Elizabeth is currently involved, and it has gotten to the point she has no desire to leave even for Ciel's sake\|\| - Ciel's plan to take away Bravat's audience becomes this when it's revealed \|\|he did it to purposely see if more people would die as a result of Bravat having to take even more blood thanks to his resources dwindling.\|\| Of course Ciel hid this tidbit from the rest of the P5 members. - Sebastian effortlessly and callously \|\|striking down Elizabeth after she attacked him when he was investigating the sphere hall. Not only was he surprised that he didn't break any of her bones, but he blatantly admitted that if she was not engaged to Ciel he would have simply killed her.\|\| - Ch. 125 features Blavat locking his patrons to their loungers and draining them near complete of their blood. The only survivor appears to have been \|\|Gregory Violet, who was brought due to having the rarest blood type, and even then he's not in the best condition.\|\| - Ch. 126 has \|\|Agni discover something shocking from the pieces of a picture that Ciel threw into the fire, and Soma has someone whom he is familiar with point a gun to his head, pulling the trigger as the chapter ends just as Agni rushes out to inform him what he has discovered.\|\| - Ch. 127, the ambush was already horrible enough, but \|\|seeing Agni's bloodied corpse with multiple knives still in its back\|\| is as jarring as it was heart wrenching. - Ch. 128: "Who stole the candy from my tummy?" Whatever it means, \|\|along with the picture fragments Agni gave to Soma\|\|, it has Ciel Phantomhive horrified. - \|\|Later this is revealed as the Phantomhive ring, which the older twin swallowed to hide it from their kidnappers. This is the revelation to Ciel that his twin was somehow alive and involved.\|\| - YMMV, but the sight of the kind-hearted, happy-go-lucky Soma \|\|looking absolutely infuriated once he gains consciousness and learns Agni is indeed dead. It could almost be forgiven if one assumes he's willing to murder Agni's killer, who at this moment Soma could be mistaking Ciel for.\|\| - Ch. 129: by the time Ciel and Sebestian return to the manor, \|\|Ciel is horrified to see a stranger that looked exactly like him and claims to be the real Ciel. The reason why Ciel was scared of him, as if he had seen a ghost is unknown, but it seems that he somehow knows that this stranger is the real Ciel.\|\| He was completely speechless at the end of the chapter, frightened of his presence. - In Ch. 151, \|\|the real Ciel discovers the prototypes for the Funtom Company's Christmas line as Tanaka tells him how the Funtom Corporation was one of the reasons for Our Ciel's successes. The real Ciel is so excited and proud in his brother's success, commenting on how if it were up to him, he would have invested in communication systems or railways lines. ... And then he tells Tanaka to dispose of the toys as he sees fit.\|\| - Chapter 155: Mey-Rin and Ran-Mao are disguised as maids working at a new master's mansion as part of Ciel's plan to destroy the blood supplies needed to keep the real Ciel from reverting back to a mindless doll. Now there's one problem. \|\|The master is revealed to take certain maids that remind him of his dead wife so he can keep them. And now, Ran-Mao is missing...\|\| - Chapter 156: \|\|Mey-Rin discovers a hidden room in the baron's mansion; a room filled with hospital beds and machinery. The beds are filled with all the maids Baron Heathfield summoned to his bedroom. They are all fast asleep and connected to the machines which carefully draw their blood without killing them. Worse still, the head maid of the mansion, Jane is a combat specialist just like Mey-Rin and has been following her from the very start.\|\| - Chapter 161: \|\|Try to imagine being in Mey-Rin's shoes when she's trying to shoot Ciel. She misses and retreats so she can regroup and try again, but then she sees Sebastian coming for her at inhuman speed! And when he closes the gap between them, he throws his cutlery at her...but instead of killing her, he instead kills a man about to stab her with a knife. And that man just so happened to be one of her associates, Dove.\|\| - Chapter 171 \|\|has Baldroy and Lau being forcibly decontaminated by men wearing hazmat suits and gas masks, all under the command of a rough woman named Ada.\|\| - Chapter 172: Ronald's Slasher Smile when he mentions dying patients. - Chapter 173: \|\|The blood drawing room. For all Ada knows, the blood is being used for medical purposes. But Baldroy, Lau and the readers know that it's being used to revive the Blue Cult's Lords.\|\| - Chapter 189: \|\|Sebastien forcibly drags Bard back from the afterlife, against the latter's explicit wishes, smiling all the while like it's the funniest thing in the world.\|\| - Chapter 200: \|\|When Finny tells the orphans that the orphanage they're in is actually being run by an organization that steals people's bloods, they of course don't believe him at first until he brings up the Sphere Music Hall incident. That's when they reveal the orphanage is actually more like a military fortress and anyone who tries to escape ends up dying. And the children who end up getting adopted are never heard from again.\|\| - In the first episode of the anime, a businessman comes to Ciel's house for dinner. At some point, he excuses himself and goes to make a phone call, in which he tells how he sold a Phantomhive factory without Ciel's knowledge or permission and how he plans on getting more money from Ciel. Of course, our favourite demon butler hears this and decides to make him pay by driving the man insane with hallucinations, which are scary enough on their own. When the man finds a place to hide from him—actually the oven—Sebastian locks him in and turns it on. The calmness of Sebastian's voice is chilling, especially compared to the hysterical pleas for his life from the other man. What's worse is how Sebastian slides the viewing window closed right in front of the terrified eyes staring out. - That whole scene is scary. The guest is reminded of the horrifying things that happened in Ciel's board game as they happen to him—"bewitched by the eyes of the dead", he sees ghostly faces coming from the portrait of the late Mr. Phantomhive. He runs, only to "lose a limb," twisting his right leg horribly on the stairs. He tries to crawl away from Sebastian, who keeps pace with him easily and taunts him about his slowness with a sadistic smile. And when he is locked in the fiery oven, Ciel's words still haunt him—"your body is burned by raging flames". - Drossel Keinz living dolls are terrifying for people with pediophobia (fear of dolls). But also the fact that he himself is a doll is quite the Fuel itself. But the worst thing for pediophobic is the puppet of Drossels "Master". - For the few episodes he's in, Drossel is loaded with creepy. He decapitates someone on screen, uses jewelry to pick out his victims, and always has that Creepy Monotone along with the Ironic Nursery Rhyme. One notable bit of terror is when he's talking with Elizabeth on picking a gift for Ciel before he comes to his decision, you get a close up of his face with Lizzy reflected in his eyes. Drocell : It's perfect. We'll give him you . - We never get to see Sebastian's demon form in full. Judging by his mostly-offscreen No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Ash/Angela, what he looks like and is capable of doing is probably pretty damn vicious. - Angela/Ash during the last two episodes of season one. "Every one...every one...every one, every one, every one, every one, every SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM BE CONSUMED BY HELLFIRE." complete with nightmarish computer glitch-like transition between Angela's face and Ash's face. - Episode 1 where Alois stabs out Hannah's eye with his fingers. - In general Alois' needless abuse of Hannah, \|\|her being a demon notwithstanding,\|\| is very disturbing to watch and even more so once his backstory's revealed. Doesn't help that this is partly also Alois trying to stay in Claude's favor and that Claude treats Hannah no differently or even worse. - Black Butler II also has its fair share of horror, but the one scene that tops everything occurs in episode 10. It begins with Hannah talking to Ciel and saying that she has something to show him. Perfectly pleasant, right? Then her mouth opens unnaturally wide to reveal this black abyss where the inside of a human mouth would be. The eye she stole from Alois Trancy is rooted in the back of her throat, and since Ciel's soul has been partially fused with Alois's at this point, he's basically staring at himself from inside her. Hannah watches calmly while Ciel suffers a severe nervous breakdown. Also counts as Paranoia Fuel, since up to this point the episode made you believe that they were really going to hit it off as master and servant. - That bit where Claude is brainwashing Ciel into thinking he's Alois and rewriting his past. - Going more into it, remember that Alois/Jim was a Sex Slave who was raped multiple times by the old earl, not to mention it was implied that he was probably forced to prostitute even before hand to survive. This basically means that Claude figuratively AND literally mind raped Ciel. - Gets even worse when one remembers Ciel \|\|was revealed to have been gang raped while he was in the cult's clutches.\|\| - The above makes Claude's interactions with Ciel while he was Ciel's butler all the more creepy than they already were. The way he smiles with lust as he's caressing Ciel's leg, it's just like the way the former Earl Trancy did to Jim/Alois. - When Sebastian puts on glasses it's a bit frightening! Imagine waking up to THAT hideous sight serving you your morning tea! - In general, entering into a contract with a demon causes a marking to appear somewhere on your body (like Ciel's eye). The more obvious/visible the area will give more power and make the contract stronger, all while making it easier for the demon to find you. And once you're branded, there is no getting rid of it, no means of escape (unless the demon can be killed, which is HIGHLY unlikely). - To make things worse, it seems that once the contract has been made if at any moment the demon believes it's contractor is in violation of their end of the bargain the demon will be free to eat their soul right then and there, as Sebastian decided to demonstrate in the Green Witch arc. And yes, Word of God indeed confirmed this. - As the Anime also demonstrates, if the demon feels the contractees soul is unsuitable for his or her tastes, then the demon can simply kill the person and abandon the contract as Claude did to Alois. - YMMV, but Ronald's character song Kudoku Kiku Jyanakute is fairly creepy. Imagine you're in a club or on the street or anywhere, just minding your own business, and then a complete stranger walks up to you and brightly tells you, \|\|"You have only seven days left."\|\| And there's nothing you can do about it. - In general, many of the shinigami shown don't exactly evoke the image of Don't Fear The Reaper. Their attitudes towards those slated to die seem to range from cold indifference (bordering on Lack of Empathy to even victim blaming levels) to downright glee for the upcoming death, they are not exactly above toying around with those on the "to die" lists, and then there are those such as Grell and Undertaker who abuse their position and powers to commit atrocities and basically get away with it. - A special mention goes out to Eric from the "Most Beautiful Death In the World" musical, who ended up going rogue and murdering nearly 1000 innocent women just for the chance of saving fellow reaper Alan from a fatal curse. Though unlike Grell and Undertaker he pays for it when he and Alan try deflecting. - They also do not merely show up when one dies as typical reapers do. Instead they integrate themselves into normal society so that they can keep an eye on the targeted person until whatever death fated to them happens. Not too far off from what would be expected from assassins. - Let's not forget that, as it turns out, they are all individuals who were Driven to Suicide that are now forced to take on the role until they can obtain forgiveness. And if they do not pass the training required before stepping onto the field or try to quit beforehand they are most likely thrown into Hell. - If one takes the live-action movie as canon, this dark story won't end with Ciel but instead will become an ongoing, if not eternal, curse that will lead to every head of the Phantomhive (or Genpou) family suffering horrifically before selling their soul to Sebastian. It doesn't help that some fans theorized that this cycle started before Ciel, although that remains to be seen. - Even the promotional artwork has a couple examples that artistically reminds the audience what Sebastian will eventually do to Ciel, notably one where Ciel is laid out on a table like a dinner with Sebastian looming over him and another where Ciel looks like a lifeless doll with sausages coming out of his abdomen (like spilled guts) while Sebastian holds his knife and fork with a smile.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackButler
BioShock / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The BioShock series has plenty to offer when it comes to nightmare-inducing fear. If you're afraid of the dark, people sneaking up on you, babbling madness, disfigurement, creepy monotone children, a dystopian society, or even BEES, then this franchise have something in store for you. The series also usually involves heavy use of shadows and ambient environmental noises. And if you're thinking of anything less from the people who previously worked on the System Shock series, THINK AGAIN! Each entry in the series has its own page below.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BioShock
Birdeatsbaby / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The Incitatus music video. It has all of the following, along with a Silent Hill style straitjacket and disturbing jerks and movements from Mishkin: Medical Horror Strapped to an Operating Table Abandoned Hospital Deadly Doctor Playing with Syringes Battleaxe Nurse Gratuitous Cleavage The "Feast of Hammers" music video was inspired, amongst others, by The Hills Have Eyes (2006). It has Gorn, a Pyramid Head-esque villain, and strange animal masks.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Birdeatsbaby
Be Careful What You Wish For / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## The book contains examples of: - The sequence where Samantha accidentally erases everyone else from existence is quite chilling. That chapter does a pretty good job of conveying what it would actually feel like to be the only person in the world. She's scared out of her mind from the total isolation, and starts to panic about how she can't take care of herself and has no idea what she's supposed to do now, and nearly breaks down crying before she manages to find Clarissa and undo the wish. - When Samantha wishes that Judith was her friend, both the book and the episode portray her as a creepy stalker-type, who at one point breaks into Samantha's home in the middle of the night. - The sheer scope of Clarissa's power warrants a mention. She at first appears just a simple witch, but as the book progresses she appears to be something even more powerful and alien. Through "simple" wish granting, Clarissa shows she can blink humanity out of existence, inflict disease and sickness, alter your personality, turn back the flow of time, and transform people into animals. Just what else is she capable of? One should be grateful she's one of the "nicer" magical beings in this series. ## The episode contains examples of: - In the episode, rather than wishing for everyone to disappear like in the book, Samantha instead wishes they would "buzz off". Clarissa makes this true, all right... by turning everyone into flies. Especially disturbing for anyone with muscaphobia. Also, Judith's wish that she'd be admired by all who see her causes her to turn to stone. Leaving Judith in a possible And I Must Scream situation. And the single crow that lands on top of her head.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
Black Dynamite / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes You'll never look at Michael Jackson the same way again.As fanciful and hilariously insane as the show is, the world of Black Dynamite is filled with insane incarnations of known celebrities and a variety of madness that is partially fueled by a President Evil that wants to destroy the African American Community.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackDynamite
Biker Mice from Mars / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The flashback sequences for part one of the three-part episode "Once Upon a Time on Mars" ends with Throttle, Vinnie, and Modo being horribly injured. Throttle in particular can be briefly seen with his eye sockets empty and bleeding. Jimmy Mack trying to crush Throttle to death in "Road Ravens". Not only he says is something he always wondered if he could do, but you can hear the bones cracking. Greasepit: "I wonder if he'll go "pop" or simply "squeak"!". The Pits: the first place to be dug up by Limburger before the Biker Mice came to Earth, they became a base for the worst criminals on the planet, giving them a hiding place well beyond the reach of the law. Periodically said criminals resurface to rob banks and stores and kidnap hostages, who are reduced to slaves and forced to work under menace. If someone tries to rebel, they are sentenced to die in the arena against giant robots. Stoker's transformations into a rat monster in the 2006 series can be more than a little unsettling.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BikerMiceFromMars
Blackest Night / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The very concept of a Black Lantern. Imagine someone you cared for in life, loved or just plain hated comes back. Except it's not them, even though they have all the memories, knowledge and abilities of who they were in life. They're omnicidal husks who want to tear your heart out. Specifically, they want to feed on your feelings. And they will do anything and everything to get a rise out of you. It doesn't matter what emotion it is -you can be confident, hopeful, angry, fearful or even glad, and you're still screwed. And you join them. No, you can't kill them. You can't destroy them. With a few precise exceptions, they cannot be destroyed. Ring: (Person) of (Planet): RISE. - To quote the series itself, "The rings are wearing the dead." - Then there are the resurrected heroes, who end up becoming Black Lanterns while still fully aware and helpless, trapped in their own minds while the ring uses their bodies to emotionally and physically shatter their loved ones through Break Them by Talking before gruesome disembowelments. The worst part is that all the horrible things they say and do are based in truth— the ring brings out their darkest thoughts and deeds to use against the people they care about most. Ring: (Person) of (Planet): DIE.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackestNight
Björk / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Albums: Post - "Cover Me" is extremely spooky with all those programmings and harp arrangement. It also portrays Björk's desperation pretty well. Homogenic Vespertine Medúlla(To be precise, this album is half scary and half inspiring.) - "Pleasure Is All Mine" is full of intense bass vocals and all those disturbing choruses. It's intimidating yet very glorious in its own way. - "Ancestors". By far her most avant-garde song, it features throat singing that turns into a dog choking for air. - "Where Is the Line?" has creepy, stuttering bass vocals that could easily qualify. The music video's also rather dark. Definitely the darkest in Medulla's era. - "Submarine" is far too creepy for a motivational song Björk wrote for herself. Volta - "Earth Intruders." After listening to it a few times, it does get admittedly less creepy... but still. The intro is mainly the squelching of footsteps in mud and some very primitive-sounding drums. Then Björk starts singing such lovely lyrics as "grinding skeptics into the soil/Shower of goodness coming to/End the doubt pouring over." Not to mention the occasional shrieking of "TURMOIL, CARNAGE!" Just to top it off, the album version ends with about a minute and a half of soft, eerie alarms and foghorn noises. The music video is essentially a tableau of primitive figures with spears superimposed on Bjork's face. Then about halfway through the video... the figures get machine guns, and whoever's listening to the song runs away. Biophilia - "Dark Matter" is also quite creepy, consisting of nothing but a dissonant, rumbling organ with her chanting gibberish over it. - Virus has soothing vocals and pretty chimes, giving it a sort of dreamlike feel, but the lyrics make it unnerving when noting the title; namely I knock on your skin, and I am in. Vulnicura - "Family" stands out as a particularly dark track, with the use of dissonant, atmospheric strings and heavy bass tones. This makes sense considering that dark ambient artist The Haxan Cloak helped to produce the song. The lyrics, on the other hand, stick firmly to Tearjerker territory. - Andrew Thomas Huang's cover art◊ for the CD and vinyl editions of the album. - "Mouth Mantra". Both the song itself and its video. Fossora - The first act of Victimhood is simply terrifying, consisting of sparse long tones that sound like they came from musical purgatory.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bjork
Black Bullet / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - The premise in general: humans have to live in walled cities known as Monoliths to shield them from Gastrea. Even then, they aren't safe, as there could be humans inside Monoliths infected with the Gastrea Virus and could easily spread the virus due to its high infection rate, and Stage V Gastrea could destroy a Monolith, breaking humanity's last line of defense. - The Gastrea Virus. - The infectees' skin becomes harder and its muscle strength increases, and once infectees have an erosion rate past 50%, they turn into Eldritch Abominations under transformations that could best be described as pure unadelterated Body Horror. - Also, it's not only limited to normal humans infected by the virus. Cursed Children, who are born with the virus in their blood, are actually walking time bombs of becoming Eldritch Abominations and they reach the erosion rate in a much slower rate than normal humans. And according to the light novels, there are no effective treatments that will reverse their own erosion rate. - The Fugitive Arc, which is extremely dark for an already dark series. The less said, the better. - The world is so nightmarish that even the mere act of existing is this. First of all, you need to fend for yourself whenever the latest Gastrea that has passed a monolith is roaming around, which will always never end well, and if you're a Cursed Child, you will be viewed as an abomination and will most likely be lynched in a pogrom-style attack. This is before factoring in the constant wars between nations, and the hopeless defensive war against the Gastrea. To top if off, living in this world is a nightmarish existence topped by a nightmarish death.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackBullet
BioShock / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes BioShock \| BioShock 2 \| BioShock Infinite This is one of the many, many bad things ADAM can do to you. - Enemies reflect damage they've taken, which means if you tend to use the fire plasmid or chemical thrower, all the dead splicers are grotesquely burned. - One of the many Plasmids you can pick up allows you to summon a swarm of bees to distract your enemies and deal some damage over time. These bees erupt from your arm in a fairly gruesome way. To quote the wiki: - And of course, Jack doesn't seem to enjoy having it equipped. He's noticeably trying to keep his hand still, but still giving off uncomfortable twitches. You can't avoid having it, either. When the first dose of Lot 192 causes your plasmids to shift around, Insect Swarm is one of the ones that you can get. - Equipping Winter Blast will cause Jack's hand to look severely frostburned and some ice spikes will erupt out with a burst of blood (it doesn't damage you, thankfully, but that doesn't make it any less unpleasant). - Having to use those oh-so-sterile needles. Bonus for getting fear of needles and fear of disease at the same time. - There comes a point where you stop being afraid of death in this game. That doesn't stop you from being afraid. - The beginning of the game. It seems innocent enough. You're on a plane, reading a letter. Then all of a sudden the screen goes black. There's the sound of a plane going down... and screaming. Lots of screaming. Next thing you know you're underwater, you force your way to the surface... among the shattered remains of your plane. Later, you find out who was responsible for the plane crash: It was YOU. - The part before you go to the Medical Pavilion. Andrew Ryan talking to you, and then an army of splicers is banging on the door obviously baying for blood, the door won't open, and then the glass starts to crack... - There's one infamous encounter in the dentist's office, in the Medical Pavilion. In the dentist's office, you break a window, destroy a turret, and walk towards the dentist's chair. Suddenly, a thick white fog appears, you can hear someone running nearby and a THUD sound, and when your vision clears there's a corpse sitting in the previously empty chair. Just past it there's a table with goodies on it. When you get there, the fog starts up again. When it clears, you pick up the goodies, turn around, and there's a doctor right in your face. Thankfully, he won't attack until you do. - Similar to the above, there's a part in Arcadia when you approach a desk and the lights flicker, only for them to come back on and have the player see a shadow on the wall and realize that the splicer is standing right behind you. - Dr Langford's death. You're standing right there, forced to watch as gas floods the room as she begs for mercy then the lights cut out as you hear her choke and gasp. The last thing she did was desperately try to write down the number for her safe so that you could save her trees. - In the Hephaestus level, there's an office with lockers in it. Since you've been searching everything so far, obviously you search them too. From one, a corpse falls out. By now you've seen all that death, but you stare for several seconds. Then you search the corpse. - Peach Wilkins is very creepy. Aside from the paranoia, he seemed fairly sane, and later on, it turned out he was right. His whole aura and his mannerisms were rather creepy as well, as was his whole freezer area. And his boss fight is hard as until you remember Telekinesis. - The damned vending machine in Hephaestus. It's rigged with explosives. - There's one certain hallway. A corpse-strewn corridor is nothing new, right? But every few paces the lights switch off, you hear people rushing around you in the darkness, giggling, and when the lights go back on some of the "corpses" have moved. There are two responses: some players will keep pushing along in cold dread, knowing that at some point the Splicers will tire of their games. Others will get out the Chem Thrower and hose down every body with napalm, just to be sure. - It doesn't make any sense, but it makes it worse that even if you do shoot the bodies lying around, damage doesn't register UNTIL they get up and scare the shit out of you. You can see this if you set some on fire. - The lobby just outside Rapture Central Control, where the corpses of people who turned against Ryan are staked to the pillars, almost like trophies. Of particular note is Bill McDonagh's charred corpse, making you wonder how he died. In the book it was his friend (terrified of Ryan) killing him; he shot him in the head instead of actively crucifying him first. - There are a lot of bodies on that wall... but two pillars don't have bodies on them. One for Atlas and one for you? - WOULD YOU KINDLY? The Arc Words in great red letters written on the wall. Also, the radio diary right before The Reveal. "Break that puppy's neck - would you kindly..." It makes you feel naked and exposed to the true horrors of the game. - When you finally get to meet Andrew Ryan. Someone mumbling 'A man... chooses... a slave... obeys... OBEY!' through a shattered jaw with half their face a broken mess whilst you pummel them with a golf club is definitely nightmare fuel. It gets worse since Ryan probably knew what Atlas had said to you before you walked into his office. He might have pieced together who Jack was at that point and known that instead of revealing the truth to him or even just having a conversation like two men, Atlas' command meant that all he could do was let his own son beat him to death or commit filicide. - Even though he's supposed to be a legitimate businessman, Ryan keeps corpses of his enemies crucified to posts outside his office. You can search them. Some have Audio diaries on them. - Ryan's video to you is creepy. The brim of his hat is obscuring his eyes, and his voice is emotionless. - And then there's the scene when Atlas reveals his true self and transforms Ryan Industries into Fontaine Futuristics. An unsettling combination of being underwater, more steam coming from tower than a tea kettle, a deranged case of Evil Gloating, and a sharp change to a red, ominous logo not only drives home the horrors, but also how badly you've screwed everything up. Not that you really had a choice. - Right at the start of Olympus Heights: CODE YELLOW. Not only do you slowly lose health over time from it, but the description of "telling your brain to tell your heart to stop beating" is just absolutely terrifying. - Possibly the worst part is how slow it works. ("It ain't gonna happen all in one go. Heart's a stubborn muscle.") Every few minutes, Jack lurches, the screen turns a shade of blue, and you hear a loud THUMP on the soundtrack. Then you realize what that means. Every time that happens, Jack has a heart attack. And your health bar is getting shorter. - By the time you get to Point Prometheus, you've got enough weapons and plasmids to not worry about dying anymore. But then you get to the Little Sisters Orphanage, and see that one ghost scene, of a little girl scooting back into a storage closet, sobbing "Please, Dr. Suchong, I don't want to go onto the table!" Two notes: we've never seen a "ghost sequence" from someone still alive, and the closet she was hiding in was piled high with stacks of identical little dresses. You have to wonder about what the failure rate was for the Little Sister conversion. - The creepy noises and moaning, ghostly voices heard walking around in the Artemis Suites and Fontaine's Home For the Poor. - There is a SERIOUSLY scary noise that pops up out of nowhere in these levels. There's nothing worse than exploring a dead silent room and hearing BUUUUUUNHZZZZZZZZT in the atmospheric track. - Said sounds seem to be coming from the fourth floor, which happens to be blocked off. What in God's name is up there? - The "Bad" ending of the game. You take over Rapture, sending an army of Splicers to the surface and killing the crew of a nuclear sub. The last image you see is of a nuke, ready for launch...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BioShock1
Blackhat / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Pretty much everything about the Chai Wan meltdown at the beginning, nobody realizes what's happening until the coolant pumps blow up, because Sadak disabled all the alarms. And that's not even getting into the part where it's just a practice run. For what, you might ask? Flooding a whole valley of tin mines in Malaysia so he can make money selling tin futures... money that, when confronted, he admits he doesn't even need. His motivation either makes Sadak pure Narm or ten times more terrifying. The first trailer is rather ominous, between the haunting rendition of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and Sadak's threat at the end."This isn't about money. This isn't about politics. I can target anyone... anything... anywhere."	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Blackhat
Birdie Wing / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Youll need more than stitches for that. This series is full to the brim of surprisingly grisly and disturbing events and scenes. - The episode concludes with Roses prosthetic arm completely ripping off due to stress. - It is revealed that Kinue developing golfers elbow and being replaced by Eve was All According to Plan according to Amuro.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BirdieWing
Birdy the Mighty / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Tsutomu's death and some of the villains Birdy fights. Birdy's boss, who's a giant insectoid creature, might also count, not to mention her mentor who's a giant lizard with a face like a skull. There's also \|\|Violin's death and the events around it\|\|. - The entire \|\|Ryunka disaster at the end of the first season. Essentially anyone hit by it transforms into glass, shatters, and then melts.\|\| - Pretty much everything about Shyamalan is deeply creepy. This is a guy who plots to use the Ryunka to wipe out most of his own kind (something we don't see any other villains do) and does it all with a beautiful boyish smile on his face—the few times he does get angry or excited it's all the more terrifying because it's so unusual. He perfectly combines Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon so he's easy to trust but can't be trusted. He's got an entire collection of creepy dolls, and seems to treat both Ondine and Sayaka like dolls as well (though Ondine is at least a marionette), to say nothing of the subtle implication that he fancies Sayaka.... It's terrifying if you think about it hard enough. - Bacillus, a living personification of Body Horror. He survives by taking host bodies which easily burn out, and as they do we see the skin start to decay and we see bits of his bones and his skull start poking out underneath.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BirdyTheMighty
Black Lightning (2018) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes ## In General - The entire situation of the city — it's essentially being held hostage by The 100, an entire gang that the police simply can't stop. ## Season 1 - The traffic stop is fear in distilled form. An innocent man being slammed against his car, guns pointed at children for having cell phones out, and a sneering cop not even apologizing for it. Nothing in comics can match the things some people have to live with in real life. - Everything about Tobias Whale. For starters he killed Jefferson's father, an Intrepid Reporter by literally shoving the articles he wrote down his throat until he died. There's also the fact he disposes of his disappointing minions in a piranha tank and harpoons the ones he wants alive but made an example of. - A small one, but the fact that Jennifer was almost sold into prostitution, combined with the fact that no one actually knew where she was except for her friend, who likely didn't even see what happened. The scary thing is that the only reason she avoided this was because Jefferson arrived and caused a distraction; had it been any other girl, they wouldn't have left that room safely. - Presumably due to using his powers so much after years of abstinence, Jefferson suffers a bad case of Power Incontinence that essentially sees him electrocuted from the inside out. - Anissa's first attempt at being a hero is a serious realistic consequences as she punches two guys with her Super Strength, and to her horror one is instantly killed and the other is left gasping in agony through his crushed lungs. - The fact that Lady Eve is embalming a person who \|\|clearly looks like they're still alive...or is possibly brought back to life by her methods\|\|. - The ASA, a mysterious government agency with decidedly malevolent motives. Thirty years ago, they set up an illegal experiment in Freeland, that even then was a city marked by unrest and racial tensions. Rather than help the community, they decided to make them by means of an illegal vaccine. It didn't work out that way. It killed kids or made them into metahumans — like Jefferson and Tobias. Gambi originally came to Freeland to find these metahumans. But when he found how they were created, he decided to leak the story to Alvin Pierce, which got him killed — Tobias was merely the trigger man. Now, thirty years later, they've come back. They modified their vaccine into the Green Light drug for the sole purpose of creating metahumans and had it trafficked into the city via Lady Eve and the 100. docile - By the end of the episode, the ASA has decided to take out Black Lightning themselves, and there's nothing Gambi can do to stop them. ## Season 2: - \|\|Dr. Jace tricks Lynn into signing off on a test that ends up killing nine of the vaccine victims.\|\| - Tobias ripping Khalils entire spinal implant out of his back with bare hands. Fortunately Khalil still survives, though he's found by Rev. Holt crawling across the street towards his still-twitching implant. - Yeah, about that... Khalil dies. They try everything to save him, but he still dies. The combination of blood loss, shock, nerve damage, and his own body poisoning itself with a lethal amount of what should be anesthetic slowly and painfully kills him. He dies dancing with Jen in a shared mind-scape after telling her he loves her, and she knows when he's gone because he disappears and leaves her holding air. - That's not the only death- Cutter kills Reverend Holt by putting a dab of poison inside his handkerchief. The holy man absorbs it through his skin all throughout his sermon, then suddenly collapses at the end of an apparent heart attack. Nobody except Jefferson, Henderson, and Gambi know the truth. - And the cherry on top is Tobias finally gaining access to the pods that contain the Masters of Disaster. Freeland is gonna have a whole new set of problems... - Odell, at this point, seemed like he was a "good" A.S.A. agent. This episode shows off his true colors, all while he is maintaining his composure. - He tries to convince Lynn that Wendy could be an asset in government service and she shouldn't be coddling her like a child. Later on, he locks Lynn out of testing Wendy, going as far as nearly killing Wendy in the process all while he sees that Lynn is trying to get into the lab. - Much later, Odell kills three agents that were monitoring the Pierces over video surveillance after determining that they are the only ones who know about the surveillance and the Pierce family secret. - Lala is Back from the Dead again, and this time, we see how he comes back from the explosion that Tobias implanted in him, killing him and injuring Henderson in the process. And it isn't pretty. Not only that, his mind is so psychologically broken to the point where he wants to die, but can't until Tobias is killed once and for all. - What starts off fun ends up horrific as Jennifer is nearly killed from testing out the suit that Gambi made her, moonwalking in a containment bubble that ended up causing an electrical fire which she barely gets out in time. ## Season 3:	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackLightning2018
Bayonetta 3 / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes # As a Moments page, per wiki policy Spoilers Off applies here and are unmarked. - The villain in the December 2017 teaser, who is apparently powerful enough to utterly curbstomp Bayonetta and seemingly kill her. The only character from the previous games who came even remotely close to that was Loptr, and he's half of a god capable of reshaping the universe. - If you thought the sassy and powerful Bayonetta being completely steamrolled in the trailer was bad, then just wait until you see the very first playable section of the game which subjects you to a Hopeless Boss Fight against Singularity. She not only gets completely manhandled, but her death here isn't anywhere near as quick as the trailer. Hearing the indomitable Umbra Witch screaming in agony as Singularity slowly kills her is not pleasant. The only good (or bad) thing is that this is only one of the 2,042 alternate Bayonetta he destroyed, and the main one is not going to let him have his way. - In later trailers, the Homunculi take the Human Resources implicit in the angels and devils from the first to games up a notch. One giant miniboss is introduced absorbing a bunch of soldiers before forming into its true form to fight Bayonetta. More gigantic warships are seen abducting civilian humans by the thousands with the military desperately trying to stop them, and failing. - The Climax Summoning is both this and Awesome, as in order to do it, Bayonetta has to rip her own heart out, allowing the blood to drip down onto the summoning circle to complete the summoning. - Luka suddenly transforming into his faerie-wolf form, grasping his head in pain when it feels like his head is about to split in two, to his glowing red eyes, and how he states that there is "only one truth". In Bayonetta's second battle with Strider, Luka roars at how he is nothing but a monster, roaring and raging at the woman he loves, unable to stop himself with the voice in his head (his own) making him lash out while bringing out his self-loathing in the process. Even when Bayo tries to reach out for him, he doesn't hesitate to stab her through the gut. - This makes the initial fight against Strider even harder to look at. Bayonetta's having the time of her life teaching this dog to roll over. She's actually beating up the man she loves who has no idea that he's even transformed into this state! - If you think Alraune being a summonable demon makes her an ally, think again. She remembers everything she went through in Bayonetta 2 and while she can't overtly take down Bayonetta, she can still make her suffer while aiding her. If you use her Masquerade Rage with Alruna equipped, Alraune forces Bayonetta to transform while wrapping her with thorny vines, growing them all around the battlefield as well. And when it reaches it's climax, Bayonetta's mouth is forced open as Alraune's stinger-tail forces her venom into her mouth, the same one that turns souls into her "lovers". Just a drop makes Bayonetta scream in agony as the rage ends. - When you destroy Stratocumulus in Cairo through The Phantom, we get a shot of the explosion from outer space. Though from where we should see the various landmasses of Earth and bodies of water, the entire surface of the Earth is instead entirely covered in the Clouds of Erasure. It serves as a chilling reminder that Singularity isn't just destroying the places Bayonetta traverses through, but the entire planets full of their own populations of humans, plants and animals, an omnicide that goes across entire multiverses. - Perlucidius. Perlucidius. Its a hummingbird like homunculi found in Paris that attacks in droves. It should sound easy to kill and it is, but it's purpose isn't to attack on it's own. It's mean to latch onto your back, devour and/or replace your spine and give control of your body to Singularity. Its power can and will make you attack those you love, fight until your body gives out, and all you can do is hope someone can kill you quickly while you watch on helplessly. - Singularity is among one of the most awful villains in video game history. As evil as Loptr is, he's small fry compared to this vicious madman who blows up over two thousand universes. Think of Skynet meets Ultron and add in the sheer hubris and the omniversal destruction committed by The Batman Who Laughs and you get the big picture. - He used to be a rogue Artificial Human manufactured in an unnamed artificial body parts factory, but he turned against his masters and destroys his own universe before moving off to take over multiverses by killing its universe's Bayonetta and causing that universe to entropy. And then he plans to merge all of reality into one universe where he's the only one who rules over. There's something very wrong when an android coming from a factory makes even Jubileus and Aesir ( actual gods, not random crazies) look like amateurs. Oh, and the number of universes he's blown up before meeting Bayonetta in alternate China? 2,042. Very few video game villains manage destruction on such an absolutely insane level. - The Curb-Stomp Battle Singularity committed against the prologue's alternate Bayonetta and tried on the Arch-Eve Origin? That's his "phenomenal affirmation" ability, where he rewrites fate to go in way he wants to, which translates to him always winning against the targeted universe's Bayonetta and the entire universe destroyed. Small wonder why this guy's ego is so massive — he literally can't lose! - Singularity Definition also has one horribly nasty move: While he's not the only enemy who can incapacitate your summoned demon in one hit, the way he does it is to karate chop said demon so hard he splits them in half note : Non-organic demons such as Umbran Clock Tower and Wartrain Gouon "merely" become instantly enraged, which is its own brand of ugly business.. The fact that the screen darkens right before this killing move makes it all the more unsettling. - At the end of the game, Bayonettas (The Arch Eve Origin, a.k.a. the player character) Umbran Watch shatters, once again turning Gomorrah against her like in the second game. This time, however, no one saves her as Luka ultimately chooses to honor their agreement and save Viola, allowing the demon to kill her with a slash of his claws, separating her soul from her body. And while Luka ultimately destroys Gomorrah, its too late as Bayonetta is being pulled down into Inferno, and without her watch, there is NO saving her like with Jeanne in the past. As such, Luka chooses to go down with her and the both of them are pulled into Inferno by demonic arms, all while Viola can powerlessly watch on. - Enraged demons. - When a demon you summon takes hits, they slowly build a rage meter. As this meter fills up, first the demon crackles with red electricity, then eventually they glow red, break free from your control and go berserk attacking everything in sight, including, or maybe especially, you. What's worse, dodging an enraged demon's attack does not grant you witch time, so you're pretty much forced to stay on the defensive until the demon calms down. And this can happen to any demon, not just the violent ones like Gomorrah, but also the friendly ones such as Baal or even the loyal ones like Madama Butterfly. A grim reminder that Evil Is Not a Toy. - Rodin is especially bad about this. Other demons must tank quite a lot of hits before they blow up (while surviving the onslaught), but Rodin can be enraged with a simple press of a button if you're careless (or crazy): When he asks for a dance, you may deliberately or otherwise reject him, and this action will instantly make him rage. Oh, and his initial outburst alone will wipe your entire health in one go regardless of difficulty. - Pressing dodge twice rapidly will cause Bayonetta to assume Demon Masquerade and move at accelerated speed. For most weapons, the effect isn't anything special, but for Tartarus, Bayonetta becomes a puppet suspended by strings as she's dragged along on the floor by unseen hands.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Bayonetta3
Black Mesa / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Emergency Alert System: The following message has been transmitted at the request of the United States Department of Defense. This is not a test. Today at 4:16 PM Mountain Time, a state of emergency was declared by the President of the United States . An unknown hostile force was declared present at the Black Mesa Research Facility, and several other locations in the surrounding areas of Black Mesa, New Mexico. As of 5:42 PM Mountain Time, the President has issued executive orders to withdraw all ground forces, and begin immediate airstrikes over the Black Mesa Research Facility and surrounding areas beginning no later than 6:42 PM, this evening. For your own safety, an immediate evacuation order has been issued to the entire state of New Mexico . To all residents of New Mexico and surrounding areas: leave all your personal belongings, take a battery-powered radio, and only essential supplies with you. Do not remain in your homes. Seek shelter at your nearest military zone outside the state of New Mexico and await further instructions. If you cannot find your nearest evacuation route, seek assistance from local authorities immediately. If you have military training, firearms training, or any similar weapons training, contact your nearest military officer immediately. Stay tuned to frequency 740 AM for further updates on this emergency.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMesa
Black Mirror Series Two / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Nightmare FuelSeries One — Series Two — Christmas Special — Series Three — Series Four - The idea in Be Right Back, that one could reconstruct the dead from their social media, is pretty sinister even before it Goes Horribly Wrong. Even though the synthetic Ash tries to please and be a nice guy, it's still creepy as all hell. - White Bear. Oh god, White Bear. - Imagine waking up with complete amnesia in a strange house. You don't even know who you really are. You see things though — photos of you, a symbol on the TV, a calendar with every day crossed off — things that aren't right. And then you leave the house, only to find people who don't respond, who only watch. And then, the masked people show up... - The ending. Basically, the events of the episode have been repeated for a long, long time; weeks, maybe even months. Victoria has been having her memories erased over and over again, going through the same tortures. - As Victoria shrieks in utter agony while having her mind wiped, the park employees casually go about restoring the 'stage' of the house she wakes up in each morning, before leaving her upstairs and still screaming. And remember; the viewer only has to watch for about a minute. The process takes roughly half an hour. - The end credits are also rather unnerving in the way that it shows how everyone treats their punishment of Victoria as though it was the most normal thing in the world and talk about her like she's barely human, treating a day to see her like she was an animal in the zoo or her unimaginable torment was just an amusement park ride. Basil comes across like a summer camp counsellor in the way that he encourages people to enjoy it as much as they can and Jem treats it like any other work. It shows how easy to is for normal people to get sucked into mob mentality. - Not to mention the fact that you find out that everything you've been put through the entire day was all a lie and that in reality, you assisted in the kidnap, torture, and murder of the child you've spent the day thinking was yours. Essentially, you're being punished for a crime you don't even remember committing and are forced to listen to people literally calling for your blood... before waking up the next morning having no clue who or where you are. And the whole thing begins again. - The Waldo Moment: The ending of the episode suggests that Waldo has become the figurehead for a badly-run, barking mad tyranny of the majority that is spreading across the globe and subverting traditional democratic systems. Jamie himself is reduced to a bitter alcoholic, and gets savagely beaten by the police for throwing a bottle at a Waldo display. - Perhaps the most unnerving thing about this episode is that despite the absurdity of the premise, the western world is currently engulfed in a crisis of political cynicism that has seen several electoral upsets. According to Word of God, Waldo is based on Boris Johnson, a British politician often accused of putting on a character for his electoral advantage... and he was actually elected Prime Minister in 2019!	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMirrorSeriesTwo
Black Mirror Series Five / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Nightmare FuelSeries One — Series Two — Christmas Special — Series Three — Series Four — Series Five - Smithereens: Getting a taxi from your workplace only to be kidnapped and held at gunpoint simply because the driver has a gripe with the CEO. - And then there's the fact that the company has the ability to listen in on conversations of anyone using the app, which is most likely just about everyone. Even Chris, who is against social media after the death of his fiance, still uses it. - Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too: What happens to Ashley O: Imagine having your life controlled by your aunt/manager and then being put in an induced coma when you don't go along with it, not to mention having millions of copies of your consciousness made but with a Restraining Bolt that forces you to act like your persona.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMirrorSeriesFive
Blackfish / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes "Enjoy the rest of your day at SeaWorld!" SeaWorld is known for its general aquatic theme, inviting atmosphere, and incredible shows, and overall presents itself with an aura of positivity. But Blackfish tears down that positive image, and showcases the unethical practices the company commited. So it goes without saying that this documentary has a crapton of Nightmare Fuel, even in the trailers! And to remind you, all the events onscreen actually happened. - In the trailer alone, we hear a couple of phone calls from SeaWorld staff to local police. One call tells how Tilikum (an infamous orca who is the main topic of the documentary, but we'll get to more of him later) has trapped a trainer underwater. The second call states that Tilikum hasn't just drowned a trainer, but eaten her. While this wasn't actually the case (he severed her arm but it was retrieved) the person making the call believed it to be, and the fact that it was severed at all is horrifying enough. - The poster◊ for the film is plenty scary, showing an orca facing front on a black background. The only color bright enough to see is the large white patches that resemble eyes at the front of his head. - All that there is present is the orca, the film's title, the Sundance Official Selection emblem, and "coming soon". Nothing more, nothing less. - The opening credits. We see whales swimming with trainers, with 911 calls from various parks about whales attacking trainers playing over it. - Tilikum himself is a frightening film subject. When he was brought to SeaWorld, he was twice the size of the other whales at the time. As he grew up, he was also quite well known for injuring trainers. The documentary covers what happens when one accident became fatal. - Much of the footage of Tilikum is an unfiltered horror, showing how he injured trainers and eventually killed Dawn Brancheau (Senior Trainer at SeaWorld for years). - The autopsy of the guy who climbed into Tilikum's tank after hours. When they were able to find him the next day, he was slung over Tilikum's back, with multiple wounds all over his body, with his genitals having been ripped off. They weren't able to tell if his wounds were pre or post-mortem. - The question about how psychotic a human would be if kept in a bathtub for twenty years. It's a good Armor-Piercing Question regarding the comparison to the very-intelligent orcas, and one of the main topics of discussion. - The detail to which Dawn Brancheau's body was savaged, and also Alexis Martinez from Loro Parque who was rammed to death by Keto is described by his mother and fiance as appearing as though his chest exploded. To make matters worse, when the fiance received the initial phone call, she was told "He's fine." - To make it even worse, Alex was killed two months before Dawn. - Tilikum's erm genitals. - Even worse is the context of the genitals scene. It's suggested that Tilikum is only being kept as a sperm bank to breed other captive females in parks over the world. If Tilikum's issues are a mental illness, the parks could be breeding more and more mentally unstable orcas like him. - Ken Peter's incident with Kasatka in 2006 had him being dragged down to the bottom of the tank twice. Possibly the only reason he survived was that he was an experienced scuba diver. Though, that's not all. The other trainers put a net out. When the whale finally lets go, Ken "swims like a demon" to get out of the tank. Then the whale goes over the net. Ken manages to get to safety though, albeit with damaged feet. - The fact that Kasatka was actually torturing her trainer, most likely out of anger that her infant had been recently relocated. The cold, calculating way she repeatedly drags him under, only bringing him back up for air so that she can keep doing it, shows that she knew exactly how long Ken could survive underwater. Had she not let go for a moment, she probably would have continued doing this until Ken eventually died from extreme stress and shock. - It's especially scary if the viewer knows that orcas, at least in the wild, typically won't try to go over nets even when they easily can (hence why people trying to catch orcas in the wild can trap a pod by surrounding it with a net). - The way he quickly breathes before being dragged back into the water again by the orca. What's scary is that Ken knew that he would likely be dragged under for the third time and was aware that he couldn't do anything about it but wait for the right time to escape. - The bloody scratches Tilikum gets from being bullied by the female whales. Seeing the footage, knowing it's real, makes it hard to stomach. - Speaking of those bloody scratches, that's known as "rakes" and it occurs when orcas scrape at each other with their teeth. Footage in the film shows one of the SeaWorld orcas going onto the slideout with a particularly nasty rake mark that is just gushing blood. - The bloody battle between Kandu V and Corky is a high-octane mix of this and Tearjerker. The two orcas get into a tussle during a show. Kandu V rams Corky only to sever an artery in her jaw when she misfires and ends up hitting the far wall of the tank. She bled out for 45 minutes and footage of this exists, with blood spouting from Kandu V's blowhole and ending with Kandu V lifeless in the tank with her baby Orkid swimming around her. Footage here. - The film of the Tamaree who is dragged into a tank by Orkid and Splash and only saved from certain death when another trainer thinks to let in Kasatka (the dominant female) into the enclosure is terrifying. - Tamaree's arm as she's led out of the water, bent at a spine-chilling angle. - The use of actual footage, be it of Tilikum's behaviour, news reactions, SeaWorld capture facilities... it's disturbing because you know it's real. - John Sillick is the guy who is crushed between two whales and winds up hospitalized and paralyzed. What makes it worse is that from the video, it's ambiguous whether the whale decided to be aggressive or just jumped at the wrong time. Even when the whale's not actively trying to hurt you, you could still end up paralyzed from it missing its cue. - The death of Keltie Byrne. The 20-year-old only had a part-time job at Sealand park and was intending to keep swimming competitively. She ended up drowning due to the whales (specifically Tilikum) pulling her underwater despite her attempts to escape, and the eyewitness accounts make it all the more horrifying: the reason she couldn't get enough air to stay alive underwater was because she was screaming for help while she was above water and at one point one heard her say, "I don't want to die!" The other workers couldn't save her because the whales would drag her away whenever she tried to swim for a life preserver. And what lead to this horrifying situation? She simply slipped after feeding the whales and was dragged away as she was trying to get out. - Alexis Martinez's death. His fiance describes that she doesn't know what happened, but she knows it wasn't an accident because when she and his mother came to see his body, his "chest was burst open". Alexis the night before said that he was exhausted all the time because he had to stay fit to train the whales and he could die at any time. Well, he was right. - The fact that the details of the deaths and injuries of the trainers were allegedly covered up by SeaWorld so that the trainers would be responsible, not SeaWorld itself for its policies. This is to the point where officials came out directly saying that the trainers were at fault for the incidents, at one point stating that Brancheau herself would agree that she would be at fault. Imagine if the blame for your death was coldly placed on you so that a corporation wouldn't have to make changes to abusive policies and discredit anyone who stated that you weren't to blame. - The fact that all of this is happening because humans choose to keep sapient animals, animals that are self-aware, with languages, intelligence and emotions probably at least on par with humans, in swimming pools for entertainment. - The amount of It Can Think involved in the whales' actions (with special mention to the pod that, after being robbed of their calves once, planned an entire strategy to fool the humans wanting to steal their calves, and when that failed stayed watching helplessly and calling for the calves as they were being taken away). Like the former catcher says, it is impossible to watch that and not think that you are ripping a small child from his mother's arms, with the added Kick the Dog in the fact that the whale can't know why her calf is being taken away and what will happen to it. The fact that they keep calling for them after days is proof that it would be less traumatic for them if they saw their calves being killed. - The former catcher also outlines that three calves died from the stress of capture. They were told to cut the bodies open, fill them with rocks, and sink them to the bottom of the ocean with anchors tied to their tails. Jesus Christ...	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Blackfish
BlackBoxTV / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The bodies of \|\|the couple\|\| in Where Are You? According to the commentary, the reason those shots are in black-and-white is because the color shots were too disturbing. The zombie-not-zombies from Final Exit. \|\|When the Slender Man\|\| shows up in Proxy, it is always terrifying. Why? He looks creepy as hell. This is the film that brought you that clip of a ridiculously realistic Slender Man, who is very, very much not a man in a costume, standing in a doorway while a man crawls backwards.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackBoxTV
Black Mirror Series Three / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes The third episode, Shut Up and Dance, is pretty terrifying when Kenny's dark secret is leaked to the tune of Exit Music (for a film) by Radiohead, enough to make one physically sick after rooting for the supposedly innocent blackmail victim. Especially because that soundtrack is perfect "YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT OUT!" music. However the cherry on top is Kenny's mother's Wham Line: "What did you do Kenny?! They're saying it's kids! That you've been looking at kids! And Lindsey saw it. There's a video of you. All of her friends have got it! KIDS, Kenny! Tell me it's not..." - Plus, Kenny's look of shock and horror as the police close in is haunting. Especially the final shot of the episode where he seems to be looking directly at the camera with that haunting look on his face. The presence of police cars in general the way they suddenly come up in the next-to-last shot doesn't help. - The scene in the restaurant with Kenny's eagerness to talk to the kid is nightmarish in hindsight if you have kids of your own. - Not to mention the hackers making Kenny fight a man he doesn't know to death in the woods, with him stumbling from the woods in shock, Deadly Nosebleed and all. - The masturbation video that kicked everything off. Even putting aside the fact that Kenny was looking at CP for a moment, having a video like that leaked out onto the open internet would probably be enough for most teenagers or even adults to kill themselves over. It doesnt matter what you were masturbating to, it is still an incredibly traumatic and humiliating experience for anyone to go through, to have something so personal out there for potentially millions of people to see and ridicule. Hector probably said it best during his pre-robbery speech where he mentions that literally everyone, including the cunts at work will mock Kenny endlessly over the wanking video alone. Since Kenny is only 19 years old it is likely that out of everything he went through, having webcam footage of his "hot little face, blurred fist, dick burping fucking spunk everywhere" (as Hector so eloquently put it) released to his entire contacts list was by and large the most traumatizing part of his whole ordeal.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackMirrorSeriesThree
Cradle Series / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes This kind of thing is to be expected, since Cradle is essentially a Death World, but a few instances really stand out. - The concept of Remnants, being that when you die, all of the spiritual energy in your body coalesces into a "living" entity that almost always starts out with just basic animal intelligence. The stronger the person, the stronger the Remnant, so if you manage to kill someone but be exhausted afterwards there's a good chance their Remnant will finish you off. Oh, and if they last long enough they can gain a measure of their old intelligence and individuality back. - Being labelled as Unsouled in the Sacred Valley, you aren't even considered a person, you are forbidden from learning any Path, forbidden from ever marrying, and literally anyone can kill you and the worst punishment they would suffer is a hit to their Honor. Not because of what they did to you but because they lowered themselves to attack something so weak. What's worse is that it's all wrong; Unsouled have nothing wrong with them except a lack of an apparent affinity towards a Path. The Sacred Valley is filled with what the outside world considers to be backwards rubes who don't even practice proper Paths and all the pain and torment that an Unsouled suffers is out of the Sacred Valley's ignorance of this truth. - Goldsigns: some of them are super cool Mark of the Supernatural, like Lindon's burning black and red eyes, or something benign like Mercy's permanent gloves, but some can hideously maim someone so that, even if they advance, there's a good chance they'll never look normal again, like Jai Long who is stuck with a Nightmare Face that he is forced to cover with scripted bandages. - Dreadbeasts, spawn of the Dreadgods that exist only to kill non-Dreadbeasts. They are one of the few natural holders of Hunger Madra and when they kill you nothing remains. To put this in context; normally when you die, you leave a Remnant, when a Dreadbeast kills you, that's it, nothing left. Northstrider has incorporated this into his own Path, called The Path of the Hungry Deep. As of Wintersteel he is now training Lindon who has managed to incorporate this into his Path of the Twin-Stars with the Consume technique. - The Dreadgods, beings so vast and powerful they appear to be part of the landscape and no living creature of any advancement level on Cradle can kill them, including Monarchs. Oh, and one is heading right for the Sacred Valley. - Blood Shadows, parasites spawned from the Bleeding Phoenix that bore into your spirit and attach themselves to your core. They cannot be removed and feed on blood, wherever it can be found. Best case scenario is that you are able to tame them into a weapon that fights on your side but you're still forced to feed them Blood Madra to keep them under control. Worst case scenario they hollow out your soul and take over your body completely. For example: Mu Enkai was a Lowgold that found a Blood Shadow and used it to take over an entire town, even over the Highgolds that were there, before Lindon put him down. Yerin was infected with a Blood Shadow when she was a child, when the Sword Sage found her it had murdered and fed on her entire village, including her family. - Monarchs, beings of unimaginable power that can literally hear their own name spoken thousands of miles away and kill someone from that same distance. They rule over Cradle as its supreme leaders, but even they are nothing before The Vroshir and The Abidan: beings of immense power, that move through the Iterations acting as agents of Order. This, of course, does not prevent them from wiping entire worlds out of existence if Chaos grows too strong there. They will at least try to save the populace of that world, but to them A Million is a Statistic, while The Vroshir are Abidan-level entities that thrive on Chaos and serve The Mad King. - What happened to Ziel: An enemy Sage cut his core apart and stitched it back together wrong, on purpose. This would be like breaking someone's arms, legs, and ribs then forcing them to heal wrong. He is basically crippled as a Sacred Artist, and every waking moment is pain, with almost no hope of ever getting better. The strength he has when we meet him just goes to show how far he was tossed down. Lindon states that if it'd happened to someone weaker, they would have been dead. - The death of Akura Harmony. Trapped in a Pocket Dimension that is slowly falling apart. Sure he deserved it for the death of Renfei and his treatment of Lindon, but then Northstrider arrives and dashes the last of his hopes with a single word: No. - In Cradle, even the trees can kill you if they're old enough or have been exposed to enough aura. The Monarch Emriss Silentborn started out as one such tree - lucky for Cradle she is one of the more benevolent Monarchs. - The Madra Engine, a Divine Treasure that is made with a hundred pure madra Remnants. What makes this Nightmare Fuel, is that the only way to reliably harvest pure madra Remnants is from human children. The Madra engine needs 100 to function. - The Suppression Field inside of Sacred Valley. No matter who or what you are it drains you down to a Jade at most and can leave you open to be murdered by the the Sacred Valley natives. - The Dreadgods and all of their destruction can be laid directly at the feet of the Monarchs. If they didn't try to hold on to their power over Cradle and ascended as they were supposed to, the artificial Hunger Madra would fade away. They all know this, and take oaths to prevent it from getting out. - For a brief moment it looked as if The Mad King was going to wipe Cradle from existence, and all that anyone from the lowest Foundation to the highest Monarch could do was weep and wait for the end. - The Silent King. Everything about him is shrouded in layers of mystery. - Early on, some of his servants are completely unable to see a dead man, even when they're standing on him. When the Silent King wants you to be peaceful, you will not see anything that could disrupt that peace. - He needs your permission to gain control of you. But he can trap you in a dream without you even realising it, and keep you there for years while only a second passes in the outside world - It becomes aware of Lindon and threatens everyone he cares about by name. Lindon gives them all defensive constructs to defeat the mind-control technique... so the Silent King just controls everyone around them and sends endless waves of slaves at them.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Blackflame
Black Flag / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - "Damaged I" initially started as your typical title track off of a seminal punk recording, until Greg Ginn decided that the backing track be played at a slower tempo to suit Henry Rollins' vocals, making the final result, well, upsetting to say the least. - "Room 13" is easily this with its screeching guitar leads and Henry Rollins screaming some very unsettling lyrics. - "Armageddon Man", off of Family Man, and "I Can See You", which could very easily be a candidate for one of the creepiest songs of all time, both musically and lyrically. - The entire second side of My War seemed designed to outdo the claustrophobic sludge of the Damaged version of "Damaged 1", as it featured three incredibly slow, heavy songs, each clocking in at over 6 minutes. YMMV on how effective it was, but the songs featured some particularly feral Rollins screams and guitar leads that were atonal even compared to Gregg Ginn's normal playing style.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackFlag
Black Panther (2018) / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes Killmonger's speech on all the amoral things hes done and the lives he has taken just to get the chance to kill TChalla is quite chilling. Erik: I lived my entire life waiting for this moment. I trained, I lied, I killed just to get here. I killed in America... Afghanistan... Iraq. I took life from my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent! And all this death... just so I could kill you. - In particular, he makes no bones about killing his "brothers and sisters" in Africa. He even shot his girlfriend dead without remorse or hesitation when Klaue used her as a human shield. Soon enough it becomes clear that whatever his pretensions that he's out to fight for racial justice and avenge the wrongs done to his people, he's really just there to avenge himself on the regime that killed his father, and then make the world share in the pain he's felt for so many years. His goal is simply to have everyone suffer, no matter who, and he's prepared for the whole world to burn.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackPanther2018
Black Paradox / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned. - Pii-tan vomiting up those glowing spheres and then finally exploding because his body can't regurgitate them all at the same rate he's producing them. It's sort of explained: the characters in the Japanese name (幽門, Yūmon) for the pylorus, the part of the stomach that leads to the intestines, means "spirit gate," (while in Latin, pylorus means "gate keeper") which is precisely what Piitan's becomes after his (briefly successful) attempt at suicide. The shining spheres are in fact SOULS. The part that isn't explained is why the other three members of the titular Black Paradox group developed their own portals in different parts of their body (and one in his shadow); Pii-tan was the only one of them to actually die, so it doesn't seem to make much sense. - The spheres are eventually revealed to the world, and people marvel at their beauty, but they can't be used as jewelry as it turns out the spheres are actually extremely powerful energy containers. So, a doctor who is treating the other characters intends to use the spheres as an energy source to solve the energy crisis, and it's implied he does. Problem is, as is revealed by the main character, who is psychic, this causes the eventual extinction of mankind, as the spheres are HUMAN SOULS, and humanity eventually uses up the very energy that keeps them alive. Humans won't go entirely extinct, as eventually they'll find out just where they've gone horribly wrong, but many people will die.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackParadox
Black★Rock Shooter / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Kagari. Ye Gods Kagari. - The background themes associated with her, "Invisible Chains" and "Distorted Town" are also eerie, both of which would fit in horror movies. - When B★RS enters Chariot's lair, the ever-looping "Kaere" (Go away!) chanting in the background adds a feeling of creepiness in the desolate area. What's more, the way Kagari speaks this does not sound like someone screaming others to go away, she is gleefully chanting it like a song. - The Dark World is pretty much nightmare fuel all the time when you think about the fact that this is where people's minds go to process PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN. - "I'll carve the pain out of you." - The fact that the last thing we hear from Mato as she fuses with B★RS in Episode 5 is her distorted scream. - It may be not so much but Yomi's Creator Breakdown painting of Mato can be considered as one. See Episode 5. - Again in the same episode. Yuu is grateful to receive a bracelet from Yomi, only to find out later that it has some of her hair. - The transformation sequence of Insane Black★Rock Shooter - being impaled by spikes from all directions. - It gets worse when Black Gold Saw arrived in order to stop a possible threat, she was almost powerless against IB★RS, until an opening allowed her to critically injure the latter's arm. The next thing IB★RS does is to rip her own arm, with Mato Kuro screaming in the background due to the intense pain. Kana Hanazawa's performance in this very scene is gut-wrenchingly realistic. - Insane Black★Rock Shooter's beatdown on Mato!Black★Rock Shooter, due to the fact that Mato isn't used to the amount of pain Otherselves go through, and spends most of the fight not wanting to harm IB★RS, while the other is none-too-reluctant to do so. - When Mato refuses to fight IB★RS, the latter proceeds to fight her with punches and kicks. Aside from the red blood dripping from Mato, you can hear the sound of impact as her bones break from all the beatdown.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackRockShooter
Blackkat's Reverse / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes - Kurama's original timeline. Kaguya managed to rise again and unleashed a zombie apocalypse which killed everyone on the planet. Everyone. - Kurama himself for the Elemental Nations. They know exactly shit about him, they are unable to catch him, and he runs amok kidnapping living weapons of mass destruction and dangerously coming close to ignite another world war. - Kurama also represents a much more primal fear, as he primarily abducts the kid jinchurikis. Asshole as he is, it's easy to empathize with the Kazekage when his youngest son disappears within Suna's walls. Added to this is the idea that a child can be in such a horrible situation that stranger danger flies out the window because the stranger is nice. - When Kakashi and Kurama end up fighting in Konoha's streets, the six-year-old Naruto tries to stop them by jumping between them, which prompts Kurama to throw himself on Kakashi's Raikiri to protect the kid. For one single moment, you could see Kakashi's horror at the possibility he may have killed Naruto's uncle in front of the boy. This fear stays with him as the Freak Squad chases Kurama, with him pointing out Naruto will grow to hate Konoha if Kurama is badly hurt or even killed when they will force them to come back - which is very likely to happen. - Most shinobi have their phobias played for comedy and lightness... except for Kurama who's terrified by the Sharingan because of its potent Mind Rape abilities which have repeatedly been used against him. Then the Freak Squad catches him, and Shisui almost uses his Kotoamatsukami on him while he's tied and helpless. - Orochimaru brings Uzumaki Kushina and Hatake Sakumo from the dead as a psychological weapon against their loved ones. Kakashi is suitably horrified when he has to fight his own father. - Konoha's Clans are horrified when Genma brings them proof that Danzo kidnaps their children to transform them into emotionless living weapons. Even worse is Aburame Torune confessing he willingly did go with Danzo because he didn't want his baby cousin Shino being abducted in his place. - Fuu is this to dojutsu users with her glitter technique. While being blinded in battle is something that terrifies every ninja, it is especially visceral for weilders of the Sharingan and Byakugan. Shisui, who actually is fond of Fuu and a general nice guy, can't help but mentally label Fuu as Abort Mission, Do Not Engage, after seeing her glitter technique in action.	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackkatsReverse
Black Clover / Nightmare Fuel - TV Tropes As a battle fantasy series with supernatural elements, Black Cover has its fair share of nightmarish scenes. - The opening sequence depicts a giant, four-armed demon destroying a village, with fires spreading everywhere. The citizens are left completely helpless to stop it. - Asta manifesting his own grimoire forms the shadow of a malicious, grinning devil behind him that causes Revchi to scream in fear. - Heath Grice is a mage who detests peasants with low mana, and orders his subordinates to kill them all simply for existing. Given the setting, his attitude is the view held by most nobles to the extreme. - Mars, a powerful sorcerer who single-mindedly tries to kill the heroes, is this, grievously wounding Asta by sending a shard through his gut. He's the first major challenge the protagonists face with a ruthless determination to defeat them. - Lotus's Smoke Magic releases this poisonous gas that suffocates and slowly poisons someone, which is more Nightmare Fuel when the usually jovial mage gets serious. - Rades Spirito's Wraith Magic, which uses the stitched up corpses of dead mages to fight on his behalf. He uses them to terrorize innocent civilians and threaten the life of an innocent girl. - Fuegoleon, a powerful captain looked up to by many, comes out of a portal comatose with a mess of blood where his cut off arm was. - Neige and Marco's plan to capture little kids. They lure them to sleepwalk in a cave at night to collect their mana, in the process torturing them all for money. - Licht himself qualifies, being an eerie man bathed in light whose holy appearance hides a monstrous rage against humans. - Vetto is a juggernaut of a mage who desires to crush others' hope and put them into despair. He stands as a giant brute of a man with jagged teeth. He slashes Kahono's throat and slices off Kaito's leg, all with a nightmarish Slasher Smile. - Once Vetto activates his Mythical Beast Magic, he becomes even more demonic, savagely attacking and crushing Asta's arms all with a nightmarish, joyful glee. - The deaths of the Elves at the hands of someone who's assumed to be a human using Light Magic. - The Security Golems hidden in the Forest of Witches will actually kill intruders unless they act quickly, as Dominante and her party learn the hard way. Yikes! - The Diamond Kingdom's destruction of the Forest of Witches caught quite a few people off-guard. - Fana is the embodiment of Unstoppable Rage, trying to burn alive anyone who slights her. It doesn't help that she has the power of the Flame Spirit Salamander, creating gigantic flames that burn down a whole forest. - The Witch Queen looks demonic as she uses her Blood Magic to manipulate Asta into killing her friends, while they are on scaffolds made of blood, nonetheless. The anime adaptation emphasizes this by making the sky darker and the ground glowing light blue. - Asta speaking to the devil in his grimoire, a giant demonic figure in his mind who tries to convince Asta to give up and let him control his body. - If you interpret the threads she created as part of Vanessa's imagination while she's in the cage, it puts into perspective how much psychological damage has been done to the girl due to her mother locking her up in the cage. - This is downplayed after Vanessa's magic manifests itself in front of the Witch Queen. The situation where Vanessa can only watch in horror as Asta kills her friends one by one was only being witnessed from the Queen's perspective. As the Queen notes, Vanessa can only see the favorable outcome where they end up saved thanks to her Red Thread of Fate. This is all still very unsettling to say the least as this only comes to light after the audience has already seen Asta killing Noelle and Finral. - When her plans to kill Noelle and Finral have been foiled, the Witch Queen use her Blood Magic on her own daughter as a last resort so that she can obtain the Red Thread of Fate personally, giving a Slasher Smile in the process. - The magical lifeforms in the Yultim Volcano Trail are giant beasts made of lava that try to kill the trainees. As if the Yultim Volcano wasn't deadly enough as is. - Langris's cold bloodlust against Finral, his own brother. He unleashes his magic to blow holes in the poor guy's body. - Luck's cold, unsmiling voice as he threatens to kill Langris is very chilling, especially in the anime. - The Spade Kingdom's treatment of their low mana subjects, with them forced to supply their mana as fuel for fortresses until they die. When one woman asks her little sister to be spared, the soldier strips her of her clothes and tells her to make herself useful. This thankfully ends with a Black Comedy moment where Finral attempts to hit on the same woman only to remind himself to hold back on any woman but Finesse. - Dante fighting the Black Bulls has him callously stab Gauche just to get an angry reaction out of Asta, with Asta going berserk and using a more demonic form. - Dante shows his second magic when Yami manages to wound him. He warps his flesh, transforming it into a mass to cover over his wound. It's as unpleasant as it sounds. - Dante's face when Yami pushes him to use his Body Magic to regenerate his torso, smiling menacingly with a shadowed face and sharp teeth before he has tendrils of his flesh reform his body. - Dante himself is also very disturbing; despite his handsome appearance, this guy literally thinks that evil is a part of human nature and feels nothing even when sleeping with women and killing people or animals, the latter he passes off as completely ordinary. He's practically the Johan Liebert of Black Clover. - Vanica is yet another very unsettling character. A hedonistic Blood Knight taken to an absolutely insane level, Vanica's whole motive is to literally kill people for fun, sometimes even committing heinous acts to self-sabotaging degrees, like kidnapping and brainwashing Lolopechka for no reason other than to absolutely piss Noelle off. - The first thing she does with her Blood Magic is create a giant, faceless monster to rampage on her enemies. - Being taken over by Megicula has the devil turn half of her body black and speak in an eerily affable tone as it takes over Lolopechka, curses Undine and injures Secre and Noelle, referring to all of them as an experiment. - Once she gets Lolopechka in her hands, her last action before leaving is to turn all of her dark disciples into living bombs for more collateral damage, showing that she just treats them as disposable despite their loyalty towards her. The Dark Disciples bloat and disfigure into balloon-like-forms, then explode. - The third member of the Dark Triad, Zenon, is no less disturbing than Vanica and Dante. - Zenon's attack on Golden Dawn with his Dark Disciples, with him slaughtering half its members all by himself. He uses his Bone Magic to curb-stomp enemies by impaling them throughout their bodies with his sharpened bones. The only time he smiles is when he uses his devil's power, which takes the form of a giant shadowed demon, to disparage Yuno for being too weak. The panel then shows Yuno left seemingly lifeless. - As for Zenon himself, he lacks the wanton cruelty of Vanica and Dante, but he makes it up for being eerily competent. Unlike his elder siblings, he doesn't play around — he shows up, curbstomps the magic knights he meets and captures both Yami and Vangeance all by himself. Had Yami and Asta managed to beat him after dealing with Dante, the Dark Triad will end up empty handed bar Lolopechka, who shouldn't be priority anyways. - Thanks to Morris, the first gate to the underworld opens... and Lilith and Naamah◊, the first of the high-ranking Qliphoth devils, arrive with the eldritch, terrifying appearances and Creepy Twins vibe to match. - Nacht tried to arrogantly summon the supreme devil Lucifugus in a devil-binding ritual. Here comes an ominous, giant devil shrouded in black to Nacht's horror. Lucifugus then goes on to kill all the ritual participants and Morgan sacrifices his life to destroy the relic used to stop the ritual. - Dante and Megicula's fates worse than death. Sure, they're unrepentant, murderous maniacs who murder people for fun and most likely deserved it, but the way they end with is just... oh gosh. - Dante's body magic goes out of control after Magna beats him in a one-on-one fist fight because they all run out of mana, and transforms into a horrifying Humanoid Abomination resembling less like a person but a bundle of vaguely humanoid flesh with his grossly disfigured face on it. Despite the figure's intimidating appearance, the disfigured Dante can't even talk properly and just gets knocked out in a single hit. - When Noelle was about to kill Vanica, Megicula bursts out from her body and used it like a puppet. Then the devil proceeds to turn Lolopechka into a demonic puppet for no apparent reason other than messing with Gaja and Noelle, and uses Vanica's magic combined with Acier's to create steel spikes. - Pertaining to the same Megicula scene above, right before Megicula bursts out from Vanica, the latter's last words is she wants to become friends with Noelle. Mind you, she slowly cursed Noelle's mother to death. And this is said completely unironically, showing her lack of shame and remorse of all the death and destruction she leaves in her wake. - Megicula herself might as well as be some of the most horrifying things that the heroes ever fought. As frightening Zagred might be, at least he had a concrete, but petty goal in mind. Megicula has no rhyme or reason in her actions, she just curses people to death for amusement. - She has curse-warding magic that slowly deteriorates someone until they die, with no known cure as of yet but killing Megicula herself. Even mentioning her name is enough to get you cursed. - When the magic knights fight her, she's a Soft-Spoken Sadist in its finest form. Not only she never raises her voice by a hitch, she even openly declares that she enjoys experimenting her curse on humans and seeing them suffer, and wonders why do they even bother struggling despite everything is hopeless. - Then there's how she fights. When she manifests out from Vanica's body, the first thing she does is to turn Lolopechka into a devil For the Evulz. The devil Lolopechka has all of her former memories, but is forced to fight Gaja, the man sworn to protect her on Megicula's orders. AND THEN SHE ORDERS AN EXPLODING LIFE ON HER AND VANICA so she could fully manifest and potentially make herself unbeatable. When Asta came to cancel out the spell, she resorts to outright killing them instead. Thankfully it's stopped by Charlotte, forcing her to resort to brute force. - Zenon, in his rematch with Yuno, tells Beelzebub to replace his heart with the devil's, turning him into a full fledged devil that will never die as long as the Spade Kingdom exists. - Zenon's past. It's a mockery of Yuno and Asta's Friendly Rivalry, and is every bit as frightening and saddening as it sounds. Unlike the wantonly malicious Dante and Vanica, Zenon used to be an optimistic young man who had the best interests of the Spade Kingdom in mind. Despite ridicule from fellow kids and even his siblings, he enrolled into the Spade Kingdom's mage defense force and engaged a Friendly Rivalry with Allen, a young man that bears a resemblance with Asta. However, when on a mission, he encountered a demon and had to sacrifice Allen in order to kill it immediately or face the destruction of Spade Kingdom, which he regretfully did. Having been reached well into the Despair Event Horizon, he came to believe that strength is the only thing that matters and his elder brother finally convinced him into becoming a devil host himself. - Last but not least, Lucifero. The supreme devil lord and the arch-devil to end all devils, Nacht fears that his full manifestation will mean the end of the world. And he spends every bit of his time he's allowed to demonstrating that he meant every bit of it. - When he first manifests by killing Morris, Lucifero merges with all the upper and middle layer devils into one giant, monstrous creature. Asta easily slays it, but this only prevented him from fully manifesting. He still manifests in a much more refined and humanoid form anyway, but only with half his strength. Aside that even with half his strength, he's still a complete nightmare as stated below. Which means had he fully manifested, it's game over. No exceptions. - The first thing Lucifero did when he awakes is to demonstrate his status and immense power by forcing everyone to bow their heads to him with his gravikinesis, because their heads "are too high". There's no wonder why Adrammelech tells people to "run" as soon as he manifests. Then he mercilessly pummels Asta into the ground until he couldn't move. This was the guy who was considered an unbeatable trump card when it comes to devils, but Lucifero just treats him as nothing other than a nuisance before he managed to cut him with his sword, at which he gets truly mad and decides to utterly destroy the boy over that injury. - It's also implied that Asta's Anti-Magic is working against Lucifero at that time, but Lucifero is so inhumanly strong anyways that Asta wouldn't be able of dealing with him normally, until he enters True Devil Union and smashes him to pieces. - What happened to Asta might be bad enough, but if you're still wondering how well the other magic knights fare... don't even think about it. He literally just manhandles every single one of them before they can fire anything, and those who do find themselves completely unable to hit him. Not even Mereoleona, the undefeated, unmatched lionness can do anything against him save for continuously fighting and fighting until her arm burns off and Lucifero almost gleefully smashes her into the ground if not for Yuno teleporting her away. - After his defeat, he's been reduced into a mass of flesh and tentacles and was trying to run away and plot revenge for another time. Thankfully, Asta cuts him down once and for all. - The Stinger in Chapter 331 drops one last surprise. When everyone thinks the war against the Dark Triad and devilkind is over, Damnatio enters Julius's room and questions Julius about discrepancies about time magic, Megicula and the time devil Astaroth. He then assumes his true form, incapacitates Damnatio and his cover-less grimoire turns into a Spade Grimoire with two spades, and as Adrammelech enters his room with Lucifero's heart he flashes a Slasher Smile and proclaims: "The time has come". This is where we knew the well-beloved wizard king of Clover Kingdom is actually Lucius Zogratis, the devil host of Astaroth who manipulated all of his siblings into becoming fellow devil hosts by playing into their malicious desires, while staging a decade-long mind game with humans, elves and the devil hierarchy alike, all to kill 90% of the world population and resurrect them as immortals. - The arc begins with Lucius finally defeating Lucifero in a half-dead state. However, it's implied that Lucius killed Lucifero by eating his heart. 15 months later, in a celebreation of Asta's inauguration as a senior magic knight Lucius suddenly appears right in front of Asta when he's having some banter with Sister Lily and declares that this is his "final destination". - What makes this exceptional is unlike most major villains like Patry, Zagred or Lucifero, when Lucius makes his presence known, it isn't a grand introduction with him demonstrating his power or a close-up of him. It's just a seemingly friendly man resembling the Wizard King with black hair and a Spade Kingdom uniform abruptly appearing in front of Asta with absolutely no warning while making a thinly veiled death threat. - Damnatio is reported by Fuegoleon to had been vanished. However, based on what happens on the previous chapter, it's implied that he's still been frozen alive by Lucius. For 15 months. - But that's not all — when we see Adrammelech discussing Yuno with Lucius, we do see a figure that looks a lot like him next to Sister Lily. Did Lucius turn him into a Paladin? - Midway into his fight with Asta, Lucius grabs Sister Lily and uses her to demonstrate his innate magic attribute, the incomprehensible Soul Magic, modifying the sister's soul and turning her into a Paladin of Lucius, who tells Asta to die before Lucius seemingly kills him and easily incapitates Mimosa, Noelle and Secre with her purified Spatial Magic. All the while when she non-chalantly praises Lucius while something obviously wrong is with her. - Lucius's Soul Magic is one of the most dangerous and incomprehensible things in the series. He uses to rewrite people, living or dead alike, into Paladins who loyally serve his cause. There's something extra unsettling when a natural magic attribute is capable of not only instantly putting someone out of action but converting them to someone else. Worse is he technically didn't brainwash the victims like the Witch Queen did to Asta nor did he awaken the other self within them like Patry did, he overwrites them into completely different people. Oh and he doesn't really need to go close to someone to do that — he could do the same to dead people, best shown when Heath Grice mysteriously returns alive. When the Paladins arrive to the Land of the Rising Sun, Ryuya orders the entire town in their line of attack to be emptied and its whole population out of sight, because if he let them have any civilian causalities, they will all become Paladins themselves. - The Paladins he creates are all insanely powerful mages capable of exceptional feats unprecedented by the other non-humans before them. One of them has Beast Magic, but unlike Vetto who just granted his body parts the power of those from animals, this guy can outright summon legendary magical beasts, including a legendary five-headed dragon once slain by the Land of the Rising Sun. They don't even have the sole weaknesses most non-humans have; instead of spamming powerful magic spells wantonly, the Paladins are smart enough to put opponents down on their same level before they even act. As long as you have an opening, they will exploit it to drag you off the ground. What makes this really horrifying is Lucius likely amassed entire hordes of people like that alongside devils under his control as the week passes before his holy war commences. It's effectively a literal supervillain ploy of creating entire races of augmented Super Soldiers, but with mages than with science, and the person behind it was a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to fix the crappy status of the world in the darkest and most twisted way possible. - What makes this even worse is unlike the reincarnated Elves, the Paladins Lucius creates and resurrects have their core personalities completely intact. A transformed Sister Lily is still a kind woman who cares dearly for Asta, and a resurrected Paladin Acier still deeply cares about her children, even expressing disappointment to Nebra and Solid's corruption and congratulating Noelle for being like her in the past. It's just their loyalty is only to Lucius and they're hardwired to kill everyone and have Lucius resurrect them as angelic superhumans. Therefore, Sister Lily will instead beg for Asta to die as she uses a souped-up version of her Holy Fist of Love, and Acier kills her own children so they could become one again. It's completely and utterly wrong in a way worse than the Elves massacring Clover Kingdom, especially when the stuff Lucius does create and resurrect can easily gravely injure to even things like Jack the Ripper and Nozel, while a Paladin Morris gives Mereoleona an equal fight. - Ichika and Yami's family situation. Resenting Ichika for being responsible for his wife's death and being bored with perpetual peace, their father abused Ichika and Yami would attempt to stop him, up until he gave a pill to Ichika that caused her to go insane and kill her entire clan, her father congratulating her for living up to her family's namesake in an extremely twisted fashion before Ichika kills him too. Yami then took the blame for the kills and ran to Clover Kingdom. Worse is that Ichika considered slaying her father worse than the abuses he put her through, so revealing the truth breaks her steely stance completely. - The spell that reveals this is a rather frightening spell coming from the Beast Paladin who summoned the Five-Headed Serpent. It's a Beast Magic spell that summons a Bogeyman that physically manifests as its victim's worse fears and it instantly put Kezokaku and Ichika out of action courtesy of all the Mind Rape it ensues. Even worse, the manifestations are physical so it can go for the kill instantly after the opponent is left a hapless wreck. It's clearly not a spell that is simply intended for torture but one that is intended to end battles quick. Since Lily and Heath Grice incapacitated the other three Ryuzen beforehand, if Asta didn't stop the Bogeyman cutting down Ichika while taking the form of her dad, they will all get killed and become Paladins turning against the country they once protected. - Judgement Day begins in Chapter 354, where Lucius and his army of Paladins go to Clover Kingdom and prepare to annihilate all of humanity, with all of the Kingdoms bar the Diamond Kingdom staying put on constant alert. And Lucius has revived as Paladins, much to Yami, Jack the Ripper and the Silva's horror. Morgen Faust and Acier Silva	https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/BlackClover

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